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Episode 50 | Oregon Preview - Late Night in Eugene · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big red the takes the numbers the chaos hunter
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  Speaker 1: austin deck talking corn husker football basketball and everything nebraska
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  Speaker 1: sports welcome to the return to glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Return to glory podcast welcome back hunter and austin here
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  Speaker 2: today Nebraska heads to Oregon Saturday night, or I guess
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  Speaker 2: maybe Sunday morning, 10 o'clock central in Autzen Stadium. Austin
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  Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to give his Indiana thoughts, so
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  Speaker 2: today we're going to quickly get the thoughts on the
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  Speaker 2: Indiana game from him, and then we're jumping in. It's
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  Speaker 2: Oregon preview day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to dwell on it too much
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  Speaker 3: because it I was so sad after it.
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  Speaker 4: I watched it while I was in Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, it's not quite like the Nebraska basketball
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  Speaker 3: against Texas A & M a couple years ago in
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  Speaker 3: the tournament where we started out well. And I keep
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  Speaker 3: saying we'll always have those first six minutes or whatever
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  Speaker 3: I say, the first seven minutes of the game. But
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  Speaker 3: I do remember how I felt with 10 minutes left
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. And gosh, it felt good. It
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  Speaker 3: felt real good. We did everything we were supposed to.
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  Speaker 3: we knew that there was potential to give up big plays.
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  Speaker 3: We just needed to, to, to be able to handle
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  Speaker 3: one or two of them. We handled one or two,
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  Speaker 3: could not handle three. And that was the difference in
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  Speaker 3: the game. Like, and it's, it's, I don't know. It
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  Speaker 3: may be, I'm, I'm removed from it because after the game,
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  Speaker 3: if you were to ask me, it's like same, same shit,
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  Speaker 3: different toilet sort of thing. Um, But, you know, looking
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  Speaker 3: back on it today, four or five days removed, we
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  Speaker 3: controlled the ball for 40 minutes of the game. We
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  Speaker 3: were one for three on third down. Like, we did
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  Speaker 3: really good things. We just missed a field goal, and
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  Speaker 3: we gave up three massive plays. And our offense kind
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  Speaker 3: of got a little tight at the end. I thought
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  Speaker 3: Calandria looked a little tight in the fourth quarter. Once
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  Speaker 3: they scored their second touchdown, it felt like he kind
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  Speaker 3: of tried to do a little bit too much. He
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  Speaker 3: got a little squeamish in the pocket, and it just
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  Speaker 3: fell apart. But we thought we were going to lose it.
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  Speaker 2: My big takeaway, I thought, like you said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the same story, whatever, losing close. It felt different because
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  Speaker 2: it felt like, one– I mean, this is a top
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  Speaker 2: 10 team. But two, we– I mean, it felt like
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  Speaker 2: we're playing the right way and doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: really good things. It just– we came up a tad
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  Speaker 2: bit short. So, yeah, I don't know. It felt a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different. But, yeah, I mean, good takeaway, but
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  Speaker 2: it's nothing to take any moral victory, especially internally in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room. Can't just say, oh, we're pretty good now.
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  Speaker 2: Got to obviously stay hungry and– want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better and improve on everything as we head down
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  Speaker 2: in the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Season's not lost.
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  Speaker 3: We lost to a team that we pushed them to
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  Speaker 3: the edge, then they haven't lost. It's the longest win
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  Speaker 3: streak in college football history, second longest. It's right up there.
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  Speaker 3: If you would have asked me, if I would have
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  Speaker 3: been on the pod Monday, I would have been a
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  Speaker 3: lot more.
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  Speaker 4: Sour, but.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's just the roller coaster of the Husker fandom.
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  Speaker 3: I just need time to heal and back. Ready to
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  Speaker 3: talk Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, we're 5-1 now, and Oregon is surprisingly at
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  Speaker 2: this point in the year 3-2. They're coming off their
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  Speaker 2: loss to UCLA at home last week, and we have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to respond. I think the important update here
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  Speaker 2: to call out right away in the storyline, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to spend the whole pod talking about it,
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  Speaker 2: but Dante Moore is out. Therefore, there's a chance that
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  Speaker 2: we see Dylan Raiola at quarterback on Saturday. And even
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  Speaker 2: if he doesn't start, I still think there's a good
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  Speaker 2: chance that we might see him at some point throughout
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  Speaker 2: the game. I think that, you know, there's a reason
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  Speaker 2: why you pay him money to be your backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, last week was bad, but the week before
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  Speaker 2: was good. And we will see that that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a big, obviously key storyline heading into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The reason I said we might not, if you
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  Speaker 3: would have asked us two weeks ago, we would have
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  Speaker 3: said for sure, we're going to see Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: But last week was real bad for Dylan.
