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Episode 5.4: Husker Offense Preview -- What's Your Style? · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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M Return to Glory podcast Welcome Back, hit It August, head back at
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twenty four percent battery on his phone and coming off, I heard just a
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terrific round of golf. How was it terrible? I was hitting it left
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right nowhere near dead straight. Just terrible day golf. Are you willing to
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retire? Yeah? I'm done. Well. You told me you had to
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run about your golf game, and this is what we get. We uh
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So I the whole day I hit terrible, just the worse. I probably
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got less no us and eight the rest of the day, besides the last
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day, the last hole of the day, I hit it right down the
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middle, got a part. That's all it takes. One good shot makes
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it a good round of goal. I shot a fifty eight. We lost
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in the playoffs. We're done. We'll shoot well. I have a random
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my own and I don't expect there to be any response from this. But
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this pissed me off and fired me up today, so I gotta get it
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off my chest before we go into the offense. So I'm listening to a
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couple of other Husker podcasts and not gonna throw out names, but the typical
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stupid media of Husker football. Yes, I guess we're included in that,
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but all of the stupid height and the high expectations. We're getting close to
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the season and here we are again. This is this is what pissed me
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off. I'm listening to a stock up or stock down and one of the
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podcasts was going through about ten to twelve players and saying if their stock was
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rising or falling. Not one, not one player was there stock falling,
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not one. Every single player was on the up. I mean, I
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can't disagree with that. Going down the same fucking path with our media of
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let's just praise everything. Everything is gonna go great, it's gonna be awesome,
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awesome, awesome, and then when we start losing or things go south,
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everybody's gonna be all in their panties in a wad again Jesus Christ.
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And then on top of that, this is the other side of that.
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I don't know if either one of you followed corn Husker one on Twitter,
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if you know who that is. I know who it is, I you
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know follow I just read the occasional tweet and I don't I don't know.
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We don't know who the person is. But he was the prime example of
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actually speaking real. And I will say some of his comments were maybe a
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little out of line, but he wasn't He wasn't like constantly bashing people.
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He yeah, he made some comments here or there, but he was being
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real and just making comments that were the truth of where Husker football is out
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of a program. And he just got slammed to death on social media by
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all these Husker fans. He's high expectation people that just get on there,
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and they flamed him. He finally had enough and he's off of Twitter now.
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He I saw as like last goodbye wishes, and it's like people that
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even try to remotely wait, he called it quits for good. Yeah,
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he said, I'm signing up for Twitter. I am done with Twitter.
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You mean X Come on, let's get this right, we gotta. I've
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been meaning to say that our last three episodes of X. So anyways,
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I just had to throw that out there. Here we go again, of
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all the positives, and everything is also fine and dandy with our team,
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and every week great as we had into week one. Right, the Huskers
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aren't gonna win it all this year. That's what it sounds like that It
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sounds first back national title. We've won offseason champs for the last twenty years.
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Probably, Hey, the Huskers have only won it was it two years
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before the Oklahoma has won their last one, so I can't say much that's
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true. You've at least been to the playoffs, so yeah, I mean,
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I mean, yeah, okay, well you've been there. It's funny
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that you come in with such a scathing Husker media thing. I actually said.
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The text was that this morning or yesterday where I was getting a little
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annoyed with coach Osborne. Well, I don't know annoyed the right word,
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because we can't we can't slander Tom. But no, no, I was
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pretty I was like, all right, Tom, he made some comment well
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about recruiting, he basically said, because they asked why Frost failed. He
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said, well, you know, the previous coaching staff didn't recruit very well,
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and Covid was in there, but you know, in today's age of
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what have you done for me now, it just wasn't working. And I
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was like, Tom, that is not the man. I was so disappointed
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in Tom. I mean, from the recruiting standpoint, we've sent over the
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list of our twenty four seven rankings, and we've gone into detail on recruiting
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before it's not all about the stars. But that's what today's world is is
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looking at the stars. The problem wasn't matter what stars we get or wherever
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we're at, we're still not good. Before it Blood he also witting on
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this, saying he's like, well, have you looked if you looked at
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the score at then the three quarters almost every season under Frost, you know,
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he'd probably be one of the best coaches in the country. It's like,
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yeah, that's the problem. It wasn't the freaking talent on the field.
