GUT REACTIONS TO NEBRASKA'S LOSS TO PURDU E
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Mar 4, 2024
Nebraska football lost a heartbreaker to Purdue Saturday night. We offer gut reactions and takeaways from a 43-37 loss.
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Hey Nebraska fans, welcome back to the Husk or Big red youtube channel
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We're here live, uh right after the game here and a tough loss for Nebraska 4337 defeat
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Um, you know, it was a, you know, a classic game. There was a lot of huge plays
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a lot to cheer about, but ultimately, you know, Nebraska, you know, wasn't able to get the ball back there on the last possession
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Um, you know, some of the time out usage, um, you know, cost there but, uh, you know
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the, the name of the show here, Danny's got reaction. So, you know, we're, we're here live
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What's your gut reaction to, uh, 4337 loss for Nebraska? What a wasted effort on the part of Trey Palmer
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I mean, that guy literally carried the, uh receiving part of this game and I believe it was what
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273 receiving yards, 272 or no, 2 27 22 27. And then I don't know
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I think I saw like 270 maybe all purpose yards or something. Yeah
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he had a 60 yard run. Yeah. Ok. Yeah, so 2 237 yards and then a 60 yard run
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imagine doing all that and still losing. Like, I don't know, like
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I mean, that, that guy is something special. Uh, he really is
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he was fun to watch tonight. Uh, defense just didn't bring it tonight
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There was very little pass rush and, you know, Aidan o'connell is really
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really good. Um, you know, we said he was really, really good
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uh, when we were previewing this week, but you didn't really realize it
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or at least I didn't really realize it until I got to see him up close. Like I feel like he's a really
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really good quarterback that we faced and, uh, you know, uh, it
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it, it, it was a disappointing effort by the defense but I mean
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some of the throws, the tight window throws that o'connell through to his
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uh, best buddy, Charlie Jones. I mean, he was really impressed. I impressive and
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you know, he single handedly, I think, you know, not actually I shouldn't say so Hanley because the running back gashed us as well
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but he was a big reason why they were in the game and ended up with the victory
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Yeah, I think it, I mean, it really, it just, it boiled down to Aidan Connell was better than Casey Thompson
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I mean, Casey made some big throws, you know, he had some big plays but, you know
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consistently, you know, on third down, I mean, it, uh, Aidan o'connell even on that last possession
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you know, Osho Mathis, you know, got his hand on him and couldn't get him to the ground, which happened a few different times
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you know, they got pressure but they couldn't get him down. And, um, I mean, there was
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you know, multiple times on that LA, you know, you have 3rd and 12, you know
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Purdue, I have no idea why they were even throwing the ball. Um, you know, on that second down
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that was really, you know, not very smart on their part, but, uh, you know, it was a tailor made situation and they couldn't get
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off the field and, um, they had him on that 3rd and 12 and, you know, when Mathis just missed the sack and
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you know, couldn't get off the field again. So, um, I think he just, at the end of the day
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Aidan o'connell, you know, was the best quarterback in this matchup and that was the difference in the game
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Yeah, that was the difference in the game and I think the, our inability to kind of stop the run early on also played a
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huge factor in it. Um, I don't have the statistics up in front of me right now
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but they're running back. Absolutely. Guess just, uh, let me see if I can get up here
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But, um, yeah, no, it was just so frustrating to watch, particularly when o'connell kind of
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No, I'm not gonna say duped, but when he faked out Ty Robinson
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Ty Robinson looked really, really slow on that play and, you know o'connell made him pay
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That's what good quarterbacks do. I mean, you know, it's just, it's just a disheartening defeat because quite honestly
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when your offense scores 42 points or however many we scored, you know
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we should be able to win the game 43. No, actually they scored 43
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We scored 37. You know, we should be able to win the game with 37 points scored
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Yeah, I mean, it's, uh, you, you know, it's tough to be on the defense when you're out there for 100 and one plays
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And, I mean, a lot of the Trey Palmer stuff was, you know, they scored, you know
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on big plays, but that also meant that, uh, you know, the defense was out there for a long time and
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uh, you know, the lack of, uh, you know, Anthony Grant, I mean, he really has not
