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Nebraska Football Offense Position Breakdown · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast August eleven, Hunter Sarberniki, Austin Rose,
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  Speaker 1: Dakota Free Tag Offensive preview for the corn Huskers coming
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  Speaker 1: at you today. Before we get into that, I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about some of the news
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  Speaker 1: happening this week, which not much besides a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the injuries that have occurred. Now, I will say when
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  Speaker 1: we say injuries, and I think when Rul talks about
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  Speaker 1: them too, there's obviously the guys that get like banged up,
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  Speaker 1: right like, But then we have the season that ending
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  Speaker 1: ones macmark Way was the one that happened last week
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  Speaker 1: at the tight end position.
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  Speaker 2: Bly Hill.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a guy that was gonna have probably a pretty
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  Speaker 1: significant impact on special teams. He's out for the year.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe place him in the secondary as well. Anything else
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  Speaker 1: I'm missing or anybody else, I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: So there was some other person that got hurt, but
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  Speaker 3: I the name didn't even ring a bell.
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  Speaker 4: So something's gonna impact us too much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll get into it later.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know how good that tight end was,
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  Speaker 5: like I heard, but anytime you're losing it tight end
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's been banged up. He was out
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  Speaker 1: last year too for the same injury, so not great. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the tight end position is one that's probably not our
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  Speaker 1: deepest right now.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to it, though I don't want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: unless that's where we want to start with the tight end,
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  Speaker 3: We're not starting to jump into it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess other thing, Troy Dannon spoke the other day
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  Speaker 1: and just wanted to get your guys' thoughts on on Troy.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't talked about him a lot, you know. Our
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  Speaker 1: new ad that came would have been about two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half ago at least, came right
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament game in Memphis for the basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: That's when he started. He's been here now for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I haven't heard a lot about him, but
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  Speaker 1: he spoke a little bit about the football team and
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  Speaker 1: his plan for using Memorial Stadium, uh for other events
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  Speaker 1: as well, not just football games, you know, the like
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  Speaker 1: similar things to what the volleyball team did a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, but you know, concerts. I heard maybe
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  Speaker 1: like but yeah, if I I heard like a Savannah
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  Speaker 1: bananas and maybe not just using the football stadium, but
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  Speaker 1: like just other facilities to bring in revenue. He talked
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  Speaker 1: about a little bit about our schedule on Friday night games.
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  Speaker 1: How he doesn't he doesn't mind the Friday night games.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some schools aka Ohio State really complains about those,
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  Speaker 1: which they haven't even played in any I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: but probably oh No, Ohio State was complaining about the
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  Speaker 1: noon games. That's what they were complaining about.
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  Speaker 2: And they kick one off the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, life's tough. Poor Neon games or baby is I
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 1: Any thoughts on Troy Gain?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think he stayed out of the news, which is usually
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. If you're an a D you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be the one making headlines. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a good job so far. Like
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got a good picture and a good
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  Speaker 1: vision for the program. I think he's also young enough
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  Speaker 1: and has a visionary mindset with all the new stuff
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  Speaker 1: going on. If you have a leadership team that's aking
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  Speaker 1: behind the times, you're in trouble and very much uh
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  Speaker 1: financially focused, which is fine, that's what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: But with Trev he felt a little more and you know,
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  Speaker 3: program focused and Troy feels a little more financial focused,
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  Speaker 3: which is fine. There's two different approaches for a job
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  Speaker 3: that's very much involved in both.
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  Speaker 1: And the money now is what's speaking there. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of other issues going on.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you need.
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  Speaker 3: Money to have good programs, and you know federal money
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  Speaker 3: is drying up, and so he's got a lot, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff to.
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  Speaker 5: Figure out, like you, Like you said, the ad is
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  Speaker 5: kind of like the line, the less you hear their name,
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  Speaker 5: the better. Just stay on the news. And trav Trevor
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  Speaker 5: loved to make headlines and news all time. He's all
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  Speaker 5: always saying stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about TV.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: It's one day. Let's start on a good note.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there was. There was one part of that press conference
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  Speaker 2: he came out with he.
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  Speaker 5: Said, no, I don't know if it's fully sold out yet,
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  Speaker 5: but there's sixty thousand Husker tickets sold, six thousand Cincinnati
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  Speaker 5: tickets sold for the Kansas City game.
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  Speaker 4: Back, do the math.
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  Speaker 1: What percentage of Husker fans is that ten percent?
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati Huskers pretty close.
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  Speaker 4: Good job, so they must not be sold out. So
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  Speaker 4: it's only sixty six thousand tickets.
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  Speaker 5: But I know it's yeah, he says it will be
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  Speaker 5: sold out, which which that is a Cincinnati home game.
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  Speaker 2: So if you do the math still is right.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean it's not at all.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why. Why did they agree to play
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  Speaker 5: this in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: I think Indianapolis kicked them out. I don't know, Travis Kelcey,
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's revenue thing all for them. Like I think
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  Speaker 1: you know, initially it Wasn'tcinnati, It's true game, and then
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  Speaker 1: it went to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 4: Cincinnati gets a good cut of the money, whether it's Husker.
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  Speaker 3: Fans or not correct, and then they get more people
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  Speaker 3: will go if it's in case.
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  Speaker 2: The end zones b Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: No, So now the stadium sits. It's like split and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to mess up the end zones if I
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  Speaker 1: try to say it. But it's one end zone in
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  Speaker 1: the sideline Cincinnati, and then one end zone and the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines Nebraska. So when you go to purchase your tickets,
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  Speaker 1: like you, Nebraska fans are obviously trying to pick the
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska side, but you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't have to if it's a ninety fan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there will be a section of Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: fans that are all Maybe they'll be like a little
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  Speaker 1: parent section that they reserve for them, but there'll be
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati fans kind of spread throughout. It won't be like
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. But I think Huscar fans have
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  Speaker 1: bought the Cincinnati tickets. I'm guessing at.
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  Speaker 4: This point that's totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, it'll it'll, it'll. It'll be a
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  Speaker 1: home game for us as far as the crowd goes.
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  Speaker 1: It will still be a road game in the aspect
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  Speaker 1: that you're still traveling. You're obviously not at your home field,
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  Speaker 1: playing on your home turf. But the crowd will definitely
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  Speaker 1: be in favor of us, which I think it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: big here to start to hear. We need to win
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  Speaker 1: that game. Guys, it's I get I get nervous more.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting more nervous than excited. I think I've been
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  Speaker 1: excited for a long time. I'm getting now more nervous
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  Speaker 1: just because this stupid first game bug that we have
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  Speaker 1: and playing somebody that has good enough to beat us, Like.
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  Speaker 4: And you're going to the game, Oh yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here's the here's the actual numbers.
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  Speaker 5: Six two thousand, tickets have been sold in ten percent
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  Speaker 5: of that Cincinnati Soskar fans and Airhead a whole same
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  Speaker 5: six thousand.
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  Speaker 2: They'll they'll get to that.
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  Speaker 4: So I saw Michigan was the only sellout so.
