2023 Week One Review: Gophers Beat Nebraska, Big Ten West, Coach Prime!

Burnsie, Chip and Gaardsy give their thoughts a few days after the Gophers walk-off win over Nebraska, reviewing a great defensive effort and what the thought of the offensive struggles. They also review the weekend for the Big Ten West, react to a big debut for Coach Prime at Colorado and outline why chain gangs around the country need to be on notice!

Episode Transcript

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Glenn Mason sent a long time agoat the University of Minnesota. Need a
Pair and a spare? Yes,thank you, pej. Welcome to the
week one edition post week one editionof the Parent a Spare Podcast. Justin
Guard from the Fan, Chips Scogginsfrom the Star Tribune, Ryan Burns go
for Illustrated dot Com. We're presentthis as always by our great friends at
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doing? Are we all? Good? Week one college football in the books?
How'd everybody hold up? Great?We gotta watch a lot of football
this weekend? You did? I'mflying soul blind on football. I will
be throwing everything your way. AndI was really enjoying all the texts you
guys were sending about all the games, and I had no idea what was
going on on any of them.So Chips the Psychopath, we went to

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the fair in one hundred degree.I didn't do that. I just it
was that doesn't even seem I gotthere early, though, and by about
one thirty is like, I gottago, we gotta go. I'm ready
to go to the house. Yeah, it was hot, and he had
college football to walk and had collegefootball to watch. So we will.
We've got a lot to get totoday. If you remember how we roll
on this podcast, we spend alot of time on the Gophers, and

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then we try to pop around theBig Ten as much as we possibly can,
certainly the Big Ten West, whichwe will do today. We will
get to the Iowa game, wewill get to the Wisconsin game, and
we will talk a little national stuffas well as we wind up here in
about an hour. So it feelslike forever ago. I know ye that
the Gophers played Nebraska. It didnot look good. It looked bleak,

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it looked dire, it was allof those things. And then Nebraska did
what Nebraska does, allowed an opportunityfor the Gophers to walk through that door
and essentially steal the game. Gophersbeen thirteen to ten, walk off they're
dragons with a forty five yard fieldgoal, Gay special teams burns and Serbian
hammer comes through. They walk offwith a one. They are one and

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oh in the Nebraska championship season.And it wasn't pretty chipper, but they
got over the finish line. Now, and you know, it was very
u uneven offensively obviously, But Ihaven't watched a lot of college football this
weekend. I saw a lot ofthat. I saw a lot of first
game rust, first game nerves,first game clunkiness. But if you're but

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if you're PJ and the Gophers,I think you have to be happy with
the way obviously they finished in thatwhen they needed to play, their big
time players stepped up and did it. Whether it's Tyler Nubin justin Wally that
we could talk about the catch andwhich is just absurd in that moment fourth

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down to do a scissor kick andget one foot down. I don't know,
it's so unnatural that is that becauseyou normally see that, you know
their feet together and they're dragon.Never do you see the legs flay of
knowing where you are, but youknow, uh, for them to really

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not perform well offensively to come throughand make those plays at the end,
I think you have to be happyat that. When you look at Bill
Conley, who runs ESPNS like advancedAnalytic department for college football, Minnesota had
the lowest post win expectancy if youjust look at the stats and the advanced
dance. I told Chipper what thepercentage was. Do you know what Minnesota's

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post game win percentage was? Ifthat game is played one hundred times and
the only thing you know is thestats, how many times does Bill connley
stats have them winning that game twice? Six percent of the time, lowest
in less than one of all Powerfive teams in college football. But that's
the way it went, and that'skind of been the story of PJ Flex

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versus Nebraska now first five game winningstreet for Minesota over Nebraska since nineteen forty
five to nineteen forty nine. Imean, I even think back to last
year, Flex down ten nothing athalftime, it looks bleak finds a way
to win the game. Yeah,it's interesting. PJ said after the game
that you could notice how much harderthey played for Mett rule, And you

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know, that's a nice shot atthe previous staff. But I don't know
if that's the case. I don'tknow how much better they're going to be
this year. That's the that's ashot the other guy. Yes, Now,
I will say the quarterback is veryathletic. Horrible pastor. He's an
NFL caliber athlete and then just abovea high school level pastor. Yeah,

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his decision making those interceptions were justterrible. But you know, credit Newban.
He made great plays on those balls. That's why you want an All
American to come back. I mean, sometimes you need your best players to
bail you out, and you nailedit in the open. I think that's
exactly what happened. You need yourbest players sometimes to make plays. I
mean that's what happened in twenty nineteen. Winfield. You know, we think

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about the plays that he made tosave a game. I hope people start
to think of Tyler Newban in twentytwenty three. Antoine Winfield was thought of
in that twenty nineteen season, becauseI think they're gonna go in a very
similar spot in the draft. Yeah, and you can see that they play
a center field like no other.It mean to think about Winfield, he
had that flair for dramatic right Wheneverthere was a play to be made,

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Bam he made it. Seems likeYeah, and you wonder if if Newban's
going to have that type of year. I mean based off the first game,
I mean they needed those plays andhe came through and me and the
thing that I was really impressed withtwo is like you see him flying down
there on kick coverage and just layingout and making a tackle. This is
your best player, you know,doing that, So that I give him

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a lot of respect for not justthat game, but just how he how
he plays, or even justin Walllymissing most of the third quarter going into
the fourth comes back after I couldn'tfind him on the on the sidelines once
he went down. Well, hewas in the tent for like an hour,
I know, and I'm like,I'm telling he's still him in there.
I'm looking around him like or isit somebody else? Did I miss

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something here? I'm just standing.So he'd been in the tent for like
fifteen minutes and I started to lookat people around me in the press box
and say, I wonder if wesee Justin Wally playing another snap this year.
I think that was strategy fresh,keep him fresh from But did he
go into the tunnel into locker room. I don't think I'm walking. I
saw walking away from the tent.He maybe he was in the tent for
everything, may have because I thinksomething else happened that took me away from

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the texts at some point. Ican't just stand at the tent for a
few If it's Athan like, I'llstay there, or if it was Mo,
I would stay there. I loveJustin Wally, but there's a game
going on too, and so Iknow there was some shuffling and there was
some discussion because there was somebody elsein there as well at some point now
I can't remember who it was offthe top of my head, And there

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was some shuffling about getting somebody somewhere, So that might I'll be honest,
that may have been Wally, maynot have been. Might have been an
ivy situation, because it seems likeit was cramps obviously. Yeah, So
I don't know, but he wasin there for ever. I'm serious,
like fifteen twenty minutes of real time, and you're thinking yourself, this is
the last we've seen him. Andthen he comes back onto the field third

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play of the drive that he's missedafter most of the second half. Yep,
it makes that play, goes PeanutTillman on the bit yep Aiden Gooseby
falls on it, and they getit again. They don't win that game
without it. Games over. Imean the game might be over if Nebraska
gets one more first down there.Yeah, And they had like a ninety
four percent win probability after they gota first down in Minnesota territory with five
minutes left, they're up. Atouchdown can essentially bleed the clock, and

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that's what they were trying to do. And then Justin Wallly does what he
does. Yeah. I mean,obviously a lot of respect for Joe Rossi
and just the new guys that wereout there. Like a lot of times
you're like, who is this?You give up ten points and seven on
them, We're on the most discombobulatedtouchdown and bank stadium and you lose.
I would say you're second best player. Yeah. Before the game, I

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mean, your whole lineback and corpshad never played a significant snap of big
ten football. Garius Green starts andplays a Howden never had really played a
significant snap. Trayvon Jones leads theteam and tackles has a key interception in
the in the in the end zonethere. Yep, yeah, that's just
what Joe Rossi does. Man,It's just essentially a brand new back seven

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outside of Uban and they yet pressurethey got. Yeah, yeah, we
were going to start offense, butlet's just keep the defense going. I
mean, the they special teams didn'thelp the Gophers. We'll talk about that.
But I think about the drive wherethey ran into the punter after the
Gophers got a sack, the twosacks defense, right, I think they
got another one in that drive orthey just got them off the field.

