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Episode 5.38: Little Things Add Up -- Wisconsin Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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The Turn Glorious podcast tutters Arbnik. You here with the code of free take.
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Austin will be joining here. I'm sure any second hell, there he
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is, and Austin not yet. Anyways, he'll jump in here. Huskers
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lose to Wisconsin twenty two, twenty four to seventeen at whatever the hell the
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final score was, I don't remember, but we lose again in a different
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way, in a heartbreaking fashion and overtime, and we have one game left
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to get to a ball against Iowa. This I'm still trying to figure out
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how the hell I lost Huskers plus seven bet makes no sense? Or no,
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no, I didn't lose. I pushed. That's one of the worst
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pushes I've ever had in my life. Well, at least you got it
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at seven, because I know the line moved a lot throughout the week.
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Yeah, I checked earlier days four and a half. What the hell happened?
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They pushed the seven. I was like, I gotta take this.
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They found out Pardi was starting QB and they thought that was no bueno for
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the Huskers. But they tell you what, guys, Prey kind of looked
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good. He did, he did, I was and you know why he
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looked good. He didn't turn the ball over. Yeah, he turned it
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over on the last throw of the game, whatever, but he didn't turn
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it over. And for the first time and quite a few games, guys,
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I can say we really didn't beat ourselves. Wisconsin just beat us.
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I think, I agreed, like it just came down to at the end
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of the game. They just were physically a little bit better than we were,
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and they executed better. Their quarterback was better than our quarterback. That's
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kind of what it then coming down to. I think you went way way
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too conservative after fourteen Oh, okay didn't Yeah, I I the word conservative.
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I thought you were going to prefer to the last drive. Well that
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too, but but yeah, I do think that that we did go a
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little more conservative. But part of me was like, okay, like we
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have a fourteen oh lead, Like start this game over, like we're handicapped
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fourteen points and let's play from there. But unfortunately, yeah, Wisconsin just
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kept coming at us, coming at us again, and we just could not
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score and late in the game that last drive. Block management, I think
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is the big topic of conversation this week, as it was last week,
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but now it's for the opposite reason, exactly what do you want him to
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do? Last Now, different scenarios. I'll admit, you know, last
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week it was tied. This week we were down three. But if he
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goes out there and he throws the ball and it gets turned over, you're
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roasting him for not running the ball three times and not kicking the field goal
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to tie it to go to overtime. There was no winning in this scenario.
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I personally, when I was watching it, I was a little frustrated
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because I was like, why are we taking this time out after burning twenty
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five seconds? If you were going to take the time out, take the
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time out sooner. That was my thought. That was the opinion I had
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where I was watching it. I was actually like totally okay. I'm like,
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oh my god, Chubb a Purry, just let us down on this
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last drive. Just get a freaking field we'll go to overtime. And yeah,
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we had a couple of runs with a couple of plays, but my
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mind, my brain was so convinced that we're probably going to turn over or
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do something stupid, so I just wanted to kick the field goal. And
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you're right that scenarios are different. Tie game versus being down. But the
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our offense was clicking. There was that part of it. It's like we
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just marched down the field. I think we can get this if we did.
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If we did, but I I still just wanted to be conservative and
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kick like I actually with it. I love. A lot of people are
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upset with it, but it is a little bit confusing. I get at
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different scenarios. But you're right, you Jubba throws a pick there. Everybody
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is so pissed off that what the hell we didn't learn from last week?
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All we had to do was be conservative, field goal and tie and go
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to That's exactly what would have been said. So we did go the other
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route, and it was more conservative. We made the field goal, barely
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went to overtime, where we can talk about that we're not very good in
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overtime, but didn't did not go well again in Wisconsin. So here here's
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all of that. I will say, I was not upset with how we
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handled the clock. Besides, I agree taking the time out if to potentially
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run two more plays and now I'm not saying take shots at the end zone,
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we could have maybe ran the ball more a couple one more time or
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just had had one or two more play opportunities. It's not saying being aggressive,
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it's just saying, get a couple more. Give it, give it,
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Give Johnson one more runks. He was running the ball really well.