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he was great in, against F CS teams, but in the big 10, he hasn't done Jack shit
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So, you know, he, he didn't do anything tonight. He dropped a touchdown pass
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Um, so he's got to step up, you know, and then the offensive line was bad too
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But, uh, you know, it's hard. I mean, you know, it's hard for me to let him Ty Robinson when they're out there for 100
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you know, 100 plays, the run defense was bad. They should have done, they needed to do a better job in that and they
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you know, they missed, uh, Luke Reimer but, you know, uh, it's
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I, I, in terms of the coaching staff, you know, I thought that they did a good job though
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I mean, this team just doesn't have enough talent to, to win, you know
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against the better teams in the big 10. And I thought that, you know, just kind of showed that deep Purdue
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you know, as a better defensive line and, uh, you know, they have a better quarterback and
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you know, their guys just consistently made more plays because outside of Trey Palmer and Casey Thompson
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nobody was making plays, you know, guys were dropping balls. So, I mean
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it really outside the Trey Palmer show, you know, this team really doesn't score a ton of points
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I don't think tonight. And, you know what I said, I would find, uh, the Purdue running backs name
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Devin Mockery, 30 carries 100 and 78 yards and a touchdown, 5.9 yards per carry hat
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uh, tip of the cap to him. He made plays today for Purdue and he was really able to stabilize their rushing attack and it
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their rushing attack just exposed how bad our defensive line truly is because it was almost like there was no defensive line
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there at all. And that's very disheartening to see, we kind of knew it was an issue position
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but, I mean, tonight just kind of exemplified it in real time
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Yeah. I mean, Purdue isn't a team that likes to run the ball and they, they really did
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you know, they ran it right at Nebraska and that's what's gonna happen, you know, down the stretch
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You've got chase Brown after the by, you know, Michigan ran for over 400 yards today against Penn State Wisconsin
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So, you know, I don't see Nebraska, it's gonna be tough to get to a bowl game
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It really is at this point, you know, that Illinois game is a lot tougher than people
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You know, people thought it was gonna be and they, them and Purdue were tied for first and
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you know, I mean, Nebraska could still, if they ha if they beat Illinois, you know, they could still work their way into it
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But I, I think the bowl game needs to be the number one goal right now is trying to get to the postseason and
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you know, if that doesn't happen, I definitely don't think that Mickey Joseph's gonna be back
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I mean, at least not as the head coach, he'll be back on the staff, but not as the head coach
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I agree. And I honestly wouldn't want the job if I was Mickey Joseph
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there's a lot of work to do here and I think he's up for the task of recruiting and things like that
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But tonight just show that how much further we have to go
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especially, you know, when you look at the offensive line and, you know
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the defensive line and, you know, our receivers are good but, you know
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take away Trey Palmer and how much do we really have Thompson missed a wide open throw to Alota Brown
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So, I mean, there was that, but I mean, at the end of the day
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the offense scored over 35 points, they should have been able to win the game and the defense just couldn't get the job done
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And I think you tweeted this but their pass rushing was sort of non existent
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You know, you, you put three guys who aren't really pass rushers
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you know, in pass rushing situations and you're gonna get beat and
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uh, uh, uh, you know, especially with a quarterback like aidan o'connell
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he's gonna find a way to absolutely torch you. Yeah, I mean
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really at the end of the day it could, the game kind of played out almost how I thought it was going to
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I, you know, I said it was gonna be kind of a shootout. Purdue was gonna get the lead. Nebraska was gonna come back and
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you know, that's basically what happened in Nebraska. You know, I said it all week if they didn't run for 100 yards
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I mean, they did run for 100 yards, but Anthony Grant had to, you know, outside of the Trey Palmer run
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They didn't do a whole lot and that was the difference in the game because they couldn't keep
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you know, the Purdue defense on the field, they couldn't keep Aidan o'connell on the sideline
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And if you, you know, if you allow your opponent, whether it's a, you know, and it's a really good quarterback to run 100 plays