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  Speaker 3: He did get benched in a seven and a two
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  Speaker 3: point loss to UCLA.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't remember how many turnovers they had. It
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  Speaker 4: was like seven as a team. And he had, a
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  Speaker 4: fumble and two interceptions, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember those numbers exactly. So he looked really
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  Speaker 3: bad against UCLA, but UCLA's looked really good. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: working without Dante Moore has definitely looked approachable, to put
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  Speaker 3: it in terms. I think that it's I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to add that much fuel to our team
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  Speaker 3: playing Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: I wish it was at home.
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  Speaker 3: That would have definitely added a little extra zip to
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  Speaker 3: the fan base, but being on the road at 10 PM,
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel great about the, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a good environment. I think I
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  Speaker 3: don't like playing these weird late night games because I
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  Speaker 3: do think it messes with, you know, if you practice
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon and the morning, you're not practicing at
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  Speaker 3: 10 PM. So your body's just not, train to go
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  Speaker 3: a hundred percent at 10 PM at night or 1
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  Speaker 3: AM in the morning when the game is going to
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  Speaker 3: wrap up. So that honestly, the, the environment and the
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  Speaker 3: situation scares me more than.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's, it's definitely fascinating. And that late start time
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  Speaker 2: I seen there's not been, but I think a couple
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  Speaker 2: of games that we've ever played in the history of
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  Speaker 2: our program that have been later. One was in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, It's unique. I also go back to their
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  Speaker 2: college kids, and college kids are usually not going to
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  Speaker 2: bed at that time like most of us are. So
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  Speaker 2: it is going to be different playing that late, but
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  Speaker 2: what I'm more intrigued and fascinated to watch is what
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  Speaker 2: this environment from a crowd standpoint and just an overall, like,
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  Speaker 2: where Oregon's at. I mean, you want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: where the two programs are at. This is, for us,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe some people would disagree with this, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel like we have a whole lot to lose
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  Speaker 2: besides if we get blown out, people are going to
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  Speaker 2: be really upset. Obviously, a close loss isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: be appealing, but going into the year, again, this was
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  Speaker 2: a game. And now Oregon is probably, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to January, you know, some of their players, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not all what they thought they were. But Oregon's got
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  Speaker 2: everything to lose as far as a team that was
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  Speaker 2: picked by a lot of people to win the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: And their fans are obviously very restless. Dan Lanning says
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  Speaker 2: they're evaluating everything right now. Right now, they're on the
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  Speaker 2: brink of, like, being able to fold.
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  Speaker 4: Just imploding.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have the capability of doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the pressure's on them.
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  Speaker 3: Because this loss, it eliminates you from playoff contention if
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  Speaker 3: you're Oregon. You know, three losses, you're probably not making playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Worst start in Dan Lanning's, I think it's worst start
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  Speaker 3: in Dan Lanning's Oregon career.
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  Speaker 4: I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, when you're a preseason, it's not quite like
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  Speaker 3: Penn State last year because obviously Penn State had some
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  Speaker 3: pre-built subseasons prior that were all letdowns. at a different
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  Speaker 3: level than Oregon. I mean, Oregon's had plenty of letdowns
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  Speaker 3: because they have national championship hopes, but yeah, the wheels, I.
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  Speaker 4: Could see the wheels feeling like they're going to come off.
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  Speaker 3: You can, I'm guessing that right now they're pointing at
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  Speaker 3: Dante Moore getting injured is kind of the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not the, what's the word?
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  Speaker 4: That's the, that's the.
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  Speaker 3: Cause, you know, you'd be like, oh, well, Dante Moore
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been playing, but I don't think that's really what
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  Speaker 3: their issue has been.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not like he looked great either before he got,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was, He was a preseason Heisman favorite.
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  Speaker 4: They still lost to Oklahoma State with him.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like before his injury. He was obviously still
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  Speaker 2: a pretty decent quarterback. Just looking at some of the
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  Speaker 2: key stats throughout this preview here, the big thing is
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  Speaker 2: we average pretty much right around the same amount of
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  Speaker 2: yards per game and scoring. Our run game we're averaging 214.
