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Episode 34 | North Dakota Recap - Confidence · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go Big Red!
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  Speaker 2: The takes, the numbers, the chaos. Hunter Austin deck.
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  Speaker 3: Talking Cornhusker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Return to Glory podcast. Hunter Zarbnicki, Austin Rose. It's Monday morning.
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  Speaker 2: We're live on YouTube. The replay can be found on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, anywhere you get your podcasts. Austin and
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  Speaker 2: I here this morning recapping the North Dakota win 34-7.
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  Speaker 2: Huskers have moved to 3-0 in non-conference play as we
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  Speaker 2: head into Michigan State week here. And before we get
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  Speaker 2: to any Michigan State talk, we've got to be feeling
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  Speaker 2: pretty confident, right, after three games?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the way we should ask that question,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how you feel about that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I feel okay.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I'd say I feel any more
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  Speaker 4: confident or less confident than the other year. I can't
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  Speaker 4: say the level of competition has made me expect a
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  Speaker 4: different result to the Big Ten this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to remember our non-conference schedule was voted
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  Speaker 2: or ranked as the easiest non-conference schedule in the country.
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  Speaker 4: And we are 3-0. So that's good. You know, it
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  Speaker 4: could be worse. We could have lost to one of
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  Speaker 4: these teams.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I guess speaking of non-conference schedule, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we've mentioned yet the addition of North Dakota, or
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  Speaker 2: North Dakota, the other ND, Notre Dame. to our schedule
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  Speaker 2: here in 2023 or 2033 and 2034. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 2: 32 and 33.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's 32 and 33.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so yeah, we, we add an opponent here to
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  Speaker 2: our non-conference schedule and I, I jokingly have been saying
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  Speaker 2: it'll probably be a, they'll probably be in our conference
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  Speaker 2: by that point and it'll be a non-conference game in
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  Speaker 2: our conference. Uh, I mean, I think with the non-conference,
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  Speaker 2: what you got to remember, especially in today's format of
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  Speaker 2: the 12 team, but as the playoff probably will expand
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  Speaker 2: here very shortly, we're at a point where wins on
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  Speaker 2: the end card, I think, matter. And going 3-0, no
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  Speaker 2: matter who you play, it's going to help. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess our non-conference or our conference schedule is going to
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  Speaker 2: balance our non-conference schedule. I think out a little bit
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  Speaker 2: this year. And so like I, the Tennessee game was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to happen this year. It didn't. And I'm completely
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  Speaker 2: okay with that. Almost think of these games. They're not,
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  Speaker 2: obviously not preseason games, but or exhibition games, but they are, they're, they're,
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  Speaker 2: they're gear up games. They're games to hope to provide
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  Speaker 2: some confidence to you and your team. Um, and learn
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  Speaker 2: from the things that maybe didn't go exactly as you
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  Speaker 2: were wanting them to, and then get you ready for
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  Speaker 2: conference play here next week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the wins do matter, especially at this point of
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  Speaker 4: our program. At some point, you know, you obviously want
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  Speaker 4: to turn the corner and schedule some serious games.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, if your team's like, you know, Oregon,
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  Speaker 5: who got– dropped from.
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  Speaker 4: The one number one all the way down to I
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  Speaker 4: don't remember what they're ranked this week 23 after losing
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  Speaker 4: to Oklahoma State and I mean not really Oklahoma State
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  Speaker 4: isn't you know Texas but Ohio State even they were
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  Speaker 4: number one lost to Texas and dropped down wasn't seven
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  Speaker 4: spots six spots to the number four team so I
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  Speaker 4: mean and then Yeah, like you're saying, it's a 12-team format.
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  Speaker 4: You just don't want to get caught having to claw back.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be able to bump up and not
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  Speaker 4: have to fight back from a bad loss. So I
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  Speaker 4: agree with what you're saying to an extent, but then
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  Speaker 4: there's also that part of me that's like, well, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of want to.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of like this year. It's like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Are we good? Are we going to have an okay year?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We've got three wins against three teams that were supposed to...
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  Speaker 4: The spreads were all 24 points. maybe 23-point-plus spreads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to know. It is. It's hard to know,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to see here. I think what you
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  Speaker 2: want to see is progress and improvement. You know, clean football,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about that a lot because it's something that
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  Speaker 2: you can control here. It feels like that piece was good,
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  Speaker 2: but again, as far as leveling talent goes– against our
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  Speaker 2: next few opponents. It is. It's just hard to tell.
