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Episode 39 | Road Win at Sparty · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big red the takes the numbers the chaos hunter
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  Speaker 1: austin deck talking corn husker football basketball.
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  Speaker 2: And everything nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Sports welcome to the return to glory.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast return to glory podcast all three of us here
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  Speaker 2: today hunter zarbenicki austin rose Dakota Free Tag, our new
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  Speaker 2: Monday setup here. We're going to have all three of
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  Speaker 2: us back on every Monday, recapping every game. What a win, fellas.
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  Speaker 2: Huskers move to 4-0. Big time win on the road
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  Speaker 2: in East Lansing against the Michigan State Spartans. I am
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  Speaker 2: still recovering. More from sleep than anything. But, boy, we
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  Speaker 2: had a 5.30 a.m. flight on Sunday morning after the game,
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  Speaker 2: and let's just say there wasn't much sleep. And here
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  Speaker 2: we are, Monday morning.
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  Speaker 3: How was the East Lansing?
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  Speaker 2: Great. I'll be honest, it was, I mean, again, the
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  Speaker 2: wins and the way the game went helps a ton.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the campus and, I mean, the bar scene, the
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  Speaker 2: tailgate scene, the fans, I mean, the college kids were
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  Speaker 2: still college kids. They were what you'd expect from college
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  Speaker 2: kids treating road fans. But we got treated very, very well.
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  Speaker 2: Our seats were on– actually, we didn't know we were
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  Speaker 2: booking these tickets, but we sat in the Michigan State
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  Speaker 2: parent section. Oops. That was interesting. to say the least. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean like, like the whole fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: was pretty much just a Husker party. Uh, and it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was very enjoyable. So, um, the East landing was
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  Speaker 2: a blast. I'd recommend it. It's not like obviously one
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  Speaker 2: of the staples that you want to, you probably have
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  Speaker 2: on your checklist to go knock off for a stadium
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  Speaker 2: or campus, but it was, um, it was definitely one
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  Speaker 2: of the better trips for a lot of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Jesus, I forgot what I was about to ask. No,
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  Speaker 4: that's good to hear. I mean, it was a pleasant
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  Speaker 4: night for a football game, for sure. How does this
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  Speaker 4: improve your road record? Are you 2-20, 2-8?
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  Speaker 2: We're over this now. I'm 5-16. I've won three in
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  Speaker 2: a row.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We're past it. We've turned a corner. So we're moving
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  Speaker 2: in the right direction here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's kick it off here. Best win since.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys think that actually is? That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the best Husker wins since... I've been thinking about this.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even remember. Colorado? Yeah, probably Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: Was that two years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Since last week.
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  Speaker 1: Since last week. I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you can talk about the road win
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  Speaker 2: and the things that it means. I think the– talk
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  Speaker 2: about it heading into the game. I think it's the highest, like,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that ranking is, FNP ranking road win game that
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  Speaker 2: we've had in, I don't know, I can't remember. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a long time, several years.
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  Speaker 1: We went and did that.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, it– yeah, I mean, it– especially the way–
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State has kind of played so far in the situation.
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  Speaker 2: It was a scary game. You just didn't really know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of question marks on where our team's at,
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  Speaker 2: where their team's at, and to come out and play
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  Speaker 2: the way that we did and know was it everything
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  Speaker 2: absolutely perfect for all four quarters, all possessions. No. But, like,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about that a little bit here today.
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  Speaker 2: Winning a game like that, no matter how you do it,
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  Speaker 2: is impressive, especially where we're, I'm saying where we're at
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  Speaker 2: as a program. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, and then doing it the way that we did and,
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  Speaker 2: and I just, it was very impressive. It was so fun.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it made, it made the win be pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's always good to get a win. It's
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  Speaker 4: one of those things where you don't want to get,
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  Speaker 4: He started thinking about the game. He was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this happened and this happened. I was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: you still won on the road. And it wasn't close, particularly.
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  Speaker 4: You know, 31-13, we were right there in the red
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  Speaker 4: zone there at the end of it.
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  Speaker 3: We were on fourth down. That could have been 34-13
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  Speaker 3: or 38-13.
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  Speaker 4: Not sure if that rule had money on the overs
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  Speaker 4: going for it there on fourth down.
