August 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Steven Sipple previews the week 1 matchup between Nebraska/Cincinnati
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On that for four ESPN fifteen thirty Moegger, Tony Pike
in twenty minutes on the Bengals plus Brenhaman and Jones
on baseball. Big, big opportunity for the Bearcats on Thursday night,
you know, for for a lot of different reasons, not
the least of which is an opportunity for Scott Saderfield
to just re energize the fan base. Cincinnati playing in
(00:22):
Kansas City against Nebraska. It's a nine o'clock kickoff on
seven hundred wl WS. Steven Sipple is a senior writer
for Husker Online. He is one of the hosts of
Early Break on ninety three seven. The Ticket was kind
enough to have me on his show last week and
even kinder to join us and talk about this game.
It's good to have you, Stephen. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mo. It's the least I can do after your appearance
on our show. I appreciated that. It was great give
us a lot of information. I turned it into a
column as a matter of fact, so thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I just read that. And by the way, I still
have not met anybody who's going to Kansas City, so
you know I've I've been searching I've been searching. Maybe
we'll run into some Bearcat fans when we get there tomorrow.
In every first game, no matter who you're playing, especially
in this day and age, there's things you want to
learn about a football team. What's at the top of
that list for corn Huskers fans?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, there's a lot. I mean, I think the foremost
thing is can they how will they hold up against
the run? Though I mean Nebraska lost. I'd say four
pretty good front seven players, like three down linemen, then
sort of a stand up linebacker that played on the line.
(01:37):
Ty Robinson was the fourth round pick of the Eagles.
He led that bunch. He was good. He was a
good player, I mean legit probably actually was going to
be a third rounder and a trade push back. Trade
pushes his kick back, so he basically is a third rounder.
So that's what everybody's wondering about. That's why he's asking
(01:58):
about it on our show the other day. Can Prior
and Tylie Walker in the in the Cincinnati offensive line
moved that bunch. Hey hey mo, people moved him last year.
Now even those guys got moved, So people are kind
of wondering about it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What does the next step look like for Dylan Royolah, just.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
A lot goes into that conversation. A lot of it though,
is what what's next is they needed to put stuff
around it. He's still blessed physically. You'll understand when you
see him, Moe. I mean, he's he's like he's stick
him out on most any team you're gonna you're gonna stay. Yeah,
he looks like the best guy out there. He's gotta
he's got a big arm. I guess the next thing though,
(02:50):
to answer your question, is probably needs to run it
a little bit more. You know, in this day and
age in college football, you seldom see a guy he's
just a pocket guy and doesn't move out of there
very much, and he's capable of it. He's not he's
not you know, he doesn't have a lot of speed,
but he's got functional football speed and like Storge be
(03:12):
like your guys. He's a big guy. You know, he's
sixty two six three two thirty and he's athletics. So
if I was Cincinnati fan, I'd watched for that. I
think that not I'm not really talking designed runs, but
when there's an opportunity to scramble, uh, he'll get up field,
and he'll look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Year three for Scott Saderfield here in Cincinnati, and there's,
as you might imagine, a fair amount of pressure on him.
And look, he took over for a guy who took
him to the College Football Playoff. They've moved into the
Big twelve, so there's been a little bit of a
learning curve there, but there's there's sort of a put
up or shut up field for Scott Sadderfield. We hear
a lot about year three from for Matt Rule right
(03:52):
ten and four his third season in Temple eleven and
three his third season at Baylor before jumping to the NFL.
So I know everybody's expecting this bump. Walk me through
the first two years. How has his job performance been received.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'd say pretty well. I mean, the first year was
five and seven, pretty nondescript about what was about what
people expected five and seven. The second year was a
bumpy ride, and it was. It was disappointing in some ways,
but they did I mean, they hadn't been to a
(04:28):
they hadn't been to a bowl game mode. I know
it sounds weird to people out there, but Nebraska hadn't
been to a bowl game. Twenty sixteen, they finally broke
that streak, got to the It was a pinstripe Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It wasn't that you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean, it wasn't on many people's radar, but they
got a win and that got him to seven and
six and he could step now, he could sell progress.
It was just a fine line in sort of batter
Field rule discussion. Who's got more pressure if rule loses
that game Boston College and they go six and seven,
(05:02):
people are pretty just gruggled here. But just that one
win ghet the seven and six, winning a bowl game,
breaking the bull streak and then winning changed a lot,
and it did. That's how it's kind of a results business.
