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Rhule's Job to Manage Expectations and Akron Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: M Return to Glory Podcast, September four. It's Akron Week.
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  Speaker 1: The Zips, Hunter Zarbadiki, Austin Rose, Dakota Free Tag, the
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  Speaker 1: Big Mighty Actors Zips come to Memorial Stadium after a
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  Speaker 1: ten zero shutout loss at home to Wyoming last week.
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  Speaker 2: Big scared here.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, I was just telling you before I got on,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I didn't realize that the Zips we
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  Speaker 3: were this bad. I say that we probably gotta you know,
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  Speaker 3: lose or barely squeaked by a wind.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel all right. This week feels better than
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  Speaker 2: last week.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, this is this is my team.
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  Speaker 5: I played multiple dynasty seasons within a college football on
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  Speaker 5: the video game, and let me tell you, they suck.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not it's not me that sucks, it's them.
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  Speaker 1: You sure about that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Uh, the Zips of Akron just I don't know, Austoin,
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  Speaker 6: to your point, I don't think they're very good.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some teams come in here from the MAC
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois beat US a few years ago. Even some
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  Speaker 1: lower level or FCS teams come in that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you might have a little bit of cause of concern.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have any here yet is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent chance to win an option? Or do we
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  Speaker 1: save that for next week?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? Good, next week's team beat Acron.
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  Speaker 1: This that's I mean, yeah, what what? What? What way
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  Speaker 1: you do? I again, overlooking a team is never good.
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  Speaker 1: I know there are obvious teams obviously prepping and doing
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  Speaker 1: Accron stuff this week. I mean, I think you would
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  Speaker 1: be anyways, but jokingly said, focus on Michigan this week.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma plays Michigan. Nebraska doesn't for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: but should be preparing for Michigan. That's obviously an extreme,
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  Speaker 1: but there are a lot of things I think that
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff, specifically after hearing the coordinators talk on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: that they want to work on and focus on before
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  Speaker 1: we get specifically into Accron stuff. We're a week from
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati win, and I'm stealing this topic a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from the Nick Bob podcast, which is one I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy listening to. The general consensus thoughts from the fans.
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  Speaker 3: Was what, there's a little bit of not quite the
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  Speaker 3: sky has falling, but there's a little panic online. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: people were pretty critical of the win, at least when
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  Speaker 3: I from when I was reading them like the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the substacks and the subreddit that that level of fan Now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know, the World Herald is
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  Speaker 3: putting out or what kind of But I never really
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  Speaker 3: trust the World Herald to have a good pulse on
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  Speaker 3: what the fans are feeling, because they they're a little
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  Speaker 3: puff piec at times. But there was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: there is a little bit of like, oh like Yllan
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  Speaker 3: Rayla sucks, a lot of a lot of critiques of
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  Speaker 3: Dylan Royla, a lot of and I mean, we talked
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  Speaker 3: about some of our concerns with the defensive line and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't I felt we weren't as sky is
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  Speaker 3: falling as as kind of what seems like online. Now,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the people online are going to be the near
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  Speaker 3: extremes that are posting and commenting, so I can see that.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what I saw. I don't know what you
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  Speaker 3: guys saw.
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  Speaker 5: I yeah, I saw a lot of we sucked, like
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  Speaker 5: we're terrible, But it's like, I barely I barely saw
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  Speaker 5: any anyone like pumped about the wind online.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I saw anyone. There were a couple
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 3: There are a couple of people like hey, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like they respond to someone and be like, well, we
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got the win.
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  Speaker 5: But it's it's like at the fans completely forgot the
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  Speaker 5: last seven years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was like.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, and in the one score they've lost all of
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  Speaker 5: them with ruled most of them. It's like you finally,
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  Speaker 5: you finally got that monkey after back is a one
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  Speaker 5: score game against it And who knows made Sencinna's given
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  Speaker 5: me be good?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so, but you never know.
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  Speaker 5: And seeing all these other teams that sucked Week one,
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  Speaker 5: all you want to do is get out of Week
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  Speaker 5: one with a win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that, guys, I think it's spot on. And to
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  Speaker 1: add to that what you said back about Cincinnati, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know, and the fans and people like, I think
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  Speaker 1: people are relieved that we want I mean, if we
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  Speaker 1: would have lost place would have exploded Nebraska Nation. But
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  Speaker 1: I do think that people were disappointed and relieved that
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  Speaker 1: we won. But overall came out of the game man
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  Speaker 1: wanting a lot more and regardless of the opponent. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll say that fans, media, media included. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had our list of things as well. Why why
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  Speaker 1: is that? I mean, have fans have the meatia. I
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  Speaker 1: think the really good point that Nick Maiden, I'll repeat
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  Speaker 1: it here because I loved it. It's because we know
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  Speaker 1: what a successful program is at Nebraska. It's a whole
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  Speaker 1: expectation thing, and we love talking about expectations here on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, especially a lot of these older fans. We
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  Speaker 1: know what really good programs are supposed to do. To
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati now, they would say they realize we're not there,
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  Speaker 1: but they want to be there, and they know what
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  Speaker 1: it should look like. And when you hear comments from coaches,
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  Speaker 1: media players, whoever else that may indicate that we are
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  Speaker 1: there or getting close to there, we just put in
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  Speaker 1: a picture of our minds what that game should look like.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think, and then the flip flop of
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  Speaker 1: that is Nebraska basketball right where we don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: We have not worn success right, any form of success
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  Speaker 2: is like what like.
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  Speaker 1: When we win a game, it's great. When when we
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  Speaker 1: are in the bubble talk to go to the NCTATE Tournament,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. Where can you imagine if a if a
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  Speaker 1: Kansas or a Duke or North Carolina, Well, North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: kind of was there a couple few years ago was
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  Speaker 1: in our shoes in basketball hotly cow winning by six
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  Speaker 1: to Wake Forest would be the end of the world
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  Speaker 1: to them, you know, but you know we played Wake Forest,
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  Speaker 1: we beat them. Hell yeah, we beat a power of
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  Speaker 1: five school, no matter how. So it's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of expectations and perspective and that's where de Braska football
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  Speaker 1: has been it always will be, at least for the
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  Speaker 1: next several years until the older generation that watched it
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  Speaker 1: starts to die off, unfortunately. But you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's an expectation thing that only Nebraska fans,
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  Speaker 1: not only but that's how we're thinking about it.
