# Husky Honks on QBs, Nebraska, RBs, Schedule: Softy and Dick 10-20 Hour 2

An episode of [Softy & Dick Interviews](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1245866571), 21 Oct 2026, 36 min.

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In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Greg Lewis and Mario Bailey for The Husky Honks as the guys react to UW’s win over Purdue with quarterback Elijah Brown, the future of the quarterback position this season and next year, the defense, the next game against Nebraska after the bye, the running backs available, and schedule ahead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

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[0:47] Speaker 1: Now the Husky Honks, Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey, and your host,
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[0:53] Speaker 3: All righty, here we go on a busy Tuesday. When
[0:57] Speaker 3: you mouth something to me, I don't know what's going on.
[1:00] Speaker 3: Turn your volume up, by the way, on your headphones
[1:02] Speaker 3: underneath there. There's like a little knob, and you turn
[1:04] Speaker 3: it clockwise, and it should turn the volume up.
[1:07] Speaker 4: Really?
[1:08] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:08] Speaker 3: Well, you know, what you could do, Mario, is just
[1:10] Speaker 3: take the headphones off, and you'll be fine. Take the
[1:12] Speaker 3: headphones off for a quick second. Just take them off.
[1:14] Speaker 2: Go ahead. Take them off.
[1:15] Speaker 3: Take them off.
[1:16] Speaker 2: Can you hear me now? Here you go. We're good.
[1:17] Speaker 1: Nice.
[1:18] Speaker 5: What is going on here, man?
[1:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. What is going on? You know. Get
[1:23] Speaker 2: what you pay for.
[1:23] Speaker 3: How many shows have we done here? So you can't
[1:27] Speaker 3: hear anything I'm saying? Not in here. So I could
[1:28] Speaker 3: rip your ass right now and you had no idea.
[1:30] Speaker 5: I hear you.
[1:31] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:32] Speaker 5: I don't hear you in here.
[1:32] Speaker 3: Okay.
[1:33] Speaker 2: Well, then take the headphones off. You know what? You
[1:35] Speaker 2: don't need them.
[1:35] Speaker 3: They're pointless. I mean, we're not taking calls on this show.
[1:38] Speaker 3: We're not playing on... We are going to play some
[1:40] Speaker 3: audio in just a second, by the way. So we
[1:42] Speaker 3: will get some headphones for you. This is a major
[1:44] Speaker 3: market freaking radio station. We can't find a pair of
[1:47] Speaker 3: effing headphones. that Mario can use for God's sakes.
[1:50] Speaker 2: Anyway, how are you? You good? I'm doing great. Greg,
[1:53] Speaker 2: how are you, man? Feeling good? One day at a time.
[1:56] Speaker 2: I don't know about good. Feeling good, Lewis.
[2:00] Speaker 3: I'm feeling good later. Okay, well, let's get to it.
[2:04] Speaker 3: Let's talk about what we saw at Purdue. Obviously, a
[2:07] Speaker 3: big win for Washington because their offense at least looked competent.
[2:11] Speaker 3: against the Boilermakers with a backup quarterback in Elijah Brown. Mario,
[2:15] Speaker 3: did you feel like the offense found something maybe against Purdue?
[2:18] Speaker 3: Or do you shake your head and say, well, that
[2:20] Speaker 3: was the 114th best total defense in America.
[2:24] Speaker 2: Of course, they're going to look good against those guys.
[2:27] Speaker 4: No, I thought we found something. And I said it
[2:30] Speaker 4: after the game. I said we should go with Elijah
[2:33] Speaker 4: Brown off the gate. There should be no question. I
[2:37] Speaker 4: said the only thing that you could say is that
[2:39] Speaker 4: he threw three interceptions, so that leaves the door for DeMond.
[2:42] Speaker 4: But if I'm a receiver on the University of Washington's team,
[2:45] Speaker 4: I want Elijah Brown because he found the playmakers, and
[2:49] Speaker 4: that's what I've been complaining about the entire season, is
[2:52] Speaker 4: get the playmakers the ball. If you look at Desmond
[2:55] Speaker 4: Robach and you look at Chris Lawson, they got the ball.
[2:59] Speaker 4: They both had over 100 total yards in offense. Lost
[3:02] Speaker 4: in receiving. Robach had it for rushing and receiving. There's
[3:06] Speaker 4: no question on who should be starting just based on
[3:09] Speaker 4: a game and a half. I think he should be
[3:11] Speaker 4: the starter, but I understand the dynamics that they're going through.
[3:14] Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Well, let's go with that in a second,
[3:16] Speaker 2: all right? But just, Greg, before you. So you said
[3:18] Speaker 2: the dynamics.
[3:19] Speaker 5: What do you mean?
[3:19] Speaker 2: Like the $ 4 million is going to play a role?
[3:21] Speaker 2: The NIL is going to play a role?
[3:22] Speaker 4: No, I don't think the money plays a role because
[3:24] Speaker 4: the check is cash. But I do believe that there's
[3:27] Speaker 4: a relationship. You brought this young man from Arizona. You
[3:30] Speaker 4: have this relationship with him. And I think you can't
[3:33] Speaker 4: blame him completely for a bad season or a bad start.
[3:38] Speaker 4: And he's been starting. Do you lose your position based
[3:41] Speaker 4: off injury or do you lose your position based on
[3:44] Speaker 4: how somebody's playing? So I think the dynamics are there
[3:47] Speaker 4: for Coach to have an excuse to put DeMond in.
[3:50] Speaker 2: Got it. Greg, go ahead. So back to your original question.
[3:52] Speaker 2: I think it's both.
[3:53] Speaker 6: I mean, I think, yes, Elijah Brown is a better
[3:56] Speaker 6: fit for Jed Fish in the plays that he wants
[3:58] Speaker 6: to call. I think Elijah Brown made Jed Fish a
[4:01] Speaker 6: much better play caller. on Friday, and so that helped
[4:05] Speaker 6: the team. That put the team in a better position
[4:07] Speaker 6: to be able to win. I also think that Purdue
[4:09] Speaker 6: is a terrible defense. I think that this was a
[4:12] Speaker 6: great opportunity to ease Elijah Brown into the starting row,
[4:17] Speaker 6: kind of get a soft landing. You can say anything
[4:19] Speaker 6: you want about what Purdue did the week before against Nebraska,
[4:23] Speaker 6: I'm sorry, against Minnesota. But they are not a really
[4:26] Speaker 6: good football team. They're not really good on defense either.
[4:29] Speaker 6: But having said all of that, I think there was
[4:31] Speaker 6: enough for me that I saw on the progression of
[4:34] Speaker 6: this team, on the fit from the quarterback into the offense,
[4:40] Speaker 6: and how the coach all of a sudden became a
[4:42] Speaker 6: better play caller. I think had DeMond played, it would
[4:46] Speaker 6: have still been a struggle. It would have been a
[4:47] Speaker 6: struggle trying to get him to stay on script to
[4:49] Speaker 6: run Things the way Coach Fish wants him to run
[4:52] Speaker 6: things for him to stay in the pocket and be
[4:54] Speaker 6: calm because I think he's got heavy feet right now.