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You know, just take if you're gonna take that time out, take it
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twenty seconds sooner you can do one more run play. We still had basically
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one time out because we ended the game with one time out. Correct we
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had one on our inn. I think, well maybe we did. I
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don't remember. We might have one left. Yeah they had one and we
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had one or we had But what I was most disappointed with from that situation
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was how Real handled in the press conference another week where I just was not,
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guys, there's something about us losing now and facing some adversity again later
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in the year that that the stress and the pressure of being the coach Nebraska
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is getting to Matt Rule. His comment about that drive was, well,
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I had a ton of people telling me that last year or last week we
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should have did this, So this week I decided to do this. I
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don't know if that's exactly what he said. He was one hundred percent deflecting,
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not saying on the fans but on people that were doubting his decision,
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he was deflecting it back on saying, well, people told me this.
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Now, yeah, I think getting out in front of he's like, he's
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like, I know we're gonna get shipped for how he handled that last play,
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but it's the exact opposite of what we did last week. And that's
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my point. That's my point. The point is that he's actually he thinks
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he has to defend himself again. He thinks he happened. But I'm fine
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with him pushing back on the media. See the media. It's not the
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media it is. It is he's letting he's letting outside influences impact his decision
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making. And I don't think that's true. I don't think he was like
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last week. I think he was thinking, last week we got down here,
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we threw an interception and I don't want to do that again. But
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I don't think he was like, people gave me crap for doing this last
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week, So why do you make the comment. He made the comment because
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that's what he's going to hear. And after the game, they asked the
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question kind of like that's like the question was like, so last week he
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did this this week we did that, and he's like, yeah, you're
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right, last week we did do this. Okay, Yeah, And he
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could have answered that way. He answered it by saying I was getting told
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by people like he didn't. That is not what he said. Read the
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quote. Go read the quote. I watched it, and he was not
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like I was being told by people this week. Well people quote exactly says
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that I was being or I was told by people that what was made last
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year last Yeah, but you're inflecting it wrong. You're you're reading, you're
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reading out of context. Yes, he's not like last week I was told
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this song. Yeah, I didn't say you said it that way, but
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that that's the worst you do that. That's what you inflected it as though.
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That's Dak just gave me a thumbs up somehow. What up? I
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didn't even know what. I just think. I what I what I've gotten
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from rules last two or three press conference is he is letting outside forces impact.
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It's coaching like at a high level. Is at a high level,
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I feel like there's stress and pressure getting to him already at the end of
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your one I don't think that's true. Did you watch the press conference or
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you just read the quotes. I watch it. I watched it. Yeah,
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you definitely. He was just basically saying he was like, so last
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week I was told this, but you know, we did this this week,
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so I'd probably be told the other way. I don't think he's letting
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that impact his decisions. I think he's just addressing it because that's what he's
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gonna hear all week, because he heard it all last week. So he's
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just saying it. He's just getting out in front of it that. You
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don't think his decision to be conservative this week had anything to do with last
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week. I think I don't think it's how people are responding. I think
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is because we threw a fucking interception in the end zone last week and lost
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the game. So you think you think that maybe we learned last week.
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So on the flip side, after this week, do you think that there
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was anything learned Chubb's are starting quarterback. No, from the decision making,
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oh, from decision making from the from the end of the game. Basically,
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what I'm saying, are we going to be aggressive or conservative next time?
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In a similar situation in the fourth quarter, I think hm hmm.
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In a similar situation, I think we'd probably do the same thing. I
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think we'd still be conservative with conservative yeah, okay, with our current roster,
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I think we'd be conservative. I think he learned his lesson last week.
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Like, hey, we went for the ball game, we turned over
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it through interception. We're not ready for that. Okay. I hope you're
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right on that. I really do, because I think there's a lot lot
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of Husker fans that are pissed off the way we handled the the clock management.
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And I was like the room I was sitting in, everybody was like,
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go score. I'm like, why we're gonna turn it over? Like
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don't, don't stop, Like we'll just kick the field, go good overtime.
