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Episode 6.15: On to the Next One · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast September fifteenth. Huskers are three and zero,
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  Speaker 1: coming off a thirty four two three win against the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Iowa Panthers. Hunters Arberniki, Austin Rose, Dakota Free Tag
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  Speaker 1: all wearing red today boys Dack's wearing the new merch.
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  Speaker 2: The new T shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Representing there's a lot of people asked me about it
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  Speaker 3: last night when I had.
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  Speaker 2: It on We're Promotion.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I might have brought it.
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  Speaker 4: Up, but.
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  Speaker 1: Dak you might just earn a promotion on this podcast
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  Speaker 1: now that you're officially a Husker fan over an Oklahoma fan.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that's right here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he set me one.
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  Speaker 1: If if you haven't listened to it, it's worth a listen,
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  Speaker 1: go back and listen to our tailgate pod from Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Got got daft pretty good, And let's just say he
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  Speaker 1: knows more players on the Nebraska than he does for
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  Speaker 1: his so claimed sooners.
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  Speaker 3: That probably went exactly how you thought it was gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: No, you actually did worse than I thought you would do, like,
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  Speaker 1: like better on the Nebraska side and worse on the
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  Speaker 1: Ou side. I was predicting it to be like close
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  Speaker 1: it It wasn't it. And your first OU player was
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  Speaker 1: Kasey Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: Did I did that on purpose?
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  Speaker 1: And then you also thought Jason Tatum played for Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: so that was also good.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Tatum's Jason Tatum, same thing saying it's a better player.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're three and oh for the first time since
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, if you're in college, Mike Riley.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to people afterwards, like, we don't really know
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  Speaker 1: how to react right now. I mean, obviously we're rated.
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  Speaker 1: Illinois ratings just came out as rated as well. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be the first ranked, first ranked matchup in Memorials Stadium
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  Speaker 1: and quite some time. The final score, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think speaks for itself in this game, thirty four to three.
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  Speaker 1: For these recap episodes, as a reminder, we'll just go
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  Speaker 1: through some key headlines and some key talking points. But like,
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  Speaker 1: my biggest thing watching this game and then hearing fans
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  Speaker 1: around me talk and have some of the moans here
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  Speaker 1: or there, and then after the game, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: score was what it was. I'm just like, who really cares?
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  Speaker 1: Like that was a game that like, yeah, we won.
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  Speaker 1: I really am not going to read into too much here. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we could probably nitpick a billion things, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, that's what we do,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're good at. We probably will still end
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  Speaker 1: up doing that, but it is one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that I just don't care, Like, let's move on, let's
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  Speaker 1: get to big ten play. I think we were better
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  Speaker 1: than this team, and we knew going into it, and
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  Speaker 1: there were some good, there were some bad and everything
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  Speaker 1: in between, but we did what we needed to do
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  Speaker 1: to beat an FCS team. I think it was our
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth all time win against fcsponentes fifteen and zero. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like that high level thoughts, that's where my head's at.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, like I have.
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  Speaker 5: I obviously watching the game when you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: what are you guys doing, that's a totally different energy
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  Speaker 5: than after the game because in the game we could
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  Speaker 5: just it's just you can imagine, you can see it, like, oh, Northern,
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  Speaker 5: you'll always gonna score a touchdown here, and all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden it's seven to seven, and.
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  Speaker 4: Those goes to the past kind of creep up on you.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, people are gonna complain about, oh, they look
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  Speaker 5: more physical and better, but then you look at the
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  Speaker 5: main point to the score bards, like they only score
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  Speaker 5: three points, Like that's not sure. They might have moved
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  Speaker 5: the ball between the twenties, but they only scored three dak.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, this is Northern Iowa better than you.
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  Speaker 3: Depth Ooh, yes, I would say, yeah. They It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: like they moved the ball up now on you, but
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  Speaker 3: they they actually could get some momentum in the run
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  Speaker 3: game and stuff. You tip can do anything. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: both of them have a shet quarterback, so it's just
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  Speaker 3: a wash there. But I think Nord and Ioa can
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  Speaker 3: run the ball better.
