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Found a Way: Cincinnati Game Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Labor Day or turn to Glory
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  Speaker 1: Podcast a bit of background. Dak overslept this morning, so
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  Speaker 1: we had him record his takes from the game, a quick,
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  Speaker 1: little five minute breakdown.
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  Speaker 2: We might do this every week.
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  Speaker 1: Dak did a very good job, so I'm gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: that in here at the beginning, and then we'll get into.
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  Speaker 2: Our regular show for the recap.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to apologize to the Returning Glory Podcast. I
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  Speaker 3: may have overslept, so my bat. So we'll move on
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  Speaker 3: from that. Well, first off, shout out to the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: at air Ahead. It was amazing. That was probably the
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  Speaker 3: most fun I've ever had a football game, and it
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  Speaker 3: didn't and it helped that me and Austin met for
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  Speaker 3: the first time. All the podcast boys were in the
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  Speaker 3: in the stadium, not actually in the stadium, but around
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  Speaker 3: the stadium. So yeah, they added to it. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: is this is what I thought about the game. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: you come away happy with a win. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: to work on, which Wakina Stadium. I thought, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot more to work on than I thought. But then
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  Speaker 3: you watch all these other teams like Alabama they lost Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, it looked like shit, I'd said, arch Mandy's
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  Speaker 3: gonna suck. He does, so horns down right here. But
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  Speaker 3: there's two main things and the rest things work on
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  Speaker 3: big time. Your online D line got dominated, and Cincinnati
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  Speaker 3: does have a big, a big NFL player whatever on
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  Speaker 3: the d line, but their online got pushed around, and
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnati's on line kind of pushed the D line around.
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  Speaker 2: I think is that fixable?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I really don't know. I guess we'll
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  Speaker 3: see now. Will Will Pritchard ever see the field again?
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  Speaker 3: Because that false start was one of the worst false
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  Speaker 3: starts I've ever saw. You cannot jump when you're on
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  Speaker 3: the half yard line like that. I needs can be
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  Speaker 3: sneaker in the field. You cannot jump. Another thing I
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  Speaker 3: thought about the game was it kind of felt like
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska was vanilla like, like they're playing like an achron
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if they were like trying to
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  Speaker 3: hide stuff because the first game of the year, like
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  Speaker 3: I know, their offensive plays, defensive plays, because they wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: they refuse to put a spy on sores beat And
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  Speaker 3: I just can't. I just couldn't get it because all
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  Speaker 3: that dude can do is run. He is speaking to him.
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  Speaker 3: He sucks. He is not a good quarterback. That that
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  Speaker 3: dude cannot throw the ball. Yeah, other than that, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. Now let's move to the main set of
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  Speaker 3: the ball. Special teams rocked finally, I think I think
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  Speaker 3: they have figured it out. You're you made her feel
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  Speaker 3: an extra point and Archie Archie looks. Archie looks great.
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  Speaker 3: He looked amazing. He had every every single punt and
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  Speaker 3: I think inside of twenty five now that that might
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  Speaker 3: be wrong, I'll be wrong. So basically my main recap
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  Speaker 3: of the game is big time. Fix that O line
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  Speaker 3: D line. That is bad. Danke Dankey also did not
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  Speaker 3: was not in the game plan that much or Barney,
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  Speaker 3: which I think they'll get more involved. Isaiah Hunter looked great.
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  Speaker 3: Emmitt Johnson looks pretty pretty solid. You gotta fix that
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  Speaker 3: goddamn O line D line though, I'll tell you that
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  Speaker 3: that's that's scary and we'll see when you come Michigan
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  Speaker 3: because Mission, if you're if your O line is what
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  Speaker 3: it looks like against his name, Mission's gonna push that
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  Speaker 3: bitch around. So with that, sorry turn glory boys, and
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  Speaker 3: I sounded and go off on my alarm.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me, go big Red, Go Big Red.
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  Speaker 4: Our Turn to Glory Podcast. Happy Labor Day everyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday morning, Hunters, Aarbernikki and Austin Rose to go
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  Speaker 1: to Free Texas. I think a little bit under the
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  Speaker 1: weather this morning. Long weekend, Long weekend Forum. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good week. Huskers are three and oh. I mean
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  Speaker 1: want to know I just been telling people three and
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  Speaker 1: oh because the next two games are gimmes.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if you factor in volleyball this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: We did go three and oh over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, factor in volleyball.
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  Speaker 1: We are three and oh due to volleyball and first
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  Speaker 1: time that we have be a Power five opponent an
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  Speaker 1: opening game of the year since two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about the importance of this first game
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  Speaker 1: a lot before we get into the football game. Let
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  Speaker 1: let's give our quick praises to the volleyball team. Lips
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  Speaker 1: come on Friday, I believe as expected.
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  Speaker 5: And then Tough one Kentucky number seven Kentucky give us
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  Speaker 5: a I will say we didn't look super sharp. They
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  Speaker 5: looked really sharp the first two sets, and then we
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  Speaker 5: kind of hangened it up and they kind of fell apart.
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  Speaker 5: But Danny Bustman Kelly pulling some bold subs out there,
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  Speaker 5: swapping our the barrows, and it worked out. It was
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  Speaker 5: it was a really good game, right, Like you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's one of those games where it's I'm glad we
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  Speaker 5: got the win. It's our third win over a top
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  Speaker 5: seven team in the first four games of the year,
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  Speaker 5: but it also is like, Okay, we have room to
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  Speaker 5: improve outside hitters, kind of need to work on our
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  Speaker 5: offense a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Got some things that improve on. It's always a good
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  Speaker 2: thing to notice early in the year. I playing a
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  Speaker 2: couple opponents.
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  Speaker 5: It was I mean, honestly, it was one of the
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  Speaker 5: it's been a while since I watched volleyball game where
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  Speaker 5: the coach made some I mean she made like subs,
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  Speaker 5: like she put in the Virginia I can't Andreani or
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how you pronounced her last name, the
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  Speaker 5: Italian girl. It subed ran out on the outside just
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  Speaker 5: for more defense, and it was just it was interesting,
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  Speaker 5: like they were active. It was like, oh, I can
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  Speaker 5: actively see you trying to figure it out mid game,
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  Speaker 5: and it worked.