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you're gonna give up a lot of points. So, I mean, I think the offense and
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uh, especially, you know, the lack of a running game I think was the biggest thing that
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that was always gonna have to be part of this scenario because the defense is what it is
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it's not gonna get, it's not gonna get any better. Um, I mean, the fact is Rutgers isn't a very good offense
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Indiana is not a very good. So, I mean, those shut, those shutouts were nice but
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you know, this, that's not gonna be the case against, you know, some of these better teams that they're facing
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Um, so especially a good quarterback. I mean, the guys were, were there
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they just, you know, uh, a better for a good throw beats a good defense almost all the time and we saw that a bunch
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with it and then, you know, they played a lot of zone defense because they didn't want to give up big plays and the lack
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of the pass rush, you know, pretty much, uh, pretty much killed the Purdue sacked had four sacks and Nebraska had zero and basically got
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no pressure and that was the game, you know, so they, uh, they've got to find some pass rushers and
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uh, because, because right now in the Purdue offensive line isn't great, but right now the pass rush is just not good enough
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Yeah. And, you know, it was kind of interesting to see Aidan o'connell often just went with his first read and his first read was
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able to, you know, run after the catch and make a big play. Nebraska got beat on the slants all night because they saw what
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we've seen. Our linebackers are very, very slow and if you have slow linebackers that allows for
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you know, open slant plays, especially if you force the linebackers to take a bad angle once you get a couple of steps ahead of
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them. So I thought o'connell did a good job of identifying his reads and getting the ball out quick to
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you know, his receivers who were able to make plays after the catch and they exploited a huge weakness in Nebraska's defense and we
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talked about it a lot and the fact that they have slow linebacker play and that's not gonna change anytime soon
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Yeah, I mean, uh, yeah, that's the, the guys that they are who they are
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But I mean, I, I think that there's still a lot of positives to take away from this game is a really good football team
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you know, their only losses are to Syracuse and Penn State. You know
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uh, Nebraska covered the spread. I mean, it's not like, you know, not a lot of people predicted Nebraska to win this game
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I didn't, I thought this was about, you know, what it was gonna be. So
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you know, I think there's still a lot of good things to take away. Nebraska was down 17 points
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you know, had a chance to tie the game in the fourth quarter. Um, if they could have got the ball back there
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you know, I think that they would have found a way to, to maybe get one in the end zone. But, you know
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the second interception from Casey Thompson, that was the difference in the game, you know, Aidan o'connell when he had to have a play
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he made it and Casey Thompson, you know, he made a lot of plays when we were down 14 and 17
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But, you know, when it was a one possession game, you know, he missed Alonte Brown
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he threw a, threw a bad pass to, uh, you know, Trey, there was a couple of times where Trey Palmer was like
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throw it out in front of me. And so, you know, but Casey also, you know
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was getting hit really hard. So, I mean, I'm not gonna rip on him too hard, but overall
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I, I think the people that are, you know, I've seen some reactions already, you know
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Oh, we need to fire everybody and da, da, da. I think that's an overreaction right now. I think this is a solid
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you know, performance. Yes, it was disappointing. But, you know, I still think there was a lot of good things that we saw on Saturday
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night, I think. Yeah. No, I definitely think so. And I think
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you know, one of the good things, um, was the play of Marcus Washington
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He had, I believe he had three catches for 30 yards. Yeah
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exactly, 30 yards. Um, you know, he had a 14 yard catch
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that was his longest of the evening. And, um, aside from, you know
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Trey Palmer, he was um the third most targeted receiver Travis
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OLLI also had three. I sh I I should say white out
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Actually, Volko had three. Washington had three. Palmer had seven and then Oliver Martin had that big play
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So it was good to see Washington continue to cement his role as a good complementary receiver
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And so I thought that was a big positive tonight and, you know
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I, I also thought that, um, you know, in Nebraska's utilization of Trey Palmer for that rushing play that went 60
