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GAME WEEK PREVIEW: Penn St · Return to Glory - Nebraska

• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast fag No Austin at the moment,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Thursday morning, maybe over sleeping.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: We're not sure, Dak. You have some news to break
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: this morning.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: Me, oh yeah, Dan Marriola is leaving according to two
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: seven four Sports, and that is that is a homota true.
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: Like I looked at the count and everything. It is fact.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: There is no way he's staying.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: No way that Dylan is staying.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: No like like that account is everything that counts tweets
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  Speaker 3: is true. Like he's gone.
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: Why, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: I fell for a first second. It's a parody account.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: He's not leaving. Oh I never fallow for those.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: Well why why would he leave?
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: Well, here's here's the other news that we'll just we'll
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: just mention it real quick and then we can move on.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: Dateon Riola. D he committed for Nebraska, which if no
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: one knows is listening to this, I don't know how
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: you don't know. But he's the son of Dylan Riola
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: or not the son, the brother, the brother. Hello, Austin, Hello, Dak.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Dak just broke broke the news that Dylan Royola is
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: has a kid by the name of.
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: Dayton, who's also eighteen years old.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the big news. I think that
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: came out yesterday. Obviously Penn State is coming up here
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: in a couple of days. There's gonna be a lot
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: of chatter around what the Dayton Ryola de commit from
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: the HUSCAR program means. I've heard like five different things
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: that it could mean at and no one's good. No
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: one's really gonna know until maybe ever, but until something
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: actually happens. But that's gonna be what gets talked about
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So I'm curious what you guys are thinking
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: or read into it. If it means anything, might not
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: mean anything, but if I mean something, because Matt Ruhle
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: did visit him like five days.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Ago during the bye week and then.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: Announced his de commitment yesterday on Wednesday.
• 2:50
  Speaker 5: I'm trying not to read into it too much, but
• 2:54
  Speaker 5: it's definitely worth watching. But I do find interesting in that,
• 3:00
  Speaker 5: you know, within a couple of days we had basically
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: two people of our tiny old twenty twenty sixth class decommit.
• 3:07
  Speaker 5: So I feel like stare being told something. I don't
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: think it's something that I don't think someone's reaching out
• 3:13
  Speaker 5: to them. They're like I don't want to go to
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: nebrask anymore. I feel like Nebraska is telling them like, hey,
• 3:21
  Speaker 5: I will say gut. Reaction is like, well, you have
• 3:27
  Speaker 5: their uncle and the brother, and you know you're kind
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: of you've kind of been all in on the Rayola family.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's weird.
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: I don't. I've been thinking about it, and then I've
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: gone back and forth. Does a meme why Dylan's gone
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: or not? I don't. I got reactionalities. I don't think
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: it means Dylan's leaving. I think it well, first off,
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: I watched I watched Daton in the high school game.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: Well it was just a couple months ago, and I
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: was not that impressive then, Like he's a cannon for
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: an arm. That was about it. He wasn't. He wasn't
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  Speaker 3: that impressive to me.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: That sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 3: What a Candon canon of an.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: Arm sounds like his brother or his dad.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: If you would say, oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I don't. I think it just means that
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: he sees Tray Taylor coming to and I think he's like, yeah,
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: I I kind of want to. I didn't even know
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: to like a smaller school. That that's what it means
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: and start from there and then blow his way up.
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: According there's a Reddit post that Dylan Retald that he
• 4:47
  Speaker 5: has changed his profile pictures are no longer include a Husker.
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: It just says d R and he has now fallowing
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of organ players.
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  Speaker 3: So that's good, though, boys, it's it's a it's a
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: Chiefs team.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's not good, Dak.
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: Twelve times, I'm all on the thief train.
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: Now that's probably you.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: So I will say, like you guys said the obvious
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: implication of what that could mean. I also heard someone
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  Speaker 1: react to it by thinking, if, like you said, Austin,
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: they're still all in on the Ryola family. And and
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Dylan is that something saying that Matt Rule is still
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: potentially leaving and Dayton wanted to de commit so that
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: if Rule does leave and take another job that he's
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: able to then right away go wherever that Rule goes.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. You know, obviously we lo we we are
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: saying we locked up with the contract extension, that we
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: obviously are not locking him up for good. People can
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: still pay the buyout and they can still hire Matt
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  Speaker 1: Rule as a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: The contract just makes it harder to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's that to me. I don't think is
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think is the reason you mentioned that the
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  Speaker 1: next the next level of the of the day of
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  Speaker 1: the Dylan.
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  Speaker 2: Implications and so have you have you eld anybody say that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it's the mad Rule thing, because I
• 6:27
  Speaker 5: even if you sawthing, I understand, Yes, they could still
• 6:29
  Speaker 5: do that buy out. But if you come, if you
• 6:31
  Speaker 5: sign the extention, you come like this is home, this
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: is where I want to be. You know, like you
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: can't do that and then immediately bounce without just.
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: The amount of hate that you would get.
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  Speaker 1: And it is funny to see like people still trying
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: to write that narrative, which maybe can still be true.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: Can't rule anything out, but no pun intended. He he
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: did apparently or not he? There's a flight tracker is
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: again from State College to Lincoln, and I saw a
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: couple of them. I don't know whether they're true or
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: whatever like that that is there, but I think the
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: most likely thing that you can assume is that Nebraska
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: maybe isn't moving on from the Royola family completely yet,
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: but that they are. They said something told something that
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: no like this this is open, like every every day
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: is a competition. You're not guaranteed anything here, including an
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: offensive line position or often like coaching position, and that
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: that just could have been enough to piss off the
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: Roola family. Add to that also kind of alluded to
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: it that maybe the Royols are just pissed off how
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Nebraska is reacting to TJ and and don't like that
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: everybody's saying it should be TJ's job, and and as
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: not as not an uncommon take. Now, after what he
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: did against UCLA, now he has to go prove and
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: do it more, I think for it to solidify in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people's brains. But he he did do
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: enough to where people are when it was already in
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: people's minds to say this guy, we want this guy
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: to be our quarterback in the future. I mean, is
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: there in my mind too, But I gotta see it
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: a little more. We saw him against a Division III
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: school and two of them, and then you know at
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  Speaker 1: UCLA team who's solid, right, But I'd like to see
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: it a little more before completely moving on from Dylan.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Here's what Here's what Dylan brings that's proven right now,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: I think that TJ hasn't Why I can't jump all
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: the way there yet. It's two things. One ball security
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: and yes he's thrown a couple of really bad interceptions,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: but I think he's proven that he's not Jeff Simms. Now,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Jeff Sims is doing well. But those type of quarterbacks, right,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: you feel, you feel okay when he's got the ball in,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: you know, in the pocket. And then two believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, he's.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: Call it the clutch gene or the performing in big moments.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: He's done that now.