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  Speaker 2: Making a just I think they put in that Olivia
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  Speaker 2: makin over.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, good job DBK volleyball team. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: had to throw that in there because I would have
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  Speaker 1: forgot once we dive into this football game. Guys, we
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  Speaker 1: want to know three no want to optimistic you are.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic. I'm just happy because I did not
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  Speaker 1: expect to win. I didn't think we were going to
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  Speaker 1: win this game because we don't win these games.
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  Speaker 2: And we were at.
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  Speaker 5: The show up to the tailgate, but everyone's just like,
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  Speaker 5: oh man, Hunter's over here just feeling ship.
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  Speaker 2: Steel, and I just didn't think we were going to win.
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  Speaker 2: We get we don't win these games. So that's why, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy that we won.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I I'm not optimist. I'm just I'm just positive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm encouraged that we won this game, like I just
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  Speaker 1: I did. I didn't think we were going to win.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot a lot of things we can
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to here, but I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see us win a big game like this on a
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  Speaker 1: big stage, a close game. It was a one score game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when when we got when Malcolm Hartsaw got
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  Speaker 1: that pick at the end of the game, I mean, I.
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  Speaker 2: Stay up like I was like, holy cow, we actually
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  Speaker 2: did it. Like we we.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't find a way to lose this game, because I
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  Speaker 1: mean everyone I can almost guarantee, was like this is yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is the song of dance that we go go through.
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  Speaker 2: I even said it out loud. I think, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know at what point in the.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth quarter and some Husker fan right in front of
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  Speaker 1: us turned around looked at me and he's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: We're not losing. Like he was pissed. He's like, we
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  Speaker 1: are not losing this game. I was like, okay, sir.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the couch. Everyone in the house I
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  Speaker 5: was watching this game was I was sleeping except for me,
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: And Maddy said the reason she knew I wasn't sleeping
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  Speaker 5: was because I just kept I was just tense the
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  Speaker 5: whole time, just kind of squirming because that whole last drive,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, this is worth, this is worth goof up.
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  Speaker 5: This is how it always goes, like, Oh, this is it.
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  Speaker 5: Here's like they're marching down the field. It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even have to like tell people that narrative
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  Speaker 1: anymore because even like the casual fan knows that we
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  Speaker 1: lose close games now And I rewatched the game last night,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a guy on uh they put on
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  Speaker 1: TV that had this shirt of we almost always almost
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  Speaker 1: like the TV talk about it, everybody knew.
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  Speaker 5: I guess, you know, talk about arrowheads for a second
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  Speaker 5: before we start going specifics. I see tail game team
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  Speaker 5: was good, but on TV it occasionally sounded super loud,
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  Speaker 5: but I imagine it was really loud the whole time.
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  Speaker 5: They just kind of filtered out some of the noise
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  Speaker 5: they could hear the announcers. Is that kind of had
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  Speaker 5: to shook out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very loud. I announcers to it.
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  Speaker 1: Just listening to them they I mean they commented on it, probably.
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  Speaker 2: More than they even needed.
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  Speaker 5: To on There was like three Cincinnati fans that they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we'll show these three fans over and over because these
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  Speaker 5: are the only three we can find.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I mean it was.
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  Speaker 1: You would talk about ninety ninety eight percent Nebraska fans
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  Speaker 1: tail getting scene and at the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was a Husker home game and
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  Speaker 2: that was a huge, huge factor.
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  Speaker 5: I would probably say that was the difference. To be honest,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we're winning if it's in Cincinnati with
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  Speaker 5: if the exact same Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Different game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we I believe I counted four false starts
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  Speaker 1: that you know, whether you want to directly attribute those
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  Speaker 1: to the crowd noise.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you could see them. You probably noticed it more
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  Speaker 5: last night when you're watching on TV, just like the
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  Speaker 5: quarterback trying sores, be trying to communicate with everyone and correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you don't see some of those things when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're at the game.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, it was very evident.
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  Speaker 1: And coach Saturfield ver Cincinnati said made those comments about
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  Speaker 1: the crowd his post game. It mattered, and so thank
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  Speaker 1: you Cincinnati. I don't know what the outcome would have
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  Speaker 1: been if it would have been at their stadium or
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  Speaker 1: even Indianapolis, but thank you for moving it because I
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  Speaker 1: do think that helped and had an Sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: say it helped in the home crowd, and I'm you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it has an effect. Well the fall Stars, it was
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  Speaker 1: very clear it was loud in there, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: was it louder than Memorial Stadium. I mean, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it hard to compare, but it was loud like
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  Speaker 1: the crowd.
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  Speaker 5: The crowd was after everyone took a day off to drink.
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  Speaker 5: So it's just been.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, a couple of fall stars.
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  Speaker 1: One came very very key on their last last drive
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  Speaker 1: of the game with ten second runoff there, and and
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them early like the first couple of drives,
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  Speaker 1: first drive they were removing the ball and all and
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  Speaker 1: third and four fall start and then gotta stop. So again, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: environment great error had great, very good to get a
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  Speaker 1: win on a big stage like that. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about the Mahomes, Kelsey, t Swift, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, but they were all there.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift did show up.
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  Speaker 5: That was that big first time seeing there. After the engagement,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 2: A great lot obviously a lot of comparisons and Mahomes.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the Nebraska tweet that got taken down?
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  Speaker 2: Then the tweets.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, hey, don't mess with the Swifties. It's a cult, like,
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  Speaker 1: don't do it.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like that was more of a shot at
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  Speaker 5: Travis than it was Taylor, but you know whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that was my general thought is like we
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  Speaker 1: want that. That to me, it's huge, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's bigger than some people probably even think.
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  Speaker 2: You lose that.
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  Speaker 1: First game this season, Who in the hell knows where
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  Speaker 1: it goes?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, then you're you're starting basically two and two,
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  Speaker 5: you feel like you're gonna start to in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and especially losing on a last drive like that
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  Speaker 1: they go down score a touchdown the last and last minute,
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  Speaker 1: when we have the game basically won again and.
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  Speaker 2: You find a way to lose it. I think Rule.
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  Speaker 1: Wants the guys to understand that it's well everybody to
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  Speaker 1: fans include, it's not a fluke, it's not unlucky.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit better than them, a little bit better here,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better there. And he deflates that one
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  Speaker 1: score close game question when anybody asks that, he just.
