(BAND MUSIC) (NO AUDIO) THE SEASON STARTED SLOW AND HOT FOR NEBRASKA AS THEY OVERCAME EARLY STRUGGLES TO BEAT THE OHIO BOBCATS 49-21.

WE'RE GOING TO BREAK THAT GAME DOWN AND THE EMERGENCE OF FRESHMAN JAMAL RULE ALL THAT WITH SPECIAL GUEST FORMER HUSKER ADAM CARRIKER.

SEAN CALLAHAN WILL STOP BY TO GIVE YOU THE LATEST ON BIG RED RECRUITING.

IT'S ALL COMING UP NEXT ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.

(BAND MUSIC) HI EVERYONE.

I'M MIKE'L SEVERE.

WELCOME TO BIG RED WRAP-UP ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

NEBRASKA'S 1-0 AFTER SCORING ON FIVE STRAIGHT DRIVES IN THE SECOND HALF.

AND WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO TALK ALL ABOUT THAT.

WE ARE JOINED BY THE JAYS.

WE HAVE JAY MOORE AND WELCOME BACK TO JAY FOREMAN.

WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US ON THE SET?

APPRECIATE YOU FOR HAVING ME, MAN.

IT'S JUST A DOUBLE TROUBLE NOW YOU GOT DON'T MESS OUR NAMES UP.

BUT WE GOT TWO 44S, TOO.

YEAH 44.

EXACTLY.

AND TWO DEFENSIVE GUYS.

YOU KNOW DAMON COULD HELP WITH THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THINGS.

NOW IT'S ALL DEFENSIVE SHOW.

WELL MY FAVORITE PLAYER GROWING UP WAS DARRYL STRAWBERRY SO 44.

SO I'M ALL WITH YOU GUYS.

THERE WE GO.

LET'S START WITH THAT GAME.

OBVIOUSLY IT STARTED OFF A LITTLE SCARY.

ROB AURICH JOKED ABOUT IT TODAY.

WE WON'T BE GIVING UP A 70 YARD TOUCHDOWN OR 70 YARD PASS.

THOUGHTS ON THE WAY THE GAME WENT?

YEAH, OBVIOUSLY A VERY ODD START.

I MEAN, NO ONE EXPECTED FOR NEBRASKA TO GIVE UP A 67 YARD PASS.

IT'S JUST I MEAN YOU EXPECTED SOME MISTAKES TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST GAME.

AND BUT NOT TO THAT EXTENT.

AND YOU'RE DOWN 7-0 WITH 13.5 MINUTES TO GO IN THE FIRST QUARTER.

SO JUST A SIMPLE MISCOMMUNICATION.

I'LL BREAK IT DOWN LATER ON MY PLAYS.

BUT YOU KNOW JEREMIAH CHARLES THOUGHT IT WAS IN A ZONE SITUATION.

HE NEEDED TO BE IN A MAN SITUATION.

AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.

I MEAN IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING AT THIS LEVEL OF FOOTBALL TO HAVE A LITTLE MISTAKE.

AND THEN BOOM, NEXT THING YOU KNOW, A GUY'S RUNNING WIDE OPEN.

AND I MEAN, IT WAS A GREAT JOB BY THE SECONDARY JUST TO CHASE HIM DOWN AND TO GET, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE THEM RUN A COUPLE MORE PLAYS.

BUT YEAH, IT JUST WAS A VERY, VERY AWKWARD START IN THAT ONE.

ON SATURDAY MORNING.

JAY, YOU GUYS ALSO HAD, YOU KNOW, 25, 30 PRACTICES IN FALL CAMP, BUT YOU HIT A LOT MORE NOW THAT YOU ONLY HAVE FOUR DAYS IN FULL PADS, HOW MUCH DOES THAT HURT THE FIRST GAME?

IT DOES.

AND IT ALSO HURTS ON THE TIMING BECAUSE WHEN YOU WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE QUARTERBACK ESCAPING, OBVIOUSLY WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AS WELL.

YOU KIND OF GET TO A QUARTERBACK.

THEY DON'T LET YOU TOUCH HIM.

SO FACING A QUARTERBACK ALSO CATCHES YOU BY SURPRISE SOMETIMES.

YEAH WITHOUT A DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

THERE'S A LOT TO COVER TONIGHT.

AND WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.

WE HAVE OUR PHONE STANDING BY.

WE'RE READY FOR YOUR CALLS BEFORE YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST TEXT OR EMAIL US.

SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO BIGRED@NEBRASKAPUBLICMEDIA.ORG.

WE'RE ALSO MONITORING OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TONIGHT AS WELL.

SEND US YOUR THOUGHTS ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA, SPORTS FACEBOOK PAGE OR X ACCOUNT, AND WE'LL ANSWER AS MANY OF THE QUESTIONS AS WE CAN.

DON'T FORGET TO HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE AND DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF THE 2026 NEBRASKA FOOTBALL SCHEDULE POSTER.

YOU CAN PRINT THESE OFF FOR YOUR HOME OR OFFICE USE.

KEEP UP TO DATE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON WITH THE WIN AND LOSS RECORD.

TIME FOR OUR SIDELINE SURVEY LAST WEEK WE ASKED YOU HOW EXCITED ARE YOU FOR THE 2026 NEBRASKA FOOTBALL SEASON?

34% SAID THEY DRANK THE RHULE-AID AND READY TO GO.

36% SAID CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC, AND ABOUT 30% SAID NOT EXCITED YET.

WE NEED TO SEE BETTER RESULTS ON THE FIELD.

NOW FOR THIS WEEK'S ALL NEW SIDELINE SURVEY.

WHAT NEEDS TO IMPROVE FROM WEEK ONE TO WEEK TWO?

IS IT THE DEFENSE?

CLEANING UP THE PENALTIES?

THE HEAT?

DEFINITELY.

OR THE WIDE RECEIVERS?

HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE NOW TO VOTE AND HEAD BACK EACH WEEK TO CATCH A BRAND NEW SURVEY.

NOW LET'S HEAD OVER AND GET SOME INSIGHT FROM JASE PLAYS.

(UPBEAT MUSIC) (NO AUDIO) ALL RIGHT.

WELCOME TO JAY'S PLAYS TONIGHT.

LET'S LOOK AT A COUPLE PLAYS FROM THE OHIO GAME ON SATURDAY.

BUT WE GOT TO LOOK AT THE 67 YARD MISCOMMUNICATION FROM THE SECONDARY.

ON THE FIRST PLAY AGAINST OHIO.

NEBRASKA'S GONNA RUN A LITTLE FIVE MAN PRESSURE HERE.

BRING ALL FOUR THERE.

BRING SOME INSIDE STUNTS FROM DEFENSIVE ENDS.

DEFENSIVE TACKLE BRING THIS LINEBACKER AROUND.

BUT NEBRASKA IS WHAT'S CALLED.

IS IT A MAN FREE COVER?

ONE SCENARIO WITH JAMIR CONN RIGHT UP TOP HERE.

BUT JEREMIAH CHARLES OVER HERE DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE.

HE THOUGHT HE WAS IN ZONE.

SO IT'S JUST A SIMPLE MISCOMMUNICATION.

THE BUS WE ALL KNOW.

UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME TO SET HIM UP FOR A TOUCHDOWN TO GO SEVEN.

NOTHING.

BUT AS WE RUN THIS PLAY NOW YOU CAN SEE HE'S LOOKING BACK HERE ON TOWARDS THE FIELD SIDE.

HE'S ABLE TO WORK INSIDE ON THE SLOT WIDE OPEN.

JUST NOT A GREAT WAY TO START OFF THE FIRST GAME BUT REALLY JUST A SIMPLE MISCOMMUNICATION.

NEBRASKA GOT IT CLEANED UP THE REST OF THE GAME.

YOU NEVER SAW THEM HIT THIS PLAY AGAIN.

NOW THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLAY OF THE GAME.

WE SAW THIS EARLIER IN THE FOURTH AND ONE TOUCHDOWN FOR NEBRASKA'S FIRST SEVEN POINTS OF THE GAME, BUT THEY BRING IN WHITTINGTON AND JONES.

EVEN JAMAAL RULE'S IN A THREE POINT STANCE.

I CALL THIS LIKE AN OFFSET MARYLAND I. GOT THE GOT JONES AND WHITTINGTON OVER HERE STACKED UP.

BUT I'LL CLEAR THIS OFF.

YOU GUYS CAN GO AHEAD AND RUN IT.

AND IT'S JUST A VIOLENT PLAY.

WHITTINGTON KNOCKS HIM OUT.

JONES GETS A LITTLE CREASE HERE.

YOU GOT OHIO GUYS DEFENDERS FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE.

JUST A REALLY WELL RAN PLAY.

I JUST LIKE THE PHYSICALITY OF IT.

AND I HOPE NEBRASKA USES THIS GAME USES THAT PLAY MORE OFTEN IN SHORT YARDAGE SCENARIOS, BUT BY FAR IS MY FAVORITE PLAY FROM THE GAME ON SATURDAY.

(UPBEAT MUSIC) THE LAST THE LAST VIDEO GAME I PLAYED WAS BILL WALSH '94.

SO I DON'T HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS, BUT I'M TOLD THE WAY JEREMIAH CHARLES DID IT, IT'S LIKE SOMETIMES WHEN YOUR CONTROLLER LOCKS UP, THEY SAID THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.

HE KIND OF JUST LOCKED UP.

IS IT AS MUCH AS HE JUST THOUGHT HE WAS ZONED TO THAT SIDE?

HONESTLY, I THOUGHT LIKE WHEN I WENT BACK AND WATCHED IT AGAIN, LIKE, WAS THERE A WHISTLE YOU HEARD ALMOST THAT'S OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS JUST KIND OF SETTLING IN ON HIS OWN.

AND I DON'T KNOW, IT WAS A VERY ODD WAY TO START THE GAME.

I, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT WHAT HAPPENED OR WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH HIS HEAD ON THAT PLAY.

BUT YEAH, HE ALMOST AGAIN LOOKED LIKE HE HEARD A WHISTLE.

AND I'M NOT OBVIOUSLY YOU SCOUT EVERYBODY, BUT THEY CAME OUT RUNNING THAT POST LIKE THEY KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO GET THAT LOOK.

YEAH.

I MEAN IT WAS PROBABLY YOU WENT BACK AND WATCHED SAN DIEGO STATE, PROBABLY WATCHED THE FIRST, YOU KNOW, 4 OR 5 GAMES OF LAST YEAR.

WHAT THEY RAN COVERAGE WISE TO START OUT.

AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, THEY PROBABLY ALSO GUESSED THAT, LOOK, THE NEW DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, NEW DEFENSE, WE'RE JUST GOING TO RUN MAN.

JUST TO GET INTO THE GAME.

SIMPLE.

I GUARD YOU, YOU GUARD HIM AND THEN JUST GO AND DO IT.

AND THERE'S SOME MISCOMMUNICATION.

HAND SIGNALS WOULD HAVE PROBABLY HELPED OUT BECAUSE THE CROWD WAS WAS LOUD AND PROUD, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE GAME.

AND FOR THE MOST PART, NEBRASKA WAS PRETTY VANILLA, RIGHT?

THEY HAD SOME STUNTS.

THEY REALLY DIDN'T DO A WHOLE LOT.

NO, THEY, THEY KEPT IT VERY BASIC.

I MEAN, THE OTHER, THE ONLY WAY THEY GOT EXCITED, THEY RAN SOME ZONE PRESSURES.

THEY BRING AN EXTRA GUY AND THEY.

CAM LENHARDT WOULD DROP INTO COVERAGE.

AND THEN JONES WOULD DROP INTO COVERAGE.

BUT THAT WAS ABOUT IT.

THEY TRIED TO HIT HIM WITH FOUR MAN RUSHES, WHICH I'M OKAY WITH.

LET'S SEE WHAT WE GOT.

THEY PLAYED A LOT OF GUYS.

A TON OF DEFENSIVE LINEMEN WERE ABLE TO PLAY, BUT THEY DIDN'T BRING MUCH.

IT WASN'T YOU DIDN'T SEE ANY CORNER BOUNDARY BLITZES, BUT IT WAS REALLY JUST SOME EVERY NOW AND THEN SOME FIVE MAN PRESSURES.

BUT IT WAS PRETTY VANILLA, WHICH I KIND OF EXPECTED IN GAME ONE.

