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Cornhead logger, Chris Schmidelage, Herbal, Michael Bruntz

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with us from Husker 24, 7 at

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Michael Bruntz on Twitter, as

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he is the proud owner of a unicorn

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swimming pool, not a Denver fan when it

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comes to the throwback unis. And

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Bruntz. Is anybody a fan of the new Broncos

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uniforms though, is the question? I thought throwbacks

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are better than nothing. I like the white, the

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white look with the old Denver D. Bruntz,

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you don't like the old Orange Crush unis?

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No, I love them. The,

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that needs to be the uniforms,

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not the the XFL, USFL versions

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they've been running out. The

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last couple of days here, they look, it

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looks way too much like Texas, San

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Antonio, or like UTEP, no offense. I

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will say Bruntz, I was in Denver yesterday. I rolled

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down to the stadium. I was one of the first

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people there. I was just going to go check out

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the stadium and see if there was any like mannequins.

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And I was one of the first people to the

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fan store. So I have sent you a

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picture here live during the interview of the pictures I

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took of the mannequins. They look better

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in person. I still don't think

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they're an upgrade on the old uniforms, but

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upon seeing them like up close, personal,

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like I was, I was like, okay,

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you know what? They're maybe not as bad as I thought

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whenever I saw them on Twitter. Yeah,

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okay. I'll take your word for it. I

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don't know why they need to make this difficult.

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I mean, you basically, you had

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the perfect uniform, perfect logo back in

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like 1989. Like

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the perfect logo has been there for years. Just

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use that logo. That's all you got to do.

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And they keep screwing it up. And then

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somehow it got even worse because they traded

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for Zach Wilson yesterday right after they announced

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the jerseys. I don't know which thing they're

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trying to cover up. The terrible trade or

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the terrible uniform. Can you tell me? Both

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is the answer. Both is the answer, but at

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least you know Peyton's gonna trade up and get

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you. that long lost

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Elway 2.0, right? Yeah,

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right. Yeah, at least like my

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theory initially was they were trying to save

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themselves a buck by not having to switch

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the last names of the jersey, but they,

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I guess they have to now with the

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Wilson, so. Brunchy,

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spring football, Saturday, a lot

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of anticipation. Some

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things you're excited about here with the

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great assault it being the spring game.

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Yeah, no, it's, you know, quarterbacks, I think,

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are kind of towards the top of the

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list. I think you're going to see a

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lot of veterans who are

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not going to be playing or suited

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up on Saturday. I'm expecting some pretty

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vanilla play calls as well. Not

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to throw any water on that for anybody that's

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on the fence about going, but I

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do think, you know, the quarterbacks are going to

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be the headline for better or for worse by

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the time they walk off the field on

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Saturday. You know, you're

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also kind of eager to see some of the

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young guys that, you know, we've been hearing a

3:04

little bit about. I mean, it feels like almost

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every other, you know, meet availability, you

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get a Vincent Shaver's mention, kind of curious

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to see how he looks at that inside

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linebacker spot. And just

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kind of seeing, you know, this wide receiver group,

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too. I mean, I think there's going to be

3:20

a lot of attention focused on the offense and

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for good reason. And

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who knows? I mean, if

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you maybe you get a deep ball, maybe

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a couple deep balls hit to a new guy. I mean,

3:31

you might be talking about

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things like we did in 2011 when Breon Karn

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picked a ball turner

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wall in the spring game. So maybe

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get a little buzz from that. Michael

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Bruns with us here on Hail Varsity Radio

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talking some Husker spring game thoughts. And

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in Brunsley, what's your take on, I

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guess, optimism with the

3:53

offense following what sounds like another good

3:55

scrimmage on Saturday? Do

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you think there needs to be a progression

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to mean by the time Saturday rolls around, you

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know, offense trying to keep a little bit under

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wraps. The defense has a little motivation after a

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couple of bad scrimmages. Do you expect a return

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to the mean, I should say, in

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that regard on Saturday that the defense might

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come back and play well? Yeah,

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and it's always kind of interesting because you never

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really know how guys are going to react when

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the lights are on, right? You know,

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for it's one thing to kind

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of do it as a quarterback or

