SMQ: Nebraska-Maryland Postmortem

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00:00 Welcome to Sunday Morning Quarterback with Jay Stockwell and Bob Frady.
00:12 Mama said there'd be days like this, my baby.
00:17 My mama said, what an awful day for Nebraska yesterday.
00:21 Oh, I can't even take it anymore.
00:25 I can't even take it.
00:28 Last year, you kind of knew the defense wasn't very good, so you're just kind of hanging
00:33 on by your fingernails.
00:34 And this year, you know the defense is freaking rock solid.
00:39 And the offense laid a turd yesterday.
00:42 I think it's the worst offense in my lifetime.
00:46 I don't remember a worse offense in my lifetime.
00:48 That's a lot of offenses, boy, I tell you.
00:51 Yeah, I'm 59 years old.
00:53 So it's like the worst offense.
00:56 And look, we're going to talk about something today, and that something is accountability.
01:05 We have an offensive coordinator who is also the quarterbacks coach.
01:12 And we have three quarterbacks playing exactly the same way.
01:17 What's that?
01:19 My team wants the ball?
01:20 No, let's throw it to the other team.
01:22 Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:24 You belong in Nebraska, son.
01:26 Come work with me.
01:28 I'll make you do that even more.
01:30 So you have a defensive coordinator with the same level of athletes that can find a way
01:36 to create a top 20 defense.
01:39 You have an offensive coordinator and the quarterbacks coach that is maybe the most
01:45 inept I've ever seen in 50 years of watching this program.
01:51 It is shocking, shocking, the disconnect between what the offensive coordinator seems to think
02:01 he has at quarterback and what he actually has.
02:06 I sometimes think he's just wishing that this play happens because it should happen with
02:11 a reasonably good quarterback.
02:13 And guess what?
02:14 You don't have them.
02:15 And then there's just lack of situational awareness.
02:18 Yeah, OK, you get Chubba in there.
02:21 He drives it 90 yards.
02:23 You've got a running back in Emma Johnson that's playing beautifully.
02:27 Right.
02:28 Defense is getting tired.
02:30 All you need is a field goal.
02:32 OK, yeah.
02:33 So don't run an RPO right and give a guy that hasn't played all year the opportunity to
02:41 throw an interception.
02:42 This is the same thing they did at Minnesota.
02:44 OK, yeah.
02:46 This team is eight and two without coaching blunders, eight and two.
02:51 Well, listen, maybe.
02:54 But let's just focus on one game, and that's the last game.
02:58 You're on the sixth yard line.
03:00 You're running the ball down the field.
03:02 The defense is getting tired.
03:04 Your offensive line is making some holes.
03:07 And what do you do?
03:08 You run stupid play, stupid play, interception, stupid play.
03:13 It's like, what are you thinking?
03:16 What are you doing?
03:17 And listen, I'm not a coach.
03:18 I haven't had that kind of pressure, but I watched a lot of football over my year, two
03:23 more seasons than you.
03:25 I'm like, this defense lights out.
03:29 You know, they're doing great.
03:30 So what's the worst that happens?
03:32 They come down and kick a tight field goal, we go to overtime.
03:34 Big deal.
03:35 Instead, we make, we call plays that should not be that black situational awareness.
03:44 A hundred percent.
03:45 And someone has to take responsibility for that.
03:48 At SMQ, we are calling for accountability in the offensive coordinator and quarterback's
03:56 coaching position.
03:58 Okay.
03:59 I don't know what that form of accountability is, but I think it's at the Met rule level.
04:04 I think it's Trev Alberts level.
04:06 This defense has played enough.
04:08 You should be more than bowl eligible.
04:10 You should be eight and two right now.
04:12 If you have even the semblance of competence at any level, this is a big division one program.
04:18 You're babying the answer, Stockwell.
04:20 Say what you want to say.
04:21 Well, I, you know, look, this is the first year of a rebuild.
04:25 I trust Matt rule.
04:26 I trust Trev Alberts, but guys, it's pretty darn clear.
04:30 We're business guys.
04:32 We're business guys.
04:33 We're donors, right?
04:34 I think about it this way.
04:37 You know, if you're Matt rule, you're the CEO of the team and your offensive coordinator
04:42 is like the CMO, chief marketing officer.
04:46 If you're a marketing officer says, this is the strategy that we're going to use, but
04:50 your product team delivers something else, then that CMO needs to go because you've been
04:56 given plenty of opportunities to adjust and you haven't.
