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Episode 5.13: Control, Command, and Poise -- Colorado Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Hmm, Well, Jurny Glory podcast, Braska Falls the Colorado thirty eight to
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fourteen. I'm Hunter's arbor, Nicky here with just da code of free tag.
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Austin is out on vacation, limited cell service, or he just truly
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does not want to talk after Saturday, Dak, what are we gonna do?
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I I really don't know. You're really screwed a quarterback. That's that's
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the main point. Yeah, and you've been saying that from day one.
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I didn't need this bad I did. I mean, yeah, it definitely
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has not been good. But this is not even close to being competent,
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I would say, And I think that's going to be the main topic of
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conversation and has been here since the game has ended. Before we keep going,
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I just got to get my rant off the top. So every Sunday
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I'm going to give my little two minute rant the two minute drill. So
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I will do that now before we just start jumping into all sorts of stuff
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about this game. So timer ready, and we're off. So after Saturday,
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the mood was depressed. I can't believe I fell into the trap of
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believing that we could win a football game against a pretty good team, not
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saying Colorado's world beaders, but they definitely we're better than us and ended up
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kicking our ass. And unfortunately we can't even get a fucking handoff. We
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can't. We can't hand the ball off. We can't. We can't take
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a snap anymore. So we can spend all the time we want. You're
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talking about how much talent we have or scheme we're trying to run, or
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style and play grade, it doesn't matter. We can't complete a snap.
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That's what sixth graders need to learn how to do. It's seventh graders,
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and we just turned the ball over when we try to do that. So,
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yeah, did you look okay? Again? For a quarter and a
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half, we did, We looked we were in control of that game.
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But Matt Rule says it, it's a four quarter football game, and we
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did not. We were not the better team through four quarters because we simply
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cannot just complete a snap. That's like the main thing, like grade elementary
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stuff. We can't do that. So I've made a lots of words,
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and I don't know where we go from here. And the fact that apparently
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it wasn't even considered to put in a backup tells you where our backups are
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eating at at the quarterback position. So we are in a world of purt
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right now. Luckily we have two games to go. I am not giving
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up on this coaching staff. I am not giving up on what we have.
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But was this eye opening? And I'm just pissed at myself for believing
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again that we could win a game like this because harmly that's not how I
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think. But I did not doing it again. Get me Northern Illinois money
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line on Saturday, loving it go big read you're already you're already going on
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the Illinois money line, baby money line. I know not, I mean
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not really, but that the thought of all of that was my head.
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Like I was actually sad, like I was after the Minnesota game. It
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was like speechless this game. I was like, dang it, I actually
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believed and thought we would win by doing a lot of the positive things that
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we saw against Minnesota, and I thought we started doing that. But ultimately
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we're just not a good football team. Deck We just don't like I mean,
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we can talk about Jeff Sims all we want, but we still lack
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receivers. We still lack guys that can just make a play on defense,
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and I thought our defense played phenomenal. They played so well for three quarters
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of that game. I mean, we made Colorado's offense look like, hey,
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we're a big ten West defense, We're a big ten defense, like
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come at us. But we could not sustain that. And yeah, I
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get that it falls a lot on the offense, and it just looked like
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we almost gave up and did we get tired? Maybe, But what do
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we want to see. We want to see in the fourth quarter how we
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respond. We were down thirty eight to seven against Colorado. I mean,
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that's just embarrassing. I don't care what how you want to analyze the game.
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That's the score. It was thirty eight to seven, thirty eight or
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thirty six to seven, whatever the hell it was. I don't know.
