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Eric Weddle on Utah vs Arkansas Saturday, Going into the RES Ring of Honor, Bryce Underwood proving him right + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 3: It's Weddle Week. He's going into the Ring of Honor.
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  Speaker 1: the Rancho Bernardo Broncos. He's our guy, Eric Weddle.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on, man? Do they ship out of the state?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's good luck. It's good luck.
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  Speaker 1: I always start the conversation we have with a little
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  Speaker 1: question about your Rancho Bernardo Broncos head coach of the team,
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  Speaker 1: obviously your son playing for the team, and big win
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  Speaker 1: over Torrey Pines. First win on the road at Torrey
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  Speaker 1: since 2008, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: That is correct. Man, just talk about a gritty, tough...
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Torrey Pines historically is one of the better
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  Speaker 5: programs in San Diego and always a tough team to
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  Speaker 5: go against. I mean, the stats show it, right? We
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  Speaker 5: had one there... in a long time. So, the boys
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  Speaker 5: played hard. I mean, outside of a couple misfortune plays, right? Like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't like to blame the rest, but man, there
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  Speaker 5: were like five calls in that game that were either
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  Speaker 5: missed calls or not that could have swayed and made
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  Speaker 5: it not such a close game where we had to
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  Speaker 5: score 21 points in the second half on three possessions.
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  Speaker 5: We had five total possessions in the game. Murph, like,
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  Speaker 5: It's just crazy how we get into these games four
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  Speaker 5: drives of 15 plays or more. That's the type of
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  Speaker 5: game it was. So really proud. We didn't waver. We
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  Speaker 5: stayed connected. And won at the end, man, and it
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  Speaker 5: was a thrilling game.
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  Speaker 3: And this week it's a Utah team.
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  Speaker 1: Westlake taking the trip down there to sunny San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: That will be, of course, Friday night, and then on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday you're coming here to the Utah game. What's the
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  Speaker 1: scouting report on Westlake?
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  Speaker 5: They're 3-1. Yeah, Westlake, really good program. They play tough,
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  Speaker 5: play hard. Got some talented dudes. The receiver is, I believe,
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  Speaker 5: a Utah State commit, number 13. And then they have
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  Speaker 5: a D lineman, number eight. That's one of the best,
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  Speaker 5: probably the best player we see defensively. And we have
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  Speaker 5: to have a plan for him every snap. and know
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  Speaker 5: where he's at and can't let him ruin the game,
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  Speaker 5: which he can on any play. So I'm excited for
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  Speaker 5: the challenge and the matchup. I think our boys are.
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  Speaker 5: I think they understand what's the mindset that needs to
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  Speaker 5: be taken. Like this team's coming down here out of state,
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  Speaker 5: so want to take it to us, and we have
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  Speaker 5: to defend our home crowd, home state, and take it
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  Speaker 5: to them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, talking a little Utah football now. You're coming
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  Speaker 1: into town for no big deal, just, you know, immortalization
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  Speaker 1: on the side of Rice-Eccles Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: It's Eric Weddle Week.
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  Speaker 1: You're being inducted into the Ring of Honor. And we
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  Speaker 1: talked to you about this when it was announced that
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  Speaker 1: it would be happening. Now that the reality of it
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  Speaker 1: is here, it's happening in just a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Has it changed the way you're thinking about it, your process?
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  Speaker 1: You know, just tell me what it means to you again.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think now that it's, here I'm probably most
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  Speaker 5: excited about is to just see the fans and and
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  Speaker 5: I know I'm going around like early to different tailgates
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  Speaker 5: and going in different uh parts of the stadium throughout
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  Speaker 5: the first quarter to say hello and hang out with
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  Speaker 5: fans I mean really like sharing the experience like like
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  Speaker 5: I said sharing it with everyone uh that had a
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  Speaker 5: hand in it or supported me uh to try to
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  Speaker 5: let them be involved in it. So I think that's
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  Speaker 5: what I'm most excited for, is to see old teammates.
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  Speaker 5: I know I got a few texts from old teammates
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  Speaker 5: that are coming in to reminisce and be there. So
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  Speaker 5: it's just going to be awesome. Like, I don't get
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  Speaker 5: too emotional about things. I'm sure I may get a
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  Speaker 5: little emotional about it. Maybe no one would really recognize
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  Speaker 5: it because I'm a cold-faced type of guy. But like
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  Speaker 5: you said, it's... This is like one in a million, right,
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  Speaker 5: to be able to be in this situation. And I
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  Speaker 5: don't take it for granted and really humbled by it all.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just going to take it all in and
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  Speaker 5: enjoy every second of it.