05:01 And you keep making the same mistakes over and over and over.
05:07 I always tell my employees, don't be afraid to make a mistake, but repeating that mistake
05:13 multiple times, then we got a problem.
05:17 Nebraska, we have a problem and it sits in the office of the offensive coordinator.
05:23 And the quarterback's coach, same guy.
05:25 You got the same problem in two different roles.
05:28 You know what Penn State did today?
05:32 They fired their offensive coordinator.
05:34 Why?
05:36 Wasn't producing.
05:37 It's like, I'm not comparing one program to another, but that's some accountability right
05:42 there.
05:43 That's how you take accountability.
05:46 And the funny thing is, is Marcus Satterfield was recruiting Spencer Rattler, South Carolina.
05:52 And he said, everybody thinks you stink.
05:56 Everybody thinks I stink.
05:57 Why don't we show them something together?
05:58 Well, one half of that equation is now back.
06:03 Marcus Satterfield stinks as an offensive coordinator.
06:07 I got no problem saying it.
06:08 I hate to say it.
06:09 It breaks my heart to say it.
06:12 And they ran Casey Thompson out of town.
06:14 They just ran him out of town.
06:15 That's water under the bridge.
06:17 All we can do is focus on what happened just yesterday.
06:20 And what happened just yesterday was that it was a boneheaded call.
06:25 Just a stupid call.
06:28 How many Nebraska fans are like, just run it, run it, run the clock, kick the field
06:31 goal, we'll defend him.
06:33 Like if you-
06:34 Every single person on the planet was thinking the same thing.
06:38 You got a golden kicker now, and this young kid from Westside, the kid can kick the ball.
06:44 Take the field goal.
06:45 Yeah.
06:46 Take the points.
06:47 Go up by three.
06:48 Even if you miss the field goal, they're still on the 10 yard line.
06:52 Yeah.
06:53 It's like, if you would have taken a poll of Nebraska fans when it was first down on
06:59 the six yard line, how many would have said, pass the ball at least twice during this three
07:06 plays?
07:07 The answer would be the guy in the offensive coordinator booth and nobody else.
07:12 Exactly.
07:13 It would have been 99.9.
07:17 It would have been like a Russian election.
07:19 It would have been, you wouldn't even believe that the results are real.
07:26 So despite all of this, despite all this, the Big 10 West is so bad-
07:33 We vented.
07:34 We have vented.
07:35 So now are we going to try to be positive?
07:36 Now we're going to keep venting.
07:37 Oh no, let's be positive now.
07:38 All right, let's try to be positive.
07:39 This is where I was going.
07:40 This is where I was going.
07:43 Despite all of this, despite all of this, the Big 10 West is still gettable.
07:49 It's shockingly gettable.
07:50 No it's not.
07:51 All we got to do-
07:52 It's not gettable.
07:53 It's theoretically gettable.
07:54 No, no.
07:55 It's theoretically gettable.
07:56 No, no.
07:57 What's shockingly available is Wisconsin is playing terribly.
08:02 Terribly.
08:04 And then we got Iowa at home and who's not going to get up to that?
08:08 They play Illinois next week.
08:10 That's true.
08:11 That's true.
08:12 They got to lose.
08:13 Illinois came back and beat Indiana 48 to 45.
08:16 Mathematically possible.
08:17 It's mathematically possible.
08:18 It is highly improbable.
08:20 I am not concerned about winning the Big 10 West.
08:22 I'm concerned about winning another game because what this coach has done offensively is crush
08:29 the spirit of three quarterbacks.
08:32 And how are you going to recover from that in a week?
08:34 You can't have three guys doing the same thing and it not be the coaching.
08:41 It is the coaching.
08:43 It is the coaching.
08:46 And so sorry, Mr. Satterfield, I don't wish you any ill will, but holy smokes.
08:54 It might be great to have it a barbecue, who knows?
08:57 And not to come down on the coaching staff artificially.
09:00 We knew this was going to be a rebuild.
09:02 We knew that Matt Rule's teams don't always go to bowl games in the first year.
09:08 And if you just said, "Hey, we'd be five and five with a fighting chance of getting to
09:12 a bowl game," most people would probably say, "All right, we'll cross our fingers and hope
09:18 for the best."
09:20 But when you see this level of obstinance in the play calling booth with calling plays
09:26 for players that you wish you had rather than players you actually have, that's just bad
09:33 decision making.