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  Speaker 1: A few different times this year a second season's quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: So like, those are the two things that Dylan's done
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  Speaker 1: that you can say, No, he's able to do that. TJ.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: We don't know yet. You know, he hasn't had that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity yet. He's a true freshman. It's unknown, but we
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: do know he can run a lot better than Dylan.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: That's that's also a true fact.
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  Speaker 5: So uh yeah, that reaction right now, forget what's the word,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm gonna say eighty chance that Dylan
• 9:59
  Speaker 5: is our starting quarterback game one come the twenty twenty eighties.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, wow, exactly where what would you say? Right now?
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  Speaker 3: Sixty forty Dylan is the starting quarterback next year. I
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: I mean it all comes down these last two games.
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: If if Latif goes out and wins these next two
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  Speaker 3: games and he looks good, I won't even see great
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  Speaker 3: If if he looks good, I think he's the start
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: next year and Dylan's gone like.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: He's don't have to look great. He can just look
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: good and take over the starting position next year.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: I actually I agree with that. Why because these two
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: teams are very two are tougher teams. And if he
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: looks good enough, which good is good enough because I'm
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: just because he's has the ability to run, Nebraska fans
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: and the coaches are going to go wow, like we
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: need this kind of quarterback to win games.
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  Speaker 2: I I I do think that he isn't is he
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: does not have to go out and put up crazy numbers.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: I think if he goes out, if he goes out
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  Speaker 1: as a starter and Winsy's two games, it's a big
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: ifs A that's a big if.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the thing. I don't think he's gonna go
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  Speaker 4: out win these next two games.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: But if he does go in Windy's two games, he
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  Speaker 2: will depth.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's sixty forty for me, which I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of where dacks at just given all the unknowns
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: and who knows. I that sixty forty turns into seventy
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  Speaker 1: thirty the other way, if he goes out and.
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  Speaker 3: Winsley's two games, now I think I think he's ninety ten.
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  Speaker 1: I that's a big ift. It's a big ifs it
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  Speaker 1: could happen, but it's it's not if he doesn't. At
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  Speaker 1: the very least, Well, here's the other side of it.
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  Speaker 1: We lose these two games by ten, plus he has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of turnovers, which also is very easily could happen.
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  Speaker 1: Then on that and the things, it's very clear that
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: we probably want Dylan back as our starter because TJ
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: is just not ready yet. So that that also is
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: the other side of it that could happen. I don't
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: you call it the negative side. That's that's probably just
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  Speaker 1: as likely to happen as us going on winning these
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  Speaker 1: two games.
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  Speaker 4: So like we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I I think that that's at the very least there
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  Speaker 1: will be at least discussion around a quarterback competition going
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: into next year. And and to me that that is
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: where I think that's probably what the message was like
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: if if there was if it was asked, it might
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: not had to be talked about, but if it was
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: asked of Dylan or the Royola family, like is this
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: still my job? And they go, well, we'll have to
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: reevalue want to wait and see you're in you know,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: see how these games go. Which, as a coach, that's
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: the right answer, right, you're not gonna.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: I don't think we need to be beholden to Dylan.
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: If don't get me wrong, If Tej comes out and
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: he looks like pretty freaking good and we win the
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: next two games and we win the bowl game, he
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: was like, Okay, I'm fine having the conversation. I just
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: don't know if one UCLA game where he threw it
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: twelve times is enough to be like, hey, Dylan, better
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: start looking elsewhere, Dayton. Don't bother coming here, Hey Donnie,
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: just so you know you're you're not giving And.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't that that those conversations definitely didn't happen. Yeah,
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: they definitely didn't, but I'm guessing did not. I think
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: the most plausible reason for the Dayton Rayola the commit
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: He's only he's either he's a three star, Okay, he's not.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: He's not Dylan Doc you mentioned he probably he probably
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: could go start at a mid major potentially or at
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: least be in the running for that somewhere. You know
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to here.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: And on top of the well he'd be a starter
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  Speaker 3: right away.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe, I don't know, Like you're.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Your your quarterback room here in Nebraska is very crowded
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: and we have some.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Other quarterback commits, correct.
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  Speaker 1: So that that to me, that's the most plausible is
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: you know, what if you're dating Rayola and you know
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: you're you're not You're not guaranteed a starting spot anywhere.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: And if if we have the ability potentially to keep
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: TJ around next year from a financial standpoint and and
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: have that we feel good about that. And then you
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: bring in Trey Taylor in twenty twenty seven, who it
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: just I'll say it. He's been the most I don't
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: know Todden recruit that we've ever gotten from like this
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: early on, he feels like he's a hard, hard commit
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: and we everybody's loving it. Like you have that locked
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: in for twenty seven. You're probably looking at that and
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: you go, well, what, what what is my playing time
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: gonna look like? In Nebraska?
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: It might not be.
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  Speaker 1: Promising, so I've reopened my Russians and commitment that that
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: to me, probably the most likely answer. But you can
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: obviously read into it a billion different ways.
