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Will Nebraska football end the bowl drought against UCLA on a huge recruiting weekend?
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Nov 4, 2024
The Nebraska football program wil host UCLA on Saturday and in addition to battling for bowl eligibility, the #Huskers will have some key 2025 recruits on campus, meaning the Big Red could land some commitments and get bowl-eligible on the same weekend. #GBR
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good morning Husker fans and welcome
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back to the Husker big raid YouTube
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channel I'm Chris Peterson and joining
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me as always is Danny Gillette and we're
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back for another episode of the podcast
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here in our Thursday morning as the
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Huskers will be aiming for Bowl
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eligibility this weekend against UCLA
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it's the third game in a row that
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they're have a chance to get B
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eligibility but I really have a good
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feeling that it's going to happen this
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weekend so we're going to talk about
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that and we're also going to break down
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a really big recruiting weekend for the
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Huskers so lots of things happening here
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Danny before we get started on all this
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Husker stuff how you doing this morning
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Halloween oh yeah oh yeah Halloween I've
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already dug in some of the candy I can't
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wait for the discounted candy after
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Halloween and the Yankees lost so not
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bad this morning I'm I'm I'm very happy
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that the Yankees lose always happy when
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anything New York related loses and uh
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the sun is coming up behind me so that's
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how you know we're having an early one
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this morning but we have a lot to talk
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about a lot to talk about exciting
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weekend ahead from all from all reports
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and all things I'm seeing it is going to
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be an exciting weekend it's yeah it's
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crazy the World Series is over I have to
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say I didn't watch a single pitch of it
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I just am not a very big I I like
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baseball like I like the idea of
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baseball I just I've gotten like so
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disconnected from it if it's not the
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Cubs then very anticlimactic this year I
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feel like the Yankees had an easy run uh
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the national league as a as a league was
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a lot harder so I mean I think the
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Yankees kind of got lucky to be there
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but so was it who won last year I don't
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even remember to be honest with you so
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the Dodgers the Rangers okay that's
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right all right so the Dodgers my
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buddy's a big Dodgers fan so I've seen
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them a little bit through him but
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outside of that I just am not a big huge
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baseball fan because I'm so invested in
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this Nebraska football team trying to
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get its sixth win and it's been a long
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hard Road you guys we've been waiting
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for a long time we almost got it last
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week we were very close last week and it
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is still a bitter pill to swallow I'm I
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still think about you know that game and
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it just would have been so sweet because
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I hate Ohio State so much it would have
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been so awesome to see Matt rule win
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that game because that would have like
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the Meltdown that Ohio State fans like
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would have had if Nebraska would have
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won that game it just would have been
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epic man like I I would have just sat
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there like on Saturday and Sunday just
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scrolling through Ohio State message
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boards like with a bag of popcorn
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because it would have been awesome to
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see that meltdown and uh man what a win
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that would have been for Nebraska and
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met rule but um here we are we didn't
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get it but uh you know I actually I
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don't I'm not even going to care that
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much as long as they finally get win
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number six this weekend as long as they
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can take that momentum and pay it off
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and uh have a successful month of
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November which I do think is very
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possible for this team I do too and and
