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Episode 25 | Ohio Recap - The Opener · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go Big Red! The takes, the numbers, the chaos. Hunter, Austin, Dak.
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  Speaker 2: Talking Cornhusker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Return to Glory podcast. Hunter Zarbonick here at
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  Speaker 2: Dakota Free Tag. It is Tuesday, yes, Tuesday, September 8th.
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  Speaker 2: We are streaming live on YouTube this morning, and the
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  Speaker 2: recording can be found on podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, anywhere
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  Speaker 2: you get your podcasts. Give us a like, give us
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  Speaker 2: a subscribe. That helps us out for the show. Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: takes down the Ohio Bobcats, 49-21 in their season opener. Dak,
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  Speaker 2: I want to start us off. Gut reaction, gut feel. Game,
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  Speaker 2: how'd it go?
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  Speaker 3: First half, actually, well, let's start with the very first
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  Speaker 3: play of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: There it went.
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  Speaker 3: 70-yard play, we're off the bat.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, boy, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that, the first half was up and
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  Speaker 3: down for Nebraska, up and down. But second half was
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  Speaker 3: exactly what you want to see from a team that
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  Speaker 3: you wish– You would have wished Nebraska would have done that.
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  Speaker 3: The first half got all over them, but it was basically,
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, complete domination that second half, which is good
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  Speaker 3: to see. That first half, though, is scary. Hopefully, the
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  Speaker 3: second half is the team that we're going to see
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  Speaker 3: all season, not the first half.
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  Speaker 2: I said it. Just give me the final score. Give
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  Speaker 2: me the stat line. I didn't watch a single snap.
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  Speaker 2: you're coming out of that game feeling pretty good. And
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  Speaker 2: I still am feeling pretty good about the game. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like probably what should have happened, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: covered the spread and won by 28. We put up
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  Speaker 2: some points. Maybe allowing 21 wasn't ideal if you looked
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  Speaker 2: at that. But overall, like, don't show me the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was probably what you're supposed to do against a
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  Speaker 2: decent MAAC team. On the flip side... You watch that
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  Speaker 2: first half and you go, what the hell was that?
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  Speaker 2: And then the second half you watch it and you go,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell was that? Like, it just, it was two,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell them, very different halves. Now, I think they
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  Speaker 2: were different halves for obviously different reasons. But that first
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  Speaker 2: half you're going, you're not feeling great about it. And
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  Speaker 2: then the second half you go, wow, like that was...
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  Speaker 2: That was impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess in that first half, Dak, let's go back
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  Speaker 2: to that. What was concerning to you? Obviously, the first
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  Speaker 2: play of the game, I don't know exactly what happened
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  Speaker 2: on that. But the first half specifically, when the score
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  Speaker 2: was 14-13, what stood out to you? as, oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't good.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the defense looked pretty bad that first half.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Ohio was moving the ball a lot better
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  Speaker 3: than they should have been in that first half. That's
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  Speaker 3: what stood out to me the most. The offense, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think looked horrible the first half. Not great either,
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  Speaker 3: but mainly defense that first half. I was like, oh boy,
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  Speaker 3: if Ohio's moving the ball like this, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a long season. Now they locked in that second half, but.
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  Speaker 3: Just that first play of the game too, that, that
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  Speaker 3: was just a miscommunication. I think, I mean, unless that
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  Speaker 3: guy truly just was not ready to play, the cornerback
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  Speaker 3: didn't move. He, uh, so it had to be just
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  Speaker 3: a miscommunication there, I hope. But yeah, other than that, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking, oh boy, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: long season, especially in 14, 13 years. So how now
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  Speaker 3: I did think Ohio looked better than what I thought
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  Speaker 3: they would. Um, That quarterback, I'll tell you, he can move.
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  Speaker 3: He can– some of those– that first touchdown he had
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  Speaker 3: was a dime, absolute dime. That guy can sling it too.
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  Speaker 3: So I was pretty impressed with how they looked too,
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  Speaker 3: especially that first half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess it's funny. You're evaluating or you're thinking
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  Speaker 2: about teams and what you're seeing, right? And if you
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  Speaker 2: go back and look at that Ohio quarterback, and again,
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  Speaker 2: it's stat line, but just watching his– talent I guess
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  Speaker 2: from what you want to evaluate on I I felt
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  Speaker 2: the same way like he did some things that you
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  Speaker 2: go wow like that that was impressive uh he had
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  Speaker 2: some legs to him I thought our defense overall I
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't yeah I mean overall I think the defense
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  Speaker 2: settled in second half even the first half though right
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  Speaker 2: you give up that one play I know you can't
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  Speaker 2: say oh we'll take that one play out and this
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  Speaker 2: and this looks really good well you can't ever do
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  Speaker 2: that because it happened I thought our defense overall by
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  Speaker 2: the end of it, like you said, settled in. And
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  Speaker 2: that quarterback is solid. I think we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: better quarterbacks than that, that's for sure. But he did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 1: And I.