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  Speaker 2: Goes a different direction that difference in this game when
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  Speaker 2: we had a couple of guys make a couple of plays,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of key moments that we normally don't do,
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't beat ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we are very superior as far
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  Speaker 1: as talent wise across the field to Cincinnati. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that when we start talking about players and positions.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna be in a lot of close games
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  Speaker 1: this year, and so the importance of finding a way
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  Speaker 1: to win those making the plays when we need them
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  Speaker 1: to and then not beating ourselves, like it's the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of what we've done over the past five to seven
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  Speaker 1: years in Nebraska football, Like that's that is what we
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: need to do to get over this hump. And we're
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  Speaker 1: not probably well the next two games, maybe a couple others,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think there's gonna be very many blowouts
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  Speaker 1: this year either way. They're gonna be close battles as
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  Speaker 1: just where we're at as a program right now, and
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. Finding a way to win those is what's
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  Speaker 1: most important. And a couple of guys step up have
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  Speaker 1: made big plays like that is what you need.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I me and Malcolm had the back breaking pass
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  Speaker 5: interference call and then had the interception, So they had
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  Speaker 5: big plays both ways, back to back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and and we can we can start there.
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  Speaker 1: I think what we're gonna do for these game recaps,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try to keep it a little organized
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  Speaker 1: and go through position by position. Malcolm hart Tooks a
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  Speaker 1: great one to start with because he was the one
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  Speaker 1: that made the big play at the end of the.
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  Speaker 2: Game intercepting that pass. You mentioned the pass interference before.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back even a little bit further and the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and seven, with like a minute ten left, they
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  Speaker 1: ran a little out route and Hartzog was also the
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  Speaker 1: one covering that him there as well, and both the
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  Speaker 1: whole the past interference hold, whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: In that play it did not look good one on
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  Speaker 2: one and so.
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  Speaker 1: They attacked him and our last play we were in zone,
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  Speaker 1: but he went and made a play.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and damn good, damn good one.
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  Speaker 1: You know he caught it too, is like sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: dropped those to what seal games? He so credit to
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  Speaker 1: him overcoming that. Our secondary and hard Tung included in that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them more praise than probably any other
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  Speaker 1: position because in order for us to win the games
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  Speaker 1: that we want to win this year, they are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to be so freaking good.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they and they are.
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  Speaker 1: They played well, and we knew that was the strength
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  Speaker 1: of our team coming in. We knew their experienced, their veterans.
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  Speaker 1: They as the season goes along, are going to have
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  Speaker 1: even more and more and more responsibility because I have
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a feeling we're gonna have to change some things up
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  Speaker 1: upfront in the front seven because we can trust our
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: secondary more. And those guys they again again Cincinnati I
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how good those transfer receivers are.
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  Speaker 1: They some people were kind of talking them up, but
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  Speaker 1: who knows. They're gonna play a lot were probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: to play a lot man coverage and just lock people
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  Speaker 1: down because we're better out there.
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  Speaker 2: And it was good at place.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they did a.
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  Speaker 2: Good job of that.
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  Speaker 1: This, I mean, this game, we shut Cincinnati's pass came
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  Speaker 1: down out he sur We had sixty some yards of passing, like.
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  Speaker 5: Sixty nine with just over fifty percent passing, just barely
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: over fifty percent passing. And even then, most of those
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  Speaker 5: yards came on that last drive when they were trying
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  Speaker 5: to march down the field and they had fourteen yard
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  Speaker 5: catch and then another like eight yard catch, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: he was pretty close. I think you might have been
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: under fifty yards before the last two drives, So I agree.
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  Speaker 5: You know, my gut reaction was the D line didn't
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: look very good. But the reason the D line that
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: looked very good was because they had to run it
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: because well it exposed our D line because they had
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: to run it because our defensive backs were so good
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  Speaker 5: locking up the receivers that that was really the only
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  Speaker 5: avenue they had, So it's kind of It's kind of
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: funny because the field kind of flipped from last year's
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: defense where d line was really good and our secondary
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  Speaker 5: was the shoddier portion, and now we're I think we're
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  Speaker 5: going to see the opposite this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, defensive line is a big concern, and and I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's more of a concern after rewatching it too. I
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  Speaker 1: thought early on in the game they were getting some
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  Speaker 1: holes as well in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: Nash and Tie are I mean the players.
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  Speaker 5: Yea both on it or well, I guess Nash is
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: just on a practice squad. But Ty did make the
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: fifty three roster.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Correct, So I'm that was one position in our preview
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that I was I felt okay about, Like I I'm like, okay,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: we can fill these guys because they're they're backing up
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: such good players that they learned a lot and they're
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be good too. Here my big thing there, we
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: don't have the bodies yet.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: They're not Yeah, they're not there.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: The closest that I thought was Keona Davis, Like he
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: had a couple of times where he just because of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: his sheer size, was able to cause some disruption in
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the backfield Riley Van poppol I was not impressed with
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and a lot of times those guys don't play together.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to find the right balance
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of guys. Like I'm not trying to put anybody down,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: but like Williams when Erry he's he's not very big
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and he was the best one and yeah, and and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: he he they can get moved around. So the defensive
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: line is concerning to me just because of the sheer
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: size fact. And we're obviously gonna see a lot better
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: teams in Cincinnati. Cincinnati's on a pushover up front.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: That they they we're gonna see better teams.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And I do think the three three five you have
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to be very sound of clogging up and just I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: mean big bodies. You have to just fill up room
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in front because you do you have more secondary type
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of guys in the field.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You want those guys to be flying around and.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: That, Yeah, that that's gonna be a big thing that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I think the coaching staff tweaks in adjusts and I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: think they got to stay fresh too. However, you're gonna
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: do that and that's hard if you're not very deep there.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But I think you look guessed at the end.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Over fifty two tackles, one had three and Williams no
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: one how you say his name, I just get rid
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: of the Okay, you had six, so I mean they had.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I mean Judy played a lot in there too, like
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: we had different guys that played.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Judy didn't have any recordable stats. Not to say that
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: everything is needs to be recordable for it to count,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: but when you look through like the defensive tack totals,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: defensive tackle totals, it's all.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Backside's really not making not saying make an excuse, but
