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Dishin With Devon: Dampier on Camp Scalley, Confident in the OL (?), Why chose to stay at Utah + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: It's time to talk to Utah quarterback Devon Dapier. This
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Speaker 1: is dih with Devon on the Shan O'Connell Show, brought
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Speaker 1: oc with Ute Stars signal caller Devon Dapier on Your
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Speaker 1: Home of the Utes and your Home for Football ESPN
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and ninety two to one, A f.
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Speaker 2: Am, we are two weeks away from the University of
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Speaker 2: Utah kicking off their football season on a Thursday night
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Speaker 2: at rice Eco Stadium against Idaho, and with football season
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Speaker 2: being so close, it is that time of year again
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Speaker 2: to be dishing with dev Devon Dampierre, the starting quarterback
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Speaker 2: at the University of Utah, will be a weekly guest
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Speaker 2: here on The Shan O'Connell Show. Conversations and dition with
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Speaker 2: and QB one joins us. Now audish with them, Devin
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Speaker 2: Dan Pierre, how are you, sir.
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Speaker 3: Man man enjoying life as much as possible? How you doing.
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Speaker 2: I like that you said enjoy life as much as possible,
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Speaker 2: because you are in the thick of football camp right now.
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Speaker 2: And even if it's not as crazy as the old
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Speaker 2: two and three days of you know, my era in
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Speaker 2: college football, it is work man, and you guys are
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Speaker 2: right in the middle of it camp camp, and then
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Speaker 2: install I believe starts next week. How you feeling right now?
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Speaker 2: How's the body? I know the voice is starting to
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Speaker 2: fail you a little bit, But tell me how you're
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Speaker 2: feeling at this moment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I'm a I'm at a proud moment of
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Speaker 3: our team. I guess I could say I saw a
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Speaker 3: lot of just a lot of chemistry being built, Like
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Speaker 3: I feel like our offense and our defense, like this
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Speaker 3: is the closest I've seen in where you know, in
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Speaker 3: the locker room, you know, you see offensive people hanging
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Speaker 3: out with defensive players more than you know the wrong
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Speaker 3: out of the ball, just because of how close we are,
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Speaker 3: just because of how open we are to each other.
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Speaker 3: So this is glad to see, though, you know, we're
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Speaker 3: coming together more than just on the football field.
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Speaker 2: So what do you attribute that increased chemistry? Is it
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Speaker 2: just guys' personalities yelling a little bit better. Is it
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Speaker 2: something the coaching staff is doing?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: What would you give credit to for the fact that
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Speaker 2: this team seems so close right now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think it all starts with Scaley here,
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Speaker 3: you know, Scaley being a head coach. Now, I think
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Speaker 3: he puts very equal just equal effort into both of
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Speaker 3: us on the offensive side and the defensive side. So
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Speaker 3: just seeing that the time he takes on both sides
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Speaker 3: of the ball, and then are the way our launches
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Speaker 3: and all our eating schedules and just stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: The way it's structured is for us to be able
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Speaker 3: to be together. It's not where offense is doing one thing,
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Speaker 3: defensive doing the other. You know, we make time for
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Speaker 3: all of us to come together and have that opportunity
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Speaker 3: to just be around each other out out of you know,
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Speaker 3: talking football. So I think just the way Scali has
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Speaker 3: it the foundation of just making friends and making this
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Speaker 3: more than just football brotherhood and all that.
