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Episode 6.40: A Winning Season · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast. The Huskers are seven and six,
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  Speaker 1: winning record for the first time. It's twenty sixteen Hunter's Arb.
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  Speaker 1: Nikki Austin Rose to Code of Free Tag. Feels good
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  Speaker 1: to say that coming off a Big Bowl game win
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  Speaker 1: against Boston College twenty to fifteen in New York City?
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  Speaker 2: Are you glad you didn't go? Hunter? If I pleasant
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  Speaker 2: to be there.
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  Speaker 3: I like, like the ugliest game ever.
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  Speaker 1: Huskers are glad that I didn't go?
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  Speaker 2: Is that why we won? That's the real question?
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  Speaker 1: Could be? Could be? Could be the weather? Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: looked looks fun to play, And fun is a very
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  Speaker 1: good term in my mind, because I like, I think
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  Speaker 1: those players probably like playing and muddy. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's fun to watch. It's kind of mucked.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say this when, like when you slide
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  Speaker 2: on the field for like five yards, that looks pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: There was there was one play where the guy caught
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  Speaker 3: the ball and slid like fifteen yards out of bounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. A lot to get to, uh specifically
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  Speaker 1: with the game, but I mean high level, big picture Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: It's seven and six in twenty twenty four, and leading
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  Speaker 1: up to the game, I was getting the here we
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  Speaker 1: go again of all the fans, saying, this game really
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's the first game of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So many players have left. You know, if we lose,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. We've gotten new coaches, they
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  Speaker 1: haven't had time to work with the players yet. And
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  Speaker 1: Nick Bot, I've mentioned before in love listening to his podcast,
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  Speaker 1: had a really good podcast and why the ballgame matters,
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  Speaker 1: and it does matter, Like it's a football game. You
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to go out and win. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to make excuses and say here's why it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. We did what we needed to do. We
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, dominated Boston College from start to finish,
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  Speaker 1: and one in New York City, which had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reasons behind it for some of our players and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Ruhle's hometown. So I just wanted to start out
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  Speaker 1: and saying like this game was important and for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, and who knows how long Nebraska, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could say Wisconsin, Nebraska has won a important game. Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: I guess this year two we won an important game
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  Speaker 1: and and a one score game. For that matter, it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a one score game, but.
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  Speaker 2: A game, and fully contract expires on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Do we just want to jump into that right away,
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  Speaker 1: because that's that's I mean, that's the negative, that's the top.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's really the only thing from this game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the weather impacted how it was played.
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  Speaker 2: He had some of the bigger players opt out for
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  Speaker 2: Boston College, so I think that kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: changed your perspective of baby how the game could have.
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  Speaker 2: But we also had players opt out, not quite as
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  Speaker 2: big as the a SEC Defensive Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean special teams is probably the thing that
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  Speaker 2: stuck out.
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  Speaker 1: So we can talk about I guess the season as
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  Speaker 1: a whole, the big picture conversation. I think that's one
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  Speaker 1: way of viewing. You know, you win a game, you
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  Speaker 1: go seven and six, what that meant for the season
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  Speaker 1: for next year. Let's save that for right now, and
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  Speaker 1: let's actually talk about the game itself like we do
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  Speaker 1: week to week, and specifically some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: could have an impact on the immediate future, which topic
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  Speaker 1: one here that I think is very very at the
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  Speaker 1: front of people's mind is at fully and Matt Ruhle
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  Speaker 1: even said there will be a massive overhaul or something
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  Speaker 1: like that in his press conference with the special teams.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go through special teams. We had everything blocked except
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  Speaker 1: for a kickoff, So that was good.
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  Speaker 2: No kickoff, Yeah, that was good. In the history of football,
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  Speaker 2: do you think a kickoff has been blocked? Is that
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  Speaker 2: even possible? It's illegal, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is a fine way to do it if
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  Speaker 3: they could.
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  Speaker 1: So didn't have that, But yes, pat blocked and a
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  Speaker 1: pump blocked the hunt that was successful, and then the
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  Speaker 1: fake field goal on the same drive that was not successful.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, overall, our special teams almost once again lost
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  Speaker 1: us the game when our defense came out and played
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  Speaker 1: very well, our offense did what they needed to do
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  Speaker 1: given the conditions, and our special teams almost blewed again.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where else you can point to besides
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  Speaker 1: just completely changing the entire philosophy with special teams. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: It's not like we've done or it is we've done
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  Speaker 1: this in the past. Like we have talked about how
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  Speaker 1: new coach we got to spend. Was it was this
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  Speaker 1: rule or was this frost where we started? There's the
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  Speaker 1: emphasis on special teams meetings, one hour meetings before everything.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was Yeah, so like we've done this
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  Speaker 1: whole Special Teams is horrible. Let's fix it. But I
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  Speaker 1: do think, unfortunately for Ed Fuley, I think it does
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  Speaker 1: have to start there in order to do a massive
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  Speaker 1: overall it does.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have fifteen extra weeks of practice. Now it
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  Speaker 2: was wet like the block pat it does. It did
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  Speaker 2: look like the ball slipped, but you can't have a
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  Speaker 2: block pat returned and a black punt in the same game.
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  Speaker 2: After it's like, hey, this is we really need to
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  Speaker 2: work on this, and you have fifty extra practices to
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  Speaker 2: work on it.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing that the block punt is you can't like,
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  Speaker 3: that's the one thing you can do in that like position.
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  Speaker 3: All you do is get that ball off and you
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna win that game. And that's that's the one
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  Speaker 3: play you couldn't do, is have that punt blocked. That's
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  Speaker 3: that just game life like it was over. If you
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  Speaker 3: pump that ball twenty yards old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we're up twenty to zero twenty two. Special
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  Speaker 2: Teams gives up. However, be any nine points no eight points? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess it depends on which one. I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: they scored the extra point on that so techicly, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you have nine points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they went for two, so they didn't. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, so technically it was eight. But yes, special
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  Speaker 1: teams not just plays that led to points, like actually
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  Speaker 1: points on special teams pretty much put them in the
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  Speaker 1: first single from the two or whatever it was. It's
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  Speaker 1: not good. So we don't need to spend forty minutes
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  Speaker 1: talking about special teams because I think there's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be many things we can solve here. But I think
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  Speaker 1: ed Foley, we're just trying to go a new direction.
