Latest / Return to Glory - Nebraska / Episode 6.12: Game Week Preview -- Colorado
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- 0:00Speaker 1: H turned to Glory Podcast throwing the Bones. Wow, they
- 0:23Speaker 1: need to show up this week. Hunter's Arbniky Austin Rhodes,
- 0:26Speaker 1: Dakota Free Tag.
- 0:28Speaker 2: What a passionate intro Hunter.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Guys, is this the biggest game in our lifetime? Home game?
- 0:38Speaker 1: I'll say home game?
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, probably yeah, I mean, uhh, I don't know.
- 0:50Speaker 3: As a conscious Husker fan, I'm gonna say yes, there
- 0:54Speaker 3: probably when I was ten or twelve that I wasn't
- 0:56Speaker 3: paying attention to you.
- 0:58Speaker 1: I mean, throw out some ones that might be comparable.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen Miami.
- 1:05Speaker 4: Colorado, Scott Frost's first game that was that was in Colorado. No,
- 1:11Speaker 4: it was home Scott frost first game was here.
- 1:15Speaker 2: We lost by three.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking to Adrian's first game out there. Yeah,
- 1:22Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the Oregon game twenty seventeen. Yeah, maybe.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Ohio State when Game Day was here until about minute in.
- 1:32Speaker 2: No, definitely wasn't it.
- 1:35Speaker 1: I I just feel like this game has so much,
- 1:38Speaker 1: so much on the line, and like you can talk
- 1:42Speaker 1: about big game, but what makes it the big, big
- 1:44Speaker 1: big game once arrival? That's kind of the obvious, but
- 1:47Speaker 1: we both want to know both teams are on their
- 1:50Speaker 1: second year of a coach that they hope to be
- 1:53Speaker 1: there for a while and Colorado might not get Deanna
- 1:56Speaker 1: Dion does well for a long time, but it's kind
- 1:59Speaker 1: of sets the stage for the rest of the year.
- 2:02Speaker 1: And I just think that, like, you can't really put
- 2:06Speaker 1: it into perspective how big of a game this is.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Like it's the biggest game. And I know we've talked
- 2:11Speaker 1: about other big games that mean a lot, but like
- 2:14Speaker 1: this does truly have everything that you want.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Night game.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Oh, it's gonna be fun.
- 2:24Speaker 2: It's gonna be super.
- 2:30Speaker 3: I just think it's gonna be just like that Miami
- 2:32Speaker 3: game in twenty fourteen. That game was absolutely insane, and
- 2:36Speaker 3: this is gonna be I think it's gonna be more
- 2:38Speaker 3: charged than that game.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Nothing, Dak, I don't.
- 2:48Speaker 4: You go ahead. I can't wait for you to be there.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Hunter, Yeah, I do have to miss I have a
- 2:55Speaker 1: I have a work trip that I'm going on Friday,
- 2:57Speaker 1: the year you're missing it. I know, I know it
- 3:01Speaker 1: was a tough decision. It's such a work trip falled
- 3:06Speaker 1: up fell on this weekend, and they knew it a
- 3:08Speaker 1: long time ago. I knew it a long time ago.
- 3:11Speaker 2: I think it's from four hundred dollars.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I didn't get mine sold.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Nice that helps, Yeah, I'm sure.
- 3:19Speaker 4: But the ship talk between Huskar fans Car fans already
- 3:21Speaker 4: going down twitters insane, I mean, as it does every
- 3:27Speaker 4: big game. So it's it's mostly about Nebraska fans, which
- 3:34Speaker 4: we'll get into it, saying that they're not the caror
- 3:37Speaker 4: fans are mean, and the Car fans saying we're not mean,
- 3:39Speaker 4: basically back and forth.
- 3:40Speaker 1: I want to know that. I want to know your
- 3:42Speaker 1: opinions on that, because you know, the Nebraska nice thing
- 3:46Speaker 1: is is and has been a thing. I mean, not
- 3:50Speaker 1: just football, but just in general. How do you think
- 3:54Speaker 1: we should approach this week?
- 3:58Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think you have to be dicks
- 3:59Speaker 2: to the fans? What like, what good does that do?
- 4:04Speaker 2: I mean, you can just just yell on defense and
- 4:06Speaker 2: you cheer and good things happen on offense.
- 4:08Speaker 3: And you go.
- 4:10Speaker 4: You don't have to be dickheads like Colorado fans are,
- 4:12Speaker 4: like you can be, you can be the sane person.
- 4:16Speaker 4: I don't know, I I don't know.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I don't know they're going to We are considered Nebraska nice,
- 4:26Speaker 1: like we're known for that. Should we should we stick
- 4:28Speaker 1: to that.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Yes, I don't care what other teams fans.
- 4:33Speaker 1: I'm not saying other teams fans. I'm just saying in general,
- 4:36Speaker 1: that's that is the reputation that Nebraska has other fans,
- 4:41Speaker 1: just the atmosphere, that is everything in general Twitter, I know.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Why why Yeah, I don't need but I don't need
- 4:53Speaker 2: to ship talk their fans. That doesn't do anything.
- 4:56Speaker 1: We need to be mean, Oh I think we don't.
- 5:00Speaker 1: We don't need to be assholes. But guys, we need
- 5:02Speaker 1: to have an edge on It's that. That's the word
- 5:04Speaker 1: I have is we need to have an edge. Everybody fans,
- 5:07Speaker 1: coaches players. There needs to be an edge. Nothing that
- 5:11Speaker 1: causes fifteen yard penalties. But we need our fans. We
- 5:16Speaker 1: should have hold a little bit of a grudge against them.
- 5:18Speaker 1: We should be a little bit. I don't think that
- 5:20Speaker 1: the Nebraska nice things. We don't need to be Nebraska
- 5:23Speaker 1: nice this weekend, like we can also save it till Sunday. See.
- 5:28Speaker 1: And this is where my mind, I'm like, why why
- 5:31Speaker 1: why were our fans always considered so.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Nice because we're always winning?