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Like I just it is a conservative mindset, But that comes down to
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trusting your quarterback. It does. And like Shobba played better right than probably
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what was expected of him, and probably one of the better quarterback performances we've
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seen this year from any of them. But at the same time, like
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it's still Chubb a purty, like we know what we're getting with him.
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That there were fewer designed runs for Shova, and I don't know if that's
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a product of the groin injury. And I'm not going to reaggravate it,
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but I didn't feel like you don't. Don't get me started on one of
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the designed runs. Fucking bone headed sadder field. The one option play you
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run is an overtime You say it, the whole game run over time you
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run the short side of the field. Idiot. That was an idiot.
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The overtime situation. Let's actually move to that because that I think I saw
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someone tweet since we fired both Polini and won and over we won an overtime
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against Iowa. Then that next week we fired both Polini. We have not
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scored an overtime. I think was it was like, we have not done
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anything in overtime since that, we haven't won it over. You have like
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twenty four yards in overtime since you fired Bopolini. Yeah, so that's not
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even eight nine overtimes since then. Yeah, that's the name of the yards
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need to gain for a touchdown in eight overtimes. It's not good. Like
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how many times the overtime rules since the last time we've won an overtime three
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times? Yeah, it's funny. I was explaining that the people in the
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room that didn't know what the overtime rule was after a second overtime third over
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to They're like, when did that change? And I'm like, well,
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we've never gotten to that point ever because we always lose in the first round,
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right, but yeah, it's one and done. What okay? What
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doc through? I guess what is your guys' overtime strategy? Like what?
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I think that that is a big part of coaching that, Yeah, it
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doesn't happen every game, might happen once a year. Obviously, college is
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different than pro. You have the option to take the ball or defend first,
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and then I think between getting a field goal on touchdowns and others,
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like what is your strategy going into overtime? On the same page, well,
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given the situation that we had to score a touchdown, like from the
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get go, from the coin toss, from the coin toss, I haven't
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I don't know if I here's my thought on the deferring. Obviously you wanted
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to first, you know you have to get but then you have the pressure
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of having to score. If they score, I think you still defer for
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defense, and then I honestly think you just run your same offense. You're
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at the twenty five in theory you could kick a feel goal. You just
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can't get name of plays on the first down. So I think you run
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a Saint run play up the middle and hope to get at least a couple,
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if not, maybe break it for a bigger one, which I feel
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like we were running the ball up the middle actually pretty well, we're actually
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getting to part in the yards. That right there is where I totally agree
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with you, is there's you also get four downs in that situation. Yes,
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so that I'm glad you brought that up. Our first play call is
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a speed option where you're going backwards already and with a pitcher going backwards right.
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Your second play call is a Scott Frost swing pass that we ran earlier
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in the game, and we have not proven or shown that we can really
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block out there, and that goes for a lost And now we're sitting in
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third and forever get four downs and those were our first two play calls and
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whatever. So yeah, if you get the ball first or second, I
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agree. I think there's conversation there what's best. But deferring is a safe
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option, right, You see what you don't get, But getting the first
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first down and overtime is absolutely huge. Both ways, because yeah, puts
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your field goal kicker out a shorter. I mean, you don't want to
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kick a forty two yard or you don't can they make it? Yeah,
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you don't want to do that. And second of all, then you're that
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much closer to the end zone and four downs. But again we go backwards
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negative yards and we saw how it ended up. Dak is already what else
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do you add the overtime situation. Well, I'm the deferring or taking the
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ball. I think it depends on your team too. Like if you're al
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Climber, USC, you don't give a shit about defense. You take the
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ball. But when Nebraska, they have a good defense, so you expect
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you're going to pry home the field goal and that's what you're you're probably expecting.