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I do think the three three five is not always
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: true eventsive lineman based tackling, because you do your job
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is to fill gaps, clog holes so that your linebacker
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: linebackers can fly around and make tacks correct.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: But when you see that they ran for over two
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: hundred yards, it's like, okay, well, yeah, you need to
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: get your arm on some of those guys correct.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And we won't see it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Just top of the yeah, I say we won't. We
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: probably won't see a mobile quarterback like this. Uh again,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: I don't know if there's really.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I thought about that too, So obviously Sores be be
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: us with his legs.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: About ninety six yards on the ground.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Especially late, which part of me was okay with that
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: because I know that you know you're you're playing a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: little more conservative when you're when you got ten point lead,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it was enough for us to win.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It's the game, hallelujah. But I do think.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: His legs and remember he knew that he could run,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: but maybe he didn't know the extent he causes problems.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I think we were a little gassed. I do think
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that all that factored in. I thought about that too.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Are we going to see a betty better running quarterback
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: than Swords?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I don't know. I don't know
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: what Maryland's got.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: But as a team, they averaged seven yards of carry. Yes,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: as a team, so that's that's a big red flag
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: from where we were last year.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And solid too.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I will say that you watched Telly White Florida State
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: and they lock up Alba's run. He was like, oh boy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: is that the secret sauce guys.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Tony White him good coach.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We've said it like losing him is a big thing,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and it just got We talked about it for a
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: week or two last year and then just now I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: pushed under the table.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It's a big thing.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying John Butler can't, but it was
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: big losing some of those guys too, Like Tony White
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: knows defense and he isn't him good coach. So whatever
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: happened there, we don't know the details and exactly why
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that transition occurred.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Our defense, I will say this did not fall apart.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: No, we gave up seventeen points and we helped them
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: to I mean we held them to three points in
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: the first half.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Correct, and the style that we play, and this is
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: more big picture more I talk to people. It was
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: high scoring thirty eight to twenty one, winning our offensively,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: more explosive.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Like I thought, it was going to be a very
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: different style of game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Rule time of possession, we had thirty nine minutes. I mean,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: that's different concern.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you're real is not playing that way overall.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He the way this game went is how he wants
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to win games right now, because you can't play that
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: way on the offensive side unless you really really are
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: superior to.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: The other team.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: You gotta find a way to win close games first
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and are it starts playing defense and shut people down
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and then building off of that.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: So defense, i'd say, before switching, what's before switching over,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: what's the bit, what's the big defense takeaway?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not extremely disappointed. The defensive line is concerning, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I will say this with our linebackers since we haven't
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: talked about them yet. They flew around and that's what
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: we did.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That was starting. We were told there they're quicker unit.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Now getting maybe blocked in the second level sometimes maybe
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: question mark. But as far as them making plays and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: flying around, there were several different guys that made plays.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Vincent Shavers made the huge strip fumble, the big hit
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: there on the Cincinnati two minute drive before half, like
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: that that was a big player, not strip but putting
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: his head on the ball. Javin Wright had a huge
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: play there on that drive as well. Like everybody made
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: little strides I thought, and little plays at big times
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: at that linebacker spot. So they're they're gonna have to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: do have more responsibility, I think, and we're gonna have
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to continue to be more creative to get some negative plays. Now.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: At the same time, I thought, Cincinnati and this is
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: maybe how this defense is going to be. They either
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: went for about seven or eight yards or they went
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for about zero or negative too. There there weren't many
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: just two or three yard games, different style that maybe
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we're used to when when the hole was.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Opened and blown open and it was like, oh boy,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: what happened there?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But there were times that were like holy cow, we
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: we had three guys by the ball and there two
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: yards in the backfield. So maybe that syncing up the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: blitzing and and all of that timing out the play right.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it guessing, but you know, having having
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the right play call given what they're doing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: So I have a hunch that a lot of teams
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: are gonna try to run the ball on us this year,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: and so we've got a lot of games to figure
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: it out because it's gonna happen every game. But we
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: did win the turnover battle. I mean we had two turnovers,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: so that's not nothing.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And yeah, credit credit again that those guys making those
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: plays that they came at big points in the game too,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: that I mean, that's the thing. And and yeah, I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: do think our secondary is gonna have a lot more
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: responsibility because we're going we're going to see our interior
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: seven have to stick more guys in the box, be
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a little more aggressive there and just trust in our
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: back end can hold up one on one and a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: lot of that's gonna depend on matchups with who we
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: got across the field, but I feel pretty good. They
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: tried to test Andrew Marshall early a couple of times
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and he held his own.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: He did, he did a good job as well.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So again, overall defense like not obviously, I don't think
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we're there like we have in the past years.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: But through game one, not a big ball off, not
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: a big drop off.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I said there were three for ten on third downs.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: I mean there are two for two and four downs.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: But there are things that are to be happy about.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: But I definitely feel you just it's just tough when
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: you come from last years defense, this year's defense. That's right,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: this isn't last year's team.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's jump over the other side of the ball here,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: duc offense.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Start with Dylan.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: The guys, that's the guy.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Is this guys, it's what It's what we wanted.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: To get a quarterback in Nebraska after two years ago.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Someone that's not gonna make mistakes, manage the game, lead
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the team, and do your job. That's what he's doing
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: right now. And is he right now, the a Heisman
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: breaking stat numbering, explosive offense type of quarterback. No, some
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: people wanted to be that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe is that what we need right now?
