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Depth Chart Released, Arrowhead Stadium, and Cincinnati Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's game week, Hunter Jardin, Niki Dakota Free Tag Austin
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  Speaker 2: will hopefully be joining us here in a moment. Fact,
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  Speaker 2: we've made it college football's back case state. Iowa State
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  Speaker 2: kicked off in Ireland in Week one Nebraska Cincinnati Thursday night,
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  Speaker 2: Arrowhead Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Finally we finally made it. And I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: it is about the Ireland game. It always ends up
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  Speaker 3: being a great game. There's been one that's bad, that
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  Speaker 3: was bad, but usually it's always a great game.
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  Speaker 2: Rank first ranked game over there the first time I believe,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean you made the comment to me after
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  Speaker 2: watching the game. We're overly impressed with these two teams.
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  Speaker 2: They are obviously both in the Big twelve and ran
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati also in the Big twelve. Was a good game,
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  Speaker 2: low lower scoring. I have a state coming out on top.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if that's the sign of where Cincinnati is at,
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  Speaker 2: I got to make you feel better as a Husker fan.
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  Speaker 4: Does it? Maybe that Nati's one of the best Big
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  Speaker 4: Full teams.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows, Maybe if you want to look at it
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  Speaker 2: from that angle, you could. We're gonna have a guest
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  Speaker 2: on here today Kimbell post is gonna be joining us.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Kendall's a big Chiefs fan, goes to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the Chiefs games.
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  Speaker 1: Going to give us some.
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  Speaker 2: Insight on the tailgating, seeing the parking, and how everything
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  Speaker 2: is gonna work down an arrowhead. Before we get to that,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk some of the big news and headlines
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  Speaker 2: here around Cincinnati, but specifically the depth chart that was
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  Speaker 2: released late last week, and there's definitely some talking points here,
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  Speaker 2: some some key things to point out. I'm gonna start
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  Speaker 2: with a first thing here with a quarterback situation, which
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  Speaker 2: we all knew Dylan Royola was going to be listed.
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  Speaker 2: There's number one, but the number two might surprise some people,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no ores at the quarterback, and actually not
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  Speaker 2: too many throughout the depth chart.
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  Speaker 1: TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Leatiith the freshman the true number two, and the main
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  Speaker 2: reasoning it sounds like is his lenks.
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  Speaker 1: He can he can move a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Grahamstead is a senior transfer who everybody probably assumed.
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  Speaker 4: Would be That's what I thought it was gonna be
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  Speaker 4: number two.
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  Speaker 2: So it's interesting like maybe that maybe that's something you know,
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  Speaker 2: you keep a guy around more, you know he's second.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe he's He's like, this is the guy we
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  Speaker 2: want at the number two spot in DJ latif who
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  Speaker 2: is who has looked good throughout the spring in the fall.
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  Speaker 2: So is he?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know much about him. Is he mainly just
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  Speaker 3: a runner? And can he actually throw the ball some?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard bigger Graham stats than the number two.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even study the other.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, correct, I mean I think he's he's more of
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  Speaker 2: a runner, but.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that he can throw it some. To you,
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  Speaker 1: he is a freshman. You gotta remember that he's he.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they'll use him as a weapon, like in different ways.
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  Speaker 1: If it comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm hoping that we will not have to use
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  Speaker 2: him because Dylan is comedy the all time. I do
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  Speaker 2: not think it's a Heinrich Harberg situation where.
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  Speaker 1: He is going to get a few snaps here. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the case.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's important to note that if something were
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  Speaker 2: to happen, he's probably our next best option. So he
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  Speaker 2: he is a KI from California and in a very mobile,
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  Speaker 2: athletic type of quarterback which again a little different maybe
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  Speaker 2: than what Dylan brings to the table, and can use
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  Speaker 2: some some of them been in a little bit different way,
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  Speaker 2: staying on the on the offense here the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: and this was the one position that I don't think anybody,
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  Speaker 2: i mean really knew how it was going to play
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  Speaker 2: out and where everybody was going to be at an
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  Speaker 2: important to note that like Lutowski got named to captain
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  Speaker 2: as well, which was also sent to Big Ten media days,
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  Speaker 2: he's starting at left guard.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get back to left tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Evans has expected our center, Spindler has expected our
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  Speaker 2: right guard. At the right tackle spot, it's an or
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  Speaker 2: between Teddy Prohosk and Tyler Kannak and then the left
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  Speaker 2: tackle between Gunner Gatula, Turner, Corker and Elijah Pritchett all
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  Speaker 2: listed as or.
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  Speaker 1: So that tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Position we didn't know either what was gonna shake out there.
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Pritchett was maybe the one that was assumed because
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  Speaker 2: we paid him so much money the transfer from Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually listed at the bottom, but they all are
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  Speaker 2: ors there. The depth here is what speaks I think
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  Speaker 2: you can read into who's listed first, second, third, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the point there's a lot of guys here that are
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  Speaker 2: playing or potentially playing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I I mean this is it pretty much came
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  Speaker 3: out how we thought it was gonna be. But that
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  Speaker 3: that right tackle position, I'm surprised. The guy I can't
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think it's name, but the
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  Speaker 3: got my Alabama is not for sure the starter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Elijah Pritchett at left tackle. He I've heard mixed
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  Speaker 2: things like that. I was listening to a national podcast
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  Speaker 2: recently on Alabama and they're talking about him transferring and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, well, he sucks anyways.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even see him play, like, I haven't watched
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  Speaker 2: many clips of him, but it sounds like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this is.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that you want, you're hoping maybe would come along.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's not as much, but yeah, I mean, we've
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  Speaker 2: heard good things about Gunner Gatula and he's just a sophomore.
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  Speaker 2: We obviously have seen Turner Corcoran I'm on the left side,
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  Speaker 2: and we've seen Teddy Prohaska. You know, you hope Teddy
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  Speaker 2: can stay healthy and not get injured like he had
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  Speaker 2: had the past few years. And then Tyler Kanak another
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  Speaker 2: another guy that you know, I didn't think maybe would
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  Speaker 2: be sniffing the starting spot, but he's there going into
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  Speaker 2: game week, and like I said, I think it what
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  Speaker 2: it does is at these tackle positions, you know it's
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  Speaker 2: next man, not mentality, not just injuries, but you got
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  Speaker 2: to perform like there's other guys knocking on the door
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  Speaker 2: if you're playing I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean tackles, Yeah, usually have the most injuries, like of
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  Speaker 3: any old lineman.
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  Speaker 4: I would say.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing I noticed was you got some the starters
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  Speaker 3: on the line are big.
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  Speaker 4: Wait wise, like I we all said this on.
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  Speaker 3: The pre or like the preview pod where you're doing positions,
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think you're on line and it's been
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  Speaker 3: a long time since you say this.