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So I like to defer and get the other so you know what you
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have to do. But like Austin said, it does put pressure on you
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if you have a lot of touchdown because then you're in the defense. No,
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then what they have to do too. But but yeah, back to
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the play calling. So the whole game, the whole game, what's working
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is you're running the ball up the middle, you're throwing throwing the work in
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the middle of the field was working. I don't know why we kept trying
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the outside. Oh my gosh, the number of freaking negative plays we got
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on the outside was just driving me nuts. Oh yeah, you gets old
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teen, You're like, fuck it, we're gonna change our playing game.
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We're gonna run four two plays that one of them didn't work, and one
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we haven't ran the whole game. I don't know what. You can see
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the swing pass from a mile away, like you're just like, it's like,
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oh no, this is happening, and you can see the guy in
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the back that you're like, don't do not Oh yeah, it was.
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I thought our defense too, had a really good shot of holding them on
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that third down. And it was third and eight maybe or third and seven
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or eight, and they just barely at that first down or maybe they marked
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my yard short than they got the first down later it they did. They
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did such a good job. I thought that they were going to get it
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done. It Ultimately, a guy need to step up and make a play
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there. I think on that pass play, I can't remember who the linebacker
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was dropped. It's a little bit too deep. It it's close again,
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it's going back to winning and finding finding a way to win and knowing how
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to win. And I think this group is doing a better job of that.
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But but we're still now five and six right and with the potential to
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be hopefully six and six, but five and seven after year one under rule.
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So I agree. Play calling, yeah, it was what it was.
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It wasn't great down the stretch, But it comes down to having a
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quarterback. I think that I'm not saying has to be an elak quarterback like
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I and I don't think this offense is ever going to be designed around a
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quarterback. But he needs to be serviceable enough to be able to make the
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plays when the time comes up. And you know what, I thought Chubba
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did that. I really do. I thought Chubbu, for what we needed
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him to do this this week, did a very good job of managing the
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game, knowing having good pocket awareness, knowing when when to go. Is
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Chubba the best passer in the world. No, but he made some good
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throws. Yeah, he might be the best one. And and I will
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always say this, quarterbacks at any level, there's so much of an element
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of surprise with a new quarterback. You can watch all the film you want
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on him from previous years or but until you see them game after game,
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you're going to get an element of surprise from a new quarterback. He saw
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it with Heiner Carver. Heck, you saw it with Jeff Simms to start
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the year two. How things kind of worked like there's some good things.
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But then once you get it on film and really good coaches know how to
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dissect quarterback find their weaknesses on the defensive end. And I mean, Shubba's
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got a couple of games left, but that's what I think happened with Heine,
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and we did catch some positive things that were Schubba this week that helped.
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But bottom line is we still didn't win and weren't able to do enough
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after getting up fourteen nothing. So let's go back to the first quarter.
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I'd say the first quarter is the happiest I've been as a Husker fan,
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Husker football fan all season. Well, we're Wisconsin, Wisconsin radio. That
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was my first quarter. That was something. Yeah, why were you that
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first I was drawing backward Thanksgiving? Oh yeah, it sucked. Why did
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you choose Wisconsin with your radio not Nebraska? We were in the dead middle
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of Kansas, so we cannot find Nebraska and those guys are born Wisconsin,
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but you found Wisconsin. Yeah, and it sucked. We were in terrible,
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terrible radio announcers. Honestly, the TV announcers weren't great. If I
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had to hear them talk about how Tanner Morrik I was bringing Allen I was
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gonna. I almost turned it on mute, like I cannot listen to this.
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Did you know Chubble Party is related to Brock pretty no, ship my
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god? Who was the TV announcers? Uhdolph, No, it was the
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head guy who think it was the Eagles kid. I am Eagles kid.
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And yeah, yeah, Todd Blacklich was the first guy I knew him.
