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Episode 5.36: The Hospital Visit -- Maryland Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turn the Glory podcast, Jarberniki Austin Rose, Dakota Free Tag. Guys.
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I want you to picture this three point thirty left in the game on Saturday,
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Uskers go up thirteen to ten after a Tristan Albano field goal. Our
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defense comes out against Tulia Tega Bailoa, and the crowd is just going nuts.
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All right? Got that picture? Yes? I think? I think
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you do. Your Your defense is playing great the whole game. Just put
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them back on the field with any lead. You win that game. I
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probably agreed, probably agree, or do agree. M I do agree,
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guys. This game is on Matt rule. It's his fault coaching staff.
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They lost us a game, and I was very disappointed in the postgame press
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conference too, and and in some of the comments that were made it this
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is the first game. I mean, Minnesota was very disappointing too, but
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this game is very different because of when it happened at this point in the
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season, and what it shows me is a lack of awareness of our players
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and what we have in the situation that we are at here Nebraska. And
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I say that because I thought that we had a good grasp on that.
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When I say we the coaching staff had a good grasp on that and very
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disappointing there in that game how it ended. It just goes against everything that
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we thought. I will say just about the running the ball, that being
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smart. Obviously, the turnovers, we'll get to that like that, we'll
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get to that. But that single handed drive or player decision that just cannot
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happen at that point in the game given the situation. I mean that tons
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of things that just I mean everybody. I think every Husker fan would have
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been very statisfied and would have called a run play, kick the field goal
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and go up. Like hell, there were fans around me saying the field
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goal on first down, like that's all we wanted in that situation. And
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I don't know. Did we get greedy, That's what I think. I
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don't know we got greedy. We thought, again, we thought we had
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players that we don't have to make the decision and rules reasoning in the post
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postgame press conference was I thought it'd either be an incomplete pass that led to
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a field goal attempt. Okay, Like yeah, I mean I hope we
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all hope that. I guess, I don't know. I'm just confused.
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I guess on where the decision making wise. I mean, if you're a
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head coach, you should be just screaming if the offensive coordinator calls that no,
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no, no, and there's no kill shot. I mean, this
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is this is second to the on side kick right there. Don't we don't
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need a kill shot. I saw someone trying to argue Maryland. Oh,
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they just showed they can go down and score in two plays. No,
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no, maybe they did one for sailing scored ten points through fifty eight minutes
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of the game. And what is our defense? I mean, what has
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there been our strength of our team the entire season and continued this game against
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one of the most high powered offenses we've seen this year. That if a
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nominal job, and yet that's what happens, that's the result. That's where
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my head was at. I guys, I'm disappointed, and I'm we talk
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about red flag as the coaching staff. This is the number one biggest one
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so far was this game because of the importance of the game and the moment
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on the line, the lack of awareness that we had for the situation at
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hand, and understanding what Nebraska football is. It's all Husker fans. We
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just want to win. There's no winning pretty that that. If you let
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Husker fans get in your head because of that, if you let that happen,
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then you're not a good coach. Find a way to win the game,
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however you need to win it, and doing making that play call in
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that situation with our third string quarterback in who's thrown two passes his entire career
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as a Husker is not smart at all at all. Your defense played the
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ass obviously, but was the whole stadium? Was the whole stamueling? No,
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no, no, any went back to pass? Yeah, I mean
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yeah, I was like it was just it would just run it and kick
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a field goal if we happened to break one. Great, Like, yeah,
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I would say the couple of plays and leading up to that that drive
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was phenomenal and very impressive. What Chubba did. I think that was a
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couple of plays that he scrambled on and was great. The other comment on
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that last series there, and I know, we don't want to blame play
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call and blame whatever or blame it on one drive, because yeah, it's
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an entire game that decides the outcome. But this one drive we get down
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their first and goal from the five. This is the other strange thing.
