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Episode 5.19: Option Football -- La Tech Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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M Burning Glory Podcast two and two, Hucker's big win over the Louisiana Tech
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Bulldogs. A win is a wind fellas Hunter's arber Nikki here Austin Rose the
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code of free tag. A win's a win, Yes, but you know,
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you like to feel good about your wins, and I don't know if
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that's how I felt. I can't speak for you and Dak, but h
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that's kind of how I felt. You don't think they're the best team in
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the Big West after that game? That still might be true after the weekend.
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Watching the weekend, it's still outside of Minnesota apparent you know, did
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you guys see that game? They blew it? What was it, thirty
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five to seven lead over Northwestern? Yeah, something like that. Yeah,
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so they had a worst weekend. But yeah, I wouldn't be too impressed
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with Nebraska if I was a Hoscar fan. But I don't know. They
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they won, That's the main thing. I mean, what do we expect?
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I guess. I know at the tailgate pod we had some pretty high
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scores guesses from Dak and Cooper, and like, as I was sitting there
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watching the game, even when it was seven to seven a half time there
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wasn't. I wasn't shocked. Our offense was doing what it's done through the
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first three games and continue to do it, and eventually we broke a couple
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of big plays there in the second half. Our defense, I think people
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are a little bit down or saying maybe they weren't as a us. Well,
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we held them this basically seven points, and then they score a touchdown
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after the rain delay. So I don't know. I guess as far as
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what we expect and what we need to do, we just need to win.
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And here people are now complaining how we win again when guys who just
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want we want a game. I don't get wrong, I'm not complaining.
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It's just it didn't feel like I'm not complaining, But I'm also not,
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I don't know, bragging. I don't know if that's the opposite of complaining.
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But well, and I think the combination of Northwestern beating Minnesota and putting
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up whatever it was, thirty four points on him after being down, and
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then Colorado just getting steamrolled by organ which I think we all thought that might
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be coming. Maybe Dak didn't think that, but yeah, we all thought
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at some point it was coming. That doesn't make us feel too good about
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the opponents we lost to either, So it's hard to know. It's hard
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to know. Right, we're two and two, and I know we did
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the Big Expectation Pod last Sunday, but we really are going to see where
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we sit at in the Big ten West this week. I think it's a
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game that nobody's expecting to win, really coming here with nothing to lose.
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But there is such thing as potentially a very bad loss that could be coming
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if maybe we're not as good and we are bad like some people think we
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are. I would you guys agree that was the worst defensive performance of the
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year. Probably, I don't think it was bad. I think their defense
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just kind of gave up at the end. I kind of agree with that.
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I don't know how long. Yeah, Colorado is tricky because we just
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had so many freaking turnovers and the team was probably just you're right, probably
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done by the fourth quarter. But we did give up thirty eight points and
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we only help the fourteen points. And like Hunter said, that last touch
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on came after a rain delay, so they kind of had time to regroup
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and come with a game plan. And I didn't feel just disregard the stats
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and everything. From that standpoint, just generally watching I would say, I
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don't know, Yeah, our defense gave up against Colorado. I didn't think
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our defense played bad this game. I really don't. I don't. I
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don't think that there was there was much to be concerned about. We stopped
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the run. They're a team that's gonna air it out. We knew they
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were going to do that. I thought we for the most part did well.
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Now, we didn't get much pressure on the quarterback this game, which
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I thought was a little bit alarming, but I was definitely the big surprise.
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Yeah. I didn't come away from that game though, saying, man,
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our defense maybe isn't as good as they thought there. I still think
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they're solid. I I don't know the quality of offenses that we played.
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I have that written down as like, how good are these offenses that we
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played? We also, I mean, Luke Rhymer didn't most of the game.
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We had a couple of other defensive guys that they didn't play a ton
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of snaps that usually do. So you're right, it wasn't an a plus
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game, But I agree. I felt good about the defensive performance, and
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I do think outside Colorado is a good offense that we played not a great
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offense maybe, I mean, I don't know. They definitely they made us
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look like they're really good. Are they good? Now? I don't know.