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Speaker 2: This time of camp is usually when nerves start to
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Speaker 2: get a little bit raw, A fight or two might
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Speaker 2: break out, you know, and team chemistry can survive a
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Speaker 2: couple of you know, pushes and shoves and bad words
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Speaker 2: and maybe even a punch or two throwne But is
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Speaker 2: this as has it been typically kind of competitive and
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Speaker 2: spicy on that front end camp?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. I mean when you talk about
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Speaker 3: the mentality of the offensive line and the mentality of
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Speaker 3: the defensive line, and I mean, you guys know what
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Speaker 3: Scalley's about, He's about straight physical. He he wants to
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Speaker 3: mind where you know you you want to win every rep,
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Speaker 3: not sparing nobody. So you know now that he's the
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Speaker 3: head coach and he's putting that on the offensive line
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Speaker 3: as well. Man, it's this great competition going on, and
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Speaker 3: you know he's going against the Saint right then for
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Speaker 3: so long. You know you can get the best of
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Speaker 3: you at times, but you know, nothing too crazy. I
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Speaker 3: think if anything, you know, they're getting better. They're recognizing
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Speaker 3: each other's games and making each other better.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, you're probably sick of
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Speaker 2: answering questions about your offensive line for now, but I'm
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Speaker 2: going to give you a couple anyway, because it is
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Speaker 2: one of the big storylines of this football season. Right
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Speaker 2: You've got to replace five starters. And I'll start at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of this conversation for myself at least like
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Speaker 2: you are an intelligent person. You had options in The
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Speaker 2: transfer portal has been well publicized and you've talked about
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Speaker 2: and one of the things that would be a major
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Speaker 2: selling point for any quarterback is we've got this many
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Speaker 2: returning starters. You had zero returning starters, and you still decided,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to come back. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to ride with this team. Obviously knowing some of these
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Speaker 2: guys already that were project did to probably step into
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Speaker 2: those roles on the offensive line. But going back to
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Speaker 2: making that decision with that information, tell me why that
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Speaker 2: didn't shake your confidence that Utah was going to continue
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Speaker 2: to be the right place for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you're talking about the whole line. I mean
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Speaker 3: even last year going into camp, uh, you know there
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Speaker 3: was days where you know that started five some of them,
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Speaker 3: some of them were a little banged up, you know,
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Speaker 3: decided not to practice, and you know the guys that started,
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Speaker 3: now one of them had to step up. So just
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Speaker 3: I have been behind them before, I have been able
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Speaker 3: to practice with them even before just this year. So
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Speaker 3: just knowing what we had being able to step up
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Speaker 3: and start this year, man, I had confidence and no line.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing that's telling me that. Again, if
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Speaker 3: I if I didn't have confidence, I wouldn't be here,
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Speaker 3: because you know that's huge for a quarterback to be
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Speaker 3: able to trust his O line and you know, I
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Speaker 3: trust those guys them are.
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Speaker 2: Coach Scally won't tell us who the starting five are.
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Speaker 2: Won't tell us even if he has a solid starting five.
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Speaker 2: Try to get that in front of Coach Gross and
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Speaker 2: they're playing it all close to the vest. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to name any names for me, dev If I said, oh,
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Speaker 2: jokes on you, season starts on Saturday, do you know
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Speaker 2: who you're starting five will be? I do, go, But
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Speaker 2: you don't have to tell me who they are. But
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Speaker 2: do you feel like, yes, I know who they are?
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Speaker 3: I seriously, I think there's so many different ways that
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Speaker 3: Like when you pick when you pick your starting five,
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Speaker 3: you know you pick it around for one, the chemistry
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Speaker 3: between you know, the center and the guards, and then
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Speaker 3: you want the guards and the tackles to be on
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Speaker 3: the same page. So you know, we're still at that
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Speaker 3: point where we're kind of gel and uh, just figure
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Speaker 3: out with what builds the best chemistry between those five
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Speaker 3: guys you know, we're playing around, we're moving guys around.
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Speaker 2: Uh, but you have you have trust in the overall group.
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Speaker 2: Is that safe to say?
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Speaker 3: Yes? For sure? For sure?
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Speaker 2: Uh what about the defensive line because obviously right that
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Speaker 2: that's another place where some question marks exist. Uh do
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Speaker 2: you feel like going against the defensive front another quarterback
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Speaker 2: is going to have a hard time with that once
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Speaker 2: we get into the real season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the pressure is real.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think that starts with Swan, just the
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Speaker 3: way Swan called his defense and getting the way he's
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Speaker 3: carried on Scalley's tradition of you know, those guys being physical. Uh,
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Speaker 3: they want to go get the quarterback every single time.
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Speaker 3: So you know, I've been I've been seeing it. You know,
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Speaker 3: I talked with them after every practice is about some
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Speaker 3: of the crazy stuff they're they're able to do up
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Speaker 3: there to cause pressure, pressure and things like that. So yeah, again,
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Speaker 3: this is this is one of those camps where you know,
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Speaker 3: again I'm seeing both sides improving. You know, while I'm
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Speaker 3: back there.
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Speaker 2: Devin Dan Pierre, you to starting quarterback. Our guests here
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Speaker 2: the Sean O'Connell Show Dish with Dev brought to you
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Speaker 2: Coach Swan, I've known him for a long time. He
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Speaker 2: was a defensive coach at Weaver State when I transferred
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Speaker 2: to Weaver State. I'm very happy that he gets this
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Speaker 2: opportunity to be a decordinator at this level. I know
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Speaker 2: talking to him that this camp, he likes the fact
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Speaker 2: that he's got an experienced quarterback on the opposite side
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Speaker 2: of things. He can throw things at you that in
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Speaker 2: camp in practice, scenarios that he wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 2: and still have a good practice if it was like,
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Speaker 2: you know, a rank freshman. So what is that chess
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Speaker 2: match like between you mac Gee and him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say it's very It's very fun. It's very
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Speaker 3: fun as uh the word I use it because just
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Speaker 3: I guess one, I got that great relationship with Maggie.