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  Speaker 2: Oregon's averaging 317 passing. So how we have made up
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  Speaker 2: of our offense so far has been a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've been very balanced. Overall, and Oregon has
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  Speaker 2: leaned heavily on the pass. Now, that being said, that
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  Speaker 2: was also with Dante Moore for a lot of those games.
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  Speaker 2: I think Oregon's going to try to establish a run
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  Speaker 2: game against us as well. But the good news is,
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  Speaker 2: We contain Indiana pretty well there too. So it'll be
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  Speaker 2: interesting how they come out. And the other stat that
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  Speaker 2: I want to call out, and it's not so much
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  Speaker 2: about this game, but we have converted 90, or we
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  Speaker 2: allow the opponents to convert 19.7% of third downs. That
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  Speaker 2: is the best in the country right now. Props right
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  Speaker 2: now to where we're at on third down.
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  Speaker 4: And Oregon, 22.1.
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  Speaker 2: They're second nationally. So the two best third down defenses
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  Speaker 2: are matching up here. And, you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a key thing to maybe watch and look at. I
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  Speaker 2: think third down defense is obviously a big, big moment
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  Speaker 2: of every drive. So two things I wanted to call
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  Speaker 2: out there as we're looking at the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then regarding Oregon and their passing attack, it is,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to, I'm going to have to guess
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  Speaker 3: he's still going to play, but Evan Stewart, the number
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  Speaker 3: one receiver is listed as questionable for the game.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean, that's, that's in our favor as well, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk and our run games look pretty, pretty good,
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  Speaker 3: but against Indiana last week, we did struggle. So it was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was hoping to see a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more production from our running backs this week.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it worked out fine last week.
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  Speaker 3: Cause you know, and then being a low scoring game
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  Speaker 3: and Calandria actually did really well on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: So if.
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  Speaker 3: I'm, I'm hoping it's another game like Indiana where we can,
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  Speaker 3: we're able to control the time of possession there in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of passing down situations.
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  Speaker 4: Um, and we continue our third score or third down
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  Speaker 4: or down defense.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe this week can be the week that it,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's a similar game plan as last week,
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  Speaker 3: except this week we execute on preventing the big passing plays.
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  Speaker 4: That's, that's my perception.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm with you. And that was a big takeaway
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  Speaker 2: to like from the coaching staff as you're, as you're
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  Speaker 2: talking to your players and evaluating, you know, moving forward
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  Speaker 2: after the Indiana loss, you, you got to, You got
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  Speaker 2: to say, okay, we're like... You got to make it sting.
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  Speaker 2: The loss has got to hurt. It's got to suck,
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  Speaker 2: especially to the players. And you got to show that
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  Speaker 2: you're not happy, whatever. But you're not going to go
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  Speaker 2: out and drastically change a whole bunch from what we did.
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  Speaker 2: At least I hope we don't. We better not. Because
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  Speaker 2: I thought that the game plan going into the game,
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  Speaker 2: the preparation, the ability to out-coach Cignetti for three quarters
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  Speaker 2: of that game, like... All of those things we need
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  Speaker 2: to carry over into Oregon. And I anticipate we do,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the challenging part with that is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those things become a lot more difficult on
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  Speaker 2: the road in a road environment. Now, again, everybody's probably
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  Speaker 2: going to brush over the Oregon crowd because they're not
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  Speaker 2: playing as well. But, I mean, if they're on their
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  Speaker 2: last straw here for the season... I would not dispute that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if things are going to go well, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be going nuts. Obviously, if we get them
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  Speaker 2: on the ropes, the Boo Birds might come out like
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  Speaker 2: they did last week. But don't expect this to be
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  Speaker 2: an easy environment to go play. It's going to be tough.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the toughest to play in the conference
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  Speaker 2: because of the way it's set up and how loud
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  Speaker 2: it can get. It's a unique, smaller stadium, but built
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  Speaker 2: in a way that the noise can really reflect well. So,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important to note that that this road
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  Speaker 2: environment to me is the most, one of the big
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  Speaker 2: concerning things, especially if we don't jump on them from
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  Speaker 2: the get go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I do think.
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  Speaker 3: I like your call out of, I do think the
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  Speaker 3: fan base could turn, you know, if it's going like
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  Speaker 3: last week, I don't think it's going to go like
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  Speaker 3: last week. I'm, I'm not disappointed that they lost to
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  Speaker 3: UCLA because obviously it gives you a.
