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Episode 5.12: Don't Throw the Ball -- Colorado Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Hmm. Welcome to the return to Marie's podcast. I am here Austin Rose,
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joined by Dakota free Take, soon to be joined by Henters Arbinniki.
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But he was running behind schedule, shocking, dak How are you feeling after
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your long weekend? Odd? A lot better? I believest better than I
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was Sunday night when your audio when you left, were you falling asleep throwing
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up? Yes? You throw up? No? I didn't. No,
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okay, okay, all right, Well we were debating after after you hung
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up. We're like, well, he either he wanted to get a sugar
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Sanders take your victory lapp in and then he either fell asleep in the car
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or he threw up. We couldn't decide which one. No, I said,
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I said, you know what, I'm just gonna get my take out
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about him, and that's it. I'm out. I'm impressed you even made
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it on the podcast or being fully honest. Yeah, Hunter texts me,
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he's like, you're ready to go, now, like, you know what,
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I'm ready, let's go. Ask screw it. You weren't too bad
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of shape the guy you were with sounding like he was in rougher shape.
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Yeah, he did. Not make it very far that night. And that
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was night two, three, Sunday Night three, that was night three.
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That was last night. Gosh, that's rough, Yeah it was, it
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was. It was a lot of fun, but wow, did not feel
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good. All right, Well, we're gonna get going here without Hunter Hill
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right in a little bit. He should have the link. We are gonna
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be talking, shockingly enough, color out of Buffalo game this week. We'll
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probably wait to do your one minute picks until Hunter hops on. We don't
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want to mess that up. So we're gonna be previewing the Colorado game this
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week. It is officially, I believe, the most bet college football game
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in the history of tracked gambling. Is that accurate? DAC And I was
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like a Monday, Yeah, that was which you flip it before the card
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game cart team game. It was fourteen to half Nebraska and now it's card
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buy three. Yes, people are pouring their money, pouring their money into
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Colorado. I just checked and hasn't gone up, which I'm surprised. I
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don't know. I feel like most of the betters probably got in early enough
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that they you know, there's probably if you're gonna put a bet down,
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you probably already have you wanted to get it? When hello? I think
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they looked at it and they're like, like, you know what, let's
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just keep it at this because money's gonna keep pouring in on Colorado it is,
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yeah, yeah, Why why give them better odds when it's gonna keep
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pouring into Colorado? Which, oddly enough, I believe ESPN still has our
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prediction of a favorite favored Nebraska. I believe. Really, yes, I
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think we're still favored sixty percent of forty I believe, well, I do.
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I think Nebraska wins. There's gonna shut down all casinos in the world
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because it's I don't imagine of there's gonna be a lot of Colorado fans this
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weekend that do not typically wear the black and gold. No, I think
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I think there will be a lot of people that throw money on Nebraska money
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line though. Oh yeah, well, and Nebraska low's covering, Yeah they
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do. I mean, I think over the course of their you know,
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last five years, they've covered a lot of spreads, not when covered the
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spread. Great teams, good teams win, great teams cover deck. That's
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right, just like Oklahoma. Yes, it's just like Oklahoma. How do
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you feel about Oklahoma's performance this last weekend. Well, they had Butch Jones
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crying on the sideline, So that's something, all right, say, it's
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pretty good they had. I didn't know this, but they had Calado's old
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starting quarterback or last year starting quarterback they played against. Oh really, JT.
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Scroud or something like that, Stroud Stroud. All I can think of
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is CJ. Stroud. I didn't know who he was, and I looked
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it up. I was like, holy, crappy played their last year.
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He had terrible stats. But m oh, it looks like Zarves is about
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to join us. Once he gets in here, Zarves are there? Not
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quite. Once he gets in here, we'll start talking into we'll start looking
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over the Colorado football team. So Nebraska traveling to Boulder this weekend, I
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expect there to be still a lot of red, regardless of where the money
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is going. I assume you expect the same. Oh yeah, I think
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I think it'll be seventy thirty Husker fans there. Wow, that's a pretty
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heavy shift, because I think they bought him all already before Colorado won that.
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That's true. They probably bought him before Dion was ted coach to be
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honest. Oh yeah, I think they bought him all out to begin with.
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I don't think now now card they're probably trying to buy him. Zarves
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is joy to us. He's wearing his return to Glory tank top. Were
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you all golfing? Oh you're muted. We can't hear you either that or
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your your MIC's not working in your car? What are the two get to
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a stopping point? My goodness, he's driving. How unsafe can he be?
