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GAME WEEK PREVIEW: UCLA · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Jory Word Podcasts, Rose and Back from the Dead, Dakota
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  Speaker 1: free Tag joining.
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  Speaker 2: Us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm back. My voice still isn't I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had a voice for like three weeks. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know where it went. I need to go find it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a disease?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, iide with usc B in Nebraska. That's all I
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  Speaker 4: have to say. Oh I can't talk. Oh you know,
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  Speaker 4: gosh jeez uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I went to the doctor. I have a
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  Speaker 3: infection or something. I don't know what to do, but
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  Speaker 3: but she's all you'll be getting a week eight has
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  Speaker 3: not got It's been three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Is that why you missed the last two episodes?
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  Speaker 3: One of the last two?
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  Speaker 2: Oh what was the other one?
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  Speaker 4: Well, and you missed a couple more before that. I
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  Speaker 4: think you missed like the whole week prior.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, dak I mean I gotta I
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  Speaker 1: gotta ask you, I mean, explain yourself a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't earn it too much. But let's say
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  Speaker 3: Sunday I had a little fun day, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: love it too much. Fun. I'm I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: dive into it fully on here, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't care about what actually happened from it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for the podcast purposes. As a friend, I do,
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  Speaker 1: but we got I gotta ask you about the podcast
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  Speaker 1: or how important is this podcast to you?
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  Speaker 4: Life?
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  Speaker 3: So important? I absolutely love it. There's just nothing looked
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  Speaker 3: more forward to than a six eight six him Thursday
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  Speaker 3: Zoom meeting. I love it, grind out now it actually
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  Speaker 3: I love being on here. Don't make it tear up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's what's your value?
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  Speaker 3: I bring electricity, the juice like I got you guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'll jacked up before we came on here, Austin. Austin
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  Speaker 3: was running last before this. We're all ready to rock
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  Speaker 3: and roll.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready once I knew Dak was at a little lost.
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  Speaker 3: How about this, I'll make a deal and tel basketball
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  Speaker 3: season's over. Unless I'm sick, I will to miss another podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bold statement.
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  Speaker 3: And let's unless I'm sick, like then then I can
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  Speaker 3: get out or if I act going on, but yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's our punishment if he misses another one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if it's Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: You've already given up your Oklahoma sooner. You know, fandom,
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  Speaker 4: So you know we really lost our our key. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: we make him like roof Texas or something.
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  Speaker 3: Ye's if I missed it because of what I did
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  Speaker 3: Sunday just hit me in baseball bat. I we'll just
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  Speaker 3: say that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually that's a deal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That and we're gonna make you on air sing some song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I you know what in my mind, you guys,
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  Speaker 3: because usually we do this in the morning. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what we're doing at night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't even don't even go there.
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  Speaker 3: Totally on me. I I won't miss another one. Some
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  Speaker 3: sick or I have something actually going on that.
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  Speaker 4: That you are determined.
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  Speaker 3: You know that you two can vote on if it's
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  Speaker 3: reasonable enough.
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  Speaker 4: We'll glad you're back.
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  Speaker 2: Glad you're back, or you see l A week and.
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  Speaker 1: The last three games of the year for the oh this.
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  Speaker 2: We we said it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the midway point that these last six games.
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  Speaker 2: It was going to be a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been the word we've used, I think every
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  Speaker 1: podcast since then, because it's been nothing short of that.
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  Speaker 1: Three games left, we head out to la in the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl with a new quarterback as Dylan Royal is
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  Speaker 1: out for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Coming off a I'm gonna I'm gonna call it a
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaking loss that there are a lot of spellings. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good things that were done.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, at twenty one to seventeen loss to UCL
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  Speaker 1: or USC, how many times am I going to mix
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  Speaker 1: up USC and.
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  Speaker 2: U C l A this this podcast?
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  Speaker 4: It's probably funny a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Dak, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: First off, I want to get your thoughts, as being
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  Speaker 1: the big Lincoln Riley fan, give us your quick.
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  Speaker 2: Take on the youth USC game. Almost the game.
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  Speaker 3: We'll just say that son of a bitch got lucky
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  Speaker 3: if if Dean ryo Ola stays in that game, they
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  Speaker 3: went that game. Now, I told you I thought the
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  Speaker 3: teeth looks great on Sunday or Saturday. Apparently didn't. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: it looked like the tief was just super scared to
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  Speaker 3: come in the game, which was John blame. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: a huge game, bad bad moment, you don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: coming in. Yeah, it's I don't blame for being that nervous.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a bad bad first start nerves all that.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, I thought I thought defense played well enough.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, actually besides breaking your quarterbacks, like I thought,
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  Speaker 3: actually both lines played decent, pretty good. Actually the online
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  Speaker 3: d line I didn't. I didn't think they were horrible,
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  Speaker 3: which is which is step up. Other than that, all
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  Speaker 3: I say is, I don't know how doinglo is walking
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  Speaker 3: on a broken fibula. I thought he was gonna come
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  Speaker 3: back in the game there for a little bit. He's
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  Speaker 3: staying on the signs, jumping around on a broken.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he's actually hurt or do you think
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  Speaker 2: it's a conspiracy? See?
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  Speaker 3: That's see, that's the thing is the actually makes fibula,
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  Speaker 3: because there's no way you can walk off the field
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  Speaker 3: with the broken Fibulah. Yeah, But the more I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: about this, how is that possible he was like limping
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  Speaker 3: off the field unless he's just that's.
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  Speaker 4: The extent of the broken fibula.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it would just be like a crack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I guess three games left or not, you
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  Speaker 3: can't really heal a crack fibula.
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  Speaker 2: He's just having surgery on it in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not implying that it's I might even think what
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  Speaker 1: could possibly be a conspiracy there?
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  Speaker 4: That we can start this podcast right. He wants to,
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  Speaker 4: but there's no point because he's already lost his red shirt.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's no benefit to not playing at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year unless he by TJ as a backup,
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  Speaker 4: and he wants him to flounder the last three weeks
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  Speaker 4: so that TJ leaves so that he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about a quarterback controversy next year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean him and Dana got a halftime argument and
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  Speaker 3: dealing to purposely faked an injury. So now he's out
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  Speaker 3: for the year.
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  Speaker 4: He's trying to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Real fired, Well.
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  Speaker 1: There are three games left, and we sit at six
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  Speaker 1: and three, and we we swit down the one in
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  Speaker 1: scenarios of of what's probably not even a one in scenario,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew want to talk through how these three
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  Speaker 1: games could go and some of the different implications, because
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  Speaker 1: I think it could go a lot of ways, and
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  Speaker 1: it's probably some that are more likely than others. I
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  Speaker 1: believe we will be under the Uggs most likely in
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  Speaker 1: all three of them. A chance maybe that we could
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  Speaker 1: be favored at home, depending how the first two go
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  Speaker 1: against Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: But right now, as we currently said, I believe we're
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  Speaker 2: a one and a half point underdog.
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  Speaker 1: This week at UCLA Open.