09:35 And that will repeat itself season after season after season.
09:42 You know, they did demonstrate the ability to learn though.
09:45 They didn't put Billy Kemp on the 10 yard and make him catch repeated...
09:50 Yeah, instead they tried to throw a touchdown in the end zone.
09:57 The thing that kills me about all the tweaker apologists or tutor or whatever that thing
10:03 is called, X, whatever, they're like, "Satterfield doesn't run the plays."
10:09 I'm like, "But he pulls the plays and he coaches the plays."
10:13 Don't give me that bullshit that it ain't his fault.
10:16 Entirely his fault.
10:17 Yeah, no, I agree.
10:19 This is what this one's all on the coaches.
10:20 I 100% just like the, you know, stand there and catch the ball in the 10 yard line five
10:25 times in a row in the previous game.
10:27 That was coaching.
10:28 Okay, the offensive woes are coaching.
10:31 I like what Matt Rule's doing.
10:33 I really do.
10:34 I'm very optimistic about the future.
10:37 Yes.
10:38 I like the fact that he sits there and takes questions after the game.
10:42 And a little truncated last night, but he faces the music.
10:47 Problem is, I haven't heard a peep from Satterfield.
10:51 He hasn't posted on the Twitter since August.
10:55 Maybe he doesn't post during the season, who knows?
10:57 But this is a guy that is beyond his level of competence in my book.
11:02 Now next year if they keep him and go 10 and 2, he'll be like, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean
11:07 it, but you've got to coach for what you have.
11:11 You can't coach for what you hope you have."
11:13 And that's a basic tenet of this.
11:17 Look, this is wild to see unfold.
11:21 We have, there's talent on this team on both sides of the ball.
11:26 And we've got a defense that's being coached very effectively by Tony White.
11:31 I mean, very effectively.
11:34 And I love, to your point, everything about Matt Rule.
11:39 But what I don't love is incompetence on the offense and a quarterback group that plays
11:43 exactly the same way, all of them doing the same exact thing.
11:47 And they're, guess what, coached by the same guy.
11:50 So there's a very, very, very common thread here, and that needs to be addressed.
11:56 And I'll leave it up to Trev Alberts and Matt Rule on how to address it, but it has to be
12:02 addressed.
12:03 No question.
12:04 And the incompetence question is a little smaller one, because listen, you know, you
12:07 don't have necessarily the players that you want.
12:10 You've got a lot of youth, you've got some people out, yada, yada, yada.
12:14 What kills me is the obstinance of a plan that does not maximize the talent of your
12:21 team.
12:22 And that is unforgivable as far as I'm concerned.
12:25 Because you want to think you've got three, four seasons to milk your 1.4 million per
12:30 year.
12:31 You're getting paid that much money.
12:34 When you're one of the highest paid employees in the state, I think the second highest paid
12:38 employee in the state, you've got to perform.
12:43 And you can't go, "Well, I didn't have the players we wanted."
12:46 You've got to perform.
12:48 And Tony White's doing it, you ain't.
12:52 So I'm so frustrated, so frustrated that, listen, if they had lost that game because
13:01 they missed a field goal, or Maryland came down and scored a touchdown to win the game,
13:05 or they lost it in overtime, I can live with those results.
13:09 But you got basic, it's like, I think that this is part of the analytics hoo-ha that
13:15 sometimes happens.
13:16 Like, "Analytics says we should throw a pass here."
13:19 It's like, analytics doesn't play the game.
13:22 You know, if the game's not played on paper, you play the game on the field.
13:25 And analytics is probably right, you should throw it down there.
13:28 It's like people who go for fourth and inches from the shotgun formation, drives me nuts.
13:33 It's like, this is just not seeing what's on the field and responding properly.
13:40 That's bad coaching.
13:41 That's bad management.
13:42 That's bad practice.
13:44 And if they had malpractice insurance coverage for coaches, Satterfield wouldn't be able
13:51 to get coverage.
13:52 It's like, just wouldn't even get it.
13:55 Now, would you go so far as to make an adjustment during the remainder of the season?
13:59 Would I?
14:00 Yes.
14:01 I'm much faster to make those sorts of decisions.
14:03 It's like, yes, I would.
14:06 Because you know what?
14:07 The same mistake multiple times means you need to find a new line of work, or go work
14:12 for somebody else who takes mediocrity.