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They made us That's what that made it look like when they played us
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towards the end. But I I guys, I don't looking at the quality
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of teams and the I mean, on the flip side of the ball,
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the defense is that we played. I don't know the defensive we played.
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We played our anything special either, So I don't know. That's why it's
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so hard to tell. Now going into the rest of our schedule this week,
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we're going to get tested. But even Michigan has its flaws. It's
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not like Michigan's gonna come in as a traditional top five powerhouse. We've played
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like the Ohio States of the past. So yep, these Big ten West
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teams are gonna have a lot of the same flaws. They're not gonna be
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great, so they're there's winnable games still out. They're definitely not saying that
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we can't win these games because we've played bad opponents. But at the same
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time, who knows what we've what we've seen so far now looking at some
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of the other scores, and Loaf Tech was not a good football team,
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but we beat them like we should and you can say how we should be
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done. I think people in the first half were moaning and grown in and
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oh man, but I mean it happens all over the place when you know,
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good teams are in dog fights in the first half, and then second
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half better team ends up winning. I thought, I thought Louisian Tech looked
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a lot better than what I was expecting. For backup quarterback. I didn't.
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I didn't think he looked that bad. I agree with that. Than
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quarterback. I didn't think the other one would look good either. No,
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but the biggest bullshit thing is no big Max Sacks. That's a bummer for
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you, isn't it, Dad? Oh yeah, that's the best. How
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many times you have any of us here actually taken up the big Max sax?
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Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. I don't think I ever
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have. I brought thirty minutes sometimes just to get it. What McDonald's are
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you driving to? It's thirty minutes away the town. The town I live
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in doesn't even have restaurants, So all right, makes sense? All right,
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So we've touched on the defense a little bit, and how law Tex
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offense maybe did some good things. Again, there are spread type offense.
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We're not gonna see many of those left in our schedule, if any.
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Maybe Wisconsin is the closest thing we're going to see to that, which is
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crazy to say. On the other side of the ball, our offense once
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again in the first half, look the little stagnant, but we got going.
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Wasn't a product of us just physically beating a team up and then eventually
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breaking a couple of big runs. I don't know if I'd go that far,
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but we definitely did get loose, and I know Heindrich had a big
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run. They got called back in a holding. The option got going,
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So let's talk about that, because we, I mean, our best run
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play, our best offensive play, was the option, the speed option,
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not the not the triple option like Dak wants, but the speed option.
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We're taking baby steps to get there. How'd that look, Dak? How'd
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that look? I thought? I always have said that your best your best
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bet is don't throw the ball at all. You cannot throw the ball.
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You are air force but worse of passing. Basically, the rest of the
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season that's each beat. So, speaking of air Force, I saw the
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stat that we have the lowest pass attempts and power five right now, and
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I think it was last week. I don't know if it still stands,
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but we were the lowest pass attempts out of any FBS team, ahead of
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Army, air Force and Navy. Wow, that's insane. That it's insane.
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How you got down the whole game to Colorado? How did they not
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throw the ball more because we didn't want the quarterback throwing the ball anymore?
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Yeah, three six are numbers enough. I think that's also a product of
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us turning the ball over so we didn't have the ball as much. And
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then yeah, our style of play it is. It is running the ball
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clearly, that is the system that this offense wants to do and rightfully so
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it fits the scheme of our quarterbacks probably the best I I saw. Also,
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we are averaging eighteen carries by our quarterbacks, which is only two less
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than I can't remember which of the academies it was Army or Navy, but
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only two less by our quarterback carries for game I will say, I mean,
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I know everyone was kind of down on Anthony Grant after Minnesota. But
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last year we did like he was one of like the guys that we actually
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enjoyed watching. It was him and Trey Palmer. We actually felt good about
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those two people on our offense. And I thought he did pretty well.
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I mean, again, I don't. I think it's more of a product
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of the defense we were playing, being a mid tier conference USA defense.
