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Episode 6.27: Confused Hopeful Huskers · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast Center's Armadigae Austin Roads to go
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  Speaker 1: to Free Tech.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska decided not to scare us this week and play
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  Speaker 1: well against Ohio State, which I'm not sure how we
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  Speaker 1: did or why we did.
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  Speaker 2: It was great, but it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Did not come out with a win, but kept it close,
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  Speaker 1: had the chances to win the game on the road
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, and here we are Monday evening recording the
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  Speaker 1: recap pod. The only word that I can really come
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  Speaker 1: up with to describe my emotions. You know, last week
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  Speaker 1: it was the twenty word, have obliterated, annihilated. This week
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  Speaker 1: it's confused, and it's the word I keep hearing over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over. I don't know what any of
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  Speaker 1: this means. It's just hard to pinpoint, and not just
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  Speaker 1: our game, but then you know your organ Illinois game,
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  Speaker 1: the way that went out, and then you look at
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  Speaker 1: the rest of college football. It just continues to confuse
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  Speaker 1: you week after week some of these results, but it
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  Speaker 1: makes it that much better to stay engaged with I
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  Speaker 1: think the bottom line.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry messing with my background.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree, it was I actually had It's
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  Speaker 4: probably the best time I've had watching US lose.
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  Speaker 3: A football game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of another time where I'm watching
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  Speaker 4: US lose and I was like wow, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I am just blowing away by how well that game went.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, at least at least they didn't come out laying
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  Speaker 5: egg and you gotta look back and they need a
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  Speaker 5: game and think that they just probably gave up on it,
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  Speaker 5: or or maybe Indians just that good. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: but at least your defense shut up this game. That's
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  Speaker 5: that's the main part of it. That that was the
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  Speaker 5: main thing where your defense looked good again.
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  Speaker 4: I honestly would suspect that if we don't get beat
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  Speaker 4: by Indiana the way we got beat by Indiana last week,
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  Speaker 4: we don't look as good against Ohio State this last week.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's weird is you can look at it in
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  Speaker 1: a game to game basis. You can look at it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, combining the Indiana game in this game. You
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  Speaker 1: can look at it longer than that too. It's so
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  Speaker 1: hard to get opinions and thoughts and wrap your head
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  Speaker 1: around everything that's went on the past two weeks. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned the defense. I guess, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I guess it looked better, and it did obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but it just makes it that much more puzzling. Why
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  Speaker 1: did the last week happen the way it did? And
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  Speaker 1: we looked like everything Indiana wanted to do was working
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  Speaker 1: and it did so. Not here to talk about Indiana
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot, but the Ohio State game itself, you
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  Speaker 1: got back to your mind of being at ease with
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  Speaker 1: where the direction I think is headed. The biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote down in my thoughts, I just kept
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  Speaker 1: going back to when I tried to rationalize everything that's
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  Speaker 1: going on with Nebraska football is in real said it real,
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  Speaker 1: said the word I can't. I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: was today or if it was on Saturday after the game,
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  Speaker 1: but he used the word sustainability. And the other word
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  Speaker 1: I would say is consistency. Right like one game. While
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody tries to say what does this mean?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's harder to do that today in college football,
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  Speaker 1: and me look at the NFL even this year, and
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  Speaker 1: then specifically with Nebraska, it's harder to look at it
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, this team's really really good. This team's
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  Speaker 1: not very good because any given week we've seen results
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  Speaker 1: that just make zero sense with the traditional way of thinking.
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  Speaker 1: So like, sustainability is what we want to see right
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  Speaker 1: week after week, and when you have a game like Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: you just start to go, ah, that is not what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to happen, to be consistent, to be going
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  Speaker 1: and improving week after week. But then you play Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Who I mean, Ohio State. Indiana plays tomorrow on a
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  Speaker 1: neutral site field or even at Indiana. Ohio State is
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  Speaker 1: going to be favored in that game. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much, but they're going to be the favorite to win.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just hard to pinpoint exactly what this means
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  Speaker 1: for the season so far. But then especially here as
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  Speaker 1: we finish out our last four games.
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  Speaker 3: I'm yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's why he loved like Matt Rule loves
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  Speaker 4: Kirk parents. Any moment he can get to be like man,
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  Speaker 4: if we could just be Iowa, that would be great.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean that's what Iowa does is they don't
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  Speaker 4: get destroyed and they come out they win eight games
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  Speaker 4: every year and occasion of the have a year where
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  Speaker 4: they'll go off and be eleven and one lose to
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  Speaker 4: Ohio State and playing a big bowl game, and i
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  Speaker 4: that's realistically.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you can do that as.
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  Speaker 4: A program with the transfer portal and nil, I think
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  Speaker 4: that would be a successful program at least.
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  Speaker 6: At least it gives you hope.
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  Speaker 5: Now towards the end of the year, Yes, you're not
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  Speaker 5: anywhere near as worried about making a bowl game now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean you should.