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Rule claims that first down when when Chubba pulled it and ran to the right
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and threw it away, which I thought could have potentially been in either an
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intentional grounding or since he got a pass line of scrimmage in an eligible receiver
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downfield that was supposed to be a run play and Chubba said, I'm going
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to pull it and take it for myself. And again that that's that's crazy
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to me as a football player, that I mean, what what is that?
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I don't say lack of respect, but you're just going to defy exactly
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what you're told to do because you think you can make a play. Like
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I'm not blaming Chubba, but that just tells you maybe a little bit about
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the program, right and and the state of the locker room. And yeah,
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we think everything's really really good. But that makes very little sense to
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me either. And then obviously second and third down went the way it did
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that whole sequence. And then yeah, once that happens, guys, you
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knew, you, you freaking knew the whole stadium knew Maryland was gonna come
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down. The defense had bailed the offense out how many times that game by
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getting their own turnovers and getting their own stops. And yeah, I guess
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the defense failed there too on the last drive. But it's very frustrating of
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what we had there with the stakes in the line, and that's what happened,
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and that that's totally on the coaching staff, and I don't think there's
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really many people against that. I think at this point, if you're if
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you guys ran wildcat the whole year, had no quarterback play, what do
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you think your record? Because your quarterbacks are killing you. That's your only
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that's the only thing that's like losing games. I mean we basically have we
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we've thrown the fewest passes outside of like Army and Navy, Like that's basically
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it, like we aren't throwing the ball. Yeah, and when we do,
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I I mean, I saw there's tons of stats and numbers floating around
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obviously. Jeff Simms, out of his twenty six drives he's had on offense,
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twelve of them have resulted in a turnover almost half. I mean,
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yeah, that that was not surprising at all. Chubba comes in and his
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last drive it no looks solid ends the turnover though, Heiner Carbard. Guys
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have been trending downward now for three four games. But so the quarterback situation,
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I for the fans and the people that listened that didn't really know,
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guys, all of our quarterbacks are not good. Like the hope coming into
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the year, right was that Jeff Simms maybe was out of a ten,
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maybe he was a six or seven and was solid. Dak warned us that
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he wasn't and he's a turnover machine. We all said, Dak, we'll
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see, we'll see. Nope, Dak was right. And so we're stuck
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with three quarterbacks that are all like between there are two out of ten,
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three out of ten. They're not good quarterbacks. It's impressive to have three
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quarterbacks that if you were to put me in a pitch black room and I
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watched a game, they had no numbers and they were just wearing morph suits,
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I wouldn't be able to tell you which one is which, Like they're
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literally three of the exact same quarterback. Yes, yes, and we can
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sig here to debate one strength over the others. And and I think we
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had a point there, or we were fighting for Jeff Sims early on in
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the leaders. Then we had a point that we're like, nope, the
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harbor. We got to fight for him because he's getting Like last week,
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we were trying to defend him. You know. There. You could do
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all of that, and that's great. But bottom line is, I think
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what this game showed to everyone is that we have three quarterbacks that are that
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are very much the same. They are very poor decision makers or lack of
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experience, and that's what we have. And you know what, we might
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not have been the only ones that realized it. Maybe the coaching staff also
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said hmm, and they probably knew that all along, I think, But
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it's one of those deals that I don't know what you need go from here,
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and it does. It makes the worst part about this all It goes
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way back to the first red flag of Matt Ruhle is his confidence in Jeff
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Sims when he recruited him and reading what kind of player he was when we
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had the code of free tag on here hosting a podcast for his first year
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called that out from the get go is turnover and it's mental psyche of the
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game is just not good, and that was what we chose over. Now
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we don't know the whole story over Casey Thompson, and with jac Thompson here
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at quarterback, that was the kind of guy I think we needed. Yeah,
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Case is a great password, He's not as much for a runner.
