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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sports Brief. This would be the Husker Buzz edition with
Sean Callahan live and like Rosie, that's got to show you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yesterday, all the reporters asking Dana Holgerson's question at Holgerson
questions your impression of his first big media event.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, he was up at the podium like a guy
that was a former fourteen year head coach at West Virginia,
and Houston just carries himself with authority, with leadership, with
confidence and not afraid to say what needs to be said.
And I think, I think when you read and listen
to the fans, and that's what I like to do.
I like to listen to what the fans are saying
that they like that the best that I think we
(00:37):
all would agree. The wide receiver blocking has been atrocious
at times this year, and he uses the words embarrassing
and he's I told the guys the blocking on the
perimeter has been embarrassing, and he goes, we're not going
to throw the ball to you if that's the case.
So that that was I think red meat to a
lot of Husker fans because it has been I mean,
(00:57):
he said, you got there, big guys. He's like, why
why are you blocking poorly? And then even the running
he said, I told He didn't even mention Bartel by name.
He said, I told the running backs coach, and he's like,
there's holes here as white as my arms. He goes,
why aren't the guys hitting the holes? And you know,
I think the offensive line played a fine game. The
(01:20):
backs obviously need to do a better job sometimes of
getting up field in those holes. And he was not
afraid to say some of those things, so that that
was all interesting to hear because it was a complete
one eighty from maybe the style of Marcus Sadderfield when
he spoke yeah, well he did.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He called out e J. Barthell, not by name, but
he's the running backs coach. And then Garrett McGuire, the
teenager is the wide receivers coach, a guy that looks
like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He's not.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
But it does lead you to wonder, Seano if he
becomes the offensive coordinator, what what does that foretel for
Marcus Sadderfield and e J. Barthel and Garret McGuire are
they going to be around next year?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know? With this unlimited coach rule, and thing is
possible with with with how you build your staffs and
what you do. So all bets are off where that goes,
because it's not like they have to force someone out
the door. They could figure out ways and do different things.
But you're right, it wasn't a real promising first first
moment at the stage there for those guys with with
(02:21):
with the Holgers. And in some ways he's kind of
now another kind of an enforcer for Matt Rule, Like
he can say some things that Matt Rule probably would
like to say. Matt Rule's a lot more careful, and
I'll be honest, sometimes I feel like the other assistants
were careful too. When they're at the podium. They don't
want to step on the toes of the head coach
and or say more than they should say. You know,
(02:43):
you always hear Tony White say this. He's like, you know,
whatever the headman wants, whatever the headman wants, Like he's
real careful, and Dane Olvers is not going to have
that approach. And I think that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was kind of well, it's easy to be It's
easy to be critical when none of what's happened is
your fault and it hasn't been his fault. These aren't
his players it's not his schemes, not his plan. It
hasn't been his game plans. And you look at Ron Brown. Now,
Ron Brown's job is fullbacks and returners coach. Well, we
don't have a fullback anymore, and so he's responsible for
(03:12):
kick returners.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How will he meld with this? Sean not understand the
resource they have and Ron Brown when it comes to
receivers blocking down field, it might seem as an old guy.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Ron Brown, though, I mean, I think they love
Ron Brown and his role. He's paid as an assistant.
He's around that practice, has a very valued role. He's
just not a head position coach anymore. He's on the
road recruiting. But he very much has a job at Nebraska,
probably as long as he wanted to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He ain't going anywhere now. The running game itself is
pretty bad. Nebraska has not had one guy rush for
over seventy five yards in a game this year. They
are ninety ninth in the country running the ball now,
Dana Holgerson likes to throw the ball. He's the air
raid guy. But I got the impression listening to him,
yes today, Sean Oh, that he thinks we need to
(04:02):
run the ball a lot more. Now, is that going
to run headlong into mad rule?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, they have to figure out a way to run
in this league in November especially, But you look at
the numbers. The only year that was probably worse than
this year in terms of running consistently was twenty seventeen,
And what was the common denominator of twenty seventeen In
twenty twenty four, they didn't have a running quarterback. They'd
have a quarterback to help in the run game. So
(04:27):
it is extremely difficult if you don't have a running
element with a QB. And Tanner Lee was drafted. You
can say what you want, he was a drafted quarterback,
but he didn't run it. And Dylan Rayl is probably
a potential guy like that too, not necessarily a true runner.
It really puts a lot of pressure on the traditional
run game, and you know, Nebraska's got to be elite
(04:49):
there and their backs have to hit holes and they
have to get downhill. Iowa does a masterful job at that.
As we know, they don't run the quarterback, but they
figure out a way to still get around two hundred
yards a game right now this year, and Nebraska needs
to I'm not saying easy to get two hundred a game,
but if they could get thirty to forty more rushing
yards a game, that would be a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You need to be in this league in the Big Ten.
That wasn't the case in the Big twelve, but in
the Big Ten, I just believe firmly you have to
be in the one sixty one fifty to one sixty
per game average. Some games you'll be at two hundred.