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  Speaker 3: When you hear, I mean, to another extreme Alabama fans,
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  Speaker 3: their sky's falling. They lost by a touchdown to a
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  Speaker 3: team that was you know, thirteen and or yeah, thirteen
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  Speaker 3: and oh two years ago, twelve and oh, I guess
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  Speaker 3: the bowl game. But they're already talking like man looking
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  Speaker 3: at the buyout for Kalin de Boyer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They lost what three games last year, then they lose
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  Speaker 3: Week one this year and they're like, we're you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're garbage, and we're like, man, we would we have
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  Speaker 3: taken nine to three and a heartbeat. We would have
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  Speaker 3: taken a seven point close loss to Florida State as
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  Speaker 3: a home opener.
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  Speaker 2: We were have taken that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, So I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think this guy's falling a much in Lincoln
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  Speaker 5: as in Tuscalusave. But but uh, do people forget Nebraska
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  Speaker 5: just made their first ball game in seven years? And
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  Speaker 5: do they forget the Northwestern game Week one? Do they
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  Speaker 5: forget the Illinois game Week one?
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  Speaker 1: I do. I don't say they forget it, but I
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  Speaker 1: just think there's a there's a level of in the reset.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's a there's a level of expectation and a
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  Speaker 1: level of a mindset that everybody has in the state.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm including ourselves in this too of where things
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  Speaker 1: should go and the the part that feeds into it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying there's a right or wrong wrong
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  Speaker 1: way to do this. And this is where I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: transition into Matt rule hand and setting the expectations a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. How many awesome things did we hear this
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  Speaker 1: off season about a running back depth and our defensive
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  Speaker 1: line being fine? And you know it's not. It's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a big drop off replacing and I said
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  Speaker 1: it too, like I thought our defensive line would be
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  Speaker 1: pretty decent. You know, I think all of those things,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it starts coming from the coach and
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  Speaker 1: the players. There was no negative talk, and it's this
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  Speaker 1: is the year. This is year three, Matt rule. This
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be all pretty and awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, to the defense of Matt Ruhle and
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  Speaker 3: the internal hype produced you're not gonna come out and
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  Speaker 3: be like a running back depth sucks. Okay, so you're
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  Speaker 3: can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been so positive, right and so so I agree,
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  Speaker 1: so that this is this is what's interesting. So you're
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  Speaker 1: not you're not gonna obviously come out and shun players.
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  Speaker 1: Not At probably this point, Warrior, the.
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  Speaker 3: Transfer portal is still there's still you know, like there's
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  Speaker 3: still time for people to leave.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, I got you have to fluff a
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  Speaker 2: couple fluff a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of feathers, you know, just to make sure people feel
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  Speaker 3: good about themselves. And they're not going to hop in
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  Speaker 3: the transfer portal even though it's like, well, you're a
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  Speaker 3: third string running back and you're not that good yet,
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  Speaker 3: Like we'll get you there, but but you can't jump
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  Speaker 3: ship to go to Acorn and start for Acron yet correct.
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  Speaker 1: So here's where I also think you have varying levels
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  Speaker 1: of fans and media. The media kind of has mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the problems that we saw in that
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  Speaker 1: first game that that we weren't allowed to run away
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  Speaker 1: with it. The casual fan that maybe doesn't follow along
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of stuff, and it's just hearing general
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  Speaker 1: comments of really year three, uh explosive in the second year,
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  Speaker 1: like they're gonna look at this game and go, what
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  Speaker 1: was that? But a lot of the stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: saw was a little bit concerning. The one piece that
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  Speaker 1: was maybe surprising to people was the non explosive, non
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  Speaker 1: down the field aggressive offense that was maybe expected that
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  Speaker 1: maybe was a surprise. But overall, your your casual fans
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that we're talking about, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: you're more informed fans too maybe look at this game
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  Speaker 1: and see a little bit different side of it. But
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  Speaker 1: even even them, there's question marks on what we saw.
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  Speaker 1: But I think all of that is what was formed
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  Speaker 1: from the offseason, which I'm saying this like it's a
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  Speaker 1: new thing for Nebraska fans, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: It's it was the national media also got a sniff
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  Speaker 3: like the Matt Rule Year three sneaky pick for the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs that became a very popular thing as Week one
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  Speaker 3: the week zero approaches, Like you look at Nebraska's schedule,
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  Speaker 3: you know they're and I just saw a thing that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had.
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  Speaker 2: It was I don't remember if it was ESPN came out,
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  Speaker 2: but we seven point eight percent chance to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone other people outside of Nebraska were also, So that's
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  Speaker 2: when you kind of sort of be like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's not just Nebraska hype. Maybe it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the offseason kool aid. Maybe there's something to it. But
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  Speaker 2: I think they also weren't.
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  Speaker 1: But those national people, I also don't think are going
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  Speaker 1: to look at this and go change your expectation because
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  Speaker 1: of this one game.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Nebraska fans' minds change, but those
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  Speaker 1: national people, they don't. They don't. They didn't watch. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them do maybe watch play by play, but they're.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at a lot of them probably watched the highlights.
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  Speaker 3: They looked at the box and were like, wow, Dylan
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  Speaker 3: Royola had seventy five plus percent past completion and they
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  Speaker 3: dominated time of possession and they gave up seventeen points,
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  Speaker 3: but they held them to you know, three points in
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  Speaker 3: the first half, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and they found a way to win. In
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  Speaker 1: the rand scheme of things, they're still in line with
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  Speaker 1: whatever prediction that the neutral sight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree well, and and you know, we also
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  Speaker 3: talked we'll probably get to the Dana Holgers and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but Dana Holgerson and his press conference talked about it
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  Speaker 3: like I expected us to be more explosive, have bigger plays.
