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Dishin' with Devon: Dampier on the Iowa State win, Preview of Saturday's game vs Kansas, Going to UFC 332 + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: It's time to talk to Utah quarterback Devin Dampier. This
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  Speaker 1: is Dishing with Devin on the Sean O'Connell Show. Brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Colligan Water, Salt Lake City, America First
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  Speaker 1: OC with Ute Star signal caller Devin Dampier on your
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  Speaker 1: home of the Utes and your home for football. ESPN 792.1 FM.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it is that time for Edition with Dev.
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  Speaker 3: Our interview with quarterback number one at the University of
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  Speaker 3: Utah brought to you by America First Credit Union, Culligan
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  Speaker 3: and Excavation.
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  Speaker 2: Devin Dampier off the bye week. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Good. We're back.
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  Speaker 2: We're back. You got a fresh haircut?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a whole new look after the birthday for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And you turned 22 years old.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt.
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  Speaker 5: New life.
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  Speaker 2: Does it really feel any different, though?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Of course not, right?
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  Speaker 5: This is like my first unsignificant birthday. Like every birthday
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  Speaker 5: leading up to 21, you're like, I can't wait to
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  Speaker 5: be 21.
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  Speaker 3: It's a milestone until you get to 21. And now
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  Speaker 3: the next one, Dev, is 30. And you don't feel
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  Speaker 3: good about that. And then the next one after that
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  Speaker 3: is 40. Your milestone birthdays from here on out are
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  Speaker 3: kind of bad ones.
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  Speaker 4: 24 is a milestone. Kobe. Okay. You got to have
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  Speaker 4: your Jordan and Kobe year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I did not celebrate the Jordan or Kobe years. I
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  Speaker 3: was not a basketball guy. What did you do for
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  Speaker 3: the birthday?
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  Speaker 5: Well, my girlfriend took me breakfast, dinner, presents, got chocolate-covered
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  Speaker 5: strawberries with Spider-Man in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: That's cool. But I also went to the UFC event,
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  Speaker 4: which was sick.
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  Speaker 5: I had four tickets, so I was able to bring
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  Speaker 5: E-Day and Lance.
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  Speaker 4: And it was fun. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: So I saw you there.
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  Speaker 3: I was sitting like you were right behind where the
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  Speaker 3: fighters walked into the cage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's like for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Who's been or watched UFC fights, you know, there's that
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  Speaker 3: like prep point where the officials check, make sure you're greased,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you got your cup on, your mouthpiece in
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you were like right behind that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And right in front of you was actually the women's
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  Speaker 3: world champion right now, Mackenzie Dern.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get to meet her at all?
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  Speaker 5: Um, we were able to say hi, but yeah, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of like all of them were just walking in
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  Speaker 5: front of us.
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  Speaker 4: It was kind of crazy. We was like, we feel
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  Speaker 4: like we're one of them.
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  Speaker 3: So, so I'm watching, I'm watching the fights and we're
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  Speaker 3: obviously looking at, as people are coming in and then like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was like, wait a second. That looks
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  Speaker 3: like Lance Coleslaw back there. And then I looked at,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, he's with Ethan day and there's dev.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, all right. So those guys are here.
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  Speaker 2: So is that your first UFC event?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. I've never. I've never been to one.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I've watched the YouTube videos of knockouts, and
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  Speaker 5: I've played UFC on the game, but that was my
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  Speaker 5: first time ever seeing it in person.
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  Speaker 2: What was your takeaway?
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  Speaker 3: People either love it or hate it, or where did
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  Speaker 3: you fall leaving the event?
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  Speaker 2: I liked it.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it, I think, more than the TV. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty cool to really be there.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of like, I mean, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 5: as electric as football, but just the standpoint of being
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  Speaker 5: at a football game and watching it.
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  Speaker 4: On TV, I think it is two different things. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The energy is different.
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  Speaker 3: And Hey, I tell you what, we talked about this
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  Speaker 3: on the show last week. It was kind of an
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  Speaker 3: underwhelming sort of main event. Like that card, people were critical.
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  Speaker 3: Myself included ended up with a bunch of first round knockouts,
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  Speaker 3: ended up with a bunch of really great fights.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't too happy about it.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: You didn't want the first round.