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  Speaker 3: A lot higher than that.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't it ESPN bet has a two and a half.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I ever saw any.
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  Speaker 3: I though I was like three and a half fur
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  Speaker 3: and a half, and I looked on.
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  Speaker 1: Some highest I saw I get two was three, which
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  Speaker 1: is right after the Riola News came out. What I so,
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  Speaker 1: I guess let's start what if scenario of what if
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  Speaker 1: we lose all three of these games and finished the
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  Speaker 1: year six and six. Obviously right now we're not fighting
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  Speaker 1: for a bowl game firth, which we have done that
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  Speaker 1: several years in the past, but that would put us
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  Speaker 1: at the exact same spot record wise as we were
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  Speaker 1: last year heading into a bowl game. If that does happen,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess, if you want to go off of
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  Speaker 1: the betting odds, the most likely scenario is that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean or what where does that leave
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  Speaker 1: us heading into the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a little bit of a loaded question
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  Speaker 4: because it kind of depends on why we lose the games.
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  Speaker 4: If TJ. Lachief goes out there and just looks terrible
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, like the the story becomes well,
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  Speaker 4: just Dylan got hurt. Her backup quarterback was unable to
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  Speaker 4: forform against Iowa and Penn State, which are both very
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  Speaker 4: talented teams. De Penn State looks like garbage this year.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, let's let's let's say TJ looks I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's just let's just say average. I mean, he's probably
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  Speaker 2: could look terrible. I guess let's just say that, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's not great, but he's not bad. But we lose. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's just say, let's say we just lose all of
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  Speaker 2: them by the spread. Mm hmm, gosh, I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: what what? Where? Where? Where would your guys heads at
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  Speaker 2: be after I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Heading into the off season. I guess the bowl game first, But.
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  Speaker 4: It's I guess there would still be a part of me
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  Speaker 4: that's just like it's you know, there's part of me
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  Speaker 4: right now. It's like whatever happens the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: year kind of is just whatever happens. You know, you
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  Speaker 4: lose your starting quarterbackiculus, two three of your starting offensive
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  Speaker 4: line win. I guess it's only two technically.
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  Speaker 3: So so do you think jesus see, I'm still sick.
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys think that the narrative should be or
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  Speaker 3: will be if if they do, is all these three
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  Speaker 3: games that just came down to injuries or whatever, because
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  Speaker 3: because I don't think that's a good excuse because Latif
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  Speaker 3: is supposed to be pretty good. Now if he does
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  Speaker 3: go out there look like shit, I guess whatever, he
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  Speaker 3: needs the excuse. But but every team has injuries, like
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  Speaker 3: Penn State's lost their quarterback that they don't look good either, but.
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  Speaker 4: Right lost their quarterback looks good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't know you can use the excuse
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  Speaker 3: injuries of the problem. I mean, you're playing two teams
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  Speaker 3: right now that fired their coach, one of them lost
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  Speaker 3: their quarterback. The other team, Ucla I'm talking about. I
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  Speaker 3: guess it's looking better. You can use the excuse, but
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  Speaker 3: the Penn State one, I don't think you use the
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  Speaker 3: excuses for that.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Dak, I I'm down your path and I completely
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  Speaker 1: agree I and deathly we're scared of not just er
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  Speaker 1: on three scenario, but even a one and two or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even a two in one, but probably the first
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  Speaker 1: two that if that happens, and Rule kind of already
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately maybe sensed it that when he mentioned on Monday
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  Speaker 1: feeling bad for the seniors, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, on one end.
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  Speaker 1: He I think the goal was, you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: a playoff contending team, and now we're obviously out of
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  Speaker 1: that conversation, so he already brought up how he feels
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  Speaker 1: bad for the senior. It was a weird comment to
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  Speaker 1: me because the season is definitely not over. But if
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  Speaker 1: that's your lofty, if that's your goals and expectations, which
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  Speaker 1: I think are good and valid heading into the year,
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  Speaker 1: and now this is that's truly out of reach, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. But what I'm definitely scared of is in
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  Speaker 1: this scenario, just chocking it. Basically what Austin said is
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  Speaker 1: chalking it up to en injuries and kind of brushing
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  Speaker 1: it off and not addressing the true problems of why
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  Speaker 1: we're even at this point, I guess and in some
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  Speaker 1: of the games that have happened, and like to me,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm not going to say you can't put zero
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  Speaker 1: percent on injuries, because that obviously is a thing, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you, that's part of building your roster,
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  Speaker 1: building your team one too deep, and specifically we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about it when we switch over to the offense with TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Having people that can step in and doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: overhaul your system. And while I'm not saying TJ is Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: and he's in, you know, a better option or as
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  Speaker 1: good of an option. I do think you should not
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  Speaker 1: have to take a step back. It's not like Dylan's
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  Speaker 1: been an elite by any means in this two years here.
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  Speaker 1: He's been He's been good, he's been good quarterback, but
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  Speaker 1: there's definitely things that he lacks. So I'm really scared
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  Speaker 1: of that scenario. I'm and and when I stay scared,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that if I start hearing fans are one thing,
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  Speaker 1: but if I start hearing coaches and players talk about, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was just unfortunate that I'm gonna I'm I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you I'm going to be out on rule very very fast,
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  Speaker 1: and I will be vocal about it.
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  Speaker 2: Now. There's also I think the narrative right now is
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  Speaker 2: not to make excuses.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think you can make excuses right
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  Speaker 2: now for year three and and and where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to hear that. I think
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  Speaker 1: our philosophy and some different things have to change. And
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  Speaker 1: if we brush it off because we make excuse here,
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  Speaker 1: excuse there, I don't think that's good for the future.
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  Speaker 4: Go for a dog.
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  Speaker 3: So the reason why don't got hurt is, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to mask on injury or all the
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  Speaker 3: problems and mass does have. Why is the reason don't
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  Speaker 3: got hurt because the main reason for the main problem
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  Speaker 3: for the team the on line. Like, yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 3: you can't you can't. You can't hide that anymore. And
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  Speaker 3: that's I guess because we're gonna see now because we
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  Speaker 3: were kind of calm for a little bit more of Latief,
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  Speaker 3: how much different slash better is the offense going to
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  Speaker 3: look now that you have a quarterback back there that
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  Speaker 3: can move and massive offensive line? That's pretty bad?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I just I you know, I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: we're going to go into the off season being like, hey, God,
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  Speaker 4: you don't need to fix anything. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 4: going to happen regardless of how the year ends. I
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  Speaker 4: think the team, I think the coaching staff knows that
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  Speaker 4: our our line of d line need improved and we'll
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  Speaker 4: have other issues to handle. I mean half of our
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  Speaker 4: secondary is a senior.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that to me is that to me is
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  Speaker 2: year three. I mean that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have to reset and say, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: we were you know, it just to me tells you, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's what this group and the staff is believed in
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  Speaker 1: to get us to the point of where we're at
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  Speaker 1: and this year, at everything set up as we've talked about,
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  Speaker 1: to have a very very successful year.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I would not see it getting any better if that
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  Speaker 1: scenario plays out.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I mean one thing is I mean, Doc, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. That's obviously, as we've talked about, the
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  Speaker 1: most important piece to whatever you're trying to do. But
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to another thing, you talk about Dylan's injury and something
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  Speaker 1: that we said it all along this offseason and trying
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: to push it, and we had a Dylan Rayle to
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  Speaker 1: weight watch that that hasn't gotten I mean, maybe marginally
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  Speaker 1: better from last year, but it's not like that that
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  Speaker 1: that was something too that the narrative was, Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is you're going to see a different dial't we really are.