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: It's every week he rolled out with seventy completion, zero turnover,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: two and forty yards and two touchdowns. I take that
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: every week.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I think fans just in general want an explosive offense,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: an exciting offense to watch.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: They thought maybe this week looked bland. Maybe it did.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we are that talented. Now we're
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: gonna hear that we're that talented from random people. How
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: good all these players are compared to other teams that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: we're playing.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know that we are.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: So we just got to be a little bit better
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: than them. And it starts with Dylan being an above
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: average quarterback and not making mistakes and Dylan just watching
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that game back to so many smart throws and play
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that he did and completely I watched so many quote
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: unquote good quarterbacks this weekend.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: In some of these third games just not may not
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: look terrible, but missed some easy throws like Dylan did
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: not miss.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: There was there was only one throw and that was
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: definitely like it was a miscommunication where it's like what
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: just happened there where the receiver went out inside in
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: seid of out. That was really the only time where
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: you're like, oh geez, like that was that was way off,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: but the rest of them was like, Okay, that's close
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: to that's well covered or you know, he kind of
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: knew that that one was gonna get caught, so it
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: kind of threw an uncatchable and he only missed nine passes.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: He manages the game so well. And you heard rule
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: talk about what Cincinnati was giving us. Cincinnati plays a
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: lot of his own play, a lot of deep coverage.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: The amount of third and fourth, third and fourth or
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: five third and six that we converted because Dylan just
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: said I'm gonna take what they're gonna give us and
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: get it first. Like that happened like six or seven
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: times in the game. And he did such a great
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: job of just making the smart play as it is.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: And it's first pointing out that their defensive line is
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: is a serious defensive line, Like I mean, they were
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: he was operating under pressure a lot.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Will we see better defensive lines, We probably will, but yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: one of their strengths and their best player on their
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: entire roster was the godfather up front.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: And I mean that guy was incredible nickname.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: That guy was as big as expected to. It's such
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: a big dude.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And and Dylan, like you said, handled the pressure, handled
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: all the hype and perform solid.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: He's not gonna go I don't. We don't. I don't.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want him to.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I don't want him to have to want to go
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: out and throw for three point fifty and and.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Take a bunch of risks and put a four touchdown
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: one interception. I don't, I don't.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the way that we want to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: win games right now. I don't think that's the way
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Rule wants to win games right now. I think Rule
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: wants to do what Dylan's got to do, what he's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: gotta do. And my concern, maybe some people's like hope,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: was that Dana was gonna come in and just revamp
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this thing and make it flashy and Dana Holgerson from
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: back in the day type of offense. No, like we
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: had a lot of undercenter, double tight rant. Dana also
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was through that narrative. So who again, whether that's Dana
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: calling that shot or rule. You know, infiltrating Dana's mindsting,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: this is what we need to do with a program.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Figure this out. Credit to our offense for doing that. Now,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: in my thing, our offense is phenomenal and perfect.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: No, not at all. It was a little not boring,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: but I mean it was. It was pretty meat and potatoes.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And that's the that's the negative comment. But in a game,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in games that we're just gonna have to freaking win
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: by a score, that's what.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: It's gonna look like.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's gonna be some more times we can test
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: people downfield, but you know, third quarter, Bonner goes down,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: gets hurt. Corey Barney got tripped up a couple one.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The one Jesse sweep he got was kind of was
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: could have been a really big play. Isaiah Hunter, I
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: thought did some really good things. Dame Key. Here's here's why.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Dame Key thoughts he can run routes.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: But I was watching his routes on TV to like
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: he he's the first guy that we've had in a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: while that can run a route to get open and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: knows how to do it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Without breakaway speed, and we we haven't had now.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know that he's maybe a guy that we're
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to send downfield and throwing the ball.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's his role, but he isn't going
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to be the guy that we can throw to on
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and Dylan like throwing to him, you could tell on
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: on a lot of those third downs and that won
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the goal line too. He trusts him. He's a veteran guy.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He did his receivers. I was pleasantly surprised with, Like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna look like for a lot of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the of the year.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I think Isaiah's got maybe some white potential.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I said, out of the he has the big play.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: As far as downfield catches, it was pretty evenly distributed
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: across five guys.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: I would be shocked the way that the balls are
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: being played. I mean, Ja, Corey and Emmon are gonna
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: end up injured on the sideline at some point if
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: this is how they get used all year. I mean,
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: they were absolutely getting just the they were catching it.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: To their credit, they were catching the ball within bam
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: like it's.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: A lot of dumped downs. Now, is that a product
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of the offense or what Cincinnati has given us? Coach
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to say Cincinnati's given us.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: That I'd say's probably a little bit of both. It's
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: designed for there. I bet there are a lot of
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: shots that were designed for if there's a guy, if
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: there's one shot open, you're taking it, if not immediately
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: dumping it. But I mean Emma and Ja Cory were
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: getting at rocked. It seems like every time they caught
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: the ball.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there were a lot, a lot, a lot
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: of immediate.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, Dylan's getting it in that window. It's a
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: small window, and they were holding onto the ball. They
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: weren't fun with it. But boy, I was like, it's
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: gonna be a long season for those two guys that
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: they're getting cooked like that.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: And give Cincinnati a little credit to I mean, seriously,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: if you're if you don't know anything about Nebraska football,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you know nothing, and you're going in to play them
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: next week, one of the things you're gonna say is
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: let them beat themselves. Hel PJ Fleck and Kirk Farrens
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: have done that for years and kicked our butt doing it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Well defensively, Let's just wait till they fumble it. Let's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: wait till Dylan gets aggressive and throws a pick and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: get tipped past pick.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Let's just slow, make them have fourteen fifteen play drives
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: and go down and score that. Generally speaking, that's what
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: you would do.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Because we find a way to beat ourselves, we just
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: do so cred Cincinnati. That was our game plan. Now
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: we did enough to not let that work. I mean,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I'll give Dylan a lot of the credit there in
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the staff like that. That's that's what they gave us.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. Overall, the passing game was fine. It
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: was it was sufficient. That's what it needed to be.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: We had we were pretty efficient on third downs. We
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: had a lot of third downs, but we were We
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: did pretty alright with them until the end when we
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: kind of needed to produce a little bit more. That
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: were there were some more general like offensive comments of
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: you know, we get towards the end of the fourth
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: quarter there and we have the ball, It's like, okay,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: why are we running this? I just there were some
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: things where it's like I felt like a clock management
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: a little bit at the end. We were getting a
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: little too cute when we had been cute the whole game.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: But it was it was good, it was sufficient.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm also trying to as I'm talking now because I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: had a lot of things.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm like, oh boy, a lot.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Of things coming out pretty positive right now, I'm pretty encouraging.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to put myself. They score on that last drive,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: we lose.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: How does the tone flip in a lot of these
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: conversations on the offensive side, specifically.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Like conservative, that's the that's the conservative.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: How's it flipped out? Do I? I don't know that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I I personally don't want us to go out and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: try to just be super aggressive all the time.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I just I just.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Don't Our team is not ready to leap from like
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: really shitty offense last year to all of a sudden
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: one of the top twenty offenses in the country. We're
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: not That's not we. I don't think we're built that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: way to do that. Can we gradually get there potentially?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: But I think we got to see a game like
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: this where was it explosive? No?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: But were there parts of it that were like.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Huh huh huh, yeah, there were. Before we move on
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: from Dylan, I I want to mention Dylan's transformation mentioned
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: several times in the broadcast of his body.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: You know, his weight didn't change much looks. I'm gonna
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: say he looks better.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: Wowna say he looks better.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Here's what was a little more encouraging. He was more