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and and like I said earlier this week I
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don't care if they win two to nothing on
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on a safety get that win get that six
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win and honestly oh you know I don't
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consider the Ohio State game a better
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pill to swallow I mean I consider the
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Illinois game a m pill to swallow but
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you know Ohio State no matter you know
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how they play or what you think of them
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are stilla program number four team in
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the country so you know I honestly was
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expecting a 5610 Ohio State game so the
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fact that we showed that much resolve in
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fight uh last weekend was really
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encouraging um you know I I also think
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it was very telling to me twice this
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week Dylan Rola said things that kind of
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made me feel a little bit better first
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after the game he he said he believed
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the program was headed in the right
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direction and you know secondly he G he
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defended Marcus safield and you know no
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matter what you know you think of
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saterfield the fact that um Rola came
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out and defended him and you know had
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his back you know he's obviously not
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going a bad mouth to the Press but it
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just shows a how well mediat trained he
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is and B that he has a good head on his
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shoulders and sometimes it's hard for me
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to believe that he's only 19 years
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old yeah the maturity level is pretty
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impressive with this kid and I I was
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impressed by that too and you know yeah
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you can say whatever you one about
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Marcus saterfield but I did love that
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you know Dylan R has got his back and
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you know what like go go make some plays
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man go throw some touchdowns because I
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mean it has been a few weeks Dylan riol
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has gone three games without a touchdown
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pass and I mean there's you know he's a
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freshman and you know we knew he was
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going to have tough times but I didn't
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necessarily think he was going to go you
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know I didn't think he'd have a
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three-game stretch with four picks and
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zero touchdowns so they've got to figure
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out a way to you know get him going and
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I know look touchdown passes aren't
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everything like they've had touchdown
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runs and stuff but over the last three
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games I mean we're scoring they've
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scored 38 points so I mean you know
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unless my yeah so no not even that much
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yeah 17 24 yeah 38 against ruers so my
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math is bad I guess sometimes but so I
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mean they're only scoring 13 points a
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game so they do have to get that figured
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out and I think trying to unlock that
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passing game is going to be a big key to
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that this weekend well and I think
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trying to unlock the running game is
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going to be a big key to that because
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it'll take some pressure off riola and
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you know I I need to see more out of the
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running game this weekend you know there
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were opportunities for the running backs
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to you know get a lot of yardage and you
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know go through big holes but they the
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running backs just couldn't see them and
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like I said earlier this week I feel
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like we don't have a running back that
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can make Defenders miss or break tackles
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we have more of a powered downhill you
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know running back in Dowell and I feel
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the same way about Johnson but you know
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the the running game also needs to pick
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it up as well because I do think there
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were times where you know it was schemed
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well um it just wasn't executed well so
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it'll be interesting to see if the
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running game can get going this weekend
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yeah I agree there were definitely some
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big there was some yardage there was a
