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Are Nebraska Fans Overreacting? · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast by Week edition number one, Hunter
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  Speaker 1: Zarbernikki Austin Rose, Dakota Free tag Nebraska's three and one
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  Speaker 1: after the most recent lost Michigan heading into bye week
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  Speaker 1: number one, which we all I think agreed last episode
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  Speaker 1: it's a good time for a bye week. We just
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  Speaker 1: played our first game that we really learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: about where we are at right now this year in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season. If I want to kind
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  Speaker 1: of start us there as far as the bye week,
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  Speaker 1: what did we learn? What did we learn at a
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  Speaker 1: high level. We kind of talked about that last week
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  Speaker 1: and what is the focus for this coaching staff, for
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  Speaker 1: this team this week heading into Michigan State next week.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the obvious lesson learned is that left
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  Speaker 2: tackle not quite as the depth on the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: isn't exactly what we thought it was gonna be when
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  Speaker 2: it came time to facing big ten opponents tackles.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I think that's a very very good
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  Speaker 1: place to evaluate.
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  Speaker 2: The little soul searching needs to be done there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm here. The starting left tackle is I think it's
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  Speaker 2: still too but.
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  Speaker 1: So some people are just saying it needs to be
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  Speaker 1: Pritchet and I apparently Pritchett's been greating better in the
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  Speaker 1: run game. Purchet's also I think jumped false start like
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  Speaker 1: in every single game so.
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  Speaker 3: Far, but he's.
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  Speaker 2: Tell with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you almost just have to live at the false
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  Speaker 4: starts because he's because he's playing better.
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  Speaker 2: Is he that much better though?
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what I've heard that that's maybe. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Obviously, none of them are standing out. That's
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  Speaker 1: why they've been in ore every week. And do you
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  Speaker 1: just have to pick and roll with somebody here at
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  Speaker 1: this time? Maybe? But man, I mean, if it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to get better, I mean it needs to get better.
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  Speaker 1: If it doesn't, you probably still have the freedom to
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  Speaker 1: change things up. I don't know. But someone needs to
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  Speaker 1: step up, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. Yeah, I don't know. I guess you don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily need to be like this is our guy for
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  Speaker 2: an offensive line position, because in theory, you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: rotam in it out throughout the game anyways. But I'd
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  Speaker 2: say that's definitely the biggest point of soul search in
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  Speaker 2: I feel like d line played for the most part. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we give you know, two hundred and seventy yards of
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  Speaker 2: rushing last week. But you take away the three big
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  Speaker 2: places like, okay, you actually did okay, the you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got a little creative work. We aren't gonna as
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  Speaker 2: much pressure in the backfield. That's probably another area of concern.
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  Speaker 1: But yep, just up front and defensively, yeah, that's been
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  Speaker 1: the big thing pretty much throughout the whole season. I
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  Speaker 1: mean even heading into the season, Dak. We're also re
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  Speaker 1: soul searching.
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  Speaker 4: On defensive because I agree for sure tackles is your
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  Speaker 4: number one spot, probably holding your contain on defense, in
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  Speaker 4: staying where you need to be on defense because they're
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  Speaker 4: on those big runs. I've watched some like didn't replays
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  Speaker 4: and guys were just not in the right positions on those.
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  Speaker 4: And there was there's one play I completely forgot about,
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  Speaker 4: which I don't know how much tackling girls you can
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  Speaker 4: do nowadays, but that third and was it third and
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  Speaker 4: thirteen or the guy just missed a tackle on the
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  Speaker 4: screenplay and that like you got to make that tackle there.
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  Speaker 4: That's gonna be one. It's gonna be brought up a
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  Speaker 4: lot this week.
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  Speaker 3: There were.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I know which play you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I think there were a couple of other big like
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  Speaker 1: one on one tackle and we missed in that game.
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  Speaker 1: There are pretty big, pretty big spots, And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, that's something we haven't talked about a lot
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  Speaker 1: in the past couple of years because we actually had
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  Speaker 1: tackled well. Uh, but but that did show against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times that that resulted in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of first downs that impacted the game. So I agree
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  Speaker 1: that I think tackling drills like as much as you
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  Speaker 1: do in the bye week without getting people hurt. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that needs to be a focus too. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ideal as well. Yeah, running back depth is my
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  Speaker 1: other one that is, like, I mean, Rule keeps saying
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  Speaker 1: it about our running backs are are good or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but man, I mean we need to figure out some
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  Speaker 1: guy that can I can run behind em, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean maybe even taking a step further and say just
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  Speaker 1: running in general. Obviously it gets Michigan. We know the stats,
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  Speaker 1: we know the numbers. We threw for over three hundred yards.
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  Speaker 1: Could not get a running game going whatsoever. You're also
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  Speaker 1: playing from behind, so that impacts the way the game's going.
