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Episode 5.54: Season 5 Finale -- Mahomes 2.0 · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Returned to Glory Podcast Season five finale. It's been a few weeks. Boys
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Hunter's Arbernikki, Austin Rose Da Code of free Tag. We got the spring
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game has come and gone. Transfer Portal talk, Nebraska basketball baseball wrapping up
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already, Huskers having a good season. We got Dak's got some updates on
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our volleyball players that he talked to at Berries. Where do we start?
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I think we have to start with the volleyball players at Berries. That's definitely
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definitely number one, Dak. I didn't talk to him. You did talk
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to him, Tell everybody that believe it or not. I didn't talked to
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him. I saw him there though, Okay, I saw I saw Ali
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Bainton, Horse and Lexadriguez there, and she probably thought it was a freaking
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creep because I was looking. I was trying to figure out that was her,
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and she definitely like, who the hell's this guy? Where you were
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you pretty turned up at that point where you had your one eyes squinting like
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you normally do. Oh yeah, And I almost went and talked about USC,
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but I held my tongue. I really wanted to, because you know,
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I hate that school. Yeah, you know, you would have said
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something about Caleb Williams and Lincoln Riley and they would have been like what I
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almost did think, Guy, I didn't. Well, that was an underwhelming
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story, Dak. I was really hoping there's a little more there. I
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know. I my recruiting trip this time didn't go as good at Berry's.
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Yeah, I guess the real news coming out of the ball ball team with
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a couple of the girls getting in trouble. Obviously Harper getting the d u
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I a few weeks ago and then stole some rings a few days ago from
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Shields, so as hadn't think come up from that yet. No, and
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I don't know anything will. I think the DUI is probably more worrisome,
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but just not good. I guess I know what you want to hear,
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you know, coming out for the one team that does well. But I'm
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sure we'll be fine one team that does well. So far, we got
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momentum though, so far are you starting to sit the kool aid? Hunter,
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I'll tell you what we got. We got some stuff to talk about.
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Okay, So, first thoughts spring game. I think we say this
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every year. What's great and what's also the worst part of the spring game?
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Is you can analyze and nitpick everything on a positive or negative note,
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right because one side of the ball, when a good thing happens, or
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one play a good thing happens, it means it's bad for the other side
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of the ball. And I think a lot of people just default to thinking
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about how the offense played right and when the defense does play well, which
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I mean, if you want to talk about last year's spring game when everybody
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thought the spring game was bad and sloppy, well, the defense forced seven
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turnovers technically, if you look at it that way, and what was our
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strength of our team last year? It was the defense. So it just
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it's funny how you can nitpick and go both ways in the spring game no
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matter what you think. Now there's obviously a gut just overall feeling coming out
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of the game and how it looked wasn't clean. How are the turnovers or
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in the penalties stuff like that. How as it ran. I will say
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this, I appreciate every year that we have a spring game where we tackle
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people to the ground and completely play. We don't do the quarterbacks. That's
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fine. I think don't know that anybody really does. So that's not like
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a disappointment of mine. It did lead to a couple of plays that we'll
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talk about that probably wouldn't have happened. But I do think overall, the
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vibe check for the football team was yeah good, like seven out of ten,
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like eight out of ten, like ViBe's good. I will the last
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comment opening comment. I was pissed then they don't have numbers in the back
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of their practice jerseys because I was trying to tell who everybody was real time.
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Now TV watching, you probably didn't have much of a problem, but
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at the game it was hard to see who was who until it got announced.
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Yeah, one where why don't they wear their normal jerseys? A great
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question, dak you should propose that to the team. Well that's yeah,
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I mean, what's the point. Okay, that's nothing to worry about there.
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But I think I think Nebrass has be about one of the only schools
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that actually tackles during the spring game. Most schools don't. I mean,
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it makes we're entertaining spring game. I didn't watch any other spring games.
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I know we have it in the past, and it has resulted in some
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poor tackling in the season. And that's just not talking about the game.
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Also in practice as well. How much full out contact are you practicing?