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We were we weren't in the game. I don't I don't know how scar
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fans do it. It's gonna be torture. And that's that's why I try
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to set my expectation level so low all the time, and I still I'm
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back to it. I think I got the most hyped I've gotten in a
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while after some of the things we saw it in Minnesota. But now it's
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back to okay, like we're a four win football team. We have to
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remember that in Colorado. Props to the way that Dion has come in and
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done what he's done through two games like that is impressive. Deon can do
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it because it's Dion. Matt Rule can't do it that way. Maybe other
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people can. That's one point I want to get to here down the road
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is like how long do we give a long rebuild in today's day and age,
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Like, let's just ask you that now. Like in today's day and
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age with nil with recruiting, with the transfer portal, the traditional rebuild coaches,
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which is a guy like Matt Rule, Like, is that still the
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best option to go with? That's coach? And once again, I'm not
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saying that Matt Rule can't get it done. I don't have belief in him,
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but clearly what Dion's doing at Colorado is evident of that. And I
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don't think he's the only one. I think Lane Kiffin, now you can
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say what you want, we're there at now. He kind of had did
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some good things when he went to Old Myths and some of these other coaches
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that are get programs going faster because of their name and their ability to bring
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guys in. Is that the way to like look five to ten years in
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the road, Is that better? You're you should probably take a year off
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of his rebuild, giving him time just for picking Jeff Sims over Kasey Thompson.
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He should lose a year just for that alone. Okay, I don't.
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I don't know what he was seeing there. But also you got to
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give him. He's a rebuild guy, so you got to give him five
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to seven years. I'd say at least five to seven like doing what like
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winning three or four games in year four? No it, so'll say you
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win, he's winning three or four games by year three. Still you sit
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him down that year and you say, hey, you gotta win eight nine
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games this year or else you're done. Kind of like a Brian Ferns thing.
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And in his contract you don't want to hear night games. You're done.
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And I don't mind that because I think that's how a lot of just
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college football fans in general think about coaching decisions. Is a quota or a
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mark that you have to hit in order to keep your job, And I
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don't I think that can be useful. I also think it's sometimes it may
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not depending on the situation. And that came up with Frost all the time
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too, was we do we say you have to do this or quote unquote
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we're seeing progress. So as long as we're seeing progress, we're okay.
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But the word progress can go all sorts of different ways depending on who's evaluating
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it. I actually am with you. I think at some point there does
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need to be bottom line, like we need to see results. What matters,
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what ultimately matters in the end. What are people looking at? It's
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how many wins you get and eventually can you win a championship. So we're
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here with coach rule, and I would say through two games, it's been
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two games, two games whatever. We've played Minnesota, who's a traditional Big
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ten West, not powerhouse, but a good football team, and take all
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the emotion and the rivalry out of it. A one off, unique Colorado
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team that brought in Dion Sanders and brought in a bunch of these really recruits
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and flip them around and we got our asses kicked five. Okay, is
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what we're doing. Going to build what we currently have and get us back
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to a ball game. That's the first step. And you mentioned the Jeff
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Sims day, Dak, You've told us he's not a good quarterback. I
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guess how would you evaluate? What would you say to a Husker fan?
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Since you're technically not one, What would you say to a Husker fan?
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Right now? We got ten games left bench? Jim ben him, Okay,
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I was I was just talking a couple of weeks, long time listener.
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He I said, dude, I'm dead serious here. If you ran
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the Wildcat every single play, I think you win that game. He lost
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that game for you Wildcat with a running back. Yep, you don't.
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If you're in that play, no quarterback, that game, no quarterback and
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all, you would have won. And because what did he give him?
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Yes, Austin's one comment to that, he said that he wanted us to
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say. Here's his end quotes. All I have to say is rule preaches
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accountability. He benched Grant after a fumble last week, and if sim starts
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next week, I will be disappointed, end to quote. And this is
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right along these lines of what do you do with a guy like Jeff Sins
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Because watching that game, and I'm even trying to think back, I'm trying
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to give him credit, like and support him and his run or the touchdown
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that we had, Like that's what we need to see out right, Yeah
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where the first half? Well, yes, I want to get to that
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too, because that's a great point. That's what we need to see out
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of Jeff Sins. We need to see him make plays because I still think,
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as sad as it is, he's probably still our best playmaker on the
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field. Like he's got the athleticism and the stature to make plays. And
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unfortunately it's like the simplest, dumbest things that happens that cost us. I
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mean, huge plays on drives. Like it's not like oh, a little
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mistake like you might make in a basketball game, like a mislay up or
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like these are like catastrophic things that just flipped the game around and like what
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do you do? Because in my mind, I was like, yeah,
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we need to we need to try something else, right, Like, there's
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one thing that the reason why we're down thirteen nothing a halftime. There's one
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reason and it literally was just him like fumbling the ball in the pit.
