Latest / Return to Glory - Nebraska / Episode 6.10: Game Week Preview -- UTEP
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- 0:00Speaker 1: H Return to Glory podcast day.
- 0:21Speaker 2: The longest week of the year. That's for damn sure,
- 0:25Speaker 2: Hunter's arm Nicky Austin, Rose, Dakota, free tag last preview
- 0:30Speaker 2: episode before you tap.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Guys, we're here.
- 0:35Speaker 4: We made it. Thank god, finally that's true.
- 0:40Speaker 5: But it is. It has been a long week. Luckily
- 0:42Speaker 5: there was a volleyball game last night that helped. But
- 0:44Speaker 5: I do not disagree. It felt very long.
- 0:47Speaker 4: I'm just waiting for tomorrow. It's been the longest four
- 0:49Speaker 4: days ever. What's tomorrow? North Goest State, Colorado, Minnies soother
- 0:56Speaker 4: of North Carolina.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Outcited for your OWU Temple game on Friday.
- 1:03Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but this this day's first. I'm yeah, that's
- 1:07Speaker 4: gonna be fun.
- 1:09Speaker 2: I said last preview pod, but that we can't forget
- 1:12Speaker 2: our tailgate pod Saturday morning.
- 1:14Speaker 3: That's right, got going last year.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Got some good feedback on that, so we will have
- 1:19Speaker 2: a short little podcast Saturday morning. Austin, if you're ever
- 1:23Speaker 2: in town, I'll let you know jump on down.
- 1:27Speaker 5: In laws are in town this weekend.
- 1:29Speaker 3: So wow, that was not a very exciting.
- 1:35Speaker 5: You know, it'll be it'll be good, but it's not
- 1:37Speaker 5: quite the same as a tail.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Hope your wife isn't in the room, but they're.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Not from Nebraska, so she understands.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Well.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Is YouTube YouTube you tap the Miners preview episode, So
- 1:54Speaker 2: we're gonna spend a lot of time talking about coach Scottie.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Already.
- 2:00Speaker 2: For guy's first name, it's Scotty name sorry, last name
- 2:04Speaker 2: Walden Scott. I had that written down, Scotty Walden, not Waldron.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Will then man uh And he's thirty five years old.
- 2:16Speaker 2: I do know his age. He's a young pup at
- 2:20Speaker 2: UTEP coming over from Austin P. So overall we're gonna
- 2:25Speaker 2: see a mix of both Austin P transfers a lot
- 2:29Speaker 2: of those guys coming over in some previous UTEP players
- 2:32Speaker 2: and Rule spoke on how that does make it difficult
- 2:36Speaker 2: to watch and find stuff about them as you're scouting prepared,
- 2:41Speaker 2: and you got to go watch some clips on both
- 2:43Speaker 2: teams and figure out their system, but then also look
- 2:45Speaker 2: at some of the players and and what they're doing there.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Game highlights are on YouTube from Austin P.
- 2:53Speaker 2: I watched them lose on a last second field goal
- 2:56Speaker 2: to Tennessee Chattanooga earlier today.
- 3:01Speaker 5: Indeed, what is the Austin P mask.
- 3:08Speaker 4: I'm never I never go that deep the Austin p pirates, right, No,
- 3:14Speaker 4: there's something with magicians. There's something with.
- 3:18Speaker 2: The magicians, the governors, dak you know anybody that has
- 3:24Speaker 2: the mask of the magicians.
- 3:26Speaker 5: Have you ever heard of the Orlando Magic Magicians Wizards?
- 3:33Speaker 2: Uh?
- 3:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 3:35Speaker 2: So Scotty Walden, the head coach Rules, spoke highly of
- 3:37Speaker 2: him in the press conference and ruled does a good job.
- 3:41Speaker 2: I think of talking other teams up regardless of what
- 3:44Speaker 2: he thinks and how the game is going to go.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Where we've heard the opposite and putting targets on your
- 3:50Speaker 2: back for sure from some of these lower teams.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Thanks Scott Bross, Thanks Georgia Southern.
- 4:00Speaker 2: So it'll it'll be a I'm not gonna call it
- 4:04Speaker 2: a warm up game, but a good way to start
- 4:06Speaker 2: the season compared to what we have in the past.
- 4:08Speaker 2: We've talked about that a lot, how we've opened the
- 4:10Speaker 2: year against conference games, but not only that, we have
- 4:16Speaker 2: not been at home to open the season twice time.
- 4:19Speaker 5: A favorable opening game, not a warm up, but it's favorable.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Favorable, it's a good way of raising it.
- 4:24Speaker 4: That's probably one of the worst teams you've played in.
- 4:26Speaker 3: A while, I have no idea, to be honest, that's
- 4:31Speaker 3: I mean, that's a fair statement.
- 4:34Speaker 5: I think new head coach.
- 4:37Speaker 4: I mean, who did you play a couple of years
- 4:38Speaker 4: ago that you almost love? They are Greek North Dakota.
- 4:42Speaker 4: You guys, damn you're lost of the Like I went,
- 4:44Speaker 4: it wasn't a quaint flat game, but it was too
- 4:46Speaker 4: close for North Kota and that they this team would
- 4:49Speaker 4: match up against them, I think, yeah.
- 4:52Speaker 2: It was, it was close early on. I think with
- 4:54Speaker 2: a lot of these teams. You have to remember too,
- 4:57Speaker 2: and it's got talked about a little bit, is they
- 4:59Speaker 2: get paid aid to come play these higher teams and
- 5:02Speaker 2: utef's getting paid.
- 5:03Speaker 3: But at the same time they're not. They have motivation
- 5:06Speaker 3: to win still and they want to win.
- 5:08Speaker 2: This is an environment that they never get to see
- 5:11Speaker 2: and at their levels, so they're.
- 5:14Speaker 3: Gonna come and play to win.
- 5:15Speaker 2: And a lot of times you can see game plan
- 5:18Speaker 2: strategy early on keeps these teams in close.
- 5:21Speaker 3: And I'm expecting.