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He was so close. It's not about the stars. Case. They
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just won Big twelve and they get three stars, two stars. That's true.
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That that is their strategy and their approach, and it has worked over
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the past few years. I it's weird because the comments again on all this
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current stuff is rules listening to Osborne. He's talking to Osborne all the time.
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You know, Frost just didn't listen to him, and these past coaches
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didn't listen to him, And so it's weird that then Tom makes comments like
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that, not really defending Frost, but I mean also not slandering him either.
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I mean that's I guess typical Tom fashion, He's not gonna show any
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emotion. It is gonna state it as it is. So I don't know.
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I just the media, and I know we don't have It's not like
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we have even half or quarters followers some of these other like big time news
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podcast people. But that's probably because Husker fans are just freaking like that,
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and that's what they like to listen to. You. They don't like to
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listen to the real stuff and the reality of where things are at because they
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think everything's all perfect and then we get down on this trap every year and
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then we're stuck for twenty years where we have been. How do you really
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feel, Huney, Yeah, let it out. But I just did,
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all right, So that started off my research here. But we do have
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a big topic here to get to and we're gonna talk here for the next
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half hour or so about the Husker offense and going through our depth chart,
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talking about this new scheme and system that offensive coordinator. Marcus Satterfield from South
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Carolina. He was with Rule at Temple for three years from twenty thirteen to
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fifteen, was the tight ends coach. When Rule is at Baylor went to
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the Panthers for rules first year and then left and went to South Carolina for
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the last two years as the OC. He was with the rat Dog Rat
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Dog Carolina and now he's back with the RULE. Before we jump in the
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players, I want to ask both of you this question, and there's not
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a right or wrong answer, but I'm just curious of your thoughts. If
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you were to become the OC, and awesome will start with you. You
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were to become the OC DAK the Vikings just scored a touchdown. Hell yeah,
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cool? If you were the o C for a new Division one,
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I'll even say Power five college football team, what would be your style or
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scheme of offense that you were run. I mean, if I get my
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NFL team building Madden you know two K twenty three, I don't know,
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is it two K? No, it's just Madden twenty three right, yep.
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I do love me some good two big tight end sets with them as
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my primary pass catcher, with one guy who can go deep and a good
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running back. I am a sucker for those. But modern you probably have
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a running quarterback with the spread offense. I mean, your job you are,
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your job is still on the line, and you have you're the OC
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here for the next three or four years, and you have to build an
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offensive system around something. Now, what Frost did, We don't freaking know
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what he did because he had six different things he was trying to do and
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changing and all this stuff. So that obviously is not the answer. I'm
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saying. If you would pick one and you in today's time, starting this
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fall, you were building an offensive scheme or system, what are you running?
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It's gonna be I read running back wide receivers as my dynamic players with
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a strong offensive line and big tight ends, and give me a running passing
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percentage out of a hundred, Uh, it'd probably be pretty close to fifty
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fifty, maybe fifty five forty five running over passing. But now, no,
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there's gonna be a lot of those screen screen passes that are mostly runs,
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but the technically passes. It's it's gonna be a system that doesn't depend
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on the quarterback, because I don't want to build a system that's depending on
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the quarterback, because it's so hard to get that right. Okay, Dak,
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I am so curious to hear that because often ill I, I have
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a lot of agree agreements there with you in a couple of tweeks, But
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Dak, I've been interested to hear what you got to say. One cent
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read option. You have a quarterback that can run, you have speed wide
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receivers on the outside, you have a big tight end and you just throw
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and you read, you read defense. You either to run it or you
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fast it. I don't care. Army man zero zero snaps behind the center
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under or behind under the center zero under, Yeah, always in the shotgun.