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And that stretch like that is asneaky to me. There's two sequences that
are sneaky. Is the end ofthe half where Nebraska completely melts down,
false starts and all of that stuff. I still can't believe the way that
I'd ever seen something like that.Somebody explain, I still don't know.
I don't understand. Again, usin the press box, we don't know
what Dean Blandino was saying. Yeah, I don't know Fox, but I've

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never seen and I didn't watch itback yet, Like they ran a play
or they tried to run a play, but it's a false start, but
then there was a time out andthen they get to review it something that
already had happened. I think theyreviewed the previous play because I'll be honest
live, I thought it was atouchdown with the dude reaching his arm out
that got him to the one beforethey fall started. I was like,
man, that looked like now I'mfifteen yards back, so I'm not like

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right on the goal line all thetime. It looked like a touchdown to
me. What's funny is that apenalty on them, Like a penalty on
you shouldn't allow you to go backand review another play. Yeah, exactly.
That to me is a little shiftyand a little shady of just how
that's even possible, and it probablydoesn't come up because if you think about
it's like, hey, we thinkhe got in, but we ran out
of challenge. It's false start,we're fall starting, and then they're gonna

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have to look at well. Ifyou watch the Clemson game last night,
there was a weird one in thatone too. Was there where quarterback scrambles,
he slid short of the the themarker as he's sliding, the duke
player targets him and hits him.But they called it dead when he slid.

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So it was on fourth down.So so Clemson was a change of
position. The position doesn't get theautomatic first down. They back up duke
fifteen years. Yeah, it wasweird. They call you. They said
it wasn't it was. That wasa weird one. I didn't understand that,
but I didn't understand Nebraska's hole whenyou don't have the passing quarterback,

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just take points. The problem too, is the dude was the other dude?
Did you see Matt Yeah, afterthat play, Well, he's probably
looking at his offensive coordinator and going, you wanted us to get rid of
the other guy, to bring thisdude in thinking you're looking at your five
year old after like you told himnot to do something. Yeah, and
then you just kind of tilt thehead down, raise the eyebrow, like
what did we just talk about?Wow, you know parenting very well.

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He's got it, he's got itready. Yeah, he must. He
must have got that look from timeto time for them to think they had
seven to then not having seven tothe worst case there, you just get
three points before the end of thehalf to then Jeff Simms throws it right
to Trayvon Jones. I mean,obviously a huge sequence. Yeah, and
if you're Nebraska, you're thinking,man, we could have scored on the
way in and on the way outbecause of obviously the long kick return and

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then the trick play that the Gophersjust stopped playing on. Essentially that,
I mean, that's what they're probablyand now they get to go They were
thinking, hey, we'll go toColorado a week one with d that we'll
have a good chance. And thenthey're like, oh, yeah, okay,
that was Dad's home opener. Nowafter they beat TCU, like,
good luck, buddy. Some peoplewere talking about, do you know what
the spread is on that game?I'm guessing Colorado's double digit favorites, right,

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Colorado minus three and a half.Really, well, that's good.
The Vegas isn't buying all the hypebecause I'm guessing the money's gonna come pounding
in on Colorado because everybody's in onPrime, which we'll talk about in a
minute. All right, it's defense, anything else we want to cover.
It was another great. It wasa necessary, needed performance on a night
where the offense was showed some goodthings and then didn't. I don't think

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it helped them. They were startingevery drive at the eighteen yard line.
We'll get on we'll get into thatin a minute. But the biggest takeaway
I had offensively, guys is moIbraham is no longer a part of this
offense. And that's what they've gotto figure out in terms of who what
these backs can do well. Andyou know, two points something in yards
per carry. Point it was,that's gonna be tough. They threw a

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forty four times, and good forPJ for saying we have to because we
can't run, so we've got tothrow the ball tonight. What's the polar
opposite of what we see? Unbelievable? You know, if you're talking about
biggest concerns as a takeaway, obviouslythe run game, I mean two point
two yards per carry and fifty fiveyards total is not going to win many

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big think games. I mean,we all love Ethan and his skill,
and we think he's gonna be ayou know, a nice quarterback. Tech
That was your column after the gamewas, Yeah, but uh got to
give him some simblans of a runninggame because you don't want to have to
have that blueprint again. I mean, that's just not and I don't know

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how do you dramatically improve that burnsyI don't know. Well. I think
the thing they're kind of at leastexpressing publicly and even privately in some instances
is they didn't know how Nebraska wasessentially going to throw the three three five
at them and I could buy that, and they didn't block it incredibly well.
I think some guys, especially onthe interior, struggle in their first

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career start in a Big Ten game. But they've got to figure out how
to what does Sean Tyler do reallywell? Right? And I think that's
where you saw a Minnesota put encounterfor the first time that I can remember,
in the fleck eras you're used toinside outside zone now seeing a couple
of guys poll I think that kindof suits with Sean Tyler does well.
But Sean Tyler is also the onlyrunning back that forced to mistackle. That's

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an issue considering that Moe Ibrahim wasthe second best in college football and yards
after contact most mistackles Forrest was him, and you may have heard of the
other guy, bi Jean Robinson,who ended up being a top ten overall
draft pick. Is that's the thingI want to see this week. You
have actual game tape on Chris Crayton'sEastern Michigan team. It's a MAC team.

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You should be able to run theball efficiently, because that was the
number one takeaway, whether pass game, run game, whatever it may be.
Yep, they were so incredibly inefficient. I mean, Ethan had forty
four pass attempts in like one hundredand sixty passing yards. Well, if
you if you have four yards perpass attempt, that's horrible. I mean,
that's just horrible. Well we cantalk about him not throwing that.

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They didn't take deep jots really untilthe just Dean with Daniel just a couple
Jackson, But how many times didhe have to bail him out on third
and eight? A lot? Andthat was the other takeaway. I had
his third and six, third andseven last four years like that was they
were running the or Moe was gonnaget nine yards. I mean to have

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it. That's that was my positivetakeaways. Like I like the fact that
they have a guy that you're thirdand long you're not like daunted by anymore,
at least I'm not. I feellike because their third down percentage was
still pretty good, sir. Hehad a like an average down and distance
on third down of like seven pointnine yards. That's that's probably not sustainable.
That is for sure, not susothat he showed he could do it

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a little bit. And I thinkhe had six of them were passes,
two were runs, and he ranfor two first sounds on third long.
But yeah, it's it's I mean, you talked about why there was only
six percent chance they'd win. Itis because there was so there's so much.
Everything was just second and eight,third and nine, third and seven,
and when you can't run the ball, I mean that's where you saw
in the fourth quarter. They justcompletely abandoned the run they had. That's

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what and that's why people said,you know, what do you think about
Ethan? I thought I thought heplayed really well too. He made he
made one bad throw that led tointersection. There was another one where he
was the whole thing skipped one outthere. Those two throws I thought were
only two that were like poor throws, saying, but when you look at
what he converted on third down andyou had no running game and you're asking
him in is what fifth start tothrow? Forty four times? I thought

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the kid played well one hundred percentagree and the number of The thing I'll
emphasize is this is the first game. And my favorite story about first games
ever that I relay all the timeto people, and I've related it to
you, guys, is the twentynineteen opener against South Dakota State when they
don't win that game, if SouthDakota State doesn't fumble in their own territory
in the fourth quartermind you, Andon that Friday afternoon, Chipscoggins came to

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the KFA and booth at at theMinnesota State Fair and looked at me and
said, what the hell was that? I said, it was game one,
Like all of this stuff has aright to improve. All this is
the starting point. There's a lotof guys that are in there, as
you said, Bernsey, for thefirst time, Like I think about just
my time when I was at theUniversity of Iowa, the Iowa Hawkeyes won
the Big Ten championship and looked awfulfor the month of September. Right coach

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well, coach programs, I thinkyou'll agree this is a well coach program.
Have the right to improve from weekto week to week to week,
and that's what I think they willdo. Now. We got a lot
of stuff that they can clean upclearly, especially offensively. But when people,
yeah, what did you think ofeighth thing? I thought he played
great. I mean to me,five drops. Yeah, there was a
couple of child I mean the wholeeighth and kelic Man has experience for this

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year was perfect. Examples those twoplays back. It's right where I was
going. I mean, he's rollingto his right side. Arn slings it
like Brett falling over the yards theCRuMs right on the sidelines, right right
in my frame of reference, andlike on a dime, just perfect,
and you're like whoa. And thenyou could tell I'm greem Greek rifle.

