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Straight boy. Let's go, let's go, let's go. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. Swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like my Colorado swag. 'Cause when I'm in that blade.
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I don't really, I don't really know just how to act. And when I'm in it gold. You know I'm acting bad. Hollering Dilla Bush with my Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag.
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I think they like, I think they like my Colorado swag Well, welcome in. Leo's grinning there. Welcome in to another episode of Adam Munch Tigers Buff Stampede Radio.
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A little bit of a tougher edition this morning after last night's game. Not a whole lot of positive to take out of that, but we're going to break it down and take a look at things and see what we can come up with.
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I think it's always hard to really tear apart a game like that. And I don't know, sometimes it's even hard to say what the hell happened. I think that it started off fairly well, and then some bad things happened and
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sort of steamrolled after that and went downhill. Leo, what did you think? Yeah, you know what?
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It was good old-fashioned butt whooping for the Buffs on the road against Northwestern, and they were dominating all three aspects of the game.
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Offensively, coughing the ball up, four turnovers, two fumbles, two interceptions, and then, of course, a three turnover on downs.
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So seven total times you're giving short fields away, putting your defense at disadvantageous positions. And although they tried holding on early, it was just too much. Offense wasn't able to deliver.
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And when your defense is out there, they start getting fatigued and things start happening. Chip Kelly was able to exploit, you know, the secondary a little bit after having a very efficient running attack.
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And it was no surprises really from what Northwestern came out trying to do.
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They did a good job of moving Aiden Childs outside the pocket, did a great job of play action and, you know, giving him unique looks and not letting him sit back there and letting that pass rush of Colorado be effective.
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At the end of the day, the Buffs have to take care of football, and they didn't. You know, the turnovers is the big mark I'm going to continue harping back on because that's the reason why Colorado lost this game.
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You can't cough up the football. And even though, you know, the yardage statistics might have been the same, it was a, you know, chalk it up to a loss. You can't say much more other than the Buffs got whooped.
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Well, it's kind of a combination. It was a combination of their playing well and good game plan and mistakes and errors by the Buffs. I think you got to give Aiden Childs some credit.
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You know, there's that one play, for example, where we could have got off the field and he just made, you know, you and I were talking about before we started up here. Nothing particularly wrong with the defense there.
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You know, I'd like Santana Hopper to got back shoulder instead of front shoulder, but still that's just a guy making a great play, you know. Yeah. Sometimes that happens and that's what happens.
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You know, it's hard to fault the secondary there either because they were covering guys, but you give a guy 10 seconds to run around. A lot of time. He's going to come up. Yeah, he was just super efficient all night.
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And it was late in the fourth. He only had like three incompletions. You're just looking up like, dang, are they ever going to get a stop on this guy? Like, can Colorado find a break? And good on Northwestern.
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Their game plan had a lot of open receivers and made it so he had easy completions downfield and didn't necessarily have to thread, you know, a window on any of these tight throws. But he played a phenomenal game.
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Also did a great job with his legs. You know, Colorado was struggling on the contain once again.
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You know, it's kind of an issue that they've had a little bit on some of these plays when they're trying to blitz and, you know, create different unique looks. But a lot, a lot of negative from this game, right?
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Colorado lost big time, 41-7 on the road, if you guys can't see the score down below. But I think there are some positive takeaways. And I'm, you know, going to do my best to kind of bring up Buff Nation.
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And we're going to highlight some of the good things too. We'll get to that in a second. But, you know, it's always been my way to stand up and take my medicine, you know. And I got to say a couple things.
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First of all, you know, Chip Kelly proved me wrong. The man still knows how to call an offense. And, you know, we exploited him early with a couple of safety blitzes. And he came up with answers to that. So kudos to him.
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You know, I was wrong. Bottom line wrong. You know, the other thing I can continue to say is, you know, at this point of the season, we just don't know who the hell these teams are, you know.
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And so when they've only played one game in two weeks, it's hard to say who they are. And I wouldn't say that last night's score necessarily indicates they're going to the playoffs and we're going to go winless.
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You know, I mean, sometimes the game just gets away from you. I feel like this is one of those. And I really feel like
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the turning point in this game, and people may dispute it, I really think the turning point was Boo Carter's personal foul. Because at that point, we stopped them. We had them at fourth and 13. We get them off the field.
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They're still 14 to nothing. But as a result of the penalty, they finish off a 72-play drive and go up 21 to nothing. And, you know, as much as guys believe, there's still elements of doubt.
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And the longer things go on, the more people find reason to doubt. And the more you doubt, you know, the less successful you are.
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Yeah, I think this is a great opportunity for Coach Prime's team because right now they have their backs against the walls. They're facing their first adversity of the 2026 season.
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And this is a phenomenal opportunity, in my opinion. I know you kind of mentioned me grinning when we come on the show. And it's kind of because
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I think I'm more not necessarily excited, but I'm waiting to see how this team responds. And I might have more optimism for that compared to some people. I know,
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William, for you, it was kind of a painful watch as someone who's been around this program for a long time now.
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You've seen the ups and downs and how the emotions could kind of get really high and then you can crash with a big loss. But something's just telling me that this team is different.
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They're not going to be the kind of team that turns on each other and starts pointing fingers. And I'm really excited to see how they're going to respond against Baylor.
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But other than, you know, just that personal thought and, you know, hoping to will in some better performance next week, the performance against Northwestern just all around was sloppy, you know, penalties.
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Damian Henderson had the fumble. Mike Welts had the fumble. And it was just on a handoff. Like when you're Damian Henderson, you're going to clamp down on the football. He just never clamped. He never took it.
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And I don't know if he didn't know he was getting the ball there or he thought it was play action and Lewis was pulling it or what exactly the issue was.
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But to just drop the football like that when you're having a terrific drive is just unacceptable.
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Yeah, and you know, Michael Welsh did the same thing and, and, and you know, at some point you, you have to wonder what's going on in practice that, that they gotta know better than this, and you can't let that happen, you know?
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And it's always one of those things as a, as a c- you know, as a longtime coach, to me- Yeah... um, you play the way you're coached to play. And a lot of people say, "Well, it's the Jimmys and the Joes."
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Well, that's a person who doesn't really understand football. You, kids, kids at this level, um, even in the NFL to some extent, you, you play, you play the way that you're coached.
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'Cause at, at the college level and the high school level you have to be taught the game, right? Yeah. You have to be taught every fundamental.
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Like you said, have your hands in the right place and, uh, concentrate and all that sort of stuff. So, um, you know, uh, you look at a game like this and you're like, "We got better talent than that.
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Um, I'd like to believe we got better coaching than that." So is it just an anomaly where we, we're, we're...
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You know, 'cause sometimes, sometimes you, you do everything right and you go out there and it's a snowball on you, man. I've been part of that.
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And, uh, sometimes things just come apart or the wheels come off and that's that.
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So the question you have a- as a, as a fan, as a player, as a coach is, are we gonna make this, you know, s- are we gonna take this and we gonna turn it back around and make it an anomaly, or are we gonna, you know, fold up and, and fold up?
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Now, now last year's team, no questions asked, fold it up, right? This year's team seems like it have a lot of different type of guys.
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You know, guys with some pride and some fight in them, and some coaches with that too, and I think these guys- Yeah... are gonna get, feel the wounded pride and start to try to figure something else out.
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But like you said, you know, the, the running game is still working. Still got 180 yards, um, you know? You know, the only thing to [laughs] didn't work on it was, uh, uh- Fourth down...
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those two fumbles and fourth down. You know, we didn't have an answer on, on three fourth downs, so you...
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And I say, you know, the, statistically it says four turnovers with the two fumbles and two interceptions, but you know, they call it a turnover on downs. So to me it's seven, seven total turnovers.
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That's seven drives that ended with us, you know, giving the ball to them in advantageous situation. You can't- I- You know, you can't, you just can't overcome that.
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[laughs] You can't, and it's a tough ask for your defense, especially when you have Chip Kelly and Aidan Chiles on the opposing sidelines who have been dealing and, you know, coming up with stuff.
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When you get Chip Kelly confident, and he's comfortable, and he's cooking things up, I mean, he one of the strongest play callers in all of college football.
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I mean, there's a reason why he's been around the game for so long and had, you know, the success early on in his career.
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And while, you know, he may has had some bumps in the roads recently, he's still got that knowledge, and he's still got that, you know- Right... understanding of the game, and can exploit that.
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But going back to those turnovers, when you h- or turnover on downs, excuse me.
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When you have a offensive coordinator in Brendan Marion, you th- you would think he would have maybe had a couple more, you know, plays for that situation to kinda be a little more creative and try to spread out the defense.
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Because I understand his viewpoint from offensive line standpoint. He wanted to line up and, uh, beat them, right?
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He said, "We have bigger, badder offensive lineman, we're just gonna line up and, you know, 12 personnel, two tight ends, and try to run the football at you."
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However, I just don't think that was the right play call considering you have all this elite speed, and talent, and trickery, and so much you can do in the backfield action. Get the ball in Julian Lewis's hands.
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Let him make a play. Let him potentially pull it and run. Let him have the option to throw. You need more on that fourth down, and it was just unfortunate to see.
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Yeah, and I think, you know, I wanna, I wanna go to, um, l- l- there, there's a couple comments in here already I want, I wanna mention. And, and the first is S- Colorado has to be willing to go to a running quarterback.
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And I g- and, and I get what you're getting at. You know, I, we know which guy you're talking about. There's three quarterbacks in the damn room, and one of them runs, you know?
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And do you go to a true freshman at this point? I think it's a little too early to, to... I think that's a panic move at this point.
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But I do agree with what you're saying, that you gotta have some kind of a threat from the quarter- quarterback to run.
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And um, you know, Coach Prime said after the game that, that Juju is making mistakes but he's still developing. That's a fair statement, you know? I mean, he's still- Fifth start...
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yeah, still, still early in his career, but he's gotta figure some of that stuff out. And uh, Coach Marion's gotta give him a game plan that gives him a better opportunity there.
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Although that, [laughs] again, that said, you know, when you're driving and you keep handing the ball over, um, that's a problem.
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So eventually that may be an issue, and it, maybe they use Sweet Wine in some situations like that. Maybe they learn from this situation.
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And then I think the next comment after that talks about the last night was not who this team is, but we may, we, what... I don't know. Let me see exactly what it said.
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W- it was, um, um- Yeah, this team ain't as bad as last night, but it's not a good team. Probably average or decent is kind of- And I, and I think that's probably right. I think that's probably right.
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You know, I think as a team- I'm not sure where Oliver is with our bubble, sorry. [laughs] Yes. Yeah, I don't know. We gotta get Olive- Oliver's back there drinking, I think. We should've started... If, uh- [laughs]
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We, we don't own a bar like DMVR. We could come on here a little toasted and have a lot of fun. But uh, uh, um, I think, um, I think that's probably right, you know?
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And I, and I tell you this, you know, at the end of the day Coach Prime and these coaches gotta find six wins, man. And I mean, that's just the bottom line.
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And you know, I look at the schedule right now and we still don't know who the hell anybody is, you know? 'Cause like, we got Baylor coming up, and their only games are, are a one point loss to Auburn.
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And I, and I looked at Auburn's schedule and I don't know who the hell they are yet, if they're any good. And then, and then here we go again. They've played, Baylor's played two, two FCS teams.
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You know, what do you take from that? So I don't know, you know? But I think this is a must game, must-win game at this point. Uh, or at least it gotta be damn close to, uh, get to, get the...
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'Cause you got, you got a couple of tough ones after that. I think this is almost a must-win game.
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But yeah, I, I think we may be a middle of the road kind of a team, and that's not a bad thing as far as the turnaround goes.
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If we can get to six wins and get to a bowl game, you know, then we got something to sell recruits and we can get this thing rolling, you know? So maybe that's a correct statement. Yeah.