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But I thought Anthony Grant looked good as far as you know, being the
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lead back. He was our lead back last year. I thought I did
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well last year, missing our two you know, Ramier and Gabe. I
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thought he did well in that role. Yeah, I thought he played well.
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Why are we down on him? I guess it was a fumble,
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right that It's there's no all the reason. It wasn't like he wasn't running
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hard, Which is funny because I don't really remember him having the fumbling issue
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last year. And I don't know if that's just a product of everything I
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blamed on the offensive line and everything. It's blank beyond that, it wasn't
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it was the It was the coaches that came out and said he had a
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fumbling problem in practice. That was the big like, right, I remember
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that. I just don't. Yeah, that That's kind of what I was
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thinking when I was watching the game, was like, why why did I
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think this guy had a fumbling issue? Like, I know the coaches said
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that, and then he did it the first game of the year, But
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I just don't remember that being an industry of lash and I remember really liking
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him last year. We were just all excited for Gabe Irvy. It's the
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same thing for Simms. I mean, tell me, tell me the negative
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things about Jeff sims dak everything that's actually lists the though, because I I
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seriously, what's he not good at? He's not good decision making, holding
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on the ball, Okay, and that's honestly, that's the top two.
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He's really good runner. He's a really good runner. His negative things is
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all is turning the ball over, right, if he doesn't throw the ball
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over and I guess decision making slash just like to being able to handle the
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ball, like not even turning it over, but just executing a play,
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I guess execution. But as far as his football skills goes, they're very
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strong. But those things that we're going back to again what gets us a
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negative perception on these players are the turnovers, the big mess ups that are
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causing us to lose football caps. Trust me, being a Vikings fan,
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I can see fumbling issues. Anthony Grant does not have fumbling issues. I'm
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well seasoned watching fumbling off It's the entire Vikings team with the fumbling issues.
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I hate them. I hate them so much. Did you see, speaking
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of the vike, did you see Kirk Cousins blame the crowd noise? Okay,
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yeah that I'm yelling at my phone. I'm saying, I say,
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smike the fucking ball and his own crowd. Oh yeah, just just spike
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the ball and belt We're gonna throw a pick. I'm done with those guys.
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Okay, back to the option in Harbord and I guess a little bit
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of Sims talk here. Here's here's the thing with Harvard. Harborg has brought
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us. The best word that I've heard someone say so far is some sort
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of stability on offense. That is not meaning that he is going to be
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able to make some of the plays that I think Jeff Simms could make it
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quarterback, which is why I think we still need to somehow find a way
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to get Jeff Simms going down the right path because I think he even I
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would say even that play that since the one snap Sims came in and he
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almost got sacked, but I think he got back to the yard the line.
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Yeah, I mean it was like play which could have been his fault
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to begin with. I mean it's probably it could have been. But when
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I was watching that he was scrambling, I was like, Harbor probably would
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have gotten sacked for five yards on this one. Jeff Simms was so much
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quicker than Harvard. Not the Harbor slow, but he does much more of
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a straight speed. Sims was able to like he was juking people around and
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got back to the line. Again, it might have been broken because of
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him, but I was like, there is a difference there, Like you
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could see the difference he came in for one play. Yes, it's all
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what you want out of a runner too, because some people would want you
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want the straight line runner versus the the shifty, shifty guy. But I
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also don't know that Simms is actually like when I think a side stepping shifty
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runner, I think of how Adrian and Taylor ran, which shout out to
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both of them. They were on the sidelines this game, like the way
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those two ran were very much up and down. I thought Sim's running against
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Minnesota was more so downhill. Put my shoulder down, get extra yardage against
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Minnesota. So right now, I think Harburg until he loses the job,
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I think it's kind of right now his job to lose to where he's a
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stable option. He's not going to be able to make plays like Sim's potentially
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could, but he provides us with that sure hand. Until he does,
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he won't anymore or can't anymore. And I'm saying that whereas the two opponents
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that Harborg went against guys. I get it, Northwest or Minnesota and Colorado
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aren't great teams either, but they're better than Northern Illinois and Luis. And
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so when we started playing these big ten West teams, I'm not going to
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be surprised if Harburg have some issues too along the way. The good news
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is now we have a second option to kind of all right, like,
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doesn't work here, we can go back here. There is not that they're
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that much different to where we're losing a bunch by subbing one out for the
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other. Now, Dak you could maybe argue that point, but I'm saying
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if Harvard starts turning it over. We're gonna have two turnover prown quarterbacks.