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I didn't really the Eagle, I knew his last name. But yeah,
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the first quarter, guys, I got a trap again, think, oh
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my god, like we might just have better players in Wisconsin. We we
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looked good. It might be the better team, and and our defense looked
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good. Chubbo was looking like you should have been our starting quarterback the whole
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year. And then it was very much real back in as the game went
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along, it was Tanner Murdock had running. That's what killed us. Yes,
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I thought warded Oklahoma. I don't know where he where. He could
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run now, but he couldn't move it all at Oklahoma, so I don't
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know where that came from. Desperation is handster. I thought our defense played
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okay, still, they still had a solid game. I do. I
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do think the Mordecai thing caught us very much off guard. And I haven't
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looked at his stature and knew what he did coming in, but I don't
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think he is much of a runner. I don't think you guys are wrong
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on that. Like I think he truly actually made some really good plays with
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his legs that hurt us. And we haven't really faced too many quarterbacks that
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have been able to do that, and the ones that have, like Hudson
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Card, we were very We had it very well scouted, like we knew
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that's what he wanted to do, so our game plan was centered around that
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and a lot of the times that he had the big runs was we had
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a guy hit him in the backfield who just didn't tackle. There were a
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couple of times where we were we had arms hit Mrdecaia, but then he
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would we didn't get him down. He ripped off an eighteen year run.
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That was the biggest takeaway on the defensive end was our tackling was the worst
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I've seen it this year, and it's gone downhill since start of the year.
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It has that. That's what's hurt us the most, I think was
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has been mistackles. And what sucks is I thought we had that problem fixed
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and everything was looking better with this new defense and system and scheme. But
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again, you get something on film and you start scheming around it, guys,
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And that's ultimately what is it. That's coaching, right, that's coaching.
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That is coming up with the game plan, developing whatever the other team's
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doing, coming up with counters, coming up with alternative strategies, putting in
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new stuff that's not already in like that is all part of coaching. And
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when it gets to late in the year, I think that's what rule talks
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about, how the end of the year games are the most important. Are
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we getting better as players? Are we developed? Second? As a coaching
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staff, are we are we doing those things to make sure we are out
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coaching the other staff? I would say we probably got out coached this game
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by by Luke Fickle and staff. And whether the coaching staff realizes or not,
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Like I hope they do, because I think that's what happened. We
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didn't beat ourselves. We didn't we didn't turn it over. It wasn't our
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players fucking up and putting the ball on the turf. For Yeah, maybe
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we missed a few tackles here or there, but was not a bright spot
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this game. Good, good point, but it just it just felt like
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we didn't really beat ourselves too much this week compared to previous weeks. Now,
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yeah, special teams was an eighteen yard punt from there whatever or from
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our twenty five is what I don't remember exactly where we're it's pretty freaking close.
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And he's benous this year. He's been bad, been very poor,
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and I for the team that we have, it needs to be good.
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It can't just be average. It needs to be good. I agree.
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When you rely on defense, you need a punter that can flip the field.
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Who was your third down nightmare? That wide receiver that just kept killing
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you on third downs? Paul or yeah, Paul right, yeah, whatever,
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Yeah, he got knocked down and came back in and killed you again.
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Yep, yup, couldn't seem to get up the field. When we
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needed to as well. It was just little things. I think that again
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you add them all together, that's what loss is the game. And you
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mentioned Braylan Allen. Guys, Braylen Allen is still a really good running back.
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And it's not that he I think he was twenty two rushes for like
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sixty seven yards at but what he does is he gets two extra yards instead
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of it being second and nine at second and seven, or instead of it
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being third and five, it's third and three. Like, he just finds
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a way to get those extra two yards to put him in more manageable situations.
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And he did that so many times it's not really noticed because it doesn't
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move the chains or it's not a big breakthrough run. But he's a tough
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ass runner. He's a good running back for a reason, and arguably one
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of the best running backs in the Big ten country I mean country. Yeah,
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coming into the coming into the year, he was one of the best
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of the country. So like that little piece there, adding up all these
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other little things we're talking about, like, that's what ultimately costs you a
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football game and not let you win, and and that that I think the
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staff probably hopefully realizes that stuff, But that that was that. As I
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was thinking back on the game and laying in bed last night, I'm like,
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what, just like, why do we lose this game? Like,
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what's the reason? We've done that a lot over the past few years.