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  Speaker 1: He still can't run, he's still not mobile, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: lose any weight. Maybe he transformed his body a little bit,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: but like to me, it was all kind of tell
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  Speaker 1: you what you want to hear versus what we're actually seeing.
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  Speaker 2: And I still truly believe in college football, if you
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  Speaker 2: need to have a running quarterback that can run to
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  Speaker 2: be successful, I'm not seeing them a running quarterback first,
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  Speaker 2: but a quarterback that can move and run.
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  Speaker 1: And what's your offensive line is the likes of the
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  Speaker 1: top five in the country, which we clearly don't have,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't expect us to have that in the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: near future. Well maybe unless we spend ten million on it.
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  Speaker 3: How about how about we do this boys things right
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  Speaker 3: the three quarter mark of the season. I came, if
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: we do this halfway mark or the first quarter mark,
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's give our grades on how you think this
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  Speaker 3: has gone so far. I'm I'm going to say why.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't even thinking about what I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 4: I would say be minus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 4: There are two losses, having to be two top I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they're both top twenty five teams, which sucks, but they're
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  Speaker 4: all they're both you know less some so quint loss,
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  Speaker 4: the USC loss as are starting quarterback while we were
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: up in the game, which you know, so we get
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  Speaker 4: into that game six and two. The Minnesota loss is like,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: obviously the skin mark of our her nice little whitey
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  Speaker 4: tities that we had on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't. Doesn't that feel like that was like
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  Speaker 3: years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it probably be minus. We're definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Minus for me, all Right, I was gonna go see
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  Speaker 3: C plus. I It's just just how bad the two
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  Speaker 3: lines have looked For me, is what's the main problem here?
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  Speaker 3: I and how there's been no no fix or change
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  Speaker 3: to it all year. It's just like, I guess we're
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: gonna roll with it.
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  Speaker 1: I will say we're lucky that Penn States down because
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that was gonna be definitely a chopped up loss. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're probably not gonna hit our win
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: total over of seven and a half. We could I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: went two more games. I Mean that's where my head's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: kind of that is we we we won pretty much
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: all the games that we've Yeah, we've won all games
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that we've The games that we've won are games that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: we should have won, and the games that we've lost
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: are games that we probably were projected to lose except
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for the Minnesota game. So to me, that's where I'm like,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it's we have not man expectations.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're not looking at it through the lens
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: of Nebraska football in the last ten years, we've lost
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: the games that we're supposed to win. This is the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: first year I feel like we won.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Correct, yeah, correct, But is that good enough in your mind?
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I guess that's the question, and you can.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Get to it is. I mean, it's a step. If
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: we do this again next year, then it's like, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: well we're but.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: We're not gonna be. We're not going to be We're
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: not gonna have as many should have won games next year.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I'll say that. You don't know that.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Look you're already counting out next year.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, I do know that. No you don't. Yeah, we.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Will you have this year, all right, weren't. I think
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: we've learned from the last two years. We can't look
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: at the schedule. Last year, we thought it's gonna be easy.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Indiana was super good and all that. With this this year,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: we thought Penn State was going to be the hardest
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: game ever, and and you see that it's gonna be easiest.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Those are flipped spots.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this year, we our schedule has been the easiest.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It's been in our lifetime, I don't say our lifetime,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in the last ten years.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Look at that non con next year, there's nobody like
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: it's I. I just don't think and I believe after
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: last year, you can't. You can't look ahead anymore. On
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: the Big ten side, we have no clue what these
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: teams are gonna look like coming in the year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And last agree, I disagree. You can make a pretty
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: good assumption on what what teams?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: What team? The only team this year that.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I think is out of place from heading into the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: year is who Penn State. Everybody else has done exactly
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: what they probably have done.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I feel like Cincinnati was better than we thought they
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: were gonna be.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cincinnati. God, I can't think of any I'm trying
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to back mark me not, but I don't think I can.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's any other team.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Penn State is the only one that U c l A.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously dipped early, but they're back.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I mean that we could get this out of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: way now, Hunter, we could you know, next year, next season,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: we could just take it off. We're gonna lose all
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: those games, you know, what's the point.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: The game?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: What I'm saying, if things don't haven't even lost the
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: last three games yet, Hunter, I know.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Aw're in scenario. We're in the what a scenario going on.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I'm saying we're in the one
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: three scenario right.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Now, But what if we go three and O.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can go there. We haven't got there. I'm
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: talking to OE three scenario.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're three.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I'm out on rule and I'll be calling for his
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: head very very fast.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: We yeah, we we know, Like like we've said before,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: we know they're gonna say it happening and rules not
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Rule's not any jeopardy anymore, getting fired just because oh
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I lost the quarterback, lost a bunch of lineman, Like,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: all right, you gotta go.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm yeah, that's what scares me, And it's to me,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that's to me, that's a definitions the sign of of
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of mediocrity.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: If that happens.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Now, okay, we can move on from the oh and three,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: But that's to me, that's just probably mean because we're
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: not going to be favored any of them.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: That's probably what's the most likely scenario.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: But there's also a chance that we go the other
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: extreme and we could go three and oh. And in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that scenario, there's some probably good things that have happened
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to get us to go three, you know, and those
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: things being TJ's very good, and the point has it's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: proven if he's very good, he probably is.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Very good with his.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Legs and arm, yeah, and mentally in a good spot.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And then it looks like this coaching staff did do
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a good job of finding, you know, a second deep,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: two deep quarterback. And the good news with that scenario
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is that it probably shows, I hope, the importance of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: having a mobile quarterback with a shitty offensive line. And
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: therefore a couple of things could happen as a result
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of that. One Dylan actually takes it serious to lose
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: weight and says, oh shit, it is important that I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: can move in the pocket and lose some weight or two,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: which I don't think probably is likely, but could happen.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: We just roll with TJ and Dylan leaves if TJ
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: is very, very, very good, And when does these last
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: three games, because I'll tell.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You it will be.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: News to the news if with everybody if that happens.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And again that to me, that's a good positive thing
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: for the future Nebraska football. If that, if we go
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: three and o obviously or nine to three, winning these
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: last three games is underdogs games we probably aren't favored
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to win. Like to me that that implies a lot,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and I think that's really good for the program. And yeah,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'm obviously in on rule if that happens, like I'm
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I think, I think, I'm, I'm, I'm there.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, well let's hear I'm gonna be interested to hear
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: where you're on rull with if we go two and
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: one or one and two.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm let's stay on three. And I want to hear
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: you all three thoughts.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, owen three. I don't know, I feel pretty much. Again,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: it depends on how t J looks three. I'm sorry three,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: and oh, I think you're dumping back for a second.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I'm mike, no, no, no, no, no, because two of those
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: games is be like, okay, yeah, we should have won
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: these games regardless of if we have decent quarterback play.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: You know, our team should have been Penn State, whose
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: wheels fell off at the beginning of the year, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: they just once their quarterback got hurt, they definitely weren't recovering. Like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I think they would have been fine if Drew Aller
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: didn't get hurt. I think they would have been an
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: okay team. I don't think they would have been whatever