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  Speaker 1: But to that point, I was actually somewhat impressed by
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  Speaker 1: Aiden Done. I mean, his stats weren't great, but I
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  Speaker 1: just thought he I thought he managed the game well.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously a couple of picks were not great throws, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought he for an FCS quarterback, like did a
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  Speaker 1: great job of managing the game. And he's got some
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  Speaker 1: legs under him. I thought he made a lot of
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  Speaker 1: correct reads. They ran a lot a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot more zone read than I thought they were going to.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watch any film on him, but I thought
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  Speaker 1: they were going to be maybe a little more of
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  Speaker 1: a power run, but they were still they were still shotgun,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was still heavy, heavy inside run,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is a good prep as we head
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  Speaker 1: into big ten play.
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  Speaker 3: At any point during the game where you guys worry
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna lose, no.
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  Speaker 5: Though, I mean that first drive I had, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: those ghosts of like that, that anxiety of like, oh
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  Speaker 5: my gosh, it's gonna be a seven to seven game.
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  Speaker 5: After they had a ten minute drive and they were
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  Speaker 5: down on the five yard line and it's like, oh boy,
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  Speaker 5: that's not how you wanted to go. Where they shortened
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  Speaker 5: the game up a little bit, it a little mentum example,
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of the energy out of the stadium.
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  Speaker 4: But I wasn't worrying about losing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that wasn't That wasn't a game you hang up
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  Speaker 3: in the raptors. But I mean, you gotta win. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta And you wonder if they just played at Vanilla
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  Speaker 3: because you're going to big templay. You don't want to
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  Speaker 3: give away all your you got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, I really don't. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: don't really care.
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  Speaker 1: Like thirty four to three, like great, the.
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  Speaker 4: Whole four quarter of second stringers for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have many expectations I guess going into it
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  Speaker 1: being about any different than that, like rule, as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about, is not the type of coach to go
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  Speaker 1: out and we thought maybe we'd let Dylan Ryl, he'd
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  Speaker 1: let Dylan Royol and just go a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: it just came, you know, we did a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we threw it maybe a little more in
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  Speaker 1: our run. Game was a little bit stifled at times,
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  Speaker 1: but like for the most part, it was about what
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  Speaker 1: we expected from an overall game. The only thing that
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  Speaker 1: really caught me off guard, and this is leading into
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  Speaker 1: my first headline topic is and it's more of a
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  Speaker 1: shout out to you and I in their game plan,
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  Speaker 1: but the time of possession. Yeah, it just felt like
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  Speaker 1: they had the ball and they did for so long.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it finished like thirty eight to twenty one
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  Speaker 1: or something like that is very close to that. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: it did, and that props to them. And sometimes you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well that means they must you know, have controlled the
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  Speaker 1: game kind of. I mean, they did get some first downs,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't have a resultant points.
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  Speaker 5: They ran the ball really well between the twenties and
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  Speaker 5: rule sen and his conference. He's like, hey, that's a
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  Speaker 5: veteran head coach over there. He knows exactly when you
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  Speaker 5: go in and play a better opponent, you don't want
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  Speaker 5: them to have the ball. Like our offense first three
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  Speaker 5: drives were just scoring at will, like if we keep
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  Speaker 5: the ball out of their hands. They were milking the
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  Speaker 5: clock all the way down to the zero every possession.
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  Speaker 1: And even when they were too, like their chance of
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  Speaker 1: winning that game was for us to make mistakes, right,
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  Speaker 1: And he thought their coach thought that we they could
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  Speaker 1: maybe be as physical as us up front, and I
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  Speaker 1: would argue that maybe they did at some point, but
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  Speaker 1: they did. They just they even when they were down
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to three, they ran the clock down inside
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  Speaker 1: by when they were down twenty seven to three or
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to three and they had a fourth and
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  Speaker 1: two or fourth and three from like midfield, they're like, yah,
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  Speaker 1: let's just punt it. Like they they knew that they
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  Speaker 1: had to just play a very smart football game, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it resulted in the score that it did. And speaking
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  Speaker 1: of time of possession, then you you know, are offense
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  Speaker 1: when they put up thirty thirty eight against Northern iowall, Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't punt one time. We were efficient.
