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Buffs on the Brink: What Deion MUST Fix Before Saturday | K-State vs Coloardo Game Preview (S4//E36) · Cocaine Willie

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Do you actually have to be on cocaine
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A great day, dirty. Lazy boy.
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What's up everybody, you're listening to yet another edition
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of Cocaine Willie, the official K state representative on the
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college huddle. I am your commissioner Bob
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Trollsby. And as always, I'm not joined by
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my Co host actually this time. So the good chef Andre Napier
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and fireball Matt Margosini are not here.
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But I am joined by the Colorado Buffaloes representative on the
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college huddle. David talks Buffs is joining us
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for his first, his second time on the pod, so first time as a
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recurring guest. David, how are you doing and
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what are what are your Thanksgiving plans this week?
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Oh man, just watch some football and just try and get out of this
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alter ego that I've become now. David cries Buffs.
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That's what I've been all season, man, this has been a
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season. Another season from hell.
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But thanks for having me back on Mr. Trollsby.
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Can't wait to talk about it. Of course, of course, before we
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stopping by. David I, I have to, I have to
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talk just big picture here. So this is the 67th meeting
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between Colorado and K State over the course of the last I, I
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guess hundreds, 100 some years. K State's won four of the last
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six dating back to 2006. Yes, I cherry picked that stack.
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I could go back a little bit further, but it would wouldn't
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be as fun for me to do that. Deion Sanders is 16 and 20 now
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in his last three seasons at the helm in Boulder, Co Currently
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three and eight this year after a nine and four campaign last
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season and is one in seven in Big 12 play.
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But I want to talk about the offseason because living in
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Denver myself, I hear altitude sports radio, I listen to the
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sports talk in the area. So I hear a lot about what goes
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on at CU. But Deion gets a contract
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extension, making him the 14th highest paid college football
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coach. He's only 25 grand, 25 grand
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behind Lane Kiffin currently, who's in 10th place.
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He got Shidor and Travis into the Ring of Honor with jerseys
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retired, which is also just unheard of.
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There are multiple other guys that that probably should be on
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that list ahead of them. Not to say that Travis isn't
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deserving. He's absolutely deserving as a
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Heisman winner. But Shidor, you know, I have my
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own issues with that. Maybe even as even as an
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outsider looking at and then Dionne has some of these issues
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with his health. We hear about.
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He's spending his offseason in Texas for the most part.
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He has about with bladder cancer that he survives, which is
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amazing, but more surgeries to remove blood clots.
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Just felt like a really weird offseason that has played into
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what's been a really strange season, even from, you know, 3
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quarterbacks getting different starts throughout the season so
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far. Wins against Delaware, Wyoming
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and Iowa State with the storming of the field against Iowa State.
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Just a weird, a weird season across the board.
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I, I, I'm going to open it up with that and tee it off and I'm
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going to let you just run. What's the vibe around the
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program in Boulder right now? This was a bad acid trip, man.
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This whole year. Just a terrible bad acid trip,
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man. If you can think about it going
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wrong, man, it pretty much has man, where do I even start?
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I'll, I'll say this. When you're paid the way that
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you're paid now, the expectation is that you will build off of a
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nine and four season, not necessarily repeating 9:00 and
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4:00, but you know, the foundation continues to be laid.
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And that's our thing. Like I'd see you, you know, in
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2016, we had a 10 win season. Follow that up with handful
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losing seasons, you know, we're never able to build on success
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for whatever reason. And I will say the reasons that
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the program isn't building on success right now are different
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than what it was the reasons maybe in 2017 or you know, in
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2021, right? Like different.
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I'll say this and Coach Prime is admitted to.
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We missed on a lot of guys in the portal, OK, We're not
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vending these guys characters at all, man.
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Not at all to the the guys that we dropped the two biggest bags
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on this year. Starting quarterback assumed
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coming in here to Kane Salter and interior defensive lineman
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from Alabama, Jahim Otis, dude. Jahim Otis can barely get more
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than 5 snaps on a decimated defensive line this year, dude.
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And yeah, this guy's making big bucks.
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Then when you go again, you pay Kane Salter.
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Dude, this guy's crying, sulking when things aren't going his
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way. He wasn't even named A-Team
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captain after being here since January.
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So that was a red flag that he just wasn't handling himself
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like the face of a program should as a fifth year senior.
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And I'll say this man, too, you know, I was like, Kane Salter
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had a great year in 2023. And the fan of me is like, dude,
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oh dude, his team just sucked in 24.
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Like, of course the, you know, the stats weren't that great,
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but I'm going to disregard that. It's one thing when I say that
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as a YouTube. It's another thing when clearly
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that's what the recruiting staff thought as well.
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They're like, team just wasn't that good, man, whatever.
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Look at 2023. Look at 2023 and it was a
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disaster, man. We threw away all that film.
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Maybe the reason they weren't good in 2024 was because he
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sucks and that's what we found out.
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So anyways, where do I go from here?
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It's been a disaster ever since. Coach Prime missed months and
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months and a lot of the spring portal, the summer recruiting,
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it was left up to the staff, the coaching staff, the recruiting
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staff. And I think what we realized, at
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least in my opinion, you might have to edit this out, but we
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got a bunch of lazy motherfuckers on this staff,
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man, that don't know how to do their job when they're going
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Coach Primes out of here. Man, what a slap in the face.