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: they are now not quite they're five hundred one under,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: one over. I don't know where they're at.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: They might be fighting for a pool game still, I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think there were four and four, so
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: they know they're.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Still three and five right now.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, so I think if Drew Aller doesn't yeah hurt.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I think they have six wins at this point of
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: the year.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I think even without James Franklin, that would have happened
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: because I think starting quarterbacks matter, I really do. There's
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: there's You're still just college kids. We're not in Alabama
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: with Bryce Young on the bench. Penn State should be,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: but we're not go for a deck.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say these these are teams only
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: these you're starting quarterback. You're like, oh, Ship, we're the
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: season's over. I I don't think the tief you can
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: say that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: No, partly because the opponents are playing, partly because.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Of how he looked in those games. Besides, you see
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I guess I guess he looked like.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Ship, but Dylan looked like a world beater in those
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: same games. I mean, Dylan looked like he was going
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: to win the Heisman, and you know, right off into
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: the sunset. Yeah, I don't.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Three and zero, I feel I feel good. I feel
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: great about being in Iowa. It's a top twenty, it's
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: it's our first top twenty one, and you know, almost
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: ten years.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: We should feel more gone just good.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We should feel great if we if we went out
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and go three and now, we should feel great about everything.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, prior to and prior to Dylan's injury at
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: half game, at half point half time last week, I
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: honestly thought we were gonna go three and one in
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: the year. So I feel like you would line up
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: with what I expected our team to do with a
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: healthy Dylan Roil.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And I and I said the same thing.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I would have been very very happy with the direction
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of everything heading into last week if we would have
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: went three and one to end the year like and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and my point still stands, It still stays the same.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It just happens that we lost to the first game
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of the four.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be happy. I'm not gonna like, but I
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: definitely changes. I just I don't expect that that's the difference.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, jumping into like the middle scenarios, and here's where
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: things I think get very hairy. And for myself anyways, I.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I do think like you said, you just mentioned the expectation.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: It does come down to a little bit of.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: You know what you expect and what you want and
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: whether you think that the direction things are going are
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: going to get you to that point.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I guess consider right now the goal for me is
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: consistently being a playoff contender year in and year out.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And I just my opinion is that if we don't
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: have a change in philosophy with what we're trying to do.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of talking about offense more than defense, but
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: just in how we play, I don't think we're going
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to get there.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I just don't believe it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And and when the philosophy that I'm talking about in
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the style is Iowa Minnesota football, and and that starts
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: by building an offensive line, it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Starts program has mobile quarterbacks or historically correct.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a version of it. What do you want, Hunter,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: A version of it? You want everything? I want? Yeah?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I want to be. I want to be. I want
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: to I want a strong offensive line, a run first quarterback,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: or a mobile quarterback that can move about. He said it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: It wasn't just.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Want to run first quarterback. I would like that, but
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: more than.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: What he's saying, that's what I'm hearing.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is I don't think that we're
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: going to get there. I don't if we continue with
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know what we're trying to do. That's the problem.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I was going to send out a survey, maybe we'll
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: do it after this week to people like what what
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: is what is our philosophy?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Our identity is a program? Because here's here's what's frustrating.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Rule has stated that's what he wants to be and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: what he believes in, But that's not what's happening because
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: we're not.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: He's saying it, but it's not. He doesn't know how
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to do it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Because our offensive line is not good and that was
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: one this year that we didn't have.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Much concern if we thought it was gonna better. Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: clearly it's not good.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And then you have the element of Dylan's uncle as
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the offensive lines coach, like those things need to change,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and if they don't change, why the hell should anybody
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: believe that we're going to be.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: A playoff contender in or not rule? And maybe in Austin.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I guess maybe into act both of you to ask you,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: do you think that we're gonna that we're gonna make
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: a change and go get offensive lineman next year?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Do you believe that that's what we're going to do
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: if we end up going at whatever seven and five
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: or eight and four last.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Year, two of our starters are two of our starters
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: this year are transfer that we got.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: The okay, and that's great.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: How have they done when I say get offensive blind
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and there's go get them, but get the right guys.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: We've talked about the quality of offensive line and then
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: enter the portal, they just they just don't.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: So I got a text from somebody that I affwarded
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: on so who knows again the truth of it, but
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: they said offensive lineman, good up, insive lineman.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: The portal cost a lot just because.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Oh lady second Eric, who's his end guy? You can't?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just offensive lineman cost a lot. And so
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: far Nebraska has not been We don't.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: We have not had the funds and money to pay
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that pay them.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: So is that a matter rule problem or a Nebraska problem?
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Both?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Well, Okay, I'm I'm gonna sayhere we can get this
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: money from now it's kind of an off the wamb joke,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Well it's mine can go now? Is Nebraska is a
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: big ten alcohol sales start the year, so that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Stop going what I don't know, I don't know what
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: that's going directly to nil?
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: But no, I if Nebraska doesn't, which which is next
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: year's problem again, if they don't focus on the offense
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: line doesn't get better than he's got to go like
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: that's the every everything knows what the problem is. And
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: D line too, like you gotta figure out that problem.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: But the D line though, has looked good this year
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: or it's.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Down but okay, but okay, sorry Austin are Why why
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: should we be accept and be okay with our D
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: line being down this year?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Why is it okay?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm just saying I don't think it's indicative of
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Matt Rule's tenure to be like the DE line always sucks?
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: What do you mean why not?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a tenure. I'm
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: saying now in year three, why should why should we
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: be okay with having a bad D line?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: There's there's really good to answer that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Dak lost lost, even the coordinator lost a lot of players.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah again, where where is that? Where does that go
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: back on?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's year three now, like, like, why
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: should we be taking steps back in anywhere?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's fair to assume that every year
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: a defensive line is gonna be the best unit on
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: the team. Our defensive line is fine, it's not great.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Our defensive line is bad.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I want to go fine. I don't I go bad.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's been almost as bad as the on line.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I would say, I just which which D line? Like
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: like you're saying about the line, I think D line's
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: almost easier to find transfer portal guys, have you got
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: any messages about that hunter? No? No, all right, we
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: need to find his inside. Got we'll get out of
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: you by the end of the year.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: We No.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I If those two lines don't get better, I think
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: rules got to go by next year. And that's next
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: year's problem.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: But it's got, like I said, it's gotta be it.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: That's that that right there in itself is the identity change,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the philosophy change, and we have put a lot of
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: energy and focus in on Dylan and I'm not saying
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: that's wrong. I just don't know that we went about
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: it the right way. By yes, we got Dylan, well,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: then we what we load up on him?