Some games they haven't broken off any big runs. You
got to have some of those. But this this is
going to be a fascinating construct because there's a new
(05:30):
sheriff and that means the deputies, some of them may
not have their badges next time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I'm encouraged. There's our Husker insider Sean Callahan every morning
with the Buzz
Sports Brief. This would be the Husker Buzz edition with
Sean Callahan live and like Rosie, that's got to show you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yesterday, all the reporters asking Dana Holgerson's question at Holgerson
questions your impression of his first big media event.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, he was up at the podium like a guy
that was a former fourteen year head coach at West Virginia,
and Houston just carries himself with authority, with leadership, with
confidence and not afraid to say what needs to be said.
And I think, I think when you read and listen
to the fans, and that's what I like to do.
I like to listen to what the fans are saying
that they like that the best that I think we
(00:37):
all would agree. The wide receiver blocking has been atrocious
at times this year, and he uses the words embarrassing
and he's I told the guys the blocking on the
perimeter has been embarrassing, and he goes, we're not going
to throw the ball to you if that's the case.
So that that was I think red meat to a
lot of Husker fans because it has been I mean,
(00:57):
he said, you got there, big guys. He's like, why
why are you blocking poorly? And then even the running
he said, I told He didn't even mention Bartel by name.
He said, I told the running backs coach, and he's like,
there's holes here as white as my arms. He goes,
why aren't the guys hitting the holes? And you know,
I think the offensive line played a fine game. The
(01:20):
backs obviously need to do a better job sometimes of
getting up field in those holes. And he was not
afraid to say some of those things, so that that
was all interesting to hear because it was a complete
one eighty from maybe the style of Marcus Sadderfield when
he spoke yeah, well he did.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He called out e J. Barthell, not by name, but
he's the running backs coach. And then Garrett McGuire, the
teenager is the wide receivers coach, a guy that looks
like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He's not.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
But it does lead you to wonder, Seano if he
becomes the offensive coordinator, what what does that foretel for
Marcus Sadderfield and e J. Barthel and Garret McGuire are
they going to be around next year?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know? With this unlimited coach rule, and thing is
possible with with with how you build your staffs and
what you do. So all bets are off where that goes,
because it's not like they have to force someone out
the door. They could figure out ways and do different things.
But you're right, it wasn't a real promising first first
moment at the stage there for those guys with with
(02:21):
with the Holgers. And in some ways he's kind of
now another kind of an enforcer for Matt Rule, Like
he can say some things that Matt Rule probably would
like to say. Matt Rule's a lot more careful, and
I'll be honest, sometimes I feel like the other assistants
were careful too. When they're at the podium. They don't
want to step on the toes of the head coach
and or say more than they should say. You know,
(02:43):
you always hear Tony White say this. He's like, you know,
whatever the headman wants, whatever the headman wants, Like he's
real careful, and Dane Olvers is not going to have
that approach. And I think that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That was kind of well, it's easy to be It's
easy to be critical when none of what's happened is
your fault and it hasn't been his fault. These aren't
his players it's not his schemes, not his plan. It
hasn't been his game plans. And you look at Ron Brown. Now,
Ron Brown's job is fullbacks and returners coach. Well, we
don't have a fullback anymore, and so he's responsible for
(03:12):
kick returners.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How will he meld with this? Sean not understand the
resource they have and Ron Brown when it comes to
receivers blocking down field, it might seem as an old guy.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Ron Brown, though, I mean, I think they love
Ron Brown and his role. He's paid as an assistant.
He's around that practice, has a very valued role. He's
just not a head position coach anymore. He's on the
road recruiting. But he very much has a job at Nebraska,
probably as long as he wanted to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He ain't going anywhere now. The running game itself is
pretty bad. Nebraska has not had one guy rush for
over seventy five yards in a game this year. They
are ninety ninth in the country running the ball now,
Dana Holgerson likes to throw the ball. He's the air
raid guy. But I got the impression listening to him,
yes today, Sean Oh, that he thinks we need to
(04:02):
run the ball a lot more. Now, is that going
to run headlong into mad rule?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, they have to figure out a way to run
in this league in November especially, But you look at
the numbers. The only year that was probably worse than
this year in terms of running consistently was twenty seventeen,
And what was the common denominator of twenty seventeen In
twenty twenty four, they didn't have a running quarterback. They'd
have a quarterback to help in the run game. So
(04:27):
it is extremely difficult if you don't have a running
element with a QB. And Tanner Lee was drafted. You
can say what you want, he was a drafted quarterback,
but he didn't run it. And Dylan Rayl is probably
a potential guy like that too, not necessarily a true runner.
It really puts a lot of pressure on the traditional
run game, and you know, Nebraska's got to be elite
(04:49):
there and their backs have to hit holes and they
have to get downhill. Iowa does a masterful job at that.
As we know, they don't run the quarterback, but they
figure out a way to still get around two hundred
yards a game right now this year, and Nebraska needs
to I'm not saying easy to get two hundred a game,
but if they could get thirty to forty more rushing
yards a game, that would be a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You need to be in this league in the Big Ten.
That wasn't the case in the Big twelve, but in
the Big Ten, I just believe firmly you have to
be in the one sixty one fifty to one sixty
per game average. Some games you'll be at two hundred.
Some games they haven't broken off any big runs. You
got to have some of those. But this this is
going to be a fascinating construct because there's a new
(05:30):
sheriff and that means the deputies, some of them may
not have their badges next time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I'm encouraged. There's our Husker insider Sean Callahan every morning
with the Buzz
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