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yards. I mean, that's the type of creativity that we, that I kind of wanna see with the play calling
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I wanna see, you know, not just straight halfback dives, but also creative run plays that can keep the defense off balance and that's what
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they did on that Palmer play and I thought that was really big
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especially when the Nebraska offense needed a spark. It's kind of hard to believe that Nebraska would need a spark on offense when they
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scored 37 points. But in this game they needed some in order to keep up with a very good Purdue boilermakers offense
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Yeah, I thought Whipple actually did a great job, you know, they had Trey Palmer there
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he had the, uh Casey Thompson QB run. So, you know, I thought he did a really good job
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but the offensive line is just terrible and Donovan Raiola needs to go if
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if Mickey is back next year, this guy needs to not be on the staff anymore
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He was hired because he knew Scott and we thought they could get his brother. So
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I mean, you know, the, the quarterback, yeah, nephew, whatever. And, uh
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so he needs to go. I'm sorry, but there's just, you know, I honestly
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I don't see how the offensive line, some of these guys can be that bad. So, you know
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they just, there has to be changes there. They need to, you know, bring in a technician or Rio
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you know, if he can recruit or whatever, then bring in like an assistant offensive line coach that's have some experience that
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you know, can work on the field and practice and can actually teach these. I think Rla needs to go period
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Rla needs to go, period bottom line because let's just face it. He was hired to see if we could try to get
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uh Dylan Rla and it didn't work. So, I mean, it's honestly doing him a disservice to keep him on the staff
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especially because he probably knows that, you know, he's a little bit in over his head
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We need a proven blind coach and we need a lot of ties removed from the Scott Frost era
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And I think Rayola is one of those, you know, people, although he's been
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you know, although he was a part of the Scott Frost era for a little amount of time
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you know, it's still, we need fresh faces and a fresh start
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whether that be Mickey Joseph or another coach, who knows, but I wouldn't want to keep him
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I would wanna, you know, try to hire my own guys and get my own staff in there
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Yeah, I mean, Nebraska needs, you know, like Trev Albert said, Nebraska needs to be the premier development program
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you know, in the country because they're never Nebraska. You know, people need to get this through their head
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Nebraska is probably never gonna recruit at a blue chip level at the blue chip ratio level that you need to win national championships
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It's just not gonna happen. The only programs there's really only two programs in the big 10 that even do it right now
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That's Michigan and Ohio State and Michigan is barely hanging on there because that's how hard it is to recruit
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But Michigan, the thing is they, they get three star guys and they turn them into pro players in Nebraska gets top 50 players and
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they turn them into absolute crap. So, I mean, that's, that's, you know, that's what happened under Scott Frost
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We've seen it with multiple offensive linemen. So, you know, I, I think they need to get somebody who can actually develop players and
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uh can evaluate because it's one thing to, um, you know, it's one thing to
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to sit there and, and recruit guys, you know, based off solid recruiting rankings, but
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you know, you need to recruit them based off your own evaluations and, and I don't think that was happening very much in Nebraska and
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you've just seen Miss after Miss after Miss and, and there's, uh, you know, it's like the teams that Miss on NFL draft picks
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there's a reason why that constantly is happening. Yeah. And it's almost like they looked at the recruiting rankings and the recruiting rankings only
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you know, they didn't look at any film or they didn't, you know, something was missed to where it was either a lack of
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you know, truly seeing a player's skills or a lack of development once they got to the program
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And I believe that could be the case for the line, but now it's created a sort of log gym where it wasn't corrected the
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first year wasn't corrected, the second year wasn't corrected the third year and now the fourth year it's beyond repair
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Yeah, I mean, there's been, you know, if, if Paka and some of those other injury
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you know, they're down three starters. So, I mean, that's not helping, obviously
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but, you know, Bando was out tonight, which, you know, he, the fact that he's one of your better linemen and he missed the game
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I mean, that, you know, that's a, that was a bummer. So, I mean, there, there was a lot of
