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Episode 5.34: They're Not That Good -- Maryland Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Returnerboard podcast. Maryland week another chance for the Huskers to go bowling hunters,
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Zarbadiki, Austin Rose, the Coda free tag. Coming off a tough loss
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from the seventy six ers his Celtics, but wearing that shirt brown, you
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bet, even in the loss, you still wear it proud. They're still
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gonna win at all. Not worried, no way, Man Timberwolves, Hey,
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they might freaking good. Dak and I got a big matchup in the
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NFL this week, Saints and Vikings. I'm a little scared of Josh Dobbs
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or Daron Hill, either one two headed monster. I don't know if I
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have far Dak. I'll tell you what. The Saints are not very good.
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I mean, we're somehow finding ways to win games. Not not pretty.
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Our schedule is pretty favorable the end of the year, so I'm happy
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with that. We're gonna find a way into the playoffs. I get slaughtered
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first round wild Guard weekend. But it's all right. The best player in
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the league just came out by our though. Good luck, damn right.
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Jefferson, Yep, he's back with the Dove's magic. Mm hmm, gotta
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love it all right, Well, it is Maryland Week and Huskers have a
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chance to go bowling here. Guys. We are also three force of the
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way through the year, so as we have done after three games in six
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games, it's time to reset our expectation and just remind ourselves where we're at
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and where we've come and not get caught up in all of the extra stuff
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here. So where are we awesome? Where are we right now? Where
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where are we? Uh? We're in a weird position where every week I'm
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like, yeah, we could win. If we lose, it's like,
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yeah, okay, we could lose. I don't know, Like we're better
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than how much of that is us versus our opponents? I'd say it's a
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good mix. You know, we hurt ourselves more than we probably help ourselves
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on offense, and we help ourselves more than we hurt ourselves on defense.
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So that's kind of a fifty fifty watch there. And our opponents haven't been
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great, but they're not There are teams that we would have lost to in
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previous years, so it's like, well, we're moving in the right direction.
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I feel better about this team than when we started this season. So
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there's the question, Dak, are this year's teams. Austin made a point
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here is you know we lost to these teams last year, right? Are
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this year's teams the same as last year? Are we playing different opponents?
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Are? Or are they worse? You're the Huskers are way better than last
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year's team, And I think a lot of that has to do with coaching.
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But I think the teams you're playing are worse. I don't know.
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I think your defense is miles better than last year. Your offense you last
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ye yet a way, way way better quarterback, I think so, but
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I don't know. I think it's mostly the opponents are worse that That's probably
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the main thing. It's interesting, it is it's interesting to think back through
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our season and where we're at. I'm with you. Our defense has looked
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a lot better, right and both our offensive defense looked completely different scheme wise
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than what we saw last year or previous years under Frost. So yeah,
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our defense has looked better. Our production on offense it's been about the same
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and the same being not great. We're not scoring a whole lot of points.
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We're still turning the ball over at a very very high clip. But
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the difference is the style of which we're playing, which allows our defense to
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play better. I think in previous years we talked about it a lot here,
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our offense, our style, we weren't producing and it was three and
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out, or even if we got a first down, we had the ball
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for a minute forty five seconds, then our defense was back on the field.
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It's very different this year to where if we get a first down now,
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instead of being admit at forty five off the clock, it might be
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three or four minutes. And I do think that in itself has our defense
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better. But then obviously credit the coach staff DAC, like you said,
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they've done a better job of understanding game management, clock management, and the
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overall style of which we want to play. So that being said, to
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Austin's point, we've won some games, we've lost some games. We don't
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know if we're going to win or lose the rest of our games in our
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schedule, but we are here saying that they're winnable. Right. They're not
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out of reach, all three of these are, but they are probably going
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to beat tough games to win. And going into the year, expectation wise,
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we wanted a Bowl game. I think anyway, I think coming into
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the area, it's like, I really want six. If we get five,
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I'm okay, And anything more than six is you know, icing on
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the cake. And we are in position. We're at five already and we're
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in a position to be competitive to get six for the next three games.
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And if if I told you guys coming in the season, coming into week
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ten, and you'd be five and four and Harbor gonna be your starting quarterback,
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what would you guys say? You know what, A really good question.