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lot of yardage left you know a lot of a
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lot of meat left on the bone I guess I
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would say by the running backs and I'm
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sure that you know they they saw that in
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film this week but I do think that that
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is going to be you know the essential
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thing for this team because if if you
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look at UCLA their pass defense is not
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good I mean they they give up a lot of
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pass yards um I don't remember the exact
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number number but it's like two well
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over 200 2402 but their their run
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defense is actually pretty good they
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only allow 3.6 yards per attempt they're
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like the worst rushing team I've ever
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seen in college football like their
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numbers are atrocious running the ball
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it's it's insane they don't UCLA doesn't
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have a single running back right now
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that's over 200 yards rushing That's how
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little they run the ball I mean we're
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seven games in they don't have a single
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rusher over 200 yards but it's kind of
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strange when you consider their hard
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coach too yeah I know it is kind of it
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is kind of strange I think part of it is
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they've been so far
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and they have had a tough schedule um
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and they did find something against
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ruter and that Ethan garbers man he was
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like 32 a 38 for 389 yards at four
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touchdowns but ruter they have they they
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lost their best pass rusher and you know
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if you don't have a pass rush like all
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quarterbacks will eat you alive so um
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Nebraska's pass rush has to get home but
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in terms of offensively I do think it's
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going to be really important for Marcus
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saterfield to do what he said he was
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going to do in his press conference two
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weeks ago and that's commit to the run
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because I think it would be really easy
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to come out in this game and say oh UCLA
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doesn't have a great pass defense let's
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take advantage of that and then try to
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come out and throw too much and put
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yourself in bad situations you know
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third and long second and long be
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disciplined don't try to you know don't
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try to reinvent the wheel run the
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football like you said and then let
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Dylan Rola attack this defense because I
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mean if you can run it on Ohio State
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like I think that you can run it on
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anybody you know if you really set your
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mind to it so um I I do think that's the
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biggest key offensively for Nebraska is
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to Pound The Rock and you know get 100
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100 50 yards on this team and I also
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think you know if if you want to try
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something more like run the football or
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try to explore new passing Concepts or
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whatever you don't do that against Ohio
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State you know I think Saturday's game
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will be a good opportunity for them to
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try to implement some more things into
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the offense and uh you know try to find
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something to get Dylan Rola going and
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take it from there um you know I mean me
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and you were kind of joking how this all
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this Ohio State game we were we we were
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already kind of looking ahead to UCLA
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for a couple weeks but um you know I
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think this game will provide more of a
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litmus test to see if they've made the
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adjustments yeah and it'll be you know
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it will be interesting with this UCLA
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team because they you know started
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really bad they won their first game and
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then they lost five in a row and they
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did beat ruter and then they had a byee
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but you know their losses have been to
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you know Indiana beat him by 29 LSU by
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17 Oregon by 21 and Penn State by 16 so
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I mean they've played you know
