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Episode 5.9: Containing AK47 -- Minnesota Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Hmmmm, Turn of Glory podcast Game Week is here, Hunters Zarberdick, the
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code of Free Day Austin Rose. We finally got technology to work with dacks
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two thousand and twelve computer that he still has seventeen seventeen, and his phone
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is still gonna be buzzing during the pod thanks to his notifications. So you're
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welcome. Twenty seventeen is not even that old. I don't understan. How
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did you make it through the pandemic without zoom? What did you do?
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Uh? Did not use didn't use zoom at all? How is it even
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possible? Oh? Wait, yeah, I did for classes. It barely
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worked. It was terrible. And how'd you do in those classes? Dack?
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Yep, you put it on the background and do something else. Huh
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sounds about right. Shout out boyd. Gotta get a shout to Victor Bob
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Wind winning the tour championship, Dak. What would you do with that much
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money? Oh? I went, I would not remember this night at all,
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that's for sure. I'm not surprised by that. Eighteen million dollars and
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he's our age, he's twenty five five eighteen million dollars. I'd go buy
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a house, a big house. Nice, maybe the actual Big House in
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Michigan. He take, he just buys out, Jim Rbot is there.
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I'm there's naming rights to it, right? Is there a name to the
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field? There's it just called the Big House. I guess I'm pretty sure
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rights to it nowhere else Damon doesn't have naming rights. No idea, Austin,
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what would you do with eighteen million? First thing, I've always wanted
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to go to a bar and say this one's on me and never won cheer
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from you, because like they'll all but put drinks on my tab. That
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would definitely be it. And then I'd probably build a pretty dope curling facility
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in Omaha. I like Dak. Dak does that pretty much every other weekend.
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So well, I'm gonna tat you with Dak. You could you could
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hit a hold on one then drinks them beyond you. I could. You're
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right? If I was a good at golfing, it could be a potential.
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Oh boy, all right, Minnesota game week. We're gonna do our
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Minnesota preview today because of the Thursday game here. So normally on a Saturday
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game we do the preview on Wednesday and then recap on Sunday. We don't
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have a recap to do, so we're going to preview now the PJ.
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Fleck Golden gopherst goes and you're going to this game. I will be heading
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up Wednesday night, Dack. Are we rolling the boat this week? We're
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rolling a can treat my people? Nice? Up there? People? Goodness?
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So quick to jump from the Longhorns to the Golden Gophers. I've been
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run the boat for a couple of years. I called in after what's that
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postgame radio show? The ticket? Yeahd wrap up? I called into it
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after they lost minutes onta one time. I started an argument? What you
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start? I said? I said, are you guys sure that Logan's mother
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is in better than Adrian? And one one was on Adrian's side when one
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was on s mothers and it was a big fight after the Gopher game.
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H Wow, you're so good. That's why we brought him in. You
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know, the talent really showed. The scouts saw the clips, they heard
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the audio set your profile to us. So now who's better eight than colleague
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Manus or Tanner Morgan? Hey k, hey K, you're on a you're
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on a nickname basis with the quarterback. Now I'm gonna try his last name,
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you can at least please, and you're like, nah a k k
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ak a the Greek Rocket Is that his nickname? I heard someone call him
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that? Or the Greek rifle? Sorry, the Greek rifle? What how
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Greek is he? I don't know his last name to gree because that's all
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we know. He was born in Anatoka, Illinois. So anyways, all
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right, all right? First, DJ Flack head coach, seventh year.
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I think if you're a Minnesota fan, one of the longest ten year Big
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Ten coaches, I think you're happy with the result. Team won eleven games
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in twenty nineteen. They've won nine games the past two years. Last year
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they went to nine and four and they won in I can't remember what bowl
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game, but they did win their bowl game. Pin Stripe who they beat?