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  Speaker 4: So this guy's not falling yet, Guys.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: See Austin's view. Austin's viewing it as as Royola is leaving,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: as the sky is falling. I don't view that as
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: this guy's falling, and I don't think it's a good thing.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's good, but I don't view that
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: as this sky's falling because I think we have other options.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I do think we can build around t J Latieth
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  Speaker 1: and Dylan's leaving and TJ's well hopefully staying. If they
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: both leave, then the sky's falling.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Then then yeah, I don't view this Skuy's falling either.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think it's the worst thing
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: in the world that Dylan leaves. I mean, how many
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: times are we gonna hear you that he loses weight, Like, dude,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: actually go out there and lose some weight.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's because you're hanging out hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Well it's true though, Like, Okay, I guess there's
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: only this year coming in. Oh, I lost twenty however
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: many pounds he said he lost.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I can run.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I can run a lot better view there's gonna be
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: design runs and everything. We didn't see that.
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  Speaker 4: At all like we did. We saw a few. We
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: saw one at three game of every game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: And I'll say this, I still think Dylan Royola is
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: a Heisman level quarterback we did online Georgia, at Alabama,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: at Oregon. I think he is.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I think he's a.
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  Speaker 1: Front runner to win the Heisman if he decides to
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: go any of those places. And maybe someone's in his
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: ear talking to him about that too.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know that that's not.
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  Speaker 4: We are.
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  Speaker 1: We at Nebraska are not maximizing his potential because of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: our players around him, because we don't have them yet
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: or maybe ever, hopefully sometime we do. But we don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: have them. So that that, to me, is is why
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the world's ending if he does decide
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to open up and look somewhere else. And I also
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: think the other big piece that you gotta remember is
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Dylan's what do you want to call it, his reputation
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: or his ability to draw in other people to Nebraska. Now,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the second that he starts questioning Nebraska and isn't all
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in on us.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: That falls out the window completely, and then and then
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: you're just holding.
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  Speaker 3: On to thin the night.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: So like, if Dylan is half in to Nebraska after
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's just play it out where Trey Taylor
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: wins one of the last Trey Taylor, t J latif
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  Speaker 1: wins one of the last two games and looks okay,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and there's probably a quarterback discussion going into next year.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And Dylan is now half in.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: That's that that's not I don't I don't think that's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: healthy for the program if he's half in to Nebraska
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and saying, well, you guys want me or not. And
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would be, but he could, and
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: then you're not getting that benefit of him going out
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and recruiting, like it's no longer quote unquote his team
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: because there's.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: A quarterback competition.
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  Speaker 1: I think Dylan's Dylan's I'm not gonna call him selfish,
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  Speaker 1: but he's very much.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and if he's not the guy, he's going to handle
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the situation very differently, so.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Which I imagine TJ also wants to be the guy.
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  Speaker 4: A quarterbacks out there are like, yeah, I'm good right
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  Speaker 4: on the bench.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: He I should when I say the guy, Dylan wants
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to be known like. He wants to have the assurance
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  Speaker 1: that he's the guy. He doesn't want to be in
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a battle, so he Dylan's not gonna I don't think
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Dylan has the mindset of put me in a battle.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: This is healthy competition, this is good for me, help
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: me get better. I think Dylan wants. Dylan wants to Nope,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: this is my team, this is my he wants to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: know that TJ. On the other I don't think he
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: needs to know that TJ's okay saying I'm be it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: He wants to be the starting quarterback. But he he's
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: okay saying okay, I'll be in a battle like that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean by the guy Dylan.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I think Dylan wants the assurance that he's a starting
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: quarterback for him, for him to be.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: All in with the program.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm not saying that's wrong. He has
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the talent to do that. He has the talent to
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: own that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: It's a matter of if we are going to do
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that with Nebraska and the point to me, is I
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: don't think it's I don't. I don't think we should
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: or shouldn't.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it's that big of a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: deal if we don't go down that path because we
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: have a potential other option.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: We don't.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. There's still two games.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Left, so yeah again, man, I just we'll see. Oh yeah,
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: you're right, we'll see, I.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Will say, Austin. I mean, it's pretty impressive. Like from
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: all the other Husker podcasts I listen to, you are
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on Lockdown to Dylan more than anybody else's.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not like, it's not even that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I'm just people are like, hey, man, Latif's got it
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: and it's like he threw it twelve times against UCLA
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and like he had one pass that was like longer
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: than twenty yards.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Like I don't know if I'm ready to I think
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: one of the worst running defenses in the country. I'm
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: not ready to anoint him as like the second coming of.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You know, and I think those people, I mean myself included,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I hope he does throw it for twelve times a.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Game, Like I hope that's how we can play.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: And that that becomes an interesting thing is if we
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: win the next games, you know, fifteen to fourteen and
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: seventeen to ten, and he has twelve passes, he complete
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: at nine and he's got forty you know, rushing yards
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: on the ground on five attempts, but we win, then
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: you're in an interesting spot because like, well we won
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: two games with.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Team a quarterback.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: But that right, the worst spot.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You're right, that's a very very interesting spot there.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I think that's the worst case scenario right there, worst
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: in your Yeah, that's not worst case two games, that's
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: worst case in the next year.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, because it's like, well, he's turned forty
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: five times and he's completed thirty seven and he's rushed
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: for under one hundred yards total, and.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: But we won three games.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying it's the worst case for this year.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Going in the next year, quarterback lies, I think. But yeah,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that's that's where it makes it really tough. What do
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: you doing? And then again, some some team comes in,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: We'll say, yeah, we'll just start out there. I said,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Iowa comes in, gives dealing money or whatever.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Just the worst example ever.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, any team comes in, it gives them money.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: If there's any foot quarterback competation. Like you said he's gone, I.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't say he's gone.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I don't won't say he's gone either. I think he's
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: pretty invested in the brand.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I think I think his I think his mentality changes
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a lot. That happens, But I wouldn't say he's gone automatically.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: When we switch if, like you know, if we switch
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: over tiring of Penn State here, you'll understand why I'm not.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: You know why I don't think it's gonna be as