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  Speaker 2: Next year, we'll have a new coach, we'll have a
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  Speaker 2: new hunter, we'll have a new long snapper.
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  Speaker 1: And what's funny is by the end of the year
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't the special lists. Maybe the long
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  Speaker 1: snapper ticker ended up being okay, Like John Hole was good,
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  Speaker 1: assuming it was John Hole in the uniform and not Maher.
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  Speaker 3: You had you had confidence at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: year that you come out, could come out make a
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  Speaker 3: field goal.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, especially after the Ohio State game and some of
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  Speaker 1: the kicks he made there and then our punting all year,
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  Speaker 1: like Boushini proved himself to be a very like.
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  Speaker 2: The black puns are Busini's faults.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny. We've gone back and forth on is
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  Speaker 1: it a special teams problem or is it a specialist problem.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've done that, everybody's done that. We've we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about how it's actually our kicker is the problem. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the coaches. Our scheme's fine. We just can't hold
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  Speaker 1: the ball, we can't snap the ball. And you know
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  Speaker 1: that might have been the case here, but at any rate,
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  Speaker 1: it's the players you have doing it and then what
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  Speaker 1: you're scheming behind it and it's not working. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: work again, almost costs us another game for once, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't actually cost us a win. We actually got the
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  Speaker 1: win on the at the end of it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that was big takeaway one. Probably the negative takeaway
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  Speaker 1: that everybody it's good talk about number two that I thought,
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  Speaker 1: it's very much worth talking about, especially after nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: about this, knew about this until really after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Was the Ramir Johnson story and everything that went on
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  Speaker 1: with him during the year. Nobody knew. We just all,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're chalking it up to injury, maybe didn't
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  Speaker 1: know why he didn't play, and turns out he was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of family stuff back in New
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  Speaker 1: York with his mom, and his mom ended up passing
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  Speaker 1: away in November, and we know nobody knew about that,
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  Speaker 1: even members in the team potentially didn't know about that.
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  Speaker 1: And for him to come back and do this in
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  Speaker 1: this game, I mean, it's it's a really really neat
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  Speaker 1: story and it's worth calling out, you know, real getting
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  Speaker 1: very emotional in the post game, and then Ramire getting
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  Speaker 1: named player of the game for the impact that he
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  Speaker 1: had and maybe not as overall best the yardage game,
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  Speaker 1: but it was like he got the first down that
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  Speaker 1: sealed the game, which we've never been able to do ever.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Ramiir Johnson, the fifth year senior that's
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  Speaker 1: been stuck with the program through the thick and thin,
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  Speaker 1: back at home in his hometown after a very very
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  Speaker 1: rough year, stealing the deal and almost you know, writing
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  Speaker 1: it off as Nebraska's comeback season for the future.
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  Speaker 2: It was that. Yeah, it was. It was a good game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the offense looked as explicitly wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: but you're it was very satisfying seeing Ramier, especially when
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  Speaker 2: they tell you that, you just feel good about it.
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  Speaker 2: And when he was the one who got the first down,
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  Speaker 2: he got the first touchdown, and I mean he's had
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: several injuries and he's been he like, I think we've
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  Speaker 2: all liked him the whole time. We're never like this
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  Speaker 2: guy shouldn't be on the team and we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see him get touches. There was a point in
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  Speaker 2: time where he was our starting and running back a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago, right, yeah, so very it was
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  Speaker 2: a good way to end the career, especially I mean
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  Speaker 2: even for like those other seniors, you know, Gifford and
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  Speaker 2: Robinson who had been there for five years and hadn't
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  Speaker 2: gotten to get the job done. And it's a good
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  Speaker 2: way to end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's that's thing about ball games is you can't
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  Speaker 3: tell me it doesn't matter, because it's it's a good
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  Speaker 3: send off for all those seniors and you could tell
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  Speaker 3: they cared like and then and then you have all
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  Speaker 3: the freshmen playing too, like a bunch of freshmen now
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  Speaker 3: with all the transform you get them reps like, you
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  Speaker 3: can't tell me that game didn't matter at all. On
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  Speaker 3: the offensive side.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The first of that game, I thought your offense looked
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: really good until that fourth quarter. I like, you're moving
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  Speaker 3: the ball well the whole game, I thought, I just don't.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys come away like impressed with your offense
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  Speaker 3: from that game?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I would say that, But I will
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  Speaker 2: also acknowledge the conditions. The field, Yeah, slippery, it was wet,
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  Speaker 2: which could just impact timing. The interception. You know, Banks
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  Speaker 2: was on the ground I assume because he lost his
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  Speaker 2: footing and then the ball was picked. It was a
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  Speaker 2: bad place to throw it there anyways.
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  Speaker 3: But well that that was the ugliest football field I
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  Speaker 3: saw in a long time, Like there was nouting at all.
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  Speaker 1: Like, So we went down that first drive and then
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  Speaker 1: threw the pick. One of the more impressive drives of
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  Speaker 1: the year was our second drive. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a fifteen play, seventy five issue yard drive and went
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  Speaker 1: down and punched it in Like I do. I think,
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  Speaker 1: given given the conditions, what we need to do for
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  Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, I mean it was a very solid performance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, statistically it was efficient. I mean we're average four
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  Speaker 2: yards of rush, completed seventy eight of our passes, like,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It was, and and yes, I at the end we
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  Speaker 1: finally sealed the deal. Did our offense get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit stagnant there in the fourth quarter? I guess. I
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  Speaker 1: mean the three and now in the block pot was
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  Speaker 1: not good. You know, we started at the one yard
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  Speaker 1: line to start the fourth quarter and got out of
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  Speaker 1: the at least the ad zone there, so that that
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  Speaker 1: was good and solid. At least I thought our offense
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  Speaker 1: did a decent job.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be an interesting off season when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to what this offense looks like with Dana next year. Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: and from some of the other things I've heard, like
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  Speaker 1: the emphasis on the off seasons is going to be
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  Speaker 1: him trimming up and losing fifteen to twenty pounds and
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  Speaker 1: being able to have the ability not not to necessarily
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  Speaker 1: run for fifty yards a game, but just be more
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  Speaker 1: elusive and evasive in the pocket. The end of the
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  Speaker 1: game was part of and from what it kind of
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  Speaker 1: sounds like, was it was Dylan just saying I'm pulling
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  Speaker 1: the ball on getting into keeping it like it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a design zone read. I don't know if that's actually
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  Speaker 1: true or not. That's just what I've heard was it
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  Speaker 1: was Dylan just saying, I'm gonna go, you know, make
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  Speaker 1: a play or read this and do it on my own,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: you know, sliding you could, you could say late on
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  Speaker 1: the first one. The unfortunlike personal foul on Boston College.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously their fans weren't happy. You don't throw the flag.
