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Episode 5.31: Go That Way -- Purdue Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turner glor Podcast, Broncos five and three. Guys, we are on a
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three game winning streak. Hunters are Berniki, Austin, Rose, Dakota Free
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Tag. This is a October full of wins no losses for the first time
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since two thousand and two, which they haven't had a an undefeated October since
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two thousand and two. Wow, that's impressively played three times as October.
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There is a lot to talk about with this game, but guys, we're
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gonna go back to it. The most important thing is winning. And yeah,
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those stats are fun to throw out there and you know, show where
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we're at. But bottom line is we've won five of our last six Behinder
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Cardboard as our starting quarterback, and we've played some teams. I'm just gonna
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leave it at that, like you might say they're bad, but we are
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winning football games. We are putting together a stretch of games in Austin.
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I just noticed your new facial haircut. Oh yeah, I didn't even notice
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that I have ho Yeah, I just I'm like, wait, is like,
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hold on, did you do that or what? Yep? That's there's
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just just yeah, that's exactly what happened. The frustration of plucking out beard
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hairs every time we fumbled the football. You know, if the world would
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be a better place if more men had mutton chops, you know, well,
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I wish I could grow anything, So I better get to that point
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first. And uh, okay, Dak, you already brought up the fumbles
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before we get into some of the disturbing stuff here and including the Oklahoma lost
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to Kansas. Wait what huh? They lost? I gotta say how great
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our defense is, guys, I really do. I think this week it
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hit me Perdue's offense was maybe supposed to be a little better. It wasn't
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gonna be a the best one we've seen, but we knew they had some
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athletes. We knew that, yeah, weather was gonna be a little chillier,
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but there was no wetness out there. We came out there. Guys,
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our defense is actually good, and I think we've held up on really
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going over the top on that. But like, seriously, Perdue's offense did
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not score, did not put together one drive, and it didn't even look
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like they could. They scored two touchdowns obviously the fumble return, and then
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their other run was off of a fumble short field that they went down and
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scored late in the game. They're legit. Our defense is legit. And
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Tony White is a dude. He knows what the hell he's doing. And
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I think, again, we know this, but this is the first week
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that I'm like, oh my god, Like I just think back of our
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last few games. These teams cannot even put together a drive. They get
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a first down, I'm like, okay, like so what not only that?
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Like, I mean, these teams have not had bad field position.
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I mean we've fumbled the ball plenty of times on our side of the fifty
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yard line and they cannot get anything going. Yeah, watching that game when
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they had the ball, I was I would have been surprised if they scored
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like I thought there was every time they had the balls, zero shout of
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them scoring anything. It was both say Bo Rude and Nick Baye listen to
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those guys a lot, and they had a great analogy this week. They
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thought was really funny. But they said, our offense is like a newborn
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or a child, and our defense is the parents. And our offense just
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goes out and shoots their pants and pukes, and the parents are always there
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to clean them up and take care of them and try to help them learn
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from their mistake, but ultimately they can't figure it out because they're too young,
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they don't know what they're doing. So I like that thought because it's
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true, right, It's not like our offense is doing anything to help the
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defense at all. In fact, they're hurting them just like they have in
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previous years, but it's so not noticeable because of what our defense does.
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And if you look at our games and how they're going, are they what
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we call pretty wins? Like, no, they're not. Even if we
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would have been up twenty four to nothing in one, Like, there's still
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a lot of just puke that that goes on, but it goes unnoticed or
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a little bit under the radar because of how good our defense is. It's
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because our defense goes out and just says, nope, like I don't care
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what just happened. We're gonna go out and it's first and ten from the
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thirty five, and we're gonna get a stop. And they do such a
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great job of that. I had to do that at the top here,
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guys, because that that is ultimately, like, ultimately the reason why we
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are five and three right now and feeling very good about Nebraska football. Best
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we've had Austin probably since we started doing the podcast. But definitely that is
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the reason why it is our defense and solely our defense and Tony White and
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what they've done. There aren't a lot of five win teams out there minus
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ten for turnover margin. Yeah, I'm really where we rank in the turnover
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margin. The offense moved the ball decently yesterday. I I thought they looked
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all right on offense besides the turnovers, which we'll we'll get into that,
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but I didn't I didn't think it looked terrible on the offensive side. Yeah.
