1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 2nd, 3:25pm – What Nebraska coach has done a good enough job?

Episode Date: November 3, 2021

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back. One-on-one. I want to thank the folks from Beatrice's Bakery. So Nick from Wachachachos came in a day, and we hooked him up with some goodies from Beatrice's bakery.

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You can go in there, take the tour. And then we did the tour. And then when we got done with the tour in the little store area, they had samples lined up. and I was in fat kid heaven I was in fat kid heaven so Nick at some point you get I will you get you get you get time to make that that back and forth I know that they're gonna they're gonna

rope me in that way they're gonna say Nick come on the tour man that's how they get you okay happily that's how they get you I'll leave with an empty wallet yeah that's how they get you and no car yeah well and a full car yeah your car will be full true Back to the Sardhammer

Tech's line. There's some good stuff on here, so we will try to get to it. Texas says, should Reducco be on the hot seat? He's been Martinez's mentor, and look what he is. The easiest way for me to say this is,

if everything isn't working, everybody should be looked at. Like, if it's not good enough, again, remove the conversation about Reducco and Martinez. If a coach is on a staff and it's not working, then that coach should be looked at and be held accountable. Remember, that's the Ryan Day phrase, be accountable for it. Same thing for players.

If it's not going well, make them accountable. Look at it. Most coaches would say if something's wrong in their group, that they can fix it. That's why they're the coach. You should be able to fix whatever's wrong. But not everywhere it works from that. I became smarter every time I got beat.

And I got beat quite a bit. But I got smarter. You weren't going to beat me twice the same way. And I wasn't going to give you a game the same way. Twice. It wasn't going to happen. Let's hope that that changes. Let's hope that changes.

I don't do rumors. I don't do rumors. There's too many bad ones. You know, if you got a question, you can ask me about, but the rumor thing, I don't do. The Skir Swami says an experience coach would have known to adjust to the Big Ten earlier, and Frost didn't have that experience,

so he's in the spot now because of that. It took two extra years, playing from the lines out, et cetera. Yeah, every great coach in football knows that games are one on the line. You can have a star quarterback and star receivers and all that stuff. But if you don't have big, big dudes up front who control the game, then you can't do all the pretty stuff you want to do. Great offensive lines with bad skill players still win.

Great defensive lines with bad corners still win. They may not win championships, but they win. Offense with good offensive line and good skill guys, you're Ohio State. If you're not, you're Northwestern. That's the full range. That's the full range. So Ted says, Scott Frost did the very same thing in UCF. So what's the difference now?

There are so many things that are different. So many things that are different. First of all, you're not playing the schools from that conference. Second of all, you don't have that abundance of Florida athletes. Third of all, the things that are fatal. in the Big Ten aren't necessarily fatal in that conference. Like there's a ton, ton, ton of constant NFL dudes in the Big Ten. In that conference you had some that year, but you can't say that every year.

Which place has higher expectations right now? Oh, that's depressing. That is depressing. That's utterly depressing. What's depressing is that you have to think about it. No, you don't have to think about it all. The difference, the frustrating part is that you're having a conversation about UCF. Yes.

See, that, look, I'm not since when. How are they in, how are they, like, I would be offended. How dare you put yourself in my class and my category? Like, I'd be offended if I'm Nebraska, right? Like, UCF, what, like, we could tell the entire history of college football without mentioning UCF. You can't do that with Nebraska. Nebraska is a vital, constant, consistent thread in the fabric of college football. That's not the case for the U.S.S.

You're not even that conference. But that's where you are. This is where you are. And the GPS should tell you, hey, man, you're in the wrong neighborhood. This is not the high-rent district you're hanging out in. This is not effective. No last question. Do you think Martinez has pocket awareness also seems like he hesitates too much in the pocket?

I think if anything, Martinez has too much presence because, first of all, pocket presence, presence and awareness, right? Presence is your ability to make throws under traffic. Awareness is noticing which direction to move and at what speed as you do it. They're not the same thing. So, and for Adrian to be as good as he is running the ball and a scramble during chaos, he's usually running because he's under pressure in the pocket has begun to. to collapse. So yes, he is aware.