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What happened here? Like? Nothing big stuck out to me? There wasn't
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There wasn't big plays or big moments that I'm like, God, this is
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what lost? Is that game? This It was a culbination of a lot
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of little things. The especial team stuck out to me after that, Yes,
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but it it wasn't as bad as what we've seen as bad could be
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from Special teams. Like, yeah, but the punt was horrible. We
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missed a field goal. But it's not like we were zero for three on
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field goal. It's not like we muffed a punt. It's not like we
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had a Remember we had a what was that one punt? Go like seven
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yards one game? Yeah, Like we've had those before. So yeah,
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eighteens not good? Was better than seven So like, yeah, special teams
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was the worst. I agree, but it was a bunch of little things.
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I'm like, this, well, this happened, this happened, this
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happened. Yeah, I guess ye had all those things up. You probably
25:30
don't win a football game that way. So that was where my takeaway was
25:33
after the game, which is a little bit different way of losing, right,
25:37
not beating yourself, but ultimately still it results in nell on the scoreboard.
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But you can fix the little things that it's It's reassuring to me,
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how about this. After the game I felt, I didn't feel I didn't
25:51
feel happy by any means, but you can clean up the little things.
25:56
It Once you start losing by the little things, it means you've cleaned up
25:59
the big things. Having no turnovers, I was like, we've They were
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like, all right last week they probably were like, all right, we're
26:06
fucking done turning over the ball. And then we didn't turn over the ball,
26:10
obviously ignoring the last interception. But I think that's just I would it's
26:15
good that we're losing by the little things because that means that we've we're cleaning
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up the big things and we can clean up the little things that just take
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It just takes time. I hope, I I agree, and I hope
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that we do like we have cleaned the big things up. I think it
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was one game that we've seen now of that way and yeah, you play
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like this, we we do win. I mean, I think this is
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kind of how we played against your Illinois Northwestern and won those games, right,
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And I think you play this way against Michigan State, you probably win.
26:44
You play this way against Maryland last week, you probably win. We
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knew Wisconsin was going to be one of the toper teams in Wisconsin's down.
26:52
Yes they're not. They're not. They're still five or five like they're not
26:57
Dawn. So it is an They're one of those teams that you've got to
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do the little things right to win, and it is promising. We got
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rid of big glaring mistake issue that being turnovers. But yeah, I was
27:12
after the game that I was not like damn it, Like it was like,
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okay, we didn't turn it over. And I said it, if
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we go these next two games without turning it over and still lose them,
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like okay, like I'll be I'll be like damn. But we did it
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one game. I'm not counting that last pass at all. We did it
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one game where we really didn't beat ourselves. But see if we can do
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it against Iowa, who's really going to capitalize on anything that we do mess
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up. And this was arguably the first game where I actually noticed this having
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penalties, Like I really haven't felt that the whole season, but this was
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the first game where it's like, oh, we got a fall start like
27:49
that happened like three times. It's like, well then it happened. Yeah,
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they weren't great. I guess that's one angle of saying good, we
28:02
fix the big things and not the little but maybe the best. The negative
28:04
side of that is these little things are popping up again where they haven't showed
28:10
maybe last time. Have they not shown because they've been overshadowed by the big
28:15
glaring issues, or have we actually been pretty clean besides turning the ball over?
28:19
I guess I don't know the answer to that. Did you guys about
28:25
shuit yourself after off the foot of that game time field goal? Because I
28:30
thought right off the foot, I was like, oh fuck, he miss
28:33
that Nick curl back in. Oh yeah, that thing was a knuckle.
28:36
I mean it was wobbling. I thought that was going dead right. I'm
28:42
with you. I did not know, not think that was going in right
28:45
but off his foot, but it did. Hallelujah. What does this mean
28:55
here. I guess going into this week, does it change anything? Dak,
28:59
sorry to say, I don't know if you just saw, but the
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Vikings already put it on the turf and turned it over. Yeah. I
29:03
threw my hat as the second guy I saw that. That's God, damn
29:07
it, the fuck does that play? Gault do? Do? What?