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Speaker 3: I think everybody knows that just quarterback go and see,
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Speaker 3: I love that guy. And then just to be able
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Speaker 3: to bring you know, a DC and to the quarterback's life.
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Speaker 3: For the relationship that I have with coach Wan, Man,
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Speaker 3: it's so deep, Like man, I talked to him anytime
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Speaker 3: I want to. He's talking to me right before practice.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's he's telling me, I'm trying to make
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Speaker 3: today hard for you. Just small things like that that
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Speaker 3: we're both trying to make each other better. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that I'm able to, you know, allow him
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Speaker 3: to experience, you know, having a good quarterback back there
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Speaker 3: so he knows what he likes to do, what he
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Speaker 3: doesn't like to do, and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: What's going to be the biggest difference in Devin dan
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Speaker 2: Pierre's game in the twenty twenty sixth season.
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Speaker 3: I won't get hawked down during Kansas State? How about
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Speaker 3: oh Man? Just man, I think my elusiveness will be
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Speaker 3: you know, where I'd wanted to play at. You know,
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Speaker 3: I thought Ucla was, you know, probably one of the
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Speaker 3: health these games I had, and also Nebraska. Just being
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Speaker 3: able to do what I want to do on the field,
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Speaker 3: you know, not being scared of you know, someone diving
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Speaker 3: at me or heading me. Just being able to be
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Speaker 3: out there with a clear mind. I think that's the
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Speaker 3: place I'm going to be able to have going into
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Speaker 3: this year.
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Speaker 2: I know that we have talked about it already, but
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Speaker 2: I feel like it is important enough that it Bears
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Speaker 2: repeating we had weekly conversations last year and you never
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Speaker 2: once made an excuse with health. None of us found
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Speaker 2: out until after the season was over. And you go
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Speaker 2: in for double hernia surgery. Really how bad things were?
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Speaker 2: And I know that that wasn't the only problem that
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Speaker 2: you had, the ankle and other things whatever, But then
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Speaker 2: you know the way that you are moving. Now we
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Speaker 2: can see you're moving. I think your family has been
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Speaker 2: quoted like maybe we saw him seventy seventy five percent
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Speaker 2: last year. You never used that as an excuse. But
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Speaker 2: is it safe to say that that Utah football fans
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Speaker 2: should expect a different level, at least a different physical
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Speaker 2: version of Devin dan Pierre heading into this year.
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Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, I think and by game the game
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Speaker 3: basis that you know, I think certain games I played
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Speaker 3: different than I normally do just because of you know,
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Speaker 3: my health where it was at, and you know, just
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Speaker 3: to be able to get a consistent quarterback every single game,
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Speaker 3: regardless of what it is that that's like, That's what
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Speaker 3: I want to give out there is I'm the same
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Speaker 3: guy every single game and just being able to play
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Speaker 3: that way.
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Speaker 2: How many times are we going to see you and
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Speaker 2: bird fickling on the field. At the same time, dev.
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Speaker 3: Birth the playmaker. We're going to find a way to
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Speaker 3: get up on the field so he ain't even gott
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Speaker 3: to worry about it.
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Speaker 2: The playmaker conversation is one that's kind of permeated through
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Speaker 2: the entire offseason. I like to go through before the
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Speaker 2: season starts, all these predictive things hit, you know, touchdown totals,
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Speaker 2: you artist totals for certain players, who's the leading receiver
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Speaker 2: gonna be? What's that production going to be like? And
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Speaker 2: every football guy we talked to says the same thing. Hey,
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Speaker 2: there's only one ball and you're gonna have to figure
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Speaker 2: out how you distribute this thing. What does that look
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Speaker 2: like at practice? I know it's not the same as
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Speaker 2: game planning, but what does it look like right now
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Speaker 2: at practice? I mean, we spreading this peanut butter even
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Speaker 2: in thin Is there a couple of guys that are
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Speaker 2: getting the bulk of the shares, the bulk of the carries,
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Speaker 2: bulk of the touches. How's it working out so far?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm starting off you know way Sean,
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Speaker 3: you know, he's he's that guy when it comes to
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Speaker 3: running the ball, you know, there's he he's showing just
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Speaker 3: so much growth and leadership and who he is as
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Speaker 3: a person. Even our our head coach, Strength Staff, he
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Speaker 3: said that you know, he's never he's ever seen running
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Speaker 3: back work this hard, and you know he's been in
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Speaker 3: the NFL level and all that. So you know, I
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Speaker 3: think Wayshaw's doing a great job of bringing especially Daniel Bray.
