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Nebraska Football Defense Position Breakdown · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast August fourteen, hunder Zarberniki, Austin Rose,
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  Speaker 1: Dakota Free Tag And since we've last recorded, we've got
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  Speaker 1: some big news for the fake Oklahoma fan. In the
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  Speaker 1: podcast for Dakota, John Mattier gets busted with some Venmo transactions,
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  Speaker 1: some potential gambling on his maybe not his own games,
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  Speaker 1: but college games from a couple of years ago. Deck
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  Speaker 1: it's Oklahoma season over.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's totally fine. I don't see how Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he said gambly on the Venmo, but how can you
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  Speaker 2: percent prove that that was for gambling? Okay, you you
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  Speaker 2: can on a sports Benning website, but you cannot, he
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  Speaker 2: says a friendly joke. Okay, then privable like, you cannot
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  Speaker 2: hund percent prove that it actually was for gambling.
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  Speaker 3: The people investigated him, can the gambling Commission? Literally you yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I must if he was doing it through a bookie,
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  Speaker 3: in which case that's a whole different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Dak You cracked me up with this take. If you
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  Speaker 1: said this to me the other other day too, You're like,
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  Speaker 1: how can you prove that he's doing it when literally
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  Speaker 1: in the description it says gambling?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me Lene pull up some Venmo receipts here,
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  Speaker 2: do you Okay, but when you guys men know people,
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  Speaker 2: do you actually put what you're paying for?
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  Speaker 3: I only I'm a matte rule Venmo or I only
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  Speaker 3: put a mooji.
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  Speaker 2: He put bs on there all time? Okay, twelve days
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  Speaker 2: ago I paid Hunter Batch? What did I pay you
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  Speaker 2: for a batch or something?
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  Speaker 3: Batch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see here.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, I want you to know the current criminal investigation
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  Speaker 3: system can definitely find out find out if you've been
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  Speaker 3: gambling on sports.
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  Speaker 2: Now if it was like maybe it was like ten
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  Speaker 2: bucks between.
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  Speaker 3: Like friends between friends. Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think that's probably what it was, like
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  Speaker 2: just a little from I don't think they can prove
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  Speaker 2: this like it's said. I mean, it's obvious and it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty obvious, but you can't unders prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand how the court systems work? Though?
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  Speaker 2: Like not?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's not going to go to court obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but you don't. You don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, it's a lot of times beyond without reasonable doubt,
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  Speaker 1: Like is it kind of a court saying thing?
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be like over idioted.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, because it'd be a criminal hard question mark,
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  Speaker 3: if you were gambling on sports. I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 3: it be criminal or civil, because what the NCAA will
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  Speaker 3: probably do is you suspend him, and then he would
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  Speaker 3: sue the NCAA for wronical suspension, and then it'd be
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  Speaker 3: a civil case, which would then go to a jury.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know for sure, that is why I think
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  Speaker 3: would happen. And then there's a jury sitting there and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, he's like, I didn't, I didn't bet on sports,
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  Speaker 3: and they point to it and says sports betting. What's
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  Speaker 3: the jury and you have to be beyond reasonable doubt?
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  Speaker 4: Is he gonna say, oh, I was just it was
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  Speaker 4: it was. It was a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, on the jury is gonna buy what he's gonna say,
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  Speaker 3: and you think that's I bought it. He hasn't even
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  Speaker 3: said that deck. He doesn't even come out and said
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  Speaker 3: he help.
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  Speaker 2: No, he did. He said he says a friendly joke,
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  Speaker 2: a friendly joke, like like he did not. I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember the exact words, but he said something like along
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  Speaker 2: the line's eye. He said he's never gained on sports,
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  Speaker 2: which that's gotta be true.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of true.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm cutting this conversation up right now.
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  Speaker 2: But no before we do anyway, he's taking the first
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  Speaker 2: snap because then it takes two years to misky and anything.
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  Speaker 2: So He's fine.
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  Speaker 4: True, you might have that.
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  Speaker 2: You might have that, but I'm house from Hunter.
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  Speaker 4: I hope for your sake that he's not playing.
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  Speaker 2: This year's They won't take fourteen days to investigate this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Nebraska Football Defensive and Special Teams Preview today. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be honest, I think I might be more excited and
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  Speaker 1: fired up to talk about special teams, which normally we
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote brush over the special teams piece. And our
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  Speaker 1: special teams looks like they brushed over their performance over
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  Speaker 1: the past few years as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe we should have. And I was looking
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  Speaker 3: at last year's stats and we only missed five field goals.
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  Speaker 3: Granted we stopped taking them at a certain point, but
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wow, that's better than a pot. Two
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  Speaker 3: of those were like from the forty to forty nine
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  Speaker 3: Range's Like, okay, in my mind, I thought we were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, barely a sixty percent field goal hitter.
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  Speaker 1: But and I'm good with starting here because I I
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  Speaker 1: think it's fresh off the off the block here and
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Eckler had his press conference on Tuesday, spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the media.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Archie Wilson had a moment as well. I think.
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  Speaker 1: X job is one of the most excited parts of
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  Speaker 1: this year. You want to talk about drinking the kool
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  Speaker 1: aid for myself and what I am fired up about
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  Speaker 1: in this press conference.
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  Speaker 4: Just added to it, like.
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  Speaker 1: He is a dude and a football coach, and to me,
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  Speaker 1: how I would describe him is a head coach that
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  Speaker 1: basically said, I don't want to be a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just become a master in special teams
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  Speaker 1: and even though I might have the ability to move up,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to and I'm just going to become
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  Speaker 1: an expert in the field on special teams. And that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of what he's done. His task, I think is
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  Speaker 1: very daunting.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: It is still special team.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you're revamping an entire offense or things
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  Speaker 1: like that. But there are a lot of pieces to fix.
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  Speaker 1: And Austin you mentioned the five field goals. There were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things even last year that I think
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  Speaker 1: that we maybe forgot. Now, some of those things we
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  Speaker 1: forgot because they were in games that we won, but
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  Speaker 1: like purduing Rutgers. I believe we had kicks blocked, two
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  Speaker 1: punts blocked, maybe a field goal blocked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a returned extra point that got blocked. There was
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  Speaker 1: the Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: Game where.