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  Speaker 3: What did you like from your Utes in the Idaho game?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, it went kind of the way that we expected
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  Speaker 1: it to, that we thought it should. You know, big demolition.
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  Speaker 1: You scored a bunch of points. You held them under
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  Speaker 1: three scores. I would have liked to see that, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even more dominant performance defensively, but what did you like
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  Speaker 1: from Utah in week one against Idaho?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we talked about it last week. I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to see clean operation. I didn't want to see
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  Speaker 5: pre-snap penalties. Obviously, there'll be physical errors and mistakes just
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  Speaker 5: because it's live action going against someone that you don't know,
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  Speaker 5: so that's going to happen, but man, it was just
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  Speaker 5: an exciting brand of football. And I liked how Idaho
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  Speaker 5: fought back for a little bit and really threw some
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  Speaker 5: punches back. It wasn't just a total rollover like some
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  Speaker 5: games can be in that situation. And going against that
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  Speaker 5: offensive line for Idaho, I think they were all returning
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  Speaker 5: starters or older guys that had a lot of game experience.
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  Speaker 5: So it was good for us to get our feet
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  Speaker 5: wet against that group on the defensive line, and I
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  Speaker 5: just think we got a chance. Obviously, a big game
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  Speaker 5: against Arkansas, but I think we showed our potential with
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  Speaker 5: the running game. Wayshawn is just so fun to watch.
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  Speaker 5: His physicality, his twitchiness, his one-cut ability. Obviously, the receiving
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  Speaker 5: on the backfield, and our perimeter guys. Being able to
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  Speaker 5: just throw it up and our guy come down with
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  Speaker 5: the ball and win those one-on-one games. tight contest is
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  Speaker 5: something that I think is pivotal to have a great
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  Speaker 5: offense and to make some waves down the stretch against
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  Speaker 5: good teams.
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  Speaker 1: You, as much as anyone, maybe more than a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, you have been a big fan of Bert
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  Speaker 1: Ficklin and his potential and we saw good things from
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  Speaker 1: him in game one and he had at least one
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  Speaker 1: throw go viral because he's rolling right and he flips
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  Speaker 1: his hips and he throws a dot and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I bring it up because They have found this nice
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  Speaker 1: harmony with him and Devin Dampier, but they're both playmakers,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to get both of those guys opportunities
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  Speaker 1: as often as you can in a game. How do
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  Speaker 1: you manage it moving forward? How do you manage it
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  Speaker 1: in obviously a much tougher test against Arkansas? How do
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  Speaker 1: you get the most out of Bird, not just Devin?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think the package of plays, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's him running the ball, whether it's him, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Devin motioning out, and now he's playing true quarterback, not–
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  Speaker 5: not overdoing it, and you're forcing the issue, but also
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  Speaker 5: allowing the chance to make plays for the offense with Bird.
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  Speaker 5: So I like that he's getting in there. I just
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  Speaker 5: don't want it to get too much where you're affecting
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  Speaker 5: the rhythm of Devin in the offense of being successful
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  Speaker 5: series and series. So I think they manage it well.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't want it to be, like I said,
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be too much on the offense because
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  Speaker 5: as a quarterback, you like to be in rhythm. You
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  Speaker 5: like to be in those situations. You like to see it.
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  Speaker 5: You like to learn from it from series to series.
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  Speaker 5: So as long as they manage that, I think it
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  Speaker 5: will be fine. And the more we can give him
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  Speaker 5: experience for when he takes over, it will be great.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Weddle is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: It is Weddle Week.
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  Speaker 1: He's going into the Utah Ring of Honor this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It's a late kickoff. It's a true night game.
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas is only the second SEC team to come to Rice-Eccles.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, Florida did it a couple of weeks ago, or a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years ago, I should say. I've been, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dipping my toes in the Arkansas waters, Dub.
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  Speaker 1: I've been, like, what are their podcasts saying? What are
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  Speaker 1: their alumni saying?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh. Me, too.
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  Speaker 3: Me, too.
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  Speaker 5: What are they?
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  Speaker 2: And, like.
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  Speaker 1: Even what their coach is saying, I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: good coach, but he's more focused on the kickoff time
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  Speaker 1: than any other thing that is going on in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm trying not to get too gassed up,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like, I don't think Arkansas has any idea
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to be walking into.
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  Speaker 3: Are you getting the same sense?
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  Speaker 5: A thousand percent. It's the typical arrogance of the SEC.
