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Reaction: Indiana 52, North Texas 16 (The IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell, 3.26) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grand Shows and My Cutsl, and a reaction to Indiana season opening 5-2-16 win Open Road Tech.
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[SPEAKER_03]: special edition of the IE report today with Grant Shows Mike Hutsle and Indiana is now 1-0 on the season after beating North Texas 52-16 on Saturday they've won the 17th straight game as a program Mike you know we kind of talked about in the preview and even on the best case in worst case scenario episode if you haven't listened to that one go listen to it's really good
0:46
[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of said, you know, Indiana's had the historic starts here under Kurt Signetti of kind of being sluggish and not really looking to standards.
0:55
[SPEAKER_03]: And yesterday at the start, I thought that I thought they had kind of kicked that stigma a little bit then as the game went on, you started to see some things defensively that may have been a little concerning missed tackles.
1:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Not being able to find the ball, but part of that is, you know,
1:16
[SPEAKER_03]: You probably would, you know, during conference play or later on in the season, I thought they kept it pretty vanilla defensively.
1:22
[SPEAKER_03]: The run game wasn't great as well, but the past game looked really good.
1:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Josh Hoover did not look like he was starting his first game in a new program.
1:31
[SPEAKER_03]: And he looked like a season vet with this team on Saturday hooked up with Nick Marsh on the first possession of the game for a touchdown.
1:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Overall, the path in game was, I thought, really impressive.
1:41
[SPEAKER_03]: The offense, I thought was really good.
1:44
[SPEAKER_03]: defense kind of was just math, but I think they'll figure things out.
1:47
[SPEAKER_03]: And now you put stuff on tape to go back and look at and a lot of good things, but some negatives to take away from Saturday in my opinion.
1:57
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the third season opener of Kurt Signetti.
2:00
[SPEAKER_02]: And I the first one, I think we all were just kind of like, okay, here we go.
2:06
[SPEAKER_02]: We got another
2:09
[SPEAKER_02]: We got another guy who's gonna struggle to get us to six wins.
2:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we learned a lesson by underestimating that team.
2:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Last year, we were like, okay, well, here we go back to trying to just compete for maybe an eight and four season after a struggle.
2:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we learned a lesson from that.
2:25
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're overreacting in any way to any aspect of yesterday's game, I think that you're probably just stupid.
2:32
[SPEAKER_02]: We've learned in no way shape or form should you
2:36
[SPEAKER_02]: take too much away from the first game of Indian season.
2:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I was positive.
2:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I was pleasantly surprised by how well that offense came together for the first game.
2:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I usually, they're pretty bland, pretty vanilla.
2:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't really necessarily think that maybe that that was going to be something that we saw.
2:57
[SPEAKER_02]: We saw much more explosive past game.
3:00
[SPEAKER_02]: then we've seen at any point in the three seasons of the Neonofootball that signet he's been here.
3:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like and this is coming off saying that coming off a team that just had a high-spin winning quarterback.
3:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's pretty, pretty wild thing to say, but the talent on this team at the receiver room is pretty impressive.
3:22
[SPEAKER_02]: The running game a little underwhelming, but I think we expected a little bit of that
3:29
[SPEAKER_02]: The defense, you lost your starting corners, you had some guys playing that are a little further down the debt chart and also, just go back and we talked about this a little bit in the preview, you're still replacing some absolute dudes on that defense that, you know, holes in the running game, do you usually pond plugged a lot of those holes from the secondary?
3:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And there was a little bit of a guy's needing to figure out how to fill that void.
3:59
[SPEAKER_02]: One thing I was very encouraged by and it's kind of been overlooked.
4:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like for the last couple of the special teams was great yesterday.
4:07
[SPEAKER_02]: They started off with a bang with that big kick return and set up a short first drive, ridersage with a great, uh, his career long field goal in that game.
4:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Conventingly, it was the most convincing score wise of the first three Signetti wins.
4:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to get jump off a plane because they're defense struggled a little bit, no three and outs, no punts until the fourth quarter gave up a touchdown just out of half time, made it up, but 11 point game, and those are the, if those are the biggest complaints we have, we've got to feel pretty good.
4:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm right where I thought I would be after this game.
4:57
[SPEAKER_02]: They overwhelmed a team.
4:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They should have overwhelmed.
4:59
[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't cover.
5:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think they would.
5:01
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a huge number.
5:04
[SPEAKER_02]: And they got out of there.
5:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we just got to get guys healthy.
5:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure that we're taking this on ramp.
5:10
[SPEAKER_02]: That signetti likes to put into the season where, by the time you get to conference play, you better be cruising.
5:18
[SPEAKER_02]: And they got onto the on ramp successfully.
5:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you mentioned the injuries, honestly, in the stadium, you kind of missed those things, especially when there's no stoppage in the game because someone got hurt like tomorrow's sharp or AJ Harris.
5:38
[SPEAKER_03]: So I didn't even really notice they weren't playing until, you know, you mentioned a half time that they were hurt.
5:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the third quarter is when I noticed I was okay, yeah, this is
5:49
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, no wonder Taven Jackson's kind of carve it up the defense a little bit here.
5:53
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have your two starting corners.
5:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Good news is is that those guys have small like kind of minor injuries.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They'll be fine.
6:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably would expect him to play next week.
6:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Bad news is Kobe Martin.
6:05
[SPEAKER_03]: They're running back reports of a broken arm.
6:09
[SPEAKER_03]: So he'll probably miss them time while he will miss them time, which is just too bad.
6:15
[SPEAKER_03]: He's really been.
6:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of had some expectations coming into the year that he could be a starter or, you know, first running back off to Benz with Lee BB, just have a deep running back room.
6:27
[SPEAKER_03]: So that kind of punctures the little hole in your depth and the running back room.
6:32
[SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully, you know, he'll be all right.
6:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to go back to what you said about the defense here.
6:38
[SPEAKER_03]: They gave up 340 yards in North Texas yesterday.
6:41
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody pointed that out to me on Facebook.
6:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, defense gave up 340 yards.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now they gave up 340 yards in North Texas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kick three field goals and scored one touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's that tell you, not a whole lot there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The defense that just added two all Americans on Friday, the night before the season started, I think we'll be just fine.
7:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
7:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you go back quickly up to the injuries.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Harris, he had battled an ankle through camp.
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[SPEAKER_02]: AJ Harris he went down in the first drive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He hobbled off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He never was not under his own power.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was a little less concerned when I saw that.
7:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I never saw the sharp injury.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody really discussed it.
7:28
[SPEAKER_02]: They talked on, you know, about how they were rotating guys and he came off.
7:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Whenever we went back in, you didn't know anything until say good half time said, well, we've lost two corners and a running back now.
7:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw the play,
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[SPEAKER_02]: this is a Kobe Martin podcast I am the president of the unofficial president of the Cody Kobe Martin height machine so this is a very difficult podcast for me personally so you know please respect me during this difficult moment and I'm sorry to hear that Kobe Martin went to Fisher's high school which is just probably you know 45 minutes for me here down around Indianapolis of course so I met him after a game last year took a
8:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sad he's probably going to miss some time.
8:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how long it's going to take to recover from a broken arm.
8:16
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's what it is, that's just what I heard that hasn't been confirmed.
8:22
[SPEAKER_02]: from people at the stadium, we're saying they saw him being let off the field with people bracing his arm.
8:30
[SPEAKER_02]: So I can't believe that I get it.
8:32
[SPEAKER_03]: I get it like every game there and I just I missed so much.
8:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how I don't see everything.
8:38
[SPEAKER_03]: That just that bugs this shit out of me that I didn't even know that.
8:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, anytime a full back for the other team runs for two yards, Grant, you put your head in your hands and convince that the season is over.
8:49
[SPEAKER_03]: So hey, you did not get an it's over tactics for me this early in the first game.
8:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I got one when they scored after half time.
8:58
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You did.
9:00
[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't.
9:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It came later than I expected.
9:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of wanted to send it as a joke.
9:05
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I felt really bad when, you know, briefly went up 14, nothing off of a long touchdown run from from Lee BB.
9:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it was either him or Richard.
9:17
[SPEAKER_03]: And I turned to my dad.
9:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I said, it, I said this
9:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Thankfully they ended up scoring one of the things I want to talk about with how about the first drive of the game like you mentioned earlier the long kickoff return they get it down to around the 20 couple plays later than you hook up with Nick Mars you just literally sticks his hand out there and makes a catch I mean it literally looked like if you were like playing catch with someone out in the yard and you guys were throwing the ball 10 feet away from until you just stick your
9:53
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is one thing I noticed in the stadium is in real time, I find catch that ball and they start whistling and complete.
10:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going, there's no way he dropped that.