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The starting quarterback would have been a shock. But as far as our
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record goes, and just the stuff that'll talked about preseason, even the
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first couple of games, I'm not surprised because I do still think going into
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the year, we thought Wisconsin was gonna be tough, and especially early in
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the year, Maryland was looking really, really good. We thought that game
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was gonna be tough. And then Iowa is always gonna be a toss up
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every year no matter what because their arrival. So to answer the question,
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I guess I probably wouldn't have been too surprised. I think our emotions have
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gone on a roller coaster here a little bit of we're gonna go bowling easy,
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right, Look at our schedule and then now we're like, hold on
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a second, like we got to make sure we win a game. And
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I think that that feeling is what players want. The message needs to be
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to the program is Okay, we got to win this week. Don't worry
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about ah, we got to win one of the last three. No,
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we got to win this week, and that all it matters. And I
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think coaching staff's done a good job of managing those expectations and thoughts from the
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players. But you gotta do it again. Gotta do it again this week
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against a Maryland team that has lost four in a row. But they're going
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to be very different than what we've seen our past three or four games from
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these Big ten West teams. If you told me coming into the year,
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we're going to be on our backup qb our top three receiving options and top
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two running backs, we're going to be out for the year, and we
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were five and four, I'd be very happy. So I feel like I
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gotta be happy. Yeah, And I guess you got to keep in mind
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too. Heiner Harberg was like overlooked and overshadowed by the previous coaching staff,
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and when there was even talk of putting him in. We all. I
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I was like, oh boy, no, no, no good at all,
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Like, don't do this. And then he came in. Everybody's a
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little bit happy, and now everybody's mad again and they want to Well I'm
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not saying us, I'm saying the general population in the talk this week is
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all about Heiner Carberg and a pour of a performance he's had and how our
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quarterback sucks. Well again, we can. We can spend the whole podcast
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talking about it. Bottom line is it's who we have. And Jeff Sims
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has had not one, not two, but three different times to come in
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and show that he can learn from his mistakes. He has not done that.
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And now people will want Chubb a PERTI Oh my goodness like that.
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And you brought that up because that was at work and it's almost like,
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do you think we put Chub Perdi in? And I was like, who
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the are you? Like? Where what what gives you the right team to
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come up here and be like, ah, yeah, we should probably put
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Chub pretty in. Brothers like third on the depth chart for a reason.
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It's the cl you don't remember him at all from last year. Yeah,
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I don't know what they like, and yeah, whatever mast the Coscar fans
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just hating on the quarterback, and yes, ideally we probably want to get
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someone better. But rural Maiden is a comment and his presser on Monday.
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How you know if we're gonna coach Heiner can get him ready as if he's
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our starter this year next year. And that's not saying we're not gonna go
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out try to look for a transfer portal guy. But he's who we have
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right now. And I think the more interesting or telling topic is not for
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this year in our quarterback position, because that is Yes, I saw clips
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all over freaking X and Twitter or whatever you want to call it, all
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about all the throws and the mysteries and look at this and look at that.
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This was an air. Yeah, people like that. You could look
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at any freaking quarterback in any age or NFL call. You're gonna find mistakes,
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like we're not. We don't need a perfect guy back there, especially
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throwing the ball. But moving forward into in the future years and we talked
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about will he be your starting quarterback next year? We don't know. I
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think the bigger question is what style are we going to continue to or try
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to play next year moving forward, and we know we want to run the
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ball. We know that, right, but does that consist more option?