[4:57] Speaker 6: Whether there's a big pass rush coming or not, he's
[5:00] Speaker 6: moving around too much. He's still unable and incapable of
[5:03] Speaker 6: seeing all of the reads in front of him because of.
[5:06] Speaker 6: the way he looks at things in the offensive line
[5:08] Speaker 6: and his height and all of those. So I think
[5:10] Speaker 6: both things are true. Yes, it was a defense that
[5:13] Speaker 6: we could take advantage of, but I still think Elijah
[5:16] Speaker 6: Brown was a better quarterback to take advantage of that.
[5:18] Speaker 6: And for me, that also means going forward, you're going
[5:20] Speaker 6: to face a Nebraska team in a couple of weeks
[5:23] Speaker 6: that frankly held Oregon to 242 yards of total offense.
[5:26] Speaker 6: It's a good defense. So you got to be at
[5:28] Speaker 6: the max of where you are. As a defense in
[5:31] Speaker 6: order to, I'm sorry, offense to be able to score.
[5:34] Speaker 4: I don't think Oregon has a great offense. I think
[5:36] Speaker 4: their offensive coordinator is struggling. And I do think DeMond
[5:40] Speaker 4: has had a chance against Eastern Washington, Utah State and
[5:43] Speaker 4: Washington State. And those defenses weren't great, and we still
[5:46] Speaker 4: didn't do what Elijah Brown did against Purdue.
[5:48] Speaker 3: All right, well, let's do this because Jackson pulled the audio.
[5:51] Speaker 3: I don't want him working for nothing because he really
[5:53] Speaker 3: hates when he works for nothing. All right.
[5:54] Speaker 2: This is a good clip. It still fits. Let's go
[5:56] Speaker 2: back two weeks ago. We were talking about Elijah Brown.
[5:59] Speaker 3: This is after the, I believe, Minnesota game when we
[6:04] Speaker 3: talked about, hey, not necessarily starting Elijah, but maybe you
[6:07] Speaker 3: give him a series and get him onto the bench
[6:09] Speaker 3: to see things from a different perspective. And this is
[6:12] Speaker 3: what you, Greg Lewis, had to say on that day
[6:14] Speaker 3: when we asked you the question. I got people hitting
[6:16] Speaker 3: me up talking about whether or not we should give
[6:18] Speaker 3: Elijah Brown a couple of drives. Or is that nonsense
[6:21] Speaker 3: to you?
[6:22] Speaker 6: That is nonsense with a capital N to me. I'm
[6:25] Speaker 6: not saying demand is lighting the world on fire.
[6:27] Speaker 2: I'm sure.
[6:28] Speaker 6: He would want his performance to improve. But to all
[6:31] Speaker 6: of a sudden think that you're going to go to
[6:33] Speaker 6: the guy who gets less reps in practice, the guy
[6:36] Speaker 6: who has played major college football in a lesser division
[6:41] Speaker 6: and not had success is all of a sudden going
[6:44] Speaker 6: to come in here and take over this team and
[6:47] Speaker 6: be able to do something that he hasn't. you know,
[6:50] Speaker 6: had the opportunity to prepare to do day in and
[6:53] Speaker 6: day out. I don't think he's right.
[6:54] Speaker 2: Okay. You feel differently now?
[6:56] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[6:56] Speaker 2: Sounds like you do. Yeah.
[6:58] Speaker 6: I don't know.
[6:59] Speaker 2: I mean, he went out and played well. So what
[7:01] Speaker 2: do you want me to say?
[7:02] Speaker 6: You know, Mike, I don't think anything I said there,
[7:05] Speaker 6: then I would take back because there are many times
[7:07] Speaker 6: a backup quarterback comes in and doesn't do well.
[7:09] Speaker 3: Right.
[7:09] Speaker 6: Because he's just the next best thing because the guy
[7:11] Speaker 6: who's in front of him isn't playing well. And there
[7:13] Speaker 6: wasn't any evidence in front of that of him playing
[7:17] Speaker 6: the last couple of weeks that said he's going to
[7:19] Speaker 6: come in and do well. So there was no evidence
[7:20] Speaker 6: of that. Now he's come in and he's played and
[7:23] Speaker 6: I've seen it with my own eyes and I think
[7:24] Speaker 6: he's a better fit. I think the biggest thing, though,
[7:27] Speaker 6: to me really is, is he makes Jed Fish more comfortable.
[7:31] Speaker 6: Jed Fish believes that Elijah Brown will do what he
[7:35] Speaker 6: asks him to do in this offense, which is to
[7:38] Speaker 6: stand in there, look downfield, go from your first to
[7:41] Speaker 6: your second to your third read and not get off script.
[7:44] Speaker 6: DeMond Williams, that's his best attribute is getting off script.
[7:47] Speaker 6: And Jed Fish, I think you can see it, is
[7:49] Speaker 6: driving him crazy. I mean, you can see Jed Fish's
[7:52] Speaker 6: frustration when DeMond gets sacked or the fumble happens or
[7:56] Speaker 6: he gets out of the pocket too soon or he
[7:58] Speaker 6: misses the read. And so for him, Elijah Brown gives
[8:01] Speaker 6: him the ability to get back in his bag and say,
[8:03] Speaker 6: all right, this is the type of quarterback I want
[8:06] Speaker 6: to call plays for.
[8:07] Speaker 2: Because Elijah Brown's not going to take off running. You
[8:08] Speaker 2: know why?
[8:09] Speaker 5: No.
[8:09] Speaker 2: Because he can't.
[8:10] Speaker 5: Right.
[8:10] Speaker 2: He's not very good at that.
[8:11] Speaker 5: Right.
[8:11] Speaker 6: So he's going to stand in there and he'll take
[8:13] Speaker 6: the hit if he has to. And he doesn't have
[8:15] Speaker 6: heavy feet because guess what?
[8:16] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[8:16] Speaker 3: He hasn't been sacked 18 times over the last three weeks.
[8:18] Speaker 3: So you would both start him at Nebraska?
[8:21] Speaker 2: Absolutely. Is that what I'm saying?
[8:22] Speaker 5: Without question.
[8:23] Speaker 3: Okay, what do you think he does? What do you
[8:25] Speaker 3: think Jed does? That's a tougher question.
[8:29] Speaker 6: And the reason I say that is Jed Fish is
[8:32] Speaker 6: just sometimes a different kind of guy. But ultimately, I
[8:35] Speaker 6: think he will end up starting Elijah is what I
[8:38] Speaker 6: think will happen. Now, I've gone on record and said this.
[8:41] Speaker 6: Because I think I heard kind of some whispers. He said,
[8:44] Speaker 6: I'm going to give him both reps and.
[8:45] Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah.
[8:46] Speaker 3: Which you can do this week because you're not playing.
[8:48] Speaker 3: You can do that this week because you're not playing.
[8:51] Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
[8:51] Speaker 2: Again, that's just me.
[8:53] Speaker 6: The reason being because I just believe so much in preparation.
[8:56] Speaker 6: To me, preparation is the best thing you can do.
[8:59] Speaker 6: And if Elijah Brown has only gotten starter reps for
[9:02] Speaker 6: one week this whole season, I'm going to get him
[9:04] Speaker 6: as many reps as I can over the next two weeks.
[9:06] Speaker 2: I get it. To be ultimately prepared.
[9:07] Speaker 3: Yes.