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Like it's like you we could not catch a snap. I don't know something.
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In my head, I'm like, okay, so if anybody else was
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in there, we'd be fine. Right. Well, then as I'm sitting
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watching the game, we're like, okay, well so now we're gonna put
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Hinrich Harberg in there. Chubba Bertie like, which he he got hurt,
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didn't he That's why they pulled him? Who damns? Yeah, he might
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have tweaked something. Also the point of the game where the game was over.
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I guess I haven't seen an official report on if he's if he's actually
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hurt, but the comment was made that there was not a thought of pulling
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him, So like that's very telling to me in a couple of ways of
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this coaching staff is like either one they're just fully supporting him and like didn't
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think the airs were that bad, and if that's the case, like,
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oh boy, we have issues with the coaching staff. Or two, like
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they know we don't have anybody close like those I think number two is is
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probably right. Like I want to believe the coaching staff when they say that,
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I seriously, I don't hinder Carberg and Chubba Pirty are like like not
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even serviceable either. So it's hard because yeah, maybe they can just come
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in and hand the ball off every time. But shit, if we can't
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do that with our starters, and you know, the one handoff, you
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could say maybe could have been a little bit of Urban's fault, the snap
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that just drilled the back of our guy in motion like stuff like that.
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That is all like control and cadence of your offense. And if you're a
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quarterback at any level, going all the way down to when you start in
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brick and middle school, you have to have control of the system that you're
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running. It doesn't matter what system you're doing. You just have to be
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confidence. You have to have that toise. You don't have to be good,
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you don't have to be able to sling it around. You just have
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to be in control that all the guys trust you that I'm your QB.
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The problem is, right now, Sims is the exact opposite of that.
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He's not in control, he's not poised, he has no idea. I
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mean, every time you catch this ball in the pocket, where like,
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what the hell is going to happen if we even catch the ball in the
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pocket. It's like such a mess right now. So yeah, I'm with
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you, Like I guess I don't I don't have an answer because right now
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you just you said too, like maybe year one you don't even count it
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for a rebuild because that's how bad Jeff Sims is. And we might not
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have any other option, and that might not be a bad thing to do.
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But I do want to say this, this brings up a whole nonother
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topic. Jeff Sims was this coaching staff's pit. Yeah, I think I
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think rules comment when he said what he say he didn't think about benching Sims.
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Basically you can translate that to he's just saying, yeah, we're fucked
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behind behind SAMs, we have nothing. That's basically what he's saying. And
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I think that's probably true. And the staff again handpicked Jeff Sims. Now
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I don't we don't know any background behind that, and we also don't know
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the background with Casey Thompson because a lot of a conversation, even after last
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week, but especially now, is if we would have kept Casey Thompson,
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would we have been to and oh I have a great game yesterday? Though
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at all exactly so? Then they played they played Ohio and I saw that
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this morning. And he threw two picks himself yesterday and had one hundred sixty
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yard passing he didn't play well. He played well week one, not week
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two. It we have no idea what those conversations were like about you know
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who's gonna start, But it would be nice to have someone like Casey Thompson
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to come in and play, because I think if we did have Casey Thompson
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on our bench and was still bought into the program, we would have put
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him in a halftime. I don't think there's any way he loses the QWI
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battle to begin the year. He might not. He might not there either.
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I don't know, but there's no way. You look at those two
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in practice, and I don't know did they practice before they told him to
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transfer. It was very very early. And again we don't know if he
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told him the transfer. We don't know. The conversation could have very well
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went, Hey, Casey, like new coaching staff, we're here, we
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have this guy coming in from Georgia Tech that we want to come to Nebraska
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and just letting you know when we start practice, it's going to be an
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open competition. That's what it's gonna be. And Casey could have said,
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well, I that I've been here, that should be my job and I'm
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gone Like that could have been how the conversation went. It also could have
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been, Hey, Casey, Jeffson's it's starting. It also could have been
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I mean, who knows what the conversation was like the bottom line as Casey
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made the decision to leave and now we are without a serviceable quarterback again,
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and and and comparing the two, one is a lot better at one aspect
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of the game than the other, and that is running the football. Jeff
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Sims is a better runner if he doesn't fumble it, then Casey Thompson,
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So what's frustrating? And you just you said this not too long ago.