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  Speaker 3: Still worried, but you just feel better.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you go out and you get destroyed
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  Speaker 4: by Indiana, then you get pulverized by Ohio State, you
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  Speaker 4: don't feel good about the direction.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're not you're not ending on a high note.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of spy.
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  Speaker 4: You feel like you're spiraling, and that I thought that's
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  Speaker 4: what was going to happen, and maybe those expectations. I
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  Speaker 4: thought we were going to get obliterated. That's why we
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  Speaker 4: didn't give our score predictions last week. We just like man,
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  Speaker 4: I give a twenty seven point spread, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: score prediction.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, that was the most point I've
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  Speaker 3: had watching this lose a game in a while.
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  Speaker 5: Now, take you said about a ball game and talk
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  Speaker 5: to me if they lose the UCLA.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk too much about the UCLA.
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  Speaker 1: That we'll talk about that on Wednesday, because I do
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  Speaker 1: think like it makes this week's game. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess another one of the most important games, because
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  Speaker 1: you think that UCLA is potentially the most winnable game of.
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  Speaker 2: The last four, but they're all winnable.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of said that after Indiana too, like
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  Speaker 1: it just made you question whether we could get to
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  Speaker 1: a bowl game.
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  Speaker 2: Just said, I think you feel better, but it's not.
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  Speaker 1: We're not given a bowl game just because we played
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  Speaker 1: it close to with Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: That means nothing as far still only scored point.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we still only scored seventeen points.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It again confusing, weird to think about all the thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: but it does just make you feel a little better
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  Speaker 1: of the direction we're going now. I say all that
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do here to start, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't warn you guys with this. We talked on last week,
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  Speaker 1: how these are the things we need to do to
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  Speaker 1: expect to win. Right that gave us his list of
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  Speaker 1: seven things, eight things that he had to win the game,
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  Speaker 1: which is how coach Rule and the staff needed to
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  Speaker 1: get the players to think going into a little high
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  Speaker 1: state game. That game plan was very close to becoming
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  Speaker 1: a win, but it did. And while you want to say, man,
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  Speaker 1: everything is almost great because we kept it close with
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State, we played with them, we can play
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  Speaker 1: with anybody. We still lost another one score game. We
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  Speaker 1: had several opportunities to win that game. And while you
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  Speaker 1: can say, yao, Ohio State's just better than us, yeah, there,
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  Speaker 1: they have more talent.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the question where Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe I don't know Whyo State has more talent,
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  Speaker 1: but we have the opportunities to win this game. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll say, and we should have won. We should have
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  Speaker 1: won the game different pieces. So not that all of
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  Speaker 1: this is the end all be all to why we
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  Speaker 1: lost the game, but just some things that.
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  Speaker 2: Stick out now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, in between these negative things, there's a ton of
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  Speaker 1: positive things. Unlike Indiana, the opening kickoff, into the first
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  Speaker 1: play of the game, into the Buchhinie punt for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, your mind just started going, oh yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: how bad is I think they started on the thirty
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  Speaker 1: six yard line Nebraska thirty six or thirty eight or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. You just went, oh, boy, Like this
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  Speaker 1: season's over, everything's done, it's falling apart. After Indiana then
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  Speaker 1: we go out get the fourth and one huge stop. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that revitalized, relifted and said okay, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: We're not gonna get our butts kicked.
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  Speaker 1: I heard someone say that if Ahio State goes down
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  Speaker 1: and scores at first drive, goes up seven to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: that the game could have ended like Indiana. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about that, how bad it was, but if it
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  Speaker 1: truly is based on the mentality, and it's that, and
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  Speaker 1: I do I We're going to talk about that here later.
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  Speaker 1: The mentality of the players and your mindset in the game.
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  Speaker 1: If that's that big of a thing, which I think
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  Speaker 1: it might be bigger than people realize, that could have
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  Speaker 1: been what happened to Indiana a little bit too.
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  Speaker 2: So that all happens right, and again the negative thing.
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  Speaker 1: You you have a horrible first drive, the defense picks
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  Speaker 1: you up, and you basically get to redeem yourself again.
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  Speaker 1: Our offense in the first half, in general, they had
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  Speaker 1: some moments, but it just looked once again incompetent. Now
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  Speaker 1: and justify with Ohio State defense. Go ahead, But this
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  Speaker 1: is what we've seen all year. It's not been great.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking about the first specifically the play calling, Dak.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is something that you just continue to
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  Speaker 1: go off on and I know Saturday was a fun
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  Speaker 1: day for you and you were you were a walking
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  Speaker 1: highlight reel in yourself.
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  Speaker 6: That's just excited.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're something. Uh, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Talk through what how how you feel about the play
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  Speaker 1: calling and your best friend Marcus Sadderfield or got satured
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  Speaker 1: as you like to call.
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  Speaker 5: Him, does Okay, first off, does he still have a job. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: he shouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: He shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, stop stop stop.