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  Speaker 1: We muffed a punt inside the five yard line or
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  Speaker 1: something like that that was rough. Those are just things
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  Speaker 1: that come to mind up the top.
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  Speaker 4: Of my head.
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  Speaker 1: But again, big mistakes. We didn't punt the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side of the field like we did a
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  Speaker 1: fie few years ago against Michigan State. There weren't as
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  Speaker 1: many probably shanked punts in years past, but big mistakes that.
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  Speaker 4: Led us to.
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  Speaker 1: Either put us in position to not have a good
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  Speaker 1: chance to win, or like the Iowa game, probably cost
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  Speaker 1: us another game on special teams against the Hawkeyes.
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  Speaker 4: So they haven't been good and they it's been like
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  Speaker 4: that way for a while. Snaps in the holds like
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  Speaker 4: that was an issue. Well, we know that. I believe
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  Speaker 4: that things are going to get.
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  Speaker 2: A lot now.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get much worse, right, but I believe things
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  Speaker 1: are going to get better with with coach Eckler. That's
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  Speaker 1: my I guess overall take on him. His press conference
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  Speaker 1: was just electric. Everything about it. If you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to listen to it, go do it.
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  Speaker 4: There's a short version out there that was a couple
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  Speaker 4: of minutes, but the full one, I think is even.
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  Speaker 3: Full one's good.
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  Speaker 4: It's good like he is. He is.
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  Speaker 1: Passionate about his job and and you want to go
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  Speaker 1: run through a wall when you listen to him talk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are there were times where it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you could tell he's got the football like you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, I've never been to a more discipline.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it comes this, you know, the infrastructure. It's
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  Speaker 3: never just a little too too much high praise. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, all right, that back a little bit. Let's
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's not pretend like things were okay last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I expect us to be better. I expect most of
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  Speaker 3: the improvement to be in the punting area, not that
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  Speaker 3: there is an improvement for the field goals, but I
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  Speaker 3: just don't know. I feel like there's more There was
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  Speaker 3: more room for punting to improve the first field goal unit,
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  Speaker 3: which I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I I thought our punting was our best part last year,
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  Speaker 1: in our specialties like.
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  Speaker 4: The Bouchini bombs and Brian like last year, there was
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  Speaker 4: not much.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: There's not much that I was like, oh God, special
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  Speaker 1: teams or punting hurt us last year. Now as it
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  Speaker 1: in your past. Absolutely, we've had a lot of shanks
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  Speaker 1: and what. We had a couple of blocks last year.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the punting side is the part that
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 3: More more return wise. I guess return, yes, yes, returns
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  Speaker 3: in general. Yeah, I mean we did return anything last year.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember where our best return was. I feel, yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 3: we had a couple of good ones that all get
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  Speaker 3: called back dude to hold in. We haven't had I
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  Speaker 3: mean our last good punt our, last good return specialist
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  Speaker 3: was probably Pierce and l like seven years ago. Is that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a long time. And and yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: you're your punt returners this year. It sounds like we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be ja. Cory Barney Andrew Marshall are going to
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  Speaker 1: be your two main guys on the kicker turn. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really mentioned who's all in that mix, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe those guys my Sam Mosie might see
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  Speaker 1: some time back there.
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  Speaker 3: I did like how he specified what he's looking for
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  Speaker 3: in a punt return into kick returning. He's like punt
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  Speaker 3: return guys are you know, they're the the shifty, quick,
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  Speaker 3: make you miss, but kick return guys those are you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for something, just gonna blow it up and just
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  Speaker 3: run wind. So that was that was interesting, interesting statement, Dad.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing I had, Dan was what you said
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  Speaker 2: this this guy needs to be a head coach. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know why. He must just love
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  Speaker 2: special teams. I don't know. I've never heard somebody so
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  Speaker 2: pumped up about kickers and punters. But but at one
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  Speaker 2: part I got up, but I got out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Was did he really like what he said that he
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  Speaker 2: liked what he walked into?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think he leaves Tennessee if he thinks
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  Speaker 3: he's walking into something bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I guess I guess he knows he's
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  Speaker 2: walking into it. Maybe likes to fix messes. But I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, like you, Like you said about the
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  Speaker 2: punt returners last year, it was just crazy last year.
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  Speaker 2: Four point nine yards per return, that's easy. The worst
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  Speaker 2: part was your punt returning. And that's that's got to
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  Speaker 2: be the best parties for the party's going to fix
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  Speaker 2: the most And and you're you're coming in with this
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Marshall guy that had forty one yards per return
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  Speaker 2: and two touchdowns at Idaho, So that should help it.
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  Speaker 3: Which you ars per return? How I saw that stat.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't dig deep enough to be like, how many
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  Speaker 3: times did he return the ball?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it couldn't be much.
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  Speaker 3: I get you know.
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  Speaker 1: Here's here's where special teams to me. Here's how you
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  Speaker 1: gotta look at it. There's two parts of it. One
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  Speaker 1: there's the players and what they're able to do. So
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  Speaker 1: what Dak just mentioned and giving us from the last
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  Speaker 1: year's team, you're Dack's kind of saying, Okay, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: better than what we've had. Well, okay, maybe like he
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  Speaker 1: could be. I think there's a there's a more. I
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  Speaker 1: think we had potential returners on the team in.
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  Speaker 4: The past years. I'll put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the players, and then when you go to
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  Speaker 1: your punters and your kickers. I think that matters a
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  Speaker 1: lot more. Then the second side of special teams is
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  Speaker 1: the scheme and the coaching to it now, and I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of that isn't so much. There probably
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  Speaker 1: is more. I don't know special teams that well. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think most people do. They know it like the
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  Speaker 1: common fan, But a lot of it is you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do your job. But I think the big part
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  Speaker 1: of the scheme and the mental side of it is
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  Speaker 1: teaching them how to do their job, win to do
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  Speaker 1: their job. As far as fielding punts, fielding kicks, we've
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  Speaker 1: seen our fair share of fielding kicks inside the five,
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  Speaker 1: inside the one, like running out of Baut at the
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  Speaker 1: one Illinois a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Like we've seen that fair share. But it's it's instilling that.