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  Speaker 3: But that was my first thought. It's like, We get
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown here. We hit those overs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you said, it wasn't four quarters of great football,
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  Speaker 4: but it was four quarters of good football from us
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  Speaker 4: and better football than them.
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  Speaker 1: We can nitpick here and there, but I thought that
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  Speaker 1: is one of the best, especially on the road going
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  Speaker 1: on where like, oh, Nebraska didn't play anybody yet. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best games than Nebraska football has played
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. Wow. I mean, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Okay. You agree?
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  Speaker 2: No, seriously. No, I, I, I think here's, here's how
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  Speaker 2: I think about games like this, especially where we're at
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  Speaker 2: this season. You got to take a step back and
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  Speaker 2: look at where, where things have been the past, like six, seven,
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  Speaker 2: eight years, probably longer than that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Going into a game like this in, and no, it
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  Speaker 2: obviously we, not everything's perfect, but I, I just, I,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to watch a football game unless it's
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  Speaker 2: like Ohio state playing Doan college that like everything, every play,
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  Speaker 2: every possession goes like really well and perfect. Like, and so, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I kind of been backtracking a little bit. Cause
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  Speaker 2: that first half of the Ohio game, I was very
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  Speaker 2: nitpicky on stuff and, Maybe Ohio and Michigan State are
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  Speaker 2: the same opponent. I don't know. The same caliber team.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like Michigan State's on the road is probably
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  Speaker 2: a little tougher. But you go into a game like
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  Speaker 2: this expecting it to just be a slugfest and knock
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  Speaker 2: it out, find a way to win, win by one,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it takes, and then to hear how that game went,
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's pretty impressive and how the ending of
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  Speaker 2: the game it was and then obviously all the things
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  Speaker 2: that happened during it so like yeah I've heard the
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  Speaker 2: word ugly win or like the papers have been writing
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  Speaker 2: about it how it wasn't perfect and like we can
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  Speaker 2: sit here and nitpick a lot of stuff and yeah
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  Speaker 2: I'm not also keep this in mind we are still
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  Speaker 2: fans and like.
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  Speaker 3: We always want more We want more.
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  Speaker 2: You have the right to maybe nitpick and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: but also we have the right to celebrate and.
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  Speaker 3: Be really happy. We're going to do both today. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to nitpick and celebrate today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I guess devil advocate position would be, you know, they
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  Speaker 4: lost their starting running back within the first minute of
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 3: After he had one carry for 23 yards.
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  Speaker 4: Then they were also missing one of the starting linebackers
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  Speaker 4: lost their starting corner and then another starting linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Can I.
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  Speaker 1: Just say right there, they lost the most amount of
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  Speaker 1: players I ever saw taking it on a cart. Like
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  Speaker 1: they lost eight guys on a cart.
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  Speaker 4: If I was a Michigan State fan, I would be
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  Speaker 4: a little upset at the rest of some of the calls.
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  Speaker 4: I think that there were truly 50-50 calls and I
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  Speaker 4: don't think the refs really There wasn't, like, an egregiously
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  Speaker 4: blown call, but that's the ad– that's the devil's ad
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  Speaker 4: kit there is.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, refs like to favor better teams. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There was some questionable calls, and thank God they went
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  Speaker 1: Oscar's way this time, which it's usually not gone that way, but.
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  Speaker 4: I think– I don't want to say questionable, but I
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  Speaker 4: do think they were, like, actually, like, 50-50.
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  Speaker 3: Like, if they went the other way, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's fair. I wouldn't have been upset.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of funny, obviously at the game, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know, you don't see all the angles. And if
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  Speaker 2: you do see angles, you're watching them on a big
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  Speaker 2: screen that like, you really can't tell. And they're not,
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  Speaker 2: they're not showing you what you're seeing on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And so a lot of the stuff you're not, you're
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  Speaker 2: not like some of the replays I'm talking about specifically,
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  Speaker 2: but then also, you know, penalties and you don't, you
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  Speaker 2: don't get to see a replay of, of what gets
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  Speaker 2: called or anything like that. So what, What's funny is, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the vibe obviously in the stadium was that.