THIS DEFENSE GOT TO HAVE SOME TIME HERE TO KIND OF GET USED TO THIS.

AND THIS IS THEIR FIRST GAME.

THEY'VE DONE IT FOR A LOT IN SPRING BALL AND AND IN FALL PRACTICE.

BUT THEY KIND OF KEPT THE REINS ON THE DEFENSE FOR THE MOST PART EARLY IN THIS IN GAME ONE.

YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO GET PRESSURE WITH FOUR.

DO YOU THINK WITH THE GUYS THEY HAVE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET PRESSURE WITH FOUR.

YEAH.

I THINK THEY'LL GET BETTER.

I MEAN JAY YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THIS.

I JUST THINK AS A DEFENSE THEY'LL GET BETTER.

AND YOU KNOW AS THE WEEKS GO ALONG AND THEY GET MORE COMFORTABLE.

YOU GOT TO THINK IT'S BEEN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT FOR HOWEVER MANY MONTHS AND PRACTICES.

YOU GET TO WORK ON YOUR CRAFT.

BUT THE FOUNDATION OF A DEFENSE IS THE BASICS.

AND BEING ABLE TO GET THERE WITH FOUR CREATE SOME SORT OF PRESSURE.

AND IT'S NOT JUST SACKS, IT'S OBVIOUSLY MOVING THE QUARTERBACK OFF HIS POINT.

YEAH.

HOW CONCERNED ARE YOU WITH THE PENALTIES AND THAT MISCOMMUNICATION.

BOTH SIDES BY THE WAY THERE WAS MISCOMMUNICATION ON THE OFFENSIVE SIDE WHEN YOU HAD THE MESH POINT WITH SOMEBODY GOING THE WRONG WAY.

HOW CONCERNED ARE YOU ABOUT THAT?

YEAH A LITTLE BIT.

BUT THOSE ARE TO BE EXPECTED.

YOU WATCH COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON WEEK ONE.

I MEAN PEOPLE STRUGGLED HEAVILY.

AND IT'S NOT ONLY NEBRASKA.

A LOT OF BIG TEN TEAMS STRUGGLED IN GAME ONE.

SO YOU LOOK AT THE FALSE START PENALTIES, YOU HAD TWO OFFSIDES ON KICKOFFS.

I KNOW NWANERI HAD THE FACE MASK.

THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, RIGHT?

I MEAN, YOU WORK ALL CAMP AND ALL SPRING.

YOU RARELY HIT THE QUARTERBACKS AND YOU GET TO THE QUARTERBACK.

ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS HIT THEM.

YOU'RE WILLING TO GET THEM DOWN IN ANY WAY FASHION.

I THINK IT'S THE PRE-SNAP STUFF THAT NEEDS TO GET CLEANED UP AND THAT WILL THAT WILL THAT WILL COME.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, I KNOW HE HAD BARNEY'S BLOCK.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LEARNING UH, THAT'S A TEACHING POINT AS WELL.

YOU DON'T NEED TO BLOCK WHEN THE GUYS BY YOU BY, YOU KNOW, TEN YARDS.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THOSE ARE SIMPLE STUFF THAT YOU EXPECT TO SEE IN GAME ONE.

IT'LL BE MUCH, MUCH BETTER AS THE YEAR GOES ON.

BUT AGAIN, YOU WATCH COLLEGE FOOTBALL ALL ACROSS THE BOARD.

THERE WAS A LOT OF THERE WAS A LOT OF MISTAKES IN WEEK ONE.

TALK TO ME ABOUT THE QUARTERBACK IN THE RUN LAST YEAR.

FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON, BRENDAN SORSBY GOT 90 SOMETHING YARDS.

AND YOU GET A QUARTERBACK WHO'S NOT CONSIDERED A RUNNER AND HE GETS 70.

WHAT DO YOU DO TO FIX THAT?

WELL NUMBER ONE YOU GOT TO RESPECT EVERY QUARTERBACK.

I THINK EVERY QUARTERBACK PLAYING IN COLLEGE NOW IS ATHLETIC.

YOU KNOW I THINK THE QUARTERBACK THAT WE JUST PLAYED IS PROBABLY A SMALL FORWARD THAT PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE A THREE POINT SHOT.

SO I THINK EVERYBODY CAN RUN A LITTLE BIT.

BUT I THINK YOU JUST GOT TO HAVE THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN YOUR, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOUR COVERAGES AND WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE AT.

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOUR RUSH LANES AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE TO RIP OFF BLOCKS AND BE VIOLENT AND REALLY SPRINT TO THE QUARTERBACK AND GET HIM DOWN.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, ONCE THEY GO GET IT ONE TIME, YOU KNOW THIS JAY, THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING BACK TO THE WELL AND KEEP IT BACK IN THEIR BACK POCKET.

SO I THINK REALISTICALLY, YOU IMPROVE ON IT THIS WEEK BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP PUTTING THAT ON TAPE WEEK AFTER WEEK, BECAUSE THEN THAT'LL BE ACTUALLY A PLAY CALL THAT THEY'LL GO INTO THE GAME IN THE FUTURE AGAINST YOU.

RUN GAME.

UM, I KNOW WE ALL HAD EXPECTATIONS ON HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE.

DID IT OUTDO WHAT EVEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULD DO?

YEAH.

I MEAN, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO WAS GOING TO BE RUNNING BACK ONE, MEKHI NELSON GOT THE ONE SNAPS IN PREGAME, BUT THEN MOZEE GOT THE FIRST CARRY OF THE GAME AND THEN OBVIOUSLY SAW THE JAMAL RULE COME IN AT SHORT YARDAGE.

THAT'S WHAT PROBABLY CAUGHT ME OFF.

THAT'S WHAT SURPRISED ME THE MOST IS PUTTING IN A TRUE FRESHMAN IN A SHORT YARDAGE POSITION WHEN HE GOT THAT TOUCHDOWN, BUT I THOUGHT OVERALL I MEAN TWO YARDS PER CARRY AVERAGE TWO YARDS RIGHT.

IN THE FIRST HALF THEY ALMOST GOT SIX THROUGHOUT YOU KNOW IN TOTAL OF THE GAME.

YEP.

SO I THOUGHT IT WAS WELL THE EFFICIENCY WAS THERE.

I THOUGHT THE OFFENSE CLICKED THE BEST TO GET SOME MOMENTUM WHEN RULE WAS IN THERE.

BUT I THINK IT'S JUST GOING TO BE A GAME BY GAME BASIS WITH WHO KIND OF HAS THE HOT HAND ON THIS RUNNING BACK SPOT.

BUT YOU ALSO, WHEN YOU HAVE THE PRODUCTION THAT THEY HAD, I THOUGHT THE OFFENSIVE LINE GOT GOING.

THEY STRUGGLED A LITTLE EARLY ON.

BUT AGAIN, THAT'S TO BE EXPECTED.

THOSE FIVE GUYS ARE PLAYING AS A AS A UNIT FOR THE FIRST TIME.

BUT OVERALL THEY WORE DOWN OHIO AND THEY JUST GOT THE MOMENTUM GOING.

AND THEY HONESTLY THAT DRIVE THAT THEY HAD THE SECOND TO LAST TOUCHDOWN WHERE THEY JUST GOT IN THAT TIGHT FORMATION, THEY SAID, HEY, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A FOUR MINUTE DRILL, BUT THERE'S 12 MINUTES LEFT IN THE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.

IT'S LIKE WE'RE RUNNING THE BALL RIGHT DOWN YOU, RIGHT AT YOU.

AND THEY COULDN'T STOP IT.

SO THAT WAS JUST A THING OF BEAUTY.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THEY CAN DEFINITELY GET GAIN CONFIDENCE FROM AND KIND OF HANG THEIR HAT ON FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.

YOU PLAYED RUNNING BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT?

YEAH.

SO YOU GET TWO GUYS GETTING THE BALL.

MOSAIC, MOZEE GETS THE FIRST CARRY, BUT ONLY FIVE MORE.

HOW DO YOU HANDLE THAT BALANCE AS A PLAYER WHEN THE OTHER GUYS ARE GETTING THEIRS AND YOU'RE NOT GETTING YOURS?

YEAH.

YOU JUST GOT TO BE PATIENT.

I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S BEEN IN A ROTATION SITUATION AS FAR AS NO MATTER WHAT POSITION, BUT ESPECIALLY AT RUNNING BACK.

AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE EMERGENCE OF EMMETT LAST YEAR, YOU'RE JUST YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF UNKNOWN.

AND SO MOZEE STARTED OFF WITH A 24 YARD RUN.

YOU THINK YOU CAN YOU KNOW, HE'S THE HOT HAND AND YOU JUST GOT TO BE PATIENT BECAUSE NEXT WEEK OR THIS WEEK COMING UP, HE COULD GET THE BULK OF THE CARRIES.

AND SO THAT'S A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE.

AND IT'S JUST CLEAR COMMUNICATION FROM COACH EJ BARTHEL AND PROBABLY COACH RHULE AS WELL TO EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL RUNNING BACK.

I THOUGHT EARLY ON COLANDREA LOOKED I WOULDN'T CALL IT NERVOUS, BUT HE WASN'T NECESSARILY AS NATURAL AS HE WAS IN THE SECOND HALF.

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAY HE DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE GAME?

I THOUGHT HOW THEY UTILIZED HIM.

I THINK IMPLEMENTING IN THE RUN GAME PROBABLY HONESTLY FREED HIM UP A LITTLE BIT.

YOU GET GET HIT, YOU GET KNOCKED AROUND A LITTLE BIT.

I MEAN, AS A PLAYER, YOU GOT TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH THE FIRST SERIES AND JUST SETTLE THOSE NERVES AND KIND OF JUST THE GAME IS PLAYED SO HEAVILY WITH YOUR EYES.

ONCE YOU GET OUT THERE, YOU GOT TO TRUST WHAT YOU'RE SEEING.

AND THEN ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU GOT AND YOU JUST KIND OF CAN SETTLE IN.

BUT I THOUGHT EARLY ON PLAY CALLING WAS GOOD.

HE WAS, UH, HIS PRECISION PRETTY ACCURATE OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE... COMMUNICATON PROBLEM.

THE MISSED SNAP HERE.

GREAT JOB OF BATTLING BACK AND GETTING ON TOP OF IT.

BUT HIS PRECISION WAS GOOD.

PUT THE BALL WHERE HIS RECEIVERS WERE.

HE NEVER REALLY MADE ANY ILL ADVISED THROWS AND HE TOOK CARE OF THE FOOTBALL.

NO TURNOVERS, AND I KNOW THAT WAS A KNOCK ON HIM.

COMING IN HERE WAS HOW HE TAKES.

HE TOOK CARE OF THE FOOTBALL AT UNLV BUT A SLOW START.

BUT ONCE HE SETTLED IN, JUST LIKE EVERYONE DOES IN GAME ONE, I LOVE THE WAY HE OPERATED.

I LOVE HIS FIRE, HIS COMPETITIVENESS AND HIS ARM STRENGTH, I THINK WAS SOMETHING I WASN'T EXPECTING.

I MEAN, HE CAN HE CAN THROW A FASTBALL IN THERE AND HE CAN SQUEEZE IT IN THERE.

WHERE IN YEARS PAST THAT WASN'T THE CASE.

SO HE WAS BELOW 60%, BUT HE HAD THREE BALLS BACK AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

HE HAD ONE SLIP OUT OF HIS HAND.

HE HAD 3 OR 4 DROPS, DEPENDING ON IF YOU CALL THE BONNER ONE A DROP, SO THAT'S EIGHT OR SO.

THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY COMPLETED.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF THAT?

ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE COMPLETION PERCENTAGE AT ALL?

NOT AT ALL.

I MEAN, I WAS PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED COMING INTO THE SEASON.

BUT YOU KNOW I AGREE WITH JAY.

I THINK WHEN I EVALUATE QUARTERBACKS WHEN THEY HIT THAT BACK FOOT IN THE DROP, WHAT DOES HE DO WHEN HE GETS THE BALL OUT QUICK.

YEAH, I KNOW COACH DANA SAID.

YOU KNOW COACH RHULE SAID A LITTLE BIT MORE CATCHABLE BALL.

THAT'LL JUST COME WITH GAME REPS.

SO HIM THROWING THE BALL YOU KNOW I'M CERTAINLY PLEASED WITH.