- 5:22Speaker 2: That could happen a little bit Saturday, but you hope
- 5:25Speaker 2: that over the course of the game with a lot
- 5:28Speaker 2: of possessions which will get to what they run on offense.
- 5:31Speaker 3: I think it'll play out in our favor.
- 5:34Speaker 2: And that's what happened in that North Dakota game, like
- 5:35Speaker 2: Dak said, and that's what happened in Tennessee Austin p
- 5:38Speaker 2: last year when it was six to six in the
- 5:39Speaker 2: second quarter, and then the better teams just slowly keep
- 5:45Speaker 2: grinding away and that lead grows. So we are twenty
- 5:47Speaker 2: seven and a half point favorites. Any thoughts on the line, it.
- 5:53Speaker 5: Feels about right. I think you're not going to run
- 5:56Speaker 5: up any more than that, but it's not unrealistic to
- 5:59Speaker 5: think that. You know, if we put up forty nine points.
- 6:04Speaker 4: With these with these shitty teams, they come out playing
- 6:07Speaker 4: guns of blaze, and so usually keep it close beginning
- 6:10Speaker 4: and then like you said, they pull away at the end.
- 6:12Speaker 4: I don't know, twenty seven and a half. It also
- 6:15Speaker 4: depends on if you're just kicking the shit out when
- 6:17Speaker 4: you pull your starters, you'll be close to that.
- 6:22Speaker 5: But you're probably up twenty eight points of you're pulling starters, yeah,
- 6:28Speaker 5: or late in the game when you're up seventeen with
- 6:31Speaker 5: even then, I don't know.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Like Dak said, we haven't done that recently, so we
- 6:35Speaker 2: really don't know what it's like, uh, all right, well
- 6:42Speaker 2: let's jump in UTEP offense against our defense. And I've
- 6:48Speaker 2: just because it's week one and this is where all
- 6:51Speaker 2: the hype goes in the excitement. I've read a lot
- 6:54Speaker 2: about him, or tried to read a lot about them.
- 6:56Speaker 2: There's a lot of videos coming up on my x
- 6:59Speaker 2: feed that include their head coach and players talking about
- 7:04Speaker 2: a lot of our.
- 7:05Speaker 3: Players, similar similar, similar defense.
- 7:09Speaker 2: They they speak very highly of us, as I guess expected.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I don't know what what else do you expect out
- 7:17Speaker 2: of that? But world knows. Scottie Walden it seems like
- 7:24Speaker 2: fairly well. He's obviously a younger coach looking to build
- 7:29Speaker 2: his resume and and move up in the coaching ranks.
- 7:34Speaker 2: This UTEB team was not good last year. I think
- 7:36Speaker 2: they were. I should have wrote this down, but I
- 7:40Speaker 2: that was gonna be my guest. So it's not gonna
- 7:46Speaker 2: be a great team on offense. We don't know what
- 7:48Speaker 2: to expect really, besides what we've seen them run at
- 7:51Speaker 2: Austin p and and what they have for talent wise,
- 7:54Speaker 2: all the way up to the point we don't even
- 7:56Speaker 2: know who they're going to start a quarterback, whether it
- 7:58Speaker 2: be their six one junior K McConnell or five o't
- 8:02Speaker 2: eleven sophomore Skylar Locklear. And they're probably not going to
- 8:05Speaker 2: announce that. That's maybe part of strategy. I don't know, McConnell, why.
- 8:15Speaker 5: That coming in here? You ten?
- 8:17Speaker 4: From what I read their start, McConnell.
- 8:20Speaker 5: All right, I take you a bible, as.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I did see.
- 8:26Speaker 2: They're probably both expected to play, but we don't know.
- 8:31Speaker 2: So there's there, there's strategy behind it. I think, I
- 8:34Speaker 2: mean the other side of the ball when we get
- 8:37Speaker 2: to it. Heinri Carberg got mentioned by Sadderfield this week
- 8:41Speaker 2: of playing and I think there's a little bit of
- 8:45Speaker 2: I don't know, media play on words that you hope
- 8:48Speaker 2: or does don't hope the other team takes a certain way.
- 8:51Speaker 3: I think coaches do that.
- 8:52Speaker 2: I I think they have enough time to think about it,
- 8:55Speaker 2: especially for the first game. So we don't know who
- 8:57Speaker 2: we're going to see at quarterback. I also don't know
- 9:01Speaker 2: much about either one of them, but from the offensive
- 9:04Speaker 2: scheme that I saw, it's gonna be a very fast paced,
- 9:08Speaker 2: fast tempo a mix of run and pass.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Is not gonna be heavy either way. From what they ranted.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Austin p actually some of their bigger plays that they
- 9:17Speaker 2: had in that game I watched were big run plays
- 9:20Speaker 2: that broke through. And they brought Javon Jackson, that the
- 9:25Speaker 2: junior running back from Austin p He's the projected starter
- 9:30Speaker 2: to get most of the touches on Saturday. Ezelle Zel Jolly,
- 9:38Speaker 2: a freshman's protected to be his backup. So run game
- 9:44Speaker 2: gonna be I think for us, let's stop that first.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Let's make let's make these two quarterbacks throw in Memorial Stadium.
- 9:52Speaker 3: That to me is what's most important.
- 9:55Speaker 2: I hope that we're just more physical upfront, especially that
- 9:59Speaker 2: there's not many holes to run through. I think it's
- 10:01Speaker 2: gonna be hard to get through Tie and Nash. I'm
- 10:05Speaker 2: especially on that one side, and the guys on the
- 10:09Speaker 2: other side. I think you're gonna do a fine job
- 10:10Speaker 2: as well. So what else, Dak you said you had
- 10:14Speaker 2: a page of notes on UTEP.
- 10:16Speaker 4: Well, I was.
