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Episode 46 | Indiana Preview - The Standard · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Speaker 1: Go Big Red! The takes, the numbers, the chaos.
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Speaker 2: Hunter, Austin, Dak.
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Speaker 1: Talking Cornhusker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the Return to Glory podcast.
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Speaker 2: Return to Glory podcast. Hunter Zarbonicki, Austin Rose here. Thursday,
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Speaker 2: Indiana preview. The game we're slowly waiting for here all week.
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Speaker 2: It's just, it's been a long week. I'll say that
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Speaker 2: for me anyways, waiting for this game.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd say it's felt long because
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Speaker 3: there's just that, maybe it's because I think it's good.
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Speaker 3: Because there isn't this... It's not like this, oh, man, like.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. We're not.
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Speaker 3: There's a little less pressure than I think we've seen
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Speaker 3: in the past with some of these games where we
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Speaker 3: accidentally get bumped up to rank number 25 and then
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Speaker 3: we play a ranked opponent at home.
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Speaker 4: And get smacked. So maybe that's good. I'm very excited
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Speaker 4: for this game. I'm very excited.
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Speaker 2: The Indiana 7th in the AP poll. Nebraska not rated.
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Speaker 2: I watched stretches last night against Northwestern and Rutgers, and
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Speaker 2: I guess my biggest overall one takeaway, if you had
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Speaker 2: to say I had one thing, is how comfortable Indiana is,
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Speaker 2: and this is, I guess, when Indiana's on offense, but
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Speaker 2: when Josh Hoover is able to just identify and dissect defenses. They're, they're,
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Speaker 2: they're very balanced on offense. They have a really solid
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Speaker 2: run game. And, and, and I think my one take is,
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Speaker 2: is very like overall echoing, probably what the coaching staff says. Like,
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Speaker 2: if you listen to rule, you listen to Holgerson this week,
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Speaker 2: they are all praise as they should be with this
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Speaker 2: Indiana squad. And yeah, they're comfortable doing what they like
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Speaker 2: to do because they're good at it and they're going
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Speaker 2: to redo it over and over. And they brought in
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Speaker 2: a quarterback and Josh Hoover that people have question marks about.
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Speaker 5: Well, guess what?
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Speaker 2: He fits what they want to do. So I guess overall,
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Speaker 2: like Indiana is, is, They're.
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Speaker 5: Good, right?
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Speaker 2: We know the hitters for what they've done the past
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Speaker 2: few years. It's the standard of college football now. They
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Speaker 2: have set a new.
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Speaker 4: Which is hilarious.
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Speaker 5: It's weird.
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Speaker 2: In this new era, it's Indiana. You've got to copy
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Speaker 2: Indiana football. If you can be Indiana football, you're doing
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Speaker 2: things right.
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Speaker 5: It's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. It's funny. What does Indiana.
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Speaker 3: When you look at the stats of what does Indiana
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Speaker 3: do well that we do poor, this year it's penalty yards...
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Speaker 3: And then what we've done actually pretty well this year
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Speaker 3: is we don't turn the ball over. Well, Indiana's been
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Speaker 3: the best at not turning it over the last couple
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Speaker 3: of years. So they're just, they're disciplined. And this was,
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Speaker 3: they kind of became the, I don't.
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Speaker 4: Really know which school.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we kind of talked when Fred Hoiberg got fired,
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Speaker 3: what his approach was to transfers, but they kind of
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Speaker 3: became the football school to establish the, hey, it's.
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Speaker 4: The portal era.
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Speaker 3: Watch us just, grab your seniors and just be bigger
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Speaker 3: and stronger than you guys.
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Speaker 4: And we can handle ourselves.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, in this sense, it's November, December, but
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Speaker 3: for basketball is March just because we have guys who have,
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Speaker 3: you know, 30 starts in college football on our roster
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Speaker 3: that are now coming and starting for us.
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Speaker 4: Good for them. Good for them.
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Speaker 2: It's just a weird world that we live in when
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Speaker 2: we're saying Indiana football has set a new level here
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Speaker 2: and they have, And a lot of that's credit to
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Speaker 2: Coach Hurt Cignetti in his third season here with the Hoosiers.