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I also think that too is, um, this is kind of the flip side of the overreaction, right? I think last week you saw people see the 52 points and they go, "This team's gonna be Big 12 champions.
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They're gonna come out and, you know, they're gonna be able to hang with Texas Tech and BYU." And uh, now after this loss people are like, "Well, now Colorado's not gonna win a game." Like, I'm not sure-[laughs]
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kind of where the, the optimism, confidence kind of flips, you know, just in one week. It's a bad loss. Colorado got punched in the mouth. I mean, that's the truth. Yeah.
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They had, you know, issues in the secondary, but at the same time I don't think it's the collapse. It's not the end of the season. Yeah. They have Big 12 play.
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They haven't even gone into conference play, and it's a fresh slate with a new opponent in Baylor, and they're gonna have to go on the road. It's gonna suck.
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It's a, it's a horrible s- four-week schedule where you're spending your first three games on the road. But then after that you're gonna get some home games and tougher opponents, and you just have to be ready.
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You can't focus in on this loss, and you can't feel sorry for yourself. Well, you can't know where a team is, uh, three games into the season.
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You brought up 2024, and you know that, that, uh, demoralizing loss in Nebraska, and doesn't really tell you what the end of the story is.
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But, you know, I, I don't know that anybody was cult-like after the win over Weber State. It was a good win, you know? I mean, at the end of the day, what do you do?
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Everybody, everybody acknowledged there was issues with it. Nobody was saying, "Hey, this is a great win over a great team." I think everybody was fairly, fairly honest about it was a, it was a solid win,
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you know, that had, that showed some problems. So we got some, saw some more problems last night and, and where they go from here is really, uh, where you find out what this team is like. You know,
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any, any boxer outside of... Muhammad Ali got knocked out, man. You know, you, you get knocked down and you, you find out what you are by how, how, how you get up. So I don't know.
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Um, I still think let, let, let, let's see what we can pull any kind of positives out of this thing, Leo. Well, it's the run game, right?
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It's r- Like, if you take away the fumbles, I think this is gonna be a completely different ballgame, right? And yes, it was rainy conditions. Yes, it was in Evanston.
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But all week the Buffs knew going in that there was gonna be these conditions. And they had those kind of mistakes in Georgia Tech, which again is something you don't like to see,
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but I think the Buffs were a lot closer in this game than the score reflects and- Yeah... what people might have seen.
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Just looking at the way they were able to, you know, dominate with the trenches up front and use their run game, um, not on fourth down obviously, but again, there are positives.
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There are, you know, good aspects of this team. The linebackers, the defensive line, they are still doing a really heck of a job of not allowing teams to run between the tackles.
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I think when teams are finding success, it's when they're getting outside and they're able to, you know, use speed or kind of trickery to get to the edge.
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So there's some, you know, a little bit of concerns, especially when it comes to covering athletic quarterbacks, which is something the Buffs have always kind of struggled with for a couple of seasons.
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But knowing the kind of quarterbacks on their schedule and the guys they're gonna face later down the line, they have to be ready to contain those guys too.
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Yeah, you know, and the wheel route out of the, you know, the like, like so, so one of the things that Ch- that Chip Kelly did was when we'd blitz those lineback- blitz those safeties, they'd have a little delayed release on the running back and, you know, then the safety gets cut kind of flat-footed charging in and, and nobody there.
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So- Yeah, can't backpedal out. Yeah. So, so, you know, uh, Chris Marve has to look at that on film and do something about it, make a change, you know?
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So I don't know, some of, some of the, you know, again, it's, it's too early at this point to have the doom and gloom talk. I'm not giving up on Juju Lewis by any means, 'cause like you said, only his fifth start.
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You know, the thing, the thing about the quarterbacks is like, you know, the, the only thing I would say is they should've had more quarterbacks in that room, but you know, they're not always available.
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So you know, what happens with five stars, they don't always pan out. Four stars don't always pan out. But you know, what you try to do is have three or four of them and then one of them will pan out, right?
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But I don't think, I don't think it's ready to give up on Juju Lewis yet. I think they gotta keep developing him and give him some more time to, uh, really to develop his game and learn from his mistakes.
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It's his fifth career start- Yeah... and he's 18 years old. Um, his 21st or his 19th birthday will be tomorrow, excuse me. So he's gonna be, you know, turning 19.
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And I think, and I look back at when I was 19, I'm, I just turned 22, you know, uh, about a week and a half ago or whatever it was, and I, I just see the growth that I made from my freshman year of college to now just as a person and as a human and as a mature, you know,
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living being.
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And I think he's gonna have to make those, you know, adjustments a little quicker, and that's the thing that sucks about playing for the Colorado Buffaloes and being in the limelight and being a five-star quarterback and getting paid like it, is regardless of your age, people don't want to hear that.
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Right. They don't want to hear these excuses of, you know, "This is only your fifth start." They see the money, and they see the attention, and they see, you know, Lewis on the back of your jersey.
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They expect you to come out, perform, and light up the scoreboard every week and do it consistently.
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So when the Buffs don't reach those expectations quick and early, especially after the 2-0 start, it's disheartening, and I think that's where you see a lot of this frustration and emotions coming from.
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But to summarize that all back and bring it all back together, he is still 18. Yeah, and you know, you know, some people just wanna be negative for the sake of being negative, and by all means, go and be what you are.
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You know, at the end of the day, he's not a senior yet now, so we're not talking about what's going on with a senior. We're talking about a guy in the third game of the season, and we're gonna wait and see what he does.
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But I think that, um, um, uh, you know, ano- another good point Dano makes is that we did have an extra, another quarterback in that room, and it's hard to say, you know?
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But, um, uh, uh, I think that, uh, Dano was also right in his previous statement where he says the game's still a little too fast for Juju. Now, the problem that I have with Juju is, um,
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his accuracy on some of these passes, like that first one that he had, he had a first down possibly to, to, I think it was- Joseph Williams... Joseph Williams, and he threw it behind him. Overshot him, yeah.
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Was not pressured, he was not pressured at that point. So he's gotta get that accuracy and get that out in front of him, and then that's a f- you know what I mean?
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That, that shows you how, how it's a game of inches, right? If that, if that ball's six inches to the, to the left, it's a first down, right?
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Yeah, and you're continuing what was the start to a great, you know, first drive, and the Buffs had momentum. But like you said, ultimately Jolyon didn't play a good game. He didn't make the plays that he needed to do.
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He made mistakes. He had a horrible interception on that first and forever. And, uh, you gotta take care of the football. That's kind of the biggest thing with the young quarterback that we talked about.
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But when your run game doesn't do you disservice, it's not helping Lewis out at all. So I think, you know, he didn't play great, the players around him didn't help at all, and it was a collective team loss.
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I don't think there's a single person you can go out and point to and be like, "This is the reason Colorado lost. This is the reason Colorado lost." Every single person who was on that field in black and gold...
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went out and, you know, contributed to the loss Well, and I, and I, yeah, and I, and I think, I think it's also gotta be pointed back at the coaching staff too.
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I think both Marv and, and Marion gotta do a better job, and I think Coach Prime has gotta insist on more discipline.
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Now, you know, people act like in- instilling discipline as a team, in a team is an easy thing, and it's not, you know? Um, but, um, there's a fine line there as far as, you know,
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one of the things that you can use to instill discipline is playing time, but that depends on whether you got the depth to actually do that, you know?
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Another thing is you can run 'em over till they drop, and at, at some point, um, is a point, is a point where diminishing returns as well. So- Yeah...
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things they have to do is, is they have to find a way to be a more disciplined and less mistake-prone team. Yeah. And they, and they gotta find a way to get in the end zone, right? The offense has to score.
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You kinda mentioned it before. Uh, uh, Gun Junkie just mentioned in the chat, he says, "Eight quarters and 21 points scored against Power Four schools." It's not gonna do...
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You're not gonna win football games like that, right? And we've kind of harped on the defense a lot, but offense needs to score points, and that's honestly a big point. Yeah.
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You know, um, the three, the three-fourth, well, you know, you, you, you pull the four, uh, interceptions out, that, that, that's a kind of a different aspect of the same issue. You know, you gotta hold onto the ball.
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Without those four inter- without those four fumble- without those four turnovers, you know, we'd probably get some points out of those plays. But, uh,
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you know, that, that's a correct statement that, that goes to Marion, it goes to the players.
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Um, you know, and it goes to s- the o- the only, the only s- the only, uh, group that I would say played fairly well was the offensive line, which only gave up one sack in 29 attempts, and, uh, opened some decent holes for the running backs.
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Yeah. A- as far as I can recall, I'll go back and watch the film, but I don't think any lineman fumbled any balls. [laughs] Could be wrong.
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And, and, and, you know, I, you know, just one, one positive I guess is wherever everyone take- Chauncey Gooden played every offensive snap and also played on defense, so that kid played well- Yeah... man, you know.
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He's getting more reps. Um, we're gonna go ahead and take a break here. If Oliver Hayes is ready to come in and join us just to hear a word from our sponsor, then we're gonna come back.
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We'll give, you know, some closing thoughts, uh, maybe for some of our final comments on this game, and potentially look forward to Baylor next week and, uh, wrap it up. Yeah.
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Well, let me get into the Taco Bell ad, uh, as usual. Buffs fans, Taco Bell is bringing [laughs] Enchilada nacho fries, loaded nacho fries topped with savory chicken and bold enchilada flavor.
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And save room for the return of a fan favorite, the caramel apple empanada with warm apple filling and a caramel wrap inside a crispy pastry shell. Get 'em while you can at Taco Bell.
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And while you're enjoying the latest from the Taco Bell menu, the Buffs are putting points on the board, and those points mean even more this season. Uh, well, I can't really say that part, you know.
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I don't know how many points they're putting on the board, just a touchdown. But anyways, through Taco Bell's Every Point Matters campaign, Taco Bell is donating $200 for every point the Buffs score to Buff scholarships.
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That's $14,600 for Buff scholarships and counting. So keep those points coming, Buffs. Great food, Buffs football, and 14,600 reasons and counting to celebrate.
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Because this season, every point matters only at Taco Bell and Live Mas. And you know, you know, so Oliver, you know, whether, whether she can score points or not, the bo- the point here that I think to illustrate...
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The, the point I think here- [laughs]... to illustrate to people is, you know, go and support Taco Bell because they're supporting CU Athletics, you know? Yeah.
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They're putting real money in there that are paying for scholarships and equipment and other stuff for kids. So, you know, the, the point really is that, uh, go and support somebody that supports us, right?
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So go get yourself some Taco Bell. You deserve it. Uh, we all need it. It's a good hangover food. If you're, if you're still suffering- [laughs]... you probably are. [laughs] Yeah.
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And, uh, you know, kinda looking to the chat and getting back to, you know, the struggles, uh, The Corkman talks about, you know, it's tough to win on the road, and he's right.
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You know, regardless of what team you are, especially against a, a Big 10 team in Power Four football, it's difficult. You gotta be ready to rock and roll. And, uh, again, it's only game three.
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There's still plenty left to say. "But Taco Bell will put me on the toilet." [laughs] That's funny. Ah. It is for weight loss. I mean, I don't know what to tell you, man. But yeah. From a price standpoint.
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There's always advantages. Always advantages. I, I wanna, I, I wanna address that.
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I think Sneakerhead had a good point, and Manhattan-Nebraska game in '94, I remember it, it was butt ass ugly, and it was, and, and, you know, and he, and that wasn't, uh, you know.
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Let's start by admitting that that team had, had NFL starters at every, at every position, okay? So that was a great freaking team, and they ended up with only one loss.
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But they went on the road to North Caro- to Norton, Nebraska that year and just really got their ass kicked, and it was a one-sided game. So yeah, even great teams can have a bad game.
