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GAME WEEK PREVIEW: Northwestern -- Stop the Spiral · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Say, don't lie, Friday ain't not bad and gray. Now
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  Speaker 2: We ador, We take the bruise. We wear the blame
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  Speaker 2: with that weight back on the frame. So lot that
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  Speaker 1: We'll show up Man Heaven, blue collar, that's crack, but stubborn, don't.
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  Speaker 4: A return to Glory Podcast Hunters Arbadiki, Austin Rose, Dakota
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  Speaker 4: Free Tag.
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  Speaker 5: Northwestern week. We're five and two, coming off the loss,
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  Speaker 5: embarrassing loss. How will we respond? That's all I got
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  Speaker 5: for today?
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  Speaker 6: Wow? Maybe that in depth analysis. What are we gonna
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  Speaker 6: do this week?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 7: Actually prepare for Northwestern Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: I believe dak I would really hope, So you know what,
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  Speaker 6: everything maybe that's gonna start here. Players only meeting. That's
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  Speaker 6: how you know the season's going exactly the way as planned.
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  Speaker 8: Yep, that's you know, that never happens with teams that
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  Speaker 8: are on like a hot streak. That's that's the only
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  Speaker 8: way it's about rock bottom.
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  Speaker 5: I still can't get over a lot of Husker fans
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  Speaker 5: and probably the coaches and players as well, just can't
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  Speaker 5: get over.
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  Speaker 4: What happened in that Minnesota game. It does. It just
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  Speaker 4: feels like the whole season, like even talking about falling
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  Speaker 4: off a cliff.
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  Speaker 5: Definitely fell off a cliff here, maybe multiple cliffs heading
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  Speaker 5: Intoto Northwestern this week. And while I don't obviously think
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  Speaker 5: the season's over and nobody thinks that.
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  Speaker 4: It's how we respond this week. We're still five and two.
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  Speaker 6: I said we're five and two. I'm not spiraling yet.
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  Speaker 4: It is one of those things that.
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  Speaker 5: It hurts and I can't get over it. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think a lot of people can get over the Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: thing yet. And given that was still a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the conversation this week, it is. It just it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: good good. But we still have a game to play
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  Speaker 5: in in the Northwestern Wildcats, and it probably is the
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  Speaker 5: best case scenario of an opponent you could face this week.
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  Speaker 4: Out of anybody else that you could play in the
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  Speaker 4: Big Ten.
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  Speaker 5: Because they do a lot of the same things as
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  Speaker 5: Minnesota and the things that you just got your ass
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  Speaker 5: kicked on. You have a chance to redeem yourself improved
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  Speaker 5: that what you just witnessed last Friday night is not
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  Speaker 5: actually how this team plays prepares handles a team like Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: You have a chance to reading yourself. So and it's
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  Speaker 5: not like you're playing a better Minnesota team. You're playing
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  Speaker 5: someone that's probably in the same ballpark, maybe even a
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  Speaker 5: little less.
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  Speaker 7: So it's like you're just already say it's base case
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  Speaker 7: scenario because they're the worst team in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 7: I was already do it.
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  Speaker 6: The third team in the Big Ten right now, seven
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  Speaker 6: games into the season, fourth team. They're tied for third,
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  Speaker 6: I believe. But they're totally behind Oregon because the overall record.
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  Speaker 8: Now, they haven't really played anybody that tough in Big
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  Speaker 8: Ten yet but Michigan, but they we lost.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's they'd be northwesterns at least beat Penn State. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: Greames Franklin.
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  Speaker 7: Fired, also got their ass kicks by Tulane, so we don't.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 8: Jerry still out on me for Northwestern, but I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You said same same exact thing. What Mannesota is gonna do.
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  Speaker 6: They beat UCLA by three, Ucla might be good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: As it's college football, it's.
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  Speaker 5: The teams that are not very good and and and
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  Speaker 5: actually I think the coaches, all the coaches said this
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  Speaker 5: at some point this week in their press conferences.
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  Speaker 4: Teams that don't.
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  Speaker 5: Play very good, teams that aren't very good can play
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  Speaker 5: good and weeks, and teams that are pretty good can
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  Speaker 5: have bad weeks. And so they're trying to frame it
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  Speaker 5: like we're a pretty good team and we just had
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  Speaker 5: a really bad week. You hope that's the case, and
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  Speaker 5: the things that we saw weren't reality. But at the
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  Speaker 5: same time, like we said, it's it. We had moments
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  Speaker 5: against Maryland Michigan State that didn't look good. We obviously
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  Speaker 5: came out and won those games, so we can overshadow
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  Speaker 5: a little bit some of the problems that we saw
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  Speaker 5: glaringly against Minnesota and hopefully improve on them. But it's
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  Speaker 5: college football for you. It's just, especially in today's.
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  Speaker 4: World, it's parody. Getta love it.
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  Speaker 6: And mean, what was it last week? Like nine time
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  Speaker 6: twenty five teams lost something ridiculous?
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  Speaker 7: Well, wait, here's the best example of it.
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  Speaker 8: Florida State kicked the shit out of Alabama week one,
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  Speaker 8: and look look at Florida State is now three or
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  Speaker 8: four in Alabamas looking like one of the best teams
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  Speaker 8: nation now. So so yeah, teams, we hope it's just
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  Speaker 8: like that team's gonna have a bad week.
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  Speaker 6: Thank him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would just be.
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  Speaker 5: Bad you said that, And this is completely derailing the conversation.
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  Speaker 5: But we have a recruit coming this week that is
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  Speaker 5: also has offers from Florida State and I think it
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  Speaker 5: was NC State, maybe a defensive lineman for the next
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  Speaker 5: year's class. We don't have a defensive lineman in next
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  Speaker 5: year's class yet, So I'm like, well, that's just lovely.
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  Speaker 7: Oh that's good.
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  Speaker 8: Yep, that's uh not, Like can you use that position
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  Speaker 8: very hard?
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  Speaker 5: It so frustrating, Like, like I said, be cutting it rural,
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  Speaker 5: be cutting edge, if you donna be cutting edge and
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  Speaker 5: something to be cutting edge on spending the most money
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  Speaker 5: on offensive defensive lines and make it known that's what
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  Speaker 5: we're doing. That that would be a place where I
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  Speaker 5: would be very happy to be cutting edge on right now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I'm trying to think, isn't that the
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  Speaker 6: guy who decommitted from Penn State or is that someone else?
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know. So that was a side conversation
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  Speaker 4: press conferences.
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  Speaker 5: This week we'll get to Northwestern, I guess, and talk
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  Speaker 5: about the game a little bit, but the meats or
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  Speaker 5: the conversations this week definitely was on the press conferences.
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  Speaker 5: It's this is when it's fun. When you lose, you
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 6: Great great winning is not fun.