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  Speaker 1: When we had the ball. Did we have big plays?
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  Speaker 1: We had a couple. We had two drives that didn't
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  Speaker 1: result in points, the interception and then the fourth go
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  Speaker 1: for it down, So like, yeah, I guess the one
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  Speaker 1: frustrating in the second half was.
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  Speaker 2: Not scoring when we were at first and goal there.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, like we were efficient on
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  Speaker 1: offense and again did what we needed to do. That
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  Speaker 1: score does not a score was exactly how the game
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  Speaker 1: went and how expected it to go with the veteran
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  Speaker 1: coach on the other side that controlled the game.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, people are gonna complain about the defense,
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  Speaker 5: but penalty wise, we were much cleaner than we were
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  Speaker 5: last week.
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  Speaker 4: Only four penalties for forty seven yards.
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  Speaker 5: You know, people are gonna gripe about the second half
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  Speaker 5: last week and be like, oh my gosh, I had
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  Speaker 5: so many penalties the most game we had one third
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  Speaker 5: as many penalties.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't hear you want to say anything about that?
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  Speaker 2: Nope, Dak, where do you want to go?
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  Speaker 4: Take us?
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  Speaker 2: The headline? Number two, Well.
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  Speaker 3: I guess my my first one was about playing Vanilla.
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  Speaker 3: That game I did you do you guys think that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't show anything basically the Huskers and they just
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  Speaker 3: played at Vanilla and tried to get out of there
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  Speaker 3: with the Wayne.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And then I think a lot of they had a
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  Speaker 5: lot more rotation guys.
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  Speaker 4: In this game than they did last game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just like the even at the beginning of the game,
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  Speaker 5: not even talking fourth quarter, like it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: he's already in the game kind of things like ty
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  Speaker 5: Robinson's not in there and Ash isn't in there right now.
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  Speaker 5: I think that was probably part of the rest from
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  Speaker 5: last week because they had a short week coming up
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  Speaker 5: against Illinois. And then the other part is just getting
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  Speaker 5: reps against a team that you believed to be a
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  Speaker 5: lower talent level.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my take on this.
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  Speaker 1: I think every coach has a good idea at any
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  Speaker 1: sport when you're playing a team that you're gonna beat
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine out of one hundred times, if not one
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  Speaker 1: hundred out of one hundred times. I think real knew that,
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  Speaker 1: and after watching film, not saying that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: publicly ever say that. You're never going to tell your
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  Speaker 1: players that, but as a coaching staff, like you talk
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  Speaker 1: about it like this is a team that we will win,
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  Speaker 1: Like we would have to have our whole team get
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  Speaker 1: hurt for and have to forfeit before we lose a
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  Speaker 1: game like this. I think real knew that without saying it,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think that then leads to maybe the
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  Speaker 1: more vanilla play or playing a lot of guys like
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  Speaker 1: you want to keep guys that maybe aren't getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of snaps in the bigger games. You want to
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  Speaker 1: give them their opportunity now and give them a chance
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  Speaker 1: to make a play. I mean, look at guys, look
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  Speaker 1: at our receiving stats. I think we had fifteen guys
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  Speaker 1: caught to pass this week. Yeah, like we made it
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  Speaker 1: a point to get the ball to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people just to please.
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  Speaker 2: Players and families and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if that's right or wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: in a game like that, like, I think you have
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  Speaker 1: the ability to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: As far as keeping at vanilla dack, I actually think
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  Speaker 1: rule was very strategic and I think schematically they had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff put in this week to get
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  Speaker 1: other people to watch and wonder, okay, will they run
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  Speaker 1: that against us. A couple of examples the obvious one
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  Speaker 1: Harber got in and played snaps at quarterback, running back, fullback,
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  Speaker 1: receiver like the full Taysom Hill packages.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing my Saints hat here.
