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Episode 6.3: 3 Areas of Focus for Fall Practice · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: H Returner Ward podcast Starvady Austin Roads the Code of
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  Speaker 1: Free Tag. First things first, I love this video. Thing
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  Speaker 1: is we can see what shirts were wearing. The only
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  Speaker 1: one with the red shirt on tonight it's Dak And
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  Speaker 1: that's not a shirt red, that is Husker red.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Pickle Tavern shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Pick Girl Tavern, the one bar I've been to in Pirol.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only bar in Pickrel. Well, we are into
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  Speaker 1: fall camp. Guys, everybody across the country's practicing. Uh, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: I think, along with the other two I saw was
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and Alabama hosted an open practice last night
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, open to the public. It looked like there
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  Speaker 1: were several thousand people there. Money was raised for the
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  Speaker 1: nil Fund go back to the players. It does sound
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  Speaker 1: like a few teams did this. I have my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on It's interesting, but I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that people learned from watching practice. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it's early on, but you do you start to see
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  Speaker 1: some things form and play out. I guess, first off,
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  Speaker 1: what what do you what do you think of the
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  Speaker 1: idea of the open practice concept. I mean, every coach
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  Speaker 1: that we've had has done something like this similar, whether
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  Speaker 1: it be a scrimmage. Well, I think it was, Mike Riley,
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  Speaker 1: it was every practice was open to the media at least, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you what do you think is in general
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  Speaker 1: of practices and at the college level, college D one
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  Speaker 1: level and the availability to the public media, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, what do you mean? Like what do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 3: I what just think about having that? What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what do you think that should be open? Closed?
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  Speaker 2: Did?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's fine to have one at the beginning
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  Speaker 4: of the year, just be like, hey, come in, ask
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  Speaker 4: some questions, see what we're doing, but you can hang out.
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  Speaker 3: An extra month. I don't think they should all be
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  Speaker 3: open obviously, because no, that'd be insane. But I think
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  Speaker 3: one at the.
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  Speaker 4: Beginning of the year is fine. You know it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't really hurt anything. Give them some practice in
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  Speaker 4: front of some eyes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that that's a really good idea right there.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good way to make some money, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a good way to bring groups into I think.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty seat for practice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's people more than a spring game taker right there.
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  Speaker 3: I think spring games twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: So it just me basically like a spring game part
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  Speaker 2: two a little.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was structured a little more like a
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  Speaker 1: practice versus like spring game was playing a full game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I again, I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: good for NIL. I think that was a good idea
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  Speaker 1: to raise some money that way. The only thing from
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  Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint that is a little bit worries some
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  Speaker 1: which I know the coaches I'm sure talk about it
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  Speaker 1: is I mean, it's open, and you can't tell me
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  Speaker 1: that other teams don't don't show up and go they do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna go like it if any team
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  Speaker 1: that we play against as an open practice of the public,
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  Speaker 1: like you want to go just to get a feel
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  Speaker 1: for what everything looks like. So the coaches are probably
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  Speaker 1: aware of that. So I'm sure we didn't obviously play
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  Speaker 1: and show all of our cards last night. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, I don't I don't know this. I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been a part of a staff or know anybody
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  Speaker 1: at the Division one level, But how I anticipate football
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  Speaker 1: going like there's probably twenty five to thirty five coaches
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  Speaker 1: on a staff, analyst people that help. I mean, every
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  Speaker 1: there's like two or three coaches that are assigned a
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  Speaker 1: team for the upcoming year from when the previous season ends.
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  Speaker 1: So like Ohio State, for example, I'm sure there's two
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  Speaker 1: people on that staff. Like, your job is to know
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska inside now, and yeah, if you see an open practice,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably going to send somebody there to get a
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  Speaker 1: good look at what's going on. So hey, one negative thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think as far as raising the funds,
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  Speaker 1: it's good. It does bring hype. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: we need more hype, but it was another good look
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  Speaker 1: for everybody to see and provide more things to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: which is what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: It is Mike Riley's. Every single Mike Raley practice is open.