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  Speaker 2: Think the general storyline of not just our defense, but
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  Speaker 2: from this first half as well, it's a first game.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first game of the season. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be bumps and, and some different things that aren't looking good.
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  Speaker 2: That part to me, unfortunately is, is the part that
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  Speaker 2: frustrated me the most is we're in year four and
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  Speaker 2: you would hope, and I get it. It's a new team.
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  Speaker 2: There's some new things going on. That's all part of it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you would hope it looks a little bit cleaner than that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's why you play these games this way.
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  Speaker 2: Cause if we would have been playing anybody else now, I,
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  Speaker 2: I can't speak for some of the other teams watching
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  Speaker 2: them as close as we did, but you just feel
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  Speaker 2: like the couple of false start penalties, the offsides on kickoffs,
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  Speaker 2: that's just bizarre. I heard the stat that there's been four,
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  Speaker 2: there was four all of last season in FBS. And
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  Speaker 2: we had two, so whatever that was, there's some penalties
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  Speaker 2: and now kind of watching back that Ja'Cory Barney, like
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  Speaker 2: blindside block, yeah, like, The biggest thing was don't touch him.
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  Speaker 2: He was past him, but it was like an eh.
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  Speaker 2: And then the face mask, again, I get that stuff happens,
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  Speaker 2: but there's stuff that you just hope that is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit cleaner in that first half. And in the
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  Speaker 2: second half, it was. So that was also a rules
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  Speaker 2: message right at halftime. Guys, we don't need to change
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  Speaker 2: anything drastically, just Quit shooting ourselves in the foot. Quit
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  Speaker 2: being dumb. Like, don't do that stuff. That was the message,
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  Speaker 2: and second half came out, and it looked very good. So,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, coming out of that game, Dak, how much
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  Speaker 2: does that first half concern you moving forward into, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: this next week, yes, but also just as we get
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  Speaker 2: closer to Big Ten play?
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  Speaker 3: If you'd asked me in the moment at halftime, I
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  Speaker 3: would have said, okay, they are going to win these
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  Speaker 3: first three games and lose the rest of them.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, season's over. This team sucks.
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  Speaker 3: But now, looking back on it and thinking on it,
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  Speaker 3: like I said coming in, thank God they didn't play
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee first off. That would have been a totally different
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  Speaker 3: game right there. But these first games are kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a preseason game, I feel like, for teams to,
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  Speaker 3: like I said coming in, all these teams make mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: false starts, all that. So to be able to at
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  Speaker 3: least be up for the half. Like I don't, I
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  Speaker 3: still don't think they played absolutely horrible that first half.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think Ohio kind of, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you stay scared and whatever that first play of
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  Speaker 3: the game and how, how they were moving the ball
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  Speaker 3: and what they were doing on offense and stuff. Kind
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  Speaker 3: of surprised Nebraska a little bit. Now I, I just,
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  Speaker 3: it just, walking out of this game, I just don't
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  Speaker 3: know how to take it. It's like, it's like, damn,
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  Speaker 3: we're good. We're really good coming that second half. And
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  Speaker 3: then like that first half, you're like, oh, we suck.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't, it's, it's what, which I was thinking
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  Speaker 3: back on this too. When there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: games like this, do you walk out like, man, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to take it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And this is a, this is like, I think
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  Speaker 2: that is, it's a called a classic game opener, a
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  Speaker 2: classic first game that a lot of teams have. It's
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  Speaker 2: not uncommon to, to, to have that. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: want to get into the, the opposite of what happened
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  Speaker 2: in that Michigan game. And now they squeaked out a win.