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Dude. This guy's battling cancer.
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And these, these staff members and these players do just lay
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consistent eggs after eggs after eggs, dude.
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These guys are an embarrassment. Dude.
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Usually something like this when your head coach says, you know
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what, I'm going to remove my bladder instead of just getting
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chemotherapy because I want to be back to coach.
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OK, you can criticize prime for a he's made some bad mistakes as
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a coach, man, he is not a perfect coach at all.
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No, no, no, no, no, But I can genuinely tell you he loves
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doing this job like he loves being a coach.
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And to just get this kind of hell no, dude, it was like a
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flaccid like not even blue balls, man, like I was.
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It was just a flaccid football season, dude.
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None of it made any sense. I've never seen against
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Delaware. You're two games in right and
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you're you're doing a a quarterback musical chairs
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against Delaware and you know. Not even that, but you bring 2
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quarterbacks to Big 12 Media Days, which I think I think the
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last time that happened, it was actually K State that did it and
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it was when we had Alex Dalton and Skyler Thompson in 20.
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It it was Snyder's last season. I think yes, yes.
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And K State fans all know how that turned out.
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It was it was not good. Yes, and.
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Again, he wasn't named a captain.
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There was just never any plan. There was never any plan for
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Julian Lewis. And I think like that's the
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theme, dude. And there was no plan like Pat
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Shermer bringing in Kaden Salter, dude.
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This guy didn't fit the offense at all.
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And he didn't change the offense to fit his skills whatsoever.
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So it was just a bad fit all around.
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Coaches, players, the vision, dude, everything was just so
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broken this year. And I think like, but coming off
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of a nine and four season, one that we felt really proud of a
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Heisman winner, they're like really the only two things that
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I can be happy about is that we saw improvement with the
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offensive line and we finally got to see hopefully what you
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know, can come in the future with Julian Lewis at
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quarterback. But that all hinges on Coach
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Prime making right hires, dude. And I think that he's hired a
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lot of guys that I've been comfortable in this role, in
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these roles. It's one thing for Coach Prime,
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dude, not to. He's sick.
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All these different things, not hitting the recruiting trail
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super hard. All these other dudes that he
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hired, dude, they're just sitting back on vacation to
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fishing like their Coach Prime. That's my issue, dude.
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None of these other guys are are taking this role seriously.
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Like their career and their livelihood depend on it, dude.
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You don't have enough hunger, dude.
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They're treating this thing like Coach Snoop, like, you know, I'm
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going to give it my all. But you know, at the end of the
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day, dude, I'm still Pat Shermer.
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I coached 20 years in the NFL. I'm totally fine and I'm still
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Warren Sapp. You know, the defensive line was
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atrocious this year. But hey, you know, I'm a I'm a
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Hall of Famer. I got money, whatever.
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You know, I'm Coach Prime's buddy from, you know, his high
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school coaching days. I'm just happy to be here, dude.
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You got a lot of guys that are happy to be here and not a lot
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of guys fed up with losing that hate to lose.
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And word is is that the staff is going to get blown out.
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We'll see what happens after Kansas State.
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I mean, it's not something he's been afraid to do in the past
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because you see in the first season he switched play callers
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halfway through the season. So I, I would almost have the
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expectation Pat Shermer's gone, Warren, maybe Warren Sapp, but
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definitely expecting some, some big changes there.
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I, I want to talk about the offense big picture now, now
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that we mentioned Pat Shermer a little bit, but this is a far
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cry from from the offense we saw the past two years.
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Wish adore at quarterback and Travis Hunter involved in the
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wide receiving game, averaging 21 1/2 points per game.
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That's 102nd nationally, 300 and 29329 yards per game.
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That's 104th nationally, 4.8 yards per play.
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That's good for 108th nationally, 87.8 in red zone
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scoring percentage. That's 45th nationally,
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surprisingly enough. And then Pat Shermer is still
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the primary play caller in Boulder.
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But. But my question is, what's been
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the biggest ingredient in Colorado's regression?
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Is it strictly a change in personnel when you lose that
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core in that leadership of Chador and Travis who and and
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multiple other guys that went to the NFL with the attrition at
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key positions there from last year to this year?
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Is it more of a problem of leadership and play calling?
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You kind of alluded to it with coaching and maybe you've got
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Pat Shermer, some of these other guys going out fishing while
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Coach Prime's going through through cancer rehabilitation.
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Just tell me what what's been the biggest ingredient to that
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regression in in the offensive production?
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Well, let's talk about the lack of leadership in the room.
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I think again, retaining Coach Shermer do is just horrible this
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year. But what?
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Yeah, let's talk about the lack of leadership.
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You lost a ton of receiving production.
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You know 3 wide receivers drafted.
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Think Will Shepherd's now on the Packers 53 or something like
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that. So you you lose 4 pro wide
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receivers, you lose Shidor, who's now starting for the
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Browns, and of course Travis Hunter.