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So the Colorado Buffalo? How are we now? Oh? There we
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go? We can hear you now? Great? Were you a golfing?
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No, I was at the gym, but I am done from the car.
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Have we figured out how we're gonna be Colorado yet? No, we
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haven't figured We were talking about Dak's weekend last weekend, so we're just getting
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to Colorado. Man, Well shit, I thought we'd be done with the
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pod by now talking about how we're victorious. Speaking of victorious last weekend,
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the reason all the money is on Colorado. Colorado goes in two TCU beach
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TCU buy three forty five forty two behind an incredible performance by shitter Shanders das
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Heisman favorite. Is that what I'm hearing. I told you, guys,
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second best pack twelve quarterback, second best pack towelve quarterback. How much did
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bow Nicks win by? They won eighty one three or something seventy three yees
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seventy three, so they yes, they beat the number seventeen ranked TCU horned
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frog shitter Shanders through for thirty eight completions out of forty seven attempts, five
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hundred ten yards, four touchdowns for five hundred ten yards. The big receivers
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there, obviously, Travis Hunter, the two way Star, also jumped in
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the Heisman favorites this last week. Eleven receptions one hundred nineteen yards, Dylan
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Edwards, they're running back five receptions one hundred and thirty five yards, the
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longest seventy five little and Jimmy Horn Junior eleven receptions one hundred and seventeen yards
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with their leading rusher, city On Wilkerson thirteen carries for forty five yards and
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one touchdown. So if if someone's winning the Heisman, I think from Colorado
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and it's could be the year you never know, but it's Travis hundred because
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he's playing so many snaps and that's impressive to dude. So like I I
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honestly don't think Colorado needs to win ten, eleven, twelve games. They
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just can't have a undefeated team with a star player. Then they might have
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a chance, honestly, And I think I saw the day there at We're
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like both of them were plus seventeen hundred, which it wasn't the favorite,
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but it wasn't like the top five to seven. But they're stuts. I
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mean, they have dudes that can do elite things on the football field.
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And you mentioned some of those other guys too, the USF transfer receivers,
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and then I mean they got players. And that's the biggest concern in my
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mind when it comes to this game, is how do we stop him?
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Like I get all the other players, and they were bad last year.
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They obviously brought a new a bunch of new guys in, but like we
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knew they had players, we knew they'd be good, but the thought was,
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Okay, they weren't going against power five competition at Jackson State. And
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you know what, though their five star recruits, Travis Hunter was he was
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the number one recruit in his class. Oh he's not a scrub? Yeah?
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Can you play that many snaps in elevation though, I don't know.
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I don't I'm walking on the mountain up there. I can't Breathe don't know
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how he's gonna breathe. He's practicing every day there. That's true, and
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I mean that's kind of been the story about Colorado all off season though.
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Is dion what br is Louis Vuitton luggage. And they're very top heavy.
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They're not a deep squad, and I think that's kind of universally accepted as
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this is true. They're elite talent, elite, but it drops pretty quickly.
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Although against TCU it looked good, but again going into the game,
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I think there's a lot of Week one overreactions because TCU yes was in the
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National title game last year, but they had like the ninety fifth worst defense
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last year, and they won ten of their games by ten points or fewer.
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I want to say, seven of their games by less than a touchdown,
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So it wasn't like they were dominant team by any means. They were
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winning the close games. They were clutch, but they're deep. As what's
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TCU better than Minnesota? Yes? Last year? No, this year,
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this Week one, I don't know. I don't know, well, what's
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the point of the podcast is given opinion. Do you think they are not
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yes? Offensively no, Offensively yes, Defensively no. Well, I I
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think they their defense, it's a big, tall defense, always gonna sucked.
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But they they moved up and down the field, Cardos too, They
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had skill position players everywhere too. It was I think they looked a lot
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better Minnesota did. I mean the thought that I'm getting at is everybody is
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taking Colorado's game and saying how a good Colorado played as a twenty one point
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dog. Obviously they won the game and then didn't say much about TCU.