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Speaker 5: He is, I.
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Speaker 2: Would say, a fan or people favorite. They like his style.
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Speaker 2: He's a little bit quirky, a little bit odd, but
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Speaker 2: he finds a way to win football games. And a
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Speaker 2: lot of those that he does, as Indiana is on
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Speaker 2: the highest winning streak, 20 games in a row here
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Speaker 2: coming in, Saturday to Lincoln. Today we'll go through some
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Speaker 2: of the different things that Indiana likes to do, some
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Speaker 2: of their key personnel players. Like I said, I watched
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Speaker 2: some of their games. It's the first time I really
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Speaker 2: deep dove into an opposing team this much.
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Speaker 5: And I.
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Speaker 2: Actually had to put together a little scouting report, which
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Speaker 2: I shared with Austin and Dak late last night. But
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Speaker 2: quarterback Josh Hoover, as I mentioned, he is very efficient.
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Speaker 2: That's the word I like to use. He's not going
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Speaker 2: to be your flashy. He's not Mendoza from a flashy statement,
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Speaker 2: but he's very efficient. He's got 15 touchdowns, zero picks.
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Speaker 2: 71% completion percentage. As I was watching him, he's very,
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Speaker 2: very good at.
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Speaker 5: Reading plays.
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Speaker 2: And being able to identify what they're in and then
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Speaker 2: execute their play. Indiana runs a ton, a ton of RPOs,
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Speaker 2: and they're not long, drawn-out plays. It's here's what the
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Speaker 2: defense has given you, and we're going to take what
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Speaker 2: we're going to give you, and we're going to move
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Speaker 2: on to the next play. That is Indiana's definition of
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Speaker 2: what they do on offense, and they're very patient at
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Speaker 2: doing so.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've... And that was, I mean, Josh Hoover coming in,
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Speaker 3: his big concern was, you know, because he had a
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Speaker 3: lot of turnovers at TCU. And Chris Ignetti is like, well,
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Speaker 3: he hasn't been in our offense. You know, he's like,
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Speaker 3: we don't put our quarterbacks in position to fail.
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Speaker 4: We don't make them do it.
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Speaker 3: And that's what, yeah, they're patient. They take the opportunities
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Speaker 3: that they're given. And, you know, over the course of
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Speaker 3: the game, it... it wears you down. I don't, I
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Speaker 3: don't know how else to put it, but it's, it's impressive. Really?
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Speaker 2: The two backs, uh, that we're going to see a
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Speaker 2: lot of, uh, number one, turbo Richard, and then number.
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Speaker 3: 29, great running back name, great running back name.
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Speaker 5: And number 29, Lee BB Jr.
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Speaker 2: Uh, I think these two guys, they run a little
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Speaker 2: bit differently, but they're, they're both very solid backs. Um, I,
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Speaker 2: I would describe Beebe as that he's a very patient runner.
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Speaker 2: If you watch him run, he's going to identify where
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Speaker 2: the hole is and then goes, whereas Turbo Richard, as
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Speaker 2: his name suggests, just turns on the turbo and goes.
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Speaker 2: He hits the hole very hard. Two very different backs,
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Speaker 2: and the little that I watched, I thought they both
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Speaker 2: got a lot done as well. And Indiana on offense
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Speaker 2: does a good job of mixing up their run game
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Speaker 2: from doing a lot of inside zone but then uh
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Speaker 2: also having some pulling guards and tackles as well the
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Speaker 2: the the formation that you're going to see a lot
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Speaker 2: is that there's going to be an up back um
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Speaker 2: not a full back but just you know more of
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Speaker 2: an up back that does a lot of motioning i'm
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Speaker 2: going to provide a lot of blocks on the edges
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Speaker 2: and their offensive line does like a really good job
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Speaker 2: at setting the edge and making holes and i get
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Speaker 2: it northwest or.
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Speaker 5: Rutgers is one of the opponents, and.