And maybe I shouldn't be that surprised, but I'm still
sort of surprised sometimes how much one win can mean
in the grand team. So he doesn't have he's got
(05:25):
some rows here, he's got some leeway, but you know,
it changes fast and I place like Nebraska. Know, the
best way I can put it is every game is
big if you lose it. That's the way it kind
of works here, Like it still works that way. Every
game is a colossal game in people's minds. If you
lose it. I don't think beating Cincinnati people aren't going
(05:48):
to be freaking out over joyed. They'll be mostly relieved.
But if Nebraska were to lose this game, oh yeah,
it gets big. Then it gets big, it gets gag.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
If if they reach every expectation and have the best
year possible, I guess the the easier way would would
would be to ask, like, what's their ceiling, What's what's
the best case for this team in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ken, I think it's a ten. I mean, you know
how it goes. I mean, you could say about any
team undefeated, but that's not it's not realistic here. It's
because they got to play ten state on the road.
It's just hard to go from seven to eleven. I mean,
I think that Ken looks like a ceiling here with
the with the breast is limitations. I'd say limitations up
(06:35):
front on defense. They they're not great at running back.
They have a pretty good starter, but behind him is
a lot of unknown young guys. So I think ten.
I think ten is a ceiling. Maybe gets you in
the playoffs, that's the thing. Ten might just get you in.
I'm not predicting ten, but I have predicted nine. So
I think that, Hey, mo, I think they're pretty good.
(06:57):
I mean, I think you're going to see a pretty
good in the Braska team, particularly on offense.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
What does this crowd look like? It's gonna be pro
Husker again, I know nobody from here is going, or
I know nobody from here who is going. Uh, Lincoln
to Kansas City is about three and a half hours.
It's a big alumni base, I'm sure in that part
of the country. Like, is this one people are traveling too?
Is this you know, corn Huskers Nebraska alums in Kansas City?
(07:25):
What's the composition like on Thursday at Arrowhead.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah. I don't want to sound like a Homer at all. No,
I not. I'm not that guy. But you're going I'm not.
Anybody knows me knows I'm I'm I'm about it. Cynicals.
It gets but here you're going, let's get ready. It's
gonna be wild. It's gonna be loud, and it'll be passed.
It's when Nebraska that's its site on a takeover, it
(07:51):
gets pretty wild. It's you know, Memorial Stadium different. It'll
it'll be a louder crowd than in Lincoln. I know,
sounds odd that there's a season there's a lot of
season ticket holders that are you know, they're in their
sixties and seventies and eighties, so the crowd's not always
really rockets in Lincoln. I imagine it's going to be
(08:13):
rocket It'll be quiet. It'll be quiet team, it'll be tough. Now,
I don't get I don't help Nebraska. I can't. I
definitely won't hurt them. And you know, since he's offense,
I hope Batterfield, your coach, has the presence of mind
to plan accordingly. But it's going to be loud.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was badly, badly disappointed for a lot of different
reasons during the pandemic because they were supposed to play
you see in Lincoln in twenty twenty. That that game
has been moved to twenty thirty three. I'll be there
for that in eight years, and we'll have to talk
because I can't wait to go to Lincoln for the
first time. First things for Cincinnati and Nebraska in Kansas City,
(08:54):
Steve and I appreciate the at the time, man, thank
you so much, Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mos, thank you for the time. I'll see I'll make
sure I introduce myself in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, let's make that happen. I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It, all rightli Feelick.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You're the man. Steven Sipple, Husker online and co host
of The Early Break. I was on his show with
his two co hosts on ninety three seven The Ticket
in Lincoln. That was a fun conversation, and uh, I've
learned a lot about Nebraska. Listener to those guys you
see in Nebraska on Thursday night. No better place to
watch that game than right here at Oakley Greens. Let's
(09:30):
make an admission about somebody we all love. Next on
ESPN fifteen.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thirty, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health
Traffic Center.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Trust the same team for your care that keeps the
UC Bearcats on the field. Count on u see Health
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine no matter the injury. Visit seehealth
dot com. For those of you heading into town from
the south, you'll want to know that northbound seventy one
is completely blocked off from a truck fire that's over
at mile marker forty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Motorists looking to avoid that can take the Carrollton exit
to US forty two back to ten thirty nine and
seventy one. From there, I'm at exelic with traffic
On that for four ESPN fifteen thirty Moegger, Tony Pike
in twenty minutes on the Bengals plus Brenhaman and Jones
on baseball. Big, big opportunity for the Bearcats on Thursday night,
you know, for for a lot of different reasons, not
the least of which is an opportunity for Scott Saderfield
to just re energize the fan base. Cincinnati playing in
(00:22):
Kansas City against Nebraska. It's a nine o'clock kickoff on
seven hundred wl WS. Steven Sipple is a senior writer
for Husker Online. He is one of the hosts of
Early Break on ninety three seven. The Ticket was kind
enough to have me on his show last week and
even kinder to join us and talk about this game.