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  Speaker 3: Ref sucked.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the refs you suck chant come came out
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  Speaker 2: a couple different times and like fans around us were
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  Speaker 2: asking us you know how our flight over was with
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  Speaker 2: them and how much money did we slip in the
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  Speaker 2: in their pocket when they you know came from Lincoln
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  Speaker 2: I'm like okay uh like yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The defensive holding call was probably yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That that that one was iffy but it's that one
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  Speaker 1: was probably the worst one it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to know, like, whatever, and Fitzgerald said it
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  Speaker 2: in his postgame, which I listened to his postgame, and
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  Speaker 2: that was another place to be like, man, like, we just,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State's in a complete rebuild, and, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not calling them there at the bottom, but, like, he
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  Speaker 2: talked about us and treated us, and the media asked
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  Speaker 2: about us, you know, like, we're better than Michigan State. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we are back at that next tier ahead. He talked
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  Speaker 2: about how, like, they beat themselves over and over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And we, we weren't so sure that was going to
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  Speaker 2: happen just because that's the way his teams are coached.
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  Speaker 2: Now we caught them obviously early in the year, which
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  Speaker 2: was great. But for once we looked like the, it
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  Speaker 2: was very clear. We looked like the cleaner crisper. Like
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  Speaker 2: we had some penalties of our own. Don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but we, we didn't have those catastrophic penalties. errors, whether
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  Speaker 2: not just penalties, but the turnovers is mainly what I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting to here. That really changed that game completely changed
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  Speaker 2: the field completely, um, stopped a couple, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: their drives. Like that was to me, you pointed out
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  Speaker 2: one big thing that mattered and change that game, which
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  Speaker 2: predicted going in is what it's going to be turnovers
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  Speaker 2: and turnovers were three zero.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's huge. When you go on the road, You
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  Speaker 2: don't turn the ball over. We've been very good knock
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  Speaker 2: on wood so far this year. In Michigan State, the
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  Speaker 2: turnovers they had, too, I guess you could say the
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  Speaker 2: one throw was really bad, but we also, I think,
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  Speaker 2: baited them into that throw. They were all forced turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: plays made by us, not necessarily them just dropping the
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  Speaker 2: ball on a normal tackle or throwing it randomly because
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  Speaker 2: it was a bad... So, like, that's huge. It's huge
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  Speaker 2: in a game like that. And to me, that was
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  Speaker 2: the big reason why the game got to where it did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I probably agree that that was the biggest difference in
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Because outside of that, it was kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of.
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  Speaker 3: They gave us three extra.
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  Speaker 4: Possessions with a better field advantage, and it stopped their momentum.
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  Speaker 4: But There was concern about them controlling the game. When
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  Speaker 4: you have three turnovers and we have zero, that impacts
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  Speaker 4: your ability to control the game. That's what helped us
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  Speaker 4: get the points out.
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  Speaker 3: We got to a position in the game where they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do what they.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to do with their starting running back being out.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of felt halfway through the second quarter that
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  Speaker 4: we got this. I wasn't really worried basically halfway through
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  Speaker 4: the second quarter. Cause it's like, okay, they can't do
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  Speaker 4: what they want to do. We like, I know we're
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  Speaker 4: not doing exactly how we want to do it, but
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  Speaker 4: they can't do what they want to do, which felt good.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about injuries too. Husker brains are forgetting. We
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  Speaker 1: also lost Jamal rule, like super early too. Like, like
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  Speaker 1: we were injured too. And, and we found a way
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  Speaker 1: around that. I am just super impressed with actually, which
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  Speaker 1: my role said this every year since he's been here,
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  Speaker 1: We actually got an offensive line. Which I think Landry
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  Speaker 1: moving around a lot helps with that, but I'm super
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  Speaker 1: impressed with our offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: They put up that stat on the screen that our
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  Speaker 3: two deep average height and weight was like 6'5, 3'15.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty good for 10 guys.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe 6 guys or 7 guys.
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  Speaker 1: We're moving people on the offensive line like When we're
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, you can tell that, like, there is
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  Speaker 1: a good– there's actually running holes. There's not people in
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  Speaker 1: the backfield right away. I mean, after the game, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, do I need to pinch myself? Like, Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: football might actually be really good.