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  Speaker 4: Little more hope. But there's also that part where it's like, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I wish that was our game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the odds of Oregon having those games two
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  Speaker 3: times in a row aren't great.
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  Speaker 4: But I do, playing Dylan is interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I know we're trying not to make this a Dylan
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  Speaker 3: Rowland conversation, but if he is the starting quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of know his weaknesses a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And we've actually done a pretty good job getting in
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  Speaker 4: the backfield.
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  Speaker 3: And making the quarterbacks move a little bit on defense
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  Speaker 3: as far as our pass rush goes and.
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  Speaker 4: Tackling the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm kind of hoping that we're a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more aggressive, running.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of blitz packages.
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  Speaker 3: Again, that leaves you a little bit more open to
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  Speaker 3: those deep plays. But like I said, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: know that Dylan, his pocket presence is one of his
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  Speaker 3: weaker aspects of his game that I'm sure he was
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  Speaker 3: hoping to work.
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  Speaker 4: On this season.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm hoping defensively we can actually, it's, it's interesting
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  Speaker 3: being on this.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, Oh, I like to exploit the thing
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  Speaker 4: that we worried about last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And, and.
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  Speaker 2: As we transition here, when Oregon has the ball, I
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  Speaker 2: think the, the big thing when you're talking about these
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks is, is each, each are a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: as far as what they bring to the table. But
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, Our scheme and design and what
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  Speaker 2: we do is not going to be too much different,
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  Speaker 2: I think, for these three guys. They run a lot
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  Speaker 2: of spread RPO stuff. It's a lot of RPOs. Indiana
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  Speaker 2: was a little more pro RPO, more tight ends, more wingbacks,
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  Speaker 2: but still a lot of RPOs. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be more spread here with the RPO game. And then
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  Speaker 2: I think you should expect.
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  Speaker 2: I would think more of a heavier dose of their
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  Speaker 2: running back, Davison. But, I mean, that's what I would do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to necessarily do that
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  Speaker 2: with how their game plan went. The other thing I
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  Speaker 2: think to watch, or what I think we need to
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  Speaker 2: figure out a way to adjust to, is one, stop
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  Speaker 2: the run, but two, not give up big plays, especially
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  Speaker 2: on the road. And you mentioned that earlier. what that
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  Speaker 2: balance is from playing press coverage, not letting them get
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  Speaker 2: easy dink and dunk throws, slants, hitches. Because Indiana didn't
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  Speaker 2: get much of that either because the way we were covering. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you take one thing away, it exposes you a little
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  Speaker 2: more to the other thing. So I'm curious, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: what our defensive strategy is after giving up big plays,
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  Speaker 2: which ultimately kind of costed the game. Is that because
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  Speaker 2: of the scheme? Was it single play, like, What's our
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  Speaker 2: adjustment or is there one when we're out there on
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  Speaker 2: the edge? And maybe the quarterback situation does change that
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  Speaker 2: a little bit as well. Like you said, we know
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  Speaker 2: Dylan's capabilities, both good and bad. So that should help
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  Speaker 2: us when he's out there. But yeah, I guess I'm
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  Speaker 2: curious how we adjust from the Indiana game, which was
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  Speaker 2: a very, very good defensive game for us. He's a
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  Speaker 2: team that's very similar in Oregon, maybe a little more spread,
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  Speaker 2: but going to run a lot of the same type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I kind of already lived through
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  Speaker 4: those things that we'd agree on. And, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Looking back at it again, Indiana, it feels good now
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  Speaker 3: in seeing how he's performed well against Indiana. I do
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  Speaker 3: think Oregon tries to establish the run a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: Indiana moved away from the run relatively early, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that did them any benefits. I think Oregon,
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  Speaker 3: based off their performance last week, are going to try
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  Speaker 3: to stick to the run a little bit longer. So
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  Speaker 3: if we can contain them longer, I think that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be more beneficial to us. And then I guess
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  Speaker 3: general thoughts on defense, we had a couple of penalties
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  Speaker 3: that gave I mean, penalties were fine against Indiana, but.
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  Speaker 4: We still lost.
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  Speaker 3: So we need to be clean. We need to have
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  Speaker 3: the turnover to be in favor of us. So hopefully
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  Speaker 3: with the passing offense, we can force. Hopefully if they're
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  Speaker 3: passing the ball a lot more, like I said, they had,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was seven turnovers last week.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't watch the whole game.