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  Speaker 3: And Dylan Roola had to come out and say, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was just doing with the offense, but
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  Speaker 3: the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Has given us and that's what they were giving us.
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  Speaker 5: So that's going to say right there, since that's what
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  Speaker 5: since NAT's given you, you weren't.
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  Speaker 4: They were not laying Nebraska deep at all.
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  Speaker 3: We were moving them all. Well, we just didn't execute
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone. But we moved the ball well.
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  Speaker 3: But by the time we got to the red zone,
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  Speaker 3: we just didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We just didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, same same dumb penalties are killing in the red zone.
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  Speaker 5: That's probably people matter about too, and not finishing drives.
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  Speaker 5: It's the it's the d line, and the line got
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  Speaker 5: better towards the end of the game. That D line
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  Speaker 5: and O line. I think people are most worried about,
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  Speaker 5: especially the D line.
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  Speaker 1: The line I'm not I'm I'm not concerned. I think
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  Speaker 1: that left tackle spot, you know, figuring out who's in
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  Speaker 1: there for a big game.
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  Speaker 4: But see the field the game.
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  Speaker 1: So funny. What's funny though, Dak he actually graded the
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  Speaker 1: best out of those three defensive or left tackles.
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  Speaker 2: He had the worst time penalty.
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  Speaker 1: He did have the worst time, but he's he's still
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  Speaker 1: listed as an oar on the depth chart with the
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  Speaker 1: other two like they're still going to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: So that that that the obviously the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: But so.
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  Speaker 1: The comment of the Cincinnati the way they played us,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought about this a little more, and this
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  Speaker 1: is let's just just go, let's take a big step
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  Speaker 1: back and go any sport. It doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: a sport, but sports are easier to think about it
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  Speaker 1: this way. You have a designed system, a designed an
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  Speaker 1: idea of what you want to do for an offense.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to go the extreme of the Scott
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  Speaker 1: Frost comment they last week, Big ten, the Big ten
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  Speaker 1: is going to adjust to us because of what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there's the extreme and obviously we sit somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the middle, and then there's there's a flip flop
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  Speaker 1: of literally running everything based off of what the other
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  Speaker 1: team gives you. I think the frustration in the explosive
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  Speaker 1: offense and is why are we just sitting in a
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's hand? Why why can't we go make a play
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  Speaker 1: even though they're in this three to two shell giving
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  Speaker 1: it stuff underneath? Why can't we still have an explosive
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  Speaker 1: play that they have to adjust to us? And if
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  Speaker 1: they're in this three to two shell and not putting
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  Speaker 1: guys in the box, why can't we have a run
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  Speaker 1: play that breaks off for sixty five yards because that's
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  Speaker 1: what we do, and now they got to bring extra
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  Speaker 1: guys in the box to now we can make an
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  Speaker 1: explosive play down the field. So there's a fine line
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  Speaker 1: of saying, okay, well, that's all they're given us. It's
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  Speaker 1: all they are given us, that's what we had to take. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why not make them adjust to us, because when they
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  Speaker 1: look at us, they probably weren't going, well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they're good, you know what I mean. There's a fine
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  Speaker 1: line of adjustment. So like that, I'm not call and
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  Speaker 1: get an excuse because we heard Data and Rule say that.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, that's what That's where the
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  Speaker 1: frustration sets in for the Husker fans is no, like,
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  Speaker 1: why don't why can't we?
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  Speaker 3: Right, our offensive line is good enough to dominate the
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  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage that forces their hand and the changing
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  Speaker 3: their plan, but we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's why No, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know and that and that, and that's why that again,
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  Speaker 1: we're not scott for us as it before we even
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  Speaker 1: play a game, they're gonna just us well. As a coach,
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  Speaker 1: that's the imperfect world, right, the perfect world is a
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  Speaker 1: coach you can go out and run anything you want
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  Speaker 1: and you don't give it. Now, you're obviously going to
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  Speaker 1: prepare and still scout and tweak things based on what
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  Speaker 1: the other team's running, but you're gonna run your stuff
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  Speaker 1: because you can, and you have the better players, you
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  Speaker 1: have the better talents, and they have to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to stop you both ends of the ball versus
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  Speaker 1: trying to tweak and figure out how to go score.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's important to remember that when Rule's first year
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  Speaker 3: he came in, He's like Okay, I have to fix
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  Speaker 3: the I have to fix the offensive line, Like that's
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  Speaker 3: why I have to fix Last year the offensive line
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  Speaker 3: was decent. And then he's like, we have to fix
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  Speaker 3: special teams. We have to fix the turnover issue. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, this year we come out no turnovers. I
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  Speaker 3: guess last year we kind of fixed it halfway through
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, all right, we have to make our
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  Speaker 3: offense a little bit better and we have to fix
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  Speaker 3: special teams.
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  Speaker 2: That's the number one. This year.
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  Speaker 3: We come out Game one, we hit a fifty two
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  Speaker 3: yard field goal, we go two for two, punting team
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  Speaker 3: look good. So it's like, okay, you can see the progress.
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  Speaker 3: You said to remember where we started at. I mean
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: it was there was a lot to fix. So Week
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: one I agree and reset my expectations. I mean, I
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: don't know about you guys, but I was like, it'll
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: be a good year for go eight and four. I mean,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: going into the year, we kind of had what we expected,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: but my my ceilings definitely dropped.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Well, when you expect you're gonna lose, I mine. Mine
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: hasn't changed. I'll be honest, like, I'm we're gonna be
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in a lot of close games. Guys a lot of
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: close games. The only reason why it may have changed
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and actually may have gotten up a little bit is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: because I think U. C. L A And Northwestern might
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: be complete dog shit.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: But that's true.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Things have not changed for me, just as far as
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: did I think maybe our offense was gonna be more explosive. Yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but they still can be. They still can't, still can be,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like you said, change change your game plan, So
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: say everything runs a shell against Nebraska? Are they just
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: gonna not throw deep at all? Like the whole year?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: It's you have to change your game plan. And and
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: there's on the other side of the ball. And I
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: don't I still don't get it. Why would thing that
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: throw a spot a spy on sores.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Beat the whole game?
