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Get more with Geico. What up? Happy Monday on this jury Monday. This is old school, J-Form and DP Austin Norman. We're coming actually live from 1040 O Street. We are brought to you by the Mercado certified Piedmontese special ingredients butcher shop 84th and half lock, 30th and Yankee Hill, 85th and Andre Matt and 160th and Maple up there in the O. It's four weeks in a row. We either got to change their outfits or something or better yet. Huskers need to play a better football. You know, look, it's probably been combed over 80 million times that not only on our network and our station, but everywhere else. Ultimately, we went out to sunny California. And the performance was probably more like today. You know, just kind of rainy, drizzery day. You know, some light rain, some real heavy, just not very good. There were some bright spots and some that, you know, there's some things they were doing well. You could tell it was a little bit different rhythm offensively, but still, you know, ultimately it just met, you know, points on the board is what matters the most. And then defensively, you look anytime you score touchdown and have a few other big stops on defense. And then obviously you count the block field goal as far as defense. You expect the win, but ultimately, I think, as Coach Rule said today, the second and third level did not perform well. It felt like second level, John Bullock played well after that. Everything else is probably man. And then third is third level was not very good at all. Look, at this point, you know, there's plenty plenty to blame to go around, but ultimately, you know, if you are not, there's three big E's that go into football. Effort, execution, and then obviously at least a better efficiency. Number one is controllable by one person only an SU. That is a choice. No matter what age you are, probably after 10. You hear a lot of the parents, oh, they're only 10. Oh, they're only 11. Well, sooner or later, that's got to be excuse or not excuse. Now, we'll tell you this as recruiting dynamics, kids have changed, et cetera. Effort, intent and work in hard work, you know, working hard is a skill that can either be forced and or taught to some degree, very minimal degree. I see you over there thinking, Austin, very minimal degree, but it is a skill that you have to coach now. And you shouldn't have to, but, you know, at some point in time, you have to and it's very minimal percentage that goes into the whole percentage. It's 95, 96 percent on our operator, but you still got to try number one. It's kind of because you have to coach you. But number two, maybe it's that four or five percent that makes the one or two percent difference that shows up on Saturday. Yeah, Saturday is just 100 percent controlled one, you know, that you decide that when you wake up in the morning, you decide that long before the games kicked off. What I mean by you can, you can do it. You can there's different buttons you can push, you know, and all that stuff to understand, get them to see the light, you know, and there's different ways to do it. And it's a very small case. So that means the very small percentage majority of kids, you don't have to do that. But the effort and intent in hard work is something that that will will bite you in the butt. And then therefore, then you can how competitive are you are? Are you out there just playing? Are you just out there just going through the place and all that? You know, some of it you could say is coaching ultimately you're out there man, you're out there playing man, you're getting paid to play. You know, and so for it to be a senior. Let group the third level to probably have that type of performance is probably not a good project. You know, probably shouldn't slip too well for the last two or three days. Bad day to have a bad day. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we'll look at everything. I mean, come into what nine, nine point. Eight or nine, eight or nine, right? Last by eight, last by eight. Played expectation. Yeah. But you never expect. The things like that to be questionable, right? Not a veteran group like that with those guys and that is much today. I expect my cover to say if you'd like ever to back my corner three. Corner like over three. Then pulls that. Yeah. You always just wonder what goes. You just wonder what goes to some guys minds when they get out there and play. I have some ideas. I asked them ideas. I just would like to understand. I just don't get it. I've never been. I've never been. I've never I've never associated myself with guys like that. This couldn't do it. I don't think there's an excuse for it. It's not there's not an excuse for it. It's a choice. There is certain things that is a choice. There are programs. All over the country. That figure out how to get people to either either choose people who will who will make that choice. Or get people who will lead people to that choice. But to say that we can't. Have expectation or want. For a program that you're that that it's fair to say Husker fans are asked to support and fall. Right like be loyal be well they they make the choice be loyal be loud. They make a choice that their programs to lane comes to mind. As a program that has figured out a way to get people to compete at the highest level. Or choosing people being able to identify people who will compete the highest level. They're