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essentially four top 15 teams and then
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they lost to Minnesota by four at home
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but you know they're they're not a great
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team and I do think you know you look at
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the factor of it's not quite as big of a
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deal I think traveling from California
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to Nebraska you know and we saw Oregon
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go to to Illinois last week so you can
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go cross country and win but I do think
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that that is part of it as well um I
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don't know how you know trying to think
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about how the buy kind of factors into
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it but just a weird you know you see
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just kind of a weird team um like I said
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they they give up 268 yards per game
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that's how many passing yards per game
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98 rushing yards per game they average
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64 rushing yards per game I mean that's
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in that's crazy to me 2.5 yards per
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attempt so this Nebraska defense really
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should be you know able to make them one
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dimensional I so it's like at the end of
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the day that the biggest key to me is
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essentially the same thing that they did
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last week because what did they do
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against Ohio State they ran the football
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and they shut down uh Judkins and um
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Henderson I mean they completely shut
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them down and that's why they that's why
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they put themselves in the position to
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do what they did and because Ohio State
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like they they ran the ball 31 they only
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threw it 16 or 21 times Ohio State only
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threw the ball 21 times and will Howard
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unfortunately completed like 17 of those
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passes um but they were like hard-headed
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trying to run the football at Nebraska
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and I think if Nebraska can stop that
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run game of uccla and force Ethan
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garbers you know into more of those
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pressure type situations I think that he
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will struggle and if they can you know
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get a Run game for Rola I don't think
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this UCLA defense is going to be able to
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stop Nebraska at all and I need to see
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more from the outside receivers ner and
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Banks I mean I I I really need to see a
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little bit more in terms of getting
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separation trying to get those explosive
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plays downfield help out your
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quarterback you know put him in
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positions where you know he he has to
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make a throw to lead you not a tight
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window throw deep down the field um you
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know I feel like although Banks and ner
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have been two of rola's favorite weapons
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there have been some games where they
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just haven't done enough to help the
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quarterback and I think I'm expecting
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big games from them on Saturday and I'm
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hoping that they can get some form of
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separation or you know be able to be a
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playmaker in some way because they they
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have struggled to get separation this
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year and it's hurting Nebraska in some
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instances yeah and this should be a game
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I mean you know UCLA this should be a
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game where the the wide receivers should
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be able to have a big day I mean even
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you know if you look at the ruers game I
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mean ruers threw for 287 yards aan
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or C Manis I mean so this isn't like a
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you know that's not a dynamic pass
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offense either you know in my opinion
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looking at ruers and they they had two
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guys over 80 yards in that game so I
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mean these receivers they have a golden
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opportunity to make you know to make
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some plays and yeah to to help out your
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freshman quarterback like at the end of
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the day yes I know he's missed some
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touchdown throws I mean he missed a
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couple last week missed the one against
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Illinois but look that's gonna happen
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you know I mean there was you know last
