Ritchie in Papillion: Illinois

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday. That means our official Husker fan, Richie in papillion.
He's ready with his Friday rent Richie.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, morning guys. I got you back joining ros.
I just couldn't take another day off. I don't know, hey,
and I've.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Been at this forty three years. I think I have
the right to say, hey, I think you need to
be here.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You need to be here on Friday. And you know
another thing with your old Khani the greatest guy, you're crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yes, positions?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
You play pos position?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Do you want him to play?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
He doesn't play any positions. He's not the best player.
I was gonna stop right.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh, come on, boy, I think he probably is.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Roddy boy, buddy boy.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
That performance well, but he plays a half a game.
He doesn't go out in the field. He could, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
He could play any position he wants, man, but he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He sits on the bench. SOHL game.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, you know you know what, you know why that is? Right?
What the same reason he's not pitching this year because
he can't really throw it that arm right now? See that?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well? They never played a position really anyway. The guy
always tells you he's a DH it's.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Truly is because he's anyway, you know, there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Look, he's a great player, but you know it's not
with the best.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, Now, how do you you like Friday night football?
Because you're a working man?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I hate Friday night football.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's unbelievable that they're actually doing this, you know, first
of all at the high school football night. Okay, And
I'm telling you people that have season tickets, well, have
tickets for this game that can prove to the university
or this corrupt big time common that they can that
that that that they're going to the game, they should
get reimbursed somehow. I don't know if I'm a pro
shops in session something. This is just not fair. There's

(01:42):
no way Division one college team should play every on
a Friday night. Why don't they play on Thursday nights? Why?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
The NFL?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Because is there? Right? So you know what, it's just
not fair to the people that now have to go
to their kids games on Friday night. They should be
playing this game tomorrow night, plain and simple. And another thing,
where are we parking? What are we going to park?
Aren't those garages workers in it today?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now they'll be out by game time, I believe.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, but a lot of people go down A lot
of people go down there and too early, you know.
And so Richie, you're a working man, very different constructs.
You're a working man. Are you going to be able
to get off and get and get there in time?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna leave today at two o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
In other words, you're taking Friday off.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, No, I'm not taking Friday. If I only work
for I've retired. I've only worked four hours. I'm working
my compliment of four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I am not ten o'clock to two o'clock tailgate thing.
I am working.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
So how do you you're right about the tailgate thing, Richie.
That's unfortunately it's going to change people's behavior, which is
too bad.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So how do you see THO one? Richie?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I want you know, top twenty five matchup onere sellouts
in a row. Everyone's watching us. I feel good. You
know we're a better team.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Our offensive line has to take care of their defensive
line and vice versa, and control the ball, and we
have to definitely run the ball. Illinois secondary, I believe
gets turnover, so we got to be careful. And on
the other side, stop the run cover of those big
receivers and get off the field on third downs. I mean,
we definitely got to do that and the penalty. The

(03:17):
only thing I'm a little concerned about is the field
goal kicker. He hit two of them last week, but
there's something going on there.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I don't know special teams is, special teams is. But
they're better at returning than they were last year.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
But I think the special teams are better, but I
thought they should. Yes, you have an excellent putter. I
thought they should have let him kick that long field
goal last week instead of going for an on fourth down.
I don't know why we did that, you know, give
the kids some confidence. But that's really the only thing.
Special teams is a little bit, you know, but it's
much better than it used to be. I mean, look,

(03:53):
you go to these games. It's different down there. Everyone
sees it, everyone feels it. This is a huge game
for us to get to four and all and just
keep keep out, you know, keep that focus going for
the next couple of games until we go out to
Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I look, I have respect for Illinois because I have
respect for Big ten teams. But I'm watching film with
these guys, they don't run the ball very well, they
give up yards on the ground, they don't protect their quarterback,
and they ain't seeing a defensive line like this one yet.
I think Nebraska's defensive line is going to have a
very big game tonight, and they.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Can get to the guys. But if we don't throw the.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Ball, if we don't throw the ball, they're not going
to intercept it and just run the ball.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
You have to throw the ball. Though you cannot throw
the ball, we just gotta just don't turn the ball over.
It's okay to punt once in a while, you know,
especially with this punt. This guy launches and the defense
and the Black excellent defense. So just just do what
we gotta do, protect the football, and you know, maybe

(04:57):
it's gonna take a couple of takeaways also, So that's
gonna be for us tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's gonna happen. Nebraska is going to get another defensive
score in this game, because if this quarterback is running
for his life and throwing the ball up for grabs,
that secondary is going to have a game. I just
don't see enough athletes on Illinois side of the ball
or side of the field.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Physical, physical, they're gonna punch us have to get up.
Maybe if that's not bad, he's throwing up seventy.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, but it's hard to throw.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's hard to throw when you're on a gurney.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Ritchie. Maybe maybe you can run into the Troy down
and the new a d uh the.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Game and this is the Big Ten Conference. We all
know that it's actually.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's actually yeah, and this happened before he was here,
so Shawn I course and Harvey Peerlman who agreed to this.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, but didn't they announce this this year. I didn't
know there was a Friday game. Maybe I missed it.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, No, it's been it's been on.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It's been announced for a long time. There are five
Big Ten teams that aren't playing Friday games, Ohio State,
Michigan State or three football Tonight.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
You got people that want to go see next day.
You know, their sons and daughters play, and it's just
not fair and people are going to take bets on
these pickets just because of that. And it's a huge game.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
To Heay Richie, take your anger out onto your line.
I tonight, God bless you. You have a good one there.
He is our official escrapean richie in papillion every Friday
morning and