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"Your child's first step is a big step towards their future. With first step by college invest, every Colorado child born or adopted on or after January 1, 2020 will receive a free $115 contribution to their college invest college savings account. Plus, we'll match a percentage of your contributions in the coming years helping you save even more. Enroll today and start your child off on the right foot. Is it ColoradoFirstStep.org to get started and claim your $115 now?" "Well, we're back, Jay Forman, Austin Orman, old-school, second segment, little rain. Wait, I guess this weatherman was right, 60% chance of rain, rain left already. But we're on a Monday, Monday after, and you know, when I was everybody once, coaches fired, changes the schemes, and so forth and so on. So sure, you know, I'm sure every coordinator would tell you they could call a better game. But that doesn't come to the forefront until you start to rectify or deal with the stuff that you need to do and should be obligated to do as a player. So, you know, the running game is something that, you know, coming down the stretch of any season anywhere or any conference, whether it's Big 12, Big 10, ACC, SEC, Power Fire, Group of Five, you got to be able to start running the ball pretty consistently because the conditions will change and the ability to throw the ball won't be as easy. But then also things, you know, look, they have a whole half a season or seven, eight games. In some cases, of what you like to do as far as throwing the ball. So you got to be, you got to be creative, but then also you got to be efficient in physical and how you run the ball. And so that's what Nebraska needs to do. And one of the questions was, can you fix that in a week or get better at in a week? Yeah, you can get better in a week because if you like one of the things I said, one of the two things I said you need to do before you start worrying about skiing or anything like that is really, really take a hard look in the mirror and have that conversation with an honest conversation with the hardest person to do that with and that's yourself. And then you got to address it and then be okay with it, right? You got to address it, heal from it, don't forget, and then then every day, every minute that you get a chance, you have to make progress into getting better at your job individually. And then obviously collectively and then holistically would be offense, defense, special teams. When you look at the run game, is it a talent issue? Is it a selfishness issues that a timescore situation issues that everything coming together to snowball? What is the biggest issue for Nebraska in the run game? It was probably a little bit of everything. I mean, I think there's a couple of times, well, early in the season, I think we probably missed a couple. I think we probably missed a couple like holes or lanes, which, you know, then hurt. And then, you know, as far as Saturday goes, you didn't get a realistic chance because you got off to such a bad start. You're kind of playing with one arm behind your back. And then once you start to run, you've been getting punched in the face because you get the pass or pass, protect, pass, protect, pass, protect. So you can't, I feel like they were running the ball decently enough, even on the first couple drives for sure. And then in the second half, you can't really, you're down by so much. You're just running it out. I kind of like just to kind of, you know, run the clock. So maybe more of a commitment, maybe, but, you know, I think you just need, you know, guys need to step it up and start making guys miss. Does Donte D'Adale have some of that make a guy miss in him? I mean, I was glad to see that after the fumble Nebraska bench them for a little bit, right? I mean, it was a while's from Johnson, then after that, but D'Adale strikes me as a guy that wants to, you know, lay boom on someone every so often, but he doesn't strike me as like the gabervin body type to do that, right? Does he have both any where he can make a guy miss too? And if he does, why haven't we seen that yet? Oh, I think he does. I mean, I'm sure he does. I mean, I don't know, but I haven't seen him out close in person. I know he is first option in his mind is to run physical. Yeah, someone. Yeah. So, you know, I think, look, you get on one on one was a linebacker. You got to, you know, you're not going to make him miss every time, but you got to start making some money. I think there was in particular one fourth and one when we were going this way, so it must have been after the fumble because when he fumbled, we're going that way. Yeah. And he got the first down, but he was one on one with Fisher, the linebacker. You got to make him miss or you got to be so physical that you can get on the edge and run through his arm tackle now and get some yards after that because in a short yardage, one miss tackle leads to explosive run. Yeah. So, you know, I'm sure they all need to, you know, just continue to work at it. You can get better at it, but you just got to start to you got to study the defense. You got to study angles and then you have to have a game plan and, you know, and practice it. You got to understand where guys are coming in their play entry and alley feeling, alley feeling and play entry in order to put yourself in the best, you know, best position to make a miss or be able to get yards after contact. So we just need to improve on it. You're going to need to get better at it. It's a talent thing, but it's a talent you can hone and you just got to really be diligent and work at it. But then also you could say, all right, we need bigger holes and stuff like that. But when you play in the big 10, there's not going to be a lot of big running lanes, man. I mean, I'll say that. And then we had, we gave them a lot of running lanes, but yeah, you can't depend on a week on and week out. You got to get enough, you got