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Like then Greek Rifle's like I gotanother one in me here and he slings
it out there and it's picked.Like that's what we're gonna have to deal
with a little bit. I thinkit's great. Throw to Okay, I'm
feeling myself. No, I gottafigure out what throws I can it cannot
make. But you saw there werethere were moments like first half, the
guy breaks through U unblocked to hisright, he has to take off run

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at automatically, and he throws thatdark on the run off one foot to
spencer along their sidelines. Is abig time throw, exactly right. I
mean that's a big time throw.Now, is he gonna have the occasional
you know, interception? We're like, oh, yeah, he's still a
sophomore. Yeah, but I Ithought, you know, they have no

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running game whatsoever, and then justcompletely abandoned at the end, either because
they couldn't run it or because ofthe score. I thought he handled himself
really well. Burnsley, do youthink the lack of vertical throws was because
of the way Nebraska's defense was wasbecause of protection? No, they want
to be more explosive, I cantell you well. Fleck finally came out
and said after the game, becauseI asked him, I go, I'm

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tired of asking you who's calling theplays? Can you just say it?
He's like, all right, yeah, I wrote him a letter before the
game. But it's Greig Harbow,which makes sense. He wrote he wrote
him a letter to say he'll neverforget The night before the game, Okay,
you're Greg. You're calling like TaylorSwift and the John Mayer song that

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play here at US Bank Stadium.Look that Greg, what the guy's gonna
sing to day? But here weare. I don't know how to come
back. No we can't. Idon't think we can. But they want
to be more explosive, and Ithink they will be more explosive. I
just think that the scheme from thatNebraska was saying was hey, beet us

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in front of us. That's whatI thought, because when you can't run
the ball, you're just gonna stickguys back in coverage because you don't have
to bring an extra guy or two. You have to account for that.
But that I kept there as agame went on. I was like,
I kept thinking about that Wisconsin gameplan where they took shots. I'm like,
man, they're just not really doingit. It's all yeah, short
to intermediate, and that's why youhave different four point four yards. If

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they're not more explosive this weekend againstEastern Michigan, I mean, I'll obviously
be concerned. If they can't runthe ball efficiently, that's the biggest thing.
Figure it out. I mean,what would be the bar to clear
for you guys, the running backsgot a average over what yards per carry
on Saturday four. Yeah, doubledouble what you did here, double what
you did here, and just haveI mean, your longest run of the

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night was the last one, andwhich was randomly important, that was you
know, that was the best runof the night. It was eleven yards
I think or fourteen yards. Crazyand then they only had I think their
longest play was twenty yards two times. Yeah, longest run was left,
yes, eleven yards eleven is thatit is interesting that after all the talk
about Quinn Carroll moving in the guard. Oh, you should have heard me

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in the press box. I wasjust lamenting. I've spent so much time.
Yeah, I was just like,are you kidding me? Showing me
tax and doing all these things,and yeah, I was bad. I
mean we saw him play right guardthe entire spring, saw him play majority
of the time at right guard andfall camp, and then they just is
that they get to the end ofthe camp said we don't trust where we're

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at, we don't trust the othertackles and pass bros. So given them
a month. We've given them amonth. Well, it was interesting to
hear flexa yesterday he was asked areyou gonna roll at the same offensive line
combo when he said, we're evaluatingthat, we got four guys we feel
really good about and then guard we'llfigure it out. And I'm thinking to
myself, which guard spot is aleft guard? It's a right guard.
I'm not incredibly not incredibly sure,but I wonder if we see someone like

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Carter Shaw, that Utah straight transferout there or prior lakes own the true
freshman Greg Johnson against Eastern Michigan atsome point, because clearly he's not happy
with at least one of the guards. Yeah, to wrap up the eighth
in conversation to make I'd said it, I think was it the Daniel Jackson
throw or whatever. I'm trying toremember exactly the sequence like as well as

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I thought he played like the Ithink exciting part is you could tell he
wasn't on all, Like there werea couple throws even like you go back
to you used to learn a changeup the fastball from you to me away
here. Yeah, I think you'restill lamp at the times for sure.
And also that's why he was overthrowingguys like on the one Daniel Jackson.

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I mean, they could have hadan easier touchdown on second down. I
think it was where Jackson caught it, but it was out of bounds because
he had to die for it.Like if he just gets a little more
under that, it's a walk intouchdown. And we're not even talking about
the fourth down play, and eventhe fourth down throw. I thought that
had no chance it will was overthrown. I mean, because I know you'd
kind of get it over that guythat Jackson just completely walked on, which

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was unbelievable, and that crazy great. It's nice when you have Fox and
they have one hundred and seventy twocameras, so like everybody has their own
the Daniel Jackson cam on that.I mean, that poor dude. I
bet I know you're mad about theNebraska injury report. I bet he's on
with a broken ankle for this weekbecause that was But if if that's a
little better throw, there's no we'renot even talking about the Michael Jordan esque,

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you know, extending your right leg, because that's an easier touchdown.
He was just a tad off ona couple of those throws, and then
we might be talking about even theDaniel Jackson one that could have been a
past interference. It probably should havebeen like if that's a little bit better
throw to the outside, that's probablya walk in touchdown too. Yeah,
that's the exciting part. I thinkif you're a goal for exactly he was
a hair off on something and you'reright, I mean, I think the

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touch will come as he kind ofsettles in. You could tell he was
amped up, and yeah he hadthe Nolan Ryan fastball going on. Yeah,
those ones which from five yards,but I think Bryce Williams catching that
one and then having to turn aroundbecause he wasn't completely turned around yet,
that was That was humming. Thatwas humming. But the thing is is
like you see this guy, andyou see the armed talent, and you

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know, once he gets experienced andonce he starts to figure things out more
and gets more comfortable, he's gonnabe able to do things that you know,
in no offense to Tanner, butthat we're listening, that we just
hadn't seen in a while, right, I mean, he's you know,
we've talked about it, you wroteabout it on Saturday or Thursday night,
I suppose is I mean, thiskid's got a chance to be really good,

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and that'll come with experience, That'llcome with a lot of different things.
Would you say it was a fifthor six career start? First one
is quote unquote the guy, especiallyfor this offense. I think again,
take out some those drops, takeaway the throwaway as you got like an
adjusted completion percentage in the sixties,which for a guy this first start of

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here for a couple weeks from nowto go to dinner and whether it's brunch,
whether it's dinner, the people thereare what make it. The food
is exceptional, but the people thereis what it's going to give you a
great experience. And my lovely wifehas a birthday today. Ooh, where

(25:52):
do you think we're going? Well, I'm hoping it's Jack's Cafe. This
is a really bad commercial. Yeah, it's a really bad commercial. Yeah
that's good because they're parking, becauseyou know you're gonna have peace of mind
that you're making food menu parking foodand a menu. It's a great place.
Whether it's brunched like Burns, hesaid, whether it's birthday dinners like

(26:14):
chipset, or you just want tohang out before any Golden Gopher athletic event.
J a x cafe dot com.All right, let's pivot then,
because he said, that's all Ineed. I think for Ethan Kelly k
mannis it was interesting that Dragon kessachuntil the Special Teams Player of the week.
He should be, I would thinkwith a walk off and one touchback