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: big of a deal.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: The lastly, just keeping this in mind all this conversation,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: money's also a factor, a big, big, big f sure,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And will this program make the decision to try to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: pay two quarterbacks next year?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be tough to swallow. And you know, maybe
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you don't have to pay TJ. You might not have
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to ask. But given what we've seen, you would you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: think that that might be the top topic of conversation.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: So I wish we could see how much players were making.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I wish that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I know they can come out with estimates and stuff,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: but I wish we actually had because like you can
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: go on spow Track and see like an entire NBA
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: team salary cap and the contracts. It does bother me
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: that it's like, well, I don't know how much money
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: we have. I don't know how much money you're spending.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know who's getting the money. I don't know
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: who to be upset about. You know, I can't go
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: in there and you know, do my my two kg.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I mean to be like, actually, if we but use
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: our Larry Bird rights and extend.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: This, I mean, I'm I don't know about you guys,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: but I'm a hundred percent that both these quarterbacks are
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: not me on the roster next year.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Wow, you're one hundred percent that we're gonna lose our
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: top two quarterbacks next year? Who are both sophomores? Yeah,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: that's sophomore sophomore younger.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's no shot that they keep both.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, you worded that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Totally different statement.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you worded that so poorly.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: What I thought you meant like both TJ and.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, one of them's gone
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: next year. I think it's no chance that they're both
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: on the roster next Okay, okay, there either one of them.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I see, I'm trying to say either the Tivol will
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: not be on the roster next year.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: That makes sense. I was like, Wow, what a freaking pivot.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I thought he was take out there.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I thought he was going extreme and making a joke
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: about like trying to be I don't know a bowl
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: to make a take.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, what do you say?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: No, no, one one of them will be a quarterback
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: next year.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to Penn State. We talk a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: lot quarterbacks, so I mean, I think we we've said,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know what we think with with TJ and and
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna see potentially is Austin He was anything
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: going to add there on this quarterback play in general
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: in the Penn State defense of the.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Deft, I think Penn State's defense is really good.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Last you know, on Monday, I kind of ran through like, yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: they're whatever four and six or three. I think they're
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: four and six. But you look at the teams like
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: they're playing like three of those six lots or four
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: of those six losses are against top seven teams currently,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: and none of their losses are getting really killed outside
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: of there was one in there. So I think their
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: defense is actually really good. They're really good at getting turnovers,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: and they're really good at stopping the run. So I
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: suspect I don't think TJ is gonna have a clean
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: game this year this week because I think he's gonna
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: have to actually throw the ball a little bit more
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: than he did last week. I know he had a
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: whole week to prepare, but Penn State is also coming
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: up of bye week, I believe, so they've also had
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: a week to prepare for kind of the new approach.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: So I expect TJ to look a little worse this week.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: He's not gonna He's not gonna start the game eight
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: for eight without any turnovers this week.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wouldn't that be nice?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Ben?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: They did play at Michigan State last week.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So oh, you're right. They played Michigan State.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: They won twenty eight ten, their first conference win, which
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: is just crazy to say, because I do think this
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: team that still has a lot of talent, And yes
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: they lost their starting quarterback, Yes they lost a lot
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of games early, but I think that talent still there.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And when you have a lot of talent, part of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it is getting them mentally ready to play right, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I think that might be a might have been a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: huge fall off with not winning the big game early,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: which when your expectation is national title or first like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: your brain, your mind goes very in a different place
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: from a motivation standpoint getting out there on the field.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: So did they fire Franklin after his third loss or
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: second loss?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I can't remember, it was early and so yes, you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: when when you lack that extra drive at a football program,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: when you're playing in a very physical sport, right, that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: can lead to not potentially winning a lot of close games.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And that's what's happened. Have they overcome that and are
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: kind of back playing with motivation with fire? I wouldn't
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: say completely, but I think the longer this goes on,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: more opportunity, you know, it's gonna get better. So, like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I think this team still has a lot of talent,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and that's to me is what is scary heading into
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: this game. I don't think Penn State can kill anybody,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: like I don't think that's how they want to play.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: They even with Franklin, Like, they're not someone that's gonna
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: win forty seven to ten in the Big Ten. But
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: at the same time, they have the people to be
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in control of the game from start to finish, which
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: is what happened last week when they played at Michigan
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: State and just destroyed them on the ground, using their
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: offensive line, getting stops on defense, and not letting Michigan
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: State's offense do anything that that's their mom and I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: think they have the capability of doing that Saturday, which
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: is why I don't feel great going into the game
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: as a ten point underdog.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here's da right now.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Doesn't Dak thinks we're going to cover, So that's he's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: got to play the other side of why he feels
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: good about it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean there's I've already said this on Monday,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I said I believe in Latif. I think he's fits
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: his team a lot, But in I think the offense
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: looks totally better with him. So that that's why I
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: think they're in cover. And I do think I do
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: think the defense has shown signs of improvement stopping the
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: run as the year has gone on. So I'm not
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: now this is this is the best running team that
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Nebraska has faced yet. Maybe Michigan I don't know, so
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: so it will be really interesting to see. But but Nebraska,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: both teams defensive eyes are gonna sell out stop the
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: run like it's gonna it's gonna come down to which
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: which freshman quarterback plays better. That's just gonna come down
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: to because they're gonna have their changes to throw.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Here's here's why what you just said it's true. I
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: think they both teams are gonna have to stop the run.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: But I think one team has to sell out to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: stop the run the other team does not. I think
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Penn State is gonna be able. I mean, Penn State's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: run run defense has been very strong. Okay, yeah, Nebraska,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: like where we are, our run defense is not And
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: John Butler, here's here's what's really strange, guys, I don't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: know if you listened to John Butler at all.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: On Tuesday, he flat out said the focus.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And emphasis is going to be on stopping the run,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and and like usually that's something I mean, it's probably
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: so obvious that that's why he said.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: And he said that too.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: We are gonna bring extra guys in the box, Like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: he came out and said that. And he came out