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Speaker 2: Northwestern was the other, which going into the year, you
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Speaker 2: would say Northwestern's not very good.
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Speaker 5: Well, they've been pretty decent so far.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they look pretty good.
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Speaker 2: So, again, their offense is pretty impressive. What concerns me,
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Speaker 2: I guess I'll mention Nick Marsh and Charlie Becker here
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Speaker 2: in a second, but what concerns me is how balanced
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Speaker 2: they are, but with, with both the run in.
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Speaker 5: The past game.
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Speaker 2: And I will say, uh, there's a reason why they're
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Speaker 2: good is because it's hard to prepare for like they're there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Nebraska's got a pretty good balanced identity here
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Speaker 2: coming along here too, but that's what makes Indiana so
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Speaker 2: tough is that they're good at both.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Um, yeah, I think, You know, you look at
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Speaker 3: their schedule and how the year's gone. And, yeah, they've
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Speaker 3: had some slower starts to some of their games. They
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Speaker 3: still end up killing everyone.
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Speaker 4: And then I agree.
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Speaker 3: I think Northwestern's actually pretty good this year. So do
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Speaker 3: I think that we're probably maybe as good as Northwestern?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe. So maybe that's a good sign.
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Speaker 3: But there's just not a lot of weaknesses that have
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Speaker 3: become apparent on this team. They don't have quite the
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Speaker 3: same– the same power that they had last year.
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Speaker 4: And I mean, that hasn't impacted them yet, but they are,
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Speaker 4: they're well balanced.
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Speaker 3: Their defense doesn't seem to have the same closers, but
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Speaker 3: it's still, a good squad.
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Speaker 2: There's receivers here, a couple guys to mention that they
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Speaker 2: go to early and often. Charlie Becker's number 80. He's
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Speaker 2: had 27 catches for 477 yards, eight touchdowns already. He's
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Speaker 2: their go-to guy, I would say, number one overall. He's
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Speaker 2: their scoring threat. He's their possession guy. that they'll go
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Speaker 2: to if you give them space. He also has the
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Speaker 2: ability to beat you deep, and they will take a
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Speaker 2: couple of shots a game. I think he's the guy
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Speaker 2: that if you're scheming around the pass game, and this
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Speaker 2: is what makes it hard is you got their run
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Speaker 2: in pass game, you kind of want to have a
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Speaker 2: guy on him and then shade a safety over to
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Speaker 2: him because he's going to be the guy that Hoover
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Speaker 2: looks for the most. Nick Marsh is the other guy,
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Speaker 2: number 11. He's got 23 catches for 341 yards and
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Speaker 2: four touchdowns. He's he's to me more of their like
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Speaker 2: speedy playmaker guy. And he, he has.
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Speaker 5: A lot of good things.
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Speaker 2: I like, I mean, Andrew Marshall has done a really
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Speaker 2: good job so far this year. And I like him
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Speaker 2: that much.
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Speaker 3: And we've seen, we've seen Nick Marsh before, you know,
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Speaker 3: he was at Michigan state last year.
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Speaker 5: Correct.
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Speaker 2: Yep. So, so I, I do, I think those are
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Speaker 2: going to be, those are Hoover's two guys. Obviously he's
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Speaker 2: got others as well. It just, it, It makes it tough,
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Speaker 2: and this is why it makes it tough when we're
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Speaker 2: on defenses. These past– our first five opponents, I feel like,
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Speaker 2: are very– I'm not going to say completely one-dimensional, but
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Speaker 2: going into the game, you understood what you needed to
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Speaker 2: take away for your defense to be effective. And we
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Speaker 2: did that for– I mean, in all these games, we
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Speaker 2: did a really good job of that. And, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'll go back to the last game. You take away–
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Speaker 2: and scheme against Maryland's past game. Well, then they had
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Speaker 2: a couple of long runs, which was a little bit concerning, but.
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Speaker 4: That's what you live with.
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Speaker 2: That's what you live with because you're taking away what
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Speaker 2: they're comfortable doing. What scares me against Indiana is that
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Speaker 2: they're so balanced and they're known to be balanced and you,
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Speaker 2: you're going to have to pick and choose and live
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Speaker 2: with it, but it's, it.