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  Speaker 1: Far and for the big House. All right, Offense, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do a deep dive here into each position, talk
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  Speaker 1: about the the coaches, what to expect from the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, talk about the players. Figure out
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  Speaker 1: who we think needs to have a breakout year or
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  Speaker 1: is going to have a breakout year some guys maybe
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  Speaker 1: to watch. I think throughout spring and fall camp you
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  Speaker 1: probably year. If you follow Huscar football in depth and
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  Speaker 1: listen to other podcasts of the news, you probably hear
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  Speaker 1: a ton about a lot of different guys. And will
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  Speaker 1: we anybody know the exact team that gets rolled out
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  Speaker 1: on the first Thursday. No, but it's fun to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We've kind of avoided going into too much depth and
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  Speaker 1: saving it for this episode. The defense special teams we
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  Speaker 1: will do tomorrow or Thursday, not tomorrow. Let's we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in a bit. So we're gonna focus strictly
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  Speaker 1: on offense here and Dana Holgerson's group as his first
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  Speaker 1: full year of offensive coordinators. So before we dive into
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  Speaker 1: players and positions, I want to talk about Dana for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. First year. Oh see, obviously had four
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  Speaker 1: or five games last year to end the season. Came
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  Speaker 1: from West Virginia, oklahom the state been known for, as
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  Speaker 1: Dak says, and what he thinks, we're just gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: their raid and sling it around, as he mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: couple of episodes ago. Dana, in my mind, I'm intrigued
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  Speaker 1: by what he's going to bring. But I think the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing that you have to call out is
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  Speaker 1: he understands offense to an x's no standpoint very very well,
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  Speaker 1: and regardless of what we're running. I think that piece
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  Speaker 1: in itself, well, it's very broad. I think it's very
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  Speaker 1: important that he's got a lot of experience and he's
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  Speaker 1: a I'm not gonna call him like the mad scientist
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  Speaker 1: prototype of offensive coordinators, but I kind of think of
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit that way, maybe a little more
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  Speaker 1: like roughed up version given his appearance factored in there too.
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  Speaker 1: I think he knows offense very well, and whether we're
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  Speaker 1: running the air raid, we're running some variation of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to help. I have faith in that. He
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  Speaker 1: was one that was behind a lot of the mesh
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  Speaker 1: type concept that kind of got created ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago, which for those of you that don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that is, those are like the crossing routes across
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  Speaker 1: the middle, whether you run with tight ends receivers that
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  Speaker 1: you're you're not hitting the defenders, but you're just running
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  Speaker 1: right by them and you're not setting illegal screens, but
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  Speaker 1: you get in the way of the defenders and opens
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  Speaker 1: up crossing routes when they're in man coverage zone routes
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of find the hole. So he was
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  Speaker 1: one that was kind of behind a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: in creating that. So any my high level take is
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited because he understands the offense and obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: got some tools and some pieces to work with. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't have many hesitations. I guess when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Dana Holgerson and my belief for faith.
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  Speaker 3: In him, I agree. I feel better about him than Sadderfield,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean named the last oc that you felt Scott
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  Speaker 1: Frost as a head coach offensive head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Beyond that, gosh, it's been a while.
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  Speaker 3: No Mark Whipple, No Mark Whipple, I did feel care
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  Speaker 3: about vote Mark Whipple.
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  Speaker 4: It don't I'm not gonna talk about Mark Whipple. I
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  Speaker 4: will Mark Whipple run.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: You look at the numbers last year because he was
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  Speaker 3: the o C the last four games counting the Bowl game,
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  Speaker 3: and statistically the numbers weren't that much different. But he's
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  Speaker 3: much more efficient. The run game was more efficient, the
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  Speaker 3: past game was more efficient. I remember the Wisconsin game
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  Speaker 3: being like, oh, Ship, this could be fun. So hopefully
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  Speaker 3: a whole other year, well, I guess not even a
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  Speaker 3: whole other year and offseason with you know, Dylan improving
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  Speaker 3: and uh he got his wide receivers coach in key
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  Speaker 3: or not Shorts Dy. I can't think it was his
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  Speaker 3: first name and it starts with the D s. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully that helps as well. I don't know I
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  Speaker 3: like him as an OC. I won't at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want him as my head coach, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: more than happy to give him run an OC.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it shows how bad Saddfield was last year
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  Speaker 5: that he could come in and just throw together at
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  Speaker 5: four games completely changed the offense, which I've said what
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  Speaker 5: I thought about Sadfield.
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  Speaker 2: So I won't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't actually think that they're gonna run the air raid.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they do. They's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think do you think that would benefit
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska football to run the five hour air raid?
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  Speaker 2: The fans or the team both?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the team, like, do you think that will help us?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, not not?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you hope that we do it?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's the fans side of it, it'd be awesome
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  Speaker 2: to watch. I think, of.
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  Speaker 1: Course, you are just the sucker fan an.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'd be so much fun to watch an
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  Speaker 2: area in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: And you're the You are the problem that Nebraska football
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  Speaker 1: took a decline in getting away from the option heavy
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  Speaker 1: you run. You're the problem.
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  Speaker 4: You know f it. I'll say it.
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  Speaker 5: I think I think it would help Nebraska from the area,
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  Speaker 5: the hard receivers they have.
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  Speaker 2: In the speed, I think it would in.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Ten. They'll let me argue. I could argue
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  Speaker 1: about this the whole podcast deck, and you are not
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  Speaker 1: gonna win. Yes, in the Big Ten. You think you
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  Speaker 1: think that's the best option, just like Wisconsin did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Wisconsin didn't have anything to run it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you think we have all the pieces that
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  Speaker 1: run the air raid. Yes, and you think you think
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  Speaker 1: in the Big ten that's the type offense as success
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have the best players in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I do with with the way your team set up right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Yes, based off of what evidence dack, there's no
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  Speaker 1: obvious but.
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  Speaker 4: The zag here Hunter could be.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is is there what we're good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying what we're currently doing. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to run the air raid. I want
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  Speaker 1: to run the ball more. And and I do thinks
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  Speaker 1: is going to have I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very balanced in what we decide to do.
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  Speaker 4: But say two years ago, we ran the ball seventy
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  Speaker 4: percent of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And we were we were in about every.
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  Speaker 4: Game we were we lost them all.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think we need to make drastic well
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  Speaker 1: I say that, and we hired three to coordinators, but
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  Speaker 1: drastic overall changes. I mean, we're we just we got
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  Speaker 1: we gotta find a way to win. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: big thing. And and Rules said it the other the
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  Speaker 1: other day in a press conference when asked that question.
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  Speaker 1: He just made the comment that we have to get better.
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  Speaker 1: When you have better players, and so Dak arguing on
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  Speaker 1: your side a little a little bit here, He's like,
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  Speaker 1: once you get better players, you start to win those games.