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  Speaker 4: Not worried about it all.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the just the weight and I saw
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  Speaker 2: this on social media as well. You start circling down
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  Speaker 2: the line, everybody's over three hundred on the step chart
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  Speaker 2: and and and usually that's a good sign. When you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the offensive line, I always caution it with
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  Speaker 2: they gotta be able to move still, you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: able to have good feet and blow people off the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you want to have a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: six seven, six eight big dudes that can't move. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a very from a depth chart statistic side,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very big and strong line, uh tight end.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Luke Lindenmeer is the starting nod there, which kind of
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  Speaker 2: expected a Heinrid Harberg and Carter Nelson. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: see them on the field too, uh, in various packages.
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  Speaker 1: The wider seer position came in surprising.
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  Speaker 3: Oh little, well, we didn't. We didn't know about that
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  Speaker 3: third position yet.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody assumed I mean, and I say a hunter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would, but.
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  Speaker 4: We assume that. But there was a nice battlegroun on
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  Speaker 4: there night.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, your two star transfers from from from your
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  Speaker 3: y resition are it's gonna be playing a lot. It
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  Speaker 3: seems like Dankey and then uh yeah in Isaiah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and j Cory Barney obviously we knew he'd
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  Speaker 2: be the slot guy. Jan Iron Bonner the other slot
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  Speaker 2: guy that we've heard good things about too. So you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see all these guys Quinn Clark and Cortes Mills,
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  Speaker 2: two freshmen that are kind of the four or five
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  Speaker 2: guys that you'll see on the field, and some more
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  Speaker 2: spread packages. I think those guys are very athletic type
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  Speaker 2: of dudes. Quinn Clark is more gonna be more of
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  Speaker 2: your I think more maybe your possession guy. He's he's
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  Speaker 2: sixty five, it's sixty five target and we don't see
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  Speaker 2: those a lot of times at the receiver position there.
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  Speaker 2: So oh and then I guess we gotta mention running back.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a surprise, maybe not to some people. Emmitt Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: mckaind Nelson, Isaiah Mosey, quinnin Ives, no oars listed. So
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  Speaker 2: there's your pecking order right there. We knew Emmett was
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  Speaker 2: probably going to be that starting position. But the other
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  Speaker 2: three with mkaik Nelson, Isaiah Mosy, and Quinton Ives. I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe the biggest disappointment here with Quentin Ives falling
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  Speaker 2: to four, But I think that was the trending that
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  Speaker 2: we were hearing. But maybe that's a good thing. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that means Isaiah Mosy and McKain Nelson are two guys
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  Speaker 2: that you know, freshman retro freshmen impressing people.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a.
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  Speaker 2: Good thing that you know they they have climbed versus
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  Speaker 2: Quentin and Ives falling.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the biggest surprise I thought from the chart
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  Speaker 3: was there's no oars in your running back like it's
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty dead set, which.
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  Speaker 4: I think they might have done.
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  Speaker 3: That because last year basically revolving do it running back.
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  Speaker 3: I think they were just like, hey, let's let's have
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  Speaker 3: it solid here. I've won two, three, four, Just have
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  Speaker 3: him solid and know what we're doing it running back basically, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that means? I mean, we talk
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  Speaker 2: about Emmitt Johnson in the past, and we talked about
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  Speaker 2: multiple running backs last year when we had four guys
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  Speaker 2: that still going into the first game. But we think
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  Speaker 2: Emma Johnson and we see here is the clear cut one.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean for touches a game? What do
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  Speaker 2: you think average per game.
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  Speaker 4: That he's getting.
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  Speaker 3: Probably you gotta think twenty carries plus good because he
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  Speaker 3: seems like he seems like he's your clear cut number
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  Speaker 3: one like the other the other guys are there too,
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know, but twenty touches game three or
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  Speaker 3: four catches probably so probably twenty twenty twenty five touches
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  Speaker 3: a game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's an unrealistic thought there. I
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  Speaker 2: think that the freshman the big concern here is it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be their lack of experience in playing at
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  Speaker 2: this at this level, at this pace, at this physicality,
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  Speaker 2: and number one thing that was on rules agenda when
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  Speaker 2: he got here from running backs is checking the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and Emma Johnson had to go went through all that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you hope that.
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  Speaker 2: He's sound in protecting the football. These freshmen, that's where
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  Speaker 2: that's where you get a little bit concerned. Is all right,
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  Speaker 2: like can't cough it up? And if that starts happening
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  Speaker 2: when they get their opportunity. Emtt's been just going to
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  Speaker 2: get more opportunities as long as he's healthy. That's always
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  Speaker 2: your scare though, is the more carries you give a guy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the more opportunity and the more wear and
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  Speaker 2: tear you have.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the running back room is solid. Quentin Eyes,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is still your bruiser.
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  Speaker 2: I still think you'll potentially see him on goal line
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  Speaker 2: type of downs.
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  Speaker 1: But you made that comment.
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  Speaker 2: Before when you get down the goal line, like who's
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  Speaker 2: getting the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Probably yeah, I think Emmett, but I don't.
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  Speaker 3: These younger guys. You want to work him in, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to work him in
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  Speaker 3: the first very first game of the year. I think
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  Speaker 3: I think Game one, it'll be mostly touching the ball,
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  Speaker 3: these younger freshmen. I feel like though, these two games
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  Speaker 3: after that are gonna play quite a bit just to
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  Speaker 3: get him some playing time and get him in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think. I think that's when you'll see those guys
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  Speaker 3: most is Game two and three.
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  Speaker 2: On the defensive side of the ball, I think the
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  Speaker 2: secondary pretty much locked in Stone. I think that the
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  Speaker 2: five guys that were listed there in the three three
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  Speaker 2: five experienced you know, all seniors, Andrew Marshall and junior
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  Speaker 2: and then Rex Guthrie, who Matt Ruhle said that would
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  Speaker 2: be starting on several other.
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  Speaker 1: Power programs.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the red shirt freshman, but he's behind a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys that have played a lot of snaps on
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  Speaker 2: that side of the ball for us, So that that
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  Speaker 2: I think came in as expected.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't too surprised about the defense side of
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  Speaker 3: the ball at all. I I mean, it was pretty
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  Speaker 3: solid going in with what you knew, and there wasn't
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't too much surprising on that side I thought.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the linebackers, you know, Tosa mccola
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  Speaker 2: coming from Boomers soon or Oklahoma, you know, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Expected to start.