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There was that one. Was it a Mike Riley team? Maybe even was
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a Frost team planning team. I don't know that. We like weren't tackling
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at all because we were so focused on injuries and we could not tackle a
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soul. Yeah who is now on the board for the college Fooball playoffs.
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So you know, a little inside pull there that good or bad? It's
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probably not bad. You got a ton of money by the university. Yes,
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I will say this is how I want Okay, this is how I
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want us to go through the spring game, all the different position groups,
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players, wherever you want to go. Because it's so hard to talk good
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and bad, Like I went into the game with an expectation of how people
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should perform or how we thought they would perform. We'll make that like the
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middle, make that a five out of ten. As we're talking, I
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want you guys to talk about like if they exceeded that, obviously go up
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the scale. If they didn't meet expectations to go below that, but a
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five out of ten is like, yep, they did what we thought they
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were going to do. So Austin I'll let you start wherever you want to
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go, like a spring game takeaway thought. You can go anywhere you want.
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There's obviously some more obvious talking points than others. Yeah, there are.
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I'll start with one of them. Two missed field goals not what you
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want to see in a spring game. Wait to start negative. I love
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it. I'm just gonna get that. That was the first thing. There
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were two things. It was the kicking in the passing and the kicking that
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was bad. And the passing was good and the kicking. You missed a
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thirty two yarder and a forty three yarder, like, oh man, that
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is not how I wanted to see that happen in the spring game. I
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honestly don't think Tristan's gonna be this. I don't know if Tristan will be
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the starter next year. I have no I how I don't know how you
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feel good about it. Thanks for starting negative. Here are my notes special
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teams. Can we make a fucking field goal and quit shanking fucking punts like
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that was the one frustrating part of the game. And what I don't understand
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it's been so long and we were spoiled. We've said that we were spoiled
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with field goal kickers for a few years there. But good god, you
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have one job and that's all you practice, it's all you focus your time
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on. You get to do it like three or four times a game,
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like make a field bowl. Same thing with punting. You should not be
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shanking a punt if you're a punter for division ie power five school, Like,
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how can we not find somebody that's consistent and you want to call it
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the shanks or the whatever and mentally and that shouldn't happen. That is frustrating.
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Anyways, Dak, I'm be honest. You guys did not watch a
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second, still watch a second, so I have zero clue about the spring
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game. All right, fair enough? Thanks thanks for the contributing content on
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the season finale. Can I can I hear I'll get some comments that I
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heard. A couple guys told me he looks like Ryle, looks like benj
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just mahomes yikes. Okay. And the kick okay, The kicking was another
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thing I heard was awful. How short of kick? You say you missed
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thirty two yards? You missed a thirty two and a forty yarder? Yeah,
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forty three yarder. Excuse me, he made a forty missed, the
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thirty two missed, the forty three. Hey, pro kicker missed a twenty
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nine yarder in playoff game, so that's true. In the playoff game,
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the field goal kicking and punting, to me, were bad. I will
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say. The one bright side of the special teams, which also was a
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very funny moment in the game, was the kicker turn by Jacob Burney yep,
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and had it. I mean he was going to score and thought the
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kicker was coming to celebrate with him. Wasn't hot tackled him. It was
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funny. I mean, he clearly did not know because he gets tackled.
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He looks up and goes like, wait, what the hell? And the
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kicker and the offensive line were wearing gray, so they were white. So
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it was a little bit confusing. So that was funny. But that was
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a bright side on the special teams. And two big things that stuck out
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was the shanks putt and the missfield goals, And that to me, I
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guess I wouldn't say had expected anything more, but I guess you should always
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expect to make field goals under forty yards. Yep. I didn't you said,
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I don't expect him to be one hundred percent. But in a spring
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game you come out go one for three and they're all under forty five yards,
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Like, yikes, go ahead, deck. Who would be the kicker
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besides him? I don't know, I mean, transfer portals still open,
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right, it's somebody I don't know. Get, I don't know, Just
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find somebody like that doesn't seem to me like it should be that hard.
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And Albano people say like he was the best kicker, one of the best
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kickers in the country coming out of that class, Like you can still kick,
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Well, that's fine, we'll figure out your mental side of it.