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Speaker 3: He's bringing Daniel Bray along a long way. You know,
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Speaker 3: he was a young guy last year, just a freshman
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Speaker 3: getting out there, and you know you can see that
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Speaker 3: growth in his mindset as well. You know, I see
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Speaker 3: him in the trainer room just trying to make sure
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Speaker 3: that his legs don't get dead during fall camp. You know,
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Speaker 3: that's things you don't normally see from young guys. So
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Speaker 3: I think way Shawn's doing a great job pushing over there.
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Speaker 3: And then man the receiver wise, dude, I'm I'm so
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Speaker 3: happy that you know, I'm able to go through progressions,
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Speaker 3: I'm able to choose, you know, what side I want
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Speaker 3: to work, just because you know, I know those sides
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Speaker 3: had that capability of getting open to any coverage. So
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Speaker 3: it's just nice to know whatever the defense decides to do,
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Speaker 3: you know, I can pick their poison. I can go,
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Speaker 3: I can go the other way. You got to worry
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Speaker 3: about all the receivers out there.
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Speaker 2: What about the tight end. There's always the question about,
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Speaker 2: you know, how how the big passing pass receiving options
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Speaker 2: are going to fit into this And you guys have
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Speaker 2: the traditional kind of tight end. You have these hybrid
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Speaker 2: sort of he's halfway running back, halfway receiver, halfway tight end. Uh,
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Speaker 2: you got the rhino package. What what is the what
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Speaker 2: are the big weapons gonna look like in this offense?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so much versatility there, you know. Yeah, again,
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Speaker 3: we have guys that we can put in the backfield
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Speaker 3: to hand them the ball, and uh, they're gonna find
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Speaker 3: a way to get yards every time. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 3: I'd like to call that group the secured catchers. You
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Speaker 3: know what I mean, If if I need if I
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Speaker 3: need somebody to catch the ball, I'm going to the
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Speaker 3: tight end because man, they're so big body, they're so
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Speaker 3: athletic at their sizes, and uh, just with that to
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Speaker 3: have great hands as well. You know, that builds on
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Speaker 3: a trust in the quarterback to just know you can
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Speaker 3: always go there.
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Speaker 2: Who on the opposite side of the ball has been.
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Speaker 2: Have you developed kind of the friendly rivalry with who's
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Speaker 2: been who's been the one chirping most at you? I
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Speaker 2: think last year you told us, Uh, you and Lander
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Speaker 2: Barton were always talking back and forth at practice and
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Speaker 2: things like that, who's that guy this year?
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I will say three of
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Speaker 3: them this year, Me and me and John will definitely
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Speaker 3: go at it all the time. You know, we had
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Speaker 3: a pre camp, a pre camp little beg going on,
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Speaker 3: just talking about him getting an interception on me, because man, John,
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Speaker 3: John's a lurker. He he knows how to go out
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Speaker 3: there and uh play that linebacker position. And uh second, Benny, Uh,
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Speaker 3: Jackson's going into you know, another year where you know,
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Speaker 3: we're we're all we're all expecting him to be that
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Speaker 3: guy and he's proven it every single day. And you know,
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Speaker 3: he asks me questions, you know, why do I choose
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Speaker 3: to throw the ball a certain way against certain coverage?
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Speaker 3: You know what am I seeing when he's garnering people?
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Speaker 3: So we just have those conversations where we're getting better
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Speaker 3: and uh, Scooby DAVISO. Scooby's actually to talk about all
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Speaker 3: of them before before every period. Hey, DEVI you know
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Speaker 3: what time it is. I'm getting one today. You know,
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Speaker 3: Scoob's always there to you know, continue to motivate and
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Speaker 3: just that's that's what uplifts the competition every day at
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Speaker 3: practices when guys bring energy and you know Scooby.
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Speaker 2: Is all about that has picked you off so far
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Speaker 2: in camp.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I can't give those names, not not, not.
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Speaker 2: A lot, though I would say that, all right, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: I'll get the names from a defensive player. They'll they'll
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Speaker 2: be the ones that will let me know, uh, from
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Speaker 2: a from a team chemist, from a I should say
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Speaker 2: team chemistry is too broad from a chemistry with your
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Speaker 2: receiver standpoint right. I know that you were putting in
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Speaker 2: a lot of work in the offseason. Your coaches have
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Speaker 2: praised you for organizing the workouts and and kind of
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Speaker 2: taking the leadership perspective there. Uh, this is a new
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Speaker 2: group though, as talented as it is, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of fresh faces, new bodies, things like that. Do you
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Speaker 2: feel like you've developed the right level of chemistry with
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Speaker 2: your pass catchers?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean againting it's started just when they first
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Speaker 3: got here. I think everyone kind of knew what they're
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Speaker 3: walking into, you know, Scalley's first year bringing in a
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Speaker 3: OC that I mean given just he likes to win,
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Speaker 3: and I guess the biggest thing about it offensive. He
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Speaker 3: likes to always make the defense wrong. Whatever the defense
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Speaker 3: decides to do, we're going to find the way to
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Speaker 3: pick it apart. So just we're bringing in the receivers.