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uh, things there and Reimer would have made a big difference. But, you know, I still think that there's a lot of
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like I said, a lot of quality things to take away from this game. Quint Newsom, I think had one of the best games he's
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had as a Husker, even though Charlie Jones still caught a lot of passes. Jones is a good player
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Yeah. And I mean, and they were, yeah, and they were playing a lot of zone
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you know, Malcolm Herzog, you know, had the big interception. So I thought that was a positive thing
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And so, you know, I'm not gonna, uh, rip Bill Bush too badly
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I thought he did as well as he probably could. You know, there's just, there's not a lot of
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uh, drive, stopping, drives, stopping players on this Nebraska defense and, you know
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being in the right spot playing hard, it's only gonna get you so far. And I, I thought that they absolutely battled and
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you know, I'm, I was proud of the effort. You know, I'm proud of the team. I'm not, you know, I wanted this win but
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I'm not heartbroken because, you know, I feel like they definitely gave it everything they had
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they left it on the field tonight. Yeah. And, you know, I think that
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um, you know, we saw a team that wa was not afraid to take on the challenge that Purdue presented
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and a team that, you know, wanted to try to win, wanted to try to get back into the game
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wanted to try to make the big play. And unfortunately, you know
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they just don't have the horses to do that yet. I mean
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especially on the defensive side of the football, they just don't have the horses to do that yet
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but they do have a competitive spirit and I know nobody wants to hear this
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but they do have a competitive fire that is needed to win in the big 10
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So I think that's definitely a takeaway. The kids haven't given up on the season and you can tell that they love playing for the
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program and they love playing for this team. It's just a matter of putting it together and hopefully that will come sooner rather than later
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Yeah. Um, you know, I, I still feel good about, you know
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the job that, you know, Mickey Joseph did in terms of like the coaching staff and thinking about
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you know, did they put the team in a position to win the game? And I feel like that they did that and the guy
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just, you know, they didn't make enough plays. Aidan o'connell made a few more plays. Charlie Jones made a few more plays and that happens
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But it wasn't like, uh, you know, there was a bunch of really dumb calls. I, I do wish they would have kept another time
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out or two and then they could have had another chance to stop Purdue. I mean, that was
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you know, pretty clear that that was gonna come back to bite him. I almost wish that they would on site kicked after the second
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touchdown just because I just was pretty clear, they weren't gonna be able to stop him
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So maybe, you know, something would have worked out but, you know, you
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you're not gonna, you're not gonna lose the turnover battle on the road and lose the rushing battle almost 2 to 1 and win a
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football game. I mean, no matter how you slice it, you know, those are the basic things and that's why Nebraska lost
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you know, turn the ball over more and they couldn't run the ball. Jeff Bram
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I thought, did a very good job of identifying the weaknesses in the Nebraska defense
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particularly on the outside plays when they would bounce. Um, how do you say his last name
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the running back, um mccabe to the outside, they would bounce him to the outside because they knew Nebraska had a weakness on the outside
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and, you know, brom exploited that very well. And I thought he did a good job of
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you know, just sticking with it, not trying to do anything fancy. He knew he could get good yardage from there and he did that
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and the announcers said that Bram was one of the elite play callers in college football
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And he showed that tonight. He really did. I thought he did a good job of
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you know, putting his quarterback in positions to succeed. And you can see
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we talk about the lack of development with Nebraska, you could see the development that Purdue did with
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um, Aidan o'connell. He had a great command of the offense. Um
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you know, he was a very good, um, in terms of moving the chains understanding down in distance and I believe on the broadcast
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they said he was, um, uh, eighth string walk on. So that's an incredible story in of itself
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Yeah. And, um, you know, you just have to tip your cap to him. He, like we said
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he, to me he was the difference in the game. Um, you know, in the fact that Nebraska just can't run the football