- 10:20Speaker 3: This is UTEP offense.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Okay, that's okay. So do you think they're gonna try
- 10:26Speaker 4: to run the ball because they lost all three running
- 10:28Speaker 4: backs and all five linemen last year. I don't even
- 10:30Speaker 4: think they'll try. I mean, yeah, I think they're gonna
- 10:38Speaker 4: come out just slinging it. What do they have to lose?
- 10:41Speaker 4: They if you lose all five lineman, you're gonna have
- 10:43Speaker 4: no time And I'll just fucking throw it.
- 10:49Speaker 5: There's his page of notes.
- 10:53Speaker 4: That's it. I'll see you guys later.
- 10:58Speaker 5: Uh No, I kind of are with you. Hunter. So
- 11:02Speaker 5: Jake Brown's the coordinator. Do you know where he was
- 11:04Speaker 5: the coordinator last year?
- 11:07Speaker 3: I don't.
- 11:09Speaker 5: Louisiana Tech. So we played his offense last year. Interesting,
- 11:14Speaker 5: second year we've played the offense there. It's the same
- 11:17Speaker 5: thing as Louisiana Tech, where they're spreading it out fast paced.
- 11:20Speaker 5: They have one good wide receiver. I shouldn't say have
- 11:23Speaker 5: one good receiver, but Austin p had one good receiver.
- 11:25Speaker 5: Transfer Drake Goodman led the team in like yards I think,
- 11:30Speaker 5: but he's kind of a big play guy. They'll they're
- 11:34Speaker 5: gonna pass the ball a lot. They're not gonna have
- 11:36Speaker 5: a lot of success running the ball because I agree.
- 11:39Speaker 5: I just think our guys are gonna be bigger, just
- 11:40Speaker 5: a different level player acquisition than they are. And I
- 11:47Speaker 5: suspect we're gonna see a lot of our defensive second stringers,
- 11:51Speaker 5: not necessarily because we're gonna be blowing them out. But
- 11:54Speaker 5: just because of the tempo of the game, I think
- 11:57Speaker 5: rules is gonna be hot, We're gonna be trying to
- 11:58Speaker 5: swap people in and out, so that might impact it
- 12:01Speaker 5: a little bit wherever they're not getting necessarily our best
- 12:04Speaker 5: unit all the time. But we have twelve black shirts,
- 12:07Speaker 5: so I guess we have more than more than one
- 12:10Speaker 5: black shirt starter.
- 12:11Speaker 4: So I.
- 12:13Speaker 5: I think the spreads probably a reasonable spread.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I think I'm glad you brought that up because I
- 12:20Speaker 2: do intici facing a lot of different names. Even more
- 12:23Speaker 2: we listen to their our coaches press conferences, it's it's
- 12:26Speaker 2: we're gonna sub a lot. We're gonna see a lot
- 12:28Speaker 2: of names, maybe some that we aren't even familiar with
- 12:30Speaker 2: on Saturday, and not because like you said, of a
- 12:33Speaker 2: potentially a blowout, but just because of the heat and
- 12:37Speaker 2: the high temple. I do think it plays into our
- 12:40Speaker 2: favor when teams do that, I say lesser teams, And
- 12:44Speaker 2: this is goes back to the old it's not even old,
- 12:47Speaker 2: but the analysis of if you're a better team, you
- 12:52Speaker 2: want more possessions because over a longer period of time,
- 12:56Speaker 2: you are going to win out If you're the less
- 12:59Speaker 2: lesser of the two you want to try to shorten
- 13:02Speaker 2: the game and chew up as much clock as you
- 13:05Speaker 2: can so that possessions are limited. And yeah, if you
- 13:07Speaker 2: get lucky on those possessions or the other team makes
- 13:10Speaker 2: a couple of mistakes, you're going to have a chance
- 13:12Speaker 2: to be in that game. Now, that contradicts what Georgia
- 13:15Speaker 2: Southern did to us a few years ago, but like
- 13:19Speaker 2: what happened with Louisiana Tech, like a lot of these
- 13:22Speaker 2: games and more possessions the better for us. And I
- 13:24Speaker 2: think if they go that route of no huddle high.
- 13:31Speaker 3: It plays. It plays to our advantage in the long run.
- 13:34Speaker 2: So I think that's a good reason if you're going
- 13:37Speaker 2: to pick us to cover the spread, I think that's a.
- 13:39Speaker 3: Good reason why.
- 13:41Speaker 2: That doesn't mention anything about even how many points are
- 13:44Speaker 2: going to score. But I think both teams will have
- 13:46Speaker 2: a lot of possessions because of the speed and tempo.
- 13:50Speaker 5: I think that's also going to play in too, because
- 13:52Speaker 5: we have a better defense than they have, better than
- 13:55Speaker 5: they have an offense, and so with this spread and
- 13:58Speaker 5: heavy pass, it's just the clock's not gonna run for
- 14:01Speaker 5: them as much. And so I just think by the
- 14:03Speaker 5: end of the game, their offense. Our defense is gonna
- 14:07Speaker 5: be much more fresh than their offense. Our offense is
- 14:10Speaker 5: gonna be much more like. Their defense is gonna be
- 14:14Speaker 5: much more worn down than our offense vice versa. So
- 14:17Speaker 5: I think that's going to play into our favor as well.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Their offensive line, it's pretty veteran, I will say from
- 14:26Speaker 2: just looking at the ages. They have two seniors and
- 14:28Speaker 2: then three juniors on the offensive line. I'm gonna add
- 14:33Speaker 2: this in here because this helps a ton doing previews
- 14:35Speaker 2: and we haven't had it. I mentioned the video game
- 14:37Speaker 2: about every episode because of how addicted I am to it.
- 14:42Speaker 2: But it's kind of fun to go through and look
- 14:44Speaker 2: at rosters and you can get overalls. Not saying they're
- 14:47Speaker 2: one hundred percent accurate, but their resemblance of what the
- 14:50Speaker 2: team has. Their two tackles are seventy four overall their
- 14:53Speaker 2: best offensive lineman, I guess the right guard seventy seven,
- 14:56Speaker 2: their center if sixty two overall in the game.