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: That's all he could do was just run and they
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: refuse to throw on him. Change their game plan defense,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: And I I just that's one part of the game
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I did not get.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like it came late, right, Some of the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: stuff was designed for runs. I also think when you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: have a lead like that, you're you're not obviously wanting
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to give up a twelve yard run to a quarterback.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: But you go to give the six year past to quarterback.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And you like you like clock ticking. But I agree,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I I was pretty pleased with
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the defense overall, the defensive line.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I thought, it's made you nervous.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: But I yeah, I I sores bes. I mean coming
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: into the game and going out of the game like
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: he's a lot worse than what people thought he was
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: going to be. I thought overall, I mean, like Lakes included, right,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he was supposed to be. I think a lot better
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: than that too. So I don't know, I mean the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: spy thing maybe.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: But here's here's the other tough part about Week one
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: is these teams all have nine months to repair for
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Like Cincinnati had nine months to prepare for Nebraska, so
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: they they deep dive into everything and you're almost overpaired
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: to play that team.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Instead of just one week.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now we're in the one week prepper two weeks
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: if you have a bye week. So yeah, I mean
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that's that's a good point. I think that factors into it,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and not just rest Cincinnati, but all games this weekend.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I want to circle all the way back to where
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we started. We've been kind of going on tangency, which
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: is okay. So all of this expert all this expectation
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: hypet where we landed Week one general fans comments that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we all mentioned at the top. I want to talk
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: specifically about Matt Rule in this job as the head
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: coach at Nebraska, and I'm going to go in a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: little rant here, so bear with me. Here's where Matt
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Ruhle's job is. And we just mentioned before the show
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Austin how Akron their head coach is zero C and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: calling plays. A lot of head coaches not a lot.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Some call either the offense or the defense. Matt Rule,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: his job as the head coach Nebraska is a CEO
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and he is managing all the moving parts everything and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: obviously when it comes to game management and in game stuff,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: but more importantly handling all of the external stuff that's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: going on in college football.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: And.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It's his job to do that. It's not really it
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is his job because he's a head coach and CEO,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: but it's not his job. It's to critique and really
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: get down to specifics of the offense and defense. That's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the coordinator's job. And while we did hear from them
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: in the offseason, but only a few times, and we
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: heard some good things, which again I think you probably
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: are going to say good things, but this week those
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: two gave some hesitation the things that we saw and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: were not necessarily happy with how the game went, and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: called some people out and some positions out for that rule.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: His job is to manage everything at one time and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in a very new world. He's trying to do the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: best he can now as a head coach, I think, well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and maybe not all head coaches, but especially at a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: head coach at Nebraska, to put a little chart on this,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: it's either gonna work or it's gonna not work. Right,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: not in Nebraska. Are you just gonna sit in the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: middle for your whole life and go, eh, No, it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: your You're either gonna have success here and success defying Nebraska,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: is gonna be competing for a college football playoff berth
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: every year, or is not gonna work. You're not gonna
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: get to that point and you're gonna get fired. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: rules doing in his mind what he thinks to get
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it to work. And some of that stuff is what
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: we're seeing with all the hype, the expectations, the extracurricular
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: stuff that he's doing that in the past, this podcast
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: included you would go, man, just win first, just get
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that stuff done, and you know what it might result in,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the wins. But if you don't win, you look like
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: an idiot, right, you look like a dummy for doing
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: all this extra stuff. And the stuff I'm mentioning recently
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: going on the Pat mcaf a show every week, starting
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a podcast and doing his own podcast, the picture with
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the Bowl in the off season, the stuff that fits
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: into what it's called an attention economy, which I also
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: stole that from the podcast, But it's an attention economy
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: right now. Like rule, I think understands that you want
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: attention drawing to your program right now, and that's why
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of things are For it to work, we
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: need to get really good talent and players here, not
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just in one year, but in two years, three years,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: four years. So he's seeing it as a CEO from
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: this big, big perspective. Now, if it doesn't work and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you're not able to execute and have the right pieces
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: underneath you to win games, then now you look like
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a fool. And I'll defense Scott Frost a little bit here.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of that in Scott Frost. I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: think too, and he did end up looking like a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: fool because it didn't work. So that being said, I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: think that's what Rule's doing, and I think he's very
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: aware of that that he's doing it that way. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: think he in his mind it's either going to work
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: this year, next year or it's not. And if it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: does work, and it does click with our coordinators, with
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the players that we have, then this thing is going
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to get rolling. If it doesn't work, he's like, all right,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: well it's not gonna work here, and it was gonna
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: end somehow. And is there a little bit of extra
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: blame on laughing stock at me for doing all this
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: extra crap? Who cares? Like I do? I do think?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I think? I do think it's pretty black and white
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: as that. As a head coach at Nebraska, it's either
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: gonna work or or not. You're not we saw the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: bull pointing, You're not gonna sit in the middle. People
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: are going to get stale of it. And that's at Nebraska. Now,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: you want to coach at Marshall for eighteen years, go
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: coach at Marshall for for eighteen years.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: But anyway, that was my definitely, I definitely yes, And
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Matt rule. He's been pretty upfront. He's like, I'm doing
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: pet McBee because we need eyes on Nebraska and we
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: have not been a winning program and attention you being
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: out there is important, and he I mean, he he's
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: he's up front. He's like, I'm doing the podcast for nil.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I knew pet McBee for recruiting. I did the Bold
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Picture for recruiting. Like, I mean, he's straightforward with it,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: and I appreciate that, and I agree, you know, he's
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: definitely left it up. He's like, all right, my coordinators
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: are I'm hiring top I'm gonna spend money on what
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I believe to be top notch coordinators and they're gonna
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: they're gonna solve the problems. Like he's like, I'm not
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: gonna special teams sucks, so I'm gonna go get my deckler.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Like I'm just I'm gonna go do that because I
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: don't have time to fix special teams.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I have to deal with and I can't. I bet
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: nil Is it's just atrocious to deal with.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I can I cannot imagine trying to juggle one hundred
