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Eric Weddle how the Utes should approach Saturday's Holy War game, How LJ Martin playing or not playing affects the Utes + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Born in the U.S.A. I was.
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  Speaker 2: Born in the U.S.A.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to The Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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  Speaker 3: Hyundai Studio of ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 4: Utah football legend, Ring of Honor inductee, Eric Weddle.
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  Speaker 2: Kind enough to join us here on the show. E-Dub,
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  Speaker 2: how are things?
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  Speaker 1: Holy war, baby.
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  Speaker 5: It's time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that matters, I debated on coming on,
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  Speaker 3: right out the gate, singing the fight song, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to wait. I'm going to temper my emotions. and
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  Speaker 3: really channel all my energy, positive energy.
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  Speaker 5: To the Utes and this Saturday morning when we get
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  Speaker 5: after it.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it's a massive game. Obviously it's the first time
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  Speaker 4: that two top 10 Utah and BYU teams have ever
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  Speaker 4: squared off. Look, you played in some big ones, some
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  Speaker 4: big Holy war games. That one to seal the Fiesta
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  Speaker 4: bowl trip is the one that jumps to mind for me. And,
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  Speaker 4: and this one right last year was a huge game.
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  Speaker 4: This time it's an inside track to the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 4: It's an inside track to the big 12 championship game.
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  Speaker 4: It's trying to break a three game streak. It's when
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  Speaker 4: you compare it to all the other ones you've watched,
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  Speaker 4: how big is this one?
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  Speaker 3: My goodness.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I think this probably could.
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  Speaker 6: Be the biggest if, if you're taking in all the
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  Speaker 6: other factors of the ramifications of the big 12 championship
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  Speaker 6: and then the college playoff, uh, And then the mere
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  Speaker 6: fact that they beat us three years in a row
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  Speaker 6: or three.
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  Speaker 1: Times in a row.
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  Speaker 5: So I am just, outside of all the other factors,
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  Speaker 5: we have to stop this streak. Like, this cannot go
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  Speaker 5: on any longer, especially for us old alums. We cannot
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  Speaker 5: have another year where we're not on the right side
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  Speaker 5: of this game.
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  Speaker 4: I started the show today talking about, right, coaches do
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  Speaker 4: that thing where they're just like, oh, this is just
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  Speaker 4: another game. And I respect the fact that they have
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  Speaker 4: to say that, but it absolutely is not. Neither team
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  Speaker 4: can afford to lose this game. You got to go
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  Speaker 4: into it with the correct assessment of how desperate and
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  Speaker 4: dire your situation is. And it's the streak that you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about is the big reason why Utah absolutely must
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  Speaker 4: win it. For BYU, they absolutely must win it because
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  Speaker 4: all the high hopes they have for this year After
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  Speaker 4: losing to UCF, if you lose to Utah also, you're
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  Speaker 4: probably not getting into the conference championship game. You're probably
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  Speaker 4: not getting into a college football playoff. You know, your
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  Speaker 4: whole season in some ways comes down to this game,
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  Speaker 4: and it's more big picture for the University of Utah.
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  Speaker 4: But there is no tomorrow in a game like this one.
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  Speaker 4: When you're playing, you know, you played playoff games, right?
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  Speaker 4: How much does it actually change the game itself for
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  Speaker 4: a player, for a guy who's preparing and watching his
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  Speaker 4: film and all that stuff? How do you compartmentalize and
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  Speaker 4: make sure that you're doing it the right way, you're
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  Speaker 4: not overweighting the game while still putting it in its
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  Speaker 4: proper place?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 1: The game is going to come down to who handles
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  Speaker 1: all that other stuff that doesn't really... matter to winning
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  Speaker 1: the game, right? Like how can you focus and compartmentalize
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  Speaker 1: of just playing great and doing what I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: for the last eight weeks, right? Like, you know, two
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  Speaker 1: great teams, two great coaches, coaching staff, like alums, every,
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  Speaker 1: everything like this is top notch. So let's not get
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  Speaker 1: carried away with all the other factors of this is,
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  Speaker 1: do or die, which it is, but how are we
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  Speaker 1: going to handle that? When you talk about playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Super Bowls, it's the team that handles
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  Speaker 1: the pressure, does the normal things correctly, doesn't beat themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and usually ends up winning the game. That will be
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  Speaker 1: a big factor. Who can play more composed, and play
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  Speaker 1: like themselves in such a big-time game. I mean, probably
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  Speaker 1: the biggest game in the history of the rivalry.