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And to somebody else down to Chad sayings, uh, uh, admits CU's a bad team. Well, it's not time to admit anything. The bottom line, and we've all agreed that- One loss...
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that this is a team that has issues, and I think we're all on the same page that, uh, a- and I would agree with the statement that, you know, the, the top end at this point is probably a decent team.
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Se- six wins, seven wins maybe, you know. Maybe they get things rolling and get more than that.
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But, um, I think, uh, there's still stuff to work, look at positive on this, on this team, and I think that, uh, they gotta go back to the drawing board and figure some of those things out, you know? They do.
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And, uh, kinda looking at the chat, uh, uh, The Corkman said he's gonna jump off a bridge, but there ain't no one near him. Brian Howell said it last night, "Do not jump off the bridge, guys." All right?
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There is still time. All right? Talk yourself out. Um, that's our job here today. We're here to talk to you guys off the ledge. We're trying- Well, and I gotta-...
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um, And I gotta jump in there and say, "Corkman, you must be new as a CU fan, man," 'cause [laughs] the red...
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You know, if it was jumping off the bridge time, they'd have been scraping me up a lot of times over the last 12 years. You know what I'm saying? [laughs] Oh, certainly, certainly, certainly.
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But, uh- And also gotta have a little sense of humor in this. We can't all just be ugly and negative. We, I, I hit you with the negativity before we started and you slapped me around, remember? Yeah. No, you're so right.
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Um, [laughs] well then that, that definitely brought a chuckle in. I think there is a lot of, you know, concern for Julian Lewis and critique on his play.
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But then you go, well, last week everyone was talking about he had a record day, right? And he showed he could throw for 366 yards and four touchdowns and run one in. Against a lesser opponent, yes.
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But he's gonna be able to figure it out and, uh, you know, and if he doesn't, you go back to the drawing board. You have, uh, you know, Sweet Wine in the wings.
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If this continues to get ugly, then you have that possibility. But you guys need to give Lewis a little more, and it's his fifth career start. All right?
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I think 10 games, in my opinion, 10 games is a fair amount to where you've seen enough, you should be adjusted. And then if those mistakes are repeating over, then you get a little concerned. Yeah.
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You know, and there's a lot of quarterbacks that, that struggle early and got great later, and I don't know if that's gonna be Juju or not.
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And I, and, you know, talking about the team itself, you know, will it be three wins? I don't know. That remains to be seen.
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Um, what I would go back to and say is I, I'm looking at our schedule right now and, and I don't know who any of, any of uh, any of these teams are. You know? Um,
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Baylor, like I just said, you know, has only played, uh, two FCS teams and, and a one point loss to an Auburn team that still hasn't shown who they are. You know? Maybe, maybe- Mm-hmm...
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Northwestern comes out next week and beats that, or this late, this week, I guess, and beats the hell out of Indiana and all of a sudden we're looking at this different. I don't know. You know?
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Um, my, you know, say, everybody gotta be who they gotta be, man. And, and my nature is I get up and I look outside and see the sun is shining.
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Uh, uh, they ain't hauling me out in a bag, so I'm still here, and I try to find the positive in things. You gotta. If you don't, that's okay. You know, whatever. But that's, that's who I'm gonna be.
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Um, and at the same time, try to be an honest broker, you know? And so I open this thing up saying, "Look," you know, "this is not pretty and it's not good."
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And certainly we were wrong about our call on some things, but, uh, we're gonna wait and see what happens with this team. Yeah. They got, they got time and, uh, uh, I'm sorry, I'm trying to read the chat.
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"My ceiling is a bald spot, my floor is William." [laughs] That's an all time comment. I'm sorry. That's an, that's, [laughs] that is an all time comment. Um- Well, this is shaved, pal. Shaved.
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[laughs] Oh, that's pretty awesome to hear. Thanks for, uh, joining in Cork Man and giving your guys' thoughts. I was trying to look through the chat and see, you know, uh, different stuff.
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[laughs] They wanna see the fan, William. The people miss your s- your spinning fan. I know you kinda switched your, uh, layout today to give the fans a different view, but I'm seeing some comments.
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They, they like the fan. Well, you can still see it up in a up, in upper corner up there, man. You know? But this gives better light on the face, although better light on my face maybe not the way to go on TV.
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[laughs] Yeah. Not when this person says we are soft and not- You s- you, you said, you said I'm ugly? [laughs] No. Yeah. No, Le- That's not it, you know... Leo, Leo has a- That's, that's ugly...
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a habit of doing this even when Coach Prime is like, "We're that bad?" Overdoing the analysis Yeah. Yeah. You guys, you guys. Let me rejoin in, guys. Sorry. [laughs] Oh, of course.
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It, and the glitch is Leo but- I don't know why. I don't know... you know, my point was, is that whenever, you know, people are saying things, making fun of themselves, this dude Leo likes to join and be like, "Yeah,
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you guys were that bad," or this or that, but- He's being a little- I guess I can't come back and join in now that we're glitching, so. Yeah. Ah. Saved by- All right... saved by the glitch, Leo.
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Well, we try to have a little humor on this show and, you know, it's not, not just my face either, although I'm not sure that's a, um, um- We're all linemen here. It's all right. Oliver was a basketball player, so- Yeah.
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I, I disagree with somebody who said that this team is not physical and, and, and soft. I- Yeah, Mountain Whisperer. Yeah.
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That, that, they, they certainly were physical and hard the first two weeks and then last night they actually were to some extent.
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And then, you know, at some point as s- you know, the offensive line was still open to hold. The offensive line was doing fine, and the running backs were still, still knocking people over instead of dropping the ball.
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And then on defense at some point, man, you know, you keep giving a team a short field and, you know, a defense is gonna wear down and- Yeah, defense is gonna wear down. You don't fault them there. Yeah.
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You know, but they showed physicality and toughness in those first two weeks, and the question is, do they get it back this week and, and, you know, we wait and see. I think it, it's a big challenge.
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And again, I, I kinda had my smile on my face when I came in here because I think it says a lot about your character. How do you respond to adversity? How do you respond when you get punched in the face?
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'Cause a lot of people, it's easy to roll over and quit. Quitting's the easy thing to do. It is so easy to look at, you know, the struggles and the kind of, the patterns and say, "Here we go again."
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But you can't have that mentality. You still have a lot of time. There's still, you know, a full conference slate of games ahead of you, and Baylor's got a loss too. They're two and one.
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Other teams in the conference like Houston who was ranked, they lost to Texas Tech. They have a loss.
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And although those losses, you know, might have been different magnitudes and different score differentials, a loss is still a loss.
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When you look at the schedule and you look at the record, it doesn't say, "Well, this team lost by 15 points, this team lost by 30, this team lost by one." A loss is a freaking loss, man. You have to suck it up.
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You have to deal with it and you have to push on. Yeah, I think talk, you know, people are talking about the secondary. Can the secondary be fixed?
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I don't know that it's broken so much, but I think it's designed right now, it's not giving up the big play. We'll give them that. You know what I mean?
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Like I look at our drive charts and, and we're not giving up one single, you know, long play. But, uh, one of the things that we're, they're designed, what they're giving up is underneath stuff, sort of, uh, below stuff.
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And, and we gotta dial up that pass rush like we had, uh, the first week and the first couple weeks, and that's gonna be one way to improve it. But then they have to make some adjustments on that.
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On that secondary, I think, you know, at the end of the day, no matter how good of a player he is, it, it, uh, to me as a coach, Boo Carter gets yanked for that play. Okay? I think so.
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You can't, I w- you can, can't control yourself in that situation, you're gonna stand on the bench and learn a lesson. And if you can't ever get under it, then, you know...
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And I don't wanna go so far as that some people said, you know, "Well, that just shows why he didn't leave."
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Well, I don't think that's why he left Tennessee, but I think he made a mistake in the heat of the game and, um, it's not something I've seen from him before and, and, you know- There was a coach I had that used to say, you know, "You do something once, it's a mistake.
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You do something twice, and that's who you are." So let's wait and see on that. But- Sure... I think that's the message you send is, you make a mistake in that kind of a game, you're gonna sit the rest of the game.
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And you know what? We take our lumps with whoever we put out there, you know? Certainly. That's all the Buffs really can at this point. And like you said, it was ugly.
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Um, very few things to be excited about, but I do gotta say it's a new week. It's a new game. It's a new opponent. I'll keep saying that. I'm gonna keep harping on. A week from now, my tone might be different, right?
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If they go out and they lay a duck on the road against Baylor, then I'll start saying, "Hey, now it's time to start having these tough conversations about where is this team ceiling and where is the floor?"
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But I'm not in panic mode. I'm sitting here, I'm looking back at this Buffs team, and I say there's a lot of football to go, man.
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Yeah, I'm- And if you're not ready to sit in and watch it, and you're scared, and you're flinching, and you don't believe the Buffs can turn this around, then get on. I don't know what else to say.
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We, we, we may have to discuss biology a little, sir, because ducks don't get laid, eggs get laid. [laughs] Then they turn- [laughs] Yeah. See, we can still have fun on this show, you know? You're right.
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We can talk, we can talk about the damn fan. W- Yeah, we got the fan over here... there it is, you know? All this stuff. But yeah, you gotta make your composure, and I kinda g- agree, which is weird, right?
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Because you see on the offensive side of the ball, Henderson and Michael Walters, they made their mistakes. They got yanked immediately, and they didn't get to come back in the game. Yeah.
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Then you have Boo Carter who makes a mental mistake and that kind of error. I thought it would've been the similar mentality where you go, "Nah, go to the bench.
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You know, sit about, think about what you've done for a couple of plays, at least a series or something." But it's just a little bit- Well-... difference in mentalities and kinda how you, you know- Well-...
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manage your players... I, I, I, and I played de- little devil's advocate there, and I think that they yanked the running backs 'cause they knew they had three more they could play. Yeah, you're right. You're right.
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Sometimes, sometimes you gotta bite the bullet. Maybe you, you don't, clearly we don't have another Boo Carter on the sidelines, but a message gotta be sent, you know? And, and- Yeah, somehow... yeah.
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And, and especially, I, I, I still think that's the, that's the key play of the game. I think that's when the, when the gates started to open, you know? And, and we l- we, that, that let them...
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You know, we had them off the field, you know? And, and stopped them once more to punt, a- and, and now it's 14 nothing, get the ball back. I don't know if we would've done something, but, uh,
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right at that point we let them finish off a 72-yard drive because of that play, you know? That's correct. All of a sudden it's 21- Correct... just a whole other thing, you know? Yeah.
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There was a bunch of little sloppy things.
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Um, I think there's one last point that Mountain Whisper brings up that I'd like to address and we could talk about before we get outta here, and, uh, no captains or dogs this year, just the one punter, Damon Greaves, number 21.
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He's got the lone dog on his patch. What do you think this says about the team?
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Well, I think my take on it is that they think there are so many of them that are leaders that at some point you can't give them all a, the, the, the, the label.
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And I think especially on defense, a lot of the guys, almost every one of those guys on the defense is, is sort of a leader and a dog to me.
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Um, I think the offense has, the, the leaders and the dogs on the offense are the offensive line at this point, but then you have, you have guys like, uh, De'Angelo Moore, and you got guys like Mike Boettcher.
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Yeah, DeAndre Moore. DeAndre Moore, yeah, right. And, and so a wide variety of guys who could be those leaders. Uh, you know, putting a... I don't know. I go back to...
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To me, things like that are less important than fans think they are. Um, you know, lots of guys wanna be the captain, but the captains don't necessarily, um...
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Just because you name a guy a captain doesn't mean he's gotta go out and ra- ra- and lift everybody up, you know?