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Pay?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Who do we pay?
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dame Key has been man and Isaiah Hunter
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: has been solid. Corey Barney's not even really existent this
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: year so far. Like Emma Johnson, obviously thank god for him,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Like I don't like, it's not like we went out
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and got draft picks for skill guys around him. We
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: got some decent players, but you can, you can. It's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: been evidence been shown that if you don't have an
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: offensive line.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: It's hard to get the ball to those guys.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to run any type of
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: offense whatever you're trying to do, if you don't have
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: an offensive line. And no, those guys are not the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: guys that are flashy.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: But here, here we go.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: The other night, driving home, all I see is, oh,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: breaking news. We get a four star wide receiver recruit.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I literally did not care, Like I was like great,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I did not care at all. I until we get
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a four star offensive lineman in the in the recruiting
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: or multiple I should say, like, you just.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Got a five star this year. Wasn't Preacher a five star?
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: It was a five star?
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was Grant Bricks five star.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Could have I I'm not sure. I don't Maybe I
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: But and again, recruiting rankings is one thing that that's
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the starting point of maybe being excited about future. But
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: obviously they have to be good and the right guys,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: like again Pritchet's it's a start in Rocko Spindlers at
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a start. But that that's that That to me is
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: where we'll when when we're talking about Harry two and one,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: one and two in the middle conversation, like I will
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the message across the board from are we gonna sit
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: back and make excuses and when the year is over
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and and and and talk about injuries and talk about
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: all this stuff, or are we gonna use it as
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to say, shit, we need some things to change.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And that starts with getting an offensive line. And again
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: going back to it's not like this philosophy thing that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Rule has not said it before. He's focused.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: He said that where we had to start and be well,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: we got away from it. And when I say we,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you wonder how much of that is Dana. I don't know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: like Dana came out and said it this week, We're
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: going to be a run first team.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Uh.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I think everybody and including myself, I'm gonna say myself
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: is included. We kind of at one point thought maybe
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this Dylan's experience, the passing, get some talented receivers. At
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the time that we thought, really, you know, I thought
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: we thought maybe this could work.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: The way this season started. Well, I will say we're
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I was dead wrong on that, like thinking that and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: thinking that that's how you could be in good offense,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: and I mean, what what what? What's our offense? Is here?
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: It to me? To me, it's average, it's very average.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Still know what they like I said, identity wise? What
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: they I think I.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Heard the numbers like as far as is where we're
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: ranking right now, we're in the forties and fifties and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: about a lot of categories like, yeah, it's very it's
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: very average, which again it is. I guess you can
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: say that is a step up. But if your goal
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: is to be competing in the college football playoffs, the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: question is are we gonna see the improvement in that
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: with our current style and philosophy, so well, we can move into.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Offensive talk too. I think that's my kind of The
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: next topic I want to talk about was was it's
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: what the offense is going to look like this week specifically?
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: We can move there.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, I hear what you're saying. I think I
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: disagree with some of the points. I still think, you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: I think from where Matt rule came in. Obviously, year three,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: we should see improvement, which I feel like we have
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: for the youngest team in the Big Ten. I think
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: at times that shows. But there I've caught myself. I'm
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: not worried about penalties. I'm not worried about turnovers. And
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: last week against USC with a backup quarterback game, I
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: straight up thought we were gonna go down and score.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: It wasn't like a We're gonna lose another short game,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: which I think is progress. Okay, I think it's negligent
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: to I'll end. I'll end here because you said it,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: and you're right.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Here's what we fixed.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: We fixed the turnovers and the penalties and made it
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: clean football from beating ourselves basically in stupid ways like
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: that like that, that's.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: What we have now.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I think overcame from the Scott Frost era, and I
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: completely agree with that, and I completely agree that's progress.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm already and maybe that's not it's not
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: right to jump to the next next step of it.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But what I have moved on now to say, Okay,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: we checked that box, We've improved there. Now can we
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: take the next step? So yeah, okay, yeah, checking that box.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: That should get you to six wins, and we are.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: So that's great, and I've kind of moved on to
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the next step of elevating us to you known eight nine,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: ten wins college football playoff conversation, specifically not to get
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: into our schedule again. I think this year was an
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: opportunity to do it where future years are going to
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: be more a little more difficult. That's where my head's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: going now with all this conversation. But you're right from
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the turnover standpoint and penalty standpoint and cleaning things up.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: And I think with our current offensive line, defensive line,
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: with a healthy Donor, I believe we would be regardless
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: of how the year shakes out, I think we would
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: have been an eight win team. Regardless. I think it
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: would have gone two and four for sure too. To
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: the last four games.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, enough of this negativity hunter, which when you're talking
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: about excuses, I'm over excuses. You can't no more excuses.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: F the f those It's like you you you gotta
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: you gotta own up to anyway anyway, not this negativity here.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: What's one part that improved the most?
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: What?
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: What what's one unit of the ball that has improved?
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, there you go.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Yep, we we forgot about them. You gotta you gotta
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: get that credit. I mean, it's a lot of seculer,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: but you got to give that credit to a rule too.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: He went out and found Eckler. He's like, we got
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: to improve this part, which which makes me I think
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: he's gonna well, they have to go improve the online
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: d line. The fact that he went out there and like,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: all right, this is the main problem coming in, Like
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: like I'm in the year that probably was the main
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: concern for the team was how bad that special teams?
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: The unit is most has been pretty good about pivoting. Well,
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: we need to talk about UCLA, but he's been pretty good.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Like our offense was looking bad. He demoted his his
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: coach and brought in a offensive coordinator midseason.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Hoping that we're not going to get clouded and overshadowed
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: into the Dylan Royola's uncle conversation, because it's elephant in
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the room right now as far as what the unit
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: that needs to improve, and it just happens.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: To be a relation there. So I get this.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: These last three seasons are games starting with UCLA this week,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Like it still is going to tell us a lot
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: about the program.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: It's not like.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: As a fan you should just be out and don't
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: care anymore and move on. Like there's definitely reasons to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: be pissed off and frustrated and and there's there's also
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: part of me that you know what, there's there He.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Still finished his year three and zero.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: That shows that some right decisions and thoughts are being made.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: And TJ Latif starting at quarterback this week, and knowing
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that he's starting at quarterback, I think after the game,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: before the news came out about Dylan being out, he
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: didn't know what how much Dylan was gonna play.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Well, now we know, and again not saying bless his soul.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: That you know Dylan got hurt, but it's it's at
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: least we know, you know, for the rest of the year,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: we have to build an offense and identity and whatever
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that looks like around TJ to make him comfortable as
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: as a freshman. Uh and whatever that playbook looks like
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: it needs to fit his strengths. Yeah, the offense is
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: going to probably look different and talk about the identity
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and what I want, It's gonna look a lot more
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: like what I want.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: And if things go very very well, then I.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Think it's a very good sign because it might have
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: shown everybody this is is good now.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: And also a part of it that t J could.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Just be a very very poor passing quarterback and he
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Billy.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Hey, can we dive in that real quick?