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But shit, guys, we don't run our quarterbacks anymore anyways. We don't
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do it. We have a couple of designed QB draws. We try to
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run some speed options, but those I think are now scouted out by opposing
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teams. Of the element of surprise there has gone away. It's really goes
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back down to that initial decision of we put all of our cards on the
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table on Jeff Simms. We knew Heinrich was Heinrich, we knew Chubbo was
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Chubba. And here's where we're at from a quarterback situation. But yet all
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that whatever, here's what we still freaking do though. We still play them
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like they're a six or seven out of ten, like that's how we design
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our offense. We still design it and have them throw the ball like they're
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better than they are and they're not. Man how you really feel, I'll
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tell you what the biggest travesty in all sports is the Marcus Souderfield makes more
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money than Tony White. That is bad. That's a scam job right there.
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Like no other Marcus Centerfield is like a top six paid offensive coordinator.
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Yeah, I don't want it again. It's you don't want to get too
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hard on Centerfield because he doesn't have a quarterback on him. I mean that's
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I mean, that's I totally agree. I totally agree. But you know,
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you look at just injury wise our quarter we don't have good quarterbacks,
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but we don't have any pieces around your quarterbacks to help. It's gonna make
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it look even uglier and probably limits what he wants to do. That's the
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defensive Saderfield. I'm not gonna say he should be one of the top ten
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highest paid offensive coordinators. I think that's crazy. But oh, that's it's
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a fake account. I just I just got a breaking news that Marcus Sadderfield
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has been fired. No that's not no, Yeah, it's a couple of
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it. Sean Callahan fake account and the ball Sacks Sturge fake account, their
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fake accounts. But I saw that, I got it started laughing. You
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wish, dude, I yeah, So Sadurfield and and this is this is
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the quote of the year so far from Dirk Chatlin. I don't know if
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you guys saw it, and it is spot on. It sums up everything
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that has gone on with the season so far. It was after the game
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last night he said, the difference between eight and two Iowa five and five
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Nebraska is that Iowa accepts that its offense stinks and manages the game accordingly.
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And to me, it's spot off with what we've seen from the offensive side
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of the ball right like hell, Iowa's accepts it the point they've even fired
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their offensive coordinator and they're eight and two and they know that, so they
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know how to play the game and manage it in a way that allows them
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to win the game the way they need to win it ugly. And I
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know we all laugh and think how bad eyele football. Those guys are eight
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and two. They do it every year. Every year, they do this.
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Every year they win games like this and maybe we can get them in
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the last game of the year. We need to. We're gonna need to.
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But why is it, Why is it so complicated to just find a
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way to it. And yeah, think going into the offseason, you can
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get a better quarterback, you can get the better players. But bottom line
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is we don't have the players right now that are confident or we have enough
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trust in to run whatever our picture perfect style of offenses from sadderfield rule,
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whatever that is on a whiteboard. We don't have those players to execute that.
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And we still seem like we run plays like we do and it's not
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working. We still we turn the ball or five times, Like I would
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literally be okay with every game running it three times and punting the ball and
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seeing what happens, because I think we would break away a couple of runs,
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but most importantly, we wouldn't turn it over. Maybe if we don't
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fumble, we still stumble. We still fumble the ball quite a bit.
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I would turn the corner. They had four Hunerd yards yesterday, that's true.
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I would did. I don't I agree with you Hunter. We I
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was watching with my brother and dad and on the peacock, which whatever I
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paid for it, Okay, congrats peacock, you did it. You got
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me six dollars. Enjoy it while you can. But we were literally saying
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the exact same things, like just it's okay, just acknowledge that you're bad,
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and just three and out punt, three and out punt, and every
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once in a while, your defense will turn the ball over and you'll be
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able to get a field goal, and you hope you win that way.