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I think we we have an identity right and and what we're trying to
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do. We're still before sorry, in six out of one hundred and thirty
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teams for turnover margin. There you go. So there are four teams worse
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there, team than the Temple Army POI and we're tired of Arizona State.
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Yeah, that that clearly is the big issue. The offense. They can
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do some decent things, but we are so banged up. We talked about
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how we only had two upper classmen starting this week. Jeff Simms, you
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not even going to mention that name yet, we we do some decent things
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at times and offense, but we just don't quite yet know how to look
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like a good offense because anytime we get a little sense of that, we
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turn it over, we put it on the ground, or maybe it's not
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even the play, it's the design what we're trying to do. So yeah,
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Dak, I think I see what you're saying. But it's still not
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good. But again, it doesn't matter if we're winning games, doesn't really
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matter at this point, at this point in the year, this season,
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how well how our offense is performing, I guess moving forward, yeah,
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it needs to be better. But right now, let's say our defense is
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ranked by yards per game thirteenth in the country. We give up just under
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nineteen points yard per game, nineteen points per game, which probably looks to
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be somewhere in the top twenty, and we are fifth in rushing yard spring
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game. So luckily, Yeah, like I said, our offense doesn't have
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to do a whole lot. You just have to score more than nineteen points.
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And I don't know what that stat would be if we removed our Michigan
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game where we gave up forty five. Yeah, true, that Michigan game
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It's very easy just to block that out and say it is what it is.
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But it did happen, and you did happen. It might not happen
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in the record books though after this year. You're right, Dak, you
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are right, all right. Next topic here I want to jump into.
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I want to ask you guys a question. So I also thought this was
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interesting, which I gotta make sure I phrase this right. Which team would
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win between the twenty twenty one Nebraska team in this one? Like which team
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is better the best three team in the history of college football, the best
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three and nineteen in the history of college football? Just to remind you,
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we have ad Adrian was our quarterback. We had Ramier yant Step at running
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back. Toure was a beast, Austin Allen Tighten, Omar Manning, bets
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Levi Falk on the offensive end. Defensively, Hendrich was a freshman and so
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was Rymer. Those two guys lesson tackles. But Jojo Doman Nelson, Cam
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Taylor Burrett, dis Mute, Connor Colt kicking kicking for us? Like,
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what's your take on that? Like this year's team or twenty twenty one's team.
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Tick in the coaching staff on this year's team. Yep, that team
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would find a way. They'd probably get up that twenty twenty twenty one team,
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they'd find a way to lose the game. Which defense you think is
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better that team or this team? Oh? This team for sure? Agreed?
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Was I thought that year's defense is pretty damn good. Though, Uh
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it wasn't bad. We're still three and eight. The offense wasn't necessarily bad
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that year. Our offense actually did all right. It was the coaching staff
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that was a whole thing about the three and eight team. It was we
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had the talent to win every game, but we lost every game because we
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just couldn't get over that hump. And I don't think that was a talent
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thing. Yeah, So that's the point, right. I think you give
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us those players just their skill level, right because I think the second part
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of that is their mindset of winning and the intangible piece there that comes with
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football players. You get that with this staff. I think we look very
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different on offense this year as well. I mean, we'd take Adrian Martinez
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and a heartbeat right now. I believe like even with the system and style
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were running, that that would be great for this offense. We take a
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Samurai tour in a heartbeat, right now, have someone a playmaker like that,
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but we don't. But it goes back to answer the question of winning,
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right and yeah, that team might have been good, but they would
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have found a way to act. They would have found a way to lose.