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  Speaker 2: And you go to some other teams in the country
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  Speaker 2: where they do what you're supposed to do, right? You're
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  Speaker 2: going to hear, well, you're playing a lesser opponent. You
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  Speaker 2: do what you're supposed to do. And there's not really
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  Speaker 2: any sweat. Like, so there's all sorts of game openers
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  Speaker 2: on how that should go. This, you know, falls in
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  Speaker 2: the middle where it's, It was on my prediction. I
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  Speaker 2: thought we were going to struggle in the first half
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I think I might have said we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be up to touchdown or whatever at halftime
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  Speaker 2: and then pull away in the second half. This is
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  Speaker 2: just kind of how I thought it would go. Is
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  Speaker 2: it exactly how you want it to go when you
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  Speaker 2: say take care of business, the end score? I guess
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  Speaker 2: yes uh it was but for for for I guess
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  Speaker 2: for my back of my mind like hoping or wanting
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  Speaker 2: us that oh there maybe there's a sense that we
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  Speaker 2: could go nine and three or have a really good
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  Speaker 2: record or maybe beat Indiana like some of the things
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  Speaker 2: we saw in that first half, as far as just
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  Speaker 2: being sharp and got our shit together, wasn't there. So
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  Speaker 2: now I'm back to, well, take that little bit of
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  Speaker 2: hope that you had there to be really good. Probably
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  Speaker 2: not completely shut the door, but it's only a crack open.
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  Speaker 2: Now that still means we can win eight, eight games.
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  Speaker 2: Like I, I still think that you, there was enough
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  Speaker 2: good in that game to say, no, like we're not,
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  Speaker 2: the season's not horrible. I think we texted in our
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  Speaker 2: group and said at halftime, right before halftime, we were
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  Speaker 2: all like, well, I don't know if we're winning four
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  Speaker 2: games this year, just the way things looked.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then by the end of it, you're going, okay, like,
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  Speaker 2: like I still feel that we're on track. And I
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  Speaker 2: think we played above average. Like we, again, we covered
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  Speaker 2: the spread and we'll get to our offense here specifically. Like,
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  Speaker 2: There's some reason to say no. This team could go
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  Speaker 2: and win eight games, and that's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: very big positive if you come out of the year
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  Speaker 2: with eight wins. Now, do I think that's going to happen? No,
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  Speaker 2: but there's still hope that that could happen. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know that there's the hope of being the breakout,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say Indiana, but a breakout team
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  Speaker 2: of making a run for the playoff. If you have
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  Speaker 2: that hope, some of the stuff you may go, eh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we can do that the way
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  Speaker 2: that first half went against Ohio. But, If you want
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  Speaker 2: to throw back a game last year, Ohio State was
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  Speaker 2: down to Ohio in the second or third quarter, too. Again, thanks, Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: for pointing that out.
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  Speaker 3: Now, looking back on the stats of all this, after
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  Speaker 3: the game, I didn't look until after the game. Would
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  Speaker 3: you have thought that quarterback was from Ohio 14 and 31?
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  Speaker 3: I thought, I mean, he struggled in that second half
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  Speaker 3: throwing the ball more, but I thought he played a
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  Speaker 3: lot better than that.
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  Speaker 2: No, and this goes back to like, all these games
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  Speaker 2: that I just remember saying, man, we look, every quarterback
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  Speaker 2: look like the best version of themselves. We always, we
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  Speaker 2: always make other times quarterbacks look good for whatever reason. I,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of, again, I thought this guy
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  Speaker 2: did a lot of good things. I'm not saying he
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  Speaker 2: sucked because he didn't suck, but I also don't think
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  Speaker 2: he was like, I think I might as a half
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  Speaker 2: of the game, man, we would take him as our quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know that I would like, he's not,
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  Speaker 2: He's not like a– I don't know. He was solid.
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  Speaker 2: He did a lot of good things. But you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I think we always remember the shit moments of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that he did. We had a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: he did. He either made some bad throws or did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good things on our end that I
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  Speaker 2: think we take for granted. And he didn't look good there.
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  Speaker 2: But we are, I think, in the back of your
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  Speaker 2: minds– We say, oh, it's Ohio. We should be doing
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  Speaker 2: that to Ohio. He shouldn't complete that pass. Our DB
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  Speaker 2: should be able to cover him one-on-one like that down
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  Speaker 2: the field. It should look like that's part of your
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  Speaker 2: justification is, oh, it's Ohio. He should look like that.
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  Speaker 2: Versus when he does something good, you're going, well, that
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't happen. It's Ohio. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he was good. Again, he was solid. Like, he did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like, too, against these teams, too,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people, probably including me, when you're watching live,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, you just don't think Ohio should be able
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  Speaker 3: to do anything good at all. And that's just not
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  Speaker 3: the case. Like they're going to have some good plays
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  Speaker 3: here and there. Like they're, they're good. They're solid football team.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like they're fricking, Oh, what's this team they
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  Speaker 3: played a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years ago. But then Cookman, they're, they're not
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  Speaker 1: that bad.