AND THE PERCENTAGE WILL GO UP.

THEY'LL HAVE A GAME.

HE'LL BE 80%.

SO IT'LL ALL AVERAGE OUT ABOVE 60% 65%.

AND HE'LL HAVE GREAT STATS AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

YEAH.

AND I SAID IT'S PROBABLY HE WAS SO HYPED.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK UP TO THE POWER FOUR LEVEL AFTER BEING DOWN AT G6.

HE'S PROBABLY WAS JUST OVEREXCITED.

LET'S BE HONEST.

I MEAN, HE WAS GIVEN THE KEYS TO THE CAR, RIGHT?

AND THERE'S A LOT OF EXPECTATIONS ON HIM AND, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE THEIR FIRST TIME IN MEMORIAL STADIUM, THIS IS NOT UNLV.

AND, UM, HE JUST WANTED TO PROVE HIMSELF.

AND AS A COMPETITOR YOU WANT TO COME OUT THERE YOUR FIRST GAME AND YOU WANT TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT YOU GOT.

THERE'S A LOT OF EYEBALLS, A LOT OF EXPECTATIONS.

SO I JUST HE SETTLED IN THERE.

I THOUGHT UTILIZING THE RUNNING THE SCREEN GAME WAS WELL RAN.

UM, SO I JUST THE EVOLUTION OF IT ALL WAS VERY PLEASING TO SEE.

AND HE'S GOING TO BE A THREAT TO A LOT OF DEFENSES THAT WE PLAYED THIS YEAR.

I LOVE THE BOOT AND WAGGLE GAME.

CAN'T GIVE ME ENOUGH OF THAT.

VOLLEYBALL IS BACK ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA THIS SATURDAY.

THE NUMBER ONE TEAM IN THE LAND HITS THE COURT AT DEVANEY CENTER FOR A NONCONFERENCE MATCHUP AGAINST THE GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS BEFORE FOOTBALL TAKES THE FIELD.

CATCH THE ACTION ON THE COURT BEGINNING AT 2 P.M.

CENTRAL ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

LET'S DIVE INTO THE TAPE AND BREAK DOWN SATURDAY'S GAME FROM MEMORIAL STADIUM.

AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MANY TIMES BEFORE, IT WAS INCREDIBLY HOT.

SOME PEOPLE SAID UP TO 160 DEGREES ON THE FIELD.

I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE DEALT WITH THAT.

AND HERE'S THAT FIRST PLAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU BROKE DOWN AND JUST MISCOMMUNICATION.

THAT KIND OF THING HAPPENS.

IT HAPPENS IN THE FIRST GAME AND UNFORTUNATELY IT HAPPENED WHERE IT ENDED UP BEING A 67 YARDER, BUT NEBRASKA RALLIED.

I WAS HOPING THEY COULD HOLD THEM TO THREE HERE AND THAT WASN'T THE CASE.

A REALLY GOOD BALL BY POULOS RIGHT HERE THAT CAME OUT OF THE SLOT.

HE CAME OUT LIKE JOE MONTANA RIGHT.

I MEAN THAT WAS THAT'S A PINPOINT THROW.

YEAH.

MORE LIKE DAN MARINO.

DAN MARINO.

MARK DUPER OR IRVING FRYAR.

AND SO LOOK YOU EXPECT HIS BEST EFFORT AND HE CAME OUT HOT.

BUT NEBRASKA WAS ABLE TO WITHSTAND THAT FIRST RUSH BY OHIO.

FIRST RUN BY ISAIAH MOZEE OF THE GAME 24 YARDS.

AS I MENTIONED HE ONLY GOT FIVE MORE CARRIES AS THE GAME WENT ALONG.

BUT NEBRASKA STARTED ROLLING HERE.

THIS IS WHAT BARNEY'S ALL ABOUT, RIGHT?

MAKE YOU MISS GUY.

GET HIM IN SPACE.

THEY'RE LINING HIM OUTSIDE.

UH, NOT AS MUCH IN THE SLOT THIS YEAR SO HE CAN UTILIZE HIS SPEED AND ATHLETICISM.

HERE'S THAT OFFSET MARYLAND I. COMING RIGHT AT YOU.

I FEEL BAD FOR THE DEFENSIVE.

THE LOW LINEBACKERS THAT ARE ON THE EDGE.

WHEN YOU GOT TWO 300 POUND GUYS RUNNING AT YOU LIKE THAT.

THAT'S NOT FAIR AT ALL.

NEBRASKA OF COURSE PULLS IT WITHIN.

IT'S NOW 7-7.

AND THEN HERE'S THAT RUN RIGHT.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE EDGE.

YOU GOT THE BACKSIDE CONTAIN GUY.

YOU JUST GOT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THAT, RIGHT?

YEAH.

YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THEM, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE FIRST TIME.

HERE COMES THE SECOND TIME YOU GOT TO RUN THROUGH HIM TO TEACH HIM A LESSON.

HE WAS GETTING A LITTLE TOO LOOSE AND A LITTLE TOO FREE WITH THE RUNS EARLIER IN THE GAME.

YEAH, NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

NEBRASKA DOES BOW UP.

STOP THEM.

LONG FIELD GOAL 42 YARDS.

GOOD NOW 10-7.

OHIO WITH THE LEAD.

AND THEN NEBRASKA GETS THE BALL RIGHT BACK AFTER A SHORT POSSESSION AND THEN DRIVES DOWN GETS STOP AGAIN.

THIS TIME HIS CAREER LONG 45 YARD FIELD GOAL TO PUT OHIO UP 13 TO 7.

BUT BACK COMES.

THIS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST PLAY EARLY IN THE GAME.

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PASS COMING OFF A THROWING TO GILMER.

HIM DROPPING THE BALL.

YEAH HE HAD DJ WALKER RIGHT DOWN ON HIS FACE.

AND GILMER JUST DROPPED THE PREVIOUS PASS.

BUT HERE'S THIS SCREEN GAME I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.

JUST WAY TO SETTLE DOWN YOUR QUARTERBACK A LITTLE BIT AND GET THE YOUNG GET THE YOUNG BUCK GOING.

THAT'S EXCITING JAY.

ALL THREE OF THOSE BACKS CAN CATCH THE BALL IN THE BACKFIELD.

YOU KNOW THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OFFENSIVE LINE AND LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR IS THE ABILITY TO RUN THESE SCREEN PASSES AND BE EFFECTIVE AND GET DOWNFIELD.

AND THE TIMING OF IT PROBABLY MAKES COACH HOLGORSEN REAL HAPPY.

YEAH THAT MADE IT 14-13.

RUNNING A SCREEN IS SO HARD IN SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS.

OFFENSIVE LINE, RUNNING BACK, QUARTERBACK.

HERE'S A SITUATION WHERE HE THOUGHT HE COULD BAIL OUT ONE WAY.

COULDN'T END UP HAVING TO THROW THE BALL AWAY.

IT DIDN'T MAKE THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE SO INTENTIONAL GROUNDING.

ALL OF A SUDDEN HE HAD THIRD AND 34.

THEY WEREN'T GOING TO CONVERT THAT.

MISSED FIELD GOAL HERE ON A 44 YARD ATTEMPT BY OHIO.

SO IT STAYS AT 14-13 NOW IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

AND THIS IS HOW THEY KIND OF GOT GOING NOW IN THIS DRIVE.

THE OPENING PLAY WAS A PASS.

AND THEN EIGHT OUT OF NINE RUNS.

THEY WERE PUTTING THEIR WILL ON OHIO.

YEP AND HERE'S THAT PLAY.

I BROKE DOWN EARLIER.

AGAIN WHAT WE SAW IN THE SHORT YARDAGE IN THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN JUST GREAT EXECUTION.

AND AND WHAT A FINISH BY RULE.

I MEAN HE COULD HAVE EASILY GONE DOWN.

THAT'S NUMBER FOUR.

YEAH, NUMBER FOUR JUST.

HE GOT RUN OVER.

WE CALL THAT GETTING KICKED OUT OF THE CLUB.

SO YEAH THAT WAS THAT'S A THING OF BEAUTY.

15 CARRIES FOR 122 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS.

AND HERE'S WHAT COLANDREA CAN DO.

MAN GETS DOWN THAT SIDELINE BY THE WAY GREAT BLOCK BY QUINN CLARK.

YES.

YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE BACKSIDE, I THINK, HIGHLIGHT ON THIS.

YEP IT WAS I CALLING THIS GAME.

I COULDN'T QUITE SEE WHAT IT WAS.

BUT LOOK AT THAT GREAT FINISH.

I THOUGHT THE WIDE RECEIVERS DID A REALLY GOOD JOB BLOCKING ON THE EDGE ALL GAME.

THAT MADE IT 21-13.

BACK COMES COLANDREA AGAIN.

ONLY TWO CATCHES FOR LUKE LINDENMEYER BOTH OF THEM.

FIRST DOWNS 16 KNOCKDOWNS.

RON BROWN JUST COUNTING THEM UP.

YEAH IT'S A LITTLE OLD SCHOOL MENTALITY BACK IN THE 90S OF LUKE LINDENMEYER.

AND HE TOOK PRIDE IN IT TOO.

YES, HE DID.

HE WAS BRAGGING ABOUT IT.

SO AGAIN, JUST DOING YOUR PART FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE TEAM IS WHAT'S NEEDED IN GAMES LIKE THIS.

TOUCHDOWN.

MEKHI NELSON BY THE WAY.

HE HAD TEN RUSHES FOR 54 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN 28-13 NOW.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT.

OHIO WASN'T DONE YET.

THEY START COMING BACK AGAIN.

ANOTHER DRIVE.

THIS IS A NICE BOOT.

AND I'VE BEEN YELLING FOR NEBRASKA TO DO THIS MORE.

ANY QUARTERBACK CAN DO.

I SAW PEYTON MANNING DO IT ONCE.

ANYBODY CAN DO IT.

AND THEN THIS TWICE.

HE DROPPED BALLS, PICKED THEM UP AND THREW COMPLETIONS.

I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE.

THIS PROBABLY WASN'T A CATCH THOUGH ON THE REPLAY.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

LOKKS LIKE IT HIT THE GROUND.

YEAH.

YEAH.

I DON'T THINK IT ACTUALLY WAS A CATCH.

THEY KIND OF CAME BACK AFTER THE COMMERCIAL BREAK AND COLANDREA AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT HE DOES BEST, ALLOWING HIS GUY TO GET OPEN AND THEN TALK ABOUT NELSON RUNNING THROUGH THESE TACKLES.

I MEAN IT'S YOU GET INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER.

EVERYONE'S TIRED.

EVERYONE'S HOT.

YEP.

FINISHING THE PLAY.

FINISHING THE RUN.

GREAT MOVEMENT IN THE POCKET BY COLANDREA TO FIND HIM.

IF HE STAYS IN THE POCKET, YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SEE MEKHI OVER THE MIDDLE, BUT HIS ABILITY TO WIGGLE TO THE LEFT WAS ABLE TO FIND THAT POCKET AND THAT HOLE TO GET THE BALL TO MEKHI NELSON.

AND HE TRIED TO PUNCH IT OUT AND COULDN'T PUNCH IT OUT.

SO THAT'S THAT'S KIND OF WHAT HAPPENS.

YOU TRY FOR THAT PUNCH YOU DON'T GET TO TACKLE.

GREAT RUN BY RULE.

HE GOES OVER 100 YARDS ON THE DAY.

AND THEN THIS RUN RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE FOR A TOUCHDOWN, WHICH KIND OF PUT THE GAME OUT OF HAND EVEN THOUGH NEBRASKA WOULD SCORE AGAIN.

BUT YOU LOOK AT THE WAY HE RUNS INSIDE.

HE'S AS GOOD INSIDE AS HE IS OUTSIDE.

YEAH, HE'S THE BEST NATURAL.

I SAID HE'S THE BEST NATURAL RUNNER OUT OF ALL THREE OF THEM.

AND I WAS ABLE TO SEE HIM IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND HE'S GOING TO ONLY GET BETTER.

INTERCEPTION HERE BY REX GUTHRIE, WHO TAKES IT BACK.

AURICH WAS HOPING THAT HE BROUGHT IT ALL THE WAY BACK TO GET THE TOUCHDOWN FOR THE DEFENSE, ALTHOUGH YOU'RE GOING TO FIND OUT LATER IN A PREDICTION, THERE'S A CERTAIN PERSON ON THE SET THAT BELIEVES NEBRASKA'S GOING TO GET A TOUCHDOWN IN THE DEFENSE THIS WEEK.