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Like you said, something would have happened where we would have lost.
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And this year's team understands that value and how to do that for a four
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quarter game for the most part, and would have found a way to beat
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that team. So all these others, you know, it sounds like we're
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bearing the offense. We were six for eleven for passes. I mean that's
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a pretty good you know, I can't believe we only completed six passes.
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I mean, that's Iowa shit right there. Man. To win a game
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with six completions and eleven times, I'm taking that. I'm taking every single
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bit I want Iowa's offense right now. I want every single bit of what
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we're doing right now. As long as we're winning games, I could care
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less. I agree. I can't believe we spent I have one taking a
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deep shot like that. Yeah. True. What I do hope is that
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we are continuing to learn from the hiccups that we're in that we're seeing.
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Right when you're winning, it's very not very easy, but at times you
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tend to look over stuff if you're not being too close attention to detail on
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why certain things are happening in the game that aren't going your way. But
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when you're up twenty four to nothing with ten minutes to go, and you
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just in a game that was a pick um game and you're just kicking produce
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ass, it probably is pretty easy to say, man, we are we're
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rolling now. And I want to jump right into that conversation because when that
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field goal goes in from Albano twenty four to nothing, the world seemed great.
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I believe we had a ninety nine point nine win percentage, and then
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what just happened after that that was a real rough sequence. Then that ten
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to seven minute mark, there's two really bad minutes of just unfortunate comedy of
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errors. But I don't know. I wasn't ever worried about us losing the
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game because up twenty four to nothing with under ten minutes to go, just
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possession wise, I wasn't super worried about it, but gosh, it was
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nice to not lose that game that felt like it could have been a game
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we would have lost last year. It hit me at one point it did,
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and that's why I brought it up. Was and that's because of the
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way we've been scarred over the past few years with losing. But that whole
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time, I'm like, literally, run the ball three times. If we
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get a first down, awesome if we all on the ball, because their
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offense isn't moving ball on us, like we weren't doing the on site kick
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kill shot that Scott frosted. But it did kind of feel like it like
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we were like, oh, we're ahead, Like who cares, We're just
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trying to prove something and show Like that's what it felt like a little bit.
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Instead of just saying, you know what, go home twenty four to
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nothing. That would have been an ass whoopen and everybody would have went home
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saying wow. But instead everyone went home being like, wow, we almost
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threw that away even though he really did it, but he really didn't,
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but you had that feeling it was. It was fumble. After Harberg goes
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down, they go down and score in comes Jeff Sims. For whatever reason,
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apparently Harberg had a bunch of blood on his face and got from that
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big hit right before he fumbled. And at the time I'm like, okay,
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like maybe you know, it's not really garbage time, but it kind
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of is. And we're kind of still ahead. And then comes Jeff Simms
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and runs four plays and one of them catches it turns the wrong way.
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The other one weren't shotgun snapped. Sim's a guy in motion, one that
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the ball drills the guy in motion almost did it again. And then third
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you fumble it and throw a ball up in the air so the other team
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can just catch it and go feel bad for the guy. I really do,
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yeah, really, And we shouldn't have even we should have been punting.
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It's one of those things where you look, it's like why we I
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thought we should have punted it. Anyways, I don't think we should have
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gone for it on fourth and ones, like just pin them deep and are
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just that's all. That's what we need to do, is just rely on
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the defense. But it's just funny you talk about those two minutes because it's
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a game we won. We were up twenty four zero, we won thirty
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one fourteen, But there were two times in the game where I just felt
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sick of like not sick, but like, ugh, this could be a
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bad game. It was the first five minutes of the game it was really
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rough, and then again those two minutes. Normally you don't have that when
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you're winning by twenty four to nothing, but or your a five win team.
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It was just weird. It was a weird game. It felt still
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good, and Dak, I'm gonna let you go on. Jeff Simms,
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I know you're just like building dog get brought up. It just didn't it
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didn't seem like anything was needed to be done there on. I mean even
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Harbord's possession, like just run it and kick, just punnet. Like you
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hear me. You probably heard me say that if anybody was sitting around me.