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  Speaker 7: It makes it a lot more fun now that the
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  Speaker 7: week make the week.
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  Speaker 8: After more fun as a fan, No, but it's it gives.
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  Speaker 7: You a lot more talking points.
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  Speaker 4: So Monday Rule spoke.
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday, Dana and John Butler spoke, and then some players,
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  Speaker 5: which is which is normal? Uh, And Monday Rule comes
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  Speaker 5: out fiery guns blazing, very I mean cut Sam mceu
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  Speaker 5: and not very early on and and and it just
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  Speaker 5: explained some things.
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  Speaker 4: And and and called a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Of things out basically just thing it's not acceptable. And
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  Speaker 5: and then Tuesday followed up with Dana and John Butler
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  Speaker 5: in the players. But the coaches specifically took a lot
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  Speaker 5: of responsibility, all three of them did for Monday and Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: almost to the point that it was like I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to say too much, but it was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: He just kept saying, it's on us, which I'll ask
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  Speaker 4: you guys, like what what what what does that mean
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  Speaker 4: to you?
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  Speaker 5: Like because we've seen the opposite, right, we not just
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  Speaker 5: in Nebraska, but we've seen coaches call people out and
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  Speaker 5: then blame things on other people other.
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  Speaker 4: Things that are going on. Like it was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of responsibility that that they're taking.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean not only were they taking the blame
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  Speaker 6: rules like our defense is vanilla, we weren't aggressive, and
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  Speaker 6: it was like kind of calling out his own coaches
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  Speaker 6: as well, like he was calling out his I mean,
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  Speaker 6: he took a lot of blame.
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  Speaker 4: But that you're right, it was.
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  Speaker 5: It's a combination because there was calling out, but then
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  Speaker 5: it'd be like, yeah, our defense is very vanilla, but but.
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  Speaker 4: That's on me. But that's on me as the head coach.
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  Speaker 4: That's on me. Like it just was very which it is.
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  Speaker 5: I I agree with him, but he also, as we know,
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  Speaker 5: speaks his mind, and things came out and led to
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  Speaker 5: his his press conference Monday led to some fun questions
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  Speaker 5: on Tuesday for the players and coaches and and so yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think to me, it's a good thing, uh that
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  Speaker 5: you're doing that. It's better to take responsibility, and it's
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  Speaker 5: also it's an easy way of handling a lot of
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  Speaker 5: questions Nope, yep, my fault.
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  Speaker 4: But when you do that over and over and over
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  Speaker 4: and over, you better start to show results and change
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  Speaker 4: from doing that.
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  Speaker 6: I think some of the intention behind doing that is
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  Speaker 6: if you come out and be like, yeah, our players
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  Speaker 6: played terrible after that bad of a game all of
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  Speaker 6: a sudden, you don't want to lose any of the
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  Speaker 6: confidence that you built up through the first five wins
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  Speaker 6: of the season. Correct If you come out and be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they our kids just got their asses kicked, which it
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  Speaker 6: was definitely not just the coach's faults. There was plenty
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  Speaker 6: of open field tackles missed out there, Like that's not
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'm not gonna say it was all schematic stuff.
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  Speaker 6: We made a lot of contact behind them line a
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  Speaker 6: scrimmag against Minnesota that resulted in six seven yard games.
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  Speaker 6: But you don't want to come out and just be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they played horrible. We had a good game plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you wouldn't do that, but you just need to let
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  Speaker 6: them know or at least make them frost it Croft
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  Speaker 6: sure did, and how that work out. You need to
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  Speaker 6: make them You just don't want them to start thinking like, well,
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  Speaker 6: we're not good enough. Those first five wins were flukes.
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  Speaker 6: You know this year is gonna be another thing. I
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  Speaker 6: mean last year we won five games and then we
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  Speaker 6: spiraled and lost the next four, next five, right, So
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  Speaker 6: you just want to prevent that. So you don't want
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  Speaker 6: you just don't want them to lose their confidence. And
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  Speaker 6: then if they're already having players only meetings, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they know, you know, they're not Your kids
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  Speaker 6: aren't out there, your your athletes aren't thinking that this
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  Speaker 6: was that this was the coach's fault, So you don't
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  Speaker 6: need to double down on that.
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  Speaker 8: Ere's ear though I picked up from all the Compress
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  Speaker 8: conferences is.
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  Speaker 6: Rule.
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  Speaker 7: It sounded like Rule.
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  Speaker 8: Took Minnesota seriesly to the point and all these other
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  Speaker 8: coaches really didn't and they took that responsibility. So it
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  Speaker 8: does sound like they didn't, which I all week, I've
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  Speaker 8: been trying to figure out why, why the hell were
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  Speaker 8: they not taking them Minnesota seriously at all? Like where
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  Speaker 8: did where did this confidence come from? That Minnesota was
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  Speaker 8: that they were just gonna walk over Minnesota and just
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  Speaker 8: be the better team come out and not have to
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  Speaker 8: prepare for him as hard as they do any other team,
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  Speaker 8: like or even harder. Minnesota has beat them five straight
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  Speaker 8: times coming in, Like, I just don't.
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  Speaker 7: I do not see.
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  Speaker 8: Where are these people where all's comments came from. What
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  Speaker 8: did Luke Lindemeer say something like we were gonna come
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  Speaker 8: out and uh.
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  Speaker 7: What did he say?
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  Speaker 4: Put on a show?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, put on a show? Like what what does that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: And what what did they expect Minnesota's gonna do? This
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  Speaker 7: is what they always do against Nebraska. They always play hard,
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  Speaker 7: beat up football, Like, but that's not a team you're
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  Speaker 7: gonna put on a show against. You want to you
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  Speaker 7: want to be more physical of them. So I just don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't get what their game playing going into the
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  Speaker 7: game was. And it's sound like no one is focused
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  Speaker 7: going into this game, and I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 5: That's the question that got asked to the coaches and
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  Speaker 5: players on Tuesday from rules comments was Rule calling them out,
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  Speaker 5: saying there were certain assistant coaches and players that in
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  Speaker 5: a roundabout way overlooked or weren't getting prepared as well.
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  Speaker 4: For Minnesota and weren't scared of him or whatever. I I, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea of why or how. But again
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  Speaker 4: I think that that falls.
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  Speaker 5: All of that to me falls on culture, which then
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  Speaker 5: goes back to the head coach, and that's what rule does.
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  Speaker 5: Like what we're saying is kind of funny because he
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  Speaker 5: talks so much, he hits on all the areas he's
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  Speaker 5: not he's taking responsibility, but he also is calling people out.
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  Speaker 4: He is not blaming his assistant coaches because they didn't
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  Speaker 4: take responsible for it, but he is calling them out
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  Speaker 4: for everything that he saw.