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  Speaker 1: But Rule has set it over and over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over. How you have to establish a run game,
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  Speaker 1: have to be a running team, blah blah blah, the
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  Speaker 1: big ten. Well, yes we do, because if you don't,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we will be throwing it a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: does that mean you can't win by just throwing it
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I don't know. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: But I think this all goes back to the one
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  Speaker 1: word that I don't want to make it a big
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  Speaker 1: deal yet, but identity in what we're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football. Our run game
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  Speaker 1: was not there against Michigan. Obviously against the other two
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  Speaker 1: teams three teams are We had a pretty solid run game,
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  Speaker 1: but that comes with a lot of things, right, a
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  Speaker 1: running back, but also an offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Now saying that we like I said, first couple of
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  Speaker 2: drives against Michigan, we ran the ball incredibly well, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so that is what we want to do. We just
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  Speaker 2: did not could stick to it. They adjusted and.
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  Speaker 1: We yeah, and then what happened I don't know after
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  Speaker 1: watching us, watching film and understanding why did the run
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  Speaker 1: game stall after the first couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of drives and it looked like the holes are there
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  Speaker 3: to run too?
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  Speaker 4: Like I don't you run your offensive line like running wise.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they blocked well, and that's your your intier line.
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  Speaker 4: I guess blocked well. The whole game it goes just
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  Speaker 4: goes back to tackles. That's the main thing you gotta
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  Speaker 4: work on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know what he can do there.
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  Speaker 3: I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know you're god an offensive line coach.
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  Speaker 4: No, like like you're just you're stuck without your guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're just kind of screwed tackle We we
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  Speaker 4: are screwed tackler us the year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we did say we're gonna we're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: a dollar every time Dak doesn't says they he'd act
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  Speaker 1: them throw a dollar into a beer jar. So ye,
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  Speaker 1: if we're listening live, we're gonna do that. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a dollar right there. We're gonna start adding up and
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  Speaker 1: see how high we can get.
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  Speaker 2: We have put a counter on our video.
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  Speaker 1: No we do, it'll counter the little ticker.
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  Speaker 3: I might be begging on the street by nay of this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think I heard this that It would
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  Speaker 1: be kind of funny if dyl has to go to
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  Speaker 1: Rule and say, hey, we got we gotta fire my uncle.
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  Speaker 1: Our offensive line is just not very good. Not that's extreme,
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  Speaker 1: but that would be kind of funny.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you there's one more.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Eckler is just freaking out this this by
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  Speaker 4: week too about that mess vehicle, Like he's gonna have
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  Speaker 4: those guys kicking all week long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Brandon's slept since the game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it's been whatever four or five six days here
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  Speaker 1: my days since the Michigan loss. What's been the general
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  Speaker 1: vibe or consensus that that has come out of this game?
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  Speaker 1: I know there's initial reaction a couple of days. Now
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  Speaker 1: we've got some time for to sit in. Just as
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  Speaker 1: you guys are talking, if you're talking to people about
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  Speaker 1: the game, what's been the general kind of takeaways or
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  Speaker 1: by the people are having after.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, nationally, it's just a brilliant of Rayola. You
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  Speaker 2: think that he was the you know, second coming of Satan.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, they're not that aggressive, but everyone's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Patrick mahomes out there blak. You know, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this guy and he's not very good. And I the
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  Speaker 2: people that I've talked to, you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them are like, I don't know, I said Admittedly I
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  Speaker 2: haven't talked to that many people because I work in
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  Speaker 2: a very small office, but most people in my offs
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  Speaker 2: are like, I feel like he's getting a little bit
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  Speaker 2: grilled for unfair reasons. I thought I played pretty well,
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  Speaker 2: but like there's yeah, we were talking about portand that
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple of national media people that are just like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes stuff, and online on Twitter, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are going after him for Patrick Mahomes like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he hit the Patrick Mahomes flex. I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if a guy flexes after, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: strong play, is that a Patrick Mahomes move? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is like the first game that
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  Speaker 4: most people watch because they're all complaining about how he's acting,
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  Speaker 4: like moms, he's done that his whole career, Like, but
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  Speaker 4: it's really this week, it's been really.
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  Speaker 2: Are honestly is the first game these people have watched?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Probably, honestly, I.
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  Speaker 1: Go obviously the narratives out there, but being a national
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  Speaker 1: CBS two thirty televised game, and like Tom Bernelli, for example,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's the one that you're mentioning that on CBS
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  Speaker 1: he gave him three minute monologue and ripping into the
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  Speaker 1: whole situation and saying how he's out on Dylan that
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  Speaker 1: the defense side of that is his an eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old kid, right, and he's got a idol or someone
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  Speaker 1: that he wants to I mean, as you, when you
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  Speaker 1: were a kid, you wanted to be like name whoever
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  Speaker 1: the athlete was you. You had dreams and goals and
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  Speaker 1: asked great of being that. Now he's also a college
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  Speaker 1: kid now. But like, I don't have an issue with it.
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  Speaker 1: The only part that bugs me is he doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: own it, like when when asked about it, like he
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  Speaker 1: kind of just he kind he kind of plays with
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  Speaker 1: the opposite way like no, I'm trying to be my
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  Speaker 1: own person, blah blah blah. Like I respect Patrick, but like, no,
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  Speaker 1: like you clearly are trying to do things that he does,
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  Speaker 1: like just say it. I mean, who cares?