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  Speaker 2: So, two things you mentioned here. The injury piece, which–
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  Speaker 2: it's funny. One of our other guys that we went
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  Speaker 2: to the game with, he said he kind of got–
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  Speaker 2: yelled at and shushed because he was– throwing his hands
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  Speaker 2: in the air after they had another guy go down.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing? That's fair. The injury piece. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. Injuries are going to happen in football just
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  Speaker 2: because it's a physical aggressive sport. That's why depth matters.
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  Speaker 2: That's why having players, especially at the important positions, the
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  Speaker 2: really important positions, having guys that can come in and
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  Speaker 2: fill that void without a big drop-off is huge. I
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  Speaker 2: think that one thing that you don't, doesn't get talked
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  Speaker 2: about enough in Nebraska is the depth that we've created.
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  Speaker 2: And that comes with an experienced team that we have
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  Speaker 2: this year. So Austin, you mentioned the two deep line.
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  Speaker 2: You don't notice a drop off when the backup left
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  Speaker 2: guard comes in for a couple of plays or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a whole half because someone gets hurt as example. So,
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  Speaker 2: so that I think is, is a really big key there.
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  Speaker 2: for our game. And then, Dak, you mentioned the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line getting a push. That was like, to start the game,
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  Speaker 2: I turned around and mentioned something to Arnie. I was like, I,
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  Speaker 2: the way this game started, I'm like, I don't know. Like,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of like a battle up front. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not really getting a whole lot of movement. And they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, their first drive, they had a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: run or two. And I'm like, I don't, there's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit like, yeah. But what happened, and this is
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  Speaker 2: becoming a part of Rule's Matt rules identity and, and
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska football's old identity. And it happened this game. You
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  Speaker 2: just keep sticking with it. You keep wearing them out.
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  Speaker 2: You keep grinding it. You keep doing it. And by
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  Speaker 2: the time we got to the third and fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: you saw holes in, in just moving people up front.
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  Speaker 2: Pass protection was pretty damn good. Like it just wore
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  Speaker 2: them out over time. And I don't, again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know their personnel. That was all injuries. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to put it on that, you know, cause I think,
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  Speaker 2: We did. We just wore them out over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And that's become kind of a theme here, not just
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  Speaker 2: against Michigan State this game, but, you know, last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it started last year before, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: end of the season happened. And then so far what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this year, which is really, really good. Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't overlook that. It's really good.
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  Speaker 3: And we haven't talked about defense yet.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you're ready to transition, but we
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  Speaker 4: did have six sacks, which– we've been talking about getting
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  Speaker 4: pressure and getting in the backfield and we were, we
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  Speaker 4: were there and they.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't have any, they didn't have any injuries on their
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  Speaker 3: offensive line to mine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if we're talking about defense here, I was
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  Speaker 1: super impressed with him. That, that quarterback I said coming
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  Speaker 1: in sucks. He actually was not horrible. Like, like some
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  Speaker 1: of the past he threw, I was like, man, he's,
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  Speaker 1: he's a, he might lie us up, but our D
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  Speaker 1: line and especially linebackers and all that, I thought, impressive
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  Speaker 1: defense like I thought we played one heck of a
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  Speaker 1: game all.
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  Speaker 2: Around yeah I guess I don't know how you're evaluating
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks or what you're watching I don't I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: the guy was great I I mean he no not
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  Speaker 2: he he was he was fine I they tried putting
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  Speaker 2: in their backup a little bit early on and he
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  Speaker 2: was the one that threw the the first pick to
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  Speaker 2: shambles there like I I The guy was fine. He's
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  Speaker 2: a below average Big Ten quarterback and whatever. But I
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  Speaker 2: do think our defense, especially up front, coming off the
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  Speaker 2: five sack performance last week, to top that on the road,
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  Speaker 2: we did a lot of really damn good things. And
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  Speaker 2: here's the big thing, too. We didn't make catastrophic mistakes
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  Speaker 2: on defense, a blown coverage, a couple of missed tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Their drive, they had to go down and earn it.