- 5:36Speaker 1: Because we kicked the crap out of them. It was
- 5:37Speaker 1: almost like a sarcastic like haha, good job. Proud of
- 5:41Speaker 1: you for coming in and getting your ass kick to Bias,
- 5:43Speaker 1: but we respect you. We don't do that anymore. Like,
- 5:46Speaker 1: let's be nasty a little bit for one week. Let's
- 5:51Speaker 1: I like the standing on the midfield. I'm not sure
- 5:53Speaker 1: if that was intentional last year, but let's do some
- 5:55Speaker 1: of that stuff. Let's let's be a little bit edge
- 5:58Speaker 1: eat this week and show that, you know what, No,
- 6:01Speaker 1: we're here to beat the crap out of you this week,
- 6:04Speaker 1: and we're not gonna be stupid about it, but we're
- 6:06Speaker 1: gonna be Edgie.
- 6:08Speaker 2: I will say.
- 6:09Speaker 3: I like I like Gaber's comments on where he was
- 6:12Speaker 3: basically like, yeah, we're gonna be physical, they're gonna know
- 6:14Speaker 3: we're here.
- 6:15Speaker 2: But he wasn't, you know, he wasn't like ship.
- 6:18Speaker 3: Talking to them, like saying that they're bad team and
- 6:20Speaker 3: that we're gonna steam roll. He's just like, yeah, we're
- 6:22Speaker 3: gonna be physical and they're gonna know it. I think
- 6:25Speaker 3: that's the right level of Edgie, not multipore material, but
- 6:31Speaker 3: also an adequate statement of what the team mentality needs to.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Be going into the game.
- 6:36Speaker 4: But the thing about is Cardile fans are knowing about
- 6:39Speaker 4: every fan base is probably the worst fans out there.
- 6:41Speaker 4: They're all dickheads about everything. When they sucked, but now
- 6:45Speaker 4: they're good, so they're gonna they're not good, Okay, they're
- 6:49Speaker 4: they're better. They're better, they're better. They think they're good.
- 6:54Speaker 4: But I don't know you, and you gotta think they're
- 6:57Speaker 4: gonna bring a good amount of fans here. I don't
- 6:59Speaker 4: think so fans in quotations. There's a lot of fake fans.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Now.
- 7:05Speaker 1: They they are just your typical front running program that
- 7:10Speaker 1: has all the hype and the attention in the media.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And they got their faces slapped towards the end of
- 7:18Speaker 1: last year. Now they did, they kicked our ass out there,
- 7:21Speaker 1: but they did. They got shut up last year and
- 7:24Speaker 1: all the hype and all the guys remember Fox Big
- 7:27Speaker 1: Noon Kickoff went three weeks, three or four games, so
- 7:32Speaker 1: like it was all about them and then they got
- 7:37Speaker 1: get kicked in. Now this year they win their first game,
- 7:42Speaker 1: which bringing back on it, we wanted them to beat
- 7:45Speaker 1: North Dakota State. That just makes this game better in
- 7:49Speaker 1: all areas. But they have hope again, they have life,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and all they're doing is waiting for somebody to come
- 7:57Speaker 1: in and shut the door on them. We have the
- 7:59Speaker 1: opportun unity to do that we do we can't, and
- 8:02Speaker 1: that's going to take to all this point the end.
- 8:06Speaker 1: We need to just do it. We need to be mean,
- 8:10Speaker 1: even if it means we aren't. We get out of
- 8:12Speaker 1: our reputation and we aren't quite He's nice Nebraska fans
- 8:17Speaker 1: sitting in the stands. No, like, let's let's take it
- 8:20Speaker 1: to Colorado, Let's beat him.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I don't.
- 8:22Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be more of that ladder. It's
- 8:24Speaker 2: a night game.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I think that the crowd is gonna be pretty charged.
- 8:30Speaker 3: I said everyone paid a ship ton of money to
- 8:32Speaker 3: be there, if you were a season ticket holder, I
- 8:34Speaker 3: think it's gonna be pretty charged.
- 8:38Speaker 4: I think the scene will be worse if Colord wins
- 8:41Speaker 4: the game.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
- 8:47Speaker 4: The fans are gonna be real dickheads if they win
- 8:50Speaker 4: that game.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Luckily, there won't be many of them.
- 8:53Speaker 2: I mean, right, exactly.
- 8:57Speaker 1: It. There's a fine line of being smart with at all.
- 9:02Speaker 1: But I don't think we can just let them come
- 9:04Speaker 1: in and do all of their flashy, showy stuff in
- 9:09Speaker 1: our faces. Like I think we need to shut that
- 9:11Speaker 1: up and again legally, but I hope Tommy Hill and
- 9:19Speaker 1: Hertzog and whoever else is guarding these receivers, Like, I
- 9:21Speaker 1: hope they get a couple of good pops on them
- 9:24Speaker 1: and a couple of just in your face, like no physicality.
- 9:27Speaker 1: We're here, not penalty worthy, but just making I don't
- 9:32Speaker 1: want us After Travis Hunter catches the ball that is
- 9:34Speaker 1: a very impressive catch, which he will do, he will
- 9:37Speaker 1: have one or two or three of those. I don't
- 9:39Speaker 1: want our dvs to put their hands in the air
- 9:41Speaker 1: and go, where's the offensive pass interference? No, I want
- 9:44Speaker 1: them to I want them to get back in his
- 9:47Speaker 1: face and respond with a physical play and not be
- 9:51Speaker 1: soft about it. That's the kind of mentality that we need.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be there. I hope, Like I
- 9:57Speaker 1: think that is what's going to produce a win against Colorado.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Hush, yeah you don't.