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  Speaker 1: He got what we thought we could see at some
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  Speaker 1: point this year from him, and now it's all on film,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how much teams are really going
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  Speaker 1: to read into that and watch it, but you know
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  Speaker 1: it's out there. A couple of other just like small
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  Speaker 1: things that we did that at the time, we're like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that was probably not a great play call. Was one
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  Speaker 1: the Dylan Royola naked boot. Like again, I think that
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  Speaker 1: might have been first or second and goal that time
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  Speaker 1: from the two or three. But by doing that, and
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  Speaker 1: even though we lost a couple of yards on it,
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  Speaker 1: now teams know that d n or linebacker whatever responsible
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  Speaker 1: for contain like you cannot bite down, and teams will
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  Speaker 1: be coached now in the future.
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  Speaker 2: To make sure that we don't nake a boot out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: And all that does is now tells us as a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff saying, Okay, they're gonna have a guy covering that,
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  Speaker 1: so we can now exploit it in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think it's all very schematically planned on stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that to get.
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  Speaker 2: People to watch the film. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think in a game like this, that was the
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  Speaker 1: game plan, knowing that we were gonna win regardless. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever we could get out there before we play a
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  Speaker 1: team like even Illinois on Friday, for them to watch and.
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  Speaker 2: Say, okay, that was different. That was a wrinkle.
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  Speaker 1: That was interesting because our run game, I would say
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  Speaker 1: it was very vanilla, but we what else did we do?
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  Speaker 1: We threw reverse in there, We threw a little orbit
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  Speaker 1: motion with a with a trap underneath it that didn't
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  Speaker 1: go for anything, but very very strategic schemes that we
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  Speaker 1: were designing for this game to I think, get it
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  Speaker 1: on film.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you don't, don't go.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say yeah. Like a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: were involved.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't feel like we had to do like on offense,
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  Speaker 5: we wanted to move the ball.
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  Speaker 4: We did move the ball.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, oh, we need to get the first down here,
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  Speaker 5: let's let's do this outside of the fourth down.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't super imposing and you and I's defense against
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  Speaker 5: our offense. So a lot of people ran the ball,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people caught the ball, and we ran
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  Speaker 5: it with pretty good efficiency. We had a couple of
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  Speaker 5: big plays and we last couple of years, what do
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  Speaker 5: we want. We want big plays. We haven't had that
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  Speaker 5: in a while. We had a fifty nine yard pass
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  Speaker 5: and two thirty five plus yard runs, So I think
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  Speaker 5: they did what they needed to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little tunea backtracked fact check. It was only
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  Speaker 2: ten guys, not fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the kind of game where you just want
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  Speaker 3: to get out of as healthy as possible and get
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  Speaker 3: out of the win. That's base of all you want
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like when you hear about the press conference, like
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  Speaker 5: Butler didn't play, still a little banged up from last week,
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  Speaker 5: but he could have played this week if we if
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  Speaker 5: we needed him too.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, let's go there with our next topic
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  Speaker 1: here conversation. So you mentioned Jamar Butler didn't play, more
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  Speaker 1: of a game time decision, he warmed up. I agree,
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  Speaker 1: he probably plays.
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  Speaker 4: He probably plays opponents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was out Micah Mazuka. He was not around,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't know what's going on. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think people maybe saw on the sidelines. Henry Latowski started
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  Speaker 1: a right guard for us. From the get go, it
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  Speaker 1: does not sound like it's injury related. It could be
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  Speaker 1: something else the rumor.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw this last week, but
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  Speaker 4: apparently fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 5: Last week he got pulled because he was playing badly
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  Speaker 5: and got upset and tried to start a fight with
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  Speaker 5: dom or not Dominic, but ye don Riola, and so
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  Speaker 5: he got did not play this week coach's decision in
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  Speaker 5: team suspension sort of thing.
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  Speaker 4: But also that also does kind of line up with
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  Speaker 4: what rules at.