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  Speaker 1: The correct way to do special teams into your players
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  Speaker 1: to where one they're not scared to mess up and
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  Speaker 1: then they're confident to do their job right and then
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  Speaker 1: execute it. And I think that's a big, big piece
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  Speaker 1: that we've talked about. You know, we've gone all over
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  Speaker 1: the board of no, sometimes guys just got to do
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  Speaker 1: their job well. That still falls back on your coaches
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  Speaker 1: of getting them in the right firm of mind to
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  Speaker 1: do that job. So there's two pieces to it. I
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  Speaker 1: do think Dak like Andrew Marshall and people like that
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  Speaker 1: could be good help.
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  Speaker 4: But went back to the coach.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled it up. He returned eight kickoffs for three
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  Speaker 3: and twenty seven yards, so eight times for forty one
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  Speaker 3: yards per perturn. That's pretty good. He did four that much,
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  Speaker 3: So fourteen no, I mean it's still a not nothing though.
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  Speaker 3: Hunt returns he had fourteen punt returns in the average
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  Speaker 3: eleven yards. So these are numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's it was an Idaho state rider. Idaho.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just Idaho. Yeah, Idle, Idaho vandals. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you talk about players executing, it's point. It's
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  Speaker 3: good to point out that our whole special teams basically
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  Speaker 3: is getting revamped. New long snapper, new punter, new returners.
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  Speaker 1: We got a long snapper in the portal, like and
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about this when we got him, Kevin Gaelic,
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  Speaker 1: like it was our first portal get of the of
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  Speaker 1: the off season, and we were so excited about it,
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  Speaker 1: like who gets who goes and has to get a.
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  Speaker 4: Long snapper in the portal? We do because it was
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  Speaker 4: that bad.
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  Speaker 3: And then we we went out and we sought out
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  Speaker 3: like return special It's like, you know, Andrew Marshall, he'll
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  Speaker 3: probably start we'll talk about it on defense, but like
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  Speaker 3: I do think there was like, oh, this dude can
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  Speaker 3: return the ball, like we're gonna we need special teams
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  Speaker 3: to kick it up. So I think John Hole is
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  Speaker 3: going to be really the only returning special teams impact player,
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  Speaker 3: and even then, there's no guarantee that he's starting.
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  Speaker 4: And what's your guys' take on players that.
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  Speaker 1: I lost my train of thought because you mentioned John
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  Speaker 1: Hole and I was got thinking Kyle Cunanan. So Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Kunanan is the kicker that is contending John Hole, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll go there. Tristan Albono is the third one still
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  Speaker 1: in the mix, But like, what do you guys think
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  Speaker 1: on those those guys that mix at the placekicker position?
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  Speaker 1: You know, from what I've been hearing, I think it
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  Speaker 1: probably could be Qunanan, but it sounds like him and
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  Speaker 1: Hole are instill a.
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  Speaker 4: Battle for that spot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know, because like, did who did
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  Speaker 3: cunanan transfer from last year? Do you remember? I don't either, because,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, John, he kind of guys put him
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  Speaker 3: by the end of the year. He started out a
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  Speaker 3: little shaky, but I seem to remember by the end
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  Speaker 3: of the year, It's like, Okay, I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 3: John holheadingfield goals, And that's it's tough because you've seen
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  Speaker 3: him in games in the Big Ten do it so I,
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  Speaker 3: I honestly don't know. I don't remember where Kyle came from, but.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Ohio State game helped a ton that
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  Speaker 4: just came out of nowhere yep and just started drilling
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  Speaker 4: fifty yarders.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's it's all. It's sad that Tristan
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  Speaker 3: felt a third from starting down to the third, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see how it goes. It's tough.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that'd be a really hard thing to
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  Speaker 3: evaluate practice though. It's like, Okay, which which one of
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  Speaker 3: these guys is going to be the best kicker? And
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  Speaker 3: if you feel fine, if they're in a competition, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna stick with one during the season to the
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  Speaker 3: best of your ability, but you might how quick do
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  Speaker 3: you pull a kicker after they missed field goals? You know,
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  Speaker 3: especially if they're in a battle.
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  Speaker 1: That's up to the coach. That's what makes it fascinating,
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  Speaker 1: Like what is Eckler's approach going to be?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Canadians spent last year at cal did not play, but
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  Speaker 2: he played at Charlotte the two years before went fourteen
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  Speaker 2: to fourteen to twenty there on field goals, and then
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  Speaker 2: he came from before that he was nine to fifteen
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  Speaker 2: at it does not say there's no way.
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  Speaker 3: He played somewhere else than Charlotte, and Kelly's a red
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  Speaker 3: shirt sophomore. No, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, In twenty twenty twenty four he went fourteen twenty
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  Speaker 2: and then the year before he went nine to fifteen
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  Speaker 2: on field goals.
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  Speaker 4: So he did play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah so two years good. Look, last year he didn't
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  Speaker 2: play at Calm.