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  Speaker 1: And and all these guys that we had last year
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  Speaker 1: that played, you know, we just got a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit better, brought in from guys made
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit better. And then once you get
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  Speaker 1: better players, you start to win more close games, which
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  Speaker 1: in simplest terms is probably not a horrible way of
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  Speaker 1: looking at it. But again, until we see it, I
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  Speaker 1: won't believe it. So hopefully we can do that.
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  Speaker 5: Would you rather run what Michigan did last year where
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  Speaker 5: they literally would not throw the ball?
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  Speaker 1: Well, No, Dak, because I think we do have a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that can throw it a little bit. Do I
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  Speaker 1: want to run Iowa's offense. No, But as Iowa's offense
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  Speaker 1: won them nine or ten games in the Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: about every year, defense in their defense.
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  Speaker 3: Like their offense has lost them. I would not say
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  Speaker 3: their offense has.
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  Speaker 4: Won them any game.
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  Speaker 3: It's been literally had more touchdows in their offense like
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  Speaker 3: last year something like, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Been complimentary to their defense because they that's it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't get Do I think Iowa will ever win anything. No, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so with their offense, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you have potential to do that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not Iowa's offense, but it's a combination.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't watched their off season hype videos.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, their quarterback in the spring game went nine to
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  Speaker 5: twenty one with a pick pick six, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 5: this this stuff they're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: I mean talking about passing and running.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, we did lead the Big Ten in time
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  Speaker 3: possession and we were like top we were like number
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  Speaker 3: four in the nation something crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So even though we weren't, I mean, it was close
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  Speaker 4: to a fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what the actual split was, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's pretty dang close.
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  Speaker 4: I think that could work.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as we've talked about having a controlled offense,
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  Speaker 1: understanding the clock like we've seen the opposite side of it.
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  Speaker 1: It really helps your defense from a rest standpoint, from
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  Speaker 1: a schematic standpoint like it does, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: saw that last year. What the benefits of that are
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  Speaker 1: now again, do we need to run the clock down
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  Speaker 1: to two every time? No, but having a good balance
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  Speaker 1: on offense not going three and out. Scott Frost. Throwing
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  Speaker 1: swing passes like that definitely helps the trauma.
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  Speaker 4: Is the swing past Scott across swing past? I have
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  Speaker 4: thought that, Well, that was.
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  Speaker 5: A moment, you know, actually try to get the first
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  Speaker 5: down third and eight instead of just giving up giving
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  Speaker 5: them the ball right back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So all right, Well let's dive into positions a
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  Speaker 1: little deeper here. And every year I think we talk
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  Speaker 1: about where to start at this episode. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we've last couple of years, we've gone to the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. I'm I'm gonna start with the position that
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: it's the man's team, it's his program right now, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we're going there with Dylan Royal and the quarterback. Obviously
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: we still believe the offensive line. It starts there, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it is Dylan Royl's football team from a out every
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: way you can, we can grab it if you ask
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: anybody in the but probably nationally, you know who is
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: who is Nebraska football right now? From a player's name,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: But name the one guy everybody staying Dylan Ryola. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it's not even a question. He's the clear QB one.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: As Roal even said the other day, it's not even
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a question that he's starting. Last year, Remember it last
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: year at this time, while we kind of knew rule
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: did not want to name Ryl the starter, and we
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: didn't know that at this time, but it's it's been
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: clear since the season got over that he will be
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: our starting quarterback for this year and he's made strides
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: in doing so. And not only that, he's been a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: probably our best recruiter from getting guys to come in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: as well and setting the direction for the program. So
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: on the field, Dylan's seemed to get his body right
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and that was a big top conversation that we brought up. Again.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Have we seen it live and action, No, but he
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: does look the part now and I know that was
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a big thing for him in the off season. His
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: intangible part of the game is I think the most valuable.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Obviously he's got a lot of skill that goes along
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: with that, but Dylan's our leader and and and we're
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: going to go from a momentum, from a a drive
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and energy level, We're going to go as he goes
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: from the oppositive side of the ball, and how he
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: meshes with Dana's concepts is the part that's we kind
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of saw glimpses of, but we don't exactly know and
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: everything we are going to see in the fall. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: very excited for Dylan, to the point that almost, you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you don't even talk about it. I don't even when
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you're talking about it with with other people, your friend's family,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Like you don't even really Dylan up too much because
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you just you feel good about.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: It, right, He's the known entity. It's like, yeah, there's
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: no question, like we're we all feel comfortable with it,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and not that there's no question about well it's going
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: to go comfortable, you know, there's no like, well, I
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: don't know, maybe Jalen Grahamstad you know, might be the
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: better option. It's like, no, Dylan is the best option.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: He was solid last year as a true freshman. I
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: think we all expect him to take some make some improvements,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: maybe a few more I don't know, better decisions, maybe
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: a little more mobile in the pocket. But even then,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: like I don't. Again, it's been a year. I've had
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: a kid, so the memory is foggier than he used
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: But I don't.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Really remember a lot of times last year being like
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: what the heck are you doing? That was a boneheaded play?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, not that didn't happen, but it was.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It would have been probably holding the ball a little
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: bit too long in the pocket, and a couple of
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: times that he did get out and run and you
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: wanted him to run like he would slide before the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: first down, like like he.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Would hold it too long, but he'd you know, he didn't.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like an interception or you know, it didn't
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: always result in a sack like he got rid of it,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: but it's like, what are you doing?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: When are you holding it so long? But it did
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: feel like it was that larger penalty.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So I agree, I don't think there's that much to
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: talk about him, Dak try to talk about him, let's
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: hear it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's a lot of freshmen stuff is
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: holding the ball and too long in processing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the main thing is in.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: We So we are talking about with the last o
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: see that you're comfortable with who was last quarterback coming
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: into the season that you're like, okay, we're find that
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: position Adrian Martinez.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's been a few years, but
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: we were known for starring freshmen and riding him out
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: for four years. I mean we've done that several times
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: in our lifetime.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Tanner Lee's the answer to that.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember going into that year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: So I didn't I didn't know this, which is terrible.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Nebraska is one hundred and third ranked offense last year.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I mean I thought it actually could be worse.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of that has to do with
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: dumb nuts. Mean Nero c.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But you just call Marcus Sadderfield dumb nuts.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, that guy is a idiot anyway.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But the main, the main thing I want to see
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Ryla do.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: And I've said this many times and he's talked with
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: all his wadies, last run run the ball more. When
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: you have that open field, take off and run.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: So, Dak are you this is a topic, dude? You
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: do you envision more designed runs this year from data
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: or and I'm not saying a lot, yeah, but yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: are you are you thinking more? I mean there's a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: fine line. What are you seeing when you say Dylan
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: are running the ball? What does that mean?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I was thinking more along the lines of when there's
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: when there's ten yards open table.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Home scramble, yeah, which is like he's not running it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: But if it's wide open fields like yeah, okay, I