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  Speaker 2: the one, one of the first drives they had the
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  Speaker 2: field goal drive. I'm like, Oh crap. Cause we had
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  Speaker 2: a couple of penalties on that, that I'm like, they
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. They're not moving the ball on us,
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  Speaker 2: but we gave them a couple of penalties. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember what they were. There was a, I think
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  Speaker 2: a holding or something.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait one second on her. The swarm tackling
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  Speaker 1: on defense was another thing. Like just having, there was
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  Speaker 1: like four or five people there all the time. I was,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that was something I was so impressed with that game too. The, the,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Always have, like, not giving up on plays either. Just
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the swarm tackling was something I was very impressed with.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yep. So the other thing that I guess we couldn't
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: even really tell, but that I thought made a statement
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: or that basically, I would say, put the nail in
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the coffin and talk about special teams here. I think
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: we've got it to a good theme. If you can
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: make plays on special teams, they are huge. But the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: biggest thing on special teams is don't have catastrophic mistakes.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing. And I didn't realize this watching
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it live. It looked like it was just a horrible kick,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: but we actually did. get eight.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I think you froze up, Hunter.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm still here.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Is Dak still here? I don't know how this audio
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: is going to work. Nope.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: But anyway.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I'm still rolling here. We have some
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Google Meet issues, so we'll see if we can get
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: back in to the podcast here and get Austin and
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Dak back on. The biggest thing that I was saying, we.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He will fight for his team. That's another thing. That's true. Like,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you be sneaking stuff like that, he's in there pushing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Dak, I don't know if you realize this, but
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I'm hosting the show. So whatever you just said, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You froze.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, I don't know. Google me just shut
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: off on me, but we're back. I think we're all
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: back here and we're still rolling. We're just going to
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: have a little bit of a pause there. So that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: continue wherever you're at.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: All right. I was just saying that we, we finally
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: have a quarterback.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a fair statement. I think
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Guerrero was a pretty good quarterback. Just be like, oh boy,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: we've been quarterbackless for so long.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: We haven't worried about the quarterback position for a couple
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: of years. For what?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to that point, I can almost guarantee you I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: can go back and clip Dak saying, we finally have
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: a quarterback a year ago.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: With T.J.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Lateef?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Anyways, Hunter, you were saying that the special teams wasn't
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: catastrophic to our.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just think that, like, we... So, yeah, the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: blocked punt... Special teams wasn't quite catastrophic. It wasn't catastrophic.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And if you don't have those plays, it's huge. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: didn't realize, watching the game live, that their field goal
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to then cut it to one possession after, in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: third quarter, they had a drive. Our offense had been
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: stalling completely. to start the third quarter. I think we
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: went three and out, three possessions in a row. They
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: put together a little small drive, go down, have a
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: field goal. We block it, get a hand on it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and then go down and score the next drive to
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: make it what the game ended up. Like, that right
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: there was like, yep, lock it in, game over. And again,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that was a huge, it's a huge play on special
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: teams to do that. I know it was still a 52-yarder,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: so it It still was a tough kick, even if
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: it did. But then the other special teams play that
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: could have been catastrophic but didn't was the opposite punt
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that Archie– watching it live, and I did never get
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a chance to go back and look at the replay. Like, yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the guy blocked it, but, like, the kick was going
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: to be, like, five feet off the ground anyways.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It was a horrible kick. It was a bad kick.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bad punt.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: So– and we get, we get lucky that there is
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a hold on the line of scrimmage and maybe, you know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the block happened because of the hold, like right away,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the timing of that was all weird too. Like I,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I still am like, I've, I've rarely seen a hold
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: happen on the defense before the kick to give the
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: offense a first down. Yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: That was definitely the call that if you're a Michigan fan,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: you're like Michigan state fan, you're, I would be upset.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: If that happened to us, there's a 100% chance that
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I would have made a slight comment. I'd be like, yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: that call was bullshit.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Because it was. It definitely was.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I totally understand the rule because it happened before the kick.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Here's my question. If the punt would have been a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: good punt and got off and went in the air...