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  Speaker 2: In my mind, well, I think if he does say that,
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  Speaker 2: then he's just giving every own credibility just to blast
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  Speaker 2: him for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, but like I think also just take
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  Speaker 1: the approach of who cares, like yeah, I'm I'm I
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  Speaker 1: think about how many kids are modeling Steph Curry out there,
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  Speaker 1: like and emulating all of his stuff. It's yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm like, he's one of the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: all time, trying to be like I don't know that,
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  Speaker 1: but it is. It's funny how this year, there or
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  Speaker 1: this week they're just blowing that up again even though
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  Speaker 1: we know it's there. It's I could care less as
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  Speaker 1: long as it's not affecting his play in a negative way.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I just don't. I don't get it why people
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  Speaker 2: are so upset about now. Yeah, he's like third in
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  Speaker 2: the country and completion percentage and first with what over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred completions that he has over a thousand yards
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  Speaker 2: of eleven touchdowns on one interception, Like, I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing. I really do.
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  Speaker 4: Part of my take, which is I think the most
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  Speaker 4: listened to his first podcast behind Return to Glory. They
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  Speaker 4: have a weekly segment now about how weird it is
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  Speaker 4: with mahomes Rayl like they talk about it. I think
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  Speaker 4: we talk about Culturable every Wednesday and it gets propped
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  Speaker 4: every time and they, I don't know, they're all weirded
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  Speaker 4: out by it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. He needs to own up to instead and
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  Speaker 3: stop like.
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  Speaker 2: Stop. I don't think he's doing that much like that
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  Speaker 2: other kids aren't doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's yeah, it's it's just a
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  Speaker 1: it's a yeah, the other kids aren't doing. He's just
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  Speaker 1: one that's doing it to a very dream.
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  Speaker 2: He happens to look a lot like him.
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  Speaker 1: Look like him.
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  Speaker 2: Number, I mean, yes, yeah, we're in the same number.
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  Speaker 1: The one stat that I saw, speaking of performance, he's
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  Speaker 1: the only quarterback in the country right now that's thrown
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  Speaker 1: for one thousand yards, ten touchdowns, over one hundred completions,
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  Speaker 1: and then seventy five above completion completion percentage. So like,
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's having a very solid year so far. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think again it comes back to a question of style,
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  Speaker 1: to how you think an offense should be ran. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's very talented, like we know that. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he's any better of a runner necessarily than last year.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's more elusive right in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: He feels more elusive in the pocket, I thought so
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  Speaker 2: especially Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know as far as running the ball, if
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  Speaker 1: he's any more different. But I think being elusive that
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  Speaker 1: the one complaint with Dylan in the Michigan game is
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't get rid of the ball quick enough. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you could argue maybe a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: looking back, but for the most part, I mean, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: your yeah guys face every other every other place, so like.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard, right. I think some people would this is
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  Speaker 1: just part of being a quarterback. Some people would like
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  Speaker 1: you when you're getting pressured just to instead of taking
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  Speaker 1: a sack, like throwing it at your running backs ankles
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  Speaker 1: and taking an incomplete pass versus taking a sack. I
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  Speaker 1: can only imagine Husker fans when Dylan throws it at
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  Speaker 1: somebody's ankles and they go, what is he doing? That
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  Speaker 1: was stupid? What is going like that? That's the alternative,
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  Speaker 1: And people are gonna be pissed off about that too,
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  Speaker 1: because that's just how the people that don't understand football.
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  Speaker 1: So I get it, But you see the NFL guys
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  Speaker 1: do that all the time. Like I'm just imagining Rogers
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  Speaker 1: catching it, taking two steps and just throwing it at
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  Speaker 1: the running back's ankles and then all the time like that.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the kind of things I think that are
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  Speaker 1: better than taking a sack. But I mean, yeah, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan got a lot of pressure on us, and that
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  Speaker 1: goes back to the tackle conversation. That goes back to
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line and the place that we didn't think
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  Speaker 1: we have many issues there, but maybe have more than
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  Speaker 1: we thought going into the year.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean, what was what was the consensus on
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  Speaker 2: our record for the year. Did we wasn't a consensus
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  Speaker 2: nine and three within our group, not nationally on our
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  Speaker 2: little pool that you had, No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it was even less than that. So I do want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that here in switching gears. So I
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  Speaker 1: think with a loss like this, I mean, I do
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  Speaker 1: think some people are overreacting. This was not a game
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  Speaker 1: going into the year I thought we would win. I
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  Speaker 1: think some people maybe have this is a fifty to
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  Speaker 1: fifty game at best, maybe a little higher. I think
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  Speaker 1: Michigan getting beat by Oklahoma the way that happened maybe
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  Speaker 1: raised people's thoughts expectations on this game a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But Oklahoma was probably a lot better than people thought too.
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  Speaker 1: So that all being said, when you go back to
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  Speaker 1: where everybody was at the beginning of the year, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think if you had a what a bet to make,
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  Speaker 1: you probably would have thought would be three and one, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some people might thought we'd be.