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  Speaker 2: You can look at other teams' games against their first
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  Speaker 2: three games and make some judgment assumptions. You can do
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  Speaker 2: all that. It's just hard to tell.
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  Speaker 4: As a fan, would you rather have three guaranteed wins
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  Speaker 4: or three guaranteed wins?
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  Speaker 5: You would. I don't know. I think I'd rather, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to see us play a team that's like, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually excited about this game.
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  Speaker 5: I can't say this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I was super excited about North Dakota for the, for
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  Speaker 2: the outcome of the season as a fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent. Don't, don't schedule anybody. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about an individual game and like in, in
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  Speaker 2: isolation of the entire program and season, well, yeah, I'd
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  Speaker 2: rather play someone fun to watch, but like, no, for the,
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  Speaker 2: for the season outlook outlook, absolutely not. I, The Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame stuff, I'm not super thrilled with. Like, although it
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  Speaker 2: will be fun for the season, I just, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's a smart, I don't think it's a smart move.
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  Speaker 2: And in today's current environment, now things could change in
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  Speaker 2: five or six years, but. Right.
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  Speaker 4: If it drops to, if it changes to 16 teams,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, well, you can, one loss is expected.
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  Speaker 2: One loss or maybe that one win is what, if you.
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  Speaker 5: Win it, maybe that's the one that. You can be, 9-3,
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  Speaker 5: but you... Yeah, you'd be 9-3, but you beat Notre
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  Speaker 5: Dame in the non-con. You know, it's like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it could be the reason you're out, because
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  Speaker 2: you're 8-4 instead of 9-3.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm torn. It's just that part of me, it's like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Would I have rather played at Colorado?
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  Speaker 5: Probably. It's like, you know, looking back, if we had
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  Speaker 5: lost to Colorado close, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that Colorado is much better.
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  Speaker 5: Than No, North Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: Many of these teams that we've played, Northwestern took it
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  Speaker 2: to them this week. Real quick, to get us into
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  Speaker 2: North Dakota here and the game itself, I haven't listened
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  Speaker 2: to any recap podcasts or talk shows yet. I guess
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  Speaker 2: on the way home, everybody's kind of just like, well,
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  Speaker 2: what do we talk about?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. We look good against the teams that
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  Speaker 5: we're supposed to beat.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, let's move on. But what I did Friday,
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  Speaker 2: if you listened, I did like a little three on
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  Speaker 2: three or three by three bingo card and assigned points
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  Speaker 2: to little things. And then based on how many points hit,
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to kind of tell you where you feel
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  Speaker 2: and how you feel about the game going forward. There
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  Speaker 2: were 20 total points on the board. We hit 13,
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  Speaker 2: which meant the good controlled performance, right? It meant that like,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's very accurate. 20 out of 20
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  Speaker 2: was like jumping on here and going nuts and going
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  Speaker 2: crazy that we're winning the national title. And then right
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  Speaker 2: below that was like a really dominant, confident, ready for
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  Speaker 2: conference position, you know, saying we're here, we're, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bring it on. And I, I, like you said, I just,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where things are at the things that hit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and they weren't the, the bingo card was
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  Speaker 2: not crazy stuff. It was stuff that you probably should do. Um,
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  Speaker 2: one was Calandria having three plus total touchdowns. He had
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  Speaker 2: two that technically didn't hit. Um, and then winning the
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  Speaker 2: turnover margin. We didn't lose turnover margin. There just wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the turnover again by either team, which kind of has
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  Speaker 2: been weird. Like I feel like that's kind of how
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  Speaker 2: the season's gone so far, but yeah, it didn't hit that.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other one we didn't hit was, um,
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  Speaker 2: a backup QB lead, the touchdown drive. Both of them
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  Speaker 2: had a chance. They either had a touchdown with Lateef
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  Speaker 2: and Kalen. But we got to that point. Like, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like they didn't play. And then everything else hit. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: we had five sacks, which was three-plus sacks was one
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  Speaker 2: of the goals there. You know, not allowing a kickoff
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  Speaker 2: return to the 35-yard line. That didn't even get close.
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  Speaker 5: We did have one kicked off out of bounds.