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: They called a hold, right, on them. And I will say,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I saw the flags right away. The two refs came
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: in and chucked them. I mean, it was immediate. It
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't like it was on the return. It's just funny.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You don't ever see a defense hold, I guess, on–
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Trying to block the punt. But I also feel like–
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not taught to hold, obviously. But if
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you're setting up a return on a punt, like your
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: job is to hold up– the offensive line, the corners,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the gunners.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Give your guy more time.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: So, I don't know. Just the fact that we've never
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: seen it called in any, I mean, not even in
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the NFL. Like, you just don't see it very often.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And it gave us a first down when a big
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: momentum play on that drive. I don't know. It was unique.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'll put it that way. And we'll take those plays
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: and we can get them.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was the play, too, where Fitzgerald just
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: lost his stuff, too. Like, he's like, you've got to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: be kidding me there. I mean, Fitzgerald. That was one
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of the games where he came out of like he
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: had his head down with injuries. The refs wise to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: like you. He's just like, I don't know what I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: can do here. Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: You did mention one of the less.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: It's another game where a third quarter offense just kind
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: of looked flat.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: And I don't know what is struggle.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the take is there, but it's
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: just something to note that it just felt.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Like another game. We've been really good in the third
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: quarter this year so far. I don't know. I guess
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: we had the one game last game. We scored a
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: touchdown in our first play of the third quarter.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: We had the one 80 by the side of that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: It just feels like our, and that was a one breakaway,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: but it just feels, it feels like a third quarter
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: is our offense.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: It just kind of feels clunky. I don't, I don't,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: it feels different than the first two quarters. I don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: understand why. Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It definitely didn't start off. Well, like we, I, I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: do think part of it is, and I don't disagree
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: with this, but at the same time, you know, there's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a fine line of game script and how you're playing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: When you have the lead, the 24, what were we
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: up at halftime, the 24-13?
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: 24-13.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: When you have a 24-13 lead at halftime, you're basically
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: coming out and you're saying, okay, they can't move the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: ball if we don't, you know, give them, give a
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: big play. All we got to do is just take
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: care of it. We don't got to get cute. And,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: keep it simple, let the clock kind of take away
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: and run and win the game. Not saying that's what
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: we did to start, but it did. We went three
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: and out three times in a row. Like, like it,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a good start, but, but then again, after
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: that block field goal and went down and scored, then
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you're like, okay.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And let the clock go.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. Yeah, it was, it was, it
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: was a little bit like, yeah, what was that? But
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: like I said, that, I think you're going to have,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: unless you're so much better than them, you're going to
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: have lapses and drives in quarters. You're going to have
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: some errors, mistakes, but what they can't end up being
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: is catastrophic. I keep going back to that word. That's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: the big thing. It's not ever going to look perfect
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: for all four quarters, but you can't.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Catastrophic we still had seven penalties but there's only for
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: six not you know only for 60 yards but you
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: know we didn't have that 15 yard penalty we didn't
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: have a ton of holding penalties that moved the chains way.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Back yeah penalties are a good example too there's i'm
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: not going to say there's good penalties but the catastrophic
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: penalties that third.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Down and eight that we do a whole you know
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: a defensive holding on.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Or i mean even go let's go worse the late
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: hits out of bounds or the Michigan State had one
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of those. They had one of their defensive linemen do
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a nut shot to give us a first down. An
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: extra 15 yards on that same drive. The catastrophic penalty
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: in the Texas-Tennessee game. Third down of celebrating. That kind
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of stuff is what I'm saying is really bad stuff.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That's just undisciplined.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Stupid stuff.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Some penalties are going to happen because you're just playing
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: hard and you're But the bad, stupid penalties are the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: ones– and I just don't feel like there were a
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: lot of those on our end anyways, which, again, is good.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess as we're kind of wrapping up, I
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: was thinking about this game as far as what it
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: made me think about the team and how it made
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: me change my outlook as.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: A team and our success this season.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I still don't know if I moved the needle enough
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: for me to say seven and five is still what
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I expect to happen.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I bumped up from the six and six that I
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: felt after week one.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: One.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: But. I don't know.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: It's still I think the teams on our schedule look
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: better than some look better, some look worse.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And I still I still think it's it's going to
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: be an interesting season. I don't know.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I think I think we're going to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Be more competitive in a lot more games.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Can we give a shout-out to a guy that we
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: did not think was going to be anywhere near the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: field this year? It's Vincent Genitone, which I'm going to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: botch this guy's name. Genitone.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Genitone.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Don't put the E on it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Then you have it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Genitone. What? When he was on the field, I was like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: who is this guy? Man, that was a guy coming
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in the year we did not expect to even have
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a single play coming in. But, man, did he have
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a great game on Saturday.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I agree. That's something I mean nobody. I think maybe
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: some of the coaches thought that. Jamal Rule goes down.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: He got an opportunity to get his moment. He played