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: elusive in the pocket. I wrote down the word that
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: someone used the announcers climbing the pocket was what this
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: little segment.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Was very good at stepping up in the pocket when
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: it when it came in around, because it happened a lot.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And and that is a little bit of credit I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: think to his his his body and being a little
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: more elusive.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And he had a one big scramble for down.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He's not where I personally would want a quarterback with
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: their bilt like I want him to get more, even
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: more towards mahomes. Now, I wasn't expecting to be level now, No,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: it got We took a step in the right direction.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I still think there's times that he's not there yet,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: but it got better.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Like he definitely took a step up from last year
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: in mechanics of stepping up in the pocket and having
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to maybe move a little bit to get an angle
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and all of that.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Now that being said, he still knows how to.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Use his arm angle incredibly well, so that maybe maybe
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: counters that a little bit and takes a little bit
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of that need for running away.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: But it got better.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm not like, holy cow, Dylan Royola is right
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: where we want to be from mobile side of things,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that, but I think he
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: took a step in the right direction to it. I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: want to see a little bit more usage.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want him to run.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Twelve times designed runs, but I like, I think it's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: an an element. When your quarterback can run a QB
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: draw on third and six and get a first down,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: it's another thing you got to prepare for.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think want to Dylan yet.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: There was one third down where we ended up punting
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: it and I was like, I don't know. I feel like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: if Dylan was ready for it, I think we could
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: have pushed for it. I don't remember which down it was,
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: but I do remember, like, that's a pretty close one.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: I feel like, I'm surprised we didn't go for it,
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: but I agree. I thought he looked good and yeah,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: I guess we'll talk about the running game here a
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: little bit. But Dylan, Dylan, there wasn't a moment where
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: I was like, what are you doing, Dylan? What? What
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: was that?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: And again running and QB running games. There's all levels
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: of it on a full spectrum. Like Dylan obviously is
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: not a running quarterback and he's never going to be,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: but he just wanted to be mobile. I just want
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: him to be a little more mobile, and we took
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: a step there with where he's at and out he's
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: not where I want him to be. The just just
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: watching some of these other big time teams, like they
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: can use their not just use their quarterback, but their
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: quarterback makes plays with their feet.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean the he had that run pass option
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: there to score that touchdown with or no, we didn't
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: score the touchdown. We were just shy right.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: With past the linden Meyer, which before we talked about
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: end receivers.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: How about Luke Lindenmeyer.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: I mean he looks like a freaking dog.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: He looks like he.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Looks like the tight end that all these guys that
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: have gotten hurt and had they touted their shirts and
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: brought in like he did what we wanted all them
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Like he he.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: He blocked, he blocked, and he looked big, He looked
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: tough to take down, and I.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Think we used him appropriately to Like he got a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: couple of tough passes to I mean that RBO that
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. That was the last minute Dylan like RPO,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna run. Oh shoot, I can't run. Let's just
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: dump it over here, and a little bit behind with it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: It was. It was impressive, and then.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: He had tight ends and then he had the big
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: catch on the sideline where he was impossible to take
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: down where he's just you know, taking shots but still
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: in the bounds.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: And I had to throw that in there too, because
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: he also is a walk on in the program for
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: a long long time, stuck with it.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: He's gonna get dividends this year. I mean, it really is.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Run game, Emma Johnson game. There's no one he's It's
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: gonna be a long season. I'm worried that he won't
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: be able to hold up because he was twenty five
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: carries out of the.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, and I'm with you on the worry.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: That's not an uncommon take watching this back on TV.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: It was good out of anybody that I was going
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: into the year of like, all right, I've heard the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: hype of this guy getting better or coming in and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be damn good. It was Emmett Johnson saying, no,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I can be a workhorse back. Now it comes with injury.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: But you want to talk about a guy all the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: way through the game who was just taking shots and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: shots and shots and just.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: But he did.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: He didn't have any breakaway like huge runs, but he
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: made a couple of times like a one yard loss
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: turned into a.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Three yard game.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: He made a two yard game turn into a seven
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: yard game, just because of his extra push and toughness
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that he has. I was very impressed with Emmett getting
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the ball that many times too, and sustaining it throughout
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: He had thirty two This is just catches. I'm not
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: telling targets, but thirty two possessions between runs and passes
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: of our sixty eight offensive plays.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: The ball is in his hands.
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: The ball is in his hands. So that's why I
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: got a little nervous. He again, he looked like a dude.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: He looked really good. Twenty five touches for one hundred
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: and five, twenty five runs for one hundred and eight yards,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: and then seven catches for twenty seven yards. But and
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: obviously they didn't give Nelson or Moozie really any other
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: any opportunity to do anything with the ball. They both
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: only got one carries, but one carry each.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: And I don't I don't know enough about running backs
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to watch a game and go, this looks good, this
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: looks bad.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: It's hard to tell about being a coach.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I thought Emmett came out the gates and looked very
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: like he's played football for I'm gonna say that about
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Mosey and McKay nelson. They looked like freshmen and
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: they didn't get many touches. I don't think that was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the plan going into the game today. You watched their
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: first couple of carries. They look timid. I'm not bashing
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: on freshmen, but I kind of hate him. They looked timid.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: They just wanted to get their toes. They gits the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: whole hard.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I was thinking maybe we wouldn't see that those two
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: early on their first couple of touches, when we tried
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: to give them an opportunity, they just looked scared. And
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: that might be why Emma ended up getting twenty five
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: carries in a game that you don't have much room
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: for error.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: And so I don't know.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Two highest russures. It wasn't even like Heinrich had two
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: carries and Bonner had two carries, and both the freshmen
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: had two carries total between the two of them. So
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: I mean they clearly wanted to go with experience.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: They're like.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: My mind, I disagree. I don't know that they I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: don't think that they were trying. I don't think the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: intention going into the game was to give it to Emmett.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I think the I think going in and then they
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: watched Emmett and then they watched Mosey, and I'm.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: There were a couple of runs.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I just was early on, I was like, oh God,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: and I think the coaches probably went, oh God, like,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: these guys aren't ready yet for a game like this.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So emmittt Hey calling down to Emma Johnson on the field, Hey,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: emmittt you're ready to go, because you're gonna get twenty
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: plus this.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Game is just be ready. I think that one.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was designed for Emmett to get
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: twenty five carries. I don't think I could be wrong,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: but I just thought early on those two freshmen didn't
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: look ready, and Emmett obviously looked experienced.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So that take on the run game.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Let's see the run game outside Emmett did not look good.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: And with the ball, it's like, oh, this guy's pushing
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: the like we weren't getting we were getting decent holes
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: and he was finding the holes. But there were a
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: lot of times where it was like, oh, he just
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: pushed that pile two yards, so it was like it
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: was really a one yard carry, but he pushed it
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: for three.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm a little bit away from that. Like, I
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: thought our offensive line gave some good holes, and it did.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: They did.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I thought that they I Emmett did not. Emmittt got
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: us an extra couple of yards when the contact was made.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: There weren't many times that Cincinnati was just clogging up
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the run game early on.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: They did a few times.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I thought our offensive line played good, like like above average,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: like I I I would like very happy with it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, our run game overall, like I'm pretty
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: satisfied with it. Big big mention here outside of Emmett
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: our run game, there's one other thing that was awesome.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Umbles but no fumbles.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: No, we push pushed like four times, three times.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: And that's that's one play that I ever since it's
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: now in football, why teams don't do it?