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  Speaker 1: Not to the public, to the media. I think Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the media.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: But he's a nice guy. Why would you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was you got you got in
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  Speaker 1: depth analysis from the media all the time then and
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  Speaker 1: now you just get what they're available to and like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, you get coaches after practice sometimes and they
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  Speaker 1: can explain what they want. So uh, it's good. It
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  Speaker 1: does get these weeks. I feel like they take a
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  Speaker 1: long time to get to week zero or week one
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  Speaker 1: until we actually get kicked off.
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  Speaker 3: So what did you hear from the practice, Because all
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  Speaker 3: I really heard was real look sharp, Hardberg looks improved
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  Speaker 3: and the punting Brian Bushini was shaking quite a few punts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the stuff that I read, and I
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  Speaker 1: wish I would have went. I was gonna go drink
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  Speaker 1: a little too much alcohol. Didn't make it. Check days,
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  Speaker 1: shout out Wilbur, Wilbur, Nebraska, the Czech capital of America.
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  Speaker 3: That check capital of America.
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  Speaker 1: Oh to believe Wilbur Wi it actually is.
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  Speaker 3: Look it up self proclaimed.
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  Speaker 2: It actually is.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's legit. It actually is five five days every
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  Speaker 1: year they have this. There's a bunch of pod it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Check Capital of America.
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  Speaker 2: Inted next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, first week August. So that's where I was. We
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  Speaker 1: just lost Dak. Dak just said, I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 4: It's like Austin wasn't invited to check days. I feel awkward.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna get off, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some there's a website in the foreign language
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  Speaker 3: is talking about Wilburn, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: So it is, it's legit. So anyways, that's where I
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  Speaker 1: was going to go with the practice. But I hanging
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  Speaker 1: out there and yeah again today reading stuff, it uh
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  Speaker 1: looked like like you said, real with sharp harbord looked decent.
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  Speaker 1: I heard Danny Kalon had a rough practice as far
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  Speaker 1: as the other quarterbacks like Lukelong or not Luke Long.
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  Speaker 1: But Jalen Grahamstead there he is about the time. He
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Leave us there we go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how I left that, Uh, Jalen Grahams said,
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  Speaker 1: I I thought I heard did some good things. He's
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  Speaker 1: the reigning NAI quarterback of the year. So I think
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  Speaker 1: our quarterback room, I mean, it can't be worse than
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  Speaker 1: last year, right, So I think there are some solid
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  Speaker 1: uh performances there yesterday. And it sounds like our receivers
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  Speaker 1: is some good things that there's a little battle I
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  Speaker 1: think for that left tackle spot with pro Hosca and Corkoran.
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  Speaker 1: So that sounds like that was a topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it sounded like it went well.
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  Speaker 1: Hunting like that's scary Bruccini bombs.
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  Speaker 3: Where.
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  Speaker 1: The kicking game is one thing it just it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary, like it should not be us mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Luckily, we'll only be kicking extra points this year, am
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  Speaker 3: I right?
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  Speaker 1: Boys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And I mean this piggybacks off of that. But
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do today for this episode, mainly,
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  Speaker 1: it's talk about things that we think need to be
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  Speaker 1: focused on or stressed or like key points of emphasis here,
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  Speaker 1: as if we were the three coaches of the Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: football team, Like what are we overemphasizing this fall? And
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  Speaker 1: I think that includes some of the things we saw yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but just in general, like what should we be focused
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  Speaker 1: on for us to reach our goals? Which, whatever whatever
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  Speaker 1: our goals are, what do we need to be focusing
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  Speaker 1: on here these next three weeks? So we're gonna each
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  Speaker 1: list off three I you want me to go first,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go first.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to do the one that probably
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  Speaker 1: everybody has on there, So I'm gonna I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different to start because I know you
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  Speaker 1: guys probably have my first one.