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: college kids and paying them and he's.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: In charge of all of it, including still the head
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: coaches job on a game day.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I you know, we were, we were.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: We were critical of him at the beginning of you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: like your peacock in a little bit before you're you know,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: putting the curt for the horse. But the more I
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: see of just what's going on with Nil and stuff,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: is like, Okay, you have to do this stuff.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: You just have to.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: So, And I think you're right. I think he knows that.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And he's like, if I go out in Nebraska, I'm
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: to go out trying to do everything I can to
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: make these things work.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to do this stuff. But I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: guess my point is he's doing it to an extreme,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: like not every coach is going on the Pat McAfee show.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Not you know, he's he's going to the extreme level
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of it, which, again, do you have to do that?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I think that's just his approach.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: No, no, but yeah, yeah, that's his that's his active
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: approach of what he's trying to do and focus on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: as the head coach at Nebraska, where you do have
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a lot and we're not the only place that has this,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: but you have a lot of extra eyes and I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: mean all these podcasts that are out there on Nebraska
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and the different media outlets that cover like you have
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on you, and this is his.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Active bak of doing it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: To his credit, we might have not time to that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: point where we're winning all these big star recruits, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: like we're making like the top five for a lot
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: of you know, five star recruits, which we weren't before.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: So I mean, and.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Again, it's gonna work or it's not. Like I have
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that quote written down that I came to my mind,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: it's either going to this way is either going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: really pay off or it's going to be a laughing
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: stock and you're gonna get cause it is. Everybody's expectations
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: are going to be so high doing this too, right,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: if you're all you're doing is talking and preaching out,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff works you you don't sound
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: like a no at all, but you're kind of educating
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: everybody to where this is how you want them to think,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and you're hyping everything up. You're adding expectations, so you're
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: getting just like the Cincinnati game when people were going
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to that game, we're gonna win thirty eight seventeen, Like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: eventually people are gonna get pissed that it's not exploding.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't explode, So you're not gonna sit in
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the middle with this approach. It's either gonna pay off
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: or if people are gonna go This guy's a blow
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: hard and all he does is talk and know how
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to actually produce, whether what you know, whatever the record
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: is it we could be we could be eight and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: four and people could have that thought. But but it's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: either gonna work or it's not gonna work. That that's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: my point here. And this is, like you said, this
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: is a rules approach. This is what he's doing. To
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: take it that way. Some people would maybe really agree
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: with it. Some people are gonna be very very against it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: I I get it's a new era and you got
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: to put your name out there. But all this McAfee
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: stuff and podcast crap, which I'm saying is as we're
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: doing a podcast, but I don't I don't like that stuff.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Go out there and win first. Like like you said
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: to say, he's you're five and four and he's still
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: in his McFee show.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: No one's gonna care what he says. He's gonna like
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: an idiot.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Like but but that do you agree that this is
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: in the modern world of this attention economy that I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: talked about earlier, of nil recruiting. Do you think this
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: is one way of attacking it?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see why he's doing it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: So what what I what I'm saying is I I'm
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: with you, Deck, that's the original way of thinking, even
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: for myself, for a lot of people go out and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: win first. But could this, I'm gonna say on the forefront,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: on the breaking edge, like, could this be the way
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: to actually taking the brasketball program and excel it forward?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know about it or or are you just
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: saying nope, this is this way is not going to work.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I think it could.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And that's what And that's what I think he's trying
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to do. I think he's taking a shot like this,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this, and it's either gonna work or
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it's not. I'm what I'm he's saying to himself, I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: not gonna be here probably if if if we're not
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: if this thing doesn't explode and we're not winning nine
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: games in year four or five, I'm not gonna be
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: here anyways. Because the program is not the fans of program,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the boosters, the the board of regions that they're not
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: gonna want me here if I'm still winning six or
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: seven games in year four or five. So I'm gonna
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: do what I can now to make sure and you're
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: four or five that this thing's exploding, and if it doesn't,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: regardless of whether we're winning now or not, he's he's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: thinking as a CEO of his business, this is where
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: he wants to go. So that that's my point is
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I agree that there is your way of thinking is
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: win first. Well shit if you if you don't do
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: all this stuff and you do beat Cincinnati's twenty seventeen
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and you end up seven, I mean, it's a very
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna get recruits for your four or five.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: There's no in between what he's doing. It's either it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: either gonna work really well or just be an absolute
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: shit show.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: There's no in between.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: He's putting all chips on table, which which I argue
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: what you're saying about that he's he knows he doesn't
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: have much time left.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: To figure this out.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: And I guess, I guess your threes just time to
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: throw it all out there.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And and this is Matt Rules quote unquote year right,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: that it's supposed to happen.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: This is the year he has most of the positive
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: hide behind him. If this year, if this, if this
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: year falls apart. It also becomes a narrative that Matt
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Roule Nebraska can't be fixed. You know it's done, Matt rule,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: the year's three magic didn't work.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: This also ties into a good thing that I heard
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Jackson Weeks, who's been on the show before. I'm also
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: getting married here and not even not even two days
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: one day tomorrow, rehearsal dinner tonight and uh wedding tomorrow
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to con Grass there Jackson, but he he texted me this,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: it's been a few weeks ago. Can the blue collar approach,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the blue collar way have success or win anymore? And
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I know what he means by blue collar, but it
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that the more traditional old school like Belichick. Yep, you're yep,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: let's Bill Belichick with what happened against DCU. But but
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the the hard nose keep your mouth shut. And I'm
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: not gonna say rule as a soft coach, but that
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that not not doing any of the media stuff, just
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: working your your butt off, you know, basically selling that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to your players too, that you know we're gonna do
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: things behind closed doors and we're gonna work our buttop
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: no one else is gonna know what we're doing, but
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: it's gonna show. They're out in the field and in
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that kind of mindset and approach, shut up and win.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Can that work anymore?