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: will take the ten yards.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: When when there's ten yards there to take.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: It instead of being instead of being gassed during the
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: three yards.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I think early on this is my prediction. I mean,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I think that part of his game hopefully will improve.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's being more elusive in the pocket, whether
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it's even just avoiding a sack to get the ball
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: thrown away. Well, I think early on we're going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: see I think we're gonna see a couple of designed
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: QB runs that are going to surprise some people and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: defenses included. You know, in big third down moments, you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: know QB draws some zone reads that he pulls and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: runs for seven yards for a first down or a touchdown. Like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna we could see some of that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I hope we see some of that. I think that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a that's a very useful offensive play design that catches
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: teams off guard, especially for a guy that has such
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a strong arm and talented arm. You know, our past
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have been able to do that, they haven't
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: been as good as of passers as Dylan has now,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: They've had better legs. But I think that's a very
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: very big piece of an offense. If you can do that,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and I think Dylan can it all is going to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: come down to how comfortable you know this offense is
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and really probably comes down to Dana and then rule
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: him getting hit and taking some shots. Now, Dylan obviously
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: can be smart with sliding and getting down, but there's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a fine line of getting that extra two yards for
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a first down and taking a shot when you might
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: need to and not doing it. Mahomes Is really figured
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: out how to do that and milk it a little
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: bit when you know you're going out of bounds and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: getting some extra penalty arts too. Like he has played
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: so much football that he knows that level himself. You know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Dylan being only a sophomore, that that might take a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: little bit of time still, and I think there could
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: be some frustration with some people along those lines when
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: he's running the ball. Do I think he should be
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: trying to get every first down and just getting drilled?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Like No, I that's what I did as a quarterback
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: when I could have gave a ship less if I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: got hurt in high school because I was a crappy
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: thrower anyways, Like I didn't, I didn't, I never, you know, never,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: he never slide. But then the guy behind me, who
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: was a better passer like he was told the kid
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: get out abounds, and I mean that made sense. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I do I think the Dylan's gonna take every shot?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: No?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Do I think he's gonna slide every time? No? But
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: what's that fine line in between there? As he's our
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: clear QB one and and a very not to discredit
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the other guys, but a very significant drop off after that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying come out run the triple option, which
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: which we're playing the game here. I mean offensive schemes
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: can I name in this in this podcast, but.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Rid them off ten seconds go.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Those there's the two he starts with.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I guess all right, time up, Yeah, you failed miserably.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm just yeah. I'm not saying they'll
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: get drilled. Just take the ten yards when he's there. Yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Uh, didn't mention to our quarterbacks coach is Glent Glen Thomas.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I do appreciate how our staff is organized this year.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: We talked about that in the spring some too. How
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: everybody's in charge of one position. We don't have anybody
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that's you know, OC and a position coach like Dana.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Dana is just the OC. I do appreciate how our
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: staff is organized this year backing up Dylan. I think
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: there's maybe a little favoritism here towards Jalen graham Stadt
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: since he's the veteran guy that's played college football before
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: as our number two. But I've heard a lot of
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: good things from t J Latif in camp right now.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Marcos Debila is also there. Obviously, Heiner Carberg is an
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: emergency option, but he's fully converted to a tight end now.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: So I think it's Jayalen O Graham's Said's job. If
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Ryola were to go down or you know, I've come
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: out out of the game for a helmet thing. You know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen him. We haven't seen him in action much.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: But we hope to never see him in action. We
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: hope we never do.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Is Is there a lack of depth at the backup
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: quarter reposition? I maybe, but as we've said, how many
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Division one programs have a good, great backup There's not many.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you hope you never have to it never
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: comes to that. If it does, it's very worrisome. But
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I do think you have a guy that at least
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: has played a lot of snaps before, and you know what,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: maybe if you can get latif in there in a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: couple of those early games and get him comfortable with
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the speed of play and everything. You know, he might
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: be someone that you can use and hopefully not use
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: all four of his red shirt games. But it sounds
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: like he's done some good things in camp.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Now here's I was just thinking about this talking about Harvard.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: How many design quarterback plays you think he's gonna have.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: We'll get there and talk about tight.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: As Okay, Okay, I mean to Dak.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: We were talking quarterbacks, so I don't know if i'd
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: just say anything about our backup quarterbacks. I agree, it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: probably Jaalen Graham's dad. Hopefully we never see him.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on down the line here. Let's go
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: go to our backfield. The rest of the backfield running backs,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and this is the one position I will say that
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I think I've heard the most highs and lows as
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: far as what we are expecting going into the fall.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Emma Johnson is also clear cut number one heading into
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the year as a junior. After that, I've heard a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: lot of names. Mikai Nelson's looked great over the last
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: few weeks, so Quentin Ives was kind of the number
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: two going into camp and it's still in the mix
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: there As a sophomore, Isaiah Mosey has has shown some
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: splashes there. You know it's gonna be one of those
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: three most likely sprinkled in with Emma Johnson. Do I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: think Emma Johnson's going to get twenty plus carries a game?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: No.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I some offenses but do that. But there's fewer and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: fewer those at all levels of football where you just
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: have a workhorse every down back. You're gonna see some
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: of these other young guys get in there. And what's
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: great about it, they're all great and maybe a hesitation.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: They're all young. You know, there's no seniority in the backfield.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But I think the most important thing here is which
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of these guys can make a guy or two miss
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and turn a two yard rush into a six yard rush,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: can turn a an eight yard rush that was well
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: blocked by it up front into making the second level
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: miss and turning that into a forty five yard rush, Like,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: which of these guys can show to do that? Because
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: we have not had one of those backs, and man,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: it feels like it's been maybe since a mirror. Yeah,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I mean that we've had some decent guys.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: In there, right, who's the guy that Oh wow, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: just played down his name? Morgan Morgan, huh, he got
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: charged for like child born remember Washington Maurice.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Like again, there's some guys that you know had some
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: had some stuff there. But I think we're looking for,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you know, a guy that can break through as a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Really I'm not saying we need a ten out of
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: ten running back, but one you can rely on to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: get some extra yardage here.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I expect it's gonna be Emma Johnson. He's not,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: like I said, he's not how you quite like the
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: bell cow. But I think we're gonna be passing to
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: our running backs a lot. So I think Emma Johnson,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: and as a moozie who was a wide receiver in
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: high school got moved over running back, probably will see
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: a lot more time than you'd think. I'm fine if
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: we just I you know, I can't like the consistency
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: obviously went you know, I didn't have the fresh legs,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: But I'm fine if it's mostly Emma Johnson eighty percent
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: of the time out there.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it sounds like I mean correcting them a
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: wroung here, But I think doing something. McKay Nelson is
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: going to be like, you're your second running back. Like
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: he's they're really high on him coming out camp.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He's definitely had a very good spring and fall as
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a freshman. I think a lot of these guys too,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you know, don't want to bring this up and jinx it,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: but hanging on the ball. Yeah, we can't be putting