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  Speaker 5: And then in turn on Tuesday, they all get asked
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  Speaker 5: about it, and I don't I don't think anybody has
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  Speaker 5: an answer for why. Besides it's just not acceptable. Like
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  Speaker 5: and that's what hurts probably is it doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 5: There's zero part of it that as a competitor of
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  Speaker 5: anything in life, that does.
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  Speaker 4: Not add up. And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 5: So on the on the on the flip side of that,
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  Speaker 5: this week, you would think that we would be ultramotivated
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  Speaker 5: and prepared and focused and everything to come out and
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  Speaker 5: beat Minister or beat Northwestern because of what happened last
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  Speaker 5: week and some and and the five and one ranked
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  Speaker 5: top twenty five, I throw in the rural Penn State drama.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, is that all that puts you on
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  Speaker 4: a pedestal a little bit?
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  Speaker 5: I guess is what they're saying, which is wrong given
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  Speaker 5: your playing Minnesota and that's not good that that happened.
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  Speaker 8: Is that where because I've been trying to think all
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  Speaker 8: week where all this confidence came from?
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  Speaker 7: Is that? What is that? What they're just ranked like that?
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  Speaker 8: The rest that they are that good because that the
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  Speaker 8: twenty five rank came from, I don't I don't get it.
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  Speaker 5: Not to mention rule use the word entitlement in there,
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  Speaker 5: which I think that goes along in this conversation as well.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's also a valid true point of
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  Speaker 5: when something good goes along with your name, you feel
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  Speaker 5: a little sense of how we're pretty good. But that's
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  Speaker 5: on the coaches to control roll that narrative and make
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  Speaker 5: sure that your team and they're college kids, right, they're
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  Speaker 5: college kids.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 5: It's not super easy to do, but you got to
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  Speaker 5: find a way to brain that in because I do
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  Speaker 5: think that came with it.
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  Speaker 7: I just.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a little bit part of it, and
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  Speaker 5: it's unfortunate, but that happens not just in Nebraska. It
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  Speaker 5: happens a lot of places. That's why people in betting
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  Speaker 5: like to fade teams that are maybe not as good
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  Speaker 5: as what they think they are, because they think they're
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  Speaker 5: going to lay an egg sometime.
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  Speaker 4: And that's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure a lot of people made a lot of
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  Speaker 6: money off Nebraska last week.
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  Speaker 4: There actually were.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean a lot of a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: podcasts out there that I listened to, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: them had Minnesota as their favorite bet.
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  Speaker 4: So to that point, should we be surprised, Maybe not.
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  Speaker 5: I mean from a national perspectives, I mean kind of
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  Speaker 5: saw this coming. They're like, what is the spread doing
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  Speaker 5: at seven and a half? Is as way too high
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  Speaker 5: as a stupid and of course Minnesota took it to
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  Speaker 5: another level and one outright, well.
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  Speaker 6: What are they saying this week with a spread of
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what it is right now anymore.
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  Speaker 7: It's the same, it's about the same thing against Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well a couple of first couple of things is that
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  Speaker 4: the flip side of that is teams that come off
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  Speaker 4: of shell shock losses.
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  Speaker 5: Usually are a lot more focused and respond better. And
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  Speaker 5: you know what, in the Nebraska we've actually shown.
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  Speaker 4: Especially under rule.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just thinking like the Indiana game last year where
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  Speaker 5: we came off the next week against Ohio State and
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  Speaker 5: looked very, very good. It's not our best season against
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  Speaker 5: you know, won the national title. So I think that
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  Speaker 5: people think we're gonna play well well, and I hope
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  Speaker 5: the rights, I hope that's okay. If they do that,
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  Speaker 5: that shows you it was more of a mindset problem
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  Speaker 5: and not a entire like program problem, like talent problem,
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  Speaker 5: because part of it could just be we just don't
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  Speaker 5: have the players yet. And I felt like we got
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  Speaker 5: we're getting past that stage a little bit where people
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  Speaker 5: think we do now. When I say players, I'm talking
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  Speaker 5: about skill offensive line, defensive line. That might still be
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  Speaker 5: a concern if we don't have the players, but at
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  Speaker 5: the same time, that's where all a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: contact is happening, and the physicality and the toughness is
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  Speaker 5: in the trenches.
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  Speaker 4: So you hope that we can maybe improve on what's
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  Speaker 4: going on there. And it doesn't look like it did
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  Speaker 4: against Minnesota.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's all right. I mean, it was like
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  Speaker 6: coach talk. I agree with them taking their responsibility, but
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  Speaker 6: everyone knows that it's not just their responsibility, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: with the players only meeting, and they know the coaches
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  Speaker 6: have to say that because that's.
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  Speaker 4: What they have to say. Yeah, they have to say it.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't know if anyone pressed hard enough on
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  Speaker 6: the coaches as far as like, well, then why did
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: your game plans suck? Like Dana, why did you score
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: a touchdown? John Butler? Why did you give up another
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: another week of twenty plus points in the Big Ten?
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: See, I wish I wish media would just press harder
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: on I like, not that, not that we deserve or
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: need need an answer, but yeah, like that's on me. Okay,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: well then what are you doing to cheat? And there
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: were a couple I guess tougher questions on like, for example,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: the tackling, Yeah, are things going to get changed?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: You know? On the tack tackling was not very good?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: And rule mentioned we do a tackling circuit every day, right, Okay.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Well then what that question is?
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: What is in rules, head coaching experience, and the players
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: in the program? What is a tackling circuit? Like what
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: does what does that consist of? And is it actually
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: like helping or hurting? Right what we're doing in games?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: We don't. We're not gonna we're never gonna know that
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: from practice.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: But like that makes you question, Okay, well what is
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: it a physical Is it a is it a blood
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: bath tackling circuit where you're emphasizing and stressing complete physicality
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: and and all that stuff.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: We don't know, but they say they're doing it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: So what does that mean?