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Just milk the clock. Yeah, my goddamn for the love of God,
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here's here's what I think rule and staff. I think this is what they're
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fighting, because, yes, in a world that we just want to win
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games, all we've talked about in the decision on third and five is very
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easy. Running the field will go ahead. I think in the back of
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their minds, the bigger picture thing that they're fighting is the recruiting in the
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upcoming years of getting players to come in and play a style of football that's
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attractive and then that will benefit your team. So I think the message that
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he's giving outwardly speaking by kind of being aggressive a little bit and writing the
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high the momentum and taking some of those risks and hoping they work out is
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we have confidence in our players. It's fun to play football here. We
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support you know, even when they're struggling. I think he's trying to tell
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us, like, no, we trust our players to go make plays,
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and therefore that hopefully helps get recruits in a style that may be a little
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more enjoyable. But the problem is, if you're going to trust your players,
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you've got to have the players to begin with to be able to do
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it. And I don't know that we have properly assessed that part of it,
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especially from the key offensive positions with your quarterback, I mean, some
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receivers. I think our offensive line has done a solid job. They haven't
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been great, they haven't been horrible like previous years, So I guess that's
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a step in the right direction. But I think they're struggling with that is
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we have to have a program that people want to come here and play.
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Now, this goes all the way back to what our eventual style or philosophy
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is for this coaching staff moving forward, and what are we going to look
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like. Are we trying to be the Wisconsin Iowa of the past? I
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think a lot of us would say right now, yes, we want that.
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But does this coaching staff want that? Or are we trying to be
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more of a pro style offense, which is what we've seen the past couple
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of weeks that have resulted in losses. I don't know that's the big burning
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question looking at it from the big picture, because there's gonna need to be
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a lot of explaining and making up to if we cannot win one of these
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last two games and we end the year zero to four, which I don't
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think is out of the realm of possibility. Now, your quarterback play makes
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you have to play the power like run game stuff like that. If you
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went out there ran an air raid, you'd be fucked. I'm not saying
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air raid, but but for example, we like we've said, our quarterback
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play is not very good, but so is a lot of these big ten
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West teams, right we knew, we know that what they do better than
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what we do is they don't turn the ball over because they realize what they
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have and like Iowa, but Wisconsin a little bit in the sand bottle.
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They just got their asking by Northwestern. That was interesting. But they're realizing
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that that and therefore they're winning games at a higher level than we are because
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they know they don't have a whole lot of playmakers. And yeah, quarterbacks
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big one. The big question mark here, especially this year. That's proven
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that point. Trying to look to see what Centerfield's turnover Margo was last year.
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I'm just curious if it's a player thing or if it's a coaching thing.
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Obviously, it's a little bit of both. But he helped my boy
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back in South Carolina. I already had hate coming in. Oh rat Dog.
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The other thing. We can move on from the freaking third down play,
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but guys has echoed one of the points I made last week on our
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receivers and our scheming of pass plays and the route running and all of that
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in our past game. That third down play, that's obviously the one floating
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around on Twitter. You can watch it and break it down and slow it
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down, watch at every angle you want. The design of the play is
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not very good, and again we don't know if that's play itself or the
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players running the wrong route or what it was. You have, you're on
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the seven yard line. You have a guy running a corner route, a
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shallow corner route, not even deep like at the goal line. And then
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your two guys are running like three or three yard INDs where you and in
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versus a slant a slant you're coming straight across the middle, right and end
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you're going up three and over. Those two guys are running INDs. So
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you watch that play one, I still I'm not sure who the ball is
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getting thrown to I don't know, and I thought cam well, and I
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initially thought that the nice of people saying it could have been Malachi, and
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the ball probably wasn't too far out of Malachi's from the angle that I saw,
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probably wasn't too far away. Malachi runs a three yard in and the
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guy that picks it off is Malachi's defender. So whatever the case may be,
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and whatever, however, a good thrown of a ball was the guy's
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a play design. He was just not good. If you're gonna if you're
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gonna run a corner around and that's your that's your design, then get those
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two freaking guys out of there and throw it to the corner. I don't
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know football. I can play Madden, that's it. Like, I don't
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know designs to play, but I know that that's not what it's supposed to
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look like, especially on a third down and seven from the goal line.
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That it just is. It was not a well designed to play at all
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for your third string quarterback, especially like, just run the fricking ball up
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the middle. You don't have to worry about it. But anyways, I
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just I just saw that. I'm like, even whatever call a pass play.