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  Speaker 4: That must have been his right short year. Yeah, well,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know who knows how the years work anymore.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Now we've made it this far time special teams. We
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: haven't said the name I know, mister Nebraska Cornhusker twenty
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: twenty five Archie Wilson.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Oh man, I know we've held on this long like.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: God has kissed his feet. If you ask anyone in
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the Nebraska program, who's your favorite player, Archie Wilson. Favorite player,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Archie Wilson, Eckler's favorite player, Archie Wilson from Australia.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: The all see uh.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: He sounds like everything and plus that like in more
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: like recruited.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: By Eckler to come to Tennessee, follows him to Nebraska.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yes on his radar.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: We get two hunting two punter transfers this last year,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and both of them are already gone. There was a
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: guy from Montana and then someone else who also transferred
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: out after we recruited them this last year to make
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: room for the Archie Wilson.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Guys.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I love it, like the hype, I love it. It's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it's great. It sounds like he's Here's what I think
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I love about him the most. I'm not assuming here,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: but I kind of am. I think he doesn't. I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: get a vibe that he doesn't quite understand American culture.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Great because he's from Australia and so he's like as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: far as the mental side of things, you're not. He's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: not gonna get caught up in the hype of everything.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna have like a bunch of pressure.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: He's not like he's just coming over.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: He's just this dude that can kick with both feet
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and roll out and throw and like.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Just I don't know, like he did. There's so much
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: of that. I'm like, what is this going to look like?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: And people Eler's Eckler's been you know, Eckler has been
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: staying up at night with a guy like this since
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: he's found him for three or four years ago. And
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: one and start hurting, and he's like, Okay, this.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Guy we can do this and this and this and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: this and has this list of like new things because again,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: this guy eats and breeze special teams, so he's not
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he It's not like Eckler has had a guy like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: this at every stop he's been right, it's it's a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it's a unique person that you know he's got And
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I think was it Rule called him a weapon?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Or maybe Eckler has called him a weapon?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go down his injury. Who we running
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: out there? We're putting freaking Rgie Wilson behind the center,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the Archie Wilson. My goodness, I'm excited about it. I mean, yeah,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I'll slipe a little bit of the kolid on it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: You know, like I am like, why not.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Man, the praise for this man. If he goes out
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: there and just shanks his first punt, that would be
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: just like, can you trust anyone in the building? Honestly?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: You know, if he goes out there just shanks, It's like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: oh shit.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And Eckler mentioned he's going to be rolling right, rolling left,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: having to what he's say, having to look where guys
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: are coming from with full patch, which it sounds like
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that's what he was doing and his when Eckler recruited
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: him in this camp or whatever from Australia, Like now
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: he's just adding pads to it. So he's evaluating, Okay,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: where's the rush.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: So he's going to be doing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: The run, running and kicking what's that called the rugby style?
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Like he's going to be doing that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: With both feet apparently, So he's never played that what's great,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: never an American football game, never played in an official
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: American football game.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: And who cares?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Archie Wilson was what was Archie's last name in
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: the comics, The Archie Comics? Is it? It's got to be.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, Wilson's like one of the whitest names out there.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You you said, uh, Archie is keeping Eckler up. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure Eckler has ever slept once in his life.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I mean I mean that that no way that guy's
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: sleep and he's thinks about such a Teams twenty four seven.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But but I'm a big fan of the rugby style
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: because it comes off your foot way different, and I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: think it makes it's really hard to pick or pick
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: up a rugby style part.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Who is the last rugby style punter we had here?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Was hor No, we had a good one, did we?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I don't was it that guy that like did half
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: rugby style half half normal punts?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: The only thing with the rugby style kicking that I've
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: been fascinated by over the last few years is it's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: kind of going away. It was a big, big thing probably, man,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it's probably been ten years ago was when it kind
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of got rolled out and there were I mean, I'm
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: not going to go maybe say half, but it was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: close probably to half of the teams were using it,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and it almost was like a trend or a fad
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: for a while, and now it's kind of gone. NFL
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: teams don't use it. I think that's just an interesting trend.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I don't really have a whole lot of comments on it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Is that good because is that it's one of those
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: things like is it going away because it's not as
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: effective or is it just going away because it's hard
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: to find rugby style punters correct?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, because it's harder to do, you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And is there a reason the NFL never went to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it or you know, is it if you can find
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the elite like regular punters, the ones that are NFL caliber,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: like those guys. Still the stats and everything are still
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: probably because if you can vomit in the air sixty
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: yards like I think Archie Wilson can do that too.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: From what it sounds like, it's not always going to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be rugby every single time.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: It sounds like he's got it all. So it I'm intrigued.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of pulls a hammy. Who we running
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: out there? The Archie Wilson any position, any day, the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: ultimate utility tool. Yeah, I'm excited. Like I said, though,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: if he goes out there and shakes that first punt,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: it's like everyone in that buildings full of shit. I
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: don't want to hear a goddamn word from anyone.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: When we will never have to punt, guys, maybe we'll
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: score every result.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It's on neck Larfie Shanks's though not on Archief.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Right, it is, and that X said that like it's me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: He goes, I want you to write ex stinks like that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: That's what he said. So here Here's here's the other
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: thing about Eckler two. So was was there some egotistical
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: type of comments in there that like I know what
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'm doing? Yes, there were, which I will say maybe rightfully.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: So now we'll see if those comments, what those comments
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: turn into, and what perception it is. If things don't
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: get better, they should get better, but if they don't
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and things don't continue to struggle. Eckler's been guys, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: we've mentioned this, but at a lot of different places
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: recently at Tennessee the last four years. But he's been
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the special teams coordinator at North Texas, at Kansas, at Georgia.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: He began his career as a GA at dak Oklahoma
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: into LSU. So he's been around the block and done
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it at a lot of places in the high level
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: places as well.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: So he does have the experience and the resume. You know,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: he he knows his stuff.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And not to mention, he's from Nebraska ninety one to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: ninety four as a linebacker, so he's played on some
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: pretty damn good football teams.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: It's going to be.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: A lot more aggressive, I think as far as what
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: we see from obviously returns where you can be aggressive.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: In some of those styles.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So again, I usually not a fan of people that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: kind of boast their their past and their.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Accolades. Aka Mark Whipple and Archie's defense.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: They were asking or not Archie arch the arch and
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Eckler's defense, they were asking him, Yes, you bring what
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: you know you're talking about? Great, this program was before
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: you got here. What are you adding to it? So correct?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So all at that slide here for now. Now things
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: don't get well, we'll see what happens. But I think
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: again excited about Eckler, excited about the special teams this year.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's a big part of the game. Do you go
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: as far and say it's a third of the game. No,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: probably not. Eckler had some other just great quotes in
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: there about how special teams it's not like you get You.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Don't get three tries three tries before down, like you
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: don't on both you get one try when you try
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: it out there. I love that angle of it, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: he I love how he said those guys cannot make