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Speaker 5: It's, it's hard. It's going to be hard to sit
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Speaker 5: with that. And even if you pick and choose something.
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Speaker 2: Eat, you still might get killed on the defensive side
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Speaker 2: because they're good.
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Speaker 5: At the other part of the game.
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Speaker 4: They're still good, right.
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Speaker 5: It is hard.
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Speaker 2: It's a hard team to prep for, and I think
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Speaker 2: this is where, you know what, we're going to have
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Speaker 2: to be super, super, super creative.
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Speaker 5: And it's hard. Like, here's the other thing you've got
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Speaker 5: to debate.
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Speaker 2: Do you try to sell out and– press coverage, do
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Speaker 2: a lot of mixed-up blitzes, and try to make big
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Speaker 2: defensive plays, which are big positives, but then that might
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Speaker 2: lead to these catastrophic negative plays from Indiana that could
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Speaker 2: get you killed.
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Speaker 5: Is that a strategy, or do you play.
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Speaker 2: The, well, Indiana does, and we'll get to this in
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Speaker 2: a second, force them to have 13 play drives, work
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Speaker 2: their way down the field, and score? From what I've seen,
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Speaker 2: Indiana is comfortable doing that. So, like, you come out
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Speaker 2: with more of a no-regrets strategy and knowing that that
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Speaker 2: might result in big plays and getting killed. Like, it
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Speaker 2: very well could if that's your plan. That's what makes
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Speaker 2: this game intriguing is how will we attack it? How
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Speaker 2: will Rob Arge decide to attack this Indiana offense?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 3: What I would want to do, and I mean, because
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Speaker 3: what Fritz Signetti wants to do is he wants to
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Speaker 3: run the ball, give the quarterback some time by creating,
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Speaker 3: you know, decisions that have to be made by the defense.
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Speaker 4: I like us trying to stop the run.
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Speaker 3: If I had to sell it for one of the groups,
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Speaker 3: obviously you can stop both, but we find ourselves in
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Speaker 3: a position where, hey, we.
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Speaker 4: Need to print one or the other.
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Speaker 3: I think I like, you know, let's get rid of
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Speaker 3: the run game. Let's make them have to win it
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Speaker 3: on the ground. Maybe they do cut us up for
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Speaker 3: a thousand little paper cuts and we end up losing
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Speaker 3: all those.
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Speaker 4: 13 play drives.
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Speaker 3: But I think Josh Hoover, he's had a really good
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Speaker 3: year going in. Like I said, he had turnover issues,
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Speaker 3: but he didn't have any run game. And maybe if
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Speaker 3: you put all the pressure on him to make those plays,
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Speaker 3: and I think your secondary is pretty solid man-to-man, that
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Speaker 3: think we match up well out there that we take
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Speaker 3: away that run game maybe it puts them a little
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Speaker 3: off kilter and we it gives us our best chance
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Speaker 3: it also helps the clock in our favor because they're
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Speaker 3: not burning clock on our side and we're we're probably
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Speaker 3: gonna want want to control the.
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Speaker 2: Ball yeah and i will say hoover looked very good
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Speaker 2: again reading defenses and reading zone coverage good news for
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Speaker 2: us is we play a lot we do play a
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Speaker 2: lot of man naturally Um, it's, it's the, it's the
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Speaker 2: matter of, do we, like you said, do we have
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Speaker 2: the backend to go match up a lot of one-on-one
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Speaker 2: opportunities and, and, and stop them? Um, here's, and, and, and,
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Speaker 2: and I, I've gone back and forth and I think
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Speaker 2: this as a defensive game plan, unfortunately, you gotta be
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Speaker 2: pretty complicated this week and it's not going to be
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Speaker 2: a simple answer, but yeah, to your point of keeping
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Speaker 2: them in front, like, I can already hear the groans
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Speaker 2: from the crowds if we're eight, nine yards off as
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Speaker 2: a corner and they complete a five-yard pass and.