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I think that their their blue collar approach will still
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: exist where it's hey, we're gonna I mean, that's kind
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: of that rules approaches. We're gonna recruit talent, we're going
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: to develop talent, we're going to work hard, and it's
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: going to show up on the field, but we're just
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: going to talk about it too.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's a revised I call it a
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: revised approach. I mean it's it's so the answer to
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the traditional blue collar No. I think that's why Nick
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Saban was getting old. But I think that's why some
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of these old timer type of coaches are saying, oh
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: my gosh, there's so many other moving parts now that
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it's the world's just changed. It's different now. And yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: if you want to be the old school, an old
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: timer and think that that way still works, well, to
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: go find me a coach that's really having success right now. Now.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Do I think it could maybe turn back to that
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and have a little cycle in about ten years where
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: someone comes in and strips everything down and goes back
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to that because it's not normal, and you find the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: right kids and you maybe get some success out of it, maybe,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: but it's going to be a lot harder to compete
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: with the teams that are the blue bloods and getting
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: all of the money and all of the recruits. So
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it is it's a good question to think about. It's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just a changed world. What I think the concern right
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: with anybody that's talking a lot in rules done that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: since he's been alive, is don't become an arrogant, know
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: at all, to where it's a false front or you
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: know you're you're not you know, you're no longer preaching
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: what you're actually believing in and and seeing on the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: field and coaching and and you know what, that might
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: naturally happen if you're not winning games, But then you
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: start to become a fraud. Scott Frost, I mean, it's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you saw it happen there. So I think that's where
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the fine line is. And you're right, Austin, right now,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: it's we're gonna work our butts up and we're going
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to tell people about it. That's that where it's at
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: is fine as long as we take that next step
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: and become Okay, well, whatever we're saying and we're hearing
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: is not matching what's happening on the field.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying. I'm not saying go full that between
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: the screw they and I yell. I'm not gonna do
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: that or change my style at all. But I the
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: way he's doing it is kind of rubbing me the
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: wrong way a little bit. With with all this MACTV shown,
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: podcasting all this, it's he's putting himself out there a
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: little bit too much.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I think, you know what, that's us, as you know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: in our twenties doing a podcast that you know, there's
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: some older fans who's who's he doing that stuff for?
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Though eighteen year olds?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: It's not us. Yeah, and and so if the message
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: is getting across to it, I guess it's a little
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: bit for us because you do have to manage all
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of that. But he's doing it. He's teaching the world
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: about NIL and explaining his view and opinion on it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So it is kind of for us a little bit.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Is it going to rub us the wrong way? If
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you don't get wins. Yeah, But as far as selling
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: to the kids that you need to come to recruit
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to get to become the next level of program you
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: want to be, that's who he's trying to talk to.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Naturally you're going to get others to go with it.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: But okay, man.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Yep, I didn't want to talk about Acron because I
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: don't know what there's talk about but Acron this week
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: thirty four and a half point favorite night game, Memorial Stadium.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I mentioned before Akron did not put up anything big
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: old goose egg on the scoreboard at home against Wyoming.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Here's how I want to preview Akron today, similar to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: what we did Cincinnati. What do you want to see? In?
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: What are you going to see? And those two things
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: can be the same, those two things can be different.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: You can obviously make some predictions here with the going
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to see, but it's a game that we shouldn't most
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: likely will win. There's a lot of talk and not
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: gonna say negativity, but some things that we need to
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: work on that we've mentioned a lot of people have
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: mentioned they're very eye opening. So, dak what do you
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: want to see?
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: I want to see the d line needs to show
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: up this game. If they get push rounding a factor
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: and it's the season is going to be, it's going
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: to be really bad, especially going to big templay.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: I want to see that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: I also want to see all this talk about oh
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: we wanted to air it out Morgan Cincinnati, Well, here
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: you go.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: You're playing at air it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Out, like don't don't hide anything back.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: I hate this is gonna happen.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: They're gonna go vanilla against Akron and HBU HBCU whatever
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: they are because they don't want to show anything. So
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: it probably won't be It probably won't be a full
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: game plan out there. But I want to see. I
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: want to see him put up forty to fifty points,
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: try some deep shots, like try try a bunch of
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: crap that that might not work, but like trick plays
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: and stuff, just try it out, see what happens.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: You want to see tricks against ac.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean try it out might as well. These
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: these are just like three season games basically, mm.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Hmm yeah, okay, I guess I don't know. If I
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: mess it and you see a trick play against Achron,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: at least we should be good enough that we don't
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: need the trick play to have a big play against Acrid.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: That would be my counter to that.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: But I guess Dak wants to experiment.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just try it the right word, but.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, you know, the trick I'm talking.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: What I want to see is a shutout, because why
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: we shut them out, and I'd.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Feel pretty I feel I feel a lot better if
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: we also shut them out. I mean, if we give
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: up a scorer here for you know, but if they
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: put up two touchdowns on us, I'd feel a little
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: a little ill. And so I don't think we will
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: see a shout out, but there's a chance we could
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: see a shout out.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I on offense, that explosiveness, back to your point, I
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: want to see some version of it. Now. I don't
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: think it's I don't think we're gonna try to get creative,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and I do think we're gonna be very vanilla. But
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: by being vanilla, I want to see us have some
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: explosive plays from that, if that makes sense. So like
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: running backs making guys miss and and Dana mentioned we
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: had six we had six guys or six missed tackles
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: or made six guys miss in an entire football game.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: He was pissed about it. I think you want to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: see more of that against a team that you think
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you should be able to make guys miss. I think receivers,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: you'd like to see guys go make plays after the catch.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And whether that means thro a couple of deep balls, Yeah,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: maybe there is. Maybe there is a deep post that
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: we can hit any one of those three guys on
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: against Akron that that would be nice to see. I
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think we're gonna see that just
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: because I think they're going to play conservative to accred
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, why why why why play aggressive? And why
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: why change? You know, why why try to when you're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the very, very inferior opponent.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: What which which way do you guys lean in these
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: type of games? Do you.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Do you like when they go full vanilla and not
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: show anything or do you want them to show a
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: little bit.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I want them to practice the basics. I want them
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: to be good at the vanilla.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I want to get better like I want the things
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: that did not go well in the game before, whether
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you win or loss, which to me, the best way
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to win against Cincinnati was how we won and in
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: a big picture, I think that was the best way
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to win because it showed what we needed to work on.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: If we would have won thirty eight to ten, everybody
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: would have said this team is awesome, including the players
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and probably a lot of the coaches, and now you're
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: while while you would still find things to work on,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been like this week. I think winning
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: how we did for this season was the absolute number
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: one best way to win. Like I seriously thinking about
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: that way now people aren't like, maybe happy the way
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: we won, but the for this year. Oh yeah, best
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: way to win because you find a way to get
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: better than things. So yes, I think as far as
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: being explosive and showing stuff like, don't I don't think
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: we need to go out and show stuff that we're not.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: We don't want to run against Michigan against Michigan State.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I think we want to get better at for example,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: our next two running backs with Mosey and Okay Nelson,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: like those guys, we want them to do some better
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: things than Dana said. Everybody wants them to do more.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: So that's what that's what you want. You don't want
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Emmett to have sixty nine out of the seventy eight snaps.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: You don't want that?