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: balls on the turf and losing possessions that way. It
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: sounds like, and this is what we're gonna hear. Emmott
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Johnson put on the weight that he needed to put on,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: maybe looked a little bit slimmer and you know, got
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: muscular over the offseason. Quentin and Ives maybe lost his
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: ten pounds to slim down so he could be more
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: less of a just a power back and more of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it all around. You know, that's obviously what you want
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to hear. It sounds like these guys are there and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: then Makai Nelson seems to be a stut so like
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: we have some pieces there. Last year, what did we say,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we had a bunch of five out of ten running
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: backs like across the board. I think we could get
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: there again this year, but we need to get a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: guy to step up and become the seven out of ten,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: eight out of ten, like one of these guys need
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to do that, and Emmett's the front runner of doing that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: But who knows, Like I think all these guys are
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: going to get some and it's early on in the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in the year and some snaps, so we'll see who
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: breaks out of this group. With running backs coach E. J. Barthel,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: who is one of the few that have made it
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: through here in three years, full three years, he was
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: almost poached. He was going to I don't I don't
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: even remember where. Probably you then all right, moving on,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: let's go wide receivers here. Uh the Kiel Shorts coming
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: from Kentucky brings Dame Key with him in the transfer
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: portal and Isaiah Hunter also in the portal coming over,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and then we bring back J. Cory Barney had a
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: very good, solid freshman year. I think last year, you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: you knew maybe he'd get some snaps, but he really
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: broke out kind of as our best receiver towards the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: end of the year. I think, you know, those other
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: couple of transfers we had were solid, did some good things,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: but JA Cory Barney was one that everybody got most
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: excited for.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, as a guy that fits Dana Holgerson's agreed
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: middle of the field.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen pictures of him, he looks
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: very much to be in shape and doing well for receivers.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So the Metris bell is another one that you may
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: be some special team's time, but I think we could
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: see him on offense too, Like I've heard a lot
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of good things about him. Another slot type of guy,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you know, Jeremiah Jones, Keeland Smith, some of these other
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: names you might have heard, jan Iron Bonner, a converted
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: full back continues to grow as a receiver, Cortes Mills,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Keiland Smith, Quinn Clark. Like a lot of young young
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: guys here. Uh, you know, the guy that really is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: leading the room is is Dame Key as as the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: only senior on this on this roster here, And that's
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the kind of type of guy that I think you
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: want in that position, that has done it before at
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: another Power five school. Some of these other transfers we've gotten,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: we're not in that same boat, you know, maybe didn't
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: play in some of the tough environments that Power five
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: schools playing, and Dan Key was their number one guy.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Too.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like he was a secondary option. He's used
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to being the guy, and I think that could bode
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: very very well if him and Dylan can hit it
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: off early. Having a guy like that on the field,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you see it at all levels, you benefit greatly. Is
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: if the defense has to focus on a stud out
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: there is Dan Key everything and you hope for you
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: hope so, but again don't know until he wide receivers.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I mentioned Dakhil Shorts already, so Isaiah Hunters the other
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: one that I think, you know, I think we could
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: see some a lot of flashes here from him. He
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: is also only a sophomore. I every time I think
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: of a transfer, I think like junior senior, because I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: think that's what we've had. He's only a sophomore, and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I think he's got a potential two more years here
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: of really breaking out and being a very very key
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: player in the Dana Holderson offense.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, it is crazy.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: We talk about the age Dan keyes the senior, and
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: then there's Genarian Bonner is the red shirt junior junior
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: on the depth chart, and the rest are freshman or sophomores. Yep,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: free sophomores. I think they're, Oh, I guess to Matrice
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Bell's a red shirt sophomore. So that's a young room.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of movement, a lot of transfers out. Yep,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: it makes it interesting. I'm just bringing one up for
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: a guy like Malachai Coleman who leaves to go to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota, Like, it's a position that you think he
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: probably could have played if he would have stayed here.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: But you know what, maybe those top three guys or
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: four guys, like if he saw the writing of the
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: wall and like, oh, I'm just gonna be fifth wheel
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: here again. But you you would think that a guy
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: like that could have seen some playing time.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I would say like I said, I
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: think I expect Corey Barney to lead the team in targets.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: And probably think so. I think so.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: And then Dankee might Dank he's more likely a leading
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: yards and ja Cory aleaded targets.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: M Yeah, it sounds like everyone's high on Danky. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: then do you think Cortes Mills will push Hunter for that?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Why does he your three spot?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I think that's a very valid point. Like I think
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: he's another guy just like McKay nelson who's shined a
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: lot in in camp and and what's hard with hard
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: but not hard as receivers. It's not like ofventive lineman
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: where you want some seniority there because of their physical
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: development like sometimes receivers dudes.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: And I think you know, as you talk about receiver
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: prototypes and stereotypes, you got your possession dudes, which we've
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: seen the lack that you know what, it's third and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: six and you need a guy just to go run
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a quick eight yard curl and you can throw it
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to him and you can expect them to catch it
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: over a dB that he's five inches taller than. There's
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: those kind of receivers that we have not had in
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: a long time.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Jones is a giant.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: He is beat a big dude. I think of guys
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: like you know, Mike Evans when when that comes to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: mind of of guys that have played recently in the NFL,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: uh And then you have you have your speed guys.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: You have your guys that that we've had a lot
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of in the in the past where they can just
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: run a post and get by people. Now, have we
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: had the quarterbacks to hit those guys, No, we haven't,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But you have those guys too, and that's kind of
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: what Cory Barney and those kind of slot guys are
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: better at. And then you know what, then you have
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the all around guys. I think Isaiah hundred falls in
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: between that from what I've heard and seen. Again, we
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: haven't seen a couple of these guys play live action.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: That guy agree with though with Cortez Mills like it's
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: it was all around guys.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: They sounds like Hunter is not guaranteed that third spot
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's the favorite, but I agree, I
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: think it's always good to have competition.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Jacorey and Dan are pretty locked in though, I feel
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: pretty good about that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean these guys are all I think a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: lot of these guys we've mentioned are going to play
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I think in a Dana offense and just more and
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: more in today's football's offensive scheming world, you play a
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: lot of guys. You play the guys that are hot. Like,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: there's not many locked in positions outside of the few
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: that we've mentioned in an offense like this, so which
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: is good and bad, Like you want healthy competition to
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: continue to get guys better every week.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: And just like, okay, so last year, last year, everybody's
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: high on May you're coming in and he had a
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: solid year, But you want more from dan Key than
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: you got from or.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Yeap or Banks.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I mean Banks was good, but and and and then
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: you can go back a year before his first year,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we got that guy from Virginia, little Billy Camp. Like
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: remember all the hype on Billy Camp and he was.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Just I do also remember on this podcast simply being like, yeah,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: he's got a lot of hype, but he is like
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: a sixth year senior.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Billy Camp is just as bad as what you said