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  Speaker 2: That's not surprise, Mark, He's Watson, Watson, Trent and Vincent
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  Speaker 2: Shavers and or there at the other linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know Jave and Wright.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Bower listed their second at that other linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the names.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the guys you'll be seeing on the field
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  Speaker 2: to come Thursday. There and then the defensive line. You
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  Speaker 2: know there's an or listed on the one defensive end spot,
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  Speaker 2: but basically meaning that there they'll they'll be out there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Williams when Aery and Cameron Ledhart, Elijah Judy is gonna
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  Speaker 2: play that nose guard spot with Riley Van Poppel and
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  Speaker 2: Keyona Davis playing the other defensive tackle spot. Jalen George,
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  Speaker 2: you'll price see him. To all these guys you're gonna see.
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  Speaker 2: I think the defensive line is the quote unquote concern
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of people going into the year.
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  Speaker 1: So that are some of the names you'll be here
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  Speaker 1: and come Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're your D line. I wouldn't think too much
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  Speaker 4: in that or it's always good to.
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  Speaker 3: Have more depth on D line because that's I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's position that you you rotate a lot of
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  Speaker 3: players on your d line. The more depth I guess
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  Speaker 3: you bet, the better, But I guess we'll find out
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  Speaker 3: if it's if.
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  Speaker 4: It's on their or because one of them just wasn't
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  Speaker 4: as talented as you want. Is number one, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think more and more now with the defensive line,
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  Speaker 2: guys can just stay fresh and it sometimes can get
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  Speaker 2: to a point and I'm just not talking Nebraska, any
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  Speaker 2: any football game where you get to a point where
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  Speaker 2: you're like, why is the best player done out there? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they coaches try to keep these guys moving through and
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  Speaker 2: you can't have a big drop off.
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  Speaker 1: So depth is a big thing here.
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  Speaker 2: You hope that we have that with some of these
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  Speaker 2: guys that are listed the three, three, five. I think
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  Speaker 2: also helps that you can be very creative and move
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  Speaker 2: some other guys down, move that jack position down, make
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  Speaker 2: them look more like a four to three.
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  Speaker 1: You can do a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think that that that's a positive overall.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see come Thursday what the defensive line is
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  Speaker 2: made of against Cincinnati. Any other depth chart considerations here.
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  Speaker 4: Big surprise, Archie Wilson's your pawner.
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  Speaker 2: We did not talk special teams, but yes, Archie, our punter.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like if we still have an ore for
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  Speaker 2: the kicking position, which.
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  Speaker 4: Which that's that's going to be kind of like basically
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  Speaker 4: still in tryouts in the middle of sea or in
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  Speaker 4: the season basically for kicker. I feel like I and
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  Speaker 4: I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 2: Like kicker is one of those things like you do
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  Speaker 2: whether you want to say you got to give the
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  Speaker 2: guy confidence what you don't get many opportunities. If if
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  Speaker 2: Canadian gets the first kit, great, go out and make
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  Speaker 2: the sucker Like I don't think you want to punish
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  Speaker 2: the guy if for missing one field goal. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, if you have two guys that are
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  Speaker 2: very very close, find the one that's mentally tough enough
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  Speaker 2: to get through some of that mental side of kicking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then go in and just drill it.
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  Speaker 2: John Hole, you know, did that against Ohio State and
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  Speaker 2: kind of put himself there. Now we we bring in
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  Speaker 2: a guy that is of equal talent as him, So
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  Speaker 2: let's see you can get through that the mental hurdle
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  Speaker 2: kicking yew thanks for mentioning Archie and then our kicker turners,
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  Speaker 2: punt returners Jackry Barney and Andrew Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys returning punts. I'm kicker turner.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're gonna see Isaiah Mosey back there and mckaid
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  Speaker 2: nelson back there returning kicks. So in addition to being
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  Speaker 2: the backup running back spots, they're gonna be back there
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  Speaker 2: along with Kenneth Williams returning some.
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  Speaker 1: Kicks and our.
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  Speaker 2: Big time transfer portal number one in the year, Kevin
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Gaelic the long snapper. As expected, if you're going to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: get a guy out of the portal for long snapping,
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  Speaker 2: he's probably gonna start now.
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  Speaker 3: Now we talked about this, ja Corey Barney is your
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  Speaker 3: return kick returner. I'm not you said play your best
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  Speaker 3: players at their position. Are you worried about me playing
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  Speaker 3: him a bit too much in getting him hurt back there?
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  Speaker 2: No, this is the kind of guy that I want
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  Speaker 2: that the returning punts. I mean, I'm not at all.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I think when you have an explosive athletic guy, and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and I'll be honest with you, Cory Barney's I think
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: what you want you want guys for turning punts like
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: well Austin mentioned it in a previous podcast and coming
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: from Eckler, but you want those guys to be shifty
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and then have a huge.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Burst of speed.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He's perfect for that, yes, And I mean you even
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: just looking at size wise on the depth chart, he's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: he's six seventy.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: He's not six foot. I'll taste like that.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: No, but he's listed at six foot. That's like me
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: saying I'm six foot.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so's he is listed there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: But well, I mean we'll see.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I think he's the perfect guy you want out there
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: or turning punts and I I mean, put your best play.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: We need we need something to happen on the punt
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: return game like and he's someone that has a little
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: bit of experience from last year. We need to have
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a return game this year and hopefully get us a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: better field position and maybe a couple of touchdowns.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: But maybe that's asking too much.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Yeah, it's I the kicker position.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be too worried about I guess, like you said,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: it's I guess it's better to have two or three
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: guys there, like you said, because mentally wise, once one
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: of them goes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Shot, you can pull.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: You can pull the one guy that's not doing well,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I guess, and not be worried about it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And maybe we're past the days of worrying about catching
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: it and just fielding it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I I think, are you Are you worried about your
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: kicker going in the year basically?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, I would be. Yeah, I just
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: think that we haven't had good kicking games. So until
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I see it that we can make some field goals
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I mean extra points hopefully. But it's not just the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: kicking and also the.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Snapping in the holding.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's every it's everything, and we just we haven't
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: been good in that area in recent years, in several years,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and so yeah, like it is still a nervous spot.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Can you know, do I trust this having to you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: make up down three with eight minutes to go and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: have a forty five yard field goal? Do I trust
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: that that's going in? Absolutely not?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Not. Yeah, No, there's not a change.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: So it's it's like you said, it's more of a
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: see it to believe it, like yes, like you gotta.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to watch that position.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I think the most.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Okay switching Gears heroes move on to Cincinnati.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Talk a little bit.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: So before we get deeper into Cincinnati, I want to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: first this just discuss game ones, and this is general for.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Any team in football. What do you like? And I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: think there's multiple opinions on this. What do you like?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: What's the ideal game one? If you're back, if you're
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the head coach of Carlton State University and.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You said, they say, what do you want to do
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with your schedule? What do you want? How do you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: want it to look?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: What do you want to do with your game one?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I I personally hate playing decent teams week one because
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: because like I said last time, week ones are sloppy,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: and we just saw that with Case State. I would say,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: very sloppy game like, like you're gonna have penalties and
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: it's just gonna be it's gonna be sloppy.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Now, what I want game one is you at least.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: You want team to look solid. I guess week one.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm I'm also big you can't take
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: way much from week one.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: I don't.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I just think it's a sloppy shit show basically week one,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: no matter what the team is.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So there's two sides of that too. Because you mentioned