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While our game, we obviously did not win, we talked about that,
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how we used it, blew every opportunity, but everybody just said how bad
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minutes Oda was. I'm not convinced that Minnesota's defense is not great really good
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again, and I mean everybody looks at bones in Nebraska's offense is absolutely horrible,
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Like I mean, it could be, it could be. I don't
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know, but I do think that we're gonna be able to do what we
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want to do better. We're gonna have to because Colorado is ultimately going to
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score some points. Yeah, so we are going to have to We're gonna
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have success against Colorado was in the run game. Their passing game was not.
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Their quarterback is twenty four for forty two for two and two like they
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had. They got a decent chunk of yards. I mean, Colorado still
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gave up five hundred plus yards as a defense, but they gave up two
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hundred sixty two rushing yards. And if tc would have run the ball more,
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they would have won the game. They just didn't. Your only hope
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is Cardo's defense is complete doc shit, which it could be. It could
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be. And the strength of their defense is their secondary. And we went
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through Colorado's offense and some of the players they have their defense. If you
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look at them, the big time transfers they brought in, we're in the
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secondary and TCU still exploited them in the secondary. We're not going to have
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the players to do that. I think the game playing and this is I
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mean, this game is getting talked as one of the top games. I
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mean even sometimes more than Texas and Alabama, which is nuts. But I
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forgot Texas and Alabama were playing until I was doing research for this podcast.
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That is, let's how big Colorado Nebraska is I wish text Abama play.
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Honestly, the strategy that the whole nation is talking about is how much we
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need to run the ball and flow the game down and take Colorado out of
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their tempo. And I mean, that's the formula to beat them. Hello,
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that's what we've been saying. We need to be the formula to be
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any team for a long time, not just Colorado. But here we are
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now that the team like Colorado gets fun. Colorado played similar to how Scott
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frostberk and plays year over year, and what beat us teams the way we
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played or we should play. So I think we're gonna play that way.
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There's not a question in my mind. Well there is a little bit,
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but I do think we are going to play and slow the game down because
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it's pretty obvious even the national people that that's what we gotta do to win
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the game. But the question is if Colorado puts eight or seven or eight
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or nine guys in the box, I mean, there's a way to stop
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that. You just load the box up what we did to Minnesota. Can
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we counter that? Can we make a completion? Can we not turn it
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over three times through the air? I don't know, No, I agree,
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I think it it's Minnesota was ranked number nine defense last year in total
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yards. TCU was ninety five. Nebraska was one hundreds. So there's something
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to say. Our defense was kind of ship last year too, as as
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was TCU. So are we any different than TCU? I don't know.
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Maybe with the worst offense, but they were calling, you know, everyone
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was saying Nebraska was sloppy against Minnesota. We had seven penalties. Well,
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Colorado had six last week. Like it's it's week one. I think a
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lot of people overreacted to the to Colorado coming out and beating TCU because everyone
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thinks TCUs where they should be last year. I don't think TCU is gonna
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be that good this year. Do I think it's gonna be a close game?
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Yes? Well, the thing about your door was he had all day
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to throw. Yeah he didn't, and you rot the same pressure open.
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Yeah, he had all day to throw. It wasn't like he's getting pressure
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the whole time and throwing. I mean, he's throwing great balls, but
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he never got pressure. Dinald thing, Wait we think three or four times
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how many sacks they have? Uh, Colorado was sacked. Give me five
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seconds it's loading, it's loading. I will say Colorado didn't sack them at
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all. It didn't happen one time. There was much pressure either way in
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that game. Yeah, Colorado had zero sacks. TCU had four sacks with
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seven tackles for loss from TCU, zero tackles for lost from Colorado. Yeah,
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it's a dogshit defense. So you guys outside of Travis Hunter, I
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don't know. Like so, I mean, if we're looking at Colorado's obviously
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Shilo Sanders with their leading tackler with ten total tackles, nine of them being
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solo. But on defense it's Travis Hunter and on offense it's Travis Hunter Shuter
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Standers. I think those are the electric players that we're gonna struggle with.
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I think if we figure those guys out, which it could be nothing,
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it could be something. I don't know. Colorado's defense last year was second
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to last against the run, second to last against the past, second to
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last scoring. And obviously they changed everything and brought new people, and they
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got edge rushers from Florida State and Washington. I mean, they're not bringing
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in lower Division one players, They're bringing in guys from big schools. They
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got it obviously a new decordinator and Charles Kelly who comes from Alabama. Like
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it's hard, just I mean, even Nebraska, it's hard for us to
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tell what exactly to make both their offense and defense. I think their defense
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more so because yeah, TCU score on them a lot, but TCU's offense
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is also known to do that. So TCU also did have like I mean,
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they lost their starting quarterback, their top two running back, their top
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two wide receivers, and something like that. Like I mean, they had
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a completely fresh and their offensive coordinator left right. But the way they the
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way they scored or move the ball was not running. I mean they ran
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it well too, but it was they exploited Colorado throwing it and just going
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down the field often and doing that, like they have better athletes than we
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do at receiver. That's where my only my big concern, and I have
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this in all caps in my notes, is can we run the ball?