- 15:00Speaker 3: So if that's true, like good luck.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Dealing with Nash every play right over the top of
- 15:08Speaker 2: you in that three three five like good luck, and
- 15:11Speaker 2: that to me, it could be a key matchup that
- 15:16Speaker 2: if Nash just dominates from the get go, like we're
- 15:21Speaker 2: gonna be fine defensively because there's constantly going to be
- 15:23Speaker 2: pressure in the backfield or holes just getting clogged up
- 15:27Speaker 2: on the run game. So I think a lot of
- 15:29Speaker 2: good things point in the right direction. What I want
- 15:31Speaker 2: to see of our defense, though, is.
- 15:33Speaker 3: Forcing a couple of turnovers.
- 15:36Speaker 2: We've talked about that a lot this year, and so
- 15:39Speaker 2: is the coaching staff on needing to do that more.
- 15:42Speaker 2: And I think forcing fumbles is one way of doing it,
- 15:46Speaker 2: but also for a team that's high tempo, making a
- 15:49Speaker 2: couple of plays on balls. I think that's what I
- 15:51Speaker 2: want to see more than anything, is see if we
- 15:54Speaker 2: can get two or three turnovers against their starters anyways,
- 15:58Speaker 2: I mean, backups are whatever and special teams that happens,
- 16:01Speaker 2: but specifically our defense against their offense.
- 16:08Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, it'd be nice to see that against
- 16:10Speaker 5: a lesser opponent to start the year.
- 16:14Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd anticipate them throwing a lot of screens bubble passes,
- 16:19Speaker 4: and yeah they won't be because they want much time
- 16:21Speaker 4: to throw the ball deep.
- 16:24Speaker 5: Hopefully.
- 16:27Speaker 3: I hope you're right.
- 16:34Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie. I feel a little timid, like
- 16:36Speaker 5: I don't know why, but I just, you know, like
- 16:38Speaker 5: I feel like we're gonna win this game, but there's
- 16:40Speaker 5: that part of me that's like I can't be like, yeah,
- 16:42Speaker 5: we're obviously gonna win this aspect of the game.
- 16:45Speaker 2: I almost got a nervous, same kind of feeling from
- 16:48Speaker 2: rule listening to them a little bit on Monday, not
- 16:52Speaker 2: not not so much nervous, but like, yeah, timid or
- 16:55Speaker 2: like it's like not confident, just a little bit like,
- 16:59Speaker 2: let's but I think that's for all of us. I
- 17:03Speaker 2: think that's true. I think that's right, Like, go prove it,
- 17:07Speaker 2: Go prove that we can look good against a team
- 17:10Speaker 2: like this and win handily.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Defensively.
- 17:15Speaker 2: What I'm scared of is the big play, if we're
- 17:20Speaker 2: over shooting our responsibilities, our assignments. But I think it's
- 17:26Speaker 2: not totally a bad thing. I don't anticipate it's holding
- 17:29Speaker 2: them to ten or thirteen points. We'll get to score
- 17:32Speaker 2: predictions at the end. I don't think it's gonna be
- 17:34Speaker 2: a forty five fifty five to ten game.
- 17:37Speaker 4: I don't.
- 17:37Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be that way. I anticipate
- 17:39Speaker 2: them getting over twenty, just because of the overhype and
- 17:43Speaker 2: overconfidence that we're gonna bring and I think this young
- 17:47Speaker 2: head coach is gonna have some I'm gonna call them
- 17:49Speaker 2: trick plays, but just some schemes up as sleeves that
- 17:53Speaker 2: will get them open downfield and in some big plays.
- 17:59Speaker 4: You get any hope you want? You want to start
- 18:01Speaker 4: out the game fast, Yeah.
- 18:05Speaker 5: But what's happened to us in the past is usually
- 18:07Speaker 5: these teams come out and score first. Like every I
- 18:11Speaker 5: feel like every game I think back, dude, I feel
- 18:13Speaker 5: like they come down to score first. We win the toss.
- 18:16Speaker 5: Do we want the ball or not?
- 18:17Speaker 4: You want the ball? You want the ball?
- 18:23Speaker 3: Mhm, Maybe I don't know. I was thinking through that.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I'm not sure what I want.
- 18:27Speaker 5: I mean, the crowds is not gonna be as allowed
- 18:28Speaker 5: to start the second half, but season kickoff at home Riola.
- 18:33Speaker 4: You want the ball?
- 18:36Speaker 3: Yeah, that's.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Why we do want the ball. See if we flip
- 18:40Speaker 2: over that side of the ball. They run a three
- 18:43Speaker 2: three five and very similar to what we also run,
- 18:48Speaker 2: very multiple position positionless football. They are really strong at
- 19:00Speaker 2: one end of position. And uh, Westmoreland number zero, he's
- 19:05Speaker 2: eighty six overall in the game, guys. And then I mean,
- 19:07Speaker 2: I don't have another guy in the eighties on the
- 19:09Speaker 2: whole roster. And I'm not even sure if he's an
- 19:12Speaker 2: Austin p transfer if he was there last year.
- 19:14Speaker 5: But.
- 19:16Speaker 4: He was, he was there last year.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Last year, he's the guy to circle. I mean, it
- 19:20Speaker 2: actually does speak volumes that he's still there. He has
- 19:23Speaker 2: the talent to go play somewhere else and see the
- 19:27Speaker 2: field at a bigger school.
- 19:29Speaker 3: But he's still there. And so what they.
- 19:34Speaker 5: Guess they called his position at UTEP. They don't call
- 19:38Speaker 5: it alignment.
- 19:39Speaker 2: No, I saw it right, I saw it online. I
- 19:43Speaker 2: just didn't I didn't write down the bandit right. Yeah,
- 19:50Speaker 2: he's gonna be moving around, I think. And if you're
- 19:52Speaker 2: watching any one guy on their defense throughout the game,
- 19:56Speaker 2: like look at number zero, watch and see how we're
- 19:58Speaker 2: blocking him. I expect it's a double team him a
- 20:00Speaker 2: lot on rum plays and on pass protection.
