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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Huscar Buzz edition with our Big Red Insider, Sean Callahan
Live and Lincoln Rosie.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All Right, Sadler, let's bring in Sean Allen. I don't
think there's any question that you guys let the coordinators
have and they deserved it yesterday at the press conference
after that Michigan performance defense gave up two hundred and
eighty six yards rushing offense allowed seven sacks. So what
was your impression of Dana Holgertson's solution to the problem.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, I think he knows they need some more balance
down the road, but at the same time he's like,
I'm calling plays and I think you're going to work.
You know, they are second in the country right now
in passing though it's a stat that I don't think
we've ever seen with Nebraska football where they rank this
high nationally this late in the year throwing the football
and it speaks to Dylan Ryola. But at the same time,
(00:48):
as the temperatures drop the wins pick up. You've got
to have a little bit more balance and run the
ball a little bit better, and they got a great
opportunity this week. I do think it's a good matchup
for the offense against Michigan State. Now, can they take
advantage of it? We shall see. But it's been definitely
I want to say, chippier tone, but there's not been
(01:09):
a lot to say. I think people are like, all right,
we're not gonna get up here and do a bunch
of talking. We're just gonna play ball this week.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's comforting and it's a nice switch because you know
a lot of folks talk about how things are this
and things of that. How much stock do you put in?
Because we've seen this many times and that is guys
will leading up to the game will say we had
a great week of practice, I mean, the best I've
ever seen. And then we got there and lay an
(01:36):
egg in the ball game, and we're hearing the same
thing right now. This is the best practice I've ever seen.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean what they said was over the bye week.
Dana Holgerten said he's never been a part of practices
this physical over a bye and that's how Matt rule operates.
I mean they're really physical, especially on the first buy,
but even on a Tuesday during the week, it's very
fit to go practice. And I think that was mainly
what you know yesterday what they were talking about just
(02:07):
in Matt Rulso, the only way I know how to
fix what we need to work on is go at
it hard. So they've got to get better at stopping
the run and they've got to get better at running
the football, and you can only really improve in those
areas by practicing it. So I think they did address
that this week.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Your impression of what Nebraska's identity is on offense, and
once again it was fascinating to listen to Dana say, Hey,
you know, when we go into a game, I don't
know what we're going to do. I don't know that
we're going to throw for three hundred and fifty yards
this week and run for fifty or vice versa. What's
your position, Sean on and what's your observation of what
(02:44):
the Nebraska identity is? Because I think a college team
needs an identity, does it not?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, their identity is Dylan Royola and finding the rhythm
in the pace that it's going to take to win
that Saturday with the offense. And you know, if the
rhythm and the pace is there, then the run game
all of a sudden will open up. And you know,
it was hard Saturday two weeks ago against Michigan to
have the rhythm and the pace because of the pass rush.
When you know Michigan's players have thirty six pressures and
(03:10):
seven sacks, you're just not going to get a great
pace to what you're doing, and a lot of it
you're kind of on the retreat or on the run
trying to survive. And Dylan made five or six kind
of you know, save throws where he was going to
take a sack or being pressured and he was able
to get it out and make it into a big play.