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: a mistake.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: The only mistake they can make is if they aren't
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: busting their button going one hundred and ten miles an hour,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Like that's the only mistake. They can make because everything
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: else is on him, which again I love the ownership
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and responsibility without anything being done yet.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I mean the one one thing that is the off
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: season for sure, and I am not looked at the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: stats on this, but the longest special team's coach interview
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: of the off season. Actually there's no there's no way
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: any other team at a twenty minute interview with their
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: especial teams coach.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's someone out there.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I love it. I love everything about it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Like I said, don't bring them Vegas.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Whole podcast about doesn't doesn't go to Vegas because he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: puts all his chips in the table, every hand of blackjack,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: like just just.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Jurassic coach, like hair on fire. Dan Campbell.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I want to hear him after every game. That's that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that's what we want to.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Hear, which you might. I feel like he will get
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the games.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: People love him. All right, Let's talk defense. That was
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: like thirty minutes on Specialty.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you I could do it, could do the
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: whole thing defense.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: John Butler, taking over first year as DC, was obviously
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: on the staff last year as a defensive assistant, coming
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: from the Buffalo Bills, was also at Penn State, has
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: been a DB's coach, has more of that specialty.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: I think the NFL.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Knowledge can be good and bad transferring I shouldn't say bad,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: but there's gonna be pros and cons to transferring that
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: over as a full scheme. Now we're retaining the three
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: three five, there's gonna be our own like John Butler's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: own twists on it. With a lot of these guys,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I'm cautiously optimistic. I guess with this defense right now,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: it obviously was very good last year. I think a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: big key all the talks on the off and how
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: much better it's going to be special teams like I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: think the one thing that we need to make sure
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't happen as our defense falls from what it was
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: last year. I'm not gonna say it's going to be
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: as good, but it needs to stay in the ballpark
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: of where it's been.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: And if we do that, top thirty, Yes, if we.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Do that, we will I think, like the results of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of our games, I think there's no reason
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't be thinking that either.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: With what we have coming back, some of the guys
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: we brought in.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just a little bit hesitant on the whole Tony
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: White stuff and how I mean that's been brushed over
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that some of the guys that left with him. I'm
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a little hesitant there with all that what happened. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: think Tony White was a tam good coach, and I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: think he knew a lot about the three three five
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: inside and out, and I think he did a great
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: job at the time that he was here.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: So that's my caution here.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And I want to see our defense play well, play
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: with their heads flying around.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: It sounds like that's.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The plan, But I'm just not all the way sold
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: here on our defense going into this year.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I mean sold, No, there's it's much less known than
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: last year, for sure, like we lost I was looking
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: at of our thirty sacks last year, twenty six and
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: a half of the people twenty six and a half
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: of them are gone by players that are no longer
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: with the program. So we only returned three and a
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: half sacks from players currently on the roster. There was
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: a lot offseason wise. His I thought it was funny
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: of like the people like, oh man, we gotta keep
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Keona Davis, like we can't lose Keona Davis. I was like,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know that dude played last year, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: like this is the guy that's gonna like anchor down
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: one of our edges, James Riley Van Poppel, Like he
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: got a couple of plays in last year, but I don't,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I don't ever remember be like, oh man, I can't
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: wait to see Van Poppel out there next year, like
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: taking over for Nash. So I agree, it's a little
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, I'm not gonna say it's
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: the It has the biggest room to fall back compared
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: to special teams in offense. So I feel that that's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: probably why we're coldest on it, because the offense and
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: special teams only has it can only I should say,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: only improve, but they have the most room for improvement.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: So that's what we're more excited about to talk about
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: those than the impact players there. But we do have
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of seniors. It's it is an older team,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: and I feel like that plays out pretty well in
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: college football are well. I mean we'll talk specifics, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the defensive backs are all basically seniors that will be starting.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And they had it was eleven interceptions, twelve interceptions. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: don't remember what the exact number was last year, but
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: so they did pretty well. I like that we got
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: some senior transfers because again, I think just being bigger
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: and strong on ground defense, that's fine. You know you're
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: plugging you into a linebacker. I don't know if you
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: need to be as keenan on scheme on the defensive sides,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: just like, Okay, I'm going after the I'm going after
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the quarterback, or this is the the blitz were running
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: or I feel like it's pretty standard stuff. So we'll see.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I agree Tony White leaving scary, but Butler has been
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: doing it for a long time. We have another DC
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: in the defensive backs room. I don't know, we'll.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: See, Yeah, I don't. I don't know if I call
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: it a fool rebuild because you got any seniors. But
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be. It's a lot of guys that haven't played,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: but they have a lot of experience. I guess, yeah,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: it'll be. It'll be interesting. He's still running that damn
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: three to three five. It sounds like.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: I don't like it, question Mark.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Nope, I still don't like it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Through the success of the last two years.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: No, I think why, like, explain your explain your opinion here.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I just hate the three three five because I I
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: know it's I know it worked the last two years.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I feel like you have a lot more running room
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: when you have three down linemen.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, there there's I mean, it worked.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: The last two years, so do you know what it
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: works this year. I'll never say it again that it sucks, but.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Dock, you do, okay, And I get the concern.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: That's the that's the very like fourth grade overview of
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the three three five. Wow, it is like I think
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that that's what our analysis was when we just put
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in the three three five, Like that's what we thought
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and what the opinion was that it's more vulnerable to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the run. But I think what we've learned over the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: past couple of years here in Nebraska, but also just
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: other teams in the country running the three three five
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: is that it's very bowl.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Three three five is just the backbone the time we
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: have it's four linemen.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It's four linemen, bring two linebackers down.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: It's it's you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Are able to mold it into what you want. So yeah,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and that's what that's what Tony White did such a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: great job of, was was doing that on teams that
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: run heavy like we stopped the run very well, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and and including Ohio State like who tried to just
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: pound it down our throats and we held our own
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: there for a lot of that game last year, who
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: then went on to win a national champ So continue, Dak.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Sorry to call you a fourth grader, but sometimes we
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: think you are.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I did say that, Dak, here at least a fifth
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: grade level to me.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Well, your second grade level to me anyway got me.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I just think was that that was like, it'll be
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: interesting how if if the new DC can I I
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: lost his name, I cannot think of it anyway. Butler
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: can run three three five as much schematically well as
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Tony White did. I think a lot of it had
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: to do with Tony White. He ran it very well.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I think you bring down the linebacker. I guess yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: that does give you more versatility in the pass rush.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I just I just don't line three three five. I'd
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: rather have four down linemen.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Which again, you can have four down lineman if you.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Want five every time four down lineman, and you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Can if you want. The position.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Coaches here Bill Phil Simpsons are outside linebackers coach. In