14:14 Address the problem.
14:15 Yeah.
14:16 Address the problem.
14:17 Yeah.
14:18 I mean, that's, you know.
14:20 It's a big move.
14:21 It's a harsh move.
14:22 And you've paid a lot of money for this person.
14:23 When you pay that much money for a person, you expect performance.
14:27 If I'm going to pay $200,000 for some hotshot programmer, he's like, "Well, you know, I
14:34 wasn't so good this year.
14:35 Maybe next year I'll be better."
14:36 I'd be like, "No good, pal.
14:39 Out."
14:40 You know?
14:41 And so you pay for high price talent, you get high price performance.
14:43 And if you don't get the performance, and you know, because of the stupidity of the
14:48 person, you know, it just drives me nuts.
14:52 It just drives me nuts.
14:54 Luckily, Wisconsin seems to have, you know, taken a dump on its season.
14:59 I don't know what's happening with them.
15:01 And they have a chance.
15:02 Iowa, I think that's going to be a tough game to win because, you know, they're pretty tough
15:07 on defense.
15:09 And we don't have much of an offense.
15:10 So the final score might be three to two in that game.
15:13 But you know, you just, eh, eh, too much money.
15:21 You want to hear a shock?
15:22 Okay.
15:23 That's right.
15:24 I just Googled Satterfield's salary.
15:27 Marcus Satterfield will make 1.4 million, becoming NU's highest paid assistant ever.
15:32 The figure is also 500K more than he made in South Carolina last season.
15:37 And defensive coordinator Tony White will only make one million.
15:40 Yep.
15:41 Yep.
15:42 Guess how that's going to get addressed.
15:45 I'd be like, "Hello.
15:47 This is Opportunity in the name of Tony White's agent calling."
15:52 Oh my gosh.
15:56 I get it.
15:57 I get it.
15:58 Listen, when you go to a new situation, you want to bring some of the people with you
16:02 who helped make your old situations good.
16:05 And Matt Rule seems like a defense first kind of coach.
16:08 And because he played linebacker, he's good, you know.
16:11 But Satterfield brought with him.
16:14 It's not working, man.
16:16 It's not working.
16:17 And so what are you going to do?
16:18 You're going to punt on this season and infuriate everyone and every living thing.
16:24 But even when they were five and three, we're like, "Man, in spite of this offense, we're
16:27 five."
16:29 And now because of this offense, we're five and five.
16:33 And it's just sad.
16:35 And you know what?
16:36 My heart broke for Jeff Sims yesterday.
16:39 I was really rooting for him.
16:41 And he just did more of the same.
16:44 It's like-
16:45 Boy, I've just never seen anyone that it's so easy to knock the ball out.
16:50 I mean, it's just-
16:51 It is.
16:52 Well, listen, you haven't seen me play.
16:54 It'd be really easy to knock it away from me.
16:56 I'm like a paper doll out there.
16:58 You just throw water on me and the ball's loose.
17:00 I agree with you.
17:01 He's a good kid.
17:03 They don't throw outs.
17:04 Where's the out patterns?
17:06 Where's the easy throws to their running back to let them go and get running?
17:09 Where's the wheel right?
17:10 They tried a few of those.
17:11 They tried a few of those.
17:12 They tried a few of those.
17:13 A couple passes in the flat.
17:14 But the next time, we have seen more interceptions than we have seen wheel routes or passes to
17:21 the running back this year.
17:23 You know what?
17:24 After what I saw, though, I want to see more Chubba.
17:26 Chubba, look.
17:27 I don't know.
17:28 Apparently, he's hurt.
17:30 So he apparently has a groin injury that needs surgery.
17:35 But that's just what I'm hearing.
17:37 I don't know if he could hold up for a whole game.
17:39 Boy, he looked good.
17:41 But Harber, to me, is damaged right now.
17:44 He doesn't seem to be like the same old self.
17:47 Something happened.
17:48 It seems like something happened.
17:50 Jeff Simms seems fully healthy, but is like a turnover machine.
17:55 If you played him a whole game, he'd get another five turnovers.
18:00 It's shocking.
18:01 It's shocking.
18:02 Yeah.
18:03 I think that coaches should have $100,000 taken off of their base pay for ending up
18:07 on the minus side of a plus minus.
18:09 It's like, all right, you have 25 turnovers.
18:12 You take away 12, minus 1.3 million.
18:15 You get soup for the rest of the year.