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: scout team for Michigan State all week. I guess once
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: your player on scout team goes down, you get a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: chance to go in the game.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I guess that's how that works. But he was playing
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Cam Edwards and he gets to come in and Scores
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: two touchdowns on a couple of different plays. A big touchdown.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: We didn't mention this before the game, too.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Right before half. Where, like, it'd been nice to get
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: some points. I won't nitpick some of the maybe the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: time management stuff again that I felt like we maybe
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: screwed up there right before half, but it didn't matter
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: because we made a play and went down and scored
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: a touchdown with two seconds left. So now you look
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: like a genius, and now time management was perfect.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, in the moment, I was like, what
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: the hell are we doing?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I was yelling on the screen like, we are not
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: doing this right at all. But then, you know what?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: It worked out.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And Rule probably goes, see, I told you guys, I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: knew that was going to happen. I expected it. That
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: was the plan. Scored two seconds.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I think that he was genuinely fine with getting a
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: field goal.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I think he was like, I don't care about a touchdown,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: which I didn't love, but that's right.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Good job, Dak, shouting him out because I think that
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: was very worthy of it. And the other person, you guys,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: we might have been talking while we had our audio issues. But, again,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: just going back to Calandria. And he just, the mobility,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: it's not even really his mobility, but his playmaking capability.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: That's the word I like. He's a gamer. He's a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: playmaker with his arm and his feet. He's just played
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: so much football on the road. Things don't phase him.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about comparing him to any of
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: these Michigan State quarterbacks. They're not even on the same
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: planet right now. Is Calandria right now leading the Heisman race?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: No.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting if we keep winning games. I think
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: there's obviously a couple big statement games here coming up
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: on our schedule. The guy just does a lot of
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: little things that it makes a huge difference in the game.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: And I, and I think he's a really good leader.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Like I think, I think the guys on the field,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: he's perfect for what we need.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And I think the guys really, really respect him. I
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: think they really appreciate his leadership too. And you're right. I,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: you want to have the Ryola, um, Calandra debate for
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: the billionth time. We can do that. But like, bottom
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: line is he fits Nebraska better. He fits our culture better.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: He fits the state. Like, Not even just football. He
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: fits our personality better of a tough-minded, like, work hard,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: doing all the little things. Like, that fits him a
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: lot better here at Nebraska. And I will say, I
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: don't know that we necessarily, like, probably thought that in
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the moment with someone like Dylan Raiola. But, like, Dylan
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: had a really good game against USC at Oregon as
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: he came in for the backup for the Dante Moore thing,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: which was scary. I heard just concussion for him, but
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: like Dylan, I Dylan is a good quarterback. Like, and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: with the right things around him too, you know, he, he, he's,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: he's good too. Like, I still think he could have
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a good pro career. He just is a very different
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: style and leadership style included. Like, I just think all
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: of that stuff just did. It wasn't a good fit.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: It's easy to say that now I get it. It's
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: easy to say that now versus in the moment. Cause
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: we weren't saying that in the moment, just like we
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: didn't say that Scott Frost was a, a huge failure
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: either when we had him in year one. Like it just,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you don't realize some of the stuff in the moment.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: And then eventually everybody at some point has their thought of, Nope,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: this is not going to work. And it might be
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: game one. It might be game 18. It might be
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: game 40 with whatever we're talking about, but you realize, Nope,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: let's move on something next. And that's what happened with him.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: So Calandria coming in has been a, again, not just
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the big things that the big plays that you see,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: The small things, I think, are what really make a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: difference with this offense.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: We probably got him at a little cheaper cost, so
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: we could spend more money on our offensive line this offseason.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: A little bit more of a bargain, you know?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just– the way that Ryola, like you were saying,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: fits our team, he's a good quarterback, but Calandra just
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: fits us way better for what I feel like.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: My last thing before we go here, I think you
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: talk about opponents, you talk about who we've played so far,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: and I know you guys mentioned on Thursday, don't be
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: scared to play a big-time opponent in the non-conference. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: want to ask you, was Michigan State good enough for you?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Is that a good enough, like, game to beat?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Okay. So, and I just want to say this, too. Like,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Michigan State was our first, like, Call it test on
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: the road. Get the win. 4-0.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: We're going good. Here's what I think we're going to
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: start to hear now. I mean, we have Maryland next week.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about them later. We're going to start to
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: get some, I'm going to call it pressure, but just
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: some outside noise here. And I feel like this team
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: so far, we've said it in the offseason, hasn't had any, really.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: And maybe that's because it's intentionally being shut down. kind
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: of keeping it quiet under the radar, we're going to
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: start to hear some good positive conversation of where things
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: are going from a lot of people. So, like, you
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: get a big-time win here against, you know, your toughest
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: team so far. Let's just keep our heads down and
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: keep working. I think that's a very good message for us. Maryland, again,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about them with where they're at, but it's
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: another conference game, right? And you just got to keep
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: going one game at a time. and finding a way
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to win the game however you can, however ugly it is,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: because what matters is the win column. And where we're
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: at as a program, and I was going to get
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: into a debate of this with you guys now, but
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: we're getting short on time because Dak showed up late.