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: he was.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I thought he was Okay, He's all we had.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: True.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I thin guess that was one point.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Year we ran seventy percent of the you know snaps.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: That was That was one point I heard in a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: different podcast they said, think about the group that we're
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: talking about going into this year, and think about the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: group we had rules first year, which it feels like
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it was a long time ago, this group, but like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I can't even remember the name of those guys who
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: we rolled out two years ago for rule like that.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: That wide receiving group was. It was brutal and there's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a reason why we ran it so much. I don't
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: even know. If I want to look at the names,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: who it.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Was, pull them up Boston. I want to remember anyone
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: besides Billy Camp.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: I mean they were kind of just forcing the That
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: was the year Heinrich I started quarterback, correct.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I think that was the year we had like eight
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: different guys played quarterback for us.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: All right, we've got Billy Camp, Oh boy, I Wante Brown.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: I don't remember him at all, the Coldest Crawford. I'm
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: trying to see if there's any names that I remember.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I'm literally reading them.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And I don't know these people are, okay, Jalen Lloyd, Maleci,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Coleman played quite a bit. Fleeks, yeah, Donya knows tight end.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Jayden Doss got a couple of catches. Alex Bullock was
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the one I was thinking of.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: He was on the team last year. He did alrighty,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: he was a really good blocker. Everyone loves him.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: Ty Han, well, well, well, hold up, Heinrik is not
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: the starter two years ago.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Game one, my boy, you're you're right.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Jeff Simsons the started start of the year and old
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Chava and old Shova.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: So I didn't again think about the To Dak's point,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: at the very beginning of the players, the talent, the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: people that we have working with to run something more
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: complex throwing the ball, though, like the pieces we had
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: to work with from from a talent level were not
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: not there. Year one, I mean, our leading receiver was
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Billy Camp with thirty five receptions of three hundred and
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: ten yards, so Dak and he had one touchdown. Maybe
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that's what you thought. He wasn't that bad? Well, that
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: that was our leading receiver on the entire year. Uh So,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: back back back to this year's team, like.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: We're in a better spot.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: We're in a better spot and and and we we
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: should be right it is here three like not to
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: say that this is like the best thing ever know
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: we should be if this.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Is probably safe to say that this is the group
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: we feel second best about behind quarterback.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe on often maybe.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: There's maybe I I think I think I think one
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: of the positions here we're going to talk about here
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit, I think a little.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: More so, Wow, I'm sure, I know, I think I
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: know what position you're talking about. That's so optimistic for it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I think I think we're doinking the same thing on.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: The tight ends here. It's not tight ends. Uh, Luke
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Linden Meyer, Heinrich Harberg. I don't know who's I'm gonna
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: start there, you know, Luke Linden and Myer maybe seems
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: more of the all around guy that can do a
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: little bit of both. I think Heinrich is still building.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: He's he's gotten a lot of progress towards building himself
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to a tight and body. But he's still going to
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: be your athletic, probably more down the field, stretch, the
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: field receiving type of tight end than than than blocking
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Carter Nelson. I think he's in that same boat as well,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: you know, losing macmarket by.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: The time the season starts. Is he fine?
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, because.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: There was originally talk that he was gonna be out
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: for a while.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: But there's like he's participating in practice and be like,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: oh it looks good.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean he's gonna play. I
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: think he's probably the third guy for sure here. But
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm intrigued. I guess to see how we
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: how we utilized Heinrich, you know, fully fully converted. Now
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: we had to you know, use him at quarterback over
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the past couple of years. Luke lind and Meyer could
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: be a very all around guy. He's a junior. I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: do like that these guys are experienced guys, not rolling
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: out a younger guy that you know you're gonna play
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: on the line a lot. I think you're you're gonna
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be in tight on this offense. So do
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I feel great about him? Do it hurts losing another
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: a depth guy that you know you would have played
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: some I'm guessing at some level, but I do feel
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: good or Okay, I guess about linden Meyer and Harberg.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I want to see his use Harborg though in a
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and and not not to say that it needs to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: be exactly like this, but like how they used Tyler
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Warren last year at Penn State. And Tyler Warren obviously
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: was a dude, right Like I'm not saying Heiner Harberg
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: is Tyler Warren, but Tyler Warren like they utilized him
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: extensively in their offense, including like putting him under center
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and running some like wildcat power stuff with him, which
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't put that against Dana and Rule
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: in this offense to do some of that with Heiner
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: because he's got that ability to do that with his
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: body and his athleticism.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we were to pick a single player
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: to be like, this is the player that I would
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: like to break out the most, he'd probably be Heinrich
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: as a tight end.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: For being honest, I agree.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't miss it like I think he's
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: he's a homeground husk or too like I think people
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: want that to work really well, we wanted to work.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: He sacrificed. He's like, I'm not gonna be quarterback. You know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: we need tight ends. He'll be a tight end. He's athletic,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: he's a likable guy. But I feel the way Carter.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: We'll see because he had a hip surgery in the spring,
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: so I remember he missed the spring game, and there's
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: a talk that he might be out longer. But I
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: guess he's okay. So I mean Carter will be If
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Carter's healthy, he'll be higher on the depth chart. I'd
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: expect than Heinrich, just because I mean, Rul loved Carter
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: Nelson and by the end of the year car was
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: getting pretty good run at it. I don't know, we'll see.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: This is the I would say this is the weakest
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: group on the offensive side, But there's I would like
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: to see both heinean Carter do well. Those are probably
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: the two more offensive players I'm were excited to see
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: and hope to do the best on the offensive side.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, before you go, I do think we have a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: very very solid and good tight ends coach here. You
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: want to talk about that.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Me?
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no idea who your Titans coaches.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: He's still on staff? Would you earlier?
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, good old dumb nuts or whatever you call
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: him earlier?
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: God, Well, this this vision is screwed. Yeah, I think
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: it's I think it's really thin at the position. I
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: think I don't think the Titan position will get used
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: much in the passing game this year as as normally.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, to be honest, how much how much does
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: Nebraska really use the tight end in the passing game
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: at all?
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: I mean historically rarely.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I think Heiner Harberg will get used in the passing game. Well,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: he always looked like a traditional tight end what you
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: think of when you when you're like a Travis Kelsey. No,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: but I think Heinrich will get used. I mean, he
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: might look like a receiver at times in some of
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: their formations, but I think Heinarch will get used.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: I agree. I think you'll see Carter Nelson kind of
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: line out like a Resea. Yeah.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: So let's said, okay, so we're talking about with the quarterbacks.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Let's let the over runner.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: How many times of the game does Heiner Harberd get the
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: snap at quarterback.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Over the course of the season. I'll take the over
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: on six and a half.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say five and a half a game.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: No, No for the season total, not.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: All, Okay, I mean it kind of reminds me of
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Blake Bell Toklahoma. I think that they'll like short yardage.