choosing a J form and instead of the other guy. Right like somebody had to identify you. And for all the breadcrumbs that were that led up to them finding J form and. They somebody still had to find him and work with. And to say that in this space we have found. The true matrix. For not being able to figure out like there's an answer to all the questions. Right Jay like there's an answer to everybody has answers. But the solution is in that locker room and the effort thing. Obviously there's one player put on display and that's why what happens when you play that position. I mean that's that's what you sign up for. That's why Dion got paid the big bucks. That's why Charles Woodson is a Hall of Famer. That's why my man Dick Knight train Lane is the rest of pieces. You know that's that's that's that's what you sign up for. So I don't think it's a it's an overwhelming deal. Now I think it's a little bit different because of the of the aura creation of. The easy thing that's always been is to blame the coaches. So you're given so everybody's sitting up here like we've created this soft landing. To blame a third party for a one party decision. Like and this is this can go back even when nice Mike Riley was here. Like you can't blame Mike Riley. Like you can say you lost locker room and all that and that might have to be because he has no vision. Right because he's up there just giving you the alphabet soup. Right. Okay, that's fine. All right. But when you step on that on that field no matter what you have going on that's your sanctuary. That's your choice. That's your choice. Matter of fact, it's not even a choice because if you even care remotely. Remotely about the people that that are in your locker room. It's not even a choice. It's not even a second thought. So. So who sets who sets up? Who is you? I mean, is everybody's looking for somebody else? No, I'm not talking about anybody. I'm talking about everybody. Right. I'm talking about everybody. When we get on a bus we're all rolling like. It's your choice. Like if you get off the bus and you decide like who like. Why does somebody else got to implore you to do something? That's human nature. That somebody has to implore you that your motivation ambition. There's a huge difference between dudes who never got a chance to get on the bus and dudes who are on the bus. Yeah, but they're on the bus. Who chose them to be on the bus? Well, they were here already before who chose who chose them to be here. Who was it? Who was it? Those guys who who here's here's mine. I don't know. But I mean, I don't know the standardist. I would but at some point in time that has to that has to stop all of it. Whether it's us talking about it, dudes early in the morning. When we got when you get on a bus to go play a game. Yes, you can hear the raw raw stuff that lasts for about 10 minutes. 10 minutes you might be hyped up because of which somebody said in the locker room when I'm looking across and I see Alan Fannica ain't nobody saving. Let me ask. Let me know what he's going to say. All of that is and I don't disagree with that. Right. But here's here's my question and this is from the outside looking at. Right. Simply, you know what, I'm a mission kind of person. But give me give me the mission. If the mission is the word football games in in the big 10 conference, right? I mean, I think that's a pretty good mission. Right. The win game is the big 10 conference that Nebraska fans as people who support this want to know what the problem is. And if the problem is in fact, and I'm not saying it's not. All right. If the problem is the players haven't bought in or the players are making choices that are less than the standard. Then how do you fix it? How do you change it? And if you tell me that you cannot simply fix it or change it, right? Either coaching or a lot. If you hold on, let me let me get to it. I don't believe in that. If you can't get to it. I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna be like you're getting paid. I don't care about about a choice or a lot that that stuff that they're doing. I know for a fact is not being coke. Okay. So let's go through. So explain it to me. I know for a fact. We've been talking about this since two thousand twenty one two thousand one. I see it a ball on a two yard line and everybody's like, it's kosher loud. I know for a fact, it's not coach. I know it's not a lot. That's a personal choice. So when they're out there, you can't tell me you can't control and tell me how you know that that is true. Well, first of all, the best team coaches and employer. First of all, first of all, let's get out here. Listen here. Listen here. You can go to see Chris right now. You can go to East High School, Southeast, whatever high school you want. You go to Timbuk to I guarantee you when you when you're when you are returning a point majority of the time they put you say put your heels on eight eight yard line. Don't feel that after that. Yep. Now the one you're seeing it, right? Yeah, and the one in this game really wasn't so egregious because he filled it at the five. It the height of that punt, most likely, it probably would have got down. So that's really not a big deal. Yeah. What more was more important is the I don't think it's not a buy in thing. Okay. See, there's a difference with people don't understand. There's a difference between playing football and competing. Nobody knows the difference unless you've