18:21 You don't mind paying those big bucks, but you've got to have performance.
18:23 And right now, it's non-performant.
18:26 So let's be positive for a couple minutes.
18:30 So the defense, still a very, very just really positive story.
18:37 They played well enough to win every game but two.
18:41 They should be eight and two right now.
18:45 Emmett Johnson is a great emerging story.
18:51 I thought if you'd actually throw it low enough, our tight ends can catch the ball.
19:04 If you throw it to them, they can catch it.
19:07 Problem is they throw it near them but not to them.
19:10 And when you throw it to a tight end, you got to throw it to them.
19:14 They're just high.
19:15 They're just high.
19:16 Yeah.
19:17 Fidoni though looks like a serious, serious tight end.
19:23 There's some bright spots even on the offense.
19:26 There's nothing but hope for the future.
19:28 There's nothing but good things coming.
19:30 The frustration is, okay, let's say the next group of recruits comes in and they keep repeating
19:35 the same dumb mistakes because you've got someone in charge who's still not going to
19:41 have a quarterback next year.
19:42 None of these three guys is going to be the quarter, will probably be the quarterback
19:46 next year.
19:47 They may.
19:48 They may have the whole summer of training.
19:49 They might.
19:50 But these guys pick these quarterbacks.
19:54 And so the person buying the groceries is buying groceries that are tough to eat and
20:01 is putting them in meals where they don't belong.
20:04 So what are you going to do?
20:06 You can't fire all the kids.
20:08 Coach bears responsibility.
20:11 There is a little bit of an accountability level due for Met Rule as well.
20:16 There's no way that a CEO lets the guy throw a pass in that scenario.
20:22 That was just a bad miss by the whole coaching staff.
20:24 I mean, you know.
20:27 If you get to third and seven, I mean, you've shot yourself in the foot.
20:31 First down, run it.
20:32 Second down, run it.
20:33 You're going to get nothing on two runs.
20:35 If you're going to throw a pass, you throw it to the back corners of the end zone where
20:38 no one else can catch it.
20:39 That's where you throw.
20:40 You throw freaking slant routes with an in cutter.
20:43 It's like, what are you doing?
20:45 What kind of a play is this?
20:46 This is ridiculous.
20:47 And if it doesn't work, you throw it out of the end zone.
20:49 Fine.
20:50 Fine.
20:51 Throw it away.
20:52 It's like everybody wants to be a hero and make all these hero calls.
20:55 It's like play basic football.
20:58 If you like kick the field goal, we'd have a bowling party right now.
21:03 We'd all be so excited.
21:06 But knowing it was right there and having it yanked away by incompetence from the play
21:11 calling booth is really the saddest thing.
21:13 And I hate to keep beating the drum on this, but we've watched it game after game after
21:17 game.
21:18 They keep making weird calls.
21:22 And you know, I wish we had the pushup bet this week.
21:25 I would have won this week.
21:26 Even though it technically would have been a draw because he went back to pass and then
21:31 he scrambled for a run.
21:33 But it's like, anyway, anyway, you know, enough of that.
21:38 We've been very positive all season long and we're not going to bail on the team, but we
21:44 love our team.
21:45 We love our team.
21:46 We love, love our team.
21:47 Are we going to the, are we, are we going to go to the game, Bob?
21:52 If they fire Satterfield before Saturday, that's not going to happen.
21:58 That's not going to happen.
21:59 Hey, Penn State did it.
22:00 And Penn State's a big time program.
22:02 You know, they're like, Hey, you got to perform.
22:04 You're out.
22:05 So, you know, and listen, I would did it too.
22:08 I would do it too.
22:09 Here's the thing.
22:10 I think that if Satterfield became available for free, that even Iowa wouldn't take them.
22:17 Yeah.
22:18 I might even take Scott.
22:21 I might even take Scott Frost right now.
22:24 Yeah.
22:26 Like just for offensive, offensive coordinator.
22:29 Yeah.
22:30 He's a good coach.
22:31 He'd probably throw a bunch of bad.
22:32 He's just a screw with people.
22:34 You know, Frost never had a defense.
22:36 We got a defense now.
22:37 I take Frost back for a game.
22:39 You know, I take Whipple back for a game.
22:42 Jeez.
22:43 Anyway.
22:44 All right.
22:45 Well, we'll cross our fingers and hope for the best this week, I guess, Wisconsin.