Now, is he exceptional at Reed's, et cetera? That's a different question. But also, I just want to point out to you. This is not being an Adrian apologist, but I'm telling you, there's not anybody who's ever played quarterback who could get behind that line and feel comfortable that they're going to have the time that they have to make the throws they need to make to the players that they're not sure are going to be where they are or when they are.

Now, Adrian has done some things this in recent weeks that he just shouldn't do. He just shouldn't do. There's no excuse for him. So you don't have to make excuses for him. But to say he's not aware in the pocket, no, I wouldn't say that. You know, again, the dude's constantly got happy feet. He's constantly got happy feet. He got spiders between his toes.

Man, that dude's trying to move. Because if he stands still, bad things happen. So that says from a coach's perspective, what do you say? is the main issue for Husker football. Coaching development, player commitment, culture, a competition or something else. Competition. Competition is competition.

I don't think there's competition at practice, at a high enough level, to accomplish what we think they should be accomplishing. But there's been competition because Adrian's beat out a bunch of quarterbacks over that time, right? Running backs, you know, have, you know, they've kind of done the shuffle and moved from place to place.

There's a lot, it's a million paper cuts. It's a million paper cuts. That it's a bunch of little things that should be addressed, that should have been addressed already and hasn't been. Little things like, again, being in formation,

knowing, knowing audible calls, being there for your teammate, not trying to do too much, not trying to do enough. Not knowing down in distance, not finishing plays, overfinishing plays. It's just a potpourri of poo-poo. Like, that's fair, right?

Every now and that, like, it's at every play, it's a different group of people sprinkling nonsense on what they're trying to accomplish. And none of it's purposeful, but if it stinks, it stinks. And you're trying to spray, you know, you're trying to spray something over to cover up the stink. but the stink is there because you haven't fixed what caused the stink in the first place. And they haven't fixed it. Like they'll fix it and it'll be good for two weeks and then they'll focus on fixing something else. And then before you know it again, it's, oh, it sinks again.

It's constant. It's constant. It's got to be frustrating now. But all of it can be fixed. There's nothing that's happening here that can't be fixed. The great frustration is the stuff is fixable. So why don't you fix it? And there are people that say, well, let's give it more time.

No. The problem is that you have too much time. You've given too much time to fix it. If you tell them you've got to fix it by Saturday, it gets fixed by Saturday. But there's no urgency to this thing. Why? Because people are going, it's okay if it stinks. It's okay.

Those are people that push the dirty clothes in their closet and shut the door rather than doing the laundry. Right? You know those people. Right? You know those people. You know those people that will sweep the front porch, but they won't sweep the floor. Like, no, stop doing that.

They can fix it. Here we are. This is what. What do you guys make of what Scott Frost is saying as press conferences? He always seems to have some excuse. Feels like he's quick to point the finger at someone else. It's always rubbed the wrong way. I said to Rico, Nick, and Mark today that Ryan

days press conferences, Mel Tucker's press conferences sound different because they're directives of accountability. Like there are statements and requests, please hold me accountable. Please hold us accountable. Rather than making excuses. In the gospel, it says there are people to make excuses and there are people to make a way, be a waymaker. fix it. If it's wrong, fix it.

Don't belly ache about it. Fix it. We haven't gotten to that. We haven't gotten to that. Yeah. Which coach on offense shouldn't be looked at? I'd say only Beckton. That's from Jason. Beckton's, yeah, I understand what Beckton does and how that works.

He's got two NFL. well tight ends. And would we say that it's from development? Or would we say that they're two unique unicorns playing the position who happened to fall here? I'm not sure which is the case. But yeah, you're right. Everybody else needs to be looked at.

It's not going well. Bechton has to be looked up too. He has to be looked at too. You're three and six. Nobody gets a pass at three and six. At anything. And that's the part that people, like, bothered me. Look, you're three and six.

Why would you give somebody a pass at three and six? And if you do, this is what I was going to say. If you do give them a pass, what's that tell you about expectations? You're giving them, you're going to be stuck in three and six because it's acceptable. As a matter of fact, you gave an extension and a raise. So there's that. We'll throw it to break. We'll close out one-on-one when we come back.

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