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  Speaker 5: And coming into, oh, your stadium's only 55,000. And, oh,
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  Speaker 5: it's not even that big. And, oh, it can't be
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  Speaker 5: that loud because of the people. Yeah, when you're going
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  Speaker 5: full start six times tomorrow night, Saturday night, and we
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  Speaker 5: get after your guys' tails and beat you by 30,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to come on the following week and remind
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  Speaker 5: all the podcasts this ain't your just ho-hum mid-major it
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  Speaker 5: was 20 years ago. We're coming for heads, and Arkansas
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  Speaker 5: is next on the list. So I've been hearing it
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  Speaker 5: over and over again just on my timeline, hearing these guys.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously– It's just funny, commentators and podcast people that aren't
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  Speaker 5: even affiliated with the team, they're just talking heads. Like,
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  Speaker 5: you played, and you played on the Utes, so you
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  Speaker 5: understand kind of like a night game at Utah, right?
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  Speaker 5: These people don't understand. You don't come in to Salt
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  Speaker 5: Lake at right cycles in a night game and come
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  Speaker 5: away with a win. It just doesn't happen. Why don't
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  Speaker 5: you ask Caleb Williams how those games went when they
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  Speaker 5: played night games in Utah? They lose.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 5: I can't wait to be a part of it, to
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  Speaker 5: celebrate in the locker room, fighting the Utah Man fight song,
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  Speaker 5: and celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: So Arkansas has got some stuff to figure out, and
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  Speaker 1: they've got one guy who's a projected potential first-round pick.
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  Speaker 1: This Quincy Rhodes Jr., 97, playing DN for them, playing
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  Speaker 1: on their D-line. He's a real problem if he's healthy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play a ton against North Alabama. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: were saving him so he'd be more healthy against Utah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what's going on. But let's just assume
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  Speaker 1: he's 100%. You don't want to, like, overdo it and
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  Speaker 1: over-index to only worry about one guy on their defense.
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  Speaker 3: But you also have to pay attention to it. Like
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, when they've.
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  Speaker 1: Got a game wrecker, a potential game wrecker, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to it. And this is an inexperienced
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  Speaker 1: offensive line that's working in a lot of new things.
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  Speaker 3: How do you handle that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you handle a potential outlier-type talent that's on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive line for Arkansas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, you know, you know, we're, we're kind
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  Speaker 5: of going at it in a, in a very smaller
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  Speaker 5: example this week, but the offense line, you have to
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  Speaker 5: play together, right? You got to have great technique. You
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  Speaker 5: don't want to like a lot of times offense alignment.
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  Speaker 5: I think in general, like when you're going against a
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  Speaker 5: really good player on the other side that you want
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  Speaker 5: to get your hands on as quick as possible and,
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  Speaker 5: and then you want to lunge, and instead of just
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  Speaker 5: setting square and understanding where your help is, right? Are
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  Speaker 5: we getting the center to slide to you? Are we
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  Speaker 5: a full slide? Are we a four-man slide? Am I
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  Speaker 5: getting the back to chip with you? Like, there's so
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  Speaker 5: much that the offensive coach can help the offensive line
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  Speaker 5: when you're going against a premier player that it's going
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  Speaker 5: to take everyone, but you don't. It's like Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 5: or Aaron Donald or these guys. Like, you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to ever leave them one-on-one, right?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Like that's just dumb football because they're just that good.
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  Speaker 5: So some plays you'll have to like quick game 30s,
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  Speaker 5: 50s where you're getting five out. The quarterback has to
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  Speaker 5: make the offensive line right. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: Like that's on the quarterback. But when we're going six,
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  Speaker 5: seven man protection, be smart, do what your coaches do.
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  Speaker 5: And I honestly think offensive line are going to play
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  Speaker 5: great on Saturday night because of the coaches, the strength coaches,
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  Speaker 5: the strength staff, the work they put in. They're going
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  Speaker 5: to continue week by week to show what they're all about.
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  Speaker 1: Have you talked to Morgan this week and been like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you're playing some Weddell highlights for the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are on the team? A lot of these
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  Speaker 1: guys were born after you played at the University of Utah,
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  Speaker 1: so they know you from your NFL career. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how many of them have seen the highlights. Did
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  Speaker 1: you tell Morgan, hey, make sure they know whose presence
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be amongst this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know me as good as anyone, so I
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  Speaker 5: doubt you would think I would say something like that.