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Dad Syracuse Syracuse with with Ak forty seven r DC coordinator. Interesting Interesting
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there. PJ. Fleck has established the culture at Minnesota and did that early
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on. I think the fun hype has worn off a little bit, but
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it obviously like people, it comes across very quirky like. People don't like
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him because of it. Great, fine, I don't care whatever, Like
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do do the kids? And does Minnesota latch on it? Like that's what's
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important with all that stuff, because all people are gonna hate, people are
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gonna think he's whatever. But are they still winning games? And the answer
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that's they're not. They're not a powerhouse, but they're still winning games.
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They have they have a solid program and they're established. Yeah, they're good
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for they're kind of you know, it's kind of like Iowa. They're good
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for eight nine wins a year. I feel pretty comfortable saying that. And
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how ten years ago they were one of the worst programs in nation, probably
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ten fifteen years ago. They've been for last ten because PJ. Flack came
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over from Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Western Western, that's right. And
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when we get into the lineup players here, not that this is anything to
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do with him going there, but the transfer portal, they love pulling from
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Western Michigan. They really they have several players coming over from the Broncos,
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starting running back coming over from there, and the receiver, a couple of
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safeties. Like they love pulling from those smaller schools in Michigan, Dak You
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have to explain this to me because I remember this when I was starting to
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like look at stuff on Minnesota and then I forgot because it like went away.
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What was all of the crap that was that, like all the controversial
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like around around Minnesota and PJ flat does it happened? It's like a month
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ago that all this stuff came out and then like all of a sudden,
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it's gone. Basically, keep you so see you when out of in community
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service, you could he'd give you like fake money and you could buy yourself
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out of drug gask set yes, and that I was like the main thing,
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if you perform well, it bought you favors to avoid. Yeah,
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it was the drug testing was probably the big one. But it also was
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like you don't have to run. You don't have to because you did this.
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The awarded points based off of activities. Basically it was how it came
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down to. So what's what happened? Like, is it still an investigation?
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I just think there are a bunch of p words. I don't think.
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I don't think there's ever an official investigation. I think it was just
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a couple of anonymous former athletes came out and said that they thought there's the
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culture was toxic, and I don't remember an NCAA investigation into it. I
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could really think they're investigating him. Okay, no punishment, Like I don't.
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All I remember hearing was that he was making people run and practice and
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people like that was the whole like really going to make a big deal about
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this now in today's society that we're punishing players and before yeah, but by
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making him run. But like the big one was definitely the avoiding drug test.
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Okay, oh there is there was one other thing that he probably get
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to spend in a game for this if he when he walks in the room
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for a meeting, they have to clap and it was not loud enough to
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walk back out and walk back in until he likes the clapping sound. That's
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where Dak draws the line, that's that's just insane. You can you can
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piss, you can piss dirty all you want, but don't do that.
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So here's a statement regarding it. It was a form of Minnesota football player
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described coach Flex program as a cult legend. The program's culture is fraught with
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intimidation toxicity. The allegations include a system device by Flex called the Flex Bank,
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which players could rack up good will to circumvent the repercussions of bailed drug
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tests or other violations. Okay, so it was like like the cult word.
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I remember hearing and seeing that, which, yeah, I mean,
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if I had to describe what the row the boat thing, it's it's cult
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ships. It's very like the way he acts too. He's like a cult
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leader of young men. Like that's what he's doing. But held things go
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right, I agree. So anyways, I just wanted to clear that out
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because I kind of forgot about it and we don't hear about it anymore.
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So, okay, transfer portal and we're gonna get into the players here from
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Minnesota. They I think won the portal. Don't know a lot of these
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guys. They did bring in a lot of secondary players. They brought in
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two wide receivers, running back Sean Tyler from Western Michigan, DA. Do
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we know anything out Dat's like the Minnesota expert right now, And if he's
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an expert or anything, it's anything to do with Minnesota football. So what
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else do we know about the portal from Minnesota? Well, they got that
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that running back I think five six, one hundred and eighty pounds something like
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that, so it will see even take a hittie my breaking two first naps,
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so we'll see. They lose mo Ibraheim, who was a leading rusher
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I believe, career leading rusher for Minnesota, so that'll be a big loss
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for sure. On the offensive side of the ball, they had a new
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offensive coordinator Greg It looks like Harbaugh spelled like harbab but has pronounced harbou.