10:03
[SPEAKER_03]: There's absolutely no way.
10:05
[SPEAKER_03]: They show the replay up on the board.
10:08
[SPEAKER_03]: The camera work was awful.
10:09
[SPEAKER_03]: You couldn't even seem catch it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The angle they showed on the scoreboard was just bad.
10:16
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're basically having to go off of like, if you just quickly go to Twitter,
10:22
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, people are our live tweeting the game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're staying at the catch.
10:26
[SPEAKER_02]: What you can do at the stadium now, apparently.
10:28
[SPEAKER_02]: That was always a huge hurdle to being at Memorial Stadium for years was.
10:33
[SPEAKER_02]: your self service was terrible inside, but apparently that's greatly improved.
10:38
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't bad yesterday inside the stadium.
10:41
[SPEAKER_03]: It was outside the stadium in the tailgate lot and parking lot and all that around the stadium where it kind of got bad.
10:48
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't feel like I was really on my phone during the game, but.
10:53
[SPEAKER_03]: He made that catch.
10:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious, your reaction is seeing an on TV.
10:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Cause that, I mean, we got two different perspectives here.
11:00
[SPEAKER_03]: We got one that was at the game.
11:01
[SPEAKER_03]: We got one that watched it on TV.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What was your reaction to seeing it live?
11:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I never doubted that he caught it.
11:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And when they initially said he didn't catch us, I was like, well, they're gonna just overturn that.
11:10
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no, no chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And every angle Fox initially showed, it was like, yeah, he caught that.
11:16
[SPEAKER_02]: There.
11:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's, that's gonna be a catch.
11:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even Joel Clats said they're gonna overturn this.
11:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was just like, that's, he's like, why are we even looking at this?
11:26
[SPEAKER_02]: There should have been a catch on the field.
11:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the referee was looking at.
11:31
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, exactly my point is like, what were you looking at?
11:36
[SPEAKER_03]: That was the same crew that did the Penn State game last year.
11:40
[SPEAKER_03]: And the back judge is able to tell in a real time that Omar Cooper got his foot down.
11:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And he made a catch in that instance.
11:47
[SPEAKER_03]: But the side judge there in the end zone can't tell
11:50
[SPEAKER_03]: Dick Marsh clearly made a catch.
11:53
[SPEAKER_03]: First drive of the game, just literally just pulled it into his body.
11:57
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think maybe thought when he, when he hit the ground and rolled the ball may have came out at the ground, that's my only explanation of what he could have seen.
12:05
[SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's my thought is because when he did the role in the way he caught the ball that it looked like maybe it was physically impossible for it to have not hit the ground based on the way he caught it and was holding it, but no, he did.
12:21
[SPEAKER_02]: He won and a person did.
12:23
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no question about it.
12:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the only question is if Western Michigan had made that catch yesterday, how would they have
12:35
[SPEAKER_03]: donning you're a started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What a catch though.
12:38
[SPEAKER_03]: What a catch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, early candidate for catch to the year.
12:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, arguably one of the best catches of week one.
12:45
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no doubt.
12:47
[SPEAKER_03]: And entirely backer yesterday, of course, was big.
12:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw someone tweeted and said, as Charlie Becker ever dropped the pass.
12:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm not going to have that discussion because
13:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Whenever you start saying things like the whatever you'd least want it is when it has to and I should leave that alone.
13:08
[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, I was thinking last year he was the third guy and maybe he wouldn't be quite as good this year and now I'm thinking he might be the best receipt where the country.
13:18
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think last year when he became what he was is when Indiana went from a good team to yeah, this team can can freaking win it because he's so fit.
13:27
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so many physical gifts there.
13:31
[SPEAKER_02]: He's faster than anybody Indiana had before he's got
13:37
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a height, he Elijah Sarat was a more physical presence, but he didn't have the speed.
13:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Cooper was measurably as fast as him, but didn't have the size.
13:48
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got both.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He can make downfield plays.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He can make the contested catch.
13:53
[SPEAKER_02]: He can make the back shoulder.
13:56
[SPEAKER_02]: He, I mean, he's a first round NFL talent and behind Jeremiah Smith, there's people now saying he could end up being the second best receiver in this draft, which came Coleman's coming out of Texas too.
14:09
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's going to be probably a top 15 receiver in the draft.
14:13
[SPEAKER_02]: The inevitable is
14:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to cap limitations of Alec Pierce.
14:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he could be better than Alec Pierce, but everybody wants to say he's Alec Pierce, so that's the new comparison that's getting tossed around out there.
14:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought about that this morning and and I agree with what you said like I think he could be better than Alec Pierce again he he's so great in the contest to catch area.
14:41
[SPEAKER_03]: The first path he caught in real time when I saw it first thing I thought it was the first ball he caught in the rose ball last year kind of go up high to the back of the ins and you go up high you bring it down only differences is the caught the other way and then got hit in the mid section.
14:58
[SPEAKER_03]: and was down for a second.
14:59
[SPEAKER_03]: The second ball he caught, kind of reminded me of the past that caught in the peach ball against the Oregon last year down in Atlanta.
15:08
[SPEAKER_03]: He was their leading receiver yesterday, four catches, 64 yards, about, I think it was 16 yards per play and two touchdowns.
15:16
[SPEAKER_03]: So good start for him.
15:18
[SPEAKER_03]: You, I think they got their receivers involved
15:23
[SPEAKER_03]: even Tyler Moore said that a really nice game day beyond Chandler scored the touchdown spike the ball segment he says that you know he's given a reason not to play him anymore.
15:33
[SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully you knocked that stuff out of him that's just it that's the standard that's I mean you'll take that all day.
15:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And then obviously Nick Marsh pretty sure Nick Marsh only caught like one or two passes the entire game one of them was for a touchdown so I don't remember I'm catching a pass for the touchdown which was weird, but I want to go back to the
15:59
[SPEAKER_02]: That's where the official Josh Hoover crimson mask mean that's going to go around out there.
16:05
[SPEAKER_02]: He, you know, endeared himself to this fan base immediately with the
16:12
[SPEAKER_02]: D-Lineman, who tried to take his head off with the face mask.
16:15
[SPEAKER_02]: He's bleeding out the nose.
16:17
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks like a 1980s, you know, a team USA hockey guy running around out there.
16:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And he steps right up and throws a TD.
16:26
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the North Texas got blast Charlie Becker.
16:30
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm like, North Texas is here to, you know, they've chosen violence so far.
16:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it bother you at all, Grant?
16:38
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is one thing that bothered me coming out of yesterday's game.
16:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Not a lot.
16:44
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't complain about a lot from yesterday, but when your quarterback is just head ripped off, doesn't somebody on that online have to just go level that guy.
16:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Pat, I don't think a guy does that to Mendoza, Pat Koogan's letting that guy stand up.
17:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think anybody does that to Curtis Rort, Mike Kadex letting that guy stand up.
17:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody seemed too bothered by the corkscrewing other quarterback's head.
17:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think you make a good point.
17:16
[SPEAKER_03]: I hadn't really thought about that.
17:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you want to take that approach a little bit.
17:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's a part of the game that's the way the game should be played.
17:26
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Josh here, and Tignetti said this to think anybody will agree that you earned the respect of your teammates after that.
17:35
[SPEAKER_03]: The blood and all that pouring down his face and on his uniform,
17:39
[SPEAKER_03]: looked worse than it really was.
17:41
[SPEAKER_03]: He just really had a cut kind of across the bridge of his nose.
17:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, just made it worse.
17:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Just kind of made it look worse than it really was.
17:50
[SPEAKER_03]: But what a warrior.
17:51
[SPEAKER_03]: And what a way to capture your fanbase, too, and the very first game you play in.
17:56
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, when the expectation is to replace the highs been winning quarterback and you come out, you make these plays and you get all bloody and messy and all that kind of stuff.
18:05
[SPEAKER_03]: And on top of it, you go 13 of 16 through the air.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You throw more touchdown passes than incomplete passes.
18:13
[SPEAKER_03]: That is just an really, really incredible performance, really impressive performance for an opening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: day quarterback in a new system.
18:24
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, statistically had better days than Curtis work and Fernando Mendoza did in their home opener or in their season opener's for you.
18:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say, I mean, Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman last year and didn't have anything close to that kind of debut.
18:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, debut game.
18:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Now he had what would have been a much better line if you recall Omar Cooper doesn't drop a 65 year touchdown in the opener, but Hoover just he gets the ball out quick.
18:51
[SPEAKER_02]: He gets it.
18:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Two guys.
18:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, his deep ball to Charlie Becker was perfect.
18:56
[SPEAKER_02]: He had a play where.
18:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know what I thought he was Brett farving at a little too much.
19:02
[SPEAKER_02]: He was running, avoiding contact, avoiding the rush.
19:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought he was just kind of forcing one into coverage.
19:09
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it was a perfectly place ball to Brockshot down the field, where I don't even know how he realized Brockshot was there and open.
19:18
[SPEAKER_02]: But he got it to him and it was perfect.
19:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, OK, this guy's got something.
19:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we all were had pretty high expectations for him.
19:28
[SPEAKER_02]: After we watched Texas Christian last week, we know that he was kind of keeping that that ship, you know, a float.
19:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They got a really good guy out of the portal was either best guy in the portal last year.
19:44
[SPEAKER_02]: And men thought Miami looks awfully freaking good.
19:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
19:50
[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think that they're going to be any fall off at the quarterback position.
19:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
19:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're potentially we could have a better pro prospect and a guy who just went number one overall in the NFL draft on our hands here.
20:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Signetti said it's kind of tough to critique anything without seeing the film.
20:11
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I got home first thing I did was put the game back on and watch it over again.
20:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought, I thought again, there's things that are going to need cleaned up.
20:23
[SPEAKER_03]: There's things that will get cleaned up in my opinion, now that you've put stuff on tape, you got the best staff in the country, you've got the best evaluators in the country.
20:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you turn your page, I know you turn the page to Howard next Saturday.
20:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I expect things to look a little differently, and I expect Indiana to come out and probably
20:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if the word I'm looking for is here like crisp crisp.
20:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
20:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there'll be a little more crisp on Saturday against Howard.
20:58
[SPEAKER_03]: So only time will tell but we'll find out.
21:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious you got any file thoughts for you, Mike.
21:04
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, these FCS teams, they come in their spunky dude.
21:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you could only be up seven at the half against these teams and.
21:13
[SPEAKER_02]: and really, really be play and really, really well, which is, you know, I can't think of another team in the state that could fit that mold, who's better down anything, anything close to that recently, but you just got to be careful, you know, these don't be fooled by, this is Gus Johnson's alma mater, Howard come into town.
21:35
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know what's going to happen.
21:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't overlook anybody,
21:44
[SPEAKER_02]: They seemingly take a pretty huge leap from week one to week two and three.
21:49
[SPEAKER_02]: And they'll fix some of this stuff that needs to be fixed.
21:54
[SPEAKER_02]: They may still not have guys next week, but it could be largely precautionary that you hold guys out.
21:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if you need sharp and AJ Harris to beat Howard, you're not as good as you think you are.
22:07
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a good opportunity to get experience for Rylan Gandy and some of these other guys in the second area.
22:14
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm encouraged.
22:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot more potential on this team and I think you'll start to see that.
22:24
[SPEAKER_02]: As we talk about as we on ramp to the the biggest drive of the season.
22:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking forward to the Howard game.
22:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I know there's a lot of people that are saying, oh, I don't want to go.
22:37
[SPEAKER_03]: And honestly, I mean, it's probably not too late to change my mind, but it is the one game that I'm probably going to take my sister to and use the tickets and go.
22:47
[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably just going to be us, no tailgate and just go to the game, kind of evaluate it half time where the game's at if we want to leave.
22:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of regret going due to the slate of other college football games on the next Saturday, like Oklahoma, Michigan, and I think Arizona State's playing Texas day and am or something like that or tech, yeah, they're playing Texas day and am.
23:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, we're back in time for Ohio State Texas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So good games next Saturday around the country.
23:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to seeing Indiana play again now.
23:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Wake for us Purdue.
23:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: leave that one off the slid.
23:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you hear it?
23:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Are we really going to get out of here without talking about Michigan for at least a minute?
23:34
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
23:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, real quick.
23:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do some bonus time.
23:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to ask you guys a couple questions first before you talk about Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, where you guys a couple of years go, do eight men of back-to-back highs with trophy quarterbacks, different quarterbacks that I use, and number two, are who are and back are both gonna be after the high-zones trophy ceremony.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No and no.
24:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say this, the Nick Marsh, Charlie Becker-Blitten-Cofferace, is gonna feed family.
24:23
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, we've already seen Malachi, Tony, and Jeremiah Smith do Heisman poses for good reason.
24:33
[SPEAKER_00]: And there he goes.
24:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hear you, but I'm just saying, they both look like Heisman's trophy candidates.
24:43
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I'm saying.
24:45
[SPEAKER_02]: My thing with Becker is Indiana has an enormous amount of miles to feed in that offense.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna have to get the ball to Mars.