(26:37):
because when the Gophers needed to kickit out of the end zone they finally
did. They definitely took advantage ortried to take advantage of matt rule,
saying publicly a week ago, Hey, by the way, we're not doing
the fair catch thing, so ifyou kick it to the five, we're
taking it out because football is meantto be played, so we're not going
to take the easy fair catch.So the Gophers, my assumption and trying

(27:00):
to get sneaky, said well,well then we're gonna kick it to you
at the five, and if you'relike our return team, you're gonna get
tackled at the eighteen. Ye Unfortunatelyfor the go Fers and the Golfer defense
didn't burn him completely, but itcould have because the sixty three it worked
the first couple of times, guys, and then the sixty three yard kickoff
return to start the second half putNebraska in position to do the trick play

(27:21):
take the lead like a minute intothe second half. Thank goodness for dragging
Cassage kicking the game winning field goal, and then everybody having the smarts to
just kick the ball out of theend zone. I hope they do that
the rest of the season. There'sno reason not to. Let's not get
cute. But it was another disappointingday for the group. That PJ said
he was really excited about leading intothe preseason. Yeah, I mean you

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had the punt that was nice early. I mean it got a good boy.
You started on the right foot literallyand figuratively with a fifty two yard
punt that goes to the one youended the game on the left foot of
kessage which one either game, andthen everything in between was awful. Yeah,
you know, the the returns orlack thereof, and the field position

(28:06):
just was I mean cost yourself eighteenyards of field position starting in the same
spot it did because they did.Yeah, they literally started at the exact
same thing he's found in the table. The more things changed, it's just
the more this thing this time,even that kickoff return, it's not like
it was some incredible dn't do likea reverse for the right Yeah, and

(28:30):
two guys who were supposed to haveoutside contained got caught cheating in the backfield
and then their eyes and then youhave the you know, the roughing the
punter which get pulled into it.I don't care he didn't get pulled in
enough. He trucks the up man. Yeah, just I know, just
for seven years it shouldn't have beenroughing. It should have been running in

(28:52):
which is it doesn't matter either way. We're seven years into and Matt rules
in Game one year one. Well, we've been their special teams, you
know, and we all know Nebraskaspecial teams the last few years have been
horrible. Yeah yeah, And youtell me year seven versus Game one,
Year one one on Thursday night.Who helped their team win the game?

(29:14):
Nebraska because the field. The fieldposition to me was the most annoying thing.
It's like, just at some point, just take the fair catcher,
like you're not popping one. Iget why you want to, but they're
they're clearly pretty well sound. Theyare funneling you right to the side and
you are going nowhere. The thingI was gonna bring up with the punt
those in seven years, I don'tthink I've ever seen a Gopher special teams

(29:36):
guy ever that close to a punterbecause they've never tried to do anything like
that. And I'm like, that'sthe time, like fourth and two,
get this great defensive series, Yeahyou got too. Maybe that's what they're
thinking, Hey, this we're rollinghere defensively, let's try to change it
up a little bit. And obviouslyit didn't end up hurting them, but
you just added to the list ofthat's what we came up with. That

(29:56):
was it was disappointing. But tome, it's the it's the return,
I mean, the lack of returnswhere it's like that has to improve.
Obviously, I'm not breaking the news, and it is week one, obviously,
But whereas you have a ton ofcredit, you have a ton of
faith in Joe Rossi figuring it out, you can't say the same about the
special teams because it's just been athing for too long. As our poor

(30:18):
guy Ryan Burns knows all too well. I'm so tired of talking. How
many people do you think? BecauseI think of you every single time.
I'm so hated in certain sections withinthat building. I believe that, Yeah,
I believe like even all the wives, well that's who always hates everybody
more. I mean, that's justthat's the nature of the business. Yeah,
send that quote. Yeah after oneof them might have been the first

(30:45):
one. Yeah, I was there, do guys. Yeah, I said,
send me that quote that PJ headuh huh, because I and all
by the way, Eastern Michigan hadto kickoff return touchdowns. We're gonna get
to that well, by the way, if they even kick it two the
goal line, what are you doing? And should just put that four yards
deepen in the ends of it everytime. I just want to see.
I would love for you to dolike do you use like tweet deck or

(31:08):
what do you use while when you'reup? Yep? And does that?
I don't use that? Does that? Just like I sound like chip?
Now? Is that that just scrollin real time? How's that working?
It refreshes instantaneously, so it justyou'll like my mentions if something happens,
It's just that's what I want tosee. So you're gonna need to be
quick on the draw of when orwho sits next to you? Dan Owen,

(31:32):
Okay, maybe I'll have to askDan. I'm not up on the
second level there with the Star Tribunes, the Andy Greeters and the Daniel Houses.
I'm I'm on the main people.But I need to see in real
time when something bad happens on specialteams. Yeah, just how fast the
thing goes. We don't need tosee what is said. We just need
to see that it's happening, becauseit's pretty quick. Now I sit there

(31:52):
and and and I think easily Yeah, easily. I think of you every
single time there's a special team's melton, which unfortunately is like weekly.
Yeah, for the last handful ofyears. Nothing I would love more in
the entire world. Again, likeDragon Cassage is left foot has the highest
win probability added of any play,probably outside of the Daniel Jackson touchdown,
maybe the Tyler Nuban pick. Butlike, I want to get sixty minutes

(32:17):
of a game where Minnesota is eithera coin flip or probably a slight favorite
a draw. That's want and it'slike wide Minnesota win the game because of
Rob Winger. Special teams were moreconsistent, gave their team the better and
it's just well, you just wantto see that. Like if anybody can
block a punt, anybody can blocka field goal, like you can have
a flash in the pan. Youjust want it to be solid to above

(32:39):
after should be a detriment. Yeah, where it's just like every week,
every week you're having to overcome something. Yeah, you've got this anxiety because
who knows what's going to happen orI was even curious why Sean Tyler wasn't
out there on kickoff return with histhree career kickoff return touchdowns at Western Michigan
and maybe he will be I meanmaybe that maybe it was Lamecki brocking team

(33:00):
Kristen Hoskins, not Sean Tyler alongside. You only got ten touches, and
you theoretically have two good, goodguys behind them that are gonna need some
run at some point here. Iwouldn't imagine you're gonna see Zach Evans and
Darius Taylor on Saturday, but let'shope. So all right, well that's
the weekly Burnsey Report, and makesure if any if anything happens on specialties

(33:22):
negative, please tweet at Yan Burnson Saturday night. We will please tweet
at Ryan Burns m and on Twitter. All right, let's talk about Eastern
Michigan here real quickly. Burnsy mentionedthat they they knocked off Howard on Saturday.
They led thirty to zero at halftime, ended up holding on for a
thirty three twenty three victory. Notsure. I'm sure their participation report looks
lengthy. I'm guessing a lot ofguys got to play there. You mentioned

(33:44):
the return touchdowns, Burns. Whatelse do we need to know about the
the Eastern Michigan fighting. What's theircoach's name Chris Craons. Yeah, who's
been there ten years, is takingthem to a bunch of ball games,
and they just won nine games lastyear, tied for most in program history.
They return a lot of eyes.I mean they got an eye their
best player on offense as a formerIOWA running back, Sampson Evans. Minnesota

(34:07):
is a twenty point favorite, sowow. I mean Vegas thinks this game
is going to be thirty four tofourteen ish is what they're projecting by the
end of Saturday night. Makes sense, but that game would have been a
lot closer if if Eastern Michigan doesn'thave two kickoff return touchdowns. Howard almost
had four hundred yards of total offense, which Howard's not a great team,

(34:29):
So it was kind of a sluggishstart for Eastern Michigan. But to the
point where we've all been making thisentire episode, I mean, this is
a game you should win. You'realmost a three touchdown favorite. He got
to be able to establish the runssomewhat because you know what, Eastern Michigan's
gonna run like. This just needsto be a game where you win by
at least two touchdowns. To me, but this is an Eastern Michigan program

(34:52):
that is very viable. I meanto me, yea, it reminds me
of like a Jerry Kill coached Macteam back into Yeah, like you know
that the gonna they're very sound,they play really hard, but but this
is a this is a game whereyou want to see the Gopher's offensive line
be physical, dominate that matchup,and run the ball like they need to.