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a skill position player when it's a scrimmage

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and there's not a ton of people in

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the crowd, and it's

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a totally different thing when you're

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having to do it in front of a crowd of, you

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know, 50,000 or more for the first time. Like,

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it's a completely different animal, so I'm expecting a

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little bit of regression in that way. I

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don't think they're going to run more or anything

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more exotic on offense on Saturday than

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what they've run in the

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two scrimmages. So, I don't know. I mean,

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I think as long as, I

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think if the offense is efficient and

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you don't have, you know, the false starts and

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the turnover issues and things like that, I mean,

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I think you can kind of take that as

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a nice little bow on

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what I think has been a pretty strong spring

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for the most part for the offense. I mean,

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I think, you know, they've got some pieces in

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place where they can get some things done and

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be improved from last year. And,

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you know, like I said, I mean, I'm

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expecting you're probably not going to have a

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lot of the veteran defensive guys in there,

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so, you know, you got to take

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that big grain of salt there as well,

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but I mean, I'm expecting, you know, the

5:33

offense to be competitive. We'll see how

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explosive they can really be, though. Michael

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Brunt's with us here on Hail Bar City

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Radio. Senior writer with Nebraska

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24-7, confined Bruntzy on

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Twitter as well at Michael Brunt.

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Spring football thoughts for Saturday. Do

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you expect a noticeable or a big gap or

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do you think it will be a situation

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where all three quarterbacks look good?

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Yeah, I don't know. I'm

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guessing that it'll probably vary based upon who's

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with whom on the offense. I mean, I

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think that's going to be the

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big thing is, you know, how each of

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those quarterbacks works with, you know, what you

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would kind of say is the top offense

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or pieces of the top offense. You

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know, I think each quarterback's kind of

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had their moment at times this spring.

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And you know, I think, you

6:25

know, this is going to carry on, this competition is

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going to carry on into the fall. So

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I'm not expecting too huge of a gap.

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But I mean, I think in certain things

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that the quarterbacks are going to be asked

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to do, I'm expecting that things

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will look a little different. I mean, you know, Dylan

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Riola has a really strong arm and I think that's

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going to show up. It's just

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going to look a little bit different coming out of his hand

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than it does the other quarterback. So, you

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know, we'll see what kind of results that, you

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know, brings along. But,

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you know, I think they're going to

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rotate a fair amount with those quarterbacks. I mean, I

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really think they're going to give each of them a

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chance to kind of work with that top

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offense and see what they can do. So we'll

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see how that looks. But yeah,

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I mean, I think as much as anything for

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the for Kalin and Riola, it's

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about just kind of managing the moment because

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this is, you know, on a totally different

7:17

level than anything they've experienced before. Michael,

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would you look back to last season, the spring game

7:22

into fall? I think there was some tinkering with the

7:24

offense. I want to get your thoughts. So do you

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think that Marcus Satterfield tailored his

7:28

offense to his quarterbacks as you're kind

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of saying here that with different strengths,

7:33

they do different things. Do you think

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we saw that last year with the offense that the offense

7:37

was tailored to the quarterback depending on who was in there?

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Yeah, I mean, you know, the offense

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that Heinrich Harburg was running in the

7:45

middle of the season was not the

7:47

offense that they went into the

7:49

season looking to run. You know, there

7:51

was going to be a lot of the quarterback

7:53

run stuff with Jeff Sams, but I think they kind

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of found that, you know, there were

7:57

different strengths that Harburg had that, you know,

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didn't necessarily have. I mean I think

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Heiner Carberg had a pretty good feel

8:04

for some of the options stuff and better

8:06

so than the other quarterbacks and that's kind

8:08

of what they went with when he was

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healthy. So I think

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there's kind of

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a base offense that they want everybody

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to be able to do that kind

8:20

of pro style offense that

8:22

they want to run and they're gonna run

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come hell or high water but I think kind of

8:26

the wrinkles that they run after that are probably a

8:29

little bit different based on who's in there and kind

8:31

of what those strengths are and I would expect that

8:34

that would be you know the case this

8:36

year too. I mean you know if

8:38

you go to Harburg I mean it's gonna look

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a little bit different probably in what they call

