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Eric Weddle reacts to Morgan Scalley's introductory press conference, Scalley built "An All Star staff" + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Sean O'Connell Show for the Murdoch Chevrolet Studio of ESPN
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and nine AM Sean O'Connell showing ESBN seven
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  Speaker 1: and ninety two to one FM, and we welcome in
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  Speaker 1: the Utah Football Legends, NFL Football Legend head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Rancho Bernardo Broncos and uh A man who had
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  Speaker 1: a recent birthday, Eric Weddle on the show.
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  Speaker 2: A belated happy birthday, How are you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: My brother?
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Each year you can celebrate a birthday is a great
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  Speaker 3: day because the ladder, we don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: We don't. We don't want to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: the ladder where you're not celebrating. So it's always a
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  Speaker 3: great day. I'd spent time with friends and family, down
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  Speaker 3: some great football and no better. We got five straight
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  Speaker 3: days is this is probably the greatest five days stretch
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  Speaker 3: that'll ever have with football, top notch football games Thursday
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  Speaker 3: to Monday.
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  Speaker 4: So excited as.
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  Speaker 3: A fan, our utes are alive and well as a
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  Speaker 3: proud dad.
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  Speaker 4: A son just found out he's Max.
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  Speaker 3: Press All American back to back, so you know, well,
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  Speaker 3: kudos to him and good times, man, good times.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to weddle the younger. That's awesome, glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And to you as as dad and coach, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you have some influence on it, although the good genetics
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  Speaker 1: come from the good genetics come from your lovely wife.
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  Speaker 4: All right, no, no question.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So this week, big week, obviously, Morgan Scalley had his
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  Speaker 1: official introductory press conference.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you've had time to go back and listen
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're out there in your car right now, you
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  Speaker 1: can find at ESPN seven hundred, sports dot com or
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  Speaker 1: on the ESPN seven hundred app. We've got all forty
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  Speaker 1: ish minutes of Morgan scali the Q and A and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. And look, no surprise to me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure no surprise to you. He absolutely won the press conference,
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  Speaker 1: showed his character, showed his emotion, showed how much this
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  Speaker 1: job an opportunity means to him. But what were your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts seeing your guy officially get handed the reins of
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  Speaker 1: the program.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It was almost like a full circle moment for myself,
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  Speaker 3: seeing a man that has such an impact on my
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  Speaker 3: life still does and to see dreams come true, right,
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  Speaker 3: like to see someone that has worked so hard and
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  Speaker 3: to work his way up right. Talked about that in
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  Speaker 3: his press conference, having every role imaginable throughout the last
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  Speaker 3: you know, eighteen nineteen years of being a part of
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  Speaker 3: the program, and you know, the uncertainty of college coaching
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  Speaker 3: and his guidance and his belief that kept him centered
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  Speaker 3: and kept him who he is. And it's just awesome
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  Speaker 3: for people to see Morgan how we all know him
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  Speaker 3: as right, just the captivating personality, the charisma, the hit factor,
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  Speaker 3: the passion, and it's sure as exciting. I know everyone
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  Speaker 3: can feel it around Salt Lake, around the university. We're
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  Speaker 3: in good hands. You know, he's been able to manage
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  Speaker 3: the uncertainty and the tough challenges that he had last
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks and he looked as straight in the
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  Speaker 3: face and didn't quiver, didn't run, went right through it,
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  Speaker 3: and man, I'm excited good times.
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  Speaker 1: Look, one of the great things about Morgan is that
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  Speaker 1: he is that dude. He's not going to be shy
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  Speaker 1: about taking on challenges and I appreciated that. In his
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  Speaker 1: press conference he mentioned it was just truthful about Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like losing guys at the transfer portal. I've
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've poured our effort and energy into these
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  Speaker 1: young men, and so it's painful to see him go,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to be just fine. And that is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the main thing right now that him and
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  Speaker 1: his assistants have to deal with. You got to try
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  Speaker 1: to retain the good talent that you have. You got
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  Speaker 1: to try and add some more talent out of the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. They're already doing both of those things. And
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  Speaker 1: he delivered a message that you have been talking about
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we want people who want to be here.
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  Speaker 1: So John Ouhall re signed, Scooby Davis re signed, Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Benny made his announcement that he's coming back, and it
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  Speaker 1: feels like this roster is starting to take shape as
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  Speaker 1: anything jumped.