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Because you would think Colorado is going to stack the box and we're going to
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have to run the ball. We have to control the clock, we have
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to play that game. So the quote that I loved that I heard was
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make them make us throw the ball. We don't have to throw the ball.
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We don't. We shouldn't at all if our running games working. But
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if we're not able to run the ball because they got eight, nine,
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ten guys in the box, then we're going to have to throw the ball
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with simms, which Dak's favorite guy, Like, we don't know, is
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that just who he is? Yes, three years would tell you who that's
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who he is. And after Dak you know, jumped off our podcast on
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Sunday, we talked about how like we ultimately need to make it simpler for
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Jeff Sims this week. The problem is we might be put in a situation
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where he may have to throw the ball out they're forcing us to. I
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hope that's not the case. And he still needs to run twenty plus times.
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That needs to happen. So we have to be able to not turn
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it over. That's the big thing. Even if we throw incomplete passes,
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like, just don't turn the ball over. I think if any point this
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year you guys get down fourteen games over, I don't think I don't need
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your capable of coming back from fourteen point depths it I probably agree with that
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statement. It will be definitely tough. I mean outside of it, not
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in the first quarter, I don't. I agree with that stavor. Yeah,
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I mean, if it's fourteen, oh, like midway through the first
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you might have a shot. But if it's like second half, I don't
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think there's any shot. You guys come back, come back from the two
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scores down. I agree with that speaking, I would say, with that
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being said, flipping it back to the other side of the ball, you
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mentioned all of those athletes and those players, I mean Dylan Edwards. You
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talk about the two that are Heisman, but Dylan Edwards had a day against
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tcu UH. Their offensive coordinator, which we're gonna talk about d On here
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in a little bit. But beyond a phenomenal jobcatast, he did a phenomenal
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job hiring coordinators. I mean he's got former head coaches, guys from all
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over the country. He took Can't State's head coach, Sean Lewis is their
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offensive coordinator. And that's what this offense is. It's nicknamed the Flashbass Attack,
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which the Can't State was the Golden Flashes, so that's like where this
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name comes from. And then you saw it. I mean, holy cow,
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the tempo that they ran, especially the first two drives, like they
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got a couple of illegal substitution penalties because TCU is just in panic mode.
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Now we've seen it, and we've seen the flip side of it, guys.
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We saw it. Frost did that, and we saw what happens if
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you go three and out and your defense who just got pounded getsstually gonna have
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to come right back out. We saw the other side of that. So
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the thought is that that's that show and that that style is great, and
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yeah, I can put up points, but if you can get them to
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go three and out or even one first down and off the field, like
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holy cow, you're sitting in a really good position to control the game.
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That that's the the ultimate. Like to me, that's what it's gonna come
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down to, is can we actually slow down that offense because if they go
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down and score fourteen, nothing like goodbye, Like we're we're in trouble.
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So we need to keep it close and consistent for four quarters. If you
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make them three times, I think you're gonna win the game. Wow,
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we started right down these down fourteen, we lose three punts, we win.
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I like these very simple statistic meet you know, lines that we can
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draw here, Dad, because I think I don't think their defense can stop
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you guys, and I their defensive stop anybody. I think I might agree.
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Again, their defense was not impressive at all, and they have a
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long way to last year too. It just slow towards Travis fire rule,
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right. It just it's so hard, guys to tell, because TCU's offense
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is the opposite of our offense. Colorado's offense is the opposite of Minnesota's offense.
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Like it's so hard to gage. We could say Colorado's defense sucks,
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but like we could say that it did bad against TCU, we can say
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that correct your tackles for loss, gave up forty two points of five yards.