- 10:07Speaker 4: You don't want to cross the line, but you want to. Yeah,
- 10:12Speaker 4: you want to be chippy with them, but not get
- 10:13Speaker 4: fifty penalties like crazy.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I want to see there be a scuffle pregame, like
- 10:17Speaker 1: I do. I want there to be chatter and I
- 10:21Speaker 1: want I want that energy because our crowd's only going
- 10:24Speaker 1: to feed off of that and the whole team. It
- 10:27Speaker 1: just gonna be extra icing on the cake in my
- 10:30Speaker 1: mind to get the team ready. Now there, we shouldn't
- 10:34Speaker 1: need any of that stuff, but I do. I want us.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I want us to have the edge all of the
- 10:39Speaker 1: the boundaries. And like you said, Austin, I think Bayer's
- 10:43Speaker 1: comments were a good level of intensity. I know the
- 10:48Speaker 1: other side of this is saying you don't want to
- 10:50Speaker 1: put a target on your back. Last year, Dion and
- 10:55Speaker 1: staff and team said that rule offended them or we
- 10:57Speaker 1: offended them, whether that was true or bullshit, personal whatever,
- 11:02Speaker 1: like sometimes that stuff just gets made up like and
- 11:07Speaker 1: and you motivate your team that way. That's fine. I
- 11:09Speaker 1: don't like, I don't care at that point. You don't
- 11:12Speaker 1: want to put a target on your back, though, But
- 11:14Speaker 1: for a game like this, I think both teams know
- 11:17Speaker 1: like targets are on their backs regardless. It's not like
- 11:20Speaker 1: a game that you're gonna overlook either either way. And
- 11:24Speaker 1: there are respectful comments coming out of Rule and surprisingly
- 11:28Speaker 1: Beyond's mouth back to Nebraska and Ryola specifically. So again,
- 11:34Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of hype, a lot
- 11:36Speaker 1: I'm I met you tonight. I think this is a
- 11:39Speaker 1: game that it it means a lot. It's huge.
- 11:43Speaker 2: You're going to this game, Hunter, I can't believe it.
- 11:47Speaker 1: That's why I'm getting my energy out now.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Yes, it's it's gonna be crazy. It's
- 11:55Speaker 2: gonna be wild, oh man. And I am terrified. I
- 12:00Speaker 2: literally texted you guys today as like, I straight up
- 12:02Speaker 2: do not know. I don't know. I don't know how
- 12:06Speaker 2: it's gonna go.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Colorado looked not great last week against North Kota State,
- 12:11Speaker 3: but I don't know how good North Kota State is.
- 12:15Speaker 4: They have three players to scare you.
- 12:17Speaker 2: They have three, Yes, they absolutely do.
- 12:20Speaker 1: They're The word that Rule used that I liked was explosive,
- 12:25Speaker 1: and that's what they were last year. They're I mean,
- 12:31Speaker 1: some people are saying a two headed monster, but I do.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I think you throw Jimmy Horn in there, and I
- 12:35Speaker 1: think they have a couple of other pieces that make
- 12:38Speaker 1: them a solid football team. It is so hard for
- 12:42Speaker 1: me to judge anything based off of one game, because
- 12:46Speaker 1: not only do you not know anything about Colorado, but
- 12:48Speaker 1: you also, like you said, don't know anything about North
- 12:50Speaker 1: Dakota State. We don't know anything about UTEP. So it's
- 12:54Speaker 1: it's just hard to gauge where everybody's at so yes,
- 12:57Speaker 1: Like you watch a North Dakota State game, some people
- 13:00Speaker 1: are saying North Dakota States not the North Dakota State
- 13:02Speaker 1: of old, and that you know, they took it to
- 13:04Speaker 1: Colorado and Colorado's defense sucks again, And I'm like, yeah, maybe,
- 13:09Speaker 1: like you might be right. I hope you're right, but
- 13:12Speaker 1: it's not enough for me to like definitively say yeah,
- 13:15Speaker 1: We're just going to go score forty five, forty nine
- 13:17Speaker 1: on them this week. Like I can't say that right now.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Now that might happen, and that might be the truth,
- 13:23Speaker 1: but I can't get myself to believe that yet.
- 13:25Speaker 2: There are things you can.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Say that I think are you can agree factually, Like
- 13:31Speaker 3: Nebraska has probably overall better athletic talent than North Kota
- 13:35Speaker 3: State just as a Division one, Power five school, we
- 13:39Speaker 3: probably have overall depth athletic talent more than North North
- 13:43Speaker 3: Kota State and North Dakota. Now when you apply at
- 13:47Speaker 3: North Coast State had pressure had pretty good pressure on
- 13:50Speaker 3: Colorado last week.
- 13:51Speaker 2: But is that scheme or is that athletic talent? I
- 13:55Speaker 2: don't know.
- 13:58Speaker 4: I don't secondaries looked like the worst thing ever and
- 14:03Speaker 4: their D line looks all right, but I think their
- 14:05Speaker 4: secondary you can throw all over them. They was awful
- 14:07Speaker 4: northcause State was wide open on them. And another thing
- 14:11Speaker 4: is on the offensive side, you're not gonna Travis hun
- 14:13Speaker 4: to run as wide open as he was that game.
- 14:15Speaker 4: I don't know what kind of dements they running, but
- 14:17Speaker 4: he was just no one's within five yards of him.
- 14:19Speaker 4: You're gonna you're gonna bracket at him and make him
- 14:22Speaker 4: have people on all the time.
- 14:24Speaker 1: So let's get it into a little bit of the
- 14:26Speaker 1: scheme and the keys, the thoughts of how this game
- 14:28Speaker 1: is gonna go, so like we can we don't do
- 14:31Speaker 1: score predictions now, but Austin start with you, how do
- 14:37Speaker 1: you envision this game going? Just from a tempo standpoint,
- 14:41Speaker 1: I mean big plays? Is it going to be a
- 14:43Speaker 1: grinder game? Like where where do you see this game going?
- 14:46Speaker 1: And how do you want it?
- 14:46Speaker 2: It's gonna be.