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Now hopefully he doesn't at all. But Jeff Simms athletic ability has gives us
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the ability to maybe win games using that playmaking capability. Whereas Harbord and we
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kind of saw what he's got. He's got the downhill run. He maybe
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has a little bit of speed once he gets going, but it's not like
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he's going to be an elite playmaker out there. But maybe we don't need
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that. Maybe we don't all right, Yeah, Harbord's deep throw is god
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aful. That's on one tap of the game. He cannot throw the ball
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deep. You you aren't gonna get play a pass over thirty yards with him
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at quarterback. But like you said, I would just run option the rest
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of the year. Those two at quarterback every single play. Don't throw the
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ball, And that is a folk strategy. I like it. What's funny
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is that we ran the option probably I don't know, say, six to
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eight times this game, and I thought it looked it looked unstoppable. Well
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it was, but it really wasn't the option, right, it was.
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It was Harberg just taking off and running and they never made him pitch at
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one time. Yeah, I think that was a product two of them probably
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not having prepared for it as much because we really haven't shown it. If
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Michigan's come into town, you bet your ass the first time Harberg pops out
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there that the doctor is coming straight down on hill and just popping it as
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hard as he can. And we will see what the pitch game looks like
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because we've seen that before. How potentially there's turnovers that are involved in that
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as well. So I fully anticipate to see that by Michigan. Another thing
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that Michigan is going to do because Lawtech did it, and this was very
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noticeable at the game. They don't give a shit about us throwing a deep
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ball. Like Dak said, he isn't no good Harbor can throw it.
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I don't know that we have a receiver that could take off. We keep
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saying that maybe Malachi Coleman can or Tommy Hill can, but we we still
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can't do it. So wow, our deep threat, he's your non traditional
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deep dus. You're throwing up and go up and get it, not the
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guy that can take off the field. And people you know, are saying,
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maybe we need to we need to try one of those. Well,
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maybe we just can't. We tried one to open the game, which didn't
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like that play call whatever, but we tried to open the game. Get
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open. Was that deep shot the camp I think to open the game.
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I think we had Malachi and Tommy Hill both out there. I think,
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will you send them deep? And and I think Kemp had one later on
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where he like ran into a safety or something like that when he was trying
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to go. So it's a combination of both. But defenses, we we
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thought this might happen after the Minnesota game. Defenses are not until we prove
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that we can complete one or have it looked reasonable to where it could be
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a threat. They aren't gonna care. In Louisi, gonna tech guys,
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they did not give a shit and we didn't even try, which maybe we
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didn't need to, and because we were able to physically just run it.
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But you do that against any of these Big ten last teams, especially Michigan
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on Saturday, we are I mean it could look ugly for a while where
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if we can't run the ball because they're gonna have eight or nine guys in
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the box every single play, all Right, Yeah, you're gonna have to
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take a deep shot every now and then just to keep the defense is honest,
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Who cares you over throw up by fifty yards if you complete one of
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them. You just gotta make defense play a little bit more, honest.
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You can't have the box deck like that all game long. You can if
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you're confident there, it's just gonna be a It's like we'll stack the box,
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they'll take a deep shot and it's gonna be second and ten because I
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know they're not gonna be able to complete. They can pass it to a
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wide open guy. I mean even the Thomas fight only touchdown. Thomas was
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wide open and he was almost overthrown. Luckily he's six foot six and can
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jump because he barely caught the ball. Yeah. Now, I mean that
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was a crossing route, not even like just not even down the field.