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Speaker 3: You know, they knew from the beginning that we are
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Speaker 3: expecting y'all to get open against you know anything. We
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Speaker 3: have these high expectations for you guys when you guys
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Speaker 3: come here. We want to be able to pass the
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Speaker 3: ball if that's what the defense, things that we can't do,
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Speaker 3: and just things like that. So I think there's the
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Speaker 3: mentality of the receivers. You know, this whole entire way
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Speaker 3: spring ball and off season, summer and now you can
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Speaker 3: just tell the amount of conversations, the amount of times
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Speaker 3: that you know, I go into their meetings we're talking
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Speaker 3: talking ball. There's just a lot of dedications on that side.
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Speaker 2: the schedule like the rest of the way, you guys,
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Speaker 2: these are not install friendly practices at this moment. Right
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Speaker 2: there's no game planning happening for Idaho or Arkansas or
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Speaker 2: anybody else at this moment. This is just like efficiency
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Speaker 2: and working on your own stuff. Is that the right
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Speaker 2: way to characterize it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? But yeah, but I'd say we're still I guess
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Speaker 3: it's kind of those last touches of you know, exactly
18:24
Speaker 3: what the offense wants to bring into the season, what
18:27
Speaker 3: plays that you know we're gonna let go of, and
18:30
Speaker 3: the planes we're gonna hold onto, you know, for the
18:32
Speaker 3: whole entire season because we feel confident in those plays.
18:35
Speaker 3: And same thing for the defense. But they feel like
18:37
Speaker 3: they do best, what type of pressures they don't like,
18:40
Speaker 3: what type of pressures they feel great about every single game.
18:44
Speaker 3: Just things like that. That's kind of what's being finalized
18:46
Speaker 3: this week, and you know by next week, you know,
18:49
Speaker 3: first first opponents, first two, first three opponents, you know,
18:53
Speaker 3: we'll start dialing up plays to go against their defenses.
18:58
Speaker 3: And same thing on the other side.
19:03
Speaker 2: Your mindset probably isn't even in this place, but a
19:07
Speaker 2: lot of us are going to be watching Utah football
19:09
Speaker 2: and saying, like Okay, how much different does it look
19:12
Speaker 2: under Morgan Scalley the head coach, Kevin McGibbon as the
19:15
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. Colton swan now is a defensive coordinator. We're
19:19
Speaker 2: going to be comparing to this kind of constant thing
19:21
Speaker 2: we've had over the last twenty one years. From a
19:24
Speaker 2: practice perspective. If you compare this camp to last year's camp,
19:29
Speaker 2: how would you compare them? Are they equally physical? Is
19:32
Speaker 2: this year more live tackling less live tackling? Is it
19:35
Speaker 2: more grinding people down? Like, give me some comparison if
19:39
Speaker 2: you can between what Morgan Scalley's fall camp is versus
19:43
Speaker 2: the one you had under Kyle Whittingham.
19:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, scale has been underwent so far. So the
19:50
Speaker 3: physical all that does not change. I promise it's the same.
19:56
Speaker 3: You know, we're when the pads are on, if we're
19:59
Speaker 3: if we're able to have contact, we're gonna have contact.
20:03
Speaker 3: We're gonna make sure guys are hitting each other and
20:07
Speaker 3: just making sure we're building that mindset. You know, we're
20:09
Speaker 3: we would never lose a football game because we are
20:11
Speaker 3: softed than an opponent. And you know that's some scaley
20:14
Speaker 3: preaches and you know some some differences. You know, Scaley's
20:19
Speaker 3: big on our bodies, how our bodies are doing. He's
20:22
Speaker 3: taking a lot of account on just tracking with how
20:26
Speaker 3: much miles prow we're hitting, the amount of where and
20:32
Speaker 3: here we're putting on our bodies every practice. You know
20:34
Speaker 3: how long that's going for, and you know he's adjusting
20:37
Speaker 3: practices as we go on, just to continue to make
20:40
Speaker 3: sure we feel good by the time week one comes.
20:43
Speaker 2: Do you know what your max speed number is so far?
20:50
Speaker 3: What am I?
20:52
Speaker 2: Who?
20:53
Speaker 3: I want to say? I was like nineteen something? Okay,
20:56
Speaker 3: all right, So it's it's solid. It's solid. Some of
21:01
Speaker 3: some of the other boys are flying though. Some I
21:03
Speaker 3: think Braiden Braiden, Benny and Ricky and Snood, I think
21:09
Speaker 3: they've gotten to like the twenty two maybe the play Yeah,
21:13
Speaker 3: and they're flying. They're they're fine. There's yeah, I know.