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year with the Packers man like Jordan
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love he missed a bunch of throws at the
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start of the year and then by the end of
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the year like there was the seam route
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to the tight end at the start of the
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year he couldn't hit it and then he hit
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it in the playoff game against the
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Cowboys like I I feel like Dylan's gonna
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start hitting those throws they just got
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to keep giving him those chances and
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when he gives those players a chance
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like we've seen with n and Banks like
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when you get your hands on the football
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you've got to come in with it you've got
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to come down with it and uh there's just
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it feels like with the receivers there's
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not much margin for error so when they
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get those opportunities they've got to
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take advantage of them and both Marcus
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saterfield and Matt Ru talked about
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getting tight end Thomas fedoni going a
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little bit more over the last couple
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weeks they were able to do so against
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Indiana I believe he had 94 receiving
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yards on something like six receptions
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and last week he was a bit more quiet um
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but you know getting him more involved
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in the offense is going to be important
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because he's been able to make the most
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out of you know the um you know games
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where he's had multiple opportunities to
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succeed and if you're not getting what
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you need from the outside receivers you
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know getting fedon more involved would
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be a logical option and then of course
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you know Cory Barney is another guy
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obviously with um you know that slot
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they I thought they did a good job with
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him getting him open and really I mean
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there was some holding penalties and
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stuff on him as well where he was doing
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a nice job of getting separation I feel
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like he's the kind of like the best guy
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to get that separation but you know it
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is hard to it's not like you can throw a
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fade rra to jakori Barney you know what
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I mean a little bit Limited in the
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routes you can run with him and I would
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like to see Jaylen Lloyd get involved in
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this offense that's you know I've just
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been I've been missing him all year you
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know especially with his ability after
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the catch so I don't know I feel like it
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would be good to get him involved and
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they just they just need to find a way
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to get some explosive plays whether it's
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you know fedoni whether it's in the
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running game whether it's rayola running
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it like they just they got to find a way
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to get three or four explosive plays
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because that's what gets you points you
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know what I mean like it's it's really
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hard in the Big 10 to sit there and
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drive drive all the way down you know
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take a 10 12 Play Drive especially with
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the Freshman quarterback and especially
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when you don't have like super great
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receivers you know and you're trying to
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beat you it's not like Nebraska's
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sitting here running for 200 yards a
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game you I mean they're running the ball
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somewhat effectively I mean last week
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was better but you're putting a you're
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putting a lot of pressure on your
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quarterback to pick up third Downs I
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mean Dylan Rola is in a lot of I mean
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they they've done a manageable
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situations but they're putting a lot on
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this quarterback especially to get up
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pick up third downs and right yep
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sometimes it's like sometimes they put
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themselves in a situation where it's
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third and 10 or third and 11 and they
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just don't even try they try the screen
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passes or whatever yeah yep so I mean so