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Okay, So you're you're more of a spread kind of guy, but
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a lot of Yeah, So give me an offense that runs that a lot
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of that right now? That's stick. Okay. I mean i'd say they're
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more air raid, but I see where you're I mean, there used to
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be air raid. But we can state last year with Adrian Okay, okay,
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Austin, what's like a team that you can think of that resembles what
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you like college football? Yep? So I was thinking like San Francisco is
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kind of what I was saying. Forty nine ers. Yep, that's that's
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kind of all my deal system would be. Now, it's easy to point
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out one of the better offenses in the NFL, but but do you do
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you guys want ground and pound or because because forty nine ers are kind of
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depending on the running back, like have good running back, but it's been
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it's mostly a this guy can run the ball too. It's I would prefer
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to I would prefer to ground a pound, but that's just not feasible to
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keep up with offense from my running backs bible to catch the ball and make
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that still have the pounding, but it's on the outside. Now, Okay,
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I am very run heavy. And the answer to this question obviously depends
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on the conference you're in, I think and and what you think is gonna
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work best. If I'm going Big ten, you're gonna learn how to win
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close games. You have to. And the Big ten talent pool compared to
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some of these other conferences is not as rich with athleticism. So Big ten
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why it is? I mean it is old school Nebraska football in my mind
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like that that is too. And we're gonna get to this. I'm gonna
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get to this here talking about our offense. We have to differentiate ourselves somehow
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to win close games, to overcome make make it hard to prepare for.
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And actually, as we get to our defense here in the next episode.
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I think the three three five is going to add that element to it.
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But if I was an OC and trying to do something, that's where I
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would establish myself. And then if there's the if there's the success that comes
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with that, and you can maybe elaborate a little bit off of that,
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you can, but I would stay true to the get four yards a play
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you can. You have to have a quarterback that can runs and I think
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all three of us made that made that comment for sure around there, and
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then you need to have a strong offensive line. That's I mean, the
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offensive line is the foundation of any offense you're trying to do, no matter
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if you're spreading it out, run and shooting it or ground and pound two
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tight end sets, you have to have a good offensive line. So I'm
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like seventy thirty run heavy, and I don't Jack, I don't mind.
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I like the read option stuff. I think that is a new part of
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the game that if you coach it the right way and you can really take
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advantage of defenses that way. You have to have a good quarterback back and
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read it though right And that's where it comes to the our quarterbacks back in
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the day that had legs that were reading stuff on the option and that those
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are more traditional options. And IM not saying that that's the solution in today's
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age, but I do think that heavy run game needs to be established,
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and then if you want to start getting creative a little more with some of
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the passing, you can evolve into that, but you have to be able
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to establish that upfront. So anyways, I just wanted to throw that question
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out there because kind of you knew Dak, you probably idolize Brian Ferrin's you
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know, big big old seed. No, that guy score scor zero zero
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points a game three, I'd probably do you remember a couple of episodes ago
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when you guys said Iowa I didn't score seventeen points a game a year.
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Yep, I looked it up. They did last year. No way,
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seventeen points a game last year, all right, And that's funny because they
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had a better st record than we did. And what I'm to score describing
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Austin Will maybe a little bit like that. They're very run heavy, but
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I don't know. That's that's why it's kind of hard, because I feel
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like you're closer to like Wisconsin more than Iowa. Wisconsin not this year's Wisconsin
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right years past, and then like Minnesota probably is a Minnesota. Minnesota is
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a good one to think about because I think they do get dynamic with some
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different options that they run with their quarterback and sometimes shotgun. Yes, he
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for him a bench or whatever. What was the running back. He became
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polish there until he got hurt. Ye. So yeah, Marcus Satterfield,
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we don't know what he's gonna do exactly what he's done in the past.
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It's been established and well, this is Husker media reporting this. So of
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course it's gonna try to make everybody happy because that's what they do. But
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it's gonna be physical. It's gonna utilize running backs, tight ends. It's
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gonna bring back a full back because I got everybody crazy, the same fans
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that wanted us to go and spread it out with Billy Callahan now on a
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full back back. Interesting, but it's gonna be a pro stile offense.