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Hear me saying just run and punt, run it and punt, Like
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I don't care running punnet. That's all that we need to do in those
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situations to get out of there with a self satisfying win. But Dak,
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I know you have thoughts on Jeff Simms, just let's just hear him.
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Well, the first the first thing is either Harbor or Sims. When you
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got not twenty four, oh, you would have been better to actually kneel
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the ball. Everything will play on the way out there you go trying to
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run in place. But Si Sims just it just topped off everything I've said
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right there, that was that was a chef's kiss right there. You know,
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he's not transferring anywhere. That loves him and like team loves him,
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but he's not gonna go. He can't transfer anywhere and play like. That's
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not going to happen. He can't. He can't blame on our snap for
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you the rest of the year, no, no shot. What's scary is
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that if Harber does happen to get hurt, it probably is him, right.
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The The thing with Jeff Simms and we kind of I kind of said
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this early on when things were going like and it just confirms everything. He
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is just a nervous wreck in his brain constantly. I mean, think about
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after what happened and we're all like, okay, and I bad take here.
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We need to find a way to get Jeff Simms to use his athleticism
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on the field and find a way to use him to make plays be a
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little bit dynamic on offense. Right. I don't want that. I think
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he is so messed up in the head from a nervous anxiety just freakish standpoint
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that we don't want he got since it's turnovers and he got benched or hurt,
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but benched. He's been in for two series both of a turnover,
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like the one thing you cannot do because this is your problem, like literally
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go take three knees and funt it like you said, like just don't turn
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it over. And he's done it both. I don't get how he's not
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holding on that ball for his life, doesn't worry about where he has to
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go, just holding on that ball for his life in that moment, just
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like I can't fumble here. But he helped. He threw He threw it
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up perfect too to the other team, like it was a it was it
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was not gonna lie I was. I was kind of cheer when that happened.
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But that's but yeah, I don't know. Was that was that wide
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receiver that caught the deep ass? Was he a freshman too? Yeah?
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So so you're two wide receivers starting now a freshman. Jaylen Lloyd's a freshman,
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Jaden DAWs is a freshman. I don't think ty Han's a freshman.
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Malcui, No guys a freshmen. It's the young dudes. And to that
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long touchdown pass and relating this back to the fumbling, I saw something as
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he was walking into the end zone that it just made me smile. He
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put as he was crossing the goal line, he put two hands over the
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ball in case someone was gonna come behind and swipe at it. And I
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was like, huh. Someone coached him to tell him, m hmm,
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this situation, this is what you do. Here's the problem. For some
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reason, our guys that have the ball in their hands ninety percent of the
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time can't figure that out. And we saw another fumble by our running back
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this week. You start the game and I whatever, Garrett Snodgrass, I
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get it. You don't carry the ball. The ball's not in your hands
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very often. But it almost has to be a thing program wide that you
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are telling everybody who regardless, Tell your kicker, tell everybody, Like when
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someone is coming to tackle you right now, it's not about trying to break
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a tackle and make another guy missed. Your job is to not fumble the
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football, like two hands on it and put put your legs on and cradle
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it and just slide I don't know, but don't fumble the ball, Dak.
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What is your new drill because apparently punching it the ball doesn't work.
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What's your new drill for? If you fumble in the game, you gotta
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run five miles every single day? I don't know. I just I just
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ran one. But that's what they should be doing, is the Is there
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a reason that's the punishment? What for running miles five miles? Uh?
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Yeah, there's shout out, shout out couple of weeks for that one.
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Anyway, if you fumble in the game, you gotta make him run laps
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or do something. Just make their Monday hell because because then the like I
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won't ever do that again. You got to make like their weak health they
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found on a game like how make it hell weak? Ideally you're you're deep
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enough that when someone fumbles you can bench them. But we're not deep enough.