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  Speaker 2: Out to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, listen, we've been talking about it
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  Speaker 3: in the way the land is and the opportunity that
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  Speaker 3: these kids have, Like, Hey, if you feel that there's
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  Speaker 3: better opportunities and that we can't provide that for you
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  Speaker 3: here at a fair value and appreciate and value what
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  Speaker 3: we can bring outside of the dollar signs, then hey,
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  Speaker 3: good luck and uh, we'll find the next guy. That's
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  Speaker 3: the great thing about our program that we can develop.
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  Speaker 3: We can nourishment, uh like, uh, you know, nourish the
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  Speaker 3: people that love our place and value what our program
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  Speaker 3: can bring. So I think in it, I think everyone's
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  Speaker 3: seeing it firsthand. Of guys get in the portal unexpectedly
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  Speaker 3: and hey, we just we just go after the.
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  Speaker 4: Next guy and the guys that will add value.
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  Speaker 3: To our culture, to our program and and buy into
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  Speaker 3: what we're what we're doing here because at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, Uh, there's players will come and go,
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  Speaker 3: the university will will be there long after you and
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  Speaker 3: I were playing. Or Morgan's the head coach and and
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  Speaker 3: this and that.
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  Speaker 4: So I love what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: I love the staff that he's put together and assembled
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  Speaker 3: great men, experienced coaches, guys they're going to work and
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  Speaker 3: grind for him and the university and more importantly the players.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're seeing, you're seeing the right guys come
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  Speaker 3: into our program that want to be here, the guys
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  Speaker 3: that want to stay.
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  Speaker 4: Is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, I love I love coach
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  Speaker 3: with obviously, and anyone that thinks otherwise doesn't know me.
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  Speaker 4: But I think, honestly, I think we've upgraded. I think we've.
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  Speaker 3: Upgraded across the board. Lewis Powell obviously may take some time,
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  Speaker 3: but I think when you look at it and look
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  Speaker 3: at where we're going to be here in the next
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  Speaker 3: six months and then the years down the road, you
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  Speaker 3: look at this as being a moment in time where
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  Speaker 3: we upgraded and in our in our program continue to
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  Speaker 3: build off what coach Wood did in twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting to see the same reaction that we had
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  Speaker 1: a year ago when Jason Beck was hired.
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  Speaker 2: People were just like, oh, man, is this the right guy?
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  Speaker 1: And then of course he ended up being the right
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  Speaker 1: guy and mcgiven got that safe treatment.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of people, Oh this is a little underwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: But Morgan explained it, and I love when defensive guys
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  Speaker 1: talk about why they value certain offenses and offensive coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and I loved his explanation that, you know, he makes
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  Speaker 1: it hard for you as a defensive coach to have
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  Speaker 1: to adjust to what he's doing. He's giving you all
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  Speaker 1: these crazy looks and motions, and that's part of what
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  Speaker 1: made Becks offense really good. Do you expect that even
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  Speaker 1: though it's a new coordinator and there'll be some new personnel,
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  Speaker 1: do you expect that the play calling will be relatively
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  Speaker 1: similar to what we saw this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean talking with Morgan, and Morgan had to
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  Speaker 3: reel me in because you know, I went on like
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  Speaker 3: a like a five day stretch of you know, trying
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  Speaker 3: to you know, I'm proud of my university and I
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  Speaker 3: love it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I just want to remind people that we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be great.
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  Speaker 3: And this is this place is amazing. And He's like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, you gotta like you gotta like cool it
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  Speaker 3: down with all this stuff we're talking about, like you're
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  Speaker 3: letting too much information out that it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like you're right, You're right.
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  Speaker 3: I got chill, Like I'm not even media, I got
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  Speaker 3: so uh you know, I gotta I gotta pull back
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  Speaker 3: how much I say what nott nowadays? But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with with with what I can say. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all the interviews he had with offense coordinators, he came away,
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  Speaker 3: blown away and most impressed with uh, what's his name again?
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  Speaker 3: The guy we just hired mcgiven sorry? Yeah, uh and
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  Speaker 3: he you know, he he he. He peppered them with questions,
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  Speaker 3: with thoughts, with situations, and he had an answer for everything.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, I I I think he had to have
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  Speaker 3: in mind what we did this past year, how do
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  Speaker 3: we uh correlate and integrate what we did with the
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  Speaker 3: success we had and also bring mcgiven system manage is
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  Speaker 3: very similar with what we've taught as an offense, with
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the signals of lining up the up tempo.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, this and that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's gonna carry over. And I honestly I think
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  Speaker 3: from my you know, just researching coach McGibbon and where
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  Speaker 3: he's been at Santage State and Utah State and looking
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  Speaker 3: at his past offenses, I think we could be more
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  Speaker 3: explosive with a more of a downfill passing attack that
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  Speaker 3: he has shown.