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If you call a pass play by the book, whatever, then that's
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the play that we run as a result of it, instead of maybe getting
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him on a boot, like making it very safe to wherever he doesn't have
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an option, we can throw it away. But no, that's not what
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happened. And oh boy, just drop him back like a standard quarterback.
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That that's the play you want. Yeah, because we have one of those.
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It's exactly what we have. Yeah, all right, Well, any
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any other negative things? I mean, yeah, no, I think turnovers
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are really the only big negative. I don't talk talk about why that continues
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to happen. I don't know. I honestly don't trus Jeff Simmons, I
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don't know. Harberg even had one get called back, and it's like,
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wow, thrown and I think it was two picks in each of his last
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four games. It's honestly amazing that we have five wins with the number of
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turnovers we have, and Harbors also over, like you said, plays called
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back. Let's help. It's just so fascinating to me that that like that.
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It was not like it was a this year problem. Guys, this
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is last year's problem too, But this year it feels different. I think
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this year feels different because we're seeing a lot of Last year, we were
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so focused on our offensive line that some of the turnover things were like,
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Okay, this also sucks, but it doesn't matter if our offensive line is
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that bad, right, like you get sacked from the blind sign and fumble.
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It's a lot of our offensive line this year. I think we're doing
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some better things, especially defensively, that are keeping us in games and helping
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us win. And this is the one thing that is really really still dragged
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it holding us back is the turnovers. And the stats are all out there.
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It is nuts. Since two thousand and four, we are the second
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where we have the highest turnover or lowest turnover margin, whichever way you want
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to look at it. And the second team is like half of our it's
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like one hundred and something to like fifty something, Like it's just horrendous.
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It's horrible. I don't even know how do you coach that out. I
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mean, obviously, the the interceptions can be coached out, because that's more
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of an understanding of even a good quarterback play. Like the fumbles. I
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just don't understand, Like, here's how you here's here's one way you coach
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it out. You don't throw the ball in third and five from the goal
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line. Like, if you have players right that are gonna make mistakes,
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that that's going to happen. And unfortunately, we have quarterbacks in the room
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that probably make worse decision making than others, right, And yeah, maybe
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we have some running backs that have a little more fumble ightis than others.
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But as coaching, how do you coach out of that? You you literally
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dumb it down and you take out the element of risk as much as you
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can so that you are limiting your turnovers. And yeah, you might still
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have one or two that might still happen here or there, but you're not
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giving you yourself the chance to even have four or five, and especially late
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in the game. That's how you coach out of it. They may still
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happen, but you literally just to go back to round zero and just say
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running backs were not fumbling the ball, and I do. I will say
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I think the running backs gotten better on their carries. EMITTT. Johnson specifically
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on when they carry the ball, it is high and tight, they're they're
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tucking it away, like, yeah, you you would hope that you wouldn't
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have to do that if you have some better talent, but we don't.
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I think they've coached their way through that a little bit. The quarterback play
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in the interceptions though, I mean jesus, the one Jeff Simms passed that
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was like twenty feet over the head, like, oh my god. And
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that was also on a play like we didn't need to throw it there,
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like there's no I think that was first down or I don't remember exactly what
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it was a second and seven, but yeah, whatever it was. I
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in my mind at that same point in time, I said, great,
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we got a couple of first downs. If we don't get another one,
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we just punt it to change the field position. That's totally okay. But
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no, so well, what's gotta suck is you're wasting this great defense.
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If you had even decent quarterback play, you for sure, I have two
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more wins right now one Minnesota. You would have one yesterday, silent.
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It's a quarterback. That's yeah, yeak. I agree, And thanks for
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making us talk about the defense, because I I will say, another freaking
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phenomenal game against a very high powered offense, and guys talk about bailing out
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our offense several times. Man, did they do a phenomenal job of that,
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And they finally forced their own turnovers to like it wasn't Maryland most I
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think Maryland had three or four turnovers agree three I think, and two of
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them, if not all, three of them were us forcing them, like
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us making a play on the ball instead of them doing something dumb. Like
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our defense did exactly what we asked him to do this game and everything plus
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that, and again shout out to Tony White and everything that he's doing.