- 14:49Speaker 3: Big plays early and then in a little bit of
- 14:51Speaker 3: a meat grinder. I think there's gonna be a weird,
- 14:54Speaker 3: little adjustment period where Colorado is gonna have some really
- 14:57Speaker 3: explosive plays that catch us off guard, and we're gonna
- 14:59Speaker 3: have a up more successful long drives that kind of
- 15:02Speaker 3: catch Colorado off guard, and then probably in the second
- 15:05Speaker 3: half is just gonna slow down because it's all right,
- 15:06Speaker 3: we've kind of figured out what's going on, but we
- 15:09Speaker 3: haven't quite solved all of the problems, and it's just
- 15:11Speaker 3: gonna kind of slow down the second half. It's kind
- 15:14Speaker 3: of how I feel it's gonna go. But the crowd's
- 15:16Speaker 3: gonna be insane in the first half, and depending on
- 15:19Speaker 3: the score, that could be even more in stee in
- 15:20Speaker 3: the second half, which will also lead to probably a
- 15:22Speaker 3: lower scoring game.
- 15:26Speaker 4: I think it's just gonna be a complete shootout. I
- 15:28Speaker 4: don't I think you're being able to throw all over
- 15:30Speaker 4: Colorado' and that's car I don't want it to be
- 15:33Speaker 4: like that. They don't want I can't see em why
- 15:35Speaker 4: they can win like a twenty to seventeen thirteen game.
- 15:39Speaker 4: They want to have a shootout to give them best shot.
- 15:43Speaker 1: So do you think it's gonna go that way? Dack Like, yeah,
- 15:47Speaker 1: see that. That's my fear because and what I've been
- 15:50Speaker 1: thinking about, I don't think we want to be in
- 15:54Speaker 1: a shootout because we're not used to playing that way,
- 15:56Speaker 1: Like like you said, we aren't used to now. I
- 16:01Speaker 1: think this offensive roster that we have has the ability
- 16:06Speaker 1: to potentially play that way and still have success. Obviously,
- 16:09Speaker 1: last year's team not a chance in hell. So maybe,
- 16:13Speaker 1: but I think we are just more coached to and
- 16:18Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call it a complete grinded out Iowa
- 16:22Speaker 1: football game, but more so that way, I think if
- 16:28Speaker 1: we want to win this game and do it with control,
- 16:31Speaker 1: it's gonna need to be a twenty eight to seventeen game.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I get scared when we start talking teams in the thirties.
- 16:38Speaker 1: I don't think that means we can't win the game,
- 16:42Speaker 1: but I think we want to have more control over
- 16:45Speaker 1: the clock, mainly just because we want to keep Shador
- 16:48Speaker 1: off the field, Like we just don't want him out
- 16:51Speaker 1: there as much as possible. He against North Dakota State
- 16:55Speaker 1: through for like over four hundred and fifty yards, and
- 16:57Speaker 1: I was watching that game and I was I just
- 17:01Speaker 1: didn't even I feel like he was doing a good job, right,
- 17:03Speaker 1: And then you start looking at the stat line and
- 17:04Speaker 1: then you actually start tying that back into their drives.
- 17:07Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, he just quietly put up, like
- 17:10Speaker 1: quietly put up four hundred and fifty and it's him,
- 17:13Speaker 1: but also a lot of his talent on receivers.
- 17:17Speaker 4: And he was just si in control of the whole
- 17:20Speaker 4: game and.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Their offensive line. People are saying not great, their run
- 17:26Speaker 1: game not great. What do you make of that? I
- 17:28Speaker 1: don't know. Like clearly, even when they were ahead late,
- 17:31Speaker 1: they still didn't want to run the ball. They were
- 17:33Speaker 1: using passes as their runs. Okay, that's fine too. Let
- 17:38Speaker 1: me ask you guys this, And while we're on Colorado's offense,
- 17:43Speaker 1: I have gone back and forth, but I think i've
- 17:45Speaker 1: in my opinion on this what how do you how
- 17:49Speaker 1: do you stop should do or Sanders? We're gonna stick
- 17:52Speaker 1: with him.
- 17:53Speaker 3: First pressure of the quarterback, you know, system, Yeah, that's
- 17:58Speaker 3: your only shot, don't get and by doing that, you're
- 18:01Speaker 3: not giving as much time to Travis Hunter and Jimmy
- 18:03Speaker 3: Horn to blow by your cornerbacks.
- 18:10Speaker 4: I think it's gotta get pressure on him. If you
- 18:11Speaker 4: get him all day, he's gonna sit back there and
- 18:13Speaker 4: pick you apart.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm I've still gone back and forth, but
- 18:19Speaker 1: when my my response is gonna be a mix because
- 18:23Speaker 1: here's what scares me about pressuring him. Keep in mind,
- 18:26Speaker 1: how many times did we sacked him last year?
- 18:29Speaker 2: Seven is something.
- 18:31Speaker 1: North Dakota State and I don't know how many times
- 18:34Speaker 1: they sacked him, but they were in his face a lot.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Shoulder is he is a talented quarterback and like Rually
- 18:41Speaker 1: even said, we're probably going and gets two of the
- 18:44Speaker 1: top five picks him being one. He is talented under pressure,
- 18:52Speaker 1: he can still make throws. So if we're gonna bullet
- 18:56Speaker 1: some pressure him, we gotta hit him and sacking obviously
- 19:02Speaker 1: we need to do that, but that scares me because
- 19:06Speaker 1: then you're gonna be putting some of our guys out
- 19:08Speaker 1: on islands. And with the quarterback that is good under
- 19:11Speaker 1: pressure and can step up in the pocket, he's still
- 19:15Speaker 1: gonna be able to make throws and he did that
- 19:17Speaker 1: last year even though he sacked him seven times.
- 19:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know you The flip side of that is.
- 19:24Speaker 1: What you guys argued and said, like if you don't
- 19:29Speaker 1: pressure him and we just rush three or four guys
- 19:31Speaker 1: every time, yeah, he's gonna have all day back there
- 19:35Speaker 1: to pinpoint and pickpocket our defense. Now, if their line
- 19:41Speaker 1: maybe isn't good, maybe we can still get pressure with
- 19:43Speaker 1: three or four guys potentially, but that at least gives
- 19:47Speaker 1: us more guys in coverage. We can't give him seven
- 19:50Speaker 1: seconds though back there, like if we can't get home
- 19:53Speaker 1: two and with three or four guys, yeah, we're going
- 19:55Speaker 1: to have to use more. So I it's gonna be
- 19:58Speaker 1: a to me, a very complicated defensive scheme this week
- 20:04Speaker 1: because you have to keep him on his post constantly.