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  Speaker 3: You have my first one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess I have my first one too, So.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna starve my second one. Defensively, we
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  Speaker 1: need to continue to be creative and evolve from what
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  Speaker 1: we had last year. What I'm a little scared of
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  Speaker 1: is we are gonna think our defense was damn good
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  Speaker 1: last year. We're gonna come in, ride in the high
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  Speaker 1: and not really take the next step that we need
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  Speaker 1: to here, especially with a lot of these new teams coming.
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  Speaker 1: So like again, I don't know what that looks like,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know a whole lot about all the
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  Speaker 1: different nuances a football defense, but I do think the
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  Speaker 1: three three five was very successful in year one here
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  Speaker 1: and when people doubted it, but we got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to build on that. And we talked about this last
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  Speaker 1: year a lot. How the three three five gives you
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  Speaker 1: some chances to blitz differently, mix things up. It's tough
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get a pre snap read. So that
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  Speaker 1: all worked well, but we need to continue to evolve
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  Speaker 1: and move forward with that. And I will say it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like that the big approach is forcing more turnovers
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive end, getting more sacks. That was specifically
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  Speaker 1: talked about from Tony White and Matt Rulans and press
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  Speaker 1: conferences last week about getting more sacks, getting more turnovers
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  Speaker 1: from this group, because we did not do a good
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  Speaker 1: job of that last year. So I like to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that tells me we're going to be maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little more this year, Gamble. We're gonna blitz more,
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  Speaker 1: which risk comes with downside.
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  Speaker 5: If you want more saxon three three three five, you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna have to blitz more.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But that's my one big focus is like, don't don't
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  Speaker 1: just be satisfied and say our defense is gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be good again this year. All we got
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  Speaker 1: to focus on is our offense. Fixing that and I
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  Speaker 1: think our defense needs to actually start scoring points for
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  Speaker 1: us if they can. We're creating opportunities for our offense.
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  Speaker 2: Your best player, according to EA Sports, is on that
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  Speaker 2: to have the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Dang.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, if we have time at the end here,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna talk about our our experiences on
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  Speaker 1: the video game so far and what we think of
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  Speaker 1: some of our players.
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't think we have time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then, Dak, you better elaborate here on your first one.
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  Speaker 2: My first one.
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  Speaker 5: I special teams for sure is something that you want
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  Speaker 5: to really work on.
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  Speaker 2: Albano, he's up and down big time.
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  Speaker 5: You want to surgery, you want to you want I'm
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  Speaker 5: confidence in your special teams.
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  Speaker 2: That's something you don't want to go into a game
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  Speaker 2: worrying about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Alvano is having what was it with his knee
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  Speaker 1: or hamstring or something that he had hamstring surgery. That's
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  Speaker 1: what That's what we want to hear from our kicker, Like,
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  Speaker 1: good God, is he out of the year.
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  Speaker 3: No, they say it should be back. It was a
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  Speaker 3: minor It was a minor surgery, is why I heard.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, that's that's not good. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me this then, I mean I agree, I
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  Speaker 1: completely agree with that. This is a hard question, so
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  Speaker 1: you might have to think a little deeper here, open
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  Speaker 1: that big brain ears. If you're the special teams coach,
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  Speaker 1: like what are what are you changing.
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  Speaker 3: A better kicker?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's yeah, I don't I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about kicking it, I mean kick specifically, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's there's a lot of scheming. We we
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  Speaker 1: know that from.
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  Speaker 3: Realistically special teams. On the defensive side, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we did pretty well last year, more field goals than
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  Speaker 3: we've probably blocked in the previous four years combined.
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  Speaker 5: If you're puner, shanking balls right now in an open practice,
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  Speaker 5: though you got major problems.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean that question to you is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a trick question, but because I like, it's hard when
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  Speaker 1: when what do you do as a coach besides just
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  Speaker 1: trust that the guys that you have can punk the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field decent and make field goals, make
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  Speaker 1: forty two yard field goals, like if we're missing them
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  Speaker 1: and shanking them and like that's all they're practicing, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's all those guys practice and they should
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  Speaker 1: be that. But like Austin said, get better players? How
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  Speaker 1: can we not do that?
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  Speaker 2: Though?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, it is it that hard to find it?