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If if if it's not physical, figure it out, find a way to
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make a kick well to once you're once your metal is gone, you're done,
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right, Yeah, hard to recover, Dak. You mentioned the other
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really big talking point, mahomes two point zero as I'm calling it. You
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want to talk about kool aid and just slurping it in the middle of the
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game after some alcoholic beverages have been drunk. Rayl okay. First off,
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Rayla Riola put out a tweet on that also it pronounced it's Riola, not
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Rey got established that Okay, Riola could be legit, guys, he could
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be really real, really good. This is a typical hunter out of the
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spring game. Compared it to a Hall of Fame quarterback. Okay, comparing
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into a Hall of Fame quarterback. Here's here's the funny part about this.
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So I had this talk after with some buddies about people Husker fans specifically when
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we talk about them drinking the kool aid, kind of being very confident in
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putting out expectations that are higher than probably what are realistic. There's two ways
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of doing this. There's one if people just being completely obnoxious and like unrealistic,
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like saying Huskers, Huskers are going to go twelve to oh women the
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natty next year or rail is mahomes like we like going over the top and
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kind of almost making a mockery out of it, but at the same time
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we're saying it, so you're joking. Then there's the people that every year
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think, Okay, our win totals five and a half, we should win
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seven or eight. We're gonna win seven or eight. It's the it's the
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confident going above expectations that people actually believe. When people say we're going to
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go twelve to zero and win a national title next year. No, no,
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no one truly believes that. Like, that's not a true belief.
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That's a that's a mockery, fun joking statement. When people say we have
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Patrick Mahomes back at quarterback, that is not saying we have Patrick Mahomes.
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That is a no one believes that he's going to turn into Patrick Mahomes.
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No one like, actually, if you had money and you want to make
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a fifty to fifty bet and say he's going to be as good as Mahomes,
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yes or no. No one's putting money that he's turning into Mahomes.
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But it's fun to say. It's fun to talk about, so that's why
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people do it. That being said, Rayola looked better what we thought,
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what we were hoping he could look like. And the biggest thing from him
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A couple of things. One thing that's pretty obvious is I think everybody noticed.
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It just looked easy. It looked so dude. I mean, the
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short passes just looked quick, sharp out of his hand. The d balls,
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it looked like he could throw it twenty yards further. It looked like
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he understood when the right time was to try to squeeze one through the window,
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which he did a few of those, which was like, holy shit,
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that was cool versus I'm just gonna throw this a little bit out of
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the receiver's reach because he's covered and no one's gonna get it unless my guy
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makes a crazy play and if he does it, by and I'll be in
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a complete pass. He's got the tools and mechanics to be elite, I
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think, and that was cool to see. The spring game, he looked
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big too, Like I mean, size wise, he did not look like
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a freshman quarter bike. He looked like he had a good size on him.
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Dak His stats were he went, let's see sixteen for twenty two with
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one reception, two touchdowns, and two hundred and in thirty nine yards,
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So pretty solid outing for Dylan. How I like, did he look pretty?
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I mean, now it's tough to say, because I will like defensively,
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we're gonna talk a lot about offense defense. We did not have most
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of our senior defensive guys playing, so our defense wasn't as good as you
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would expected to be. But he could scramble, you know, He's get
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back to the line like he's I don't think he's going to be running like
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Heinrich, but yes, and and spring game comments to it, we're going
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to focus a lot on offense. I agree with you. My one big
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defensive comment that I did have that I appreciated was still the intensity and rallying
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to the football. The couple of the one interception was a very good play
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on the ball. I thought everybody played solid. There's not wasn't anything that
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really stood out to me overall. Besides yeah, we had a lot of
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guys out, but everybody still looked like it didn't look like we took a
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huge step back, And I wouldn't say we probably exceeded from expectations from what
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we thought our defense could look like in the spring game. But they did
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a they they did a fine job. The game's purpose, and we're all
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alluded to this was to kind of showcase the offense a little bit in showcase
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these quarterbacks, showcase that we have dynamic talent. Like you looked good.