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  Speaker 2: Like speaking to that frost beat, but then Cookman 73
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  Speaker 2: to six.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how about that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the worst teams I've ever seen play Nebraska,
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  Speaker 3: but you, yeah, they're, they're, They're going to be salty.
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  Speaker 3: Now this week, this team coming in next week, if it's,
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  Speaker 3: if it's 14, 13 and a half against Bowling Green,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a lot more worried because again,
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  Speaker 3: after week one, you see what all these teams look
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  Speaker 3: like now. And you kind of know, you start to
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  Speaker 3: get a feel for what they look like. And Bowling
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  Speaker 3: Green lost to Hawks in state.
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  Speaker 1: You guys didn't know. So yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think going into the season, Bowling Green out of
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  Speaker 2: the three non-con opponents here are supposed to be the
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  Speaker 2: worst of the three. And so, yeah, we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: that game goes. We'll get to our preview on that
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  Speaker 2: later this week. Let's switch over to offense here and
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  Speaker 2: talk about Dana Holgerson, you know, beginning year three officially
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  Speaker 2: in his offense with Anthony Calandria under the helm. And
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  Speaker 2: I just got to say this, and you want to talk,
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  Speaker 2: you know, identity and what we're trying to do. Is
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  Speaker 2: this what the offense wants to look like? I think
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  Speaker 2: we got a pretty good feel and taste of it
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  Speaker 2: for what the game allowed it to be. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're going to know exactly what this full offense
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  Speaker 2: is going to need to look like until we play
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  Speaker 2: a Big Ten team and it's a battle for four quarters.
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  Speaker 2: I say that because how much did we use Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Calandri in the run game? He was able to get
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  Speaker 2: out a couple of times, but design runs, not really. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I said Calandria and I haven't even, I just, I
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  Speaker 2: want to say this guy.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Like, but I exceeded my expectations. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: say blew it off the, blew it off the charts,
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  Speaker 2: but like he is what we've heard as far as
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  Speaker 2: going to do with his thing. And the, the, the pressure,
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  Speaker 2: the moments aren't going to get to him because he's
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  Speaker 2: he's got confidence that it's going to happen. Some of
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  Speaker 2: his balls that he threw early in that game, first
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  Speaker 2: half were like just the outreach of linebackers and safeties.
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  Speaker 2: And they ended up looking like great balls and you're going,
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow. And he, and some out routes, like he's
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  Speaker 2: catching and throwing it no matter what, like again, and
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  Speaker 2: those things all work and awesome. Like, and, and they
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  Speaker 2: look really good. My biggest takeaway from him, we knew
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  Speaker 2: he kind of was a runner. And I think if
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  Speaker 2: you was one of those things that you say, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: This quarterback's a runner. For whatever reason, your brain goes, well, then.
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  Speaker 1: Then our Robinson would be like someone, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you go, well, can he throw it?
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  Speaker 2: Like if they're a really good runner, then are they
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  Speaker 2: just not as good passing? I think this game showed that, no,
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  Speaker 2: like he's got an arm. He can sling the sucker. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at times, I mean, I think he just
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  Speaker 2: throws bullets. Like he just darts them in there, which is,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I guess not bad. I was, I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was very encouraged by Calandra and what we saw
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  Speaker 2: with him. Even in that first, I mean, first step
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  Speaker 2: in second half, like very impressed. He went for two 75,
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  Speaker 2: three touchdowns and a rushing touchdown. No. And, and big,
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  Speaker 2: big stat, no turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that great to see a guy that would not just,
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  Speaker 3: if he has any pressure at all, and I just
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  Speaker 3: fall down the pocket instead of, and he can actually
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  Speaker 3: move out and not be out of, out of breath
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  Speaker 3: after a straight up dinner. I might've quit that game.
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  Speaker 1: Cause it's too hot.
