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Episode 5.10: Win the 4th Quarter + Week 1 Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turn the Board Podcasts. We're back a day early. It's an early game
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this week, so we're doing the pod early on a Tuesday. We've already
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got our Minnesota preview in, but let's just do some more Minnesota game preview
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and Hunters are Berniki here with Austin Rose Dak to free tag. I got
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a NOOKI State had on dack swear the same, Oh you had. It
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is a battle of bedlam. Although it looks like he has a different shirt
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on this week, so some progress there. A little burnt orange there.
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It looks like supporting his long horns. No, it's it's not Texas shirt.
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This is my middle school basketball shirt. Oh sorry, of course,
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glad, it's still it's yeah, representing Austin. Have you to guess how
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good you think Dak was at basketball? Oh my gosh, you were probably
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an eighth man. If I had to guess, you're giving me too much
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credit there? Wow, not even eight knockdown shooter. Come off the bench.
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We'll heat check well. Dion waiders action a couple fifty point games.
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So that's about it, right. Uh. Big news off the top here.
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We know it's game week because we had an article written about the Husker
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nutritionist. Man, are we ready for some football? You know it?
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Although we had a pretty big ESPN article about volleyball day, that is becoming
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a I mean, I know it was a big thing, but I didn't
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realize, like the new president is coming from the NCAA, the big ten
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commissioners coming. Maybe like, is there some big politician coming to you?
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Maybe yes there is? Kay is that your favorite person back? Yeah,
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you could say that. No, it's I saw in the article. If
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you don't, if you get a chance read it's pretty good. It's not
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behind the paywall. It's not ESDM plus. Thank god, she says has
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potential to be the largest attended female sports event in the world. I thought
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that could be the case. I have a prediction it's going to get canceled
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really as of humidity and the court being too slick. No that they can't
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cancel it. They've already posted their backup plans in a news article I read
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of today. No move it. They're gonna move it to Devanny and then
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probably just air the game I'm guessing on the big screen there and then have
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the concert and everything. Still, it's not really about the game. That's
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the important thing. Now, the record breaking things one thing, But I
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don't think it's about us playing, you know, It's more about obviously the
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whole event and experience that comes with it. But I can see that happening.
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And I may have heard something that if that first game is not very
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playable on the court, that they will move the second game, but not
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saying it was a for sure thing, but I heard that was a consideration.
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I believe it's supposed to be eighty three at I don't know what you
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call it, not tip off, first serve like that at seven o'clock,
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So it's not gonna be like blizz stream, but there's not gonna be any
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breeze, and you're right, it would be the condensation on the court anyways,
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bold prediction, but it still will be a very neat event, and
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it sounds like that they're probably called a sell out. I mean, tickets
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were very cheap, slash, maybe a lot we're given away, but from
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what it sounds like the entire stadium will be filled, which would be pretty
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neat for a volleyball game or any women's sporting event for that matter, that,
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like you said, could be a world record for the largest attendance.
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I think I saw that there's a World Cup game. Maybe that was like
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forty summit. I don't remember exactly what the number was, but and we
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sold ninety one thousand tickets. So I don't think we'll get that high,
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but we'll be close, will be close. It'll be good. That's the
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the thing in Husker News today. No bad pr today. All right,
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Yeah, so that whole thing what we're referencing is that art Gilbert hh arrest
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for performing a burglary, a failed burglary on a vape shop, DAK.
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Since you're our vape expert on the pod, how much is six sixteen hundred
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dollars worth of vapes? You? Well, he bought it said he bought
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baby. I don't know what else he bought, chargers, lighters on the
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wall. Anyways, he he bought. Let's see, they're not bought.