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and said, we are going to overload and do everything
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: we can to stop the run game. And everybody's gonna
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: know that, Like he just flat out came out and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: said it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Well, that's not smart. I I don't, I don't like.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, come on, Dak, is that not obvious?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Like everyone knows what's gonna do, But why would you
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: come out and say that.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I think the point is that why does it matter
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if everybody knows you're gonna do it? I agree, I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: don't really need to think this explicitly say it, but yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: don't it is it is the number one thing that
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: anybody can figure out that we need to stop pem
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: State's run game. And maybe a little bit is a
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: little bit of gameplay or like he wants pem State
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to hear it because they want them to try to say, Okay,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: well they're gonna stop the so now we got to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: get rock Meyer to throw it for three hundred yards
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and try to get their game plan to switch. Like
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: maybe that's part of the reason why he said it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that that's going to be the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: name of the game. I think it is, and I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: think that's what I would do. Like you're going on
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the road to ten point dog, you don't have much
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to lose, make him throw it for three hundred yards
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to beat.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Yet does the fact that it's an away game for
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: us and impact you guys at all.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, oh yeah, I agree.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: They don't think people are you know, I I am.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I guess. I mean, I can't talk about Monday, but
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I think Penn States they're they're right there, like you
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: know they are.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: They're very talented. Offensively is kind of in their issues
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: since went out, but you know they held Indiana to
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: twenty seven and Indiana it's kind.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Of been and that's that's where since Alur went out too.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I was never big on Alur, so I don't think
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: it's a huge drop off from I mean ours obviously
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: more experienced and as that veteran, but I think I don't.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's a big drop off from him
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to their backup. And yeah, you mentioned the road.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, guys, this is a game that nobody has
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: winning get heading into the year or even remotely getting close.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, we we all had as the toughest game
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I think going in the year.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: No shit, dak.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Well, Michigan, Misterian and USC too like we had up there.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: But no, he didn't not like that. Like I mean this,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: this is number one on everybody's board that survey.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: So we did a survey the beginning of the year
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: for those those of you that might have participated in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: it listening, basically percentage chance to win every game heading
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: into the year. I think the Michigan's in the USC
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: game were right around fifty percent. Fifty to fifty games
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that people had us winning this averaged out to like fifteen,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: so and.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: I would give her. I would give her on entire
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: than fifteen.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Correct. It's things have changed, obviously, but it's still on
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the road. At Penn State, add the night game to it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: They just want a game like, it's.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Not we have a true freshman quarterback. Yes, it's not
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: a game.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy conditions. I heard the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: teams practicing with like Mobamba just blaring on the loud speakers.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: You're yeah when it gets allowed too. This is something
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that I've kind of learned. I kind of knew this,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: but as far as the details of snap counts and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: communicating on the field, like I kind of started paying
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: attention to it more after the Kansas City game where Sorsby.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: They talked about Sorsby having to go to a silent snapcount,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: which is very common right for teams to do when
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: it's a lot. That's difficult to get everything in sync
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: from an offensive line, quarterback, receivers to where you're not
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: getting stupid fall start penalties. And on top of that,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it doesn't ideally play to you don't have the ability
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to go on hard count, second count. You're going when
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you're going, because that's the only you know, that's how
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you're communicating to get its snapped. So the defense doesn't
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: have to worry as much about different cadences and things there.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: So that's another element playing on the road that you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: have to deal with. And add the fact that TJ's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: a true freshman probably doing this for the first time
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: in his career, that that's scary. I or what else
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to say. I don't feel great about it. It's also
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the flip side of that, which is kind of nice.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe you can if you want to view with this lenses.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: He got nothing to lose, but I don't think people
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: are talking about it that way. But at the same time,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, why not, like you have nothing. I think
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it's a great game to go in and if you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: win it, it means a lot of really really good
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: things for the program.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Which is funny because it's like if I were it's like, yeah,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: would be the four and six team.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: But it's like, hey, they just did it, you know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: like the record as your seven and three, Right, Yeah,
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: that's just funny.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: You're not wrong. I agree.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Wait, here's here's here's here's a really good question. When
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: was the last time a seven and three team was
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a ten point dog to a four and sixteen?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Oh god, that's that's probably a fun one to look.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: It's probably like Nebraska against Ohio State when we were
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: eight and one or whatever.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: You got absolutely obliterated.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's gotta be God. I don't know
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: how long it's been, but we, like you said, Austin,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: it's you said, it's Latis's first road game. It's really not, though,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but I'm not counting. I'm not counting really U c
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: l A is a road game.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it was, But you don't think, Dak, you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: don't think.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not counting as that. So it'll be
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see how he can handle that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: That no, because because I don't think. Nothing will be
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: interesting to see is how how loud it actually will
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: be there.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: It'll be loud, it might not be filled.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean tickets are.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I think it still pretty cheap and it's not going
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to be your normal pen state, but it's going to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: be lowed. I mean it's it's it's a stadium in
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the holds one hundred and ten thousand people like it's
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: going to be.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be the toughest environment we played in all year,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: no doubt.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: So here's yeah, here's what comes down to, too, and
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: this could easily happen, is you just don't want I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: want just a spiral on the tief just completely melts
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: down freshman on the road, Like I could easily see
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: it going that way too quick. But but then again,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I'm on the t board. I think he's gonna be
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: great this game. I don't think I don't think he's
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: gonna be clean. I think he's gonna turn over once
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: or twice. But what you don't want is like the
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: four or five turnover game where just score ten, ten
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: or least points and it's just a meltdown.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: M yeah, but I want to go through this exercise.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Name we don't go through a bunch, but if there's
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a blueprint, if you were if you guys had to say, okay, guys,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: team here's here's how we win this game. Here's how
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: we beat Penn State on the road in Happy Valley.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: What what would be some key things that you got
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to check off to do?