21:19
Speaker 3: It's it's been fun though, just the whole entire process.
21:22
Speaker 2: Do you do you enjoy that portion?
21:24
Speaker 3: Like?
21:25
Speaker 2: Do you like looking at those numbers? Are you like
21:27
Speaker 2: you know? Bruce Feldon puts out his Freaks List where
21:30
Speaker 2: he talks about like the measurables that people have. Now
21:33
Speaker 2: some people are great players without ever having great measurables.
21:37
Speaker 2: Some guys are you know, kind of in the middle.
21:39
Speaker 2: Some guys rely so much on the measurables that they
21:42
Speaker 2: never actually get good at football. Where do you fall
21:45
Speaker 2: on the you know, like my speed numbers and how
21:48
Speaker 2: they translate to my game kind of thing. Like cause
21:50
Speaker 2: you're you're a big lifter, right, You're really strong. You
21:52
Speaker 2: told us about that last year, So like, how much
21:56
Speaker 2: do you care about those numbers?
21:58
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know me, me at quarterback, I always want
22:02
Speaker 3: the combination of strong and you know, I guess who
22:07
Speaker 3: I want to be faster than is you know, anybody
22:09
Speaker 3: in the box. You know, the receivers, the corners, the safeties.
22:14
Speaker 3: You know, they're they're going to find their way to
22:16
Speaker 3: be faster than me. You know that's they're they're built
22:19
Speaker 3: thirty pounds wider than me. But for me to be
22:22
Speaker 3: that mixed up being able to take a hit and
22:24
Speaker 3: also outrun you know, the ends, the de tackle, the linebackers.
22:29
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's kind of my goal. That's what
22:31
Speaker 3: I focus on from a measurable standpoint. But I just
22:36
Speaker 3: think my game is a lot of my quickness, my
22:39
Speaker 3: side to side movement, my vertical speed, my mouth probably
22:44
Speaker 3: doesn't really give me that movement speed, but things like
22:48
Speaker 3: the five to five and stuff. That's that's the things
22:51
Speaker 3: I take a lot of consideration, just to make sure
22:53
Speaker 3: I'm able to change direction and the fastest way possible.
22:57
Speaker 2: Are you playing heavier or lighter than you did last year?
23:00
Speaker 2: You're going to be the same.
23:02
Speaker 3: I think I'm at the same. Honestly, I think I'm
23:05
Speaker 3: being into like that two o five two ten category.
23:08
Speaker 3: Just depending on the day, I'm somewhere between there. That's
23:11
Speaker 3: kind of where I played it out last year.
23:14
Speaker 2: Is that the magic number for you? You feel like
23:16
Speaker 2: that's your optimal athletic performance number?
23:20
Speaker 3: And right now, yes, I feel like that's where I
23:23
Speaker 3: can get out and still take a hit.
23:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't. We don't want like a we don't
23:29
Speaker 2: have a skinny Devin dam Pier that they can't survive
23:32
Speaker 2: with a little bit of contact, you know, Like would
23:35
Speaker 2: you say that? And I don't know, maybe this is
23:37
Speaker 2: a conversation you have with Kevin mcgibbn and Morgan Scalley,
23:41
Speaker 2: like would you say that for yourself? Because you were
23:45
Speaker 2: productive in the passing game and the run game last year? Uh,
23:49
Speaker 2: watching your film at New Mexico. There were plenty of
23:51
Speaker 2: times where you ran the ball when I think it
23:53
Speaker 2: was a design pass because you kind of had to right.
23:56
Speaker 2: And I know that's always going to be part of
23:58
Speaker 2: your game. That's always going to be part of a quarterback.
24:01
Speaker 2: But is there going to be an adjustment as far
24:03
Speaker 2: as you know, in like the QB designed runs for
24:06
Speaker 2: Devin dan Pierre in order to preserve the health that
24:09
Speaker 2: you have worked so hard to get back.
24:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think that's for one, that's part
24:16
Speaker 3: of my play style, you know, And I've told the
24:18
Speaker 3: coaches that me being able to put that stress on
24:22
Speaker 3: the defense is you know, that's huge for me. When
24:25
Speaker 3: you can make that safety start looking at the quarterback
24:27
Speaker 3: and now that safety cannot help on the outside receivers,
24:31
Speaker 3: you know, you just create matchups for for your guys
24:34
Speaker 3: to be able to throw the ball as well. So
24:36
Speaker 3: and that's something you know, defensive coaches they stress about
24:40
Speaker 3: having to worry about the quarterback running because man, there's
24:42
Speaker 3: defenses where you know, they they play man with two
24:46
Speaker 3: safeties and the safeties are running with the deep routes
24:50
Speaker 3: and you know who who accounts for the quarterbacks? So
24:53
Speaker 3: you know, I think I think that big, that's that's
24:56
Speaker 3: who I am. That's part of my game. And they
24:59
Speaker 3: know that as well. And you know, obviously again the
25:01
Speaker 3: way way Sean and uh, just the depth at the
25:04
Speaker 3: running back position as well, and even having Bird, you know,
25:08
Speaker 3: that takes a lot of stress off of me when
25:11
Speaker 3: it comes to you know, direct run game where we
25:13
Speaker 3: got guys that are gonna go get those yards.
25:17
Speaker 2: You guys are practicing or finishing up practice right when
25:20
Speaker 2: we're going on air, so I'm not able to go
25:23
Speaker 2: observe practice, and it's limited for the media anyway, So
25:26
Speaker 2: I have to rely on you for the answer to
25:28
Speaker 2: this question. Last year, last year at camp, right we
25:33
Speaker 2: were going up there, Hey, who's the breakout star of
25:36
Speaker 2: this camp? Who's the young freshman or the incoming transfer
25:39
Speaker 2: whoever that's surprising everyone? Who is that offensively? And maybe
25:43
Speaker 2: you've got a defensive one too?
25:45
Speaker 3: Okay? All right, all right, oh no, let me let
25:50
Speaker 3: me let me think. Let me think up with this one.
25:56
Speaker 3: You know, I would say I believe Kelvin Kevin Obot's
26:01
Speaker 3: been I think very impressive. You know, you get a
26:04
Speaker 3: five star and you know some of some of those
26:06
Speaker 3: guys aren't the five stars. You think you get some
26:10
Speaker 3: of them, you know they've played against week your competition,
26:13
Speaker 3: and they get here and you know, they get humbled
26:15
Speaker 3: and they never really turned into that same guy. And
26:18
Speaker 3: you know, I think Kevin is one of those guys who, uh,
26:20
Speaker 3: you know, first day he gets to feel of what
26:23
Speaker 3: it's like to be a college athlete, and man, he's
26:26
Speaker 3: he's he's taking sides like so so fast. He's definitely,
26:32
Speaker 3: you know, proven himself out there every single day that
26:34
Speaker 3: he could go out there and compete, you know, at
26:37
Speaker 3: the highest level just right away as a young guy.
26:39
Speaker 3: So that's been huge, hugely impressive to see out of
26:43
Speaker 3: you know, a guy so young to be able to
26:45
Speaker 3: come here and do that so fast. And then on
26:49
Speaker 3: the defense, honestly, Cyrus and Ellis just it's been the
26:58
Speaker 3: man that linebacker position is. You know, you have John
27:01
Speaker 3: O and Trey and then man, when Cyrus and Ellis
27:04
Speaker 3: is in there, like Tim boy, they can pass for us,
27:09
Speaker 3: they can go find a way to go get an interception.
27:12
Speaker 3: Like it's just we have so much depth at that
27:15
Speaker 3: lineman nitral position. And you know, I think they've been
27:17
Speaker 3: sending out all camp just the way they've been playing
27:21
Speaker 3: at such a high level.
27:22
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was looking for. Dev. I love
27:24
Speaker 2: those answers. Uh, And I've been I've been talking more
27:28
Speaker 2: about a freshman offensive guard in Kelvin Obot or an
27:31
Speaker 2: offensive lineman than I that I'm really even comfortable doing
27:34
Speaker 2: because we're not even sure how much he's gonna play
27:37
Speaker 2: this year. But let's say he has to. Right, you
27:42
Speaker 2: think he could be a starting offensive lineman as a
27:44
Speaker 2: true freshman.
27:46
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, for sure, he's doing he again described the
27:51
Speaker 3: mount that and also he's getting better himself. He's he's
27:54
Speaker 3: doing the extra things like again me seeing me being
27:59
Speaker 3: around the five. Sorry, you know, I didn't know how
28:01
Speaker 3: he was going to come into this thing, and he's
28:03
Speaker 3: coming into this team like still hungry to know the game.
28:06
Speaker 3: He's doing the small thing coaches he's asking for and
28:10
Speaker 3: just the extra. So you know, I'm I'm glad that
28:12
Speaker 3: he's on our team. For sure.
28:15
Speaker 2: This is an unfair question to finish it, but you
28:18
Speaker 2: know how I am. Uh, the guy JJ Buchanan and
28:23
Speaker 2: John Henry Daily and those guys that those those individuals
28:26
Speaker 2: that were so important to last year's team. Are they
28:29
Speaker 2: still in the group chat or is everyone, like while
28:32
Speaker 2: the while the football season plays out, is there a separation?