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My experience is, you know, and I'm gonna have to go, it's been a while since I've been a player, but, but, you know, Sal Anesi, man, you didn't have to name that dude a captain.
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He was the most natural leader I've ever known in my entire life, you know? Which is part of why we were so broken up when he died. But then Darien Hagan was the same damn thing.
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Eric Bieniemy, Eric Bieniemy, you didn't have to name that dude a leader, and Eric would get right, you know, [laughs] Eric, all five, six of them, would get right up in your navel. Okay, that's a little joke there.
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And, and, and let you know. And I recall one summer, you know, doing runs and, and, and Alfred Williams dropped out.
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And Eric Bieniemy ran up, and I swear, literally half his size, ran up and jacked him and knocked him on his ass and said, "If you don't wanna f- if you wanna quit on us now, you'll quit on us later.
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I don't give a damn if you are an All-American, get the hell out." You know? Yeah.
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Now, I don't know if these kind of things happened in practice or not, but you don't gotta name a guy a captain to have that sort of thing, okay?
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And I, I wanna, you know, I, I just, because we're, we're hitting back on my days, you know, uh, Corkman talks about Coach, Coach Mac talked about Eric Bieniemy as one of the most important players in his, his tenure there.
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And, and that's absolutely true. And I would say before him, uh, Sal, Sal Anesi, because those kinds of guys, you don't build those guys, man. They, they just come.
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We, we would've literally killed, and pillaged, and burned down homes for Sal, man. We would've done anything because- I, I was no good. I was a walk-on and no good, but, but he treated me just like the, everybody else.
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And then those kinds of leaders come along once in a lifetime.
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And I'll tell you, that game in, in, in, in the national championship year we went into Nebraska, and we were down like, I don't know, we were down a couple touchdowns going into the fourth quarter, and I was watching with a couple of Nebraska fans.
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I said, "I guarantee you we win this." Because we had fumbled, Eric had fumbled twice going into the end zone, you know, that would've been touchdowns, and we didn't get those. And I said, "That's gonna burn in that guy.
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That's gonna burn in that guy, in his guts, and he's gonna make these dudes pay." And he scored four touchdowns in the fourth quarter, you know? Hmm.
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Those kind of guys, y- don't matter whether you put a C on their damn shirt or not, [laughs] you know? And I don't know if we had those guys or not. I suspect we're gonna find out a little bit this week, you know?
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Oh, I think... Okay, I thought you froze. You're, you know what? You're right, and I'm glad you were able to give insight, you know, on Sal and kind of a team of the past because that's what these guys gotta look on.
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They gotta look, um, on the, the teams of the past and, you know, what they've been able to show through adversity, and how they've kind of rallied up.
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And when it comes down to the individual leadership, it has to be a players-led team. These guys have to be the ones to, you know, say, "This is not right. We're not gonna stand for this."
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And it can't be Coach Prime, it can't be Brandon Marion and Chris Marve every single week trying to rah, rah, get the team going. They have to figure it out themselves.
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You know, and to some extent, somebody made a point earlier that the, there's a problem with that to some extent in the portal era, you know, 'cause, you know, E- Eric, EB for example, wasn't a leader in year one, you know?
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You gotta earn that a little bit, right?
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Um, so, uh, it, and, and, and when you got a trap- and when you got a transfer portal and everybody's new, still at this point going into the fourth game, it's time for some guys to step forward and put some foots and some butts, you know?
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Uh, and, um, I think, again, the defense was playing pretty well until they just, you know, everything was stacked against them.
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But, uh, whether it's offensive linemen or, or somebody has gotta step up on, on that offense and say e- that enough is enough, you know? But- Yeah...
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Brandon Marion's gotta come out with some answers i- in terms of play calling and things that- True... you, you take Juju Lewis and, and he is what he is right now.
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A- at, at some point as a coach you have to give guys things that you know they can do. So you know he's not John Elway, so if you give him a John Elway game plan, he's not gonna be successful in it.
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So you have to find other things that he does do well and, and emphasize those things.
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And I think teams are gonna try and, um, um, they're gonna look at these films like Coach Prime said last night and see things that we made mistakes and try to, try to exploit those.
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So now you gotta fix those, you gotta change those. You gotta come back with something different, okay? So there's plenty in this playbook that Juju Lewis does well. You gotta give him those things, you know?
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And I think, again, you know, the, the offense was, was moving fairly well, and then they just handed the damn ball over, you know? They did. They did. Uh, Jeremiah Crawford just popped into the chat.
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I gotta say what's up to him, 'cause I always be saying what's up every time he come say what's up from Louisiana, representing the South. Uh, good to see you.
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But, uh, Mountain Whisper, Corkman, Robbie, appreciate you guys in the chat as well. Um, can we put Dano's comment right up on the screen, Oliver, about how they bounce back?
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He hits the, the nail right on the head, right? How the Buffs bounce back this week will tell you everything you know about the team and the coaching staff.
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So this is one of the most pivotal, I think, weeks of the Coach Prime era, and one of the most telling, you know, times. And that's why I, again, I was kind of,
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I wouldn't say not happy, but I'm intrigued to see the way this r- team responds, and I'm really excited to see it.
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Yeah, and I think, um, you know, somebody, Robbie, says the three problems, penalties, turnovers, and Jujus. I don't really agree with that. I think again, you know, um,
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you know, Juju's a work in progress and, and to some extent, you know, the turnovers, penalties and the, and the silly stuff that really let this thing snowball. But, um, there's no question he's got work to be done.
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You know, uh, that's on Brandon Marion to develop him and bring him along, give him, uh, plays that h- that he can run, you know?
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Uh, I don't think that Baylor is gonna be as good as Northwestern, but again, it's too early to really say for sure.
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So I think there's another opportunity here to get better and to, um, I think at some point he's gotta lean on that offensive line and let Jeff Impe impose their will until somebody stops it.
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And the only, the only, again, three games in, the only people that stopped our damn running game is us. Us, period. You know, game one, couple of bad snaps.
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Uh, game two, well, we just stopped running the ball because we were up so much, right? And then this, this game, goddamn fumbles. Excuse my language, you know? Nobody, no team yet has stopped our run game, and I'm...
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Well, granted I'm an offensive line coach and, and, and, and I, I'd prefer to run 72 times, you know? But line it up and break their will and impose, impose your will, you know?
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And, and, and, and, and if, if, if Micah and, and, and Damien can't hold onto the ball then you go with the other two dudes, man, because Qua'll Smith had a hell of a game. Dude had 10 plays and still got what?
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90 something yards? 80 something yards? Yeah. Still over 150 rushing yards for Colorado on the ground. Yeah. And, um, yeah, the playbook gets narrow and predictable.
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That is one thing too, um, uh, that, that's the fair... You know, we kinda talked about it. It's like although they have success, you would like to see more diversity, more uniqueness and creativity from Brandon Marion.
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And simply Colorado got outcoached, they got outplayed, outschemed, out whatever you wanna say against Northwestern on Saturday, and that's kinda my final thoughts on it, William. Yeah.
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You know, and, um, I don't know, you know? It was a, it was a rough game. Things, things... Uh, Bat Breezy says I'm goddamn right about something. Hey, every now and then, man.
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You talk enough, [laughs] you know, sooner or later something gotta be right.
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Um, but you know, there, again, there, there's no, you know, and to the, to the person coming in and saying, "You said this, you said that," I started off the whole damn podpat- podcast by saying I was wrong about a couple things.
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And, um, you know, what I've said all along and what I still maintain is we don't know who these teams are.
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There was no way to know what Northwestern was, 'cause they only played one game against an FCS opponent, so- You want to come in here and beat your chest, you weren't in here talking shit last week, so come in here and do it They never are.
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That's the funny thing, right, is, uh, it's a lot of front running and showboating. People, uh, never wanna talk when they're down. It's always when, you know, things finally go right.
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So I don't got much to say, uh, about that. Yeah. I never give too much attention for outside noise. Nope. Nope. So, you know, we g- we're gonna wait and see how they, how they regroup this week.
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Um, you know, somebody mentioned going into Baylor's. Going on the road anywhere, you know, is, is supposed to be tough, um, at, at the P4 level.
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And, um, you know, his, you know, history about Baylor I don't know that means too much now that now they have such a different team. But, uh, we're gonna find out, uh, what they're made of and what we're made of.
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Again, you know, their, their, their three games don't really tell me too much what they're about, you know? Yeah. You know, like they... And then just real quick, we'll look at this.
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Like, they, they beat Louisiana Tech 36 to 19. Well, you know, that's not a overwhelming victory against a team like that. And then the week before was 44 to 3 against Prairie View A&M, you know? So
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I don't know what to take from those, those, those scores, honest to God, you know? And then 18, they lost 17 to 16 in week one, and I don't know what Auburn is yet either. But, uh, this early in the season, you,
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you really can't start knowing who people are until five, six games in. So we'll see what happens in Baylor. I think it's a winnable game. Um, you know, we'll- It is... yeah, w- we'll be underdogs.
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We could certainly beat that team. They could certainly beaten us. Um, but it really remains to see.
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I think every, I think what you and what several people said in the chat is how they bounce back this week is really gonna indicate a lot about where they go this season. It's gonna. That's the task at hand.
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Um, I just wanna remind people that throughout the week, you know, Oliver will be live with Young Will Burnett, who did a great job of coverage yesterday.
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William, Gardner, and I will be live to bring you a preview later on this week like we have been doing. So you guys love seeing the OG Will, make sure you leave some comments, you know, talk to him.
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He always loves engaging with the fans. We're gonna continue to be coming back live, um, giving you guys all the great content. And, uh, William, keep your head up.
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I know it was a tough loss, but we're gonna keep talking about it, my man. Yeah, you know, um, we gotta j- they just gotta keep going, you know?
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At some point, you know, you're coaching football now, I coached for a lot of years, it's sort of frustrating when you don't have any input, you know, and you just gotta watch from the sidelines. It's, you know,
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uh, you know, I don't wanna say it's like a p- like pilots flying and coach, you know? Hope to God your pilot in the front knows is good at what he's doing no matter who he is, but [laughs] Yeah. Yeah...
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you know, y- you're always watching going, "I wouldn't have done that there," but, you know. True.
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And obviously we're not there and we don't have that impact, but, uh, College Bound CFL says, "At the start of the season if someone gave us an option for 2-1 after three weeks- Oh, yeah... we'd have all taken it." 100%.
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Well, I, I, yeah, I, I think about 99% said that was the goal, quite frankly. Now, you know, it's, it's the way that one played out that, that makes it so, uh, unpleasant.
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But I think everybody, I, I would say damn near everybody figured 2-1 would be great, would be a gift, so Yeah... we're where we wanted to be. Now the question is what do we do with it from this point on? What do you do?
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I mean, in my thought process, the only place to go is up after a loss like 41 to seven on the road to Northwestern. But, uh, that's all I got to say today.
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Um, it was great having everyone who tuned in live this Sunday on Adam Munster Tigers Buff Stampede Radio. We appreciate all the, you know, support for you guys and the OG William, and
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hopefully w- And there's our friend, there's our friend Nicole There's Nicole, yep. She's positive about the fan. See, she sees it up there. Yep. Where I can't, you know, you're backwards. So [laughs] Yeah, 100%...
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if nothing else, my fan will always be there. Nothing else, you know, William and I will be here every Sunday to give you guys our thoughts and breakdowns and try to produce some more optimism.
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Uh, again, appreciate the OG sitting here beside me, and everyone who was in the chats engaging, talking, uh, we appreciate you guys 'cause you guys help keep this thing going.
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And, uh, much love, long live Adam Munster Tiger. Be careful and have a good week out there, folks. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag.
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Swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like my Colorado swag. 'Cause when I'm in that place, I don't really, I don't really know just how to act. And when I'm in it go, you know I'm acting bad.