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  Speaker 5: I did talk to him Saturday night. He called me
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  Speaker 5: just to check in with the game and then some
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  Speaker 5: other games that were going on, so we chatted for
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. But this week, like, nothing needs to
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  Speaker 5: be said. All I care about, and I said this,
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  Speaker 5: I think I said this last week, I don't care
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  Speaker 5: if anything is acknowledged about me as long as we
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  Speaker 5: get this win. I really do not care. These kids,
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  Speaker 5: whether they know about me or not, is irrelevant in
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  Speaker 5: the grand scheme of things. Just focus on ball, focus
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  Speaker 5: on your job, and let's get this done.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Weddle for a couple more minutes here on the
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  Speaker 1: Sean O'Connell Show. Weddle week will conclude on Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: when he is inducted into the ring of honor at
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  Speaker 1: the Utah versus Arkansas game. The biggest story in college
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  Speaker 1: football this week was not Utah's win over Idaho, even
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  Speaker 1: though we stay pretty central here. Of course, it was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of former Utah guys connected now to that
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  Speaker 1: University of Michigan team that got an extra second on
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  Speaker 1: the clock after a crazy replay, after a hard-fought game
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  Speaker 1: against the Western Michigan team that kind of took it
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  Speaker 1: to them. I know you have some thoughts on this scenario,
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  Speaker 1: so please share them with us on the Sean O'Connell show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, I couldn't– I didn't start watching the game.
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  Speaker 5: We– Gage and I went to the San Diego State
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  Speaker 5: game to see Steve and his son Stone, who's the
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  Speaker 5: backup quarterback there. And then, obviously, you know, it's the hometown,
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  Speaker 5: so I want to support the guys and the players.
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  Speaker 5: So I didn't start watching the game until about– six
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  Speaker 5: minutes left in the game. Gage had been watching it,
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  Speaker 5: and he's like, Eastern or West, what, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan?
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  Speaker 3: Western, yeah, yeah. Western.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. He's like, Western Michigan's going to win. And I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 5: they're not. Like, they're going to pull it out. Like,
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  Speaker 5: that's just how it goes. Like, they're just figuring it out.
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  Speaker 5: And then he's like, Dad, they're really, they're going to win. Like,
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  Speaker 5: they're up. And I'm like, what are you talking about? So,
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  Speaker 5: I started watching it, and I'm just getting blown up,
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  Speaker 5: whether it's on Twitter, whether it's on text messages from coaches,
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  Speaker 5: from other schools, this, that, and the other. And I
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  Speaker 5: don't say that to say that I'm right. I don't
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  Speaker 5: really care about anything outside of Utah football. And I
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  Speaker 5: actually want Michigan to win. deep down but i don't
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  Speaker 5: like i'm not i'm not watching them i don't i
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  Speaker 5: don't really like support them so when i'm seeing all
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  Speaker 5: these messages come in like i don't i then i
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  Speaker 5: gotta go what's going on how are how are they
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  Speaker 5: playing and they're struggling long story short it should be
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  Speaker 5: they should be everyone knows that uh the voters know
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  Speaker 5: it and it's unfortunate that western michigan got uh hosed
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  Speaker 5: somehow some way that they're not going to have that
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  Speaker 5: win on their resume for the rest of the time. Right.
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  Speaker 5: Like they probably will never be in that situation again
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  Speaker 5: to beat Michigan, the big brother. Uh, it would be like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what Utah state is, I think is, I
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  Speaker 5: believe it's beat us. Right. Some, somewhere down the future,
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  Speaker 5: maybe even like Weber state, like imagine Weber state in
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  Speaker 5: a game against us and they beat us. And so,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: but then we, that way it gets taken away. Like
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: that's basically what happened. Uh, But they made the play
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: at the end, and we'll see. I didn't really watch
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: the game other than the last, and I saw what
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I saw. I think they'll be in a rude awakening,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma coming to town, and we'll see what happens. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: don't know. Don't know. Don't care. I don't need to
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: say I was right or wrong. It doesn't matter to me.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I live my life. I don't need to profess what
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I said. four months ago was right. It does not matter.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Everyone can have their own opinion. And, uh, I wish
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: those guys the best. Seriously. Like, I don't want to
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: see anyone not play well. I've been there and it's tough.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: We'll see how Underwood, uh, responds to the lack of
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: good play and the, the, the attention that's on them.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: And especially coach with basically saying, if you don't play better, you're,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: we're going in a different direction. So let's see how
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: he handles it. And, uh, Truth be told, I'm hoping
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: that he responds the right way for him in his
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: career because if not, he won't be playing quarterback anymore.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to take the victory lap because
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: everyone already said, we're sorry, Eric Weddle, you were right
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: about Bryce Underwood. And it was hilarious for the rest
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of us to see because when an average fan who
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't know what they're watching on the same level you
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: is trying to argue with something that you said that
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't even hypercritical, it was just like an observation, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: then obviously– They're all feeling the same way four months later.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: It was pretty hilarious.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: But Eric Weddle knows what he's watching when he's watching
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks because that's.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: What he was trying to defeat for 14 years in
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the NFL, people.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: With that in mind, and maybe you have the same
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: evaluation of Drake May as you do of Bryce Underwood,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: but he had a disastrous start to the NFL season
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: last night. I don't know how much of it you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: got to watch because you're coaching and all that stuff.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: But three turnovers for Drake May, including a game-deciding interception
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and when they were driving for a potential touchdown or
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: at least a field goal to tie.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: What's going on with Drake May?