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That's gonna be in my mind, I'm taking it is very simple, very
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simplified, very basic. But knowing that it starts up front and you have
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to be physical, I think that's a great starting point. We'll see how
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it looks with the players that we have, that's the question, because no
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matter what system or style you're trying to do, it's gonna be hard to
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get all those players in year one to fit that system exactly and for us
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to use that excuse for about four years. So we'll see how it goes
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in year one, and it could have a wide variety of stuff. We
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don't know. We don't know what it's gonna look like. But with the
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players that we have, that's what he's done in the past, so we'll
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see. That's always intrigued in getting a new OC and a new quarterback because
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those are the two key pieces of an offense. Oddly enough, the only
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thing that's going to remain mostly the same is the offensive line. Yeah,
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yep. So I'm gonna go through a list. So we talk about recruiting
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some I'm gonna go through the list on the offensive side of the ball of
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key departures and then arrivals from the transfer portal, because every year it's no
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longer like three or four guys, it's we're gonna have this big old team.
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So I want you to think about this list. Austin, you for
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sure, Dak if you know some of these players great. Actually, I'm
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gonna ask you, Dak your question to think and ponder on. Right now,
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is Casey Thompson's verst. Jeff sins, oh, I can't oh,
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I can't wait. So the departures that left our offense from last year,
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Casey Thompson went to Florida Atlantic, Logan Smothers in the portal, Richie Torres
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in the portal, so losing three quarterbacks. Aj Allen running back went to
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Miami. So that speaks I think a little bit to his talent that he
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has going to another school running back to quez Yant going to Florida A and
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M. A couple of wide receivers actually a big list of wide receivers here.
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Victor Jones went to Liberty, Sean Hardy, Evan Meyer, Stickmante Grimes,
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d coolb This Crawford leaving to Louisiana Tack. That'll be fun we play.
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Then Alante Brown went to Michigan State, the big one went across conference
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and then tight end James Carney from Norris is in the portal. And then
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two offensive lineman Kevin Williams went to Charlotte and our boy, Brandt Banks went
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to Rice you also left off Trey Palmer graduated out. Yeah, I guess
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I'm doing portal. Okay, I didn't know if you're just doing departures or
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just portal. Yeah. I have some thoughts about the offense here that I
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wrote down, Well, what role we're gonna get into it, we're getting
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through the are these overarching offensive comments or this? Nope, like about the
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quarterback? Okay, let's get through the arrivals and I'll let you let you
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lose, all right, So arrivals from the portal, there's fourteen guys that
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left, some key people, some that didn't do anything. Arrivals Jeff Simms
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from Georgia Tech art Gilbert the number one tight end from the twenty twenty class.
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He's a five star, has moved from LSU to Florida to Georgia now
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to Nebraska. Wider seebers Billy Kemp from Virginia and Josh Fleaks from Baylor.
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And then offensive lineman Tyler, who I think that says Krook can't remember writing,
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Jacob Hood from Georgia, and center Ben Scott, who's projected to be
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the starting center here from Arizona State. I think the pieces we brought in
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are going to be contributors as they probably should be. You don't. You're
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not gonna bring in people that aren't gonna ever play, So, Dak,
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I'll let you lose because you probably didn't know a lot of those names.
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But I know you know Casey Thompson and I know you know Jeff Simms.
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So you just let it lose here, all right. I think I think
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Casey was by far the better quarterback. I think you guys should respect with
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him. He over over Jeff Sims. Oh, buy a mile, Wow,
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buy a mile. Last year, Jeff Sim's stats were five touchdowns,
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three picks. You you throw me on the field, I'll do that.
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Yeah. But wait, what's your take that you always said last year that
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you could go seventeen for forty one or something in an NFL game, fourteen
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for thirty two. Hey, wow, you are confident For somebody who sucks
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at golf, I don't know how well you do at football. Didn't you
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throw a football in the tailgates last year? Not a chance. You're really
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banking on the six foot four receivers being able to have the catch radius.