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: There's the main one, stop the run game and just.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Go through one at a time. Yeah, I don't I
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: would say the one the Dacks has stop their run game.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's very generic. I'm thinking more like I.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Would say, probably you have to go out and you
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: have to score quick, and it has to be like
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: if you go out and you score quick with like chunk.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Plays and then they go for and out where they
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: go for and out and.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: You score quick right off the bat within the first
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: two drives and just absolutely zapp the energy out of
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: the place.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's huge to do quick start and and
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: good news is we've done that for the most part
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: on our first couple of drives this year.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Which has been very good help for me is confidence.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I think I think that helps a lot. One thing
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: for me is zero turnovers. I mean, and if you
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: have a turnover, it can't be out of a spot
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: where it flips the field or gives obviously gives them points.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Like you just keep you're not gonna be able to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: turn the ball over in a game like this at all.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Like that to me is a very big thing. Back
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: back to you.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Or is that it?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: That's how you win this game?
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: That's it?
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: No, No, that's not it. I'm trying to think with
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: The next point would be, I think, do not let
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: again with the crowd noise, do not let their pressure
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: get get to Nebraska early. Like the old line's got
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: it looks good in this game. And another thing that
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: will get the crowd going get sacks the first the
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: first couple of drives are huge. If okay, you know,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say they need they need the ball first,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: go down Like Austin kind just said, go down and
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: score first drive. That's that's the main point.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: He da not add a new one.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: What else I'd probably say, especially when we're both running teams,
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: the team that has the longest time possessions probably gonna
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: have a better chance of winning just because we want
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: to run the ball aten they want to around the
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: ball a ton, and that does limit your your opportunities
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: to score.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: So if we have the ball longer, it's gonna be
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a lower scoring game. I
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: don't know for a fact.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: So I mean, if if we have it longer, we
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: prevent them from having their long drives and taking us
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: out of rhythm and giving their time for the crowd
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: to get back into it, I think that'd be important.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. It shortened possessions as much as
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: you can. Penn State's not one that wants to go fast,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: so that helps there. And to go along with that,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: then I mean, this is why both my first couple
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: here are dealing with turnovers. We have to force and
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: make a couple of big plays. And I'm gonna add
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: just a big play moment to it, whether it be
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: forcing a turnover, capitalizing on a turnover, a special team's play,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a blocked kick, a punt return, a kick return, Like,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: we need a big play moment because there's gonna be
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: fewer opportunities, right, there's gonna be shorter possessions. You're not
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: gonna have a bunch of time to do that. And
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: if you can do that and get an advantage there,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: like that's gonna help you win a game like that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: on the road. And we've had those moments this year
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: against various opponents, so that that would be huge to
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: me to win this DAK.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get another shot because your last one was
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: very poor.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Hit grunk Meyer early and opten hit him all game
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: long like he's he's a freshman too, So get get
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: his ass rattled.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: You get.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: The crowd doesn't rattling at all, so so you got
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: to hit him kind of like they kind of tried
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: to do that with God can I think with the
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Michigan car Underwood they kind of tried to do that
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: early in the game and they not rattle him that much.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. So get pressure on grunk Meyer
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: and rattle his ass.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's I think very important. I think he's
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: also a guy that, like almost every quarterback we've played
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: this year, that has the ability to scramble and move.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: But he's not an elite runner, but he has the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: ability to scramble and get yardage when he needs to.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: So Austin any any other ones, I don't think, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: that's kind of that's me. He's kind of he's kind
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: of laid out a blueprint there, right, Like obviously there
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: are things you want to do in every game, don't
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: get me wrong, but especially when you're trying to win
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: a game on the road, getting upset like those are
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: those are your those are your focuses right now.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: And it's a little more IOI. You know, typically where
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: you want to control. You want to control time possession,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: you want to control field position. I think, and I
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: know Hunter and I Dak, you're probably thinking we're gonna score.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be thirty seven, thirty one.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: He's always way up there.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: But I think it's probably gonna be. There's gonna be
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: a team under twenty in the team right around twenty.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Well, it's like a little Nebraska basketball here. Score predictions
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: for the football game. I've had one that's like stuck
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: in my head all week. I have twenty seven to
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: ten Penn State.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: See I was gonna say twenty four to twenty one
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Penn State.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this goes to me not feeling great. I think
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Penn State's gonna control the game. I think it's gonna
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: be just like that Michigan State.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: I I I think they're good guys against the run
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: all year.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think they're still good like I still think they're
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: very and I think TJ is going to help our offense.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: But I just I just don't know that it's gonna
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: make it explosive to where we go score thirty. I
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: just I don't see that happening.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: They'd be Michigan State twenty eight to ten.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't see the game going
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: for the way both teams play. I agree, I don't
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: know what the total is.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be low. I think it's gonna be pretty low.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: It's pretty forty four and a half.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would I take the unders on that, I
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: think pretty confidently. I just think it's gonna be a
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: very The score might not end up seventeen like I
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: just said, but it could. It's gonna be low scoring.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I just I just don't think there's gonna be a
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: lot of possessions, a lot of opportunities to score, and
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: if you do score, it's not I don't think there's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: gonna be very many explosive plays either way. I think
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be grind out.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of ten fifteen yard or
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: fifteen play drives.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Correct, That's how I think the game is gonna go.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna go thirty seven thirty one to Brett. Now,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: now I'm gonna go twenty to seventeen Nebraska again, one
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: of your guys, I think it's be very low scoring
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: running the ball. I mean, it's.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: What what I'm gonna say is Okay, here we go