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, yep.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: So I guess to frame what acronym they accro in
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Wyoming game last week? Was Wyoming ran four point three
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: yards per carry, that one guy who had twin and
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: carries for one hundred and thirty two yards. And they
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: had one receiver with eight receptions and one hundred and
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: ninety yards. And that was Wyoming against them. So we
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: should have better receivers and better running back to the
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: better offensive line.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: But the funny part, but I didn't get shutting out,
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: is they're supposting an uptemple high playing offense.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: That's what acron wants to be.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: Well they they sure as hell wasn't no.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, and and and regardless of the opponent, it
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: is a time where if you're playing, if you're playing
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: a Michigan this week, your your your question going into
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the week isn't okay, how's Mosey and Nelson gonna look
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: in the backfield? Your question is do we play them
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: here's Michigan or this week They're gonna play and they're
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: gonna get their snaps. They're gonna get time to play
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: because you can you're gonna be able to evaluate them
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and see, Okay, where are these guys at and what
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: what can we do to get them ready to play Michigan.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: That's the beauty of these games. Same thing with the
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: defensive line or in the left tackle position, those concerning things.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: If you go and play Michigan this week, you're going,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: oh boy, are they ready? The question is are they
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: ready to play Michigan? Are they physically capable to hold
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: their own or are we just going to get pounded
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: up front? Now? This week we're.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Gonna be work.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: We're going to be able to do a lot of things,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: maybe not everything, most things that we want to do
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: and have success with it. But can we break that
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: down into a way that we can make it useful
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: for the Michigan game and when it comes to player personnel, technique,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: scheme to help make us better for the long run.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: That's what you want out of these games.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: No, but I want I want to see Heinrich Harberg
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: on the field getting passes.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: I do. I want to see more Heinrich trick plays.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: That doesn't be a trick place.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: It's not a trick place, a tight end ack.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I just want to see him out there.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Uh. Another thing that I think I want to see
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: is just continued execution from our special teams. That kind
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: of speaks for itself. I don't it would be awesome
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: to see an archie like seventy yard bomb, like I
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: just want to see. Well, actually I hope I don't
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: see him at all.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't want to see on the field.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: It's accurred. But just just execute like we did last week,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and we should not have any shoot yourself in the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: foot mistakes on special teams again. You never should, really,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I mean the stuff that we have seen the past
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: several years. So just execute again. It's another game to
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: do that. And to be honest, a lot of the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: stuff with special teams, like is it really that much
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: different kicking a forty five yard field goal against Acron
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: or just kicking a forty five gyard field goal against
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati fors Michigan. Not really, They're very, very similar. So
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: just continue to execute and not beat yourselves in the foot.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe get some returns going, you know, maybe there's an
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: opportunity there that bene but just do your job and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: continue to build off of that. I heard this too.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: When was the last time we had back to back
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: special teams games where we went our special teams looks okay,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: we haven't had a back to back special teams performance
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: in years twenty years.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, special teams would be good to see.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: I want to see our defense will bottle up the
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: run game a little better than they did last week.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the running quarterback was a different you know,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: a weird fault that you don't always have to prepare for, but.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: It'd be It makes me feel better about our defensive
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: line if we like not.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: I don't mean I still look exactly like last year,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: but if there's some resemblance of like, Okay, we didn't totally
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: forget what we did last year where we bottled everyone up.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: And Ben Finlay's our quarterback, He's not a runner. He
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: went sixteen for thirty eight for one hundred and thirty
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: nine yards and a pick last week.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: A lot better beans.
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So here's a here's another question. I was thinking,
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: what what combined score that you win by these next
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: two games?
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Would you guys be worried or pissed about like that?
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: It?