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I mean, that's, uh, you know, becoming a really big concern and
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uh, you know, it's like, I'm, I'm not sure there's not a lot of variety in the run game
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And, I mean, it makes it tough when your offensive line sucks. So you, there's not much
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you know, these guys aren't really athletic enough to pull and do a lot of those different types of things
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So, you know, you're kind of limited in what you can do there. It would be, like I said
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at some point, I mean, they, we saw it a little bit with Casey Thompson, but it would
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at some point, I wouldn't mind seeing some quarterback run situations just to
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uh, you know, try to keep this team in, uh, in positive down and distances because there was that one drive where
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you know, they just went, uh, you know, one the, the, it was three long pass plays and I
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I can't remember, you know what the score was at that point, but, you know, it's putting the defense right out there pretty quickly and
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that's still happening too much. Nebraska possessed the ball for like 18 minutes tonight
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So that makes it pretty tough on your defense. They need to play better complementary football
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I'm wondering what the status of Thompson's injury is with his ribs because if it's something serious
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I don't know if I would necessarily want to have him running outside of the pocket
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Um, and, you know, putting his ribs at risk because right now
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I mean, he's one of the keys for keeping Nebraska in football games if we put Chur in
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I don't know if he would have the same results as Thompson
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You know, Thompson has been up and down, but he does tend to make the big throw that we need when it is needed
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Um, I thought he was a little bit, um, under threw some tonight
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but again, I'm wondering how much of that is his ribs and how much of that is just trying to rush the throws because of
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the lack of help from the offensive line. I mean, I could tell you once I pulled my ribs and I felt like I was
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gonna literally die. I literally felt like so sore. So I can't imagine cracked ribs
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uh, on a quarterback, especially when he has to make throwing motion. Yeah
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we'll see, I mean, uh, it's not gonna get any easier. So, I mean, if we'll, we'll see what happens over the next two weeks
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They've got to try to figure out some way on the offensive line and, you know
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well, it'll be interesting to see what happens if, you know, there's a lot of rumors about whipple and his health and all this different
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type of stuff. So if you know, she's gonna drop there, I feel like it's
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you know, the bi week would be the perfect time. I don't wanna see Mickey have to call plays
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I don't think that's gonna be a good thing for Nebraska, but, you know, we'll see
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they, they have to do what they can do. But uh you know, I don't know after
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so after this game, where do you think that the trend is gonna be heading in terms of the
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you know, the head coaching? What, what's the buzz gonna be like after this? You know
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I don't know because Lance Le Well, I, I know that Lance Leopold is not necessarily top on anybody's list
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but I believe he lost today as well. Not that it matters too much
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but we're starting to see some of the coaching candidates kind of struggle a bit here
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I mean, I don't know, I mean, I think Mickey's doing a decent job with what he has
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It may not lead to wins at the moment. But part of me wants to see what he can do with a full off season
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as a head coach under his belt, the players obviously like playing for him and he is getting results on the recruiting trail
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Um So honestly, he would still be, he would still be my top choice in terms of just stability and
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the ability to recruit. Obviously, we have the big Malachi Coleman decision coming next weekend
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So I think that certainly plays a factor into things as well
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Um But I'd like to see what he could do when he can get his own coaching staff
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own personnel and you know, a shot at the transfer portal and recruiting more specifically the transfer
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portal as we look for offensive linemen. Yeah. I mean, like, like I said
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you know, I've said it before. I don't think Nebraska is that far away from winning in the big 10 West
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I really don't. I mean, look at Illinois two years ago, they absolutely sucked. And now they're
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you know, winning the conference. It's not that hard if you get, you know
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competent people in there, you get guys in the transfer portal. Um, So
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you know, I totally feel like it's possible but yeah, it's gonna be interesting
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I, you know, I, to, to me, I would, I would love to see Dave Miranda right now or Mickey