(35:13):
They need to figure that part oftheir offense out. They need to
get some confidence going, they needto figure out which running backs are going
to be in their rotation, andthey just need to They will be more
explosive in the past. There's twothings we're talking. It's being more explosive
in the passing game and it's beingable to be efficient running the fort And

(35:34):
I think the explosiveness in the passivegame will come because we saw that last
year. And I think they havethe guys to do it. They have
the you know, they have thewide receivers to do it. But you
know, I want to see thatoffensive line really be really dominate that matchup.
New coordinator on the defensive side forEastern Michigan. They've only got one
returning starter on the defensive line couplein the secondary as well. It's probably

(35:58):
the strength of their team. Butthey're in four versus Power five teams the
last six years, and they hadthree Big ten road wins between twenty seventeen
and twenty nineteen, which was morethan three Big ten teams had during that
during that same stretch, you,mister, do my homework. I had
had a long flight from New York. Got to read myself a little Phil
Steel, got to break out thePhil Steel Big Magazine to get those kind

(36:22):
of nuggets. So, yeah,I think everything you guys said is right.
It's a game that you obviously haveto pay attention to because it's a
team that is in a program,you know, with a guy who's been
there ten years, they've been tofive bulls and seven years. There's another
nugget for you, Like they're they'reused to winning. They're used to you
know, coming in like they're notgoing to come in and go, oh,
these are nice, big buildings,this is great, Like they know
what has come before them at thatspot. But if you're a legitimate Big

(36:44):
ten team, you handle it.That's really all we need to say about
that, all right. Week oneI mentioned I saw none of this.
So you guys take away, youtake all of this away, do you
want to start Iowa, Utah State, or Wisconsin and Buffalo. I think
the overarching thing is no one inthe West look good. I guess what
I was gonna say. I didn'tsee like it's almost week one or something.
Yeah, there isn't not one Westteam where you're like, wow,

(37:05):
that team looked really, really good. I didn't see that. I saw
a lot of Like I started theepisode, I saw a lot of rust,
a lot of nerves, a lotof offense is still trying to figure
out, you know, who theyare. The game I didn't even mention
was Illinois just grinding down the fieldquarterback it's smoked and he throws an absolute

(37:27):
time ye has an incredible throw forme. With Iowa, it's Brian Ferrens
continues to be one of the bestopening script guys in college football. He's
the Brad Childress of the Big Ten. Like his first fifteen minutes are again,
I'm biased because I've only seen amajority of the ones against Minnesota where
he just looks incredible in the firstquarters, but then he turns back into

(37:49):
Brian Ferrens for the final forty fiveminutes of the game. I didn't think.
I mean, there were some dropsfor the Iowa receivers at times,
but I didn't think that. AndIowa scores twenty four points against Utah State,
which is not a good team.Yeah, significantly worse score like that.
I mean was mcnaror had a thirtythree yard pass right off there.
Again, they look great in thefirst quarter of games, and they continue

(38:12):
to do that, but then theadjustments. It's Iowa can also run the
football. Yeah, which was againUtah State to me for what they were
projected to be preseason, especially ingame one at Kennock. They I didn't
I didn't think it was that muchbetter. I didn't see a whole lot
of their game. I was flippingback and forth. I saw a lot
of the Wisconsin won. Their newquarterback looked shaky. As one of their

(38:36):
veteran riders there said, those interceptionslook familiar, really, but they can
run the ball. They can oncethey get They got to a second half
and said we're going to run theball, and they did. Yeah,
that game I think looks a littlebit different. If Buffalo doesn't Mississippi field
goal, Buffalo converts and went moolanQuist went for it a couple of times
and fourth down, but chez MilusianBroylan Allen period of the town one hundred

(39:00):
and fifty seven yards from Lucy onehundred and forty one both had two touchdow
and a lot of that came ina second half is early, honest,
like they're trying to establish this thepassing game and it just wasn't clicking.
And none of the quarterbacks in theWest looked comfortable, which is what you
should have expected with Athan and they'reall new. Yeah, everybody's in game

(39:21):
one with as a transfer or Ethanbeing the game one is the guy.
I mean, it did look likea bunch of offenses with the first year
quarterback. Yeah, trying to figureout that's what it looked like. I
mean, Wisconsin had a guy dropa wide open touchdown too. But it's
just there's a lot of different thingsthat you gotta get cleaned up. I
mean, you even look forward tokind of this upcoming weekend. You got
Wisconsin facing Washington State, which isgonna really really good. Yeah, it's

(39:45):
gonna be really good game. Ithink Wisconsin's like a five point favorite.
Got ioy State. I mean youmentioned Illinois Toledo. Toledo is believe thought
of as the MAC favorite and theygave everything. Yeah, I mean it
was that wasn't very very It remindedme of the Minnesota Nebraska game in terms,
that's a game Salito probably should havewon, but then the Big Ten

(40:06):
team finds a way to pull itout at the end. You're a good
coach team. By Brett Bielimo,it's funny. I flipped it over.
I didn't see the game, andif the score flash across the bottle screen,
I was like, man, they'regonna lose this game. So I
flipped it over and right then thequarterback I think it was fourth and short,
right second, smoked and rainbow.Yeah, right to the receiver a

(40:28):
jump ball basically, and his receivercomes down with a great catch, and
you knew they were winning at thatpoint. Also, did you watch any
Sunday morning of what was the mosthighly viewed game of the weekend. I'm
sure Northwestern versus r NO. Isaw twenty one seven though, right was
Northwestern is so bad? Like weknew they were bad, but Kirk Sharaka

(40:50):
made that I mean, it wasvery Kirk Sharaka. Yeah, like sixteen
seventeen play touchdown drives. Ye twentyfour seven was the final. Oh,
they're so bad, and now Northwestern'sgot a face. They're an underdog at
home to you tip this weekend,and then in two weeks they got to
face Duke, who seems to bea pretty good football team. Yeah,
they looked really good. Less themost impressive Big Ten team I saw,

(41:10):
I thought was Penn State. Yeah, they looked really good. You see
why people were excited about that quarterback, right Laar or l or whatever it
was. And I saw a littlebit of that game on Saturday night in
the hotel. Yeah, West Virginia. Even the thing that jumped out to
me is they're really fast both sidesthe ball, and that's why I thought
that. Again, I'm not gonnatake victory lapse after week one, but

(41:32):
I thought Penn State gets into thatMichigan Ohio State tier and even saw Ohio
State struggle. Yeah, Kyle McCord'sfirst real game, a lot of Ohio
State explaining going on right now orwondering going on right now? Nationally,
He's like, who who are theseguys? And it's so funny what happens.
You know, when Michigan knoxe offa couple of years and you know,

(41:52):
Ryan Day's record is like forty sixand five and however long he's been
there, and people are wondering,like I don't know, I mean Ohio,
And it's even happening with Clemson becausethe last times, well Dobbot doesn't
take transfers, what do you expect. It's like, well, he might
just like his guys. Like there'sthere's some schools that don't take a lot
of transfers because they already have goodplayers. Now we're seeing they don't have
a lot of explosive wide receivers.But should never happen. But yeah,

(42:15):
when Dukes are able to go oneon one with you and your Clemson on
the outside, it's probably not good. Not good. Yeah, it's not
where you want to be as Clemson. But I think the thing we would
all preach through the listeners, it'sbeen one week. That's it. Everybody's
playing in the season you just saw, and everybody's gonna get better from week
one to week two. You getmore tape, you get guys more comfortable,
they feel a little bit better.But that's this is the week I