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You talk about his salary, him and him and sas should just flip salaries
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at this point because it's very impressive what he continues to do against an offense
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that I was scared they were going to score twenty four points like thirty one,
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and just because that's what they're doing against other teams that have good defenses
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as well. But nope, like here, we are battling our ass back
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every time we turn it over at midfield and get him to punter our field,
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go hold them to a field goal. Whatever that is. Our defense
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played well again and that needs to be known and remembered still because we're jack
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You're right, we're wasting him we're wasting our defensive qu Quint Newsom didn't even
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play yesterday. Yeah, and he arguably our best defensive player. Yep,
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it was it. Also, I think the reason that stings a little bit
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more is because it's like our offense is just put in the defense as far
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down as you possibly can. And when you thought Maryland was going to score
26:44
after our offense fucked up, they forced the phone about the three yard lay,
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like holy shit, it can happen, like we can cover up any
26:52
mistake and then we couldn't. But and you know, people are like,
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oh well I saw you know, rules said something online like oh well,
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you know, we still had a chance to stop them. You know that
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last drive of the game. Is like, yeah, you're right, but
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he's not wrong. But yeah, how many times again, yeah is elite,
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He's not wrong by any means, but how many times? I mean
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that game could have been with the way our offense to turn the ball over,
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could have been a twenty five point game at that point, but our
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defense continued to make plays and make up for it. And it comes down
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to our offense fucking up again. So the defense, guys, is phenomenal.
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That is still what gives me hope here the next two weeks that we
27:37
can win one of these and we can still win both of them. I
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really think we can because our defense is playing at such an elite level and
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we're not playing either offense is gonna be probably even as good as Maryland's here,
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Like I think Wisconsin might be getting Braylen Allen back potentially this Saturday,
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but it's not. It's something that we're to be in the game both games,
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we will be. We just can't turn the ball over. We just
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can't do it. Like that's what it comes down to, and I don't
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know what it's going to take to make that happen, like Austin, like
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he said, from a coaching perspective or from a player perspective, like just
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don't do it. It's it's so glaringly obvious that that is what I think
28:22
to assume. Simms is in the third string QB I rule. When he
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was talking about quarterbacks at the press conference, he was like, oh,
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yeah, you know Chubba and Heinrich. He didn't even mentioned Simms. Yeah.
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I think he's done with him. I think he is done with him.
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And I saw someone say like on the sideline after he threw his pick.
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Sim was just sitting there like in shock of like what is happening?
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But dude, like that you shouldn't realized that after the first time he got
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benched, like this is his first home game. It was he has I
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mean he he had. I guess he had that one fumbled snap against perdu
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Yeah, but this is like his first like actual like and I didn't blame
29:06
Rule for sticking with him when Harberg was kind of hurt because we did have
29:10
a little bit more juice. But god damn man. And you know what,
29:12
guys, Sim's looked good for the first like seven or eight plays,
29:15
like we were gonna draw with him, but it was just the inevitable coming.
29:21
Like when he came in, it's like okay, okay, Like this
29:22
is okay okay. He just knew that eventually something was gonna happen, like
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it's not gonna last as long. And then not only did it happen,
29:30
once it happened, I think he just gets bored back then it's like I
29:34
gotta turn the ball over here real quick. Oh so who is our quarterback
29:41
moving forward? And we can talk more about that on Wednesday too. When
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we hear some more news. But I mean, do you stick do you
29:47
stick with assuming Heinrich's healthy? Do you stick with a party who showed maybe
29:52
a little bit of promise and and maybe guys, that last drive might have
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been the best drive we had all year? Maybe I didn't finish, Like,
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who do we go with? Or here's my best option? I still
30:04
like playing both. I still like that, especially when they're both bad like
30:08
and they both know they're bad like. I don't mind that option. But
30:11
but counter to that is what one bring? You have backfield and receiver out
30:19
there. You can have all three quarterbacks out there? Can we have zero
30:22
of them out there? Like Dak said, just run wildcat? Actually I
30:29
think I think you just say fucking go with the party these last two games.