- 20:03Speaker 3: We need to key on where.
- 20:04Speaker 2: He's at because he's he's a good, solid defensive player.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Outside of that, I think their secondaries very averaged a week.
- 20:12Speaker 2: The three to three five is typically known to defend
- 20:14Speaker 2: the pass better than the run, but as we've seen
- 20:17Speaker 2: with our defense, it can be very versatile and flexible.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Here's what I want to see out of our offense.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Guess what it's not. Turning the ball over is a
- 20:27Speaker 2: big thing, but two Like, I want to see a
- 20:30Speaker 2: couple of big plays, like I do. I want to
- 20:33Speaker 2: see what we saw in the spring game a couple
- 20:35Speaker 2: of times. I want to see Jalen Lloyd over the
- 20:37Speaker 2: top catching a sixty seven yard touchdown pass. I want
- 20:42Speaker 2: to see a couple of Fidoni drags across the middle,
- 20:46Speaker 2: breaking three tackles and gain in thirty two yards Like,
- 20:48Speaker 2: I want to see some of these bigger plays happen.
- 20:50Speaker 2: Not so much putting together fourteen play eighty four yard drives.
- 20:55Speaker 2: I mean that I'd taken touchdown off of that still,
- 20:58Speaker 2: but I want to see X.
- 21:01Speaker 3: And shows.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Some of the different things that future teams aka Colorado
- 21:07Speaker 2: next week have to prepare for.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Are multiple weapons that we're getting hyped.
- 21:12Speaker 2: Up about every media practice that we see.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Feel like we have. That's what I want to see.
- 21:21Speaker 2: I want to see some explosiveness out of our offense,
- 21:23Speaker 2: big plays, and our running backs especially.
- 21:25Speaker 3: I know I'm jumping around here a bit.
- 21:26Speaker 2: But let's see our running backs break a couple of
- 21:29Speaker 2: tackles and turn a four yeard run into a twelve
- 21:31Speaker 2: yard run rule.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I think set a twelve yard run to do an
- 21:34Speaker 3: eighty yard run.
- 21:36Speaker 5: I think we'd all know your turnovers, that's for sure.
- 21:42Speaker 4: I think there's one. There's one unit you need to watch,
- 21:44Speaker 4: and it's your offensive line. If you can't block you tube,
- 21:47Speaker 4: then you're in for a long season.
- 21:51Speaker 5: That's true. And that's what I'm honestly kind of glad
- 21:53Speaker 5: that they have Westmoreland West Westmoreland, West Westmoreland. Well, I
- 22:00Speaker 5: don't know, that's a long name. There's like three words
- 22:02Speaker 5: in that one name. It's it's I kind of like
- 22:05Speaker 5: that we're getting challenged on the offensive line week one
- 22:08Speaker 5: before Colorados. That kind of gives us a chance to
- 22:10Speaker 5: be like, all right, guys, you got.
- 22:11Speaker 4: To get up to game speed.
- 22:12Speaker 5: This dude's not messing around. Colorado is not going to
- 22:14Speaker 5: mess around either. I agree. It would be nice to
- 22:20Speaker 5: see I would honestly like see all four running backs
- 22:22Speaker 5: too well, and just put that at it, you know,
- 22:25Speaker 5: put that to bed, Like all right, we don't have
- 22:27Speaker 5: necessarily started running back, but all of them are viable
- 22:31Speaker 5: options to start when we need them to.
- 22:33Speaker 2: I go back and forth every time I think about
- 22:36Speaker 2: our running back position, and I feel like our coaching
- 22:39Speaker 2: staff has done that too, Like what what do we like.
- 22:43Speaker 4: Rule?
- 22:44Speaker 3: I think once a couple.
- 22:45Speaker 2: Of guys that stand out, like obviously, I mean maybe
- 22:47Speaker 2: they could. They all gonna have they all aren't going
- 22:50Speaker 2: to have nine carries for one hundred and twenty yards, right,
- 22:54Speaker 2: So I mean it'd be nice if they did. I
- 22:57Speaker 2: don't know, I kind of do want to couple of
- 23:00Speaker 2: them to maybe stand out over the others, because I
- 23:04Speaker 2: think it would.
- 23:05Speaker 5: Be nice to over the next couple of games to
- 23:08Speaker 5: find the reliable ones, you know, not necessarily like that
- 23:11Speaker 5: they're they're they're standing out in a talent perspective, but
- 23:15Speaker 5: it's like, all right, I can put this guy in
- 23:18Speaker 5: and he's gonna give me four yards. Like not he's
- 23:20Speaker 5: not gonna knock your socks off, but like he's not
- 23:22Speaker 5: gonna pumble. He's gonna get me four yards, and he's
- 23:23Speaker 5: gonna block when he needs to block. And I don't
- 23:26Speaker 5: I don't know if we need a guy who's gonna
- 23:29Speaker 5: rip off seven yards every carry.
- 23:32Speaker 4: These games are kind of like a fall practice part too,
- 23:35Speaker 4: because if you still have a battle for positions, this
- 23:37Speaker 4: is where you decide something. Yeah, like you're running back position,
- 23:41Speaker 4: you're gonna have about someone might pull ay in this game,
- 23:44Speaker 4: you hope, but.
- 23:45Speaker 5: I'm hoping that their defensive secondary just lets me enjoy
- 23:50Speaker 5: Delan Reola hitting Banks down like you know, the sideline
- 23:55Speaker 5: for a seventy yard bomb twice a game. You know,
- 23:58Speaker 5: just a nice good, nice good preamble force to come
- 24:01Speaker 5: the rest of the year.
- 24:02Speaker 4: It seemed like a secondary blows.
- 24:07Speaker 5: They help their teams to under twenty five point or
- 24:10Speaker 5: the average to under twenty five points last year. None
- 24:15Speaker 5: of us good Deak.
- 24:16Speaker 3: I'm glad.