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Does that consist more eye formation? Does that consists like Dak wants the triple
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option? You know what does that look like? And then based off of
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that, that's how you then go grab your quarterback in the portal and then
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yeah, expect there to be a competition next year for sure. What Rule
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needs to do. I think we need to do is come out and just
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say unless there's an injury, Harberg's that started for the rest of year,
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no matter what, and then that'll put the questions that they'll put the questions
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in right there. I don't know if they are people in the sports media
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actually asking that. I don't remember that being in the press conferences. No,
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but Rule definitely came out and knew that that was a topic of conversation
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and addressed it and hit it on the head. So I think you did
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a good job of that, and yes, I agree if the questions asked,
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I believe that would be his answer. A couple other comments that stood
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out to me on Monday were the comments about the refs and the two The
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one comment was we've lost two games by misstouchdowns and one because the team was
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cheating or something along those lines, ceiling science it. So, yeah,
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I want to hear your guys take on this because we've always talked on this
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podcast. We've talked a lot about refs are never the issue, and Rule
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did say that reps are never the the root cause for the outcome of the
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game. But he did come out and say everybody knows that that was a
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miss passinger for everybody knows that those were two two missed touchdown calls. And
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I don't disagree with him on that statement, but what you're saying has an
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effect on what people think, your players, in your program, and the
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fans. And I do believe Rule is very calculated when it comes to saying
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stuff like that. I do think he rambles sometimes, but I think everything
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he said he does a very good job. So what what do you think
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his purpose of bringing that up was in the press conference? I think it
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was more of because obviously that's all he's gotten asked. I mean, he
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got to ask that right after the game. He's that's all that people want
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to talk about is the freaking rest of the last game. And so there
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comes a point where it's like, yes, I know that those were missed
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calls. Like I'm not dumb, We're not dumb, the fans aren't dumb.
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They're totally right to know that those are miscalls. I mean, he
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didn't blame the loss of the game on it. He's just like, yeah,
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that happened. You're right, they were wrong, and that's it.
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So I think that was the point. It's like, all right, we're
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moving on, Like, you're right, those were the miss calls. We
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all saw it. We lost the game, We're on to Maryland and dak
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a couple of call outs on Michigan. I mean, he talked about it
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there, but then at the end of it he also brought it up again.
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That was awesome. The but first off of those calls. The worst
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part about those calls is they both went review Like it wasn't that it was
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just stuck on the field. The refs called it. They both went reviews,
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so that makes it even worse. So they had three minutes to look
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on them both and still made the wrong call. And then Michigan. I
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thought him calling Michigan was the best thing ever that was. That was hilarious.
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I'm gonna guess that's part of like a collective calculated move by the rest
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of the Big Ten coaches. I got trying hard to get Harbory out.
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They're trying really hard. And I don't know if he would have said that
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if it wasn't like if they hadn't had that Coaches and ad meeting last into
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last week, right, Ryan Walter was very very direct abode and yeah,
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you mentioned that meeting that went on. I think, yeah, I think
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there was an agreeance or something that said, you know what, something needs
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to happen. And even today, you know, there's a lot more stuff
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that's coming out about Michigan fending the case, maybe finding potential relations to Ryan
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day as the investigators. Like, there's a lot a lot here with this
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investigation and whatever you want to call it. It counter accusations too. I
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mean, it's not just Michigan's in trouble, it's hey, these people were
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stealing our signs and sharing it with people. I'm surprised. I am surprised,
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not surprised that there hasn't been any suspension yet. But later we get
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into the year, though, I think the harder it's going to be for
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the Big Ten to really definitely so we'll see. My issue is is,
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what's the freaking point of the NCAA. Why are we not like there's a
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governing body that has these rules. They didn't break a big ten rule.
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They broke an NCAA rule, And the NCAA is like a big ten.
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You guys can figure it out. It's like, no, that's what we
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pay you to do. Yeah, you're supposed to be it's your rule they
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broke. I understand. I understand why they're waiting because it's like, we
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got to make sure this is like air tight because they could win the national
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title. I don't think they will, but they could, so you don't
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want to fuck that up because you're you jumped the gun. But yeah,
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the NCAAA needs to be the one driving here. What's what's funny? And
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it's very strategic on Michigan's they're trying to drag this thing out, as they
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should. So it's just funny to see it go back and forth out and
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new stuff come in so they have to investigate more. And yeah, the
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NCAA is kind of like, eh, we don't, we don't do we
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really want to be involved in this. It's just funny and and and over
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something that still, as we talked about when it came out, we think
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it is Verry Minor. Did they break rules? Yes, like for sure.
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Is it giving them an advantage? Yeah, I do. I mean
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I think it does give an advantage, right, definitely, it gives an
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advantage. But to me still, I don't think it's like it's a massive
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advantage, Like I really don't. I don't see a whole lot in that.