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  Speaker 1: Our fans aren't happy. It's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: I do think he probably slid late. I do think
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: that officials protect the quarterback more. I do think there's
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  Speaker 1: an emphasis on sliding late now and also an emphais
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  Speaker 1: on protecting the quarterback. And it was like right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of all of it, and we got the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of the call there. The next one just comes
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  Speaker 1: I think from playing more where it's third and two
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  Speaker 1: and he easily get picked the first down up, but
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  Speaker 1: he slides himself up and word yard short and we've
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  Speaker 1: seen that before. That comes with just doing it more
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  Speaker 1: in practice. So I think that's need it needs to
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  Speaker 1: It's not going hopefully does. It needs to be an
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  Speaker 1: added element of his game. But Dylan played a very
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  Speaker 1: very solid game as well at the quarterback position, made
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  Speaker 1: some good throws, managed the game very well. I think
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  Speaker 1: the only way to go here with this offense is
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  Speaker 1: going to be up after this year, hopefully go down.
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  Speaker 1: If it does, I don't I don't really know how,
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  Speaker 1: but it's on the rise with what we have and
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  Speaker 1: the pieces that we have coming in. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: say it's a good offense. Yeah, I guess potential, but
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  Speaker 1: it's got got to show it to us. And this
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  Speaker 1: game was again a very good display of the balance
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  Speaker 1: that I think Dana wants to play with. And we
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked about Emma Johnson yet either. How he had
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  Speaker 1: another very solid game is running back and affirmed I
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  Speaker 1: would say his spot as the lead rusher heading in
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  Speaker 1: the next year.
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  Speaker 2: It was funny watching the game, you know, the Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: media machine, you just expected something different, but it just
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  Speaker 2: this felt like the same team from all year. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. When I was watching, I wasn't like, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: this team feels it's different. It feels outside of maybe
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  Speaker 2: the EMMITTT. Johnson, like, hey, we're going to use this
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  Speaker 2: guy like he's a freaking stud, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: actually feed it to him offensively. It felt similar to
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  Speaker 2: what the last especially the last three games, but the
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  Speaker 2: whole year like they were. There was times where you
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  Speaker 2: were frustrated with the play call and what happened and
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  Speaker 2: how players behaved. But I mean, the one thing that
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: stood up to me penalties. I didn't I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It did not feel like we had a ton of
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: penalties on us. I could be wrong. We had six,
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  Speaker 2: but there was a couple there. It was all in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, but like the first three quarters are
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  Speaker 2: pretty clean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think the penalty part of it, I
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  Speaker 3: think came along with it. I think the refs let
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: them play a lot that game, like the d bats
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  Speaker 3: and wide receivers could just go adde all game. So
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: early in the game, nebrask got deep shot and the
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: should have called pass advanced on I thought, because the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: guy got hit super I can't I can't remember who
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  Speaker 3: that was. Anyway, they shot, But then they were consistent
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  Speaker 3: went the whole game. The REP. The rep is let
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  Speaker 3: both teams play. I thought, I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't think the record was bad.
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  Speaker 3: If you're gonna be consistent about it like that, I'm
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  Speaker 3: cool with it. But but yeah, they definitely are not
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  Speaker 3: calling past experances at all, like one bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, given the conditions and the situation, right
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know if i'd use the word consistent, but
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  Speaker 1: there were there were calls favored both ways for both
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  Speaker 1: teams at various points throughout the game. So there's not
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  Speaker 1: enough to go into the whole ref discussion again, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: how we think, you know, it isn't to get to
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  Speaker 1: play right. I think they've got a lot of plays
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  Speaker 1: wrong this game, but it was for both teams at
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: various points in time. So they did they let they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: let them play a lot, so I think offensively overall,
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  Speaker 1: like we'll see, we'll see what it turns into, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: it seemed like it was. It was they did what
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  Speaker 1: they need to do in the conditions. Flipping over defensive
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Very very very impressed with how
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the defense played. Really the whole game. Robi show, they're
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: running back. I thought he could have had a big
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: day and Boston College wanted to establish the wrong game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: They never could. He ended up ten carries, I believe
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: for twenty one yards and he had one carry for
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: eleven so on first down. I think I heard the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: stat that they averaged under two yards of carry on
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: first down. Like our defense came out and played and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: especially stopping the run and then you know, in a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: game like that, it is you have guys slipping over
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the field. It's hard to make accurate throws. Grayson James
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is he did a decent job at quarter back, but
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he's not He's not an elite guy back there under center.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Our defense played really well. It seemed like they could
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: not when they wanted to get a drive going, or
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they tried to or even they had a little bit momentum.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Then we stopped him on fourth down, and we stopped
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: We did that four times, zero for four on fourth down,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: which is an important call out.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And it is funny. If they had a field goal
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: kicking game, you know, they probably kicked those fields. I mean,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: they didn't miss a field goal early, but they probably
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: went in the game if they kicked the field goals
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: they couldn't. And then we stopped them on fourth down
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and they weren't even like I mean, they were short
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: fourth A lot of times. It was like fourth and two.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't like a fourth and long. So
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I was also impressed, but I mean it did. There
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: were some names like Donovan Jones. That was the one.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I was like, this guy, I don't know if I
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: saw you to play all year, Like, I have no
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: idea who this guy is.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He did convert from state to corner and basically played corner.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I think I heard over half the snaps, So we
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: expected that with this ball game of some younger guys
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: getting some some snaps, some plays. Your core, your solid
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: core though still played majority of the snaps. But you did.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: You had some guys stepping up and filling in because
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: they had to. Like, that's just the era and not
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: just Nebraska, right, that's every team in America playing in
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a bowl game. Now, you just you're gonna have new
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: people playing because of the transfer portal and people opting
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: out for the draft. So yes, credit to all those
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: guys that stepped in. I don't want to go through
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: name all of them because there's several, but they did.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: They did a very good job, especially on the defensive
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. And in Boston College, like you said,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: didn't have a kicking game the conditions, we did what
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: we needed to do to win that game. I never
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't think this game was going to be any
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: higher scoring than this day. Don't say no. Yeah, I think,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: along with a lot of other people that that were
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: climbing the points I just I didn't think that was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be like this. That's absence of the weather. The
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: weather just keeps it even mower scoring.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought after defense for that game with a
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: lot of transfers, I thought it was mostly like a