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  Speaker 1: Just a average kicker these days? Like I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: There's only so many kicking positions on each team. You're
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  Speaker 3: not like competing for a ton of spots.
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  Speaker 5: The thing about kicking is is mostly mental too. Once
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  Speaker 5: you once you're shot mentally year, just you're done. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had the big ten kicker of the year
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  Speaker 3: and Drew Brown and then the next year you fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we talked about that. Like with our kicking,
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  Speaker 1: we've been blessed with price, spoiled with good kickers, and
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  Speaker 1: now maybe seems worse than it is, but I do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's good. It hasn't been for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years now. But that's a big part of
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  Speaker 1: the game. It's a big part of winning and losing
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  Speaker 1: close football games, which we've lost a lot. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that is I didn't actually have that on my list,
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  Speaker 1: but like, that's a that's a good one back, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that needs that needed to be brought up
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  Speaker 1: and talked about because it is scarier right now from
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  Speaker 1: a special team standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Who is your backup kicker? Do you guys even know?
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  Speaker 1: I got it right here? It is nko Otomanelli, right yep.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have our backup punters, Camden Cook. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we got some Sam Cook relations? Is that is that?
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  Speaker 3: That's his brother, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: And I might be I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they were actually related.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't Why can't he be a good punter?
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  Speaker 2: I meant, hell, they're probably battling for a spot now.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's a good one. Deck. I had the same.
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  Speaker 3: I had the exact same. It is Sam Cook's Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's Sam Cook's son.
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  Speaker 1: What at?
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  Speaker 4: I googled Camden Cook and Sam Cook's son I thought
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  Speaker 4: he had like a really young brother, but.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sam Cook's old. I mean, he's probably what in
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  Speaker 1: his forty sound Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess I didn't even think about that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was, like, I mean, he toned for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't seem that long ago, but I suppose. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: it's his kid.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that you said that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: That was one of your points. Is there any anything
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  Speaker 1: else you want to add or elaborate on. Uh?
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  Speaker 6: No, I was gonna focus mostly on the offensive side
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  Speaker 6: of just just getting those kicks down. You know, they
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  Speaker 6: have a whole TV series called Chasing three. You know what,
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  Speaker 6: the easiest way to get three points is hit a
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  Speaker 6: freaking field goal from somewhere on the field. But no,
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  Speaker 6: I yeah, I agree with most Dak points. You just
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  Speaker 6: it's the kicking side. I feel defensively we did all right.
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  Speaker 3: But outside of getting better kickers, I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: you do outside of just trusting the process and you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to build good football players with good football mentality.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, move on's number two.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked, you know, we got great quarterback. We keep
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  Speaker 4: talking about how deeper wide receiver room is, so we
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  Speaker 4: got to have a good pocket pass protection. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to see any bullshit where Dylan RelA is trying
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  Speaker 4: to scramble and having to flick it out to you know,
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  Speaker 4: guy on the flat. So I think that should be
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  Speaker 4: a focus, especially.
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  Speaker 3: When you know, i'd say Raola's strength of his arm strength,
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  Speaker 3: so if he wanted to let it rip down field,
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna have to have time to throw it. Offensive
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  Speaker 3: line play hasn't been great. It's definitely should be some
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  Speaker 3: focus of your core three of protecting your passer.
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  Speaker 5: You guys, last year though, you guys, you probably think
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  Speaker 5: Oman's line was better than coming in the year was
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  Speaker 5: like they it wasn't awful last year.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, but two years ago disastrous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two years two years ago was the worst.
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  Speaker 3: Our quarterbacks weren't real throwing threats, So I think that
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  Speaker 3: impacted Also our defensive played us. You know, they're able
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  Speaker 3: to live more on us, so obviously impacts the pass
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  Speaker 3: protection a little bit more. But I think that's one
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  Speaker 3: of your focuses is just keep keep real up. If
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  Speaker 3: you really think he's you know, the quarterback that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: risurrect Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Good though you have you have comments in your backups,
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  Speaker 2: so if he does get.