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So it's just it's fascinating and how people are still talking about it.
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I've Harbaugh won sixty games before the scandal started and after Yeah, mark this
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down tomorrow, something's coming down. Whoa lock of the year? Boys,
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something is coming down tomorrow over under one half of a day for a Michigan
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penalty. If I would have to guess tomorrow, they're gonna suspend hard about
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two games. I've heard the game in the week after two games fills Okay,
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I think that'll come from Michigan because they'll be like, will suspend them
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two games? Then nothing, They'll just say like they did for the first
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thing they did, they spend four games. Then they didn't like there was
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like a weird self imposed thing that they didn't didn't divorce, and there's what
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Michigan's gonna do. I agree, they're gonna do something on their own to
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cover their ass for the rest of this year so that they can play in
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postseason, and then if there's anything more or major that the NCAA or Big
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Ten want to do, they'll do it after the year. That's I think
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what Michigan's gonna do. That's dak. I like that. I like that
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thought. I think that's what they're gonna do. Just wait when Ohio State
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beats Michigan rivalry weekend and there's gonna be a bad reping call. The conspiracy
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theorists are gonna crawl out the Big Ten Ohio State two wins so they don't
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have to deal with the Michigan All right, boss coaching that game, Let's
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stop talking about Michigan, Dan. Let's let's move on to Maryland. All
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right, we're here, we moved on. We moved on. Uh.
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Here's the first thing I gotta say on Maryland. And this is more about
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the game in the red last three, but this one specifically. I had
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this game very very high in our most important games of the year, and
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that echo something that rules set out every game in November needs to be the
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most important games and need to play like its postseason play pretty much. And
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that's what this game is. All these games that we're gonna play here the
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next three weeks are going to bed for a bowl game spot. And I
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want to remind everybody how important a ballgame is, not only for Nebraska,
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but for every team that gets to a ball game. You get about anywhere
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from twenty to twenty five more practices if you make a ball game. Think
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about the last six years that we have made a ball game, we are
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missing out on one hundred practices ish compared to every team like Iowa Wisconsin that
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have made a bowl game. That's how many shorter like, that's how many
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fewer practices we've had. And for a new staff, just that in itself,
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who gives a shit? Who are playing? What the outcome of the
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game is to continue to build the culture and the program and the identity of
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what we're doing on both ends of the ball like, it's important. So
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that being said, Maryland is going to give us a very different look of
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what we're used to seeing. Talah tagaby Loa, I didn't realize this until
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I was looking at it. He has, like all of Maryland's passing records
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everything best quarterback is the big ten probably probably his status complete sixty of his
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passes, twenty one touchdown, seven interceptions. That's pretty good. Even though
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they've lost four in a row. He's still playing great in those games.
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He is, and they are. They're throwing it more than ever now their
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last four games they've had their four fewest rushing yards in and so now,
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granted their four last four teams maybe have been the best teams on their schedule
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so far, but like we talked about him earlier in the year, they
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were they were kicking, they were beating teams easy, and they beat Michigan
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State on the road thirty one to nine. And now they're throwing it even
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more. They probably know they're not going to be able to run it on
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us because nobody's been able to run it on us, which is props to
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our defense. But expect them to come in slinging the ball and throwing it
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around and to Lea as he throws it for two hundred and fifty ish or
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more yards a game like that's what they're going to do, and they're going
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to attack our secondary and test us vertically. Tony White talked a lot about
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the importance of forcing turnovers this week. Over the last four games, Maryland
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has had nine turnovers. The first five games they had three. They are
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turning it over more now, and we need to force turnovers. We're not
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great at doing that. We still aren't. We've got a couple of you
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here and there, but we have not been a defense that's good at turning
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them over. That's what scares me a little bit with this offense, because
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if they don't turn it over and they keep scoring, we could higher total
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this year the World East. For this week, yeah, I mean last
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week their leading rusher again it is against Penn State, so top ten team.
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Their leading rusher had four yards. So it's tough to say. They
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lost to Northwestern thirty three to twenty seven. They scored twenty seven on Northwestern.