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I'll let you get a buzz with my Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like, I think they like my Colorado swag.
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Straight boy. Let's go, let's go, let's go. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. Swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like my Colorado swag. 'Cause when I'm in that blade.
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I don't really, I don't really know just how to act. And when I'm in it gold. You know I'm acting bad. Hollering Dilla Bush with my Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag.
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I think they like, I think they like my Colorado swag Well, welcome in. Leo's grinning there. Welcome in to another episode of Adam Munch Tigers Buff Stampede Radio.
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A little bit of a tougher edition this morning after last night's game. Not a whole lot of positive to take out of that, but we're going to break it down and take a look at things and see what we can come up with.
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I think it's always hard to really tear apart a game like that. And I don't know, sometimes it's even hard to say what the hell happened. I think that it started off fairly well, and then some bad things happened and
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sort of steamrolled after that and went downhill. Leo, what did you think? Yeah, you know what?
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It was good old-fashioned butt whooping for the Buffs on the road against Northwestern, and they were dominating all three aspects of the game.
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Offensively, coughing the ball up, four turnovers, two fumbles, two interceptions, and then, of course, a three turnover on downs.
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So seven total times you're giving short fields away, putting your defense at disadvantageous positions. And although they tried holding on early, it was just too much. Offense wasn't able to deliver.
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And when your defense is out there, they start getting fatigued and things start happening. Chip Kelly was able to exploit, you know, the secondary a little bit after having a very efficient running attack.
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And it was no surprises really from what Northwestern came out trying to do.
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They did a good job of moving Aiden Childs outside the pocket, did a great job of play action and, you know, giving him unique looks and not letting him sit back there and letting that pass rush of Colorado be effective.
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At the end of the day, the Buffs have to take care of football, and they didn't. You know, the turnovers is the big mark I'm going to continue harping back on because that's the reason why Colorado lost this game.
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You can't cough up the football. And even though, you know, the yardage statistics might have been the same, it was a, you know, chalk it up to a loss. You can't say much more other than the Buffs got whooped.
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Well, it's kind of a combination. It was a combination of their playing well and good game plan and mistakes and errors by the Buffs. I think you got to give Aiden Childs some credit.
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You know, there's that one play, for example, where we could have got off the field and he just made, you know, you and I were talking about before we started up here. Nothing particularly wrong with the defense there.
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You know, I'd like Santana Hopper to got back shoulder instead of front shoulder, but still that's just a guy making a great play, you know. Yeah. Sometimes that happens and that's what happens.
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You know, it's hard to fault the secondary there either because they were covering guys, but you give a guy 10 seconds to run around. A lot of time. He's going to come up. Yeah, he was just super efficient all night.
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And it was late in the fourth. He only had like three incompletions. You're just looking up like, dang, are they ever going to get a stop on this guy? Like, can Colorado find a break? And good on Northwestern.
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Their game plan had a lot of open receivers and made it so he had easy completions downfield and didn't necessarily have to thread, you know, a window on any of these tight throws. But he played a phenomenal game.
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Also did a great job with his legs. You know, Colorado was struggling on the contain once again.
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You know, it's kind of an issue that they've had a little bit on some of these plays when they're trying to blitz and, you know, create different unique looks. But a lot, a lot of negative from this game, right?
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Colorado lost big time, 41-7 on the road, if you guys can't see the score down below. But I think there are some positive takeaways. And I'm, you know, going to do my best to kind of bring up Buff Nation.
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And we're going to highlight some of the good things too. We'll get to that in a second. But, you know, it's always been my way to stand up and take my medicine, you know. And I got to say a couple things.
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First of all, you know, Chip Kelly proved me wrong. The man still knows how to call an offense. And, you know, we exploited him early with a couple of safety blitzes. And he came up with answers to that. So kudos to him.
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You know, I was wrong. Bottom line wrong. You know, the other thing I can continue to say is, you know, at this point of the season, we just don't know who the hell these teams are, you know.
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And so when they've only played one game in two weeks, it's hard to say who they are. And I wouldn't say that last night's score necessarily indicates they're going to the playoffs and we're going to go winless.
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You know, I mean, sometimes the game just gets away from you. I feel like this is one of those. And I really feel like
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the turning point in this game, and people may dispute it, I really think the turning point was Boo Carter's personal foul. Because at that point, we stopped them. We had them at fourth and 13. We get them off the field.
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They're still 14 to nothing. But as a result of the penalty, they finish off a 72-play drive and go up 21 to nothing. And, you know, as much as guys believe, there's still elements of doubt.
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And the longer things go on, the more people find reason to doubt. And the more you doubt, you know, the less successful you are.
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Yeah, I think this is a great opportunity for Coach Prime's team because right now they have their backs against the walls. They're facing their first adversity of the 2026 season.
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And this is a phenomenal opportunity, in my opinion. I know you kind of mentioned me grinning when we come on the show. And it's kind of because
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I think I'm more not necessarily excited, but I'm waiting to see how this team responds. And I might have more optimism for that compared to some people. I know,
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William, for you, it was kind of a painful watch as someone who's been around this program for a long time now.
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You've seen the ups and downs and how the emotions could kind of get really high and then you can crash with a big loss. But something's just telling me that this team is different.
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They're not going to be the kind of team that turns on each other and starts pointing fingers. And I'm really excited to see how they're going to respond against Baylor.
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But other than, you know, just that personal thought and, you know, hoping to will in some better performance next week, the performance against Northwestern just all around was sloppy, you know, penalties.
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Damian Henderson had the fumble. Mike Welts had the fumble. And it was just on a handoff. Like when you're Damian Henderson, you're going to clamp down on the football. He just never clamped. He never took it.
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And I don't know if he didn't know he was getting the ball there or he thought it was play action and Lewis was pulling it or what exactly the issue was.
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But to just drop the football like that when you're having a terrific drive is just unacceptable.
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Yeah, and you know, Michael Welsh did the same thing and, and, and you know, at some point you, you have to wonder what's going on in practice that, that they gotta know better than this, and you can't let that happen, you know?
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And it's always one of those things as a, as a c- you know, as a longtime coach, to me- Yeah... um, you play the way you're coached to play. And a lot of people say, "Well, it's the Jimmys and the Joes."
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Well, that's a person who doesn't really understand football. You, kids, kids at this level, um, even in the NFL to some extent, you, you play, you play the way that you're coached.
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'Cause at, at the college level and the high school level you have to be taught the game, right? Yeah. You have to be taught every fundamental.
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Like you said, have your hands in the right place and, uh, concentrate and all that sort of stuff. So, um, you know, uh, you look at a game like this and you're like, "We got better talent than that.
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Um, I'd like to believe we got better coaching than that." So is it just an anomaly where we, we're, we're...
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You know, 'cause sometimes, sometimes you, you do everything right and you go out there and it's a snowball on you, man. I've been part of that.
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And, uh, sometimes things just come apart or the wheels come off and that's that.
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So the question you have a- as a, as a fan, as a player, as a coach is, are we gonna make this, you know, s- are we gonna take this and we gonna turn it back around and make it an anomaly, or are we gonna, you know, fold up and, and fold up?
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Now, now last year's team, no questions asked, fold it up, right? This year's team seems like it have a lot of different type of guys.
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You know, guys with some pride and some fight in them, and some coaches with that too, and I think these guys- Yeah... are gonna get, feel the wounded pride and start to try to figure something else out.
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But like you said, you know, the, the running game is still working. Still got 180 yards, um, you know? You know, the only thing to [laughs] didn't work on it was, uh, uh- Fourth down...
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those two fumbles and fourth down. You know, we didn't have an answer on, on three fourth downs, so you...
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And I say, you know, the, statistically it says four turnovers with the two fumbles and two interceptions, but you know, they call it a turnover on downs. So to me it's seven, seven total turnovers.
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That's seven drives that ended with us, you know, giving the ball to them in advantageous situation. You can't- I- You know, you can't, you just can't overcome that.
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[laughs] You can't, and it's a tough ask for your defense, especially when you have Chip Kelly and Aidan Chiles on the opposing sidelines who have been dealing and, you know, coming up with stuff.
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When you get Chip Kelly confident, and he's comfortable, and he's cooking things up, I mean, he one of the strongest play callers in all of college football.
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I mean, there's a reason why he's been around the game for so long and had, you know, the success early on in his career.
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And while, you know, he may has had some bumps in the roads recently, he's still got that knowledge, and he's still got that, you know- Right... understanding of the game, and can exploit that.
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But going back to those turnovers, when you h- or turnover on downs, excuse me.
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When you have a offensive coordinator in Brendan Marion, you th- you would think he would have maybe had a couple more, you know, plays for that situation to kinda be a little more creative and try to spread out the defense.
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Because I understand his viewpoint from offensive line standpoint. He wanted to line up and, uh, beat them, right?
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He said, "We have bigger, badder offensive lineman, we're just gonna line up and, you know, 12 personnel, two tight ends, and try to run the football at you."
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However, I just don't think that was the right play call considering you have all this elite speed, and talent, and trickery, and so much you can do in the backfield action. Get the ball in Julian Lewis's hands.
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Let him make a play. Let him potentially pull it and run. Let him have the option to throw. You need more on that fourth down, and it was just unfortunate to see.
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Yeah, and I think, you know, I wanna, I wanna go to, um, l- l- there, there's a couple comments in here already I want, I wanna mention. And, and the first is S- Colorado has to be willing to go to a running quarterback.
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And I g- and, and I get what you're getting at. You know, I, we know which guy you're talking about. There's three quarterbacks in the damn room, and one of them runs, you know?
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And do you go to a true freshman at this point? I think it's a little too early to, to... I think that's a panic move at this point.
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But I do agree with what you're saying, that you gotta have some kind of a threat from the quarter- quarterback to run.
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And um, you know, Coach Prime said after the game that, that Juju is making mistakes but he's still developing. That's a fair statement, you know? I mean, he's still- Fifth start...
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yeah, still, still early in his career, but he's gotta figure some of that stuff out. And uh, Coach Marion's gotta give him a game plan that gives him a better opportunity there.
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Although that, [laughs] again, that said, you know, when you're driving and you keep handing the ball over, um, that's a problem.
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So eventually that may be an issue, and it, maybe they use Sweet Wine in some situations like that. Maybe they learn from this situation.
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And then I think the next comment after that talks about the last night was not who this team is, but we may, we, what... I don't know. Let me see exactly what it said.
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W- it was, um, um- Yeah, this team ain't as bad as last night, but it's not a good team. Probably average or decent is kind of- And I, and I think that's probably right. I think that's probably right.
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You know, I think as a team- I'm not sure where Oliver is with our bubble, sorry. [laughs] Yes. Yeah, I don't know. We gotta get Olive- Oliver's back there drinking, I think. We should've started... If, uh- [laughs]
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We, we don't own a bar like DMVR. We could come on here a little toasted and have a lot of fun. But uh, uh, um, I think, um, I think that's probably right, you know?
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And I, and I tell you this, you know, at the end of the day Coach Prime and these coaches gotta find six wins, man. And I mean, that's just the bottom line.
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And you know, I look at the schedule right now and we still don't know who the hell anybody is, you know? 'Cause like, we got Baylor coming up, and their only games are, are a one point loss to Auburn.
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And I, and I looked at Auburn's schedule and I don't know who the hell they are yet, if they're any good. And then, and then here we go again. They've played, Baylor's played two, two FCS teams.
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You know, what do you take from that? So I don't know, you know? But I think this is a must game, must-win game at this point. Uh, or at least it gotta be damn close to, uh, get to, get the...
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'Cause you got, you got a couple of tough ones after that. I think this is almost a must-win game.
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But yeah, I, I think we may be a middle of the road kind of a team, and that's not a bad thing as far as the turnaround goes.