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His run in the second half, early second half, but we score a
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touchdown on the whole first half. We were where's our quarterback designed run game?
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That looks so good against Minnesota? I say so good because we still
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didn't score many points, but we were gaining yards off of it in the
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first game and we didn't We didn't even show it in the first half.
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Were we trying to hide it for the second half? Again? We said
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this on the podcast last week. We cannot hide or save Jeff Simms run.
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He needs to run the ball twenty twenty five plus times. If that's
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what he's good at he's clearly not good at throwing and making decisions. Now.
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I still think he can throw it if there's no other defender on the
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field. I think he can hit an open guy. But if you put
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defense out there, were fucked. So why did we not run him?
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That's my one criticism with this game plan. And it's also ironic because we
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were playing well for a quarter and a half and we didn't really need that
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because we controlled and dominated that game up until midway through the second quarter.
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But we did. If that's the offense we're gonna run, then we probably
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should have Casey Thompson, Like, there's no we could have, Like we
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would have been fine, But we didn't do that, and so here we
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are. We can't change the past. We can't go grab a random quarterback
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in the portal right now and have to play for the rest of the year.
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Like, what do we do moving forward? Michigan State's quarterback, get
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transfer and play? Yeah, because if mail Tecker gets fired, they can
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transfer for thirty days. See you go pick him up. I have no
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idea who it is, but maybe we could. I don't know who it
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is, Peyton Thorne. I know the lapisodes whoever? Thinking then after it,
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Yeah, I was watching him late night football. He sucks, he's
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And then former former Michigan State quarterback Rocky Lombardi is coming to Lincoln with Northern
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Illinois. I knew, I knew, I know it's that name from somewhere.
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I was like, where where did I see this guy from? Yeah,
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well, well did he ever start there? Yeah? He did at
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Mission State for a year. That's what I thought. So, yeah,
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we'll get part of Northern Illinois on Wednesday. But they lost the Southern Illinois
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I think, which was like not Division one FBS. Anyways, So okay,
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next thought here is I want to as we deep dive or think about
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the game. I think anybody that watched the last five minutes of the first
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half were just an absolute disaster with the turnovers. I mean there was even
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like a simple play that Jeff Simms should have just went down in bounced,
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but he ran out of bounds and stop the clock gave Colorado a time out.
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They needed the time out at the end of field goal to give him
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thirteen Like little things like that. It was a disaster. But let's go
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back to like five or six minutes slept in the second quarter, score zero
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zero. We had the ball, we were driving, and I remember telling
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people, I'm like, if we get a field goal, great, if
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we go to the half zero zero, we have dominated and won. The
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first half that game was going like we wanted. It was slow. Colorado
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could not get anything going offensively. Our defense was fresh, they were flying
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around. We were getting pressure on Sanders, which you mentioned is one of
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your keys. Like we were winning that for a little bit. What you
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say, you had it, You had him rattled for a little bit,
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and it was like it was going perfectly, and then the fumble happened,
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and then here we go again. Ship went down the hill. And then
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it was like get to half time, get to half, to get to
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half time, and then every time we say that, something bad happens,
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and the bad happens. Then we finally got to halftime, we're down thirteen
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oh, and we're like, okay, now what So the hope or the
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optimism here is just like Minnesota. We played well to start the game,
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and then on top of that, we came back out of the third quarter
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and with something good, very positive. We had a drive we cut at
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the thirteen seven, so there's that's the positive takeaway here is that's the kind
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of stuff that we want to do, and honestly like that to me shows
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that we were playing smarter football. Not completely smart, but we're playing smarter
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because that's what we had to do and we were doing it pretty well.