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  Speaker 3: Like, this guy, this guy can, the running game. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think we saw that much from him like yet,
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  Speaker 3: but just how he can move in the pocket is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Like have a guy that can actually elude defenders and
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  Speaker 3: move around and keep plays alive is the main thing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I was not keeping a place alive at all.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: If you keep plays lives, it lets you, that's where
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: you get open guys downfield because defense loses their time
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: and their.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Their actual play, what happens. So that's, that's real encouraging part.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I did see a lot of people saying his bullets.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Are the reason why people were dropping the balls.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: That's a bull crap excuse to catch those balls.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: If it's on your hands, catch the balls. Who cares?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's encouraging to see this guy's not scared to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: throw the ball. That's why I said there's going to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: be a couple bad picks he throws this year because
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: he's going to throw on tight windows and it's going
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: to look ugly at points. But I don't have a
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: quarterback that's do that than a quarterback that's scared to throw.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: In those windows. You're right.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: There, there were some drop passes and yeah, drop passes
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: are obviously the ball is in a perfect spot. Every time, uh,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: your chances of catching it are higher. I would say
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of his passes aren't in the exact perfect spot,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: but they're very, very catchable and they're thrown hard. Um,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: so I mean, if you're placing blame somewhere, I guess
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: go wherever.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: There were some drop passes still this game. Uh, the, the, the,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: the fun thing from this offense and how the game
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: flow went that you saw, and this is why you
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: got to look at a game in full. We physically,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: by the end of the game, just had them just exhausted. We,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: we wore them down. And by the way, those last,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that fourth quarter, like we were, we were getting six
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: yards to carry 12 yards to carry eight yards. Like
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: we were just saying, you know what, we're just going
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to run it now. And, and, and worry out and
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: we did that and that was I mean that's that's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a very big step forwards I think and what a
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: lot of people especially old Nebraska fans like that that's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: what we want to see and that's what happened that
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: game and again it's against Ohio put a caveat on
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that and Ohio might be decent we'll see where they
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: end up but it's still a game opener it's not
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a it's not a big 10 team that we'll be
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: facing later in the year but it's a good sign
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that we were able to do that. Because, again, years past,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I don't care who the hell we're playing. How many
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: teams have we been able to wear down and do
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that to? Not many. I don't care what team they are.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every team comes in thinking that there's going to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: be a physical Nebraska now. And being able to look
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: a little physical in that first game and running back
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: is super encouraging.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So are we going to dive into the star of
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the show?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, next I was going to talk about these running
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: backs and specifically one guy in particular, but I'll say
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: this before we dive into the one that we're going
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to talk about the most, but all three running backs
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I thought did a lot of really good things. And
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: going back and watching some of the game, like the
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: one that's not going to talk about really at all
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: this week by anybody is the one who took the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: first nap in Isaiah Mosey and He did a good job. Like,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not– because he's not getting talked about, it doesn't
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: mean he had a crappy game. The other guy, a
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: couple guys just had a couple of plays, and that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: stood out more. But Kai Nelson had 129 yards and
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns. And that big 51-yard catch and run off
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the dump down, that was his highlight of the show.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: But the guy that really impressed all of Husker Nation
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and caught my eye– In all of our eyes, it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Jamal Rule. Yep. 122 yards on 15 carries, 169 all-purpose yards,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: like three touchdowns. I heard on the radio on the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: way home, three touchdowns by a true freshman in their
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: first game was the first time since like 20, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: think it was like 2014 or 2016 in all of FBS. Wow.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was fantastic.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: It's not only the speed that he has, but physical runner,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: which is great to see.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: He will not, he will not go down easy.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Um, now this was, this is not what you and
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Austin said coming into it, but I was like, for
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: these first three games, I'd like to see a true
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: number one running back. And then the other two behind him, uh,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: come in third down or be like, especially pass catch
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: or whatever. I don't know if you can say quite
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: yet that he's for sure. The number one, um, he's,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: he's about as close as you can get to saying
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: that he will be now. you'd think that he's going
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: to get the first snap coming in.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: The bowling green game. We don't know, but man, that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was impressive to watch.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Just a guy that you come into game. You can
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: trust is probably going to get 75 yards plus now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: On the ground.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And to, to get a number one running back, a
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: guy's got to really stand out amongst the others. Now,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and the thing is he definitely did this game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He played well, like really well too.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: So it's, Well, that's what I'm saying. Mosey had some
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: good moments too, just not any big, big plays. So
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it's like you feel pretty good about the running back room. Again,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: caveat Ohio. But you feel good about where that's at.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And Jamal Rule, here's what I saw out of him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And he was supposed to be this maybe third down back.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The dude is explosive. He has a first step when
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: he wants to put his foot in the ground and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: get three yards off. bang, just like that. Like he,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: that was what I was like, Whoa. I think I