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This is what happens though, dude, when you recruit small
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numbers and those guys don't come up in the culture because
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we're missing a ton of key positions that need to be filled
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through the transfer portal. But all these guys are new,
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dude. All these guys are new outside
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of Jordan Seaton essentially. And you know, you can only be a
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leader so much as the offensive lineman.
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And again, coach prime out of quote today.
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Well, you got to look at the numbers.
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You recruit 30 guys and then you know 15 are gone in the next two
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years. Well, you recruit 10 guys and
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five guys are gone in the next, you know, two years.
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So then where is your foundation of leadership?
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And again, I think that with having a, you know, a couple
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small poor recruiting classes in terms of, you know, numbers and
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not recruiting positions out of high school every single year,
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it just became another transient team without really any
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identity. And when you're new again, you
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would love to think that a fifth year senior quarterback could
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come in here and be that guy. I would think so.
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But when you're not vetting who he is or why Liberty was happy
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to get off of them, this is what happens.
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So there was no accountability, dude.
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And one thing that was so disgusting was against Iowa
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State Coach Prime's first ranked victory since the the first game
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against TCU few years ago. We hit a bye week and Omari
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Miller and Joseph Williams show up late, dude.
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They get suspended for the next game coming off the bye week.
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And so when you have some of your most talented players
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coming off of their biggest win, like with that stuff happening,
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you got a bunch of guys that aren't taking this thing
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seriously that are just happy to be there and you lack player
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accountability. Dude, the coaches can only do so
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much. I'll give them that much.
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You know, the players got to want it too.
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And I think again, it's cool, like I understand you got to
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live in in the portal, right? But you can't build your
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foundation on the transfer portal.
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And essentially that's what we had to do because we recruited
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small numbers over the last couple years.
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And now we're kind of in a spot again where Coach Prime was at
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taking over in 2023. We're going to have to bring in
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like 50 new players and will we even fill the full scholarship
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amount? We didn't this year.
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We had 75 scholarship players. That doesn't tell you that's a
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lazy on the recruiting staff. I don't know what does.
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That's that's crazy, especially with 105 person roster limit
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that you can now have now and and effectively all those guys
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can be scholarship athletes that that that's definitely says a
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lot there looking at the offensive line 104th nationally
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in offensive efficiency. Oh, we've got we've got fireball
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Matt here. He's he's he made it.
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How you? Doing Matt.
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I'm good, I'm good. Glad to be on.
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Glad to be on indeed offensive line there. 104th nationally in
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offensive efficiency and 110th in rushing, which is what I
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really want to hone in on here. Currently Colorado's 124th
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nationally of 136 teams and average sacks allowed per game.
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36 total sacks allowed through 11 games, 98th and average
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rushing yards per game, and both in sacks and rushing yardage
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yardage. The numbers seem to indicate
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that Colorado's offensive line issues that we've seen through
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the course of the last two or three years now, they've only
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persisted, if not gotten worse in 2025.
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And that's despite having a guy like Jordan Seton on the
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offensive line. It it, it feels like maybe
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there's lack of gelling or cohesion really around Jordan
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Seaton at some of those other positions.
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But what would you say have been the biggest glaring flaws with
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the offensive line this year? Yeah, the the offensive line is
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weird because, yeah, as you pointed out, like the numbers
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don't exactly point to an improvement.
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But when you're watching when when you're watching the team,
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it's definitely been drastically improved with what they're
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doing. We just don't run the ball
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enough. That's the other thing, like I,
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I feel like we've run more efficiently, much more
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successfully throughout this year than in the past.
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Like I think we have over 1200 rushing yards as a team, which
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is an improvement over where we were at last year, I think.
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But yeah, Kane Salter ran into a lot of sacks this year holding
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on to the ball like that. I think a lot of it had to do
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with the quarterback play for where the offensive line was at
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this year. But there was, it wasn't nearly
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like what we've seen at different points where it's
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like, dude, once the snap happens, there are guys in the
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backfield. That hasn't happened.
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But I will say we haven't served the offensive line well with we
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never, we never figured out what we wanted to be like.
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We didn't have an identity on offense, whether it was passing
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or are we going to be a running team or are we going to be a
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Smash Mouth team? You know, they we still don't do
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a lot of the stuff that you'll see probably K State and other
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Big 12 teams do is just, you know, intricate blocking schemes
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and running counter duo like these sort of things.
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Like we have like 4 running plays.
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You know, with having Pat Shermer here, you know, that's
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just that was unacceptable and we really need to hire a new OC
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this year that will we saw fired him.
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So coach prime stripped his play calling duties.
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But, you know, still leaves it acceptable to keep him around.
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You know, you can still keep your job if you're mediocre, I
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guess. You know, it just irks me that
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he's, like, still around on staff right now after all.
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That's just a disaster. So yeah, like we just run a
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bunch of basic stuff and that is an issue.
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Well, let's get into the quarterback position and some
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news today that your your five star quarterback that has had
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some play this season, Julian Lewis is going to be red
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shirting this season so will not be playing in the game on
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Saturday. So let's talk about two of the
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quarterbacks that did get some more playing time.
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You mentioned Kaden Salter, he's a Liberty transfer who started
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the season. He's had about 1200 / 1200
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passing yards this season on 179 attempts, 10 touchdowns, 6
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interceptions through eight games.