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  Speaker 3: So if we can produce half of those turnovers, I
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  Speaker 3: feel freaking great, really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's going to be their big call-out.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think going into their week is don't
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: have– I mean, think of Nebraska had seven turnovers. Holy crap.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: That's going to.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Be the one thing that they're really going to be
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: focused on. And with that being said, that's why I
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: think you might see more run game. The other thing
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that we know Dylan Ariella does well and did in Nebraska,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and when you look at Brock Thomas, too, and some
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: of Lanning's comments, they throw a lot of quick passes.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: They like to get the ball out quick. Well, when
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: you do that, it's harder to get pressure on them, right?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Again, another thing to watch on this side of the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: ball is do we try to get pressure on him
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: knowing that the ball's out quick? It might not be
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: as effective. I mean, I think there's a balance there, right,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: of if you're going to bring a rush or try
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: to do something, there's a time and place for it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I also think our press coverage man that we do
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of times is going to help with that,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: but I do think we might adjust some of that
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: too for the big play aspect Yeah, the whole passing
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: game is going to be interesting. Again, assuming we can
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: stop the run. I mean, we've done a good job
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: of that so far. No reason.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: To think that it won't be able to at least
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: slow the run.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: When we have the ball here, here's my one thing
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: that no one's going to talk about, but I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: is really big, and I want to call it out,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and This is my number one most concerning thing for
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: this game, and it worries me. Dylan Raiola, I think,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think you can talk all the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: crap you want about him as fans or media, whatever.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I think he's a pretty smart guy. I think he
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: understands football very well. I think he understands how to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: make reads pretty well. I don't know his decision-making is perfect,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: but I think he understands the game. Here's my big concern.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: He spent a year and a half with Dana Holgerson
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and learning Dana's, now I get our systems a little
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: bit different now, but learning Dana's identity, what he likes
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to do, what he doesn't like to do, his tendencies,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: what he likes to call, when he likes to call it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Like when you're a quarterback, you are obviously building a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: strong relationship with your offensive coordinator and you're you're I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: mean this is not just obviously in season it's throughout
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the entire year in that offseason when we were all
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: excited for meshing Raiola and Holgerson like he knows Dana
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: very very well and like just think if you're a
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: coach and you have a player of any sport and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: your player all of a sudden next year goes to
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: an opposing team like They know everything. And yes, I
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: get it. You're changing stuff. Things are different. But your
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: base core way you function, your non-negotiable type of things,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: those things aren't changing. You're not flipping. You're not changing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: It's all pretty consistent. And yeah, you're going to add
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and adjust. But that part is really concerning to me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Dylan's going to be able to share all that information.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they're not going to know how to They're
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: not stealing play calls by any means, but they're going
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to understand how Dana operates. And if I were Oregon,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I'd be getting all that information, everything I can from Dylan,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and assuming you trust Dylan and what he's saying. Like,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: that part to me is not to be overlooked this week.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: You know, I should say luckily, but, you know, Dana Holgerson,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: he has a lot of film out there, and I
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: think people have an idea, but no. I'm hoping that
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they're more worried about getting Dylan prepped for the week
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: against our defense more so than offloading his information. If
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Dante Moore was healthy, I'd feel way worse because it's like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: you know that that's all Dylan's doing all week is
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: just telling them, oh, hey, this is what they're doing here.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: That's what they want to do here. But I agree.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's going to be the difference in
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: the game. But if our offense struggles, it's definitely going
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: to creep into my mind and be like, Oh man,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: do they know what we're doing? And that's, isn't that,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: that's what happened against Oklahoma state, right?
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Against Oregon.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: They're like, Oh, Dante Moore has a tell whatever he
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: wants to run or pass the ball.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: It came out and that's what it was in the
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: college football playoffs.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure that that, that mentally messed with them
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: a little bit this year of like, what are we doing?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Like if people know what we're doing. All right.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: My biggest thing early on here that I'm watching for is,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, twofold, but for the same reason. One, can
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: we establish a run game with our running backs like
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: we did the first few games of the season? Didn't
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: do a great job with that last week against Indiana.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Had some decent runs, but nothing like we've been doing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But what goes into that is how much is Oregon
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: committing defenders to the box for that reason? You know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: what does that look like? So, like, both those combinations,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I think, is a big part of our identity now,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: which I love. Thank goodness we figured that part out.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: And early on, we'll see what we can do with
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the running back run game. I do like, against Indiana,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: how we identified, and, I mean, again, this is part
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of prep prepping, that the edge is, with some of
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the jet sweeps and quick screen passes and all of
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: that was vulnerable. So we'll see what that vulnerability is
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: that the coaches identify against Oregon. But that's my first
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: test looking close at the first couple of drives is
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: what is that? What is that initial first and 10
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: type of plays? But what does that look like when
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: we're trying to run the ball? Where is it going?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And how is Oregon responding to that?