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: k State Iowa State. The big thing in week one
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: is both teams are in the same situation, and so
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: both teams are don't know what to expect. You don't
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you have an idea of what the other team is
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: going to do from the previous year. New coaches throw
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: another wrinkle into that. But you don't have a lot
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: of prep on the other team.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: In my mind, I mean, we've done enough of these.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Similar type opponents, even though we've been favored in a
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: lot of them, that yeah, I'm with you, like I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: want cupcakes, Like I I truly want teams that you
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: can go out and win a game. Yes, have a
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: preseason game, and and and when don't have to worry
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: about it. The concern behind that people will say, well,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you're not getting tested up front. Well, that's also a
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: good point because both teams, again are in this situation.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: But when you're the team Nebraska, when we're the team
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: that constantly is sloppy and usually wins the battle of
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: who's sloppiest in these games, it doesn't end up well
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And that's what's happened in all these games.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And so again, until we can prove that we are
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: clean efficient, you know, minimal penalties, not putting the ball
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: in the turf, then yeah, I don't I don't want
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to play that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: That's why these games scare the living crap out of me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And if we lose Cincinnati, well it's talk about that
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: here later. But it's one of those things I don't.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I don't need to play these games to start the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: year off. Now with two or three, I think that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: they're not horrible, but even real setate in the new
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: playoff system, do you need to play non conference games
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: that are even Power five power Probably don't.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I personally don't take a lot from week one of
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: any team because you don't have preseason in college football.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: It's it's basically like your warm up game, and it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: where where it's really sloppy is in week In week
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: one games, your old mine is gonna be sloppy, holdings,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of holding penalties.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: That's that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That's the position group I think is the most sloppy
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: in week ones.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Agreed, all right, Well, we're gonna get to our interview
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: here with Kendall Post, Kansaity Chiefs fan also loyal listener
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to the returna Glory Podcast. Yeah, we're here with Kendall
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Post and Austin joining us here this morning for our
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: interview portion. Kendall is a big time Chiefs fan and
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: has gone to a lot of games down in Arrowhead.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: He's also a loyal listener to the podcast. Kendall's wearing
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: his Chief's clothes here.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl champions, come on? I know that can't wear like.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Wait wait wait season? Was it last year?
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: No, it's actually the two years before that. Dad, I
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: don't know if you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Saw, uh, Kendall. You go, you go to a lot
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: of games down in Arrowhead Stadium obviously where we're playing
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: on Thursday, and you're you know, your your parents set
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: up a nice tailgate every every week for the game.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I think what the people want to know here is
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: how's this all gonna work.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: It's going to be interesting with Nebraska fans fans, I
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: think it'll be more communal this game compared to Chiefs games.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's rooting for Nebraska Chiefs games. There's people
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: from out of state, people's first time ever in a stadium,
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: which a lot of people this year will happen with Nebraska.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: There'll be a lot of people's first time at a
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: pro stadium. I think there's gonna be a lot more
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: community aspect like it is at Nebraska tailgates where people
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: are mingling all about and stuff and all that. But
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be a nice four hour pregame. Probably opens
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: up three. Start getting ready at about seven to go
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: in the game, so bring enough beer for four hours.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Basically is three o'clock.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So I looked last night. I saw three thirty.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Three thirty three. It depends on how many people are
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: waiting outside, because if there's too much traffic out there
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: and it backs up like towards the interstate, then they
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: just open it early. Sometimes it opens like an hour early.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: But that's what Chiefs games. So there's more people. There's
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: crazier tailgators at Chiefs games. There's people with buses and everything.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Same with Nebraska, but I don't know if they're traveling down.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I think you might want to expect it. So that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was the question.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: So three thirty is when the gates open, but as
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: far as lining up, and I wouldn't put it up
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: past the Braska fans, Oh, line.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: It up, But they will open it early.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I believe, so yeah, they should. They usually do every
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: single Chiefs game if enough people are waiting there. The
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: thing is Chiefs games usually starting at noon to three
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: thirty sometimes seven, you know, But I mean they're there
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: before the sun rises a lot of times, which I
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: don't know why people sleep overnight in the line and
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: stuff which sounds ridiculous not gonna be happening this year.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's terrible. How many tickets are sold?
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Do you know? Because I see it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pulled out. Yeah I haven't not not yet.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Seventy six thousand. That's a that's a lo this Memorial
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: what's Memorial Stadium? Is it eighty eighty five five? I
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: still think, I still think this could be louder than
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Memorial Stadium usually.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: That's I was gonna ask, is you're talking me about it?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: You it's more built for sound, it sounds like I
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: think so.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's more straight up funneling the sound right
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: down in and the game's at eight pm. The Brassy
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: games don't out of state, and there's not going to
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: be many. I think four year olds are eighty five
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: year olds like there is in Memorial Stadium.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: It's too late for four year olds.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Now there's people on Facebook complaining that it was eight
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: pm when the schedule released. How am I supposed to
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: take my two year old there to the game. We
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: don't that's how you do it. Don't do that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: It's an away game technically, and it's a Thursday night
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: after most people took Friday.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Off too, you know, you crazy person, not too. It's
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: gonna be over at what like eleven Yeah, and getting
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: out of that stadium is a pain to begin with.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: And then you have everybody out of state not knowing
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: which way to go back to their hotels or home.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a pain. I'm saying, get back
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: to the hotel room at like two am or something.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be terrible.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What what is that again? Give you go background here
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: on the on the parking lot and how this all worked,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: because I know, I mean I've heard how tailgating. You know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: you could open it up three thirty tailgate. Then what
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: happens throughout the next nine hours in the part.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Once you get in there, I mean, if you look
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: at the like overhead section of the Chiefs and Royals Stadium,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: it looks terrible. It's just a huge parking lot, looks
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: like a giant Walmart out in the middle of nowhere.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So I mean, everybody there is drinking. There's no like
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: let's say, what's it called, like fan services or anything.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: It's just a big parking lot. There's no concerts or
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: nothing like that. Once the Royal Stadium gets torn down,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: then they're gonna have something like that. But the next
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: nine hours it's just a bunch of eating and drinking.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Some people have TVs, but it's not like Nebraska tailgates
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: where everybody has a TV set up or anything. So
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: there's that too, And I mean port potties, not enough
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: of them. I'll tell you that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: When the game starts, what happens, Well, game starts, well,
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: the thing is unlike Nebraska games, you can't really stay
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: out in the parking lot and tailgate.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know about if it's gonna be the same
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: as Chiefs games, but there'll be people like riding around
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: in golf carts and stuff, checking if you're taking over
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: too much space in the parking lot and stuff. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: once the game starts, they'll come around and check if
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: people have tickets, because if you don't have a ticket,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know what they do. If you don't have
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: a ticket but you're in the parking lot, I don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: know if you have to leave or something. But that's
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: a rule that you can't be in the parking lot
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: once like the game starts, if you don't have a ticket.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's what I wonder, do they kick you out?