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Ben don't break defense. I thought Boston College was like
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: moving ball well most of the game. But I also
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: felt like they were in between the forties for a
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: lot of game, and then you would stop them right
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: when they would get there, like like they would get
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: the midfield, move up to midfield, and then you would
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: hold them every single time they got there. That's what
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: it felt like to me. I would come away very
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: happy that my defense played with having people left and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: stuff and new coach and.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I you feel good good going into
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: twenty twin five.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: You know your run your run defense is is the
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: main part I can't very impressed with because that's because
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: what they're what was the third or four string quarterback.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: He was their second string quarterback, I thought, the second string.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So that's coming in that game. You know, that's what
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: you're gonna try to stablish the run game.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: That they couldn't.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, I mean guys like Elijah Judy played a lot,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Vincent Shavers got the the black shirt this week, just
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: throwing out a couple. Keona Davis got some minutes. It's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be hard to replace Pie and Nash,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I mean it will. They were they were very You
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: want to talk about just blowing up. I mean that's
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: that was their job. Is how big of not even
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: without any of their skills set, They're just huge bodies.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So you know, feeling that Riley than Poppel got some minutes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I think those are the guys that you're going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: see next year filling in on the D line, in
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: addition to some of the transfers that we got in.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So it is it's what's promising, looks hopeful for the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: future for defense as well, with John Butler obviously going
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to be potentially some new things that we maybe aren't
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: used to or that we'll hear about. But Rule did
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: mention he doesn't want to doesn't want to overhaul the defense,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: which rightfully, so there's no need to with how well
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: they played this year. I want to talk about one
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: other thing about the game before we get big picture,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and that goes to just play calling in general. Some
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: of the you know, trick plays, the fakes, and I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: don't I don't have a right, right or wrong answer
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to this. This is a it's a bowl game with
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the announcers joke about it, like teams have extra weeks
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: prepare you put the things in your arsenal for a
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: bowl game. Who do you guys think? Like who's ultimately
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: calling these plays? Like where you know one? I guess
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: they're probably designed or created that you know, found from
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: other teams. You steal them, assistant coaches probably put them together,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: But like who's calling them? And that's on on all
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the trick plays. What's funny though, is the fan reaction
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to it all and the Twitter reaction, and I think
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it's so overrated. Like I'll just take one example in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the game that happened back to back. It was third
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: down and five, I believe, and we threw it twice
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in the red zone and everybody just exploded on Dana
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and how here we go had such a solid run
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: game going and then we went past pass We had
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a four third and five from wasn't on the goal line.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: We threw it and then I believe ran the fake
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: punt or something I can't remember. The exact situation, basically
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: threw it twice again. No, we went forward on fourth
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: down and threw it and that was a touchdown that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: we had on the wheel route to Emitt. So well,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it's funny. Is nobody bitched about that play call? Because
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it worked? And it's one of those things that if
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work, people complain. If it works, people don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: say it works. And that's the nature of play calling
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: when it comes to these trick plays. It's the same
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: thing that fake field goal works with Bushini, we are
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the most geniuses of geniuses for calling two fake special
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: teams in one drive because no one ever does that.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: That's an unheard of But because we didn't get it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and the design of it was what it was, why
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the hell would we do that. That's such a stupid call.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: If you're if you're gonna go for it, just go
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: for it. Like it's just funny. That's how people react
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to it. I I stay away from play calling in general,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like I just I avoid it because I don't think
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that that is necessarily the end all of the outcome
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the game. Now, the game planning and the scheming
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: behind all of it, and your identity and all that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: That stuff matters, But as far as individual play calls,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I just don't get into. And that's I think the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: average fan would disagree with that, because that's what that's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the easiest thing to bitch about as a fan. The
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: easiest thing is to watch a play say what the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: hell was that? That was stupid. It's the easiest thing
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to do. Dack. You do it all the time because
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you're just a casual fan of everybody. You just's that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: play call.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I so back that fake fund fake field goal. You
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: got to think like rule has a little bit going it,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Like the head coach going these ball games is definitely
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: helping on those play calls. Like you go into ball
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: games years laying out on the table and who gives?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Who gives a crap? Tried out? Yeah, like you said
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: about that fake punt though, so say you don't get that,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: everybody online is gonna be like, oh, that's the worst
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: play call ever. But now since you got its the best.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: But now I will say that fake field goal, that
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: was a terrible play call. You didn't get it, still
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: terrible play call, Bushini up the middle.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: If we would have got it would have been a
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: terrible play call. Yes, still, yes, it would have said that. Know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a single person would have said.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: That, I would would have said it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It would have been, oh my gosh, what nobody would
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: have ever thought Bushini would run the ball because he
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: said he never runs it. And what a neat moment
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for getting a senior you know, being able to score.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: That's what it would have been if you would sort
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he did.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: There's also there's also reason I didn't work. It's because
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: it was Machinie up the middle, Like, yeah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I didn't think. I honestly didn't think
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: anything of it. I was like, I wasn't even disappointed
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: it didn't work. I was like, well, well we tried,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you know, like it's.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's all here to me. Play calling and this comes
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: from the professional world that at least Austin and I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: kind of work in is risk and reward. I think
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: every coach in football, let's stick to football, has a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: different risk appetite. Man, we're getting into some heavy business
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: words here, but I.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Have a different here.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Their risk, your ability to take on more risk as
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a coach is different for every coach. Dak who's a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: coach in the NFL, it takes on a lot of risk.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, thank you, Like he's the one that comes
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to mind for everybody that Dan Campbell, you know what,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: He's just gonna do it. He's gonna take risks. And
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: what do dak what do people think of Dan Campbell
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: right now as a head coach in the NFL?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Awesome? But also also when you're down down seven the
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Bills kicking on side kick, like what are you doing there?
