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Work to Do on Big Red D-Line · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. We've had our first full weekend of
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  Speaker 1: college football, including Nebraska's opener. The fifth podcast in Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red was about Big Red football. My great-uncle
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  Speaker 1: was a veteran of World War I. Lincoln Memorial Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: home of the Huskers, built in 1923, was called Memorial
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  Speaker 1: Stadium to honor those who served in the Great War,
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  Speaker 1: which ended in 1918, and also those who served in
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Veterans were given
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  Speaker 1: first shot at tickets in the new stadium. My great-uncle
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  Speaker 1: took advantage of the invitation, and my family has been
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  Speaker 1: sitting in Section 26, Row 22, for more than a century. So,
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  Speaker 1: I need to get this out of my system. Our
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  Speaker 1: defensive line was a shocking disappointment. We have an unprecedentedly
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  Speaker 1: huge football bureaucracy with a general manager, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what we have in Matt Rule year four along the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line? The disconnect I felt watching the defensive line
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  Speaker 1: and the whole Blackshirt defense was like watching Scott Frost's
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  Speaker 1: University of Central Florida team in the Peach Bowl, beating Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: and then Frost's Nebraska teams. UCF played with its hair
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  Speaker 1: on fire on both sides of the ball and was
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch. Not so, Frost's Nebraska teams. Rob Orich
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  Speaker 1: was hired from San Diego State to upgrade the blackshirt defense.
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  Speaker 1: Last year's San Diego State defense was ferocious, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best in the nation. Orich's blackshirts looked The defensive
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  Speaker 1: line was not dominant against one of the weakest teams
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska will play this season. The Huskers can't count on
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  Speaker 1: weather and talent disparity to wear down Big Ten opponents.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach Matt Rule criticized and ultimately fired previous defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator John Butler for saying, we don't have the guys
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  Speaker 1: we need up front on the defensive line. Rule then
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  Speaker 1: hired Orich to run the overall defense and two new
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  Speaker 1: assistant coaches to coach the defensive line. And there's the
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  Speaker 1: aforementioned huge bureaucracy and general manager. But it still looks
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  Speaker 1: like Butler was right. We don't have the guys we
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  Speaker 1: need up front on the defensive line. It isn't just
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  Speaker 1: my imagination. A firm called Pro Football Focus grades every
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  Speaker 1: performance by every college football player. The grades for our
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  Speaker 1: defensive linemen were generally horrible. We have two more games
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  Speaker 1: against weak opponents to figure it out. The defensive line
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  Speaker 1: players and coaches will have to dramatically improve for Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: to win Big Ten conference games. Okay, that's out of
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  Speaker 1: my system. Back to the news tomorrow. Go Big Red.
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  Speaker 1: That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.