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D No, that's that's the thing, is what I'm saying is I could
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throw it up fourteen times and they'll catch it. All right, get back
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to your case, Okay, okay. Anyway, So I think I think
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Casey is by far the better quarterback. I don't know what Rule wants to
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run. He probably wants to run a little more pro style offense running the
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ball, so I Sam's might be better for him. Jeff Simms is definitely
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more of a hybrid mobile quarterback, whereas Casey was a better pocket passer,
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probably dak. How do you think that situation went down? Rule gets hired
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and brings in Jeff Simms pretty early. I mean, how does talk me
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through Casey's situation? I think I think Rule comes in and he's like,
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I want to run like a pro style offense, and he wants to be
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like the Big ten. He wants to run under center, full back,
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running back and just have a running team, and Casey's not that he's shotgun
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quarterback and throw the ball all around. How do you balance that? Though?
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As a coach, like you said, we shouldn't have got rid of
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Ksey Thompson, which we didn't really get rid of him. He chose to
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go in the portal because of because he wasn't gonna start right, So how
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do you how do you balance? Is Rules supposed to change his philosophy because
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of Kasey Thompson. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I would have
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that's the rule. That is what Rule came in and said. He's like,
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I have a system I want to do, but we're going to modify
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it for the talent we have. Casey Thompson's that good that we should someone
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should change their entire philosophy of what they do to go around him. Well,
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I wouldn't take Jeff Jeff Sims. I'll tell you that if I'm okay,
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So this is this. The thing is, so if sim comes if
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Sims comes in and he can't throw the ball, this one of my notes.
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Do you just say fuck it? Run triple option? Yes? I
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actually, I mean how bad of a thorny you think? Is? He
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had five touchdown three picks last year. That's that's pretty bad games, all
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of them. He started every game. We only have five touchdowns. Yes,
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I believe he's I believe there are some injuries in there somewhere. Maybe
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not if if if you come out and you get first two games, he
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can't pass the ball, why don't you say fucking run triple option? And
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that could happen. This is what I think Rules doing and what he's done
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in the past, and there's a reason why Temple and Baylor now call it
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what you want. Those programs are both at rock bottom and going through stuff
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too. But I think Rule comes in and says, I know, this
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is my philosophy, this is my system, and it works, so I'm
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willing to sacrifice stuff right now. Now. I know we came out and
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said I'm going to adapt to the players that we have. There is still
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a level of that, but he is going to set his standards and his
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philosophy here up front, and that's why I think year one has been rough
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for him at a couple of different places, and then it turns around.
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I think that's what Husker fans are going to have in the back of their
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mind too, depending how this year goes. Obviously, if we win seven
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or eight games, we're going to be thrilled, as we probably could with
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our schedule, believe it or not. But when we win five, four
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or five, which I think is right, thing's going to really happen.
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Like people are gonna say, okay, like that was year one that rules
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getting his system, and then year two or three we're gonna see, really
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hopefully the product of the decision he made, for example, to get rid
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of Casey or start Jeff Simms, who, as Dak's pointing out, might
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not be the best passer. I think that's seven games. It's seven games,
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not that those numbers are great for seven games, but back check,
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he did have so he played Jack. Your look on your face right now,
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you're just a glazed the hair. No, I'm I'm thinking he's thinking
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of coming down from a buzz one of these two. No, I'm thinking,
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wait, so so the big ten Dame change for the Oskars or what
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not with Frost, but they will rule. Now, I'm just kidding.
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I'm probably with you in the sense that Jeff Sim's not gonna be as good
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as we expect him to be. But I have to feel better about it
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because he was kind of like the hand picked quarterback by rule, and he
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was a very high transfer portal quarterback ranking. I don't I'm not expecting anything
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to blow us out of the water from Jeff Jeff Simms. And this kind
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of goes back off your comment about not relying on your quarterback. I don't
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think they this offense wants to. I think they want him to be able
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to have the ability to make some plays. But I don't think it's going
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to be a quarterback heavy type of offense that we're running here. And on
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top of that, if we are running him more our backups. We mentioned
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losing Smothers and Torres, but we have Heinrich Harberg and Schevor Burder. So
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I'm and if you looked at every Division one team out there, there's not
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many teams that have quarterback depth. Well, we talked about just the Big
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ten alone, the quality of quarterback and the Big ten or the quality of
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Big ten starter back. We t well, the hell you look at up
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I don't mean to bring up Home again. But last year there, their
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starter got knocked out. They lost Texas forty nine zero. So they have
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no depth. Yeah, that's true, So I'm not It is a little
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bit more more of a concern when you do have a running quarterback. But
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at the same time, we've seen these other two guys play, they've played
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in games before, not not seeing either one of them more spectacular, but
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they could hold the fort for I think what we're trying to do with this
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offense. Now we got to move on here to get to some of these
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other positions. Let's go up front to our offensive line, Dak. That
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was one of your keys to a successful football team is getting your Carker in
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walking down that right right guard spot. Let's let's go through this quickly here.