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  Speaker 2: We did have one out of bounds. That kind of,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, is the 35-yard line.
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  Speaker 5: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: North Dakota held them under five yards of play. They
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  Speaker 2: were at 3.7 yards of play. We had over 200
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  Speaker 2: rushing yards. So, again, things had happened, and it led
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  Speaker 2: to saying it was a good, controlled performance and confident
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  Speaker 2: performance against a team like North Dakota. So, big picture,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like we said, the game went really well.
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  Speaker 2: We're 3-0. We outgained them 4-93. 493-205. Ran for almost
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  Speaker 2: 300 yards in a game that I think there's people,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean myself included, thinking, you know, North Dakota
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  Speaker 2: probably the best team maybe that we've played so far
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  Speaker 2: and had some, like, talented players or better players. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I think you could kind of see and maybe that
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  Speaker 2: if they played Ohio, I don't know. I think it
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  Speaker 2: would be a good game, in my opinion. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: think it would be a very close game. Ohio, I think,
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  Speaker 2: probably would still win, but, like, they had some pieces,
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  Speaker 2: but it was pretty clear that we were definitely the
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  Speaker 2: better team at about every position.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: we were controlled it from start to finish.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, while I was watching the game, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just trying to think back to like the moments when
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  Speaker 4: I was excited.
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  Speaker 5: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: We definitely, we, I honestly thought North Dakota didn't even
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  Speaker 4: look like the best team that we played, even though
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  Speaker 4: the score would reflect that.
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  Speaker 5: It just kind of felt like there were times where.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're saying Ohio, I assume.
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  Speaker 4: No. You said you thought North Dakota was going to
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  Speaker 4: be the best team that we played, right?
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  Speaker 5: Is that what you just said?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you saying Ohio's better than them?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But, I don't know, I thought that there were times
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  Speaker 4: during this game that it felt more pre-season-y than the
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  Speaker 4: other two. Like, it felt like, it's like, okay, we're,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, our foot was not on the pedal, it
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  Speaker 4: felt like, as much as the last two games. Even
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  Speaker 4: though our defense definitely was Definitely better. You know, we saw,
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  Speaker 4: because you and I both talked about, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: Dak did too, tailgate pod about wanting to see just
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  Speaker 4: more pressure and getting in the backfield with our D-line.
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  Speaker 5: And we did.
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  Speaker 4: It definitely felt like we drew up more blitzes, which
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  Speaker 4: is something I don't really feel like I saw that
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  Speaker 4: much in the first two games. And we got pressure
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  Speaker 4: without blitzes. But, you know, starting the fourth quarter, was
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  Speaker 4: when TJ Lateef went in. I think it was like
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  Speaker 4: the 13-minute work in the fourth quarter, which he didn't
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  Speaker 4: go in in the first two games until, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: five minutes left in the game. You know, Danny Kalen
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  Speaker 4: got playing time. We were super conservative in the fourth.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It felt like the coaching staff had
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  Speaker 4: mostly seen what they wanted to see in the first
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  Speaker 4: two games. This game, they were like, let's just go
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  Speaker 4: into next week healthy. We're not going to push it.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Give it a bunch of welcome kids snaps. I've heard
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people say, man, yeah, we kept it
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  Speaker 2: pretty basic, didn't we? We didn't show a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I agree. We did. It's nice to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that again and feel that way. And
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  Speaker 2: watching that game, I mean, from the way it started, right,
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  Speaker 2: our first two drives, it was 14-0, just like that.
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  Speaker 2: And you just felt, okay, like any maybe slight concern
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  Speaker 2: that you thought North Dakota was going to come in
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  Speaker 2: and do something with it, you're like, okay, nope, nope,
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  Speaker 2: like we're okay. And that's just not from a fan standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably from the players and coaches too, right? You're prepping,
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  Speaker 2: you go, okay, like, now we, now we kind of
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  Speaker 2: know that we have, we can, we can turn it
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  Speaker 2: on when, when we need to. And, um, we were
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  Speaker 2: able to do that. So like the two drives, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it was, it right away was, and they were,
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  Speaker 2: they were 10 and 11 play drives. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: it was an explosive play beating some guy one-on-one. It
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  Speaker 2: was just, Nope. Like we're just going to dominate you.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to run it right at you. And, and
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  Speaker 2: we continue to do that all game long. Our, our,
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  Speaker 2: second quarter drive, you know, did the same thing, but
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  Speaker 2: then ended in a field goal. You know, we missed
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  Speaker 2: the long, was it a 54 yard or something like that?