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Oh how did you? How do you guys think your own line played?
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Honestly, you guys, order it was better. I mean, it
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wasn't great, but it was better than I thought it was gonna be.
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Pretty guys, I thought it looked pretty good. It was solid and you
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know Purdue right coract and produce known or their coaches known for their defense,
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right, And I get it. It's his first year, so there's still
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progress that needs to be made on that their end. But our offensive line
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did did a fair job for the injuries. That was one thing that hit
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me before the game, and I said it on on the rail yard pod,
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like I was like, crap, but our offensive line could actually struggle
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today and we could be getting sacked. We could be, you know,
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bumbling it. But I guess if we only throw it eleven times, like
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your chances of getting sacked aren't great. So that's also good. I really
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do think after the first quarter, like the first quarter was kind of not
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great, but I do think the rest is we did all right. Yeah,
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I mean a guy I want to give a shout out to and not
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quite a returner to glory, but very well could be here in the coming
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weeks. But justin Evans Jenkins, red shirt freshman comes in. We weren't
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sure exactly who was starting on our offensive line with these injuries, but comes
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in at left guard, says it on the big board. I'm like,
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I don't know who that is, but all right, that guy, like,
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shout out to him. For doing what he did. I don't I
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can't tell you. He did like awesome on the line, but he didn't
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do anything bad to where we're like, oh my god, like we didn't.
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End of the game, you know, right, should say name his
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number? What was me? I did see after the game, I went
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down to kind of the tunnel area where they walk out, and I just
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kind of caught his number. I was, you know, not a boy
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way to fill in this week, and he like stopped as he was walking
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the locker turning around, gave me a fist bump, like like a guy
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like that again, think about it. He is an eighteen year old,
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nineteen year old kid that gets thrown in, probably had a great week of
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practice. I'm sure gets thrown in to play Memorial Stadium. It gets Purdue
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big ten game. He goes in and does his job what he needs to
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do. Like so again, shout out to a guy like that in our
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offensive line for holding their own and doing a solid job. I agree,
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other guy. There were a couple of moments where I was like that guy,
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Quentin Newsome when he jumped on that fumble, the fumbled kickoff that Purdue
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is like pointing down and for sure they have it. I was like,
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way to keep playing the ball, like there's no reason he needed to be
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down there looking for the football because we shouldn't have fumbled it. And then
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freaking Tommy Hill got boy Scout Frost turned that man into a receiver and he
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had two picks in one game. Now, he did have that really dumb
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where he recovered or he returned the punt where he's like, why did you
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return that point? You should fair cut that or not touched it at all.
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But he knew he was catching that. You knew when that ball was
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coming down to Tommy. Tommy Hill goes, oh, this is mine.
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That is exactly what I thought. I was like, dude, that do
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not run that ball. But I thought it was hilarious. Then it was
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later in the game when Purdue was punting that and he probably couldn't see this
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on TV. I don't remember who was back there. One of our safeties
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dropped back there for the punt and Tommy Hill tried changing with him, like
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it was one of those situations where Perdue was down, so he didn't know
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if they were really going to punt or if they should so they might go
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for it. So he's want to keep your first team depense in the field.
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So they were. But then once he realized they were punting, the
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safety kind of dropped back and Tommy Hill was like, oh, nope,
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that's me. I'm going. He took off the run back there in the
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safety goes, no, you stay up there. Oh it's funny. It
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killed me. Oh man, good for him. Nice. He came back
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and he's playing defense like you should have been playing the whole time. That
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his one interception that he that he had, he caught it, and he
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looked like expecting he had all these blockers, like a kickoff return, no
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one there. Oh boy. We're like, Tommy, go that way,
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go that way. He's like, oh, I don't have any blockers.
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Got that? Oh I love it. Gotta love Tommy Hill. Gotta love
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it. Great job. Oh and him high fiving with on the return thirteen
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yards. They're like like little kids at a playground, like at each other.