[9:08] Speaker 2: I get because they have a bye.
[9:09] Speaker 6: You can tinker with it maybe Monday, Tuesday, or however
[9:12] Speaker 6: your practice schedule is. But I would be getting the
[9:15] Speaker 6: guy who I want to play prepared. And to me,
[9:18] Speaker 6: based on what kind of offense you want to run, Coach,
[9:21] Speaker 6: I'm going with Elijah. You've seen DeMond for a year
[9:24] Speaker 6: and a half.
[9:24] Speaker 3: 21 games.
[9:25] Speaker 2: And even a little more than that.
[9:27] Speaker 5: Well, I told you, as a receiver.
[9:30] Speaker 4: I'm going with Elijah Brown because the receivers want him
[9:34] Speaker 4: to be in there. They're not going to say it publicly,
[9:36] Speaker 4: and you can do what you want behind closed doors.
[9:38] Speaker 4: But those receivers got the ball, and they got it
[9:41] Speaker 4: the entire game. They look like a great receiving corpse.
[9:45] Speaker 4: They look like some great playmakers. The thing about Coach Fish,
[9:49] Speaker 4: Greg said he's in his bag. He shocked me a
[9:51] Speaker 4: little bit because he got the playmakers the ball. Even
[9:54] Speaker 4: if it was DeMond, he put Desmond Robach in the backfield.
[9:58] Speaker 4: He got five rushes. He got the playmakers touches. And
[10:02] Speaker 4: that's all I've been complaining about the entire season is
[10:05] Speaker 4: offensive coordinator figures out ways to get the players different touches.
[10:09] Speaker 4: He figured out a different way besides it being Elijah
[10:12] Speaker 4: Brown throwing it to him. He got Roebuck the ball
[10:14] Speaker 4: in different capacities. He even put the running backs out.
[10:19] Speaker 2: Wide.
[10:20] Speaker 4: He put Desmond in the running back spot.
[10:24] Speaker 5: He moved them around.
[10:25] Speaker 4: Besides being in his bag, he moved the playmakers around
[10:28] Speaker 4: and figured out different ways to get on the ball.
[10:29] Speaker 2: Part of the Roebuck thing was out of necessity.
[10:31] Speaker 5: Let's be honest.
[10:32] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[10:32] Speaker 2: Because you lost. You could have thought of that earlier.
[10:35] Speaker 1: Right.
[10:36] Speaker 2: Well, OK.
[10:36] Speaker 5: Besides them getting hurt.
[10:38] Speaker 3: They absolutely could have used him in that role earlier
[10:42] Speaker 3: in the year. I'm saying it happened because Bonner and
[10:45] Speaker 3: Cooley both got hurt. And who knows what Cooley's availability
[10:49] Speaker 3: is going to be for the game against Nebraska. You
[10:51] Speaker 3: may see more of Roebuck. You may see more Chris Lawson,
[10:54] Speaker 3: Cade Eldridge all carried the ball because those guys both
[10:58] Speaker 3: got banged up. But again, I agree with it to you.
[11:02] Speaker 3: I would start Elijah Brown. I think DeMond Williams' days
[11:05] Speaker 3: as a Husky quarterback are not necessarily over, but they're
[11:08] Speaker 3: certainly numbered.
[11:09] Speaker 2: I do not see him back here next year. I
[11:11] Speaker 2: don't know what your take is on that, Greg.
[11:13] Speaker 3: And I think that if you want to keep this
[11:15] Speaker 3: locker room together– I mean, you tell me, what kind
[11:18] Speaker 3: of reaction would there be? You think of Jed Fish
[11:20] Speaker 3: went back to DeMond Williams. Would that have been a
[11:22] Speaker 3: problem in a locker room like yours back in the day?
[11:24] Speaker 6: I don't think if Coach James did it, it wouldn't
[11:26] Speaker 6: be a problem. We don't have an opinion other than
[11:28] Speaker 6: what Coach James is doing. And he's going to make
[11:31] Speaker 6: the call and we're just going to fall in line.
[11:33] Speaker 2: So that's simple. Whatever he says is the right thing. Man,
[11:35] Speaker 2: I'll say this. And we said this in the postgame.
[11:38] Speaker 6: I know you were, you know, on the plane, probably
[11:40] Speaker 6: with the team on your way, eating your what a
[11:41] Speaker 6: kind of a sandwich they gave you guys after the
[11:43] Speaker 6: game and weren't listening to us.
[11:45] Speaker 2: I was listening to you on the bus, by the way,
[11:47] Speaker 2: driving back to Indy.
[11:49] Speaker 6: I said something that probably could never happen. But me,
[11:53] Speaker 6: I'm going to Demond Williams. And I'm not going to
[11:56] Speaker 6: say this, but I'm thinking as a coaching staff, we
[11:58] Speaker 6: invested $ 4 million in this guy. He's still one of
[12:00] Speaker 6: the best athletes, not only on this team, but in
[12:03] Speaker 6: college football. So I'm going to find a way, even
[12:06] Speaker 6: if I move him out of the quarterback starting role,
[12:08] Speaker 6: to have a role on this team to benefit us.
[12:12] Speaker 6: And maybe that's a Wildcat quarterback type of situation, a
[12:16] Speaker 6: short yardage or goal line, something where he can contribute. Now,
[12:20] Speaker 6: a kid like DeMond, he's got to put his ego aside.
[12:23] Speaker 6: He's the starting quarterback, but I still have a role.
[12:26] Speaker 6: I still want to help this team win football games.
[12:28] Speaker 6: That's what I would be doing right now if I'm
[12:30] Speaker 6: the coaching staff with DeMar Williams.
[12:32] Speaker 3: By the way, just for the record, I don't know
[12:34] Speaker 3: if you heard me say this on the air Friday.
[12:36] Speaker 3: He was there. He was dressed. He's dressed five guys
[12:40] Speaker 3: before the game. And during the entire game, he was phenomenal.
[12:45] Speaker 3: He was sitting there watching tape with Elijah, pouring over
[12:47] Speaker 3: the iPad. He was rooting guys on when they would
[12:50] Speaker 3: make a great play. He was among the first Mario
[12:52] Speaker 3: on the field to greet the guys as they came
[12:54] Speaker 3: off the field. If you thought there was going to
[12:57] Speaker 3: be a sulking type thing, I saw none of that
[13:00] Speaker 3: from DeMond Williams.
[13:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's absolutely perfect. That's what he should be.
[13:04] Speaker 4: He's a captain of the team, and he's part of
[13:06] Speaker 4: this team. And like I said, the check is cash. Like,
[13:09] Speaker 4: this young man should be doing that. He has four
[13:11] Speaker 4: billion reasons to root for these guys. Yeah, but, you know,
[13:14] Speaker 4: he could choose the other route, but I'm happy and
[13:17] Speaker 4: proud that that's how he chose to do. And, you know,
[13:20] Speaker 4: one thing I see about Coach Fish is he's a
[13:22] Speaker 4: loyal guy as we watch. Like, he's the guy that
[13:26] Speaker 4: Coach James would take Greg out if he needed 1,000
[13:30] Speaker 4: yards and he had 980. He's still going to take
[13:32] Speaker 4: Greg out and tell him to sit over here.