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Yeah, I know. So that whole point being said, we will see
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if we can get creative with deep passing game. I I'm not saying we
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are going to need to do it, but there's gonna come a point where
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our run game is just gonna get completely stopped. And I think even against
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Louisiana Tech, there were we weren't getting the four or five six yard pushes
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like we were hoping we would against a team like that. And so when
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we get to some of these big ten games, let's see what our next
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option is when it comes to running the ball. And I have a really
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bold take, guys, I wrote down bold take and all caps. This
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is gonna. I worded it. I worded it very carefully too. You
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get misinterpreted we miss Scott Frost creativity. I agree I did. That's all.
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I'm just gonna say creativity. I'm not saying we missed this offense.
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I don't not saying we missed anything more than just his creativity. You may
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you missed not having Scott's adderfield as you're operasive coordinator. That could also be
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true. Is that his named Scott Marcus, Scott sadderfield. I don't know
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where he's at now. I thought I think he was at Louisville for a
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while head coach, but Scott Marcus. Either way, this guy sucks all.
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We're stuck with him for at least two years. He and some of
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the comments in the paper are like comments around the not complexity. But we're
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running the option. We're running a pro style. Then we're running reads and
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so they're making it seem like it's complicated, but it's not like the scheming
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of it is very complicated. It's just we're running a bunch of different stuff.
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And I guess, yeah, you go back to play calling and all
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of that. You can put that all on the offensive coordinator. I feel
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like every offensive coordinator Nebraska's has since I can remember, has gotten just slay.
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And because the play calling sucks, now we also he's not working with
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a lot. I'm not saying we're you know, I don't want to shit
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talk every player, but we have offensive line issues. Our receivers aren't necessarily
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tall or fast or great receivers, and our quarterback can't throw. That's pretty
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freaking tough to design an office that can function. When you can't run the
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ball because your offensive line is not great, you can't pass the ball because
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your quarterback is not great, and your receivers aren't great, your OC is
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probably not gonna look great. And then it comes down to and we go
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down this rabbit hole again, the recruiting and bringing in the recruits that fit
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your style, fit your system, on what you're trying to do. We
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went down that rabbit hole a ton with Scott FROs. I mean, here
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we are with I think what we know is our identity of It's your classic
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big den West offense. Nothing flashy, pound the pound the rock, get
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some play actions. I think that's what we're trying to do. I think,
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yeah, we want a pro style quarterback. It was also big and
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can be mobile, So yeah, I wants to hand their ball off and
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then get hit the shots downfield that we need to so that style right,
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and we've gone. I mean everybody, all I hear is all the time,
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need to get more creative or maybe the other word is it's not complex
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enough, or we need to make it more simple. Right, those words
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are a little bit different to me. It needs to be creative yet simple
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for these quarterbacks. We can't make it very complex, Scott. For us
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offense, we're very complex. Right. They were complicated and they weren't because
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they were complicated at times, and then they just epically failed most of the
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time because they were so complicated. And we say here talking about how we
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need to simplify it. Well, now we have a very simple I would
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say offense that I guess we're running different things, but it lacks I think
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the ability to be creative and how we scheme guys to get open, because
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like you said, we don't have the athletes to maybe get open, so
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we have to be creative and how to do that and things that I'm just
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that come to my mind with Frost that he did were simple things like like
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crossing routes and not saying like pick plays, which are illegal, but teams
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do them all the time. Like different ways to just manipulate the defense to
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get your playmakers the ball, your Fidoni's, your Billy Kemps, your Marcus
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Washington's, find a way if we can get them open by scheming instead of
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saying, hey, you gotta go beat this guy one on one, good
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luck, because I don't think we can do that. So now it's time
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to actually put on our thinking caps a little bit. And that's where we
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are going to be challenged here to find a way to get open to be
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able to have a otherwise it will and I think we're gonna try it guys
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against Michigan. We will try to just pound the rock. We're going to
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try it and maybe it'll work. I hope they got it does. But
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early on it's going to be run, run, run, run, run
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right at him, and let's see if we can get the halftime within a
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one score game and then throw the cards out second half, see if we
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can win. That's gonna be the game plan. But we are going to
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have to at some point in the year find a way to be creative enough
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to score more than ten points a game. Maybe they they weren't showing everything
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these last two games either, just trying to be vanilla about it and just
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get out there two wins and then maybe they'll throw it all on the table
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next week its Michigan. That's exactly why I did the fake field goal.