- 24:17Speaker 2: I'm disappointed in myself, but I'm glad you brought up
- 24:20Speaker 2: the offensive line because every year we have to remind
- 24:23Speaker 2: ourselves that is the foundation of any offense. No matter
- 24:27Speaker 2: what you're trying to do, scheme wise, run, pass or mix.
- 24:32Speaker 2: If your offensive line isn't at least solid, it's not
- 24:36Speaker 2: gonna work. And not only that, your pieces around your
- 24:41Speaker 2: quarterback have to be able to do something. We saw
- 24:45Speaker 2: what happened with Adrian Martinez, who we are all very
- 24:49Speaker 2: high on and.
- 24:50Speaker 3: Had a good career.
- 24:53Speaker 2: If you don't have pieces around to help, it doesn't
- 24:56Speaker 2: go well. So the offensive line, You're right, that like
- 24:59Speaker 2: the first drive, if you're listening to this, just watch
- 25:03Speaker 2: the movement upfront and see if there's any blown assignments.
- 25:08Speaker 4: I do.
- 25:09Speaker 2: And for that matter, that's going to allow you to
- 25:11Speaker 2: watch the matchup with Westmoreland a lot too, which I
- 25:14Speaker 2: think will be more fun to watch than whatever else
- 25:16Speaker 2: we're trying to do.
- 25:16Speaker 3: At least for that first drive.
- 25:22Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, that's gonna be the best thing to
- 25:23Speaker 5: watch because that's the where the talent is most competitive.
- 25:29Speaker 5: The offensive line is on the lower end for our talent.
- 25:31Speaker 5: They're defensive lines on the up brind for their talent.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Here's the other point, And it's funny because we went
- 25:41Speaker 2: down the same path, and as I'm listening to all
- 25:44Speaker 2: these other preview podcasts, it's funny because we're not doing it.
- 25:49Speaker 3: We didn't do it on here.
- 25:52Speaker 2: No one is concerned or talking about the quarterback position.
- 25:55Speaker 2: We all just like I think that Dylan Rayola is
- 25:59Speaker 2: solved our quarterback problems.
- 26:03Speaker 3: It's just weird. We we are not. We're not.
- 26:05Speaker 2: When we talk go through each position, we're talking about
- 26:08Speaker 2: maybe concerns or or things that we're looking for.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Right.
- 26:12Speaker 2: It's like we all have in our mind what Dylan
- 26:15Speaker 2: Royol is supposed to do or going to do, and
- 26:18Speaker 2: we don't really mention it a lot, which is it's funny.
- 26:20Speaker 2: I mean, not saying it's right or wrong, but it
- 26:23Speaker 2: doesn't seem odd to you. Everybody's doing it.
- 26:28Speaker 5: I do agree with that.
- 26:29Speaker 1: I do.
- 26:30Speaker 5: Part of it's probably just because the talent of this game,
- 26:32Speaker 5: it's not going to be as big of an impact,
- 26:34Speaker 5: like we could throw Heinrich out there and we know.
- 26:36Speaker 3: He will not only on the game, but even for
- 26:39Speaker 3: the season.
- 26:40Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, for the season. You're right, we're we're not
- 26:44Speaker 5: really worried about it. But that's just because we're so
- 26:47Speaker 5: bad last year. That's like it can't be worse.
- 26:50Speaker 3: I think that's a lot to do with it.
- 26:52Speaker 2: I think people are obviously answers all Royal is really
- 26:55Speaker 2: going to be really good. But I think you're right,
- 26:57Speaker 2: it's because how bad it was, it can't be worse.
- 26:59Speaker 2: So we're just saying and like we're not taking a
- 27:01Speaker 2: step down, so life's good, where in reality, I do
- 27:05Speaker 2: think there's gonna be some struggles. I've yees, so it's
- 27:13Speaker 2: gonna be funny just to hear the stadium and the
- 27:15Speaker 2: fans if things don't go exactly in their mind how
- 27:18Speaker 2: they thought Dylan Ryolo was supposed to look. Because everybody's
- 27:21Speaker 2: got a little bit, they all think it's gonna look good.
- 27:24Speaker 2: But if it doesn't look exactly what they thought, like
- 27:26Speaker 2: if he has I'm just gonna throw it out. Let's
- 27:29Speaker 2: say he takes three or four sacks because he hasn't
- 27:30Speaker 2: even throw the ball away. Everybody's gonna bitch about that.
- 27:33Speaker 2: They're gonna say, oh, he's he's too good to take sacks.
- 27:35Speaker 3: He should be knowing that.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Or let's say we he has like four overthrows across
- 27:39Speaker 2: the middle. They're gonna be like, oh my god, maybe
- 27:42Speaker 2: he's not. Like people are going to overreact to the
- 27:44Speaker 2: negative things because we have a picture in our mind
- 27:46Speaker 2: and what he's supposed.
- 27:47Speaker 5: To do that first interception, the area is gonna be
- 27:50Speaker 5: absolutely out of the stadium, gonna be dead.
- 27:54Speaker 4: I mean, he's a freshman. Do you think you guys
- 27:56Speaker 4: are pumped up of this game? Think think I'm about
- 27:58Speaker 4: he's gonna be coming into it, He's gonna have some overthrows.
- 28:00Speaker 4: It's he might not agreet this game.
- 28:03Speaker 2: And our fans and our quarterbacks. Oh boy do we
- 28:07Speaker 2: love Oh yeah, and the definition of suck doesn't even
- 28:13Speaker 2: have to be he sucks like people are just gonna
- 28:16Speaker 2: say it's not.
- 28:18Speaker 3: Everybody has Mahomes comparisons right now in their minds.
- 28:21Speaker 2: So if it's not Patrick Mahomes Game one, people are
- 28:24Speaker 2: going to complain it's gonna be hilarious.
- 28:27Speaker 5: Which Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech. You know, it's like
- 28:30Speaker 5: he wants out there winning the Heisman.