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: his first year, Terry Bradd in the defensive line coach
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: coming from the Chiefs in his first year, Addison Williams
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: defensive backs coach, and also his first season coming from UCF.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Phil Snow forgot to mention him.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: He's acting as the associate head coach, but his primary
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: focus is going to be on the defense as well.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: All these guys are new I guess, I mean they're
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: all in their first year.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: So again, the.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Only returning defensive position head coaches linebackers correct.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Correct, yep, So yeah, I don't think I mentioned him.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: So I do think that again, hesitation wise, a lot
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: of newer guys, but these guys all have experienced, not
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: like they're fresh at the block of doing a lot
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: of their jobs. Getting the end of the players a
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: little bit more so. Austin mentioned a couple at the top.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Here's how I think of our defense this year and
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: every year with a three, three five, I'm moving more
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: towards that you can you can really dive down to
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: what the position's called if you wanted to.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: To me, that doesn't mean a whole lot. Here's how
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I think of it. We got two guys that are
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be on the line of scrimmage all the time,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: maybe three, maybe four, But two main guys are Van
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: poppol Keona Davis, Like, those guys are bigger dudes. Those
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: are your nashes and your ties from last year, guys
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: that are gonna be run stoppers and pass rushers.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: In past Elijah Judy into that group and.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: And throw maybe Judy in there as well. Like my
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: big take on Van Poppel is he could be. I'm
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: really high on him. I think he was just behind
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: two really damn good players, like he just look good.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I totally agree. I just say that because people are
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: talking like he's like, oh man, you know.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: And I think he has potential now he's only a sophomore.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And keeping in mind like ty Robinson, it wasn't like
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: this is sophomore. Ty Robinson was ty Robinson.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: It took him.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, by the time he finally was a senior,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: he was like, oh boy, this is ty Robinson. So
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: keep that in mind too. But I do think that
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: those guys, I think the d line is a little
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: bit of the hesitation from a lot of people's standpoint
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: because they're maybe younger than the rest of our team.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: They are, I mean, and they are I think it's
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: gonna be We're gonna be.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Pleasantly surprised, I think with our D line. I hope.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Uh, I guess it depends on your expectations. Are is
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: what at least to be being pleasantly dis surprised, right correct?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: And we're not. I know we're not gonna be like
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: last year. I don't think we're gonna be as disrupted.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I don't think we're as good against the run people
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I'm most interested in. I guess I don't want to
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: interrupt your flow. You're talking, you have your two three guys,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: so I don't.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Want yes, So I'm starting there, Dak, you got anything
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: on the D line before I move on?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: No, I just thought, I mean, didn't play that much.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: But I think he saw in the games he did
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: play when he was in and I he's I think
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: he's probably your most impact player on the D line.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I hope there's a development with him too.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, Jalen George is probably the only other guy
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: you could probably mention in that position. The transfer from
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Georgia State.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Yep, if he's another one that he's probably gonna.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: See some some snaps there as well. I think there's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys probably that will forget that I'll
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: see snaps because I do think we're gonna be very aggressive,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna sub a lot. We're gonna
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: see a lot of different guys play. So then I'm
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: gonna go complete opposite and go to the back end.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see guys that are never gonna
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: play in the box or very rarely unless they're on
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a on a random dB blitz, And those are gonna
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: be more of your corners. You know, maybe you can
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: throw some safeties in there, but Malcolm Hartzog see her right,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Amaris and.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Are going to be.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Andrew Marshall another one, Donovan Jones a freshman. Maybe we'll
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: see some time.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Those are your corners.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Your safety's Marquise Buford, Deshaun Singleton. All these guys in
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the back end are experienced, they're veterans, they're guys that
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: have played a lot of snaps. Their names that we've heard,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: even in Nebraska. I think this is the position everybody
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: feels good about, and I also think it's the hardest position.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: One of the hardest, maybe besides quarterback in football is
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: defending a lot of these receivers. Good news is we
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: don't have to play Ohio State that has five of
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: them this year. I do think in the Big ten
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you say that, but we held them to.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Correct and they did a ten good job last year.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: So on the back end, I.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Think we have a lot of talent and experience. We
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: have a lot of speed. I think we should match
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: up well with some teams. Again, it's just putting it
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: all together. I think I think we have the players,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: it's putting it all together.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: As a unit.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Last year we had eleven interceptions. This was the last
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: time you could say we had that. And like you said,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: hard Zog senior, right, senior, Buford senior, Singleton senior, Marshall senior, sorry,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: junior transfer, junior. So I mean it's an old it's
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: an old crew. I hope they can keep up, just kidding.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Which which I think a secondary is probably what you
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: want the most experienced like senior wise, most experienced position
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: on defense you would like to have.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: It's definitely it requires probably the most nuanced techniques. Like
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: you know, it's like, oh, I can see where they're
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: shifting their body weight, so I know where I need
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: to go. Where you get closer to the quarterbacks, like
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get to the quarterback, however I
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: need to.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: It takes time to figure out how to Yeah, how
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: to play the secondary. I think college more so.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: If you're rolling out a freshman or sophomore in the secondary,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you're a lot more worried and concern than if you're
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: rolling out of freshman or sophomore in the interior.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Seven eight.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's going to be a
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: very solid group. Out of the three, I would say
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: probably most confident in your secondary.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: I probably agree with that. Yeah, the new coordinator, I
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: can't remember his name. Where was he the DC at
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: you see, Yeah, Addison Williams years ago and he was
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: passing yards allowed or something like that.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: So I mean, and then you have John Butler who's
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: experiences in secondary, so it's probably a well coached unit
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: I agreed.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: So then last we have all these guys that are
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: in the middle, and you had all these linebacker positions,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and then even throw some guys down at the edge.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: We haven't mentioned kam len.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Hart and Williams and Wherry, Like those two guys are
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: probably gonna play on the line more, but they also
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have the ability I think, to move some around and
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and while they probably will be in the line a lot,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: all these positions to me are very very interchangeable, and
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna see guys playing a ton of different spots.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Now you're really diving deep into the three three five
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and the scheme of it. As all the players and
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: coaches will know that they have their roles in spots
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and they would say, no, that's bullshit. We know exactly well, yes,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: but to the average fan watching, it's going to look
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: like they're all kind of doing kind of the same thing.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And these guys are mentioning here, Vincent Shavers who just
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: became a single digit number, Marquis Watson, Trent and the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Saw mccola both transferring in. Javin Wright also playing a
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: lot last year. Again, these are some of these guys
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: are very veteran guys and have played a lot of snaps.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I mentioned you mentioned Elijah Judy earlier, Willis McGahee maybe
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: we'll see maybe something from him. And then even those
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: those safeties, you know, those guys get rolled down and
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: sometimes as well.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: So all of these players that I miss anybody, I
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: don't think so.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Dawson Meredith freshman who apparently has looked has looked good
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: so far. I think you're going to see a lot
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: of did you mention McGahee McGahee, Jacob Houer. All of