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Those are still kind of my top two guys and, you know, we'll, we'll see what happens
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I, I know that, you know, Baylor is losing a bit and Kansas is losing a bit
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I really don't care about that because, you know, those jobs, you know
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it's limited in what that they can, what they can do. So, I mean, I don't think you need to make one coaching hire based
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off, you know, the win loss, you know, every single week. That's not how this process should work
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But I don't know, I don't want, I'm not really, you know, I feel like if it's not Mickey
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I feel like there's a good chance it's gonna be Bill o'brien and I don't really want that
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I would love David, you know, Dave Aranda, but we just have to see
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you know, just have to see what happens. I think the next, I think the next game is gonna be huge
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I really think, uh, if they don't, if they don't beat Illinois
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I don't think they're going to a bowl game and I don't think Mickey's gonna be back as the head coach
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I know that's a, put a lot to put on one game. But if you go into November 3 and five with that slate
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you're gonna lose to Michigan. I just, I don't see any way Nebraska can, you know
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go to Michigan and ST and stack up on either side, either line against the Wolverines
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I think the other three games are totally winnable. But, I mean, is Nebraska really gonna
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you know, win three in a row against Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
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I just, no, I don't see it. I could see him winning two of those three. That's
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that's kind of what I think happening. But, uh, I, I mean, if it's Bill o'brien
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I'll be pissed. I'll be honest with you, I'll be, I'll be very upset if it's Bill o'brien
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But, you know, I just think, um, I just think that it's tough to judge Mickey
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right now for the head coaching position only because of, you know
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the personnel and things like that. Granted, that is what he's being judged on right now as we're in the middle of a head coaching
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search. But part of me just want to see what he could do if he
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you know, knew he had a team that he, he could call his own and have a chance to get his own staff in there
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and have a chance to confidently recruit on the recruiting trail as the head coach
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That just kind of is interesting to me because, you know, he brought in a guy like Trey Palmer and look at what Palmer is
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doing for us now. And so, you know, I mean, if we can get a bunch of more Trey Palmers
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I'm all in. Well, that's like I said, I mean, it's, it goes back to evaluating players and having an eye for talent
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you know, coaches need to be able to do that. And, you know, Nebraska hasn't hired enough of those type of people the last couple
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of years. So, uh, hopefully we'll turn it around, but, uh, we're coming up here on about our 30 minute time frame
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So we'll, uh, start wrapping it up here. What I guess, you know, we'll, we'll have
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you know, more content coming out on Monday, but, you know, just tonight, what, what's your final thoughts on
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uh, philosopher Nebraska, this was a game that they needed to win
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I think if they wanted to kind of cement themselves into the bowl game conversation
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uh, it's just another tough loss. I don't know why I do this to myself every Saturday
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I really don't, but here I am once again talking to you about another lost Nebraska game
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I guess it's for, I guess it's for Twitter clout as the kids say these days
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But, you know, at the end of the day I still love Nebraska
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I still love the program and I do like watching them even though they cause me great sadness and disappointment
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80% of the time. See, I mean, I don't know, I'm not that disappointed
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It was a, it was a tough loss. I wish they would have won this game. But you know, I know it was one of
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those was so close though. They like, if Ty Robinson makes that t like
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like if they got the doors blown off him, I'd be like, ok, but like they had a chance to win
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it's the same damn thing as last year. They had chances to win last year
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I just couldn't get it done. And, you know, granted Purdue, this was not a slouch team
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They were very good. It was just more of the same. I, I felt like just because they had a shot at reading it
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They really did and, you know, they just couldn't get it done
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Yeah, I mean, more victories only go so far. So, I mean, they definitely need to win the next game and
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and Mickey Joseph knows that as well as anyone. So, um hey
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