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I feel like they just they have to I
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think that's the thing that's been
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missing is the explosive plays that you
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know take a 10pl scoring drive and make
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it a four to five play scoring drive so
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hopefully they can get some of those
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this week and but I guess my biggest my
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biggest thing is um the black shirts if
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they play the way they did against Ohio
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State I i' think that this team win out
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I really believe that so yeah I agree
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and you know you brought up an
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interesting point about jayen Lloyd and
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jaor Bary you wonder if the coaching
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staff viewed them almost as a similar
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type of player to the point where they
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just want one on the field like I'm
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wondering if there's a if if you know
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the coaching staff thinks that Jaylen
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Lloyd you know just has a similar skill
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set and that's why he doesn't see the
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field much I
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mean it's hard to judge the Returns on
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Jaylen Lloyd because he saw limited
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action last year with a poor passing
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offense but at the same time you have to
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like what you're getting on a Barney so
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I don't know I don't know I mean it's a
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good problem to have I think at the end
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of the day but it's certainly it's
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certainly kind of interesting how he's
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kind of faded out of the receiver
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rotation I think there is you know
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definitely something to that though they
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are pretty similar players and at the at
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the same time like when Jaylen Lloyd's
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got his opportunities he hasn't really
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taken advantage like we saw um what was
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it the Northern Iowa game where yeah he
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didn't jump for the catch yeah or he
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went yeah just the kid beat him through
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the ball and um I think there was
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another game too where he had an
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opportunity and he got so maybe I'm
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thinking yeah and so he needs to take
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advantage when he gets the opportunities
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that he gets and um you know I think the
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running game again will be key and uh
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yeah I I feel pretty confident though I
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I do feel as long as this team I guess
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the biggest thing for me is like if this
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team can just
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capture what it had last week in a
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bottle and move it ahead to this week
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you have that same formula which is
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going to be tough I mean we've seen this
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you know it's like M Michigan Nebraska
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almost beat Michigan in 2021 and then
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the next week they went to Minnesota and
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lost so you know how do they follow up
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with that do they build on this momentum
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or you do they get in a situation where
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it's like you know you struggle lose
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this game and then I feel like if you
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lose this game it really is like oh here
16:23
we go again and and then you're going on
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the road to USC and you have to wait two
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weeks because there's a bye next week so
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like just sit there and imagine losing
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to UCLA and then having to Stew on that
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with Husker Nation for two weeks it's
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not going to be not gonna be a fun time
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no not at all and I I can't believe you
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have another by week already it seems
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kind of crazy to me but I mean if if we
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lose this game and then have to Stew in
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the weeks leading up to UCLA then I
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don't feel that great but we'll see what
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happens
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yeah I I really am confident that this
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team's going to get it done I just I
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have a feeling but you know it's I've
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been not great about you know predicting
17:06
this team at times because I did I had a
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I was feeling very confident going into
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the Indiana game and it was so then last
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week you know made me feel like not such