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  Speaker 3: Hurt, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: At least we have a guy that's played before, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean I do I think I think uh Jalen
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Graham Staid, from what it sounds like, can maybe hold
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: his own which which is helped helpful. The offensive line,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: as we've talked about on here several times, is the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: most important part of your offense. And it doesn't matter
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: who you have back there. If we can't block, you're
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in trouble. I am hopeful that we have a lot
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: of guys that I don't call them veterans, but guys
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: that have played a lot of snaps. I mean Ben Hart,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Corker and Paasca, some of them battled injuries, Ben Scott,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you know, playing for two different Power five schools. Justin
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Evans got some minutes last year. I mean, because we've
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: been so banged up and guys have been moved around
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a lot, and I think we're starting potentially someone who's
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: our right guard. I think it's Mike and Mazuka I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: think right now is who was playing that yesterday. So
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: like we we got guys that have played, which I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: think is promising, but it, like you said, kind of
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: like our defense I said earlier, we have to take
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a step up from an offensive line group to protect
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Dylan because what is Dylan's strength as a quarterback right
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: now from what we've seen, is his ability to throw
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the deep ball. And all we keep hearing is our
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: receivers how much of a vertical threat they are? Well,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: we are, ye, and we've had none of that vertical
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: threat in the past. We saw some in the spring game.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So like you need time to get down the field.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Well crap.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I thought Ben Harns is one of the worst players coachetball.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Come in last year and he actually had a decent year.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: It was Yep, you did actually have a DC year.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Dah Number two, just hold on the ball.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: That's last year.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're going to have a different, different quarterback now,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: but last year fumbles and interceptions just.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Killed you that card game.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Your defense played their balls off and you guys, your
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: offense just killed you that game.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's big.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: It's big to hold on the ball and not give
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: the other team just bumbling and I'm.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Assuming we all had ball security.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Number one says turnovers and all caps underlined, and then
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: right after his ball security, do.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You think there's to being hyper focused on ball security.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, I I don't know what you can expect
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: from last year. You don't come into your thinking you're
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: gonna play three quarterbacks like it was a toss up
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: last year. But I mean that's kind of it's kind
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: of on the rule.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: For I'm gonna say, dak own your points like you
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: were all time from the beginning of the year last
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: year and Jeff Simms when we were like, oh, maybe
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and you're like no, he turns it over all the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: time and we're like, no, that was just the first game.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: No, yeah, that's that's that's not rule for picking him.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we don't got to dive back into how
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that went because we all know that. But turnovers, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: we talked about this a lot too in Big ten
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: media days and it comes up a lot in conversation
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of getting a positive turnover margin. I mean, I think
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: we've had one year in the last fourteen to fifteen
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: years that we've had a positive turnover March you might
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: have said that before too, and he knows that's a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: focus now. At the same time, he also said we
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: were just we weren't even getting hit and we were
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: fumbling like we were just were doing stupid stuff that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: can't happen. And I guess you can say it's on
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the players and sometimes do their job, but at the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: same time, as a coach, you got to find a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: way to get the reps in practice, simulate the environments,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: get them mentally in the state they're going to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in a game so that stuff like that doesn't happen.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Like that is number one most important thing. We don't
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over. I feel like we're going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: make a bowl game, like bottom line if we have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a positive turnover margin, I like our chances of getting
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to seven seven wins. But we have not done that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in a long, long, long, long, long long time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: And I say, you know, there's they're they're trying to
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: stick to their guns and be like, hey, if you
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: fumble the ball, you're not playing. And luckily we feel
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I feel like we all agree that we have better
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: depth of their skill position. So if someone gets benched
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: for fumbling the ball, it's like, Okay, it's not he's
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: not like he's the best options, Like we got another
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: guy who can play.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. I will say we have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: better depth. I don't know that we have. We still