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He stole. He stole a lot. Let's just say that, bags and
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bags and didn't get too far. If anyone felt the video out there,
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the cops are waiting for him. It's a I mean, I shouldn't be
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laughing. It's kind of a comical video, but I like this guy was
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supposed to be good, right, But at the same time, there's a
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reason he hasn't played anywhere, and not saying he performed burglaries at his previous
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schools, but he definitely has a personality that has not got him on the
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field for being a five star talent out of high school. So the only
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reason why this makes like really huge news is that people have made this former
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five star out to be someone that could help us. But not one time
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has Rule or anybody on this current staff indicated that he has even a part
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of this team. It's always been the media nationally and locally, hyping him
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up. And when they asked the Rule about it today in the press conference,
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I actually laughed because he just said, like four times he's a scout
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team player and that's that, Like, it's not gonna affect anything about Thursday,
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And I mean that that's spot on, Like who cares the guy is
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not having an impact come the game, and we don't need to make it
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a bigger thing than we are. But of course that's the nature of where
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we're at right now. At the beginning of football season, he wasn't even
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a traveled team, was he. No, Because he hasn't gotten his waiver
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and yet done either. So it's like he wasn't gonna go. There's not
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that big of an impact, like it is what it is. But of
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course Huskers Husker football has to make the news nationally because of something like us.
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And like I said, the video was not not a good look,
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like not a good look at all. What do you mean throwing brickstead of
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building isn't isn't a good look? And the videos and at least he looks
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like he's trying to throw a football. Austin, are you alive or are
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you having technical difficulties? He is having technical difficulties. That's definitely what's going
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on. He's watching, he's watching the video. He's watching it and listening
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but cannot respond. We'll get his thoughts on that maybe later here. We'll
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see next up on the list. The black Shirts came out pretty much as
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we were having our podcast on Sunday and listed all of our starters that were
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on the Depth charts on No surprises there except for Nick Henrich was missing from
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the Black Shirts, which implies potentially that he may be injured and we don't
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really know the extent of that. That would suck for him if he was
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he tore his AC elegance perdue last year and has had a lot of recovery
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and hopefully being able to play, but may not be playing DAK. I
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know that means very little to you. So what's your what's your thoughts on?
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Nick Hendrich, Well, so we're doue what was that week? Week
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seven? Probably last year? They play right in the middle, so yeah,
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that'd be about nineteen month recovery. So he's got to be right on
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the edge of being able to play, and if he's if he's not ready
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to go, why play him right now? Right? And he was listed
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on the depth chart initially, so maybe it was something a little bit more
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serious or a tweak. He did have some tweeks earlier in the year.
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But that's really the big news out of the black Shirts. When when role
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was asked how many, he said, you know, it's a thing for
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our starters, And when he thinks of black Shirts, it's you know,
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about the toughness and the way you play. And I think some coaches have
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gone about that and handed out a lot at random times throughout the year,
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but it is a tradition that he's continuing and handing him out to the guys
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that are going to start that week, Austin noting he's back, by the
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way, he's made it back, and he's not chopping in and out yet.
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I don't even I don't even know my internet speeds. As I get
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one hundred eighty megabytes per second, I think it's bullshit. That's fine.
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So two things, Nick can rich. Maybe hurt didn't get a black shirt
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for this week, that's what the guess is. And then got to get
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your thoughts on the old Gilbert. The Gilbert. If there was a unit
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for us to lose a guy because he was being an absolute idiot, tight
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end was probably the one room that we could take that blow as well as
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man, how one you come from Georgia, Well, because he's from Louisiana,
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he's from Florida. I don't know he's from the south. Went tells
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you went to Georgia, comes here. I don't even I believe he was
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at Florida at some point too. Okay, you're ready he started up,
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Well he might be. He's at his fourth stop. That's all we go.
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I don't know when he hit Florida, but he hit at some point.