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  Speaker 1: Explain to me how that would help right now if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have a job, tell me what, like, walk
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  Speaker 1: me through that and how you would get through that
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  Speaker 1: right now as a program.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's obviously it's obvious right now he's not
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  Speaker 5: gonna get any better. Like why would you not agreed?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, if that's if that's your opinion, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: then talk me through what what how how do we
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  Speaker 1: fix that by firing him now versus wait until the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year.
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  Speaker 6: What what?
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  Speaker 2: What? What does that help?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's so you just you know what is
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  Speaker 6: what he is? Right now? So here this is how
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  Speaker 6: you get.
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  Speaker 5: Better, you get you get a new guy in there
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  Speaker 5: and maybe gives it you stop.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get a new guy in there right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the middle of the year. You're not hiring
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  Speaker 1: a brand new guy off the streets.
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  Speaker 5: No, but you have somebody that can take over who
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: I don't know who's.
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  Speaker 1: Your That's why walking through this, I want you to
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: think that the quarterbacks coach is technically the co offensive coordinator, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man. We have a blank on his name. Who's
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  Speaker 3: the quarterbacks coach that we just hired.
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  Speaker 2: This summer, the one that's co s with Saderfield?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rob, And you want to say him, but that's
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  Speaker 3: not it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm forgetting his name. Glen Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Glen Thomas. Oh, Rob is the corners back?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay again? You bring you you do that? What is that, Saul?
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  Speaker 2: From this year's standpoint?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it solves anything, but I think
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  Speaker 5: it could help your offense long term views. Let go
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  Speaker 5: now because right now it's your offense is not getting
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  Speaker 5: any better. And I think I think you already know
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  Speaker 5: he's gone, and I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: If so, say, say you know your cat fire at work,
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  Speaker 5: how much effort would you give.
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  Speaker 6: Not much, So I don't know how much effort he's given.
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  Speaker 5: Either you put a new guy in there, he will
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  Speaker 5: change the offense up.
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  Speaker 1: And I do that with four games left, how much
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  Speaker 1: can you change as.
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  Speaker 4: The Jets, how they're doing after their quarterback chance, their
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  Speaker 4: coaching change.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's hard right now to justify
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  Speaker 1: you agree. If things continue now till the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year, I think this will be a very serious conversation,
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  Speaker 1: if not more than likely. The question is, though, I
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  Speaker 1: will say that was first half, second half. I thought
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  Speaker 1: there were some signs of some good things that we've
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  Speaker 1: shown On offense. I say our run game specifically looks
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  Speaker 1: better better than it has and again I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much of that is scheme versus just our guys
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  Speaker 1: making plays in the same system. Obviously you're making adjustments
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  Speaker 1: as the staff small tweaks to make things work better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't to me, I don't think the answer is
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  Speaker 1: right now, but it's still not good right and so
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the next four games are going
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  Speaker 1: to look like. But I don't think that involves changing
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  Speaker 1: an outfensive coordinator. Once you get too late in the season.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think you can change it.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't been great.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't and you obviously still have a talented quarterback
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  Speaker 1: that there's some things to talk about with Dylan too.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't austin any thoughts on sadderfield.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the other thing mentioning play calling, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. I saw all the means of
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  Speaker 1: the screens that would just continue to run over.
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  Speaker 4: Infuriating I completed screens for twenty eight yards.
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  Speaker 1: I get the design of them all, like I actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big screen guy, but in order for it
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  Speaker 1: to work, you have to be able to block it effectively,
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  Speaker 1: because they're not tough throws to make right. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is scheming, but if you don't block it correctly,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're just they looked just disastrous, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them did.
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  Speaker 4: I said, ten completed screen passes for twenty eight yards,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: you got to you gotta do something. And I think
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: most of those yards came on one run that we actually
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  Speaker 4: had one successful screenplay.
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  Speaker 3: That was my big complaint.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I sent that screen the text message to
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: you guys that then took four hours to deliver. So
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: you guys thought I was drunk texting you about screens
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: two hours after the game.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: You like didn't say something right and either I just
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: had no idea what you were saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the yeah autocorrec got me in a couple of words.
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  Speaker 4: I was just frustrated to watch it. It was like
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  Speaker 4: the first quarter we threw like our fourth screen passes, Like,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell are we doing? It was like third
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  Speaker 4: and eleven and we threw a screen pass behind the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage and I was just I was over it.
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  Speaker 4: But we're not hiring centerfield. Your wife fixing me U.
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  Speaker 1: These are all the words that came out of Austin's
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  Speaker 1: mouth so far, and they were like four.
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  Speaker 2: Huss word type sentences.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The first thing, the very first thing in the game,
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  Speaker 4: they said Quinn and Eves back to receive the ball,
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  Speaker 4: and I said, what the hell are they doing?