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I thought Erich looked good. He did, but I thought, like I
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thought he looked pretty smooth as well. Like obviously it's a scripted game and
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you're playing against your own defense. But I heard he looked good and the
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other guy did not look good. I can't tell you. Yeah, Healen.
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Yeah. So Heinerch went eight of thirteen for one hundred and sixty three
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yards and two touchdowns. You mentioned Ryola's stats. He also threw the interception
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which brief comment on that everyone's saying hit the receiver's hand should have got it.
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Ball was behind him like everybody's trying to defend Roola. But like NFL
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quarterbacks like that. Sorry, Ryola, I gotta get that fixed. Fifty
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to fifty on that. I thought Danny Kalin looked like a freshman quarterback in
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the spring game. That's what I thought, Like that was what a freshman
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quarterback should look like, like very raw, small, like need to put
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some muscle on. But as far as the room with three quarterbacks, I
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feel all right with it. I'm sure he was nervous Ansferry into Arizona State.
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People are still I still are people talking about do we get a veteran
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one year quarterback? No, people know, just know that's what Heinrich kids.
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He's the veteran. Riola is probably going to be our date one starter.
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And I think Heinrich has a potential to still get used in certain situations.
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To the comment on Riola running and being athletic, as what you said,
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Dak, where do you guys get used to it? Our quarterback is
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not going to be run the ball like they did the past couple of years.
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Riola is very similar. This is a not a talent comparison. But
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like Mahomes, he's mobile enough to get out of the pocket. But it's
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not like the Chiefs are calling designed runs for Patrick Mahomes. Like Mahome doesn't
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quick and but he's he's quick enough to get away, get outside the pocket
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and make a throw. But they're not gonna We're not gonna be calling runs
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for him, nor are we expecting him to be able to run for seventy
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to one hundred yards a game. Mahomes doesn't. Mahomes will, though,
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scramble and sometimes get twenty twenty five yards on a random scramble. So that's
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a that's a comparison of an NFL type quarterback. Again, not speaking to
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any other talent stuff, but just the speed and the mobility and the build.
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You see the little pudgy, little pudgy broad shoulders, a little bit
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of a belly like he looks like a good quarterback, thick, and he's
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gonna be seeing it downfield. We had a pass of sixty four sixty one,
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well, not passes, but we had passing plays go sixty four or
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sixty one twenty five, twenty seven, twenty four, twenty nine, twenty
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two, forty one. I mean they were looking downfield and were in all
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little scoop paths. Any other quarterback talk, move on running back, Well,
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let's let's go to the receivers, because I think that goes a little
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bit here hand in hand with the quarterbacks. What do we think us like?
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What do you what? What was your takeaway from our receiving group?
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I would still say the weakest offensive unit would be my take still, so
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here here promise and there's a lot of speed. But here's some of the
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stats here. Jaylen Lloyd three receptions ninety seven yards a tudy mentioned. Barney
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had three receptions for sixty six yards in the Tudy uh Bonner the converted full
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back four receptions fifty eight yards and a touchdown. A nice corner ball thrown
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by Riola, Nate Borkishier, Thomas Fadoni or tight ends I thought they both
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looked very strong. And then Pallex Bowlleck had two receptions for forty three yards.
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Yeah, I'm I agree, weakest weakest spot is a good way of
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phrasing it. Still, Here's what I kind of liked is we looked competent
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out there at least, but no one stood out to be like, Okay,
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we got that playmaker that we need, the guy that won Barney right,
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yep. We we mentioned that last year we were lacking the We've always
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had one guy that has kind of stood out, and it's been a target
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that is whether or not had a good games, your attention to them.
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I don't feel like we had that again, correct, So that's the receivers.
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The running backs. No ramiir Johnson, No Gabe Irving. Oh.
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Another receiver that didn't play was i GC Isaiah Garside Castaneda. So no,
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oh yeah, oh yeah what uh this is the third time back? Oh?
