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Episode 28 | Tailgate Pod - Bowling Green · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Turn on the grill crack a.
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  Speaker 2: Beer flip on the tv crank.
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  Speaker 3: It up big red saturday is the return to glory
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  Speaker 3: game week.
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  Speaker 4: All right we got a uh pretty big game this
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  Speaker 4: week here bowling green nebraska now just came this should
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  Speaker 4: be an absolute ass kicking That's what I hope for.
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  Speaker 4: If it's not, I think there's major problems. Bowling Green
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  Speaker 4: last week lost Tarleton State. I think Nebraska should just
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  Speaker 4: completely dominate this game, offensive line, defensive line. Don't let
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  Speaker 4: Bowling Green get any more than 10 points. If they do,
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  Speaker 4: we got problems. Saying this as I've not watched any
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  Speaker 4: tape on Bowling Green. Eddie George, their coach, has said
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  Speaker 4: that Nebraska needs to watch out for a stud player
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  Speaker 4: or two they have.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? Hey, George, we ain't worried at all.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to absolutely run through the brick wall of
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  Speaker 4: your team, I'll tell you that. Bowling Green, if you're listening,
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  Speaker 4: you guys are going to get absolutely pounded. At least
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  Speaker 4: Nebraska didn't post, actually this all-time video which Nebraska would
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  Speaker 4: post this. Kansas posted a video, they play Missouri tonight,
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  Speaker 4: comparing that Missouri had slaves and Kansas did.
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  Speaker 3: That is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Start throwing games back to when the Civil War happened
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  Speaker 4: and saying that this is why they play football games.
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  Speaker 4: I ride with that I mean, if we're playing football
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  Speaker 4: over the Civil War, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to you, Kansas. Video of the year right there.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope Kansas wins now.
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  Speaker 4: Another big thing is, this is for tailgates, it's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be absolutely sweating your nuts off 24-7 out there.
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  Speaker 3: Last week was absolutely horrible. I mean, it's great to
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  Speaker 3: have football back, but we don't need to be playing
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  Speaker 3: in freaking... It's a hair of desert out here. It
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  Speaker 3: was hotter than hell. It's going to be.
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  Speaker 4: I also love night games. That is second on my
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  Speaker 4: rankings of times. Worst is 11. Best, 230. Second best,
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  Speaker 4: night games. I'm going to be ripping and roaring starting
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  Speaker 4: at 9.30 in the morning. So, by game time, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to be locked in, ready to go. Now, here's
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  Speaker 4: another big thing is going to happen ohio state the
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  Speaker 4: more i thought about it it's going to absolutely throttle
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  Speaker 4: texas come saturday like it's gonna be same time as
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  Speaker 4: nebraska if you guys want to watch two ass kickings
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  Speaker 4: just throw them on the same time right there i
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  Speaker 4: don't know what's gonna be worse ohio state's gonna kill
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  Speaker 4: texas arch manning sucks steve sir keegan sucks he can't
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  Speaker 4: win any big games and he's proven that many times
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  Speaker 4: he should be gone i actually hope he stays because
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  Speaker 4: that guy is horrible.
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  Speaker 3: Arch manning everyone's like oh he got so much better
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  Speaker 3: at the end of last year you know what He
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  Speaker 3: lost to Florida. Florida is horrible. That's not your Tim
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  Speaker 3: Tebow Florida right there.
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  Speaker 4: They are absolutely terrible. So here you go. Your bets
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  Speaker 4: of the week, take Ohio State money line, take Nebraska spread,
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  Speaker 4: and take Oklahoma money line. Speaking of our team that sucks, Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: The only way Oklahoma doesn't kill this game is if
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  Speaker 4: they pull Bryce Underwood, which I hope to God they
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  Speaker 4: keep him in all game.
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  Speaker 3: That guy is horrible.
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 million for that, you might as well just throw
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 million in the air or wipe on your butt.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's $ 10 million waste right there. I don't know. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Bowling Green, I think, will be the worst team to
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  Speaker 3: rest place here. I think North Dakota could beat Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 3: We will see.