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Oh. Greg Harbou is the new OC. They last year were sixteenth in
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the nation and rushing one hundred fourteenth, passing sixty fourth overall. That tells
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you what what they wanted to do last year. I'm not thinking it'll be
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anything different this year. I think you're this has been for a long time,
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not just last year. Well, Tanner Morgan sucks. Is that that's
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you're right. If you have a guy for five years at quarterback, it
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probably impacts what you do as a as a school. You're not gonna be
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slinging the ball around. Yeah, it's not like he was throwing the bad
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people. Their wide receiver room was usually pretty stacked. Yeah, I mean
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Bateman and who was the other guy that Tyler Johnson yep and Chris Ottman Bell
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was out last year, but he's back this year and playing again, so
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that's lovely. Corey Crumbs, Elijah Spencer, a couple of transfer guys coming
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in that have i mean significant numbers from the schools they came from in the
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portal and then Daniel Jackson and then their tight end Brevin span Ford, another
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guy that's gonna get a lot of targets. Here's the question mark that hopefully
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we can take advantage of the only return two offensive linemen from last year's starting
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five now and they're offensive monster life. It's always huge. It's been huge
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for a long time. The goodness that that's a positive. But the scary
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thing is they have they're known for their large offensive lines, and they are
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an established program in their seventh year under Flack, Like, they're probably just
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gonna reload, and I mean, you look at it who it is.
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So they're projected. But so it's red shirt junior, red shirt teen,
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your red shirt senior, red shirt senior, and red shirt junior is their
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projective started offensive line. So I mean they're gonna be big guys. They've
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been in the program for four to five years. They're not just you know,
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freshmen coming in that they're gonna get pushed around for I mean that's their
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projective starting lineup, immittedly, so I don't know, it might be a
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little different, but they're they're good. I don't know if they can run
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the ballot videot last year though, because that rain back come in is not
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a bell call. Like he's super small. So Sean Tyler last year rush
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for two two to nine carries at Western Michigan University for a thousand and twenty
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seven yards, so basically five yards of carry, seven touchdowns. He seems
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like he's Yeah, he's a smaller back. There's also a redshirt freshman,
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Zach Evans, that they're supposedly excited about too, So I would guess that
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we're going to see a combination of both of them. I think they're gonna
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run Callick Mannus a lot too. He I know he came in last year
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I believe against us, and maybe that was been two years ago, I
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don't remember, but he, I mean, he can run. He's he's
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a dual threat guy, and it caused us problem because I remember he had
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a long breakaway run against us that we're like, oh shit, so they're
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gonna use him I think a lot in the run game as well. I
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just don't see them drastically flipping script here because they lost Tanner Morgan slash MOI
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bream like, they're probably gonna stick to what they know how to do.
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That now gets into our three three, five and how that's going to counter
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that. And we've talked a lot about how we really don't know what that's
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gonna look like and how that's going to fare in the Big ten. But
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you're gonna get it. You're gonna get it from game one right away to
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know if if it can handle a team that's going to be very run heavy.
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That's the scary part, is ken Art front seven eight. However,
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men you have in the box, can we hold our own? I think
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it's Minnesota and that's where it could get really scary if we can't early on.
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Yeah, I mean klick himnis. He started four games five games for
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them, four games last year and they went three and one, with their
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one lost being to Iowa by three points. Granted it was thirteen to ten.
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P J. Blacks never beat Kirk Ferren's by the way, Does that
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to point that out? Really? In fact? Yeah, Okay, he
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didn't bring that it out, but he did throw four interceptions. You only
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threw three touchdowns four interceptions starting four games. Looking at the Syracuse game,
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you know you're talking about the defensive matchup against Minnesota. They Syracuse lost.