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Like people people go them on that one.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: But so I think I think what you kind of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: just said it, people's minds are all over the place
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: on for the most part. Now they're winning. So he's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a really damn good football coach. But we've seen the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: other side of it. When you're a coach like that,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that is a high risk, higher reward coach, and you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: don't win and it doesn't work, you look like the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: biggest idiot on the planet. The flip side of that
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is being ultra conservative. And if you just and I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: will say this is I think how Rule was coaching
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: for a while, especially on the offensive end. It's so
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: conservative that you don't give yourself a chance to go
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: win games. At the same time, you're not really ever
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: gonna get blown out, You're you're gonna always kind of
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: be in games, but we don't know how to win
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the big game. Tony White's defense I think was a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: little more high risk, high reward. I feel like what
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: we've heard with John Butler and bringing in the consultants
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: on the defensive side, it maybe he's going to get
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: dialed back a little bit. So my point to all
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: this is saying every coach has a different risk tolerance
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and what they want to do. If you're winning, it's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: always going to be better. If you're losing, it's not.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And when it comes to doing trick plays, it's kind
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of the name of the game. If it works, you
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: look like a genius. If it doesn't, it looks like
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you're an idiot. And it's just the reality of it.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It's if on those plays and in all the situations,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: can you I'll say it beat the number the statistical
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: stats out there probabilities of what you should be doing. Right,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: If you're succeeding better than what you should be, then
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you look like a genius.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Winning cures all it does. That's why we weren't upset
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: when we didn't get that fourth down the fake field goal.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: If we lose by a field goal. You know what,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: everyone's gonna be super upset about the fails fake field
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: goal a time.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Yep, I absolutely hate the win. Coaches go conservative, like
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I like today the Vikings game they Ken Un Kong
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: could have ran three straight times. You make the factory
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: us your timeouts, and city comes out and throws it, like,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: go out and win the game. Don't get the ball
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: back to the other team. Like that's what I always think.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I think you go out and win the game. You
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: don't give the other team a shot to beat you.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And see what's crazy is And I know which player
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: talking about. They threw it on on first down with twelve.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Levels yep, Like and I got that. Guys just slip
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: short of the first down.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: But that's right, don't execute it. You're what the hell
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: are you throwing the ball for? Yeah, I think that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of Husks fan you tie it
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: back to the old Nebraska days of running the ball.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Some some fans are still wanting to do that constantly.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: That's a very conservative style of play. But guess what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: if you have the better offensive line and the better
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: everything strength and conditioning program, you're perhaps I can't work
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're there and able to do that
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: right now. So it is just it is a big
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: scale of of what risk you're willing to take on.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And like you said, Austin, winning here's all. And that's
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: why winning this game, you still have it to win.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Like rule said, the last time, we'll celebrate you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: winning six games or seven games. But look at the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Iowa game. How much better we played for for three
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: point nine quarters of that game and lost, and all
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the good things that we did that game just got
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: completely overshadowed and shut down. And the I'm talking about
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the players and the coaches mindset, the ones people that
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: actually matter, not the fans who think they matter, but
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: we don't. The players and the coaches think about how
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: deflating that is that you play better than a team
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: for the game and you get beat because you can't
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: execute three little things. That's why winning is such a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: big thing and why yeah, like seven and six big
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: picture as we transition to that. I don't know what
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that everybody's minds are out, but guess what, it's a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: step in the right direction from last year. It's a
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: winning season.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: You you're going to the off season coming off a
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: win for the first time since how long. I guess,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Iowa you did.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Beat two years in a losing season.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, well I mean you don't.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So here's here's the big topic now, getting away from
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the nitpicky parts of the game and looking more big
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: picture offseason, and we'll have plenty of episodes to talk
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: about expectations and thoughts and winning the offseason national championship
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: for yet another year. It's all a matter of perspective
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: when you think about how the game's going so for
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the season or in the next year. If you were
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: looking at point in time when we were five and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: one going to Indiana and you would say, well, we
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: squeaked out a ball win to get the seven and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: six against Boston College, I think at that point in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: time you'd be like, what the hell happened?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, at that point in time, you were saying
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: we were gonna win ten wins.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for continuing to remind me that. I actually
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: got in my head to that point because I.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Just I just can't believe that happened. I remember, I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: just like, what is happening?