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: forty eight yard walk off game winner.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Wow, that is a bold prediction.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: That's how that's an umbressed. That's an our key to
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the game. You guys can you guys can can't borring
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: at me because this is very generous to make your
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: damn kicks.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: There you go, damn this year.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't. That's that's one part of the game
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: that you can't come in worried about for about the
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: first time ever.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Hasn't been perfect, but it's been a lot better.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Great, I would compared to years past.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I think what's helped to is the ones that he
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: has missed it. They haven't been like awful looking. We've
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: we've seen awful looking kicks, including blocks. So yeah, Nebraska
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: basketball play tonight. So depending on when you listen to
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: this episode, game may or may not be completed. They
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: play in Kansas City in some classic. I don't have
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the name of the classic written down, but it's a tournament,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: any tournament. This is kind of tournament week, Big game
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: week here next week leading to Thanksgiving for college basketball.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I always think these are fun events to play in.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: We've played in several different in these in the past
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: several years. New Mexico is our opening opponent, former Richard
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Patino's team, but Richard Bertino's now at Xavier, so this
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: is a newer, new coach. We are seven point favorites
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: heading into that game on Thursday night, and then on
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Friday we play the winner or loser, whether we win
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: or lose, of Kansas State and Mississippi State. Two more.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Opponent to that, especially the second game, but even this
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: first one, right.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: That are big games for thought, opponent, non.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Conference implications of a tournament birth later on in the year.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Even if you lose this first one, that second one
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: you need to win. You cannot go into in this
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: tournament and expect to make the tournament. It's not going
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to happen.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I think we are a better team than New Mexico
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: for everything.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll go into We shouldn't.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I think this team is coming off a very big
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: win as well, and I think that's a part of
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: setting in and not getting too excited that we're good,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: but rightfully so we have reason to because of the
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: way we played at least offensively against Oklahoma in the Pentagon.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I I want to see if we can keep shooting well, guys.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: I do, like I.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Always kind of any game NBA games too, you shooting
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: can come and go with teams. I kind of it'd
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: be fun to see this stay around with this team.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: For all the whole season. We've shot it well in
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: every game. The one game we kind of started off
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a little slower. We've done that a couple of times,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: but for the most part, overall, we're shooting it well,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: which is what this team is going to have to
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: do to win games. And we'll say that every podcast
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: from here until the end of the year because it's
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the truth. So let's keep doing it. If you don't,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I don't like our chances in neither one of these games,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: so very generic analysis, but that's how it's going to
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: be a lot this year.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, I think we're going to be in
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: offense wins games kind of team.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: So and maybe defense can surprise some people. I mean,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: the defense being so schematic based, it it can still
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: stun some people. And it's worked against very high level
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: teams in the past, your your Purdus of the world,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: your Michigan State's like, it's done a decent job against that.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: So your hope is that your defense can catch fire.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: How defense can catch fire and and hold teams to
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: you know, keep them in the sixties and seventies.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: But the nice thing about you know, nice thing about
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: basketball is like, yeah, we played lesser opponents, but shooting
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: percentages still still matter. Like, you know, in football, it's like, well,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: you actually went you know, twelve for thirteen passing. Well,
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: in basketball, you're still you're still shooting in like from
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: the same spots on the court. You might have a
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: little less defensive pressure and I will impact it.
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: But if you're hitting at a high clip, it's usually
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: a sign that you can actually shoot the ball, not
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: necessarily a product of who you're playing.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: And a lot of with shooting percentages, too, is who's
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: shooting the basketball right on the team? Are are your
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: best guys getting clean open looks? Or are your lesser shooters?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, in years past, right is is Juwan Gary
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: shooting the ball or Bryce Williams last year's team are
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: two different style of shooters.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Here's the here's Another good thing about the Night's game
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: is it will be another neutral site in quotations game
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: where Rugby basicallysters. Yeah, which would be nice. Now tomorrow,
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: if they play K State, it'll be fifty to fifty probably,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: but yep, if not more KSE So so that's the way.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: It's nice that they'll have that. I think they're gonna
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: keep shooting it like they have been. I'm totally on
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: on the shoot. I don't think it's a fluke at all,
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: and I don't think you guys change the fluke. But
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I think they're gona keep shoting. I think
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: they went to Night by fifteen plus. I don't. I
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: don't think New Mexico's they have been a good team
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: in the past. I don't. I think they're down this
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: year big time.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Dak.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: You are just you've been the kool Aid sipping machine this.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Year, even before they tipped Offif years sad, they're gonna.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Get I'm dropping football in basketball. You just you fully
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: transitioned into a kool Aid Husker fan.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I think another reason why I'm
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: so big honest basketball is because they're they're fun as
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: how to watch too. I love the style basketball where
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: he just shoot. I mean, because I'm Celtics fan, I've
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: watched it for the last three years, but I love
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: teams I can just shoot, put up one hundred. He's
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: not easily, but yeah, good offensive teams. I would like
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: to see tonight a little bit better defense than we
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: saw at Oklahoma, especially against the lesser in quotations gain
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: lesser opponent, Like, don't let this team do it Oklahoma
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: did in the first half.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Austin, can you just have my back and tell Dak
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that he's wasting his time following the NBA the next
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: like ten years because the Thunder just have it locked up.
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: Uh, ten years is a long time contract. The hard cap,
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: the second apron, it'll it'll break him up. But gosh,
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: the Thunder, it runs, it's Thunder Nuggets. It's until it's
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: the Thunders team to lose games to lose unless Nicole
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: jokicch is playing in that, which case is like, well,
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: maybe they'll win, but yeah, Celtics are done.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: You're not winning another one.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Damn's coming back.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Who cares?
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Jalen Brown has to paint on his hair, he's so
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: stressed about it.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Often would you have Jason Tatum in your top ten
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: NBA players right now?