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And then you had Ryan Staub, who, you know, you think about
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that Houston game, he had a pretty, you know, was pretty
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decent, you know, 200 yards passing through 35 times.
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But, you know, it just seems like the quarterback position
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has not necessarily maybe been the way that it was anticipated
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this season, especially with Kaden Salter coming in from a
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really good career at Liberty. So, you know, watching this team
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this year, you know, what's your assessment of the quarterback
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situation, the guys that have played and maybe some reasons
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why it's been so unstable this season?
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Well, I touched on this earlier. You know, Kaden Salter, dude, he
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just, he just doesn't have the mental makeup for this level
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dude. He just doesn't.
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He folds under pressure when the moment is at its biggest, he
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folds and he's done that all throughout the season.
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And and then I'll get on the mic and say, well, you know, being
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benched a few weeks ago, didn't you know, it kind of messed,
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messed my head up a little bit. Dude, you're getting paid close
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to $1,000,000. Shut up.
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Like that's how I feel about it. Like, what are we doing?
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Stop complaining, stop sulking on the sideline when you know
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you're not playing. So the vibes, the good vibes
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there from him as a fifth year senior just did not.
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They were not there. The leadership was not there.
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And again, I wanted to stay optimistic.
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But when you're entrusting your quarterback development to Pat
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Shermer, that is a viable offense in itself.
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And yes, Pat Shermer is a disease on this team that
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hopefully I'll never have to see again after this Kansas State
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game. Man, I'm dark side Dave today.
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David, David cries buffs. There we go, running back
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position. So Michael Welch and Alan Hayden
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to well, at least Alan Hayden. That's a guy we chatted about
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last year pretty significantly. Those are the 2 two leading
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running backs despite the fact they are not the two leading
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rushers. Kaden Salter actually the second
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leading rusher on the team with only eight games under his belt,
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which which tells me a lot about the rushing stats on this team.
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Welch has 364 yards on 86 carries with two touchdowns,
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averaging about 4.2 yards per carry.
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Dallon Hayden with 260 yards on 55 carries and a touchdown.
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He's averaging about 4.7 yards per carry.
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But it's safe to say that Dion and Pat still haven't quite
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figured out the rushing game. Would you would?
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You and now Brett Bartolone is calling plays.
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So I mean, who knows what we're going to get?
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You know, he hasn't really been much better.
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So yeah, you got that three headed monster coming up with
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offensive game plans right now. You know, they're talented
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running backs. But again, last week in crunch
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time, they're averaging 6 yards of carry over the game and Coach
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Prime just puts in a walk on wide receiver running back that
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fumbles the game away and then they Arizona State rushes for a
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90 yard touchdown. So yeah, they're talented, but
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with your game plan this week with Kane Salter starting should
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just be stack, Stack the box, stop the run and force Kane
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Salter to beat you with his arm. Because you know, he can throw a
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nine round and he can throw a screen pass and he can make a
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play on the run every now and then.
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But that's really about it. So that should be your game plan
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without Julian Lewis. It did open things up a little
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bit just because of his arm talent downfield.
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So I think it opened up some stuff in the run game for us,
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which was nice last week against Arizona State.
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But yeah, they're talented. But you, you're not going to see
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them. I don't think either of them
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ball out against your defense, man.
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I know y'all about it down here on defense, but I mean, that's
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how that's how sick I am after this Arizona State game, man.
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From a, from a rushing perspective, though, it does
24:47
look like a few of those guys that you've got a handful of
24:50
guys on, on this, on this depth chart who have had runs OF203040
24:57
plus yards. So it, it does look like they've
24:59
been able to get some explosive plays here or there.
25:02
What have been the situations where they've been able to, you
25:05
know, pop off a run for 36 or 40 yards here or there?
25:10
Yeah. I mean, usually light boxes
25:13
help. Usually facing light boxes has
25:16
definitely helped or just like not insanely stacked boxes right
25:20
now. We got Jordan Seaton out with an
25:23
angle injury. And so you're going to see some
25:27
backup offensive lineman, probably two or three playing
25:29
starting in this game. And so that's going to be
25:32
another factor in which I think that we're going to have to
25:35
overcome in the running game. But we don't really do you know,
25:40
much misdirection or anything like that.
25:42
You know, if if you guys are disciplined and your linebackers
25:46
are are disciplined, you guys shouldn't have a issue, I think,
25:49
stopping the run game. So yeah, Arizona State,
25:53
unsurprisingly, you know what up some big runs to us last week
25:57
and it gave us an opportunity to hang in the game.
26:01
So yeah, if if our running backs get off, that's that's going to
26:06
be the factor. And if if we're going to upset,
26:08
I guess is we run for like 300 yards on Y'all or something like
26:12
that. But I mean, y'all could run for
26:14
about 600 yards on this defense. Who knows, We'll, we'll talk a
26:20
little bit about your, you know, defense here in a little bit.
26:24
But I do want to talk about the wide receivers.
26:27
This is a position group that, you know, in Dion's tenure, he's
26:31
had really, really great talent. And it all starts really with a
26:34
Marion Miller who had a great game against us last year.