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  Speaker 3: And man, He's like, what did you say? And I
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: was like, I said, what the hell are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: She's like about what, well they have that guy, like,
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  Speaker 4: they have Quint and ives Rck there to re see
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  Speaker 4: the ball. Why would they put him back there? He's
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: probably just gonna then he immediately fumbled the ball and
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I was like, gonna do that, Like, oh my gosh, No,
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  Speaker 4: centerfield's not getting fired. I don't think he's done a
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: great job, but it's not helping anything. Dylan Royola is
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  Speaker 4: figuring it out. Still, offense looked better in the second
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  Speaker 4: half they did the first half. It kind of looked
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  Speaker 4: like we open it up a little bit, so you
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  Speaker 4: kind of feel a little bit better of maybe it's
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  Speaker 4: maybe it was like a hey, we need to switch
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  Speaker 4: this up, and that was kind of their coming to
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  Speaker 4: Jesus moment of all right, maybe we need to get
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: a little more creative with it.
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  Speaker 2: So Dylan Royola, you ran the ball and he did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's not he's.
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  Speaker 1: Not fast, but but I don't think that's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think a little bit of that's him, but I'll
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: give credit to the offensive staff. I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: offensive staff finally saying Dylan needs to run the ball
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: for our offense to work, and therefore some of them
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  Speaker 1: were designed, but they helped coach him. Hey you can
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: scramble and you can run, and here are times to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: do it. And then Dylan went out and did it,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and that, I mean, that was our offense in the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: first half, like that was our entire offense. He let
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: us in rushing at halftime. That is the added element
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  Speaker 1: that we need to see. I never thought that he
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: couldn't run it. He wasn't physically capable of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: It was we didn't either. We told him we didn't
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: want to get hurt, so we weren't coaching him that way,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: which again goes back to why it's a little more disappointing,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: why this hasn't been all year. But I think that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: gave us another element that Olio State basically was saying
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: in that first half, he's not running it, he's never
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: doing it, and then that is what got us first
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: downs and allowed us to move the ball in the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: first half. The credit there to making that adjustment. And
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: then we did take a couple of shots downfield, which
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: we said we need to do.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Don't think we completed many of them.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But we started to at least show the threat of
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: this is what we want.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: We can do.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: It opened things up for us and I think our offense.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, while our offense we still say maybe isn't good,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it got there were signs of adjustments made this game
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that helped made you think, Okay, if we start to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: do some of this stuff here in the last four games,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: maybe we can score twenty four points and maybe win
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a game without holding teams to n or twenty. Like
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: that seems like how we have to win right now.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: You know, I say twenty one. We have whole teams
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: under twenty to win these games, which which shouldn't be
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the case right it. Our offense has to help us
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: help our defense out when they play a really good
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: game Indiana, nobody did anything, So I agree Dylan Royola
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: rain the ball looks good. The only question mark I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: have and he's still learning. He's still a freshman. We
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: have to keep that in mind. I feel like his
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: zip on his pass as it has like is gone
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: for some reason. It just something off on it. You know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you saw maybe in the spring game and even the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: first game, he felt like he was just rifling stuff
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: in there. And you know, is that a confidence thing?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Is it a not trusting your receivers thing? Is there
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a heard someone say maybe a potential injury thing like
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: not major, but enough to affect it. I don't know that.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: That's the question mark I have on Riola right now.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Is his ability just a zip it which we saw
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: early on, and not as much as a blaked.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I mean the interception, that's kind of how you felt.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: It just was in the air forever. I mean, it
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: wasn't a very good pass. There clearly was something miscommunicated
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: there on the interception of the end of the game.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: But I see what you're saying.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I kind of thought it was just more of a
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: because he usually does still put the ball where he
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: needs to even without the zip. I kind of just
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: thought it was I'm gonna lob it up there and
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: give my big receivers times to time to get this
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: ball or get a PI.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I agree, though it doesn't look as quick as it
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: did during the spring game.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: At least at least he finally took what the defense giving.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you have all that room to run,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: you got it, you gotta take it. Like the house
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: State was not even worried about it all.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: He took it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: And then in the second half, I feel like they
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: kind of we're watching a little bit more, but but.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: He finally I get you're saying that zip on it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: But you know, deep balls, they do feel like they
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: pull up the air forever like almost like an that
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: kind of but at least they finally threw one and
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: you know what, you got p I on it too.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: That's what I've been saying, throw it deep.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that added element right of of getting past
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: interference calls and the really good quarterbacks nowhere to put
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the ball.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: We got a couple of those early on in the year.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It so I think there's signs of life with with
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: this offense. It's still not good yet, but it's maybe
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: moving in the right direction. One thing that Rule mentioned,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he talked about, you know, if you're going to be
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a running team, you have to be good on third down,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and I think at times we did, but other times
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it just looked.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Not good again, and some of that comes from your
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: run game.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: If you can't get at least four yards on a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: couple of those carriages and makes it harder, puts you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in third and long. I thought the second half the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: run game opened up. The one player that sticks out
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that gosh, you just what you want you want to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: have was when daldell are offensive line and that the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: scheme was great, broke through it didn't get touched for
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: about eleven yards and got tripped up by the one
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: safety otherwise probably was a touchdown. And you just need
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: a play like that to happen to win a game
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like that, like gosh.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: You need to get that pick we you know, we
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: need to pick six who got it to the five
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: yard line and get.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It in And guess what, Ohio State how they scored.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: They had three huge plays, So that big play explosiveness
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is still lacking on offense. And specifically I will say too,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: we know you we talked. We've showed the graphic early
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: in the year on after the Illinois game on go
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: ahead drives when the game is tied or one score
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: game by Nebraska. Again, Ohio State caveat whatever you want
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to say, Oh they're good, but once again that last
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: drive that's not ending points and.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Andrew was looking really bad until we got bailed out
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: by questionable target.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, so that play interesting in itself.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So it it just it's hard because yes, you want
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to say Odd's Ohio State, but we have the chances
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to win the game again and we didn't do it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And if our coaches are trying to get expecting to win,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the players minds, which I think we were pretty good there,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: but we didn't. We got to think a little bit
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that way too. Of the opportunities were there to win
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the game. We played well enough, our defense played more
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: than well enough to win that game against the explosive
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: what we think is an explosive offense, and we just
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: didn't do it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: So and I will We've gone about thirty minutes and
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: we have not brought up the hero of the game,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: John hole.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Mci fifty four?