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: Probably, well not right now he is a torn achilles.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: When he would probably cracked the top ten. He's not
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: top five. He's never winning an MVP.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, I think that's a bold take.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: No, no, it is not. I don't what he's twenty seven.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: He's twenty seven, twenty.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Will not win another m v P or not, I
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say another. He's never won one.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's never even won a finals or Easter.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not winning an m v P.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Like it not.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Next year he'll be his twenty He'll be twenty eight
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: next year's season when he's he'll play if he sure,
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: if he comes back at the He's not winning MVP
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: this year, twenty eight. But Wemby's I mean he's around.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: To win an m v P.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: You have to at least be on a team that's
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: remotely good too. The Celtics are not going to be
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: like a top five team in.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: The East, you know, I mean this season or like
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: for the future.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Just and I don't think the Celtics are like I
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: could they could make it in there. They're not going
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: to be a consistent top team.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: They'll be they'll be consistent top five team in the East.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: The East isn't that great and they if they are
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: able to make Jason Tatum Jaylen Brown alone, probably keep
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: it as a top five team. But he's just not
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: He's just not gonna win the m v P. He
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: have to be like the number one one team and
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: have put up You either have to be the number
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: one team on your conference, number one or two, or
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: you have to put it up insane numbers like Lucas,
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: you know, averaging like forty points a game.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I will take that back. I shouldn't have said Celtics
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: not say yeah, you're right. I forgot the East is
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: like horrendous, but you're yeah. The Jason Datam MVP is
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: like never happening ever.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean they're especially this year. They're a team
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: that counts beers. They can choose ship out of the
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: ball that that's that's all they do and the and
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: they rely on that when Tam comes back, and I
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: think that lineup is easily top three in the East
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: with him in it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: M.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: It's not MVP worthy And that's not now the NBA,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: that's not NBA Finals. Well that could because they.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Could be finals. They can make the finals.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: They're not beating the thunder like or or Nuggets easily.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: They will. Now, what I'm not missing right now is
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: watching watch Jay statum iso ball where he just Jack's
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: at the worst shot you've ever seen the world with
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: he dribbles it down two seconds left shot just Jackson,
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: twenty seven player. I'm not I'm not missing watching that
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: right now, So so I can wait for that. But
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: he will be back in February. And you know what,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: right this, write this in pen right now. They're gonna
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: make the finals this year.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: The Celtics are making the finals this year.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: You want to make another bet on it? Like, come on,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: let's go.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: What what do you want to do?
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: A marathon?
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? You want to up
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: your half marathon to a marathon.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: They're winning, they're making the finals. Even when they're making
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: the finals.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do, Dak, Let's go, let's see.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: If Jay Sam comes back. If he doesn't, then know
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: they're not making the finals.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's letay, let's go. You have one with me,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Let's go with you and Austin. All right, since since
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: you're on this, you're on this high horse.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: What do you want to do another half marathon with Austin?
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, no, no no no.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: I'm okay, okay, you're gonna say something.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Back down again, aren't you.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do two half marathons.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: I are you?
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: You're backing down from your You're you're you're you're backing.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: It down now, aren't you. You're you're wimping out. Come on,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: do another half marathon. Bet if you're that confident that
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: they're gonna make the finals this year, You're not that confident.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not saying this is like a guarantee.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I just that's what you just said.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: It is what you say.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: That is what you said.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: All right. The odds for the Boston Celtics to make
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: the twenty twenty six NBA Finals gotta be like thirty five.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say two thousands.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: That's even the NBA Finals to make the NBA finals.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Dak you are. This is why anytime that you talk
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: about your favorite teams, it has a zero merit with anybody.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: It's never biased or you make any bets.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: It is horrible.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: You are like some people are really bad, like that's
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a general thing, right in the betting world. Are in
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the fandom world in general? You are the worst at
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: it and you're not even a fan of half the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: teams you say you are.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, i am.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: He is a Celtics fan. I'll give him that.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I'll give him a Celtics fan. But most are the
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: other ones.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Not even Boston Celtics currently sitting as the ninth seed
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: in the East.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Not even, but they're guaranteed Austin.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it right now, right now, they are
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: making the NBA Finals.
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: Now I will say.
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: Okay, the website of I'm looking at Fandel's sports bet sportsbook.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: They do have the same odds as the seventy six
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: ers and they're one below the Detroit Pistons. And the
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: Pistons are currently number one team in the East.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: So what of the Knicks number one?
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: No, the Pistons are.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Who are the number one team to make the finals? No?
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: Live Oh uh, it is the Oklahoma State Thunder. But
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: from the Eastern Conference, the East, from the East, from
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: the East in the East, it's Nicks, Orlando, Detroit Celtics.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: So not a lot of faith in the East Conference
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: because from the West. It's oh, Cleveland's in there. Sorry,
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Cleveland's number one.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, good NBA to guys, we even we've talked
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: to NBA for yet, So we will continue to do
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: this and listen to Dax's stephen A. Smith blabber.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's a not bias take on my team. If
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: I can suck, so I will say that right now.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: There you go, m terrible Just wait, just wait.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: They'll win next week and Dack will think they're winning
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: the super Bowl again.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: That's how it good.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: I hope, thank god they win this week.
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: But JJ McCarthy trade is a terrible trade. When it happened,
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: I felt that way we got happened when it you know,
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: when they jumped up for it.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: I feel that way. Now.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, one more breaking news, last thing before we sign off.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: DA's got a girlfriend.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: No I do not, Yes, you do, no, I do not.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: Well, we will be watching closely, Dak. All I know
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: is was he couldn't do a podcast because he had.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: A girl over So okay, yeah, here we go. Just
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: just throw it out there to the world.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Here we go, all right, big week for Husker sports, basketball, basketball, football,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: three days in a row.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: So buckle in volleyball tonight to.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Women's basketball last night, beat one or Roberts by a billion,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: So we all have good week for husk sports.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: We all want Casey Nebraska more night, right, but yeah,
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: we all want that nebraskianamorrow night that that'll be a
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: girl will be a big one.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Is your dad going down there for this game tonight?
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Hunter?
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Yep? Oh yeah, oh yeah, alright, go be Gred here
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: you are, Go be Gradua