Brett Maher

Uh, they, they were put in good position to succeed, but they also won some battles.

You talked earlier this week with Brett Maher.

And let's talk about the special teams.

Archie Wilson had the best day he's ever had as a Husker.

All right.

So since, uh, Sean McVay has taken over, it's been Greg- Greg Zuerlein, Sam Ficken, Carol Santos, Sam Sloman, Kai Forbath, Matt Gay, Brett Maher, Lucas Ha- Haversick, uh, Joshua Cardy-

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That's what special teams can do for you.

And then, you know, made the choice to let Matt walk in free agency and bring in a guy like Brett Maher, Lucas Aversick.

I haven't said that name in a while.

Josh Carty, Harrison Mevis, and now Blake Ruppe.

I mean, we've seen, unfortunately, that that can happen.

In fact, one of the best examples is Kyle Cunanan's coach, special teams coach, Brett Maher, of course, went through some ups and downs in the playoffs and in the NFL at the Cowboys there.

When you lose your confidence, your confidence gets shaken there.

So...

Good.

So I, I, I think my big thing and my big takeaway, Brett Maher has no business coaching special teams.

Um, and I'm not just talking about 'cause Kyle Chinian can't hit the broad side of a barn, but the kid who wanted to do the FNBO Challenge got his 500 bucks.

I'm talking about the fact that the whole year we're going after punts, we're getting punts, we're getting pressure on punts.

Special teams to digress.

They've just gotten so far backwards this year, and I know it's Brett's first year, and I hope he gets it figured out.

That just boggled my mind.

Yeah, and I appreciate the phone call, Tyler, and they have been issues, right? Obviously, the penalties.

It's just – it's not what it was last year.

And the penalties are probably the worst part about it because that is – when you want to look back at something and say coaching, a lot of times the penalties are the thing you target coaching the most for.

And so that's got to be disturbing for Brett Maher and his assistant and those guys.

But

All right, so if you just look at the special teams.

Now, this is not picking on Nebraska, nor is it picking on Brett Maher.

This is reality.

Yeah, there was a moment at halftime where I said to Rob, and God dang, that was shaky.

And that's essentially what you just laid out with all those stats.

And now Brett Maher is switching the philosophy a little bit.

They're doing a little bit more of, hey, let's kick it with a little bit more depth to it and let's cover better.

But that does leave you a little bit more susceptible of protecting your punter as well.