22:50 But here's, here's what I'm afraid of.
22:52 If we go to a game in Wisconsin, if we go to the game in Wisconsin, it'll be just you
22:56 and me.
22:58 That's a bad design all by itself.
23:00 Well, what if we have a chaperone?
23:03 What if we have a chaperone?
23:05 If we go to the game and they lose, someone's losing some teeth and I'm not sure who it
23:12 is.
23:15 I don't really know.
23:16 It's like, yeah, we went to it.
23:18 So we went to a basketball game together a couple of days ago or last week or so.
23:24 Same thing happened.
23:25 Same thing always happens.
23:26 By the way, the Timberwolves.
23:27 Oh man.
23:28 Six and two, first time in 20 years.
23:30 Me and live sports are not a good combination because I am very clever and most people aren't
23:36 and they get upset with the amount of cleverness that's coming out of me.
23:39 Like, how did you think of that?
23:41 That was really insulting.
23:42 I wish I thought of it.
23:44 You're a jerk.
23:45 I'm going to punch you.
23:46 I'm like, all right, come on.
23:47 So, cause just not now.
23:51 No, no, no.
23:53 Timberwolves at Golden State tonight.
23:55 Listen, focus, focus, focus, power, focus.
23:59 Timberwolves six and two, sixth in the West.
24:01 The N stands for knowledge and what you need to know when you're on the six yard line is
24:04 to run the ball.
24:06 That's the knowledge that you need.
24:07 Hand the ball up, hand the ball off.
24:09 Hand it off.
24:10 Hand the ball off, you're going to a ball game.
24:11 Hand it off, you're going to a ball game.
24:13 Listen, if they'd have fumbled, we'd probably be crying about that.
24:16 Why didn't they pass?
24:17 But not this time.
24:20 Run the ball.
24:22 Take three kneel downs for crying out loud.
24:25 Run the ball.
24:26 So anyway, anyway.
24:29 That's all we got.
24:30 All right, Stockwell.
24:31 That's all we got.
24:32 I think that we have a couple of days to shake this off and prepare for Wisconsin.
24:36 You know, the cheese curds are turning rancid right now, so it might be a good opportunity
24:41 for us to get in there.
24:42 I'm going to look and see what the cancellation policy is on the hotel, because we got to
24:46 make a, we got to have a drop dead time.
24:48 Yeah.
24:49 I'm up for, I'm up for, the girls have already said they're not coming.
24:53 Yeah, they-
24:54 I'm up for-
24:55 I'm up for it.
24:56 Our wives are like, you want to go where?
24:58 When?
24:59 How?
25:00 And you want to do what?
25:01 What?
25:02 You want to watch this scene that disappoints you every week, that leaves you crying?
25:04 The one that leaves you screaming at the end of each game, you want to go see them live?
25:08 Yeah, I want to be part of that.
25:10 We don't have nuclear tree ruts big enough to handle that.
25:15 No, no.
25:18 You know, I almost feel bad with how negative this cast has been.
25:22 I really almost-
25:24 We are the Paragon's positivity.
25:28 We are the hope and the light of Husker football.
25:34 We don't even swear on our podcast.
25:37 We say some words that some people might be considered inappropriate, but they're not
25:40 really.
25:42 We don't use the good cuss words.
25:44 We use the non-good cuss word.
25:47 But even listen, even Pollyanna has a bad day.
25:53 There was one victory yesterday though.
25:56 The Leisure Time Leslie threw down some chow.
26:01 Oh my goodness.
26:02 Leisure Time Leslie.
26:03 She put the carnitas.
26:04 Oh, yeah.
26:05 Oh, the carnitas.
26:09 Something else good happened yesterday.
26:10 Colorado dropped to four and six.
26:12 So who would you rather be?
26:14 Five and five Nebraska or four and six Colorado?
26:18 Yes.
26:19 Oh, it's so good to see that group out there.
26:23 And the picture of Shador Stephens Rolls Royce with the boot on it was hilarious because
26:28 here's what it shows-
26:29 Sanders.
26:30 Oh, Sanders, whatever.
26:31 Here's the thing.
26:34 That shows-
26:35 What a moron.
26:37 If you're 20 years old and you can-
26:39 What a moron buying a Rolls Royce.
26:42 What a moron.
26:44 Even if you could afford it, what does it say about your decision making?
26:48 It says you're interested in the flash over doing something righter.
26:59 I was like, "Man, really?