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  Speaker 2: But anyways, we need wins on our schedule. And so non-conference,
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  Speaker 2: you put teams on that you can win, and now...
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  Speaker 2: You win the game that's in front of you. Like,
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  Speaker 2: that's what matters. And so you do that, you're going
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: to set yourself up for a pretty good spot at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you cherry-picked parts of our argument. You didn't
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  Speaker 4: factor in that we said in the future when the
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: thing expands, 16 teams or a different spot as a program. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's totally fine.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: If we are a top 15 team, it's different.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think when they expand to 16 teams, I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: do think there's going to be multiple 10-2 teams, and
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  Speaker 4: strength of schedule will matter at some point. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when there's– so– but, no, this is the.
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  Speaker 3: Type of game. I'm not talking– yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It might. If there's 16 teams or 24 teams, and
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  Speaker 2: let's just say you're not in the Big Ten. I
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  Speaker 2: know that's not realistic. And schedule 12 MAAC teams and
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  Speaker 2: go 12-0. They're putting in– They're putting you in. As Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: they're putting you in. If you play Cupcakes and there's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: an expanded playoff, I think it actually helps you more
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  Speaker 2: to get in because you're undefeated. I think a loss
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  Speaker 2: matters a lot more as a playoff gets bigger. You
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: want more wins because if you're 11-1, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: put you in most likely.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: That's my point. We're in the Big Ten. We're going
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: to play good teams regardless of So unless you're like
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: fighting for a bye or a home game or that part,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: that next step of the playoffs, there's no reason to
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: play a better team. And I also think Matt ruled
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: it wasn't, if you guys listened to him when they
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: asked him about it, I don't think he was thrilled
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: we got Notre Dame on our schedule. He's like, I
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: trust Troy Dan and his decision-making on that. Like, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And I think as an administration, I think you're totally right.
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  Speaker 4: As a fan, though, I don't want to watch North Dakota,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: North Dakota State, South Dakota State every year. And you're
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: going to say, I just want to watch us win,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to say, I want to watch us
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  Speaker 4: win against a team that we should beat.
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  Speaker 3: That's a little more fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a fan, by game three against North Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's play somebody real.
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  Speaker 2: Selfish thinking. Got to think better for the outcome of
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the season. That's not about you, Dak.
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  Speaker 3: That's what being a fan is. Think about the team. No,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: wait a minute. That's their job. My job is me, me, me.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I'll be back tomorrow. Dak will be
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  Speaker 2: here Wednesday and then Thursday. I guess we'll sprinkle in
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: here the next couple of days some Maryland here. Fun week, guys.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Fun to be 4-0. Don't ever underappreciate a road win
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. That is a very good win.
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  Speaker 2: You feel pretty good if you're a Husker fan, you're
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: a Husker player, you're a Husker coach, you're a Husker
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  Speaker 2: media member. You feel very good about where things are
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  Speaker 2: at right now. Let's keep it moving. Go Big Red.
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  Speaker 3: TBR. Yo, Big Red.
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  Speaker 1: Big Red. Go Big Red!
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  Speaker 2: See you next episode!