- 28:33Speaker 3: So I will say this about Ryola. My last comment is.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Take his overs on everything, because I just think he's
- 28:44Speaker 2: like interceptions too. Like I just think he's gonna throw
- 28:48Speaker 2: it a lot. I don't think we're gonna have many
- 28:49Speaker 2: running backs. We're not got as any carries as we're
- 28:53Speaker 2: used to in the past, and there's gonna be a
- 28:55Speaker 2: lot of possessions both ways. And I think we're gonna
- 29:00Speaker 2: let him try to show his talent this game.
- 29:04Speaker 5: I agreed for the good in the battle. I think
- 29:06Speaker 5: we're gonna throw it more than we would expect to
- 29:08Speaker 5: this game. Even regardssive score.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Okay, score predictions before you move on to week one,
- 29:17Speaker 2: everybody else.
- 29:20Speaker 5: I think I've got twenty forty five.
- 29:24Speaker 3: They wonder, so you had at forty five twenty seven.
- 29:28Speaker 4: Damn okay two.
- 29:35Speaker 3: Scoring forty five forty eight, twenty.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Da Did you just change their points because earlier was
- 29:42Speaker 2: that you earlier in the week you had him at
- 29:44Speaker 2: like ten or thirteen?
- 29:46Speaker 3: Have you made it for? Maybe that was somebody else
- 29:48Speaker 3: I'm thinking of.
- 29:49Speaker 4: That was a joke. That was a joke. Here, you
- 29:53Speaker 4: guys w hear stat you want to hear on any
- 29:54Speaker 4: other podcast? Yeah, get him in the third quarter last year,
- 29:58Speaker 4: they're outscoring the third quarter ninety seven.
- 30:02Speaker 5: They were outscored ninety three to twenty seven, and the
- 30:05Speaker 5: third four.
- 30:05Speaker 2: Yep, thanks all right, grab it, okay, uh Survivor Picks
- 30:12Speaker 2: we're gonna do this every Wednesday episode, right before we
- 30:15Speaker 2: let Dak rattle off his thirty seconds. So as a reminder,
- 30:20Speaker 2: we're picking four outright winners. Once you pick these teams,
- 30:23Speaker 2: you cannot use them again the rest of the year.
- 30:26Speaker 2: All they gotta do is win nothing with the spread.
- 30:29Speaker 2: You can mention the spread why you're picking them, But
- 30:32Speaker 2: it's one and they're done a lot of different strategies.
- 30:35Speaker 2: We're competing against each other. I'm hoping none of us
- 30:37Speaker 2: will lose out. Will have to discuss a punishment here
- 30:40Speaker 2: week one.
- 30:42Speaker 3: I'll go first.
- 30:42Speaker 2: We'll see if we're similar to any of them. I
- 30:44Speaker 2: wrote down a bunch of options. Guys, this is a
- 30:47Speaker 2: week to take shitty teams that you're never gonna take again,
- 30:50Speaker 2: because there's a lot of thirty plus favorites that are
- 30:52Speaker 2: playing FCS schools that have lines.
- 30:55Speaker 3: Yep, So here we go.
- 30:58Speaker 4: I think I'm.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Thinking Northern Illinois over Western Illinois in state battle.
- 31:03Speaker 3: They're not losing the little brother. I think they're over
- 31:06Speaker 3: thirty point favorites.
- 31:07Speaker 2: I'm taking Central Michigan over CCSU. I think that's Central
- 31:15Speaker 2: Connecticut State.
- 31:17Speaker 3: I don't. I think I didn't write that down. They're
- 31:19Speaker 3: over thirty point favorites.
- 31:21Speaker 2: I'm taking Utah State thirty and a half point favorite
- 31:25Speaker 2: over Robert Morris, taking them to win, and then I
- 31:29Speaker 2: will take Oh, I don't want to do that.
- 31:31Speaker 3: One's too little of the line. I gotta get.
- 31:35Speaker 2: I gotta get one Academy, and you're give me the
- 31:37Speaker 2: Naval Academy over Bucknell thirty three point favorite.
- 31:42Speaker 5: All right, and gonna change mine. I had three of
- 31:44Speaker 5: the same ones.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Okay, that's totally okay.
- 31:50Speaker 4: Okay, I'll go East Carolina over Norfolk State. They are money,
- 31:56Speaker 4: they are favor thirty two. Then I'll go Oregon State
- 32:01Speaker 4: over Idaho State the twenty eight, and then I'll go
- 32:07Speaker 4: Texas State thirty one and a half over Lamar. And
- 32:12Speaker 4: then I will go, let's see here, Memphis. You know
- 32:15Speaker 4: I can't find a they're fair by thirty eight over somebody, Okay, Austin.
- 32:23Speaker 5: I also had Central Michigan Navy, Utah State, and then
- 32:27Speaker 5: I'm to Southern Florida over Bethune Cookman.
- 32:33Speaker 3: We remember then, Yeah, we do all right?
- 32:40Speaker 2: Last but not least Week one slate DK is hot
- 32:49Speaker 2: coming off week zero.
- 32:52Speaker 4: You could say that he.
- 32:53Speaker 5: Has twelve picks he wants to get in thirty seconds?
- 32:55Speaker 5: Does he get over under nine and a half?
- 33:00Speaker 2: Is undefeated so far on the year four and oh
- 33:06Speaker 2: he will have thirty seconds to rattle up as many
- 33:08Speaker 2: as he can. You have to be able to understand him, Dak.
- 33:14Speaker 2: We at least have the note what you're saying, but
- 33:17Speaker 2: we mostly.
- 33:17Speaker 4: Can't go auctioneer style here.
- 33:20Speaker 5: You can if we can understand.
- 33:23Speaker 3: But I will cut you off. You'll maybe look at
- 33:25Speaker 3: the camera.
- 33:26Speaker 2: I'll try to yell at you at thirty seconds to
- 33:28Speaker 2: put your best ones first.