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  Speaker 5: I think it was 55 yard. Something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I just, I think that, that, that to me was
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  Speaker 2: very encouraging again. And as much as you can get
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  Speaker 2: gain confidence from these games, it should say, okay, like, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Check that box.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: The things I was thinking about in this game that
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  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, if I were to nitpick this game,
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  Speaker 4: where am I upset? And, you know, it was probably
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  Speaker 4: mostly special teams. I thought, I don't know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think our punting, I don't think we've had a really
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  Speaker 4: good punt yet this year.
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  Speaker 5: Part of that's because we're scoring so much.
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  Speaker 4: We've had a couple of decent returns called back on
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  Speaker 4: penalties on punts. That's something that's kind of, I think
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  Speaker 4: I've seen a couple times this year. And then outside
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  Speaker 4: of that, I just, the only other time where I
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  Speaker 4: was like, what are we doing was there was an
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  Speaker 4: offensive possession where we had three plays. I think it
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  Speaker 4: was in the third quarter. But we had three plays
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  Speaker 4: where all of them were basically behind the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: And it was like third and nine, and we threw
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  Speaker 4: a screen pass, you know, another touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: It was like basically three screen passes.
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  Speaker 2: In a row.
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  Speaker 5: And all of them, we ended up having to punt.
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  Speaker 5: But I just remember being like, okay, I didn't love
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  Speaker 5: that possession.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember exactly which one you're talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because it just felt weird. I was like, why
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  Speaker 5: are we doing this? All of our starters are still on.
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  Speaker 5: We should be able to move the ball at least forward.
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  Speaker 5: Other than that, you know, like I said, takeaways... Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was a blast. Jamal Rule.
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  Speaker 4: Still looked killer, but outside of that, Landry looked fine.
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  Speaker 4: He looked okay. None of the receivers... I have found
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  Speaker 4: initially that this year, I feel like they're really trying
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  Speaker 4: to spread the ball around.
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  Speaker 5: They're not.
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  Speaker 4: By the end of last year, I felt like Nysiah
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  Speaker 4: Hunter was kind of the guy. It's like, oh, the
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  Speaker 4: ball's going to Nysiah. And then maybe Dainty on the
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  Speaker 4: fourth down this year. The first of the first three games,
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea where the ball's going. I felt
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  Speaker 4: like they were forcing the Isaiah Hunter issue this week. Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't gotten the ball last two weeks. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to get on the ball this week.
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  Speaker 2: I I'm always very fascinated too, by that. Like even
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  Speaker 2: NFL games to the, the spread the ball around and,
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  Speaker 2: and like as a quarterback and an offensive coordinator, there
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  Speaker 2: are a thousand percent, certain ways of designing plays and
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  Speaker 2: schemes to like, get balls into certain guys' hands. There's
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  Speaker 2: also a matter of like using guys as decoys and
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  Speaker 2: disguises if you have other guys too. Then there's also
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  Speaker 2: the component of quarterbacks having just guys they feel comfortable
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  Speaker 2: throwing to and guys they like throwing to. So that's
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  Speaker 2: their first or second or third read within a combo.
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  Speaker 2: So like, yeah, it's interesting to see who gets targeted
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than others. Like I said, like we said, though,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to even know if that's what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see moving forward or if that's just what we're
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  Speaker 2: given here on our games in these first three games
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to go with that. Like, it will be.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting moving forward. And we got a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: also by all the tall, skinny dude.
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  Speaker 5: Quinn Clark.