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I think he just came back running back room. I was impressed by
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a handful of guys. The two leaders was uh Dowdell had seven rushes for
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seventy six yards and two touchdowns. I thought he looked good like I thought
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he looked a good running back Emma Johnson five rushes for twenty five yards,
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a couple of leaders, a lot of other guys that had a few carries
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here there similar to ours. Surprised me he was. I was pleasanly surprised
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watching him. I liked watching him. Yeah, he looked good and the
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big breakaway run was good to see some speed. H Here's the concern on
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the skilled players, and I think it's probably more of a negative than a
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positive. We are very, very, very average and well rounded, which
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could be looked at a positive, but I also think that might mean we
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don't have any dynamic playmakers like we've mentioned, and that includes I mean you
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would hope Gabe Irving and Ramier Johnson, gave Urvin and Gave Johnson, could
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Ramier Johnson one of those guys could show some dynamic capabilities. But we've seen
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we know what they are like. We've seen them both have battled with injuries
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the past couple of years. That it worries me a little bit that that
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we're just very balanced and we're going to struggle for guys to step up and
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make big play and bring a couple of tackles. We think Rayola could do
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that at the quarterback spot. But I think you need a skill guy to
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do that. I don't know if we have that now. Maybe we have
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a bunch of sixes and sevens and that's good enough to surround potentially, right.
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So no, so defensive can't back up on your one guy, right,
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and then you're in trouble because you don't have the one guy. I
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think the optimistic Huscar fans are going to say that to me. I just
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I'm hesitant with our skilled players now. On the on the flip side of
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that, with the offensive line, who I also thought just looked very solid
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and did their job, I think that's okay. With the offensive line group
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like you, you just don't want a weak link or a guy that's gonna
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miss a lot of blocks, which we've had and see. So I thought
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they did a pretty decent job. Like it. We didn't leave the spring
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game, and Royola didn't leave the spring game going, oh, my fucking
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lord, I don't have an offensive line. I'm back here scrambling for my
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life like Casey Thompson was every time, which, by the way, Dak
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Casey number two, number one, oh you number one, No number two,
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maybe number three he'll be number two. I would think he must have
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scared General Booty away. Okay, well General Booty sucks. That guy is
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Booty. Now that guy sucks. I think Casey will be two, should
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be now that he's for sure gone. Yeah. All I gotta say that
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is remember Jackson Arnold, thanks for the OU spring game update. Appreciate it.
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Yeah, I think I think overall I agree with the special the skills
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physicians that none of them seem super special right now. Like I think we
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see people that it could be. It really depends on how the offensive line
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and Dylan function will see will you know, highlight them. It could have
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stuck. Like I said, the defense, none of our starting defensive lines
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played, so take that with a great assault the offensive line, and I
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think that was the purpose behind it too, was to make our offense look
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and provide hope for whatever that's worth with the Husker fan base. And I
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do think it did it. Like there were some kool aid being sipped just
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watching that and very much excited for the year, especially given our schedule and
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how we start the year. Joel Klatt today just this afternoon had in the
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preseason top twenty five, number twenty two. Like talked about our schedule and
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our toughest game in the first seven games is probably Colorado. We get them
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at home, guys, and you guys probably looked at this. Probably a
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lot of fans know this. Here's our schedule to start the year. We
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get UTEP at home. We finally open against a non conference opponent that should
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be beatable. I'm not gonna jinx this, but should be able to win.