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  Speaker 4: I did this exercise all week long where I took
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  Speaker 4: the position groups and I threw their stats in and
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  Speaker 4: I said, all right, which would you rather have?
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, all right, safeties, corners. Utah has the
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  Speaker 2: advantage there. D-line.
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  Speaker 4: BYU's got the advantage there.
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  Speaker 2: Tight ends. Okay, wow.
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  Speaker 4: Utah's got the advantage, even with all they lost. It's
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  Speaker 4: hard to do it for offensive line, which I think
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  Speaker 4: that you've got to kind of go with your run
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  Speaker 4: game production to maybe grade it on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can vote one way or the other,
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  Speaker 4: but what it all comes down to as you compare
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  Speaker 4: these things is that the margins in this one are
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  Speaker 4: so thin. It's like two twin brothers slugging it out
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  Speaker 4: on Saturday. There's far more similarities between these two teams
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  Speaker 4: than there are differences, Eric. And it's crazy to see that.
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  Speaker 4: I think like every year it's going to come down
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  Speaker 4: to what you just said, who actually goes out there,
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  Speaker 4: handles their business and executes because the talent and the
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  Speaker 4: stat production at basically every position is pretty darn close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's, it's just like, it's a typical matchup of
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  Speaker 1: two great teams and Like, as a coach, you tend
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  Speaker 1: to get kind of like, how many wrinkles do you
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  Speaker 1: want to throw into this game or different things that
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  Speaker 1: the opponent's on? Like, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to out-execute your opponent. And what do
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  Speaker 1: you do best? Lean on those things, right? And not
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  Speaker 1: try to overdo it, overcook it by trying to reinvent
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  Speaker 1: the wheel, per se. Like, hey, we're a really good
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  Speaker 1: team on both sides, right? do what we do. If I'm,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm both sides of the ball. Like there,
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  Speaker 1: there are things that you do structurally and schematically, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to deviate too much from what the
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  Speaker 1: boys are confident. Like in a game like this, you don't,
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  Speaker 1: you want them to get their hand in the ground,
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  Speaker 1: fire off the ball and play with confidence and communicate
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  Speaker 1: and not having any type of second guessing and communication errors.
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  Speaker 1: And then now you're running the wrong route or you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get the check and all this other nonsense, because
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  Speaker 1: that'll get you beat in a game like this. So
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  Speaker 1: who's going to handle that, right? Who's going to prepare
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  Speaker 1: that way and not try to overdo it? Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this game is huge. The ramifications are huge. But it's
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  Speaker 1: also another game on the schedule. It's another championship game. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I love how Morgan has been– going about each week
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  Speaker 1: as this is our championship week this is the week
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  Speaker 1: that we have to pour into because it is this
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  Speaker 1: week right it's not after it's not looking ahead this
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  Speaker 1: is our championship week we got to go own it
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  Speaker 1: we earned everything that we've been given so far and
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  Speaker 1: let's go earn this.
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  Speaker 4: Eric weddle is our guest here on the sean o'connell
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  Speaker 4: show talking holy war all right the the lj martin
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  Speaker 4: tomfoolery and gamesmanship has begun He's officially listed as doubtful
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  Speaker 4: on the initial injury report. Pete Thamel, National College Football Insider, says, well,
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  Speaker 4: he's actually more questionable than doubtful. And they think he's
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  Speaker 4: trending toward dressing and being available and playing, but he's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be 100%. And we've been talking about
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  Speaker 4: this for weeks. He's arguably their best player. He's only
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  Speaker 4: been available for four weeks. They beat Notre Dame without him.
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  Speaker 4: But now Utah's got to account for his presence in
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  Speaker 4: some form or fashion in You could use them as
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  Speaker 4: a decoy. You could put them out there and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this game means everything. We don't care if your leg
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  Speaker 4: falls off. Just go run the ball. You're preparing for
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  Speaker 4: this offense, and L.J. Martin is going to be some factor.
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  Speaker 4: How do you anticipate his impact, Eric?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really concerned with him, if I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: The offense runs through bare, and... having to stop him
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  Speaker 1: and control him, right? Like if LJ plays great, is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be LJ of last year? No. So
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  Speaker 1: if he's in the game, just, he's just another running back, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you're, I'm not, all I'm saying is I'm not downplaying.