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It's still so much like overreaction and of week one, like what do
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we know here? And on top of that, let's talk. I want
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to talk about the line movement a little bit too. We were we were
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dying and a half ten point favorite coming into the year in this game,
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and the lines moved like thirteen points. Now it's sitting at three. I
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believe it actually went from three and a half down to three in favor of
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Colorado. And the Colorado side has been the most bet side in the history
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of college football. So all of the public's on Colorado and the people that
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bought in Colorado week one and and one of those being Fox buying in and
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getting this game. I mean, holy cow, good for Fox to get
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this game on Big newon kickoff. But it's it's a fade. The simple
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fade the public to me and the betting strategy is everyone's jumping on the hype
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when in reality, we talked about it, we didn't look that bad.
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I mean, we looked better than Minnesota. The three points through three quarters.
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I just think if we had Scott Frost and we tried playing with with
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these athletes, if we tried last year style, I mean, it would
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just be a complete We score more points, don't get me wrong, but
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we would have chance of winning this game. Isaiah Garcia Cassineta, Did I
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say that right first? You got it? Yeah? I got that right.
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He is out with an ACL So that's one of our starting righte receivers
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out, So are already thin positioned. It just got thinner. I didn't.
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I didn't get this out Sunday, but I'm gona be honest. I
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was. I was actually I pressed in Nebraska. Wow, you couldn't say
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that while you were drunk, but you can say it now while yourself.
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I'm pretty sure he did say that on Sunday. He doesn't know what he
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said. I was impressed. They moved the ball up and down the field,
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like, yeah, relatively good, and their defense looked amazing. The
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defense looked really good. And your old line looked really good too, I
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thought, outside of Turner, I I think it was okay. I expected
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it was not horrendous, but expectations were like at the very bottom. I
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would say it was slightly better than last year. Question mark maybe before we
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I have a lot other points, and we got to go through our keys
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here too, But I don't want to run out of time before Dak isn't
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able to get his picks in. So, Dak, are you ready for
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your I'm ready to slate. I'm on fire. Yeah, yeah, let's
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really quick, Dak give a recap of how last week's picks went. I
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went five and three. My only two losses were Texas Tech, Purdue and
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goll Run in Nebraska. Which Texas Tech? How the hell did you lose
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to Wyoming and Purdue? I don't know who they lost too, but it
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wasn't any one good Fresno. Yeah, but yeah, and you weren't even
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close on the over in our game? What do you mean that was pretty
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close? All right? Ready, yep, gop all right. First by
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the week is oh you minus fifteen. I'm gonna be honestly, I'm a
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little worried about that game, but we're gonna take them, just because I
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have to. Next game, I'm not Texas Famma. Here we go Texas
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plus seven a half. Buy that up to set from seven. They're gonna,
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I honestly think they're gonna beat Bamma, and I hope they do to
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hype up the Red River rivalry game. And you know what, a family
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win by seven, we're all happy. All right, let's go next one
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here, Kansas minus three. They're gonna stop Illinois. Illinois le's awful.
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Beat one. I don't who they play. They won by three points,
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big ten. West look beats Flito, Flito. Yeah, Kansas looked pretty
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good. Actually again and then all right, next one A and m minus
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four and a half. They're gonna slaughter Miami. Miami's terrible tyler being dikes
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ducks. I'm texaneam actually the quarterback now then let's go. Let's go,
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let's go in a brast the money line, I love it. The jack
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don't ask a question during your minute. You're wasting time to give me.
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I should have wrote down with these people play. So I don't think Illinois
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play lost by three either. I think I just made that up. Illinois
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Illinois one by two on a last second field goal to Toledo, and Austin's
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right, the Big Ten West did suck. It hit me today that every
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Big West Big Ten West team did not cover their spread except for Nebraska.
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We were the only ones to cover the spread. So that makes that loss
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even more frustrating. It does, it really does, all right. I'd
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love to dive into those real quick. The biggest one I want to say,
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like Texas Alabama, Dak you're picking Texas. I actually like them too,
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But they can't win in Tusca Loosa. Oh, I think they can't.
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Nick Saban last year. Last year they should have been to begin with.
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If Quinn Ears didn't get hurt, they would have won. I think
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I agree with that, and I'll be him at a better quarterback in Tuscaloosa.
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Though I don't know. I do like him against the spread, though
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it's gonna be a dog fight. All right, let's jump back to Okay
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before we get to our keys. I have like a big overarching topic of
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conversation here, Dak, you've been a big fan or proponent of Dion,
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like you think it's going to work, and you've you've said that from the
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beginning of this year. On the flip side, we have Matt Rule,
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who is known for having the traditional rebuild. It takes some time. First
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year's a struggle. He established the culture. Theon it's right at the beginning,
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it's get the recruits, it's get the athletes. It's very contrasting styles.