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: It's I guess it the good bad part of it
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: is coming out of loss like this, it wasn't just
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: one side of the ball that was bad, it was
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: it was both sides like it was. It was horrorball
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: around And and I told this earlier or yesterday, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: told you this, even coming out of it just seemed
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: like Nebraska wasn't fired up at all, Like Minnesota is
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: the more fired up team coming out of the game.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Are coming into the game, And I I just again
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: come back to this point, what what are you preparing
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: for all week besides Minnesota? Like and I don't think
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: Minnesota was that hard of a team to prepare for either,
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Like they're going to do the same thing they do
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: every year against Nebraska, try to run the ball down
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: their throats and throw these short passes.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: I just don't know, Dak, I will.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I'm on a cavea at that because you did going
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: into Minnesota week last week, you didn't think Minnesota was
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: the same on Minnesota team. You told me they throw
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: it more, they're different, blah blah blah. Like that perception
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: was out there heading into the week that they weren't
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: the same team because of whatever reason.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: So I completely agree they were and they had no
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: reason not to be. But what you told me last week,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: that's probably in the back of their minds a little bit,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: and that's what we're on the coach's minds, and that
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: that unfortunately that shouldn't happen. But that I'm sure was
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: there true.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe Nebraska prayed for Minnesota throw the ball more
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: like and Nebraska came out, or Minnesota came out and
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Kim flipped the game plan and ran the ball.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: So we just.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Which was the brasca as pay for every team now
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: just to try to run the ball like that's what
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: every team is going to do against Nebraska. I don't
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: think teams are going to come out I mean, it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: proven by this point you can run on Nebraska very
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: very easily. And I just don't see teams trying to
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: even usc these teams that do love to throw them
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: off forty fifty times a game. I just don't see
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: teams trying that against Nebraska.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: So John Butler said that that's afect.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Example of that was that long touchdown round that Darius
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Taylor had was basically the exact same play that Justice
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Haynes from Michigan scored on, and he made the comment
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: that dies every every offensive coordinator does that. You watch
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: the big plays, explosive plays from previous games, and you
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: even if you don't have that play in you're going
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: to add it to your playbook or variation of it
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: because it worked. And basically was saying we did not
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: have any counter or change from that Michigan game to
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: stop that play, and.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: It literally looked like a carbon copy of that play.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: It was.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: It was a hat to hat.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: One guy took a bad angle in the secondary and
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: see you. So you're right as you're watching film and.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Teams are gonna have their their there the blueprints out
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: right now on how to beat Nebraska or move the
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: ball against Nebraska or defend us like it's out there
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: and teams are gonna keep doing it until we can
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: prove we can stop it. Now, we've won a couple
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: of those games that they've done that stuff.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: But Minnesota right was watching, They're like, oh my god,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Michigan State's had one sack all year and they just
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: had five. Look what they did, and they took it
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: to another level because Minnesota had better players.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Probably the Michigan State did and end with nine.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and and and rule said that Rila avoided five sacks,
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: so it could have been double easily.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: I completely agree. I yeah he did.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: He did elude some things back in the pocket, like yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, even you know just the pass where he's flicking
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: it up over in Isaiah that.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: I mean that be the sack? Is it?
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: God? I mean, well, we'll dive in Northwestern. But I
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: they're in Northwestern. Okay. So here's the game plan for Northwestern.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: And if they don't do this, they're stupid. Throw on
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: the Minnesota clips. You don't have to change any game plan.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: I'll do the same exact thing Minnesota did, many the
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: same plays. Even what I would do right now against
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Nebraska is you have to prove you can stop that.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Until you can't. We're just do the same thing over
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: and over.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: You'd be a great head coach.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: That's that's throwing the clip, same exact thing, like, prove
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: you can stop it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Well, specifically, are you referring to what what? What points?
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: Run the ball, run the ball down their throats, dink
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: and dunk short passes.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: That's it. That's all you gotta do, because Nebraska did not.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: What we're just trying to make it so that we
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: wait for us to miss the tackle.
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, make the mistakes like.
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: It's and then on the defensive side to do things
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: act that send the house every time. It's it's it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: pretty easy to figure out what Nebraska can't do right now,
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: and it's can't stop the run. Short passes work against them,
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: and on the defensive or offensive defense side from Northwestern
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: send the house because they can't block anybody.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: Well, in case you were undering, Northwestern is like third
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: in the country in time of possession, So they definitely
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: run the ball and dog and dunk passes.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: They loved r on the ball.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be a battlet that's specifically target
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: here instead of covering the whole game. I mean, I think,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: to me, let's start on the offensive line for us.
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: And and.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Interesting question or conversation that I had this week with
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: some people, it's like, can you how how can can
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: you can you get your offensive line to be better?
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Like or to they just suck?
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Like do they just suck this year and we gotta
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: deal with it? Or can or can we improve our
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: offensive line this year? Number one, We're not making many
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: personnel changes. I don't think we got it. The same
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: guys are coming in to start next week and and
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: and that that's what we have. And on top of that,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Rocko Spindler going to try to play through an injury
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: where it's like it's a pain tolerance thing and we'll
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: see how that goes. But Dana said it, we need
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: him out there. He's one of our better offensive line
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: man and he has been so personnel wise, No, there's
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: probably not any changes we're going to see.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of it is communication and technique.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: The whole lot Riola.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Offensive line coach conversation and how you address that I
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: think is a real thing. But it's the elephant in
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: the room because he's Dylan his uncle and how touching
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: you like that is not a good dynamic for Nebraska
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: to have right now.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: So how does the offensive line get better?
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: Well, to me, you just you have to there's technique
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: with but I think a lot of it still comes
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: down to getting a little bit tougher, a little bit
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: more physical. No, we're not going to make any of
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: these guys in the starting line NFL type offensive lineman.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: We can't do that in the last five games.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: But we can take everything that they currently do and
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: have and make them a little bit better and try
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: to incrementally improve it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: But it's still going to probably be a weakness this week.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: I say, before jeez, but before I forget what I
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: was gonna say, Ryola, here's and I'm talking about dealing
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: the here and this is not help help the offensive
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: line in all. I think because Minnesota blitz on fifty
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: percent of their place around fifty with him not being
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: able to move, it's so much easier to send the
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: blitz because you know he's not gon't take off and run,
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: so you just send a house.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: It's against these quarterbacks can't move, So.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: How you counter You've got to counter that with short passes,
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: get the ball out quick like sod. It just seems
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: like their plays are taking way too long.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: To set up.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: You've gotta because because now you know, teams are just
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: gonna send the house because it's proven by this point
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: he can't move. I don't give a rats ass about
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: what about all his weight loss and all this so
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: I can move this year? Yeah, well you can't rile
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: like lose more weight, Tubby.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: We got to bring back out the annual Dylan rayl
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Wait check, do we gotta go back to that?