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Now on the flip side, here's here's negative. Nancy's stance to all of
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that. What was Clemson and Charleston Southern score through that midway through the first
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quarter, end of the first quarter fourteen seven roun Clemson was losing Georgia and
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ball State. At the end of one it was zero to zero, Ohio
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State and Youngstown State. Late first quarter was seven seven. There are a
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couple other hole was down at the end of the first Yes, So the
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counterpoint to that is, no matter what kind of program or school you are,
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Yeah, you can put together a good game plan for a quarter and
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a half or whatever, but no matter who you're playing, but eventually,
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the better team is just gonna kick your ass and do what they want to
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do and it's gonna win. And that's exactly what happened in our games.
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So well, I want to look at these last two games, especially the
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Colorado game and say, wow, we actually did a lot of really good
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things for a quarter and a half, and we like we kick their ass.
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Yeah, we kind of did. But how many times do you like,
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teams have no chances of being in games against better football teams do that?
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And I remember looking at the score of the games we just mentioned and
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going, WHOA Clemson's down, WHOA Wall State Georgia end of one zero zero,
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And then next time you check, it's thirty five nothing at that half.
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Yeah. Yeah, I start talking shit in that Clemson game and I
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check next time they're up. Yes. So, like, I'm not saying
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Colorado Nebraska was the level of those two teams, but at the same time,
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that's what you talk about four quarter football and the style with how you
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play. Eventually one style is going to win out and wear on the other
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team. If we could have continued with our style, I'm not saying we
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would have just rained out of the water, but I think we could.
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We maybe could have won, maybe, but at the same time we don't.
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Maybe we don't have the players. Maybe Colorado is just that much better
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than we are talent wise across the board, And I think we can sit
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here and say their style that they play with is what Scott Frost played with,
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which is not particularly what we choose. But guess what we saw what
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happens now that that style works because in that third and fourth quarter, they
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just I mean it was seven yard past fourteen. I mean, it's exactly
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what we saw against TCU in Week one and it just they just they weren't
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rubbing it in. But that's just how they play. And it started to
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work because our defense got tired because our offense couldn't freaking not turn it over.
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So the defense is out there forever and they guess what where where where
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where? Touchdown? Touchdown? Touchdown? Now the games blow out. We
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got our asks to play Colorado. That's what happened. What sucks is what
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shitty is you're gonna you waited that great defensive game. That's what hurts.
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Probably I don't know what you think, but yeah, and I was texting
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you, guys, do it like our defense was kicking ass and you made
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the comment, what was your hot take? Best three defense, best defense
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in the Big Ten, worst offense. Yes, and I believe that that,
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and I think our defense has shown that it could be. Now we
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don't know how good. Minnesota's offense really is, but Colorado's offense is legit.
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We played well for half of the game, the first half, but
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once again the second half we did get exploited. And you look at the
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stat line for all the Colorado guys, it does not look like our defense
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played a great game. But I'm with you, they played. They did
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a really good job there early on of just shutting down what Colorado wanted to
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do, and then the floodgates opened the second half. So that gives me
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hope because I don't think we're going to see too many more high powered offenses
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like Colorado's the rest of the year, especially throwing the ball. Even your
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Michigans aren't gonna throw it like that. They're gonna be a good all around
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offense and still explosive, but they're not gonna throw it like snor Sanders Dak
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You. I don't want to say this often, but you are spot on
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on that guy. I mean, he is legit. I knew Rad Jackson's
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stake because I've watched I watched him a couple of times there when he's on
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ESPN, and I was like, this guy, you can just tell I
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know he's playing nobody's there, but you can just tell when someone has talent.
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I mean, that guy can fit balls in the spaces. He's never
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rattled. He never once looked now I say never. He kind of looked
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like we were getting to him because we were sacking it. I mean we
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sacked in seven times, like we were getting to him often, and we
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were hoping that would happen, and it did, but it didn't like bother
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him. He's like okay. And the moment that stuck out to me was
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it went from like a third and two and one of their players got an
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unforcedn like or something right at the end of the play, moving the third
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and seventeen. I'm like okay, And then next play Sanders delivered like a
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nineteen yard strike first down. I'm like, like it was nothing. I'm
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like, wow, Like this guy is legit. He hews and and he
26:40
he's a good decision maker. He's he's all those things we talked about.