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We don't want to show anything. Call one bleef flicker Saturday. I like
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that. I like the fleef flicker thought it works every time and no one
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runs it. I just have memories of Colorado running it at Colorado back in
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twenty eighteen on us. Yeah that changed the game. H Yeah, Dad,
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I hope, I mean, I really hope you're right. But at
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the same time, I don't think we have the ability anymore to just say,
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yeah, we can save stuff for games that matter, because we're gonna
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win these games no matter what. I don't think we're there. And yeah,
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we ran the fake field goal, which moving to that, that was
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awesome. I mean that was just sweet. Yeah, it was sweet,
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almost a touchdown. You could see the green grass. Keep him honest,
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you gotta keep the defense honest. Speaking of kicking, are we concerned about
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Albano? Yeah, he did hit the net. That was a really bad
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kick. I agree with that didn't even have the distance either, It was
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off by mind. Oh yeah, he's got the leg. All of his
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kicks, he's easily had the leg. So I guess that's my my can.
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I'm concerned for this season, but I'm not concerned going forward, if
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that makes any sense. I mean, he's a true freshman. We can
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have Timmy bleak Road is on the roster and he supposed to be good.
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He just he needs it, needs find a way to just get his confidence
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going. I think a little bit as a freshman. And yep, I
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mean I think the one on Saturday would have been a great one to make
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and and us for us, and I'm just to say, okay, like
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we can go out and we can make it. I think it was a
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forty I believe. Yeah, we'll see our special teams is not great.
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I did not feel great oft our special teams. Like your Potter sucks.
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I don't know if i'd say people sucks because he does have the Buccini bombs.
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He's still there were a couple of he's very There was a couple times
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where it definitely you could tell they went to the wrong side and they took
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one to the house called back, they got called back. Luckily. It
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are special teams. So by playing this style right and what we're trying to
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do your special teams, it has to be sharp. Like I'm not saying
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it has to get turnovers and do that, but it has to at least
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be sharp and clean. And right now, it's not right. It's been
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very choppy. We fumbled the kicker turn Tommy Hill did, but luckily we
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recovered it. Like little things like that are maybe not as glaring in games
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like this because we still come out with the win. But you lose this
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game and all of those things are magnified, like yeah, times ten.
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And I'm not talking just special teams. There are so many other little things
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that we would still consider sloppy or just not clean or sharp, and that's
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what I think we want to get to eventually. But things we saw in
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the spring game that have continued on through four games now, just little things
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like that that kicker turn it's a couple of little hole holdings. Yeah,
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Louisiane tech dropped an interception by Harbor that throw. Michigan's not dropping that thing.
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We have miss blocks still up front. Turner Corker and I saw had
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a zero on the PFF grade for pass blocking. A zero. That's so
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bad. How starting? I don't know. That's I don't know. It's
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just so many of these little choppy things that you don't notice someone you win
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a game like this, but against Michigan, Michigan's gonna capitalize on them,
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even these big ten West teams, they're going to at least do something with
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it, and we're gonna lose the game, and then it's gonna look like,
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yep, we beat ourselves a game. So we have to clean these
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things up. And it's they're small things, they're not well. I guess
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not catching a snap is pretty big. But if you can't clean those up,
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we maybe won't get to six wins this year, but hopefully we can.
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So he didn't I throw a single bit block that whole game. Pass
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protection apparently not. Well, that's that's impressive. Now. On the bright
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side, from what I saw, all of our other linemen run blocking and
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pass blocking had it very I mean, averaged above average games. Like no
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one stood out, but they all did their job. It was just Quirking
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had a really bad day. And I mean some of those other guys has
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seen those days, for sure, Pipers seeing those days, Ben Hearts had
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those days, but it was quirk has been pretty consistently on that list.