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about, nak.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: No, I'm talking about I'm talking about Latif.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: If he's trusts that we're talking about, well, okay, let's.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Let's dive into that real quick.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: If a team struggles like just looks terrible, there's I
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: just don't think Husker fans give me me too. I
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: won't be out of him. I don't even be out
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: of him. He's a true freshman, got thrown in the fire. Basically,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: I just don't think. I don't think three games should
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: be what people judge him on.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: No, but but you kind of have to if he
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: comes out and he has another three football game, just
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: build and play style wise, Jeff Simms is gonna be
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: the first thing that comes to people speaking of him.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is fake backfall player of
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: the week or now whatever you like. Eight rushing yard
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: yep bike tell player the leak right there, Jeff SAMs,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: I told you guys, use that the good But all right,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: that's that's enough, Jeff Simstock.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: So that.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Fumbles Austin, You're right, is the number one. Protecting the ball.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Let's just say it in general interceptions, but protecting the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: ball is that the thing that we just talked about
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: that we've overcome and as a program, and a lot
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: of that is thanks to Dylan, Like we can't take
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: a step back with TJ.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: And that's that's the scary part.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: That's the fear I think from a lot of Nebraska
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: fans heading into this game is that in itself. I
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: think if if you don't turn the ball over, you're
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: in this game. You're not getting blown out. But the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: way that you lose this game twenty eight to ten
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is if you have three turnovers.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Yep, it sure is, guy. I think I think we're
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: gonna have one or two for sure.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: How now you're he's outside. Are you guys too for
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Saturday's game? Because I with no playoff ups or anything,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: are you? Are you guys just excited to see what
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the Teeth does? Are you guys? Exactly?
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: I am excited to watch, like I'm excited to watch
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: the Teeth after you know, seeing him in those high
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: school games. I'm thrilled that it's an eight pm game.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: I love eight pm away games specifically because I can just,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: you know, go home. I'm done for the day. I'm
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: just gonna watch the game and I'm gonna go to bed.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: I'm really excited about that. I don't know, I don't
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: really care about UCLA as an opponent, so there's that
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: aspect of But they're also the team that if you
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: lose to you feel bad, if you win, you don't
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: feel great. It's not like the non con games, so
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I'm torn. I'm excited to see how the offense operates.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: I hope we see more passes from TJ than we
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: did last week. I understand how last week shook out,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: and it's a mid drive change, but.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely, I shouldn't they definitely, but I think
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: we will, Like there's gonna be more time to prepare.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: There was part of me that things, do you think
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: it would be best if you if you put in
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: you know, Moozie or some of those backup receivers that
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: he's been practicing with more that has a better I
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: don't know connection.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: With Maybe I don't know what the how to practice
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: structure is what I'm not sure. I don't know, you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: is he playing scout team? Is he throwing to those
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: guys like?
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Is he?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly, but I do think the
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: playbook is obviously going to look different and well, I
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: do want it to be a run first playbook. There
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: obviously is going to be some sort of passing element too.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And you know, the best case, hopeful scenario is that
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: with a.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Mobile quarterback and.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Emmett being Emmett the last I guess the whole season
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the way he's been like, you might have some opportunities
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: to open up the field deep and linebackers might not
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: be able in DN might not be able to scream
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: up the field on past rush, and you maybe have
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: some time hopefully to throw some of those right now.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I mean teams are UCLA or USC did it, heck,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Minnesota did it. Teams are just daring us to beat
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: us down the field vertically because one, we don't have
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: time to even get a receiver down there to throw it,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: so that takes half the worry off of your defense.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: And then two, do we have the guys that can
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: stretch the field vertically? And the answer to that is,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So hopefully that that's what we see
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: with TJ back there is there's a little.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: More off of a bye week.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: This is this is your time shine on a you
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: been banging for running quarterback. Let's see what we got.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this building built building, I think building.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, your that your question about him excited?
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously not playoff implication type excited because
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: it's not that's the window which was last game, which
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: kind of was the last game, but I still don't
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: even know if it really was it was an elimination game.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I I do.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I think this thing could look look good. I hope
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it does, but we'll we'll just have to see. There
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of elements here of of.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: On the road true freshman. Uh, And.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, U c l A Is coming off U c
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: l A Is coming off the asked whooping by Indiana,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: which we know what that felt like.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: And their previous two games though they played Maryland, they
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: have Michigan State, which they both beat.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Correct, they're comparable too, like they are.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: That's that's where they're at and going on the road
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: like we'll see and and well Nico, i'm yima lava, I'm.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Aliva is what I like after since ever since Tennessee
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: uh departure, He's.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: I'm a suck. Is that his name is?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It was was he was he wasn't very good.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Well he's looked pretty damn good the past four guys
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and kind.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Of came around so that that that's also there.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, they've they told Penn State, they've they've I
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: don't know if there's hay that coach so much at
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: U c l A. That they are like I think
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: got fired, but they've looked like a totally different team
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: since they fired their coach. A lot. They looked like
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: the worst team, like no joke in Division one with
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: their head coach, and now now they look like if
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: they had whatever, don't I don't know where they're intermetz
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: you guys probably you guys right.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Now what he is, but I don't know either.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've looked like a totally different team, which is
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: which I think we talked about. This is the quarter
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: point this season what gaming gets least worried about. UCLA
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: was number one, and now now they look like a
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: true threat and should should worry.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: I mean we're talking so ULA's defense is terrible against
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: the run. Yeah, they're hundred twenty fourth nationally, but they
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: are four twenty fourth nationally against the past. So now
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: what you want to see with a true freshman quarterback,
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: I guess you don't want to see that good passing
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: defense because but we might be able to move the
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: ball on the ground I have I honestly don't know.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: I don't even to this UCLA team just because you're right.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: The first half of the year they were zero and
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: four and we're like, yep, that was right. But now
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: they're they won three other last four and they lost
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: to Indiana, which they they could lose outter they lose
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: to US and they play Ohio State, Washington USC, So
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: I mean they could still look like a terrible team.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: But there you look at their schedule and it's pretty rough.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: But they lost to New Mexico unlv in Northwestern, but
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: they played Utah week one, which Utah looks pretty good now.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Austin he said, they're how bad they're rush defenses stat wise?