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It should be one of those games that you can get tuned up for
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before your first big game. How long its been since you haven't started a
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big ten game. It's been a while. It's been the COVID season,
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right, yep. And they they've all been on the road. Yeah,
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a lot of road games or neutral site. So getting a home game,
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well yeah, even Frost first season, we were supposed to play at Yeah,
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that didn't happen. So it's been a while. That should help starting
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one in how hopefully heading into Colorado at home, Northern Iowa at home,
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Illinois at home at Purdue, Rutgers at home at Indiana, there's definite potential,
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Like you want to talk about sentence points spreads right now for all those
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games, Like we're going to be favored in probably all of those games right
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now, if you were just Vegas, we're just set a line. So
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mm hm, which one we have Colorado at home? You think you think
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it'd be favored. I think we were the better team record wise than they
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were last year. Yeah, I think we would be within one week for
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them to change the line move. Yeah, I bet that'll be the toughest
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one for sure, But again not I want to get the hopes up we're
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gonna be seven to zero, because that's that's the case. We will be
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ranked probably like twelve or something. And I haven't played anybody, but that's
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potential. And Joel Klass said it best, like you just want to look
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at it from a simple, simple standpoint of last year, how close we
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were in those games and what was the obvious thing that just kept killing us
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was turnovers. And that came from Dak's favorite quarterback, Jeff Simms, and
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we just said, we just need a quarterback that does not lose us games,
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like you don't have to. I feel like Ryola is going to do
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better than that. Great, he might win us a game, but but
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don't but don't just don't shoot us in the foot like these other guys did,
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and I think that we're gonna have that now. Our defense can't take
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a step back, but I do. I think there's potential there and it's
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gonna be a fun offseason waiting for that first game. So yeah, the
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kool aid has started to start. Got sipped a little bit. M How
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atypical of you Hunter a new lease on life this year. We have to
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leave the people on a cliffhanger heading into season six, right, so you
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can come back and be like, I don't know why everyone's drinking the kool
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aid. Matt Rule tweeted out at a wedding last weekend, and it's just
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a big red flag here. Okay, Actually to this point, two things
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with very intangible like stuff that I care about that probably doesn't matter, but
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I think matters, and two positives. One that started out, So I'll
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start with Rule. In the spring game, he was leading our team out
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of the tunnel. Now it's like, god damn it, Map's gonna make
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it all about him now now that he's in year two, because last year
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he was always behind the scenes like somehow ended up on the field but didn't
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want to be front and center, Like God damn it. Max's leading the
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team out. He wants it to be all about him as it were screwed.
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Good news is Matt fell back in the pack, walked off the side,
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did what he normally did after the initial coming out of the locker room.
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So that turned into a positive second, very positive thing. Small thing,
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but this actually excited me the most about Royola. This guy leaves the
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White team. Yeah, he was with the White team to start the game,
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like out of the locker room, like he was the one running out
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on the field in front of everybody. And we talk about cockiness and arrogance
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out of a freshman quarterback, that's very impressive. That just tells you that
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he's comfortable, he's in control. Jeff Simms never let us out one time.
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Jeff Simms never had that ego or confidence to do that. And sometimes
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can it be a negative, yes, But at the quarterback position, especially
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as a freshman, you got to have a little bit of that in you.
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And that's the perfect level and of showing your teammates let's do this.
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And I loved it. I thought that was great. And I think he
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says right now he's talking to the media, he's speaking the right way.
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Of not being overconfident. Now we'll see what the actions now things play out
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when adversity hits. That's going to be the true tester of a person's character
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and a leader and how they are. But I was very encouraged by seeing
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that too, of Rayola coming out of the locker room leading a team as
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a true freshman. That made me smile. That's another kool Aid sipping moment.
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Beak. You know what, you know what I talked to you after
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the game. You weren't. You weren't going nuts about the team drinking the
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kool aid after the game. I figured you'd be all hyped up. You're
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pretty normal after it. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm excited. I
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definitely am excited. Like Dak, here's the thing, you talk to me
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after the game. If I wasn't saying negative things, then it should it
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should it should be a it should be a positive Yeah, one game thoughts.
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There was one more thing. And before I forget about this, someone
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told me where Jeff Sions went this weekend. I cannot remember where. Yes,
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Sun Devils, yep, Well they don't know what they got themselves into.
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That's gonna be the biggest He's gonna be the biggest follower of them.
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I know he will. Oh my god, how did he get another D
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one school? Nobody knows. Yeah, okay, we better move on.
32:53
A few minutes left Nebraska basketball. The transfer portal is still open. Football
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is closed, basketball portal still open. A lot of moves and we've talked
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about a few of them. Let's just go through and recap him here quick.
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So this started back in early April. Season gets over. We know
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that JaMarcus Lawrence and matar Joe leave. We did get Roley Worcester, the
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point guard from Utah. We did get Andrew Morgan, a small forward slash
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power forward from North Dakota State. We did get Goggles two point zero,
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Gavin Griffiths from Rutgers, the six seven freshman gonna be sophomore. Eli Rice
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leaves to go and he ends up at Penn State, which was interesting.