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  Speaker 3: Four zho, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the end of the world in the grand
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  Speaker 1: scheme of things for the season. Why we're on track
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  Speaker 1: is still get whereverbody thought we want to get to
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  Speaker 1: is eight and four, nine and three as we move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So I agree. People like the way the game's played out,
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati game, which to me played out about exactly
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  Speaker 1: as I thought. Some people hope we're hoping different differently
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  Speaker 1: the other two games. I'm just throwing those out the door.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Michigan or three and one heading
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  Speaker 1: into our first by week, I think that's right where
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  Speaker 1: the majority had us, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I agree, like I think most people
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  Speaker 2: thought we radio against Cincinnati, Michigan, probably Michigan. I'm hoping
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  Speaker 2: Michigan's gonna end up doing pretty well in the year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what their their schedule looks like, but
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  Speaker 2: I can't say Underwood struck fear into my hearts as
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  Speaker 2: far as the national title contender. But I think most
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  Speaker 2: people thought we were going to be four do or
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  Speaker 2: three in one, and I venture to yes, non Husker
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  Speaker 2: fans are like, and there'll be three and one or
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  Speaker 2: non diehard fans. There are a couple of people who
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  Speaker 2: are a little carried away. Yeah, this guy's not falling.
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  Speaker 2: We're fine. We'll see how the rest of the season
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  Speaker 2: shakes out. But you look at our schedule, no one
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  Speaker 2: on the schedule is really elevated beyond what we thought
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  Speaker 2: they were going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think coming off of two games where
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  Speaker 1: there really weren't any negatives for whatever reason, I think
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  Speaker 1: you take and you see some issues right against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and you think, oh crap. And I think what people,
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  Speaker 1: including myself a little bit, where the where the concerns
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  Speaker 1: come in is if some of these things that we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about, talk about your tackle play, the defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: you know, lack of depth of running back. If some
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  Speaker 1: of those things stay weaknesses, you know, how does that
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  Speaker 1: impact these next few games or the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: games on our schedule? And where where does that put us?
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  Speaker 1: I think that is where you think for the future
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: on the schedule, can we win games given those weaknesses
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: or those flaws? I think the answer still yes. Not
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna have a perfect team. If you were, you'd
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: be going undefeated. But I do think when you look
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: at for example, the lack of this upfront play on
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: both both sides of the ball. We're not gonna be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: playing a bunch of Michigan's the rest of the year.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: There're gonna be a couple that will be similar. But
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: even I've heard that maybe USC is not they're not
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Michigan upfront. They're gonna be better in maybe other areas
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that Michigan's not, but they probably won't be as strong
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: as strong as Michigan is in the trenches. So you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Penn State obviously will be probably better. Iowa, you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is gonna be wrong and in the offensitive defensive line
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as they always are. But as far as these next
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: four games, we're just gonna segment it up, you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Michigan State, Maryland, Northwestern Minnesota. Like those are games that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: if the season's intact and where we're going, we could
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: go four and oh in.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: This stretch, I would guess we would probably lose one
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: of them, maybe Maryland, But I agree, like we very well.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We go four and know alsunder seven and one going
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: into the USC at home, you're feeling different, you're feeling good,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You're already blocked in the bowl game. You got us
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: U c l A, which I'm not gonna say is
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: a guarantee, but gosh, they look bad.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So I heard someone ask, this is what an have
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: been more important to beat Michigan or go four to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: o in these next four games? Which one would mean more?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Dah Michigan. Oh, Dak, he's thinking about it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Dak hasn't talked over there. He's just he's just being quiet.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: He's still waking up.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Probably fourn no in these next four.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Because because we we all figured that they'd be three
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: and one these next four.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're seven to one then dollar who I think, Yeah,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: these next four, I don't know. That's a tough question, and.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Truly not just have an opinion.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I know im.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I'd say four and oh, because how long is Manson's
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: The brass had a Fournoh stretching the big like that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, we expected Nebraska's gonna lose the Michigan. These
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: next four are games you should win, so we had
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: expectation you should win. We we should win those games.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: So got there, got there and win the ones that
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: you expect to win.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I go ahead. Also, I was gonna say, I feel
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like a ranked opponent naturally televised game. I think that
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: was more important to win that was.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: That.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't beat a ranked opponent since twenty sixteen.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I think if I saw Matt Rule hasn't beaten one
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: since he was a temple yep. I think that's more
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: important to get that monkey off your back than it
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: is to go four to Oh.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I agree. And and if you so here, here's what's hard. Yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're saying we beat Michigan, but then
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we go slip one up Maryland or something. For me,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I personally think for the program, we need to win
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: these next four to show that not that we can
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: win four in our own the Big ten necessarily, but
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: that we're better than some of these bottom dwellers, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: maybe there aren't too many bottom dwellers here, but Northwestern
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: for sure. Maryland obviously has looked better this year so far,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: but they do this every year, So we can hopefully
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: win that one. I mean, I think it's gonna be
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a tough one to go
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: win Michigan State. And I mean, let's just put it
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this way. We were two and a half point underdogs
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: right to Michigan at home. I don't know the spreads.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just guessing we're going to be a touchdown favorite
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: at home against Michigan State on the road at Maryland.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it's can depend on how
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that Michigan State game goes and how Maryland does against Washington.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I would anticipate as being a three to seven point
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: favorite at Maryland Northwestern. We're going to be probably more
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: in a touchdown maybe ten point favorite against Northwestern, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: then on the road at Minnesota. You know that, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: think that's going to be a pretty much close to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a pick them. But basically what I'm saying is we're
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to from Vegas the standpoint, win those games, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: if we can go out and show that we can
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: win the games, we should win. I think that that's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a pretty big step forward, even though yes, getting the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: monkey up your back and beating a top twenty five team,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: all those things you mentioned us and I think that's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: also a huge I think for the program. Though, to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Sha say know like we're above that, we're in this
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: middle echelon tier right now, you know, with the Michigans,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: like the Michigans Iowa's I think that means probably more
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to me right now now we can't pull the Bowl
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Polini and never win the Big Game, because that's also
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: very frustrated. But I think we'll get those opportunities still
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: in the future.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Which the next four games are you guys most worried about,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: because I've saw consensus on from high fans on Twitter and.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, that's not.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm Minnesota, Minnesota.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Minnesota is the one. I was gonna say, that's the one.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Would you count that one? If they win?