It's good to have you, Stephen. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mo. It's the least I can do after your appearance
on our show. I appreciated that. It was great give
us a lot of information. I turned it into a
column as a matter of fact, so thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I just read that. And by the way, I still
have not met anybody who's going to Kansas City, so
you know I've I've been searching I've been searching. Maybe
we'll run into some Bearcat fans when we get there tomorrow.
In every first game, no matter who you're playing, especially
in this day and age, there's things you want to
learn about a football team. What's at the top of
that list for corn Huskers fans?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, there's a lot. I mean, I think the foremost
thing is can they how will they hold up against
the run? Though I mean Nebraska lost. I'd say four
pretty good front seven players, like three down linemen, then
sort of a stand up linebacker that played on the line.
(01:37):
Ty Robinson was the fourth round pick of the Eagles.
He led that bunch. He was good. He was a
good player, I mean legit probably actually was going to
be a third rounder and a trade push back. Trade
pushes his kick back, so he basically is a third rounder.
So that's what everybody's wondering about. That's why he's asking
(01:58):
about it on our show the other day. Can Prior
and Tylie Walker in the in the Cincinnati offensive line
moved that bunch. Hey hey mo, people moved him last year.
Now even those guys got moved, So people are kind
of wondering about it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What does the next step look like for Dylan Royolah, just.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
A lot goes into that conversation. A lot of it though,
is what what's next is they needed to put stuff
around it. He's still blessed physically. You'll understand when you
see him, Moe. I mean, he's he's like he's stick
him out on most any team you're gonna you're gonna stay. Yeah,
he looks like the best guy out there. He's gotta
he's got a big arm. I guess the next thing though,
(02:50):
to answer your question, is probably needs to run it
a little bit more. You know, in this day and
age in college football, you seldom see a guy he's
just a pocket guy and doesn't move out of there
very much, and he's capable of it. He's not he's
not you know, he doesn't have a lot of speed,
but he's got functional football speed and like Storge be
(03:12):
like your guys. He's a big guy. You know, he's
sixty two six three two thirty and he's athletics. So
if I was Cincinnati fan, I'd watched for that. I
think that not I'm not really talking designed runs, but
when there's an opportunity to scramble, uh, he'll get up field,
and he'll look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Year three for Scott Saderfield here in Cincinnati, and there's,
as you might imagine, a fair amount of pressure on him.
And look, he took over for a guy who took
him to the College Football Playoff. They've moved into the
Big twelve, so there's been a little bit of a
learning curve there, but there's there's sort of a put
up or shut up field for Scott Sadderfield. We hear
a lot about year three from for Matt Rule right
(03:52):
ten and four his third season in Temple eleven and
three his third season at Baylor before jumping to the NFL.
So I know everybody's expecting this bump. Walk me through
the first two years. How has his job performance been received.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'd say pretty well. I mean, the first year was
five and seven, pretty nondescript about what was about what
people expected five and seven. The second year was a
bumpy ride, and it was. It was disappointing in some ways,
but they did I mean, they hadn't been to a
(04:28):
they hadn't been to a bowl game mode. I know
it sounds weird to people out there, but Nebraska hadn't
been to a bowl game. Twenty sixteen, they finally broke
that streak, got to the It was a pinstripe Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It wasn't that you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean, it wasn't on many people's radar, but they
got a win and that got him to seven and
six and he could step now, he could sell progress.
It was just a fine line in sort of batter
Field rule discussion. Who's got more pressure if rule loses
that game Boston College and they go six and seven,
(05:02):
people are pretty just gruggled here. But just that one
win ghet the seven and six, winning a bowl game,
breaking the bull streak and then winning changed a lot,
and it did. That's how it's kind of a results business.