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At center, Ben Scott, he's could be one of our best linemen.
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Also, Nordine Neweli at left guard. I've heard We've heard a lot
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of good things about him in camp. He's supposed to be our starting center
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last year before getting zapped for performance enhancing drugs. Correct Ethan Piper is that
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right guard, most likely Bryce ben Hart most at right tackle. Teddy Perhoska
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in Turner Corkoran are two other guys. I think Corkoran is probably gonna start
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at left tackle. I think Teddy we're gonna need to find a place for
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him, but he's so injury prone if he can stay already got nicked up
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in camp right he has, and there's a chance he might not even play
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Week one. We brought in Jacob Hood from Georgia. Henry Latovski's a sophomore.
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Gunnar Gunnartal is a freshman. We have some guys, we have some
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names, but some names that we just have flat out sucked over the last
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couple of years. And I'll keep it short here and quick. I hate
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that are height of our line. Bryce Bennart six fucking nine and Teddy Perhoska
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six. That drives me insane. You don't need basketball centers out there on
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your offensive line. Now. I think the benefit of that is probably in
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pastor because they're a little longer armed. Do you get a little more reach.
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But if we're gonna run the ball and I don't like it, I
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don't like it at all. You don't have a passing quarterbacks, so why
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would you need that exactly? So I think our offensive lines in a world
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of hurt this year again and we'll see how it pans out. But we
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didn't. It's not like we brought in any studs. And maybe Noordine Noeli,
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like the Husker media is trying to say, he's gonna be our saving
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grace and come in, Well, that's one guy Ben Scott too. We
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haven't seen either one of those guys play. We've seen one that'll probably be
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playing left card. You know, it's god, It just it's gets insane.
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We're probably gonna suck here again and win four or five games because of
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that. So that's all I got. No line, I don't. We're
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gonna talk about him every fucking podcast because of how bad they go. Ethan
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Piper was the one sent to Big ten media days. I know that.
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That also tells me we're gonna win four games. We said, Ethan Piper
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to media days, unbelievable. I'll me how you really feel Hunter, any
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other offensive line comments, I don't want to talk about. None of them
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got a single jersey, so they must all be weak. Well, I
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will say this. I know I just talked a lot of crap on him.
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Prove me wrong, Prove us, Prove the people that don't believe in
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you're wrong, because it starts up there on the offense. If we have
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a successful offense, it's gonna be because of you, and I'm not.
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We're not going to give credit to anybody else. I won't. I'll give
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credit to the offensive line. Prove us wrong and show us that you can
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do it. We'll prove me wrong, Benhart, you suck just single a
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single guys, Piper, Okay, running back touch on them here deepest position,
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it's gonna be Anthony Grand or Gabourvin most likely starting. Don't know.
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Anthony Grant is a senior. Urban's a sophomore coming off the injury, but
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the pictures of him look like he's a freak. I don't think it matters
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if you don't have an offensive line former. Johnson's also or two in the
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mix. Three guys I think, I think three solid running backs. They're
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not they're not elite, top tier guys, but they're solid. They're solid
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guys. They're really good running backs, really good. Yeah, I agree.