29:14
What? What's our expectation? I guess going into the last game because I
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I think ultimately still making a bowl game is the goal here, and getting
29:26
that extra week or month, month and a half practice is going to be
29:32
huge. I also think that the Big Ten wants us to win this game
29:37
really bad because Iowa's situation, they're set in stone. Regardless of this game,
29:44
they're gonna go to the Big Ten title game, they're gonna get their
29:45
ass kicked, and they're gonna play in the Capitol One Bowl or something like
29:49
that. Is not gonna matter if they win or lose against us, and
29:52
actually might even help the Big Ten if they lose, so they're not playing
29:56
such a good team in a bowl game, so we don't get embarrassed with
30:00
them in a bowl game. So the Big Ten actually wants us to win
30:03
so we can get to a ball game, make more money. Obviously,
30:07
our fans are going to travel to it. So if anybody says that the
30:11
Rests are trying to screw us, they're not. The rest are gonna do
30:14
everything they can to help us this game. The Big Ten wants us to
30:15
win and go to a bowl game. I think we can beat Iowa.
30:22
I mean they skate skated, but I can't believe they fucking won that game.
30:26
I was incredible good find I hate them so much. How do they
30:32
win these games? I want most of that game, obviously for the implications
30:36
on our end. I got not one time. I'm like they're gonna lose
30:38
this game. I didn't think that. I'm like, they'll find a way
30:41
to win. It was third and six with like four and a half minutes,
30:44
and like here comes the stripsack fumble or turn for a touchdown or it
30:48
just you knew something's gonna happen. There you go, you have to get
30:51
the ball back. There's a thirty eight yard run, broke up the middle,
30:53
touchdown, Like find a way? How about the how about the gatorade
31:00
bath? Double gatorade bath of Brian Ferrens. I'm not deserved, but you
31:06
know that's okay, you're a dead man kind of like to make a wish
31:11
kid, you know, give him his moment. Yeah you don't. You
31:18
don't gotta worry about imposing quarterback this week. You you can let that dude
31:22
throw it all over the field. He's a big dude, isn't he's He's
31:27
one of the worst quarterbacks I've ever seen play. You guys see, you
31:32
guys have a quarterback problem. Fair and did you guys see the over runner
31:38
said at you, I think you're gonna set a record twenty seven and a
31:42
half. It was higher than I thought it was gonna be. Yeah that
31:45
that's way too high. It's and at what point they start putting Iowa on
31:52
over runners like seventeen because they all go under. I mean, seriously,
31:56
I thought I was gonna come out of like twenty three like it's supposed to
32:00
be snowing too, I think or like like that. That's only gonna make
32:04
it even more to the Yeah that that that that won't be my home first
32:12
Baker type of game watching it. I'll just say that it's not gonna beautiful
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watch. Thanks thanks for letting everybody know that, Dack, it's not It's
32:20
not gonna not gonna be in the third shout out to the volleyball team,
32:28
though Big Ten champions as well as the women's soccer team made it to the
32:30
Elite eight. Yeah, I didn't want to shout out the women's soccer team.
32:35
I watch their game the other night, not SBM, plus I was
32:38
like, we're making some noise in women's soccer. Then today I saw we
32:44
won four nothing, So we're in the Elite eight. Baby, that's where
32:47
your bathtball is gonna be too. Hey man, they looked freaking good.
32:52
Yeah, they kicked ass. Ring Mass and Kaise One might have been right.
33:01
There's a lot of pieces there. And I would even say Bryce Williams,
33:05
like I enjoy watching him almost the most at all. I love watching
33:09
rank and we knew what we had on a case. Uh, there's a
33:13
lot of there's a lot of pieces on this team, and I do think
33:15
the Big Ten. Not gonna say they're down, but they're They're definitely not
33:22
the Big Ten that we're used to. And yeah, that was like the
33:24
biggest takeaway I think from Saturday. And I was like, oh, like
33:30
we might be okay. And Oregon State's not a powerhouse, but they are
33:34
a power five team, and we were up thirty like early second half just
33:39
look like yeah, we were like down to soh and then we just ripped
33:45
off basically like a forty to twelve run or something. It was. It
33:50
was very impressive, and I'm I'm I'm looking forward to watching this team like
33:54
throughout the rest of the non conference here too, because we got some winnable
33:59
games. And I do think, you know, beat beat a Creighton or
34:04
Kansas State, You're sitting in a pretty good spot going into Big Ten play
34:08
as far as the tournament resume goes. With obviously a strong record and then
34:14
having to take care of business in the conference of winning I mean even half
34:17
your games, I think you're you're looking okay going into the postseason. And
34:22
I think that's what we're all after right now, right just yeah, obviously
34:28
getting away. Just want balligibility and I want to get into the tournament.