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: texted a couple of people during the game too. I'm like, well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: we better, we better win seven or eight or, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: have a good quote unquote, good season. Otherwise he's gone.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Like someone's going to pay him a lot of money.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You're already thinking that. Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think that if we don't have a good
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: season and we have, he's someone's going to pay him
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: money to go play somewhere else more.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Or more or equal than what we're going to pay him. And, uh,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: he's gonna say I'm gonna go play for a team
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that can win more games than Nebraska can but anyways
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I mean I that's why I thought he was he
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: was very impressive like and and that was what the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: chatter was after the spring game performance and obviously he's
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: splitting reps with two guys that were here a year
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: before him like yeah so I mean I think if
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you want to give a game ball out like Oh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: it's to him. That's where it goes, right? I mean,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Calandra is the other one that I was like, whoa,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that was good.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, going into that game, I did not think that
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: we'd be like, holy crap, we have a star running
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: back here.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be like all three
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: of them were great. We have no idea who's going
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: to be number one here. But coming out of the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: game or going in, I did not think we'd be like,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: holy crap, we might actually have a star here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're evaluating games and going back and thinking
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: back to how you think plays went or how game
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: flow went, you're going back to expectation on what you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: expect to go into the game a lot of times, right?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: You can obviously expect what you want in 10 years
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: or five years, this is what I expect, but you're
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: usually going into a game and then after the game saying, man,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: this went well or poor or as I expected because
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: of what you had of thought going into the game.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that single player of Jamal rule is one that whatever
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: you had in your mind of like, let's see what happens. I, he,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: he definitely exceeded your expectations coming out of that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: But then again, he was a freshman. Like we had
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: no clue coming, coming in, what he was going to
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: be like or whatever. So, I mean, there was off
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: season hype around him. So we're like, let's see it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And you know what? He proved it. Very, very impressive
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: game by him.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Switching over to the defense. I know we've talked a
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: lot about them in the first half. As we talk
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: about the defense and what it looked like here under
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: first-year coordinator Rob Arch, Ohio got 300 yards by the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: end of it. We mentioned their quarterback looking decent. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: guess that first play, again, you can't just take a
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: play out of it. That was weird. I'd never seen
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: anything like that, which I thought maybe we were past
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that in Nebraska of, hey, never seen that before. What
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the hell was that? I thought maybe we got over that,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: but no, that happened. First play of the game, and
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: you heard the groans everywhere in the stadium. But overall, again,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: we settled in. My takeaway from the defensive line, which
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: was the question mark coming into the year of– Do
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: we have enough guys? Do we have enough dudes up there?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I think from an expectation standpoint, I haven't moved one
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: way or the other. I haven't wavered. There wasn't anything
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: that you're like, man, like, yeah, that dude is a dude.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: That was impressive. But there also wasn't like, oh, shit, like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: we are not getting anything done up front. Yeah. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: made that comment a couple times on getting pressure that,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you know, but overall, like, that is– it was what
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: it was on the defensive line. There wasn't, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: reason to be super jacked about them. And there's not
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a reason to be super concerned yet. So that was
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: my take from the defensive line with the talking point
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: going in.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I wasn't, yeah, I'm not walking out of it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Like, Oh my God, we, we're not going to be
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: able to do anything on the defensive line all this year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Now there was some, there was some moments where like,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Oh crap, this guy, the main part is what I'm
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: worried about is, This guy getting 70 yards on the
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: ground again. Running quarterbacks throughout Rule's tenure here have killed
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: us the whole time. And I didn't know this guy
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: coming in was supposed to be like this shifty of
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: a guy.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Running all over the field.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Now, if they can– the second half, I feel like
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: they got.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That a little bit more under wraps, I felt like.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That might not be the stats-wise, but.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: In the defense as a whole, I feel like is
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: still wait and see for these, these three games. Like
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not walking out and being like, we suck or
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: we're great. That's that I'm right now in the middle
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: after that first game. Like, I think we're all right.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And the running quarterback narrative of hasn't never been good at,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you know, under rule. Yes and no. Like the running
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: quarterback for a reason. It's not like he ran for
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: 180 yards, right? He had 70 rushing yards. He escaped
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: some guys out of the pocket. Like, the guy had
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: some legs, and he's a long, lanky dude, a little
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: bit tougher to tackle. Like, he was able to accomplish
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: some of that. I thought after he had a couple
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: of runs, we adjusted well, put a spy on him.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: The second half, I guess maybe there was a drive
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: in the first half where he tried to scramble, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: we had a guy right there to take him. I mean,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I think he might have got a yard or two,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: but to force a punt. He, yeah, I mean, he's
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: a running quarterback. He's going to get something. He's going
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: to get some yards. but I wasn't like overly concerned
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: about that either. But again, I wasn't like thrilled. It's