24:55
[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna have to get the ball to the running backs.
24:57
[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna have to get the ball to shot.
24:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Tyler Morris looks like he can do some stuff Shaz Preston is I still think gonna contribute to this team.
25:06
[SPEAKER_02]: He was a huge recruit and I
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[SPEAKER_02]: a contributor to a college football playoff team.
25:14
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot to spin.
25:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Signetti and Shanahan have traditionally they spread the ball around a lot.
25:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah Smith's a known entities been the best player in college football, probably for, you know, he's going into probably a second year, but he can go back to his freshman year he may have been the best receiver in the country.
25:33
[SPEAKER_02]: He's probably gonna get a spot there unless things absolutely implode.
25:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And Malachi Tony made a huge name for himself last year, especially in the playoff, especially in the title game.
25:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that kid was just absolutely mortifying to watch from an Indian fan perspective.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And he goes out and is opener, and I think got an upgrade at the quarterback position.
25:57
[SPEAKER_02]: with the mindset coming in over Carson Beck.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: And catch us three touchdowns in his first game of the year.
26:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's, there's awful lot of talent.
26:08
[SPEAKER_02]: For me, didn't picture Charlie Becker getting a high as an invite.
26:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I could definitely, if Hoover is able to consistently perform the way to last week, every week for the rest of the season, then yeah, there's no doubt he'll be in the conversation.
26:27
[SPEAKER_03]: His high-spin case might start a little earlier than Fernando Mendoza's last year.
26:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Mendoza's target around maybe the Oregon Goans, something like that, middle of October last year.
26:41
[SPEAKER_03]: If Hoover can consistently keep doing what he's done or did last on Saturday, then I think you'll hear his name, the entire season hopefully.
26:50
[SPEAKER_02]: He threw four touchdowns yesterday, correct?
26:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, four touchdowns and completions.
26:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Four touchdowns in the opener, three in completions.
27:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Go into the Nebraska game over under.
27:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say 20 touchdown passes, going into the Nebraska game.
27:10
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got Howard, you've got Howard, Western Kentucky, Rutgers, and Northwestern.
27:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's already at four.
27:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say about 20, yeah.
27:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd tell you, I think you could go into that game with more than 20 touchdown passes, which is absurd to say, because that's October.
27:35
[SPEAKER_02]: not even laid off to her.
27:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
27:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, how about Michigan?
27:46
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, are you serious?
27:48
[SPEAKER_03]: See, I went to bed at like nine o'clock last night.
27:51
[SPEAKER_03]: That's just so tired.
27:53
[SPEAKER_03]: So I woke up about two o'clock in the morning and my entire Facebook feeds going off about it Twitter's going off.
28:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I got people texting me, are you watching this Michigan game?
28:05
[SPEAKER_03]: So I went back and I watched the end of it and all I got to say is what the hell?
28:11
[SPEAKER_03]: how does that happen?
28:13
[SPEAKER_03]: There is zeros on the clock you put one second back on the clock and Bryce Underwood who I don't think is very good to be honest with you and he loads up and he hits the receiver in the ins and on an essential you know on the 60th minute and one second of the game
28:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, makes it incredible throughout giving credit, but it just should not have happened.
28:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's an embarrassment to the sport.
28:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if Wonder Woods not any good, but he certainly not what he was hyped to be.
28:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he's that good, and I don't think I think Michigan
28:51
[SPEAKER_02]: we all got blown away by them hiring a coach with the background in the pedigree of winning him coming out of Utah that we kind of just forgot the fact that maybe they just don't have the talent that they've
29:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Typically, you've had, and their offense was so dreadful, undershur on more, and it's gonna take time to get it better, because neither one of those things.
29:19
[SPEAKER_02]: That was, even coming out of that with a win, they only ran like 42, 43 plays, if I remember correctly.
29:29
[SPEAKER_02]: It was an arbor standard time now, whenever you go into the city, you have to set your clock back one second.
29:37
[SPEAKER_02]: It's absurd, and our Bertime Olive.
29:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you know, everybody who's ever experienced Michigan Stadium, none of us are surprised by what just happened.
29:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't quite understand.
29:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't get that sense that Ohio State gets that call from the Big Ten.
30:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they do.
30:04
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just,
30:05
[SPEAKER_02]: don't care as much because Ohio State is typically so much better maybe than their opponent that it doesn't matter.