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Where's he been?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All you?
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: What the heck?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: On the road?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Confusing, like just confusing. I just don't I don't understand.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And it's not like those were like question like, oh no,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they just were them, right. I mean that the second one, especially,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I mean to cut it to fourteen to six, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: think was the biggest one.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: The fifty four yarder was like holy cow.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like again, consistency, sustainability in that area of the game.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: We have to show that we can do that. That's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the first time that we were all just like, what
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was that? Now, let's do it. Let's do it week
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: after week. And I'm not saying we have to go
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like that every week. That was excellent, but be consistent
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in the kicking game, Like, let's show that we can
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: do it one week is great, but we've lost so
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: many games off of that too, So yeah, you're right,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we need we need to give that a shout out,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: especially while we're talking about offense, because there were points
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in that game where it was just like, let's just
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: keep kicking field goals in fourteen and like, who would
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: have thought that after our worst unit has been our
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: special teams kicking and.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: It was nice to get that field goal after whatever
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: that fiasco was with the refs spotting the ball behind
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: the the.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Line of scrimmage and time whatever. That was a nightmare.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But before we move on to the refs decaying on.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: The kicking, at least you at least you can feel
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: like you trust a little bit.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: But like you said, that was.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Only one game out of your punning was pretty bad
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: that that shank after that, Yeah, we I definitely thought, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: this is going to go exactly in the ind A
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: game here. So yeah, you find field kicking and work
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: and then your punny goes to ship. So I don't know, uh,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: you can't just win them all.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Like the Big ten release statement today on specifically the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: first down Emmons Johnson's first down that was over by
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: like a yard and a half and then they called
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it short clock ran we didn't get the clock stopped.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And I think right after that, maybe there was that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: offensive pass interference that they called on Banks or yeah
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that was also like yeah, that was also bad. Here's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the thing with those two calls, like yes, I don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think they were probably the right call.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: We actually did an effect.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Now, maybe we could have scored a touchdown, but again,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: our chances of scoring touchdowns in the red zones not great.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: So we made the field goal regardless. It was a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: longer field goal and it was impressive.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: That's why I said, it's if we missed that field goal, though,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you you feel different about it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: For so.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Are the officiating conversation here another thing everybody loves talking
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: about it. Rule once again phenomenal communicator in the press
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: conference is about the officiating, just talking about how it's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the hardest job in the world. Just want transparency with
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the thing with the calls talked about, how is his
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: un sportsman likes have been incorrect that they have Ryan day.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So we go back to that targeting call again. Whether
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: you think it's targeting or not, I don't know. Huster
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: fans are gonna say if the course was a while
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of state, fans are pissed. Ryan Day takes off his
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: headset and I don't think he throws it, but basically
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: acts like he spikes it. Right, They just give him
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a sideline and warning rules. Maybe did throw his so
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: he gets the sportsman likes previous game. Just in general
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: with the officiating, my mind doesn't change on it. There
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: are poor calls, it is hard, there's video reviews on everything.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: This might be an interesting take. I don't I don't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna say this. I don't know they're
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: getting paid enough. And my take behind that these officials
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and any level, right, if you're talking about high school level,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you stuff is a whole nother level. Those are, you know, something,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: more volunteers, lower paying jobs. But it's harder, harder and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: harder and harder and harder to find officials at the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: high school level. Even now, you can't tell me it
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't trickle up to the college level. And guys getting paid,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what they get paid. Let's just call
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it a couple.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Of grand for a game. You want to do a
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: good job, You're.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Trying to do a good job, but a lot of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: these guys, if I had to guess, are not full
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: time officials.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: That's not their full time job.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I think most of them are lawyers, aren't they A.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Lot of them do other things.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And I get people are going to say paid officials more, Well,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: guess what if you pay them enough for it to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: become their full time job. Now you're allowed to really
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: focus on the game. The rules watch a lot more
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: film than they are. They watch a lot of film already.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It's not like they just go into a game blind.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: They have so much more time and guess, and they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: maybe even have time. You know, you have the opportunity
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to get more guys in the box, in the in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the command centers to where you can get more calls right.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: The NFL is get getting better at getting calls right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: because yeah, there are going to be calls that are missed.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I've always said this with review it sucks the more
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and more that we allow them to.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Manipulate the game.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It makes the officials worse and worse, and it makes
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the officials want to ref worse and worse. So now
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you're good officials are saying, well, I'm not doing this
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: crap because all I'm going to do is get ridiculed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Part of that, yes, but it is your job, right,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: It's still their job to do it, right, So I
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: also get that side of it. But if you're not
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: getting paid enough to do it, you're gonna say, well,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: ef it, I don't really care. So you pay them
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: more now, just like college athletes, the more they get paid,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the more right you have to criticize them. Same thing