done it before. When you are a competitor, you come to play. You don't worry about the circumstance. You don't worry what time the game is, where it's played, what the condition is, or who the hell is playing with you? You're here to play, dude. Like you're playing football. Like you're not like why does somebody got to sit here and what? Rub your back and tell you how good you are for you to go out there and play good. Like, dude, that dude over there is trying to embarrass you because when it comes down to the players have to do one thing and one thing only. Number one, stop letting people push you around. Facts. That's number one. Number two, if you don't think UCLA got on their little internet phones and talked to the dudes across the street at USC and felt like they could punk you, I can tell you look at number six. He didn't even first of all, here's why I know it's a fact. Nobody even said to him anything to him on the sideline. Not one coach reprimanded him, right? Not one player got mad at him. As a matter of fact, the player encouraged him to do it. So this isn't a time to say, okay, now we got to go get some personal fouls. No, at some point in time, you have to line up and say enough is enough. Everybody. And if somebody's not participating in how we are moving, then you got then you're going to have to deal with him as you got to deal with him. I won't name names. We were playing like booty down in Missouri. Somebody got punched in the face on the sideline. No, I'm not saying that's what you know I didn't need to do, but that's what that's what happened. You can't do that anymore. First of all, there's no cameras. Nobody knew about that. I said, but at the end of the day, you have like if you're invested in something, if if I'm invested in something, you're invested in something. This isn't about Randy Moss or Dallas Clark catching the pass off. This is that's this is not what this is about. This is about are we doing with the things that we've been coached, told and implored to do and we know what we can do. That's where the frustrating part, they know they can play better. So what's looking for a place where you can grow a rewarding career? Look no further spectrum, a leading connectivity company is hiring near you. 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They play for me. Yeah, I mean, what I mean, they play they play for me in front. They play cover three. They play cover one. They play cover four. They run all the plays majority or in theory that everybody else run. We got to execute the place. Execute the place. Like, so if I so if they run counter and I'm a linebacker, I can't run into a defensive lineman and one guy, first of all, I just blocked myself, right? Like if, okay, if they throw it now route a smoke route, whatever you want to call it, they got all these stupid names for it. They get the ball and throw it to them. Okay, what do you want to call it? Pitch and catch. Okay, sideline is the other defender. That counts as 12. Push him out, usher him out of bounds or what we call street sweeping. Get the, get the leg, sweep the leg. Those are things that we have in the, in the, the, the dudes have to be the dudes. It's not like everybody's looking for like, you know, it's always funny. Like I remember I was coaching the games like, oh man, you know, till we ran like man offense versus zone or something like that. Dude, we blew like eight layups and missed 10 free throws and we lost by one. So was it the offense or was it just that we just didn't make free throws, right? I mean, you got to really get back into just getting back to the simple things and you know, fortunately and unfortunately for them, they got two games left. So this is the proper way to put it into it. If they're the fighting formants and this is your, this is your group to fix. Because you're not going to accept it as it is. Like because it bothers you too much for you to accept it. I think also you, you cannot panic though. This is not that and that's where, you know, my rule is done because you can't panic because just throwing your hands up and just fire everybody. You're, you're, I'm not saying that I'm not saying this has got to be. Yeah, like me as a coach, I'm not going to stand for it and then you can, you can coach as hard as you can. I can stay up with five hours more, more a week, every hour a day and, and find little nuances or whatever to create a game plan. A practice plan, a recovery plan, they already got great way coaches and nutritionists and all that stuff. That's what a coach can do. That's all he can do. I don't understand this whole miss miss thing that you think as a coach that you can control another player's action that will net that never happens. What coaches are meant to do, give me a vision and you go. It's no different when I talk about the guys, the guys and gals that are Valley Dictorians. They get the syllabus. They get the same one as J for me. You want to know why because I hate at school, I hate school. I will always hate school. I'll tell everybody, I hate at school. I, it was a necessary means that I had to do to get some sort of education and some sort of guidance. But I'm going to tell you what, my friend Jamal, he loves school. My friend, Armand, he loves school. He got three masters. There's no way in the world I could do that. I look at him crazy. Matter of fact, he was just out of India and I still look at him. But I said, man, and Nick