BUT HERE'S THE TOUCHDOWN TO KWAZI GILMER.

PUTS IT OUT OF REACH OBVIOUSLY.

49-21 KEEPING THE STARTERS IN FOR THAT.

AND LET'S GO TO THE STATS.

NEBRASKA OUTGAINED OHIO BY OVER 220 OR 220 YARDS EXACTLY.

OUTRUSHED HIM AS WELL AND ONLY ONE TURNOVER.

AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, EVEN THOUGH THE NINE PENALTIES, 65 YARDS, NONE OF THEM REALLY, REALLY HURT EXCEPT FOR THE ONE I GUESS THE BLOCK BY BARNEY, RIGHT?

YEAH.

AGAIN, IT WAS A LOT OF PRE-SNAP STUFF.

I MEAN THE FACE MASK THAT NWANERI HAD THAT LED TO THREE POINTS.

BUT I LOOK AT THOSE RUSHING STATS WHEN POULOS ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST HALF OF THOSE.

70 OF THEM.

OF THOSE RUSHING YARDS.

I MEAN, DUNCAN BRUNE WAS A REALLY GOOD BACK.

AND THEY REALLY DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF AN INSIDE RUN GAME PRESENCE ALL GAME.

YEAH.

THEY ONLY AVERAGED THREE YARDS A CARRY OUTSIDE OF THE QUARTERBACK.

OUR PLAYERS OF THE GAME FROM THE WIN.

YOUR BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK JAMAL RULE ALONG WITH QUARTERBACK ANTHONY COLANDREA.

OVERALL IT'S A WIN.

THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.

ANY ONE THING THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE THEM TAKE TO WEEK TWO FOR YOU.

OBVIOUSLY JUST GET OFF TO A BETTER START.

SURE.

THAT'S THE OBVIOUS.

I JUST WANT TO SEE THIS DEFENSE TAKE A JUMP.

AND AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY VANILLA.

I KNOW IT WAS HOT.

I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE LIKE YOU THINK YOU'RE IN GOOD FOOTBALL SHAPE UNTIL YOU PLAY THAT FIRST GAME.

I SAW WHITTINGTON.

YOU.

YEAH.

CORRECT.

LIKE YOU HAVE YOU.

I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD A SHAPE YOU THINK YOU IN UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY PLAY IN THOSE GAMES, THAT FIRST GAME YOU'RE GASSED.

SO THOSE GUYS WILL BE ABLE TO THINK A LITTLE BETTER AND CLEAR.

UM, I WANT TO SEE A LITTLE MORE PRODUCTION OUT OF DEFENSIVE LINE.

I JUST WANT OVERALL EFFICIENCY.

I WANT THEM TO JUST COME RIGHT OUT OF THE GATES.

YOU KNOW, EVEN IT'S NOT ABOUT POINTS BUT JUST LOOKING MORE LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALL THREE PHASES ARE IN SYNC.

AND THEN THE SCORE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF.

YOU WANT THE OPERATION TO LOOK GOOD.

NEXT UP ON THE SHOW, WE'RE JOINED BY FORMER HUSKER ADAM CARRIKER TO UNPACK REACTIONS FROM THE GAME.

BUT FIRST WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE SIGHTS AND SOUND COURTESY OF HURRDAT SPORTS.

(UPBEAT MUSIC) THIS WEEK, WE PAUSE TO REMEMBER THE LIVES LOST 25 YEARS AGO IN THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH.

IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, A GRIEVING NATION SEARCHED FOR WAYS TO COME TOGETHER AND BEGIN TO MOVE FORWARD FOR NEBRASKA FOOTBALL AND THE SPORTS WORLD.

THAT MOMENT CAME WITH THE RETURN TO THE FIELD IN THE FIRST MAJOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME FOLLOWING 9/11, AS THE HUSKERS PREPARED TO FACE RICE.

THE GAME CARRIED FAR MORE MEANING THAN JUST FOOTBALL.

WE LOOK BACK AT THAT NIGHT THROUGH THE EYES OF ERIC CROUCH.

IN THIS EXCERPT FROM THE DOCUMENTARY IN THE DEED THE GLORY.

(INAUDIBLE SOUND) SOME GAMES ARE REMEMBERED MORE FOR WHAT THEY DID FOR THE PROGRAM AND COMMUNITY THAN THE RESULT ON THE FIELD.

(WIND RUSTLING) THAT GAME AGAINST RICE, I THINK, MEANS A LOT TO OUR TEAM.

TO ME PERSONALLY, JUST BEING ABLE TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST FOOTBALL GAMES PLAYED, YOU KNOW, AFTER 9/11, FOOTBALL DIDN'T REALLY MEAN A WHOLE LOT.

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, IT JUST MEANT EVERYTHING.

UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.

WHEN YOU COMPARE IT TO THAT FOOTBALL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS PRETTY MINIMAL.

(CROWD CHEERING) BUT THEN ALSO TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST GAMES TO BE PLAYED ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, TO GO OUT AND KIND OF GET BACK TO NORMAL.

(CROWD CHEERING) AND THEN TO HONOR ALL THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, VETERANS AND LOCAL OFFICERS AND, AND TO SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH THEY FELT APPRECIATED THAT DAY, (NATIONAL ANTHEM) IT WAS LIKE WE WERE PLAYING FOR THEM.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT MADE IT SO COOL AND SUCH SO REWARDING TO US IS THAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF NOT PLAYING FOOTBALL TODAY FOR OURSELVES.

WE'RE PLAYING THIS FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LOST THEIR LIVES AND THAT KIND OF JUST GAVE YOU THIS, WOW, LET'S JUST GO OUT AND PLAY AND HAVE FUN AND DO OUR BEST AND COMPETE AT A HIGH LEVEL.

AND LET'S, UH, YOU KNOW, GET THIS COUNTRY ROLLING AGAIN.

(CROWD CHATTER) I DON'T EVEN THINK I REMEMBER ONE, MAYBE ONE PLAY, UM, OF THAT WHOLE ENTIRE GAME.

(CROWD CHEERING) IT WAS FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN FOOTBALL THAT DAY.

(CROWD CHEERING) IT'S A POWERFUL REMINDER OF A MOMENT WHEN FOOTBALL MEANT MUCH MORE THAN WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FIELD.

YOU GUYS HAVE MEMORIES.

UM, I KNOW YOU GUYS WERE BOTH IN HIGH SCHOOL AND YOU WERE PLAYING IN THE LEAGUE.

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THAT GAME?

I REMEMBER WHEN IT HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE THE WORLD STOPPED.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHEN WE GOT BACK TO, YOU KNOW, PLAYING IN THE NFL, IT WAS LIKE, ALL RIGHT, YOU'RE PLAYING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF.

KIND OF JUST RESET AND PUT YOU BACK IN REALITY.

THE FEELING IN HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEAR, RIGHT?

YEAH.

20, 25 YEARS AGO.

(LAUGHING) UM, YEAH.

I REMEMBER BEING IN CLASS AND HEARING REPORTS THAT A PLANE HAD HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS.

AND YOU'RE JUST LIKE, WAS IT A SMALL PLANE?

WAS IT A FLUKY TYPE OF DEAL?

THEN WHEN THE SECOND PLANE HIT AND I REMEMBER I WAS IN MY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACHES, HIS HISTORY CLASS.

AND THAT'S KIND OF WHEN IT FIRST HAPPENED.

YOU GOT THAT FEELING AND YOU'RE LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.

AND OBVIOUSLY WHAT FOLLOWED AFTER THAT WAS, WAS OBVIOUSLY A VERY SOBERING EXPERIENCE.

YEAH.

FORMER HUSKER BLACKSHIRT, OF COURSE, ADAM CARRIKER JOINING US HERE.

YOU YOU WERE IN WASHINGTON STATE AT THE TIME.

YEP.

I WAS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON.

I REMEMBER I WAS DRIVING TO CLASS BECAUSE WE WERE TWO HOURS BEHIND EVERYONE HERE GOING DOWN THE BIG HILL THAT I WENT DOWN EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL.

AND IT CAME ON THE RADIO AND I WAS JUST LIKE, WHAT?

AND THEN YOU GET TO SCHOOL, EVERYONE'S TALKING.

THEN YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THE SECOND PLANE.

JUST KIND OF LIFE GETS A LITTLE HAZY.

IT DOESN'T SEEM REAL LIKE YOU'RE LIVING IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY.

AND I THOUGHT ERIC SAID IT BEST, MAN, THERE'S THINGS THAT ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST FOOTBALL IN THIS WORLD.

LIKE FOOTBALL IS A GIFT THAT WE GET TO ENJOY AND PLAY.

BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT.

I WAS IN ALBUQUERQUE AT THE TIME, AND I REMEMBER THE GAME AGAINST RICE AND THE PART AT THE BEGINNING WHEN THEY CAME OUT WITH THE FLAGS AND ALL THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND IT WAS JUST SILENT.

YOU KNOW, YOU HAD 90,000 PEOPLE IN THERE.

IT WAS FULL AND IT WAS JUST SILENCE.

IT GIVES ME CHILLS NOW TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT WE'LL REMEMBER THAT AGAIN ON FRIDAY, THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE GAME?

I NOTICED THE TRANSITION.

YOU NORMALLY DO A, YOU KNOW, IMMEDIATE REACTION AFTER THE GAME.

ANY FEELING DIFFERENT FROM AFTER SATURDAY AFTERNOON TO TUESDAY AFTERNOON?

TUESDAY NIGHT?

I MEAN, A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TIME TO LET THINGS SETTLE.

YOU GOT TO WATCH THE FILM.

YOU GOT TO REEVALUATE.

YOU CHAT WITH SOME FOLKS, UH, KIND OF A SIMILAR FEELING, MAYBE A TALE OF TWO HALVES.

YOU SAW THINGS THAT MAYBE NEBRASKA WANTS TO WORK ON, OBVIOUSLY, GOING FORWARD IN THAT FIRST HALF.

THEN IN THE SECOND HALF, ESPECIALLY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, THEY SHOWED YOU WHAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF.

SO YOU SAW A TEAM LIKE, HEY, IF WE PLAY THIS CERTAIN WAY, MAYBE THERE'S A FEW LESS WINS.

BUT IF WE PLAY A CERTAIN WAY IN THE SECOND HALF A LITTLE BIT MORE CONSISTENTLY, MAYBE THERE'S A FEW MORE WINS THIS YEAR.

ADAM, LET'S I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE DEFENSE BECAUSE WE DID.

WE KIND OF WERE IN WAIT AND SEE MODE WITH AURICH'S 4-2-5.

WHAT DID YOU KIND OF THINK OF THEIR INITIAL ALIGNMENTS, HOW THEY KIND OF HAD SOMETIMES TWO STAND UP DEFENSIVE ENDS?

IS THAT WHAT YOU KIND OF EXPECTED?

UM, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY VANILLA GAME PLAN TOO DEFENSIVELY.

SO I WASN'T SURE WHAT TO EXPECT.

AND IT WAS VANILLA.

YOU GIVE UP A BIG PLAY EARLY ON AND YEAH THE MISCOMMUNICATION.

YOU DID A GREAT JOB BREAKING THAT DOWN.

BUT I THINK AS A DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

YOU CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP MULTIPLE BIG PLAYS.

AND SO THEY WENT INTO A TWO HIGH A SHELL LOOK, WHICH IS REALLY HARD TO GET BIG PLAYS OVER THE TOP.

AND IF YOU CAN LIMIT THE RUN UNDERNEATH WHILE RUNNING TO TWO HIGH SHELL, IT'S REALLY HARD FOR THE OFFENSE TO MOVE THE BALL AND GET BIG PLAYS.

SO I THOUGHT HE DID A GOOD JOB OF MAKING ADJUSTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE GAME.

AS FAR AS THE DEFENSIVE LINE DIDN'T BLITZ A TON, IT WAS RATHER VANILLA, BUT I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THAT DID OR DIDN'T AFFECT IT.

I'M CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT WE SEE AGAINST BOWLING GREEN, ESPECIALLY.

YOU KNOW, WE GET A FAST START AURICH CAN PROBABLY OPEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT AND DO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF WHAT HE WANTS TO DO.