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How dumb can you be? Serious, Like it just explains why he
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hasn't played like no matter what he's done, like he clearly is not a
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very intelligent dude. No decision you make like you throw a cement through a
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window, Like what the dumbest thing to burgle too? I mean, you're
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no, you can get so much stuff for free, like whatever. Black
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shirts. I don't think anyone was really surprising Nick Hendricks, not get anyone
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was surprising, but it's mostly the starters. I don't think there's all but
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him. That's why we think he maybe hurt. Okay, I don't know
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if that's when he plans that if you start a game and get a black
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shirt, and then maybe he didn't. You can mentioned that in his press
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conference, like it's gonna be our guys at start. He's gonna change from
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week to week. He he said, they didn't want to make it anything
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more than it's the way we play. We fly around with our heads cut
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off, we can play hard. That's that's what the black shirt meaning is.
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So but that was neat that those got handed out and a lot of
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those guys are on the special team unitude. Yeah, I didn't think there's
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anything, you know, I I don't know if the black shirts on these
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things. I'm not really sure what the standard is we need to hold people
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to get black shirts, because I feel we've given a lot of black shirts
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to people who shouldn't have had black shirts in the past. So I don't
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really know what that standard is outside of you start on defense, which I'm
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fine with if that's what we want to do. Right. One more,
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one more thing on you're tight end? I was scouting him on that d
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on that video. He looked pretty small. He looked like a tight end.
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So maybe that's a win. Maybe that's a win, or although what
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does that say about our starting tight ends? He couldn't He couldn't kick down
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a door. So once you're gonna run down defensive linemen, how many doors
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have you kicked down in your life? Zero? You have to think about
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it, though. I'm actually surprised by that. Yeah, I don't.
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No, I never have making a mission this football season. You should get
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a door kicked down. I could run days and brick walls. Did you
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know? H One other thing with Dick Henrich that I think it's worth noting,
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And this is with all injuries. New rule in the Big Ten this
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year two hours before kickoff. The official I don't know call it an injury
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list, but were like the players that are not reported to play have to
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be reported two hours before, so pretty much like the NFL does it,
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where you're gonna see guys that are either in or out for the game,
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which I I actually don't know, Like what the purpose behind this is that
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there's a reason. The one fun one that I thought that actually the more
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that I thought about it and hear people talk about it, it makes sense
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is for gambling purposes, like like I want to know who's playing, So
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I'm like, that actually makes sense. I agree, that's definitely what it
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is, especially with all these colleges getting more involved players and stuff like that
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too. Like it's like I was just talking to someone the other day and
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who just graduated college, and they said, yeah, like betting, what's
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happening constantly, and if you knew somebody on a different team like you were,
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especially during COVID, like you were getting the inside trader news like illegally
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technically and and then being able to go bet on it. So it's it's
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happening at more places probably than its being reported. And I'm guessing there's probably
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a big reason why they're implementing it. That makes sense. Well that was
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that brings up another thing we didn't mention was this will be the game with
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the new first down clock rule. I hate it. I don't know if
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I hate it. Did you notice it watching games this weekend? Yeah?
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I did, I noticed, did it? I think it's sped it up
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a lot more. And the reason why I hate it is because I think
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it'll I think it will kill exciting finishes more. I think it gave teams
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a better chance to come back. I agreed it prolonged that last few minutes
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of the game that we're fun to watch. Oh you're saying, you're saying
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over the course of the game, it gives teams that get behind big more
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time to come back. So what you're saying, Dak, I think I
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think it's I think it will kind of kill the some exciting finishes. But
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then again, if you're not getting enough to come back right come back,
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you're loving by Yeah. I don't know. I just struggle with why are
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we still trying to shorten something that we want to have on longer. No
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one was complaining about it. I know we talked about this with podcast last
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time. No, I no one was like, man, those college football
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games are too long. That just is what confuses me. People say about
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baseball, which makes sense, but I did not ever hear about football.
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And it's only gonna shave I mean they'll shave off like what twenty minutes.
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Probably no, I guess, I guess it shaved off no time because they
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added more commercials. That's it shaved off three minutes this week on average.