30:32
What do you have to lose? You already don't You haven't Harburg,
30:34
you don't when you don't watch much of Party yet this year? Just throw
30:37
them out there. Yeah, and maybe eligibility though the thought is yeah both
30:45
eligibility is one and I guess, is is Heiner giving us more than what
30:51
Hubba is? And the answer to that was was yes for a while.
30:56
I think now it's you can maybe are quite especially with the way Chubbu looked
31:02
okay before that interception. But what I think it comes down to you is
31:07
something that we're gonna have zero insight into. There's gonna be no stats on
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it. It's gonna be who has the locker room, who has the other
31:14
guys with him, who's the leader of the group, who's more what are
31:18
the guys gonna have more confidence players with Heinrich coming out there Chubbin. I
31:23
don't know the answer to that. Nobody's gonna know the answer to that.
31:26
Heinrich, what I thought watching him in person up and up until this week,
31:30
was a great leader. He was tough, he was encouraging, and
31:34
I think he's still doing that right. But are the guys responding to him
31:38
now after the last few games, or is it time for a fresh face
31:42
and guys can say, Okay, we're gonna rally around someone new here.
31:47
I don't know the answer to that, and we're not going to know the
31:48
answer to that, but I would hope I would think that would be the
31:52
decision in the locker room. I don't think anybody's rallying behind Jeff Sins.
31:56
I just don't think that's happening. So, I mean, people do seem
32:00
to like him, but I would say Perdy probably does have the most reps
32:05
with the people who are playing the most right now. In all honesty,
32:08
I mean, yeah, So I bet Purdy plays pretty starts this next week.
32:16
So I bet Heinrich's not gonna be healthy and rules done with Sims.
32:22
I think that's the way they'll frame it for sure. Last thing I guess,
32:28
and I just summarize all of this this podcast. This is, like
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I said before, the most it hurt. This game hurt the most because
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of how how we lost it, how we lost in the importance that it
32:44
had on our schedule in the rest of the year, and the way we
32:46
lost it with the decision making. It put a little damper in me,
32:53
in me my belief and rule and the staff moving forward of something very simple,
33:00
something that I thought was you can go guys, you can go in
33:02
and take the risk reward percentage chance of something working over and over on so
33:07
many different plays, and and we can say, yeah, like we're not
33:10
in practice, the coaching staffs right on this one. Whatever. But this
33:13
is this was one decision I think that everybody that knows anything about Huscar football
33:20
would have said, what the fuck were we doing throwing it there? And
33:23
we did it, and that was like, oh my god, like what
33:27
in the world. Even the Minnesota game right going into halftime, very similar,
33:34
We're down there, Jeff Sims throws it to the straight to a Minnesota
33:37
defender. Like even that, I was like, okay, Like it was
33:40
the first game of the year, you know, the second second quarter,
33:44
like we really don't know what we got. We're still trying to figure things
33:46
out. I was able to defend him a little bit there and probably even
33:52
thought that was the right football play, and I think I even said that
33:54
at that time that is what you do in that situation, you throw it
33:58
and and that was maybe the wrong opinion at that point, but that was
34:01
a football play. But now ten games later, it was definitely the wrong
34:07
play given what we know we have this year watching the Husk Roppins will send
34:13
me the hospital, That's what I found out, yeap. So I was
34:15
we need to talk about that here for the last five minutes because we got
34:20
this lovely picture today from dak on his on his night, and yet agree,
34:29
I hurt so bad right now, I guess it is not fun.
34:32
So we just get this random picture of Dak's hand and it's got the gnarliest
34:36
gash on it. I dropped the bar stool and I picked it up.
34:42
I don't know how it cut me that bad, but it did. I
34:45
look down the bar stool. Yeah, JJ's shout out. Then there's probably
34:50
blood everywhere. But but yeah, how the hell they cut you? Wait?