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  Speaker 4: I still think Ohio, out of those three, is by
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  Speaker 4: far the best. So, these next two games should be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying this again. Nebraska has proven many times they
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  Speaker 4: could lose this game.
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  Speaker 3: So you know what? Go Big Red.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have a good weekend. Because football starts, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota Vikings over the Green Packers.
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  Speaker 3: Take that bet, too. All right. Go Big Red. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Week two. It's going to be a good game. Weather's
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be beautiful. You know, our second round of
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  Speaker 5: the Ohio series, I guess, against Bowling Green. Tailgate pod.
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  Speaker 5: Austin here. I'm going to say this game's not going
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  Speaker 5: to be close. I think we've got the kinks worked out. Again,
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  Speaker 5: I was pretty down on last week, and I do
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  Speaker 5: expect the season to reflect those opinions, but this ain't
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  Speaker 5: that week.
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  Speaker 3: This is the week.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to be okay. I would be surprised if
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  Speaker 5: they score two touchdowns. If they score two touchdowns. They
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  Speaker 5: didn't even score two touchdowns last week against Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 5: They scored two touchdowns last week against an FCS opponent.
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  Speaker 5: I expect their offense to continue to struggle. If they
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  Speaker 5: score basically three times, I'm going to be very disappointed
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  Speaker 5: in our defense because that's kind of what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 5: Excited to see Owen Chambliss play. Hoping to see some
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  Speaker 5: special teams plays. Score prediction, we'll give them a couple
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  Speaker 5: field goals. So we'll go six to.
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  Speaker 3: Six Bowling Greens in Nebraska. We're going to put up, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, last week we scored 49. I expect us to
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  Speaker 5: score more. Maybe let's go 55, I think. I do
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  Speaker 5: expect our backup quarterback, whether that be TJ or Danny Kalen,
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  Speaker 5: is going to get a couple reps here in the
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  Speaker 5: second half for sure. I want to see Jamal Rule,
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  Speaker 5: see if he can carry over the hot hand from
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  Speaker 5: last week or if that was just on a week-by-week
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  Speaker 5: basis and he had a good day. But it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a great day.
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  Speaker 3: A great day to tailgate.
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  Speaker 5: Beautiful weather to be in Lincoln, Nebraska, celebrating. Really what
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  Speaker 5: my more interested over-under is, over-under is, you know, is
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  Speaker 5: Dak going to make it to the second quarter of
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  Speaker 5: the game? That's really the most interesting over-under I got.
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  Speaker 5: So easy week, figuring stuff out, you know, want to
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  Speaker 5: build off the momentum from last week, particularly the second half.
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  Speaker 5: So see what we can do.
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  Speaker 6: GBR. Return to Glory podcast, Hunter Zarbonicki. Tailgate Pod Edition
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  Speaker 6: for Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 6: Combine yesterday's Friday episode with some of my thoughts here
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  Speaker 6: today for the game. Real quick, how do we know
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  Speaker 6: when we've actually turned the corner as a program at Nebraska?
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  Speaker 6: I want to start off with this because we've lived
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  Speaker 6: through enough September optimism and a comfortable win over Ohio.
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  Speaker 6: an expected comfortable win over Bowling Green coming this week.
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  Speaker 6: We've heard the talent narrative. We've seen the good. So
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  Speaker 6: what would actually convince us that something's different? And when
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  Speaker 6: I say turn the corner, I'm not saying make the
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  Speaker 6: playoff this year, but doing something and being relevant again
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  Speaker 6: and maybe the top 25, you know, winning eight games
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  Speaker 6: this year. Let's start there. I think it starts with
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  Speaker 6: the repeatability, right? And being consistently good because what that
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  Speaker 6: shows is you have consistent players, you have consistent schematics
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  Speaker 6: and coaching, you have consistent culture, everything's moving in the
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  Speaker 6: right direction. So no, we don't have to do everything,
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  Speaker 6: every possession perfect, but one bad possession doesn't lead to
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  Speaker 6: a bad quarter and doesn't lead to a bad half.