was there. I said, dude, you know, you got three masters and you still got used to it. No, he's, no, he's a big time where he's at now. He's still at the same eating corporation that he did an internship and just worked his way all the way up. But he got three masters. Now, I took advantage of they, they paid for him to do it. But if they pay for me to do it, I ain't going back to school. Would, would we ask everybody you played football with to be a doctor, to be a surgeon? No, everybody has a role and a talent and somebody has to identify that, put it in play, have the vision for it. Yeah. It, it, it, look, nobody, those, those 105 aren't going to roll out there. The 75 aren't going to roll out there and just say, screw it, we're going to play. There has to be a plan. The only thing that I would do, I would crank this intensity up to a level they've never seen before. That's what I would do. That's the first thing I would. Yeah, I mean, that's the only thing I would do. Now, it's not now, I'm going to tell you it is, it is, it's not across the board, right? Because you can't coach everybody the same. But I can tell you, not only would I be wound up tight, I'm, I don't, it ain't nothing fun right now. Right? We five and five, we're two games prior below where we may be expected to be and our backs against the wall. We got two chances. Like, it's like we're in a box of matching and we should have knocked out dude in the eighth round. And here we are going to the final 12 and then in your trainer telling you, boy, you better turn it up. You got, we got to go for a knockout or we got, you know, we down on point. So we're tied in points. So we got to really, you know, be decisive. You know, I think that the hard part is, is when you're caught up in this tidal wave and it's no different. If you're winning four games in a row and you're losing four games in a row, it's just like a basketball. The way you got out by 20 or the way you got down by 20 is the same way you could possibly get up by 20. So you got to remedy what you, what you haven't been doing. Well, what we haven't been doing well is when in situational football, that's not the known situational football. All right, third down in 10, six minutes and 40 some seconds left. All right, we run essentially what I, what I call from way back in the, in the archaic days is essentially a fire zone zone blitz. Essentially, you blitz from one side and you have some linebackers or something like dropout and coverage. So you can dictate the pace of the play. Right. So you run a fire, part of a fire zone. So a fire zone is essentially, here's the difference between a zero blitz and a fire zone just for the blanket terms. One is man to man, no safety coverage, zero blitz, zero help, that's self-explanatory. Fire zone, what we use to call a fire zone or a zone blitz is your blitz in and you're playing some sort of zone off of that. Right. So you have to get to a different ways. You might play what's essentially covered three. You might be ideally depend on the formation, play cover four. We have essentially what I call a fire zone or a zone blitz on or just a zone coverage. We got to make, we've got to, we have got to get that below five yards. It's got to be fourth and five, six minutes plus I can almost guarantee or you like to dictate. There's not a lot of plays, even with a great play caller with Lincoln Riley, fourth and five that you can, that he can dial up and feels very comfortable with a one point lead at home. Stress in his backyard as far as like the pressure he's on under the he can play. I like our chance to get that ball back. Right. Well, they come on fourth and one run speed option hit the corner for what? Thirty six yards. So the cause and effect, I'm huge in a cause effect. That's a game change in play. We got to get better at those plays. Now, of course, we got to get rid of the easy ones are the easy ones. Right. Those are the plays that are huge. Everybody one also, you know, Dylan's got to get that first down and what the, you know, around the 50. For any other purposes that get another first down, we can pin them back. You know what I'm saying? It's easier for them to field a punt fair catch a punt. Think he might have caught it as 16 got six or seven yards. He's not necessarily backed up by then. But if we get it and then if we, you know, we punted the ball really well, we got a pretty decent punter. These guy puns it or kicks it like coffin corner. Now they're backed up. Now you can kind of really, really dictate and really assume what they're going to run. Those are the plays that we need to get better at because everybody's going to focus on the big play. But those small plays that I'm just talking about referencing, those are the game change in place because for us with an offense that's struggling, right? You need possessions. It's almost like the Patriots when they won the first Super Bowl. You go back and study the Patriots when they won the first Super Bowl, they were excellent. Maybe the best of all time in those off brand off situations of, of, of, of situational football because they just kept inching. Inching, inching, field goal, touchdown, field goal, touchdown. Next thing you know, you look up like, man, we played these guys pretty, pretty good. We lose 24 10. So we're not doing that very well. They're there through all of the truth of it. For me, being outside of the game and just watching it process and