30:12
[SPEAKER_02]: But I feel like every team I've seen going to Ann Arbor at some point has lost and it's come down to just some weird quirky.
30:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why but that call went that way but you know for it sure is hell did and people will try to say well the big
30:31
[SPEAKER_02]: a chosen, you know, protected class of teens and it's Ohio State Michigan Penn State.
30:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I've thought that about Penn State a few times when Indiana's gone there.
30:40
[SPEAKER_02]: We all know about the gumtoss game and Ann Arbor as Indiana fans were Bill Lynch famously spiked as, you know, dentine and to the,
30:50
[SPEAKER_02]: into the bench after some just brazenly wrong call on an interception.
30:55
[SPEAKER_02]: But Michigan, it just always seems to be then, man.
31:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Though the weird and and I
31:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I was looking forward to that Oklahoma game.
31:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Oklahoma is going to beat the ever-living P-out of the Michigan on on Saturday.
31:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even think it's going to be close.
31:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Michigan should be O-1-1 and Grant, here's the thing that I haven't heard anybody talk about.
31:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be the first one to bring it up.
31:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at Western Michigan's schedule.
31:28
[SPEAKER_02]: They upset Boise later this month.
31:32
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a win over at Michigan.
31:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't see them losing another game.
31:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They could have been the group of five team in the playoff.
31:44
[SPEAKER_03]: No kidding.
31:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you'd not to mention they play Boisie.
31:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Boisie had number two organ on the ropes in Austin State and maybe winning at Austin State is not for everybody, but Boisie State certainly had as good of a shot as Indiana did late last year against them.
32:01
[SPEAKER_02]: And there was a couple of, I'll tell you out there was a couple of non-ruffing the past recalls
32:08
[SPEAKER_02]: didn't go Boisey's way where they could have kept a drive up.
32:10
[SPEAKER_02]: They lost by seven, you know, who knows what happens.
32:14
[SPEAKER_02]: But it wasn't as brazen as 60 minutes and one second of football.
32:23
[SPEAKER_02]: An absolute Travis.
32:25
[SPEAKER_02]: But don't worry, two and a half hours after the game, the conference came out in a clock that only they had access to.
32:33
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like, it's kind of like mail in ballots in Georgia, I guess.
32:40
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know where the clock is, and we don't know where it came from, but by God, you're just going to have to believe it's there.
32:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable.
32:54
[SPEAKER_02]: And poor, I mean, don't make me feel bad for Walt Bell.
32:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Jesus Christ.
33:03
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the biggest, hey, we never got a chance in the office and do the villains draft.
33:09
[SPEAKER_03]: He would have been a huge contender for a first round pit.
33:15
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the draft.
33:16
[SPEAKER_03]: The Walt Bell Pitter pattern often.
33:21
[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, Western Michigan scored 12 points last night.
33:24
[SPEAKER_03]: My game is all from field goals.
33:25
[SPEAKER_03]: It was four field goals, man.
33:27
[SPEAKER_03]: They never got any ends.
33:28
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a, it was a won't bell special, man.
33:31
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's a former Hoosier playing quarterback for them, too.
33:34
[SPEAKER_02]: People don't realize that rock, flowery.
33:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
33:39
[SPEAKER_03]: That, that is just,
33:41
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, just for the sport, it's sad actually.
33:45
[SPEAKER_03]: I really, really hope you don't see anything like that again.
33:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Kudos to Michigan fans for having the mental acumen to just immediately rush the field so that people will be making fun of them for rushing the field about beating Western Michigan and maybe taking some of the focus off the fact that they had to absolutely
34:10
[SPEAKER_02]: We went from winning the national title to storming the field after cheating Western Michigan and record time.
34:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me ask you this, like, if Purdue wins a big ten game this year, do you think they'll rush the field?
34:27
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34:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it doesn't surprise me that they had clock problems.
34:58
[SPEAKER_02]: I gave Zack E.D.
34:59
[SPEAKER_02]: five seconds to get a three second violation for four years.
35:03
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know why this surprises me.
35:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear you.
35:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Great way to get.
35:11
[SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
35:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, pass.
35:15
[SPEAKER_00]: This was fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
35:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot the talking I youth football community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun.
35:23
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a pretty guy.
35:23
[SPEAKER_02]: You're an cult guy.
35:24
[SPEAKER_02]: You forgot talking football.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's correct.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's correct.
35:31
[SPEAKER_00]: I school football's fun.
35:37
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