26:42
He's poised, he's calm. Like I don't know it, just it.
26:47
It'd be nice to have a guy like that. But we he looks like
26:49
a pro. Yeah, he and he will. He will go pro somewhere.
26:53
He will. He's got the mechanics, he's got the he's got the
26:56
the swagger that goes with it too. Yep, don't got any cocky,
27:00
but you have to move with a little bit of I'm the ship. He
27:04
does. He does too with that, So very impressed by him. That
27:11
reminded me of this next topic here. And I don't know if you know
27:14
much about this if you heard about it, but both coach Prime and his
27:19
son and a couple other guys, you just heard that their coach, I
27:25
kept saying, their coach disrespected us. Yeah, what was that about.
27:30
They said, they said some stuff, you know, and that we take
27:33
it personal. It's personal when that happens. It's too late. It's too
27:36
late to apologize all that stuff. Okay. And you read about this stuff
27:40
on Twitter, and I was kind of confused too, because I'm like,
27:42
I didn't remember him saying anything like directly pointed at Prime. Scott Frost took
27:48
a shot to me, he did, and it was obvious. And when
27:52
when he was doing that, we talked about on this podcast how that was.
27:56
Don't don't give extra teams motivation, don't do it. So as they're
28:00
saying this and everybody all the Husker fans are like, we didn't say anything,
28:04
there's nothing set, Like, I don't know what you're talking about.
28:08
I found finally, I was reading it back and forth of people on x
28:14
that were commenting, and some guy found a quote in a linked paper that
28:18
was what the quote that Rule said. This would have been back in the
28:22
spring, right before the portal opened. He said, quote, I had
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my first team meeting last night. I'm one of those guys. I don't
28:30
let the cameras in. There won't be a camera following me around. I
28:34
want it to be about the players. And while there's no direct reference to
28:41
Prime, he's talking about him. He's talking about Prime, and I don't
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give a shit Husker fans what you guys think and say, well, he
28:48
never mentioned it. Well, he's not even saying anything negative about it.
28:51
He is saying that my way is better. Rule is saying that what I'm
28:55
doing this build, what I'm doing is better than what Primes do. And
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that's how Colorado took it. Now at the time we kind of laugh and
29:03
yeah, there was a little bit of negative stigma with Prime and how he
29:07
was going about as methods and and the showboating and the cameras and all this
29:12
flashy nil and kicking guys at all this stuff, but that talk is ultimately
29:21
giving. It gave Colorado extra motivation throughout the whole offseason. And I don't
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I don't care. I don't care if people say no, it didn't look
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at the facts, look at the reality. I don't care if rules comment
29:34
meant that or not. How did Colorado take it? You know how they
29:38
took it. They fought out, just said how they took it. They
29:41
took it that way. So whether we said what we said or not,
29:44
they took it that way, and they used that thing as extra motivation and
29:47
they just kicked our ass because of So this goes back to what happened with
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Frost. And I'm not comparing ruling Frost, but don't give other teams extra
29:57
fucking motivation. Play against you. Work silence, yeah, work under the
30:03
radar, don't but don't come out and say stuff. Don't don't say stuff.
30:06
Just do your work. And I think Rules trying to do that.