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  Speaker 4: In his past.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the explosive in the production that he got
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  Speaker 3: in the passing game as sat as they stay is
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  Speaker 3: really what stood out. And being able to adapt and
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  Speaker 3: be creative and taylor your offense to the players or
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  Speaker 3: what they do best is I think a strength of
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  Speaker 3: his And at the end of the day, like you
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  Speaker 3: just and I said this multiple times, you have to
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  Speaker 3: trust Morgan and his decision and his vision for the program. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and nobody knows offense is better than Morgan. So if
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  Speaker 3: he feels and thinks and believes that this is what's
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  Speaker 3: best for our program.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'm all on.
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  Speaker 3: Board and can't wait to see it because I think
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna see a more open, fluid, aggressive team going forward.
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  Speaker 3: And you kind of got a little sense of that
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball game, and hopefully moving forward you'll see more of that.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Weddles, our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the new direction of Utah football under the
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  Speaker 1: head coach Morgan Scally, the assistant staff.
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  Speaker 2: Has been filled out on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I keep hearing that we might get a quarterback coach
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  Speaker 1: still announced, because given has worked with quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't have to be the coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of room on the coaching roster to get
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  Speaker 1: people in those types of positions. You know before anyone
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  Speaker 1: did who was going to come in to coach. The
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  Speaker 1: safety is a position that you played, that Morgan played,
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  Speaker 1: and that is obviously massively important in this defense. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a former two sport. Youute, in fact, a guy
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  Speaker 1: who played here and coached here and coach you here.
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  Speaker 1: So tell the people why they should be excited about
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  Speaker 1: coach Odam coming back.
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  Speaker 4: Man, You know, coach.
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  Speaker 3: Him and I are close obviously over the years, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's he was at Santa se State and
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  Speaker 3: obviously coming by the school January in May and see
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  Speaker 3: engage and obviously you know, keeping tabs on him and
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  Speaker 3: and you know, so when he unfortunately got let go
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  Speaker 3: mid season, we just kind of stayed in touch and
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  Speaker 3: obviously a very very I think of him in the
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  Speaker 3: one of the highest regards of some of the one
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  Speaker 3: of the best coaches I've had, and had a big
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  Speaker 3: impact on me of allowing me to grow as a
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  Speaker 3: as a player, as a leader, challenging me with what
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  Speaker 3: we do schematically and defensively, and really made it fun
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  Speaker 3: and really gave me a leg up when I got
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  Speaker 3: into the NFL. Just what he not just allowed me
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  Speaker 3: to do, but what he challenged me to do because
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  Speaker 3: he trusted me and he knew I could handle it,
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  Speaker 3: and he and he saw something in me that I
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  Speaker 3: needed to be pushed, needed to be challenged. So when
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  Speaker 3: Morgan officially got you know, taken took over, I just
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  Speaker 3: threw his name out there. I said, hey, here's a
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  Speaker 3: guy just you know, if you if you want to
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  Speaker 3: look into this, go right ahead. He's just done and
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  Speaker 3: he I already knew anyways of the names of who
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to interviewed it for that job. So a
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  Speaker 3: guy that knows our university, knows the standard played here,
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  Speaker 3: coached here, one of the best men I know leaders,
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  Speaker 3: brings value and I think he'll be a great asset
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  Speaker 3: the coach swan of his transition, decordinator of a guy
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  Speaker 3: that's done it, who could bring ideas, can help support him.
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  Speaker 4: So man talk about putting.
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  Speaker 3: Together an all star staff.
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  Speaker 4: I really believe.
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  Speaker 3: That and know Coach Odin's going to do everything he
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  Speaker 3: can to make our program great.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Gross is also back.
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  Speaker 1: You and I were texting about this as a possibility
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  Speaker 1: before it was officially announced, and obviously you were temporaries
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, like opposite sides of the ball. Give
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  Speaker 1: me your sense of his reputation in the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: how you think it translates when he's coaching this team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: That guys that have been around the game that you
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  Speaker 3: just have, you just know right, And I would say
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  Speaker 3: this coaching at the high school level prepares you more
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  Speaker 3: for college or NFL than any other level, if I'm
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  Speaker 3: being honest, Because you're having to teach and coach and
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  Speaker 3: nurture young men that most times have no business doing
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  Speaker 3: what you're trying to tell him to do. And you're
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  Speaker 3: still trying to find ways to make your work and
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  Speaker 3: try to make them successful on and off the field.