[13:34] Speaker 5: Same with me.
[13:35] Speaker 4: Coach James, you know, Coach Fish, if a guy can
[13:38] Speaker 4: get four touchdowns, break a record, he's going to put
[13:40] Speaker 4: him in. If a guy can play and get an
[13:43] Speaker 4: incentive or something, Coach Fish is going to do it.
[13:45] Speaker 4: So he's been a loyal guy to his players. And
[13:48] Speaker 4: that's why I think he's going to have a very
[13:50] Speaker 4: tough time. Not putting DeMond in this game.
[13:53] Speaker 3: Do you think if they had been going to Elijah
[13:56] Speaker 3: Brown earlier, which is easy now to say, right? I mean,
[14:00] Speaker 3: there was no reason, no sense of any reason to
[14:03] Speaker 3: go to Elijah Brown three, four weeks ago.
[14:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was saying.
[14:07] Speaker 3: Five games for this thing to kind of fall apart
[14:09] Speaker 3: where they said, okay, enough is enough, obviously. And really
[14:11] Speaker 3: what it took is DeMond getting hurt. If he hadn't
[14:14] Speaker 3: hurt his ribs, who knows? He may have started him, Greg,
[14:16] Speaker 3: against Purdue and kept the whole thing going. But have
[14:19] Speaker 3: you seen enough out of him to think that just
[14:21] Speaker 3: maybe in some alternate universe, if they were playing him.
[14:25] Speaker 2: Earlier, they may have won a game or two that
[14:28] Speaker 2: they lost.
[14:28] Speaker 6: Yeah, because I don't look at the teams that we've
[14:31] Speaker 6: lost in so far and go, oh, my God, those
[14:33] Speaker 6: are world beaters. Those are teams that we absolutely could
[14:35] Speaker 6: not beat if we played better football. Hell, we could
[14:37] Speaker 6: have won some of those games with DeMond Williams in
[14:40] Speaker 6: the game had we played better all around. So I
[14:43] Speaker 6: certainly think Elijah Brown could have helped us. win some games.
[14:46] Speaker 6: But that's all folly. That's, you know, water under the bridge. That's,
[14:49] Speaker 6: you know, things have already happened. Playing that what-if game
[14:52] Speaker 6: isn't going to do anybody any good.
[14:53] Speaker 5: Right.
[14:53] Speaker 3: And here's the thing about the Purdue game, guys. They actually,
[14:56] Speaker 3: they should have kicked their ass. I mean, they had, what,
[14:59] Speaker 3: 13 points. that were scored off turnovers.
[15:02] Speaker 2: Five turnovers. They get the ball at the 19, Husky 19.
[15:06] Speaker 3: After a pick, the 40 after a pick, the 10
[15:08] Speaker 3: after the ball went off Dylan Robinson's foot on the
[15:11] Speaker 3: kick return, and they score an easy touchdown there.
[15:14] Speaker 2: I mean, the defense really only gave up two drives.
[15:16] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[15:17] Speaker 3: In the game, they had an 8-play 87-yard drive and
[15:19] Speaker 3: a 7-play 75-yard drive, and that was it. And then Ejiboy,
[15:23] Speaker 3: who went bananas against Minnesota the week before, bucked 95,
[15:27] Speaker 3: had 13 carries and 19 yards. They were the way
[15:30] Speaker 3: better team with a backup quarterback on Friday night.
[15:32] Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought Purdue gave up on the run game,
[15:35] Speaker 4: but it's just like us. We started out early on them.
[15:38] Speaker 4: We did give up five turnovers, but we started out early,
[15:41] Speaker 4: and they abandoned the run. I thought our defense gave
[15:44] Speaker 4: up a few too many big plays. Like they might've
[15:47] Speaker 4: gave up four 50 yard plays or something, a couple
[15:49] Speaker 4: of 40 yards and a couple of 50 yards. But
[15:51] Speaker 4: other than that, the defense played well. If you turn
[15:54] Speaker 4: over the ball five times, you're supposed to lose every time.
[15:56] Speaker 1: Right.
[15:57] Speaker 6: Which is why I said at the beginning when you
[15:59] Speaker 6: asked the first question, was this Elijah Brown and the
[16:01] Speaker 6: Huskies playing great or Purdue being a bad football team?
[16:04] Speaker 2: I said it's both.
[16:05] Speaker 6: Because when you actually get five turnovers in your favor
[16:08] Speaker 6: at home, you are supposed to win. Only a bad
[16:11] Speaker 6: team can turn five turnovers, plus four or five or
[16:15] Speaker 6: whatever they were in the turnover battle at home into
[16:16] Speaker 6: a loss.
[16:17] Speaker 4: Only a bad team does that. But I will say
[16:18] Speaker 4: this for Elijah. Like, we said Iowa... tapered off or
[16:24] Speaker 4: they weren't coming at him as well in the second
[16:27] Speaker 4: half yeah and we're saying Purdue's a horrible defense now
[16:30] Speaker 4: if he goes and does it against Nebraska right are
[16:32] Speaker 4: we going to continue to say no not at all.
[16:34] Speaker 6: But I said both Mario I did say I think
[16:36] Speaker 6: you're right credit.
[16:37] Speaker 3: Well because guys we've seen the Husky offense struggle against
[16:41] Speaker 3: bad defenses Absolutely.
[16:43] Speaker 2: Did you not watch the Apple Cup? Absolutely.
[16:45] Speaker 1: Right?
[16:45] Speaker 2: Utah State.
[16:46] Speaker 1: Right.
[16:47] Speaker 3: I mean, the Cougs are 103rd in the country. Utah
[16:50] Speaker 3: State's 76th. And we look terrible against those guys. So
[16:54] Speaker 3: I don't think we're in any position to be picky
[16:57] Speaker 3: about who we're playing right now as long as we're
[16:59] Speaker 3: playing well. They needed to look competent on offense, at
[17:03] Speaker 3: least competent, and they did that.
[17:05] Speaker 2: 100%. This is my only caution, Softie. is, yes, we
[17:09] Speaker 2: play better. We look better.
[17:10] Speaker 6: I give Elijah Brown credit. You are not going to
[17:12] Speaker 6: beat Nebraska or any other good football team turning the
[17:14] Speaker 6: ball over five times.
[17:15] Speaker 2: No question.
[17:16] Speaker 6: You will not. And so my only thing is, yes,
[17:18] Speaker 6: we play better. We got to play better than that
[17:21] Speaker 6: because the competition we played against this week was not
[17:23] Speaker 6: what we're going to see. all the way through the
[17:25] Speaker 6: rest of the season. We may have two games where
[17:27] Speaker 6: we might have more talent than the other team the
[17:29] Speaker 6: rest of the way.
[17:29] Speaker 3: Well, you're going from a team that was 94th against
[17:32] Speaker 3: the run to a team that's 23rd, a team that
[17:34] Speaker 3: was 114th total defense to a team that's 11th in Nebraska.
[17:38] Speaker 3: So this is a totally different animal. So, I mean,
[17:41] Speaker 3: what we haven't talked about yet is the running game.
[17:44] Speaker 3: I mean, they look competent. Again, did you see anything?
[17:48] Speaker 3: Your boy Trey Cooley, who you said game of his life.