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  Speaker 1: If he plays it, I he'll give the emotion or
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  Speaker 1: emotional upbeat to the team. Right. And Hey, after a half,
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  Speaker 1: if he's playing and he's LJ, the LJ LJ, then,
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, maybe we have to adjust our game
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  Speaker 1: plan and adapt, which the coaches can easily do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just wanting us, which we're going to do, is just
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  Speaker 1: have a great game plan to play sound defense. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're going to have a tough time just moving
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  Speaker 1: the ball and then scoring. If they get in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone, scoring touchdowns in the red zone, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is a huge factor of this game of our
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  Speaker 1: red zone defense. their inability for whatever reason to run
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  Speaker 1: the football and having to rely on Bear to run
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  Speaker 1: the football, which he's really good at, not denying that,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that over the course of a game
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  Speaker 1: over two good teams is a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot to ask.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he's shown he could do that. Obviously, against Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 1: it's supposedly one of the best teams in the country.
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  Speaker 1: I thought BYU was better, both physically, schematically, talent-wise, and
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  Speaker 1: credit to BYU for that, but I think that's just
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of the game. And then on the
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  Speaker 1: flip side is offensively for Utah, I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: matchup is a really good matchup in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: we present a lot of problems. BYU's defense, schematically, the look. Pre-snap,
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  Speaker 1: post-snap is probably one of the best defenses we'll go against.
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  Speaker 1: And I really like what Coach Ping is doing down
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  Speaker 1: there and like the scheme. But if Dev just plays
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  Speaker 1: within himself and plays like Dev, I think we win.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to be close, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be an issue. If he has some
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  Speaker 1: moments where interesting Dev comes out, then... that could, that
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  Speaker 1: could sway the game.
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  Speaker 4: We were, we were just talking about the QB stack
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  Speaker 4: comparison thing, because it's like, uh, dev is produced more
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  Speaker 4: yardage and more touchdowns, but he has more turnovers. He's
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  Speaker 4: got five more turnovers than bear Bachmeier does. If you
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  Speaker 4: added bird Ficklin, it's, it kind of balances out to where,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if a, if it turnover erases a touchdown,
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  Speaker 4: Then the net touchdowns for Utah with the quarterback room
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  Speaker 4: is 17. The net touchdowns versus minus turnovers for BYU
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  Speaker 4: is 16.
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  Speaker 2: So, again, very, very even.
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  Speaker 4: But those turnovers are big momentum swings, and you can't
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  Speaker 4: really quantify all of that on paper. And that's, I think,
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  Speaker 4: what you're referencing when you talk about the interesting dev,
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  Speaker 4: where you're just like, where'd that throw come from? And
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  Speaker 4: it's been kind of a once-a-game type of thing.
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  Speaker 2: How do you.
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  Speaker 4: make sure you coach him up out of that, but
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  Speaker 4: also don't make him, don't steal his confidence. You want
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  Speaker 4: him to take a risk or two, but not to
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  Speaker 4: turn the ball over. So how do you manage that?
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  Speaker 4: How do you balance that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think they've done a great job
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  Speaker 1: with Dev. I think he's progressed over the course of
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  Speaker 1: two years here. I don't like to overcoach guys. I
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  Speaker 1: especially don't like to take away the instincts and feel
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  Speaker 1: and just charisma. Like Deb has, like he's going to,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to figure it out and you just have
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  Speaker 1: to trust that as a coach. So I don't, I
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  Speaker 1: just maybe reiterate maybe the situation where we're at in
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  Speaker 1: the field, the type of situation, the game, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's a one score game. If you're in a situation where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, Hey, this might be a tight throw
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  Speaker 1: or you don't really want to press it. Cause we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get field goal. We're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: field goal that pushes to a two score game. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Those things I would remind him. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you're going to live with what he
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  Speaker 1: does because he is such a dynamic player. And I
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  Speaker 1: think another underlining stat or whatever is who's going to
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  Speaker 1: create or have big plays, right? Like when you look
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  Speaker 1: at offense versus defense, creating those big plays. I would
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  Speaker 1: say the opportunities may be more for BYU with the
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  Speaker 1: defense that Utah plays with a lot of pressure and
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  Speaker 1: the single high and man-to-man outside that those one-on-one opportunities
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  Speaker 1: are going to be there. So can they manufacture and
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  Speaker 1: have some big completions to create big plays? And then
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  Speaker 1: on the flip side, how does Utah handle and create
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  Speaker 1: big plays? And I think who can have more big plays,
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  Speaker 1: which I think Utah has the advantage with the running
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  Speaker 1: game and the passing game and the scheme to have
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  Speaker 1: an effect of creating more big plays, which would entail
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  Speaker 1: help win the game. So I think that's another thing
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  Speaker 1: to look at as this game happens.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to give you credit because there were a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people talking about how the Cincinnati matchup was
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  Speaker 4: potentially a scary spot for Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Hangover from Houston, look ahead to BYU.