27:01 Really?"
27:02 It's like, "Listen, I could buy a Rolls Royce if I want one.
27:04 I don't buy it because it's not practical.
27:06 What do you do with it?
27:07 Just drive around and have people look at you.
27:08 That's pretty much it."
27:09 It's like, "It's just a big sign to come assault me and steal me and take my money."
27:12 It's like, "I don't care about it.
27:14 Who needs that?
27:15 Give me a freaking Chevy.
27:16 I'm good."
27:17 It's just like, "Man."
27:20 We both happen to drive Chevys, don't we?
27:21 That's right.
27:22 Suburban.
27:23 Yeah, yeah.
27:24 A ho and a Suburban.
27:25 Go big red.
27:26 Go big red.
27:27 Well, they're four and six, so there you go.
27:30 If somebody said, "Shoulder Sanders was coming to Nebraska as a transfer quarterback next
27:35 year," people would lose their minds.
27:36 They would buy him three John Deeres, which he could trade in for a couple of Rolls Royces.
27:42 Can you imagine?
27:44 And throw him a party like no one's ever seen.
27:47 It's insane.
27:48 Can you imagine?
27:49 He's a great quarterback, man.
27:50 Talk about someone with no defense.
27:54 Some quarterback in this country is going to want to come play here with this defense.
27:58 It's like if it really would have been like, "Oh my God."
28:01 I mean, there'd be a lot of pressure.
28:02 I get that.
28:03 You're just a cog in the wheel at Georgia.
28:05 Big freaking deal.
28:06 You turn around Nebraska, well, you can sell insurance in this state for the rest of your
28:11 life.
28:12 I mean, remember the parents we met at Minnesota, the kid from Sioux City?
28:17 I don't even know his name.
28:20 Let's give him a shot.
28:21 I don't even know.
28:22 Just somebody that just won't lay the ball on the ground.
28:27 We lead the nation in turnovers.
28:30 The nation.
28:31 I was at Nebraska with you and your son George, and I tried to throw him an out route from
28:36 the 10 yard line into the corner of the end zone, and I thought my arm was going to fall
28:39 off.
28:40 It's just, it's really far when you're not there.
28:45 Sometimes you look at it on TV, it's like, "Why can't he make that pass?"
28:47 It's like, "Go out there and try it."
28:49 It's really far, and it's really hard to do.
28:52 Listen, nothing but love for the kids.
28:56 The kids are trying their best, but you've got to have better leadership.
29:02 With that, we still remain positive.
29:05 Well, look, remember what Tom Osborne said.
29:09 For seven years in a row, he lost to Oklahoma.
29:13 Seven years in a row.
29:14 Yep.
29:15 Finally, in 19 ... I think it was seven.
29:16 Six or seven years.
29:17 In 1978, they finally won 17 to 14.
29:23 From that point on, things were a little better, and then they really kicked it in the high
29:27 gear in the '90s.
29:29 Matt Rule, I think this thing is completely on schedule.
29:33 Eight and four is gone, though, Uncle Bob.
29:35 Eight and four is gone.
29:37 Yep.
29:38 Seven and five is still a player.
29:40 Still a player.
29:41 It's gone, too.
29:42 No, I think it's still a player.
29:45 Mathematically possible.
29:46 Yeah.
29:47 I think by Wednesday, our wounds are going to be recovered enough that we may want to
29:53 jump in the car and take one of our Chevys down to Madison.
29:56 We'll see.
29:57 You know what, Stockwell?
29:58 I'm actually blaming you for this loss.
30:02 You know why?
30:03 Why?
30:04 Because at the end of our podcast, you went off script and came up with some crazy response,
30:09 and just like Nebraska did at the end of the game, they failed.
30:12 They failed at the end, just like you last week.
30:15 What are you talking about?
30:16 I don't even know what you're talking about.
30:17 GBR.
30:18 Who says that?
30:19 Oh.
30:20 That was like a pass to the corner with three defensive people in front of you.
30:25 So knock that stuff off.
30:28 You ready?
30:29 You want to do it right this time?
30:30 All right.
30:31 Let's do it.
30:32 You're going to mess it up once.
30:33 Don't mess it up again.
30:34 Ready?
30:35 All right.
30:36 All right.
30:37 Go, Big Red!
30:38 Go, Big Red!
30:39 There you go.
30:40 That's a learning animal right there.
30:41 Jay Stockwell, everybody.