to get enough blocking and enough, you know, I guess leverage to get through there and then you got to make something out of nothing. I do think it's funny too. We've heard a lot from people, at least I have on the text line today, not loving the amount of reverses or end around or sweeps that Nebraska is running. And then Jay, I turned the TV on on Sunday and what are the chiefs doing running multiple sweeps to save your word. Right. Like you got to get playmakers the ball. If you don't trust your running backs, get yards, your offensive lines have blocked straight ahead. Yeah. I don't care if you're quote unquote traditional conventional run game involves more fly sweeps than you might be used to. Get good players. The ball made. Let him make someone. Yeah, it's a good player. And you think I'm Barney? Yeah. Because he's so quick he can get on that edge and eliminate that edge and make guys miss. And so, you know, at first when it kind of started, you know, took over, you know, the mainstream offenses, I was like, ah, it's not a big deal. But if the best point is right in his ran, effectively, it could be a part of your offense. And so at times we've seen Barney, we've seen Bonner kind of on the tight end thing. You can do the short yard, but you can, you know, but it's a kind of a, you know, it's an off speed pitch, you know, as far as, you know, that in your, in your running, your, your running attack. So I don't mind it, but the, you know, the running back room, you got capable guys. You just got to play a little bit better. Everybody needs to block a little bit better. And then ultimately that's going to be predicated by not, you know, getting doors blown off you in both offense and defense and be able to get into a game where you can grind it out a little bit. I think part of fans frustration with the running game, too, is that there's been so much lip service paid to the fact that they want to be a running team, at least Matt ruled us, right? Want to be a fourth quarter running team, 75 plus yards in the fourth quarter and what not. And they're just not seeing that consistency, that dedication to it necessarily. If Nebraska is not going to be a running team, that's fine. But then if you're Matt ruled, Hey, what's up, it's Wilmer Valderrama. You know, a lot of us don't think twice about our tech. Millions of Americans struggle to connect to today's digital world. And that's why this story really hits home for me. I mean, I started thinking about my upbringing and myself growing up in a world where, you know, you needed every possible tool or help you could get to actually allow you and afford you a bigger dream. That's why I love what AT&T's been doing. They're doing something amazing. I mean, they've launched an effort to equip 20,000 students with laptops, backpacks and school supplies, um, Seattle, for example, they provided 250 laptops and backpacks to kids who, who really needed them. No, you might think like, okay, 250 kids, that's nice, you know, but, but stuff to think for a second, like the impact of what this could do for a community. Imagine how, you know, 250 kids getting that kind of help. It's, it's, it's huge. It's not just happening in Seattle, right? AT&T is doing it all over the country. I'm just proud that AT&T is helping connect the next generation to a brighter futures. And that's, that's pretty special. Everything changes everything, AT&T changed the messaging, right? We want to be writing team. We want to build this. We know we, we have to get there, but don't say we want to be or, or we are, or we think we can be. And then don't do it or don't try to do it. Right. I mean, you have this five star freshman, you revamp the receiver core. If you want to throw the ball this year, cause you think you have more weapons there, fine. Just be honest with it. You know, don't don't say one thing and be about the other or, you know, don't say things. Say we want to be multiple. We want to be, you know, being a barrier looks and whatnot. We just want to get the ball down the field and in the end zone. But I think that rule keeps giving fans hope that Nebraska is going to turn into that team this year when they're not your seven games that you are who you are, just lean into whatever your straight zone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, I mean, you're, you're, you're true. I mean, you're what you said is true. Some of it's circumstantial because I felt like, like, if you go back to Northern Iowa, I felt like we were just scoring at will, you know, so it was like, you couldn't even have a chance. Every time you look up, we're scoring or not scoring or we did score. We scored pretty quickly. So I mean, I think this is a time to lean into that a little bit more because that's how you're going to close out games. I think he did that against Northern Iowa. He did it against Purdue where we closed out the game with the run game just hasn't been as consistent or as pretty as everybody like and some of it's circumstances. Some of it's that we need to play better, you know, you know, some guys and, you know, I saw a quote today where Matt rules that we, you know, our perimeter blocking has been an issue. Well, that's part of the run game, you know, so I think, I mean, let me see, let me look at this quote here. It says, let me read this quote on quote says, uh, our perimeter blocking has, this is per Luke Mullen. He says our perimeter block is, yeah, likely says our perimeter blocking has been a deficiency for us the entire year and continues to be that affects the run game. As much as offense line, because you might have everything blocked up. You need one, you need one stalemate, one decent block, one steady block, and that dude makes the tackle. Well, a lot of times if you miss a block on the perimeter, that's, it's a minimal gain versus a huge explosive game. And so that's where you miss out on stuff. But it's not the conventional run game yet, but you can get it in another