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The "4th and 9" Call · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Okay, Shano. Thanks for coming in here. Husker Buzz time.
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  Speaker 1: You played football. You've seen football. You know football. It's
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  Speaker 1: fourth and nine at your 44-yard line. You're down three
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  Speaker 1: with four and a half minutes to go. You got
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  Speaker 1: two timeouts. You got the two-minute warning and the wind
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  Speaker 1: at your back. What analytics says it's a good idea
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  Speaker 1: to go for it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the ones that Nebraska is tied into and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the wind's a factor there, too, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that for Indiana, where Nebraska was at, they were going
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  Speaker 2: to have to get over a certain amount of yards
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  Speaker 2: to get a field goal because they would have been
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  Speaker 2: kicking into a pretty stiff wind. But, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of one of those decisions that they took a
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  Speaker 2: chance on, wanting to put the ball in Calandra's hand
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. But definitely one you can be critical about.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: It was very, very strange.
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of people wonder if Matt Rule knows
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing on the sidelines. Clock management, game management,
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  Speaker 1: use of timeouts. And I just recall watching Bill Callahan
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  Speaker 1: in practice and how in control Bill Callahan was in practice.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think he was a very good in-game coach.
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  Speaker 1: I think he made decisions on the sidelines in the
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  Speaker 1: heat of the moment that were not wise. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's the problem with Matt Rule, but it
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  Speaker 1: does not engender confidence from the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Again, the analytics situations, they come at you fast in
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  Speaker 2: the game. You've got to make these decisions. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to use timeouts when you think they're necessary. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to be smart with the usage of your timeouts. If
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  Speaker 2: they get it, I think you're like, wow, that's what
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  Speaker 2: you've got to do to beat a team like Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: But if they don't, this is what we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: right now. It's a tough position to be a head coach.
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  Speaker 2: to make these decisions on the fly and hell of
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  Speaker 2: a lot easier for you and I right now to
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  Speaker 2: say it was the wrong decision. But I think you
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  Speaker 2: can go either way on that. I understood it to
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  Speaker 2: some extent because of the way the wind was playing.
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  Speaker 2: There was no guarantee you were going to stop Indiana either.
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  Speaker 2: You may not have been able to stop their offense
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  Speaker 2: at that point, so they wanted to keep the ball
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  Speaker 2: in Calandra's hand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the kind of thing that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to prove to a lot of fans by outcoaching
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  Speaker 1: somebody to get them to forget stuff like this.
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  Speaker 3: See what happens on Saturday at Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the other big issue in regard to this game
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  Speaker 1: involves Dante Moore, the All-America quarterback of Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's been two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be two weeks since his injury in the USC game.
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  Speaker 3: It was a serious injury. He was taken off the
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  Speaker 3: field on a gurney.
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  Speaker 1: But the concussion protocol typically doesn't last that long or
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  Speaker 1: much longer. Is it your impression that he may be saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't really want to risk another injury
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  Speaker 1: before the NFL draft, that he may just shut it
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  Speaker 1: down the rest of the year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to tell with the severity of concussions
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  Speaker 2: because the one that he suffered was pretty significant. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you hear of guys that, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: lingering effects for weeks if they take a pretty bad one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's been some players here in the past
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  Speaker 2: on defense years ago, I can't remember exactly, where they'd
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  Speaker 2: be out several weeks from the head injury and their
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  Speaker 2: head still hurts days, weeks later. And I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 2: being smart because it is his future. But we'll get
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  Speaker 2: that first injury report Wednesday, whether he's questionable, probable, doubtful,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. We'll get a good read on what their
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  Speaker 2: quarterback room is. But for Oregon, it's kind of an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: They can say we're getting all three ready to play.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you're Nebraska, you have to prepare for
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  Speaker 2: three different types of quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Did you get the impression watching Dylan Raiola more
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  Speaker 1: closely than most people that he may not have what
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  Speaker 1: it takes in games? That performance against UCLA, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking mentally, not physically, that game against UCLA was one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst performances in college football over the last
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  Speaker 1: two years. Insight us on what you think Dylan Raiola, composition-wise,
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  Speaker 1: is mentally.
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  Speaker 3: As a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just think his confidence at times going in
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  Speaker 2: the pocket Like instead of stepping up into clean pockets,
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  Speaker 2: he likes to get 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then the defensive ends at better angles to
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  Speaker 2: sack him. And, you know, he's kind of running around
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  Speaker 2: throwing off his back foot. And we saw that Saturday
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  Speaker 2: a few times where he just does not play up
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  Speaker 2: in the pocket, does not play the pocket correctly, where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the defensive ends go back to the Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: game when they had nine sacks. That never should have happened.
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  Speaker 2: with nine sacks in a football game. The game was
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  Speaker 2: like 60, 56, 60 snaps, and nine of them were sacks.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of it is how you play the
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  Speaker 2: pocket and the position. You saw that in that game
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  Speaker 2: against UCLA where he was backpedaling and throwing off his
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  Speaker 2: back foot, especially the one that basically pulled him from
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a few seconds left. Do you think he'll
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  Speaker 1: start on Saturday, or will they go the number three guy?
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll go with the other guy. That's my feel.
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  Speaker 2: Unless Dante Moore's back, obviously that changes everything. But the
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  Speaker 2: other guy that came in late looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Tell the fumble.
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  Speaker 2: It's rare to get to a third quarterback in the
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  Speaker 2: game now these days and have the third guy look
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  Speaker 2: pretty capable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had them driving until they fumbled on fourth
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  Speaker 1: and one. All right, Shano, thanks. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Husker Buzz reported 647 on 1110 KFB. Tomorrow will be
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  Speaker 1: injury report day in the Big Ten Conference. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: an update on Jameer Khan and Riley Van Poppel and
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  Speaker 1: Rex Guthrie for Nebraska.