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So the Syracuse, like we said, our DC was the DC for Syracuse.
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So it's kind of a good good comparison. Syracuse lost twenty to twenty
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eight, and they gave up seventy seven rushing yards. Minnesota only had seventy
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seven rushing yards against Syracuse and one hundred and thirty eight passing yards. How
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they lost twenty eight to twenty Looking at those numbers, I have no freaking
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idea I had had like special teams turnovers. I don't know there was one
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turnover, one interception there. They had two hundred fifteen total offensive yards and
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they Syracuse lost. Good, you're getting me getting me excited. Now the
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three three five can do it so. And I don't know if you heard.
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PJ. Fleck was talking in a conference or a pressor and he was
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talking about the past and what the three three five, and he said,
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I hate playing the three three five. It's it's tough. Soda. Da
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Dak does not like the three three five. Did you see did you see
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the comments that Fleck made on Nebraska? Austin, you read him, Dak,
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you read them? I did not. They They were very positive,
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like talking very highly of coach Rule, and it seems like Rule and Fleck
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like know each other fairly well and they get along. I don't think Fleck
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and frosted at all. I think they hate each other's guts, so I
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think they have a mutual respect there. But a lot of Flex comments were
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like Nebraska is big upfront, like they got some dudes three three five,
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scary, you don't know what to expect. And to me, it all
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not that it's not fake, but I was like, is he watching film
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and just saying like we're like a lot better than them, So I gotta
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really like And we were competitive last year, I mean we were more competitive,
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pretty low. He had one really big run if I remember correctly,
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but he didn't do a bunch of damage against US. We lost by one
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score. It wasn't like they came and steamrolled us. T know what happened
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too, I think I think you're right. Yeah, And then Fuimus came
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in and we just did not adjust, which is not anything new. For
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us. Gosh, I'm still trying to figure out how pre consious he has
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lost this Minnesota game. I'm sorry, guys, I don't understand that that
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gout. It's very intriguing though, that when you prep for a game,
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right the last game that they prepped for was that Bowl game against Syracuse,
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going against a three three five that the Big Ten doesn't usually see, so
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it was probably newrapping for it. It's now funny that that same defense and
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coach is now what they're going against in week one for the next year.
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Dak, every time I say three three five, you just shake your head.
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No, I hate it. Every single time. You're just like he's
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gonna He's gonna come in on Sunday and say I told you guys it sucks.
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Yeah, Hey, fair warning already for next Sunday, I'm gonna be
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in the ozarks a bachelor party. I might be coming live from a bar.
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I don't know. So yeah, we'll see how that goes. Thanks
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for letting the people know. Just whenever happens on that podcast, just forget
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about it. Defensively, here, Minnesota brings back six on defense from their
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starting eleven. Defensive coordinator Joe ROSSI listen to these stats. I knew Minnesota's
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defense was good. I didn't realize this good. They're had the fourth best
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scoring defense nation, fifteenth best rush defense, and fifteenth best pass defense in
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the nation. Now keep in mind, you do play Iowa, you play
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your Here's their schedule last year, New Mexico State, Western Illinois, Colorado,
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Michigan State, Perdue, Illinois, Penn State, Rutgers, Nebraska,
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Northwestern Iowa, Wisconsin. Now that not the most challenging schedule. You can
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argue that, but at the same time, you can't control who's on your
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schedule. And I agree. I agree they'll did well. So that defense
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that could be scary with our offense not knowing what we are going to be
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doing. Like their defense is going to be good. It's strong. They
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bring back a lot of experience, and the places that they lost in the
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secondary they filled with transfer portal guys. There's a reason I think the over
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under for the games. I think it's at forty three right now, Like
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it's not very high at all, and it feels like, oh, we
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should be able to score more. But I mean, there's a chance that
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we don't score very many points. If for our offensive line sucks, which
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we think it probably could again. I think I'll go for a day.