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I've read there we go. So it's all about the money or money the
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advertisements. That's oh man, that is why would you say that, Dak?
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That is the most factual statistic. Dak Is brought on this podcast too.
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He was ready for it too. He just saying it's rabam, don't
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do I don't have written down or anything. Just right here in the old
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nag, the old dome. H. Well, since Dack, you're rolling,
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we got we're gonna go right into your picks here and just just see
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if you're ready for your picks. So I'll give you a little bit of
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time to prep But as a reminder, once this sound goes off, dak
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is gonna be on the clock for sixty seconds and then we will dive in
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here to the week one games. So Dak are you ready? I'm ready,
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and give us a little explanation for what you're picking and why, like
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I just want to know at the top. I know it might shorten the
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number of picks, but if you don't say the word and like oh crap,
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Im Peters die, maybe you can get a few more in. Okay,
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I'm ready this time. All right, three, two, one?
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Go all right? First one, let's go oh you minus thirty six because
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they're just gonna blow the door is off Norman Arkansas all right, and then
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we'll go Harder TCU over. I think I think it's me a lot of
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points in that game. Carn doesn't play liquid defense TIEF he doesn't either,
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so they'll go over. We'll go Nebraska Minnesota over. Like I said last
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week, I think Nebraskan scores the point the second half. Minnesota is gonna
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beat him down the second half, so they'll go over. Let's go Florida
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plus six and a half. But if Kim Rising doesn't play that six and
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a half, if he does play, you taught to take them by six
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and a half, I pretty might not play all right, So let's go
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Texas Tech and minors fourteen. Buy that down at that fourteen and a half.
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Right now, they're gonna kill. I think they play Wyoming. I'm
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not unresenture, all right, but they're gonna kill. Let's go the Duke
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plus thirteen. Clemson sucks that. That's one the thing about that one?
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Fine, all right, this was pretty good picks. This was a pretty
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spicy I missed my favorite pick. God dang it, we'll let you throw
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it in here. What is it? Bores State money line? Okay,
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they're gonna beat els you. I wondered if you would put your most important
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at the top so you could get them in, but clearly you didn't.
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But you start with Ou and Nebraska, so I'm like, maybe he was
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doing it. I didn't know the most important myst born is at the top.
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You just said I didn't get my most important. No, okay,
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second was important. I will say I was thinking that when you talked about
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when we're talking about the time it's gonna shorten the game, I probably would
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have changed my score for Nebraska episode. I don't know what do you think
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that's gonna be? The impact on lines? Do you think there's gonna be
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less overs. Do you think the lines are gonna be set? What I've
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heard, there's a The stat that I heard was it's so far impacting the
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game by five percent. The totals. Okay, but there's not much sample
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sizer yet. Obviously totals weren't that high this week. They weren't. Nope,
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I thought Cargo TC you would be really high and it was like fifty
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nine. I think I thought it was gonna be high, like sixty seven,
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sixty eight. Well, that means Colorado has to score. No one
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knows what Colorado is gonna be able to do offensively, little one defensively.
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Oh, I think they're gonna score. Okay, we gotta get back into
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Dack's picks here. Talk about week one. So vacument four in four.
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Last week you texted us or in one of the groups that were and you
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said, I don't think I got a single pick for right after your last
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week, and you hit four for four, don't let me get hot and
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four and one of those was the Miami or Hawaii money wine that actually almost
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hit. Uh, So, props to you for a decent first week.
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And then, honest, I would say week two, I didn't hate most
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of your picks outside of Florida State over LSU that's probably the one. And
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the Duke of Clempson. That one's kind of a hot, that's spicy one.
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Let's go through them. Let's start. Let's see her Dak. What
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do you have at the top? You had it Oklahoma, Okay, don't
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care. Let yeah, Nebraska. Then you had Colorado TCU, which just
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kind of talked about, Yes, that's a big game. Yep, so
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a big game Colorado TCU or one of the bigger headliners. Fox News?