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Don't know that I thinking that, But directly after that,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: you're thinking, Okay, I'd be happy to win a BALLGAMEGA
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: in Spots College.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, so what I guess as we
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: get into this next talk, you have to think about
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it as a perspective of whe wherever you want to go, right,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: like the beginning of the rural era, would we be
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: happy with year two of a seven and six season
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: beating Boston College. Let's go, let's go to the beginning
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: of this year when our win total was seven and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a half game. We looked at our schedule and we
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: all took the under, and we all took the under
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: at seven. Well, the pre Bowl game the under. We
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: got six games, six wins, and then we end up
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: winning the ball game. Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Does that Does a bull game countant for your runner
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: on the win season?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: No? No, okay, but you know, think about it from
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that from that perspective, Okay, I still think you know,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: we all took the under. That was what we thought.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: But as far as what we were kind of hoping
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and a lot of Husker fans thought we I mean
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: several people I talked to we should get eight wins
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: this year and look at nine, we could even get
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the nine going is going into the year, yep, And
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you have, you have that, you have that lens or
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that frame, that perspective. Now, let's just even take the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: smallest perspective of saying, okay, post iowa, right, we're six
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and six, here's where we're at, and look at the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: outcome of this game and what it means for the future.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: You look at it from that narrow of a frame,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you're saying, Wow, that's great, Like we do have a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: lot of momentum, it's very positive. We won so many
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: good things happened. Yes, we almost flew it, but we
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: didn't like You look at it from that small lens
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: or small frame, and I think that's where a lot
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: of people sit, and a lot of people here on
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the media and other podcasts and shows, they are looking
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: very very small picture. I'm not saying that's wrong by
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: any means, but that's the reality I think where people
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: look at So it is all matter of perspective of
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: what you think and what you want, how forward looking,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: how past looking you look at a program, at a
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: team overall. So that that's my initial thought to lead
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: into this because I I think I have some other
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: things I want to say, but Austin, I'll let you go.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: So if we're going to talk. I was literally explained
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: this to my lines this weekend, where I was saying,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna be shipped for being excited for
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: a six and six football team playing in a bowl game.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, you know what, you go into
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: the year. If I had told you we blow out Colorado,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: we'd beat Wisconsin, and we win a bowl game, and
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: we'd beat Iowa, that would have been an incredible year.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And we lost to Iowa by three points as time expired.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like it was literally five seconds away
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: from being the great year two in that rule for me,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: for my expectations were I know other people had different expectations,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: but if you told me we killed Colorado, be Wisconsin,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: be Iowa, and win a bowl game, that's a freaking win.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And we almost did all of that. We got really close.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna let that ruin the year. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: think it was a good year. I think we made
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: good progress and the bowl game was good enough that
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: you're excited for what's gonna happen next year With the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: players we currently have.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: It's amazing how much this season went from like its
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: ups and downs. It was like so going before the
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Illinois game, you were on top of the mountain.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: And then after all that, I can't remember. Did you
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: win a game after Illinois?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, then we know we won.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: There was a it was like as team Illinois.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, not Indiana. We had a we had a
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: low game game in Indiana.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: After Indiana, it just hit rock bottom again, like by everybody.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: And then you beat Wisconsin and then one was like, okay,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: we're like, Nebraska is back everything. Then the Io game
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: happens in your rock bottom game, and now I don't know.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: After the ball game, you're like, yeah, it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Is a roller coaster, right of of emotions. And I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: will say, we're we're pretty used to that mostly negative emotions.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Awesome to your point about at a very common thing.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: We're excited about a ball game at you know, six
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and six, and okay, do you want us to lose?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Like this is just don't play it man. This is
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the exact like conversation of are you does this game matter? Right?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I get it, Like, if you want to zoom out
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and look at big picture, are you are you happy
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: that we went six and six? I would say probably,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: you know, giving your expectation level, I would say, probably
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: not like I you would you were hoping for more,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: But you're playing a football game. The game matters. You
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: want to win the game, so go win the game.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, your game matter. You should get excited invested.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: In the game. You're you know, people are fired up,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: like there's some energy in the program.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So now I'll reverse this on the flip side of this,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: now zooming out for this program, and here's the start
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: of the off season, official off season talk. All I
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: heard after this win and even while we were kicking
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: their butt, but then after too. This off season is
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: going to be the one of the biggest, most hyped
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: off season that we have in a while. I do
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: believe that with Riola, with Holgerson, with these new players
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that everybody's getting not just Nebraska, but we're gonna claim
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: that we have one of the better, more underrated recruiting classes.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Whatever we are going to be rated, whatever that matters.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: You know, the defense gonna get praise for how they
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: played against Boston coll I mean, it's gonna be a
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: very very hype to offseason. I think it's important to
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: just also remember, like Dak talked about the highs and lows,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I it there were there were points in this year
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: guys that all of us and fans and not just
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: us wave with all the fans, we were questioning the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: future with rule here and I'm not letting that go yet.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's at the same level that it
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: was pre Wisconsin, but you know, beating Wisconsin, playing well
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: against Iowa, but then losing that game sets you back.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: And then this game helps a lot too. But just
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I think this is a step that helps. But just
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: keep that in mind. It's not like we jumped from
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: last year to this year. Going you know, we guys,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: we haven't hit a win total that Vegas is set
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: for us in since twenty sixteen. Like we've been under
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that every year. So if you want to set that
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: as the expectation line as far as just the general public,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: which is probably inflated because of the Husker betters, but
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: it it is, we've hit the unders and so going
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: into next year, there's going to be the kool aid,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: there's going to be the hype. This will be one
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of the bigger spring games. We start the year in
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Kansas City in Arrowhead against Cincinnati. It's going to be huge.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I really need I think I say this every year,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: but I really need to see it from this team first,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and they have, they will, they'll the word will be
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: said that we have all the pieces. I've already seen
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Dylan Ryola throwing too, and they listed off, lifted, listed
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: off all the receivers and said with data holders and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: calling plays, yep, sign me up. I'm like, oh, boy, like,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: we're already saying we have the best receiving group ever
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska history, one of the best that we've had
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: in a long time. I'm like, based off of what
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: people like, what are we I get it? These receivers
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you want to say the cow guy is Sayah Hunter
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and Dane Key, Like, I get it, but good god,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: can we just like see it first? But that's what's
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be. That's what you're gonna hear. That's what people
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: are gonna talk about. That's part of being a fan.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I get it. But I'm just saying for myself, all
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of the recruiting and stuff, I'm just like, great, let's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: see if we can develop them and put them together
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: in the right places two win football games. Like with
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the schedule that we have next year, which just came
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: out and once again now looking at it looks pretty favorable.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: So I thought this year, yep, we did. You're right,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: that's that's exactly right, and that's the that's the frame
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that you want to say, like the beginning of the year,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: look at our schedule, we have an easy schedule. We
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: should we expect to win? What well? I would say
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: going into that we probably didn't meet that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yep, I will say it's gonna be interesting because next
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: year we go. We're going in with different questions. Right
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: this year was is del real actually as good as
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: we think he's gonna be? Can the defense maintain.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: We go to that first question, answer that Dak.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I'd say, Oh, answer that Dak, Dak to.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Star, then you can go mmm.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I would still go an offseason with a low question
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: about him.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, what question?