watching this team over five years, five years to be consistently hiccuping. And in the same space and the same time, right, there has to be, we're dealing with the, with, with the pimple and not the reason why not the skin, right? What is the real issue? There's an issue. And when I walk into programs around this country, what I'm asked to do is identify blind spots and help people simplify what they're doing. Yeah, right? That, that, that's because the player, right? Yeah, but this is, this is a boil over. Yeah, it's a boil. It's not a pebble. The boy. You're right. This is, this is, this is, hold on, this predates 20, some years ago. You know what I'm saying? This predates. That's why that's why I asked and it's, and it's not apples to apples, but there's a lot of it that goes into it and the change of it is. You know, I mean, I know we have to go to break up, but, but this is why I, I, in order to, to get to the real core of how the thing has to happen, I fully am aware I have to poke Jay Foreman to change some of the conversation that's been had because some of the conversation is just. Pablam, it's just repeat. It's, I heard it said, so now I'm going to repeat it. And that's not, that's how we, that's how this program got here. Yeah. I mean, that's how this program got here. They got it coming. It's just not coming as fast as people, people want. They're, they're, they're a lot farther along than it looks to the naked eye. They should be farther along than it looks to the naked eye. They're not as far. I know everybody's thinking like you're saying it. They're a lot farther. It's coming. It's just. You know, we'll talk about out the break where we run into a problem as like an Nebraska football society versus reality. And where it's going because it's going in the right direction. It's just not. Yeah, you bought a, you bought a car and you want to be in fifth gear and that bad boy is like that collection is, is, is sticking right now. I, I think BJ in Wichita hits my nail on the head. He says, I'm sorry, Jay, but you don't pay a staff. This type of money. It's because because they're going to be blind because you get that, that again, I'm not asking you to defend it or not defend it. I'm simply put it in and play that if you've been in the program for 20 years around the program for 20 years, I've been around the program around the, well, you've been a Husker for since since 1994 1993. Right. Right. But there was a time when another coach was here. We weren't allowed though. So I wasn't around the program. See, this is what I want to get to. Again, different conversation than some of the other stuff that's been said because I've been listening, not talking. I want to be clear, but Bill Callahan isn't an fault for that. I mean, that's, that's, you can't. Well, Bill Callahan did doesn't have a direct reflection on this season here. What does this, they ain't playing good. They playing good. This particular group is just not playing up the expectation. No, there's not. It's no different than Florida state, probably the same problem that you can't say that like, you know, everybody wants to talk about how much they're getting paid. Yeah, they're highly comfortable. You know, most they were going to pay last year when he was all on board. Now, it's the problem. Well, like that's you paying fair market value now, like whether that's a problem to you or not. That's that I have nothing to do with it. I bought a Lamborghini that got stuck in fifth gear, you just said, but if you're if you're if you're making if you're making like blanket statements at this point, you ain't never going to be satisfied. You ain't never going to be satisfied. If you're worried about what somebody's made, I don't know why that I mean, I do, I do understand it. So you expect certain results based on what somebody else is doing, but not every situation is is the same. I will tell you this, Tom Allen had better recruits than probably his, his, his, and it's not making an excuse for anybody. He had better recruits than what was led on to when he got there. Yeah, the situation is a lot different because the expectation is so much lower. Um, so sure. I mean, there's a everybody has a gripe to pick. I get it, man. I don't have a grip. I'm I'm trying to. I'm trying to understand. I don't know. So I'm asked that's just me. Yeah, we'll go to break. We'll talk about it. We'll see what happens and or what we think of. I mean, it's just a man. It's, uh, it's tough, man. It's tough. Slighting for him, boy. You know, look, this is a Minnesota winter right now, man. You got pushed to push through it and, uh, and, uh, you know, deal with it. And it's about January, February up there and you know that March, April come and you've got to stick to it. So it was a former DP Austin. We'll be right back. How do you feel when you switch to Geico and save on your car insurance? It's like going to work on one Thursday morning and thinking to yourself just one more day until Friday. But then somebody in the elevator says happy Friday. Then you check your phone quickly and discover today is actually Friday. So yes, happy Friday, random stranger in the elevator. Happy Friday, indeed. Yep, switching and saving with Geico feels just like that. Get more with Geico. 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. 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. Visit ColoradoFirstStep.org to get started and claim your $115 now.