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Yeah, all right, let's move on here. We want to talk a
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little bit about the national college football landscape a little bit here, and then
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we'll preview Michigan on Wednesday like we normally do so. Right now, we
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are third of the way through the year. Most teams have played four games.
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Generally speaking, I think that there aren't many powerhouses this year, just
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just teams at the top that are like they're making the playoff. For sure,
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I agree, it's more than any other year that we've had since the
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playoff has been around. Maybe Georgia, that's probably, That's what I was
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just WoT to say, Maybe Georgia, and that's a big maybe they were
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in fourteen three and a half to South Carolina, So I don't know if
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they're that dominant either. So what we're gonna do, We're gonna go through
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each of us, gonna give one team that's been the most impressive, the
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one team that's been your biggest disappointment, and then one team that you called
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your shot on earlier in the year or at the beginning of the year,
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saying you knew how this was gonna go, and here they are where they're
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at. So, Austin, I'll let you start. Who's been your most
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impressive team so far? Most impressive team? Gosh, I probably Washington,
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to be honest. Oh did I steal yours? Dack? I have another
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one, Yeah, Michael Pennix. Michael Pennox looks really good. Like if
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they win the Pack twelve, I am not surprised at all. Really,
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I could go with any Pac twelve team. Oregon, Washington State, go
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Kogs, Beaver State, Oregon State, you know, looked a little bit
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shaky. USC hasn't looked as great. But yeah, definitely Washington. I
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think Washington, like their offense looks for real that you could be pretty competitive.
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It's tough to say, you know, if you put them up against
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Georgia. How would they fair? But they look really freaking good. The
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defense looks really good too. The defense, Yeah, that's mine too.
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I actually thought that was pretty easy. I went through about every top twenty
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five, Top twenty team, and every team's had some clause, like a
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hiccup here there in a game. Washington really hasn't yet. They've looked very
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impressive both sides of the ball, so I'm sticking with them. How about
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Kansas the Jayhawks? They look good and they're gonna beat Texas this week and
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mark that down. But they're gonna beat Texas. Yep, they're beating them.
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Yeah, they cracked the top twenty five here this week too. I
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don't know where that game's at, but they're gonna go down there. I
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think it might mean Texas they're gonna beat him this week. But I'm impressed
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with Jayleen Daniels that his name is. Yeah, I'm really impressed with him.
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They don't have a defense, but no one does big twelves, so
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that doesn't matter. But their offense is really impressive. Biggest disappointment Austin for
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me, it's obviously LSU. I thought LSU is gonna be basically Georgia flash,
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they're not not George. I shouldn't say I don't think they're gonna be
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that dominant, but I I thought they were gonna be like pushing Georgia for
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winning the SEC, and they just have not looked that dominant. Dak I
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had Michigan State as mine. I think that's for a whole different reason.
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Yeah, well, yeah, you're right. Expectations actual it's it's pretty bleak
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in Michigan State. I don't see o' gonna win another game the rest of
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the year. They looked terrible. I mean, I hope you're right,
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because that means we're getting another one. Oh yeah, you you'll beat them.
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I don't think those you think your offense is bad? That is that's
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a dumpster fuyer. I think honestly, Michigan State obviously not thrilled with what
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happened, but they're kind of happy that they can get rid of Milt Tucker
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on the eight year deal for cause. I don't think anyone. I think
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they're pretty quick to pull that trigger. Yeah, mine's Alabama. I think
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that's a pretty common answer here. Just haven't looked great. They did end
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up beating Old Miss this week and pulled away, but it was a battle
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for most of the game, obviously losing. Texas barely beat in South Florida.
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We're used to the Alabama of old. They're not this year as of
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right now. But I still think they hold their own destiny. They hold
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their own destiny to go to the playoffs. Still, you win out,
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you're in, all right, Well, that will do it here. We
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will be back on Wednesday to preview the Michigan Wolverines. Go Big Red.
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I love that burnt orange