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Like what?
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what they would do that.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Lusker fans is going to be tough because if you
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: don't know that information. I mean, think about Nebraska tailgates.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: People will just tailgate through the game and watch the game.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: If it'll be interesting to see if that's allowed and
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: what will happen, or maybe they'll say, you know what,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: there's too many people doing it that don't know what's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: going on.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: We just got to let it go.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know where you go. You just leave everybody
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: that went to the game in and just leave the
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: parking lot. I have no idea. Hopefully that doesn't happen
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: to any of us. That's the main thing.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: We should be in the game.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: We should be. We should be.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Maybe knowing you.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Game gets over. You mentioned the chaos getting out of there.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, what you spend your estimated time like im
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: it depending on where you're at right it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Could yeah, over an hour, that is true to depending
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: if you park at the back parking lot. I mean
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: towards the exit'll be better front parking lot, I say
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Alex Cruz too, He's just been saying people don't know
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: how to ziper merge. For Nebraska, they don't know how
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: to zipper merge. That's the main thing. I guess getting
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: out of the stadium. Usually I've had a couple of beers,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: so I'm kind of asleep in the back seat and
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: then just arrived in the hotel. But man, there's some
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: years where it's just a standstill for just fifteen to
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: twenty minutes trying to get out of your parking spot.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: But then some people just go back, depending if we
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: win or lose, some people go back and just drink
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: in the parking lot for a little bit some more
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: to waste some time until you get out. Is that allowed, Yes,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: that is allowed. It's allowed, as in they don't stop you.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's like in the rule book
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: where you can do that just amount of time. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: don't grading, especially since it's an eight o'clock game. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: don't know, because I mean Chiefs games at noon get
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: over at three thirty and stuff, So then you can
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: be in there. I mean I've been in there for
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: another hour probably, but I don't know. Man, with it
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: being that late, seems like they're gonna want to be
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: ushering people out now. Cincinnati wins, they're gonna have let
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: those six thousand fans stay there and they won't even know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, we'll see about that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So how do you go ahead?
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: How do you think the game's going to go?
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Oh? God, I'll be honest, I'm very, very nervous about
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: this game. I've heard way too many good things from
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: people as they know. One's saying, oh, they don't have
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: a chance. Cincinnati does not have a chance. I mean
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: it's nine people say that. Other people, Oh, it could
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: be close, this is a possibility we can lose. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: mean I'm hoping we beat them double digits. What's the
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: spread now six and a half or is it yees plus?
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: I mean I could see us winning nicely. I could
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: see us winning by fourteen, But man, those first if
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Cincinnati gets the ball just runs it down our throat
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: as a seven minute drive comes down, Oh my god,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, right there, I kind of think the game's over.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Obviously we're gonna we're gonna battle back, try to, but man,
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: that's gonna demoralize us. Oh god, I'm just thinking of
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: the worst things right now. This is terrible. I'm want
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: this game to I want to be in the stadium
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: right now and have kickoff halfen.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I like doing this. This is how my brain works.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I want to go through.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: The tail and scenarios here. So one being we lose,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: like what what what happens to Nebraska fans like you,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: yourself and everybody can answer this.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: If we lose this game, Jesus.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: What happened? Then all I'm thinking about is Michigan, he
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: kind of. I mean, if you lose this game, Michigan's
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: way better than Cincinnati. I mean they should be. But
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: then you're thinking you want to go into Michigan state
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: two and two and wonder if you're gonna win that game,
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: because hopefully we can be akron in HCU. I mean,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: definitely hgu akron. If you go zero and two, call
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: the season often, you know, burn all your Husker gear.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: But losing this game, if we lose by if we
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: lose by three points or twenty points, I think it's
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: the same. Yes, I think that matters.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, Austin, what do you think?
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I agree? I mean, we lose this game, it's gonna
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: be a sad scene. It's gonna be worse than probably
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: the Illinois game last I mean last year, the Illinois
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: game that over time just everyone was it was a
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: very sad group. This will be worse.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: We've had some sad games, I mean very sad.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Bas be the worst one.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: That's That's what's gonna say, is is this Northwestern's up
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: there for your first Yeah, I think this could be
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: the saddest.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be such a cool atmosphere. It's gonna be
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: all set up for Nebraska. It's gonna be ninety Nebraska fantas.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: Weather, it's gonna be great raining, I guess by then.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: But yeah, everyone's going to travel down. The hype is
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: going to be.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: It's an away game. I mean the homes Junior is
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: playing in touch Mahome's house drink.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: There's there's hype every year.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's joking around, but this year, I feel like
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: there's actual hype with Nebraska football. And you lose, that's
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: out the window right away.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: I I don't Nebraska's not gonna lose. I feel pretty good. No,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: I feel for We're not gonna lose, but if we do,
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: they will boo the fans will book reaction. Yep.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: So this is what I like, those the hype guys
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: and where the fan base is at, Like, yes there's hype,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Yes there's high expectations, but I do think people like
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: what Austin just that people are on the verge of
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: like saying, f this like all of it, and.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: I drove down here, I spent money and.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: And and that's not just this game.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: That is the football program in general for however many
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: years and thinking like now everybody's like this is gonna work,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: this is gonna work, We're gonna believe it. And the
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: second this game happens, it's gonna be it's like taking
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: a balloon and is shoving a needle into it. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna be a slow to flate. It's just
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: gonna explode. And it's I mean, people are going to
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: give up. And this is fans, but I'm talking players,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I'm talking coaches. The amount of deflating thoughts that are
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: gonna come in after a loss, like it's going to
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: be bigger than what people think. And then what Kendall
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: you said is important, then focus on Michigan that is
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: going to be so goddamn hard now, good news is
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: you have three weeks to do it, but so fricking
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: hard to mind to do that, Like player, I'm talking internally,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: players and coaches because everything that you like are hyped
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: up about and looking forward to the season, and for
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: this first game, you're not playing a cakewalk like Dak
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: and I talked earlier. Oh that's that's that's the what
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: if lost to me, like wheels are gonna fall off?
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Yea, So say sat Or Brandons game? How many day straight?
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: You're not sleep Hunter?