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Is just beyond me.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you have to have an novlinsive line,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: but you really don't. I mean when you when you're
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: trying to get a yard.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: I am surprised it hasn't made its way into college
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: football yet, not even like one team.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: It's here now, thanks, thank you, thank you, think you,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: thank you. Dana rule like we needed a yard and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: it's funny no one's talking about it because it looks
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: so easy. Every time people are maybe used to I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: don't know, used to it. We we went up there
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: three times. One time we got I think four yards
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: off of it in the first half and maybe Cincinnati
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it. And if you're not ready for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the touch push and you don't practice it against it, yes,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: it's very hard to stop. Now, will teams be ready
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: for it and say, okay, when it's third and short.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Embraska's coming out. It's like they do with the Eagles.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: They're they're going to come out on third and short,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: fourth and short. Here's what we get to stop it.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's Naty new we were going to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: do that because we've never shown it. So that was
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: huge though, I mean it was four four times that
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: we converted a third or fourth down in you know,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: within a one or two yards, So that was encouraging
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: as well. Heinrich got to run a couple of those there,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: so I I thought the offensive line, kudos to that group.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I was very encouraged with some of the holes that
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: we got the runs. We did not have many runs
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: that went from not eight to forty, like do you
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: want a couple of those? Yes. I also again think
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: that's a lot of the way Cincinnati was playing. You know,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: they're they're playing zone coverage. They're not they're not loading
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the box a lot and taking risks. They're just playing
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the back end. So that's gonna result in a lot
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: of the type of runs that we had, and we
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: took what we got and it was enough to.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Win the game.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: I agree. Yeah, I guess my last couple of like
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: overall offensive comments one penalties pretty limited. I think we
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: had one false start, that we had the unncessary roughness
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: on the first drive, which was a freaking killer.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: But yeah, a couple that first one and that came
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: from Latowsky, who is supposed to be our leader on
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: the line. That that hurt, uh two that hurt that
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: that goal line one that hurt. I mean, that's that's
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: not one that anybody's like, why.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: The fuck we did? It was just like when it happened,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: we're just.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: Like, oh god, yeah that one hurt. My other it's again.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: I thought the offense looked fine. You don't feel great
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: coming away with only twenty points, primarily because we played
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: we had twenty seven more plays with them than the opponent,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: like twenty seven more plays than they had.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Or are the ones that in the third it was
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: sixty one to thirty six. At one point on our
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: eighth towards the end of the game, it was like, oh.
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: Boy, we had the possession. We had it almost twice
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: as long as they did. We want forty ft to
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: twenty minutes, and we only scored twenty points, which I
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: understand that's kind of design of the game of we're
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: gonna because this is what we have to do against
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: better teams. But you'd like, you'd like to execute a
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: little better in the red zone than what we did.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the good new is this. I think all this
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: stuff and in rules post games spoke to it. We
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: got a couple, we got things to work on. I
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: don't know what the expectation was from the coaching staff
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: standpoint coming into this game. You know, whether they can
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: watch film and say, okay, we're better than we should
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: beat Cincinnati by X amount of points, and then you know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: we squeak out a one score win. I think getting
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the one score wins most important number one. And then
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: you figure out things you need to work on. There's
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: clearly a lot of things to work on here. You
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: got a couple of good weeks to do it, and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: then you face Michigan and the rest of our schedule
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: where now, who knows Ucla could be bad after they
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: got killed by Utah. Northwestern could be bad getting killed
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: by Tulane who.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: They disrespected New Orleans. You know that's why Northwestern got killed.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: Don't disrespect New Orleans?
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Do you know what? It's kind of funny not thinking
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Whether I'm starting to talk about choking up wins already
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: these next two games, we can chock up wins.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I that is regarding us as a program. Acker and
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Houston Christian are not good football teams.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Akron. How about Achron? This week?
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: The zips I didn't see what their score was?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Don't look ten zero Wyoming beat them ten zero.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is we got some time to
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: work on some stuff on both ends of the ball.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: We were talking about special.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: Teams too, because solid, it.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Just it just is what it needs to be.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Now, and maybe a little bit of beyond that because
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the early fifty two yarder discuman and drilled. Yeah, and
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: it does. It makes a big difference when you have
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a punter like Archie who put two inside the ten,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: like were they at the two yard line? No? I
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: mean those are like excellent, He's gonna do it this year.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: But like the punts that he just put it right
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: out out of bound with the nine yard line and
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: is like okay, like my job's done.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's brain works, like okay, you're welcome. I'm done.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Let me know when you need me again. Like, yeah,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: it was good.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: It was very decent, Like yeah, we I mean granted
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: all the punts, he didn't have to hit a big punt.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: I don't even know what I feel like. We moved
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: the ball pretty close to half midfield before we had
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: the punt. Anyways, each time, Yeah, three punts inside the twenty,
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: couple inside the ten, got fifty two yard field goal
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: and two for two on field goals. It was exactly
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: what it needed to be. Nothing. It kept the game moving,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: but it you know, put them in the defense and
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: better positions, and solved a couple of solutions, solved a
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: couple of problems for the offense. So our return game
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: still not really existence. No, no, you know, but that's
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: just a product of the game and where the ball's placed.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: And yeah and yeah, the power returns, I thought, I
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: mean there, we didn't have many opportunities there.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I just watching it back, and they were right there
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: when we caught it. We don't. Real does not like
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: the fair catch. We know that.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: So he wants guys to make plays, and I think
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Eckler does too, obviously coming in with all.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Of his previous positions and success.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: So special teams, it's hard to make a Here's the
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: thing of special teams.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: It's it's difficult to make.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: A game changing play on special teams.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: But when you do, or I should say, it's difficult.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: To make a great play on special teams, but when
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: you do, they're usually game changing. It's also where you
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: can make game losing plays by really messing up, and
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: we've done a lot more of that than the opposite
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: the opportunities here tonight. We didn't make a game changing
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: play necessarily, but we have a good, solid game from
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: a special teams unit. And again also yourself in the foot.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: We're pointing out or learned sav Archie Wilson. None of
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: the punts were returnable. Nope, that's that's exactly what you
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: want inside the twenty unreturnable.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so last big comedy I am here on the game.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Did we close it out exactly how we wanted it to?