34:55
What? Okay, I'm I'm still trying to figure out how you dropped
35:00
the barstool and then the process of white one. Why was the like you
35:04
tipped it over, you were sitting on it. This is what everybody says
35:08
happened, does not know, But I honest thought I got stabbed like it
35:15
looked like that. But but they say I dropped a barstool like it tipped
35:20
over, and I went down and picked it up. Next thing, you
35:22
know, I'm just bleeding everywhere. So they think they don't know how it
35:27
cut me, but it cut me pretty good. Dropping a barstool still doesn't
35:32
make sense because when you say drop a barstool, that means like you were
35:36
holding a barstool, which why would you be holding a barstool? Now?
35:39
I think I think I went to sit down and tipped over. Okay,
35:43
so then you were trying to pick it up off the ground, so it
35:45
could have you could have gashed it something on your way down. Mm hmmm
35:51
on something. Huh. Think about though. Both arms hurt because I haven't
35:55
I IVY in this other arm, and my hand hurts so fucking bad.
36:00
It's it's not fun. Stick stitches later. Oh shit, dack even,
36:07
Oh you looked good yesterday. You're you're becoming a Husker fan of that's the
36:09
way the Huskers are affected. Yes, I asked him in the hospital.
36:14
I said, hey, can you throw an o? U like? Nope,
36:16
okay, whatever is that? I don't watch a lick of that.
36:21
You're wearing the hat that's got blood all over it too, right, yep?
36:25
Yeah, because I wiped my hand. You know, I was bleeding
36:30
at first. I put my hand up to my hat to move it around,
36:34
and yeah, just there's a lot of blood. Jjds. We'll just
36:37
say that it was what had to be gushing out of your hand like it
36:40
is R rated movie like, oh yeah, no, it was like spraying
36:45
out. Oh yeah, it was. It was wild. We'll save people
36:52
from actually seeing the picture posting it on Twitter that that probably would get taken
36:57
down. Anyways, it's a nasty picture. Well, Dak, we made
37:04
it through the whole podcast and you couldn't even mention that your vikings neat my
37:07
Saints. So I'm very happy. Yeah, I was saving that about.
37:12
You would not have said one word if I didn't bring it up now.
37:17
I kind of honestly forgot about earlier. I was. I was in and
37:21
out of sleeping, and I watched most of that game. But Josh Dobbs,
37:27
I was in and out of sleeping like I was. I was resting
37:30
my eyes a little bit. But anyway, Josh Dobbs looks great. He
37:35
absolutely lit their ass up. If Jamis would have came in and led us
37:38
back to winning, you would have never heard the end of it. I
37:44
got nervous. What do he that? That guy is the most up and
37:49
down quarterback I've ever saw. He looks from play to play even he looks
37:52
great one play and then like the worst quarterback every next play. Con treat
37:57
Jamis many vision. He's electric, though he's a lot more electric than Derek
38:04
Carr. Would Nebraska take it. I'm not on a scale right, NFL
38:07
skilled a college skill, and we take a guy like James. Yes,
38:12
oh yeah, we already turned over the ball that much. I'd have That's
38:15
what I'm saying. He's kind of isn't the equivalent of what we have in
38:21
college like the guy the NFL quarterback just is known for turning the ball over
38:24
Like I don't know if we do want someone like James. You both already
38:30
have it, but way worse passwords. That's true. Got two wins on
38:35
my way to twenty one, yep, and we got good two more this
38:40
week. Rider coming up tomorrow yep. Lady Skurts volleyball is still undefeated.
38:46
I kind of hope we lose one of our last four, to be honest,
38:49
But on Saturday, Wisconsin, I'm sorry that Saturday, next Saturday or
38:58
the Friday after Thanksgiving, right yep, right after the Iowa game. Well,
39:02
that's gonna be a tough watch. Holy shit. Never asked Iowa over
39:07
under twenty four, baby, that's what we're looking at. That might be
39:10
the worst watch game in the history of football. Holy all right, we'll
39:16
be back Wednesday reviewing the Wisconsin Badgers. Go Bigred, give your Bloomer sooner.
39:23
I love that burnt orange dude. That