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an idiot because I'm like okay this is
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the team that I thought we would see
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against Indiana like the team that I
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thought was there does exist we just we
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haven't seen it every Saturday so like
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they've got to find a way to be that
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team for this last month of the season
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because I think that they could you know
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really find some success I just I think
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they need to win this first game it's
17:35
like that first you know when you get
17:36
into the NCA tournament and you haven't
17:38
been there for a long time you know like
17:39
Nebraska basketball um but just like
17:42
that trying to get over that hump that
17:43
mental hurdle and I feel like if they do
17:46
that they then they can stop thinking
17:48
about we've got to get to six wins we've
17:49
got to get to a bowl game then they can
17:50
just go play then you've got three games
17:52
left and you can just go play and you
17:55
know see see if you can get yourself
17:56
ranked see if you can get some you know
17:58
big win win see if you can get yourself
17:59
into a good bowl game like see what
18:01
happens but I just feel like once you
18:03
remove that kind of six win like I don't
18:06
know that goal or whatever you want to
18:07
call it I just feel like that this
18:08
program really will flourish once you
18:10
get that pressure you know once they get
18:12
that monkey off their back and you know
18:14
I've seen people be like oh we lost to
18:16
Indiana we lost to a basketball school I
18:18
think everybody underestimated Indiana
18:20
including Nebraska uh Indiana's no Slots
18:23
of a program and I think they have a
18:24
legitimate shot to win the Big 10 so I
18:26
mean that was a good kind a test for
18:30
Nebraska you know to to see where they
18:33
stacked up against some of the best in
18:35
the conference and I honestly think that
18:38
Indiana's more of a tougher team than
18:40
Ohio state is right now so I mean you
18:43
know I think I think um I think the
18:47
Indiana loss kind of woke them up a
18:49
little bit and we saw that on Saturday
18:50
against Ohio State I'm hoping they don't
18:53
take UCLA lately I don't think they will
18:55
but I think Indiana served as a little
18:57
bit of a wakeup call
18:59
yeah I I do too and they got some Humble
19:01
Pie and you know sometimes it's a good
19:03
thing to get your butt kicked a little
19:04
bit and um you know as long as it's not
19:07
as long as it's not happening every week
19:08
you know like one one bad loss doesn't
19:10
Define your tenure you know I mean Jim
19:12
Harbaugh got his butt kicked quite a few
19:14
times especially by Ohio State so like
19:16
it happens as long as you learn from it
19:18
and get off the mat that's what that's
19:19
the more important thing is how you get
19:20
off the mat and this team did that last
19:22
week and that you know like Matt rule
19:25
said after like they they showed fight
19:27
and um you know it was that Championship
19:29
mindset of like we're going to like they
19:31
never back down from that game and and
19:33
you could feel it from the opening
19:34
kickoff I mean and even you know down 14
19:37
to3 like many Nebraska teams would have
19:39
crumbled in that situation they would
19:40
have lost 35 to3 I mean it happened to
19:43
Iowa and Iowa's a good Iowa was not a
19:45
bad team and they got crushed by Ohio
19:47
State so you know I feel good about that
19:49
but it's the same thing too where you
19:51
know you're never as bad as you look and
19:52
you're never as good as you look so but
19:55
that's the same thing is that wasn't the
19:56
I I still think Nebraska can play better
19:58
than they did last week it's not like
19:59
they I said this earlier they did not
20:01
pitch a perfect game anywhere close to
20:02
it you know so that just shows you how
20:05
close these guys are and I just feel
20:07
like man if we cannot turn the ball over
20:10
and play great defense like there's not
20:11
a team on this schedule we can't beat so
20:13
um at any rate I'm gonna put I'm
20:15
throwing I know we're not doing our
20:17
predictions today but I'm predicting
20:18
that the Braska G win this game I don't
20:20
care because that's just I think they're
20:22
gonna do it and if they don't then I'm
20:24
probably going to put my head through
20:25
the wall and I don't know I'm just
20:27
kidding but don't do that it's going to
20:29
be a very tough situation if they don't
20:32
don't make your wife pay for the repairs
20:34
that that that that's not fair to her
20:36
but anyway uh I mean it's uh yeah it's
20:38
it's a big I mean like I got Michigan is
20:40
playing at the same time as Nebraska and
20:41
I've already decided like I'm watching
20:43
Nebraska on the big TV I'm in at
20:44
Michigan playing Oregon on the small TV
20:46
because that's how important this game
20:47
is like he says now on the Nebraska
20:49
broadcast that Nebraska's gonna get the
20:51
big TV and then he's gonna go on his
20:52
Michigan show not that he has one and
20:54
says he's going to have Michigan on the
20:55
big TV don't worry folks there is no
20:57
switching teams here all Nebraska all
21:00
the time and I think Nebraska is gonna
21:01
win on Saturday uh I'll just throw out a
21:04
score I think Nebraska is going to win
21:09
2713 I got um I got 3117 is one I picked
21:13
uh you know my spread predic I just feel
21:15
like yeah I feel like nebras is gonna
21:16
get 30 UCL will throw for some yards but
21:19
I don't think they're going to get I
21:20
don't think they're getting 20 points so
21:22
um honestly my theme on Saturday is I
21:24
don't care if they win five nothing or
21:26
if they win six 62 I don't care yeah
21:30
just win because my thing is I'm afraid
21:33
that if they lose the doubt is going to
21:35
start creeping in because they're human
21:37
they're human and they hear us Lord
21:39
knows how can you not hear this fan base
21:41
and I feel like if they lose on Saturday
21:44
then we are going to be in a little bit
21:45
of a trouble just because it's a here we
21:48
go again yeah exactly here we go again I
21:51
we yeah we can't have that we got to
21:52
stop it we just we just gota we got to
21:54
do it man we got like I I wrote um a
21:57
Blog this week and I said it's time for
21:59
Nebraska to kick down the damn door to
22:01
progress because it's right there we're
22:03
on the doorstep kick that son of a b in
22:06
man get the get that thing that they use
22:08
the little battering ram like just bust
22:10
it down and then I think once they get
22:12
six wins like that's what I'm saying I
22:14
think this team could win out like I
22:16
just think that they could they'll get
22:17
that confidence and uh because then it's
22:19
like man they're playing with house
22:20
money they got the bowl game what do
22:22
they have to lose and to have to have a
22:24
good team with that mindset over the
22:25
last month like I think that would be a
22:27
very scary thing for the rest of the
22:29
teams on the schedule so and to get
22:31
those extra weeks of practices leading
22:33
up to the bow game in terms of
22:34
developing a program especially with a
22:36
lot of young pieces that's very
22:37
important too yeah because it is a
22:39
veteran team and a veteran defense but
22:41
man there's a ton of freshman and