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So Dak, you've you've been a big backer of it, like it
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worked through week one. Okay, is Deon and as you believe is going
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to work. Is it just because it's Colorado? Or could this work like
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if he would have went to Florida State. I think it's I think he's
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gonna work anywhere. He's gonna get the recruits, Stransford Porter, He's gonna
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bring it. He's gonna be when he wants in. And the second question,
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the second part of that is does the style only work because it's Deon
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Sanders, and Dion's been able to dominate everything. He's a done this life
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or could this also work if you're I don't know some other I mean,
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you can't be a known name, but can can someone like I don't know,
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someone that knows a little b about football just coming to the football landscape
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and say, Hey, I'm getting all the recruits, let's go. That's
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all say. I think it only works because it's Dion and because they're winning.
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If Colorado comes out here and just lays eggs the rest of the year
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and then has a losing record next year, it's like, all right,
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is Dion just full of hot air? You know, it loses that gravy
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tops. As of right now, he's had success plane, offense, defense,
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baseball, and coaching and HBCUs. If he comes out here and just
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starts laying eggs and just can't get it done, it just becomes hot air,
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and it's just I think it loses its charm. I think this might
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be hot digg. I think that was the most impressive win in the history
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college football. Last week? Whoa boy over taking over one and eleven team
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and doing the history of college football? You take over one eleventh team,
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you go on the road a team that mad Nash Championship last year and you
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beat him. Yeah, I guess looking at it from that without knowing any
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of the background, like yeah, I mean right, if you say just
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that as the headline, I could see that, But knowing what TCU went
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through and how they got to the national championship, you know, that'd be
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like if someone was like if Nebraska beat Yukon and basketball, It's like,
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yeah, they won the national title last year, but yeah, so the
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question then for the rebuild moving forward, not just Nebraska but other teams,
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and theon also has that that boisterous personality too that comes along with it.
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Right, But this is an example. Let's say you're, well, hell,
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let's go with Iowa, and Iowa Kirk Ferrens say he's done after this
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year because he just flat out just doesn't make it anymore because he's too old.
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Could you if Peyton Manning says I want to coach college football, could
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you hire Peyton Manning and just bring in like all of this talent because it's
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Peyton Manning And and like, if you're a fan base, do you want
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that? After seeing what Dion did? And I know Deon and Peyton Manning
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are two different people, But like, that's kind of the point here,
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is that you just get a big name and someone that you're gonna get recruits
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for, and yeah, they might know a little bit about football. Deon's
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proving that he maybe know knows a lot about football coaching staff. Correct,
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But but again, you bring Peyton Manning could hire damn good coaching staff.
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I guarantee it with all his connections. So like, does that style work
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in today's college football? Yes, it's recruiting fanser portal and I l definitely
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and and that you laugh, But like we hired Matt Role, we hired
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a traditional rebuild the guy. I don't think that wait can't work anymore,
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and I don't I still think that rule could easily turn it around and and
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and do it here. But it makes you wonder, like, well,
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we could have had Dion? Could you know? We could have maybe done
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it? Culture doesn't matter, though, I don't think Dion would have fit
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culture. But but what Deon's doing is making his own culture. Like you,
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He's established his own culture at Colorado. It's differently, do you care
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about a culture when you win? Though? What I mean what what does
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the word culture mean? Like Dion has a culture at Colorado. He does,
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he has one. It's not it's not the culture that some people think
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is appropriate. But like you said, Dak, you're winning games like that.
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Cultures working and and and whatever you want to say. Culture means with
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Lamborghinis and Maserati's and gold chains. But what I have. This is my
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second point to Dion here. He talked and talked and talked and talked and
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talked, but when it came down to season, guys, he has been
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locked in. And when I'm listening to his press conferences, I'm scared.
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Like he's taught, he's saying the right things. I was hoping he'd come
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out of that game and say see I told you so, which he did
34:05
a little bit of that, and just get on cloud nine and say,
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you know, I'm the greatest of all time. No, he said,
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it's next game, it's Nebraska, Like, we gotta focus, we gotta
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move on next play. We did some things that weren't very good. He
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told the team that, you know, our offense was good, but we
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need to clean some things up. That's the part that I'm like, crap.