- 20:07Speaker 1: I don't think we can stick to one thing and
- 20:10Speaker 1: say we need to we need to pressure him a
- 20:12Speaker 1: ship tone like That's what I've heard from a lot
- 20:14Speaker 1: of people. I agree with that, but keep in mind
- 20:17Speaker 1: how good he is under pressure. And when you do that,
- 20:20Speaker 1: you are taking numbers away on the back end to
- 20:22Speaker 1: guard Travis Hunter, another top potential top five pick. And
- 20:27Speaker 1: then the one that scares me the most is Jimmy Horn.
- 20:30Speaker 1: But they also got Lejohonte Wester and Will Shepherd like
- 20:34Speaker 1: they have guys other guys that can.
- 20:37Speaker 2: And Will Shephard killed us last year, right.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Jimmy Horn did do Yeah, I mean good. It's a
- 20:45Speaker 1: lot of these. It's not people say I'll stop Travis Hunter,
- 20:48Speaker 1: like if we can just stop him, put two or
- 20:50Speaker 1: put three guys on it, like try you can, But
- 20:57Speaker 1: Shadur is good enough to find a way to get
- 20:59Speaker 1: the ball. These other guys in space and if you're
- 21:03Speaker 1: putting two or three guys on one guy and then
- 21:06Speaker 1: you're only so if you do that, you're gonna run
- 21:09Speaker 1: the numbers. And if you're trying to blitz five or six,
- 21:11Speaker 1: you're you're running out of numbers. So it is going
- 21:14Speaker 1: to be a lot of you're gonna try this for
- 21:18Speaker 1: a while, and you might give up this, and then
- 21:21Speaker 1: you're gonna flip it, and then you're gonna give up
- 21:23Speaker 1: something different. But you have to keep him on his
- 21:25Speaker 1: toes and mixing things up defensively. I think Tony White
- 21:28Speaker 1: will do that. I think that's what's gonna happen. I
- 21:30Speaker 1: think that'll help us.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I think if I think, I think it's so important
- 21:38Speaker 3: that we live at the run game, though, I think
- 21:40Speaker 3: when you can, I mean last week, basically North Dakota State,
- 21:44Speaker 3: I don't want to say broke them, but it's like,
- 21:46Speaker 3: all right, you guys aren't running, so.
- 21:47Speaker 2: Then they didn't really have to worry about that.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Now, you know, you could argue that that opens you
- 21:52Speaker 3: up to big runs where you're kind of relaxed on
- 21:54Speaker 3: the run calls. But I mean they average two point
- 21:58Speaker 3: six yards of carry against North of State, and then
- 22:02Speaker 3: then you kind of know the passes coming, and I
- 22:04Speaker 3: think it helps her.
- 22:05Speaker 2: I think it helps them. How you can scheme that
- 22:07Speaker 2: back end.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think you got to start out
- 22:13Speaker 4: the game rushing four and if because you help that
- 22:16Speaker 4: gets home and then because that's the best way of garnerment.
- 22:18Speaker 4: If you get home at four, you can set back
- 22:20Speaker 4: those dbs and get more guys on to a hundred
- 22:23Speaker 4: and orn. But if it doesn't, you got to bring
- 22:25Speaker 4: five or six, then you could get in trouble.
- 22:29Speaker 1: It's complicated. That's why I'm wearing black. The black Shirts
- 22:32Speaker 1: need to show up because we need to find a
- 22:35Speaker 1: way to stop them and slow them down because we
- 22:37Speaker 1: didn't last year. Now, I think from Game two last
- 22:39Speaker 1: year to Game two this year, our defense has shown
- 22:45Speaker 1: a lot to us in a positive way of what
- 22:47Speaker 1: they were able to do. And I don't know. I
- 22:51Speaker 1: don't know how much we showed against UTEP, Like how
- 22:56Speaker 1: much of our game plan for Colorado was in that game.
- 22:58Speaker 1: We have no idea offensively or defensively. We also don't
- 23:02Speaker 1: on the flip side with Colorado and North Dakota State.
- 23:05Speaker 1: You'd like to think that Colorado is locked in for
- 23:08Speaker 1: that game, like you would think but we don't know
- 23:12Speaker 1: that either, So.
- 23:15Speaker 3: Just a lot.
- 23:16Speaker 1: The biggest thing that I said, defensively, we cannot beat
- 23:20Speaker 1: ourselves on blown coverages leaving guys are wide open. Like
- 23:26Speaker 1: if Travis Hunter is going to catch the ball, there
- 23:29Speaker 1: better be a guy sticking him on the catch and
- 23:31Speaker 1: he might make some miraculous catches that might happen, but
- 23:34Speaker 1: he can't be catching it. Same thing with Jimmy Horne
- 23:37Speaker 1: catching it and getting fifteen yards after the catch because
- 23:40Speaker 1: no one's near him. That also might It's hard too,
- 23:45Speaker 1: because then do you play more man or more zone.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I don't know. You play more man you got a
- 23:49Speaker 1: guy on him, someone's going to open up space. But athletically,
- 23:53Speaker 1: can we guard these guys one on one? Maybe maybe
- 23:57Speaker 1: Tommy Hill and Hartzog and Beauford, maybe these guys can
- 24:01Speaker 1: match up one on one with these athletic freaks. I
- 24:04Speaker 1: don't know. But that's the scary part with this offense.
- 24:08Speaker 1: And there's got Here's my thing though, and I didn't
- 24:10Speaker 1: watch a lot of Colorado football last year after our game,
- 24:15Speaker 1: there's got to be something that teams did later in
- 24:17Speaker 1: the year to slow them down.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Right, Pressure, there's pressure. Their offensive line is terrible. That's why.