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Well, I last year, a K forty seven played a lot of the
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games and defense had to carry him forty seven. It's not a K.
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After he asked if there was at earlier on I don't know why I've a
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T wrote down here. I don't. I don't know what I was looking
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at. But anyway, the defense had to carry him a lot last year.
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And that's true. They didn't play that tough of offense like last year
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inst Nebraska. I think Smothers started the game for you guys, so it
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wasn't It's not like they were playing offense. Their offense didn't have like Ibraheim
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could just eat up the clock. I mean he was getting one hundred and
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fifty yards a game like there. They didn't. Their offense didn't have to
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do anything. Their defense is good enough to hold them in games, and
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the offense was good enough to keep the defense off the field. Like that's
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all they need. That's all you have to do. I mean, classic
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Big ten West football to a T like that, that's their m With what
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PJ Flex trying to do. Let's run through the depth chart. So here's
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the depth chart came out. I don't know what this was Tuesday, Monday,
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So left tack Sartin, left tackle, Turner Corcoran, look guard Ethan
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Piper, center, Ben Scott, newly newly right guard, Bryce Benhart,
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right tackle named Barkshire. I'm sorry say so starting with the line, that's
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who we expected. The only big surprise I think from that is that,
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yeah he is on there, that the stream like Jack like he's coming back
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from injury. I don't think it that was super unexpected, but there was
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a potential that he might have been at I don't know where he would have
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been, left tackle, right tackle, ben Hart moved to left. I
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don't know he does like that. That that's the guy rules been gassing up
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though. He's like, this guy's an player the offensive line. Like how
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weird is it that? Like all these guys have experience, like a lot
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of experience. That should be a positive thing, but the problem is they're
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all not very bad for the last three years. They're all still here,
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like Ben Scott bringing him and I think it's going to help, and I
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guess Neil not playing yet, but these other guys in like God, him
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and Ethan Piper's back again, like, good god, we have to deal
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with that again. Ben Hart's back like it's not good, like it's scary,
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which is because the offensive lineman kind of been like the highlight of like
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they're the I don't want to say highlight, but all of the media,
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like the Husker sports stuff that they put out. It's like Ethan Piper and
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the offensive line always gets interviewed and everyone's like, oh man, this guy's
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an NFL guy and this guy is talented, and yeah, it's just weird.
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So they they sucked last year and they say it screwed. Let's run
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it back instead of going the transfer port. Who we get somebody? I
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mean, we got a couple, We got one guy, we got a
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really good guy. And then Newly being back will help because he was supposed
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to be our starting center last year before he got suspended for performance enhancing drugst
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Me back black Money No in the Fleck Bank. Nate Borkshire listed that one
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for and then Thomas Fidoni. We're gonna see a lot of two tight ends
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stuff. I think. So I think Fidoni will play and I think I
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think Gilbert's gonna play them too. He's not listed because it's too deep.
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But I think, I think hopefully we're gonna see all three of those guys
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in some capacity. Eric Gilbert did not get his waiver waves correct. I
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think he can't play. Yeah, maybe now they're still working on that.
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I think they're still working on it. At the slot, you got Billy
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Kemp wide receiver, Alex Bullock and Isaiah Isaic Garcia Castineta QB. Obviously Jeff
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Sim's no surprise they're running back Gaber. I mean we found that out.
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And then Jane Ryan Bonner as our fullback. I think everyone else, everything
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else seems the offense honestly is what we expected. Probably Mo Washington still coming
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off injuries. Boy, he's not starting over. Alex Bullock would be my
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guess. Yeah, I I'm a little scared that we don't have much talent
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like he's gonna be our best widers. When I say talent, like big
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play guys that we don't like. We talked about that in the offensive Freeby.
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We don't have a Tray Palmer, a wan Dale. Guys like that.
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They can just go make a play on this roster right now. The
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guy, the guy that I think it could be is Jeff Sims with his
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legs. Yeah, that's my only hope. But Billy Kemp, I think
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people want him to be that person, but I don't. I don't.
