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Bye the Bye · Husker Buzz

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Speaker 1: Now, the NewsRadio 1110 KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief, Husker
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Speaker 1: Buzz Edition with Jim Rose and Sean Callahan. All right, Sean,
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Speaker 1: how are you doing this bye week? What have you
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Speaker 1: been up to? Have you been earning an honest day's
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Speaker 1: wage for an honest day's work this week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. It's a bye week, but it's still
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Speaker 2: pretty busy. Just with obligations and things going, everyone kind
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Speaker 2: of schedules, or I schedule a lot of things for
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Speaker 2: the bio. Today I'm speaking over at the university to
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Speaker 2: a large group of students, telling them how to get
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Speaker 2: a job in this industry, or at least how it works. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 1: We don't need the competition, Sean. We could really prefer
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Speaker 1: you not do that. Dissuade those young people. Tell them, look,
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Speaker 1: get into HVAC service. That gives you a real chance
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Speaker 1: at a future.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but it's been a quiet week. Huskers
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Speaker 2: practiced yesterday, and then they'll come today. And then we
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Speaker 2: heard from Matt Rule Monday, and that's really the extent
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Speaker 2: of the bye week here for Nebraska, and then back
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Speaker 2: to work here for Washington here when they get back
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Speaker 2: on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Now the big buzz, of course, is what Matt Rule
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Speaker 1: said on Monday about Anthony Calandria. We touched on this yesterday,
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Speaker 1: and we'll keep talking about it because we generate rumors, innuendo,
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Speaker 1: and half-truths. Half-baked of theories on this program. It's one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons we dominate the ratings. But what would
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Speaker 1: happen here? Now, remember, before Anthony Calandria took off for
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Speaker 1: Nebraska last year, he was standing in front of reporters
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Speaker 1: at the Scooter's Coffee Bowl playing for UNLV and said,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. And they didn't play very well
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Speaker 1: in the game and wound up going somewhere else. How
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Speaker 1: does this work now? If there's somebody out there like,
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Speaker 1: let's say, Oklahoma, or Ole Miss, really interested in Anthony Calandria?
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Speaker 1: How does this process work?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of it's how his representation and how
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Speaker 2: he would want it to work. But, again, I think
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Speaker 2: he's happy here. And I think both parties obviously would
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Speaker 2: like to move forward and he'd return another year at Nebraska. And, again,
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Speaker 2: none of this could happen until January. But Nebraska does
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Speaker 2: have the pole position right now that they can– you know,
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Speaker 2: re-sign a guy and get it locked up now. And
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Speaker 2: they've been working on that since September, honestly. I think
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Speaker 2: they knew after the Michigan State game or around that
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Speaker 2: point they wanted to get this thing squared away. But, yeah,
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Speaker 2: a lot of it, again, comes down to what he wants.
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Speaker 2: And you just never know what other teams, how aggressive
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Speaker 2: they're really going to be, what that quarterback market's going
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Speaker 2: to look like. We know some big names that are
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Speaker 2: going to be in there, like Bryce Underwood. will be
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Speaker 2: one for sure that I think a lot of people
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Speaker 2: expect to be in there. But, yeah, the portal is
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Speaker 2: so unpredictable. And, you know, I think in relative terms,
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Speaker 2: Nebraska got Anthony Calandria almost at a bargain for what
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Speaker 2: he's given them. And, you know, the market resets here
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Speaker 2: every single offseason.
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Speaker 1: And they were lucky to get him because, you know,
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Speaker 1: they put all of their eggs in the Kenny Minchey basket.
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Speaker 1: He said yes and 11 hours later left for Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: So they were lucky to get him. If they had
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Speaker 1: been another day or two, possible that he would have
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Speaker 1: been down in Florida or Florida State or somewhere else
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Speaker 1: because Calandria was one of the better gets in the
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Speaker 1: quarterback portal last year. You talked about this off week.
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Speaker 1: This means injury recovery time, but some guys are not
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Speaker 1: coming back anytime soon, like Anthony Jones. It appears he's
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Speaker 1: out for a while with a broken foot, which means
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Speaker 1: that Cade Petchak, one of our favorites, is going to
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Speaker 1: get a lot more playing time against Washington.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a broken bone in his foot that Jones
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Speaker 2: suffered yesterday And he was able to play through the
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Speaker 2: end of that game, and they discovered it. But they
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Speaker 2: obviously had to get that repaired and taken care of.
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Speaker 2: No word on when he'd return later this year. But, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that just means Cade Petshock, who I think is a
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Speaker 2: really good player, just is playing behind Jones. So Petshock, Guarneri.
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Speaker 2: Cam Lenhardt, those three guys are going to have to
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Speaker 2: really split the top reps. Jaseer Whittington has moved out
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Speaker 2: and played some pass rushing defensive end at times. I mean,
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Speaker 2: but those first three are going to have to take
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Speaker 2: pretty much all of the reps. They had a nice
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Speaker 2: four-man group there before Jeremiah Jones can play in some
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Speaker 2: pass rush situations. But Yeah, that's a big one because
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Speaker 2: I do think Anthony Jones, especially when you play these
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Speaker 2: running offenses, he's a very good defensive end, stands up
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Speaker 2: on the edge. The edge play has been, I think,
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Speaker 2: one of the most improved areas year over year on
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Speaker 2: this defense.
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Speaker 1: All right, big guy, thanks. Have a nice time speaking
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Speaker 1: to the skulls full of mush down at Big Red today.
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Speaker 1: That's KFAB Husker and Strongman John Callahan.
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Speaker 2: Back tomorrow.