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I I mean, I think that's obviously it doesn't vode
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: well for a freshman quarterback, but it vodes very very
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: well for Emma Johnson. And I mean the type of
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: season year he's having. And we talked about early on,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: even after the Cincinnati game, how we got to get
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: other guys. Well, I am right now everybody's like, no,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: we don't.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Just give it to him.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: He's gonna get He's gonna get half of our offensive yards.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and get him, get him the thirty carries again.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's that's where he's at, you know,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: right him, right him until he literally has nothing left
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and he's been proven that he can do that. So
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: that that that, to me is is once u c
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: l A's game plan focus is going to be coming
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: into a game one knowing Emma's done what he's done.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Two, our offensive line, the.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Health status and the moving pieces and musical chairs that
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: we've had to sub people in with and then three
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: obviously a freshman quarterback. Like what to me, the obvious
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: strategy is put all of your energy and resources and
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: efforts into stopping the run at the best that you can.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: And I oh, but I think what that could hopefully
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: lead to us is some more open guys in the
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: passing game and that that, to me, will help TJ.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I think because they will have to be so focused
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: on the run game, including the quarterback run game, which
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: way I think it's important, but that that hopefully could
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: bode well for our offense. Now, the question is, is
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: a week of install and preparation of whatever that playbook
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: looks like with Dana, is that going to be enough
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: time to.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Put that in?
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: If Dana is not the good oppensive coordinator that we
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: hope he is, I mean, it should be.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean part of part of the reason that
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: their ranks so similar to us, of why we're ranked
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: so high passing defense as we I mean, we are
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: good for number two in the nation, but it's because
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: our run defense is so terrible. Teams don't have to
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: pass against us, you know, So a similar similar to
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: US USC is defense as defense looks good. That's because
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: we're so bad stopping the run that teams don't pass
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: the ball against us, because like, well, why would I
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: have I'm got eight yards on the ground. I think
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: a week, I'm I would assume TJ's skill set. They've
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: been working on it all year. I don't think you know,
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: I understand you're not practicing that with your offensive line
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: and stuff.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, good, that's what a good
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: coaching I mean, that's what a good program coaching staff
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: would do.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: I mean you'd hope that he's it's not starting from scratch.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think, yeah, I mean, I didn't hear
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: what you guys saying. I was. I was looking. There's
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: something on TV right there. But okay, what I'm gonna
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: say I will distract it. Okay, my bad. Let's uh so,
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: this is what I think the offense should look like
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: this week.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: There you go here, you guessed right, nailed it.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I was listening, guys the whole time. I was struggling with you. Anyway,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: I think, but how bad they're running their own defense is,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: which would just might be you don't really want Latif
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: to get hurt, so but you're gonna have to run
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: him more, which we were making for them run right,
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: all of which they refuse you. And I think it
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: could be Rollo's fault. Run him more, maybe maybe, And
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: this might get a hunter jump through the wall, break
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: out the option a little bit, not not the triple option,
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: just just to run him back option wise. And you
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: know what if it let him er at the ball.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you better explain that because those are two different things.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well I want to make I'm not saying you
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: do ball the whole time, but.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: You just said run the ball harder. Then you just
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: said to air it out.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Damn all right, that makes sense. But god I did
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: throw myself and lived there. Let's go back to watching
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: your TV all R Yeah, I'll I'll just now if
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: I lean have you one way the freshman quarterback, run
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: the option, run, run them all the time. But don't
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: don't be afraid to throw the ball like you like
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Nebraska was last week a conservative on offense.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Uh I I guess I from a defensive standpoint and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: stopping U. C. L A's offense, I I don't think
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we can't give up which we have it.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: We didn't against the USC I don't think it can
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: get in the thirties. I think we want to keep it,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: you know, a game in the twenties or less than that.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: I think we have the ability to do it.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: U c l A's offense is I think it's very
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: average from what I've heard and seen, Like they're very balanced.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: They hurt themselves plenty.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, they have a ton of penalty yards, and they're
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: bad at turning the ball over.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm UCLA, I'm coming into the game
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: like most teams have and saying, let's run the ball.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Until Nebrassa can stop it. And I guess we'll see
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: if we can.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Like USC was a unique team because they were past
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: heavy and that was their strength, and they were the
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: number one offense and I in the country based on
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: some stats, and I thought we did a pretty good
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: job of obviously containing them to twenty one points, and
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of good things defensively that we did.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: This game I think is kind of back a little bit.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: While USC, god damn it, well, UCLA is still an
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: out West California team. They probably are going to focus
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: on the run a lot more and we gotta be
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: ready to stop it.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Like we do.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: They have a running quarterback which we have not done
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: well against well against quarterbacks.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: He's still not.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he still has an arm a little bit, but
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I would say more so than I don't know who's
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: our most running quarterback threat. Probably Source has been the Yeah,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: he is probably more close to SOURCEB than anybody who
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: maybe Chiles, no Underwood, maybe Underwood.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm a say Underwood, but I don't
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: think get in that argument about who's the best running
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: back in the running quarterback passes the worst.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: I think as far as our defense this week, so
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: we are one hundred and twenty eighth in the FBS
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: and red zone defense and they're sixth in red zone offense,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: so it's gonna be important that we don't let them
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: get down to the end zone.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Here's what was really good. We were bad in red
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: zone defense and offense the whole year we have been.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: We did a pretty good job.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Against USC on that last week we did, and we
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: all talked about like that that must have been a
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: point of focus here for this team, you know, at
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: the halfway point and moving forward, and that was achieved.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: I do you think part of that was home field advantage?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: I think the blackout crowd and the noise. There was
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: several times there is four and one and they were
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: going to go for it and they get a holding
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: or a whole false start call and moved them back
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: a little bit.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: And that's that's on Lincoln. Y Yeah, I got them it.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: He said that the home crowd was worth ten to
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: seven ten points?