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: That one?
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Is getting the monkey off their back a little bit.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: SOA's kind of Minnesota's kind of dominated Nebraska since they've
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: gone the Big Ten.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: No, I think when when when you consider the monkey
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the big game that we're talking about, right, it's it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the nationally televised, the Big I'm not going to say
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I have to be a blue blood, but like it's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it's the mission. Yeah maybe us, yeah, us. The I mean,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think we have too many opportunities is here
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: given our schedule.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Don't beat the top five team either. I don't think
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that's an expectation. I mean, it would be great, obviously,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and that would be getting the monkey off your back,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: but it's it's it's winning the I mean Colorado last
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: year was kind of close, like nationally televised big game,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: but Colorado obviously was not ranked, so you can't cross
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that off when you're when you're talking about it. But
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I I do. I think this Mission game was a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: big opportunity, a big ceiling, a big thing that say
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: we can do this, and we didn't. But like we
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: talked about going in and I don't think it didn't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: drop the bottom off by losing it. It just was
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to take the really big next step and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: we did we weren't able to do it. So yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like the season, and some people I think
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: are maybe overreacting, but I didn't think the season and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: going up, crap, here we go again, this is stupid,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Like it didn't have that feel to it. After losing it,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: there's still opportunities in front of us. It's going to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: be though, how does this team respond to that loss
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and given some of the weaknesses we've seen, what does
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that imply here for the next few games on our
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: schedule and can we get those games done? Because we
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: won't we won't have another big game for a while,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: like nationally implied check the box. I don't think Minnesota
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is one of those.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe internally because we can't beat them, but it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: not it's not a.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Nobody cares about the Neska Minnesota game except for.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it will be a Friday night game, so
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: probably everyone. I don't think that's that's not the magnitude
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we're talking about here.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's definitely some make opportunity there. There isn't really,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: but the two big ones are that, like you said,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: you have seen in state, which USC could be USC
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: could be top ten game by then. I don't know
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: what their schedule looks like, but that's that's I'm not
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: counting Penn State. I don't think there's a high shot
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: at all that Nebraskan's that one. But the USC one
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I think is the big one at all.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I do think, for example of a Penn State conversation,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: depending on where they said, competing in.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: That game, that's big.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge showing that you're not that far off,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: which we kind of did against Ohio State last year, right,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So I think that speaks louder than than obviously getting
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: blown out like that. That's that's what you're looking for there. So,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: like I said, I don't think, as far as I'm
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: taking from acting, what.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: It's okay to take it time they walked away all
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: getting called out, let's be getting called in.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Good God. So yeah, I think we're all we're all
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: kind of an agreeance here. I think most Nebraska fans
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: are too. There's obviously just all of the nitpicking, all
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the Dilan rayl and stuff and all of that after
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: this week. But but I don't think it's I don't
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: think it's time to just flip the ship here.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: It's not chill out on Delan rail because Peop will
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: leave us, and he can't leave us for a bigger,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: better program. Sometimes say we need to handle with white gloves,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: but when he's played really well, we probably don't need
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: to be like you're a piece of shit.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: It's speaking speaking of leaving. And this is the other
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: thing that's been out there. Gundhi gets fired at Oklahoma
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: State a couple of days ago, and one of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: leading candidates here for that job, or maybe not leading,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: but so a name that's got thrown out is Dana Holgerson, going,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: what are the thoughts on that?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Billy? It was kind of wild data was on the
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: shelf and we're like, hey, do you want to come here?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: And he's only coordinated five games for six games, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: they're like, this guy's a new Oklahoma State head coach.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Technically, Yeah, I don't think that's doesn't he remind you
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of my Gundy though, Like personality wise, yeah.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I mean he he did coach for Gundy a couple
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of years before Dana became a head coach as the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: OC down there, So I think that's kind of the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: ties that he does had a little bit of background
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma State.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I think I think Fulguson's loving here right now. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: don't think he's at the age where he wants to
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: go back and be a head coach anymore. I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: he's just gonna be coordinated the rest of his life.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: But who knows, well.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Head coach be disappointed. But you know that's how it goes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I guess when you hire good coordinators.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he I've heard. I mean the Husker. The inside
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of things is he's loving life as a coordinator, doesn't
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: have all the responsibilities as a head coach, doesn't that the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: work is hard at his age, likes it here because
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he all those things, but you see flips out of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: it's the money. I personally do think he wants to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: be a head coach before he's all said and done again.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I think he will land somewhere after a few years.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know when that'll be and what kind of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: job that is, but for right now at Nebraska will
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: take him while we can get him, and we'll see.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I think obviously, when you start having that conversation with
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: any movement now in college football in the transfer portal,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: you bring that and then gets iteration. And I'm not
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: implying that Dana would take key players from Nebraska, but if.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: There would be key players that would go to Oklahoma States,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: would I be Dilana? Who knows?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: That's that's what's earlier Austin like be nice or he's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: out of here like I. It's a little bit of it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I think if Dylan starts getting the shaft from Husker fans,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: he's gonna say ethic.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: If he's not going to Oklahoma State.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Though no, I agree, I don't think he's going there here.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And you know what, some some Oscar fans would be