AND I'M CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

ADAM, EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT THE LACK OF PASS RUSH.

OBVIOUSLY FROM THE FIRST HALF.

THE SECOND HALF IT IMPROVED SOME.

BUT IN YOUR EXPERIENCE AS A PLAYER, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU LOOK FOR FROM WEEK ONE TO WEEK TWO TO IMPROVE ON THAT?

JUST IN THE FOUR MAN RUSH, BECAUSE THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT.

JUST BEING COMFORTABLE THAT FIRST GAME, YOU DON'T YOU DON'T WANT THE MISTAKE.

YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THE GUY THAT JUMPS OFFSIDES.

YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THAT GUY.

EVEN IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE, IT STILL USUALLY TAKES THE GAME TO GET BACK INTO THE FLOW.

MAYBE IF YOU'RE A GUY WHO'S EXPERIENCED AND BEEN OUT THERE A TON, YOU'RE STILL A LITTLE BIT OVERHYPED, SO TO SPEAK, WHEREAS A YOUNG GUY, MAYBE YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT OVERWHELMED.

SO GAME TWO, A LOT, A LOT OF TIMES I FELT LIKE MY, MY FIRST STEP WAS A LOT FASTER BECAUSE I WASN'T THINKING TO WORRY ABOUT ANY OF THAT.

I WAS JUST IN GAME MODE LIKE, LET'S GO.

YEAH.

MOST, MOST TIMES WHEN YOU GUYS WERE PLAYING AT NEBRASKA, YOU WERE ON THE FIELD THE ENTIRE TIME.

NOW THERE'S A LOT OF THESE CHEETAH PACKAGES OR FREEWAY PACKAGES OR WHATEVER YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE THIRD AND SEVEN PACKAGE WHEN THEY BRING IN SOME OF THE SMALLER GUYS?

I THINK IT'S GREAT.

WHETHER IT'S EVERYONE HAS THEIR NICKEL AND THEIR BASE, YOU GOT YOUR DIME, YOUR SPEED, NICKEL, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.

I SAW A STAT WHERE 18 DIFFERENT DEFENSIVE LINEMEN PLAYED AND 11 OF THEM PLAYED NINE SNAPS OR MORE.

AND ANTHONY JONES PLAYED MORE THAN ANYBODY.

HE PLAYED 52 SNAPS.

THAT'S A DECENT AMOUNT OF SNAPS, BUT THERE WAS A DAY AND AGE WHERE THAT WASN'T CONSIDERED A TON.

BUT I DON'T HATE THE IDEA OF BEING A I DON'T WANT TO SAY PACKAGE ORIENTED DEFENSE, BUT YOU'VE GOT SO MANY DIFFERENT PIECES THAT YOU CAN PLAY CHESS WITH, WITH THE PLAYERS THAT YOU HAVE.

HEY, IF IT'S SECOND AND SEVEN, WHY DON'T WE HAVE DIFFERENT PERSONNEL OUT THERE THAN SECOND AND THREE OR THIRD AND TEN VERSUS THIRD AND TWO?

AND SO A LOT OF TIMES YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS AND TRY TO USE DIFFERENT PERSONNEL TO GET THAT ADVANTAGE.

I THINK THE OTHER THING TOO, PEOPLE GOT TO REALIZE WHEN YOU PLAY THAT MANY GUYS, THERE IS AN ELEMENT TO PLAYING OFF OF DEFENSIVE LINEMEN.

I THINK WHEN PASS RUSHERS ARE CALLED, GAMES ARE CALLED.

THOSE ARE EASY, BUT SOMETIMES THOSE NATURAL RUSHES WHERE YOU'RE PLAYING, IF YOU'RE THE THREE TECHNIQUE, I'M THE DEFENSIVE END AND I SEE YOU KIND OF GET KIND OF PUSHED OUT HIGH.

I CAN COME UNDERNEATH.

AND SOMETIMES THOSE THAT'S THE EVOLUTION OF THE, OF THE GAME THROUGHOUT THE SEASON THAT WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THOSE DIFFERENT PLAYERS AND NEW FACES WITH THE NEW DEFENSE, THAT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO ESTABLISH.

I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A THREE GAME SET THAT ALLOWS YOU TO PLAY MORE GUYS, DEVELOP MORE GUYS, DEVELOP SOME DEPTH.

BUT TO YOUR POINT, MAN, LIKE IF WE WERE WITH TITUS OR LE KEVIN OR SOME OF THESE GUYS, UH, YOU KNOW, BARRY CRYER'S, WE WERE GETTING INTO OUR SENIOR YEARS, LIKE I KNEW BARRY WAS VERY LIKELY TO GO OUTSIDE WHERE AND I BETTER BE READY TO COME UNDERNEATH.

WHEREAS I KNEW LE KEVIN WAS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO STAY INSIDE.

YOU START TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND YOU KNOW WHAT TO KIND OF ANTICIPATE FROM EACH OTHER.

AND THE PASS RUSH LANES ARE EASIER TO KEEP THE MORE YOU KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER WHEN YOU'RE.

THE DOWNSIDE, IF YOU WANT TO SAY THERE'S A DOWNSIDE CONSTANTLY MIXING AND MATCHING, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE AS FAMILIAR WITH EACH OTHER, BUT YOU'LL GAIN THAT AS THE YEAR GOES ALONG.

ADAM, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT NEBRASKA WANTED TO FIX IN THE OFF SEASON WAS STARTING.

THE SEASON IS STOPPING THE RUN.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT THE 4-2-5 VERSUS THE 3-3-5, AND WHAT YOU LOOK FORWARD TO AT NEBRASKA ADDING IN THE NEXT GAMES TO COME?

I THOUGHT THEY PLAYED PRETTY WELL AGAINST YOUR TYPICAL RUN PLAYS.

THREE YARDS PER CARRY, 69 TOTAL YARDS.

COMBINED WITH ALL THE RUNNING BACKS, IT WAS KIND OF THE QUARTERBACK GETTING OUT AND GETTING LOOSE, AVERAGING SEVEN YARDS PER CARRY, TRYING TO LIMIT THAT GOING FORWARD A LITTLE BIT.

YOU KNOW, I'M CURIOUS TO SEE AS THESE GAMES GO ALONG, BOWLING GREEN, NORTH DAKOTA IS A PHYSICAL TEAM.

THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN HERE AND TRY TO RUN THE BALL.

AND HOW DOES THE GAME PLAN EVOLVE.

DO WE BECOME A LITTLE BIT MORE AGGRESSIVE.

DO WE.

IS IT MORE ZONE BLITZ.

MAN BLITZ.

IS IT STAY KIND OF VANILLA.

DO WE NOT SHOW A LOT UNTIL WE PLAY MICHIGAN STATE, MARYLAND?

I'M CURIOUS TO SEE HOW IT EVOLVES AS WE GO ALONG.

I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ALL YOU GUYS AT SOME POINT ON A FRIDAY OR SATURDAY.

IF YOU'RE PLAYING ON SUNDAY, YOU FIND OUT ONE OF YOUR BEST PLAYERS WASN'T GOING TO BE PLAYING WHEN IT'S A GUY.

AND RYAN ASKED THIS QUESTION ON FACEBOOK ABOUT OWEN CHAMBLISS.

WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE HIM THERE AND HE'S KIND OF YOUR QUARTERBACK, YOUR DEFENSE, HOW MUCH DOES THAT AFFECT THE WAY YOU PLAY?

IT OBVIOUSLY IS GOING TO MAKE AN IMPACT.

HE'S NOT JUST THE QUARTERBACK OF THE DEFENSE, BUT HE'S THE MOST FAMILIAR WITH THE DEFENSE COMING FROM SAN DIEGO STATE WITH ROB AURICH, HE'S GOT THE MOST EXPERIENCE WITH THE DEFENSE.

HE'S KNOWN FOR BEING A MENTALLY VERY SHARP INDIVIDUAL PLAYER, THE QUARTERBACK OF THE DEFENSE.

SO I KIND OF WONDER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EARLY ON IF GUYS WEREN'T ON AS MUCH OF THE SAME PAGE, JUST TRYING TO GET USED TO, YOU KNOW, CHAMBLISS NOT BEING OUT THERE.

I KNOW HE WAS BANGED UP THROUGHOUT CAMP, BUT AS THE GAME WENT ALONG, YOU SAW THINGS WERE A LITTLE BIT CLEANER, GUYS WERE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE SAME PAGE AND PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT OF AN ADJUSTMENT PERIOD EARLY ON, I WOULD IMAGINE FOR SURE.

LET'S SWITCH OVER TO WE CAN TALK DEFENSE.

I THINK.

I KNOW.

I KNOW.

AS A THIRD STRING BACKUP QUARTERBACK FROM HIGH SCHOOL, I'M TERRIFIED.

BUT THIS OFFENSE COME ON.

>> BUT WE'LL SWITCH TO THE OFFENSE.

UM THREE HEADED YOU KNOW RUNNING BACK ROOM RIGHT NOW.

I KNOW KWINTEN IVES DIDN'T GET ANY SNAPS ON ON SATURDAY.

HE'S A REALLY GOOD BACK THAT NEBRASKA HAS.

BUT JUST PRODUCTION OUT OF THAT RUNNING BACK ROOM AND HAVING A TRUE FRESHMAN COME OUT HERE IN ALMOST 130 ALL PURPOSE YARDS AS A TRUE FRESHMAN, THAT WAS THAT WAS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE.

DUDE.

I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT.

IT'S EXCITING.

YOU GOT THOSE GUYS.

31 TOTAL CARRIES BETWEEN THE THREE, 217 TOTAL RUSHING YARDS BETWEEN THE THREE OF THEM, AND THEY HAD 35 TOTAL TOUCHES.

AND ACTUALLY MEKHI NELSON LED US IN RECEIVING YARDS WITH A 51 YARD CATCH.

HE TOOK TO THE HOUSE BREAKING THREE TACKLES.

SO IF THERE WAS SOME QUESTION MARKS ABOUT THE RUNNING BACK ROOM COMING INTO THE SEASON, MAN, YOU FEEL PRETTY GOOD RIGHT NOW.

I EVEN HAD SOMEBODY HIT ME UP.

HE'S LIKE, DO YOU THINK THEY LOOK LIKE THE STRONGEST ROOM ON SATURDAY.

I WAS LIKE, THEY GOT THE MOST ATTENTION, THAT'S FOR SURE.

SO WE'LL SEE HOW THAT CONTINUES.

I THINK AFTER THE GAME SATURDAY YOU GOT TO FEEL PRETTY GOOD.

JAMAL RULE, THE FIRST FRESHMAN WE'VE HAD TO RUSH FOR 100 YARDS SINCE ADRIAN MARTINEZ 2018.

ONE YEAR THERE WAS TIERRE GREEN.

YEAH, THAT WAS 2004.

YEAH, THAT WAS WHEN WE WERE THERE MAN.

GOING WAY BACK.

WHAT WAS THAT 20,000 YEARS AGO?

22 YEARS AGO.

YEAH.

UM, SO THAT WAS FUN TO SEE.

SO IT WAS FUN TO SEE GUYS CATCHING THE BALL OUT OF THE BACKFIELD, GUYS MAKING PLAYS WITH THE ROCK IN THEIR HANDS.

OUT OF A TYPICAL HANDOFF.

I'M GOING TO CALL IT THE MONSTER FORMATION.

I KNOW YOU SAID MARYLAND I. I DUDE I LOVE THE MONSTER FORMATION BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HOLGORSEN CALLED IT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WITH ROBINSON BACK THERE.

I LOVE THAT.

NO DOUBT.

I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE GUY THAT STIRS THE POT.

THAT'S ANTHONY COLANDREA AND HE'S OBVIOUSLY QUICK, FAST.

I THINK AS THE GAME WENT ON, HE STARTED TO WEAR THAT DEFENSE OUT AND GET OUT AROUND THE EDGES AND OBVIOUSLY KILLING WITH THE RUN.

TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT DOES TO A DEFENSIVE LINEMAN AND WHAT YOU LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HIM DO THE REST OF THE YEAR.

SO I THOUGHT ANTHONY KEPT HIS POISE EARLY, LIKE HE WAS EXCITED.

SOME OF THE BALLS HAD A LITTLE EXTRA HEAT ON HIM.

THAT'S OKAY.