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: with official If you put more time into it becomes
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: your full time job. It's a big part of the game.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: So that's my take on it right now. That's how
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I feel on it is. Yeah, I get they're gonna
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: miss calls and it's a hard, hard job. And maybe
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: even I've always liked this thing, you know, get the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: officials out in front of a microphone after the game
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and just be transparent with the stuff that they may
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: have missed and how they saw certain things. I don't
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: think they should do that now the way they get paid.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But if you make it a more of a professional
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: job with heavier contracts and more publicized and yeah, you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you are, it's a little bit more about them, which
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: people probably don't want to see. But people are making
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it about them anyways. So those whole rant on officials
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: right now game.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: It is surprising.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I like that Big ten respect between two thousand and
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: three thousand a game, which is lower than I thought.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like one day of work, So maybe
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: it's not an unreasonable about advice. You're saying more money,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: check better talent. I do like how the NBA does
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: the two minute report. It's like, hey, these are the
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: calls are missed. That's it, that's all we're gonna like.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: It doesn't change anything, but we're it's like, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: we also got this wrong mm hmm, which I mean.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I like that the Big ten camera. They're like, yeah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: we did. We we messed up, Like that's we understand
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: that it's gonna happen.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: See we do, and like it doesn't.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: We do understand it happens. But some people can't get
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: their heads to that point. They say, well, yeah, you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: messed up, but you can't make you can't mess it up.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: That's your job. You can't mess it up in this
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: big of a game. And yeah, you're admitting it, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that doesn't salt. Some people have that mindset, and that's
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: what's so hard about it all. Like some people think
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: officiating is getting worse and worse year after year. I'm
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: not gonna say that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know that.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I think it's just TV and camera angles are better.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Deck I mean your vikings.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: The I was just gonna here it go again. Okay, yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: so here here's the one argument that's paining more. What
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: happened Thursday night.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: The high school?
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Anyone that I can see that with face mask and
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: it was the NFL game. They missed it into the
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: game right there.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: So I don't know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I just think so So okay, let's look, let's break
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: down a play like that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Why is that call get missed.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Because the ref is behind them?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, one, there's one rep maybe two maybe they did
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: not get paid off. There's one ref maybe two watching
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that on the field live. So how can you fix that? Well,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: here's here's a here's a solution. What you get you
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: add more refs, Add five more refs in the field,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: like you're paying more. Another thing is, you know a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: call gets missed like that, maybe because of their maybe training,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Another thing, Have a system where that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: can get corrected in the moment from someone that's watching
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: it on the TV.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Have have a way to do that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, they did that in the UFO and I
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: thought it was pretty.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Don't they have it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: They do the NFL is eight officials in the field.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: That could be wrong. Maybe college does too.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying the calls get missed, They're gonna get missed.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And I will one hundred percent say until someone tells
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: me there's a paying off on officials. Never ever, ever, ever, ever,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: ever are officials trying to screw a team over ever,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: no matter how bad you think one side can be
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: in any game, It's never the case ever. So and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Dax just laughing because I think he disagrees it. It
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: just that's not They have no hidden agendas behind any
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Official no sky judge in the NFL.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Oh you said sky they said side judge, a sky.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Judge sky judge, like I was thinking of.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I'll think of the x Y reviews where they tell
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: it like they don't got to go to camera anymore.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: They can just they call it in and see what
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: they say, make quick they Why can't you do that
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: for calls?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Like I agree, Like I think that's a solution that
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: we hopefully will get to in some of these things,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: but it's just hard because of a fan you don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: want refs and it both ways. It's not again, look
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: at the Ohio State Umbraska game, it's not everything that
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: was not one sided. As much as fan bases want
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to say that, I guarantee you if you listen to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Ohio State podcast, they are over there complaining about officials,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: just like Nebraska fans are.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: It's just the nick that. It's just the society we
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: live in.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So that's my argument for yeah, paying them more to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: get and I say paying them more as a group
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: for a game that might not be paying an individual more,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: but pay five more guys to be out there so
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you can't miss a face mask, or you have two
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: angles on a pass interference to where you can now
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: meet and discuss and say what you saw that's not it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Or have three guys up in a booth and pay
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: three of them to be like a committee so when
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you get an instant review on an offensive pass interference
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you can say nope, like I get what maybe you saw,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: but that's not right. Have a system in place to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: get the call right if we're going to allow video review.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: If not, then don't allow it at all in any sport,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and I know people aren't gonna say that's the way
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to go. And what the officials do on the field
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: knowing there's gonna be miss calls right now, it is
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: so much up in the air.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: It's hard.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: It's hard to listen to fans talk about it because
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I just think fans are so wrong in thinking that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: these officials so they hate my team, No, they don't,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they don't.