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: like great Latief can play. I just think all of that,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: all of that's so like it is, it's so out
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: of proportion right now. Now, lose two of our next.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Four, she's gonna hit the fans.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to really hit some adverse in the year,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be okay, Like what's going on? I mean,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: for for whatever those reasons are. Well, I mean, who
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: knows if we were to lose to it or why
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that would be if it's the same things we're saying
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: or new things popping up. But yeah, I mean, I
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: don't think we should expect to lose to the next four.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I think we should expect to win the games that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we're favored to win, because.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: That's what favored.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: But we'll see, Like I think that that just there's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of just speculation and predicting right now that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that you can do. But I don't think there's any
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: It's fun, but I don't think there's any reason that
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: any of it's truthful yet. It's because it's still one
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: game that we just got to.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Now here's another question, my next four, the next four games?
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Which those four games? Would you be most pissed that
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: you lost Northwestern?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that we should have definitely shouldn't lose probably
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: will vantage two.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I mean this Michigan State one would hurt a little bit.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: I think that was that was the one I was
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: going to say, I mean Northwestern of it. Yeah, I
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: done losing back to back games.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Not great, not great. It's kind of like last year
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: we would you know what do we go five and
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: one to start the year. Yep, and then we lost
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the next five.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I guess the Northwestern out so Maryland,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Minnesota and Michigan State. I think Michigan State would be
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: the worst loss out of those three, just because coming
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: off by week back to back losses that as some
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: fans starts freak out a little bit, is in the
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Michigan State's one the better this year, but they haven't
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: been good in years.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: That's this.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: This is the one you got at home if Nebraska
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: should win out of those three.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: So I guess what are the reset expectations here? Are
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: we still thinking? Eight? Four nighted three?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I haven't changed from what I think at nine three.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I think I was even four. I feel like that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: that's about right. I actually, I honestly feel a little
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: bit more bullish about the nine and three.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I haven't changed one bit from what
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: I I still think nine and three. I think they
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Nebraska's going to slip up. I think Minnesota is the
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: one they're gonna be. They're gonna slip up. But but
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I still think nine to three lose Penn State. I
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: do think nebrask can be usc So there's nine.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Three incredible adalysis by Dak yep.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: As as always, there's a schedule breakdown.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm still I'm still eight
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and four probably as far as predicting records.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: So we still have two more ranked oponents on the schedule.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I see it one of those.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: But I just I want I want us to be
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: this year like coming out of this year. I want
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: us to get to the point that we're back to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the middle of the conversation, right of the big ten.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: So I think when you do that, then then you're
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: at You're at a spot so you don't take any
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: steps back where And I'm gonna say it like Iowa,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: where you can compete in a given year with a
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: given schedule to make the playoffs, whether it be twelve
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: or they're expanding at the sixteen, whatever that might look like,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: You're you're there if you can, if you can put
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: yourself in that middle echelon tier after the past few years,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think you can say that we are yet
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: until we.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Saw the Iowa's game against India this week is the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: first ranked opponent in over like a thousand days to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: play in Iowa City. They avoided playing a ranked opponent
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: in Iowa City for over three years.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it does seem like they always have the easiest
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: schedule possible.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Well, they were in the Big ten West for a
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: long time.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that that ends there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I yeah, I think we winning these next four games,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: or you know, at least going three and one like
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: that to me helps we feel better about where we're heading. Okay,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I think in the past, right like we we have,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: we've killed Northwestern in a couple of recent years. You know,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: a game, the Maryland game, for example, I would hope,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I would venture to think, I would hope that we
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: are in a better spot as a program than Maryland,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: even though we have to go play on the road there,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: which at another level of toughness there. But you want
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to say you're better in Maryland, Michigan State, you want
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: to say that you're better than where Jonathan Smith is
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: in year two at Michigan State. We're in year three.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: You know, we're a year ahead of our program. Where
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: we're at. You want to say that we're better than that.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Minnesota is one that is in that tier with us
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: that we just can't get the bugaboo to beat them.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: But you want to say, Okay, we're taking a step forward.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: We're going to beat him this year. That's where That's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: where I think you want to see the progress and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: step forward for the rest of the year. Winning a big,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: big game like Michigan would be would have been awesome.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Obviously beating in Penn State, beating Iowa this year, beating
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Iowa this year, just finding a way to beat Iowa, those.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Games be okay. I mean, they had a shoot out
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: with Maryland.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: And those are the games that that we I don't
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: know if we're counting them as wins. I mean, I
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: guess we kind of are like dak saying nine to three.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I guess we are counting those as wins. Like I
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: guess for me, it's why are we counting those as wins?