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: I hopefully he.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Wasn't listening there, but yeah, I just called him Tubby. Yeah,
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: he's lose some weight.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I mean, Northwestern has eleven sacks on the year through
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: seven games, and they have not played I mean, you
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: know Dek mentioned they haven't played great games by any means. Tulane,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Western Illinois, Oregon's good U c l A when they
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: were rowing four, Monroe, Penn State Perdue. Not a lot
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: of the lead offensive lines in there, and they only
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: have a lot of sacks. So hopefully this isn't like
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Minnesota where they also didn't have the many sacks. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: then just and we're going to game plan for more blitzes.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: I just think that that this week they just they're
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: probably gonna run more you know, personnel sets where the
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: tight end's really just an additional lineman blocking out there
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: because they look gunimires thick. But it's like we're just
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: gonna keep him up. We're not We're not gonna get
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: beat again.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's gonna suck if you get to
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: this because Lennon ber is a great pass catcher, but
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: the point where you have to dump the tight end
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: passing game and have him as a blocker.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: A little bit. I mean, I think there's a lot
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: of I think I mean this is speaking from a.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Offensive coordinator on a video game in myself, so taking
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: everyone it's worth, but there's like stuff you can do
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: with your tight ends and running backs where they're you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: they're they're blocking if they need to, and you for
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: account a couple of counts and then at once they realize.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: No blitz and you release them whatever route that is.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: So I think there's stuff like that you can do
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: with with your tight end, specifically to help counter teams
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: that are going to be bringing the house every time.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: And I think just in general, Dana to blame as
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: well on play calling, and.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: They're right, Sacks aren't falling anywhere completely on one position
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: or one person.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: It's everything. And I think if you wanted to.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Put percentages on it, your off pensive lines definitely the
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: highest percentage, don't get me wrong. And some people would
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: move that bard differently to Dylan or whatever for not
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: getting rid of it, or to play calling, because it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: not there's no short passes, it's not set up to
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: counter blitzes, so you can that's that's your your opinion,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: but it is.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: It's a combination of a lot of things, and so
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I do think this week it hopefully, hopefully.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: It will be better.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: And like you mentioned Austin, they haven't played too many
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: like elite offensive lines are good offensive line, so you
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: wouldn't think it's too much different. But the same guy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: most of you got to coach coaches. We are at
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: improving and steaming around some of the things. As you're right, Dack,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: they're going to try to do the same thing because
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: it worked last two or three games.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: One other specific thing on the offense here that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Was brought up in an address specifically with Dana was
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: the play calling and play callin has been something that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Actually we have not.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Really critiqued a lot, especially since Dana has been here,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: but even since Rule's been here, Frost, it was obviously
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: a pig conversation in previous coaches as well, and it
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: was asked, you know, I think it was the first driver,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: one of the earlier drives calling three past plays, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Dana kind of snapped back at it and said, well.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: No, it's two of those are our pios and here's read.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: And he actually called out in Isaiah Hunter on one
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: of them pretty pretty boldly and just said he didn't
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: get the correct.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Read or call, so that one's on him.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Here's And this this led me to think a lot
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: because Dana's also made comics before about Dylan's in charge
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: of it's his job to read the entire defense like
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: an NFL quarterback. He's I came how many weeks ago
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: he said that, And he said a lot of coaches
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: are talking to their quarterback all the way up to
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: that fifteen second might cut that they do in the helmet,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: and he's like, we don't, we don't need to do
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: that with Dylan because he's whatever reading the defense itself.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: And then on so that that's example A, and an
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: example B is RPOs and what that entails for a
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: quarterback who's still a sophomore and making a read based
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: on what the defense is showing him and giving him
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: the power then to either change the play or make
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: that decision in an RPO. And my question I guess was,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: are we giving Dylan too much credit? Too much control?
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: When I say we it is data of the offense
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: right now, given how it's performed over the last whatever
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: eight nine games since Dana's been.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Here, I'm gonna say no, primarily because our offense is
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: actually done pretty well. Last week goes terrible. Our red
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: zone offense is terrible. I think it's that's really what
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: our issue is.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: So what what would you say, Austin and.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Alost, even take out Minnesota if you were to say
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: our offense is a blank out of ten since Dana's
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: been here, or maybe just say this year, even this year?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: What what what would you say it is?
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I would probably say seven out of ten?
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Dak Oh, I'd say six.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: That the most disgusted look when Austin said seven of
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: like what are you doing?
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: And then he just goes one blow.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: I scored thirty four, thirty eight, twenty seven, fifty nine,
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: sixty eight, twenty this year. I last year, we didn't
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: even crack twenty more than like twice.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: That is so bad that was with Yeah, well yeah
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: at the end.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just thinking back to how bad. Yeah it
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: was before him and.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Minneapolis was bad. Minnesota game was terrible.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was off, don't get me wrong.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: But I'd say overall, I mean, of the six games
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: prior to that, it's like, well, it's actually pretty respectable.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: I mean I.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I would just I say opens very average right now
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: in my mind. I mean, I think.
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: They didn't.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: It's average to me.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, putting up points is one thing, but I
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: think there's a level of Again, I'm throwing those two
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: games out completely. I just I just throw those outs.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: I think you could do anything you want to. You
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: wanted to win that game thirty four, nothing you could have.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: I just I throw those out.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: But I just I think that Dana is a solid
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: opensive coordinator.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: My concern is that are we putting too I think
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: I think we're putting too much trust into Dylan in
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: making decisions right now. And I get that adds an
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: element to your offense that that helps, like that can
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: make it tougher to guard a little more complex and everything.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: But I think that if we I'm not going to
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: say completely simplify and go back to step one, but
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: maybe take a little bit of that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: At an element of thinking of adjusting and make it
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: easier to.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Manage as a quarterback, I think that I think that
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: will help a lot. I think Dan even mentioned Dylan's
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: thought process when he's getting blitzed right like, there's a
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: there's a lot going through your especially on the road
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: in a hostile environment like Minnesota was a lot more
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: than Maryland.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: There's a lot going on.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: And if you can help control that a little bit
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: as a coach right now after that performance, I would
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: I would do that. Now being at home is gonna
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: help a lot because you're you're not gonna have the
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: extra stuff. And when a lot of it does sound
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: like it's communication issues like that, but that's part of
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: playing on the road that everybody does it and it's gonna.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Happen again twice.
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: And and maybe U C.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: L A might not be as hostile but Penn Station
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: as I will be.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Maybe now you throw, do you throw some of the
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: offensive line struggles. I'm also onto Dana too though, like
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: how he hasn't figured out how to counter that problem.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: I think what happened is last week.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Is we weren't forced to necessarily overhaul or change some
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: of our schematics because we won the game. And that's
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: that's to me, what has stung the most is that
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: because we won Maryland in Michigan State, it's like our
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: coaching staff and this is kind of what Rules talking
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: about overshadowed, overlooked. We have not corrected necessarily to the
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: extent that we would have if we would have lost
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: those games. And I think good coaching staffs, even in wins,
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: can put on the exact same layer and level of
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: preparation of adjustments of corrections in a win, a close
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: win versus a close loss. That's what great and elite
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: coaching staffs do, is they they like, for example, if
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: you Signetti has a great press conference out there after
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: they beat organ and it was but he basically it
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: was like they didn't even win the game because of
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: the things that they.