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No, No, I'm not worried about the running back room at all,
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No, at all. I like it. Let's move on then to
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our receivers, who I think we have a semi deep room, but maybe
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you m young or guys that we just haven't seen play a lot. Starting
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with a young wide receivers coach, Dak, I think you're older than our
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wide receivers. Coach, are you're right around his age twenty four? Yep,
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believe it or not, you could be coaching the Husker wide receivers this
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year. I should be. Yeah. So Marcus Washington, he's banged up
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with some injuries, but I think he's gonna be potentially our just safe,
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solid guy out there. Billy Kemp is going to be our playmaker. He's
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gonna be the guy that we're gonna need to break free like Trey Palmer did
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over the past couple of years. Those kind of guys. We're gonna need
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a couple of those here for big plays somehow, and I think he's gonna
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be the one to do it. He's small, he's five nine, so
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he's like a lot of these guys, the lawn Dale's that we've seen in
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the past. He's gonna have to have a big year, I think for
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us to have. He wants to play slide or what's he gonna play.
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He's more of a slot kind of guy. Years away from a retirement home
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too, so that should help too. Yes, he's your senior. He
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is a senior coming from Virginia. He's a sixty year senior, not just
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a senior man. And he didn't last year he had sixteen catches for one
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hundred and sixteen yards. I don't know the details of what happened a couple
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of years. If you look back at his stats the years before that,
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there are a lots more promising, but last year it looked like he might
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have been banged up last year too, But he's gonna be a key piece.
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Xavier Betts he's back, crazy son of a bitch. I think he
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did it. Who knows what happened with him last year, but he's back.
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Maliki Coleman actually our tallest receiver, six four. The freshman out of
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Lincoln East, Isaiah Garcia Castaneda was gonna transfer. He's back. He's back,
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and apparently he's been having a good camp. And then Josh Fleeks,
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the Baylor transfer that we brought in. I think we'll also be seeing some
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playing time out there. I would say it's gonna be those six. We'll
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see how much we use him. We talked about Jeffson's maybe isn't a great
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throwing quarterback. We'll see. We'll see a lot of speed, a lot
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of speed. I will say that, maybe not a lot of possession.
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Guys tight end position. I think it could be any one of these three.
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I think Nate, Nate Mork he's having a great camp. Thomas Pedoni
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to see if we can see the result result of him. Wait, I
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got I got something say about him? Yeah, go ahead, he said.
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He says he's one of the best Titans in the nation. I mean,
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he was ranked one of the best tight ends of the nation. He
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hasn't played since, but it isn't availability the best available, The best ability
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is availability. Uh yeah, I probably agree with that. He's just tooking
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a couple of years to beat up. You know, Titans are never great.
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The first year I heard an interesting stat. I can't remember where I
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heard. This is a couple of weeks ago that from twenty like it's like
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two thousand and two to two eighteen, the number one ranked tight end coming
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out of high school had been drafted in the top three rounds of the NFL
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Draft every single year, something like that, top four. I don't know
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the exact stat. We have two of those guys on our team right now,
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and Art Kilbert and TONI. Yeah, well we also had two tight
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ends. I got drafted with oh shit, what was her name? We
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got drafted the Bengals started with the seed I'm not gonna remember Carter, Sethan
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carterethan Carter. What do we do with him? Jack? Shit? Man?
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Oh? Lastly, how is that bow or was that Mike Rawley?
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That Mike Ley. That was our good, good grandpa frand Mike uh full
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back on the depth chart this year, guys, it is on there.
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Generian Bonner is the number one guy right now, freshman, but he's on
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the roster. So we'll see what we do with the full back position.
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Overhype. We're not going to use the full back that much. Calling it
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right now, I don't know. I'm I'm thinking run the triple option,
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like I'm not lying, I'm not laying. I'm gonna laugh when we pull
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that out against Michigan against Harbaugh, like just out of the blue. If
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Jess him sucks at throwing, why not just throw a triple option out,
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Dak. You should write a letter to Matt Rule and tell him that,
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I mean, give me his address and I will. I'll go and hand
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deliver it to him. And all right, the wide receiver coach, we
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we'll be back on Sunday. We'll talk about the defense. Go through key
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rivals, departures, go through our depth chart with three, three, five,
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go Bigrette, GVR Boomer. Sooner they knew you're gonna do it.