way. I mentioned what people didn't give, you know, Baylor credit enough when he was there. They became, they beat before they got the conventional run game, they became extremely physical out on the perimeter, but they had really good perimeter blocking. So, um. Well, it's good enough for NFL guys like Denzel Mims and Taekwang Horton, it can be good enough for Nebraska's fighters. Yeah, you got this, well, I will tell you this, I always tell, I would just like to go and raise your hand if you'd like to go to league defenders. If you within body, you know, see, you know, not Nash, because he's not going to be a run down and kick off. If you want to get in the league, most likely all you guys, you better be a demon on special teams first. Not just present on specialty. Yeah. Makes in place. If you're a receiver, want to make it in the NFL, unless something changes, most likely you're not going first or second round, you're going to make the team on special teams and doing something that a lot of guys don't want to do in blocking is one of them. Another thing that you would have to do is be able to play all three receiver positions, right? And so X, Z, and Y, you know, or whatever slot I would call it. And so, you know, yeah, I mean, if we need to get better on the perimeter, then you better do it, dude. You don't want to be you don't want to have that type of deficiency in your game. And that shouldn't be a talent issue. Blocking generally isn't want to. There's technique involved, you know, Nebraska has huge receivers on the outside, right? Yeah. Oh, go overwhelmed with small cornerback. This is your chance. Yeah. To take out a flick. I would tell guys, the harder you block and the more physical you are in the run game, blocking, I could almost guarantee you will allow you to get open and more routes later in the game. You're going to wear them out. You don't wear them out. And so I think it's something that, you know, they need they can definitely fix and rectify. I think if you want to be a good running team, it's all let's take the quarterback. It's 10 guys all operating together. If you want to be a good defensive run stopping team or a good defense, you got to play good team defense. So improve the running game. Everybody needs to get better. It can't just be the old line and then, okay, what happens when the old line starts blocking good? Well, then the tight ends and receivers need to block good. And you know, how do you want to become a better passing game? Well, you know, the tight ends and the running backs are probably in some sort of protection or helping in protection with the offensive line is your job to make them right and make them better. And then that means everybody else gets better. So there's a lot of there's a lot of blame to be, you know, passed around, but ultimately, like I said, I'll say this again before we go into break when the players choose to take hold of this, it'll be great. They have to decide enough is enough. They got to hold themselves accountable. They got to hold each other accountable in a good way. And it's not always yelling at them and telling them when they're doing something wrong. It is demanding and dragging them to do something that you want them to do. And if you don't, if you want to see a good example of it is Colorado played Arizona. And Shadora Sanders, during a time out, asked Shepherd if he could, you know, could he go? Shepherd says, I rolled my ankle. He looked at him and said, can you go or not? This is the way I need you to run this go route and made an adjustment and it worked out. Sometimes you got to push and will people to do things that they don't know that they can do, but you believe in them enough to do it. That's where the coaching comes in. But then also that's where your leadership comes in. And it's not only showing them by example, it's obviously getting in there and rolling your sleeves up and going through the minutia with them. And if you do that, what you can actively decide to do in a matter of conversation and conversations and actions, then, you know, then, instead of talking about, oh, Indiana wasn't a one off and this is who you are. This is like, okay, well, that was a one off and actually it inspired us to, you know, be a better team. If you can get him to think it was their idea, even better. That's right. Hey, I will tell you this. I watched a hockey inside the NHL. Here's a quick story. Nashville Predators had been, were supposed to be a really good team kind of went through the motions. Lackadaisical got blown out by the Dallas stars 92. And I guess that's just, that's like, that's like a no, no, they were going to play the Las Vegas team in Las Vegas. They actually, I think all it brought tickets to like Taylor Swift. Team was supposed to go coach canceled it. We just got beat. Nobody's going. They went on a winning streak where they won every game or tied for too much straight. So there you go. Right. They use that. That was the defining moment. So hopefully ideally this would be from Nebraska, but nevertheless, Jay Foreman also know him a quick break and then we'll be right back with a bow on his bad boy the Monday after blowing it all school will be right back. Holiday magic is in the air at I fly indoor skydiving. Imagine unwrapping the experience of flight. I fly is the perfect unique gift for anyone who wants to turn their dream of flying into a joyful reality. It's unforgettable fun for all ages. Save over 35% with I fly's limited time holiday gift voucher flight packages. Turn dreams into unforgettable moments with the gift of flight. Go to iflyworld.com to purchase your holiday gift vouchers. That's iflyworld.com. Your child's first step is a big step towards their future. With first step by college invest, every Colorado child born or adopted on or after January 1st, 2020 will receive a free $115 contribution to their college invest college savings account. 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