34:32
Such low bars, really, such low bars for any d one program.
34:37
Yeah here we are. My Jink's your ballligibility. When I said fire the
34:44
cannon's off, you're going bowling after they beat it Purdue? Yeah, you
34:49
sure? Did? You know? The other thing I thought of and I
34:53
actually thought of this, like when we lost to Michigan State, so it
34:58
was a couple of weeks ago. I'm like, what if we lose out?
35:00
Remember there are five and seven teams that still make bowl games? Like
35:06
remember that that that happens, right, Like if they don't have enough full
35:09
eligible teams to qualify. And there's so many freaking bowl games now, who
35:14
knows how many forty one forty two for I don't know, there's a lot.
35:16
Like it's not out of the realm of possibility that a five and seven
35:22
Nebraska team could still make it. What could be really intriguing is will we
35:29
want to go if we've lost? I mean, if we lose to Iowa,
35:32
don't make it like it won't feel like quote unquote we deserve to go
35:36
to a bowl game, right, We had every opportunity in four games and
35:38
we blew it. But if we got invited, would we do because Frost
35:47
declined that a couple of years right and that so which that was the three
35:52
and five COVID year. Yeah, three and five like wasn't wasn't great,
35:59
But yeah, got asked to go to a bowl game but declined it.
36:00
Guys, we that's gonna that decision. If that happens a very small chance
36:05
it probably does happen. But if it does, like, that's gonna tell
36:07
us a lot about the staff because I'm with you, Austin, like we
36:10
we need to go play in a bowl game and regardless situation, for the
36:14
practice time alone, and we bet we better we better go play like it.
36:20
Yeah, it'll be scary if we say that. No, like we
36:22
don't deserve this, Like, no, I don't care if we deserve it
36:25
or not. We need to practice for another practice and visibility, like there's
36:29
no doubt to it outside of like, uh, we don't accept failure here.
36:34
It's like, well, this isn't a reflection of how good your season
36:37
win, No, it's just another practice. It's another another game, another
36:40
opportunity to play. Yeah, totally in mind. I think just keep that
36:45
in the back of your mind even if we do lose this week, because
36:47
I think we forgot about that. The only reason why our remember is because
36:51
we've been in that situation the past years. We're trying to get just the
36:53
five wins because we're like, oh, at five wins, there's a sliver
36:57
chance that we might get in by to do a bull game. That's happened
37:00
in the past couple of years. So I think it comes down after you
37:07
get all six six teams, and I think it comes down to academics.
37:09
That's how they decide, like what schools have the best GPA or something like
37:13
that. It's I don't know why that's how they decided, but that's actually
37:19
have a decent gp Yeah, we all, we do. I don't.
37:22
I never know the qualifications or what I do know. Like in general,
37:27
bowl games get to pick like that. It's kind of like a draft of
37:30
who you want. Right, you have your set conference teams and slots,
37:35
and then you kind of draft from that in summer, just at large.
37:38
But I don't know when it comes to who gets into the five and seven
37:42
slots how that works. But all right, anything else going to nebrasketball lost
37:52
again Nebraska USC in a bowl game, so we're all hoping for please please
38:02
How was USC gun? Like I read that's that's Kile Williams last game.
38:07
They took their bye week on week thirteen. Oh yeah, what the yeah?
38:14
All right, right, we'll be back Wednesday. Thanksgiving. You go
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