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  Speaker 5: The press conference of we're not talking about that now
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  Speaker 5: he didn't play coach's decision.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, that's interesting. I don't know what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear out of that, if any. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: definitely a guy that helps us on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and brings that nasty mentality, but yeah, you gotta somewhat
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  Speaker 1: keep it under control. But for a game like that,
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  Speaker 1: but even then we're playing a Big ten team or
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  Speaker 1: a top twenty five team he's playing, I think, yes,
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  Speaker 1: now there's a line of holding standards right in your
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  Speaker 1: program and your coat and what you allow and don't allow.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows how severe it was if that rumor is
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  Speaker 1: true of whatever was said, but this was obviously a
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  Speaker 1: game that he was not needed. But it is it's
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  Speaker 1: just another interesting headline to talk about. And yeah, Makai
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  Speaker 1: Bayer didn't play the first half first targeting penalty a
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  Speaker 1: little concerned they were going to call that targeting there
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  Speaker 1: in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we played a lot of guys like that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line I think when it comes to personnel,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and back to what we said at the beginning, it's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: not a game that I think there's a whole lot
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: to nitpick about just because of who we were playing
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and what the game really meant.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: No, the only thing that worried you is they're moving
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: the ball, they're running the ball, and like if there
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: was a mobile quarterback.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: He didn't like what you saw.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: But again, like we said, it's probably a product of
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: we weren't as reveed up for this game. We weren't
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: playing all of our best players all the time, and
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: we might have been playing a little more conservatively on defense.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Boy on online, you think the world's ending with holy
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: people are freaking out.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Ranked for one week and all of a sudden, it's like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: why are we not Georgia. No, Georgia didn't look good,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: but why are we not Georgia?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, before we get back, Askars, how about that hunter?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: What sac you's say Kentucky no shot?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah that was wrong. But yeah, where do you want
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to go next?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Well, we covered a lot of things, but uh, I'm
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: going to say kicking.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: We hit two field goals and it was Albano. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: was wrong. I thought Hole was going to be our
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: kicker and he was not.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: They stuck with Alvano and they put him out there
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: twice and for all the extra points. Oh not all
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the extra points. I think Cold did get the last
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: that last touchdown extra point.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: So it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Was nice to see get two field goals, but I'm
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: I am shocked that it was not whole.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah it there also were short field goals. Again, I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to see the longer one.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, on.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I think it would have been about a forty four
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: yard or forty seven yard or maybe something like that. Yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it is the longest one again this team was a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: thirty one yarder, and then we had another one that
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: basically an extra point. It was still just one of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: those question marks that we still just don't know. And yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: we thought maybe Hole would come in and after what
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: happened last week, but sticking with al Albano. I have
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a feeling that this week there's gonna there's It could
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: come down to, you know, who can make and execute
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: their special teams, specifically field goals, and Illinois got a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: good kicker. He made a couple I think in that
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Kansas game. And I haven't watched or hurt best, what
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I've been hearing is that their kicker is pretty solid,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So I think Albano's gonna need to be on this
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a game. And on top of that, like our snappers,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I think, if I heard correctly, Rule said we.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Have someone different for the short one.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I think the short the field goal, and I guess
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: long snapper for punting.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: We never punted. So that was that.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Not a lot of word for Blushini this week.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about Wednesday, but that this Illinois game is
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: tougher than what we all thought coming to the here
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: now and with at Ving out there, you're not percent
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: confident still in him kicking, right, if you're changing and
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: it will come down to that in these Big Ten games,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: But are you confident of that? No, not at all.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: You're gonna start using the term we instead of you, guys.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: If you fan you you proved it on Saturday.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: You can't go back on that.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I'm just joking around you guys.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, not only that, now we won't spoil it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You have to listen to the end of the podcast
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to make him go and listen into the tailgate pod
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you were that was That was one of the better
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: endings we've had.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good time.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: My next point I want to talk about here, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this is just from going in person, uh, is the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: excitement and engagement.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: From our crowd little bit up this year this game.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Now, before the game, I thought like tailgating wise, I was, eh,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: dos it seemed quite as popping, like everybody put it
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: all into last week and take it off.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: So that might have been the case.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: But the game in the atmosphere for playing an FCS