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They lost to Illinois twenty seven twenty four. They scored twenty four on
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Illinois. They put up seventeen on Ohio State, fifteen on Penn State,
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and then forty four against Indiana, thirty one against Michigan State, forty two
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against Virginia. I mean, those teams aren't great, but then thirty eight
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and thirty eight, so they can score. That's my concern is that if
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we can't control them scoring, we can't keep up scoring. It's gonna be
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difficult. It's gonna be difficult to obviously score twenty four points. I mean,
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as we've shown like, it's gonna be hard to get there. You
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cannot get in a shootout in this game. This is you can control this
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clock like no other. Thank thanks for pointing that out. That we can't
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get out you can't. You gotta control this clock and go on like six
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seminente drives every time that you have a chance to score. And if if
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Harvard passes over fifteen times, Sadderfield kick him out of the stadium last game.
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Yeah, yeah, that is way, way, way too many.
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And when you're playing from behind, I mean, yeah, you're gonna be
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throwing it naturally. Here's what we need to do on offense, and Sadderfield
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mentioned it in my mind, and it is kind of a small thing,
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but it ends up being a big thing. On first down, we have
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to get positive yards and a lot of times that needs to come through the
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run. I think last week we tried one of those by wide receiver screen
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bubble tunnel screens early on that got blown up for an incomplete pass. We
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cannot have negative plays on first down because we get in second and long,
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and regardless whether they're running and throwing, then it becomes third, medium or
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long, and then we're in deep shit. So first down production, I
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think it's very important this week with Harburg we have to utilize his legs more
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and quit a. I get the traditional quarterbacks sitting in the pocket. I
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get that, like that's a style that's not Harburg's spyful We've clearly seen he
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is best when he's able to move and get out in the out of the
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pocket and make the decision to tuck his head and run or throw a quick
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little side arm sling pass across the middle. That's when he's at his best.
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Not drop him back, taking a three step drop and trying to read
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defenses and make throws. That's not it. That's not it. So we
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need to utilize its strength on offense and keep it simple for him so he's
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not thinking and just playing when he's in that pocket. He is real quick
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to just quit on the passing play. It's not he does maybe one read
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if that and he's done with the play already he's taken off or just loses
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it control of the play. Yes, and that's that's offensive line partially there,
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you know, but also that is just pocket presence and knowing when the
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right time is to leave the pocket or step up in the pocket avoid a
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defender. You know, when he does try to scramble, sometimes it looks
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like he doesn't know what he's doing. Then he'll break three tackles and gain
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fifteen yards like you did a couple of times last. But we don't need
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to give him the opportunity to do that if our plays are designed in a
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way that gets have already outside the pocket and moving and keep it simple where
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Okay, you're rolling, you're looking tight, end, you're looking flat.
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If not, take off and see if you can get four yards. Like
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that's the kind of stuff I think we need to do on our shorter just
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general, trying to on first down, like first and ten, if we're
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going to pass it, run a bootleg. Don't run a five step drop
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with a vertical I just I just don't like that on first down. I
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don't think that's going to help the game management and clock management situation here.
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And let's see what their defensive stats are. They're not great. I mean
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from a point, it's a loud standpoint like Northwestern's scorn thirty three in Illinois
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score twenty seven on them, right, So like we should theoretically be able
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to score more points, but I can't say why we will because of what
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we've shown. I don't know. I guess I think what we do need
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an offense. You know what I thought of this and I forgot to say
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it on Sunday. What Michigan State did to us last week is what we
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need to do in our last three games. Michigan State's offense is not good.
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Dak said they're the worst in the Big Ten. Like, they're not
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good? What did they What did they end up getting? They had three
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or four explosive plays down the field. A couple of them were very much
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by design. I wouldn't even call them trick plays, but just very well
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schemed up plays that they executed. Hit a guy deep across the middle at
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a couple of broken plays that turned into explosive plays for them. And if
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we can get a couple of those, that's going to help. Well.
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We haven't had many of those, if rarely any that help us when we're
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ahead. I'm not talking about when you're down ten in desperation, Bte.