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I really I don't. I don't even know I if
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: even if we won, I guess if we won lesson.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: If we don't want to buy two stories.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like if we win thirty to six, I'm
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: okay with that. Like I some people might get pissed
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: that we're not blowing them out, like that we're not
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: scoring a bunch of points.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: But if we won seventeen to three, it's like, okay, yeah,
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: I mean we don't feel great, but it's.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, if it if it's if it's yeah,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: if it's under twenty, I would say for either one
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: of them, maybe Houston Christian, you go, maybe hunder twenty
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: five or thirty, but better than Act they could be.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I know they wont
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: sixty nine. Nothing gives an a I in a I
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: A team week one, So yeah, I that that part's
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: not do I do. I I think our range of
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: outcomes of or these games are gonna go. We're pretty
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: like they're probably gonna be blowouts. Obviously, if things are tight,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you still win, you still appreciate the win, but then
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: you're you are really mean, we've had those against several
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: of these teams. We really have. I just don't think that.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: I don't think Akron or Houston Christian. I don't. I
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: don't even think they're the quality though that we've seen
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: of these non conference games that we've played in the
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: past four or five years. And that's maybe giving a
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: little more credit to this year's team and where we're at.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: But I don't, I don't. I think a lot of
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: those past teams would also beat this year's acron team. Oh,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: it's also mentioning too, not that it matters, but cannot
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: play in the postseason because their players are dumb. You
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: guys know that. Yep, they didn't meet the academic criteria
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: season events.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: So it doesn't matter. They were't gonna make a bull game.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe Wyoming, but they playing the MAC But
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think they probably will. But maybe they will
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: that that was a big preseason top and maybe they'll
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: play with some fire because they're you know, they're just
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: a bunch of not smart humans and they just go
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: around flying around. I don't think that's the case. I
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: just don't think they're primary smart.
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: So poor it's like two point you have to have
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: like a two point oh GPA for a team.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: What is the GP require it?
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look looked it up real quick.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Don't I think it's also I really don't care. It's
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: not not good.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: It's yeah, I don't.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: What you honest see is you don't want Acron to
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: put up a lot of points at the getting shut
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: out at wayoming that's the main thing.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: I agree that they get more than twenty, it's not
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: gonna be pretty.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that we'd be worried. Is if on that
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: your offenseidet the bottom the game gonna be to worried
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: about either way, what it looks like the defense is
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: what you're gonna have your eyes on this week.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess dak if we win forty nine
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: to twenty one, like defensively, you're going in. But even
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: then that's still I don't know.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: It's ninety percent of student athletes. Now this is just
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: the Gemini AI overview, so I take that as you will. Well,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: ninety percent of the student athletes at the institution must
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: have a minimum overall grade point average necessary to graduate,
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: such as one point eight.
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: The over under was first seven and a half as
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: it moved at all. Who know, I have looked at
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: the updated SPA.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Implied line seven basically.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, spreads thirty four and a half points.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the yeah point spread.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: Better better get your spread beat. Saying there might not
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: be a spread for next week's game. I mean you'll
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: be able to find one.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: In today's world. You can find them. Yeah, you can
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: find them.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Dan Arian Bonner out for this season with the ACL tear.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: We talk about that, but we can talk about that
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: more maybe next week. It you know, it is a
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: guy that we need to find people to replace. But
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna We're gonna see multiple guys this
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: week anyways. But we're gonna see who the people are
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and who steps up.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: And that's probably the most exciting part about these games
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: is you get to see I agree, bench guys.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: The bench, the prospects, and you know what, I hope
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: we see t J Latif a little bit too. I
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: we don't want to see him at all outside of
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: these two games ever, but I want to see that
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: if something were to have happened, we might be Okay,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: what things are gonna look like like, Dak big game
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: for your second favorite team, Oklahoma.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I cannot wait for this. So this was just
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: kind I was talking about Vanilla that first game they played,
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: I was I walked out pissed. But they didn't show
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: literally anything in that first game, which which I get
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: why they didn't because you got Michigan coming out next week. God,
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Michigan is always scares the crap on
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: me because they could just run, running it into a
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: death who all game long. And what scares me is
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: it looks like Underwood they finally have a quarterback.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: I still think.
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: I was really impressed in my tear, but god, dang Venables.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: Venables needs to have an offense. Their defense looks good again.
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: I mean they played on wise states.
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: You don't know, but it's it. I'm a little bit worried.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: All right, Deck, put you on the spot. Name how
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: many Oklahoma players you can name? Right now, go.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: My tear. Yeah that's it.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: I did watch the full game. I did watch the
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: full game.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Oh use, oh use. Favored win by five and a half.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: Five and a half. Yeh. I don't like that at all.
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't touch that.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think I like that either.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited to I Well, it'll be during
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: our games, so probably won't be able to watch it,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: but at least see what Michigan's made of. I mean
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: it's as a fan not being concerned about these next two.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: You want to see what Michigan's got. So yeah, if
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma comes out and wins thirty four seventeen, your year,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: that ain't gonna happen.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: They could. I'm gonna give Michigan straight out those points. Yes, Wow,
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma is terrible. They've all they don its. No, they're terrible.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: I don't care what they're ranking is Oklahoma's bad, but.
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: They finally have a quarterback I don't know.
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: Apparently yeah, and apparently he gambles so bad guy. But
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: I'll go, God, I don't I'll go thirty five thirty
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: one Oklahoma.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: In that game.
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's you can't think anything away on Oklahoma.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: No one's taking the points.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: You took Michigan.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, no, you yeah, you're right, I'm taking out point.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: You guys are about score prediction Nebraska actor.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say thirty thirty one three Nebraska.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: I will go forty two to six, Nebraska forty five
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: to ten.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I do think with everything that we said, I think
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Holderson's gonna come out here. I think he's gonna try to.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: I just I think he's gonna come out and try
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: to not make fans happy, but just show the team that, no,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: we can be explosive and here's why, and not really
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: take the gas off the pedal, which I think could
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: result in its bettually in the third or fourth quarter
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of late touchdowns to get us some extra points.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to keep it going just to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: not not to prove a point, but just to show
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: that Nope, like we don't have to be conservative, we
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: can do this. So all right, Well we may have
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: a tailgate pod. I don't know. Oh yeah, it's a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: little bit different now that we're on video, but we will.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: We'll see what we can work up with on on Saturday.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: Wait one second, b lock of the Week Illinois minus
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: two and a halfgns Duke.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know what that spread or why that spread
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: is like that.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: You still on a three.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: It's at three now, okay Illinois and minus three at Duke.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: I still don't know. I still don't know why that
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: spreads like that. There's something going on. Be cauting ticket,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: but I will be taking that.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Dak is one and one on his locks hitting Florida
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: state plus thirteen and a half. But actually, outright.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll showed about that in real life.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: All right, we do go back red.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: Here you are, go back red.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Beca