- 33:31Speaker 3: Just trying to help you out here. Coach you up
- 33:32Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 33:34Speaker 4: Yeah, just yell stop, okay, all right, hold on, I
- 33:39Speaker 4: gotta get my time around ready, yep, alright, three, two
- 33:47Speaker 4: one and go. Minnesota plus two, cal On North Coast
- 33:50Speaker 4: State over sixteen and a half, Temple Ou over fifty
- 33:53Speaker 4: seven and a half, TCU mius nine and a half,
- 33:55Speaker 4: Louisville myne thirty six and a half, Oklahoma State minus
- 33:58Speaker 4: nine and a half, Miami minus two and a half,
- 34:00Speaker 4: Cartero State plus thirty two, Nebraska tip over forty nine
- 34:02Speaker 4: and a half, Michigan minus twenty half, Akron plus forty
- 34:05Speaker 4: eight and a half text in and minus three.
- 34:08Speaker 3: That's it. You get got that done in twenty seconds.
- 34:11Speaker 4: That's it.
- 34:11Speaker 5: In ten seconds to burn. You can get more in
- 34:14Speaker 5: there if you want. He didn't.
- 34:17Speaker 2: He didn't want to go anymore. You gotta you gotta
- 34:19Speaker 2: work on your timing here a little bit. Last time
- 34:21Speaker 2: you were way over with four packs.
- 34:23Speaker 5: Last of four picks, you were like a minute and
- 34:25Speaker 5: a half, maybe too.
- 34:26Speaker 4: It wasn't gonna get it.
- 34:28Speaker 3: So that four minutes for four out of those.
- 34:32Speaker 2: Out of those, give me a couple your favorite ones
- 34:36Speaker 2: and calls.
- 34:37Speaker 3: We won't keep track of your locks. But what do
- 34:38Speaker 3: you what do you like the most and why.
- 34:40Speaker 4: You can you can keep track of my lock of
- 34:43Speaker 4: the week.
- 34:43Speaker 5: I like.
- 34:44Speaker 4: I like Miami minus two and a half. That would
- 34:46Speaker 4: be my lock of the week over Florida. I do like,
- 34:52Speaker 4: Oh well, I kind I really like Oklahoma. The state
- 34:54Speaker 4: mins nine and a half over South Coast state. And then
- 35:00Speaker 4: let's see here, Michigan is twenty half over President of
- 35:03Speaker 4: State's another one. I really like and A and M
- 35:06Speaker 4: Notre Dame. I kind of like that A M by three.
- 35:12Speaker 3: I do like A and M. I like Florida.
- 35:16Speaker 2: I'm sorry on your lock, but I was over four
- 35:18Speaker 2: against you last week because I'm not gonna say that
- 35:21Speaker 2: you're wrong. I think if Billy Napier doesn't win this one,
- 35:25Speaker 2: he's getting canned like soon on the spot not not
- 35:30Speaker 2: want can week one.
- 35:32Speaker 3: That's gonna set the tone for his downfall in the
- 35:36Speaker 3: next few weeks.
- 35:39Speaker 2: It's a big game for Florida, and I thought Billy
- 35:41Speaker 2: Napier was a very good higher for them. I liked
- 35:44Speaker 2: him as a coach. When you was at I think
- 35:46Speaker 2: it was Leasy and Alafayette. I kind of wanted to
- 35:49Speaker 2: Matt Nebraska when we were looking to hire a rule
- 35:52Speaker 2: or getting ready frost. So but I do I think
- 35:55Speaker 2: this could be the end for him. I do like
- 35:58Speaker 2: the A and M pick I'm high on A and
- 36:00Speaker 2: M this year. Still fucture of Albert's. But we don't
- 36:04Speaker 2: need to bring that back up again. No, no Clemson
- 36:10Speaker 2: Georgia game. Don't you don't want to there.
- 36:13Speaker 4: I don't want touch any of that game. No shot
- 36:16Speaker 4: that that line is set for a trap. I and
- 36:18Speaker 4: they'll runners not great either. I think it's forty eight
- 36:20Speaker 4: and a half. I don't know where the game's going
- 36:22Speaker 4: to go. Did I do anything?
- 36:24Speaker 1: Yeah? I did?
- 36:25Speaker 4: Nebraska, You tep over forty nine and a half. I
- 36:27Speaker 4: think that's pretty.
- 36:28Speaker 3: I love that side, yeah a lot.
- 36:31Speaker 4: But I really like that one.
- 36:32Speaker 3: You get to Colorado in there, too, didn't it Tomorrow.
- 36:34Speaker 4: Night over sixteen and a half? I don't. I don't
- 36:38Speaker 4: love that, but I had to throw that game in there.
- 36:40Speaker 5: That's a lot of points.
- 36:42Speaker 3: North Dakota State is mucking that game up.
- 36:48Speaker 4: Temple OU over fifty seven a half. I really like
- 36:51Speaker 4: dak I think Olahoma could scored fifty eighth themselves.
- 36:54Speaker 2: I've heard out Oklahoma take take it over all the
- 36:56Speaker 2: way up to like fifty five. Let's keep taking like
- 37:00Speaker 2: the spread they say temples, Oh.
- 37:03Speaker 4: Oh they staying over. I say, fifty seven was like
- 37:06Speaker 4: you can't take it up in you.
- 37:09Speaker 2: No, the spread just hammer o you. So you might
- 37:11Speaker 2: have to do that on Friday.
- 37:13Speaker 4: I'm not taking forty three point paper. I'll tell no shot.
- 37:19Speaker 3: All right.
- 37:20Speaker 5: Well, Volleyball hold On won our first game of the year,
- 37:24Speaker 5: top ten opponent.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Yep, I always forget. I always forget about volleyball.
- 37:27Speaker 5: The ladies, the lady cornhusk corner. Then that was it.
- 37:31Speaker 5: We won started year.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Want to know we alright beat Kentucky lost. We lost
- 37:36Speaker 2: first set, right, but then won the next three.
- 37:39Speaker 5: No, we lost a second set.
- 37:42Speaker 3: Yep, job Lady Scurves keeping us winning something.
- 37:48Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Delgate Pod Saturday Morning tune in IV are sooner.
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