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  Speaker 5: No, it wasn't even first round. It was like 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 5: People were just getting gone. I'm like, bro, I at
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  Speaker 5: least want to see a round go by. Like, At
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  Speaker 5: least let me see some fighting.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Devin Dampier is backwards as a fight fan. Everyone else
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  Speaker 3: wants that violence, that bloodlust. And you're like, no, give
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  Speaker 3: me some.
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  Speaker 5: Back and forth. I mean, just a little bit. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like second round knockouts are the best. At least
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  Speaker 5: you get a round of watching them. Not 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: So on, what was it, Wednesday night, I went to
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  Speaker 3: dinner with Anthony Wint and his coaches. One of his
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  Speaker 3: coaches has become a good friend of mine. He's a
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  Speaker 3: fighter in the PFL. one of our champions in Pukasunga.
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  Speaker 3: Now he was the guy holding the camera when Anthony
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  Speaker 3: went and came and, uh, talk to you guys, talk
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  Speaker 3: to the team. So, so tell me how that came about. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like coach Scali says, Hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have a UFC fighter. Come talk to you guys. What
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  Speaker 3: was the reaction and how'd that go?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he, um, I mean, we've been talking about
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  Speaker 5: the UFC fighters. Everybody was kind of talking about it
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  Speaker 5: and it was sick. Scali was able to get him
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  Speaker 5: to come in and, uh, be able to talk to us. Um,
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  Speaker 5: he definitely had more to him than I'd like.
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  Speaker 2: Fighters have.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: When you hear fighters, you just think they're all like,
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  Speaker 5: I fight, I punch.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't like that. How are you going to say.
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  Speaker 3: That to me?
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  Speaker 2: You think we're all knuckleheads, idiots?
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  Speaker 4: Sadly, that was my impression.
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  Speaker 2: We've been doing this for two years now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, see, you're out of there now. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying? You got to see life outside of wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: So Anthony went, for the people who went to the
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  Speaker 3: fight or didn't, or maybe watched it on TV.
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  Speaker 2: He got his cup of coffee in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: He's the all-time leading tackler in the history of Florida
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  Speaker 3: international football. So mid-major football, linebacker. He's a crazy physical specimen.
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  Speaker 3: Dude is muscle on muscle on muscle. Undefeated as a
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  Speaker 3: heavyweight prospect right now. And yeah, he ended up going
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  Speaker 3: up and talking to the team and he, I had
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  Speaker 3: dinner with him after he had talked to the team
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  Speaker 3: and that's the first time he's really had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to do something like that.
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  Speaker 2: He wants it to be more of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he was like, man, these, those guys are locked in.
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  Speaker 3: That's an impressive football team. He was like, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what to expect talking to those guys, but we
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  Speaker 3: got them worked up. We got them a little bit
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  Speaker 3: fired up and it was cool. So he had a
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  Speaker 3: great experience. I hope you guys did too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. It was good all around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It was sick to see him like kind of tackle
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  Speaker 5: the dude. He tackled him before he started.
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  Speaker 4: Punching on him.
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  Speaker 5: It looked like he was playing linebacker. He literally ran up,
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  Speaker 5: tackled him into the fence.
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  Speaker 3: Dude dropped on the ground it was over it was
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  Speaker 3: actually it was actually terrible um if you if you
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  Speaker 3: go back and watch the fight it'll take you 20
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  Speaker 3: seconds to watch the fight it lasted 15 it didn't
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  Speaker 3: last at all and the guy that he was fighting
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  Speaker 3: just made like he got hit certainly but he just
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  Speaker 3: made an executive decision like i can't be in here
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  Speaker 3: with this guy yeah even the announcers were dogging him
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  Speaker 3: for it they were.
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  Speaker 5: Like he was tall he was like 260 he was
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  Speaker 5: like 30 pounds more than him i was like i
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  Speaker 5: don't know how this is gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he's a Big old guy, and Anthony just mobbed him,
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  Speaker 3: overwhelmed him, killed him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you were at the fights.
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  Speaker 3: So this is my favorite question to ask Utes every year,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes I have an excuse to do it, and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I don't. Obviously, the UFC fight's being here, and
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  Speaker 3: you guys have gone to them. If you have to
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  Speaker 3: have one of your teammates, you've got to pick one
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  Speaker 3: of your teammates to go in and win a fight.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you picking? Who are you picking?
