The Foreman 4 for the Nebraska Football Bye Week - November 8th, 4 p.m.
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The Foreman 4 for the Nebraska Football Bye Week - November 8th, 4 p.m.
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Kroger Health, a world of care is in store. Visit Kroger.com/vaccines for more restrictions and exclusions apply seaside for details. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America. This is Old School, sponsored by the Mercado by Certified Piedmontese. Broadcasting veteran Derek Dearset. When you find something that makes them smile, celebrate, that's your task, that's your superpower. Nebraska football Hall of Famer, Jay Foreman. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] What up, Austin? Jay, what's good? Man, your boy been going through it, man. My foot hurt, man. Your foot? Yeah. Stop your toe or something or worse? Nah, I got my ankles broke too much when I was playing. Shoot. And, you know, I know a chancellor Mikey was capping on me talking about my ankles and degenerative and stuff, man, but this ain't no joke. That's just disrespectful. It's just rude. You know, they got to treat No-G with at least a little respect once. I know, man. When you put the, when you laid a jelly down like that, man, you thought they'd at least, you know, show a little love, but it's all good. You know, I'll give them a break. But anyways, it's a two man show today. Austin Norman, Jay Forman. We are the old school crew brought to you by the Mercado certified P. Montees special ingredients and butcher shop. 84th and have luck. 30th and Yankee Hill. 85th and 100th man, 168th and Maple. You see that background? I got the Jay Forman YouTube channel back. I wasn't. You go ahead and like and subscribe back there. Look at that dude right there. Like, oh, it left side. Look at that dog right there. Talk about that, Jay. Talk about putting that jelly down. Big shout out to the night of Davis, man. She hooked the brother up, man. But, you know, Austin, this is Separation Saturday, Jack. It's Separation Saturday. It's on like a pot of neck bones. And it's do or die broken New York, both in the big 10, but then also, you know, throughout the nation. I mean, you know, National, you got, you know, Bama, you know, Bama and LSU. You got Colorado, Texas Tech. You got Georgia and the fighting Lane Kippens. I mean, it is on. And then just tonight, we got Iowa, UCLA, upstart UCLA and Iowa. You know, coming on late, so I think that's going to be a great game to watch. But, man, it's serious, man. And, you know, obviously we got the Huskers off and, you know, we got to win the bi-week and the bi-week. You know, we used to remember also what you'd always say. I went to bi-week. Hey, right now. It's a must that you actively win the bi-week. And there is a way to do it. I put out the Forman 4 here on it, but it's all mental. It's all mental, Austin. And we'll dive into this a little bit. We'll just jump right into it since we got a little bit longer segment. You know, one of the biggest things, Austin, that we have to do as a team. And I want your opinion on this. And I think it's a three game season, right? And it's a really beyond, it's a one day at a time season, but let's be honest, it's three games left. So I think you got to, everybody on the team, coaches and everybody involved with the football program have to immediately refocus. You can't worry about what you did. You got to worry about what you're trying to do. And so the focus is these next three games, one, obviously, we've got to become bowl eligible. And we have got to put ourselves in the best position to win every single one of these games. We got to play winning football. So that you have to refocus both individually and collectively. So if you had a good season, you know, like Ty Robinson has been really, really consistent, been good. You got to refocus that you want to even end even better. You want to be a better leader. So forth and so on. And if you haven't really finished or played like you wanted, you got to really focus to make sure these three next games are, you know, the best you can do. And then as a team, you have to refocus. You have to really refocus and be laser sharp with your now present day focus, you know, because that's going to be huge. And I think number two for me often is, you know, I think this is the difference and I know this from coaching, but, you know, also just from, you know, outside looking in. They need to do less hearing and more listening. What's the difference, right? It's philosophy. We're philosophizing here on Friday, even though philosophizer, philosopher begins with a P, Friday is with a F, but when you have to do less hearing, what do you hear? You hear, you hear how great you are. You're getting close. You know, you know, you hear a lot of the moral victories and all that. Now you got to start listening, listening to why you played good, how you can play better. You got to start listening to what you can do better and you got to listen to how you need to