26:39
I think he had it was like 100 and 4000 and 45 yards against us
26:45
in the game in Boulder. But he seems like he's kind of
26:48
the main guy who's had a lot of success. 8 touchdowns this year
26:53
on 37 receptions. So, you know, he's been been
26:57
really good. You also have Joseph Williams,
26:59
who has almost 500 yards receiving this year, 4
27:02
touchdowns also on 37 receptions.
27:06
Kind of outside of that, you know, I think for K State fans
27:08
who maybe haven't watched a lot of of Colorado football this
27:12
year, you know, yeah, we might know Marion Miller.
27:15
But, you know, talk to us a little bit about some of the
27:18
other wide receivers, maybe some of the tight end, other tight
27:21
ends, you know, who may have an impact in a game like this
27:25
where, you know, since it's the last game of the year, you
27:28
really want to try and make, you know, a big impact and, and, and
27:31
put on some good tape here for the last game.
27:34
Yeah, of course #4 Mari Miller, he's our best wide receiver.
27:38
He can make great plays downfield, great contested catch
27:41
guy. Joseph Williams, number 8, he's
27:44
the next talented guy, man, And he can, he plays in the slot
27:48
quite a bit, kind of taller slot wide receiver.
27:52
But as the speed, you know, all these guys got serious speed.
27:55
It's just a matter of getting the ball to them.
27:57
That's been the issue this year. Watch out for true freshman
28:00
Quentin Gibson. See if you get some snaps this
28:02
week. He's a #15 kind of small, speedy
28:06
guy, kind of like a built in that Jimmy Horn type of mold who
28:10
played for us the last couple years.
28:11
So yeah, these are guys that I mean, with Kane Salter, I would
28:16
assume that the game plan is going to be, you know, some deep
28:19
throws off of play action and then some screen throws.
28:23
So very little in the intermediate game, it's going to
28:26
be about stopping those those big plays downfield.
28:31
All right, moving over to defense and, and we will talk
28:34
about Quentin Gibson a little bit more when we talk about the
28:36
return game with with special teams.
28:38
But looking at the defense, they are currently ranked 105th in
28:42
opposing points per game with 31.1 points allowed per game,
28:47
112th in opposing yards per play, had at six point, 132nd in
28:53
opposing rushing yards per game with 224, and then 69th.
28:57
Very nice overall in defensive efficiency. 60th versus the past
29:02
78th versus the rush 32nd in opposing third down conversion
29:06
percentage. So they actually look pretty
29:08
good at third down or third down conversion percentage and 43rd
29:11
in opposing Redstone scoring percentage.
29:13
So it it's weird because it they seem to give up a lot of points
29:17
and they don't protect against the Russian game really well at
29:20
all, but have had success on limiting third down conversions
29:24
and Redstone scoring. So how much truth would you say
29:27
there is to the numbers there and, and the I, I, I guess,
29:32
yeah, let's just start with that.
29:33
How much truth do you think there is to the numbers there?
29:35
Because I I. It really doesn't make sense.
29:37
I I think there is truth, man, because yeah, on 3rd down in
29:40
passing situations like yeah, we've been pretty good in that
29:45
aspect of things relative to where we are and a lot of other
29:48
categories. But where we have just been
29:51
atrocious is getting gashed for big running plays, just
29:57
absolutely obliterated in giving up big rushing plays.
30:01
Like every game there's usually, you know, a chunk, you know, two
30:05
or three. I feel like that we give up.
30:07
So when you're on 3rd down, you're probably not going to
30:11
have a big running play for like 50 yards.
30:15
And then in the red zone, you know, the space is just more
30:17
condensed. So you can't give up a 90 yard
30:19
touchdown run. That's kind of, that's kind of
30:23
how I see things. But yeah, when there's a lot of
30:26
field in front of you, that's when we've been at our worst in
30:32
the run game is, yeah, our linebackers will go to the same
30:35
hole or they won't understand what's going on, or we'll have
30:38
10 guys on the field and you'll just gash us for a 60 yard play.
30:43
And we've also had trouble just stopping like basic stuff like
30:48
zone read, like our linebackers just cannot read that to save
30:53
their life. Zone read play.
30:55
Yeah. So I would assume Avery Johnson
30:58
to have, you know, lots of opportunities to rush on this
31:02
team for a lot of a lot of yards.
31:05
It's kind of like me playing NCA football.
31:08
It's exactly like me playing NCAA.
31:10
Football can't, can't stop the zone.
31:12
I want to get a talk a little bit about the defensive line and
31:15
linebackers and again, kind of comparing this team to last
31:19
season when I was watching them in Boulder.
31:23
You know, this has been a, a, a defensive line and linebacking
31:26
group, as you said that that has struggled in certain areas.
31:30
You have some guys who have some solid numbers, Keaton Wade and
31:34
Arden Walker, strong tackle numbers and seem to be your sack
31:40
leaders. 2 1/2 sacks apiece on the linebacking side.
31:44
Jeremiah Brown, Reginald Hughes, Jeremiah Brown 61 tackles.
31:48
He has two sacks on the year. Reginald Hughes, 48 tackles.