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: these guys, to me.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Are what makes the three three five special and flexible
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: to the opposing things offense.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: And what we think and you've heard is going to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: happen from John Butler's defense is going to be even
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: more aggressive, more crazy than what Tony White had in
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: a year ago, and Tony White up to that from
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: even years past, as far as the blitzes and selling
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: out on passing downs, on rundowns, sometimes more vulnerable to
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: big plays, but at the same time making big plays
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: of your own. And Austin you mentioned forcing more turnovers.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: That was something that was a big priority going into
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: last year and we did a pretty damn good job
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: of it. So I mean, this group would you would
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: you say this is our deepest group? They might not
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: have the top talentka I think you know, if you
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: were to look at it, the secondary probably has the
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: best top end talent, but it's not very deep. But
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: this group might be the middle of the pack as
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: far as talent was. But the deepest group. Yes, like, yeah,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I think that's a fair way of saying there's just
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys there that we don't know who's
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: going to be seeing the snaps which.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: But there's also a lot of guys that you feel
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: good about seeing snaps.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Usually you go okay that that that means either they're
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: very equal, But I don't think we have a bunch
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: of average defenders, like I think we have some pretty
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: good talent here.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: It's it's just it's putting it all together in the scheme.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And again, you gotta trust the experience of John Butler
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and what he has coached in the past and his
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: ability to navigate a defense. Maybe that he's not always
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: ran three three five that dak Is absolutely hates. Just
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: putting it all together into a unit, I think is
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the question that we need to see happen before anybody
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: says yep, this defense hasn't lost the beat from last year.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: It's worth pointing out Javin right Shavers and right Van
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: the three single digits so far on the defensive side.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is a position you want to
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: be the most deep end. I don't do you think
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: you think mind's gonna be on the line mostly. Okay,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: I was gonna says I'm I think he's going to
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: be very good this year. Yeah, I don't. We're talking
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: about secondaries. You're you're the most satisfied with or I
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: think the linebackers are the you you have a lot
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: of depth here, but not very confident in going into
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: the year in this position. Out of the three, I
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: would say.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably, And just because two of them, I mean
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: two of the guys that are now I mean Vincent
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Shavers guys, I think it's gonna play a lot to.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Me, Shavers and McGahee. I think you're gonna two of the.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: Guys are just are new right there.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: They're they're transfers in and we're trying to kind of
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: putting a little bit of trust in Oklahoma, which is
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: always a bad idea.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: So like that, that's probably why Dak you're pretty hesitant
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: on them.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: I mean of the on the defensive side. You know,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: we kind of did this on offense. But what what
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: player are you most excited to watch or see what happens?
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Is it right? Van Popol? Yeah? For me this no,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I'm talking just defense.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: For me, it's Van popular, Keona Davis like I excited,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: but also like I'll probably higher expectations than most people,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: even though they're both sophomores.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I'm excited to watch those too.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I think they're I don't think we're gonna be taking
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: as big of a fall off at that position that
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: people think from Nash and Tie.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for cam Lynnheart. I think I think he's
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: an animal.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, the one of the most interested by is
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: williams Horne. The warny saw you pronounce it. But that's
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: just because I mean, that's a pure that's just a
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: pure speculation. I you know, why did it not work out? Missouri?
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I'm interested in why.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: We paid him the dollars and only a freshman.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: The other guy watches Venmos we mentioned on the special
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: team's part is Andrew Marshall. Who I mean, I think
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: he's gonna play, He'll start, He's gonna probably gonna start.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna be in there a lot. I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: remember my point, I lost my train of thought on earlier.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: What's your guys' take on starters playing on special teams
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: versus playing all non starters.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna ask, But.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Playing your best players all the time your most athletic guys.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: That's specifically for returning the ball. Now, I don't want
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: my starters out there, you know, necessarily always, you know,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: blocking punts or kickers. But I want my best players
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: out on the field as much as possible.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not big on having your best players return kicks
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: in punts because there's a lot of room or that's
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: just more place for injury that could happen because a
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: mere did it merely turn a lot of kicks?
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Your turn to.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: DAC.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: I think that's what you just said. I think is
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit of what I think of a problem
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: of perception. If you start this is not just the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: rasping football, this is in general.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: If you start.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Getting worried about injuries and not playing your best guys
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: because you're afraid they're going to get hurt, you're playing scared.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: To me, that's that's your Now, there's a fine line.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: I get that, But you can't be not playing guys
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: because oh, they might get hurt.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a difference between putting them in a reckless position, yes,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: putting them in a well coached you know, and anymore,
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: there's so many fair catches and you know, the kicks
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: through the end zone, that they're just out there that
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: they deter them from kicking it as best as they could.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Here's to me, why you balance the starters with the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: non starters of special teams. I'm with you, Austin. I
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: think you need your best players in the field, And
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: part of me wants to just say, you know what,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: screw it. Put your literally I don't care if they're
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: all starting on an offense or defense. Put your best
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: guys out there everywhere, on every unit, because you want
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: your best players in the field. Like, that's one way
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: of looking at it. Why I don't think you can
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: do that, and why I think you need the other
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: guys in there.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe you're younger guys.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: There is a perception and a mental side of your
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: entire team, your entire group that you want guys to
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: earn their spots on special teams to then hopefully get
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: their confidence and they're playing time on the field, all
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: that building so that maybe in a year or two
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: they can then be playing on the defense or might
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: find their way. A lot of these guys are defensive guys,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: but offense as a receiver, Like, you want guys' confidence
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to build by starting them on special teams. Okay, they've
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: seen the field now for seven or eight snaps a
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: game as a freshman, and you become you can take
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: a little pride in becoming the special teams guy that
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: gets to go out there on kickoff and and fly
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: on the field and they can tackle. Now, you got
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: to do that without being reckless. But I think that's
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: why you play young guys. Because you do, you make
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: them feel part of the team, and guys can get
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: really good at Just like Mike Eckler has specialized in
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: special teams, like these guys that maybe aren't on the
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: starting unit on defense or offense, they can specialize this
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: year on special teams and become really good, better than
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: throwing out a random.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Guy like the Saan mccola.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Who you know what, maybe he if he's spending time
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: away from his position and focusing on special teams, he's
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: going to lose a little bit of his move on defense.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: So that's why I think he balanced it. Now, which
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: way's right, I don't know. Eckler at Tennessee did almost
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: all non starters. I think he probably had a little
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: more depth at Tennessee than he did in Nebraska. Just
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: speaking at a high level. I don't know that for sure,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: but I think that maybe is why.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: So that's why I think you balance it. There's a
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: give and take there on what you do on special teams.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: What unit? Now we've talked all three, what unit do
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: you think we're going to spend them? Was time talking
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: about this year from a negative aspect?
