Sean Callahan Breaks Down the Husker Victory

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Onward. Now to sports brief, the Husker buzz of Deja Well,
Sean Callahan live somewhere here's genrow Well shadow. What do
you think? I mean? It was It was not a
great performance, but it wasn't a bad performance. It wasn't sloppy.
I thought it would be sloppier. Most first games are
only three penalties, no turnovers. Although Dylan ryl I got

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really lucky on the bounce of the ball on that
funbled in the first half, and he nearly threw a
pick six in the second half. But overall, for an opener,
your expectations were unmet or met.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, you would like to have seen, you know, a
few more things looked better than they did, but you
have to always remind yourself to just spread. It got
down to five, five and a half points, This was
going to be a tight game. As of what the
oddence makers had it at Nebraska, I think what Warria is.
They didn't look like they The things that we kind
of had questions about going in the year were questions

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in this game. The depth of the running back. I mean,
Emma Johnson twenty five carries one hundred and eight yards great,
but the other backs only had to combined two carries
in the games, so that the lack of options in
the running back room putting that load on him and
is that realistic? And then the defensive line, you knew
it was going to be a drop down losing what

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they've lost and Nash and tie Jamari Butler, but there
were moments where they just didn't look at, you know,
like a very physical unit. They didn't get a lot
of pressure on sores beat their quarterback either, but they
made the plays down the stretch. They forced the two
key turnovers, the one before halftime and the one obviously
he closed the game. But yeah, it was There was

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a lot of things you could take away from at
the bottom line is Nebraska has not won a Power
four season opener guys since two thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
This was a good opponent. You don't want to play
a great opponent when you're still building your program in
the confidence within your program, but you do want to
play a good one. And Cincinnati is physical, more physical
probably than we thought. They were probably not as physical
as a day in, day out Big ten team, but
better than most Big twelve teams. I was particularly taken

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aback by Nebraska's lack of desire to throw the ball
down field last night. Now, Riolo is very efficient in
the underneath coverages, get threw to the tight ends a lot,
a lot of short routes. Fine, But with the speed
at receiver that this team has, I would have thought
we'd see a few more home run balls.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
And that also, you know the way that Cincinnati played Nebraska,
they played this high shell where there was always three
deep safety and they were not going to let the
arm arrogance of Dylan Royola take over this football game.
That's the style they play every game. And they had
the really good guy in the middle Corleone, and you

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would look at the box from the high up where
you're at, you you can see like wow, you know
they could just pound the inside here because of the numbers.
When you play three deep safeties two corners, you know
you're playing limited numbers in the box. But Nebraska just
was never able to really take advantage of the run
game at the level it needed to to push the

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safeties up. In turn, it led to a lot of
the six to eight yard throws that Dylan Rayl had
to surgically make because they were not going to let
deep balls down the field beat them because their safeties
are playing twenty plus yards back and there are three
of them.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, we're not going to know, probably for another three
or four days. Keona Davis looked like the only serious
injury that occurred during the game. Sometimes after the game
you find out that there were more serious injuries, but
anything on Davis's ankle.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well jn Janyron Bonner was the significant one. Actually, he
left the game with what appeared to be a knee
and that did look significant. Matt rule after the game,
that was the only one he actually commented on. So
no word on Keona if you know he's back, But
you know, Keona did play a fairly decent snapload. You know,
it is notable they rotated the three left tackles, but

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Elijah Pritchett did end up playing the most snaps of
the three. He graded the highest as well. Getula played
twenty two snaps, corporated twenty six snaps, putche at thirty four.
So it was a true three man left tackle rotation
as well last night.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, and other than the false start at the one
yard line, which was a very expensive false start, especially
when you're paying a guy a million dollars. You just
can't do that in games where other teams will take advantage.
That cost Nebraska four points, four very big points, but
it was clearly for him thirty four snaps more than
anybody else's big All right, well, Shana, try to get

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some sleep. We know you finally got to bed about
an hour and a half ago, so we'll talk to
you this week, all right, big.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Guy, Hey, thank you guys, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
You got it. And Shawn's back with Emory this afternoon,
just after five