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If we can get to six wins and get to a bowl game, you know, then we got something to sell recruits and we can get this thing rolling, you know? So maybe that's a correct statement. Yeah.
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I also think that too is, um, this is kind of the flip side of the overreaction, right? I think last week you saw people see the 52 points and they go, "This team's gonna be Big 12 champions.
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They're gonna come out and, you know, they're gonna be able to hang with Texas Tech and BYU." And uh, now after this loss people are like, "Well, now Colorado's not gonna win a game." Like, I'm not sure-[laughs]
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kind of where the, the optimism, confidence kind of flips, you know, just in one week. It's a bad loss. Colorado got punched in the mouth. I mean, that's the truth. Yeah.
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They had, you know, issues in the secondary, but at the same time I don't think it's the collapse. It's not the end of the season. Yeah. They have Big 12 play.
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They haven't even gone into conference play, and it's a fresh slate with a new opponent in Baylor, and they're gonna have to go on the road. It's gonna suck.
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It's a, it's a horrible s- four-week schedule where you're spending your first three games on the road. But then after that you're gonna get some home games and tougher opponents, and you just have to be ready.
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You can't focus in on this loss, and you can't feel sorry for yourself. Well, you can't know where a team is, uh, three games into the season.
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You brought up 2024, and you know that, that, uh, demoralizing loss in Nebraska, and doesn't really tell you what the end of the story is.
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But, you know, I, I don't know that anybody was cult-like after the win over Weber State. It was a good win, you know? I mean, at the end of the day, what do you do?
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Everybody, everybody acknowledged there was issues with it. Nobody was saying, "Hey, this is a great win over a great team." I think everybody was fairly, fairly honest about it was a, it was a solid win,
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you know, that had, that showed some problems. So we got some, saw some more problems last night and, and where they go from here is really, uh, where you find out what this team is like. You know,
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any, any boxer outside of... Muhammad Ali got knocked out, man. You know, you, you get knocked down and you, you find out what you are by how, how, how you get up. So I don't know.
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Um, I still think let, let, let, let's see what we can pull any kind of positives out of this thing, Leo. Well, it's the run game, right?
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It's r- Like, if you take away the fumbles, I think this is gonna be a completely different ballgame, right? And yes, it was rainy conditions. Yes, it was in Evanston.
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But all week the Buffs knew going in that there was gonna be these conditions. And they had those kind of mistakes in Georgia Tech, which again is something you don't like to see,
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but I think the Buffs were a lot closer in this game than the score reflects and- Yeah... what people might have seen.
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Just looking at the way they were able to, you know, dominate with the trenches up front and use their run game, um, not on fourth down obviously, but again, there are positives.
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There are, you know, good aspects of this team. The linebackers, the defensive line, they are still doing a really heck of a job of not allowing teams to run between the tackles.
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I think when teams are finding success, it's when they're getting outside and they're able to, you know, use speed or kind of trickery to get to the edge.
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So there's some, you know, a little bit of concerns, especially when it comes to covering athletic quarterbacks, which is something the Buffs have always kind of struggled with for a couple of seasons.
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But knowing the kind of quarterbacks on their schedule and the guys they're gonna face later down the line, they have to be ready to contain those guys too.
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Yeah, you know, and the wheel route out of the, you know, the like, like so, so one of the things that Ch- that Chip Kelly did was when we'd blitz those lineback- blitz those safeties, they'd have a little delayed release on the running back and, you know, then the safety gets cut kind of flat-footed charging in and, and nobody there.
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So- Yeah, can't backpedal out. Yeah. So, so, you know, uh, Chris Marve has to look at that on film and do something about it, make a change, you know?
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So I don't know, some of, some of the, you know, again, it's, it's too early at this point to have the doom and gloom talk. I'm not giving up on Juju Lewis by any means, 'cause like you said, only his fifth start.
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You know, the thing, the thing about the quarterbacks is like, you know, the, the only thing I would say is they should've had more quarterbacks in that room, but you know, they're not always available.
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So you know, what happens with five stars, they don't always pan out. Four stars don't always pan out. But you know, what you try to do is have three or four of them and then one of them will pan out, right?
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But I don't think, I don't think it's ready to give up on Juju Lewis yet. I think they gotta keep developing him and give him some more time to, uh, really to develop his game and learn from his mistakes.
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It's his fifth career start- Yeah... and he's 18 years old. Um, his 21st or his 19th birthday will be tomorrow, excuse me. So he's gonna be, you know, turning 19.
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And I think, and I look back at when I was 19, I'm, I just turned 22, you know, uh, about a week and a half ago or whatever it was, and I, I just see the growth that I made from my freshman year of college to now just as a person and as a human and as a mature, you know,
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living being.
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And I think he's gonna have to make those, you know, adjustments a little quicker, and that's the thing that sucks about playing for the Colorado Buffaloes and being in the limelight and being a five-star quarterback and getting paid like it, is regardless of your age, people don't want to hear that.
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Right. They don't want to hear these excuses of, you know, "This is only your fifth start." They see the money, and they see the attention, and they see, you know, Lewis on the back of your jersey.
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They expect you to come out, perform, and light up the scoreboard every week and do it consistently.
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So when the Buffs don't reach those expectations quick and early, especially after the 2-0 start, it's disheartening, and I think that's where you see a lot of this frustration and emotions coming from.
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But to summarize that all back and bring it all back together, he is still 18. Yeah, and you know, you know, some people just wanna be negative for the sake of being negative, and by all means, go and be what you are.
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You know, at the end of the day, he's not a senior yet now, so we're not talking about what's going on with a senior. We're talking about a guy in the third game of the season, and we're gonna wait and see what he does.
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But I think that, um, um, uh, you know, ano- another good point Dano makes is that we did have an extra, another quarterback in that room, and it's hard to say, you know?
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But, um, uh, uh, I think that, uh, Dano was also right in his previous statement where he says the game's still a little too fast for Juju. Now, the problem that I have with Juju is, um,
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his accuracy on some of these passes, like that first one that he had, he had a first down possibly to, to, I think it was- Joseph Williams... Joseph Williams, and he threw it behind him. Overshot him, yeah.
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Was not pressured, he was not pressured at that point. So he's gotta get that accuracy and get that out in front of him, and then that's a f- you know what I mean?
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That, that shows you how, how it's a game of inches, right? If that, if that ball's six inches to the, to the left, it's a first down, right?
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Yeah, and you're continuing what was the start to a great, you know, first drive, and the Buffs had momentum. But like you said, ultimately Jolyon didn't play a good game. He didn't make the plays that he needed to do.
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He made mistakes. He had a horrible interception on that first and forever. And, uh, you gotta take care of the football. That's kind of the biggest thing with the young quarterback that we talked about.
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But when your run game doesn't do you disservice, it's not helping Lewis out at all. So I think, you know, he didn't play great, the players around him didn't help at all, and it was a collective team loss.
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I don't think there's a single person you can go out and point to and be like, "This is the reason Colorado lost. This is the reason Colorado lost." Every single person who was on that field in black and gold...
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went out and, you know, contributed to the loss Well, and I, and I, yeah, and I, and I think, I think it's also gotta be pointed back at the coaching staff too.
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I think both Marv and, and Marion gotta do a better job, and I think Coach Prime has gotta insist on more discipline.
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Now, you know, people act like in- instilling discipline as a team, in a team is an easy thing, and it's not, you know? Um, but, um, there's a fine line there as far as, you know,
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one of the things that you can use to instill discipline is playing time, but that depends on whether you got the depth to actually do that, you know?
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Another thing is you can run 'em over till they drop, and at, at some point, um, is a point, is a point where diminishing returns as well. So- Yeah...
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things they have to do is, is they have to find a way to be a more disciplined and less mistake-prone team. Yeah. And they, and they gotta find a way to get in the end zone, right? The offense has to score.
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You kinda mentioned it before. Uh, uh, Gun Junkie just mentioned in the chat, he says, "Eight quarters and 21 points scored against Power Four schools." It's not gonna do...
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You're not gonna win football games like that, right? And we've kind of harped on the defense a lot, but offense needs to score points, and that's honestly a big point. Yeah.
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You know, um, the three, the three-fourth, well, you know, you, you, you pull the four, uh, interceptions out, that, that, that's a kind of a different aspect of the same issue. You know, you gotta hold onto the ball.
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Without those four inter- without those four fumble- without those four turnovers, you know, we'd probably get some points out of those plays. But, uh,
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you know, that, that's a correct statement that, that goes to Marion, it goes to the players.
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Um, you know, and it goes to s- the o- the only, the only s- the only, uh, group that I would say played fairly well was the offensive line, which only gave up one sack in 29 attempts, and, uh, opened some decent holes for the running backs.
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Yeah. A- as far as I can recall, I'll go back and watch the film, but I don't think any lineman fumbled any balls. [laughs] Could be wrong.
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And, and, and, you know, I, you know, just one, one positive I guess is wherever everyone take- Chauncey Gooden played every offensive snap and also played on defense, so that kid played well- Yeah... man, you know.
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He's getting more reps. Um, we're gonna go ahead and take a break here. If Oliver Hayes is ready to come in and join us just to hear a word from our sponsor, then we're gonna come back.
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We'll give, you know, some closing thoughts, uh, maybe for some of our final comments on this game, and potentially look forward to Baylor next week and, uh, wrap it up. Yeah.
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Well, let me get into the Taco Bell ad, uh, as usual. Buffs fans, Taco Bell is bringing [laughs] Enchilada nacho fries, loaded nacho fries topped with savory chicken and bold enchilada flavor.
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And while you're enjoying the latest from the Taco Bell menu, the Buffs are putting points on the board, and those points mean even more this season. Uh, well, I can't really say that part, you know.
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I don't know how many points they're putting on the board, just a touchdown. But anyways, through Taco Bell's Every Point Matters campaign, Taco Bell is donating $200 for every point the Buffs score to Buff scholarships.
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That's $14,600 for Buff scholarships and counting. So keep those points coming, Buffs. Great food, Buffs football, and 14,600 reasons and counting to celebrate.
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Because this season, every point matters only at Taco Bell and Live Mas. And you know, you know, so Oliver, you know, whether, whether she can score points or not, the bo- the point here that I think to illustrate...
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The, the point I think here- [laughs]... to illustrate to people is, you know, go and support Taco Bell because they're supporting CU Athletics, you know? Yeah.
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They're putting real money in there that are paying for scholarships and equipment and other stuff for kids. So, you know, the, the point really is that, uh, go and support somebody that supports us, right?
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So go get yourself some Taco Bell. You deserve it. Uh, we all need it. It's a good hangover food. If you're, if you're still suffering- [laughs]... you probably are. [laughs] Yeah.
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And, uh, you know, kinda looking to the chat and getting back to, you know, the struggles, uh, The Corkman talks about, you know, it's tough to win on the road, and he's right.
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You know, regardless of what team you are, especially against a, a Big 10 team in Power Four football, it's difficult. You gotta be ready to rock and roll. And, uh, again, it's only game three.
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There's still plenty left to say. "But Taco Bell will put me on the toilet." [laughs] That's funny. Ah. It is for weight loss. I mean, I don't know what to tell you, man. But yeah. From a price standpoint.
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There's always advantages. Always advantages. I, I wanna, I, I wanna address that.
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I think Sneakerhead had a good point, and Manhattan-Nebraska game in '94, I remember it, it was butt ass ugly, and it was, and, and, you know, and he, and that wasn't, uh, you know.
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Let's start by admitting that that team had, had NFL starters at every, at every position, okay? So that was a great freaking team, and they ended up with only one loss.
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But they went on the road to North Caro- to Norton, Nebraska that year and just really got their ass kicked, and it was a one-sided game. So yeah, even great teams can have a bad game.