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No, when you're ahead, we need to break break a run, break
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a run for thirty five forty yards, like we kind of did earlier in
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the year against some of our lesser opponents. We need to see some of
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that and be creative and how we do that. I'm not saying we need
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to run eight trick plays. It's not. That's not it. But we
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do maybe need to find a way to be a little bit more unpredictable so
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we can break a forty yard run, a fifty yard pass something like that
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to get the ball at least across the field into the Maryland territory. I
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don't disagree, I mean, because I think we're gonna have to score.
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I don't. I think our defense will be able to do pretty well,
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but I still expect them to put up twenty points. You can't you can't
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just go back and hand off either on first down. Every time I was
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saying Harbord can't pass, but you're gonna have to throw in a pass every
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now and then on first down. So I'm kind of going against what I
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said there. But if you're going hand off every time first down, I
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wonder you can't get in the yards. It's very predictable. I mean it
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is. It's very predictable. So that's where the fine line of OK,
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like what are we what are we trying to do? Are are you know?
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Are we if we are going to mix it up? How are we
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doing that? Is it just send Malachi Coleman deep and blob it up to
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him. Like I feel like that's kind of what all we have in our
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back pocket right now for past plays. So I think we had like that
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jet sweep with Josh Fleeks a couple of weeks ago, and it's like,
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we should do that. Yeh. And we saw some shotgun two back sets
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last week. We saw I think the other formation that we showed a lot
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was that trip's bunch off to the right. We showed some of that.
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So I think our offensive coaches are kind of I mean, they're not really
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getting too much criticism. I think there's obviously been a lot of injuries,
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but this is their week to really improve it. It's it's improve it week.
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And I think if they have, if they're good coaches and have the
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ability to again design play this week that benefits our strengths against a team that
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is gonna be not saying they're a bad defense, but lesser than what we've
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seen the past couple of weeks. But let's see what we can do.
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Let's see how creative we can be. See if our offense, I'm not
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saying score thirty eight points, See if we can get the twenty four or
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thirty and win a game thirty to twenty four or something like that, Because
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yeah, Maryland's gonna score. If we hold them to under fourteen, that's
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a phenomenal game by our defense. But I think it's gonna be a little
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higher scoring this week, in my opinion, I agree, which is why
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I don't love this game. I don't either. If you're looking for an
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offensive coordinator, Brian Farns is open, we'll take him. Hey Man.
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Number twenty two Iowa Hawkeyes. God damn it, them getting ranked only five
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spots. That's embarrassing. Did you see what they're over under with? Is
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that one of your picks locks of the week taking the under of the I
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set my own under on that. You set your own under, yep,
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I don't spoil anything. Then the spread for this week's game against Maryland is
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two and a half Maryland and the over unders forty four and a half.
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So and you gotta buy a streaming subscription subscription now, definitely, what's that
31:30
a streaming subscription? H yeah, what is the take on I don't want
31:37
to burn too much time, we gotta get to picks. But what's the
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take on football games on Peacock? I hate it. I kind of do
31:44
too good for peaks NBC just showing on your freaking channel, man, Because
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if we're gonna be watching down at the tailgate spot, there's gonna be deep
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different points of the game. Someone's gonna be cheering over there, We're gonna
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be two seconds behind him. It's ever gonna be the same. So be
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so you already know what's gonna happen before the play even happens. It's it's
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gonna suck. I I like you my take on it. It's Peacock's way
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in NBC's way of trying to get their streaming service rolling, right, I
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totally understand. Yeah, the business side of it, I kind of like
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it. Now, Yeah, it does it make it more difficult to watch
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the game, Yeah, it is, but it's smart on their part.
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And you know what, I don't have to worry about it because I'm going.
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And if and you know what, if you if you don't want to
32:37
pay for Peacock and get a subscription. Tickets are about eight bucks right now,
32:40
so go to the game. They're about the same as getting the subscription
32:44
to Peacock. Listen on the radio. I'll prate my eyes on the other
32:50
game that's on TV. All right, you know what, let's do score
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predictions while we're still on the topic of the game here uh uh oh,
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last key or thing before score predictions. Guys are punting has to be better
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than they're punting. It has to be better than their punting. And they
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have a good punter. Michigan State had a phenomenal punner. Maryland's got a
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good punter too. Buchini has to be better. He has to be better.