go about it. That's the difference. Sometimes you can get blinded by hearing too much, right? Hearing the noise, the noise is always negative. The noise can be too much positive when actually the only positive that matters is the win, what's in the win column. And you need to listen how to continue or how to start or continue to play consistent, competitive championship type of football and get yourself a bowl eligible and then some of these next three games. Is there even more of a temptation or a challenge to do hearing more than listening at Nebraska with how how focused the state is on this, this team in this program? Oh, for sure. I mean, I think that's, it's the greatest attribute. We talk about this all time, but then also it's your biggest crypto night. And, you know, in young kids, you can't fault them. They can't really decipher between either. And it's a easy crutch too. Right. So even, you know, look, a lot of the fans now they're on, you know, all the social media, you know, they're only, you know, they were born born when we were really rolling, let alone even like in the 2000s and, you know, I mean, obviously, most of them been around 2009. But you think about Austin, you know, it's an easy crutch because, you know, like, instead of, you know, listening to what you need to do better and then also listen, listen to how you did play good or how you were able to perform on certain plays. You just get on Twitter or your social media post a couple of things. And next thing you know, oh, man, we love you and all this. And as they should, but that could be your crush that could be your band aid versus facing, you know, reality and also dealing with adversity. So it's your best because look, we travel, right. And, you know, we've heard the stories, you know, in the end, you know, we travel to everybody else, you know, they found out that we always traveled the team that supported both home and away. And then you're at the point now. You know, it's your best attribute, but could be, you know, you're, I want to say you're downfall, but a little bit of a kryptonite. And when you have a young team, this is a young team with senior players, a young team and learning and actually knowing, accepting and dealing with winning realistic expectations. That's what's where we're at right now. It's an interesting sort of dynamic for this team because, especially on defense, right, a whole lot upperclassmen, juniors and seniors with some freshmen and sophomore sprinkled in the offense, you know, the offensive lines been around for the most part for a while you went and got transfer guys to the field. And so, you know, I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. And I think it's a great thing to say. Daniel Kalen, who's new to college football as well. And Jalen Gramstead's in the room, you know, again, new to the level of college football. So you can say Nebraska's an old team and be right. You can say Nebraska's a young team and be right. But more so than just number of snaps played or amount of actual game experience. I don't know if the right word is football immature or naive or they just don't know what they don't know because it's hard to say this team doesn't know how to handle success. Because five wins isn't success. Winning five games is winning five games. So I don't want to give this team a cop out and say, "Oh, they don't know how to handle success." When it hasn't really accomplished anything yet, it's on the doorstep of accomplishing the bare minimum of getting to a bowl game. But I hope that there isn't the temptation to hear how great these guys are because they haven't been great yet. They've done more than some recent teams, but they haven't done enough to be considered great, especially not by Nebraska standards. Yeah, but, you know, this is a, I mean, it's two things. Number one, Austin, when you, you're 100% right, they haven't been able to decipher, you know, the difference because it's hard to do. Look, you walk away from a game and you get closer. I mean, I always reference to the best three and nine team in UCLA history. Look, dude, you still three and nine brother, you know what I mean? Yeah. But that was a, that was a badge of honor that everybody wrote around with in these, you know, for a young kid, you think, like, okay, we're close, we're close, we're close. That's when you're hearing a lot of that stuff, you're hearing it and it's a negative in reality and factual, but it's a positive what you're hearing. And that can blind you. And yes, the expectations or what it is around here, they had the direct, the expectations had to be adjusted. And actually, when you look at it, so instead of saying, hey, look, man, you know, I always hear people talking again, I'll talk to all the 90s and this and this and this and this and we need to chase this championship, you know, recent championships. Listen, a championship is a championship. Listen, national champions, I'm going to tell you, and I keep saying it, just take what the 90s did and just forget about the players on