[17:51] Speaker 3: You were done with two weeks ago.
[17:53] Speaker 2: He says, suck on that, Greg. Are you kidding me?
[17:56] Speaker 6: Hey, you know what they say? A broken clock is
[17:59] Speaker 6: right twice a day.
[18:00] Speaker 2: Guy goes out and plays his balls off on Friday night.
[18:03] Speaker 2: And I appreciate it. I'm glad. And I hope he
[18:05] Speaker 2: heard what I said. He may have. And that motivated him.
[18:08] Speaker 2: Because if that's the case, Trey Cooley, you're terrible. I
[18:11] Speaker 2: can't stand it.
[18:12] Speaker 3: No.
[18:12] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[18:13] Speaker 6: I'm proud of that young man. I'm happy for him.
[18:16] Speaker 2: But... Having said that, he was one of them five turnovers,
[18:20] Speaker 2: wasn't he?
[18:20] Speaker 5: He didn't end it.
[18:22] Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Hold that thought. We'll get more on that.
[18:25] Speaker 3: Did the Huskies find a run game that we believe
[18:27] Speaker 3: can maybe show itself against Purdue? And you're 4-3. How
[18:31] Speaker 3: do we see the rest of this thing going? Nebraska, Saturday, Halloween,
[18:34] Speaker 3: bye this week. Both teams have a bye, actually. Nebraska
[18:37] Speaker 3: and the Huskies. So we'll get to all that and more.
[18:40] Speaker 3: How about this defense, man, too? We've got to talk
[18:42] Speaker 3: about the defense a little bit. I mean, that Iowa game...
[18:44] Speaker 3: The further we get away from it just looks like
[18:47] Speaker 3: more of an outlier on that Friday night, right?
[18:49] Speaker 2: Guys against the Hawkeyes. Get to all that and more.
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[19:23] Speaker 2: Bonner, quick toss right side.
[19:25] Speaker 3: He's gone to the 10 and into the end zone.
[19:29] Speaker 2: Down the right side, it is.
[19:32] Speaker 3: Bonner with the catch for the touchdown.
[19:35] Speaker 2: His first as a Husky.
[19:38] Speaker 3: It is a 25-yard reception for the true freshman Brian Bonner.
[19:43] Speaker 2: All right, we are back.
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[19:54] Speaker 3: Does anybody want to do a defensive player of the game,
[19:56] Speaker 3: by the way, from the game on Friday night?
[20:00] Speaker 2: Against Purdue. Defense played pretty damn good, right?
[20:02] Speaker 3: I mean, you held a guy in Egypt, boy, who
[20:04] Speaker 3: went for a buck 95 against Minnesota to 13 carries
[20:07] Speaker 3: for 19 yards and about half of Purdue's points, Greg,
[20:11] Speaker 3: came off turnovers by the Huskies that gave the Boilermakers
[20:13] Speaker 3: good field position.
[20:15] Speaker 2: So how about the way the defense played, man, on Friday? Yeah,
[20:18] Speaker 2: I thought they played pretty well as a unit.
[20:20] Speaker 6: I think we are continuing to see that our coach,
[20:23] Speaker 6: Ryan Walters, is a good game planner, a good scheme guy.
[20:26] Speaker 2: He gets guys right there at the point.
[20:29] Speaker 6: Of attack Now, we still have struggled a little bit
[20:31] Speaker 6: with missed tackles, and I think that's where the big
[20:33] Speaker 6: plays that Mario talked about really come from, guys that
[20:37] Speaker 6: should have been tackled. Maybe it's a 10-yard gain or
[20:40] Speaker 6: a 12-yard gain, but we allowed it to be a
[20:41] Speaker 6: 40-yard gain, and unfortunately for us, that still happens. But overall,
[20:45] Speaker 6: the defense played much better. When you take a guy
[20:47] Speaker 6: who the last week went for 195, you hold him
[20:49] Speaker 6: at 13.
[20:50] Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain too much about that.
[20:52] Speaker 6: I'm going to give them credit for being good and
[20:55] Speaker 6: playing a good game plan. We just got to tackle
[20:57] Speaker 6: a little bit better.
[20:58] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[20:59] Speaker 3: I like Jaron Jones. The pick that he had on
[21:00] Speaker 3: the sideline was right in front of me. For a
[21:02] Speaker 3: freshman to make a play like that, that was pretty impressive.
[21:05] Speaker 4: He's a bad man. We're going to see him. He's
[21:07] Speaker 4: going to be one of our playmakers of the future.
[21:09] Speaker 4: I think every time he gets a chance, he makes
[21:11] Speaker 4: a few plays. But if we're talking about defensive player,
[21:14] Speaker 4: I think we went with Dillard Allen. A little bit
[21:17] Speaker 4: of everywhere. The team played great. And when you get
[21:20] Speaker 4: three sacks and a couple turnovers, that makes the difference.
[21:23] Speaker 6: And the thing I loved about him is we talk
[21:25] Speaker 6: about him being one of those guys who can go
[21:28] Speaker 6: over the edge. He played right up to the edge
[21:30] Speaker 6: this game. He was, you know, aggressive. He was, you know, emotional.
[21:34] Speaker 6: But he didn't allow it to carry over and cause
[21:36] Speaker 6: him to create a 15-yard penalty.
[21:38] Speaker 2: And he made some big plays for the Hawks. Okay,
[21:40] Speaker 2: so if I would have told you.
[21:42] Speaker 3: that Minnesota ran for 27 yards on Purdue a week
[21:46] Speaker 3: and a half ago, that same defense that shut down
[21:50] Speaker 3: Minnesota's rushing attack would allow the Huskies in their vaunted
[21:54] Speaker 3: running game to go for $ 1.
[21:56] Speaker 2: 86. Would you have bought that? No! For any part
[22:00] Speaker 2: of you that would.
[22:01] Speaker 3: Have seen Washington coming close to running for 200 yards
[22:04] Speaker 3: in any game this year, Greg Lewis?
[22:06] Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
[22:07] Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just going to be honest. And this
[22:10] Speaker 6: to me, I still need to go back and watch
[22:12] Speaker 6: that game against Minnesota. Just actually see what they did
[22:16] Speaker 6: in order to shut them down because I didn't see
[22:18] Speaker 6: that coming. And I can be honest with you. I
[22:22] Speaker 6: think our offensive line played their best game of the
[22:24] Speaker 6: year by far. I mean, it's not even close. I
[22:27] Speaker 6: think maybe having Landon Hatchett back for his second game,
[22:30] Speaker 6: take him off the.
[22:31] Speaker 2: Pitch count a little bit. He's a little less rusty.
[22:34] Speaker 6: Some guys probably looking themselves in the mirror over the
[22:37] Speaker 6: last week and saying, hey, we got to step up.
[22:39] Speaker 2: We got to play better.
[22:40] Speaker 6: And I think sometimes when the backup quarterback comes in,
[22:44] Speaker 6: And we know he's not an elusive guy. The offensive
[22:47] Speaker 6: line's like, I got to hold my block a little longer.