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Speaker 4: They're not up there.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to side with them sometimes.
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Speaker 5: I think we have to do that sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I just think we've got to be very multiple this
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Speaker 2: week and confuse Hoover. If he gets comfortable as how
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Speaker 2: we're going to be playing defense on him, it's not
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Speaker 2: going to be good. but we also got to live
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Speaker 2: with sometimes they're going to dissect us and go down
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Speaker 2: the field because we're at that point in time, the
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Speaker 2: coaching staff made the decision. We're not giving up a
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Speaker 2: big play and that's okay too. Like it, it, it
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Speaker 2: just one of those games. You're going to put a
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Speaker 2: bunch of puzzle pieces together on the defensive side of
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Speaker 2: the ball and, and, and, and hope that how you're
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Speaker 2: putting them together, they fit right at the right time.
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Speaker 5: And, and, and that goes to out coaching.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of coaching in general a little bit, but,
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Speaker 2: That's what you're going to have to do to out-coach
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Speaker 2: this Indiana offense. Moving on, I guess, to our offense here.
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Speaker 2: The last couple of games watching it, and Indiana's, I'll
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Speaker 2: say this first, Indiana's schedule isn't much different than what
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Speaker 2: we've played so far. They obviously have played Northwestern, which
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Speaker 2: seems to be better, but This will be their toughest
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Speaker 2: game so far of the year. And when I watch
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Speaker 2: Northwestern and Rutgers, specifically Rutgers, but they run a very
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Speaker 2: base 4-2-5, which is what we do as well. They
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Speaker 2: didn't show a lot of unique stunts, at least in
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Speaker 2: the first half of those games. Blitz's unique formations, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it was pretty basic. from what I saw. Now, they
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Speaker 2: do a really good job of rallying to the ball.
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Speaker 2: Their defensive line, I wouldn't say, is pin your ears
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Speaker 2: back and rush. They're more like big dudes, hold the
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Speaker 2: gaps up, and then rally. I think this is also
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Speaker 2: similar on this side of the ball, which we've been
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Speaker 2: good at. We can't be predictable on offense because Indiana–
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Speaker 2: with their base defense can then get comfortable defending us.
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Speaker 2: And we've done a good job of not being too
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Speaker 2: predictable this year, I think, and mixing it up.
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Speaker 5: They, they.
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Speaker 2: Allow just 64 rushing yards a game and about two
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Speaker 2: yards per net rushing attempt. So like the sacks go
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Speaker 2: into that, but like their run defense is one of
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Speaker 2: their strengths. And if we can't, if we're in third
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Speaker 2: and long a lot, it's, it's not, I don't think
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Speaker 2: that's going to pan out well for us on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is worth noting Jamal rules back. Barney's
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Speaker 3: got another week of health and they really haven't. I mean,
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Speaker 3: Calandra is the best quarterback that they're they've played so far.
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Speaker 3: I think that's fair statement. He's also mobile. So I'm
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Speaker 3: hoping that having a mobile quarterback and I think.
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Speaker 4: You know, that, I'm hoping that that's the secret sauce
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Speaker 4: this week.
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Speaker 3: You know, this is what we haven't had and giving
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Speaker 3: that an opportunity to help open up the run game
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Speaker 3: a little more. And we'll also open up one of
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Speaker 3: the past games. Landry can kind of get, get the
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Speaker 3: sticks moving a little bit. Like you said, they, their
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Speaker 3: front line is they, they hold the line and you know,
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Speaker 3: their sacks and not coverage sacks, but it just gives
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Speaker 3: them more time if they, to get pressure on the
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Speaker 3: quarterback in that sense. I'm, I'm, Hoping that with Rule
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Speaker 3: being back and the mobility of Calandria, we have decent
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Speaker 3: success against them. I think our offense is better than Northwestern's.
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Speaker 3: And Northwestern put up 22 points.
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Speaker 4: Is that what it was? 21?
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Speaker 3: 22?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's not the defense of last year. So I think
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Speaker 3: they're going to have some... I mean, they are still
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Speaker 3: fourth in total defense, I believe.