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: No?
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Probably not well if you're if you're measuring on wins
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and losses, and yes we did. But I want to
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: call out our last There are two places that I'm
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: going to give a little more credit to our one
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: credit to our defense here right after we go forward
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: on fourth and two.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: On I believe that was our opening drive in the
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: third quarter.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cincinnati gets the ball, a couple of big plays,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: goes down scores. I didn't realize how early in the
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: second half this all this happened. They get the ball
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: back four minutes left in the third, up three. All
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: the momentum has just completely gone Cincinnati's side. Right now
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: we got the ball coming out of half.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Stopped.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: They score, we get stopped again. Cincinnati comes out and
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: our defense goes three and out and Sawn mccola makes
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: a big play Batton down the storesby pass and then
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: we get a coverage sack on third down three and out.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: That stopped. That was huge at that point in the game,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: like it gave us.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: It stopped the It felt like it felt like the
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: game was turning because we had like a it was
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: like a seventh It was like, I don't know what
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: was it, six minute drive to open the game the
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: third quarter, and we did score. It's just like, oh no.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: And that drive. Remember too, had.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: The fourth and two like it could have been a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: pick six, like it almost it was right there.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: It was it felt like, Okay, we're hanging on by
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: a thread here right now, and the defense came out
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: in a big stop there, so I wanted to call
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: it that drive.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: I thought that was huge. And then fast forward to
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: the end of the game when.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: They we went down scored, we get the ball seven
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: minutes up three. So this was after they scored to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: go twenty to seventeen. We get the ball up three
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: with seven minutes to go. What has this these teams
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: done in the pasturing over, we'll turn it over position
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: or we run.
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: It past the ball. Don't get the clock to run you.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Don't, well, yeah, we give them the ball back.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: They get it. They have five minutes left for the
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: you know, their last drive.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Now, ideally, would you like go down to score and
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: just put the nail on the coffin. Yes, but we
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: had the ball seven minutes up. Three Dana comes out first,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: three places past, past.
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: Pass, Yeah, and call it what you want, but that's
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: that is what they were giving us.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: We got the first two first towns on those plays.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Little questionable on when we were snapping the ball, you know,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: in their four or five left. Yes, but there's a
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: fine line there of.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Momentum and drives and all.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Of that, like and we we have we've we've also
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: done the all right, seven minutes left, let's run the
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: clock down the two seconds and running three times and
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: give them the ball back with four and a half
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: minutes left and see what happens. So there was still
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit of aggressiveness there. Did it end in
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: a touchdown? No, but we took five minutes off the clock.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Biggest thing we made them use all three of their timeouts. Yeah,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: and then Archie pins them inside the ten. That drive, well,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: while not perfect, was huge for their last drive than
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: to have to work the whole way down the field,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: no timeouts, loud crowd like that matters. So wanted to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: call out that drive few of the fine line of
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: being aggressive without overdoing it from from data.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: I know maybe some.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: People like you mentioned it like the past, past past,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: but I think at the same time, when they're seven
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: minutes slept, it's time and situation is is that enough
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: time to just say get super concerned. I think you
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta find that fine line there, and I
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: thought that drive had a pretty damn good job. Now
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: that did not result in points, that's best case scenario, but.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: At least we had a somewhat.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Of a game killing ending drive that that helped. So
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and then yeah, obviously we mentioned full circle of the
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: hard slot, big play at the end after.
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: They're still in the having enough time to get in
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: a field goal range and probably correct could have done
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: more damage if they didn't interception correct.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: So I was writing down notes. Last note I wrote
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: was we win in all caps like in a circle.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: It I just I think that it's huge to win
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: this game not in perfect fashion. A lot of things
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: to work on, but this game did not go, did
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: not go any different than.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: I thought it would. I've been wrong on a lot
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Of games in the past on this is style. This,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: this is how Matt Rule wants to play and wants
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: to win right now.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: With the players that we have.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think we have the talent and the players
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: and explosiveness to go out and beat teams like Cincinnati,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: who I don't think it.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: They're not great.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati has a chance to make a bowl game, like
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: they're a Power five school.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: They're not.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're Northwestern either, and they'd beat Northwestern
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: by a couple of touchdowns. So I do think that
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: it's always good to get a win here.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to work on. But it's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: like we're wan to No. Three and oh want to no.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Focus on Michigan this week.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: Focus on Michigan. Wow, you are look at you?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I text, I text, I texted Dak.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I said, huh, we're gonna be both Oklahoma and Michigan
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: or Oklahoma and Nebraska gonna be prepping for Michigan this week.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: Wow. This is so what? This is a new Hunter.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: It's not a new Hunter. It's not a new Hunter.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: It's Acron. Houston Christian are horrible.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: You you literally last year even like we can't overlook
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: any games.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: We can't.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: We're not that good. We can't overlook any games. There
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: are people out there choking. It's not a win.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: These games you can overlook. There's there's most games. You
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: can't overlook.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: These games you can. They're not good.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: What percentage to go to be the Achron one hundred
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: and both of them? Did you really.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Actually no?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: I think Akron I gave ninety nine. I think I
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: gave a hundred using Christians.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: That's what I thought.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: I came under using Christian that's for sure.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we can't get Dak's comments because he's
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: not responsible.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: He's recovering.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: He's recovering.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: So we even moved it back to eight am for
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: him this morning, but he's he still couldn't get that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: to work. So we'll get his thoughts on Thursday and
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: we will talk some Akron zips see if they can
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: score their first points of.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: The year against us. Hopefully not, but my gut says yes.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I think the opening spread, the opening line came out.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: It was thirty four and a half when it opened.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it moved to, so.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: I think I guess I saw thirty four.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: And a half as well. So yeah, we're not losing.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: If we lose a podcast will be ending fair enough.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Heay o be gread.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: Hev are
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Beca