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What do we think? Do we think Colorado's got any chance? I think
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they do. I don't think so, I don't. I think TCU is
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in a bad spot, but I can't imagine Colorado's in a much better spot.
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That's just me thinking Sador is really good. But what does he have
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with it? That's the question that nobody really knows. Travis Hunter, that's
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it. That's all you know. I don't know. I heard someone I
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can't remember who it was that took Colorado money line or wants to take Colorado
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money line. It was somebody that like does a lot of research on college
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football and more than you wouldn't that, so I don't know. I thought
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that was interesting. I don't think many people know much about Colorado, similar
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to how I mean, people don't know what we're going to be right us,
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Like, we don't know, and you took the over in our game.
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I will say, I feel like our game could be a very short
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game because both teams, I feel like, are going to run the ball
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a lot like it could be a two and a half hour game. Yeah,
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the cock's not stopping and we're running the ball. I agree. And
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if one team gets gets a lead, I guess they could just want to
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run down the clock. Yeah. Well, I don't think there's gonna be
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any like. I can't imagine there's gonna be too much rushing at the line.
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I think it's gonna it's gonna be a little slower pace just because there's
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gonna be a lot more communication during huddles offensively for us. I guess I
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don't know for sure. We're huddling. I love it we're actually huddling this
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year too. I like I like that. Oh that reminded me we're talking
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about teams getting up, so rule had a very I thought it was a
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very interesting comment. When he was asked about the importance of getting off to
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a hot start this week against Minnesota, and his comment was, I could
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care less about the beginning of the game. If they go back and return
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the kickoff and score a touchdown, I don't care. It matters what you're
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doing at the end and the third and the fourth quarter, down the stretch,
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breaking the game up into chunks, the five minute, last quarter,
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last five minutes is a whole new game, because that's what teams are made
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of, is the end. You win the ball, you win the game
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in the fourth quarter. So I thought that was I liked a lot of
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that, because, yeah, regardless of what happens, like whether you're down
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seventeen, you're up seventeen, the game's tied, you're getting absolutely blown out
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or blowing somebody out, all it does matter what you do because that's what
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ultimately determines the outcome of the game. But you also can't look past the
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beginning of the game, like I hope we don't give an opening kickoff touch
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That would not be good. So you're leaving if they do. Maybe not,
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I don't know. I thought that was very interesting way of looking at
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it, because clearly we have not done a good job at that area of
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the game, starting with our on side kick that we did with about six
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minutes to go on the third in Week zero last year, Like from that
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point on and a lot of our games in the last era, it's been
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about the worst than anybody's ever seen in the history of college football. Like,
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I don't think that. I mean, that's pretty debatable. So anyways,
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I had to throw that out there when we talked about the hot start,
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because I thought that was an interesting I wouldn't say I love the answer,
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because I do think really doesn't matter. You don't want to come out
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on lay a freaking egg and just be I mean, yeah, it does
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matter. And I think to his point too, he's saying and not saying
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that it will happen. But if we are down big, like if we
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just fold, which I think we saw a lot of in other previous years,
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that's more telling than being. It's telling you. It's telling. So
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how you respond to however the first two and a half quarters goes matters.
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Well, have you noticed the halftime adjustment Husker game in six years? No?
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No? Yeah, I don't think they've ever adjusted since. The only
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one I can think of is COVID game year one, and maybe this wasn't
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even half time. Maybe this was the openly gay I think it was second
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half. We came out and went triple option, like used a fullback all
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the way down the field with Adrian and like went down and scored and I'm
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like, oh my god, this is amazing against like number three Ohio State.