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He gets that part of coaching. I was hoping he didn't. I
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only heard him say once I told you all off season that this is gonna
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happen, and that was it. That's all I've heard him say that,
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And he shut down that one reporter, which was funny, like, I
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don't know. I just wanted to hit on that because it is very unique
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here to the situation with Rule and Dion going up against each other here such
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early in the college football season. Gotta hit on our keys here. So
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I have my three who wants to go first? I kind of wanta go
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first. I know we're gonna we're doing all three or just one at a
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time? Do all three? Mine are very different? Well, I know
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one of those gonna be yours. There is chaining the drives. We need
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to have sustainable drives down the field to maintain that ball control, keep their
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offense off the field, burn the clock, keep it going. We kind
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of hit on that earlier. I'm assuming that's one of your keys of the
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game. I could be wrong. I'm gonna stick with winning the turnover battle.
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We can't have four turnovers, that's pretty obvious. We don't have a
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lot of room to make up for error. So winning the turnover battle.
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And then for my last key to the game, it is getting our playmakers
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more involved. I'm looking at Malachi Coleman, I'm looking at Thomas Fidoni.
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I want to see those guys getting the ball to see what they can do
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against a very talented you know, Travis Hunter, because it definitely that's when
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I watched Minnesota, That's definitely what I noticed was our receivers just did not
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look like they had that juice. So I want to see those guys that
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have been touted as recruits with that juice out on the field. All right,
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go ahead, do you mean to go? Yep? Go? Dak?
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Al right, my first key. You gotta put pressure on pressure on
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Sador. You cannot let him sit back there and just he'll carve you up
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if you do. I honestly think he's the top five quarterback nation already.
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Man, Dack, you are just I was. I think he's that good.
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Dak is rolling with takes tonight. Yeah. Here's here's no oh wait,
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one more take here that heard. If Avantables gets fired, they're going
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after don That's another take I've heard. But okay, here's a point number
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two. Don't throw Travis Hunter at all. You just throw the opposite side
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of the field. Don't don't even be able to make up that ground and
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catch it or block it, he might confess. And then and then point
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number three goes off at number two. Just don't throw the ball at all.
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Just run it, run as much as can sims cannot throw, do
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not throw it, don't even try. So that's a trick play bleep lickor
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Dack's like number two and three or the opposite of Austin's number three. Yeah,
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pretty much. And I'm siding with Dak here. I really am,
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Like I'm saying, I want us to throw it, but we need to
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get those guys involved. I don't think we do, like I seriously,
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I don't. I mean, if we get him involved up like I would
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say Fidoni for sure, like on a tight end dump. But Malachi Coleman
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doesn't need to catch the ball. I don't care. All I want him
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to do is run fifty yards down the field every time. Make Travis Hunter
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run with him and wear him out, like I don't care if they can
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the play. And that is well, that is my like one of my
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keys is to wear out the elite players, Like I'm not kidding. On
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every run play, whoever he's guarding, Travis Hunter's guarding, you just take
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off and sprint down the field and then you do it. You just do
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it every play just to wear him out. And that also goes into you
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have to We're gonna have to hit Sanders a few times to ring his bell
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a little bit, So that kind of ties into Dacks. But that was
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one of my keys, is wearing out their elite players. Like when you
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go against the team in any sport that just has elite talent, you have
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to get to their skin early on and know, oh my, this is
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gonna be a long game. And Austin mentioned it, before you do that,
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you take out those key players and what do they have left, Like
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you're gonna start seeing the lack of depth that this roster has from Colorado.
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But if you can't do that from the get go, you're in trouble.