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Speaker 5: So....
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Speaker 3: They're disciplined. They don't get stupid penalties on themselves. We
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Speaker 3: can't get stupid penalties on ourselves. We haven't you know,
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Speaker 3: we can't have, we can't, this, this game, we cannot
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Speaker 3: give up, you know, those five yard ball starts, those
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Speaker 3: pre-snap penalties. We, we have to be, be tight about it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: We cannot set ourselves back for sure.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, Indiana's, they, they, they just play a
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Speaker 2: beat yourself. And if you're doing that, you're playing right
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Speaker 2: into their hands. They just, they, they slowly want you to,
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Speaker 2: prove to them you can go down and do it.
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Speaker 2: And we've shown we can do that.
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Speaker 5: I do agree. I think the Anthony Calandria run.
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Speaker 2: Game, as we've talked about since we've gotten him here,
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Speaker 2: could be a big difference maker in this game. And
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Speaker 2: I didn't mention anything about Josh Hoover, so I'm just
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Speaker 2: going to circle back real quick and throw that in there. Now,
20:31
Speaker 2: you have to account for his run game close to
20:33
Speaker 2: the goal line, but the dude's not a great runner.
20:36
Speaker 2: And when you get him outside of the pocket and
20:38
Speaker 2: uncomfortable– it's going to help us. So just get him
20:44
Speaker 2: off his spot is a goal. But anyway, circling back
20:47
Speaker 2: to Calandrian in our offense, I think that could be
20:50
Speaker 2: a big difference maker. And again, not necessarily all designed runs,
20:54
Speaker 2: but just his ability to escape the pocket. The challenge
20:58
Speaker 2: for Nebraska, I think, is going to be when that is,
21:02
Speaker 2: is he having to escape the pocket immediately because Indiana's
21:09
Speaker 2: getting home on– the defensive line and their blitz packages
21:14
Speaker 2: when they throw those in there. Like I said, they've
21:17
Speaker 2: ran a lot of base, just four down linemen, a
21:21
Speaker 2: few stunts here and there. But what I saw, they
21:25
Speaker 2: didn't show a whole lot of blitzing. But, again, is
21:28
Speaker 2: it a factor of the opponents and they're saving that?
21:31
Speaker 2: And keep this in mind, who does Indiana have next week?
21:37
Speaker 4: It's not Ohio State.
21:39
Speaker 5: It's Ohio State.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
21:41
Speaker 2: So– Like, you want to say, yeah, I don't think
21:45
Speaker 2: Indiana's looking at us as the same playing field as
21:51
Speaker 2: Rutgers and Northwestern. But at the same time, right, they
21:54
Speaker 2: got a big game next week. So in their minds,
21:57
Speaker 2: if they do have this massive plan to beat Ohio State,
22:00
Speaker 2: are they showing everything? Obviously, you want to win the
22:02
Speaker 2: game in front of you. That's no– Right.
22:05
Speaker 3: They're not– I think they're going to be disciplined enough
22:08
Speaker 3: to not– Yeah.
22:09
Speaker 2: But at the same time I'm watching that Rutgers game.
22:12
Speaker 2: I'm like, all they're running is a base for two.
22:14
Speaker 2: Like they're not doing anything creative. And so against Rutgers,
22:18
Speaker 2: you know, they did maybe play a little basic. So again,
22:21
Speaker 2: I'm just curious to see how they, how they account for,
22:24
Speaker 2: you know, the quarterback run game, getting Calandria uncomfortable. And
22:29
Speaker 2: part of, you know, is, is that going to be
22:31
Speaker 2: getting him out of the pocket or they're going to
22:32
Speaker 2: try to keep him in the pocket, but make him
22:34
Speaker 2: uncomfortable when he's in there at, It'll be fascinating to
22:38
Speaker 2: see their game plan around that too, given they haven't
22:40
Speaker 2: really played a guy like him yet.
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Speaker 5: At quarterback. Now, I will say this.
22:47
Speaker 2: I heard that I didn't know this, but when Cignetti
22:49
Speaker 2: was at James Madison, they actually played Calandria when he
22:53
Speaker 2: was at Virginia.