22:43
sophomores on this roster so don't
22:44
forget about that I sometimes do um but
22:47
but yeah there there's a lot of uh
22:49
development going on um for future
22:51
seasons and another thing that's making
22:53
this weekend really exciting is some of
22:54
the things that are happening you know
22:55
on the recruiting Trail we talked about
22:57
Chase often and since we've talked about
22:59
that on Monday like he has gotten
23:01
projected by you know Steve Wilfong John
23:03
Callahan basically BS yeah Brian mson
23:07
everybody who has a crystal ball or
23:09
expert projection is putting it in for
23:11
Chase Lofton so I think that's like
23:13
maybe the best kept secret in college
23:15
football recruiting that he's going to
23:16
flip to Nebraska probably this weekend
23:18
and it seems like Chase Lofton has
23:20
opened up the doors for others to come
23:22
this weekend and uh and uh we have three
23:27
players in particular from what is it
23:29
South
23:30
Carolina uh Mississippi Mississippi and
23:34
uh including a stud offensive tackle we
23:38
got a 2027 running back coming that I
23:42
who I think is going to be really good
23:44
we have uh a defensive lineman in Hunter
23:47
Higgins who is also coming uh from the
23:49
state of Missouri and so this is a big
23:53
weekend to show recruits okay this is
23:55
what we're building this is what it this
23:57
is what it may look like and we want you
24:00
here to take us to the next level but I
24:02
was very kind of surprised at how many
24:04
kids were coming this weekend yeah a lot
24:07
of 2026 kids and it's um almost kind of
24:10
hard to like some of the databases
24:11
aren't you know updated but like Dayton
24:13
rola's coming this weekend um Isaac
24:15
Jensen who I believe is the number one
24:17
recruit Nebraska right now for 2025 is
24:19
coming um so that's you know he he's
24:22
starting to get some national attention
24:23
too he's going to turn into another
24:25
Chase Lofton type of recruitment so just
24:27
watch um so that's that's a really big
24:28
one to get um and camoy Moore um is
24:32
supposed to be on campus this weekend
24:34
the uh the former o Oklahoma commitment
24:37
um and then another guy Preston Hawkins
24:39
um a 67 295 pound Joo offensive tackle
24:43
um he's going to be visiting this
24:44
weekend he just visited um Virginia Tech
24:46
he's got 12 offers Nebraska would be
24:49
like the the best offer because he
24:50
doesn't have like a big 10 or SEC offer
24:52
yet but um you know in terms of a guy
24:54
who could add some help or some
24:56
immediate depth to the tackle room he's
24:58
a guy to watch he doesn't have an offer
24:59
yet but I feel like if Nebraska offers
25:02
this weekend I feel like they can get
25:04
his commitment I feel like Nebraska can
25:05
get three commitments this weekend I'm
25:07
not saying that they'll all be announced
25:09
you know by Sunday yeah for commitments
25:12
yeah but essentially by the end of the
25:13
weekend I do think Lofton Cy Moore and
25:16
this Preston Hawkins could be committed
25:19
if Nebraska you know wants to make that
25:20
push they're probably you know going to
25:22
verify him work him out whatever um and
25:25
see if he's there but but if Nebraska
25:27
offers you and you're you're you know
25:28
Virginia Tech's your best offer like I
25:30
would I would take that so I think they
25:32
have a good chance to you know make some
25:34
strong waves and then 2026 they've got
25:36
some really good players on on campus
25:38
like you said and they're building some
25:40
really good momentum Mitchell Smith uh
25:43
I'm watching yeah th those got you know
25:45
from Mississippi 64 tackle Braden Wilms
25:48
a 68 270lb tackle from Kansas um Nolan
25:52
Wilson another guy from Mississippi and
25:54
Edge so um and then uh dren punt kind of
25:57
a kind of a fun name for a football
25:59
player but 67 220lb Edge out of Iowa um
26:03
you really do you really do notice
26:05
Nebraska focusing in on um on the
26:07
Midwest region which I think is probably
26:09
a good thing and the thing I like about
26:11
Mitchell Smith in particular is that
26:13
he's currently at IMG Academy and I like
26:15
IMG Academy because they do a strong job
26:18
of developing players and um you know so
26:22
Smith is one I'm watching for sure um
26:25
I'm watching for the running back
26:26
Robinson because I believe we need a
26:28
little bit more depth in the running
26:29
back room I mean we have Parker and for
26:31
the future and things like that but you
26:34
know running backs you can never have
26:35
too much depth in the running back room
26:37
and um so yeah there's a lot of
26:39
interesting names this weekend um you
26:42
know the this is kind of going to be
26:45
interesting to see um what we hear out
26:48
of this weekend like you said maybe not
26:51
some solid commitments but verbal
26:53
commitments so I'm kind of interested to
26:54
see what nuggets come out of all of this
26:57
if we get any
26:58
and uh I'm just excited that the fact
27:00
that Nebraska could be getting its ninth
27:02
Blue Chip commitment in uh in Chase
27:05
Lofton I still think they have a chance
27:06
at Dawson Meritt so I think they could
27:08
push that that number into into double
27:10
digits and um you know so that's set
27:12
setting this program up really really um
27:15
successfully I think long term in Lofton
27:17
66 215 um I I hate seeing a blue chipper
27:21
from Nebraska go somewhere else so that
27:23
would uh that would write some wrongs in
27:24
my opinion um in terms of you know his
27:26
commitment and uh yeah be full steam
27:29
ahead to the 2025 season so I feel like
27:31
recruiting is in a really good spot and
27:33
they just need to finish this season
27:34
strong and then you know add some
27:36
reinforcements in the portal and I think
27:37
this roster is in a good good spot going
27:39
forward also shout out Florida State for
27:41
absolutely going out of the toilet this
27:43
year that helped yeah yeah that
27:45
definitely that definitely helped so
27:47
yeah thanks for that one it'll be
27:48
interesting to see if Mike norell still
27:50
has a job in a few I don't know I'm I'm
27:54
I'm thinking no probably not I mean
27:56
there's there's just so many only so far
27:58
you can fall off so I don't know but
28:00
that definitely is helped Nebraska and
28:02
um you know I like that I was hoping we
28:04
would get to see Jordan Allen the
28:05
Louisville uh commitment I was hoping he
28:07
would make it this weekend so you never
28:09
know I mean we still got a few days we
28:10
still got another game too the Wisconsin
28:12
game um I still feel like there's a
28:13
chance that he could flip but uh that's
28:15
a night game too isn't it yeah I believe
28:18
so um but yeah I feel good about where
28:21
they're at and like I said I think it's
28:22
going to be a strong uh you know
28:24
commitment weekend with camoy Moore
28:26
Chase Lofton and the offensive tackle so
28:30
yeah I'm excited about it but let's
28:31
let's go get that win on Saturday man
28:33
yeah I mean we've been in this position
28:36
before we just need that six win and
28:37
it's been elusive but I feel like
28:40
Saturday this will be the opportunity to
28:41
do it so um all right you guys we'll
28:44
wrap it up there we're going to plan to
28:45
do the Saturday chat on Saturday morning
28:47
hopefully we'll we'll get to that this
28:49
weekend just uh had some uh health
28:51
issues last weekend wasn't feeling the
28:52
best so that's why we didn't quite make
28:53
it but this Saturday for the bowl game
28:56
we're we'll hopefully make the uh
28:57
Saturday morning chat so um if you
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