So he's got that ability. But I think that is
(03:31):
really their identity is you know, what do we got
to do to get in the right rhythm, and when
we do that, we're pretty hard offensive stop I predict.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let me put it this way. I hope that they're
working on and they're not going to reveal this obviously
in the media, and they shouldn't. There's got to be
a package of a few plays for TJ Latif to
give the defense something to think about if they're gone
gets tough like it did against Michigan. I wouldn't be
(04:02):
a bit surprised Sean if that's happening. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You know that they've been really cooy with that, but
you might be honest up in Gary because they said, like, look,
it's going to look different in some areas and you
have to wait to see it till Saturday. And you know,
if they're not running it effectively with their tailbacks, how
do you tinker that up? Maybe you have a wrinkle
like that in there where Ryola and Latifa on the
(04:25):
field together. I mean they did, They've done it in
the past with Harbord too. I mean, Harbord can do that,
but it just feels like since he's grown into a
tight end role, he's not as effective as kind of
a wildcat runner as he used to be. When he's
a quarterback. He's a little heavier and doesn't move maybe
as well as he once did.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I'd love to see that more though. Yeah, do
you have any guy? Did anybody ask about you have
on our offensive tackles? A little help when you've got
a great edge rusher like Michigan had, and there'll be
other teams in that semilar players, you have those tackles
a little help.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They were out there on They've done it with the
tight end at times, and they've even tried Turner Corcoran
as an additional blocking tight end. But obviously the back
in the backs have been good. Michigan game was not
a good game for them as far as picking up
those extra rushers coming in. And Michigan was the first
team that brought heat. I mean they brought blitz on
(05:20):
Ryola on over half his dropbacks. Nobody else played Nebraska
like that. Cincinnati did not blitz Nebraska. They played the shell.
And you can't really get too much into the Houston
Christian and acoring games because those are just different opponents.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is what we're gonna see, though, I think you're
probably looking into the future when you look at film
of Michigan's performance. Now, does everybody have a mister Barham, know,
but everybody's got some athletes on defense, And what other
defensive coordinators are going to do is say, look, we
have one guy or two guys who we think are
athletic enough to whip that tackle and athletic enough to
(05:56):
get to the quarterback. If they have to bring tight
ends in just to keep our people. That cuts down
on Nebraska's playbook dramatically, because that shuts down the number
of receivers that he has to look at. And let's
be honest about it, Dilan Rayola is not the fleetest
footed quarterback we've ever had, no.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But he's got to have a little time man, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean he's not going to be able to scramble,
you know, and take off even like Brandon Soresby did.
But this kid here, Aidan childs for Michigan State, he
does do that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We'll get a little deeper into Michigan State tomorrow and
Friday as we inch toward the next game. Sean, thanks
our Husker insider, Sean Callahan Husker online dot com every
morning with us
Huscar Buzz edition with our Big Red Insider, Sean Callahan
Live and Lincoln Rosie.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All Right, Sadler, let's bring in Sean Allen. I don't
think there's any question that you guys let the coordinators
have and they deserved it yesterday at the press conference
after that Michigan performance defense gave up two hundred and
eighty six yards rushing offense allowed seven sacks. So what
was your impression of Dana Holgertson's solution to the problem.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, I think he knows they need some more balance
down the road, but at the same time he's like,
I'm calling plays and I think you're going to work.
You know, they are second in the country right now
in passing though it's a stat that I don't think
we've ever seen with Nebraska football where they rank this
high nationally this late in the year throwing the football
and it speaks to Dylan Ryola. But at the same time,
(00:48):
as the temperatures drop the wins pick up. You've got
to have a little bit more balance and run the
ball a little bit better, and they got a great
opportunity this week. I do think it's a good matchup
for the offense against Michigan State. Now, can they take
advantage of it? We shall see. But it's been definitely
I want to say, chippier tone, but there's not been
(01:09):
a lot to say. I think people are like, all right,
we're not gonna get up here and do a bunch
of talking. We're just gonna play ball this week.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's comforting and it's a nice switch because you know
a lot of folks talk about how things are this
and things of that. How much stock do you put in?
Because we've seen this many times and that is guys
will leading up to the game will say we had
a great week of practice, I mean, the best I've
ever seen. And then we got there and lay an
(01:36):
egg in the ball game, and we're hearing the same
thing right now. This is the best practice I've ever seen.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean what they said was over the bye week.
Dana Holgerten said he's never been a part of practices
this physical over a bye and that's how Matt rule operates.