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Like I don't think he didn't prove that he's absolutely
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: amazing this year at all.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Like I don't even know.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: He can't thirteen touchdowns, eleven picks, like there was no
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: game this year. I think that he completely took over,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: like just dominate the whole game at all. I think,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: I mean you can say he's a freshman. I think
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: you still got toe a little bit more out of him.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: But that's what I think. And like you said, like
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: you said about losing losing weight, I think I think
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: he needs to do that too coming off season. But
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: I was I was not blown away all this year by.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Him, not at all, no movements.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: I would like, what, how can you walk away that
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: year being like he did an amazing season.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying an amazing season. I think what we
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: found out. I think we found his floor, and his
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: floor is good enough to win eight football games at
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: least seven.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Didn't he have a stretch there though, where he had
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: one touchdown, eight picks or something like that.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: I know, but also you have to look at the
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: totality of the games. I'm not saying he's perfect, but
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I think we found his floor. I don't think it's
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: gonna get worse.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I like this because going into the year, the question
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: was was Dylan Royala what we expected? I would say
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: he was right with what I expected, like.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: A freshman talented, a talented freshman with blemishes.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: But I would say my expectations are probably lower than
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the general Husker fan. I also say I'm probably evaluating
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: it lower than a general Huskar fan too. How they
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: would say he did Dak. I think your perspective is
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: very interesting and how you think of it, like you're
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: looking at it almost purely from a stat perspective and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: a production standpoint, And Austin's right that you can't just
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: look at that. You have to look at the totality
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: of it. But it's still is the results, like the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: production is the production, and we still won six games
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: regardless of what it was. I think the Dylan Royola
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: saga or the Dylan Royola story here obviously has a
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: lot of pieces left. I will say I was one
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: that didn't think he'd probably be here after a year.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I remember talking about that last offseason when we got him.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't think he's going to make it past a year.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: That's still not finalized, but it's looking pretty likely. It's
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: back I thought transfer portal was coming if we had
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: a six and six year. So in that sense, credit
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Rule and staff for keeping him here. Now, if there's
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: question marks about Rule about him in general of being
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the leader in the direction of the program, which maybe
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: some outsiders like Dak said, maybe there's still reasons the question.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I think Hustmer fans would say, you'd be a fool
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to think that based on what he's able to bring
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: in in addition to what he can potentially do on
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the field, I do think he can be maximized in
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: a system if it's done right. I don't know what
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: that is. I don't know. I don't know if Dana
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: is the answer. You're going to hear that Dana is
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: the answer and it is going to be better with him.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: But I do think Austin your point about before we
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: did see that, and there's no guarantee that that doesn't
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: come back next year and we see that again if
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: things aren't better and the system is not better. I
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: think a lot of what we saw this year was
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the product of him being a freshman, which I think
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: sometimes can be an excuse, but also reality and his
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: big moments is a product of his talent that he
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: has and is arm angles and his ability. He does
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: have a lot of that there, but it needs to
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: get put all together in a system and with players
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: around him for it to actually shine for four quarters
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and for twelve games in a season, which we didn't
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: see this year. So I think going into next year,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: my expectations aren't much different, Like, we now know what
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: he can do, but there's a lot of things that
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: need to get better, and a lot of that maybe
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: isn't his technical abilities, but losing weight is one thing
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: that he can control and that can only help him.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think losing fifteen pounds is
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: going to make him. Now, watch what happens. He'll lose
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: fifteen pounds and he'll look like he's throwing ducks next
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: next year. I mean, he shouldn't happen. But you know
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: what I mean, I think that's that's where Royola is at.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: And I think he is a big piece for I
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: don't think he's a big piece. He is the piece
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: for rule at Nebraska for it to work if Rayola
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: gets pissed and leaves.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's our best recruiting thing right now. The
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: only draw, I should say the only draw, but he's
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: pretty close to the only draw.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: That's why the rule Holgerson Riola triangle is either going
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: to work or it's all gonna fall apart. Like that's
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: that's just what's gonna happen. So we'll see what happens. Like,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I did not expect him to be here this year,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: especially when we if you were told me we won
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: six games I just thought he'd be like, Nope, I'm
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: better than this. But because he's because I think some
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: of those games you can look back to and say
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: that is on Dylan, a couple of missthrows him not
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: playing well. That keeps you saying, okay, I do have
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: a part in this. I need to be better. So
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: in our defense was good. If our defense was shitty
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: and we were scoring thirty five points a game and
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: we have one six games, see yeah, but that wasn't
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I agree. I mean yeah, I said, I think we
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: saw the floor. I don't think the stats tell you
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the whole story. And I think he's he's put in
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of energy into recruiting people to come here,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Like I think he is now invested in the team.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Not as much as Rule obviously, but he has brought
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: in a lot of people that he wants to be here.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: He's at least bought in with Rule being like, I
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: will put myself out there for you for these So
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I think he is. He's in.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Now. When was the last time going in the off
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: season though, you've had a quarterback where you're like, Okay,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: we're pretty confident that we want have a problem of
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: the quarterback position.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Last year.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, besides like like that you saw on the like, I'm.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Thinking actually from a previous season.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: It's been Ariane was running right, Yeah, I mean that
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: was that long ago.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it feels long ago.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Like you guys not worried about Raila one big on
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: the next season.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Not he is not high, he's not not on the list.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: But I have the same hesitations of him not being
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: able to scramble and still making young mistakes, like yeah,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I have I have. I have the worry that we're
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: gonna hear oh, he's only a sophomore next year, like
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: that's what's probably what's gonna happen, which is really will
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: be an excuse next year. I don't think that you
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: can make that anymore with his ability. But that's the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: worry I have, is that he's still going to show
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: signs of inexperience. But I think that there.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Wasn't ever a game this last year where I was like, man,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Dylan really lost us that game. Sure, there was the
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Illinois game where we didn't get that, but I'm not
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: going to be holding to a couple of mister as.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: But there wasn't a game where it was like, Dylan
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Moss is that game right? No, like everything was wrong
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: against Indiana. That's not just him.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: No, that No, that definitely wasn't it.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Iowa. There's but again several issues, and there wasn't. I don't.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like Dylan's the one who lost the game.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: I also had the factor in you had a guy
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: dumb as rocks calumn your plates half the season. So
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: maybe way speaking that he came out of the season
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: with one good thing.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: No more Saturn Field.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he's still on the ross.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: He's still on the Yeah, okay, he's still in it.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know how, but Andy's still getting paid the same.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I heard that. Oh god, that's insane.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: See come out with probably the greatest thing you could
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: have all season three by him as a gros see anymore?