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I think us getting the run game going is important.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And also, like I said, I don't want to say
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: the same thing as Indiana, but we held the ball
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: for 40 minutes of the game. And I think that
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: was huge. We want to keep it low scoring because
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: if we get into a shootout with Oregon, that means
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: we're probably going to lose. And yeah, that's another thing
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I guess we didn't talk about on time. But it
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: did feel like we figured out some things that worked.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: that they couldn't figure out until the end of the game.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: They kind of started to figure it out. So we
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: can figure out what, what it is against Oregon.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I haven't watched enough Oregon games to kind of have
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: an idea of what's working against them. Obviously it's their
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: defense doesn't seem to have been the issue this year.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: So if their offense has just kind of been a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: little bit like last week, it wasn't their defense.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: It was their offense that lost them the game. So I,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: you know, it's a concern.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I want their offense to feel pressure and have in
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: the back of their mind, we don't want to take
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: shots because that's what lost us the game last week
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to make them play a little bit scared.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: And I think the other big piece we haven't talked
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: about is Anthony Calandria and his capability to do what
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: he's been doing against Oregon.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I think Nico– Ian Malava for UCLA. I was hoping
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have to say his name this year, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: he is not as much of a runner, and I
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: think this is going to be the most running threat
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: from a quarterback that Oregon's going to see so far
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in their season two. So, again, how they account for
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: that and what Calandra is able to accomplish both in
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the air and with his feet is going to be,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I think, a key factor, too, to how this offense
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: performs offensively. And I would expect him just to continue
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: to make plays. The question for me goes back again
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: to being on the road where it's going to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: harder to hear, harder to do stuff, harder to operate,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: harder to dictate, lead, all of that stuff. The confidence
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: that you can have, though, in a quarterback that's played
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of games in a lot of different places. Yes,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: he was at UNLV, but then Virginia before where he
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: played in some ACC environments as well. he's done that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be a big shock to him
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: like it can be to some younger quarterbacks or quarterbacks
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: that are just playing in a lower conference schedule. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: can give you hope there, but I think it's going
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: to be harder to operate on offense on this road environment,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: especially early.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: And that's when the running game is most important.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: And having a quarterback who runs... Opens up your running game.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: It helps a lot. So I totally agree.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: And when it comes to our receivers and including Luke
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Lindenmeyer in that, here's what I like is that I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: kind of said it with, with Gilmer having two back-to-back
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: big weeks, those other guys are just as good, right?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Gilmer's been a calendar's go-to target, but we got the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: other two involved. We have some guys that are pretty
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: damn talented on the edge and doing a lot of things. So,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I'll be curious, again, what that attack looks like in
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the air. And Luke Lindemeyer's done his fair share as
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: well of catching passes and obviously helping in the run
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: game as well. And we haven't talked about it, which
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: is probably good, but Indiana... we i thought won the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage or at least competed at the line
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: of scrimmage for a lot of that game and against
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: better teams and and i will say this you know
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: what raiola made the comment beginning of the year about
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: playing with surrounding himself with talent or whatever talent Indiana
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: still has more talent or Indiana. Oregon has still has
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: more talent than we do. They do like player for player.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, maybe the gap isn't
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: as wide as we thought it was, but I still
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: think they're more talented when anytime you face a team
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that you think has more talent than you, the first
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: place you got to look is the line of scrimmage.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And if you're getting blown off the ball, dominated on
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the defensive side and, and offensive side, it, it makes
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: everything 10 times more difficult. So, I mean, in addition
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: to the run game, let's see what the line of
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: scrimmage looks like. Again, Indiana, we did a very damn
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: good job on that. And yeah, we supplemented help with
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: some of the play calling and maybe avoiding that, but
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: also defensively bringing some guys down. Just keep an eye
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: on that line of scrimmage. Can we continue to do
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: what we've been doing? You don't have to be A grade,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: but can we operate defensively well enough that it doesn't
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: disrupt everything we're doing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah. We, we just need, we just need to do
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: what we've been doing. We've been, like I said, we're
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: five and one.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: We had a really good game against Indiana. I, I
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: guarantee you that that's bulletin material this week is going
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: somewhere with better talent. I bet when Dylan said that
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: he did not anticipate starting against Nebraska, um, So it's