31:52
So, you know, you look at those numbers and they look, they look
31:55
pretty decent, you know, albeit the, you know, the defense has
31:59
struggled kind of as a whole this year.
32:01
So, you know, with some of those guys, maybe some other names,
32:05
you know, who are, who are some guys that might be able to wreak
32:08
a little bit of havoc against the K State offensive line that
32:11
has been very up and down over all this season.
32:14
Yeah, look out for some of our young guys, our young edge
32:17
players, London Merritt #44 and Alexander McPherson, number 98.
32:21
There are defensive ends. They're both true freshmen from
32:25
IMG and they've had, you know, fantastic freshman year.
32:28
So yeah, they, I don't know if they got like the numbers that
32:32
might, you know, pop off the stat sheet or whatever, but they
32:36
have been very impressive in their capacity.
32:38
I'd love to see them get more snaps this week.
32:42
Yeah, Because you got to have somebody to make the tackles,
32:45
right? You know, I guess eventually.
32:47
But yeah, like, none of these guys have been overwhelmingly
32:51
impressive really at all. Reginald, he's been an absolute
32:54
disaster at a inside linebacker. So you might see a guy like
32:58
Mantrez Walker. I'd really love to see him play.
33:02
He's a red shirt freshman. But I tell you what, we haven't
33:05
even seen him on the field all year.
33:06
So I, I don't know. The best linebacker that we've
33:09
had has been #40 Shawn Meyers. And he, why hasn't he been
33:14
starting the whole year, man? I don't know.
33:16
But he's really come along over the last few games throughout
33:19
the season. So, yeah, you'll still see
33:23
Reggie Hughes out there #50 calling the defense.
33:25
But that that is not a good thing, not a good thing for us.
33:34
Well, maybe the DBS are, I don't know are the DBS?
33:37
Game. No man, they're BBQ chicken.
33:40
We got everybody hurt. Ivan Yates #29 he'll be OK DJ
33:45
McKinney is out hurt. The safeties are a disaster
33:49
because we lost our MVP of the season to feed by our two wrist
33:52
injuries. So once he went out in that game
33:56
against Arizona State, he's the guy mainly kind of making up for
34:00
the linebackers in the run game. And with him out, I don't even
34:05
know who's going to get the started safety.
34:07
It might be Carter Stoutmeyer, and he's just stiff.
34:11
So yeah man, after I saw the running totals y'all had, man,
34:21
you guys should feast on us this week.
34:23
It sucks going into this matchup like feeling hopeless, but
34:27
that's exactly how I feel without Julian Lewis at
34:31
quarterback. Dude, we got nothing to play for
34:33
anymore. Man, this has been I, I mean,
34:37
I've been on for half of the call and half this and I didn't
34:42
even want, you know, I will preface, I was actually gone on
34:45
Saturday. I did not watch any of the K
34:47
State game at all and I didn't really catch up with anything
34:50
from Big 12 football. And so, you know, when I saw the
34:55
stat sheet for the Colorado Arizona State game, I mean, you
34:59
know, with kind of how Colorado been playing all year, you know,
35:03
it was very interesting to kind of see some of the stats with it
35:06
and, you know, try and at least figure out maybe what are some
35:10
things at K State might, you know, have some weaknesses
35:13
against Colorado for this game. And you're making it seem like
35:17
there are not. There aren't too many.
35:22
I do want to talk though, about chef's favorite piece of the
35:25
puzzle, which is a special teams.
35:27
So you have Alejandro Mata. He's only missed 1 field goal
35:31
and one extra point this year. He's been pretty solid.
35:34
And I know he was the starting kicker last year.
35:36
I remember him in Boulder. But you know, K State is, is
35:42
really kind of struggled this season from a special teams
35:44
perspective. We made some bad mistakes,
35:47
especially, you know, trying to guard, you know, kick returners.
35:50
And so Quentin Gibson on the Colorado side, you know, he's
35:54
been all right. So chef's favorite kind of part
35:59
of the show is always talking about the opposing team, special
36:02
teams. We definitely want to we speak
36:05
about, you know, from a kicker perspective.
36:09
Alejandro Amada, one of your your your main kicker this
36:12
season. We saw him last year, he's only
36:16
missed 1 field goal this year and one extra point.
36:18
So he's really been been very solid, very reliable as a
36:21
kicker. But one of K State's really big
36:25
miscues, at least on the special teams side, is giving up long
36:28
kick returns. And unfortunately, Colorado has
36:30
a guy who's third in the nation in return yardage this season.
36:35
He has 597 kick returns on 25 overall returns this season.
36:40
So, you know, thinking about potentially what are some things
36:44
that Colorado is going to need to do to really take advantage
36:47
of some of their strengths and maybe in the special teams area.
36:49
So just give us a little bit of insight like what you've seen
36:52
from from those guys and maybe, you know, is this Quinton
36:56
Gibson's opportunity to maybe make some big plays to get
36:59
Colorado on the K State side of the field?
37:01
Dude, man, I sure hope so. I got to put the horns on and
37:05
get a little positive about this team, right?
37:08
But yeah, we call Quinton Gibson, you know, his nickname
37:12
in high school is Q for Six. I don't think he's got a
37:15
touchdown on the entire year, which has been like, can't call
37:19
you Q for 6:00 and you're not scoring touchdowns, dude.