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: school and yeah we're two and zero and we're ranked
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: like that helps a lot of it. I was very
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: impressed one how early people were in there again, I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: mean I think I was in there probably twenty twenty
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: five minutes and it was pretty filled already. Two the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: amount of standing and just crowd volume even when we
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: were up twenty four to three, and people had probably
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: opportunities to leave if they wanted to because the game
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was pretty much you knew it was gonna happen at
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that point, so how long people stayed. I think that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: speaks to where Husker fans are at right now, like
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: we are all we all missed this and we're ready
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: for it to just really explode and take off, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I think we are moving in that direction. So yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to say I'm very impressed by the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: crowd and getting up for a game like this and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: not just you know, showing up for the first quarter.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: It was for the most part, the whole game, including
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: all of them, up until that last drive when we
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: needed to get a stop to hold them out of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the end zone.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: I can't speak to on TV, it sounded loud. I mean,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: it's also kind of hard. Big ten does a better
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: job than NBC did with the noise because the NBC
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: you couldn't hear anything in the Colorado like the crowd
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: that really sounds exists. And there were some moments on
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: the BTM broadcast really go Okay, it sounds wild, but
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Because you want to listen to my boy cold boy,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: he got hit.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he got some rough on interviews. Hopefully is that
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: online too? Much because that was rough.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It was a lot of what I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: thought the tiki amosphere, Like you said, it was pretty dead.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I picked up towards the end, but it was a
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: lot of when I thought for Northern Iowa game.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't speak to it. Wasn't there? How's that
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: a vowe? Is that a company thing?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Uh da? Any other topics things you want to hit
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: on before we move on?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, not that I could think of. I'm that's about it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: You guys covered most of them.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Did we hit all your three to five headlines?
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: You know, we already hit most of them. I was
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: most of it was just a about how the game
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: was closer. I thought, people freaking out online and then
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: you going on that, what do you think about that?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: People freaking out?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I get's a good topic to like. That was why
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I opened with the who cares? And like, let's just
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: move on from this game because we've gone so quickly.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: From forgetting.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: That we are not a good football program in the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: past ten to fifteen years.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Like it, Yeah we lose that game four years ago.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah I don't we lose, but like it's much ross
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is I mean, that's a twenty eight eighteen game.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's not one that we did, but
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: we did this week.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: So I just think people need to take this step back,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: like this game does not that there there's so many
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: little things that I think the coaching staff knew that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: because we were better than them, we don't need to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: do this, this and this and this and this, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: we don't need to take risks here and here and here, like,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: let's just win this game. And like you guys said,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: stay healthy. That's the big thing in games like this.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You don't want to see a big season end ending
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: injury go down in a game that I'm not gonna
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: say it doesn't matter, but for the grand scheme of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: things that it really doesn't. That's why I have them
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: in utep as my eleven and twelve important solely because
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of the fact of we.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Were gonna win those games.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't think they were going to cause problems, whereas
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in the past those games were higher importance because we
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: didn't know if we could win them, and then we said,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: if we lose these games, all hell is going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: break loose. So I think, yeah, let's not. I mean, Dak,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: what was some of the bigger things you saw about concerns.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Just people are saying and oh, basically, you got to
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: beat that team better where you're not going to be
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: able to win any Big Ten games playing like that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Basically everything like that.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Good summary.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't look like Notre Dame up there against Purdue.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I'll give you that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And again, I will go back to the time of possession, Like,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: what else did you want us to do on offense? Right, Like,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: we were efficient with the possessions that we got. They
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: had the ball for two thirds of.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: The game outside of one less turnover. That's it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: The one.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: After saying all that, the one I guess somewhat concerning thing,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but I'm not reading into it and thinking anything of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it at this point is the lack of I guess
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: run game we were able to get, especially late in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the second half. But again, I mean, I think Northern
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I was probably stacking the box because they knew that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we were going.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: To run the ball. They have some big boys.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to say they're athletic big boys,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: but they had some big boys on both the offensive
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: defensive lines, and you know, maybe there's a question mark