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  Speaker 5: It's I'm going to bring up that name or play,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: so he's that was a Homerton passing your fans?
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: How do you as a rep? How do you what
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: are you looking at?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: That you might they might not have the angle, their
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: training might not be good enough because they're doing it
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: on a part time basis.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: You don't know how you miss that. You don't know.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: We're seeing five different angles on the TV.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: That makes it pretty obvious as a rep on the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: field that you're standing behind and yeah, your job is
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to quote unquote get in the correct position to make
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the call. They might not have had the angle to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: see it. And if only one guy is on that play,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: they missed it. And and what do you do about that?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Might since we have the cameras and technology freaking use
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: it like it's the don't just put it all in
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: one guy. That guy's an idiot. That guy's that guy
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: sucks at his job. Like it's if he didn't intentionally
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: not call that pass interference because he thought Nebraska would
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: be getting a favor.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: He didn't do that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, he he just missed it. But I do think.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: At least at least throw in the fourth quarter that
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: you can call down and say, hey, you missed a call,
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: because because that's you can end the game like in
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: the fourth corner. Stuff may not the whole game because
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: the reason people don't want to do that because they
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: don't want to they think he'll take the game way
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: too long.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: See, but then fans gotta entertainers have to make a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: mindset on it. If they they if they complain about
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the game taking too long, but then they can't complain
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: about the rest. It's it's a it's a give one,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: take one, yeah, right, If you want to get the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: call right and then give them the opportunity get the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: call right, then don't complain about calls that they missed
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: because they dis miss Okay, enough officiating talk I funder
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: ran on it, but we have want talked about our
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: defense and how well of a job they did against
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. So Ohio State, would you believe that their
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: total offensive yards this game was as much as Indiana
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: had in the first half a week and a half ago.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Our defense came out to play.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: They were on a mission from the get go against
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: very very talented, talented receivers, running backs, Will Howard's Will Howard.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: They made Ohio State's offensive line look bad. I mean, honestly,
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: it was impressive.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Lowest point totally called them to all year. They basically
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: moved the ball on three big plays that because they
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: just had faster, better receivers they were able to score on.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Incredit to a house state for doing that. But wow,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: like great job Tony White, defense and the front line
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: did their job again. After Indiana, it was questioning everything.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It was impressive, Butler stood out. Let's say Hubmuker stood out.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: The hard pick. I agree.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: As he caught it, it was like, please score, please score,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: please score, and then we didn't score. And then all
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like, we're not going to score
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and we did that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Which you got think one reason why they came out
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: their hairund fires because of all weekdays heard how bad
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: they weren't. Because they were, it motivates you as a defense. Yeah,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: and I and I think they're. I mean, they obviously
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: a lot better than weren't.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Indiana.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: See the whole week you is here about bad you
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: were and you got embarrassed. I think your defense quit
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: in that game too. But and I'm sure in practice
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: that whole week they didn't. I'm guarantee to you why
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: I didn't take it easy on them.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: He said midweek how pissed the guys were. I mean,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: they were mad at themselves for how they played. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you can call it schematics, you can call it just
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: getting out played.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it was what it was.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: And then this game they showed up and said it's
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: not happening, and they did a great job. Now here's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: what is upsetting. Still, we played so so so, so
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: so so well the entire pretty much game, but second
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: half specifically and the third quarter we just dominated them.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I don't have the drive chart in front of me,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: but it was like three and out, three and out,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: maybe one first down punt the pick like it are
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: we dominated them. But the one drive we go up
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: seventeen to fourteen, The one drive that all you guys say,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: we just need one stop to get the ball back.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: What you at least just went home in the field, gog.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I don't whatever.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: We played so well the second half, we weren't even
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: they weren't moving the ball at all. The one drive
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: we needed to they put together a methodical drive down
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the field score touchdo on to go up twenty one seventeen.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: And that's the part that bugs me still. Again, you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: expect to win, you play so well, and yeah, you
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: don't think you're ever gonna shut out like shut out
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Ohio State in a half, like you never thought that
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: was gonna happen.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: But we played well enough to do it. We did.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: We had such the right game plan and they were
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: booing their offense Ohio State fans over and over. You
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: could hear the booze on the TV. We just needed
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the one stop and we couldn't do it. So as
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: well as they played. My mind still gets hung up
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: on that is, you get that stop defense, you win
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: us that game. Now, should our defense have to hold
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: an opponent for fourteen points to win a game?