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  Speaker 4: So for people that are.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to negate the impact Jordan's gonna have doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a clue. So we all know that Jordan's a super
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  Speaker 3: start coaching the making, and the ones that know it
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  Speaker 3: believe it that we stand Tana and say, hey man,
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  Speaker 3: I believe in you. I know your history, I know
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  Speaker 3: the knowledge of the game, I know how you teach
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  Speaker 3: and coach and the fundamentals. I know how you are
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  Speaker 3: with kids. So it is a home run higher that
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  Speaker 3: we were able to get Jordan after losing probably the
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  Speaker 3: best Soligne coach in the country. So yeah, is he
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  Speaker 3: gonna have things to figure out and recruiting this and that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, the guy loves
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  Speaker 3: the university, is he gonna work his tail off, and
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  Speaker 3: he's a professional, Okay, So those three things can't be denied.
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  Speaker 3: And then couple with the talent in the charisma and
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  Speaker 3: the personality of coaching the position and owning the room
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  Speaker 3: and owning the magnitude of players, and just like that situation,
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  Speaker 3: like when players look at Jordan, they're seeing Holy smokes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy knows what he's talking about. He's a professional,
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  Speaker 3: an all pro. Okay, there's guys that just have it.
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  Speaker 3: So he's gonna be incredible. I'm so excited for him
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  Speaker 3: and his family. Uh and to watch our offensive line
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  Speaker 3: and offense as a whole continue our standard of being physical, nasty,
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  Speaker 3: controlling the scrimmage, and he's going to continue that on
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  Speaker 3: I have no doubts.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I want to switch gears a little bit here to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL because the coaching carousel is a spinning and
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  Speaker 1: it's doing so rapidly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh holy.
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  Speaker 1: One fourth of the NFL is looking for coaches right now,
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  Speaker 1: including you know, a team you played for and had
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  Speaker 1: some great years with. And John Harbaugh spent eighteen years
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  Speaker 1: as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. And if
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Loop makes a damn kick, then he's still the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. But that's how thin
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  Speaker 1: the margins are in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start there.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction when you saw the news that
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh was out, and what do you think the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: do next?
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  Speaker 3: Man, I don't I don't know what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: There's not I mean, hearts is like you're talking about continuity,
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about consistency, you're talking about leadership.
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  Speaker 4: I mean a guy that is innovative.
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  Speaker 3: And adapting, and I just don't know, Like who you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna find that's better? Uh, he's out there. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like you know, when.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like how much how much do I
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  Speaker 3: how much can I say?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like, uh, the unfortunate part. And it
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  Speaker 3: trickles down to the high school level of and even
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  Speaker 3: earlier than that, Like you're allowing these kids to go
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  Speaker 3: wherever they want to transfer, to seek out different things,
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  Speaker 3: who's advising them, and the identity of football being a
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  Speaker 3: team sport and really working together and really like doing
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  Speaker 3: hard things and being coached hard like those days are
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  Speaker 3: getting long gone. So when you're allowing players to have
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  Speaker 3: that power per se, and then it gets all the
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  Speaker 3: way to the top where you allow players to have
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  Speaker 3: massive input on coaches and coaching hires, that's what you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna that's what you're gonna get. So uh, man, I
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  Speaker 3: know he's gonna he's gonna land on a seat, and I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Excited to see where he goes.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't I think I think maybe it change
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  Speaker 3: was needed. Maybe I don't know. But until you real
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  Speaker 3: back in the culture and real back in uh the
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  Speaker 3: standard of being a pro and what that entails for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of franchises, Uh, you're gonna be mediocre because
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  Speaker 3: the great ones like I think of uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Rams, and I think it. Look at their culture
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  Speaker 3: and their one rule is beyond time and we not
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  Speaker 3: me and and I know it for a fact that
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  Speaker 3: that's how it is, right, Like everyone works out, everyone rehabs,
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  Speaker 3: everyone's on time for me, everyone's phones our way, and
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  Speaker 3: that is the culture, that is the standard, that is
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  Speaker 3: the leadership from the top down right. And so I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if that's everywhere. You look at Mike Rabel
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  Speaker 3: and what he brought to the New England from a
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: year to year and his standard, Yeah, he's got a standard.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: And I guarantee you everyone is known in that Tire
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: building that we're all on the same page. We do
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: everything the right way. And I think that holds weight.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And I think over the course of time that if
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: you skip steps in the process, if you allow certain
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: individuals to do their own thing and not do when
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: his ass as a top match program, So you're going
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: to suffer.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: All right, Someday there's going to be a phone call
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to Eric Weddle that Hey, we want you to come
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: coach this NFL team, or we want you to be
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the GM of this NFL team.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Let's pretend that happens today.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Right after you hang up with me, Hey, you got