UM, I THOUGHT HE KEPT HIS POISE REALLY WELL, ESPECIALLY IT WAS A LITTLE DISCOMBOBULATED IN THE FIRST HALF.

YOU LOOK AT WHAT HE DID IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS.

THIRD DOWNS.

HE FIVE OF HIS SEVEN RUNS RESULTED IN FIRST DOWNS.

AND ON THIRD DOWN HE WAS SIX OF EIGHT FOR 78 YARDS PASSING.

AND SO HE HAD EIGHT PASSES OF 15 YARDS OR MORE THAT HE COMPLETED AS WELL.

SO HE DID A LOT OF THINGS, ESPECIALLY SITUATIONALLY, AND I THINK IN KEY MOMENTS WHERE WE NEEDED HIM TO DO CERTAIN THINGS.

AND MAN, HE WAS RIGHT THERE TO DO IT.

I THOUGHT HE PLAYED REALLY WELL.

SPEAKING OF SECOND QUARTERBACK, ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED AT ALL THAT THEY DIDN'T PUT IN THE BACKUPS IN FOR THAT LAST DRIVE TO GET THEM SOME WORK, OR DOES THAT MATTER?

OPEN IT UP, YOU GUYS.

(CHUCKLING) IN THIS DAY AND AGE, NIL I KNOW THE BACKUPS ARE PROBABLY A LITTLE SALTY.

(LAUGHING) THAT'S THEIR SEASON.

IT'S LIKE THE PRESEASON WHEN YOU KNOW THOSE GUYS ARE EITHER STREET FREE AGENTS OR LOW ROUND DRAFT PICK.

WE GOT TO GET THESE REPS IN, SO THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE SALTY THAT THEY DIDN'T GET IN, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE GAME WENT.

YOU KNOW, DON'T BE MAD AT THE COACHES, BE MAD AT THE GUYS THAT WERE PLAYING.

BUT YOU HAVE TO WHEN IT'S EARLY AND EVERYBODY'S NEW TOGETHER.

HE'S GOT TO GET REPS, RIGHT?

YOU'RE NOT GETTING A TON OF REPS IN PRACTICE ANYMORE, FULL CONTACT.

SO YOU GOT TO GET HIM IN THE GAME.

SO I WONDER IF THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF, HEY, WE DIDN'T LOOK MAYBE AS CLEAN AS WE WANTED IN THE FIRST HALF.

SO LET'S GET THESE GAME REPS WHILE WE CAN, AS MANY AS WE CAN.

I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THAT FACTORED INTO THE DECISION AT THE END.

ALSO, HEY, YOU FINISHED THAT GAME AS STRONG AS THEY DID YOU FEEL BETTER GOING INTO GAME TWO?

SO I WONDER HOW MUCH THAT FACTORED INTO THAT DECISION AS WELL.

I'LL GO BACK TO THE DEFENSE BECAUSE JOE ASKED VIA EMAIL JOE CUNNINGHAM, EXPLAIN HOW HAVING THESE MULTIPLE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO TEACH ANOTHER SYSTEM.

ARE YOU CONCERNED AT ALL WHEN THEY'VE HAD THREE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS OVER THE COURSE OF THREE YEARS?

I THINK THE ONLY THING YOU GET IN FOOTBALL STILL FOOTBALL, LIKE THERE'S STILL DEFENSIVE LINEMEN, YOU'RE STILL PLAYING WITH CORRECT PAD LEVEL, FEET, HANDS.

IT'S JUST TERMINOLOGY THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO GET USED TO THE MOST.

YEAH.

WHAT THEY CALL SEVEN TECHNIQUE VERSUS A SIX TECHNIQUE, A SPIKE VERSUS A PIRATE STUNT OR WHATEVER IT IS.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, ULTIMATELY, IF YOU'RE PLAYING FAST AND PHYSICAL, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT.

BUT I GUESS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IS JUST UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY OR WHAT DIFFERENT POSITIONS ARE CALLED.

NOT IDEAL.

HAVING THREE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS SINCE RHULE HAS BEEN HERE, IT IS WHAT IT IS.

UM, BUT I THINK I DO LIKE AURICH'S WHAT HE STANDS ABOUT WHAT HE'S BEEN PRODUCTIVE AT HIS OTHER PLACES.

BUT REALLY IT'S JUST A TERMINOLOGY I THINK THAT MIGHT CONFUSE THE GUYS THE MOST.

THAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOU, ADAM OR JAY?

WE HAD THREE.

IN THE NFL.

YOU MIGHT BE A WEEK TO WEEK.

(LAUGHING) SO YEAH, I THINK REALLY WHEN YOU HAVE A LOT OF TRANSITION LIKE THIS, THEY HAVE TO BE EXCELLENT TEACHERS AND COMMUNICATORS.

I THINK THE ONE THING THAT'S REALLY KIND OF GONE, LIKE UNDER UNDER THE RADAR IS, YOU KNOW, BRINGING BROWN AND BRINGING MANNING AND OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY ELSE KIND OF JUST KIND OF JUST HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING.

SO I THINK THE TRANSITION HAS BEEN SEAMLESS.

AND SO, UM, IT'S NOT IDEAL, BUT OBVIOUSLY, HOPEFULLY THIS IS THE LAST STOP FOR AURICH FOR A WHILE.

HOPEFULLY.

UH, ANY CONCERN, ADAM, YOU HAVE ABOUT THE SPECIAL TEAMS?

OBVIOUSLY THE TWO OFFSIDES, WHICH YOU NEVER SEE ON KICKOFFS ANYMORE.

AND SO FAR THE PUNTERS BASICALLY HAD 40 YARD PUNTS.

ANY CONCERN ABOUT SPECIAL TEAMS WITH.

OBVIOUSLY WITH EKELER GONE?

I DON'T THINK YOU LEARNED A TON ON SATURDAY.

THE OFFSIDES.

I DON'T EXPECT THAT TO PERSIST ON THE KICKOFF UNIT.

EVEN NYZIAH MAN HIM TRYING TO GO BACKWARDS TO GO FORWARDS.

THAT'S AN EASY CONVERSATION.

THAT DUDE.

YOU SEE WHAT HE CAN DO WITH THE BALL IN HIS HANDS ON SCREENPLAYS.

TWO OF THEM LAST YEAR, HE HAD THE SCREENPLAY.

OBVIOUSLY IT DIDN'T.

IT DIDN'T STAND.

BUT YOU GET THE BALL IN HIS HANDS.

THAT DUDE CAN MAKE PLAYS.

HE'S EXPLOSIVE.

JUST LET HIM DO HIS THING.

GIVE HIM SOME YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF DIRECTION HERE AND THERE.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT KIND OF LET HIM DO HIS THING.

TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE D COORDINATORS, I THOUGHT THEY BOTH MADE GREAT POINTS.

A LOT OF IT.

I'VE ALWAYS LIKENED LEARNING A NEW PLAYBOOK TO LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE, BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT.

YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE WHOLE LANGUAGE.

BUT JUST WHAT'S IN THE PLAYBOOK.

I THOUGHT WHAT WAS INTERESTING, BECAUSE THE THREE MAN LINE CAN BE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT THAN A FOUR MAN LINE.

THAT ISN'T WHAT THEY DID LAST YEAR UNDER BUTLER.

IT WAS A LOT MORE PENETRATING THAN PEOPLE REALIZED.

I PLAYED THE OLD TWO GAP AND I PLAYED THE PENETRATING FOUR MAN LINE AS WELL.

THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN A FOUR MAN LINE OVER 60% OF THE TIME LAST YEAR, EVEN UNDER BUTLER.

EXACTLY.

SO THE TECHNIQUE ISN'T THAT DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT.

IT'S LEARNING THE NEW TERMINOLOGY AND EXACTLY WHAT BROWN AND AURICH ARE LOOKING FOR, WHICH LITTLE DETAILS MIGHT VARY HERE AND THERE.

IT'S LIKE THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES.

THERE'S A BASE TO IT, BUT OBVIOUSLY FRENCH AND GERMAN ARE DIFFERENT.

YEAH.

ADAM, WE APPRECIATE.

THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME.

APPRECIATE YOU HAVING ME.

COMING UP, TIME FOR TOP PLAYS FROM SATURDAY'S GAME AGAINST OHIO AS VOTED ON BY YOU NUMBER THREE REX GUTHRIE.

THE GAME INTERCEPTION LATE IN THE GAME.

THE TIP PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED BY CONN BUT ENDS UP GETTING TIPPED AND INSTEAD INTERCEPTION BY GUTHRIE WHO ALMOST BRINGS IT BACK FOR A TOUCHDOWN.

THAT WAS NUMBER AND NUMBER TWO ANTHONY COLANDREA MAKING HIS WAY, MAKING HIS WAY ON A 13 YARD SCRAMBLE TO THE END ZONE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.

KNOCKING GUYS OVER TO DO THAT.

THAT'S THE NUMBER TWO PLAY.

AND NUMBER ONE.

NUMBER ONE JAMAL RULE'S 24 YARD TOUCHDOWN.

THE SECOND OF THREE ON THE DAY FOR THE BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK.

NOW WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR TAKES THIS SEASON.

CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA VIA EMAIL.

ON THE PHONE TO SHARE YOUR HOTTEST TAKES.

UM.

WHATEVER YOU CAN DO TO GET YOUR TAKES.

WE HAVE A NEW ONE.

I NEED TO GET IN THE LIGHT SOMEHOW.

I'LL MOVE OVER HERE.

SEE?

THERE WE GO.

I'M IN A LIGHT RIGHT THERE.

THERE WE GO.

OVER THIS DIRECTION.

OKAY.

BUT I CAN'T SEE THE THING.

WE'LL SHOWCASE THE BEST TAKES, AND WE'LL EITHER AGREE WITH IT OR WE'LL HAVE A PROBLEM.

ALL RIGHT.

SO HERE'S HERE'S THE TAKE THIS WEEK.

IT COMES FROM TJ ON X, NOTING THAT IT WAS 160 DEGREES ON THE TURF.

AND HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WAY THE GAME WAS GOING.

JAY HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THE HEAT ACTUALLY AFFECTED THE GAME?

YEAH, I THINK, UH, IT DEFINITELY DID AFFECT THE PLAYERS.

I THINK YOU JUST CAN'T PREPARE FOR THAT.

RIGHT.

THAT'S THE HARDEST THING.

SO THAT'S WHY YOU SAW SO MANY GUYS PLAY ON DEFENSE.

THAT WAS HUGE TO GET THE GUYS IN THERE.

I MEAN WE SAW WHITTINGTON THROW UP.

I MEAN THAT'S A PART OF LIKE THEY'RE THROWING SO MUCH FLUIDS AT YOU TO TO KEEP YOU HYDRATED.

YEAH.

BUT YOU CAN'T PREPARE FOR THAT.

AND THAT WAS I MEAN, EVEN I WAS ON THE FIELD AT 9:30 IN THE MORNING PREGAME.

IT WAS ALREADY VERY, VERY HOT, BUT IT WAS HOT IN THE BOOTH CALLING THE GAME.

SO THAT WAS THAT WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'LL EVER EXPERIENCE AGAIN THE REST OF THE SEASON.

AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH DONE.

LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, I THINK IT'S IN THE 70S THIS SATURDAY.

AND CHANCE OF RAIN.

SO, IT'S GOING TO BE NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE.

I MEAN A 70 DEGREE DIFFERENCE POTENTIALLY ON THE FIELD.

IT'S GOING TO BE HUGE.

COMING UP NEXT WE WILL CHAT WITH SEAN CALLAHAN.

WE'LL POP IN TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE RECRUITING.

BUT FIRST, ANOTHER LOOK BACK AT THE OHIO GAME COURTESY OF HURRDAT SPORTS.

STAY WITH US.

WE'RE RIGHT BACK.

US.

WE'RE RIGHT BACK.

[MUSIC] BE SURE TO VOTE ON THIS WEEK'S SIDELINE SURVEY.

THE QUESTION IS WHAT NEEDS TO IMPROVE THE MOST FROM WEEK ONE TO WEEK TWO?

50% OF YOU SAY CLEANING UP THE PENALTIES.

NINE PENALTIES.

THIS PAST WEEK.

DEFENSE GOT 42%.

RECEIVERS 2%.

THEY ONLY HAD REALLY TECHNICALLY THREE DROPS AND THE HEAT, WHICH WILL DEFINITELY IMPROVE.