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: And then another one I've heard probably.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: What Daka saw too, is maybe some tackling issues or
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: concerns against one game. If you have to say, anything
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that Tony White's defenses have done in the past two
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: years has been rallied to the football and tackling, like
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: we have been very very good at that, especially compared
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to previous years. We've had some very poor tackling years.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm not looking at this one game and going, oh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: what was that? You know, they're a bad team. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: just think it's some different guys that we're in and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I mean both on the offensive line and defensive line
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and secondary tackling. I just think there's a lot of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of things that we probably will not see
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: against the typical Big ten team.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: So I'm not reading.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Into any of the negative nitpicky criticism from this week.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, I gave norm Iwa no respect. My bad.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: They're a better football team I thought.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I will. I will say these comments could change.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, Like maybe in a couple of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: weeks our run game may struggle against Illinois and Ruggers
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and whoever else. But I think for right now, there's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: no reason to panic based on what we've seen. Last thing,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: we want to do here on this episode every about
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: three games. We'll do it about three or four times
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: throughout the year. We're going to re level set our expectations.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: We did this last year. We talked to the beginning
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of the year of where we thought we could end
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: up record wise ceilings scores based on our schedule, based
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: on you know, the status of our players, where our
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: team's at. I think a lot of times when you
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: talk about your favorite sports team, what you're doing is
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: your your leveling level setting it. You're you're discussing it
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with how you expect the team to perform. So people
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that have really really high expectations are going to usually
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: be a lot more critical. And sometimes your expectations can
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: be short term of just with really we should be
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: doing this week, and then they can be over four
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: or five years over the lifespan of the head coach.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Like I think, there's a lot of ways to look
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: at it, but I want us to each just talk
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: about where our heads out of the program in general
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: for this year.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I guess moving forward, where.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: It's headed and kind of give a new record or
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a ceiling floor type prediction at the end.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: So Dak will let you start.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: You got out the first three games basically how you
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: want to get out of them? Three oh? Now, I
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: think the schedule is tougher than what we expected. Rockers
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: looks pretty decent. Pdue Who the hell knows happened what
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: happened there? I don't know what happened that game. Anyway,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Illinois pretty good. I think everybody had you, guys pencil
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: in for sure seven to o after three oh, start
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: not so fast. Next next week's gonna be tough. You
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: play that son of a bitch Ret Blama. Tough coach.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: But anyway, I I still think you go seven to
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: er before House State.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I think this is about the only game you can
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: trip up on.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Basically, how do you see the rest of the year going,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, record wise?
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: No, I think I can't remember what I said at
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the year. Anyway. I think you lose
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: a house state.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: We all took the under of seven and a half.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you for sure lose the House state
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and probably you lose you guys see two and then
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I drop one or two in there. Probably so not
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: not even much different than when I had the beginning of.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: The year, But it is better I mean what you
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: just said, I think I said.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Eight and four.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I mean you said we're gonna go seven to zero
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: or you thought we could, so yeah.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: And then we're losing three, So that's nine. Its many
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: nine games. Agreed, dreaking that cool.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Down.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: I kind of agree with that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Illinois definitely looks more challenging than we expected, but also
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: we I guess going into the year, I thought Colorado
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: was gonna be more challenging than what ended up being.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Where I'm three and o's not shocking. As far as
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: the program goes, you feel pretty good. It seems like
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: everyone's bought in. Recruits are like, yeah, you can feel
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: the culture in this. You start to look at the
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: ross and you get a little bit worried about next year,
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: and you can just kind of feel that step back coming,
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: especially because I feel like we're ahead of schedule and
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: we have a sh ton of seniors, and when next
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: year hits, it's probably gonna be a tougher schedule and
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: we're going to lose all of our starting offensive line
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: and starting defensive line might sting a little.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: So I think we're a head of schedule. I think
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: it's gonna hurt next year.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: As far as the season prediction goes, I thought we
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: were gonna be seven to five, probably bumped that up
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: to eight and four.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I really think we're gonna lose four, like I.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Think I say, I think we used to lose to USC.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: I think Iowa Illinois are gonna be problems. Rutgers could