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm sure there'll be a lot of football
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: offseason talks still coming forward. I do want to talk
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: and congratulate the Huskerman's basketball team on their diamond had
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Classic Tournament championship, first time since when DAK.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty eight, right or something like that, seventy eight.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Nope, that was Oregon State.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I texted I text these guys, because when they say
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: in the broadcast is like they're talking about the game.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, this is the last time it ended
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: up being States, Like last time the Huskers had one
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: of in season tournaments in nineteen seventy eight will being
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Oregon State. But same thing.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I believe it was like the early two thousands might
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: even been a year two thousand for Nebraska. Uh we
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: beat Oregon State the championship. The defense showed up to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: play for three games this week, and that that was
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: the big story. In addition to Bryce Williams and the
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: numbers that he put up against these teams. Bryce has
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: recently looked like the guy that we said we need
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: someone that just takes charge of this team and when
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: we need to get buckets, when he need somebody to
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: step up, regardless of how he's been playing in the
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: game leading up to the moment, he needs to shine
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: in the moment, and Bryce has done that as of
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: recent It's big for this team, and this team's fun
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: to watch. Just like last year's team. We don't have case.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I thought that was gonna really just make this team
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: a lot less fun to watch. But something about the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: way we play for each other, and defensively especially, we're
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: so together.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's such classics orban to keep basketball it grine, it.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Makes you, it makes you, it makes it fun to watch,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: and offensively against lower scoring but we we take smart shots.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: We have a system that we're built around. The only
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: caveat with all of that, I don't know who we've played.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Of work, we played Creighton. I don't know how good
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Creyton is. We obviously, I think Oregon State could be decent,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: don't know that for sure, but I have not. I
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: did not watch a minute and I don't even watch
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: a highlight. I don't It's like that game didn't even matter,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: that Michigan State game, Like I didn't even get played
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: because I don't even know. I know it was bad.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't even look at the stats, didn't even look
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: up look up the box any I don't even know
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: what happened that game. So take that into into account.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: But this team has a lot of potential to get
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: to the tournament and win a game, which is not
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: something I was probably expecting after losing rank and case
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: from last year's team. But here we are talking about
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: what we have to do to get there. Non conference
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: is pretty much over Southern University tomorrow night on December thirtieth,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and we're in a conference play and I don't think
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the story has changed. Non conference. We did what we
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: need to do, maybe even a game better than what
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: we needed to do, or we're thinking we were gonna do.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Now go five hundred and conference play, which is where
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: we're sitting at right now.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: One and what yep, I agree that I'm surprised. I
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: really I was gonna it was gonna be a lot
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: more disappointed. I sick this to do. Okay, but you're right.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Bryce is just he took the reins and he looked
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: really freaking good doing it.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: This isn't the most talented team in the world, but
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: they completely bought into how they're going to win games.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: Like you to count the great out games on defense.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Your offense is not not great, but it's at least
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: you have one player that you can rely on those
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: games to carry you through a game when you get
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: through slumps.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: Here's here's the thing. On offense. I think we have
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: the pieces still. Now, you're right, I don't know that's better.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: We have a bunch of talented players. But Connor season
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: finally it's just a knockdown shooter again like what we
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: were hoping he could be. Shouldn't say again, but he
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: he is filling that case a role where when he's
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: on the court, you have to know where he's at
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and you have to guard him. That wasn't happening early
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: in the year. We were worried about that. Juwan Gary
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: has done Juwan Gary stuff. Andrew Morgan randomly will just
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: go off for twelve or fourteen points in the like
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: a guy like that. That is a piece, that is
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: an element that you have to prepare for. Here's what
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I hope is that we haven't not that we've intentionally
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: done it, but shown all of our cards right already
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: on offense and the books out, because that if teams
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: figure out how to guard this there a certain style
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: and what people can do, then it's scary. So we
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: have to just keep evolving and hopefully we see some
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: things from different players that we haven't seen yet before.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: You know, guys like Raleigh Wooster, like I know he's
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: not an offensive threat, but is there a way, Is
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: there a part of the system that he can give
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: us ten to twelve points a game somehow that we're
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: not expecting you know, can Gary have the night that
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: goes off for twenty five or thirty because that's just
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: what Juan Gary does. We're hoping that he probably can
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: you know, is Sam and and or mainly Sam, like
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: because now Goggles isn't playing much anymore. You know, can
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Sam come in and have one of his twelve point
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Sam Hoiberg spurts of defense and hitting two open threes,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: which we really haven't seen yet this year. Like that,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: we need to hopefully have some cards left that we
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: can still show when we get to Big ten play.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: But so far things are clicking right now, and which
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: is where you want to be ahead Nick heading into
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: conference play.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. The women did just get smoked,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: but you know that'll happen to.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Number one team in the country.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: That all happen to.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Ye, all right, Well, have a good new year.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: One one more thing before we leave. In the season
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: grade for the Huskers football team.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Gut reaction without any sort of analysis be m.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: C minus, okay plus back middle of the road.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: I would say, my but I guess we can talk
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: about it what we do our full year.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: I just want to quick gut reaction in the season
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: right there.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Great that great cliffhanger for next Sleep episode.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Great job.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Just wait, that's why I came here. That's gonna be
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: like the reason I gave is a B plus for
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: the end of season grade.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Don't forget what he said.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: You know I got the Huskers at a minus.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Happy New Year.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Everyone go bick red if you are school, no vikings,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: And do you want to say anything about the Navy
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: midshipman Noah.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: We we lost that game for America.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: M h.