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Yes, it's fun. It's fun when we're winning, and it looks
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like they're having fun too. It's fun. I'll tell you one thing.
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Ben Hark has to be the most improved player in the nation. He was
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the worst player I've ever saw in my life last year and now he's actually
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he's actually decent. Yeah good. Yeah, I don't know why he did
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this off season. Might need to test him, but we'll see. But
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anyways, donnro Ola man, he is the one holdover for the coaching staff
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and all the linemen freaking love him. And I will say last year we
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were last year we were impressed by offensive line, but that was his first
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year. Year two, I would say we've seen some progress. It's solid.
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Yeah, I mean I would have never thought I'd ever say this,
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but I feel bad for it Eth the Viper and being he was another one
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of those guys that was absolutely horrible a couple of years ago that was playing
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for Frost and and yeah, I guess you know they're young guys, but
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that speaks to the development and coaching that Donnie can do with on the offensive
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line and rule in the entire staff as well. But these guys are getting
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better and and that that's what matters. Right. Offensive linemen are not the
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hottest commodity in the transfer portal. You're probably not going to pick up five
27:08
new guys every year. If you're Dion Sanders, you're you knowing, yes,
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you can't get find it. Travis Hunter though his freaking quote about like
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the line's bad, the bad we go, we get a new one and
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they're gonna they're gonna hear that message a lot and clears like, that's not
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how that kissed me off. That's the approach. That's the approach that we
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were debating not month and a half, two months ago, whether that would
27:37
be a better approach than what a traditional rebuild is. That's not coaching,
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that's just shopping for good players and hoping that they make you look good.
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This this team shows how bad your coaching staff was though last with Frost Air,
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because every player that was on with for us has done something a lot
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better this year, like Ben Hart's got better, Hill has looked good,
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Ethan Piper looked these in all those players like the complete ship on the Frost
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So that tells you how bad he was and almost agree yeah, and and
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I guess yeah, looking like shit I think goes back to exactly what we
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started the podcast with. When you lose, everything gets magnified. When you
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win, all the good things get magnified. So you lose a game,
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we lose a game like this and we lose. Let's say we lose Northwestern
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and Purdue, right, Like I as a fan, like, we want
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to figure out, Okay, why the hell we lose? All right,
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Well our offensive line shitty? Well who's shitty on our offensive line? Well,
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let's go find find out. Whereas when we win, we're just like,
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Okay, they were solid, right, And I'm sure not everything's perfect,
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And you hope that the staff is the one ones that are realizing that
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too and continuing to find ways to improve and aren't aren't ever satisfied with where
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we're at. I think that's what good coaching staffs do. But yeah,
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I think that is very clear that players are playing better than they have in
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previous years and that's largely because of because of coaching and then ultimately winning.
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And he takes on Matt Rule's comments after the game in the press conference.
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Nothing there was anything too controversial, and there's just he just said a lot
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of things that you want to hear. Yeah, and this is it wasn't
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as much post game, but his Thursday press conference too. Call it a
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red flag. I don't know. He just he still continued to talk a
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lot about himself in his past, which we caught that with Mark Whipple a
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lot before he even started coaching. And the justification behind it, right is
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he's still He's Rule is still proving himself to the fans, and he doesn't
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have a lot of experiences here to tie back to and relate to when it
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talks about growing and learning from mistakes and things that went well and didn't work
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well at Nebraska. So yeah, he's using as Temple days as Baylor days
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his NFL days to tie a lot of that back to what he's learned.
30:03
Right, But at some point we got to get over that and say,
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no, this is what's happening here, what we're building here, and not
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talking about that again, that's saying that's a shame on rule. I hate
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Matt Rule for That's not That's not what I'm saying. It's it's just all
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right, let's keep keep going, Let's let's keep moving on with where we're
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at, keep getting better. Yeah, you guys can go speaking in the
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streets next Saturday, after you guys go bowling or what at Michigan State.