[22:49] Speaker 6: I got to be a little better. I think the
[22:51] Speaker 6: level of play from our offensive line, and we talk
[22:55] Speaker 6: about gut check time and having some pride and all
[22:57] Speaker 6: of that. To me, the offensive line in particular stepped
[23:02] Speaker 6: up and had some pride. And that bowled well because
[23:05] Speaker 6: your running backs are never going to have a good
[23:06] Speaker 6: game unless your offensive line plays well.
[23:08] Speaker 4: I think it's one of those things where I keep saying, like,
[23:11] Speaker 4: we got an early start. We didn't have to throw
[23:13] Speaker 4: the ball 40 times. We could intentionally run the ball
[23:17] Speaker 4: because we got it out ahead. The last few games,
[23:19] Speaker 4: we're getting our butts kicked. And so we're going to
[23:21] Speaker 4: have to pass it. And once we're passing 40 and
[23:23] Speaker 4: 50 times a game, we're most likely going to lose.
[23:26] Speaker 4: But I think Elijah Brown passed like 27 times between
[23:29] Speaker 4: Bonner and Greg's favorite guy. I think they got 20 carries.
[23:34] Speaker 4: Add Desmond Robox, five carries. That's perfect for us, and
[23:38] Speaker 4: that's what a great offense can do.
[23:40] Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking at the continued matchups for me.
[23:43] Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys agree or not. As
[23:46] Speaker 3: the year goes by, it's going to be what can
[23:47] Speaker 3: our offense do against the opposing team's defense.
[23:50] Speaker 1: Sure.
[23:50] Speaker 2: Okay, because you feel good about the defense for the
[23:52] Speaker 2: most part. For the most part.
[23:53] Speaker 3: They're going to show up and keep you in the game.
[23:55] Speaker 3: I mean, the Iowa game, like I said to the break,
[23:56] Speaker 3: kind of feels like a sore thumb right now. A
[23:58] Speaker 3: little bit of an outlier, right?
[24:00] Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
[24:01] Speaker 6: And when I look at the offenses that we play,
[24:03] Speaker 6: the teams that we play, I think, are built around big, strong,
[24:05] Speaker 6: solid defenses.
[24:06] Speaker 2: They're not necessarily offensive juggernauts.
[24:09] Speaker 1: Right.
[24:09] Speaker 6: Indiana's playing well, right? They're playing well, but they still
[24:13] Speaker 6: aren't scoring 30 and 40 points a game. So you
[24:16] Speaker 6: can still be in that game if your defense is
[24:18] Speaker 6: playing well. Mario talked about he's not really that impressed
[24:21] Speaker 6: with Oregon's offense and their play calling. So your defense
[24:24] Speaker 6: plays well. They keep you in these football games.
[24:26] Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking at a Nebraska defense, and we talked
[24:29] Speaker 3: about this earlier, that is 16th in scoring, 11th in
[24:33] Speaker 3: total D, 23rd against the run, 21st in sacks, and
[24:38] Speaker 3: they are No. 1 in the country on third down defense. 19%
[24:43] Speaker 3: on third down. Who have they played besides Oregon? Okay,
[24:48] Speaker 3: would you like to know Nebraska's schedule?
[24:49] Speaker 2: They played Indiana. They played Oregon. Those two I know.
[24:54] Speaker 5: Okay.
[24:55] Speaker 3: Here's who Nebraska's played. You want to go down that
[24:57] Speaker 3: road and start nitpicking, that's fine.
[24:58] Speaker 2: Yes.
[24:59] Speaker 3: Nebraska has played, blah, blah, blah, bringing their schedule up
[25:02] Speaker 3: right now. Talk amongst yourselves. Ohio, not Ohio State, Bowling Green,
[25:06] Speaker 3: North Dakota, Michigan State, Maryland, but then Indiana, Oregon. They
[25:10] Speaker 3: held Indiana to 20 and the Ducks to 17.
[25:12] Speaker 6: They played well the last two weeks, though, Mario. I've
[25:15] Speaker 6: watched them play the last couple of weeks. I was
[25:18] Speaker 6: impressed with them when I saw the Indiana game. So
[25:21] Speaker 6: I've kind of been paying attention to them a little bit. And,
[25:23] Speaker 6: you know, they used to have the old thing, the
[25:25] Speaker 6: black shirts, where their defense was really strong and good
[25:27] Speaker 6: and they played tough. They're looking kind of like that.
[25:29] Speaker 6: They're trying to rebuild the reputation of Nebraska football around
[25:33] Speaker 6: a strong, tough, stingy defense. And right now their defense
[25:35] Speaker 6: looks good. It's going to take everything we can over
[25:38] Speaker 6: these next two weeks. That's why I'm like, get your
[25:41] Speaker 6: starting quarterback chosen right now. Right. And give him every
[25:43] Speaker 6: rep you can get to prepare him to play against
[25:45] Speaker 6: these guys. Those other five teams you named. But everybody's
[25:49] Speaker 6: got that kind of schedule, though.
[25:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, they are.
[25:51] Speaker 3: And I would feel like you do if they hadn't
[25:53] Speaker 3: played Indiana and Oregon. And they played very well against
[25:56] Speaker 3: those guys. I mean, here's going to be a major
[25:57] Speaker 3: factor in this game, obviously, as you're talking about a
[26:00] Speaker 3: team in Washington that played Purdue a week ago. It
[26:03] Speaker 3: was 4 of 7 on third down, so pretty good
[26:05] Speaker 3: on third down.
[26:05] Speaker 2: A lot better. But they're still 117th in the country.
[26:07] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[26:08] Speaker 5: Got a lot of making up to do.
[26:09] Speaker 3: Against the number one third down percentage defense in college football.
[26:14] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough.
[26:15] Speaker 3: Right?
[26:15] Speaker 2: Hey, we better move the chains on second down.
[26:17] Speaker 3: You better win the game 6-3.
[26:20] Speaker 2: First and second down, move the heck out the football.
[26:22] Speaker 4: It's going to come down again until I keep saying
[26:24] Speaker 4: it's how we start. If we start off and they're
[26:27] Speaker 4: coming at us. It's going to be a long day.
[26:29] Speaker 3: Let's get a break, come back, and wrap it up
[26:31] Speaker 3: more with the Husky Honks. Revisit the quarterback situation again.
[26:35] Speaker 3: The wide receivers kind of went off. Did you see somebody, Mario,
[26:38] Speaker 3: that you really liked in that game on Friday night? And,
[26:41] Speaker 3: you know, how do we kind of foresee the rest
[26:44] Speaker 3: of the year going? You have five games, and there's
[26:46] Speaker 3: winnable games, right, on that schedule, including Penn State coming here,
[26:50] Speaker 3: Michigan State going there. Who knows what Oregon's quarterback situation
[26:53] Speaker 3: is going to look like as the year goes by.
[26:55] Speaker 3: Get to all that with Greg and Mario next on
[26:57] Speaker 3: 93.3 KJR FM.
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[27:23] Speaker 2: Ball on the right hash. Brown takes the shotgun snap.
[27:25] Speaker 2: Hands off to Cooley. A big hole to the 40,
[27:28] Speaker 2: to the 30. He might be gone, and he is.
[27:33] Speaker 1: Trey Cooley down the sideline.
[27:36] Speaker 2: A 53-yard touchdown, and the Dogs take a two-score lead.
[27:41] Speaker 3: Telling you, man, does anybody here remember Joe Cooley back
[27:45] Speaker 3: in the day?