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Connor Asigan from Wisconsin I thought was a huge geit recently a guard I think
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could be a very key player for US coming off an injury, but averaged.
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I think you might have even been Big ten Freshman first Team first year
34:08
CJ. Wilcher gone to the Aggies. Will not comment anymore? Is he
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dead to you guys? Not dead to me? Hell? And then Braxton
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Mia, I'm not sure. I saw a list of the seven to one
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transfer from Washington. Oh, and then two more we do know rank mast
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just said he's out for next year. And then Lincoln High played at Lincoln
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Southeast and Lincoln justin bullets. I think could help, but probably couldn't be
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more of a walk on that he just committed a few days ago. So
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that's our poral in and out. I will say there's an article, of
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course, has her fans found it that has Nebraska as the seventh best transfer
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portal off season so far in that those guys that we mentioned were all at
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one point four stars. So there we go. Off season Nebraska basketball kool
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Aid drinkers were seventh in the portal rankings. No, he's he had knee
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surgery, so he's out for the year. Oh shit, I did not
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hear that. Yeah, so he won't be playing next year, but he
35:31
still seems like he's going to be on the team and can play one more
35:35
year when he comes back. That's gonna hurt big time, Yeah, because
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who's your bigs now? So that's where these transfers come in. I think
35:51
this guy from Washington, I hope he's got I hope he's got some ability
35:58
like Mass. He's seven to one. He's he's gonna be I think maybe
36:01
a little raw. I haven't watched too much of it. Do you want
36:06
to notice? Stats are he's played four years of college basketball. Last year
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his senior year for Washington, started sixteen games, played seventeen mints per game,
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scored five points, had five rebounds, less than a block, less
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than half an assist. He's I mean he's not. Yeah, he's He's
36:27
a scrawny dude, doesn't shoot threes. So yeah, we'll see. I
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do think there's still potential of grabbing one more four or five. Yeah,
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we got our point guard that we wanted or that we thought we needed,
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and Roley Worcester. We got a Seagan who I think could be a very
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key piece for us next year at that two three spot. So I think
36:54
we're building there. I think we still are maybe one four or five man
36:59
away, especially with the Mass news. Yeah, I probably agree, we'll
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see. No case, you know, I don't know about that. Well,
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you think he's come back, he's still he's still never answered me.
37:23
It's homeboy that bet on basketball games. He comes back. Yeah, I
37:34
don't know, I actually do. Yeah, I don't know. He's actually
37:39
good if he if he gets cleared, he's he's really freaking good. Yeah,
37:45
I don't know this the update, do know? Case we're playing in
37:49
the Olympics, probably about the time we'll be starting back up for season six,
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so we'll be exciting. And I don't know about you, guys,
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I'm basketball this year, right. We got a really good breaking sweet and
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and the best part about it is all of these international teams, like the
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big time players right now in the NBA, you go get your Donchianis are
38:15
foreigners. That's what's great about it all. You're gonna know someone on every
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team that they play. Basically there's no one there's knowing him be scoring in
38:24
the paint on France. Look that. Yep, not a chance. Yeah
38:30
yeah, Victor and Rudy like, not a chance. It'll it'll be fun.
38:35
It'll be a fun, fun Olympics. Before we get off here,
38:38
you got a shout out Husker baseball team. I guess shout out we keep
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winning two of three in our Big Ten series, which I guess is better
38:45
than winning one or zero. We can't get a sweep. We are sitting
38:51
second in the Big ten. I think we're looking like probably a two seed,
38:57
maybe a three if we get hot, maybe a one seed in the
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regionals coming up here in a few weeks. There was a couple of weeks
39:02
left regular season, so get hot skurts. Be fun to watch it and
39:08
postseason play. Yeah, no hit her last week, No hit her last
39:16
week against K State mm hm in caps. Oh, all right, season
39:22
five to a close. We're back season six in the fall, Dak great
39:28
first year, Yeah, more performance like it kind of sputtered there at the
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end. Yeah, I should have watched tape. I actually going to my
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I can't get my wife. I said, up. It took forever,
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all right, go be gred bbr re member sooner b