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: But if we believe that we're moving that way, then
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: they should be. We'll see that that that's where you're
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you're eight and four could quickly turn into six and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: six if you can't go beat Maryland and Minnesota on
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the road, and you can't beat Iowa because Iowa just
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: finds a way to.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Win.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: But however they do it so that that's where that
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: dust rate everything six and then if that happens, well,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: then we're then where are we sitting?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Then then then when then what do you think? What
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: do we think about everything that's going on? And when
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I say we, I'm including the players and the coaches,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: like you're going.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Well, you can go six and six this year, the
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: sky will be following.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I mean that that, to me is is definitely not progress.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody can sell everybody's gonna say that, So
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think anybody thinks it's gonna happen.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: But that's the scenario, Like, okay, could it?
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Good? I mean we could lose all we could lose
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: all these games. We really could, Like, let's be real,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: in a world that we're not improving, we could lose
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: every single one of them the rest of the year.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, maybe maybe you can give Northwestern,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: maybe u C l A chock up wins. So there's five.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: But I don't think there's a world where that we're
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: gonna give ourselves any other games.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: So we're so we're sitting now, what number of wins
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and I don't care who the wins lost our games?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: What number wins would you guys be happy coming out
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: of the year with?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Now, what number of which would be happy with?
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think it's the minimum.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: We go seven to five. I'm still not very happy.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Who that means realize.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: A couple of the game that I don't want to lose.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't just got called out.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah he's gone.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Now seven, seven's top. Given how seven goes, there could
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: be there could be a there could be a path
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: that seven and five. I'm not super upset, but it
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: most likely is not going to be the case. I mean,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I actually I don't know what that case would because
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: if we have seven and five were losing close games,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: it's also not good. That's what's hard now is even
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: losing close games is not good anymore. But wet so
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: many of them.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: The way you feel good about seven to five is
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: I was undefeated, and USC is undefeated in states, undefeated,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: and you just run into like this surprise.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Which I don't which I guess could happen. I don't
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: think that's probably. I mean, let's look at the rest
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: of these teams on the schedule as far as resetting
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a releveling expectation. Let's go through them going into the year.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Give me stock up or stock I should should specify
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: are we more or less scared of them from where
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: we were beginning of the year. So I'll go through
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: each team here really quick. Don't need an explanation, just
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: quick answer, real quick. Michigan State.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Uh less, quick answer, dag less.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going neutral, no change, you know, all
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of a sudden that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was gonna ask if we go neutral
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: because I'm exactly I thought they'd be.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Uh Maryland at Maryland more yep, I would say, but
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I mean to be only by a little bit. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: just I don't know what Maryland's got yet. They haven't
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: played much. I think Wisconsin is really bad, guys, I
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: really do. I think they're horrible.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Hey, at least Minnesota.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: M hm neutral neutral for me too. I just I
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: think that they're playing as they are seem going in
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Northwestern more less neutral to me. I don't think they've
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: changed us USC.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: More.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: They're better than what I thought.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Probably neutral neutral for me too, they're but I mean
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: they're I thought they were gonna be pretty. I thought
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: they'd take a big step forward here u c l a.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Wait less.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one that I'm like. Going into the year,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh boy, I don't want to go
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to UCLA and play the game. Now I'm like, we
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: should win that game. Penn State neutral they are, they are, Iowa.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: More less neutral, more or less. Let's just good. Let
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: me see another week.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Grenowski in a big ten and.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Coming home this week, so it'll be that'll be a big,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: a big game of whether I'm more worried about them
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: or not. But the fact that they put up like
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: over thirty points a couple of times this year, it's like, gosh,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: we barely beat them when they could only get six
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: first downs.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, that's a good point. I mean their offense,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: we can.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Hardly beat them when they scored ten points. Also, they
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: can put thirty eight.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh boy, I don't know if their defense
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: is as good as they as they have in the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: past couple of.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Years, but it doesn't matter for us.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I look at our schedule
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: and and I I was neutral based for all of them.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think any besides U, C.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: L A.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's that much better worse than what
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: we thought. So I think that really only helps us.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know where we're at. I think I think
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: everything's kind of going as expected if if we want
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to go that way. For myself, there's not much change
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: for me as we go through, which I think is good, right, Like,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: let let's let's see where we're at if we want
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: to chunk it up in the next four games and
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: see where we're at after the next four games. I
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: believe our next bye week isn't until pre Penn State, So.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna matter. Thing is gonna help us
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: win that game.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Deck ye, right, for the big one't hurt.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we have we have we have a big
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: chunk here. We have six games here that once we
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: get that rolling in the games, we'll see where we're at.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: But anyways, all right, anything else State one team.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Penn State's one team I'm not sold on yet. They