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: Need to work on.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: And that's I think what Rules calling out specifically, and
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: Dana I think is a I think is a victim
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: of that a little bit, and we clearly did not
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: have an answer in a counter this week, this last week.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Hopefully this week we do because we lost. But I
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: wish it wouldn't take a loss like that for it happened,
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: but it did, and that's where we're at.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: I think we're spent a lot of time. I think
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: we've spent a lot of time on the offense, and
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: it feels like the defense is the problem. I know
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: we gave up nine sacks, but I.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Really feel like that.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: I get in our offense perform poorly, but I think
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: the season lone, you know, black Sheep that no one
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: really it's that I just don't think our defense is
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: very good.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: Are you?
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: Are you really saying the whole defense are just defensive
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: line the whole defense.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: I mean, our secondary is good. I'm not gonna say
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: seconds bad. That'd be dumb because we're still number one
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: in past defense. But I mean they the secondary plays
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: and run defense too. There's plenty of Rex gout three
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: missed tackles in the backfield. Not to call it Rex
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: because Rex played, you know, he's decent, but those are
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: the ones that are coming to mind where it's like, hey,
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: we hadn't behind. You know, we had him behind the
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: line of scrimmage, but we just didn't finish the tackle.
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: We're ninety we give up ninety three red zone trips
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: two opponents. We do not stop them when they get
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: down to our side of the field.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Red zones not not. I mean both sides have been bad.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: I think the concern going end of the year was
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: our defense to take a big step.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Back after losing Tony White, who I still think is
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: a pretty damn good defensive coordinator. Take out of everything
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: that's going on at Florida State and.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: John Butler, I don't know, I just I don't know
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: how to get a read on the guy.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: I feel like.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: From conversations leading into the year, like this defense is
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: going to be a very high risk, high reward type
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: of defense. We definitely aren't getting much of the reward
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: right now. And awesome to your point.
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: Like we just seem dull, and yeah, yeah we are.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: He mentioned he mentioned his aggressive play calling and then
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: for he took blame. He said, our play calling wasn't aggressive,
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: isn't enough. And I guess again you go back to
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: the why, like what what happened? And you know, the
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: one run really early on really just stunted. Your play
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: calling that bad. I guess I don't I don't know.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know how good of a coach he is
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: as a defensive coordinator.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: I think I don't know.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: I mean what what what would you rate him as
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: a coach right now?
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: I and.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Our defense has been.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: Four or five? Like I yeah, I was gonna say four.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess we've given up. I mean again, you
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: throw out those two games we have seventeen thirty twenty seven,
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: thirty one, twenty four and the fact that when they
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: when our opponents get into the red zone, they score
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: ninety three percent of the times. And that's when you're
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: when you're that's when you're secondary was really good. It
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: can play a little bit tighter because the field's shorter.
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: You know, it's supposed to get not easier, but when
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: the fields shorter, that's when it's supposed to help when
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: you have a good secondary, because now you can really
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: clamp down on them and put pressure on the quarterback.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: We were like the worst team, Like we're one hundred
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: and twenty second in the country in red zone defense.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: That's atrocious, and we don't stop them yes, our past
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: defense is great, but if the run the ball so
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: they don't have to pass it, what's the matter. So
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: you just they need to get a little more created.
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: You're right, they need to more creative with how they're
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: using their you know, their their secondary players. If our
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: offensive line isn't good enough to do it by themselves.
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: It's it's kind of like I said, using Linda Myers
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: a blocker, do you is it time to start sending
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: linebackers and uh other guys down on the line now, Which.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: If you're worried about those short passes though, that's not
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: what you want to do because that's yeah, the players
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: are going to be open.
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: That's another thing with with Dane and I adjusting to
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: what Minnesota's doing on defense.
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: The butler did not adjust at all like that. That
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: was even worse, just at all what Minnesota's doing offense.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: He's like, I'm skilled with that happened.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: But what's super strange, and this is we've talked with
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: the three three five throughout since we've ran it it.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: What was weird is early on and this was the
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: game plan, this was the scout going into the game.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: We had three down linemen consistently. And there's a lot
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: of times we had, you know, three or five linebackers
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: in the game, but from an initial contact and push,
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: it was like we were hoping our three down lineman
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: could plug and then the five could fill. That didn't
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: wasn't working, and so then we moved the guys down
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: and that's when the short passes started happening. So I agree,
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: everything just seems slow in schematics and adjustments and and
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: what Butler does. Again, I don't don't know anything about
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: coaching a defense in football, but like you just you
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: would hope that you know a little more and be
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: able to adjust in the fly better. I don't know
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: what that means for this game, and going in like again,
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: the players are the players.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: We have what we have, So how can you work around.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: That to improve the quality of your defense. I do
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: think a lot of it. I think we can be
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: more creative with our secondary guys. If that's our Strengthenish
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: surely has been.
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: Again.
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: Make teams beat us through the air and not on
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: the ground. Make Preston Stone for Northwestern this week, make
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: them throw it, find a way to I mean, if
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: we lose, if we lose a game on Saturday. Make
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: them have three hundred and fifty to four hundred yards
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: in the air. Don't let them just ground and pound
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: and do what they want to do, which control the clock,
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: kind of possession, all that stuff that I think Rule
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: kind of believes into.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: Right, don't let them do that.
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's.
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: I I mean, honestly, I didn't hear word you just said. There,
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: Hunter got messed up, So so I mean act like
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: I heard what you said. I couldn't hear it. It
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: was like, you guys are playing mine. I'm trying to
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: read your lists. Couldn't hear where you said. So all right, Austin,
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: you go.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, I do think that that you're right. Rule
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: believes in the same things, Dak. I appreciate the candor.
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, I'm serious.
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: I don't know what happened my volume there, for like
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: the whole time Hunter is talking, it just went completely silent.
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: But no, you're You're right. I think that we're getting
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: beaten aways.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Matt.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: Rule wants to win, you know, And I think to
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: point out for Northwestern, as we still continue to try
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: to evaluate the Northwestern game, will also intrinsically look at
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: the value of Nebraska football as a whole with the
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: one loss of a Minnesota game that hunter spiraling that
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: Northwestern they don't beat themselves. They are third in the
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: country in penalty yards this year as well. So again
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: I haven't played anyone, but it just feels like it's
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: gonna be another. It feels like a Minnesota like kind
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: of game where they haven't had a lot of sacks,
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: they don't beat themselves. The other team to beat themselves.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: And yeah, Matt Rule. I was thinking about this the
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: other day, is because at what point does how how
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: involved do you think Matt Rule is with defensive play Golling.
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: Not really zero?
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: At what point does do you get involved?
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: So Jackson, which.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Dog tacton a lot he made a great point on
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: after the game and both both ends of play going.