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to choose one of these head coaching jobs. Ravens, Giants, Browns, Falcons, Dolphins, Cardinals, Titans, Raiders,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Eric Weddle gets to be a head coach?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Which one of these jobs? You can have any of them?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Which one are you going to take?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, if I'm a head coach or GM, because
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that's two different.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Let's make you a head coach because that's what you are.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Now, You're you're a coach right now?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Okay. I would say if I was a GM, I'd
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: say the Raiders and I trade Crosby for multiple picks.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I'd blow up the entire building and start over with
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: multiple first round picks. Over the next three years and
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: give me five years to turn that program. So I
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: think the Raiders have maybe had the most work, but
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: have some ability to turn that thing around maybe within
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: a year or two. As a head coach, Oh my gosh,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I think I would take the Giants. They got a
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: good cores, they got a stud quarterback, They really have
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: some stability before, you know, the last few years with
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: ownership and GM, I think I think showing as the
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: GM has done, I think he's done a pretty good
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: job and and adding talent, and they got a really
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: good defense, So I would I would think that's the
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: most desirable out of all of them, and then you
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: could you know, Miami would be a second. But I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I'm getting rid of Tua and starting over. So there's
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: some some things that he got to manage with that
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: day cabin in ninety nine million dead money if you
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: cut him, So that's that hinders you for the next
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: couple of years. So I don't know, I don't I
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: think the Giants are the most most ready to make
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: an impact right away.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: What uh, what job will you be better at? Because
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: these jobs are going to cut your way eventually. Will
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you be a better GM or a better head coach.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Shoot, I mean, I I think you're you're a little
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: hyping me up a little too much, like saying, how
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: if I could even do those things?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But don't do that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know, don't give me.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I don't like that. You're a genuine person.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You believe you could be a GM in in the NFL.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You believe you could be a head coach in the NFL.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe not today, but I know Eric Hearts thinks he
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: could do both of those jobs.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, yes, okay, you're right. I'm not gonna I'm
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: not gonna sit here and blue smoke. I do uh man.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I think I think, I think at this point in
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: my life, like energy, I think I need to be
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: in the in the in the in the in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: around the guys. I need to be in the in
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the mix. I think I had I could have the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: most impact of leading and and and keeping the guys
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: together in direction and leadership and keeping the main thing
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the main thing. So I think right now, now, twenty
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: years from now, obviously I think it would be GM
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: role just because I'm old and but my eyes still
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: work and I could put a put a good team together.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, we got playoff games this weekend in college football
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. You mentioned it earlier. This is five
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: straight days of absolutely glorio.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe let's go go pick'em's.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Starting with the college football playoff game tonight.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss is handicapped in every way you can be.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And uh, they're against a really tough Miami team.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: How do they think that one goes?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Gosh, Miami is hot. They're like, they're like the NFL
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: team that is riding like a four game winning streak
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: into the playoffs and they just going to run like
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: the Packers and the Giants and backing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Our Super Bowl runs.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: So I worry that and their D line and just
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: their defenses. But I want ole Miss. I want ole Miss.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: It's the story. It's the stick it to Lane Kiffin.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: It's awesome for those players, and I just think it
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: What greater story would it be if they end up
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: winning the national championship and rub it in lane space
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: like it's got it's got the right en on the wall, right, Like,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I just I'm pulling for ole Miss, and I think
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: they'll pull it off, even though I think Miami is
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: gonna miss extremely tough out.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Uh, Indiana, Oregon.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I'm going Oregon. They lost by ten at home.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I think they're a much better team. I think they
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: are playing.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: At a high level.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I know I'm probably an outlier. Indiana's dang good man.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: They just shelacked Alabama and it wasn't even close. So guys,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I think, like people like myself are still saying, are
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: they really that good?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: And they may be, And I could be totally wrong,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Think Oregon's gonna full off the upset, all right?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And then in the NFL weekend, Broncos are the number
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: one seed, they get a buy. Seahawks are the NFC
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: number one seed, they get a Buyeh, Steelers Texans, who advances?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I got this?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Oh god, I can't say it. I don't know, like
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I go back to, like, gosh, the Texas are really good.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I go on to Texans, even though my heart says
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the Steelers.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I'm going Texans, all right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Houston is a three point favorite in that one. Jags Bills,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going Jags.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, upset for you Jags at the higher seed. But