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Definitely not that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, my my balloon's already. My
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: balloon's slowly deflating right now. So this will just put
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the nail on the coffin for it. On the flip side, guys,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about this. What if Nebraska wins
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: thirty eight to ten. Oh what if obviously the expectation
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: was supposed going by touchdown ten points.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: What if it's a blowout. What if we come out?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: What if we score forty five and we win forty
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: five to thirteen.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: I think I think you could be like maybe twenty
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: four twenty three ranked the next week. I'm gonna be
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: surprised about that. That and then heading into Michigan. The
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: coverage for that game, Yeah, you're.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Gonna be huge. Yeah, I don't.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess if you come out and look great again,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: we don't know how good Cincinnati is.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: We'll just figure that out. Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I just don't see any way possible that this game's
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: not sloppy.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: True, but if it's wet, I could see that.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about what if blown out?
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: I would say it's if that's the case. I don't
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: think the fans react to what you think, because I
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: think the expectation is of that how much better than Cincinnati.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: We are like, people will be jacked, but it's not
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: gonna be like oh boy, I mean because there's already
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: people who are like, if we win this game by
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: ten points, it's gonna be this is Natty or bust year.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: We're making the playoffs.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: So here's here's why I think forty five thirteen means
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: you started to get people like me to start going
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: like this, like you you do. You get the French,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the fans that are in this point of I want
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: to believe, but I'm not going to. I'm not until
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I see it.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati could be bad. We don't know, but you you
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: blow a team like this out, which we don't ever do.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: We don't do that. Oh we've done to Northwestern, I
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: think only team out power five team recently.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Natty out.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Last year we killed wisconsinently kind of yeah, I mean
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: that was as impressidents. I'm talking like just obliterate for
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: about everybody then is boded.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Like now, I'm gonna try to not let myself say, Okay,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: one game, let's not divealling over one game.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: But if it's one game in impressive fashion like that,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: oh boy and me, but also the players and the coaches,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: and like you do that, your mindset now be goes.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: We're pretty freaking good. Whether Cincinnati is good or not,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I wanted to go through the
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: tail lands. We'll talk about more realistic stuff here in
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: a second, but kendall last thoughts here. House Rules God
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Matt Rules podcast comes out.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: I always come out, come on. Just did some research
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: this morning. On It's Let's See. The co host is
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: Anthony Acause Gargano. I don't know who that is, no idea.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: His first guests are a author, a basically a self
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: help author, and Javin Wright, the linebacker. But my god,
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: he opens it up. I watched the first two seconds
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: two minutes. He's like, why are we doing this? Well,
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: you know I've been fired before. And then another thing
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: he talks about being fired again. He just talks about
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: all I've had four head coaching jobs. I don't really
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: care about this. You know, I'll be on the beach
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: so on flip flops if this doesn't work out? What
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: the hell are we doing here? Who's gonna listen to this?
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Who's gonna listen to this? If we're two and three
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: going into Michigan State, that's gonna look bad. I don't
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: like the optics of it. I don't think I'm interested
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: in anything. Coach who has to say? I mean, win
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: some games and then maybe, But I mean I think
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: it's embarrassing right now, deck, What do you think?
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: I don't over there.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I'm not big on yet.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Go win some games first, he's interesting, Yeah, going some
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: games first?
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: For doing his podcasts and other ship like that. It's like.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: It makes it makes almost feel like he's not locked in,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: like he's he's just run for Like the show.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: I guess people said it's good for N I L
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: And how's it good for Nil? What's the sponsors. I
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: didn't see any, Like, what are you talking about? What
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: an extra thousand dollars?
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: You're your last coach. Your last coach didn't give a
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: ship like it either.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: And it's like, oh no, no, let's just win against
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Cincinnati and then maybe I'll give house rule solution.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: It's weird that he felt he needed the platform two years.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: A year ago two he said I don't really like
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: doing these in season videos that we do with the team.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: Now he has a whole podcast. I don't get it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: I don't like it. But then again, if we blow
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: out Cincinnati forty eight to thirteen, I will subscribe and
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: listen to.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Atens. What's your general thoughts on it?
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Listen? It just it feels weird that he felt the
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: need for the platform. It's like, okay, he talks all
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: the time and all these different things. Is why do
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: we need a podcast. I mean, I'm fine with it
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: because he does like the radio shows, and it's just
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: if you think of it just as like another radio show. Okay,
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: I will admit I have now listened. I probably won't listen.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Maybe the cause is a you'reat cohe maybe there's a
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: new nickname for you, Dak, I do think.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to be the dead horse.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I'm in the same ballpark as you guys and Austin.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I like that thought, like why why need something else
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: in addition to everything you do?
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: He already tweets five times a day.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: I mean, my god, yeah, I'm fine with what he's
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: been doing.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: The people.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: The people will say too, you know, whether it be
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: a TV show, which is what like the old time
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: coaches were allowed to do once a week, the nil benefits,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: the recruiting benefits. I get all of that, Like, I
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: understand it. I just disagree with spending extra time on it,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: especially during the season when when you're now maybe maybe
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: the operation is so much different that rule doesn't have
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: to coach that much anymore. I don't know, Like maybe
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: he's got every all of his jobs or ducks are
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: in a row and he's able to focus on this
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: on Maybe that's the full intention. If it goes back
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: to leading an entire program on a different station. Maybe,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: But I also I like your take, like do we
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: really need something else? Like in addition right now, like
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: it again, win some games, he have this thing rolling,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: it'd be much more intriguing right now, it has more
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: negative repercussions right now, if things go south, you look
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: at something like this and you go, what in the
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: hell are we doing versus the benefits of it of
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: it working out, like, okay, great, it worked out, and
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: right now it makes me look kind of stupid.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: If things now, maybe it won't.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe we will win, maybe we will be five and
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: zh in five games, and we look back on all
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: this stuff and we go, oh, Matt rule is a genius.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: He had an all planned out but right now there's
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: nothing to indicate that because we haven't won anything besides
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: winning one bowl game last year, Like, congrats.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: At what point does he pulled Paul George and state,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: all right, this is over a need to focus on
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the playoffs.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: Right, playoff playoffs?