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: I think the'll bring them in just like get a
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: yard or two third and ones.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe we could, like I'm not saying that won't happen.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: They would rather run Heinrich than they would Dylan. Yeah, probably,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that we will go full
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: like Blake Bell or Taysom Hill type of right utilization
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: with them. I don't think it's that level. But do
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I think that there's opportunities there. Yes, I think they
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: they really are trying to get him more of a
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: tight end. But I think there's still skill there, and
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I do believe there are trick plays in the bag
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: where Heinrich will have the ability to throw it and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: we'll use them if needed.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: And that's the main thing is if he he can
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: throw it too.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: So I don't like Blake Bell mean game, and you
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: knew he's gonna run at least at least at least
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: Heinrich can throw the ball a little bit, so you
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: can you can add that the wrinkle in there.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: Can do anything.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: He can do it all.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: I hope he plays so well this year, you really do.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: Oh before before we move on, shut out for don
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: he got the hands on for I think the Bills
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: two point conversion what they did for.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Number one the Bills, the NFL tight ends as Nebraska produced,
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: and he was a tight end to you, baby, We're
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: tight end to you here, Carter. It's like, oh, that
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: guy was on a roster all year, but he got
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: picked up by the Bengals.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, do you count Cam Driggens the tight end.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: I mean technically he was recruited as a tight.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: End day offensive line ending with the high most important group.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: As always, as we've mentioned and we'll reiterate it, it
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: all starts upfront. If you don't have even an average
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: offensive line. If you have an average Okay, if you
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: have a really good one, all really good things happen
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: with your offense. But if your offensive line struggles, I
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: don't care what you're trying to run for a scheme,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: all of Deak's three schemes that he could name off
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: the top of his head, like, you can't run any
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: of them if you don't have guys that can block
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: up front. And we have seen the worst of the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: worst of that over the last seven years of doing
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: this podcast. We've also seen some very very strong offensive lines.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Well maybe we haven't seen, but we have heard at
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Nebraska of those lines that have taken our teams a
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: long ways into the postseason. So just reiterating the importance
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: of these guys that Dak mentioned it. They don't get name,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: they don't get praised, you don't hear about them a
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: whole lot, but they're so important. And I think if
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: you're rebuilding any team you start here, you have to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: strengthen the guys up front, and even more specifically, you
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: have to strengthen the guys that are, to me closest
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: to the ball, like your center and guards have got
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: to be some dudes and tackles are obviously important as well.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're not, because especially when you get
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: to passing downs, We've seen what happens when when your
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: your tackle is completely with on edge rushers to your quarterback.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: But having guys up front is critical. That being said,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to try to predict exactly what
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: our line is going to look like left to right
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: because I've heard so many names and seen so many
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: different predictions. We know the blind guys are.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Interchangeable, right, We know like the eight to ten guys
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: that are going to play.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And that number right there is why I'm excited, is
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I was going to say, you know, seven
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: to eight, seven to nine, we have we have some
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: guys that I think we feel good about. And on
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: top of that, we have a couple of guys that
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: are in the what I'm calling the projected starting five
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: that played a lot of snaps in previous years that
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: are they Are they horrible offensive lineman? No, But I
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: think it speaks volume that a guy like Turner Corker
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: and you know, is probably not going to be starting
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: for us this year. Over the past couple of years
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: he's starting or been playing a lot of snaps. Now
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Turner's going to see a lot of snaps as a
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: redshirt senior. Like he's he's still going to be there,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: but he's probably not a guy that is going to
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: start this year because we brought in Rocko Spindler from
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame who was on a team that played in
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the National Championship.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: Game last year and for them and it started. He didn't.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: It wasn't their season starter, but he did start for them.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: We brought in Elijah Pritchett from Alabama who is a
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: junior this year. Saw a lot of time on the
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: field at Alabama. Justin Evans is our confirmed center up front.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: If I had to be a little hesitant, which I
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: think is the most important position, it's maybe him, I do.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: I think he could do a good job. Yeah, he
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: hasn't been talked about a lot, got a lot of hype,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: but he's he's going to be our center this year.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I think, why am I blanking on our centers last year?
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: The Arizona State transfer.
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: Be well, I also just blinked.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: But he was he was solid, like, had a lot
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: of did a lot of go things. He wasn't outstanding
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: by any means Ben Scott Ben Scott. Yeah, so so
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: if he's replacing Ben Scott at center. Henry Latowski sounds
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: like he's had a very very good offseason, and I
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: believe he's the Oklahoma State transfer from a couple of
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: years ago. Went to Big Ten media days, which I
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: think just kind of tells you this is a guy
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: that they're expecting to start up about every game that
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: was not really known until that point. Tyler Kannak is
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: a guy that could be on that projected starting five
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: between him or Teddy for Hoska, a Gunner Getula another
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: one in that mix. He could be the other starter
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: there at right tackle or left tackle. Again, do I
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: know exactly what it's going to look like left to right? No,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's really going to know until those
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: five roll out, and that's gonna be something everybody's watching for.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I brought Knutson another one, a younger guy, Grant Bricks,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: another young guy. I think you're going to here be
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: in that mix. And so the Sammy Sledge is a
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: backup center and will probably stay there unless needed an emergency.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's your seven, eight, nine guys that are
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: getting talked about and guys again that you feel you
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: feel pretty good about going into the year. Now, do
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: we want guys to just get banged up and injured. No,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: like that's that you never want that. But you feel
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: like you have some depth here. You have some veterans.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: When you look at you're projected starting five and most
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: of them are seniors, juniors and seniors, you feel good
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: I like this group. I do. I think they're going
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to be a nine to ten out of ten. No,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: But do I think they're going to be one of
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: the more solid core upfront that we've had in the
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: past few years.
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: I think they could be.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: I mean the question is are they going to stand
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: up against like the Michigan front four. We felt all
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: right our offensive line that we played Michigan Ohio State,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: and it's like, oh okay, this isn't.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: What we wanted and it's your four of the you know,
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: the Roola A line coaching.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: So I mean, you'd expect a line to take longer
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: to turn over because it is a more developmental position
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: and there doesn't have to be more physical growth. So
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, this would be the year that you see
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: the payoff of switching to a better a line coach
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: in theory, because you've given it a whole training rotation
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: basically with the red shirting, and this would be kind
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: of their year three as red shirts, plus with the
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: addition of the transfer. So I probably agree that this
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: is one of the better positions. I mean, it's you know,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: it's them or the wide receivers. But yeah, like if
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: we had, you know, if knock on wood Teddy Prooska
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: goes down with another season an an injury.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: You're not like, oh, shoot, what are we gonna do?