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I don't think he is. I think he's more of a He's a slot
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possession guy, a sure handed Yeah. So that's what's scary. Looking at
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the offensive depth chart when I was like reviewing, and I'm like, oh,
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boy, like I think Bullocks had a good camp. It sounds like,
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but I mean he's a walk on from and then state walk on.
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I think like Malachai Coleman notably not on the depth chart yep. Wunston,
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Tyler Han and Joshua Fleeks listed as other wide receivers. Well that's good,
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Oh good for it. That's the thing about the wide receivers with bets leaving
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after your ones, your backups aren't you're hurting for backups. Yep. But
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I also I also don't know how much are we gonna throw it? Like
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if Sims can't throw, we're not gonna be thrown it anyways. Like we
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were going to have to rely on the run heavily, I believe. Yeah,
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And like I said, I think our tight ends are gonna be our
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best receivers, and I think Premier Johnson is gonna be a really good receiver.
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Two also listed at three, which is it not even an or?
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Right? Sorry? Not not him, He's listened at two, right,
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Yeah. Andy Grant was listened as three as not even an or. Defensive
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depth chart real quick, Ty Robinson and Blaze Gunnerson li says defensive end.
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Cameron Lenhart and Kay Wallen also there, Nash hut Maker and Roe Kuwan Buckley
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at defensive tackle. Luke Rhymer, John Bullock, Nick Henrich, Javin Wright
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listened at linebacker, cheap Boarders MJ. Sherman, Jamari Butler at jack,
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Quentin Knewsom Tommy Hill made the big return to defense. Cornerback Isaac Gifford and
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Fallen Sanford Phelan I don't know at rover safety, Omar Brown, Kobe Brett's,
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Deshaan Singleton, Corey Collier and Malcolm Hertzog and Dwight Boodle at cornerback.
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I don't nothing surprising I think on the defensive side. Besides, I love
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that we have a position called the jack. Yes, I couldn't tell you
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what the jack does on the three three five. But there's a jack position.
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Well, they trying to remember what they called it at Syracuse. They
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have a special name for at Syracuse. Uh, penalty kicker Tristan Albano,
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Timmy Bleak Bleak Road, a penalty kicker. What yeah is that what I
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said? Yeah? Place kicker, place kicker. Okay, a penalty kick.
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Penalty kicker Tristan Albano an Timmy Bleak Road, both listed as star.
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Who's kicking? Who's kicking our first one? I think so too? Is
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that Omaha kid? Yeah? Yeah, ye? Punter kick off? Older?
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Who we want to see returning kicks? So they have Emmett Johnson and
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Ramier Johnson for kick and Billy Kemper punt return. Put Tommy Hill back there.
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I want to see Tommy Hill. I want to see Tommy Hill ross.
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All right, we better get to our keys here, uh three each,
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And these keys are key's the winning the game, I guess. But
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if winning is not in question, then their keys for us to play.
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Well, we'll leave it at that. This game, I think they're a
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chance we can win this game. And it's not a high one, but
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it's there. So my first key is the element of surprise. What is
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that going to be? And we have guys, if we want to win
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this game, we can't come out and run a basic to tight end up
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the middle. Like we can't do a basic offense. It's not it's not
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going to work. We're not good enough to do that. So there has
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to be something that catches them off guard. I think the option use of
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that somehow. Could could I think just running Jeff Simms eighteen to twenty two
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times? Could I think that could be our wow? Like he can he
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can run defensively, It's obviously has to be the three three five and the
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way we scheme things up against his offense. It has to be again,
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something different that they They're not going to have much to prepare on, but
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something has to work and catch them off guard. That is like my biggest
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key because we don't know a lot. We don't know a lot neither just
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Minnesota. So let's make the most of that wall we can now while nobody
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knows anything and see if we can use that to our advantage. I think
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that's a good point a lot. When do you go next, Dack,
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You go look at what we don't even know what, Dax key is it
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gonna be for Nebraska for Minnesota, right first one, a K forty seven
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versus Sims, who has a better game, I think I think it's more
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dependent on Nebraska. Sims has a better game, they win. Yeah,
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I don't think. I don't think a K forty Salmon has to have a
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great game for Minnesota to win. I agree. I think mine's gonna be
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similar to Dax in the sense of just taking care of the ball. I
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think the turnovers, the way that Minnesota eats up the clock, I expect
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them to run in a lot, and I don't think if we have too
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many turnovers is gonna this is gonna be a close match that we can't give
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them that much extra time because they're gonna eat the clock. So that ties
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to my second one here of discipline, just being disciplined, and that involves
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turnovers and penalties. We can't shoot ourselves in the foot and it might happen
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like a spring game was sloppy, but that's supposed to be. What this
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staff is going to change from last year's or last staff is stop shooting ourselves
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in the foot with stupid turnovers, stupid penalties, Like let's use that here.