8:44

compared to the other two who aren't necessarily as

8:47

good of runners or as willing of runners as

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maybe what Heinrich is. So I think

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you kind of always have to tailor it a little

8:54

bit. I think last year was a little bit of

8:56

a special case given

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kind of how things played out where it was you

9:01

know a different offense in the middle of the season and

9:03

then once you had even more injuries it was just kind

9:06

of a potpourri almost of kind of what they

9:08

were trying to do and that's a tough

9:10

way to have success. Brancia

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we'll get you out of here on

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this what to get your thoughts on

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tonight. Nebraska, Kansas, Drew Christo, Big

9:19

Red trying to fix Tuesdays. Yeah

9:23

no another another swing at mid-weeks for

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Nebraska. Was there a pun intended? No,

9:29

kind of. With Christo

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he's been in the in

9:37

the weekend all over they went to Will

9:39

Walsh on Sunday of Drew Christo and now

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he gets Tuesday nights. An opportunity for him

9:43

to kind of step in

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and you know kind of get

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right the ship a little bit. His last

9:50

couple outings have not been very

9:52

good. He hasn't made it out of the third

9:54

inning and either of those starts so this

9:56

is a chance for him to kind of reset the deck a

9:58

little bit on kind of where season petted

10:00

and different Nebraska you know that

10:03

they came off of a nice series

10:05

win over Maryland they won with the

10:07

Mercy rule on Sunday this

10:10

Kansas team is actually playing pretty good

10:12

baseball too themselves they went down to

10:14

Baylor and won a series down there

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they won by Mercy rule on Sunday

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too so this should actually

10:21

be a pretty good matchup potential

10:24

for a high scoring game just based

10:26

on how the the pitching

10:28

kind of lines up and also how the offenses

10:30

tend to play so

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you know opportunity for Nebraska to kind

10:35

of get get more things done on

10:37

this homestand they've got this

10:39

midweek and then they host Iowa for three coming

10:41

in here so it's a really important week for

10:44

Nebraska in terms of kind of where they're headed. Michael

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quickly here I'm not sure I've been out of town

10:48

on vacation so I'm not sure I'm out of the

10:50

loop here but I'm seeing that tonight is Canadian

10:52

night at Haymarket Park for this house of gentlemen

10:55

you know what that means is that just where

10:57

your your best Canadian tuxedo what does that entail

10:59

do you have any idea I believe

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well now that you can get beer maybe

11:04

that means that you're looking at a little

11:06

bats or molesons or something like that but

11:09

I think that means you're

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a strong chance of poutine maybe

11:14

they get to get you like

11:16

the souvenir cup of poutine I

11:18

don't know it's just a

11:20

celebration of the fact that Nebraska has more

11:23

Canadians on their off of it you'd probably

11:25

expect by just looking at

11:27

it but yeah I guess you know put

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put the jeans on get

11:32

the gravy and head out to the ballpark

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I guess that's the recipe. Gene

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jackets, smoked meat

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and labats. Yeah

11:42

and yelling about the maple leaf that's

11:44

what you're doing tonight. Go Leafs! Brunsie

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we'll check in later thanks for the

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time. Anytime guys thanks a lot. Good

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to spend time with Michael Bruns, Hale

11:53

Varsity Radio, Dave Mannerich gonna join us

11:55

here next segment till I'll talk Cornusker

11:57

State Games. Time to get signed

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up. and get that wiffle ball

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team assembled. Reminder about Nebraska Department

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it saves lives, it prevents injuries

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only if properly worn. Make

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it click, a message from the NDOT

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Highway Safety Office. We

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forgot to ask Brunsee about his pure

12:19

joy moment in sports. Elijah

12:23

lived it per se last night. Denver

12:26

and Lakers playoff game winner.

12:29

Laid out my Nebraska memories. Katie

12:31

Bell talked about a couple

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of his moments and top one, of course,

12:36

with Jack's run. I'm gonna throw the court

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storm against Wisconsin in there for me too.

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Oh, that's fair, that's very good. Hell of

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a comeback. Some memories to be made

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for sure with Cornesker State Games. We'll tell

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you about it. Dave Mannerik, Executive Director, next.