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Is a head coach at what what what level are
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: you involved with decision making on both sides of the ball.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: And I do I honder the impression that I think
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: football coaches, especially how our stats structured, you're not involved
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: in the play calling as much because you're even he is,
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: he's more of a GM and overseeing it and you're
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: trusting your OC, You're trusting your DC.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: As a head coach though, when if things don't go
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: well right, like.
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think if he is a true CEO type,
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: when someone quits, that's a you know, vice president that
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: that rolls up to you. You know, you're the one
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: that's got to pick up figure out who's picked up
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: a slack, and help guide the next And then again,
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: John Butler has not been fired, and I don't know
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: if he should he should be fired to your one, we.
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: But play calling wise, to your point, and this is
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: where it's hard in football, I agree. On defense, you're
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: you're there's there's an element of calling a play and
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: then when a team lines up, you are adjusting that
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: play and tweaking it to as a part of your
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: defensive schematics to what the offense has, your alignment between
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: alignment and assignment, that gets adjusted. So yes, you can
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: help call the plays, and this is an offense too,
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: you can help call the plays. But when it comes
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: to like actually designing how that works, you don't. You
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: don't have much to say. That's on your that's on practice,
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: on how you're adjusting. It's not something as a head
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: coach you can say, like you know, you don't have
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: the time to do that because there it's happening live.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: So now can you can you be more generic and say,
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: hey John, it's second and eight, let's you can do
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: that kind of stuff, or hey, be more that's what
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: agress you can do.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: As a head coach.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he can tell you be more aggressive. I want
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: to see more blood team.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Or hey, right now we need to put this personnel
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: in given the situation.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: That is your job, I think is a head coach
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: on offense too, That is your job to make those
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: And if if if your coordinator is coming in and saying, no,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: shut up, this is mine, well then you got bigger issues.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: With the staff. And you wonder you wonder if something
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: some of that happened with Tony White. I don't know,
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: but yeah, it's part of it.
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: I think a fair amount concerns out of Northwestern. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: think our I don't think our defense is good. I'm
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: gonna say it. I think we're beat in the red zone.
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: We're terrible. We've been terrible on third down the last
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: couple of weeks. I know, if you we got a
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: bunch early on and we have gone cold since.
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, nothing nothing closing like And I think.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: John made a great comment on his fresh conference.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: He said, here's how you forced turnovers by being just
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: super aggressive and putting a hat to the ball on tackles.
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: And two, it's disrupting the quarterback and which is which is?
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: And that that goes with tackling, but also mentally right
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: throwing picks. And that's a good good way of simplifying
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: how to get turnovers. Obviously we're not tackling well, and
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: obviously we're not getting much pressure schematically or physically on
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: their quarterback.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: So that makes sense why we're not getting turnovers.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: That's your but that's your job, and he identified it
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: on how to get those things better, so we do
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: force turnovers?
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: Can we go?
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: Can we all agree? By this point, there's two things
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: that Nebraska has proven. And I don't think it's gonna
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: change it all this season. I don't know if you
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: guys think it'll change. Nebraska can't stop the run, and
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: the offensive line is horrendous. Yeah, and and every teamails
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: that now and and and I think it's this forearm season.
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: It's not gonna change.
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: Like you can mask it a little bit.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: That's that's the coaching staff's job, is I agree they're
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: not good. How can you coach it to be a
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: little bit better?
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: So that Yeah, but they've known that for weeks and
• 55:00
  Speaker 7: they haven't mastered it at all.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: It's like, that's what I'm saying, that's the that's their job.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: If we don't fix that, we will end up going
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: six and six or seven and five because teams will
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: continue to do it.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that is why these next few games are huge,
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: and I think that's why Minnesota. Back to your point,
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: that's why the Minnesota game hurts and scares you even
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: more and why I'm kind of maybe maybe not overreacting because.
• 55:25
  Speaker 9: You feel like these issues should have.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: Been addressed already and corrected and it shouldn't have happened
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: against Minnesota the way it did, but it did, and
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: so then it becomes well, maybe we maybe this staff,
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: maybe where we're at right now is a program as
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: a culture is not going in the direction we thought
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: it would. And that's the hesitation that everybody goes, oh shit,
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: and we're gonna know like that in a weird way,
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: this game is one of the biggest games for the program.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I guess you could say that every week. You should
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: be saying that every week.
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, as far as the direction it's going, like if
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: if things get restless Saturday Saturday, and especially if we
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: find a way to lose this game, you want to
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: talk about big time spiral, like it could really fall off.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: Now you win this game and you prove to everyone.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: Players coaches included that okay, no, no, no, that that
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: we we just we lost focus for one game and
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: we're back, Like it's okay if.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: You do that, Okay, you're fine. But this game, it's
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: huge in that aspect that if if things come out
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: and things don't look good and you can't correct, then
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: you're going, oh shit for the rest of the year.
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: And to be honest for rules future Nebraska in a
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: game like that, because you're not going to have the
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: excuse of well, we were playing we were playing a
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: top twenty five, a top twenty team.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: We were playing a team that just said we're better
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: than us. You're not gonna have that excuse. So that's
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: why this game is so big, and.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: It again not that it's the biggest game, but it
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: could be one of the biggest games of rules time
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: here in Nebraska because of all the implications for the future.
• 57:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think.
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: This shouldn't happen, but maybe the coach staff needed that
• 57:20
  Speaker 8: Minnesota loss to actually see, hey, we got major problems
• 57:23
  Speaker 8: on the line, D line, Like maybe these wins were
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: masking them.
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: The coach are like, oh, everything's all right.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: I just that's what we've been saying.
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, I mean you're said, but yes, yeah.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: So I.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: If they don't come out this week with one fire
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: to a different blocking scheme something to try to stop Northwestern.
• 57:47
  Speaker 8: So I still, I still, I just don't think there's
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: any way this offense like can stop these sacks.
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: But have three or less sacks and.
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: The D line finally stopped the run, then then the
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: boo birds will come out, which you can boo this week, now, Hunter.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: That's gonna be happy if we have six sackses, that's great.
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: I I might because that's an they're good talking point
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: on Monday. But three real life sacks are calling for
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: just give up, three real lives.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: For the love of god, Booze will come out this week,
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: whether they're actual booze or sarcastic boost because Earl said it,
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: I mean yeah they will. They'll be louder than ever.
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: I really do think the first and you know when
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: it's gonna come out, it's gonna be the first time
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Rayola takes a sack.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, there'll be a sack like it.
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it will. I mean again, I guess you know,
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: when you look at Northwestern as far as like the
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: team that we're playing, they're decent. They're they're okay at everything.
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: They're not you know, they're not lighting the world on
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: fire in the passing game. They're not lighting the world
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: on fire in the running.
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: Game, which reminds you who you're right Minnesota, you know.
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  Speaker 4: They do have average what is it, one good receiver?