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: don't have the superstar skilled players, the All Stars, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: we got a lot of similar guys. I mean at
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the running back position. I think there's four or five
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: guys that potentially could start now. It does look like EMMITTT.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Johnson potentially could be the day one if we're going
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: off in practice last night, but Ramir got a lot
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: of snaps. Dal Dell's going to be in that mix. Obviously,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Gabe Urban is going to be around in that mix.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: There's just there's a lot of options that if yeah,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you can't take care of the ball, you're not going
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to play. And that's one way of stressing it and
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: putting importance on it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Receivers too, number one one receiver last night, it sounds
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: like Jamal Banks and they are both. I was gonna say,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Malcot doesn't seem like a number one wide receiver.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Is gonna have a He's gonna have a interesting middle role,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I think because.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: He gets on the field that much. Because you got Banks,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: may Or Lloyd and then Barney looked, like.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I said, looked really good.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I gc is a blue guy.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Sounds like he might actually be a special guy.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I had no clues back how many years he played football.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: It seems like a six year, right, it's gotta be.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of options, so I do. Here's here's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the turnover parts that scares me. I'm hoping fumbling will
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: be better. Rayola cannot come in the Colorado game is
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the main one that I'm talking about early on, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: think that he is Patrick Mahomes and everybody's calling him
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and just be careless throwing it around. Uh, those Colorado's
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: b backs are gonna be athletic and quick. We can't
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: get over greedy Like we talked about him before.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: We didn't.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: We don't need him to come be a super star.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: He needs to be a good game manager. Here is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: freshman year and build on what we did last year,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: which our offense is bad. It doesn't need to take
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: go from a two to a ten in the first
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: three games. We need to just take care of the ball.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That's where the turnovers come. Like, I'm scared it could
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: be three picks against Colorado like and it can't be
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Like it can't and we're we're not gonna win that
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: game if that happens.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Well, shit, how many is this the first year's five men,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: five or six years since you've had an easy game
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: to start out the year, it's it's been Big ten
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: teams for.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Like since twenty nineteen. I think since we us first
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: rainout game that was the last Big ten starter.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Yep. So yeah, I mean turnovers is my number two
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: as well. So I'll move on to my third one here.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And it's very very general, and I'm not saying we're
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: not doing a good job of it. I think that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: rule has its mentality, and especially our defense, but the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: whole staff is believe physicality and toughness. In practice, everything
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: needs to be tough, it needs to be hard. We
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: just talked about our depth, that we have some skill positions.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We have some guys that have played a lot of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: snaps in the oppensive side of the ball. Defensively, we're
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: pretty deep in our secondary. Our defensive line, we got
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: guys that have been there for a long time, like
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: our linebackers are where I'm a little bit nervous, but
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: everything needs to be tough as hell in practice. I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: know it's been hot the past few days, but it
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: needs to be hard on the guys, and I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the staff is a good job of that, but to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: make strides trying to build the culture, turn a corner,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: get over this no Bowl game hump. Everything should be
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: so difficult that games seem easy when they get there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And like I said, I think, I think from what
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: we've heard, but that also could be biased that the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: staff does a good job of all of that. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: that's more coaching in general. Right, you want to make
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: your practices harder than games, and we I hope we're
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: practice are tackling in practice. I hope we're taking people
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to the ground. We haven't heard much injury news as
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of late, so I hope, I hope, I hope everything
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is just a dog fight competition wise, in practice, because
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that obviously it wasn't happening under Frost. We know that
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: we heard year wonder rule that was happening a lot.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're just assuming that that's going
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to be the case now, but that's that's my third one.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Just be tough physical constantly.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I kind of had that as one of my h
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: you know, first one out because I you know, I
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: figured we're all going to have both security special teams.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: But at the same thing, I don't forget what we
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: did well last year being physical on defense, running the ball.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So I totally agree with that third two.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Just yours?