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  Speaker 4: And when we had this conversation last week, you're just like, nah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not worried about that at all. And obviously they
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  Speaker 4: busted out of the gate, 42 first half points, and
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  Speaker 4: the game was effectively over before halftime. So I know
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  Speaker 4: it didn't surprise you, but what does it confirm for you?
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  Speaker 4: What does it show you about a team when in
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  Speaker 4: that spot they handle things that way?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, from the Houston game, I really liked
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  Speaker 1: how We came out the second half. We made some changes.
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  Speaker 1: We adjusted the staff. There was no panic. And I
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  Speaker 1: really think from the second half, or maybe the late
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, fourth quarter, from that moment, I think this
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  Speaker 1: team has really taken that step of being a legit
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  Speaker 1: championship team. And then it carried over to Cincinnati. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm... I mean, obviously, I understand the rivalry and...
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  Speaker 1: I've watched both teams really closely this year, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be a really close, really phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: football game. Like, if you're a football fan, this is
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  Speaker 1: a game you want to tune into. But I think
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  Speaker 1: if you take in all the factors and the totality
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  Speaker 1: of both teams, I just think Utah's the better team
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  Speaker 1: that's playing better right now and that they're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbiasedly, right? I mean, I know I'm biased,
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  Speaker 1: but You're just looking at all the factors. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're just a better team. It's playing better right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's more confident, and it's going to win.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, we saw kind of the first flashes of
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  Speaker 4: elite speed and burst and stuff from Daniel Bray in
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  Speaker 4: this game, and that one was in Provo, but it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where he put himself on the map a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, and we've had several different guys for this
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  Speaker 4: Utah football team do it in several different games. Ricky Johnson,
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  Speaker 4: breakout game, Noah, Benny breakout game. Uh, last week it
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  Speaker 4: was Hunter Andrews. Is somebody else do, is there someone
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  Speaker 4: you're looking at and saying, all right, his skillset, his burst,
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  Speaker 4: his whatever is something that matches up well against BYU.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's, uh, I necessarily like a new guy,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like this is a big time game
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  Speaker 1: for a way Sean, like 25 carries, uh, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: 30 touches somehow, some way. I think when you look
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  Speaker 1: at the scheme, they're very multidimensional. They bring a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different looks, pressure. They give a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: covers looks. And a way to settle that down and
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  Speaker 1: just stay ahead of the chains is to be able
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  Speaker 1: to run the football and get downhill. And Weishan is
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  Speaker 1: one of the best backs in the country, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like this is a moment in a big-time matchup
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  Speaker 1: that we can lean on him. It would be no
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  Speaker 1: different if BYU had a healthy LJ. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: did last year. And then how do you manage the situations?
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  Speaker 1: I think back to that game last year, and we
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  Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down instead of taking the
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  Speaker 1: points multiple times. And that usually comes back to you
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  Speaker 1: throughout the game in a close game like this. So
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  Speaker 1: how is Morgan and Kalani going to handle those deciding
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  Speaker 1: moments to go for it or not, to take the
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  Speaker 1: points or not, to– maybe a fake of punt like
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  Speaker 1: Kalani did against Notre Dame. Those decisions will have a
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  Speaker 1: lasting effect on this game, whether you make those for
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  Speaker 1: the right or you don't and you fail.