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: No, all right, Kendall, All right, thank you guys.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: There's one one more question after Kendle. Oh god, who's
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: the better quarterback? Jaj McCarthy or Patrick mahomes. Ja Jon
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: McCarthy's going to be out of the league.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: In two years? So that score prediction? Give me you
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: know what, No, twenty four thirteen, we're making a field goal.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: Okay, that's right.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Austin Rose joining us here the second half of the
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: pop Thanks to Kendall coming on this morning. I'm giving
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: us some preview of the Chiefs atmosphere down an arrowhead
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: for the game Austin. We talked depth Chart part one.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Before we do any breast of football, we better we
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: better mention Husker volleyball of the year two and zero
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: in the AVCA opening games here for the college volleyball season,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: defeating Pittsburgh on Friday and then Stanford on Sunday.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: Number three Pit and number six and Stanford. It was
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: not much of a game. I mean it was the
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: fans weren't even into it because it was that much
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: of a beat and it was just okay, the like
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: we look freaking good for the first two games of
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: the year to clean up Pit and Stanford like that. Yeah,
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: it's like, oh boy, And even Pit, like we dropped
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: set one, right, it was set one, or just set
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: two two? This set two, you're right. But even then
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: when we dropped it, it was it was still a
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: close set. We kind of went a round at the
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: end and then we killed them Set three, and we
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: pretty much killed them Set four, and they kind of
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: came back a little bit at the end, but it
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: really didn't feel that close, and Stanley Stanford was just
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: a bludgeting of what was once a you know, the
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: national champion.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, I thought set one against Pittsburgh we were down
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I think twenty one to eighteen and.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Like the straight points.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then same thing set too, So I think
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: it took us a couple of sets to maybe start clicking.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: And then I mean since then Set three, four, then
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: all of yesterday's game against Stanford was just.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: It was impressive.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Like this team that we've been hearing about, you know,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: hold the thought, but maybe one of the best teams
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: we've had, and we've had some pretty damn good teams recently,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: like this is this is a pre damn good team
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: in preseason ranked number one.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: It could it could be. It could be a pretty
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: impressive year.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: We had what four preseason All Americans or something like that,
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: and something crazy like.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Emon did her uh like top twenty five returning players
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: and we had like eight of them in the top
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: twenty five and three of the top four were from Nebraska.
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it could be a pretty good year, which is exciting.
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: You know, you get lump that with the football team.
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: You know, everyone's goat this and uh, I'm just kidding.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: Not quite that level. But we looked really good. The
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: new players mesched really well. I mean the returners are
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: the returners are still kind of the stars. So Danny,
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: Danny's got a good, good setup for our first season
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: at Nebraska. Not gonna lie. I also, like they said
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: the iron Sharbon's Irons, Like, well, wet that rualism going
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: on here at the volleyball team.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I went down there to do some positives, some podcast research,
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: see what the scene was like, people are, people are
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: jacked by Oscar black Wall, like everyone's like we're great.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Like I think.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: From the way, from the way it sounds, this could
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: go down as one of the best teams ever in
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: volleyball history.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, that's just what your research told you.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's when research told me. Now I didn't have
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: to ask who won.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: But it's it's nice to have a team that you
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: just feel that, you know, we have these soft expectations
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: for the football team. It's now it's like, if we
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: don't make the National Championship game, which is in Kansas
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: City this year, the Final four is in Kansas City. Unfortunately,
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: not unfortunately, my sisters would inside weekend, so.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I will get careful on your wording.
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: Not unfortunately unfortunate timing, but gosh, if I I would
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: buy tickets right now. Honestly, that's how good I feel
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: about this team. I watched. I literally I watched the
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: the game. It's pint and I was like, Okay, I'm
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: going to the Final four and I was like, oh,
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: it's in Kansas City and then I saw the date.
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: But honestly, get the tickets now.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Get them now, because they're probably just going to go up.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: That's the year, uh, Cincinnati. So we will be doing
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: a preview pod shorter one on Thursday morning before the game.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: But for those of you that have hung on along
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: this long.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: We want to talk a little bit about the Bearcats
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: and what coach Sadderfield's team is going to bring to
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Kansas City. Number one, the things that we've been hearing
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: and what their plan is is they're going to try
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: to muck it up and this is what I think
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: they're going to try to do.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: Like they're They're.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Defensive line specifically, is by far the strength of their team.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Their defensive tackle Dante Corleone, he's one of the better
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: defensive line, and we're going to see this year and that,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: and that's saying something and it's important to call out
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: because the offensive line is going to get tested right
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: away off the gate and we will see how they
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: hold up because we've had some higher not super high,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: but higher expectations for our offensive line. But Cincinnati, I
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: think in the trenches and as far as what I'm
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: going to look at early on is who's winning the
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and if one side is dominating the
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: other early on, that's going to tell you a lot
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: for how the rest of the game is going to
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: because they are pretty strong up front.
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's probably the best they it's well, I
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: guess he also will be fresh, but it's like, well,
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: at least the offensive line is gonna be fully healthy
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: against you know, one of the better defensive line, and
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: now he'll also be fully healthy. But if it's raining
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: and it's a slower game and you kind of know
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: what's gonna happen, it might make it a little more
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: difficult because it's like, well, we know they're probably going
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: to run the ball here, so they the way that
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: they you know, drop their defensive scheme would probably be
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: a little bit more taxing on the offensive line, but
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: also we would be drawing up a better scheme for
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: the run. I don't know, guys, I'm not gonna lie.
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: Quarterback does not scare you at all.
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: No, he doesn't.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I know the Brenon Stores is their quarterback that you're mentioned.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: He's been back back for his fifth season. I believe
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: in college football. Yeah, in a pretty solid year last year.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not He's is not a guy that's
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: coming in and he's unknown what he can do. Like
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: we have film, we have tape on him. He's experienced.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I think that's important, especially playing in a hostile environment
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: a road game for them is going to be He
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't scare you, but at the same time, having experience
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: scares me, like just to keep things together a true freshman.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: I would rather not rather, But if Bryce Underwood came
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: from Michigan and played in this, I think he'd get
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: He get rattled very easily.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think Spartan's.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Gonna be a guy that gets rattled. Because of the
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: situation and environment, we're going to have an advantage in.
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: That's a good point. But like Dak said, I'm not
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: when I say I'm not scared, not saying like, oh,
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: this guy's easy, but it's just it's not He's not
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: a weapon that I'm like, how are we going to
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: contain him? I think he'll he'll be able to handle
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: the moment better, like you said, but it's not a
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: guy that's gonna go out there and absolutely dominate the game.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: And we're not gonna be able to have an answer
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: for him because it you know, but like his receivers
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: can only do so much and I'm not there. I'm
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: feeling good, guys. I know you guys are all scared,
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: but I'm feeling pretty good, all right.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: The other offensive pieces that are gonna be you mentioned,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: like who else is there?
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Tababi Walker from Wisconsin?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: We got to face another Wisconsin running backup comes in
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: the receivers a lot. Basically, they're all gonna be new
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Cyrus Allen, Jeff calde O, Caleb.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Goodie like that.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: They are newer guys that we don't know how they're
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: gonna match.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: They don't know how they're gonna match.