- 24:24Speaker 1: That's what's hard with me. Though we got we got
- 24:26Speaker 1: pressure on him last week. They still torched this last.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Year, so as we turned the ball over seven times
- 24:30Speaker 2: in the red zone.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Basically there's more too, I think, I mean just the
- 24:34Speaker 1: simple word pressure the other team.
- 24:40Speaker 4: I got there at the end of the year because
- 24:43Speaker 4: the pressure eventually built up and he was he was
- 24:45Speaker 4: not as good as he was the beginning of the year.
- 24:47Speaker 4: They got to him and he was missing people. But
- 24:50Speaker 4: say it mostly was pressure at the.
- 24:51Speaker 2: End Trevins Hunter got hurt and was out.
- 24:54Speaker 4: Yep, not that the defense, but yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Their defense sucked, their offensive line sucked and added up
- 25:01Speaker 2: over the course.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Of a year.
- 25:02Speaker 4: They've definitely gotten better.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Are you guys saying that from speculation? Or do you
- 25:07Speaker 1: watch Colorado?
- 25:09Speaker 2: I actually watched probably four Colorado games last year because
- 25:13Speaker 2: I wanted to watch them lose.
- 25:16Speaker 4: I probably watched, oh, i'd probably say six or seven
- 25:21Speaker 4: of them.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Yeah, I just can't say, like I remember watching them
- 25:26Speaker 1: and saying, man, how is I don't know if they
- 25:30Speaker 1: played them even but how did how did Kansas slow
- 25:32Speaker 1: Colorado down? Like what did they do? Like I don't
- 25:36Speaker 1: I'm sure our coaches have watched all of that last
- 25:39Speaker 1: year to get a better idea of what they're doing.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Their offensive coach coordinator, I will say this is.
- 25:45Speaker 4: Pat Shermer, my boy.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Old Vikings Sea Where pop quiz? Where was he the
- 25:55Speaker 1: head coach at two NFL teams?
- 25:58Speaker 2: Cran's right, Giants?
- 25:59Speaker 1: Was the recent one? There's one from like twenty ten
- 26:02Speaker 1: to twenty twelve.
- 26:02Speaker 2: I think sounds like a Tampa Bay kind of guy.
- 26:06Speaker 4: No, No, where the heck was it? Oh shit, Colts, Nope, the.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Browns, everyone whose teams that Mills head coaches got.
- 26:19Speaker 4: He stucked on the Vikings.
- 26:22Speaker 1: All right, let's clip to the other side of the
- 26:24Speaker 1: ball here and talk about our offense going against Colorado's
- 26:28Speaker 1: defense and rookie of the week Dylan Royola. Congrats there.
- 26:33Speaker 1: They have a good job pointing that out. I would
- 26:34Speaker 1: have forgot. They have. Robert Livingston's their decordinator. He was
- 26:39Speaker 1: at the Bengals for a long long time and really
- 26:42Speaker 1: even mentioned how they've watched a lot of Bengals stuff
- 26:47Speaker 1: preparing for Colorado this year. So, I mean, I think
- 26:49Speaker 1: he's a safety from DB's coach for the last like
- 26:51Speaker 1: eight or nine years, they've run a multiple set. I
- 26:56Speaker 1: think it's listed as a multiple four to two five,
- 26:58Speaker 1: but you'll see a lot of different alignments from them.
- 27:04Speaker 1: Their line did not look they're gonna be better in UTEP.
- 27:08Speaker 1: I'll say that, like just strictly going off of Colorado's
- 27:15Speaker 1: Power five school, they're going to be better than UTIP
- 27:18Speaker 1: up front and the secondary. So they do prevent that,
- 27:22Speaker 1: but there are definitely definitely holes out there to capitalize on.
- 27:28Speaker 1: And as I'm watching the North Dakota State game without
- 27:33Speaker 1: getting the pen paper out and marking what plays worked
- 27:36Speaker 1: and what schemes worked, there were times I was watching
- 27:38Speaker 1: and going, I hope we're taking notes because that like
- 27:41Speaker 1: that got this guy wide open, or that motion got
- 27:45Speaker 1: them out of position led to this, And a lot
- 27:47Speaker 1: of times it was actually Shylinne Sanders that was getting
- 27:50Speaker 1: out of position and did not I think he played
- 27:53Speaker 1: great against So there's a lot, Like dak said, there's
- 27:57Speaker 1: a lot of guys open downfield. I think we can
- 27:59Speaker 1: throw the ball a lot. I don't know that we
- 28:01Speaker 1: want to. I don't know if we will. We might.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of unknown there and how
- 28:04Speaker 1: we're going to attack the Colorado defense. So what are
- 28:08Speaker 1: your guys' stocks. How do you think it's gonna go
- 28:12Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. Austin's argue, I.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Think we're gonna lean kind of like what we did
- 28:16Speaker 3: against UTEP, we were pretty balanced. I think we want
- 28:19Speaker 3: those longer drives. Like you said, keep the ball out
- 28:21Speaker 3: or should hear sanders Hans like, if we could have
- 28:24Speaker 3: another ten minute drive? I think we ruled sign up
- 28:26Speaker 3: for that in a heartbeat. I do think we're although,
- 28:30Speaker 3: but I do think we're gonna pass the ball quite
- 28:32Speaker 3: a bit. Just based off of the North Dakota State game,
- 28:36Speaker 3: it did kind of look like the passing game was
- 28:38Speaker 3: a little bit more favorable, and Dylan can really sling it,
- 28:43Speaker 3: so I think he's gonna want to use those big
- 28:44Speaker 3: body receivers downfield, tire try to tire out Travis Hunter
- 28:49Speaker 3: as best as he can on defense so he doesn't
- 28:51Speaker 3: impact the game as much. An offense, I definitely think
- 28:57Speaker 3: our offense is better than their defense, and it's gonna
- 29:02Speaker 3: I mean, we're already talked about with their offense. It's
- 29:03Speaker 3: gonna go down to their offense better than our defense.