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  Speaker 4: I think is what I've been here.
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  Speaker 6: They have one good receiver. They like I said, their
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  Speaker 6: third down percentage is forty six percent converting third down
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  Speaker 6: on the offense. That's pretty freaking good against. And we
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  Speaker 6: gave up forty six percent last week, and like for
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  Speaker 6: forty three percent last week and forty six percent the
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  Speaker 6: week before that, and the week before that we gave
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  Speaker 6: up four or five on fourth downs.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like I said, we're not gonna be hiding. You
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  Speaker 5: can't hide this week. No, No, it is going We're
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  Speaker 5: going to see where we're at as a program.
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  Speaker 6: The average five yards to carry.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's scarce that right there. I they're gonna
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  Speaker 7: do the same thing this so a day at least
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  Speaker 7: for the first half. Like it's it's gonna be just repeat.
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  Speaker 8: They're gonna try to It's what I said, just prove, prove,
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  Speaker 8: We tell them Nebras can stop it.
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  Speaker 6: They have had ten fumbles this year, which you know,
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  Speaker 6: I haven't really thought about because we haven't forced a
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  Speaker 6: fumble and we haven't really fumbled since, haven't Johnson's See.
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  Speaker 5: That's the other thing that's we forget the Minnesota game.
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  Speaker 5: It's not like we killed ourselves turning them all.
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  Speaker 6: Over, passing appearance calls.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, a couple of penalties or special teams where we've
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  Speaker 5: kind of struggled that I wasn't an issue again.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah it was, thank you Mike Clerk.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But then then you have a ninety eight yard punt,
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  Speaker 8: thank you, Mikelert, Mike Eckler. And what do they do
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  Speaker 8: drive ninety ears down the field or not any our
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  Speaker 8: punt whatever the.
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  Speaker 6: Pup was, they put them on the one, pin him
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  Speaker 6: on the one and a half. Yeah, thanks, Or when
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  Speaker 6: we have a you know, a fifty yard pump return,
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  Speaker 6: what do we do we pump the ball because we
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  Speaker 6: had a fourth and forty seven or thirdy whatever it was.
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  Speaker 8: May Maybe that's what we need. Maybe we need Mike Keckler.
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  Speaker 8: They put him on the line. John is up a
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  Speaker 8: ninety nine hour touchdown. Maybe Mike Eckler fist fights John Butler.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe that's what Nebraska needs.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, we need it. We need it to think coaches
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  Speaker 4: will be fighting on the side.
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  Speaker 7: Mike. Mike Keckler would be the one to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Scour predictions, I haven't chewing on.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't know how many points to get. I'm
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  Speaker 6: definitely not I'm taking rothbustermen to cover the spread. We're
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: not winning more than seven and a half. Calling that
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  Speaker 6: right now, I think I'm gonna go twenty four to
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  Speaker 6: seventeen the Nebraska. Now I'm going twenty twenty four Nebraska,
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  Speaker 6: twenty four to twenty Nebraska.
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  Speaker 8: There we go, you stick, you stick exactly what I
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  Speaker 8: was getting, Okay, I changed nothing. I'll go, jeez, twenty
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  Speaker 8: seven twenty four Nebraska. And That's that's not very confident
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  Speaker 8: right there. I'm not very confident in prediction.
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  Speaker 5: I want to believe one last time, guys, I'm I
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  Speaker 5: just I'm holding out hope. I'm gonna believe one last time.
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  Speaker 5: Nebraska thirty to fourteen. Oh Jesus, hold out, hold out,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: one last hope. I'm actually very terrified of the scenario
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: of a close game and losing a close game like
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: back to like we play okay and play it well enough,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: like fix a lot, save a lot of the things,
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  Speaker 5: but then it's a close game and we lose because
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  Speaker 5: of something in the last second. I'm terrified of that.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm gonna say we respond well. I think we've
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  Speaker 5: shown to do that, and I hope we do. If
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  Speaker 5: we don't, Like I said that, the spiral has already
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: kind of started, it will really take off if we
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: end up losing this game, especially this is.
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  Speaker 4: To win by a way to win we can. We
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  Speaker 4: can hang on here and have some hope. But I
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  Speaker 4: think we're gonna I think we're gonna respond well.
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I hope we do.
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  Speaker 6: Before we go. Here's a quick thing. David Broun, the
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  Speaker 6: head coach at Northwestern, I just just tweet up year
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  Speaker 6: three for Matt Ruhle. There's a record seventeen to fifteen,
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  Speaker 6: nine and thirteen and the big ten one to no
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  Speaker 6: Bowl games David bron Northwest End coach seventeen and fifteen,
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  Speaker 6: ten and twelve in the Big Ten Wan and O
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  Speaker 6: Bowl games.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw that.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that last night too.
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  Speaker 7: Are you on that tweet right now, Austin?
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  Speaker 6: Am I on that tweet?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, scirl scroll.
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  Speaker 8: Down the common right below the Eisle fan thing. I've
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  Speaker 8: told you guys all you guys are Northwestern like bro.
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  Speaker 7: So there you go.
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  Speaker 5: That hurts, not wrong, not wrong, all right, eleven am
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  Speaker 5: kick Hey. Also, it's gonna be a little chillier this
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: week for the first time. It's football weather, though I
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  Speaker 5: love it.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: I've heard from one of our listeners, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: Finally finally to go to a game with like something
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: more than shorts and a T shirt, which every game
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: I've been to that's been the that's been the tires.
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  Speaker 4: So it'll be it a little a little colder, which
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  Speaker 4: which I love. It's football weather. Its perfect. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Volleyball is still ndefeated Big Ten Play, so we have
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  Speaker 6: a lost Assassin's like.
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  Speaker 7: Remember we haven't.
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  Speaker 6: Lost a set in Big ten Play, correct, not since
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  Speaker 6: the creating game, So keep that up. Nebraska basketball preview
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  Speaker 6: coming up here. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Have the tickets bought to soup balls.
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  Speaker 6: Hey man, is it too late? Ticket? Is it too
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: early to get tickets to Indianapolis this year?
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  Speaker 4: At three found four is Oh boy, you can't get
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: him to the Big ten Tournament because we.
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  Speaker 7: Will be there. Oh there you go, Oh Jesus putting
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: your uts on table. Already here we go. Mm hmm
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  Speaker 7: oh wait yeah, actually every team makes it this year.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, I thought you would be sarcastic.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, I forgot about that. Every team makes it now,
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  Speaker 7: all right, go be grad gv R go be Grady, don't.
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  Speaker 12: up the bar where we are not broken, just been
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  Speaker 12: reset the ark cock, turn the sparking to mark.
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  Speaker 2: Not that fire count of sin. We'll show.
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  Speaker 3: Eleven little gray will carry ten.
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