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: not like we got to him too many times and
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: sacked him either. So that was my, my big takeaway on,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: for the defense, like again, solid, like, but nothing, nothing
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that stood out good or bad one way or the
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: other there.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: That's, that's another huge part about it is what you
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: said is, uh, you know, just that second half, um,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: rules have a little bit of problems with that too
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: in a tenure too is coming out not being able
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to adjust at all second halves for being able to
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: come out and then look so much better at second
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: half is encouraging c2 because again it's first half first
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: game of the season you could chalk it up as
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: that just early season figuring it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Out well and you talk about that you mentioned that
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you know rule said it coming at his post game
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: he said there wasn't an adjustment like it we ran
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that he said we ran the same plays and we
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: just stopped shooting ourselves in the foot the second half
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like it came out and drastically changed anything.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: It was just stop being dumb, like we mentioned earlier. That,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: to me, is good because it shows that there was
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: a sense of urgency there at halftime. Speaking of halftime
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: adjustments and urgency, have you seen the leaked clip of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin when it was 31, three.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah. Awesome. Uh, yeah. Talk about a guy that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: did not lay back at all.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So it, it, I, I do. I think that obviously
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the second half was just a complete domination, you know, I, yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And I guess when we say complete domination score wise, yes,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: it was, I think 30, what we scored 35 to
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: their eight in the second half. was the score. But
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the thing that I think was the most encouraging that
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: you can take away and be like, okay, this is progress.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: We go back to this word progress. This is progress, right?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: No matter who we're playing, and I had to get
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: talked into this narrative too a little bit because I
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: had in my mind it's Ohio, but I think this
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: is very true. When we go up 28 to 13,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Ohio goes down, scores, goes for two, on a fumbled snap,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: picks it up and just throws it up. Gets it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: It's 28, 21.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Oh crap.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Here we go. What has take Ohio out of it?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: What is this offense done? The coming out. You go,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: you go bang, bang, bang three and out and punt
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: it back to Ohio, right around midfield. And here we go.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Like that didn't happen. We came out and Calandra took
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: us down, put us in the end zone. We go
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: up 35-21 and you back going, okay, like, this is, like,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to me, if you want to talk about a step forward,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: right there, it's huge. And that's a lot on Anthony
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Calandria of just saying, it doesn't, as a Nebraska fan,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: you're going, here we go again. Anthony Calandria's like, no. Like,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: why would you think that? I'm just going to do
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: what I do. We're going to go out and score.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: And that's what they did. So, Let's start.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Let's start doing this for every game this year. Drive
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: of the game. It could be offense defense right there.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: That's drive of the game.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Agreed. Yep. Like that right there was like, Nope, we're
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: going to take care of business. And then we go down,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: we put a couple of touchdowns in late and score
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: and we win the game 49 21. And that's how
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: the game ended.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: And.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: That's. That's a big, you don't give these, these lower. Again,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I keep calling lower teams. Ohio's better than what we think, but.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: You give these lower teams hope right there. Like you said,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you go three and out, that's when Ohio's going to
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: come down and score. We're making 28-28. We all know
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: what's going to happen right there. So to be able
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: to go down and score, that basically puts this team away.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: All their hope is gone.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: We might do some of this at work. Today we're
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: just going to do an overall grade. But one way
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Austin and I used to evaluate games is go through
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and just like the old papers used to do, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: they probably still do, but you grade every area of
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the game, right? You go through, you give it an
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: A through an F, you add the commentary around it,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and that's how you're evaluating the game. And I think
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: that's a good way of doing it at times, just
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to gauge, like, again, expectations. Now everybody's, as I learned
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, everybody's grade scales are evaluated differently and have
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: their own way of what they think is an A
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: all the way down to an F.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: You heard Neff?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: For me, a C is like average as expected. I
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: think a C in a game like that is around
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: covering the spread. That, I guess, is where the money
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: expectation is. Not that that has to be where your
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: team's expectation is, but to me, that's pretty average. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: if you wanted to take everything out of the game
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: and just say, not even watching the game, We won
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: by 28. The spread was 23.5. 23.5 is a C.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: You're going to bump yourself up a little bit further
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: than a C. You're going to say C plus, B minus.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: You're going to write it off there and be good.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of B minuses and C pluses
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: from people when I've been talking to them.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: That's exactly where I'm at. I'm at a B minus,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: almost B with that. If you tell me at halftime,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: I'd go D. But, so halftime D, end of the game,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: D minus.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: That's a huge jump. I'm not like this team is
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: great coming out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I think they will be a very solid, hard team
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  Speaker 3: to beat in the Big Ten now. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we're going to lose any games we shouldn't lose, which
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: is good to see. Again, very impressed with that offense
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  Speaker 3: and how they moved the ball, I'd say. So I'd
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  Speaker 3: go B-. A very solid game.