- 29:09Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, well, I thought the d LAN would
- 29:11Speaker 4: be a lot better this year, and it did did
- 29:12Speaker 4: not impress me as North Coast State. I still think
- 29:18Speaker 4: you aired out that secondary like so awful. They were
- 29:21Speaker 4: so lost in that North Coast a game. I think
- 29:23Speaker 4: you can throw all day all over him. I mean,
- 29:25Speaker 4: you try to run the ball a little bit, but
- 29:26Speaker 4: I think your best betch is to air it out
- 29:28Speaker 4: all over him. I mean, you're sure you're getting the
- 29:30Speaker 4: ball back to the door, but I think your defense
- 29:32Speaker 4: can stop him more than they can stop you, Dak.
- 29:35Speaker 1: It makes me cringe like when you say that, because
- 29:39Speaker 1: I think you could be right, But like, I don't
- 29:42Speaker 1: want to get myself to go there.
- 29:46Speaker 4: You don't want a big twelve shoot out here.
- 29:49Speaker 1: I don't know. I just that scares me going that route.
- 29:52Speaker 1: But that might be the way to attack them. I
- 29:54Speaker 1: don't know. I guess another thing with Riola, is this
- 29:59Speaker 1: moment going to be I'm gonna say it too big
- 30:03Speaker 1: for him as a freshman. He hasn't shown any signs
- 30:06Speaker 1: that that's going to be the case. But we also
- 30:08Speaker 1: wholly seen him play one game in a spring game.
- 30:11Speaker 1: We know that he's played in a lot of big
- 30:12Speaker 1: high school games and has moved around the high school level.
- 30:16Speaker 1: We're gonna find out like it's going to be a
- 30:19Speaker 1: big game. And we did not see him force a
- 30:21Speaker 1: lot of throws, maybe a couple like we talked about
- 30:23Speaker 1: on Sunday, But is this moment gonna be big for him?
- 30:28Speaker 1: The same thing with shador I mean similar as as
- 30:32Speaker 1: he comes to Lincoln, like he's probably not gonna have
- 30:34Speaker 1: played in many environments like this ever no one has.
- 30:38Speaker 1: So what's the moment going to do to both of
- 30:41Speaker 1: these teams? And who is going to win the game
- 30:46Speaker 1: and who's going to lose the game? Which that goes
- 30:51Speaker 1: to say, like who's going to beat themselves and who's
- 30:53Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of that? I think that's what's gonna
- 30:57Speaker 1: come down to. And especially on special teams, turnovers, all
- 31:01Speaker 1: of that, we cannot beat ourselves like we've done year
- 31:06Speaker 1: after year after year after year. We didn't do that
- 31:09Speaker 1: against Utaph. For the first time in a long time.
- 31:11Speaker 1: It felt like we were efficient. We did what we
- 31:14Speaker 1: were supposed to do. Can we do it two games
- 31:16Speaker 1: in a row? That's the question.
- 31:19Speaker 3: It very well.
- 31:20Speaker 4: Maybe the winner turnover battle wins the game. That's what
- 31:23Speaker 4: I think will happen.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Are we welcome if you have yes?
- 31:30Speaker 2: Times did we passed the ball last year?
- 31:33Speaker 1: I think we had. We had to do a lot
- 31:34Speaker 1: because we were playing from behind. Probably thirty five. You
- 31:37Speaker 1: would think that maybe not. I don't know.
- 31:39Speaker 3: Seventeen twenty two fifteen turned the ball over three times
- 31:45Speaker 3: and Heiner Carver had six.
- 31:47Speaker 1: I just saw our first half drives was like punt, fumble, turnover,
- 31:52Speaker 1: on downs, interception, miss field goal, punt Like I was like.
- 31:55Speaker 4: Oh god, there's one time I just dropped the snap.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Uh.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Last question, we did it on the on the tailgate pod.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Who's getting the first snap at running back? Given Dowdell fumbled? Look,
- 32:12Speaker 1: the best is what? It sounds like pretty consensus from everybody.
- 32:15Speaker 1: Who's getting the first carry Johnson Dell. You can't just
- 32:21Speaker 1: say Johnson, Oh emit, I'm going down Dell think that.
- 32:29Speaker 4: I love that, But I think he won the job
- 32:31Speaker 4: for now.
- 32:34Speaker 1: We'll see it's a it's a committee running back still.
- 32:37Speaker 1: I think there's to me. I don't think there's a
- 32:39Speaker 1: problem with that, but we're gonna see how that plays
- 32:41Speaker 1: out here the next few weeks.
- 32:45Speaker 4: And I think this game better. He's quicker. I think
- 32:50Speaker 4: he fits his game style better.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Who corpor Dell. Dell's not quicker than the other dude.
- 32:59Speaker 4: He's that.
- 33:03Speaker 1: He was explosive, but no, he's not considered the faster
- 33:06Speaker 1: of the backs.
- 33:06Speaker 4: But I thought you'd like to play the group.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Ah, you guys don't want to hear my score prediction.
- 33:15Speaker 1: You guys go first.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Oh boy, Fuscar's twenty eight Colorado twenty.
- 33:21Speaker 4: Four, Nebraska forty five call to forty two?
- 33:30Speaker 2: Whoa you got Colorado winning? Don't you look at you?
- 33:37Speaker 2: You coward?
- 33:38Speaker 1: I was so I'm so fired up. I gotta I
- 33:41Speaker 1: gotta see his win a game, a big game. We
- 33:44Speaker 1: have not won one. We have not there's not been
- 33:47Speaker 1: a game that we won.
- 33:48Speaker 2: I was torn on this.
- 33:49Speaker 1: I really don't want this to happen. I want us
- 33:53Speaker 1: to win the game, I really do, and I think
- 33:55Speaker 1: we can. But my mind is preparing myself for us
- 33:58Speaker 1: to play so well well scoring control the clock, be
- 34:02Speaker 1: up twenty four to seventeen. Colorado has a ball with
- 34:06Speaker 1: two and a half minutes to go, driving down. They're
- 34:08Speaker 1: gonna score a touchdown, go for two inside ten seconds.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Fet Us by one five, twenty four Colorado. I'm just
- 34:17Speaker 1: getting oh my God in my heart ready it's already
- 34:22Speaker 1: like torn out, but I'm getting it.