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And to somebody else down to Chad sayings, uh, uh, admits CU's a bad team. Well, it's not time to admit anything. The bottom line, and we've all agreed that- One loss...
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that this is a team that has issues, and I think we're all on the same page that, uh, a- and I would agree with the statement that, you know, the, the top end at this point is probably a decent team.
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Se- six wins, seven wins maybe, you know. Maybe they get things rolling and get more than that.
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But, um, I think, uh, there's still stuff to work, look at positive on this, on this team, and I think that, uh, they gotta go back to the drawing board and figure some of those things out, you know? They do.
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And, uh, kinda looking at the chat, uh, uh, The Corkman said he's gonna jump off a bridge, but there ain't no one near him. Brian Howell said it last night, "Do not jump off the bridge, guys." All right?
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There is still time. All right? Talk yourself out. Um, that's our job here today. We're here to talk to you guys off the ledge. We're trying- Well, and I gotta-...
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um, And I gotta jump in there and say, "Corkman, you must be new as a CU fan, man," 'cause [laughs] the red...
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You know, if it was jumping off the bridge time, they'd have been scraping me up a lot of times over the last 12 years. You know what I'm saying? [laughs] Oh, certainly, certainly, certainly.
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But, uh- And also gotta have a little sense of humor in this. We can't all just be ugly and negative. We, I, I hit you with the negativity before we started and you slapped me around, remember? Yeah. No, you're so right.
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Um, [laughs] well then that, that definitely brought a chuckle in. I think there is a lot of, you know, concern for Julian Lewis and critique on his play.
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But then you go, well, last week everyone was talking about he had a record day, right? And he showed he could throw for 366 yards and four touchdowns and run one in. Against a lesser opponent, yes.
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But he's gonna be able to figure it out and, uh, you know, and if he doesn't, you go back to the drawing board. You have, uh, you know, Sweet Wine in the wings.
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If this continues to get ugly, then you have that possibility. But you guys need to give Lewis a little more, and it's his fifth career start. All right?
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I think 10 games, in my opinion, 10 games is a fair amount to where you've seen enough, you should be adjusted. And then if those mistakes are repeating over, then you get a little concerned. Yeah.
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You know, and there's a lot of quarterbacks that, that struggle early and got great later, and I don't know if that's gonna be Juju or not.
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And I, and, you know, talking about the team itself, you know, will it be three wins? I don't know. That remains to be seen.
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Um, what I would go back to and say is I, I'm looking at our schedule right now and, and I don't know who any of, any of uh, any of these teams are. You know? Um,
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Baylor, like I just said, you know, has only played, uh, two FCS teams and, and a one point loss to an Auburn team that still hasn't shown who they are. You know? Maybe, maybe- Mm-hmm...
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Northwestern comes out next week and beats that, or this late, this week, I guess, and beats the hell out of Indiana and all of a sudden we're looking at this different. I don't know. You know?
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Um, my, you know, say, everybody gotta be who they gotta be, man. And, and my nature is I get up and I look outside and see the sun is shining.
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Uh, uh, they ain't hauling me out in a bag, so I'm still here, and I try to find the positive in things. You gotta. If you don't, that's okay. You know, whatever. But that's, that's who I'm gonna be.
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Um, and at the same time, try to be an honest broker, you know? And so I open this thing up saying, "Look," you know, "this is not pretty and it's not good."
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And certainly we were wrong about our call on some things, but, uh, we're gonna wait and see what happens with this team. Yeah. They got, they got time and, uh, uh, I'm sorry, I'm trying to read the chat.
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"My ceiling is a bald spot, my floor is William." [laughs] That's an all time comment. I'm sorry. That's an, that's, [laughs] that is an all time comment. Um- Well, this is shaved, pal. Shaved.
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[laughs] Oh, that's pretty awesome to hear. Thanks for, uh, joining in Cork Man and giving your guys' thoughts. I was trying to look through the chat and see, you know, uh, different stuff.
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[laughs] They wanna see the fan, William. The people miss your s- your spinning fan. I know you kinda switched your, uh, layout today to give the fans a different view, but I'm seeing some comments.
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They, they like the fan. Well, you can still see it up in a up, in upper corner up there, man. You know? But this gives better light on the face, although better light on my face maybe not the way to go on TV.
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[laughs] Yeah. Not when this person says we are soft and not- You s- you, you said, you said I'm ugly? [laughs] No. Yeah. No, Le- That's not it, you know... Leo, Leo has a- That's, that's ugly...
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a habit of doing this even when Coach Prime is like, "We're that bad?" Overdoing the analysis Yeah. Yeah. You guys, you guys. Let me rejoin in, guys. Sorry. [laughs] Oh, of course.
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It, and the glitch is Leo but- I don't know why. I don't know... you know, my point was, is that whenever, you know, people are saying things, making fun of themselves, this dude Leo likes to join and be like, "Yeah,
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you guys were that bad," or this or that, but- He's being a little- I guess I can't come back and join in now that we're glitching, so. Yeah. Ah. Saved by- All right... saved by the glitch, Leo.
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Well, we try to have a little humor on this show and, you know, it's not, not just my face either, although I'm not sure that's a, um, um- We're all linemen here. It's all right. Oliver was a basketball player, so- Yeah.
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I, I disagree with somebody who said that this team is not physical and, and, and soft. I- Yeah, Mountain Whisperer. Yeah.
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That, that, they, they certainly were physical and hard the first two weeks and then last night they actually were to some extent.
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And then, you know, at some point as s- you know, the offensive line was still open to hold. The offensive line was doing fine, and the running backs were still, still knocking people over instead of dropping the ball.
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And then on defense at some point, man, you know, you keep giving a team a short field and, you know, a defense is gonna wear down and- Yeah, defense is gonna wear down. You don't fault them there. Yeah.
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You know, but they showed physicality and toughness in those first two weeks, and the question is, do they get it back this week and, and, you know, we wait and see. I think it, it's a big challenge.
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And again, I, I kinda had my smile on my face when I came in here because I think it says a lot about your character. How do you respond to adversity? How do you respond when you get punched in the face?
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'Cause a lot of people, it's easy to roll over and quit. Quitting's the easy thing to do. It is so easy to look at, you know, the struggles and the kind of, the patterns and say, "Here we go again."
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But you can't have that mentality. You still have a lot of time. There's still, you know, a full conference slate of games ahead of you, and Baylor's got a loss too. They're two and one.
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Other teams in the conference like Houston who was ranked, they lost to Texas Tech. They have a loss.
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And although those losses, you know, might have been different magnitudes and different score differentials, a loss is still a loss.
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When you look at the schedule and you look at the record, it doesn't say, "Well, this team lost by 15 points, this team lost by 30, this team lost by one." A loss is a freaking loss, man. You have to suck it up.
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You have to deal with it and you have to push on. Yeah, I think talk, you know, people are talking about the secondary. Can the secondary be fixed?
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I don't know that it's broken so much, but I think it's designed right now, it's not giving up the big play. We'll give them that. You know what I mean?
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Like I look at our drive charts and, and we're not giving up one single, you know, long play. But, uh, one of the things that we're, they're designed, what they're giving up is underneath stuff, sort of, uh, below stuff.
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And, and we gotta dial up that pass rush like we had, uh, the first week and the first couple weeks, and that's gonna be one way to improve it. But then they have to make some adjustments on that.
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On that secondary, I think, you know, at the end of the day, no matter how good of a player he is, it, it, uh, to me as a coach, Boo Carter gets yanked for that play. Okay? I think so.
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You can't, I w- you can, can't control yourself in that situation, you're gonna stand on the bench and learn a lesson. And if you can't ever get under it, then, you know...
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And I don't wanna go so far as that some people said, you know, "Well, that just shows why he didn't leave."
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Well, I don't think that's why he left Tennessee, but I think he made a mistake in the heat of the game and, um, it's not something I've seen from him before and, and, you know- There was a coach I had that used to say, you know, "You do something once, it's a mistake.
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You do something twice, and that's who you are." So let's wait and see on that. But- Sure... I think that's the message you send is, you make a mistake in that kind of a game, you're gonna sit the rest of the game.
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And you know what? We take our lumps with whoever we put out there, you know? Certainly. That's all the Buffs really can at this point. And like you said, it was ugly.
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Um, very few things to be excited about, but I do gotta say it's a new week. It's a new game. It's a new opponent. I'll keep saying that. I'm gonna keep harping on. A week from now, my tone might be different, right?
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If they go out and they lay a duck on the road against Baylor, then I'll start saying, "Hey, now it's time to start having these tough conversations about where is this team ceiling and where is the floor?"
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But I'm not in panic mode. I'm sitting here, I'm looking back at this Buffs team, and I say there's a lot of football to go, man.
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Yeah, I'm- And if you're not ready to sit in and watch it, and you're scared, and you're flinching, and you don't believe the Buffs can turn this around, then get on. I don't know what else to say.
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We, we, we may have to discuss biology a little, sir, because ducks don't get laid, eggs get laid. [laughs] Then they turn- [laughs] Yeah. See, we can still have fun on this show, you know? You're right.
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We can talk, we can talk about the damn fan. W- Yeah, we got the fan over here... there it is, you know? All this stuff. But yeah, you gotta make your composure, and I kinda g- agree, which is weird, right?
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Because you see on the offensive side of the ball, Henderson and Michael Walters, they made their mistakes. They got yanked immediately, and they didn't get to come back in the game. Yeah.
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Then you have Boo Carter who makes a mental mistake and that kind of error. I thought it would've been the similar mentality where you go, "Nah, go to the bench.
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You know, sit about, think about what you've done for a couple of plays, at least a series or something." But it's just a little bit- Well-... difference in mentalities and kinda how you, you know- Well-...
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manage your players... I, I, I, and I played de- little devil's advocate there, and I think that they yanked the running backs 'cause they knew they had three more they could play. Yeah, you're right. You're right.
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Sometimes, sometimes you gotta bite the bullet. Maybe you, you don't, clearly we don't have another Boo Carter on the sidelines, but a message gotta be sent, you know? And, and- Yeah, somehow... yeah.
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And, and especially, I, I, I still think that's the, that's the key play of the game. I think that's when the, when the gates started to open, you know? And, and we l- we, that, that let them...
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You know, we had them off the field, you know? And, and stopped them once more to punt, a- and, and now it's 14 nothing, get the ball back. I don't know if we would've done something, but, uh,
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right at that point we let them finish off a 72-yard drive because of that play, you know? That's correct. All of a sudden it's 21- Correct... just a whole other thing, you know? Yeah.
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There was a bunch of little sloppy things.
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Um, I think there's one last point that Mountain Whisper brings up that I'd like to address and we could talk about before we get outta here, and, uh, no captains or dogs this year, just the one punter, Damon Greaves, number 21.
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He's got the lone dog on his patch. What do you think this says about the team?
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Well, I think my take on it is that they think there are so many of them that are leaders that at some point you can't give them all a, the, the, the, the label.
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And I think especially on defense, a lot of the guys, almost every one of those guys on the defense is, is sort of a leader and a dog to me.
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Um, I think the offense has, the, the leaders and the dogs on the offense are the offensive line at this point, but then you have, you have guys like, uh, De'Angelo Moore, and you got guys like Mike Boettcher.
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Yeah, DeAndre Moore. DeAndre Moore, yeah, right. And, and so a wide variety of guys who could be those leaders. Uh, you know, putting a... I don't know. I go back to...
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To me, things like that are less important than fans think they are. Um, you know, lots of guys wanna be the captain, but the captains don't necessarily, um...
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Just because you name a guy a captain doesn't mean he's gotta go out and ra- ra- and lift everybody up, you know?
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My experience is, you know, and I'm gonna have to go, it's been a while since I've been a player, but, but, you know, Sal Anesi, man, you didn't have to name that dude a captain.