the team. Okay, hard work, selfless players over selfless players, we punched the hardest. National champions generally are the most physical team, and they will punch you harder and longer and also you get to discipline. And then you do all those things that I'm, you know, and this, that's a very short version. You do all those things. And then all of a sudden, you know, those athletes that you, that you started to recruit, they start to become average players become good, good players become great, great players become, you know, iconic players. And that's how you're able to have guys that I played with up in that stadium. But then also, let's, let's look at the expectations and in the opportunity right now. This is what I would tell these kids. You have a great opportunity to come to the top 10 most, most, you know, I guess renowned blue blood universities with the lowest expectations now. And if you come in here and dedicate yourself for four years or three, four years, and do everything that you can. And listen to the coaches and develop yourself on and off the field and everything you need to and along with NIL. You'll be a legend and won't even have to get to the college football players. You just got to get us back into ball contentions, new year day ball, and maybe we get into the ball into the, in the, I guess, 12 now 16 maybe in the next year or two. And you'll be a legend. They won't even be talking about the old Jay Foreman and Tommy Frazier and all that. They were, you know, they'll make excuses for you talking about, there's no way those old dudes and those old teams could survive in this day and age. The college football really would be best with you. The honestly looking for a place where you can grow a rewarding career. Look no further spectrum, a leading connectivity company is hiring near you. Working here means connecting with great colleagues, interesting projects, market leading benefits and dynamic growth opportunities. That's why Forbes named spectrum one of America's best large employers. We're currently recruiting for professionals in sales, finance, IT, engineering and more. Visit jobs.spectrum.com/podcast to connect to the perfect opportunity. 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Chevrolet, together let's drive. The expectations are easy. You just got to go do it. Look, the expectations and what you need to do to be successful is easy. It's just hard to do right now because it takes sacrifice. It takes dedication. It does take a team, right? But you got to be able to push guys. You got to demand it from me. If I'm giving 120%, I want your 120%. I don't want your 80% because you don't feel like it. And yet 120 can't make up for their 80. Is that how it works? Right, right, because we all got to be in 120 because we got to assume everybody's at 100 in order for us to catch up. We've got to give 120%. We have all got to dedicate ourselves. And so that's where they're at. And then you know what? We've got two more things here Austin. As far as what these guys need to do for the rest of the, you know, this bike week and the bike week's over. They got to find a rhythm in all three phases. And I look at it like everybody, you know, we got to consult and everybody's trying to, you know, trying to figure out who's going to call plays, what's going to be the difference and, you know, and all this other stuff. We got to find a rhythm. I think calling plays and playing, getting in a rhythm. We saw it, I think at times when Nebraska got sped up against UCLA, kind of, I wouldn't call it tempo, but it was a little bit more tempo than slow. I thought that, you know, Dylan played, you know, at the right tempo and the right pace. You know, took the thinking out of it and everybody else started to step up. So, you know, somewhere in between there, get some continuity in the play calls. Then you play off your special teams and defense. Then all of a sudden the team looks like they did in their beginning of the season. You got some rhythm, right? It's almost like calling plays that I was told by Wade Phillips in tech control and Dom Capers is like dancing. You want to get in there, get a rhythm with your partner and your partners now or your offense and defense and special teams coordinator. And they all got to be together along with Coach Rule, getting a rhythm. And then sometimes, you know what, Austin, I'm not a very good dancer. You might step on some toes and they got to have your partner get you back on rhythm. What does that mean in reality? The defense is slipping a little bit. The offense got to pick it up and keep us back on rhythm while the defense is just the offense is slipping a little bit. Special teams got to make a play, keep the head about water and tread water and do all that stuff. So that's really, that's number three, get back on rhythm. I can get to number three really quick here, Jay. I'm reminded of that Bruce Lee quote where he's not afraid of the guy that practices a thousand kicks one time. He's afraid of the guy that practices one kick a