(42:37):
hate the most every year because everybodythinks they know everything. That's insane.
Everybody thinks Colorado is going this Floridastate a playoff team, is so and
so on the hot seat. It'snuts your heisman list. Yeah, somebody
was saying, oh, yeah,they're on my heisman list. Okay,
great, I'm sorry. I'll saythis is a voter chip, and I
know you're in charge. I hopeyou don't think this personally. I don't

(42:58):
have a heisman list. Let itplay happen. I haven't put together shortlist
yet. I was another fellow voter, Oh good for me with you guards
you here. Yeah, I'm notgonna put together that list until November.
I know you like to start thingsearly. I will be ashamed of you
if you do. Have no Well, that's where you're talking about in the
press box there, and I islike, we overreact because we only have

(43:19):
one game. Is the only datapoint you have? And I know that
everybody wants to draw these big,broad generalizations about each team. The reality
is, I mean, these teamsare going to look so much different on
Saturday and two Saturdays, three Saturdaysthan when we're really starting to get into
conference play where all of these coachingstaffs actually have game film on one another,
can actually draw up what they're goingto do. Then we're going to

(43:40):
find out a lot more about thisand you know, offenses will you know,
start to click, defenses will tacklebetter. Yeah, I mean it's
just yeah, there's some mistackles onthird happens, characters never happens. My
favorite stat of the weekend that Istill don't believe is true because I swear
I've seen I swear i've seen it, but I must not have. We
meant in Iowa and Drew McNamara orthat's his name, right, Kadma,

(44:05):
I'll get it. I'm likeewer now, I've been listening. I did,
And I remember two thousand and twowhen they won the Big Ten. It
seemed like they scored on every openingpossession, like they were, like you
said, they were very good.This isn't wasn't Brian Ferrens. I think
it was kend O'Keefe was the gameback then. But they had Brad Banks
and they would just come out andthey'd be up seven zero within four minutes.
It was unbelievable to watch. Butthe McNamara touchdown passed on the first

(44:28):
drive was the first passing touchdown onthe opening series of the season. In
ference is twenty five years as thehawk Gys coach and the first foreign IOWA
team since nineteen ninety one, whichby the way, was also I wasn't
the year after a Rose Bowl.They just always run it in. I
guess so, or they didn't score, you know, And now that I
read it again, it makes sensebecause I was thinking, because I know

(44:49):
they've they've had touchdown passes on openingdrives. It just wasn't the opening series
of the season, so they musthave always run it in or whatever.
Staff in nineteen ninety one, Iwas nine. I wasn't alive, Burns,
he wasn't alive. Chip already hadreaders and was scanning down on his
menu making sure that he was three. It's a moonshine in and reading the

(45:15):
paper. But that that's so thateven you know, so Hayden Fries last
eight years, they didn't have anYou know, there's some good teams in
that, but that just an interestingnugget that kind of shows you that Iowa
has been historically about running the ballthere. That was maybe my favorite stat
on the whole deal. Quickly,we mentioned some of the games that are
coming up this weekend. Illinois isat Kansas. Your squad is one parent

(45:36):
knight or anything. Well, Kansasis starting quarterback's gonna play actually too,
he didn't play last week and they'rewearing some new uniforms. Well, that's
very exciting. We mentioned Washington State, we mentioned the UTEP deal. Really
that's the only thing that's interesting inthe Big ten. Iowa did I said,
I thought we said that one already. There's like four West games that
are all projected to be within atouchdown. So they're again the Gopher games

(45:58):
six thirty on Saturday nights. Bea beautiful night. Can come out and
see me and guards you at Mariucci. But that's right, that's right for
on the pregame show. That's bigtime. And then you've got Nebraska at
Colorado, and let's pivot to talkabout coach Prime and coach brew because for
me, they're intertwined forever. ButColorado, no one really knew what to
expect. And they go down toFort Worth, Texas. I think it's

(46:23):
GM and Carter Stadium. I've beenthere once. Oh, good for me.
When the Gophers played TCUs there andthey knock off the defending national runner
up, who's got a lot ofnew faces as well. Forty five forty
two, and now the college footballworld is a twitter because of coach Prime
and had to say, I meanwith this kid at quarterback, other kid
running around there, Yeah, that'sthat was an imp regardless way you think

(46:45):
of TCU to be that. Tome, well, operated yeah, we're
talking about sloppy play all over thecountry. There was nothing sloppy about Colorado
on Saturday. When you think thatthey brought eighty five new players exactly,
you just sort of felt like,Okay, how's this all gonna work when
he had that many new guys playingfor you? But he clearly brought some

(47:07):
guys. I mean, his sonis a terrific quarterback. I hadn't seen
him play, but just how poisedand under control or in control of that
offense he seemed. I mean he'sa really really high level quarterback. And
then Travis Hunter. Yeah Hunters,Yeah, between offense and defense in that

(47:31):
heat that they said it was likea hundred degrees on the field, He's
obviously a stud. So yeah,I mean it's like Travis Hunter was the
number one player in the country exactly. And also the other thing I want
to clarify because I was listening tosome people go for press conference yesterday talking
about Hinder Sanders the quarterback. Theythought he was some no name. He

(47:54):
was a four star quarterback. Hehad like Georgian Alabama. He's a really
good players. So just because hecame from an HBCU doesn't mean he wasn't
highly recruited. He just went withhis dad and you're able to see some
of the I mean, he's obviouslya great player. Travis Hunters, he's
Dion's kid, correct, Yeah,I mean he came out of the womb
with three stars. Yeah right.I mean if you're Dan's kid, like

(48:21):
I don't know how many sons hehas, but if your dad is Deon
Sanders, you probably got a goodline of genetics there. Like I'm thinking
like Archie Manning, like Cooper.They all say it was the best one,
right, and then he had someinjuries. Like if you come out
of Manning, you're born a threestar, and then it's up to you
know your environment, which I'm guessingis pretty solid and the people you learn
from, oh, your dad,and you don't want to discount moms because

(48:43):
I know they're important, but let'sjust start there. You're born a three
star and then which is pretty goodto begin with, and then you become
what you become anyway, Well,just Travis Hunters the things he did one
and he was the number one playerin the country recruited. Ye, right,
I don't know I said that.Sorry, I was going but like
he I mean, that's a performance. Like again, I feel I don't

(49:06):
know that I should make the comparison, but he's doing things like Shoheotani is
done in baseball, right, Imean when was we haven't seen a guy
play at such a high level.Now again in game one, Yeah,
you're gonna have fresh legs. Whatdoes it look like by game seven,
game eleven? But Travis hunter isI guess a quality opponents is just some
layup that you're dis against. Thisteam that was in the national championship game.

(49:29):
I should regardless of who they lost. So I opposed this to a
couple of people at the press conferences. I believe Colorado's preseason win total was
three and a half or four anda half if I if I were to
now set the line at six anda half because people saying they're going to
go to the playoff, I justdon't. They've got USC in Ucla coming
up at the end of the month. Yeah, but no, by the
way, Utah might be the bestof them. Yeah. Utah kicks the

(49:51):
crap out of Florida in Game onestarting quarterback. If I said six and
a half, it's hard to know, it's hard. Here's the thing that
I will say, I have aquarterback like that, that's true. It
changes the thing I would say aboutColorado. Yeah, they brought in these
transfers, but it's just the depth. I am very leary about the actual

(50:13):
amount of depth that they have,where if one of these guys goes down,
it's year one. Still he broughtin a bunch of transfers. But
the other name we should be talkingabout with this is Sean Lewis. Okay,
the offensive coordinator that Dion has tothe former Kent State head coach.
I mean, how good did thatoffense look? Yeah? In game one
year one he came from was theKid States coach. Last he was the

(50:37):
head coach. Yeah yeah, Imean he's getting a lot of as he
should. Crazy because I think it'sjust how again we all talk about how
you got a new quarterback, it'sgonna look a little disjointed. They have
a new office. I mean,these guys are all new and they all
met twenty minutes ago. Yeah,and and to put it together with one
fall camp and to look like thatagainst a you know, a good defense