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It's gonna be a long four quarter game of these elite players just making this
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looks silly. Point number two making the first and last hit. What I
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mean by that when we come out of the tunnel for warmups, we have
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to come out there and just freaking I don't care if we're get in a
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fight, like we need to make a statement to say we are here,
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We're not scared of you. We played well last week two. Get after
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them. Just it's a heated rivalry. We didn't even talk about that,
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Like this is one of the heated rivalries in college football history. Like you,
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we have to make ourselves known that this is Nebraska football. This is
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what it means to be a Husker. So I'm saying that before the game
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and then throughout the game, don't do anything stupid, like do not egg
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them. You can egg them on, but don't retaliate. Don't get stupid
39:54
penalties. That's what Scott Frost teams did. That's what they did, and
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that's what talk about the lack of culture or whatever that culture is that they
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had or that we had. They might have that too. Let them get
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the dumb penalties and don't retaliate. Like that has to be a message because
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it's gonna happen. This game is going to be the most watched game of
40:13
the week over Texas Alabama probably, so thank you good what them get the
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stupid penalties, the targetings, the tauntings. Let them do that, but
40:23
we also have to do it before in the warmups, and if we have
40:27
to take a fifteen yard penalty because we started fighting warmups, I'll take that
40:30
at the beginning, but nothing during the game. And then to finish off
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that point, we have to make the last hit two, which ultimately means
40:37
winning the game. So when it comes down to the last four minutes,
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we are the ones with the ball, controlling the clock, running the clock
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out and just piss pounding them because we have the game. One. My
40:49
last see is just being consistent to our game plan for four quarters, and
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our game plan that we've talked about is running the ball and like Dak said,
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don't throw it at all, and if we're gonna throw it, make
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it the simplest thing on earth. But being consistent with that for four quarters
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and trust it. Now, if we're down twenty one nothing, fourteen nothing,
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twenty one nothing and it's the middle of the second quarter and we have
41:19
done nothing on offense, then maybe we change it. But just because we
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get down two touchdowns in the first six minutes, trust the running the ball.
41:28
The physicality is going to win out, and when we get to the
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third and fourth quarter, we'll see it wear on them. We'll see Travis
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Honter, who has been running fifty yards every played down the field because that's
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going to happen. We'll see him get tired, and we'll ultimately win the
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game in the fourth quarter. It's gonna be a close game. I don't
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think they're gonna blow us out. We're not blowing them out. It's gonna
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be a close game. Let's play consistence for four quarters and disciplined. I
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mean that goes along with turnovers and penalties, but being consistent for four quarters.
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I like it. Yep. I think, all right, quick,
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I think the other team out Nebraska before we go scut col right on me,
42:13
Hold on, Dak, what are you trying to say right now?
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I said, if there's any teams that's gonna blow there one now, it's
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gonna be Colorado. Nebraska can't blow a Calado. While I agree with that,
42:25
I'm with you. We have to do score predictions, all right.
42:32
Who's going Who was closest last week to the thirteen ten? I was nowhere
42:39
in the ballpark. I think I was twenty four seventeen. I was the
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thirty at twenty four, So Austin, I think it's the big winner for
42:52
week one, So Austin, that gives you the honors to go and lead
42:57
us off. Okay, I've got Colorado winning by ten thirty give me twenty
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seven seventeen. Well, I took Nebraska money line earlier, so I guess
43:16
I gotta go thirty thirty five Nebraska. Oh back, how the hell are
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we gonna score thirty five points? Their defense is awful. I don't care.
43:27
We're not scoring thirty five. Oh I think I think me, you
43:30
and Austin could scored thirty five on them. Wow, we're gonna do it.
43:37
Guys, We're gonna win. We're gonna win this game. We're getting
43:39
so overlooked. We're winning it. Twenty four twenty one. I just won't
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myself to believe that. I don't be so sad. And if I believe
43:46
that, and you know I don't drink the kool laid, I don't do
43:52
it. I know I don't. And I just once I saw week one
43:57
from us, and I get it. What we saw from Colorado too.
43:59
We saw that the rivalry game is what scares me because that field is going
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to be I mean, that place is going to be. It's gonna be
44:09
a blood bat. It just it's like it was going to be before Colorado
44:14
one. It's just going to be a disaster out there. And if any
44:17
Husk fans going, like, seriously, do not wear red until you absolutely
44:22
have to, Like, it's not going to be good. It won't be
44:27
rough. But Dak, I did hear you say you thought it was gonna
44:30
be seventy thirty when jumped on? Yeah, I do, because I do.
44:37
I think they bought all the pickets before this seventy thirty. Yeah,
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I don't. I think they bought that many tickets before all this happened in
44:45
the car out of winning. Yeah, I don't know, but that that
44:49
was they also knew they had d on. I mean, I think there'll
44:52
be a lot of red in the stadium, don't get me wrong. But
44:54
tickets right now are absolutely insane, going for about four hundred dollars, So
45:00
I guess that's anyways. All right, We will be back on Sunday,
45:06
hopefully celibate braiding a big Red victory. Go Big Red V. We are
45:09
bloomer soonder. I love that burnt orange. Dude,