30:34
I'll be there, guys. I'm sorry, we are probably not going to
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go bowling next week because I'm going to the game. That's true, that's
30:44
bad luck. I guarantee, I guarantee Nebraska will win WOA smoke Kansas this
30:52
last weekend. Wait, isn't it? Wait? We went on Time to
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talk about Alklahoma podcast about doing I think we have plenty of times, maybe
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because I do. I have one bigger topic that is I just found fascinating
31:08
and interesting and it comes from the fans going back to them and you know
31:15
how much we love them but hate them. I don't know what it looked
31:19
like on TV, no idea what you could see from the crowd. It
31:23
was obviously a very cold game. Austin. Did you see what tickets were
31:27
going for on stub Hub or knew what they were costing to get into the
31:30
game? I saw, I saw someone got enough tickets for like a family
31:34
of six for eight bucks each. Yep, it was dirt cheap. I
31:38
knew Dak had eight of them with his family. I knew. I think
31:41
of about fifteen tickets that were people were giving away just we could go to
31:45
the game. People did not want to go to this game because I guess
31:52
the weather condition right, Like, There's probably not a whole lot of other
31:56
reasons to say other than it was going to be cold. So now there
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were parts of the States that did have a substantial mess snow, yes,
32:06
so traveling there too. That I think bigger picture just says right now the
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fan base like, yes, I think some of the die hards and people
32:15
that have podcasts like us, like, we're very invested in enjoying it,
32:20
but you're casual fans that there's just still nothing to latch onto. Yet they
32:23
are still waiting and seeing what's going on. So that was That was number
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one. The first thing that I noticed this week's second thing, student section
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and the stadium itself come kick off was pretty filled. It wasn't quite I
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think, all the way, but it's not like you could see a bunch
32:39
of openings. The student section diminished very very quickly after, probably again the
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cold. They're college kids, so I'm sure most but we're not dressed warm
32:50
enough. And by the end of the game, or even when we were
32:53
up twenty four to nothing, the student section I would say was a fourth
32:57
fill. Potentially, it is Halloween weekend, and that might have been the
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oldest you've ever sounded. Hunter. They weren't college kids, so I'm sure
33:05
they weren't dressed warm enough. Well, and I say that too because I
33:07
wasn't dressed warm enough. I did not. Yeah, you had to froze.
33:12
I only had jeans on and I had three layers of close up top,
33:15
a T shirt along sleeve in a sweatshirt. So I was not warm
33:19
enough myself. But besides the point, again, don't that this speaks to
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our program right now where it's at. Yeah, we're winning, but shows
33:29
college students right now in Nebraska are not. They don't, they don't care
33:32
about Husker football. But think about what students. What are they like?
33:36
They like when you're ranked, the like when you're playing a ranked team.
33:37
They like all the hype that surrounds everything there and for Nebraska's not and and
33:44
maybe we'll get there by the end of the year, that's great, but
33:46
that's what they're waiting to see. But I can guarantee you if we're playing
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Iowa at the end of the year and we're in the top twenty five and
33:52
we're playing to go to a Big ten West title game, they'll be there
33:55
because that's what matters to them. But this game doesn't. It needs to
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to start. Yes, third, third thing with the fans. By the
34:06
time we got to the fourth quarter. The stadium was probably about half filled,
34:09
maybe a little over half, but it was farse. Things were going
34:13
very very well. Okay, we were winning. I'm not gonna it wasn't
34:16
a blowout, but things were going well and it probably just got a little
34:20
cold for some fans. But the whole fourth quarter. It has hit me.