37:21
It's going to happen eventually, man.
37:23
You know, I would. I would like to see it happen.
37:26
He's had a lot of opportunity. We've had a lot of points scored
37:30
against us, so he's got to bring one back eventually.
37:35
Yeah. Return games been good, kicking
37:38
game pretty good. You know, we don't really take
37:40
long field goals. Matt Matt has been good.
37:43
He kick him low though. He'll kick him low.
37:45
You could you could block one. But probably the best player on
37:49
our team guys. And this is how you know you got
37:52
a three win team. The best player on our team's
37:55
been our punter, Damon Grieves. I'm.
37:58
Dead ass serious dude. Damon Grieves should be at least
38:04
at least second team all Big 12 punter.
38:07
Dude. He's been a fantastic punter,
38:09
putting those things in between the 20 inside the 20.
38:13
Just big booter, booming, booming at altitude.
38:16
He's been great. You're going to probably see a
38:18
lot of them on Saturday. He's been able to flip field
38:21
position for us, man. He's been awesome and Aussie.
38:26
Aussie. So he's a what do they call him?
38:29
Not a lad, right? They call him something else.
38:31
What do they call Aussies? No.
38:36
I don't. I don't even know.
38:37
I don't. Know yeah, maybe it is like big.
38:39
But maybe it is a lad. Yeah, yeah.
38:41
Maybe that's that's Irish though.
38:43
Yeah, I don't know. But anyways, Damon Grease, the
38:45
best punter in the world, that's how I feel about it going into
38:48
this game. And I mean how many wins y'all
38:51
got 4? How many wins?
38:56
Yeah, we have 5. Y'all got five wins.
38:59
We have 5 we're playing. Ball.
39:00
Yeah, yeah. Y'all are going to obliterate
39:02
us, man. Y'all are playing for a bowl
39:03
game. Yeah.
39:05
Oh my God, yeah. You're going to see a lot of
39:07
Damon Grieves this Saturday, man.
39:08
Bloke. We're just looking at synonym,
39:12
Yeah, I'm looking at what did the Aussie say for.
39:14
Laughs. What?
39:15
What? What a good term.
39:17
You. Know bloke I I don't know.
39:20
Bloke Hey, that's where I get the shame.
39:26
Dude, bloke, mate and ashay. Mate, mate.
39:29
Yes, mate, mate. He's a mate, mate.
39:32
Good night mate. Good night.
39:36
Mate, Oh jeez. Well, if if Colorado's going to
39:39
have any chance to win on Saturday, what do you think is
39:42
the key to them winning? You mentioned a few things, but
39:44
if you were to distill it down to to a couple things, what
39:47
would you say it is? Sports gambling, man, Really.
39:53
That's it, man. I got to hope that some of your
39:55
players have, you know, they want to make a quick extra buck
39:59
on throwing this game. How about that?
40:02
We get we we get Kansas State into some Chauncey Billups
40:05
problems. That's what I'm talking about.
40:08
But yeah, to be honest, dude, that's really the only chance we
40:12
got to win this game. Unless somehow Kane Salter plays
40:16
way better than what he's played throughout the entire year.
40:19
Man, It's just. Man, we got nothing to play for
40:24
anymore. Got nothing to play for.
40:25
So man, I just hope we cover the spread.
40:29
What's the spread? I've even looked at it, man.
40:31
That's how bad I feel about we. Have a 1717 1/2.
40:36
Dude, I don't know if we cover the spread man.
40:38
I don't. Know if we.
40:38
Cover the spread man. And how many running yards did
40:42
y'all run for last last week? Set a school record Guy 400.
40:46
And. 425 or something isn't. More than that.
40:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But y'all don't need Dylan
40:55
Edwards to do that either, man. Yeah, yeah.
40:58
Oh, yeah. He y'all, dude.
41:00
We can bond over that dude. What?
41:02
Dude, this guy. Smile on your face, dude.
41:05
Snake. He's a snake.
41:06
He'll stab you behind the back. And you know, good luck to him
41:10
being a corn muncher or whatever.
41:11
He becomes this for this season. Ain't going to miss him.
41:15
God, God. He knows.
41:17
Nebraska. Yeah, you know, that that whole
41:19
situation has been very interesting.
41:21
And obviously, you know, Colorado, you kind of saw it
41:24
first. And, you know, I, it'll be very
41:28
interesting to see where he ends up, you know, from from our
41:32
perspective. But just want to kind of end the
41:36
the recap. And we always kind of ask for,
41:39
you know, what you think the prediction for the game is going
41:41
to be. You know, I don't mind starting.
41:46
Oh, hello. I don't mind starting just to
41:51
provide a little kind of Comic Relief.
41:54
You know, I so I was in Europe this past week and I didn't get
41:58
to watch the K State game. I went to bed, you know, game
42:02
started at 10:00 and I had a 6:00 AM wake up call.