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  Speaker 2: Quinn Clark. You know, he caught one here this game
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  Speaker 2: as well. So, like, that was a good sign from
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  Speaker 2: a depth perspective at receiver. It is. It's interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned, like, these are some of my takeaways, like,
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  Speaker 2: from the game. None of it's going to be too surprising.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned about Jamal Rule, like, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: deeper in this tomorrow. But, like, he had another damn
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  Speaker 2: good game as a freshman.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He came out in the second half, obviously, with the
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  Speaker 2: first carry of the second half and took it to
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  Speaker 2: the house. So, you know, he's proving that he's a
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  Speaker 2: very good back and ready for Big Ten play. And
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  Speaker 2: my biggest thing, and North Dakota said it too, and
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  Speaker 2: this isn't new, we have committed strongly to the run
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  Speaker 2: game here.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: This year. Again, following last year's team, last year definitely
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: was a big shift in focus to making that part
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: of our identity that we have to be able to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: run the ball well. No matter who we're playing, what
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the time and situation is, we have to be able
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to do that. And we did that again from the get-go.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: We're not trying to come out and be cute. Besides,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: you said that one drive, which I remember that drive.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: It was a swing that was weird. But we have
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: showed that that is where we want to establish ourselves,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: which is, to me, very encouraging.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It is encouraging. Now it gets three opponents that we
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: can run the ball on easily. We'll see how it
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: works out. Cause I said, we've run the ball really well.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: It's last three guys.
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  Speaker 5: Who knows?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: We come big 10. Half it's Gerald knows that Nebraska
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: wants to run the ball. It's, you know, three times
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: they have bodies that can actually stop the run. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: then we'll see what happens. You know, like we didn't
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: see Calandria around at this, which again, like I understand
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: why it's like, Oh, like, you know, we don't want
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: to get hurt.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I don't want to show too much.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And it's one of those things that, what do you
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: want to show?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Like it, I think I talked about this before the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: bowling green game. Are we good enough to like have
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: those thoughts as a coaching staff and players of, Hey,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: let's keep it basic. And, or do we need to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: go out and try to win the game? Well, I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: think when you show what you did in the first
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: two drives, yeah. Like the Calandria run game, if that's
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: something that you're planning on doing, which I sure as
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: hell hope it is like, make teams keep thinking about
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: it or maybe not thinking about it and overlooking it
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: to where on Saturday against Michigan state, you could, you
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: can scheme something up that we really haven't shown yet.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And there to go there, there's a, there's a 30
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: yard run by Calandria. Like we haven't seen that. Is
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: it coming? I, like I said, I hope so. We
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: don't know though, cause we haven't shown it, which is
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: maybe part of the plan. I don't know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, well, I think, you know, They showed
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: what they wanted to show in Bowling Green. So they're like,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I feel like they're making them watch. You have to
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: watch all three games to kind of get an idea
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: of some of the things that we might do, which
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: is smart. But for the most part, I don't think
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: they're doing it. We're doing anything that we're not fine
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: putting on tape. Like the heavy package where we bring
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: in William and. Oh, is it Anthony Jones? I don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: remember who the other defensive guys that we bring in
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: for the power run, short yardage. I think they're fine
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: showing that as many times as they want to because
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: the purpose of that is you're not going to be
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: able to stop it because we're just going to body you. But, yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: it was fine. We look okay. I am excited for
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Big Ten play. I could say that. Halfway through this game,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I was like, I want us to play a team
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: where I'm actually like, oh.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I don't want us to lose, and I.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Don't want us to be challenged, but I want to
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: feel better about the win than what I have basically
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the last two weeks.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I felt like the college football schedule, like I enjoy
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: kind of how the seat, like everybody else has kind
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of gotten some tests, and you get some conference games
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: sprinkled in here or there. And we've been a part
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: of those in the past. And I mean, even last
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: year play Cincinnati first game, bigger game. It'd be kind
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: of fun to like sit back and not be super
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: stressed or like overly thoughtful about a game and especially
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: an outcome and just kind of watch, see how things
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: are going in, in, in the rest of the country
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and where things are at. And then now kind of,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: you're right now, now it's not ready. Let's, let's turn
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it on. Like it, it's right. It, I don't want
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to compare it to NFL preseason, but I feel like
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: we just played a three-game preseason schedule, and now it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: like week one. And the three-game preseason schedule matters from like,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I want to see what we got, I want to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: see what we're kind of doing, I want to see personnel.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And then week one, boom, the record starts. And here
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: we are with that. And yes, we should never take
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: wins for granted, but 3-0 was.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Almost a guarantee.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: If you would ask any Husker fan, that was happening
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: in their brain.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: If we lost any of these games, Matt Rule's seat