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: be sneaky good too.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I like the next year thought already.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: My mind hasn't gone there yet, but I guess it
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: does play a factor. Like what I think about this year, Guys,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: this might be bold of where I'm at, but after
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in it was just one one game of Colorado, one
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: big game of us winning. I guess in combination of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: just playing smarter, playing complimentary football that we keep hearing
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: over and over, you know, limiting our turnovers. I think
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: we had the one fumble and then the interception this
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: last week was it was what it was, Guys. I'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be disappointed for not nine to three. I have
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: my expectations have changed a lot after that Colorado game,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and that was one that I just I'm just like,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I don't I just need to see us perform in
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a big game. I feel like the mindset of the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: team is in a good place. We should beat Illinois
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: at home.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: What'd you at the beginning of the year.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was seven and five to I mean,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and I've talked a lot about being pessimistic, right, I'm
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: not saying nine to three. I mean it is an
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: optimistic pick, but I'm just saying from the team that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: we have, and then look at our schedule. I know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Dak what you said is one way of looking at it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I do think Illinois maybe is a little better, but
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're far off from where I thought
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: they would be. I don't think Rutgers anywhere different than
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I thought they would be. We get both of them
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: them at home. The Purdue game was a little bit scary.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: On the road. They're horrible Indiana.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Indiana is the one that I'm very holding a little
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: bit because they looked good so far. I also don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: know if they've played anybody. I think USC has looked better.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: We know what Ohio State's got, guys, Wisconsin's not good.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think Iowa was very good. I think we
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: can win both of them. I'm not those two are.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I would say win one, lose one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: I think I feel better.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: I think I agree, I feel better about our ceiling.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: I feel the ten and two ceiling.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: UCLA they're horrible.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: So you got I don't know, you gotta feel better
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: about the end of your schedule now.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a seal like a ceiling,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I guess, but like we have the players and I
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: think the mindset right now to go nine and three,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: if not ten and two and a seven and five
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: season at this point would feel disappointing to me.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: It would.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I think Illinois, or indeed I get my team's right,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: U C. L A and Purdue, those are both gimme
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: wins now, I really do. I just i's the way
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that they have looked so far. They have not been good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But that's what I'm saying now, Austin,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I say we all are. That's that's where my mind
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: is flipped. Like I think that we after what we've
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: shown like those are gonna be close to gimme wins.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: That's this might be bold for me to say that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: now after I guess seeing one game, but I do.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I think that those games are wins and if they're not, like, yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: my heart's probably gonna be broken and then yeah, these
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: other home games we should win like we have the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: we were healthy, pending maybe a couple of these news
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: announcements that we're waiting to hear. I think Riola is
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: everything that we were hoping for and maybe more. Remember
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: my prediction with him. I thought he was gonna come
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: out and be mister over aggressive and try to put
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: up the stats and the numbers, and if he didn't,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: he was gonna get pissed and powdy. He manages himself,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: his demeanor, it's modeled after rules in my mind, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that has been so relieving to see. And I think
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that's gonna result in a lot of wins. Like it's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: gonna he's going to get better throughout the years. Maybe
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that doesn't sound like it could happen, but I think
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: it will.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: So we should go nine and three like we should.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Wow, Hunter, look at you putting on that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I'm just remember fan cap, mister pessimism out the door.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just toofs if we if we lose, if we
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: lose to some of these teams, I mean you'll hear
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: mister negativity come back out.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: But it.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Right now, like just looking at our opponents, it is
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: all set up right now for to I mean, ten
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and two I think would probably put a playoff conversation.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying not expecting that, but I do think
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: nine to three is a good expectation goal.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And seven and five i'd be disappointed with.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Now, I would eight and four be like, okay, like
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that was that was all right, But nine and three
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I think should be where we should be thinking this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: team should end up at, especially with the way some
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of these other teams have looked. Again, Indiana is the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: one asterisks I have in there that I'm like, yeah,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen in that game.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Right before we play Ohio.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: State, Ucla might be the worst team in your schedule.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Or Purdue.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: They're both horrible. They Ucla is awful. Welcome the big thing, all.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Right, we'll be back Wednesday previewing the fighting alone.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I Burt Bilma, go big Red, I v R.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Let's change up skull two and oh
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: That t