(51:00):
or you know, well, here'sthe Power five defense, Colorado's defense looks
dreadful. Really. Yeah, wellthey gave up. They gave some big
plays and TCS offenses and right cuta touchdown. Yeah, there you go,
got eligible idea. But that's that'sthe thing, though, is with
Colorado. I'm just it's a greatstory. But if we're gonna be talking

(51:21):
about them in the College Football Playoffone year one And that's why the Dion
Rants post game was so kept setsIt's like, well do you believe now?
It's like, I don't think anybodywe were all curious. No,
yeah, no, one's like,oh well, I mean, obviously,
what he did at Jackson State wasincredible. It was awesome, and I
love the fact that he wanted toget into coaching and that's what he did

(51:42):
and it was, I mean unbelievablefrom day one, and like I don't
think there's a lot of Deon doubters, Like that's the I know, you
got to fuel yourself and and howyou know you gotta you got Yeah,
I mean every great athlete does that, every coach does that. You have
to find slights wherever you find them. I Mean, you can watch a
ten part Michael Jordan documentary and it'sall like every episode there's somebody I mean

(52:02):
that slighted him and it might mayor may not even be true, like
George Carl not even you know,not saying hi to Michael Jordan before the
NBA Finals at Didca's restaurant or whatever, and who knows if that's true or
not. But I just don't think. I think if there's one guy like
from the baseball and football to theFlorida State stuff to his time in the
NFL to his time on TV,like Dion's pretty universally like liked and respected

(52:25):
and like so I just think it'sfun. And also it's not the job
of Colorado Buffs two four seven tobelieve like it's just he's just not like
that's what you know. So forall the stuff Deon is, he's also
a college football coach which means hethinks that the media has to like automatically
jump in and go, hey,have no questions. It's that was strange,
I think, but they all doit for me at least. I

(52:47):
think the general cinement was like,this is a big experience. I don't
know how this is gonna work right, or how it's gonna go because you
have I just never We've never seena college football roster turn it over to
the degree that his did, right, you don't have eighty five new players
right ever. I'm thinking of aquote from one of your favorite TV shows,
Chipper and ted Lasso. It's becurious, not judgmental. That's what

(53:09):
we all were. I don't knowthat any of us were judging, just
saying it's something that's never been done. I was curious. I wasn't judging
him to wear another was I skepticalthat it would all work? Sure?
But also we weren't going to say, oh, he'll never figure it out.
That's year one. It's year one. No one was thinking, oh,
I can't wait for this to failand he just can't do it.

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You're one, and by the way, like I am fascinated to see like
because you know, every high schoolplayer in the country's watching this thing,
and if they get any kind ofNIL program, which I wouldn't think would
be difficult with the UN's drawing connectionsand Denver being right there even in even
though it's an hour out, like, people are gonna want to be a
part of this, and I meanfinancially well, and this is going to

(53:51):
be soon until some SEC school sayshere's an open to give you fifteen MILLI
year And that's you know, that'sif melt Tucker can get what he got
it. That's what we were.That's what I was gonna say, is
like imagine him in recruiting. He'ssure. We talked about it on this
podcast where I think it was hisopening press conference where they ad said I

(54:12):
don't know where the money is goingto come. That were because they were
in financial I'm guessing money is nota problem pouring into that program today.
And it's such a cool campus andthe stadiums unbelievable. It's and it's gonna
be and you got Ralphie the Buffalorunning. Did you see the it's gonna
be cool? This is kind ofa tangent, but did you see the
Johnny Manziel documentary after his freshman Heismanyear. I want to get the number

(54:39):
right, but I'll probably go screwedup. But I think donations into that
university increased by yeah, and theyalready get a lot of money. A
and m already gets a lot ofmoney. But that's I mean, that
is what it takes. I mean, I can we can talk about it
till I'm blue in the face,Like you go back to Doug Flutie Doug
Flute in Miami. Thing. Allof a sudden, everybody knows where Boston

(54:59):
College is. I mean, weall knew it was in Boston. I'm
not that stupid, but you knowwhat it is. And it's not rocket
science. It's really not rocket science. You have a good football program and
in years past a good basketball program. I guess what people want to be
a part of the cool stuff.And Colorado I mean yeah that if he
keeps this going, like if heif they continue to kind of do what
they have done here, they're gonnabe a monster. I mean They're just

(55:21):
gonna be an absolute monster. Wellwould it shock you as I told you
the line for this game this weekendwhere they home opener against Nebraska because I
think three there are three or fourpoints. It would not surprise me to
Nebraska going in there and win twentyto seventeen. No, not because I've
also I mean I always think aboutJeff sims Is gonna run wild. Well,
just think it's that defense. Thetwo game sample size I always think

(55:43):
about is my first two games onthe sideline at USC against your boy Lane
Kiffin, where they have them,they're taking them down to the fourth quarter
of the golfers. This is Jerrykills your Zerox Shortell. Wasn't it okay?
Yes? At points, yes,I think Marquis played some, Max
Shortell played some, and I justrememb member that was a real year zero
because I don't think coach Brew reallyleft the cupboards stocked, and they take

(56:06):
USC into the fourth quarter. ObviouslyLane ended up getting fired either that year
or the year after, and everybody'sexcited because you're like, whoa, this
is nice. He's got to singfigured out they lost you. New Mexico
stayed at home the next week likeweek one, Week two, a lot
went into to week one with Colorado. We'll see Nebraska has some extra time.
Like no, nothing would surprise me, Absolutely nothing would surprise me.

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Did you guys watch in our finalcouple of minutes here the Gophers Week three
opponent North Carolina versus South Carolina,the game where game day was the Battle
for Carolina in Charlotte thirty one seventeen. North Carolina knocked off the game Cox
nice embrace or nice moment that yousent us? Chip? Oh? Did
you send that? I got themall confused and the group I wasn't very

(56:52):
active in the group thread this week. Sorry. We're just trying to picture
how quickly the right cross would comefrom PJ Flack if mac Brown pulled something
like that where he grabs his chinand tries to talk to him, well,
essentially grabs the chin, then itgoes essentially just grabs his throat.
Yeah, I mean that's what.Do we know what he said? Do
we know what was said? Wasit a nice moment? Was he started

(57:12):
out as a nice one and thenit was an awkward moment? It was
Awkward's a great way to put it. So what do we think every the
the week one over reaction there iswe all know that the quarterback's really good,
but man Jean Chiswick and that NorthCarolina defense, they've really put a
lot into it and look at that. Now they've they played great against South
Carolina. Because when you're talking aboutthe Gophers and North Carolina, the theory

(57:34):
has been Gophers should be able tomove the ball, hang on, you
know, hang on to it anddo all those things and mitigate the Carolina
offense. So what do we thinkwe know about these tar Heels before I
got a sound bite to play?Yeah, I didn't. I didn't watch
a lot of the game. Iflipped over a couple times and saw Drake
May I mean he's Drake looked likewhere it was just like, yeah,
an off platform throw where it's likeyou shouldn't be able to do that.

(57:55):
I mean, you're better than someof the starting quarterbacks. We're going to
see you on Sunday. Okay.But the pass rush for me was the
thing was they were able to geta pretty decent pass rush against a South
Carolina offensive line that gave Spencer Railthere's some issues. So when I think
about some of the issues Minnesota's havingup front, and we'll see how that's
played on, I gotta imagine Max, he's always been a good recruiter.