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: No?
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: But we had the opportunity to seal the deal by
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: stopping them on that last drive there, and we didn't
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: My neighbors. Can you hear my neighbors sawing on the podcast?
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: No, now, Gota, it's really loud over here. I thought
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: for sure you guys are gonna say something, but no,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I agree, like you said, they played well enough that
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: there's not a lot to say. But yeah, that last drive,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: it's like we just can't get done. I don't know
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: if Malcolm being hurt and changed it. I don't know
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: what what was different on that last one, but they
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: were really good. I mean, Ohio State has like five
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: star alignment across the board, and we we've manhandled them
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: the second half.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: You know, our linebackers played well. I thought, yeah, I
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: said Jamarin, Butller is so good.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I thought we had the right strategy of when we
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: played a lot of man and man coverage again on
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the outside like Indiana, and I think that the bold
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: thing is there is they have five star athletes out there,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and they did exploit us a couple of times, but
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: we still said we're going to stop the run first,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and I think that's so important in the Big ten,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: no matter who you're playing, and we did a damp
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: good job of that. They have two very very talented backs,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and our front seven did a great job of containing
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: both Henderson and Judkins.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Any other defensive thoughts.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: You controlled the line on defensive and offensive line that
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: sign I would say, And going in that game, if
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: you gave me the odds on who would he would
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: have the better offense defensive line Obraska House State going
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: to the game at plus five thousand, I would not
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: take it.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: So I agree.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Last thing I want to mention here too again rule
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: phenomenal communicator has always been. He started to question if
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: some of those things maybe how are they impacting the players?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: And all that said, some good things again this week,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: talking just about key mistakes. And then the big thing
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: here this week that I think came out, which is interesting,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: is the world championship mindset, and he talked about how
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: he thought that was coming or that came to life
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: here against Ohio State. The other quote, there's no more victories,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: but he's very proud in the way that this game went.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: He wants to everybody to see the true picture of
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: what we're building here and it wants to have championship caliber.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Expectations again all quotes that rule saying here, I like it.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I think that's a way to get things hopefully sparked
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: from this game. It's consistency and sustainability with it, though,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: and when you take a setback, those comments look like,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: what in the world are you talking about, dude. But
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: you play well like that, and you have that mindset
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: week after week, you're going to be in a good
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: spot to win every week. We did not have that
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: mindset at all in the Indiana game. Again, back to confusing,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: no idea why that happened the way it did. Illinois game,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't there after the Colorado game you felt that, So
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not as simple as when you win
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: or play well that you have that mindset. When you don't,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: you don't. But that's what they're building towards is in
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the locker room, and he was He said it without
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: and he knew he could tell the way he was
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: saying it at the beginning because he like paused several
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: several times. He didn't want to put things back and
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: bash the previous coaching staff, so he was very careful
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with it and saying that these guys under Frost like
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: some of these older guys don't know how to win.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, he said, we're getting to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the point where these guys need to develop or are
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: getting to develop a championship mindset in the locker room.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: About a game in Indiana game, this game they expected
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to win, the whole team did, and we didn't do it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: So that's why he said, he's proud, But there are
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: still a lot of mistakes that we've talked about on
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: this podcast. We should have won that game, as weird
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: as that sound. We should have beat Ohio State. If
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you play just a little bit better, make a couple
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: more plays, and we win that game, and it's a
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: statement win for Nebraska football at this point in rules tenure.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: But we didn't do it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: So I think he just continues to do a tremendous
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: job of communicating that stuff. A lot less question marks
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: this week, obviously with the way a game win.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, Okay.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Dek what you're just staring with a blank face.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: He agrees.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: I said, I need to say about defense. We'll see
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: if they back it up.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: You don't you don't play, you don't play. Juggernaut offense
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: is coming up here. We'll say that, Yeah, your rival
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: just benched their quarterback, so five or five million dollar
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: quarterback wherever they paid him East benched.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, last thing. Survivor Pool. We're done for college football.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: But since we all watch NBA and we thought we
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: tried something a little bit new here, or we're doing
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: NBA Survivor Pool. So you're gonna get a pick one
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: game for the entire week. If they win, you're good.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: You can't use the same team twice, just like regular
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: riverpools will go through Sunday's games, so you can go
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: from Monday through Sunday.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Dak will start with you. Who do you like? Who
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: are you taking?
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: It's it's a pretty big game Friday at six o'clock.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: I'm taking the Celtics to meet the Hornets.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Celtics Week one, the right off the back.
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: Not changing my strategy up a football at all, Austin, I.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Think I'm gonna go with Miami over Detroit tonight.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: It's because that d Waite statue, isn't it.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I like that. I actually was thinking of doing that.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be a little bit different, same team though against him,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I will take On Wednesday night, I'll take the sixers
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: at home against Detroit.
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: Wow, no PG, no embiide.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: I think they'll still be okay.
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Roy's pretty bad.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll be it. We'll be back a couple
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: of days here. U c l A go be great.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Tb R Boomer Hu