MAKE SURE YOU VISIT OUR WRAP-UP WEBSITE AND CAST YOUR VOTE.

WELCOME BACK TO BIG RED WRAP-UP MIKE'L SEVERE JOINED WITH SEAN CALLAHAN TO TALK RECRUITING.

WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT IT LAST WEEK, BUT TAY ELLIS, OF COURSE, THE WIDE RECEIVER AT MILLARD SOUTH, WHO CAME IN FROM TEXAS, NO LONGER COMMITTED TO NEBRASKA.

WHAT HAPPENED?

YEAH, IT HAPPENED AFTER OUR SHOW LAST WEEK.

IT WAS KIND OF THE BREAKING RECRUITING STORY, UM, OVER THE LAST WEEK.

BUT NEBRASKA JUST, YOU KNOW, I THINK INITIALLY HE WAS GOING TO TAKE SOME VISITS.

NEBRASKA HAD KIND OF MAYBE BACKED OFF JUST THEIR COMMUNICATION WITH HIM AND THEY WERE OKAY WITH HIM TAKING SOME TRIPS.

AND THEN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, HE ANNOUNCED HE'S DECOMMITTING.

SO IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

YEP.

THE WIDE RECEIVER POSITION, THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU'RE ABLE TO FIND RECEIVERS REALLY EASY IN RECRUITING NOW.

I MEAN, HE'S HE WAS THE 127TH RANKED RECEIVER IN THE COUNTRY.

AND THERE'S OVER 64 AND FIVE STAR RECEIVERS ALONE EACH YEAR IN RECRUITING.

SO IT'S NOT A MAKE OR BREAK DEAL, ESPECIALLY WITH WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHERE THE WIDE RECEIVER POSITION CURRENTLY IS.

AND IT'S 27 CLASS, THEY HAVE THAT YOUNG MAN OUT OF PITTSBURGH WHO WAS COMMITTED TO PENN STATE AND NOT NEBRASKA.

HE IS AS TALENTED AS ANYBODY.

OH YEAH.

THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY HAPPY WITH WHERE THEY'RE AT AND FINDING A RECEIVER TO PLAY WITH TRAE TAYLOR, IF YOU CAN'T FIGURE THAT OUT, YOU KNOW YOU GOT PROBLEMS.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GUY WHO WAS THE NUMBER TWO RATED SAFETY LAST YEAR IN TORY PITTMAN, WHO OF COURSE WAS AT CENTRAL.

AND NOW THEY'RE AT SOUTH OR AT NORTH.

EXCUSE ME.

WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HIM AS A RECRUIT?

YEAH.

I GOT A CHANCE TO WATCH TORY PITTMAN IN HIS OPENING GAME, WEEK ONE AGAINST TRAE TAYLOR.

AND HE WAS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER ON THE FIELD THAT DAY.

HE HAD FOUR CATCHES FOR 157 YARDS.

COMPLETELY DOMINATED THE BACK END, TAKING AWAY THE DEEP BALL.

NOW HE GOT TWO PENALTIES IN THE GAME AND HE WAS EJECTED IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

SO IT REALLY CHANGED THE COMPLEXION OF THE GAME.

BUT WHEN HE WAS IN THIS GAME NOTHING WAS EASY FOR TRAE TAYLOR DEEP.

AND WHEN HE GOT THE BALL IN HIS HANDS AS A SKILL PLAYER LOOK OUT HE WAS GONE.

I MEAN YOU WATCHED HIM JUST TAKE THIS GAME OVER WITH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT PLAYS ON OFFENSE, AND IT CHANGED WHEN HE WAS OUT AND HE HAD TO MISS THE STANDING BEAR GAME THAT HAPPENED THIS PAST WEEK.

AND HE'LL BE BACK ON THE FIELD, THOUGH, FOR MILLER NORTH HERE IN WEEK THREE.

WHEN HE'S MOTIVATED.

HE'S ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE STATE.

HE'S GOT TO MAKE SURE HE STAYS MOTIVATED.

AND HE WAS EXTREMELY MOTIVATED, PARTICULARLY TO GO AGAINST TAY ELLIS, WHO I THINK HAD BEEN DOING SOME SMACK TALKING ABOUT THE LEVEL OF PLAY OF NEBRASKA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

AND I THINK SOME OF THOSE MILLER NORTH GUYS WANTED TO SHOW SOME OF THESE GUYS, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE PLAY PRETTY GOOD FOOTBALL HERE.

NO DOUBT IN-STATE RECRUIT BIG WUS KID BRAYLEN WARREN WHO'S GOING TO MISSOURI.

YEAH.

TAKE OUR IN-STATE PROFILE TONIGHT.

TAKES US TO WEST SIDE.

UM, THE SECOND ELITE 11 QUARTERBACK IN NEBRASKA THIS YEAR WITH TRAE TAYLOR.

BRAYLEN WARREN, WHO IS A THREE YEAR STARTER NOW AT WEST SIDE.

UM, IS ONE OF THE BETTER QUARTERBACK PROSPECTS WE'VE SEEN COME THROUGH NEBRASKA IN A LONG TIME.

COMMITTED TO MISSOURI.

UM YOU KNOOKED EXCELLENT AT THE ELITE 11 HAS BEEN JUST WELL TAUGHT WELL SCHOOLED THROUGHOUT HIS PLAYING CAREER.

AND UM, YOU KNOW, WEST SIDE RIGHT NOW IS NUMBER ONE.

I KNOW EVERYONE'S HIGH ON MILLARD SOUTH, BUT, THROUGH TWO WEEKS OF FOOTBALL, WEST SIDE IS THE NUMBER ONE TEAM IN THE STATE AND BRAYLEN WARREN.

IT ALL STARTS AND STOPS WITH HIM.

PROBABLY THE BEST OFFENSIVE LINE AND DEFENSIVE LINE TO COMBINED.

SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHY THEY'RE THE BEST TEAM.

AND YOU GOT GRIGSBY ON THAT TEAM NOW AND YOU GOT BRYCE JOHNSON.

I MEAN SOME OF THE BETTER PLAYERS FROM OTHER TEAMS JOINED THEIR TEAM.

SO WEST SIDE IS LOADED.

AND WE'LL GET THAT MILLARD SOUTHWEST SIDE GAME BY THE WAY WEEK NINE AND MAYBE IN THE PLAYOFFS.

LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

THANKS, SEAN.

THANKS.

(NO AUDIO) THOUGHT ANTHONY WAS EXCELLENT IN THE GAME.

THE BACKED UP THROW WAS AS BIG A THROW AS YOU CAN MAKE IN THAT GAME.

AS I SAID TO YOU AFTER THE GAME, RAN THE FOOTBALL, YOU KNOW IN SOME OF THE RUNS AS NEEDED.

THE ONLY ISSUE I HAVE OTHER THAN THAT IS THE COMPLETION PERCENTAGE.

WE GOT TO GET THAT THING HIGHER.

YOU KNOW, WE SHOOT FOR ABOUT 70% AND HE WAS AT 56%.

UM, I'VE SEEN HIM MAKE THOSE THROWS.

I THINK HE WAS OVERTHROWING SOME THINGS.

HIS ACCURACY WASN'T AS GOOD AS WHAT I'VE SEEN IT IN PRACTICE.

(SWOOSH) (NO AUDIO) WITH JAMAL, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, HOW IS HE GOING TO BE ON THE SIDELINES GAME ONE?

YOU KNOW, AND I THOUGHT HE WAS AWESOME IN PREGAME AND HAD NO ISSUES.

OUR PLAN WAS THE FIRST SHORT YARDAGE SITUATION HE WAS GOING IN.

AND THAT HAPPENED ON THE FIRST DRIVE.

SO ALL THREE OF THEM HAD, YOU KNOW, POSITIVE PLAYS DRIVE ONE AND THEN YOU JUST START ROTATING.

UH, WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE?

I DON'T KNOW, WE'LL SEE HOW PRACTICE GOES TODAY.

(SWOOSH) (NO AUDIO) WELL, I'M SURE YOU HAD A LOT GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND, BUT YOUR FIRST PLAY AS A DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, JUST TO HAVE THAT, I MEAN, WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND IN THAT MOMENT AND HOW DO YOU KIND OF CALM DOWN YOUR UNIT AFTER THE OPENING PLAY THAT GAME?

IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO WE HAVE A COVERAGE BUST ON THE FIRST PLAY, A COMMUNICATION ISSUE ON THE BACK HALF THAT WE FIXED AFTER THAT SNAP.

BUT YOU KNOW WE ALLOWED A THIRD OF THEIR YARDS ALMOST ON A SINGLE PLAY ON THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME.

THAT WAS A THAT WAS AN EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE FOR US.

AND IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW WE RESPOND.

AND SO ONE THING THAT I WAS PLEASED WITH IS THE GUYS CAME TO THE SIDELINE, YOU KNOW, SETTLED BACK INTO WHAT WE DO.

BUT THAT WAS AN UNEXPECTED EVENT.

AND SO WE HAD A CHANGE OF STATE MOMENT AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND.

THE BOWLING GREEN QUARTERBACK, CONSTANTINE HE'S ALSO A MOVER AS WELL.

SO WE'LL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE TO WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE GREAT ANGLES AND TRY TO KEEP HIM IN THE POCKET WHILE CONTINUING TO IMPROVE, YOU KNOW, SALTING THE POCKET AS WELL.

AT THE SAME TIME, BEING PREPARED FOR BEING PREPARED FOR A TEAM THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HAS THE ETHOS OF A TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH.

EDDIE GEORGE COACH TEAM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU BETTER MATCH THEIR PHYSICALITY AND MATCH THEIR INTENSITY.

AND IT REALLY STARTS TODAY IN MEETINGS.

(SWOOSH) (NO AUDIO) ALL RIGHT.

WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE THE VOICE OF THE FALCONS TODD WALKER JOINING US TO HELP PREVIEW THIS SATURDAY'S GAME AGAINST BOWLING GREEN.

TODD WE APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME.

WHAT IS WHAT'S THE FAN BASE REACTION AFTER FALLING TO A REALLY GOOD FCS TEAM.

(RUSTLING) WELL THE FANS ARE NOT REAL HAPPY AND THEY DON'T GIVE OPPONENTS ENOUGH CREDIT.

LIKE SOMETIMES HAPPENS IF A MAC TEAM BEATS A BIG TEN TEAM.

BUT, UH, THE FANS WERE A LITTLE ANXIOUS ABOUT THAT GAME AND THAT RESULT, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I THINK THEY SAW AN OFFENSE THAT LOOKED VERY SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR, WHEN THEY WERE HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMEWHAT BETTER.

AND I THINK IT WAS BETTER AS THE GAME WENT ON.

BUT I WOULD NOT SAY THE FANS TOOK THE GAME VERY WELL, BUT THEN AGAIN, THEIR FANS, SO WE WOULDN'T EXPECT THAT.

BUT IF BOWLING GREEN CAN COME OUT AND PLAY WELL AGAINST NEBRASKA, THAT MIGHT EASE SOME OF THOSE FEARS.

ONE OF THE POSITIVES FOR BOWLING GREEN'S OFFENSE WAS THE QUARTERBACK, KASTANTIN.

HE DID 24 FOR 30, 80% COMPLETION RATE.

IS THAT THE KIND OF PLAY THAT YOU GUYS EXPECTED FROM THE QUARTERBACK THIS YEAR AT BOWLING GREEN?

(RUSTLING) WELL, TO BE FAIR, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.

AND COACH GEORGIA ADMITTED AS MUCH IN THE POST GAME.

YOU KNOW YOU SEE WHAT THE GUY DOES IN PRACTICE.

AND HE WON THE JOB OVER A FORMER FOUR STAR RECRUIT WHO WAS RECRUITED TO OREGON.

SO CLEARLY HE HAD A GOOD CAMP AND SHOWED THE COACHES A LOT OF THINGS, BUT UNTIL IT HAPPENS IN A REAL GAME, YOU'RE NOT SURE.

I THINK HE SHOWED A LOT OF TOUGHNESS AND GRIT.

HE SHOWED THAT HE CAN MOVE AND CONVERT THINGS WITH HIS LEGS.

I WOULDN'T CALL HIM A AND A SCRAMBLER NECESSARILY, OR A DUAL THREAT QUARTERBACK, BUT HE CAN RUN WHEN IT'S THERE AND HE WILL RUN WHEN IT'S THERE.