28:37
Speaker 3: Ah? No, And when you know, if you ever look
28:41
Speaker 3: at our Instagram post or things like that, you know
28:45
Speaker 3: we're we're all, we're you. You players are all up
28:48
Speaker 3: in their comments. You know they're still in ours. You know,
28:52
Speaker 3: every once in a while, like I see Scoopy on
28:55
Speaker 3: the phone with Uko and Smittye and you know, it's
28:59
Speaker 3: a family. You know, once you're part of the Utah family.
29:03
Speaker 3: You know the way we love our brotherhood, the way
29:05
Speaker 3: we become so close with each other, you know, we
29:09
Speaker 3: always have their respect for each other is we know
29:11
Speaker 3: everybody's situation is different and we understand that, and you
29:15
Speaker 3: know everyone's doing what's best for them at the end
29:17
Speaker 3: of the day. But that chemistry that we built, you know,
29:20
Speaker 3: that loves that year that we go through, you know,
29:24
Speaker 3: just so much wedding tears and yeah, I mean there's
29:28
Speaker 3: there's no way you can just let those type of
29:30
Speaker 3: guys fall out of your life.
29:33
Speaker 2: Last thing, and I know You've talked about it a lot,
29:35
Speaker 2: but you know it's something that I'm fascinated by. Utah
29:39
Speaker 2: fans are fascinated by. You made a tough decision and
29:42
Speaker 2: you decided to stay here even though offensive coordinator that
29:45
Speaker 2: had brought you along in college football he left, even
29:48
Speaker 2: though you were getting the offers from other places. I'm
29:52
Speaker 2: sure there were some big bags offered to you, things
29:55
Speaker 2: like that. What has happened so far through spring ball,
29:58
Speaker 2: through the summer program him, and this far into camp,
30:02
Speaker 2: do you feel like you're getting confirmation that you made
30:05
Speaker 2: the right decision on a daily basis?
30:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think again, I love coach Beck.
30:12
Speaker 3: He's done so much for me, and you know, he
30:15
Speaker 3: had a decision to make for what's best for him
30:16
Speaker 3: and his family, and you know, I'm glad he was
30:19
Speaker 3: able to find that and get that opportunity. And you know,
30:23
Speaker 3: same thing for me that came up for me and
30:26
Speaker 3: just I got to know who Matt Gee was. Again,
30:29
Speaker 3: Scaley put me in a position where you know, he
30:32
Speaker 3: let me know he's gonna get oc to build things
30:34
Speaker 3: around me and let me get to know who the
30:37
Speaker 3: person was earlier beforehand, and you know, anyone else finding
30:42
Speaker 3: out And you know, I just think that was that
30:44
Speaker 3: was such a big thing for me to hear and
30:47
Speaker 3: be able to have those conversations and just where I'm
30:51
Speaker 3: at mentally on a football perspective. You know, mcgiven puts
30:55
Speaker 3: a lot on me. He he wants me to be
30:57
Speaker 3: able to have He wants me to be able to
30:59
Speaker 3: hear a call and you know, repeat it to guys.
31:01
Speaker 3: He wants me to be able to make checks when
31:03
Speaker 3: we need it, just all the things the quarterback needs
31:07
Speaker 3: to know, protection and just literally everything. He's putting everything
31:12
Speaker 3: on my plate, and I just feel like that's developed
31:15
Speaker 3: on mind. It's made the game even slower. I mean,
31:19
Speaker 3: we always talk about how fast the game is, and
31:21
Speaker 3: you know, I'm at that point of my year where
31:24
Speaker 3: I have that experience and he has so much going
31:26
Speaker 3: on in my mind that I'm able to now slow
31:29
Speaker 3: it down. I'm able to now process everything and just
31:32
Speaker 3: see the small things that you normally can't see in
31:35
Speaker 3: a big picture on the defense. So yeah, I'm glad
31:38
Speaker 3: where I'm at. I'm happy the development I've been getting,
31:43
Speaker 3: just kind of finalizing where a true quarterback is, and yeah,
31:47
Speaker 3: I'm thankful for that every single day.
31:50
Speaker 2: Well, Dev, I know we've chewed up a lot of
31:52
Speaker 2: your time today. Have a good practice, have a good
31:55
Speaker 2: remaining few practices in camp, and we'll chat again, very
31:58
Speaker 2: very soon. Glad that we're doing this again this year,
32:01
Speaker 2: and very much looking forward to what you and the
32:02
Speaker 2: rest of the utes can put in front of us
32:04
Speaker 2: on the football field. Man.
32:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's always fun being on here.
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