And maybe I shouldn't be that surprised, but I'm still
sort of surprised sometimes how much one win can mean
in the grand team. So he doesn't have he's got
(05:25):
some rows here, he's got some leeway, but you know,
it changes fast and I place like Nebraska. Know, the
best way I can put it is every game is
big if you lose it. That's the way it kind
of works here, Like it still works that way. Every
game is a colossal game in people's minds. If you
lose it. I don't think beating Cincinnati people aren't going
(05:48):
to be freaking out over joyed. They'll be mostly relieved.
But if Nebraska were to lose this game, oh yeah,
it gets big. Then it gets big, it gets gag.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
If if they reach every expectation and have the best
year possible, I guess the the easier way would would
would be to ask, like, what's their ceiling, What's what's
the best case for this team in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ken, I think it's a ten. I mean, you know
how it goes. I mean, you could say about any
team undefeated, but that's not it's not realistic here. It's
because they got to play ten state on the road.
It's just hard to go from seven to eleven. I mean,
I think that Ken looks like a ceiling here with
the with the breast is limitations. I'd say limitations up
(06:35):
front on defense. They they're not great at running back.
They have a pretty good starter, but behind him is
a lot of unknown young guys. So I think ten.
I think ten is a ceiling. Maybe gets you in
the playoffs, that's the thing. Ten might just get you in.
I'm not predicting ten, but I have predicted nine. So
I think that, Hey, mo, I think they're pretty good.
(06:57):
I mean, I think you're going to see a pretty
good in the Braska team, particularly on offense.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
What does this crowd look like? It's gonna be pro
Husker again, I know nobody from here is going, or
I know nobody from here who is going. Uh, Lincoln
to Kansas City is about three and a half hours.
It's a big alumni base, I'm sure in that part
of the country. Like, is this one people are traveling too?
Is this you know, corn Huskers Nebraska alums in Kansas City?
(07:25):
What's the composition like on Thursday at Arrowhead.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah. I don't want to sound like a Homer at all. No,
I not. I'm not that guy. But you're going I'm not.
Anybody knows me knows I'm I'm I'm about it. Cynicals.
It gets but here you're going, let's get ready. It's
gonna be wild. It's gonna be loud, and it'll be passed.
It's when Nebraska that's its site on a takeover, it
(07:51):
gets pretty wild. It's you know, Memorial Stadium different. It'll
it'll be a louder crowd than in Lincoln. I know,
sounds odd that there's a season there's a lot of
season ticket holders that are you know, they're in their
sixties and seventies and eighties, so the crowd's not always
really rockets in Lincoln. I imagine it's going to be
(08:13):
rocket It'll be quiet. It'll be quiet team, it'll be tough. Now,
I don't get I don't help Nebraska. I can't. I
definitely won't hurt them. And you know, since he's offense,
I hope Batterfield, your coach, has the presence of mind
to plan accordingly. But it's going to be loud.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was badly, badly disappointed for a lot of different
reasons during the pandemic because they were supposed to play
you see in Lincoln in twenty twenty. That that game
has been moved to twenty thirty three. I'll be there
for that in eight years, and we'll have to talk
because I can't wait to go to Lincoln for the
first time. First things for Cincinnati and Nebraska in Kansas City,
(08:54):
Steve and I appreciate the at the time, man, thank
you so much, Hey.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mos, thank you for the time. I'll see I'll make
sure I introduce myself in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, let's make that happen. I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It, all rightli Feelick.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You're the man. Steven Sipple, Husker online and co host
of The Early Break. I was on his show with
his two co hosts on ninety three seven The Ticket
in Lincoln. That was a fun conversation, and uh, I've
learned a lot about Nebraska. Listener to those guys you
see in Nebraska on Thursday night. No better place to
watch that game than right here at Oakley Greens. Let's
(09:30):
make an admission about somebody we all love. Next on
ESPN fifteen.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thirty, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the UC Health
Traffic Center.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Trust the same team for your care that keeps the
UC Bearcats on the field. Count on u see Health
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine no matter the injury. Visit seehealth
dot com. For those of you heading into town from
the south, you'll want to know that northbound seventy one
is completely blocked off from a truck fire that's over
at mile marker forty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Motorists looking to avoid that can take the Carrollton exit
to US forty two back to ten thirty nine and
seventy one. From there, I'm at exelic with traffic
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