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Buffalo is the favorite in that one. That's uh, that's interesting.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Why do you like the Jags over the Bills?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Man? They're playing really good football right now.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: If Lawrence is playing at a high clip, I think
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: it's like fifteen to one over the last like throughout
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: this winning streak. Touchdown, the interceptions, and when you're when
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: you're when you're seeing the field, your quarterbacks playing at
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: a high level, you're you're at home.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: The defense.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Like, there's a lot to like about Jacksonville right now.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Now you have known playoffs first time coach Bills have
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: been there.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: They've done it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: But I just I don't think the Bills are that good,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: and so I'm gonna err on the side of the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: hot team at.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Home, Pats Chargers.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I got the Patriots, but man, I wouldn't be surprised
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: that somehow the Chargers win with that defense. Jesse Minter
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: probably be a head coach in this cycle if he
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: wants it. I'm not sure if he wants it or not.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But it's hard to go against Pats at home night game.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be like ten degrees. Teams going across the
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: country minus forty are like one in thirty nine. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: it's not very good odds for the Chargers. But I
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: want the Chargers, but I think the Pats are gonna win,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And uh, so yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Pats all right over in the NFC Panthers, Rams, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: already know who you're gonna pick here.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rams all day, even though it's not you know
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: which ever Row was with LA for a number of
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: years knows how to defend Sean, So Seawan's gonna have
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: to be on his game. They get horn back from
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: which they didn't have the first time they played. Who's
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: this all pro corner? They got stud secondary that this game's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Gonna be it's gonna be tight.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: So Rams, if they don't turn the ball over, they'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: win the game. Uh. So that's that's basically what it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: comes down to. They should have won, but Stafford threw
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: some bad picks and he knows that and he plays great.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: They win the game.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Eagles Niners.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately for your Niners, your season is done. I man,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I know that that Seattle game meant so much because
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I think if they get the week off, they get
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: a home game, and it all depends on matches.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I just think the Eagles is just a terrible matchup
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: for him. Uh the way your offense is and their defense,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: their defensive front, I think they're gonna have a hard
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: time putting up points and Eagles having a weak of rest,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be fresh. I just think it's I don't
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: think it'll be close to I'm sorry.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: You love a good conspiracy theory like I do.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: What do you have you read anything about this this
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Niners idea that their practice field is too close to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that power substation and that is causing their soft tissues
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to break.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Down, costing causing a bunch of injuries. Well, I don't,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't want to debunk it, but there's
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: definitely studies that are shown, like Bluetooth and then you
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: know those frequencies and that this, that and the other
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: like messes with you. So I don't know, I doubt it,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: but uh, it's kind of interesting that it's that close. Like, uh,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: you know, I saw that post too, So I don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: know how truth it is, but you can't you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: maybe something to look into.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Them, you never know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I got the Packers, uh Packers, even though they're not
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: playing good football and loves been kind of this year.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta think that the coach will put
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: a good game plan together. They're proven every time you know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: they've been in the playoffs usually win one playoff game.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Uh so, I like the I like the Packers on
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the road. They're a divisual game. They know each other.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: And I'm not trusting the Bears yet. I think they're
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: your away in an amazing season, but their season is
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: gonna be done.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: You can revise your picks when we talk to you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: next week. But before the playoffs even start, the super
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Bowl matchup is who.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I got Rams.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Gosh.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Rams.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Gosh. Can Jacksonville beat New England in New England? As
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: a question, it's a question because yeah, because that you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: that would be my pick because I think I don't
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: think Denver's coming out. I think whoever plays Denver, whoever?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: You know, winner of Jacksonville, New England. I got Rams,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville in the Super Bowl.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Jags all the way to the super Bowl. It's a
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: bold pick, but that's why we love him.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: It might be one and done.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: That's fine both.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: You never know. Yeah, that Fel's crazy.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know. That's what the playoffs are about,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: all right, dude. I always appreciate your time. Happy birthday belated.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Are you forty or forty one?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Forty one? Baby? Forty one? Having him my prime yet Hey,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I'm coming man.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Greatest year in my life will be this year twenty
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: twenty six.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Most likely. Thanks dude. That's Eric Weddle, you tough football legend.