22:55
Speaker 4: That's funny. A couple years ago, you know, a little
22:58
Speaker 4: different guy, different team.
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Speaker 5: So, okay.
23:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
23:07
Speaker 3: Indiana's defense is not as scary as it was last year.
23:09
Speaker 3: It still scares me that they really haven't had to
23:12
Speaker 3: do a whole lot of creative stuff. We haven't seen
23:15
Speaker 3: their best, so hopefully it's not against us.
23:22
Speaker 2: My last big point here that I want to talk about,
23:25
Speaker 2: and you mentioned the penalties, and a lot of what
23:29
Speaker 2: I've heard this week is the penalty yardage, obviously after
23:32
Speaker 2: last week and how we tied the.
23:34
Speaker 5: Program record for penalties.
23:37
Speaker 2: Um just we we're gonna probably have some but i
23:45
Speaker 2: i just feel like your their definition of what catastrophic
23:50
Speaker 2: or or damaging is just gonna there's gonna be more
23:53
Speaker 2: of those this week it feels like because indiana's better
23:55
Speaker 2: and any penalty that you have is gonna feel like
23:57
Speaker 2: it's penalizing you to overcome.
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Speaker 3: And Indiana is not going to have those penalties probably.
24:03
Speaker 3: So it's, it's not gonna be like last week where
24:05
Speaker 3: we had 16 and they had 12. It's, it's, you know,
24:09
Speaker 3: it could be like where we have 10 and they
24:11
Speaker 3: have two.
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Speaker 2: I think the stat I saw, we averaged 73 penalty
24:16
Speaker 2: yards a game.
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Speaker 5: Indiana averages 27.
24:18
Speaker 2: So like from what we've seen so far against what
24:22
Speaker 2: we said, a similar schedule, both at both ways. I,
24:29
Speaker 2: I just– here's the thing with the penalties and then
24:33
Speaker 2: going into.
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Speaker 5: These catastrophic plays.
24:37
Speaker 2: And to beat a team like Indiana, the games before
24:42
Speaker 2: you didn't really need to make any. You just kind
24:45
Speaker 2: of let the other team hopefully give you a couple
24:50
Speaker 2: of catastrophic errors. Exactly.
24:54
Speaker 5: It's kind of flipped this game.
24:55
Speaker 2: And I mean, I guess that's a, that's a product
24:57
Speaker 2: of one team being better than the other on paper.
24:59
Speaker 2: Like we're going to have to make a couple of
25:01
Speaker 2: big plays to win this game. I don't, we're, we
25:04
Speaker 2: don't have any huge plays. It's going to be hard
25:06
Speaker 2: to win because Indiana, that's what they love to do.
25:09
Speaker 3: Right.
25:09
Speaker 5: They're, they're just going to sit back.
25:11
Speaker 2: And, and, and if we have a really bad coverage
25:15
Speaker 2: bust or a really bad, um, turnover, uh, fumbled snap,
25:21
Speaker 2: a 15-yard penalty that gives them a first down on
25:23
Speaker 2: third and long. Like, those things, Indiana's going to say,
25:27
Speaker 2: thank you, appreciate it.
25:29
Speaker 5: And let's move on. Like, that's their play.
25:33
Speaker 2: So, like, that's what makes this game so difficult in
25:37
Speaker 2: my mind is you need to probably make some of
25:40
Speaker 2: these plays to win.
25:41
Speaker 5: And maybe this is the other way approach.
25:46
Speaker 2: I would say Northwestern is very– David Braun coach teams
25:54
Speaker 2: are very disciplined as well. And they played kind of
25:56
Speaker 2: with Indiana, but they didn't win, but they got respect
25:59
Speaker 2: for it.
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Speaker 5: Maybe that's the approach.
26:01
Speaker 2: I don't know. Like if you take a lot of risks,
26:04
Speaker 2: you obviously have a high risk, high reward. You have
26:06
Speaker 2: a chance maybe to win the game, but you.
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Speaker 4: Could get, I mean, you, you, I agree.
