Jeff Sims

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Episode Transcript

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Man. Maybe his warning news wego to sports Breath now this would be
the Husker Boz edition with Sean Callahan. I've been Lincoln, Jim Okay,
Let's bring in Shaana now. Thesecond string quarterback is always the most popular
player on campus at Nebraska. It'sa tradition that dates back decades. But
Jeff Simms, by all accounts,is handling this with professionalism, which is

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nice because he's getting paid. Butthe main thing I think Seano is finding
a way to get him on thefield. When you start totaling up all
of the guys on this offense thathave his athletic skills, it's a short
list. Yeah. I don't knowif there is really a plan in place
at this point. I mean they'vesaid Heiner Carberg is the guy. I
don't see Matt Ruhle and Marcus Saderfieldgetting cute with the quarterback position. I

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think they're going to be you know, the way they played it pretty straightforward.
I mean, Harberg has won themgames. Most importantly, he's made
the right decisions and played a stylethat's going to help them win in the
Big Ten West. Right now,in the Big Ten West, went without
turning the football over. Harberg hasdone that. Yeah, he's had some
close calls that have men turnovers whereyou go back to sims. He made

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those decisions at Minnesota and Colorado thatreally cost them games. So I think
that's what it comes down to.I don't know, you know, they
can just throw him out there andsay run the wildcat or something. It
will be interesting to see, Butas of now, I think they just
keep writing the hot hand. Sothey're is actually afraid to lose him to
injury because you could put together apackage of plays, whether it's out of

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the wildcat or put him in theslot and just get him the ball in
space. But they are afraid thatif they do that and he gets hurt,
and then Harburg somehow gets hurt,then they got nothing. Yeah,
we's got the ankle injury. Butagain, I just don't think they're trying
to get cute with this offense.I think they're just playing it sound and
smart and building an identity that way. And I'm sure it's not exactly what

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Marcus Saderfield wanted to do when hegot to Nebraska, but because of the
situation they're in with thees and thereceivers and running backs and guys like that.
You know, it's it's it's beeninteresting to watch them figure this out.
But they've got such a manageable setof games here where it's not going
to take a lot offense to win. If they win some of these games,

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it's going to be about playing justsmart football. Let's talk about injured
guys. As we've heard from playersfor years, you get to the month
of October. The end of October, everybody's hurt unless you haven't been playing.
So there is a modicum amount ofjust reality associated with guys not being

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one hundred percent. But who's ata place where they can't really help the
team? Well, Eaton Piper isplaying with a cast on his hand right
now and he's going to keep battlingthrough that. And you Matt rule address
that we saw Eaton this week.Marky's Buford hopefully can come back for the
final four games of the season.That will be big. Deshaun Singleton could

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return at some point on the backback into the defense too. We don't
know really a timeline, but ifthey could get both those safeties back in
the final month, that could bebig in games against Wisconsin in Iowa here
down the stretch. I mean thoseare the Luke Rhymers back on the field.
This week, Cameron Linhard played aboutten to twelve snaps at Illinois.
He should be able to give thema much bigger effort now this week after

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a bye, So they're in forthis time of year. I think they're
in pretty good shape. Did weever find out what Rhymer's injury was?
Yeah, Matt Role confirmed it.It was a MRSA infection that they addressed
immediately. That like a staff thatjust means they need to hose down those

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masks a little more. That's usuallysomething you see in wrestlers. You don't
typically see the wounds, an opencut or wounded. Those things can get
they can infect I mean light andMurtha if you remember him, bad staff
infection that knocked him out for afew weeks. Well, I'm glad he's
okay. This is where coaching isso important when you have this kind of
Matt Ruhle himself said, right Seana few weeks ago. A couple of

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weeks ago, he said, I'veactually never seen this dealt with this before
as a coach, where I havethis many skill position guy running back and
receiver go down at the same time. So this is where this is where
you earn your money. Right youthink about guys like the running back Grant.
I mean they were ready to runhim out of town after Minnesota a

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couple of weeks later. Easy whenwhen left they got to play? You
know, yeah, it's Look,this is the frustrating part of coaching in
the year twenty twenty four. Youknow you've got to You've got a transfer
portal that allows your good recruits toleave if they aren't getting enough playing time.
And today's Rosie Degenozi involves x SavierWatts and there were many times he
wanted to leave Notre Dame because hewasn't playing. Okay, that's Notre Dame

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and he was switching positions. Soit's hard to keep your guys here.
So then you double down on recruitsto get them. But if you lose
them to in you can't go tothe waiver wire like the NFL, so
it's not as easy to manage yourroster as it once was, when coach
Osburn could have one hundred and fiftyguys and they couldn't leave. They had

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to stay. And if a coupleof guys got hurt. Well, you
know we've got three other guys atthat position. Sean, Who do we
have in town this weekend that weneed to impress recruit wise, Well,
you know, they've made some newoffers that junior college players, so those
guys might come in later, buta lot of it is going to be
twenty twenty fives and twenty twenty sixes. I mean, there is one official

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visitor coming in though, Jackson,Lee and Edge that they just offered out
of Plano, Texas, and thatkind of just developed recently. You know,
in the usual suspects will be here. Carter Nelson will be back in
Lincoln this weekend after being another day. The usual suspects. That plane O,
that's Rex burkhead right Plano, Texas, Plano yet doubt north of Dallas

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there the usual suspects will be atCheers for happy Hour right around two thirty
on Saturday. All right, thanksShana, you now know more than you
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