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: is hot, hot, hot.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Right. Now we get a seat. Now we start it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: The other thought I had with watching some games this week,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and NFL games too, Rule mentioned, I think it was Rule,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: maybe it was somebody else on the radio I was
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: listening to, They talked about how football is different. Actually, yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: this was Tommy Armstrong talked about it on the recap.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: These games are great, right? You get to see and
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: when will we actually know and tell progress. It's that
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: late October, early November stretch when it's different. It's cold.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: There's injuries. People are banged up. You're in the meat
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: of Big Ten play. You're playing– opponents, tough opponents. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I think that stretch for us is that Washington-Illinois record
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: stretch there. I think people kind of are not accepting
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a loss that some of these other games, because they're
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: definitely winnable, but those are the games that are going
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to define this season, this schedule, and no one's going
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: to look back and remember, oh man, we won these
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: first three games 34-7, and 56 to set like people
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: aren't going to really remember that they're going to remember
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what we do in late october early november and football
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: is just different than it's it's like watching the nfl
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: these games and i'm like man remember these playoff games
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that are freezing cold like we're so far from that
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in the weather calendar in the schedule but we'll get
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: there right now people are playing in really pretty good
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: conditions well outside of the the games that were rainy
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: all day but it's just different football when it gets
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to that point. And so like, I think that's a
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: very good thought and thing to remember. And I guess
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: it starts here, Michigan state. It looks like the weather
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: is going to be about perfect out, out in East Lansing.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess as a kind of shift has the
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: rest of the season from the other team's perspective, changed
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: your outlook on our team.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I know, you know, you look at the teams that
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: we were supposed to play and, Indiana got off to
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: a slow start down and taking care of business, but, um,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: you know, Illinois, they've lost one. Oregon's lost one. Obviously
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: they killed Portland state last week.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: As expected, as expected.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Dylan or 11 for 11, three tutties or whatever it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Was negative seven rushing yards.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: So that's true. You're right. Um, Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: It's been interesting. I think I feel better about this season,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: but Iowa has looked.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: I.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Mean, I thought they were going to be a playoff team,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: so I guess they've looked about what I thought they'd
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: look like, but they've looked decent.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I guess circling all the way back to
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the top, that's where the word confidence comes into me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You kind of get the schedule, you look at the
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: rest of the year. You shouldn't feel... head over heels
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: for this team by any means. I don't think anybody should,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but you got, you got to feel pretty good about
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: where things have sat through three games that just take
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: away what you want from it, given who it was and, and,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and let's see, let's see where things are at here
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: this week. I did book some last minute tickets yesterday and,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and we're heading, we're heading to East Lansing.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: So what was your other road game going to be
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: this year?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Rutgers? I was going to go Oregon.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: But this one, a little more affordable. I, I did
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: say I will go to every road game until we lose.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: So like if we're six and oh, if we beat
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Indiana at home.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: There you go. Like the ambition. Uh, uh, I don't
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: think you're going to go to every road game. I'm
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: just going to put it that way.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: All the way up until we're 17-0 and playing in
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the national championship. Or 16-0. Whatever that record is.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Out of the years to try to go to every
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: road game, you know, outside of Oregon, it's been rough.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: It's not a matter of going to every road game
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: this year. It's a matter of winning a lot of games.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: If we beat number five, Indiana, I don't play before
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I go to Oregon. Oh yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Here's our schedule this week. We'll I'll be back tomorrow
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: doing a little solo script dive. And then Dak Wednesday,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: as usual, Austin and Dak will do the, I'll be
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: traveling Thursday. So they will have their, the Thursday preview.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And then I'll do my preview on Friday with hopefully
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a couple of special guests that I'm traveling with.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: So, I haven't even looked. What's our opening line for
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Michigan State?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I believe we're at like 4.5 is what I saw yesterday.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: ESPN has us at 5.5.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Money's coming in on the Oscars already.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Over or under 52.5.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I don't even know. I haven't looked at Michigan State
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: yet this year. I know they lost last week.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Big Ten play is here.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: It's finally happening. GVR.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The headlines change, but the mission stays. From Memorial Stadium
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to PBA days.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Football Saturdays, basketball nights.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Every story chasing red and white.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Recruiting buzz, big time commits. Camp battles, coaching hits.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Transfer moves and rising stars. the road to glory's never
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: far this is return to glory where every headline tells
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the story big red pride every season husker nation's got
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: a reason from touchdown dunks and championship dreams we'll be
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: back with the latest from every team until next time
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: keep the.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Faith keep believing because the return to glory is just
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: beginning go big red see you next episode