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Anyone Want to Play RB for the Huskies? · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Big Ten injury report last night.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that stood out to me is that Washington
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  Speaker 2: has five running backs, either doubtful, questionable, or out.
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  Speaker 3: Five.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any left?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been, I mean, they've been hit with injuries bad,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in that little slump they've gone through. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback position with DeMond Williams, but, yeah, the running
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  Speaker 3: back position for Washington has been an issue for Trey Cooley,
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  Speaker 3: who rushed for 113 yards at Purdue, is also, it says, questionable.
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  Speaker 3: I guess he hurt his AC joint in that game
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  Speaker 3: against Purdue. So Landon Hatchett, their captain, their starting center,
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  Speaker 3: this week announced he's done for the year. So they're
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  Speaker 3: a beat-up team. They've been through a lot of injuries
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  Speaker 3: this year as well.
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  Speaker 2: And they're just not very good on offense. Their defense
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  Speaker 2: has had moments, but offensively, We remember what they looked
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  Speaker 2: like two, three years ago when they and Oregon were
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  Speaker 2: just such dominant forces in the Pac-12 conference. The next
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  Speaker 2: thing you know, there are no athletes left up there.
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  Speaker 2: Has it been injuries? Is it NIL?
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  Speaker 1: What's been the issue? Because they were preseason top 20.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's one thing particularly. The league
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  Speaker 3: is better, obviously, than what it has been in some
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  Speaker 3: areas and They haven't adjusted in some areas. Devon Williams
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  Speaker 3: was the big one. They went all in on him
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  Speaker 3: to be their quarterback. Lane Kiffin tried to poach him
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  Speaker 3: after he signed his contract. He was a big public squabble,
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  Speaker 3: and he stayed in Seattle because he kind of had
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  Speaker 3: to stay. But they're paying their quarterback almost $ 5 million.
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  Speaker 3: When he was playing, he wasn't playing well. He takes
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  Speaker 3: a lot of sacks, and he He's had a game
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  Speaker 3: in his career where he's taken 10 sacks for contacts.
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  Speaker 3: I think he took seven or eight sacks in a
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  Speaker 3: game earlier this year. It just hasn't worked at times.
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  Speaker 3: For Jed Fish, there's a lot of pressure on him
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  Speaker 3: this week. He's coming into Lincoln, I'll tell you this much,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to bring everything he has this weekend. For him,
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  Speaker 3: it was a pivotal game in his tenure in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he took over a program that Kalen DeBoer had
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, and then DeBoer takes off for Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: to replace Nick Saban. Fish was at Arizona at the time.
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  Speaker 2: It was a difficult job to fill because they had
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  Speaker 2: to find somebody who they thought actually was on the
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  Speaker 2: same level with DeBoer, who I still believe.
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  Speaker 1: Is one of the better coaches in college football, and
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  Speaker 1: it's been hard for them.
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  Speaker 2: They have plenty of money up there and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fan support, and of course it's a beautiful city
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  Speaker 2: in which to live if you're a college kid, but
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  Speaker 2: it has not worked out for Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Conversely, Nebraska's injury list is pretty light.
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  Speaker 2: Other than Jones, Anthony Jones, and Jameer Khan, anybody you
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  Speaker 2: think might not be able to play on Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just think keep your eyes on both Isaiah
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  Speaker 3: Mosey and Riley Van Poppel. Both have, you know, had
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  Speaker 3: their different things. Van Poppel, the back injury, we just
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen him in about a month. So you hope
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  Speaker 3: he's back in some capacity. And then Mosey, can he
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  Speaker 3: play in that role? But Not seeing Jamal Rule on
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  Speaker 3: there at all. Not seeing Mekhi Nelson. I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was very promising for Nebraska. And that's what they said
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  Speaker 3: on Monday or Tuesday when we talked to the coaches.
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  Speaker 3: But you never know on these injury reports what they're
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  Speaker 3: going to put out there on Wednesday. And I think
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska coming out of the bye is in a good spot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jameer Khan we'll see eventually down the road
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  Speaker 3: if he can get himself back. But he's obviously not
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  Speaker 3: going to play this week.
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  Speaker 2: The other big story is that Troy Dannen, athletics director
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  Speaker 2: on the radio the other night, said we're going to
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  Speaker 2: dump one of these non-conference games and get somebody good.
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  Speaker 2: Fans were pretty howly about it. They are playing one
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  Speaker 2: of those games down at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me the best bet would be to
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  Speaker 2: dump Miami of Ohio out of that game and get
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  Speaker 2: a power four conference team like Arizona State in there.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you're hearing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Arizona State, I know they've had talks with. They
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  Speaker 3: play eight home games already, so it does work out
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  Speaker 3: that they could give up one and play neutral. The
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  Speaker 3: only thing I question or wonder about would be the
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  Speaker 3: financial splits, because today Nebraska would get a huge gate
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  Speaker 3: from Miami to Ohio if you switch that to agree
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  Speaker 3: to Arizona State. What would the splits be on a
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  Speaker 3: game like that, knowing that 95% of the place would
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  Speaker 3: be Nebraska fans? Or how much of that are you
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  Speaker 3: willing to give to them to fill that spot? Because
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  Speaker 3: one of the big reasons that you took the Arrowhead
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  Speaker 3: game was for the bump in revenue because of the 20,000
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  Speaker 3: less seats that you're going to have. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: can go back and study Cincinnati. They made a huge
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  Speaker 3: gate off Nebraska fans last time we were down in Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 1: Because that was a Cincinnati home game technically, financially.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Shano. Thanks, big guy. Great having you. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have the keys to the game tomorrow in this space.
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  Speaker 2: So please rearrange your schedule to be available for that.