30:08
And I don't think he meant to piss off Prime. I don't think that
30:11
was his intention, but that is what happened, and it gave Colorado motivation
30:18
so not again. I still believe in rule. I still think that it
30:22
could work. It is going to be a slower rebuild. Five to seven
30:26
years, like he said to me, is a little long, but it
30:29
is going to take more than two games to realize if this thing can work
30:33
out with him. But I am dialing it back on everything and just making
30:38
sure we point out what has happened so far. I think three things right
30:44
now. Are concerned that right there, which I don't think he meant to
30:47
do what we just talked about. Second concerning thing, and I think this
30:49
is a major thing, is what you mentioned, Dak. Jeff Sims is
30:53
our quarterback and he hand picked Jeff sins Someone did on that staff. That
31:00
was their decision, and it could have been him. It could have been
31:04
Sadderfield. I know Tony White that Syracuse they would have played Georgia Tech probably
31:10
in the ACC Like that was a decision that was made and that was his
31:15
guy that he's going by so far through two games, it's we know what
31:21
it's been. And then decision three that I've been I was like, was
31:25
why the hell were we running the ball with him in the first half against
31:29
Colorado? That was like Okay, that's what he's good at, So what
31:33
are we what are we waiting for here? Worked against Minnesota. But outside
31:37
of that, I do think the style and the way that he's playing,
31:41
rule the staff. Our team is smarter, more crisp than we've seen in
31:45
the past few years. It's closest to the way that we want football to
31:52
be played in the Big Ten. It's close. We're the closest, not
31:55
there yet, but it's the closest we've been. So that's why they're still
32:00
are still hope there and we can still buy and think that it could work.
32:04
I know last podcast it was everybody called me your ship down and hold
32:07
your horses. That was me drinking thekool aid a little bit. It was,
32:12
and I'm depressed because of it. But we need to see what happened.
32:16
It is only two games. We have two very winnable football games,
32:22
maybe maybe winnable as in we have a chance to win. We have a
32:27
chance to win every game, but these are two games that we will see
32:32
how we play, and I think it will be very telling how we play
32:37
coming in the next two weeks. The style we play, with the guys
32:39
that are playing, we better be treating this like it's our goddamn super Bowl
32:44
because we need to find Yeah, we gotta find a win, we gotta
32:47
find gotta win games. Right now, we're owing two. I don't think
32:52
people thought we would go owing too. I think one and one was our
32:53
most likely scenario in these first two games. It was. So it's not
32:58
the end of the world. We're owing two. We don't got to blow
33:00
up and freak out and say, oh, we're gonna win one or two
33:04
games. But at the same time, well, no one lock it.
33:08
No one thought Carl was gonna be like this going in the season, correct.
33:14
I mean you look, if you would have watched Colorado's first game and
33:17
then asked us to evaluate what our record would be after two games, there
33:22
would be a lot more oh and two. Actually I picked the Braskau.
33:25
I was wrong. But why was I wrong on that pick? The one
33:30
time we're speaking of that, you went three and five this week on your
33:35
five small picks that you got in, did I which? So I lost
33:40
the Braska money line and I lost A and M yep, and you hit
33:45
the other three props to you on that there we go. Amm really pissed
33:49
me off. I thought for sure they're gonna win that game, and they're
33:51
they're flying high, and then Amy looks pretty good. Yeah they did.
33:55
I hate Miami though, so hopefully they keep sucking. But there's one last
34:02
there's a point I want to get in here. I was beginning the season.
34:06
I don't know if I told you about I don't know if I told
34:07
you this. I wanted Nebraska, I said, go hire Dion And I
34:12
heard it again this weekend. Oh, he doesn't fit our culture. Who
34:15
gives a shit? Who who gives a shit? Like? What? What
34:20
kind of culture? It's so special here that he wouldn't fit it or he
34:22
wouldn't change. And I wanted Nebraska to hire him because I knew I was
34:29
saying, you know, you only get him, you get his son with
34:32
him. So I and I'm just tired of hearing he won't fit the culture.