[27:46] Speaker 2: Joe Cooley. Of course, man. I remember Joe Cooley.
[27:48] Speaker 3: Joe Cooley, man. Trey Joe Cooley. Running down the field,
[27:52] Speaker 3: flipping off Greg Lewis. Suck on that, old man.
[27:56] Speaker 2: You like that? But now he's hurt. He's got the shoulder.
[27:58] Speaker 3: So if Brian Bonner is your only real healthy back
[28:02] Speaker 3: for the game against Nebraska, I mean, Riken Moon got
[28:06] Speaker 3: some time out there.
[28:07] Speaker 2: Young Moon, yeah.
[28:07] Speaker 3: He played, who knows about Lamar and Quade Carr and
[28:11] Speaker 3: Jordan Washington, I would say probably not yet, right? Maybe
[28:14] Speaker 3: late November, mid-November potentially. But what's your plan at running
[28:18] Speaker 3: back if Brian Bonner is the only healthy guy you got?
[28:20] Speaker 2: Desmond Robot. I mean, literally, that's where you're at.
[28:24] Speaker 6: But, you know, like I said, where's a package that
[28:27] Speaker 6: you bring DeMond Williams in where he's running the ball
[28:30] Speaker 6: more than he's throwing the ball? And I know that
[28:32] Speaker 6: sounds a little far-fetched or whatever, but Once you get desperate,
[28:36] Speaker 6: you've got to start doing it. I've never seen a
[28:37] Speaker 6: team that has one healthy running back. I mean, think
[28:40] Speaker 6: about it. You have, what, six scholarship running backs, and
[28:43] Speaker 6: now you have one healthy scholarship?
[28:44] Speaker 2: They only had three dressed for the game.
[28:46] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[28:46] Speaker 2: Where's Ansu Sano? Where's he at? He was hurt. He's hurt, too?
[28:49] Speaker 6: Yeah, hurt.
[28:49] Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
[28:50] Speaker 2: He was hurt Friday.
[28:51] Speaker 3: Yeah, hurt.
[28:52] Speaker 2: So you got one healthy out of six or seven guys.
[28:54] Speaker 6: Yes.
[28:54] Speaker 2: So you got to start doing desperate.
[28:56] Speaker 6: I mean, literally, you got to start doing desperate things.
[28:58] Speaker 2: Ryken Moon is like your seventh guy.
[29:00] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[29:00] Speaker 2: And he made the trip on Friday because he had to.
[29:03] Speaker 3: Yeah. So if you're DeMond and they come to you
[29:05] Speaker 3: and they say, hey, we need you to get in
[29:07] Speaker 3: there and carry the ball, do you do it?
[29:08] Speaker 5: Yes, no different.
[29:09] Speaker 2: In this day and age, does he say yes?
[29:11] Speaker 5: Well, we talked about this on the post-game show.
[29:13] Speaker 4: It's one of those things where are you doing everything
[29:16] Speaker 4: it takes for this team to win? Are you one
[29:19] Speaker 4: of these guys that has to be quarterback for the
[29:21] Speaker 4: rest of your life? Right now, we're trying to win
[29:23] Speaker 4: some games and prepare for the future and get us
[29:26] Speaker 4: to a bowl game. I think DeMond's supposed to do
[29:28] Speaker 4: whatever it takes, whether that's cheerleading on the sideline, whether
[29:32] Speaker 4: that's being a running back, whether it's being option, whatever
[29:34] Speaker 4: we can. DeMond is our best athlete on the entire team.
[29:38] Speaker 4: So we should figure out where... to get him the ball.
[29:41] Speaker 4: If we don't start him, we got to figure out
[29:42] Speaker 4: ways to get this young man the ball.
[29:44] Speaker 2: I mean, you start building that package right now. You
[29:46] Speaker 2: got two weeks, right?
[29:47] Speaker 6: We talk about, you know, having this bye week and
[29:49] Speaker 6: an opportunity to do something different. If I got one
[29:52] Speaker 6: running back, I am doing something different.
[29:54] Speaker 2: You know why?
[29:55] Speaker 6: One running back going up against one of the top
[29:57] Speaker 6: defenses in the country, there's a chance that at some
[30:00] Speaker 6: point during the game, he gets nicked up, he gets
[30:03] Speaker 6: banged up and maybe have to come out for a
[30:04] Speaker 6: couple of series or plays. So you got to have
[30:07] Speaker 6: another package. And I think what it does when you
[30:11] Speaker 6: bring DeMond Williams out there in that kind of role,
[30:13] Speaker 6: and Nebraska hasn't seen you do that, it makes them
[30:16] Speaker 6: now have to scramble and figure out what they're going
[30:17] Speaker 6: to do.
[30:18] Speaker 2: So I would be working on that right now.
[30:19] Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to figure out what Nebraska does poorly
[30:22] Speaker 3: on defense, and I'm not seeing it. 16th in scoring,
[30:25] Speaker 3: 11th in total D, 23rd against the run, 21st in sacks, No.
[30:28] Speaker 3: 1 on third down, 22nd in pass D. I did
[30:32] Speaker 3: find two things they don't do very well. They get
[30:35] Speaker 3: called for more flags than almost anybody in college football.
[30:38] Speaker 2: Even us. Even us.
[30:40] Speaker 3: We are actually ranked ahead of them. We are 119th
[30:44] Speaker 3: in penalty yards. They're 122nd.
[30:46] Speaker 2: So let's push them. Yes, push their buttons.
[30:50] Speaker 3: They're 127th in penalties in college football. I'll tell you
[30:54] Speaker 3: what else Nebraska doesn't do very well. They piss away
[30:57] Speaker 3: fourth quarter leads like nobody's business. Have you guys seen
[31:00] Speaker 3: this stat, by the way? Since 2018, no team in
[31:05] Speaker 3: college football has blown more fourth quarter leads than Nebraska.
[31:08] Speaker 2: Nobody.
[31:09] Speaker 3: They've done it 18 times. Now you say, well, how
[31:11] Speaker 3: much of that was with Matt Rule? Okay, Rule's done
[31:13] Speaker 3: it eight times since he's been there.
[31:16] Speaker 2: Since 2023.
[31:16] Speaker 3: Two this year against Indiana and Oregon. They blow more
[31:21] Speaker 3: fourth quarter leads than anybody in college football. And that's
[31:24] Speaker 3: got to get in your head. Like if this is
[31:26] Speaker 3: a close game, Greg, late in the fourth quarter. You're
[31:29] Speaker 3: telling me that those guys aren't thinking about that? Yeah,
[31:32] Speaker 3: I mean, losing can be habitual as well. You get
[31:36] Speaker 3: into situations where we always do something wrong at this stage,
[31:40] Speaker 3: and then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where you're expecting
[31:43] Speaker 3: something bad to happen, and then it does. Their defense
[31:47] Speaker 3: had held Oregon to six points, Softie, six points going
[31:50] Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter.
[31:51] Speaker 6: Yes, and then they went to the former Cornhusker, Rayola.
[31:54] Speaker 6: And then Rayola comes in and makes some plays. But
[31:56] Speaker 6: having said that, You give up, what, how many points
[31:59] Speaker 6: do you give up?
[31:59] Speaker 3: 17?