thousand times. And that's identity, right? Nebraska right now, you can't see anything that they do easy, right? Nothing that it seems like they could run with their eyes closer. They're sleepwalking through a play. They just know it so well, right? So for me, there's a very fine line between being good enough at something basic and being unoriginal, being being uncreative. I think for Nebraska, these last three games last four weeks try with the bye week and then the last three games here. Find one play that you rep 30, 40, 50 times until everyone on the roster that could possibly run the play knows it. You run it perfectly that many times. Once you have one down, run a second play 30, 40, 50 times in a row until you have it down because Nebraska is not so, so mentally talented to be able to handle 1000 plays, right? Very few teams in college football NFL football are, and I know that's a big exaggerated number, but Nebraska also hasn't proven to be physically talented enough yet to just run one play or have one concept to be their identity. So, of course, there's a balance. Of course, there's a fine line to walk. But for me, Jay, when I grade and look at Nebraska, looking at the offense specifically through the rest of the year, it's, is Nebraska telling me what it wants to be as an offense moving forward? What are the things? What is the thing that they have decided to work on? What are they telling us? Is the concept they want to rely on moving forward? Yeah, I think, you know, you're saying practice with a purpose and practice with that purpose until it's perfected. Yeah. And then you can make the average play look extraordinary and all the, you know, the catchphrases. And, you know, I think sometimes people worry about what the coaches say what they're wanting to do is identity versus what they have to do in a game and sometimes, you know, game plans get thrown out to trust me out there. I've been there. We had a game plan and the next thing, you know, it wasn't working. And sometimes that's predicated to what other the other two phases are doing. So, you know, really what, what, what, what it needs to happen. And this goes into number four, you know, these seniors, right? And the guys that have been, you know, what these next three weeks are going to be your legacy. This is your legacy, right? But, and this goes into what you were saying, four weeks, three or whatever you want to call it, and you want to extend that right is, you know, I think that you just need to get back to playing sound football. You know, when I'm saying is crank up this, we need to turn the heat up, right? There is no time. There is no tomorrow, right? We just, you know, the first by we came at a good time to get, you know, kind of reenergized and refocused. Obviously, it didn't come out of the bi-week looking good. This is another one that said, listen, we actually need to refocus. And we don't need to worry about it for sore, not because everybody's sore, right, you know, at this point in season. So, you know, I know what you're saying. And I think the biggest thing is it does take time. And, you know, to be committed to something and being new to you, it does take time. It's not, it was never going to be easy, but, you know, a paper, you know, people thought it was going to be. And so when you haven't lived up to expectations up to this point, there's two things you have to do. You can sit there and like flounder in it. Or you can buck up and understand that you can do more. You know, this is a great opportunity. You got to think about this. These guys get bowl eligible and say that you say they're able to pull off another big victory. The legacy that that will be written on these older guys is going to be etched potentially is a big part of the like the second part of Nebraska football, right. So just say the first part is all the way through the very beginning. It's probably other parts, but just think from like, let's say 19 late 1960s, right, all the way up to, let's just say up until grandpa Mike took it Mike Riley, right. And then the second part, right. And, you know, let's say like to the end of the bow, right. Sure. Well, the second part was from Mike Riley. Or, you know, from here on out hasn't been good. Right. Hasn't been up to standard. You know, hasn't been even when bow was here. But then you start to get boil eligible. Then you start to start to put stack seven, eight, nine, ten wins together. They'll look back at the legacy of the last three games. Here's why. Because you had three games and you know you lost to Indiana. Obviously you got, you know, you embarrassed yourself against Indiana. You lost Ohio State. The valiant effort. Let yourself down against UCLA. Then somehow, some way you were able to go in the bioweed and do all the things I just mentioned and plus whatever coach rules saying, probably coach rule what he's saying first, but then you're able to do that. And then be able to get boil eligible. And then hopefully five years from now, they'll look back on these guys. These guys, these guys