34:37
That's you can say that all you want, I guess. But and
34:43
yeah, I heard a lot of the same things. I wouldn't say it
34:45
was one of the people at said it wouldn't work. But I was also
34:49
very skeptical of the whole thing. He's proven me wrong, I mean dead
34:54
wrong, and he's proven all the people that didn't think it would work wrong,
35:00
But I'm with you, like, I don't care what what people say
35:06
doesn't fit the culture, It doesn't doesn't matter to me. If is he
35:08
gonna win football games and whatever comes with that, let's let's let's get it
35:14
here. And Dion clearly in two games too. It's only been two games,
35:21
but it's shown that he can win football games and flip a program pretty
35:24
quick. And the style, the way he did it is unlike we've ever
35:30
seen before. So yeah, like, I'm with you that I would not
35:37
have minded it. I don't whatever the culture or whatever that is, I
35:39
don't I don't care. Is they gonna win football games? And I think
35:44
the only counterpoint to that is like he he was able to run guys out
35:49
of Colorado because they were just so horrific. I mean, they were one
35:52
and eleven and lost on it by an average of like thirty points a game
35:57
last year. Yeah, they're probably the worst team in nation, So that
36:00
was very easy to do. That would have been tougher to do it in
36:01
Nebraska. But again, if you're bringing guys in in today's environment, that
36:07
is just a wild West. As people continue to try to figure that out,
36:10
and you're winning games. Who gives a shit. I'm with you,
36:14
I don't care, don't care. So Matt rule is a slow rebuild,
36:19
absolutely. But I mentioned in the last podcast Peyton Manning was one guy that
36:22
popped into mind. But get a get a celebrity football star in here that
36:27
understands football, that can hire the right assistant coaches. But it's going to
36:31
bring in Topper Cruise because this guy's a celebrity and freaking start winning games right
36:38
from the top. And the difference between Colorado and Nebraska. If you do
36:42
that in Nebraska, you probably might stay here long term, and you could
36:45
continue doing it for years. Theon's gonna be gone. If this works,
36:49
he's gone. He's going to some SEC school probably or acc or yeah big,
36:54
He's going somewhere else. He's not staying at Colorado. If you do
36:57
that in Nebraska, you're probably sitting Okay. So we'll see how this plays
37:04
out, because I still want to go with Rulier and give him a little
37:07
bit of time. But at the same time, you're in year three and
37:12
you're winning four games, like it's gonna be very easy for people like the
37:15
landscape and how it's shifting just say no, I want to go grab Drew
37:19
Brees. I want Drew Brees to be the coach, all right, Drew
37:22
Brees a goddamn six page letter and say hey, here's why you need to
37:24
be our next football coach. You know, it's like maybe that's the way
37:30
to go in today's world and might shift there. I don't know. The
37:35
thing is with the transfer port and all that, now, no one wants
37:38
to wait any longer because you can flip a team in a year. Now.
37:42
You can get a whole new team like Neon did, and you can
37:45
there were so many other transfer quarterbacks out there. I don't I don't get
37:50
how they settled on Sims at all. Like you look at Hartman, he's
37:54
bawling out and utter damn. Who's another good? Well, Wisconsin got Mordecai
37:58
Eat He's pretty bad, but he looked terrible. The portals interesting because you're
38:04
not going to be able to swing somebody to be a backup. So ultimately,
38:07
what you're gonna have on your roster is a lot of teams. Is
38:10
what we have a guy that you say is he's our quarterback, and then
38:15
you're gonna have guys that just fall off a cliff after that, which is
38:19
what we have. So you have to be very particular in your selection of
38:23
that QB. And next year we're going to get a new shot at somebody
38:27
else. We will, I mean, unless Jeff Sims makes a three sixty
38:34
flip of how he is as a quarterback, I don't think anybody's going to
38:36
be excited for him for a second year. So yeah, that's a good
38:39
news. Is he's just a junior. He can't come back. He can,
38:43
so the portal is gonna be open. We're gonna be able to get
38:45
a guy. Is Matt Rule going to be able to evaluate that and get
38:49
the right guy in? That's gonna be the question the whole offseason. And
38:52
he messed up on Jeff Simms so far through two games. Maybe he could
38:57
get better, but that's gonna be the earning question is will we know or
39:00
are we better off getting somebody that can choose? Because quarterbacks the most important
39:05
position in football, that's not even arguable, So I don't know, I
39:12
don't know. We didn't get to talk about Texas, but your horns looked
39:15
good against Alabama, not not my horns. I did. I did make
39:22
some money on them. I'll just say that we'll get in more of that
39:25
on Wednesday, and we'll also be previewing the Northern Illinois Huskies until then,
39:31
Go big read Boomer sooner. I love that burnt orange dude,