34:27
With like two minutes left in the fourth quarter, I turned next to
34:30
the guys I was sitting to and I'm like, we have not sat down
34:34
the whole second half. It sounded, honestly, it sounded like the fans
34:38
that are on TVOY did look empty. To the sound like the fans that
34:43
were there were freaking invested in the game. It was fascinating. It was
34:49
really because everybody was like everybody that stayed like stood and was very invested and
34:55
was in it because we were kicking ass and everybody was loving it. Because
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everybody I think that stayed were the ones that care enough about Huscar football,
35:02
whether it be whatever age, they cared enough about it that they wanted to
35:07
stay and support because everything was going so well. So it was very neat
35:10
to see because I'm like, wow, this is great, Like everybody's like
35:14
this speaks to how things are getting better. At the same time, you
35:17
go, oh wow, maybe only half the stadium on a given Saturday,
35:22
actually we want at the game. The other half we don't even want to
35:25
come in the first place. If that's their mindset and attitude, right,
35:30
like, it validates us lowering the capacity. And you want those forty five
35:37
fifty thousand people that were there at the end of the game, because those
35:40
are the ones that are invested in love it a rest of them. I'm
35:44
sorry, I get it. You want to go to a game, but
35:45
don't come. If that's your mindset, don't come. That was every reason
35:50
for a kick ass game that you should be staying and cheering and supporting.
35:53
And yeah, I get it, it was freaking cold, But what the
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hell are you there for that? What are you there for if if you're
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just gonna leave when things are going well? Now, I get it.
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If it was fifty one to nothing, then get your ass out of there,
36:04
like the game was over. But there's nothing no part of that game
36:06
where it was like, oh we're killing I'm great, we're winning game over,
36:09
Like, yeah, fired me up. But also I was very telling.
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I thought that was very interesting. My most interesting fan take I've had
36:16
this year was what happened that second half and half people left, but the
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ones that were there were loved it. It sounded louder than sometimes a full
36:29
stadium at the end of that game like it was. It sounds the student
36:32
section was looked like completely empty by the middle of the fourth quarter. They
36:37
cleared out quick, which I'm I'm sure they will have to go party for
36:42
Halloween. But but yeah, do you uh, did you have any fireball
36:49
keep you warm? Or what? Maybe a little? You couldn't have paid
36:55
me to sit in those stands. It was about the most fun game I
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think I've been to it at Memorial Stadium in a long time. I mean,
37:02
it really was. It just it had a chili vibe and you know
37:09
what, I told myself, I'm gonna be cold because I'm not transforming up
37:13
like it's gonna freaking have fun. And obviously the game and the way it
37:16
went helped a lot. But it was a blast. And I wish that
37:21
everybody that was there at the end of the game could double their bodies and
37:23
show up every week, because that would make Memorial Stadium a freaking It'd be
37:29
awesome. It'd just be a blast every Saturday. But I think we have
37:32
a lot of fans right now that still are needing something to prove. I
37:37
really hope that's why we're not why we're trying to go down and score with
37:40
twenty four to nothing and then putting Jefferson's and I hope that's not the reason
37:45
is to a piece those fans because we don't need to. But could be,
37:47
I don't know, hope not. I think that's just to get more
37:52
reps as an offense, to be honest. Could be. Could be I
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would have been at pounding them and pounded him and pounded him again and then
38:04
break one free like we did on that last drive with Emma Johnson up the
38:07
middle. Dad Dak we got about thirty seconds left. Give us your rant
38:15
on ou what a pissed poor coaching performance that was. They just and Jim
38:21
Bean is the best backup quarterback me all time. That guy, that guy,
38:25
every time he comes in. I knew it was gonna be I knew
38:28
it was gonna be a close game because he's he's pretty damn good, and
38:32
he lit them up. I knew I was worried about coming in and Sprink
38:36
told you everything. It sucked, it was, it wasn't fun. Name
38:39
my boy Kirk Cousin's teras Achille. It's been a hell. And my saves
38:45
beat the Colts today. Yeah they did. Derek car look competent, he
38:49
did. Life's been good on this end. This weekend, absolutely awful on
38:54
this end. Both my teams are done well, Dad, go run another
38:59
mild night. We'll be back Wednesday. Review The spartans of Michigan State,
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go big, Red, Give you are Bloomer sooner. I love that burnt
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