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: haven't looked good either yet, that is, this weekend will
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: prove a lot for them. I don't think they'll look
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: good to start the year yet. I'm I'm kind of
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: selling I'm selling my stock a little bit on Penn
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: State right now.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: We'll see this weekend.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big one against Oregon this week. It would be
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: a fun one to watch. Saturday night. Ohio State plays
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: at Washington. I think is kind of a little bit
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: of a sleeper game for them. Yeah, I'll Washington's look
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: decent so far. I think I still think. I mean,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I think they're still kind of your three Ohio State, Oregon,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Penn State. But then Indiana. I guess right now, I
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: don't know what you do with them. I mean, that's
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: that's been a very I mean last week that was
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: like a whoa. I mean, who beats anybody sixty three
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to ten, let alone a top ten team. You know,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: where do you where do you throw them at? Maybe
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you throw them in there with them right now in
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the top tier of the big ten.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: I would, right right now, I would.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: I'm scared of d don't play them.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they look good, they look in signetti as we
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: want to dive into it.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: How he's how he's turned that program around so quick.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that's a another hot topic. I
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: guess that I've heard this week is how he's done
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: that Indiana, And I've heard a lot of Husker fans
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: in media calling it now an anomaly and that that's
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: not going to happen everywhere. Well, yes and no, right,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Like I get it, it is an anomaly or an outlier,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: like it is the most impressive feet from I mean
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Indiana guys, I think they.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Were bottom of the worst teams in Division One.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: But they were horrible and he was able to come
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: in and and tried him throw any excuse in there
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: that you want, Well, he brought, he brought, He was
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: able to bring his full team in from James Madison
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: and so that that was a big Yeah, it was.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: It was a big reason why. I mean that's part
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: of it. And and his quarterback have a new quarterback
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: in the rear. Yeah, and the resource like everything everything
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: that goes along with it. Like it's just been impressive. Yeah,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I as far as an anomaly goes, and it's what
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: people kind of calling it, that won't ever happen again,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I disagree, Like there are so many coaches out there
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: or situations like that that probably could find a similar situation.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Nebraska right now is what we need
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: to do, and.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Just transfer Parol is going to make it possible. It's
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. Yeah, it's not gonna happen every time, but
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: it's going to happen. You're right.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: So, I mean it's impressive and and and well, I
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: honestly thought this year there might might be a little
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: bit of regression with them. It's been the opposite, so
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: that that is kind of he's kind of proven me
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: wrong there as far as what he's building in Indiana.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, if he do that Indiana, Nebraska has so
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: much more resources than Indiana has for getting transfer portals,
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: recruits and all that.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: It's like.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: It's got to weary you a little bit how he
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: can do that so quick. And it's probably he might
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: just be that good of a coach who knows I
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: got I'm super impresso what he's doing there.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, their schedule is a lot tougher this year too,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: so like keep that in mind, and they go to
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Iowa this week, I think that'll be kind of telling.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they if Indiana can blow Iowa out
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: like they did to Illinois, but then they also played
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Oregon and they also played Penn State, both on the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: road this year. To keep that in mind.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: So I was saying last year they didn't play anybody,
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: but I think I think they're better than last year's
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: team could be. By Yeah, I don't. I don't know
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: how he's done it. Hats off to you, Signetti.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I do think the Austin scenario of going
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: seven and five or six and six, not saying we're
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: firing a rule, but that the conversation is only gonna
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: become more of a thing and you're gonna hear more
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Signetti of why are we keeping somebody here and hoping
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: that it takes five, six, seven years to rebuild a
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: program and believe in somebody that it's possible, could be
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: possible that you go find a Signetti. I mean that
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: if that scenario happens, that conversation will could become more
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: and more. I'm at the forefront.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: Like I said that the grass isn't always greener like
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: a fickle.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's obviously it's obviously comes down to hiring
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: the right guy too. Write When you do that yeah,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I mean I think Wisconsin, I mean we wasn't. Wasn't
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: we jokingly saw that?
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: I mean too, but.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Wasn't facal and rule like the top two choices at
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: the time. Yeah, yeah, I would say Nebraska picked the
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: right one and all that, But I yeah, I don't.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: I guess as long as you can fire rule.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: But well, like I've asked you before, what other coaches
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: are out there? Well, I guess that's proven it. There's
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: other coaches out there that can do it.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, will we back Monday after a great week
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: of football and Ryder Cup?
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Who do we got?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Team USA? Team Europe?
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: What was t your team? ERAC will win? But team
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: USA for life?
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: You know who cares Team USA?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Uhh, there you go.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I think Europe's gonna win.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Thinks so too.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I hate to say it. They're also the underdogs, but
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I think it is. It's on the road, but there
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: they gotta come on the road. USA has got the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: home home, home course advantage.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I love.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: The Ryder Cup is great. It's great. It's the one
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: time people can be not at it, have a little
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: adequate in golf.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, back Monday, go Brad.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: If you are go Big Red,