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Like, I'm honestly I'd be some you know, I really
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: hope Teddy stays healthy all year, But like, is that
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: a guy? Like do we just keep him as a
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: backup and like a you know, not run him out
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: there all the time. Yeah, Dak, you had a confused
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: look on your face.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: I was confused. Oh I was are you talking? Like
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: how long ago I did?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: I didn't know who the center was, oh, Ben Scott.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: But I think I think I've said this another podcast.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: Oh mine is the one spot where the transfer portal
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: is the easiest to bring somebody in because if you
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: can block, you can block for anybody.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Interesting.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: That's what I think these transfers you brought in.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: I think there's a little bit more of a cohesion
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: that's required.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I don't think there's as numerous of people
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: entering the portal, So I think that's true.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: That makes it harder because I don't think there's as
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: many oppositive linement entering the portal as other positions.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: But continue, Yeah, I just think those two transfers you
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: got are gonna help out a lot.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: And it's like you said, it's not gonna be a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: nine out of ten. All you need is just to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: solid online. You don't need. I mean, it'd be nice
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: to have it. That's him.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: But if you just have an online that will give
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: all enough time two, enough time back there to where
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: he's not panicking every time he goes back to past.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: Basically all is all you want and get make some
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: room for him, Johnson, do something. This is the This
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: is like the first year I can ever remember that
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: what the hell is his name? Your tackle last year
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: is now on the team. I felt like he was
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: there eighty years. Ben Harp, Yeah, sadly that guy is gone.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: Most starts in Nebraska history.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sadly. Okay, he didn't improve.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: You say that, but last year he was he was good.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: He was good last year now freshman, and in the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: year before that awful. But so whatever you have at
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: tackle is going to be better than him. And yeah,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: I just think it's gonna be a solid group.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: That you mentioned. I think one thing that he's shown
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: is he's made guys better. Speaking of someone like ben
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Hart like he hasn't, he has found ways to develop guys.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I think in combination of that with Data being able
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: to scheme around your offensive line and run run plays,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: run schemes that will benefit your strengths and kind of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: hide your weaknesses. I think that's something that good offensive
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: coordinators can do. Again, doesn't get talked about. When you
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: think of designing a play, you're not really thinking about
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: your line. You're thinking about routes. You're thinking about lanes.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Like offensive linemen can be used very intricately to make
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: your offense really, really good. And and that's another you
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: know faith that you're putting in to Data offensive coordinator,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and then and then Donovan that that this group could
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: be very solid with the different pieces that they have.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: So that's why I feel good in their experience. Like
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: we're not rolling out a true freshman, and I don't
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: think starting.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: I don't even know we have a true freshman role.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: I guess we have one true freshman role out.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we got guys that have played or
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: were on the team last year that maybe played behind.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Some guys got some snaps. I mean, Gunnard Tula got
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: some snaps last year. Grant Bricks and you know got
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: still retained his red shirt status there. I mean Latowski
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: got a lot of snaps last year. Like, well, I
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: don't think he was a week one starter. He started
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: some games toward the end of the year. Dude, injuries
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and stuff. So we got guys that I played some
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: major college football, and I think that.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: Only Eddy was a starter for correcty years. Screy blows
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: his knee out.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: Correct, So all lines like the one position that you
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: look at the depth of most because odds are you're
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: going to lose when you're offense lining for a.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: Game, right, one of these one of these people will
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: be will miss the end of the year.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: It'll be Teddy. We all know that.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: I don't want to say that.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I really hope it doesn't. I really hope for his sake,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Like I really hope.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: He doesn't just give me. Yeah, I want Teddy give
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: me all the Nebraska born boys just to have a
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: great year.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Do you want to have depth? And it looks like
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: that they have decent depth behind your starters.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: So how many started off at the lineman have to
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: go down before we throw Heinrich in there? You know.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Left tackle zero zero, he's gonna start.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Move him in.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Last thing I guess on the offense here before we
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: close out today, what what do you guys want to see?
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Obviously you want things to look good. What specifically do
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: you want to see here the first few games of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: the year. We have two games that we've chopped up
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: as wins. Knock on better lose those too, but you know,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati game one early in the year, Like, what what
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: are some things you're looking for you want to see
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: early on in the year?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: Biased?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: I want to see it just and like electric connections
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: between Jacory, Dylan, Emmett and I rink where it's just
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: like they're all in the same brain, Like, oh this guy.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: He's doing this, throw Dan that throw Dane for me
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, just the cohesion and efficiency and just
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: being like okay, these guys know what they're doing and
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: they're on the same page, and you know it's not
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: always a completion, but you know it's like, oh, that
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: was the.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: Right call and it wasn't quite a catch, like it
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: was a good defense. So that's what I want to see.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited to see what dan Key is gonna
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: do because there's there's a lot of hype behind him,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: and then Harvard, I want to see how they use
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: him and then we just talked about. But the only
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: line I want to see if it's actually going to
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: be a solid group from once.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: I.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Along with all those things, I I want to see
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: things pop early on in whatever in whatever way shape
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: form that looks like like I think last year, the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that was good moments all resulted in
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: like twelve yard games or like we had a good
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: run design was like, oh my gosh, we got eight
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: yards like or oh my god, Dylan can freaking throw
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: it and he threw a nice twenty yard pass across
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: the middle. Like I want to see things just take
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: that next step and pop in these games, especially the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Akron and Houston Christian game, but even the Cincinnati game,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: like there's no reason to think that this offense can't
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: come out and just go whoa and and all of that.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a result of the things that
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: you guys mentioned and your your key players coming together
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: and saying nope, like Dylan Ja Cory Dane, like in
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: the passing game, like nope, this we're gonna be a
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: huge threat to posing defenses when we're on the field,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Emma Johnson, when now I get the ball, it's going
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: to good luck tackling me. Like, I want to see
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: some of that pop. I think we saw that last year,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: but again, I don't think that resulted in yards and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: points like we hope to. And I'm speaking specifically about
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Dylan A Dylan Royola led offense and then a Dana
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Holgerson late in the year designed and called offense like
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: we saw those moments like Okay, this is this is good.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: This is good.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Like I like this, Like I think remember which the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin game, you were like, whoa, this is what offense
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: could look like here, Like I want to see that
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: consistently for three games early in the year, and I
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: think I think there's potential there. But if there's not,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: I think that's when we're hitting we're not hitting the
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: panic button because I don't think there's going to be
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: any worse than two and one. But you're you're saying, okay,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: AWRII how are we crawling out to six or seven
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: wins here if our offense doesn't have that? With everything
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: we've talked about today and the hype that I guess
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: that we're on, even though office has been really bad
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: the past few years, Like, I think this has.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Potential it because it's been bad, there's room for improvement,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: and we can see that there's a path for improvement.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, last off season at this time, we were coming
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: in from a year watching like any one yard game.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: It was awesome, no interceptions, but yeah, that was the bar. Yes, yeah,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: you scream anytime you throw out the year before. So
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: now now you're coming in with senior year of a
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: decent offense and and hopefully build off that.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, I guess before we close out right
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: the top one hundred Archie Wilson hype, we forgot to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: mention that the Archie Wilson apt.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: Has arrived and it's here and it's real, and uh,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: I guess. Volleyball Road White Scrimmage.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Let's the girls look pretty pretty deep on that side too,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: so it could be a good fall, could.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: Be a good fall fellas.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I think reseason ranked number one, number two.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Did you watch it, Austin? I heard it was on TV.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: I watched highlights of it. I didn't get to watch
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: the whole thing, but it was the the ladies on
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: the team. Basically they're making this sound like, Yeah, practice
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: is harder than games, so and I mean we look
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: pretty deep across the board, so feel pretty good about that.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: Danny whipping them into shape.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm pumped for the Archie Wilson talk on Thursday.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: Yep, we'll talk.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: We'll talk defense special teams on Thursday, similar breakdown as
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: we did today with the offense. So until then, thanks
• 1:09:42
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• 1:09:46
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• 1:09:49
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• 1:09:53
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• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: We'll be read GBR.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Go'll be read yet.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Truck back, I think a