42:06
I was like, you know what, we're going to lose the Utah, but
42:08
whatever. So to see us be able to score 51
42:10
points or, excuse me, 47 points, you would assume you'd get a
42:14
win. And then you don't you get, you
42:15
know, give up 51. There's been a lot of, you know,
42:20
things going on in the program this week with Chris Kleiman
42:23
and, you know, kind of how his press conference was, you know,
42:27
kind of taken from people all across the fan base and this and
42:30
that. But overall, I think this is a
42:32
game that, you know, they want to win just to get the bowl
42:35
eligibility. You know, you get some extra
42:37
practices with your group, you know, and you get to see a lot
42:39
of the young players. But I think coming from that
42:42
Utah game, that's a game where they they really fought, you
42:47
know, for it seemed like for, you know, for the entire game.
42:50
So I think this is going to be a little bit of a comeback game
42:53
for this this group. It's not as much about Colorado.
42:58
I think, you know, I know Colorado has had some struggles
43:00
this year, but I think K State is really going to come out and
43:02
try and, you know, make a really big effort to show strength in
43:07
this game. So I think it's going to be 45
43:10
to 17. I, I just think K State, you
43:14
know, showed a lot on the rushing, you know, rushing area.
43:17
It seems like it's a little bit too little too late for the
43:19
season. But you know, they, they made
43:21
something work against Utah, who had a very, very strong defense.
43:25
And I know that Colorado has some holes in the defensive
43:27
side. So I think K State will have a
43:30
pretty, pretty big game in this one.
43:32
So I'm thinking 45 to 17, David, if you want to, you can go.
43:37
Yeah, go ahead, dude. You might score 45 points in the
43:40
first half. Like that has been kind of on
43:42
par with these offenses like the states that we faced this year,
43:47
like Utah, dude, they, I think they had almost 50 points on us
43:50
in the first half. So yeah, this we've had a we had
43:55
back-to-back 50 point losses or games in which we gave up fifty
44:00
points. I see you guys eclipsing 50
44:03
points in this game as well. So I'm going to go with 55 to 21
44:11
KSU. That's ah dude, that sucks to
44:15
say. Sucks to say.
44:18
Hey y'all, use that code DTB on calci, get yourself 10.
44:22
Dollar bonus and. Put some money and dude on it.
44:26
So yeah, like, that's how I see this thing going, dude.
44:31
It's going to be like a funeral for what has been a horrible
44:34
football season. So yeah, can't wait.
44:38
Can't wait for it to be over. Yeah, I, I, I'm also in a place
44:43
where, you know, the Utah game was great and it gave me a lot
44:45
of hope, but it, but I'm also just kind of, I feel like this
44:48
team needs to, needs to be put out of their misery a little
44:51
bit. Like, let's just get through
44:52
this game, get through the bowl game reset and then we'll figure
44:55
out next year. But I, I, I think the Cats are
44:58
going to run, run away with this one.
45:00
I've got the Cats winning 42 to 14.
45:04
So yeah, I, I just feel good about them bouncing back from
45:07
that very emotional game in Utah, Senior nights in
45:10
Manhattan. If it's inclement weather,
45:13
though, who knows? Colorado could get there because
45:17
we do not play well in the inclement weather at all.
45:20
I mean, we don't play well in any game.
45:21
So I, I, I think y'all got a good opportunity here to get to
45:26
a bowl game. That'll be that's fantastic.
45:29
You guys got so much more to be playing for.
45:32
Again, I think it would feel different, dude, if we had
45:34
Julian Lewis playing this game. It's like you got the youthful
45:36
energy and all that. But we played them for two
45:39
series against Delaware for some reason.
45:41
And so now we're here. Yeah.
45:46
Well. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm ready
45:50
for the game. It's going to be fun, I hope.
45:53
But anyway, David, thanks again for coming on Recurring Guests.
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47:00
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47:05
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47:08
chirpy living in the Denver area.
47:10
You're getting a little chirpy and you're you're very quick to
47:14
forget the 16 game losing streak.
47:16
I'll, I'll just say that. Dude, I, I buried that away out
47:20
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47:24
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47:25
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47:28
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47:32
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47:37
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parlor. I mean, that looks delicious.
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Looks delicious. But come on now, people watching
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this. What are you doing?
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Advertising your business on cocaine?
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Will you get it together? Get it together indeed, that's
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going to do it for us today. Once again, shout out to to
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David for joining us. Shout out to Auntie Maze.
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Visit them at www.auntiemaze.com for full list of their upcoming
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events. If you're stopping by this
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weekend for senior day, be sure to tell them cocaine will
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essential. You can buy our Wildcat country.
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Let's ride koozies at the bar. So tell your bartender how you
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want one of those koozies. They'll hook you up.
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Finally, we are the K state representative on the college
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huddle. David's the Colorado
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representative on the College Huddle.
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You can check them out. A largest community of fan
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driven content in the nation. Follow them on social media at
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College Huddle. Last but not least, you can
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follow our show at Cocaine Willy on social media, or you can
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follow us individually. I'm at Bob Trollsby.
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Chef is at Chef Andre Napier and Fireball.
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Matt is at Matt Marchesini. Matt.
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I get to say it. Wow, you do.
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Cocaine's a hell of a drug. Let's go.
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We are all we are all coke and no joke, Wildcat country.
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Let's ride. Ride, let's go.
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Yes, that's a Russell Wilson reference.