(58:16):
I gotta imagine that's continued here theyare. They pretty good in the recruiting
rankings yearly. So yeah, theyhave a pretty good ANIL program. Yeah,
I would imagine. So it's Imean they Jordan Brandy that helps as
well. Yep, They've got AppalachianState this Saturday. Appalachian State will tell
you. If there's something you can'tdo in college football, it's sleep on
Appalachian State. September Shane Biemer's pressconference. He is the I think you're

(58:42):
three coach at South Carolina. You'rethree or year four, and it wasn't
happy with some things that transpired onthe field and had some had some thoughts
about it, let's play it notnot good enough and then we got them
do we have any stats anybody?It's kind of the story of the ninth
clock was wrong the whole Dame game. We're trying to kick on one side
kick to start the second half andwe got to wait on the chain crew

(59:02):
because they're eating a hot dog.That's the only disappointing thing about tonight.
So I don't know what things cameout to be statistically, but not good
enough. Colin had our chances,all right, lots of unpacked their first
Jillie Barden, who I always love. I always love ripping because I see

(59:22):
how quickly the Paul Rove next ofthe world have to get the stats to
these guys, And I always lovethe stress and the urgency or if people
that when the coach will say,and this isn't PJ specifically, but it's
everyone. You just heard Shane Biemer, I don't have the stats in front
of me. Well, then why'dyou get to the podium if the stats
were gonna be that important to you? Wait thirty seconds and make sure you

(59:43):
know. Hey, before I go, can I get the stats? Can
I look at him? And it'sthe first thing whenever I go into Pj's
office like this, the numbers arehanded to him. He might take a
minute and look at him and justsee, okay, here's what we got.
He might write a couple of thingsdown. Paul might say, Hey,
by the way, ma Ibrahim hadthree touch downs. He's now number
four all time, Like you guysknow because he PJ comes locked and loaded

(01:00:04):
with those kind of numbers. SoI love the shade, like my team
just got their ass kick. ButI'm mad AT's stat guy because I don't
have one. There and that's whereyou go next. It's like, what
chain crews across the country. Youbetter because every head coach is probably now
going, hey, by the way, what's our chain crew doing? Do
we have this issue here? Becauseif a coach is gonna worry about something
that means nothing to anything that theythink they can control. I mean,

(01:00:28):
the poor guy Deli bar Dan youmentioned it, my guy Dan Layman.
He's they can't get the punt goingbecause this guy's apparently having his second Nathan's
hot Dog. It's unbelievable. NowI want to cheer against Shane Beamer forever
because what a jacket Like, whydo you have to bring that into exactly
right? Coach your team coach,not the chain gang. And I actually
I've done a football cross Minnesota callhim on, which is Brian Cosgriff,

(01:00:52):
who I love, longtime Hall ofFame high school basket girls basketball coaching.
A bunch of a bunch of formercoaches, the current coaches, uh football
basketball? How are the hot Dogswhen you did that? Stung? They
were They had a nice spread Ballparkframe, that's this big thing, fall
Park frame. They had a nicespread, So good, guys. I
don't worry about them. Uh,they get it. What is funny because

(01:01:15):
sometimes, like you know, Iwon't name a lot of names, but
you get friendly with people that aredown there, and you could tell when
they're locked in and when they're not. You know, whether it's you know,
replay guy or because the replay guyhas even less to do, like
he could have as many hot dogsas he wants, and then every once
in a while he gets called outthere and he's got to bring the you
know, the stand out and putit there and he's got the headset.
But I just it just cracked meup because it's like when he goes that

(01:01:37):
was really the only thing that wentwrong tonight. The only thing that went
wrong chain gang guy having a hotdog. I couldn't get the things.
Not your defense, No, nono other issues, no other issues except
the chain gang guys. So goodon you, Coach Beemer. My god,
my god. Lastly, a lotof comments, including from Mac Brown

(01:01:58):
I think a week or so ago, and I know Chip Kelly had some
What made the urgency of the Gophergame I think even more die? Or
was that the fact that the clockdoesn't start after first downs? Now I'm
sorry, doesn't stop after first downs, like there were only six possessions in
the first half. PJ mentioned thatwith me, you know, in walking
into the locker room, like ifyou get a couple of first downs,

(01:02:22):
you're really milk your milk and halfa quarter Now as great as it is
for people on deadline like you ormy wife who wants me home at a
reasonable hour, especially on road games, like it's interesting how that has absolutely
shortened the game, and if yougo up against a ball control offensive team,
like it really puts a lot ofpressure to maximize each possession. The
first half felt like it flew by. It was a twenty eight minute first

(01:02:45):
quarter, but then I think AndyGreeter told me it was like a fifty
seven minute second quarter because then theyhad to get on they had to time.
Yeah. Yeah, And I rememberit was eight ten or eight twenty
as I was waiting to talk toPJ, you know, just kind of
down right in front of you guys. That's usually where I post up because
we got to grab them on theway in. I'm like, it's like
eight fifteen right now. Yeah,in years past, it could be like

(01:03:07):
pushing nine o'clock, but it'll belike I'm curious to see how coaches adjust
to that because you don't have theReally, if you can't get a team
off the field, like you're inthe meat grinder a little bit. Total
places, I didn't look at it. How many plays was about the same
now again one week of data.We'll see how it looks after thirteen weeks
of data. But I think Isaw like real time of the Nebraska game

(01:03:29):
last year versus this year was withina couple of minutes of one another.
Really, I think the plays wereabout what they were now. Again,
a lot of that is because bothteams through so much in the second half.
Where is if you're asking me ifthe new Mexico State Minnesota game last
year has played this year, thatgame is significantly shorter, probably by like
forty minutes because Minnesota would have justground and pound the heck out of it.

(01:03:51):
But it's like every punt you getto look up at the ribbon on
the scoreboard now and see the mediatime out three minutes. Yeah, yeah,
Well that was Fox. I meanevery network has a different We'll see
how it looks for a BTN gamethis weekend when kay fans own Tommy also
will be up in the boot TommyElson's get a little bit of run.
Yeah, I means you can't drinkbefore the game, which is gonna be
tough for our guy, Tommy,as he's admitted as he's guys from Monomat.

(01:04:13):
I asked us a little bit southof them in Oakdale and Chip and
Woodberry. You know how they geton the northeast side of town. All
right, anything else we want tobring up, guys, anything else.
Happy birthday to your wife. Thankyou. I'm glad you're taking her to
Jack's Cafe. Good call, goodbusiness to give away some tickets. We
were able to give away some ticketshere, and stay tuned. We might
be able to give away tickets thisweek. Bill sometimes just checks in on
day or Thursday and says, hey, I got a pair of tickets to

(01:04:34):
give away, and where's the publicservice announcement with that? Because I'm the
one who has to divvy out thetickets. If you're not following parent Is
Spare on Twitter, you should be. You should be, But I also
will not. I've chosen too manywinners. Just I'll go through random and
pick somebody that don't follow the account, and then I have to tweet at
you. Yeah, to follow me. Too many steps for a busy guy

(01:04:54):
like you. Well, it's likeI always go by yeah, yeah,
okay, I screwed up to giveaway because I need to make sure everybody's
following them. So we'll do itthat way. You have to follow,
be following the pair and a sparepodcast twitter handle, which is what at
par and spare pod. There wego, and then we all retweeted on
when this when this podcast? Butit's like that was my fault, but
it came. I will not bechoosing winners who don't follow the account because

(01:05:16):
trying to get people to respond ona Thursday or Friday, I get it.
Yeah, but we are trying togive you free things. That's true.
If you know that you entered whateveryou know for the tickets and you
know what time eventually we're going topick and we'll we'll tell you it will
and we will just follow the account. If you want to be a winner
or some of these tickets. Howold are you a man? You are

(01:05:42):
not going to age? Well ifyou're already, this is crazy. I
mean, look here as got alot most I just saw somebody, oh
somebody at the fair and they said, man, you've gotten really, Gray,
I said, good to see you. Glad I took the time I
have. Yeah, I got fourteenjobs and three kids. Sorry, and
I'm forty one and should be gettinggreat. I would think, yeah,
I mean, we can't all beperfect. By the way, it's Firman

(01:06:02):
at South Carolina this week. IfShane Biemer has any sense of humor,
he brings down about eight hot dogsand hands him out to the chain gang.
The next morning, woke up andsaid, you know, I feel
bad about that these guys to dinner. That's unbelievable. All right, guys,
good to see it was those weekly. Now baby, moving forward,
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