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And if he punts better then Maryland. I like our chances And that
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is so funny to say. And yeah, that affirms we're in the Big
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ten West. Have a better punter than the other team. Dak loved it.
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I've never gone into a game thinking, God, I hope our punter
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plays good. That is where we are at all right score prediction time.
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I'll go first. I mentioned now, I think it's gonna be a little
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higher scoring. I am. I just I feel like our team and I
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hope I'm wrong. I hope coach will proves me wrong, and the staff
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and all the preparation. I feel like we think our goal is going to
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a bowl game. We got three two more games left after this. I
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feel like we're maybe not going to quite have the foot to the pedal to
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the floor. But so with that being said, I'm gonna take Maryland.
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I don't like saying this, but Maryland thirty one, Nebraska eighteen. I've
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got Maryland twenty seven, Nebraska seventeen. I got Maryland thirty one, Nebraska
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twenty four. God, I hope we can get twenty four. Deck.
34:37
I hope you're right on that. Okay, that it's pick time. Get
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back what they want. You got an updated record for US quick that's still
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in review. There's two picks that I'm contacting the NC DOUBLEA about. I'll
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get back to that. Okay, sounds great. You might hear back in
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like four months. All right, timer is ready and go? All right?
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First one penn State plus four and half, I said, earlier.
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Don't think Harvbar's gon be coaching that game. Next one Florida State minus fourteen
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aast Miami, and Miami's dog shit right now. Missouri plus one against Tennessee.
35:23
Missouri's really underrated. They're really freaking good. Rutgers Iowa. I set
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this under under twenty four points. I don't think. I don't think Iowa.
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I don't. I hate it. Find it down? Oh oh you
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ohe you minus thirteen is wester need please belove a god win? Oh miss
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plus ten and a half against Georgia. I don't think Georgia is that good?
35:47
Mit okay. Michigan State plus thirty one and a half against Ohio State.
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Ohio State's not good. Florida LSU minus thirteen half against Florida. LSU
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can outscore every I hope Jane Damas playing tod not look that up? All
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right? Excellent, KYU mind screen and a half. KU is really underrated,
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probably the third best team in the twelve. Louisville mind playing at Virginia.
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Louisville. You know what Virginia is is just awful. Last special pick
36:16
here, Vikings money line. They're gonna kill the Saints. You go the
36:23
hack all. I gotta say, you have some very hilarious, awesome reasoning,
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and then you just have the ones that are like, they're not very
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good. They're not good. You have like three of those in a row
36:38
right in the middle. They're not very good. They're not very good.
36:42
Yeah, it's because George is not good. Ohio State's not good, and
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they're both gonna be in the playoffs, especial Hillo State. They're they're not
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good. Are you worried about Oklahoma? You seeing the little nervous there?
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No, not at all. You had to use the word please please win.
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Yeah, I'm a little worried. I'm not gonna lie that we might
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see in Oklahoma Iowa ball game. What about Nebraska? That'd be cool too,
37:15
but it could happen, Dak. You gotta start losing games for that
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to happen. I don't want Iowa Oklahoma a ball game. Good God,
37:23
Dak. If O you and Nebraska play in a ball game, we'll go
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to it. You and I. Okay, there's a shot Austin. You're
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welcome to come to Yeah, okay, hopefully hopefully its in Vegas. Uh,
37:37
you gotta shout out nebrasketball three point percentage looking pretty good, No,
37:43
Kaisei, they looked great. They did look really good. Also, shout
37:46
out to lady Skurts got a five star recruit. Yeah once once. Once
37:52
we beat her, then we can talk about her. Hey that I've seen
37:55
her play live many Yeah, he's all a lowest scoring performance, I sure
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did. And also the volleyball team beat Rutgers tonight to me or not Northwestern
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excuse me? Still undefeated. I do also want to apologize to the Michigan
38:13
State basketball team as by me going to one of their practices, I have
38:17
put my curse on them and they lost to James Madison. So I apologize
38:22
to any Michigan State fan out there that likes their basketball program. One for
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twenty from three, that's that's impressive. It's rough, not good. All
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right. We will probably have we might some sort of tailgate pregame pod.
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It's an early game eleven am kick and then we'll be back Sunday. Go
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Big Red GBR Bloomer sooner that