26:12
Speaker 3: Like there's probably a little extra pressure that, you know,
26:16
Speaker 3: if you look at Matt rule and his record against
26:18
Speaker 3: ranked opponents, uh, Of the ranked opponents we're playing this year,
26:22
Speaker 3: it's kind of crazy to say, but Oregon on the road,
26:28
Speaker 3: Ohio State, Indiana, which one of those ones do you
26:33
Speaker 3: think had the best chance to help with that ranked
26:36
Speaker 3: opponent record?
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Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know. Is there extra pressure?
26:40
Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of funny to think, though, between those three teams,
26:46
Speaker 3: it's like, well, maybe Indiana at home is the better one.
26:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, the team that just won the national title.
26:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, the best option to win a ranked tournament.
26:55
Speaker 3: Hell.
26:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be a very tough game.
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Speaker 2: What do you think, Nate? Try to keep it close, right?
27:06
Speaker 2: Just keep it close, and then when you get to
27:08
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, roll the dice.
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Speaker 3: Uh and i just i think i think lincoln's gonna
27:12
Speaker 3: be rocking i don't know those noon kickoff games you
27:15
Speaker 3: never know what crowd you're gonna get you want to
27:17
Speaker 3: think that we're gonna be pumped for top 10 but
27:21
Speaker 3: i could see some of those 60 plus year old
27:23
Speaker 3: fans being like uh great another blowout win to go to.
27:26
Speaker 2: Yeah vibes are vibes are just interesting i interesting is
27:30
Speaker 2: the word i use actually for this it's it's there's
27:34
Speaker 2: a lot of hype like people are excited um We're
27:37
Speaker 2: obviously 5-0, but there's still, like, the people that have
27:40
Speaker 2: lived through all of this and go, yeah, so, like,
27:45
Speaker 2: who have we played?
27:46
Speaker 5: We haven't played anybody yet. Shouldn't we be 5-0? Like,
27:50
Speaker 5: now we got Indiana.
27:51
Speaker 2: Like, there's people there, but then there's obviously– it's all
27:55
Speaker 2: over the spectrum right now, which is great. So it
27:58
Speaker 2: makes sports fun, college football fun. We're going to obviously
28:02
Speaker 2: see where we're at. a little bit here on, on,
28:05
Speaker 2: on Saturday, one way or the other.
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Speaker 4: I'm excited. It's going to be good. I'm going to
28:12
Speaker 4: be in Michigan, but I'm going to be eagerly watching.
28:17
Speaker 2: Well, I've been bad on this tailgate pods. I, there's
28:20
Speaker 2: a lot more that I think we all could have
28:24
Speaker 2: in our minds here. So we're going to get tailgate
28:26
Speaker 2: pot pot out this week. And I've been bad about
28:28
Speaker 2: posting them. I think Austin deck might be sending them
28:30
Speaker 2: and I've been, bad about putting those together so we
28:34
Speaker 2: will have one of those for you here tomorrow or
28:36
Speaker 2: saturday with some additional indiana thoughts um i i guess
28:42
Speaker 2: that biggest game here in the matt rule era we
28:45
Speaker 2: can find a way to get it done i think
28:47
Speaker 2: field's getting stormed i think i mean it's going to
28:49
Speaker 2: be a great if if we don't well i guess
28:52
Speaker 2: it's something we're not really or that's something that we
28:54
Speaker 2: are accustomed to it's not it's not winning these games
28:58
Speaker 2: but gosh you would think the some point in time, sometime.
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Speaker 5: I don't know when.
29:03
Speaker 4: We're going to have one of these games.
29:05
Speaker 5: We're going to win one of these. I don't know when.
29:06
Speaker 5: Maybe it's not Saturday, but it's going to happen.
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Speaker 4: We can do it.
29:11
Speaker 5: We can find a way.
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Speaker 4: We can do it. Lesser teams have done better.
29:17
Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: When's it our turn? It's going to happen sometime. I
29:21
Speaker 2: don't know when, but maybe it's Saturday.
29:24
Speaker 4: Maybe.
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