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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for a chat with our official Husk fan,
Ritchie and Pavilion Ritchie, Good morning. What are you thinking
of offense after the UCLA game?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Richie?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh my god, it's everything is so hard for us
to do anything right.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
It doesn't seem that way. It's just unbelievable. I mean,
I'll give you one example. You know, we got down
what's on a ten yard line, first and goal of
first and ten on the eleven or whatever. We got
to the five yard line.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And this brilliant offensive coordinator who's not gonna be here
we know that now, decides to throw the ball three times.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
It's just unbelievable. It's, you know, now you got a
consultant in which.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We know what he's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
What his name is, Hocus, I really don't know who
he is, but he's gotta be better than this guy.
He has to be. The play calling is just unbelievably
in that I just don't understand it. You get down
from the ten to the five, run all three times,
and this guy decides to throw one in the corner
that had absolutely no prayer, and then he throws two
(01:06):
more times, and it's just unbelievable and then you know,
then of course our defense.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Can't get off the field for some reason.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Our third downs, we end the game on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It inter steps, we missed an extra.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Point and once again and no one's really talking about,
it's the time management again by the coaching staff, especially
in the fourth. They just take way too long and
if you don't score, that's the end of it. It
just seems like after that Illinois game, after that, path
just been getting a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, we're playing better teams. Part of it is we're
playing better teams.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, but still, I mean, and let's be honest. We
hung around in that ECLA game. We weren't gonna win
that game. You knew it. We took a punch when
they won the coin toss. We never got up. We
just never got up. And I don't understand our teams
like Indiana, Kansas State, Iowa stayed, iowaw to it extend
the Illinois or all Midwest teams. They seem to do fine,
(02:01):
they really do, and we just don't. I don't understand it.
Nothing Doe recruiting or anything. I just don't get it anymore.
I really don't.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, it's been hard for a Husker fans to tolerate this.
And what you're probably gonna see tonight on the floor
of the three fourths empty Rose Bowl is an Iowa
team that's going to run the ball fifty sometimes against
these guys, and I'll bet you Iowa covers and probably
wins by more So, the question becomes, and it's a
(02:30):
fundamental one and one that we're going to have to accept.
How much does this staff really believe in running the football?
And my suggestion would be not much. They will say
they don't seem to be.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We're not going to win. Then you have to run
the football, especially in the fourth quarterer. You have to run,
especially here, You've got to run the football. I don't
understand what's so hard about this. Get out there and
push that other team back and run the ball. You
get three three and a half yards to play. You're
gonna get the first down all.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The time, right, you gotta have the ability to do it. Though, well, yeah,
we don't try.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We don't try. That's the problem, you know with these
little drinking don't you know? You know? Then they want
the quarterback to run, and what happens when he run?
We saw what happened. I mean it just won the ball.
Try it, see what happens, and don't go away from him.
Absolutely no identity on the team.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I can't wait for this guy to be gone.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I mean, he would have disastered for two years, so
let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Well, I gotta tell you, Richie, this is the challenge though,
and a lot of Husker fans are going to have
to come to grips with it. And that is in
this offense. I believe you use the run to set
up the pass, but you can't do it the other
way around. You can't use the pass to set up
the run because it changes your mentality, it changes your identity.
(03:50):
This has to be a physical football team. It has
to be one that pounds on you and wins in
the fourth quarter if you're going to win in the
Big ten. I believe now this coaching staff has a
once in a generation quarterback talent and they've brought in
a whole bunch of really good receivers.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But if he can't find it, they don't block.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They don't block either.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
If he can't find him.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You gotta run the ball. You can't have the second
and tens and third and nine. You gotta get at
least third and four, third and five, and give yourself
a chance. When you don't hit that first down plate,
you're behind the chains, almost correct. You can't do that.
You gotta run the ball, and you gotta stick to
running the ball. If it doesn't work, keep doing it,
Keep doing it. You have to. That's the way you
win in the and this is the NFL, it's the
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Big ten anywhere. If you can't run the ball, you're
not gonna win. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Ritchie, You're you're you're set up for a good weekend. Though,
No Husk lost.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, and the Giants play Carolina.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, Well, everybody back home is saying this is a
Musk lost nop because we need the Miami quarterback. So
here we go again.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I gotta deal with this stuff, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It just it never ends with any of my teams.
I've got Nebraska and the Giants.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
They have mirrors of each other. Incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You want to hear you want to hear from Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Here, this will be his last thought.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, well yeah, well he has a he has an.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Injury clause and if he gets hurt, we were on
the hook for like forty five million next year.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We can't have that, all right, we can't have that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So all I know is Richie's till told me in
the after I can't remember which loss it was, Husker's
lost and the Giants lost the same weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
He said, next life, no football.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Nothing in the museums and walks in the park.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, Richie, we'll talk next week. Our official Husker fan,
Richie and Papilion