[32:00] Speaker 6: You should still win a football game in today's day
[32:02] Speaker 6: and age of college football when you only give.
[32:04] Speaker 2: Up 17 points.
[32:05] Speaker 3: Yeah, you should win a game in the NFL like
[32:07] Speaker 3: the Thursday night game against Denver when your team plays
[32:09] Speaker 3: like that. Go Broncos.
[32:10] Speaker 5: Right?
[32:10] Speaker 2: Come on, man.
[32:11] Speaker 3: Well, they got a kid named Calandria, Anthony Calandria. I
[32:14] Speaker 3: don't know if you guys have seen this guy play.
[32:16] Speaker 3: He's got almost 2,000 total yards already. He's got 18 touchdowns.
[32:20] Speaker 3: He runs, he throws, he catches, he does the whole thing.
[32:22] Speaker 3: And they haven't really changed at all. The old school,
[32:26] Speaker 3: they've got three backs. They've got a fullback, whatever. Joe McEvicka,
[32:30] Speaker 3: remember back in the day? They've got three guys that
[32:34] Speaker 3: can all go for 300 yards or more so far
[32:37] Speaker 3: on the season. So they're going to spread it out.
[32:39] Speaker 3: But I just wonder what we think this thing's going
[32:41] Speaker 3: to look like. Like I mentioned, there's winnable games. And
[32:43] Speaker 3: you held up two fingers. And I know exactly what
[32:46] Speaker 3: you're talking about. Michigan State and Penn State, right? Nebraska,
[32:49] Speaker 3: they'll be an underdog. Indiana, they'll be an underdog, and Oregon,
[32:54] Speaker 3: they'll be an underdog.
[32:55] Speaker 6: I say that they'll be an underdog, and there's two
[32:58] Speaker 6: games where we, on paper, should be... I don't know
[33:01] Speaker 6: if we'll be favored, but we should be right there.
[33:03] Speaker 5: I think only one.
[33:05] Speaker 2: Well, I think Penn State and Michigan State.
[33:08] Speaker 3: Penn State's not very good. Penn State's not very good
[33:11] Speaker 3: at all. But I do think there's a chance we
[33:14] Speaker 3: could win down in Nebraska. It's not likely.
[33:18] Speaker 6: It's not, you know, I think any kind of, you know,
[33:21] Speaker 6: easy game for us or anything like that.
[33:22] Speaker 2: But I think there's a shot because of what you
[33:24] Speaker 2: just talked about.
[33:25] Speaker 6: And I still think Nebraska has some struggles offensively, and
[33:28] Speaker 6: we're going to be in the football game.
[33:30] Speaker 2: So if you're in the game, that's all you need, right?
[33:32] Speaker 2: You just got to make a play or two.
[33:33] Speaker 6: So that's a game that you could win when you're
[33:37] Speaker 6: looking at the schedule. The Indiana game is going to
[33:40] Speaker 6: be tough. I mean, their defense, I saw them play
[33:42] Speaker 6: Ohio State. And I'll tell you what, I think Indiana's
[33:46] Speaker 6: backup quarterback is better than their starting quarterback. They actually
[33:50] Speaker 6: got better offensively when their starting quarterback got hurt.
[33:53] Speaker 4: Ohio State's in trouble, by the way. I think Ohio
[33:55] Speaker 4: State's backup quarterback is.
[33:57] Speaker 6: No, he's terrible. Did you not see what happened? They
[33:59] Speaker 6: could not complete a pass when he came in the game.
[34:02] Speaker 6: He was absolutely horrible.
[34:03] Speaker 4: I think their starting quarterback underthrows Jeremiah Smith every time.
[34:07] Speaker 6: That's great, but their backup quarterback could not complete a
[34:09] Speaker 6: screen pass. He underthrew a running back screen pass. It
[34:13] Speaker 6: went to his feet. So I'm not worried about those guys.
[34:16] Speaker 6: But anyway, my point was this. I think the two
[34:19] Speaker 6: teams that we played down the stretch at the end,
[34:21] Speaker 6: even Oregon and Indiana, their offenses aren't as explosive as
[34:25] Speaker 6: some of the other best teams in the country.
[34:26] Speaker 3: So with that, you always got a shot. Likely, no. Again,
[34:31] Speaker 3: the continued question, what is Elijah Brown?
[34:33] Speaker 2: What is he?
[34:34] Speaker 1: Right?
[34:34] Speaker 3: We keep growing, getting better. Can he do this against
[34:37] Speaker 3: better teams? Can they run the ball against better teams?
[34:40] Speaker 3: I would doubt that. Not with one running back left.
[34:43] Speaker 4: You can run the ball if you get up a lead,
[34:46] Speaker 4: start ahead.
[34:47] Speaker 2: She had fish.
[34:48] Speaker 3: She had Elijah Brown throw the ball 32 times in
[34:50] Speaker 3: the second half against Iowa. Maybe he just says to
[34:53] Speaker 3: hell with it and comes out and starts bombs away in.
[34:55] Speaker 2: The final five games of the year.
[34:56] Speaker 5: Only 27 last week.
[34:57] Speaker 2: Yeah, because you ran the ball. But can you run
[34:59] Speaker 2: the ball against Nebraska? Get the lead. They played Purdue.
[35:03] Speaker 2: This ain't Nebraska. This is Purdue. And they're freaking awful.
[35:07] Speaker 5: Come out on top on Nebraska.
[35:08] Speaker 2: It's going to be a different type of scenario this week.
[35:10] Speaker 1: No doubt.
[35:11] Speaker 5: I think we have a different team now.
[35:13] Speaker 3: Did you see a receiver that you loved outside of Roebuck?
[35:15] Speaker 3: I mean, you're a Lawson guy. You still have a
[35:17] Speaker 3: Lawson wagon. I've been telling you the entire season. Get
[35:20] Speaker 3: the man the ball. Look at the last few weeks.
[35:21] Speaker 4: I think he's got close to 200 yards and like 17,
[35:25] Speaker 4: 18 catches.
[35:26] Speaker 1: Right.
[35:27] Speaker 2: Okay.
[35:27] Speaker 3: Well, why don't you take next week off because there's
[35:29] Speaker 3: a bye. Unless you really miss me that bad and
[35:31] Speaker 3: you want to swing on it.
[35:32] Speaker 2: Do we still get paid?
[35:33] Speaker 3: Nope.
[35:36] Speaker 5: Give me my money, man. Give me my money.
[35:39] Speaker 2: Pay me my money, man.
[35:40] Speaker 3: Pay me my money.
[35:41] Speaker 2: Where's my money, man? All right, good stuff. And we'll
[35:43] Speaker 2: talk to you guys in, I guess, what, 11 days?
[35:46] Speaker 2: We'll be in Lincoln. You guys will be back here
[35:48] Speaker 2: doing God knows what. But I'll be out there in Lincoln.
[35:50] Speaker 2: You'll be here. So I'll see you. I won't see
[35:52] Speaker 2: you guys for like two and a half weeks. That
[35:55] Speaker 2: is sad, man. Just sad. Yeah, we're real broken up
[35:58] Speaker 2: about that. John Wilner will join next on 93.3 KJR FM.
[36:01] Speaker 3: Go Dawgs.

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