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah play, I.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Mean I kind of had just stick with what you
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: did last year defensively basically, I mean you're gonna change that, yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Which I was dead wrong about the three three five,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: but see, yeah, like that's kind of countering my first
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: one a little bit. Like I get what you're saying,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: continue what we do well at but at the same time,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I don't. It can't be the same thing like it
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: has it has to last year.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Last year. We're pretty creative, correct, I mean you could
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: argue that's a continuation.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got a third one left right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: No, that's it, man, I had both scarious special Team's
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: pocket passer and be physical. So congrats, we all think
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the same boys, We did it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Great podcast.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: We actually have the same three.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about matching with Dakie.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm the only one of the more we're
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: read today.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we can get go into this EA sports
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: range a little bit, So I will say we're gonna
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: do a deeper dive into the depth chart offense and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: defense here, probably in our next few episodes, we'll look
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: at different positions, go through a little more deeper what
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we just talked about. But we've been pushing this off
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: because we've rung out of time in our past a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: few episodes, which I guess I'll mention this too. By
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the way, we do only still do forty minute episodes
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: because of our time limit and we're too lazy or
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: frugal or don't make money to pay for Zoom Advanced
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: or whatever the heck we need to do. So that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: why our episodes are forty but it's twice a week,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: so you're getting the best of both worlds. That being said,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'll pull them up here. Here's where Nebraska ranks. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: so the game came out. I mean, I I know
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Dak's played it a lot Austin so.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Many days of work. I haven't played it at all.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I don't have to. All I have is a switch.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's almost worth getting a PS five.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And I honestly thought about it's.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I straight up the here's here's the thing. The game,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the game itself just like every other game, and all
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the Madden haters like people are complaining about it. My
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: mindset for this first one was just appreciate that it's back,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and yes, there's some flaws with it, but I even
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: think they've exceeded a lot of my expectations. And I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: when I when I do like, especially these college football games,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I appreciate probably more than the average person, all the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: realism of the stadium, as the announcers, the commentating, the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: flow of a dynasty. The recruiting is like, that's why
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Austin needs to get it, because you would you wouldn't
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: work the recruiting on it's so good.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: You're right, probably it takes a lot of time. M hm.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So it's it's legit. They did a really good job.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Heye.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I spent a lot, a lot of hours on it already,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: probably more than I want to admit. But uh, Dak,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: what's your initial game thoughts on it?
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I love how real it is, like the tackling. Everything
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: just feels super real about it. Like you said, the
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: stadium like, and it's it's real about how you go
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: and play, Say, go the swamp. It's a lot tougher
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: than going freaking Wyoming. But and it's like the homefield
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: fans is huge in the game. It's I don't know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I agree with the rankings on
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: the stadiums, but.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Where they have where they have Gaylord Memorial.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: At I think I think it was eleven. If I'm right, I.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Think it was nine. But yeah, so Austin at what
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Dak's stay into, which is I forgot to mention that
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: when you go on the road, the game makes it
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: really hard, Like if you're a freshman quarterback on the road,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: like you can't audible plays, no one can hear you
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: half the time, don't even know what receivers are buttons
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: because they're they're gone because you're on the road, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: it makes it really really tough. It's cool, like obviously
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: people are going to figure the game out and get
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: all the hacks the really good players. But they did
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a good job the rankings. And there's obviously bugs with
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the playoff culturable playoff format, which that's a whole nother
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: conversation that I think we should talk about because I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: think it's a lot's up in the air. But I
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: want to talk about the Nebraska players here. I think
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: we're like eighty five ish overall, eighty four overall for
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a team on offense, blind blows. Thanks for bringing that up.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: So here, here's our in, Austin. Maybe you know pricing
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: them maybe if you don't give the rankings up.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I have our individual player rankings up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I was gonna have you guests to see
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: if you knew where people are.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I've I only looked at the top three, so I
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: haven't looked past.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Don't go beyond that. So top three, uh, best overall
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: in the game. Tommy Hill eighty nine for us, Like,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I don't. I don't have
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: many thoughts on it. Isaac Gifford second in Nasha put
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Monkers third, like three defensive guys the leader rankings, I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: don't know. I think all those guys are justifiable where
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they're at. So I think some people did get screwed
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and some guy overhyped. I think these guys are all