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: always nice to have a little bit of bulletin material,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: but I do think, yeah, offensive line, we've looked really
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: good this year.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Defensive line, we've looked way better than I thought we
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: were going to look. I thought we were going to,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: I was worried about.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Our size on the defensive line, but we've actually done
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: pretty well against the points we've played. Indiana was the first,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: you know, real test where it's like, oh, okay. Now
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Indiana hasn't looked as unstoppable as last year, but they're
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: also a team that definitely has more talent than us.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: And we, we were right there. So, I'm expecting a
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: similar situation. I just looked, I don't know if this
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: is true, but the opening spread for this game was
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: 21 and a half.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: That was that search for some games. They set lines
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like preseason.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Okay. That's what I was guessing, but I was like, I,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I can't see when this line was set. Okay.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: So seven and a half, seven points. I mean, that's,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: that seems about right for a game against Oregon.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, let's find a damn way to win the game.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Like that goes back into last week and the storyline
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: of when will we finally win, beat a top 25 team.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Which 31 against top 25 teams.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it counts this week. I heard
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: it probably doesn't cause it's AP related, but it's a
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: game that on paper we shouldn't win.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: But I think we have every tool that we need
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to go win this game on the road. And if
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the program wants to continue to move forward and take
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: a big step forward, this would be a huge one
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to become bowl eligible at Oregon. I mean, that'd be incredible.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: If you told me that beginning of the year, that'd
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: be incredible. And it's right there. It's not impossible. It
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: is not impossible to do. And I hope that the
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: players and coaches truly believe, like they did against Indiana,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: that we can go win this game if we do things, this, this,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and this. So, I mean, my winning script, Keep the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: game structurally sound, like we said. Control time possession like
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: we did. See if we can get some running back production.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Force Oregon, I think, has sustained drives. And if we
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: can make the first scoring opportunity count early on, that'll
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: help with the crowd. So I think a big piece
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: in these games is just keeping the game within striking
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: distance when it comes to the fourth quarter. And then.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Seize the moment and take, take the opportunity and win
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the game. I, I, if you put yourself at a
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: hard spot in the fourth quarter or try to come
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: from behind, it's not, it's not pretty, but get yourself
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: right there at the end in the last two drives
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: each and, and, and find a way to win the game.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Like we can do.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Position and, This year, we've done the things that we've
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: been harping on for years.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: We run the ball better than our opponents. We control
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the ball more than our opponents. We're limiting turnovers outside
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: of penalties. We aren't really doing anything dumb. And so
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: last week, we almost had it all come to fruition.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: We just had a couple of mistakes that cost us
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: a close game against the top 10 team.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: And it wouldn't suck. I should say that. But, you know,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: it's like, oh, finally, if we beat Oregon, it's like, oh,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: we beat a ranked team. It's like, well, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: it's just kind of funny that it's like, finally, I think.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Everything's coming together to where it's like, this might actually happen.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: It's just kind of funny that when it happens, it's. Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: And the status is a nice to have thing. It's
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: obviously the matter of fact of beating a team that
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: on paper, you shouldn't on the road. And again, it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: right there for the taking. Go get it. Don't take
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Indiana as a moral victory and say we're pretty good,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: and if we lose this game, who cares, right? We're
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: right there. Like, go take this game and steal one
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: on the road in Eugene.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Yep, I agree.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: All right, well, get your coffee ready for the 10 p.m.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: It's so freaking late. Showdown.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: You want to do a post-game pod at 2 a.m.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I don't.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: If the first half doesn't go– if the first half
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: is looking one way, there's a good chance I might
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: record the second half and watch it in the morning.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I'm excited just to be able to watch college football
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: all day and then.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Go to a bar, close it down.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what the plan is for
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the game yet, but it'll feel like the entire day
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: of football is over, and then we've got a game
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: of starting. It'll be great.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, great's a word.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: All right. All right. Go Big Red.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: GBR.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: The headlines change but.
• 36:04
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• 36:13
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• 36:19
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• 36:23
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• 36:25
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• 36:29
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• 36:35
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• 36:42
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• 36:50
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