Roy Manning

I, I think the O-line recruiting is, is, is, is heating up.

I think Roy Manning, you know, we, we were wondering all off-season what is this going to look like in season.

We talked about it on Tuesday in, in Tim Bits, but he's, he's really starting to get some, some-

Yeah

Because that was the biggest question all off season.

You give Corey Brown, you give Tolifson, you give Roy Manning, you give those guys a ton of credit.

They, they w- the D line's pretty good, and they played, they played really well against Indiana.

Yeah, and they're getting a bargain for those three guys.

Yeah.

So when you actually look at, I, I think it's time to give Corey Brown some flowers along the defensive line, give Roy Manning some flowers in that edge room.

Phil Simpson, what he's done with the outside linebackers, that, that group of three coaches in particular I think needs a little bit more love just because of what they're doing, because not only are we seeing an increased amount of pressure and increased flow to stopping the run I- in terms of the way that they play the football from the outside linebacker, the edge position, and the defensive line, they just look more violent, and they seem to have better eyes into the backfield.

So they're, they're engaging well.

If you watch Willie Wannery, all of the game against Indiana, he was consistently bending the edge, and eventually Indiana just started double teaming him.

They were cracking the guard back on him because he would go one-on-one with the tackle, and he was finding a way to make Josh Hoover move around to get antsy in the pocket.

And I think that, to, to, to that effect, Corey Brown, Phil Simpson, Roy Manning all need some extra credit.

Yeah, I, I thought for the- Yeah, they did a great job ...

because they probably recognize him as a lower-profile roster player, and they, oh, we can maybe steal eight yards on third and eight, and they stop them.

I mean, you've got to give Corey Brown and Roy Manning and Dave Tollefson a lot of credit.

Those guys have really coached that group up.

They really

But Nebraska offered over the summer.

Roy Manning, a few others, have been working to get him to campus.

He's been telling me since the summer he wants to get to campus and now tho- n- now, now those plans have been set.

Two safeties from the state of, of California, two blue chip safeties in the '28 cycle in J- Jackson Parker and Jordan Hicks.

Yeah

... who's having a pretty good season at Tim View.

I wanted to talk about this actually with you, Austin, earlier this week on Tim Bits, and we didn't get to it, but I, it, it is kind of edge and D-line just because how hard those positions are to find and, and Roy Manning, man.

Like, I was waiting to see-

Uh, I would just say our coaches really.

Um, Coach Roy Manning, Coach Orich, they're, they're awesome coaches.

Um, Coach Manning's super passionate.

Um, he was a guy that played the position.

It's something that they talk about every single day at practice, but it's that, that next play mentality and not letting, uh, one big explosive turn into points.

And, you know, Roy Manning said the other day, "First downs don't result in, in points." And so, you know, I think that messaging, and they've, they've really embraced it.

And so then you saw last week how many field goals that they hold teams to, you know? And especially after the interception and just when things were not going as planned, the way that the defense was able to lock in and not allow it to snowball, to me, I think is, um, yeah, it's just been a, a massive change, especially from going back to last year's defense and kind of what you saw on the sideline.

And then I also w- took a lot away and, you know, talked to Coach Rhule about this, but, um, in the post game and then, uh, again on, uh, during the TV show, but Anthony Calandra, he didn't have his best stuff.