did everything that they said they were going to do. Might not have been perfect. It might not have been, you know, the greatest picture. But at the end of the day, the painting was painted in the painting that she wanted to be bowl eligible. You know, at the end of the year. When you talk about cranking up the heat, I really like that, that example. And I think it can apply to old guys, young guys and everyone in between right for the seniors. If they crank up the heat, they do something they've never done. They finish the season strong and get to a bowl game. They can say we accomplished what our goal was before the season, right? We were the team. We were the guys that were the leaders that snapped the, the bolus streak that strapped, snapped the bowl drought. Is it everything we wanted to accomplish when we got here four, five, six years ago? No, but it's what we wanted to accomplish this year. We can say we finished our careers. Not, not prideful, but we can hold our heads high. We can walk out of here saying we know we gave everything that we had to this program and we got it leads back on the right course. I can see the same thing for the young guys, right? Maybe the season is going how they wanted it. Maybe it's not. I don't know. But with so many veterans departing, we talked about it just a few minutes ago, the young guys here in these last three games have a chance to not hijack the operation and be selfish, but to say this is how we want the program to look. This is our program. We want to be here. We're taking ownership of it. We are setting the standard of play. We are setting the standard of conduct. And that's what these last three games are going to look like for us. No one is guaranteed a spot next year. They can't be. No matter how much you're paid, how little you're paid, how long you've been here, how short you've been in Nebraska. No one's guaranteed a spot. There is enough on the line right now for every player in this program, every coach in this program that cranking up the heat should be easy. If it's done correctly, if it's done in a positive uplifting challenging way, not a nitpicky, snippy, you're not doing it in blame game sort of way. Right. Yeah, this is a perfect opportunity to, you know, crank up the intensity one. You want to see how the young guys react to it. Then also you want to make the older guys, you know, definitely adjust to it. But also also when you think about it, right now, right? This is a, this is the underclassman's team. And now it's up to the seniors to hand it over the right way. It's still the seniors team perception, right? The older statements, right? But now it's time for you to hurt or, you know, hand it over now that, you know, even though like, you know, Dylan, you know, you're nine games and you're no longer a freshman. All right, dude, this is your team. Now, we're not thinking the next year, but now it's time to start to really start to, you know, okay, you've seen enough now it's time for you to really start leading young guys. This is now your team. What do you want to do with it? Older guys, let's push, do this last push to get this last three game, like I call legacy games, and hand it over the right way. So it's done. So then it's rinsing to repeat. It's not rebuild, it's reload. Yes, right? That's got it. We want to get to the point where we're reloading every year, not rebuilding. So that's what they're trying to do. Also got an unknown texture. Well, actually it's old dad 34. He asked me if Matt rule and those guys are staff. Yeah, I think they're Matt rules the right guy and the staff's the right staff. I know you're tired of losing. Everybody's tired of losing. And I know they are trying diligently to get it, get it right. But they use the right guy and they'll get it right. But with that being said, we're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back and do some big 10 picks and big game picks. You know what Austin, we're going to start this bad boy off of, I think, with the, with the outside of the big 10 picks. Because I think those games, man. Everybody. Everybody talks about the boys in state. What's his name? Jainty. Yeah, I'm Jenny. That is the best running back. Well, listen here. Texas Tech has the second best running back. You know, what's that said, they're packing their defense. We're about to see. So, anyway, once a quick break, Jay Foreman, Austin Orman, old school will be right back. You're listening to old school with DP and Jay. Download the mobile app and listen wherever you are on 93 seven, the ticket and the ticket FM dot com. At Kroger Pharmacy, care is making it easy to get vaccinated. Care is helping you stay protected from flu, COVID and RSV. Seasonal vaccines are available seven days a week with evening hours. Care is giving you a shot at staying healthy this season. Walk in whenever is best and get multiple vaccines in one visit at your local Kroger pharmacy. So come and get the protection you need while protecting those around you. 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