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: good where they're at.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what what is Ryla ranked. I
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: don't even know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get there. So Austin, I want you to
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: start naming some guys you think they're kind of next
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: up here.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I would guess Sidoni.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Ifdoni's coming right up, he's six.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Mmmm. Ben Scott might be sneaky high.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Ben Scott got absolutely screwed.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: He really is.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: He's to me, the one that got screwed in the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: ranking seventy eight, he's I mean, he's way down there
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: for everybody else.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: We didn't bring up that. You start the game, Nebraska,
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the fake running back.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, our our running back
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is not a not an actual player starting running back.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: But he's not ranked the highest, but the default depth
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: chart puts I can't remember his name because I saw
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: him out right away, ud so. But but the second
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: highest running back, or the guy that plays a lot,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: is Dante Daldell, which is interesting, but Dowdell, Ramier, Emmett,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: they're all like, I think the same. Yeah they all
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: seventy nine. Seventy nine is em and then yeah they're
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: all three or seventy nine overall.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I guess hard dogs up there.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Yep, he's eighty two.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Uh. I feel like Banks, he was pretty good.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, Banks fifth, Banks is fifth, and Nyor was is
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a seventh. So I mean you named a lot of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: guys at the top. I think what this tells us
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit is those two receivers are gonna play
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a lot. And I mean I think that even before
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Big Ten media days. It it sounds like they came
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: in and took control over the locker, the receiving core
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: locker room because it was such a young group, even
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: being two newcomers, which I think is good. It's what's needed.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of those other guys Jylen, Lloyd Malachi obviously
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: are here last year, but they're young. Four offensive linemen
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: in the top No. Three in the top ten, Ben
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Hard fourth. I thought that was interesting. Whoa Ben Hart?
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Wait? So three in the top ten, so I don't
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: even know who the third one would be.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Nine and ten or Justin Evans and Teddy Proasca okay,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and Corcoran's seventy nine overall, and then Ben Scott's seventy eight.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: So I mean our team is very balanced, which I
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: think is what we see.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I just thought Ben Scott got screwed because like.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: One of the best pass protecting in centers in like
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the Big Ten last year.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I thought he was one of our best
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: offensive linemen. So last thing I'll say about the game,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and this ties a little bit to our playing style
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: because I do think this is what's gonna work in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: real life, Like we're gonna have to run the ball
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to set up Rayola to throw a downfield. I just
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be hard for us to come out
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and throw it forty times a game. And maybe that's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. I don't know, but we're gonna
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: have to use a solid, balanced running attack, and I
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: think our big plays need to come from our speed
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: receivers down the field on the game, Like if Malachi
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: or Jaylen Lloyd are on the outside and they're in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: press coverage, it's almost a cheat code because they just
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: run right by him and you can tap it with Rayola.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: He's got a monster arm and you can score a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: touchdown a lot. So, but I do I think that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: going to be realistic, Like we need to take advantage
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of opportunities when those guys are open down the field
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to get big plays. And I think we have the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: players potentially to do that this year.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: But I think players play the game, They're like, this
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: is where they can do really well in the game.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: I should give it a shot in real life.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: So.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I've bet a lot of them do. Like I think
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: all of them are playing the game.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: You know that, oh you know it?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes it fun and well, the other thing
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I'll say that I missed from the game and appreciate it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Being back like this is how you get to know
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the roster like it really is not. I mean not
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: just Nebraska, but any any team you play with. You
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: get to know names of some of the guys and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: that like you especially your second and third stringers or
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: guys for like two or three years down the road.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: In Dynasty Mode, you get to know the names of them. Now,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: not everybody's in the game. Carter Nelson's not in there,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Gabe Urban's not in there. There's a couple of guys
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: like that. But for the most part, that's how you
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: get to know the team more so than just pulling
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: up the depth chart on Google and reading through it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: You need to know their style, what they kind of
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: are built like, So appreciate all of that stuff. Again
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: with the game and being.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Back out, I almost bought a PlayStation five.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Still should You still should?
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I did. That's the only reason why I bought it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: They're so expensive.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: You still should? You got you got the big time,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: big boy job making enough money you can justify.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I found mine from Marketplace to Trail Park and Lincoln.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: That terrifies me.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, well good episode boy.
• 37:56
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