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And then we never ran it the rest of the year. But I
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thought, man, we just learned something, and then we never did it
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again. I feel like I had that feeling a lot though. It's like
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wow, and then no, it just never came to fruition. I'm pretty
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sure that was to start the second half. It was most exciting to know
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what game you we're talking about. I can't remember exactly. On the road,
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no fans like we the first half we played well and we were down
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fourteen a half, and then it came out, scored and started a second
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half, and then I think the game ended like forty eight to twenty four
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or something. We still got killed. Okay, Dak, what else do
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you have on your list? Here? Towards the end, Florida had four
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to plus six if Rising doesn't play, so you're making a contingent pick.
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Yes, because because I read the Dame, there's a good shot he doesn't
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play all right, but you have to take one side or the other.
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The line's gonna move that he's playing or not. All right, Let's do
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Utah and nine to six screw he's gonna play. Yeah. I like that
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because I also I'm big on I even think even if he doesn't play,
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Utah still at home. I do like Billy Napier, but I think Utah
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at home is a big advantage there. And I think the both teams are
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very simple, have similar talent. So I like that. It isn't Graham
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Mertzer quarterback Florida. Yep, yep. Utah's gonna win that, and I
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why don't even think Florida he's terrible? And then we'll go I had a
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couple other ones, but let's go do plus thirteen and then Florida State money
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line for the last two. So who's Duke playing Clemson? Okay, at
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dude on Monday night. I don't know much about that game. I'm rocking,
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and I love I love the Florida State pick. I will say that
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Austin does not he's favored I think by two or something like that. I
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hope so the ranked preseason number five and the other in Florida State's preseason number
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eight. They aren't favored in week one of a preseason ranking. It's pretty
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shitty ranking. If you ask me, well, Brian Kelly can take that
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big something drawn he's gonna lose. Oh boy, you got nothing on the
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Battle of the Miamis. Uh yeah, I don't think I got his real
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Miami's in Ohio. It is great. I didn't want to touch app I've
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heard that because I didn't know it's only fourteen. I didn't want to touch
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it. You didn't want to touch either of the other two Big Ten matchups
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this week. Rutgers northwesterns come on, it's gonna be so good. And
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I five out House State under because I don't know if Indians gonna score eleven
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AM on Sunday. Guys Northwestern named Rutgers, like I will not be watching.
29:45
Let's everybody's skip church to watch that, okid? I mean it's CBS
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two like it's not. It is front and center. I love it.
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Cats first of the world man. Speaking of the Cats. Okay State,
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I believe we play Southeast Missouri State can you give me their mascot, Hunter,
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I actually cannot. I know they're red, that's all I know.
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So I'll go Cardinals. That's my own red Hawks, the Big South.
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Very nice. All right, one last thing here. We gave our keys
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already for the Husker Minnesota game, so I want to end it on a
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little bit of game talk. I heard something on a different podcast I was
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listening to getting hyped up for the game. Yeah, it's that time of
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the year where we just turn on the podcast and listen to everything. Did
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you know a fun Did you know Minnesota hired a code defense coordinator this year
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from Syracuse and coached underneath Tony White and was Tony White's secondary coach and Nick
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Monroe, and he is now their co DC with Joe Rossi. All of
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PJ flex comments about him being scared of the three three five and all the
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it's all complete bullshit because they played against at the end of their year last
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year. They hired freaking his right hand man as his co DC. They're
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ready for it, they know what's coming. I think that was a total
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just why and trying to make Husker fans get all amped up and ruin our
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hopes again. Wow. I didn't I hear that, like, wow,
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that is terrible. I mean, I wasn't. I wouldn't say I took
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that word for like too much, and I wasn't like, oh, man,
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PJ Flex, row the boat, Row the boat. If you just
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changed his shirt to row the boat, Dad, you just changed the hat.
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But why did you not start wearing the podcast with that? Having lost
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Hunter? Yep? Hunter's out me, Well, crap, I'm pretty sure
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you saw the shirt. He's like, I'm logging off part of this.
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You think I'm my back now? Yes, you're back. Okay. My
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question was, Dak, why did you not start the podcast with that shirt
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on? You haven't? Why did you change it for six minutes left?