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  Speaker 4: Knowing how close this one usually is, would your aggressive
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  Speaker 4: tendencies be more likely to manifest themselves or would you
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit more conservative in a situation like
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  Speaker 4: where you just mentioned you take points because you know
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  Speaker 4: how hard it is to get them in this rivalry game.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, my philosophy per se is when you're
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  Speaker 7: going two good teams, and this is more like NFL, like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, points are going to be hard.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I always take the points on the road as
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  Speaker 1: an away team. So being at home, you can be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive. And it all comes back
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  Speaker 1: to the trust in your team, like, In high school,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's high school, right? But I don't care
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at in the field. If I am fourth
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  Speaker 1: and two or less, I'm going for it. I've gone
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  Speaker 1: for it on my minus 10-yard line because I trust
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  Speaker 1: my players, I trust Gage, and I trust our scheme
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  Speaker 1: that I could design a QB run or some type
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  Speaker 1: of QB play that we're going to get two yards.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you have that confidence and you believe
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: it and your guys know it and they just understand
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the situation, like, hey, we get in this situation– these
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: are our, our, our roll deck of plays that we
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: practice all year for this moment. We're confident. Let's go
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: execute and get this first down or get this touchdown
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: or get this win. So it's kind of just a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: philosophy and an identity. And then your players got to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: believe in it though. Like you can't, you can't just
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden go say, Oh, it's fourth and two.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And we're going to go for it when it's not
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: really like who we are or you don't practice that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: or like, that's not your identity. Cause then the boys
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: aren't going to be confident. So yeah, Just stick to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: who you are, trust it, believe it, and don't look back. Like,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you don't want to be the guy that says, oh, man,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I should have done that. Like, no, you did it,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and it didn't work. Or we did it, and it worked. Like,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: stand on ten toes and man up on whether it
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: worked or not.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: It would be bad energy, bad juju if we didn't mention.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: the league champ, Rancho Bernardo Broncos baby. And the demolition
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: of crosstown rival Poway ahead of the playoffs coming in.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: How about it? Speaker 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: How about it, man? Hey, proud of the boys. It's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it's been over 10 years, 10 years since we last
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: won a league title. And, uh, you know, four years
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: since I took over as head coach. So this, this
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: senior class was with me as freshmen their first year. And,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we probably could have put a 50 on
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Poway if I, if I was that type of coach,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: but took off the, Took off the dogs.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: And let the other guys get in there and kind
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: of let it go as the way it should be.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: But really proud. Great team effort. And got LCC next week.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: One of the best teams in San Diego. Top 50
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: team in the state. And I like our mouth tip, man.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: I like our chances.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: We're going to be road warriors. We go 8-2 win league,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and we're the seventh seed out of eight teams in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: D1 down here. Tell me how that makes a lot
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of sense. When two teams ahead of us, we beat
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: throughout the year. I don't know how the rankings happen,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: but that's the way it is. And we're going to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: go make it happen, man. This is the year. RB.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: RB and the Utes.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Final score for Utah BYU. At home, Saturday morning, Weddle
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: in attendance. Gage Weddle, part of the massive recruiting class
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: on a visit.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: What a great moment for the Utes, man. All the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: recruits coming in.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: How about it? So how does it play out?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: How does it play out? It's going to be a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one-score game. I think five and a half is too high,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: if I'm being honest. And I feel... The Utes win 24-20,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and I think the deciding factor will be that BYU
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: struggles to score touchdowns in the red zone, and those
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: field goals end up making a one-score game at the end.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: They have to go score a touchdown, and we end
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: up stopping them, and we end the streak. And I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: will say this, as unbiasedly, right, like unbiasedly, if I'm
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: just thinking about the Big 12 and a fan of
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: both teams, Honestly, you would want BYU to win and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: then both meet again in the Big 12 and then
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: they both get in the playoff.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: When you're just thinking about like, hey, what's best for
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: the Big 12.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And then best for both teams. Obviously, that's not what
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I want. But if you're thinking it and if BYU wins,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: there's still a way that both teams make it in
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the playoff and probably get a rematch. So we'll see
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: what happens, man.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Two holy wars in the same year? My heart couldn't handle.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: It.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: And then if they both make the playoff, three Holy
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Wars in the same year, potentially.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Wow. What a crazy year. I don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: know if we're ready for that. I'm not sure if
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: we're ready for that, but it is possible. So we
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: shall see. All right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I'll see you on Saturday, my friend.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You got it, bro.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Go huge, baby. That's Eric Weddle, the legend. Nobody better.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Go Rancho Bernardo Broncos as well.