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I watched. I watched, I think about
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: the first quarter and then we had night practice last night.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: So I saw the highlights of how those last few
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: series went. And it just goes back to like, even
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: the pros do dumb things. And it's, it's just a reality.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Like it's human nature. You try to limit the, the
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: mistakes that are like, like I just, perfect example, like
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: you're looking at that last play, the under 20 seconds.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: It's knowing the situation. It's knowing the play, right? You
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: got both tackles cut blocking. So that, as a quarterback
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: is saying, it's a rocker step.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Ball out, right?
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: If not, then I'm just running, right? Like I understand,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: like I have no protection. So for him to backpedal,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: lean away and just throw the ball up is just,
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: that's like a fireable offense as a quarterback. And to
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: see that from a season, like a second year guy,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: it's just unfortunate because you just can't make that mistake.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: And so the mistakes that happen are all in my
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: mind fixable, but when he goes against good teams, this
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: has kind of been what happens. And now their, their
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: schedule is tough with a lot of good teams. So,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: They'll get it right. He'll figure it out because he
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: has the ability and the mind. But to see those
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: kind of mistakes late in the game where you know
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: they're going over those situations, you know they're stressing in
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: this situation, how are we going to play? This is
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the call. And to be, like, on the other side
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: of it is really unfortunate as a coach because you're
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: just like, what the heck are you thinking right now?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: But even pros lose their minds. So it's great, a
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: reminder as a coach to, like, gosh, I'm going to
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: rip Gage's you-know-what for a decision, well, dang, the pros
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: are doing it just as bad.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you do see some of that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Not supposed to see it as often in the pros,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: but you do get it every now and again.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: No, definitely not.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not even going to ask you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: About the Rams-Niners game because I don't want you to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: say hurtful things when we're celebrating you this week, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: will you have a chance to even watch it tonight?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: You know what's about to happen tonight.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I know it's about to happen.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: The 49ers are going to dominate Miles Garrett.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: They're going to make him look like it's his first year.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Even you don't believe that. Even you don't believe that
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: in the heart of hearts. You don't believe that. Even
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: though you're saying it right now, you don't truly believe it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: When we talk about the Utes, we really believe. If
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: we had to go play in Ohio State, we would
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: think we could go win. But you know Australia. They
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: went four days earlier because they're worried about the time.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You know what the Rams did? They said, man, we're
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: going to fly at 5,000 feet. We're going to sleep in.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: We're going to sleep the whole time. We're going to
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: wake up the next day, and we're just going to
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: go play. And we're just going to go beat your
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: faces in. So, you know who's not worried about the
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: time change? The Rams. And you know who is? Arkansas
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: and the Niners. And what is both going to happen
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: to them? They're going to get their faces drugged in
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: the grass.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm most mad about with this Niners-Rams
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: game is the Rams are like, we're not even going
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to bring Aaron Donald. That's how not worried about this
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: matchup the Rams are.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: They're like, this is a– Yeah, we don't even need
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: a– hey, give them a couple more weeks to get ready.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: We're fine. We'll manage these couple weeks. We're not worried
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: about Purdy and half the guys that are already hurt. Like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: we're good.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: That's disrespectful. All right? I hate it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Like, if Arkansas was rolling into Salt Lake City– And
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: they're like, we're not bringing Quincy Rhodes Jr. He's not
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: coming on the trip. And we'll be like, oh, because
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he's hurt? No, we're just going to give him a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: couple more weeks to get ready for games that we're
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: actually worried about. I would be furious.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. So maybe the Niners will take that approach. Maybe.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I hope. I hope they're as mad as I am.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: We shall see. I will be sending a text about
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock tonight. So be ready for it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you're the man. Absolutely love you, dog. Excited to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: see you this weekend. Good luck to you and the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: boys tomorrow night against Westlake. And, yeah, looking forward to Saturday.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: You got it, bro. Can't wait to see you. Love you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: And let's go Utes, baby!
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: That's the legend.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: That's Eric Weddle going into the Ring of Honor Saturday
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: He is the absolute best.