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  Speaker 2: And I gave them a B. Like, I think we're
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: right at a– I was, again, like, did what we're
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: supposed to do, but I thought we're better than average, right?
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  Speaker 2: The way that game finished, was it a picture-perfect first game?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you could say it was a picture-perfect game from
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the sense that we got a little bit of adversity
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  Speaker 2: and some things to go back and say, that wasn't good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that again. Because if everything's all sunshine and
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: rainbows and you get an A performance in game one,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: what do you have to actually build upon and work
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: upon going into week two and three? You don't. So
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: there's definitely things after that first half you go, okay, well,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: we can't do that again. So maybe a B is
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a good spot to be at. Maybe that's what you
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: want to see and where you want to end up
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  Speaker 2: in a first game against a team. Again, not a nobody,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: but I guess we did get ranked the easiest non-con
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: schedule in all of D1, so maybe they were a nobody.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 1: We have no idea how good Ohio's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: We never do. And every first, every game or every year,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: this first few teams you play, you think, man, they're
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: going to be pretty good. I just, I go back
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and think about some of these teams that we've either
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: lost to or have struggled against. And very rarely have
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I looked back and I, man, they're nine and three.
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  Speaker 2: Now Ohio definitely could do that. A lot of times
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: they end up four and eight, you know, who, gosh, there's,
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  Speaker 2: it was a Florida Atlantic team several years ago that
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: was like, we won by a touchdown or something. I'm like, man,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: they're going to be good. And they won two games
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  Speaker 2: all year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember that quarter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He lit us up.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how about losing to Northwestern in Ireland being like,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Like maybe Northwestern is decent. Like they went,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: that's the only game they won the rest of the year.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: They lost an FCS team next, next week. Didn't they?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So you, I mean, I, it could be like you
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: look back in Ohio's three 90 in the year. And
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: we were like, if we're like five and seven, we're like, okay,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: well that should have been the sign right there.
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  Speaker 1: That, that first half of Ohio, who knows?
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  Speaker 2: And I guess gut check. I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I just, speaking on past history that it hasn't happened.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: And you know what, if they are good, then maybe
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: we'll be good too. Like that. And that's, that's the
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: hope side of things. That's what you want to believe.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Like maybe they win nine games. Maybe that means we're
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: winning seven or eight. If you want to go down
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that road, that'd be great. So, close here, Dak. I
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: think we might have the same word, actually. You have
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: to describe the game in one word. What would that be?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Solid.
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  Speaker 2: That's my word.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, solid.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it was a very common word to say.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Nothing you're Jump for Joy walking out of yet, except
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: for Calandra and Jamal Rule. You are Jump for Joy
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: for them, but other than that, every, every other position
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: outside of the quarterback or running back, I think we're solid,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: but let's see some more coming up.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, and my, my word or phrase is like
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: good first game. Like that, that, that's what I kept
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: going back to is it's, it's the first game. There's
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: some stuff that you kinked and worked out and, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: it is solid. Like it was, yep. Good job. Move
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  Speaker 2: on to bowling green. We don't got to sit here
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: and be all, nitpicky like I thought we were going
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: to be after the first half, but we're also not
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: like jumping for joy and saying this team's going to
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: go undefeated, right?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: No, there's still plenty of work on there. You're not
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: looking at me like, oh, there's nothing to work on.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: We're going to be great. Oh, no.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: There's still plenty of work on. Did you see ESPN
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: FBI has this rank 22?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I saw it right when it was posted. Don't
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: give me work.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so I don't think we're that spot yet,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: but Just get out of these three games. Keep looking
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: better as it goes on. Now, I'll have a different
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: thing to say. If it's 14-13 Bowling Green at half
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: or Nebraska beating Bowling Green at half, 14-13, then I'll
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: be a little bit more worried.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll dive deeper into Bowling Green on Thursday, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: my one preview of that was on a different national
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: podcast I listen to. They do a bottom of the
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: barrel FBS teams, and they listed three And Bowling Green
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: was one of them.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Yep. They did not look good week one. We'll just
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: say that. Tough game for them.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Wacky dacky Wednesday tomorrow morning.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: You bet.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Go Big Red.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Go Big Red.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: The headlines change but the mission stays from memorial stadium
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: to pba days.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Football saturdays basketball.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Nights every story chasing red and white recruiting buzz big
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: time commits camp battles.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Coaching hits transfer moves and rising stars the road to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: glory's never far.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: This is return to glory where every headline tells the
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: story Go Big Red!
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: See you next episode!