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I completely forgot about it. That was what I figured. I was anticipating
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you wearing at the start, and I wasn't gonna say a word when you
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didn't have it on, And then Austin even made a comment on your shirt
32:55
at the beginning of the pod and you still didn't remember it. Honestly,
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honestly, it's because I was so nervous about having the picks right this time,
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because last time I blew it. Well, you did better this week.
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I'm serious, you know. But yeah, that DC stuff with Tony
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White, that's kind of a bummer to hear. You never want to hear
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the right hand guy is coaching co defensive coordinator for the first team you're playing.
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No, do we want to change our score predictions here, guys,
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I think we have some new news and Austin you mentioned earlier out some thoughts
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on the clock. So let's give our final we can change, but let's
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give our final score predictions for the scoreboard for the standings. We'll be keeping
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track throughout the year. Gosh o good. So I think originally has twenty
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seven twenty. I think I'm gonna drop it to twenty we're sixteen, dak
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I I'm gonna keep it at thirty eight twenty four. I'm pretty confident in
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that one. Dack says, I don't care about the overs. We're going
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away over yep. And hey, do you see that rule said they're not
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gonna fair catch I mean kickoffs this year. Yeah, doesn't believe in it.
34:25
He said the games the game was made to be played or something like
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that. Some comedies like I don't I don't believe in fair catching kickoffs,
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So I bet starting positions without hearing Yeah, I would rather take it from
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twenty five every time. Yep, I agree, I'm going okay. Speaking
34:47
of special teams, the other thing that scares me, Tristan Albano is starting
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at kicker, the Omha West Side native, true freshman. He was very
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shaky when it came to explaining how he's done in camp and said, basically
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he wasn't negative with it, but it's kind of the most negative thing I've
35:09
heard of. Will say was he he's had his ups and downs, and
35:14
everybody's gonna have their ups and downs. But if the game comes down to
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it, Tristan Albono is going to kick our game. When he kicked,
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I'm like, lovely like there does not sound like there's a whole lot of
35:25
confidence there, so that also is scary. I'm not sure what we have
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for our kicker. I know we have Timmy Bleaker from last year too.
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I'm actually upping this is scary. As we're getting closer to game, I'm
35:39
upping my Minnesota hype. I guess I think I had twenty four thirteen last
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time. I'm gonna go thirty one thirteen Minnesota. I'm a little scared I
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don't know. I'm getting more scared and closer he get. I know I'm
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to my score, but I have already like I should have given Medicota more
36:02
points. I saw a game winning twenty seven yard field goal missing that stadium,
36:07
so good luck. The other thing I found out was back your boy
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Ak forty seven, who you haven't even mentioned this podcast. He also has
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a very strong arm, and the Greek rifle is his nickname. We were
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right on that. I just remember him as a runner, and so in
36:30
my mind, I'm like, oh, this guy sucks it throwing, like
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he's just gonna be running the ball at one dimensional. And then all I've
36:37
been hearing this week is that actually his strength is passing and he can also
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run. I'm like, god, damn it, Like there's something else I
36:45
didn't even like consider. So that also is factoring into my score change too.
36:50
It's kind of weird. I got excited that maybe we can keep it
36:52
close, and then now I'm back to let's let's survive. Let's just say
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and they have a hell of a tide in they do. Thanks for reminding
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us. He didn't rob any vape shops by any chance, yesterday or today.
37:09
There's still time. The flex bank would probably get him out of it,
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though, you know, row the boat, row the boat, row
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the boat for dak. We we'll be back on Sunday, I guess we.
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Maybe maybe we'll go earlier. We'll see, but probably Sunday, do
37:31
our recap. If we win, we might be back Friday. You never
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know, who knows. Oh all right, I'll be sure to cheer louder
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than all those Gopher fans up an out, you wearing my red go be
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great, v are Boomer sooner. I love that