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: That's so. But they're also new and this is you know,
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: with their quarterback, so there is That's.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying it's all new, so that I think
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: our advantage where everything's new, we don't really know what
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: that all could look like, and I think that's benefit
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: us of their defense. You know, I mentioned their run game,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: but it's not like overall last year they were very
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: vulnerable to big plays. And if our offense is explosive,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: like we think, it could be anything. I think they
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: could be a good thing now, whether you know, keep
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: that in mind. But I think our receivers against their
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: secondary is another matchup that if it pops for us,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: it's gonna pop, and it could be a lot of
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: fun offensively for this game specifically if that works. Now,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: you got to do your job up front first in
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: any sort of passing game. But do I think this
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: is go out and sling it eighty five percent of
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: the time. No, It'll be a good healthy balance. I
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: think run and pass, but I do think that's important.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: And then the turnovers another big thing. You know, Cincinnati
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: was minus four and turnovers last year. We obviously have
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: not had strong numbers in the turnover differential in recent years.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Defense forced a few more last year. That's more of
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: the definition of John Butler. That'll also be a thing.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: If the turnovers are three to one Cincinnati's favor, I'm
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: not liking it. If it's the opposite, I like where
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: we're at.
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: It'll also be interesting because Cincinnati led the Big twelve
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: in time possession, We led the Big ten in time
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: of possession.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: So that's that's gonna say.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati wants to slow this game down, and but we also, yeah,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: do you though with this new high flying offense.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what we're gonna see, Like this could be
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: different we had last year. We definitely did you mentioned
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: the time of possession stat. We'll see what offense looks
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: like this year and specifically this game, how we want.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: To attack it.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, don't go for deck.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: I just don't see any way Cincinnati wins this game
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: if they get't shoot out with Nebraska like they they
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: have to slow it down to win this game, which
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: the weather might help them a lot help them they did.
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: Is it going to rain?
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Like, what's a percent chance?
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: I don't know what it is right now.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Last I saw it fifty for the weather forecast, So
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: it there's a chance. I don't know, we're gonna know
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: for sure, but there's a chance that it could be
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: a little wet. I don't think it's going to be
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: like pouring rain the whole game, but yeah, there's probably
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: gonna be some weather involved there. I should mentioned before
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: we move on from Cincinnati players, their tight ends good
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: to by the way, he's a senior transfer from Ohio State.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Like he's not maybe pro potential, I don't know, but
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: he's solid. Like they're gonna they're gonna utilize the guy
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: as well as most you know, running play action type
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: teams are going to do.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: My last matchup thing to watch is.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Kind of flipping the other line line of scrimmage around
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: our defensive line. It's like kind of the big concern
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: you know, this year, and we mentioned the depth chart
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: some of the ores there. Moving multiple guys in Cincinnati's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: offensive line I think is solid. They're going to have
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: a strong run game. Can our defensive line stay fresh
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: hold their own against another Power five opponent right away
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: from the get go.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: We're going to find that out.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: The line of scrimmage guys, and we talk about in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: the podcast a lot.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: It's huge, especially for this game.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: It is so big in how this game is going
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: to play out, and if we can't hold our own
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a close game, and it probably
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: will be a close game.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: But I don't think.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: We're going to get blown out or we're going to
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: blow them out or anything like that. I thought line
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: of scrimmage game is a battle, and I think it
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: probably will be, which leads me to where I think
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: the game will go.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: So you're getting You're getting less and less confident as
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: we get towards the game. No, I I've never felt
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: great about this game.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah I'm not.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: There's my confidence isn't going down.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: I'm getting more nervous, but I'm not my cop. I
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: have never once thought felt good about this game.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: What was your original percentage prediction?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 6: That's too low.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in the middle of you in Austin. I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: don't new practice should win this game.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: The only thing that gives me pauses the weather. That
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: is the only thing. I think it's gonna be a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: good game. And I'm not saying if Cincinnati went to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 6: be shocked, but if it if the weather was totally normal.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: I just think our offensive talent is far superior than
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: our defensive talent. Our defensive talent is good enough full
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: of seniors, and our dvs are good enough that we
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: would win. The weather is the only thing that's making
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: like oh gosh, because that kind of neutralizes half of
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: what we're good at, our offensive talent. All of a sudden,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: it's like, well, our wide receiving corp is not as useful,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: and now they're kind of game playing against our run game.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: And so we'll see. We do have a whole offseason
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: to prepare for this opponent.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I think it's my week ever and so at Cincinnati.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: So Cincinnati again, since Cincinnati goes down, gets that ball
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: for his scores. Here we go.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Here's what I want to do for our prediction. Here
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: to end the show, I want you to give me
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: a score prediction. But I also want you to give
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: me one player to watch. Maybe it's a position group,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: but player that you're watching, you're excited to watch, You're
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: intrigued to watch.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Leading up to this game.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go twenty seven to seventeen Nebraska, and I
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: am excited to watch Jacorey in the special teams unit.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Specifically, I I was for sure thought you're gonna.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: Go Argie, gotta see our Lord and savior, Archie Wilson.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna Go thirty one seventeen Nebraska and Dankey is
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: the one I'm gonna be watching because there's a lot
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: of hype behind him.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: Can't he back it up? Or how much or how
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: much are they even gonna use him?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: That's funny, you guys both did receivers. I'm probably most
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: excited to watch some of these younger running backs. I
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: don't think Emmett's going to be in the whole time.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I think Makai Nelson is going to get some opportunities.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: How many, I don't know, but it might be on
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: the Kicker Turn game. I think that I want to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: see how these guys look in a game more. I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: have a pretty good idea of what Emma Johnson can
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: and can't do, and maybe he'll flash for more. I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: haven't watched Dame Key, but I'm excited to watch. I'm
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: excited to watch Ja Corey and then yeah, my second
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: close up is our punt game.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: I hope.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see if it's like just this transformed.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: I think it could be really cool, so I'm really
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: pumped to watch.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: That as well.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: I went from fifty or sixty percent. I'm you're right, Dak,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I probably am a little bit less excited about winning.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: I'm moving my percentage on to fifty. And I flipped
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: a coin and we lost, So I'm gonna go twenty
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: four to twenty one Cincinnati.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: Wow, that's so so dumb, Hunter.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm dumb, so dumb. I hope I'm dumb.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: I I hope, I hope. I hope you're right. Also,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Dak overall one on his picks the year.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: That was a great start.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: Go if we're on that fourth down was a terrible call.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: It's terrible, tough, tough. I could not believe they they
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, whatever, that's not I wasn't that upset,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: but I was like, this is that was atrocious decision.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: All right, we.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: Will be back Thursday morning. We'll have a game day
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: pod for you released early to mid morning that you
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: can listen to on your way down to Kansas City.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: A little more Cincinnati preview. Maybe my mind will change,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: but I doubt it. Yeah, go be gred gb R
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: go be greddow