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He was the most natural leader I've ever known in my entire life, you know? Which is part of why we were so broken up when he died. But then Darien Hagan was the same damn thing.
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Eric Bieniemy, Eric Bieniemy, you didn't have to name that dude a leader, and Eric would get right, you know, [laughs] Eric, all five, six of them, would get right up in your navel. Okay, that's a little joke there.
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And, and, and let you know. And I recall one summer, you know, doing runs and, and, and Alfred Williams dropped out.
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And Eric Bieniemy ran up, and I swear, literally half his size, ran up and jacked him and knocked him on his ass and said, "If you don't wanna f- if you wanna quit on us now, you'll quit on us later.
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I don't give a damn if you are an All-American, get the hell out." You know? Yeah.
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Now, I don't know if these kind of things happened in practice or not, but you don't gotta name a guy a captain to have that sort of thing, okay?
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And I, I wanna, you know, I, I just, because we're, we're hitting back on my days, you know, uh, Corkman talks about Coach, Coach Mac talked about Eric Bieniemy as one of the most important players in his, his tenure there.
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And, and that's absolutely true. And I would say before him, uh, Sal, Sal Anesi, because those kinds of guys, you don't build those guys, man. They, they just come.
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We, we would've literally killed, and pillaged, and burned down homes for Sal, man. We would've done anything because- I, I was no good. I was a walk-on and no good, but, but he treated me just like the, everybody else.
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And then those kinds of leaders come along once in a lifetime.
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And I'll tell you, that game in, in, in, in the national championship year we went into Nebraska, and we were down like, I don't know, we were down a couple touchdowns going into the fourth quarter, and I was watching with a couple of Nebraska fans.
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I said, "I guarantee you we win this." Because we had fumbled, Eric had fumbled twice going into the end zone, you know, that would've been touchdowns, and we didn't get those. And I said, "That's gonna burn in that guy.
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That's gonna burn in that guy, in his guts, and he's gonna make these dudes pay." And he scored four touchdowns in the fourth quarter, you know? Hmm.
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Those kind of guys, y- don't matter whether you put a C on their damn shirt or not, [laughs] you know? And I don't know if we had those guys or not. I suspect we're gonna find out a little bit this week, you know?
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Oh, I think... Okay, I thought you froze. You're, you know what? You're right, and I'm glad you were able to give insight, you know, on Sal and kind of a team of the past because that's what these guys gotta look on.
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They gotta look, um, on the, the teams of the past and, you know, what they've been able to show through adversity, and how they've kind of rallied up.
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And when it comes down to the individual leadership, it has to be a players-led team. These guys have to be the ones to, you know, say, "This is not right. We're not gonna stand for this."
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And it can't be Coach Prime, it can't be Brandon Marion and Chris Marve every single week trying to rah, rah, get the team going. They have to figure it out themselves.
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You know, and to some extent, somebody made a point earlier that the, there's a problem with that to some extent in the portal era, you know, 'cause, you know, E- Eric, EB for example, wasn't a leader in year one, you know?
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You gotta earn that a little bit, right?
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Um, so, uh, it, and, and, and when you got a trap- and when you got a transfer portal and everybody's new, still at this point going into the fourth game, it's time for some guys to step forward and put some foots and some butts, you know?
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Uh, and, um, I think, again, the defense was playing pretty well until they just, you know, everything was stacked against them.
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But, uh, whether it's offensive linemen or, or somebody has gotta step up on, on that offense and say e- that enough is enough, you know? But- Yeah...
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Brandon Marion's gotta come out with some answers i- in terms of play calling and things that- True... you, you take Juju Lewis and, and he is what he is right now.
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A- at, at some point as a coach you have to give guys things that you know they can do. So you know he's not John Elway, so if you give him a John Elway game plan, he's not gonna be successful in it.
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So you have to find other things that he does do well and, and emphasize those things.
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And I think teams are gonna try and, um, um, they're gonna look at these films like Coach Prime said last night and see things that we made mistakes and try to, try to exploit those.
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So now you gotta fix those, you gotta change those. You gotta come back with something different, okay? So there's plenty in this playbook that Juju Lewis does well. You gotta give him those things, you know?
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And I think, again, you know, the, the offense was, was moving fairly well, and then they just handed the damn ball over, you know? They did. They did. Uh, Jeremiah Crawford just popped into the chat.
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I gotta say what's up to him, 'cause I always be saying what's up every time he come say what's up from Louisiana, representing the South. Uh, good to see you.
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But, uh, Mountain Whisper, Corkman, Robbie, appreciate you guys in the chat as well. Um, can we put Dano's comment right up on the screen, Oliver, about how they bounce back?
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He hits the, the nail right on the head, right? How the Buffs bounce back this week will tell you everything you know about the team and the coaching staff.
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So this is one of the most pivotal, I think, weeks of the Coach Prime era, and one of the most telling, you know, times. And that's why I, again, I was kind of,
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I wouldn't say not happy, but I'm intrigued to see the way this r- team responds, and I'm really excited to see it.
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Yeah, and I think, um, you know, somebody, Robbie, says the three problems, penalties, turnovers, and Jujus. I don't really agree with that. I think again, you know, um,
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you know, Juju's a work in progress and, and to some extent, you know, the turnovers, penalties and the, and the silly stuff that really let this thing snowball. But, um, there's no question he's got work to be done.
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You know, uh, that's on Brandon Marion to develop him and bring him along, give him, uh, plays that h- that he can run, you know?
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Uh, I don't think that Baylor is gonna be as good as Northwestern, but again, it's too early to really say for sure.
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So I think there's another opportunity here to get better and to, um, I think at some point he's gotta lean on that offensive line and let Jeff Impe impose their will until somebody stops it.
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And the only, the only, again, three games in, the only people that stopped our damn running game is us. Us, period. You know, game one, couple of bad snaps.
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Uh, game two, well, we just stopped running the ball because we were up so much, right? And then this, this game, goddamn fumbles. Excuse my language, you know? Nobody, no team yet has stopped our run game, and I'm...
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Well, granted I'm an offensive line coach and, and, and, and I, I'd prefer to run 72 times, you know? But line it up and break their will and impose, impose your will, you know?
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And, and, and, and, and if, if, if Micah and, and, and Damien can't hold onto the ball then you go with the other two dudes, man, because Qua'll Smith had a hell of a game. Dude had 10 plays and still got what?
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90 something yards? 80 something yards? Yeah. Still over 150 rushing yards for Colorado on the ground. Yeah. And, um, yeah, the playbook gets narrow and predictable.
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That is one thing too, um, uh, that, that's the fair... You know, we kinda talked about it. It's like although they have success, you would like to see more diversity, more uniqueness and creativity from Brandon Marion.
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And simply Colorado got outcoached, they got outplayed, outschemed, out whatever you wanna say against Northwestern on Saturday, and that's kinda my final thoughts on it, William. Yeah.
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You know, and, um, I don't know, you know? It was a, it was a rough game. Things, things... Uh, Bat Breezy says I'm goddamn right about something. Hey, every now and then, man.
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You talk enough, [laughs] you know, sooner or later something gotta be right.
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Um, but you know, there, again, there, there's no, you know, and to the, to the person coming in and saying, "You said this, you said that," I started off the whole damn podpat- podcast by saying I was wrong about a couple things.
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And, um, you know, what I've said all along and what I still maintain is we don't know who these teams are.
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There was no way to know what Northwestern was, 'cause they only played one game against an FCS opponent, so- You want to come in here and beat your chest, you weren't in here talking shit last week, so come in here and do it They never are.
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That's the funny thing, right, is, uh, it's a lot of front running and showboating. People, uh, never wanna talk when they're down. It's always when, you know, things finally go right.
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So I don't got much to say, uh, about that. Yeah. I never give too much attention for outside noise. Nope. Nope. So, you know, we g- we're gonna wait and see how they, how they regroup this week.
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Um, you know, somebody mentioned going into Baylor's. Going on the road anywhere, you know, is, is supposed to be tough, um, at, at the P4 level.
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And, um, you know, his, you know, history about Baylor I don't know that means too much now that now they have such a different team. But, uh, we're gonna find out, uh, what they're made of and what we're made of.
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Again, you know, their, their, their three games don't really tell me too much what they're about, you know? Yeah. You know, like they... And then just real quick, we'll look at this.
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Like, they, they beat Louisiana Tech 36 to 19. Well, you know, that's not a overwhelming victory against a team like that. And then the week before was 44 to 3 against Prairie View A&M, you know? So
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I don't know what to take from those, those, those scores, honest to God, you know? And then 18, they lost 17 to 16 in week one, and I don't know what Auburn is yet either. But, uh, this early in the season, you,
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you really can't start knowing who people are until five, six games in. So we'll see what happens in Baylor. I think it's a winnable game. Um, you know, we'll- It is... yeah, w- we'll be underdogs.
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We could certainly beat that team. They could certainly beaten us. Um, but it really remains to see.
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I think every, I think what you and what several people said in the chat is how they bounce back this week is really gonna indicate a lot about where they go this season. It's gonna. That's the task at hand.
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Um, I just wanna remind people that throughout the week, you know, Oliver will be live with Young Will Burnett, who did a great job of coverage yesterday.
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William, Gardner, and I will be live to bring you a preview later on this week like we have been doing. So you guys love seeing the OG Will, make sure you leave some comments, you know, talk to him.
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He always loves engaging with the fans. We're gonna continue to be coming back live, um, giving you guys all the great content. And, uh, William, keep your head up.
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I know it was a tough loss, but we're gonna keep talking about it, my man. Yeah, you know, um, we gotta j- they just gotta keep going, you know?
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At some point, you know, you're coaching football now, I coached for a lot of years, it's sort of frustrating when you don't have any input, you know, and you just gotta watch from the sidelines. It's, you know,
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uh, you know, I don't wanna say it's like a p- like pilots flying and coach, you know? Hope to God your pilot in the front knows is good at what he's doing no matter who he is, but [laughs] Yeah. Yeah...
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you know, y- you're always watching going, "I wouldn't have done that there," but, you know. True.
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And obviously we're not there and we don't have that impact, but, uh, College Bound CFL says, "At the start of the season if someone gave us an option for 2-1 after three weeks- Oh, yeah... we'd have all taken it." 100%.
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Well, I, I, yeah, I, I think about 99% said that was the goal, quite frankly. Now, you know, it's, it's the way that one played out that, that makes it so, uh, unpleasant.
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But I think everybody, I, I would say damn near everybody figured 2-1 would be great, would be a gift, so Yeah... we're where we wanted to be. Now the question is what do we do with it from this point on? What do you do?
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I mean, in my thought process, the only place to go is up after a loss like 41 to seven on the road to Northwestern. But, uh, that's all I got to say today.
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Um, it was great having everyone who tuned in live this Sunday on Adam Munster Tigers Buff Stampede Radio. We appreciate all the, you know, support for you guys and the OG William, and
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hopefully w- And there's our friend, there's our friend Nicole There's Nicole, yep. She's positive about the fan. See, she sees it up there. Yep. Where I can't, you know, you're backwards. So [laughs] Yeah, 100%...
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if nothing else, my fan will always be there. Nothing else, you know, William and I will be here every Sunday to give you guys our thoughts and breakdowns and try to produce some more optimism.
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Uh, again, appreciate the OG sitting here beside me, and everyone who was in the chats engaging, talking, uh, we appreciate you guys 'cause you guys help keep this thing going.
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And, uh, much love, long live Adam Munster Tiger. Be careful and have a good week out there, folks. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag.
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Swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like my Colorado swag. 'Cause when I'm in that place, I don't really, I don't really know just how to act. And when I'm in it go, you know I'm acting bad.
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I'll let you get a buzz with my Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. My Colorado swag. I think they like, I think they like my Colorado swag.