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  Speaker 6: Like that's what we've seen a lot in the past.
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  Speaker 6: So That's why I think the Ohio game initially encouraged me.
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  Speaker 6: But it also held me back a little bit because
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  Speaker 6: of the way that started. Because I don't know that
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  Speaker 6: we're obviously elite, but it was also encouraging because of
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  Speaker 6: how we, second half, didn't let the first half dictate
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  Speaker 6: how the game was going to go. So the response
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  Speaker 6: was really good. So we'll see where that goes. So Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not really grading us whether... The margin reach is 30.
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  Speaker 6: I'm grading more so on how much unnecessary football we
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  Speaker 6: create for ourselves. And can we do some of the
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  Speaker 6: good things in the second half that we did against Ohio?
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  Speaker 6: Can we consistently do that and take away some of
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  Speaker 6: the self-inflicted things that we are well used to here
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  Speaker 6: at Nebraska? So that's my first take or thought here
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  Speaker 6: heading into the game. The second question or the second
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  Speaker 6: thing I want to go about is and probably shouldn't
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  Speaker 6: even talk about this but talk about experimenting or game
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  Speaker 6: planning around a team that you're clearly better than and
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  Speaker 6: I think we've also recognized that we probably shouldn't be
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  Speaker 6: talking about this with anybody yet we're not there yet
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  Speaker 6: um I don't know that Bowling Green is going to
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  Speaker 6: give us a whole lot of challenge I mean we
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  Speaker 6: hope they do for you know, facing adversity. But what
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  Speaker 6: can you do now in game two of the 2026
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  Speaker 6: season that can help prepare us for November? And I
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  Speaker 6: think the first thing that comes to mind is personnel experimentation,
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  Speaker 6: if you call.
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  Speaker 3: It, right?
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  Speaker 6: Trying to figure out which guys can play meaningful snaps
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  Speaker 6: on both lines of scrimmage. Which receiver understands exactly what
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  Speaker 6: you want and Anthony Calandria has a connection with. Which
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  Speaker 6: defensive player out there is the leader of the group?
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  Speaker 6: When Shambliss didn't play, is he the guy that we're
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  Speaker 6: relying on to communicate the audibles and adjustments out there?
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  Speaker 6: I think these first games are good for that, whereas
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  Speaker 6: if you played Tennessee this week, it may be more
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  Speaker 6: of a No, we're going to play the best guys
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  Speaker 6: that we think right now give us a chance to win,
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  Speaker 6: regardless of the outcome. And I'm not saying we're not
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  Speaker 6: doing that against Bowling Green, but you probably feel like
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  Speaker 6: you have a little bit of leeway to experiment with
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  Speaker 6: some guys early on and seeing who clicks. So another
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  Speaker 6: positive or pro about these early games. The second, I think,
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  Speaker 6: and I think this is just as valuable, is situational. Right?
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  Speaker 6: Like we saw at the end of the game last
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  Speaker 6: week where we were mentioned. We needed practice to go
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  Speaker 6: in and score kind of in a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: a four-minute drill exercise. I know you got to be
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  Speaker 6: a little bit respectful, I guess, of the other team
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  Speaker 6: and the sportsmanship aspect of it. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 6: a whole lot to me as probably it does a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people. So finding opportunities... within a game like
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  Speaker 6: this that you can put yourself in a situation, real
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  Speaker 6: game situations that you might see later in the year
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  Speaker 6: and execute efficiently. So I think the third place, I guess,
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  Speaker 6: that you can do in both offense and defense is
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  Speaker 6: presentation formations, trying different things and seeing what sticks with
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  Speaker 6: your team. whether you can show blitzes and back off,
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  Speaker 6: just different things that you can put on film, not
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  Speaker 6: just for opponents, but for yourself, too, to go back
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  Speaker 6: and look and say, okay, that was effective, that wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: So you have a little bit of that. We saw
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  Speaker 6: some tempo last week against Ohio, especially early on, some
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  Speaker 6: no huddle that we really didn't see much at all
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  Speaker 6: last year. Just some different things here that you can, again,
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  Speaker 6: I'll call it experiment. you can argue that we shouldn't
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  Speaker 6: be experimenting with anybody at this point and just try
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  Speaker 6: to win the game. But I think this out of
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  Speaker 6: any game on our schedule this year, this is a
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  Speaker 6: one that the word experiment you can use. Um, for Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: what am I looking for? The mistakes again, will they,
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  Speaker 6: the first half mistakes that we saw last week, can,
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  Speaker 6: can we just have the one mistake, stay the one
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  Speaker 6: mistake and not, not do a bunch of these bonehead things. Um,
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  Speaker 6: Let's see how we respond and see if that continues.
