1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 3rd, 10:45am - Rico asks Vershan a couple questions

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

Bo Pelini 9 wins good, the 3 losses were why he was firedHow would he have done as a TE in this landscape of footballAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 93. Send a ticket and the ticket FM.com. Final segment of one-on-one, the captain will take over at 11 o'clock. Go to 2 o'clock. And Nick will get you through. And then whatever guests they have, and today's an introduction day. So for Sean Jackson, three-time national champion, the captain gets to tell you who he is, what he wants to do with that three-hour segment a day.

And it's pretty impressive. I'm just going to let you know. It's pretty impressive what he's going to lay down and go through. Rico, give me a parting thought, man. What's on your mind? Well, I kind of wanted to get in front of this, but I guess nobody on the text sign actually wanted to mention it, but just playing the devil's advocate.

You said, you know, the nine wins from Bo Polini was enough as a fan, and you felt good about that. And I also felt the same way. I didn't want Bo Pletian to leave. I thought he was doing a great job. I thought he was building something good here. But people would argue, and people have argued, that the three losses and the way that those three losses would come about

was the main reason, and that was unacceptable, and that was why Bo Polini was fired. I think it is unacceptable, I mean, because around here we want championships. I mean, the end on the side of the helmet means national championship. In that instance, in that time, you know, to get beat that way, there was something wrong that needed to be fixed from a football perspective. You know, if we, if Coach Polini just could have got a grassstone, him as a person just straightforward.

You can't do that. He's got to be more of a game manager. A head coach is just managing people. He's managing people. Same thing Coach Frost got to do. He's got to manage people. Step back, manage people, practice harder, and manage people. So 9 and 3, if you manage people well,

turns into 11 and 1, 12 and 0. You know, 3 and 6, if you manage people, people turns into nine and three. I'm saying, you got to crawl before you walk. You've never seen a baby just get up and start talking and walking and eating steak. Except for Rican. Oh, he's the first one. I was exceptional is what they said.

Did you have a full mustache and everything? They thought I was, yes, but it was just the moustache. It was disgusting. They thought I was going to be some type of, you know, neuroscientists or something. Turns out I'm just a producer on a radio show. Hey, sometimes it takes greatness to do that. Yes, yes, it does. He will tell you that every day.

All of the greatness. Every day, all of the greatness. Matter of fact, I'm waiting. We did it over under privately, everybody else in the station, over how quickly RICO is going to challenge you to something. Sure. Anything. So it's coming. No, I don't believe it.

It's coming. Look, I grew up in South Omaha. He's not, he ain't ready. He didn't ready to challenge me. That's what they all say. Well, I'm waiting, Rico. I got to figure something out first. Got to figure something out first.

I'm waiting, Rico. Okay. I'm waiting. I'm game, man. I'm game. Hey, listen, I heard you. I heard that the bowl game question you asked. Yeah.

And I was wrong. So, you know, I mean, and it was, I know now that you have to be very, very meticulous. Something, one of these questions, look at the blue tape that you can't see behind the red tape. Little small things, sir. Yeah. Those small things you won't catch. Yeah. I have another.

So you went from running back to Titan, right? I went from running back to full back to tight end, right? running back to football back tight. Okay, so at tight end, how do you think you would have done in today's, you know, football landscape where tight ends are taking over games? I think I would have did pretty good. I think so because I was more of a, you give me, when I did catch the ball, you know, I had my fair drops.

But when I did catch the ball, I was pretty phenomenal after the catch. So, I mean, it would have been more of an H-back type, but I could block. That's the difference, man. Very important. I can block. So, you know, when you can block, sometimes it throws your past game off, but it just all depends on the coach you have, how he's coached you up to be, because tight ends is one of those positions where you've got to just about do everything.

You've got to be an officer lineman. You got to be a running back after you catch the ball. You got to be a receiver because you got to catch the ball, you know, and you just got to do a lot of things well in order to play the position. But in this day and age, nobody blocks anymore. Everybody's positioning. I'm a hitter. Everybody's just in the way.

Yeah, let me stone you one good time. See, that's when you know he was in the brickyard. Oh, yeah. Pipeline required real work. And people throw that word around real freely. Like, oh, the guy playing offensive tackle now is. No. No, he is a dude playing left tackle.

He is his difference between. I love the little bit that you threw in there, you know, earlier in the show, the real black shirts. Yeah. I love that a little bit. The reason why I said this is because we can't, sometimes we take credit. I don't know what game it was. It was Ohio State or whatever, but we took a lot of credit because we didn't give up a lot of yards on the ground, but we gave up 405 yards in the air. Listen, it doesn't matter.

Defense is supposed to stop the offense, whether it's on the ground or in the air. It doesn't matter. You got to stop them. And so real black shirts in my heart, not that they're not. Real black shirts that take pride in being a black shirt wants to stop you every game and every facet of the game, not just one. And, you know, you talked about that pipeline that, you know, I got a pipeline pancake king that's, you know, coming up, Aaron Taylor, Mr. Outland Trophy winner, Mr. Three-Time Champion, he's going to be, he's going to start us off right. And just get, you know, he's not their prototypical lineman. Six-two.

Outland trophy winner. You mean they didn't follow the metrics and they got one. I mean, Will Shields. How about that? Six-three. We go, man. And look, I'm excited for what's coming. I'm going to hang out just to make sure you, you know, in case you need the tag for a minute, you know, you need somebody waving the flight in.

Husker Power. I'm a define Husker Power. Do you even know what Husker Power means? Husker Power. D.P., you know what I mean. We're going to find out, right? Rico, question. What is Husker Power mean?

11 o'clock. I tell you. 11 o'clock. Don't go nowhere. A couple of minutes. Right after the break. Husker. Power.