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but how much losing how many points? Losing your
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: starting quarterback?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: Also fair?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: How much is UCLA's crowd worth zero?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Negative? Like like I I I actually think it could
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: be negative, Like the players come out like, oh crap,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: look at this. This is this is like I might
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: put the players down for Ucla.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: I So if.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: We're talking about crowd, what what percentage you guys think
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: the Husker fans will be there? Because because UCLA fans
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: won't show out for this, it'll be like, yeah.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: The good estimate I heard twenty five thousand Nebraska fans.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. This week, I really don't think Nico's like
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: that big of a run threight. I mean he is,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: he can he reminds me of who is who is
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: the guy that was taking run oh kind of my
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: album this week where he he he will run, but
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: he's not that big of a right, like he will
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: take off if Nebraskan let him, just don't.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: He has eighty one carries on No again, I don't
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: know if these stats include sacks or not, but he
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: has like four hundred yards on eighty carries.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: College it is that includes sacks.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, so he is a good runner. Then I'm pretty
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: good runner.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Good research, but he's not.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're drawing up design runs for this guy.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: I again, are because they're leading roost rusher. Am I wrong?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: They have?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: They are definitely just like it, just for whatever reason
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: is usually happens when interim coaches come in. They decide
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: to run their quarterback more. And it's right because they
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: don't feel like they have to worry abou him getting hurt.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Virginia text doing the same thing with drones. Yes, they
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: are designing more to design runs for him too.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: He has one hundred and forty yards more than the
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: next highest rusher on his team.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, so he's a runner.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Deck Yeah, I will dak dak once again. Don't try
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: to make stuff that you think you know if you
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: don't know it. Don't make assumptions about Nico if you
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: don't actually know what they're doing.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I yeah, I know I should look. But every
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: time I thought about it, I've always thought him as
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: a passor that That's what I've always thought about.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: If you're insinuating that he's a he's a better passer
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: than runner, I don't know.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: He's a definition to be of a balance.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: I've always thought that he is pretty balanced. He has
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: seven interceptions on the year, ten touchdowns for I guess
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: four to fourteen total. He's been sacked nineteen times for
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: one hundred and eight yards, so if you factor that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: into the rushing yards not, yeah, it's a pretty good runner.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: I guess that's like five hundred rushing yards through. Is
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: this their eighth game or ninth game? I know they
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: coming off this eight ninth game? Yeah, three and five?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: I I personally be more worried about him passing. Again,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: he's a runner. I got that wrong. But anyway, personally me,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: I've been worried about his passing.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not because we can't stop the run.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm worried about everything to do with running the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: ball right now. And I thought that gave us our
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: best shot, and we almost pulled it out against the
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: USC at home.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: That's to me where the focus should should lie. Run
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: the ball, stop the run. I think that's a very
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: simple for me. Let A win a lot of football games.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: Let's let's hear these predictions. We've talked enough about. That's
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: for football, My god, a little bit. We're running up
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: on time though, you know.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Twenty three seventeen Nebraska.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, hold on, by, I thought you said, hold up.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: I think you said last week was your last week
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: they lose the Ucla. You ain't picking the brasket.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Did I say that? Yeah, y Dylan was going to
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: get her.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, then yep.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to believe in my theory of dj Lati
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: being able to run it.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: So we'll give me free past name. I will go
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: good God. Twenty four seventeen Nebraska.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna okay, Well, you literally picked my score and
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: added a point to it.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: I say, you said twenty three seventeen.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I picked my score and had a point too.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't big your score.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: Twenty four is a better better number to pick anyways,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: I'm actually gonna go twenty seventeen Ucla.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, I don't think he is gonna.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: Look good I think TJ is gonna turn the ball over.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: This is what I love. We spent the entire podcast
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: and me being negative Nelly in Austin, and then we
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: just completely are opposite.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: So is that the first prediction of Oscar loss on
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: the podcast this season?
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: No, I predicted us to lose against predicted last week
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: for US.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: And I didn't.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: So Michigan. I think we all three might, said Michigan, but.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know about that.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: Real quick, let's i'll briefly mention Nebraska basketball.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: You know, we've gone a little deep into some conversation here,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: so episodes going a little long.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Nebraska. We beat West georgiast.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Georgia in the first half that was not pretty, in
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: a second half that was very pretty and ended up covering.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: Those games go though, like West Georgia's they're absolutely fired up.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: Did you did you watch that game? Austin?
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: No, I don't picked ten plus.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: West Georgia is absolutely horrific offensively, like they are horrible
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: and all.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Credit our defensive system of the no middle fource baseline
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: if you if you're not used to playing it, and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: we're very we're pretty solid at it. Yeah, like it's
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: it's different, and yeah, they did not. They did not
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: look great.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: We will obviously talk a lot more to Rascal Basketball
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: here as season gets going along.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: But we play Florida International on Saturday at noon. You know,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: games obviously that we're expecting to win, gonna be heavy,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: heavy favorites, and I think this team has some pieces.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure what the.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Next steps look like.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I think as far as what Austin I talked about
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: in our preview pot, a lot of that stays the
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: same for me, Like, there's nothing in that West Georgia
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: game that changed my mind on that.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: Dak obviously didn't participate in that.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: Rank came out and shut out for two for three.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: So we could, you know, we could, I guess give
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: up those dreams of Rank being Stephan Curry. But yeah,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, it's just it's West Georgia. We're
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: not gonna read too much into it. We we've scored
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: sixty points in the second half after a slow start.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: That's kind of what you expect these games to be.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: Is usually the other team comes in all fired up
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: with fisty, and we you come out a little a
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: little slower, and by the end of the game it's
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: put away.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: But walking away from that game often just just because
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: you look saties on about you sat in person walking
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: back from the game, what player are you most hyped
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: up now for the rest of year? Because I think
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: me a Hunter might have the.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: Same Marcus Lawrence, is that who Nope? Price Stanford to Stanford.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: Freshman Jacobson Willo Nope, fragger frager that guy is for
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: That guy is damn good, like.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: It's Western Georgia. What I'm encouraged is he probably is
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: going to have a role on this team. I didn't think.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was not a guy that heading into
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: the year. I was like, he's gonna be playing minutes
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: for us as a freshman.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Anyone was thinking he is going to have some spot
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: on this team.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: And here's the biggest thing. He shot it well from three.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: And that to me is I mean, you're talking about
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: being excited for something. It's gonna be a lot of
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: our guys guys that can shoot it well. Like I
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: think between Sanford and a season and rank we were
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: like one for fourteen from three or something.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: This last night's not gonna happen.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: Ye you hope it doesn't happen. Having a guy like
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Fraker than dalso to kind of balance that out helps
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: a lot. So yeah, that's I agree.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: That was the one big probably takeaway from for Monday
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: night's game.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: And I didn't know he had the hops like he did.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: That down goes pretty sweet ill you.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that was good, very good.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't on the Sunday pot,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: but was dak right about three weeks ago. Oh, they're
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: gonna be pretty good.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: That's that's to be determined.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: Un I think that they're really good now after beating
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: a squeaky voice on the sideline.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: We'll play, We'll play f I you this week, hopefully
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: get a win one of it's probably what our third
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: hardest non con game behind Oklahoma and Creed.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah about you, you're saying, yeah, that's about you. No, No,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: I mean I would say New Mexico's up.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: There would be k State if you're looking, if you're
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: looking at team rankings, I think the other one that's
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: ahead of them is Winthrop really but other than that,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: it's next.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, and I guess and I guess the factor in
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: that kid, Kansas State and Mississippi State game. That's the
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: second game of the Kansas City Tournament that we will.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Play and hopefully beat New Mexico. Yeah, I again, I
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: was here Sunday. You gotta come out in Nebraska's come
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: out in non com with two loss the last that's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: that's the main goal right there. And that's and that's
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: my basketball green cap right there.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, they don't it's gonna be easy.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be probably have to win. Yeah,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: you gotta win the games that you should win.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: And I mean, i'll tell you what. You can't come
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: out like you did the first half and lay dud
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: like that against a lot of these teams. It's just
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: Western Georgia. So I can see why you by Nebraska
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: LA did first. Well, you can't do that.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Right if you If you do that against Oklahoma, Creighton
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and Kansas State slash, the game will be over.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: Probably not winning all. We're probably losing three games.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: So Lady Huskers, no doubt their game.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe they killed them. Women's college back basketball against.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: Bad teams it's totally different.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: It's like it's yeah, you see scores that are sixty
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: seventy points and.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: There'll be more of those here in the non.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: It was it was sixty points to eighteen at the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: end of the first time.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: We had some technical difficulties here to end the podcast,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Internet connection my fault, so we were pretty much done.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: We will be back Monday morning.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: Go be grid Atric trick