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  Speaker 6: If it continues into Game 2 and Game 3, it's
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  Speaker 6: going to get a little hairy here in the Big
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  Speaker 6: Ten season. Looking for depth again, I think we saw,
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  Speaker 6: I don't remember the number, we saw 11 guys play
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  Speaker 6: significant snaps in the defensive line, 12 guys last week, right?
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  Speaker 6: It goes back to this experimentation concept.
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  Speaker 3: Who.
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  Speaker 6: Can we figure out that we can trust out there
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  Speaker 6: to accomplish what we want to accomplish? Whether that be
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  Speaker 6: filling gaps, making the holes clogged up in the middle,
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  Speaker 6: whether that is getting pass rush on third down. Which
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  Speaker 6: guys can we trust and build some depth around the
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  Speaker 6: guys that are starting? I guess the third thing or
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  Speaker 6: last thing that I'm looking for here too is... what
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  Speaker 6: we talked about was practice situations inside a live game, right? Like,
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  Speaker 6: get something out of this game. I thought we got
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  Speaker 6: a lot out of that Ohio game, right? Can we
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  Speaker 6: build upon that, get something out of it? I think
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  Speaker 6: it's hard when you're trying to stay in the moment
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  Speaker 6: and win one game at a time, one quarter at
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  Speaker 6: a time, one possession at a time. But this is
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  Speaker 6: something that, as a coaching staff, you have to be
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  Speaker 6: very aware of the things that you're doing now are
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  Speaker 6: going to have an impact on what happens in October
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  Speaker 6: and November if you do it the right way or
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  Speaker 6: if you do it the wrong way. So what are
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  Speaker 6: we doing now situationally, experimentally, without becoming cute and making
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  Speaker 6: a fool of yourselves and having bonehead mistakes? What can
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  Speaker 6: we do this Saturday against Bowling Green to accomplish that?
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  Speaker 6: So finally, score prediction. I'm going to go, I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to say that we're going to run all over them.
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  Speaker 6: I think that this is going to be a game
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  Speaker 6: that we should handily take care of, and I do.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to lean the positive side here and say
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  Speaker 6: that a lot of the stuff that happened early on
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  Speaker 6: is not going to happen again against Bowling Green, and
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  Speaker 6: we're going to look very smooth.
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  Speaker 3: Also, shout out.
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  Speaker 6: To some of the other big games this week that
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  Speaker 6: are going on. I know the Texas-Ohio State game is big.
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  Speaker 6: That was a little bit of a, Detour there, but
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  Speaker 6: score prediction for me, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska 52, Bowling Green 10.
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  Speaker 6: Official prediction there. Big time cover of the spread. I
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  Speaker 6: think our offense is going to come out and show
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  Speaker 6: a lot too. Again, not that we're trying to run
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  Speaker 6: it up or run it, or do anything offensively, egregious
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  Speaker 6: to Bowling Green, but I think we do want to
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  Speaker 6: show and get as many reps as we can. And
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  Speaker 6: I think that bodes well for Nebraska cover and the
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  Speaker 6: overs for this game on Saturday. This is the Tailgate
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  Speaker 6: Pod Return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Go Big Red.
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  Speaker 1: The headlines change, but the mission stays. From Memorial Stadium
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  Speaker 2: Every story chasing red and white.
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  Speaker 1: with the latest from every team until next time keep
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  Speaker 3: The return to glory
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