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: Negative aspect?
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Defense, offense, special teams, offense? I think so too. If
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: you were to rank, you know, the top ten players
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: on the team from all positions, because Archie, then Dylan
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: and then probably six defense and maybe another two offense
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: Cory or dankyan em It maybe slip in there.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: That might be a little bit because you're naturally going
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: to talk about offense. But in perspective like I'm I'm
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: blindly trusted Mike Eckler, I would say in years past,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: based on the amount of time that they spend on
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: the field to what we talk about, our special teams
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: has been leading that category in the negative field.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're just not. There are so few
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: opportunities for the special teams to to really blow a game.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Last we found them practice and we've done right, and
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: so we trust Eckler to at least get us back
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: to neutral, and last year we trend it towards neutral.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: I mean our punting. The actual punting was decent by
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: the end of the year. The field goal kicking was decent.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: It was the return game where we were struggling and
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: some blocked stuff that we were struggling, but we can
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: probably clean those up. I probably think that it's gonna
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: be offense. I think defense is going to be fine.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I think it will be offense, but there's definitely a shot.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Ever special team sucks. We will be talking about that
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: the most.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: I just I can't believe it. I just can't as Archie,
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: the Archie Wilson back there on.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is he? So who's your most especially the defense combined,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: the most decided player.
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: It's Archie Archie Wilson's It's not even a question.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Who's the most dude, the player you most excited for
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: him the Nebraska football team in twenty twenty five. Could
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: it be the freaking punter? It might be if you,
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: I mean you look online, it might be him or
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: Dan Key seems to be what everyone. Yeah, that's all
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: everyone wants to talk about.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, Archie, I mean, this is great. You can hype
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: this guy up.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: And I, like I said earlier, I don't think it's
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: gonna face him. I just which makes it even better.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I just think he's he's archie.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: We Also, I do want to point out he's not
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: a single digit yet. He will be a single digit
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: by the end of his tenure in Nebraska.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Number here's another great part. Guys.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: You know when you think of punters and kickers and everything,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: like what number you think your guy's probably like in
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: the thirties and guys in the nineties, right, Like those
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: are your numbers.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: He's eighty three, Like I don't care.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Karen's non baby like he's like, I just I'm gonna
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: be eighty three.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Your new your new kicker is ninety eight, I.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Think, like whatever his name is against yep.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: And he looks a little chunky. I'm just gonna say that.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: I guess this roster's got him at ninety one. But
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I could give a shit less of
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: your kickers. Chunky. I don't care.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: The guy from Missouri a couple of years ago, he
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: could foot him from seventy yards and he was he
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: was chunky. It's not like you gotta be athletic. The
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: only thing is your kick gets blocked. You're definitely not
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: chasing him down.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: But right there's not any fake punt, fake kick runs
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: with those guys other single ditch. I guess Genarian, Bonner,
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: dan Key, and Jacory number two. So that leave receivers
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: all receivers.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Back into your point on the unit and what you're concerned,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I just don't see us getting into forty five forty
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: two shootouts.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: I don't either, mainly not because I don't think our
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: offense can do it.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I just don't think our defense is going to give
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: up thirty plus forty plus consistently.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: Now what could have happened a couple of games, we're not.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: That's why I like, I don't I feel okay about
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: our defense, like our offense, as we have in the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: past couple of years, just freaking find a way to
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: score three or four touchdowns get us.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: You look at the sense we're not playing Oregans. You know,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: we're not playing Ohio, State, State, Iowa, Michigan grind it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: out running teams. So I mean, if there are times
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: where we're gonna be frustrating the defense, but we're not
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: gonna like yeah, I agree. We're not gonna be giving
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: up forty points a game, hopefully, you know, no more.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if we lose a game forty five to forty two,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: we'll be talking about our defense in a very negative way.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: There will be very few negative offensive comments. Yeah, I
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: mean in that situation, I.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Mean, your best shot of having a shoot as your
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: first game of the year. I feel like.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: Maybe I think Cincinnati is going to try to slow
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: it down.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: In my mind, we'll talk about Cincinnati in a couple
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: of weeks, but I think they're going to run the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: ball and try to keep it low scoring, which I agree.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I think our offense could explode, like why not?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, what others canoes? Yeah? Is that it?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: That's it?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: What did we come today?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Kick off?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Two weeks?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: People?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: The boys being casey? First time meeting that's.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: True, Okay, first time for Austin and Dak. I have
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: I have met both of them several times.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure, Yeah, that's true. I've never met Dak
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: in person.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Austin's been hiding for me for three years.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: I have des like, hey, you want to come to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: my birthday party? He's like, no way in hell.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: Good decision.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: All ill. It was the Cincinnati Brats game.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: I'll tak the Cincinnati Oh we head it. Go is
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: three hours away.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, we'll be back next week.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: Go be Red tv R, Go'll Be Red, became
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: Pac