- 34:23Speaker 4: Ready be here the next day. If that happens, my god,
- 34:27Speaker 4: no it won't at all.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Okay, a couple other items to touch on. We'll just
- 34:35Speaker 1: say it. We don't got to talk about it. Oof
- 34:39Speaker 1: for the lady. Yeah, oof, So I'll respond hopefully. I'm sure.
- 34:46Speaker 1: But yuck, Dak, yep your picks. You got thirty seconds.
- 34:55Speaker 1: You did not use all of that. There's some good
- 34:57Speaker 1: games this week.
- 35:00Speaker 4: Tough spreads, and I'm just gonna go on. I think
- 35:04Speaker 4: the brass seven half is insane. I don't and people
- 35:08Speaker 4: must be. People must be betting the Huskers because it
- 35:11Speaker 4: was Yeah, it was seven, So people are betting the Huskers.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a lot. I mean, I don't know.
- 35:19Speaker 1: I've heard some four to ten fourteen predictions. I just
- 35:21Speaker 1: I can't. I can't believe it. I can't see it yet.
- 35:24Speaker 1: I hope that I can't see it. All right, Dak,
- 35:27Speaker 1: thirty seconds around the clock when you're ready.
- 35:31Speaker 4: All right, ready, go all right. Texas Michigan over forty
- 35:34Speaker 4: two and a half, k State minus nine, Rutgers minus
- 35:37Speaker 4: twenty two and a half. Iowa, Iowa State over thirty
- 35:40Speaker 4: five and a half, the Navy minus twelve and a half,
- 35:42Speaker 4: Kansas minus five and a half, Wake Forest minus two,
- 35:45Speaker 4: a Force minus five, Tennessee mis eight Nebrass Card over
- 35:47Speaker 4: fifty eight and a half, Oklahoma over forty nine and
- 35:49Speaker 4: a half, Boys State nine plus nineteen and a half.
- 35:51Speaker 4: You Washington State minus two a half. Maryland mina s
- 35:54Speaker 4: eate Washington minus twenty four and a half.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Good job twenty five seconds. It's hard to listen to you.
- 36:03Speaker 1: The one I hated was the Iowa State. Iowa over
- 36:06Speaker 1: thirty five and a half. Have you seen these scores
- 36:09Speaker 1: the last five years?
- 36:10Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, I think I think I was. Iowa's offense
- 36:15Speaker 4: is better. Okay, you know, Broaba the worst takes everyone
- 36:19Speaker 4: sentis pockets is better.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Kirk Farris didn't coach that first game. He's coming back.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Their offense is gonna suck again.
- 36:26Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be it. And also that what didn't
- 36:28Speaker 4: look great that they just opened up at the end.
- 36:33Speaker 1: I don't know anybody down, but okay, survivors, I'm going
- 36:40Speaker 1: last this week.
- 36:41Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go first. I got Tledo over U Mass
- 36:45Speaker 3: minus eighteen, Virginia Tech over Marshall minus twenty and a half.
- 36:49Speaker 3: You uncover Charlotte minus twenty two and a half, Memphis
- 36:53Speaker 3: over Troy minus eighteen and a half.
- 36:58Speaker 4: All right, I got what I got, Wiscon beating South Dakota.
- 37:01Speaker 4: I did not put the spreads on here. Rutgers beating
- 37:04Speaker 4: akron A, and n Beatnique, McNeese State, Vanny beat Outcorn State.
- 37:12Speaker 1: You guys are going with some bigger names this week.
- 37:14Speaker 1: I kind of like it. What's tough. We don't have
- 37:18Speaker 1: spreads for a lot of the FCS schools, so like,
- 37:22Speaker 1: obviously we're not picking against the spread, we're just picking
- 37:24Speaker 1: out right winters. Give me Florida against Stamford.
- 37:31Speaker 4: I thought about that one.
- 37:32Speaker 1: Yep, give me Minnesota against Rhode Island. Give me Washington
- 37:41Speaker 1: against Eastern Michigan. I had that one, and give me, oh,
- 37:48Speaker 1: give me Stanford against cal Paly.
- 37:53Speaker 3: If it didn't have a spread. I had a bunch
- 37:55Speaker 3: of those, and I was like, if there's no spread,
- 37:57Speaker 3: I'm not risking it. I mean at least some other,
- 37:59Speaker 3: some other source, because I originally I thought about doing
- 38:02Speaker 3: wyom Ian and Idaho, but then after seeing Idaho last weekend, yeah,
- 38:08Speaker 3: that one.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I think we got a twelve different teams this week,
- 38:14Speaker 1: so I had some same lastic that'll make it a
- 38:16Speaker 1: little more fun.
- 38:19Speaker 4: I thought that's the only week I could use Bandy.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I have Bandy written down too. I didn't think
- 38:25Speaker 1: there's any other time to use Washington and Minnesota. Sure, Minnesota,
- 38:29Speaker 1: they might lose that game, I hope not. They can't score.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Florida scares me. Florida might just have folded in all
- 38:38Speaker 1: towels a little bit. But they can't beat Sanford. I
- 38:41Speaker 1: guess I deserve to get kicked out. But all right,
- 38:46Speaker 1: NFL Real Quick Super Bowl winner starts this week, starts tomorrow.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Give me a cheese, three.
- 38:54Speaker 3: P Give me.
- 38:59Speaker 4: Lions whoa.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Oh, I don't even know. Give me the Ravens they're
- 39:06Speaker 1: gonna lose this week, and then put it together a run.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Never bet against the greatest quarterback of an era.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Repeat, all right, huge game, biggest game of our lifetime
- 39:18Speaker 1: that we can remember. Go Regred, give.
- 39:21Speaker 4: Your Renmer sooner and six forty five a time as
- 39:28Speaker 4: Oscar game that