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I'm not saying we have to even create turnovers. That'd be nice,
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and I think we need to get there, but let's not hurt ourselves first
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before we help ourselves in that aspect and show a little bit of discipline and
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how we play this good one, all right? For my second one,
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this for both teams, which which on line is going to dominate the other
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defensive line the most. Boy, isn't that the key for every Nebraska game
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in the last three years? Yeah, and usually it's them getting dominated.
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Yes, it is. That's my number three. I'll just say that now,
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battle of the trenches. It it's important. It's important. We'll praise
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it. It's going to be the difference in the game, especially in the
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game of two teams I think are going to want to run the football in
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the Big ten West. I agree. My second one is similar. I
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mean, I think we all think it's gonna be a close game. So
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I think it's containing the big plays, containing the you know, I'm not
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saying containing the run, but just don't give up those sixty yard gashes,
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the twenty yard gashes when it's third down, you know, finishing the finishing
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the job defensively and just keeping it in front of us. Maybe, you
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know, limiting like Sue K forty seven doesn't carve us up on his feet,
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but just limiting the big place, not being disciplined there. It is
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the foul trenches all there. I'm out, Dak, what's your number three?
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This one goes out to you because you're gonna be there. Crowd noise,
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good luck beating Minnesota at home. That place is rocking. It is
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a Thursday night. They actually can get it. They can get loud.
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I'm not always loud, but I can. I'm pumped to see how many
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Nebraska fans are going to be there, because I've heard a lot of people
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going. I think I think it'll be full and they'll be a lot of
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Nebraska fans. But nasmy is go to Colorado, right because I think Minnesota
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is a better fan based than Colorado does. I probably agree with that.
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They're a sleeping giant. They have five national titles. Yeah they do like
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the but that's fine. My last last one comes down to the penalty kicks.
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No the special teams. Though. I think it's like I said,
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I think it's gonna be close. I think we're gonna it's gonna come down
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to field goals. So if we can hit our field goals an extra points,
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that would be pretty swell. I don't like our dances there. All
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of my all my keys of the game are all the things that ailed us
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the last couple of years. Is it supposed to be it's supposed to be
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hotter and held there or eighty eight ninety. I think for kickoff it it'll
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be. I have a factor good tip for sure score predictions. We will
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keep track of our total difference from each of our scores each week. So
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Dad, go first, thirty eight twenty four Minnesota. WHOA, that's a
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high scoring game. They're online just gonna dominate. I think it'll be close
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about half time and then they'll just wear him down by the end of game.
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I got twenty seven twenty Minnesota. I'm going twenty four thirteen Minnesota.
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Look at you, guys, Minnesota fans. I might not say that it's
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all picking the go version. Week one not good for the oscars, not
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good. I'll be pleasantly surprised, though we're pessimistic. Still. We still
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are not drinking the kool aid yet, the rude aid. All right,
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we'll be back on Tuesday Day early this week Go Big Read TVR Boomer Sooner.
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I love that burnt orange dude,