AND HE MADE SOME TOUGH THROWS ON THE RUN, AND HE TOOK SOME SHOTS AND HUNG IN THERE AND LED THE TEAM TO GET BACK IN THAT GAME AFTER A VERY SLOW START.

SO I THINK HE EARNED THE TEAM'S RESPECT.

HE SHOWED THE TOUGHNESS AND LEADERSHIP THAT THE COACHES TALKED ABOUT IN THE PRESEASON, AND HE SHOWED THAT HE'S GOT THE ABILITY TO MAKE THE THROWS.

I MEAN, 24-30, AS YOU SAID, 80% COMPLETION PERCENTAGE.

THAT'S NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT.

YOU SHOOT FOR THAT AGAINST, YOU KNOW, YOUR OWN TEAM IN PRACTICE.

YOU'D BE THRILLED WITH THAT.

SO TO GO 24 OF 30, I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT UNTIL WE GOT THE STATS AT THE END OF THE GAME, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE THAT GOOD OF AN OFFENSIVE GAME.

BUT YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS 24-30.

THAT SAYS A LOT.

YOU MENTIONED THE 24 COMPLETIONS.

TEN OF THEM WENT TO SCOBY, THE TIGHT END.

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF THE YOUNG TIGHT END IN THIS OFFENSE, AND WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT OF HIM FROM HIM FOR WEEKS TO COME?

YEAH, SCOBY HAS BEEN COMING ON.

HE AND JAY HAVE DEVELOPED A LOT OF CHEMISTRY IN THIS CAMP SINCE JAY CAME TO CAMPUS.

AND YOU KNOW, THIS TEAM HAS FEATURED SOME REALLY GOOD TIGHT ENDS OVER THE LAST 5 TO 8 YEARS.

AND JEREMIAH SCOBY KIND OF FITS THAT MOLD.

HE'S BIG, BUT HE'S ALSO VERY MOBILE AND IS GOOD WITH RUN AFTER THE CATCH.

AND HE OBVIOUSLY WAS THE MAIN WEAPON IN THE PASS GAME THIS PAST SATURDAY, BUT THEY REALLY SPREAD THE BALL AROUND.

THEY FOUND A FEW DIFFERENT RECEIVERS AND THAT'S THE NEXT STEP.

I THINK IN THE BOWLING GREEN PASSING GAME IS THEY NEED SOMEBODY TO ESTABLISH MORE OF A CONSISTENT THREAT ON THE OUTSIDE, NOT JUST FROM THE TIGHT END SPOT, BUT ONE OF THESE WIDE RECEIVERS NEEDS TO EMERGE AS A GO TO THREAT IN THE PASSING GAME.

ON A MORE CONSISTENT BASIS.

TODD, I'M CURIOUS, WHAT'S IT BEEN LIKE WORKING AROUND EDDIE GEORGE?

I MEAN, NOT TOO OFTEN.

YOU GET A GUY OF HIS LEGENDARY STATUS AROUND YOUR PROGRAM.

AND WHAT KIND OF ATTENTION DOES HE DRAW?

JUST BEING WHO HE IS.

(RUSTLING) YEAH, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING TO WATCH WHEN HE IS IN THE PUBLIC AND PEOPLE WILL INTERACT WITH HIM.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR COACHES SHOW EVERY WEEK AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT, AND SOME PEOPLE ARE THERE JUST BY HAPPENSTANCE.

AND THEN WHEN COACH GEORGE COMES IN, YOU NOTICE PEOPLE PEERING INTO THE ROOM AND SAYING, HEY, IS THAT HIM?

I THINK THAT'S HIM.

AND YEAH, SO HE IS HE'S AN INCREDIBLY GRACIOUS GUY WITH THE PUBLIC.

LIKE MOST COACHES, HE HAS A LOT OF DEMANDS ON HIS TIME, AND MAYBE HE HAS MORE EVEN THAN OTHERS BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, HE REALLY HAD ESTABLISHED A LIFE OUTSIDE OF COACHING BEFORE HE GOT BACK INTO FOOTBALL TO COACH AT TENNESSEE STATE.

SO IT IS A BIT OF A DIFFERENT SITUATION, BUT HE'S BEEN AWESOME TO WORK WITH.

I THINK HE'S REALLY MOLDED HIS WAY INTO THE COMMUNITY VERY WELL.

I THINK PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN TO HIM QUICKLY IN THAT WAY, AND NOW HE JUST WANTS HIS TEAM TO START LOOKING BETTER ON THE FIELD AND AND PLAYING FOOTBALL MORE LIKE HE WANTS THEM TO.

NO DOUBT.

TODD, WE APPRECIATE IT.

WE'LL SEE YOU ON SATURDAY IN MEMORIAL STADIUM.

HEY GUYS.

THANKS.

GOOD TO BE ON WITH YOU.

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WE MENTIONED THE QUARTERBACK AND I BELIEVE IT'S KASTANTIN BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S TIN AT THE END.

UM.

HE HAD 200 YARDS.

I MEAN 300 YARDS EXCUSE ME.

TOTAL OFFENSE.

SO HE ALSO CAN RUN A LITTLE BIT.

HE HAD SOME SACK YARDAGE.

BUT CONCERN ABOUT ANOTHER QUARTERBACK WHO DOESN'T NECESSARILY GET CONSIDERED TO BE A MOBILE QUARTERBACK.

LISTEN IT'S IF THAT WAS THAT CAUSED SOME ISSUES FOR NEBRASKA'S DEFENSE.

WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN SOME STUFF UP, GET THE PASS LANES CLEANED UP, PLAY OFF OF EACH OTHER A LITTLE BETTER.

SO IT'S ANOTHER GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW PROGRESS FOR NEBRASKA'S DEFENSE.

ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

THEY GAVE UP 250 YARDS RUSHING TO A FORMER HAWAII RUNNING BACK.

THE RUNNING BACKS RIGHT NOW THIS WEEK ARE PROBABLY JUST PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT SEEING THE NUMBERS THAT BOWLING GREEN GAVE UP AGAINST TARLETON STATE.

YEAH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT COULD BE FOOL'S GOLD, THOUGH, BECAUSE ONE THING I PLAYED AGAINST EDDIE GEORGE PRETTY MUCH MY WHOLE CAREER, NINE YEARS, IS THAT HE'LL MAKE SURE THAT SHORED UP, YOU KNOW, COMING THIS WEEK.

AND SO YOU CAN ALMOST GO INTO THE GAME EXPECTING A WHOLE BUNCH OF CARRIES AND THEY'LL OVERLOAD THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

YOU WON'T GET ANY YARDS.

SEAN ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WE GOT WAS FROM CODY.

UM, DO YOU EXPECT THIS WEEK IF THEY GET A LEAD AGAIN TO SEE THE BACKUP QUARTERBACKS.

OR DO YOU THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE REPS WITH THE STARTERS TOGETHER?

NO I THINK THEY WILL.

YOU GOT TO REMEMBER LAST WEEK'S GAME WAS A ONE SCORE GAME IN THE FOURTH QUARTER BEFORE IT BROKE OPEN.

AND THE REX GUTHRIE INTERCEPTION WAS KIND OF A SUDDEN CHANGE, AND THEY WANTED THAT TYPE OF SITUATION TO PUT THE OFFENSE IN, IN THE RED ZONE WHERE THEY COULD EXECUTE A DRIVE IN A SUDDEN CHANGE IN THE RED ZONE.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE DAY WOULD HAVE FELT INCOMPLETE IF COLANDREA IN THAT GROUP DIDN'T GET THAT OPPORTUNITY.

AND I KNOW THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE THAT WERE HAPPY ABOUT THAT TOUCHDOWN.

YES.

(LAUGHING) GETTING OVER WASN'T A BAD THING.

UM.

WILLIAM PRIETO VIA A PHONE CALL WITH THE HOT TAKE OF THE WEEK.

HE SAYS HE WANTS RHULE AND THE OC GONE AND WANTS TO RETURN TO TRIPLE OPTION IN THE WAY OSBORNE RAN OFFENSE.

THAT'S NOT HAPPENING.

YEAH, IT'S HARD TO RECRUIT THAT, BECAUSE GUESS WHAT?

NO ONE ELSE REALLY RUNS THAT.

WELL ARMY.

WELL NAVY.

THAT'S ABOUT IT.

YEAH.

I MEAN, JUST IN HIGH SCHOOL, LIKE NOT TOO MANY OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS OTHER THAN MAYBE VERY, VERY SMALL SCHOOLS.

DAVID CITY.

YEAH.

LIKE, IT'S JUST HARD TO RECRUIT THAT BACK IN THE DAY, EVERYONE RAN.

SURE.

WISHBONE IN TEXAS.

AND SO IT WAS EASY TO GET GUYS THERE.

BUT THAT'S THAT'S VERY UNREALISTIC.

YEAH.

THAT HOT TAKE IS NOT A GOOD TAKE I DON'T BELIEVE.

LAST THING REAL QUICK BEFORE WE LET YOU GO IS THERE BEFORE WE GET TO OUR BURNING QUESTIONS.

I MEANT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WAY THAT GAME PLAYED OUT, IS THERE ANY KIND OF LIKE LEFT OVER PHYSICALLY WHEN YOU PLAY THROUGH THAT KIND OF HEAT, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO RECOVER?

IT'S GOING TO TAKE.

LISTEN, THEY GOT ALL THE RESOURCES IN THE WORLD NOW.

BUT YEAH, LISTEN, YOU PROBABLY HAD MAYBE A LITTLE CAREFUL ON ON MONDAY AND THIS AFTERNOON.

BUT THOSE GUYS ARE YOUNG AND THEY PREPARED FOR THAT ALL THROUGH THE SUMMER.

THEY'LL BE.

I DON'T THINK THEY'LL TAKE MUCH TO BOUNCE BACK FROM.

YEAH.

THEY DO A GOOD JOB OF TAKING CARE OF HIM.

I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG THINGS.

COACH RHULE CAME IN.

HE WANTED TO REST AND RECOVERY.

SO I THINK YOU PREPARE FOR IT WELL BEFORE THE GAME.

THAT ALLOWS YOU TO RECOVER EVEN FASTER.

BURNING QUESTION, SEAN.

MY BURNING QUESTION THIS WEEK.

THREE AND OUTS.

CAN NEBRASKA'S DEFENSE GET OFF TO A BETTER START, GET SOME RHYTHM AND ESTABLISH THOSE THREE AND OUTS EARLY IN THIS GAME?

YEAH.

I THINK SO.

I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO COME OUT HOT.

YOU KNOW I THINK THAT THERE WAS A LEARNING LESSON.

SO YOU KNOW THE FIRST WEEK.

AND I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE A LOT MORE AGGRESSIVE.

I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TACKLE WELL.

AND THEY'RE GOING TO REALLY TRY TO PREACH TURNING THE BALL OVER AS WELL.

YEAH AGAIN KEEPING THE QUARTERBACK IN THE POCKET.

POULOS' GOTTA, BOWLING GREEN QUARTERBACK CAN SCRAMBLE.

KEEP THAT GUY IN THE POCKET, LIMIT THOSE THOSE SCRAMBLE YARDS AND WE'LL DO THAT.

BE IN GOOD SHAPE.

IF NEBRASKA HAS TO PUNT, CAN THEIR PUNTER PUNT THE BALL MORE THAN 40 YARDS?

THAT'S THE BURNING QUESTION I HAVE SO FAR.

IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE HE CAN.

DON'T FORGET TO HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK PAGE AND CLICK ON THE PREDICTION.

THE JAYS WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT ON SATURDAY.

NEBRASKA IS LOOKING FOR BIG LEAPS FROM WEEK ONE TO WEEK TWO AS THEY TAKE ON THE FALCONS FROM BOWLING GREEN.

KICKOFF IS SCHEDULED FOR 6 P.M.

CENTRAL THAT NIGHT ON FS1.

NEXT TUESDAY, WE'LL BREAK DOWN THE GAME WITH KETV SPORTS DIRECTOR ANDY KENNEDY.

OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO ADAM CARRIKER AND TODD WALKER FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.

FOR JAY MOORE AND JAY FOREMAN AND SEAN CALLAHAN.

WE'LL CHANGE YOUR NAME TO JAY, SEAN.

I'M MIKE'L SEVERE.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.

L XAVIER.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.