I mean they're really physical, especially on the first buy,
but even on a Tuesday during the week, it's very
fit to go practice. And I think that was mainly
what you know yesterday what they were talking about just
(02:07):
in Matt Rulso, the only way I know how to
fix what we need to work on is go at
it hard. So they've got to get better at stopping
the run and they've got to get better at running
the football, and you can only really improve in those
areas by practicing it. So I think they did address
that this week.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Your impression of what Nebraska's identity is on offense, and
once again it was fascinating to listen to Dana say, Hey,
you know, when we go into a game, I don't
know what we're going to do. I don't know that
we're going to throw for three hundred and fifty yards
this week and run for fifty or vice versa. What's
your position, Sean on and what's your observation of what
(02:44):
the Nebraska identity is? Because I think a college team
needs an identity, does it not?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, their identity is Dylan Royola and finding the rhythm
in the pace that it's going to take to win
that Saturday with the offense. And you know, if the
rhythm and the pace is there, then the run game
all of a sudden will open up. And you know,
it was hard Saturday two weeks ago against Michigan to
have the rhythm and the pace because of the pass rush.
When you know Michigan's players have thirty six pressures and
(03:10):
seven sacks, you're just not going to get a great
pace to what you're doing, and a lot of it
you're kind of on the retreat or on the run
trying to survive. And Dylan made five or six kind
of you know, save throws where he was going to
take a sack or being pressured and he was able
to get it out and make it into a big play.
So he's got that ability. But I think that is
(03:31):
really their identity is you know, what do we got
to do to get in the right rhythm, and when
we do that, we're pretty hard offensive stop I predict.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let me put it this way. I hope that they're
working on and they're not going to reveal this obviously
in the media, and they shouldn't. There's got to be
a package of a few plays for TJ Latif to
give the defense something to think about if they're gone
gets tough like it did against Michigan. I wouldn't be
(04:02):
a bit surprised Sean if that's happening. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You know that they've been really cooy with that, but
you might be honest up in Gary because they said, like, look,
it's going to look different in some areas and you
have to wait to see it till Saturday. And you know,
if they're not running it effectively with their tailbacks, how
do you tinker that up? Maybe you have a wrinkle
like that in there where Ryola and Latifa on the
(04:25):
field together. I mean they did, They've done it in
the past with Harbord too. I mean, Harbord can do that,
but it just feels like since he's grown into a
tight end role, he's not as effective as kind of
a wildcat runner as he used to be. When he's
a quarterback. He's a little heavier and doesn't move maybe
as well as he once did.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I'd love to see that more though. Yeah, do
you have any guy? Did anybody ask about you have
on our offensive tackles? A little help when you've got
a great edge rusher like Michigan had, and there'll be
other teams in that semilar players, you have those tackles
a little help.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They were out there on They've done it with the
tight end at times, and they've even tried Turner Corcoran
as an additional blocking tight end. But obviously the back
in the backs have been good. Michigan game was not
a good game for them as far as picking up
those extra rushers coming in. And Michigan was the first
team that brought heat. I mean they brought blitz on
(05:20):
Ryola on over half his dropbacks. Nobody else played Nebraska
like that. Cincinnati did not blitz Nebraska. They played the shell.
And you can't really get too much into the Houston
Christian and acoring games because those are just different opponents.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is what we're gonna see, though, I think you're
probably looking into the future when you look at film
of Michigan's performance. Now, does everybody have a mister Barham, know,
but everybody's got some athletes on defense, And what other
defensive coordinators are going to do is say, look, we
have one guy or two guys who we think are
athletic enough to whip that tackle and athletic enough to
(05:56):
get to the quarterback. If they have to bring tight
ends in just to keep our people. That cuts down
on Nebraska's playbook dramatically, because that shuts down the number
of receivers that he has to look at. And let's
be honest about it, Dilan Rayola is not the fleetest
footed quarterback we've ever had, no.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But he's got to have a little time man, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean he's not going to be able to scramble,
you know, and take off even like Brandon Soresby did.
But this kid here, Aidan childs for Michigan State, he
does do that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We'll get a little deeper into Michigan State tomorrow and
Friday as we inch toward the next game. Sean, thanks
our Husker insider, Sean Callahan Husker online dot com every
morning with us
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