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  Speaker 5: You know, you know, can I actually knows how to
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  Speaker 5: fight for real?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, does he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can I actually, uh, he'd be.
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  Speaker 5: Teaching me some food cause he's like, he's like the
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  Speaker 5: fighter of the team probably.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So he'd be, he'd be teaching me a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Like he has a background or he just grew up
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  Speaker 3: scrapping because that's how it is.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I believe he, he actually did like a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of boxing growing up.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He, I would think can I, can I would definitely
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  Speaker 5: knock somebody out.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a, It's always great to know. Cause like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting to ask you, I'll ask people after practice too.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know if the answer is the same
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  Speaker 3: from everybody. If there's a lot of different, cause it's been,
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing it for years and sometimes I'm most
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  Speaker 3: impressed when everybody on the team says the same dude.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just like, all right, that's a bad man. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: we're not here to talk to Devin about the UFC fights.
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  Speaker 3: Although it's like my two worlds overlapping for once.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't, We haven't recapped the Iowa State game with you.
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  Speaker 3: We had a bye week, so no addition with Dev.
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  Speaker 3: 31-17 victory. First road game of the season. Clean performance
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  Speaker 3: again for you. 18-27, 206 yards, two touchdowns. Seven for
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  Speaker 3: 21 on the ground. Quality game. You guys, especially in
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  Speaker 3: the first half, really dominated. They kind of roared back
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, but you're going back 10 days or
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  Speaker 3: so now. What was your takeaway from Iowa State?
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  Speaker 5: I think our biggest takeaway was our first win on
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  Speaker 5: the road. I guess that was the first time Iowa
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  Speaker 5: was ever lost in their all-white uniforms. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: It was packed out. Like, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people there.
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  Speaker 2: Good atmosphere?
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  Speaker 4: They were talking trash.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Since the beginning of the game, we could hear
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  Speaker 5: them chirping, like, the whole game until Wayshawn was able
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  Speaker 5: to get up in there. That was kind of the...
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  Speaker 5: That was kind of the deal breaker. Everybody started leaving. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I just thought, you know, we finally got battle tested
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  Speaker 5: where I felt like our third quarter wasn't our best
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  Speaker 5: team performance. And just the way we bounced back fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 5: that was good for us to be able to go
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  Speaker 5: through that and, you know, know we're capable.
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  Speaker 2: You just mentioned Way Sean.
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  Speaker 3: He had a monster day, 18 carries, 174 yards, two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: He was also the leading receiver, five for 65 and
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown loss. I mean, we've talked about him a
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  Speaker 3: lot for good reason. He's a great player and he
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  Speaker 3: continues to prove it. The game before this one was
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  Speaker 3: a quieter statistical game for him at least. Did he
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  Speaker 3: feel like, did you feel like, did, mac g feel
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  Speaker 3: like all right we're gonna let way sean have a
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  Speaker 3: day in iowa because last week was too quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i think um.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say we put emphasis on it but i
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  Speaker 5: think way sean definitely took it a little personal that
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  Speaker 5: you know he didn't have the best that game he
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  Speaker 5: didn't he didn't like Seeing that, he didn't like feeling that,
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  Speaker 5: so I definitely think there was a little bit of extra.
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  Speaker 4: Juice going into that game.
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  Speaker 5: There was a lot of talk about Iowa State's running
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  Speaker 5: back and how good he is as well. I think
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  Speaker 5: away is one of those competitors. If it's running back
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  Speaker 5: on running back, I'm going to show I'm the better
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  Speaker 5: one when the time comes. I thought he played a
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  Speaker 5: great game.
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  Speaker 3: Aiden Flora, the Iowa State running back, ended up having
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  Speaker 3: a monster game again against West Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: Two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: He threw touchdown. I've never, he counted for five total touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: At 22, 22 carries for 212 yards. So average the
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  Speaker 3: same as way Sean did against Iowa state. That's 9.6
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  Speaker 3: yards to carry three touchdowns in that game. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they let him, they let him throw the ball a
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  Speaker 3: little bit as well, which is pretty wild. Two for
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  Speaker 3: two for 48 for two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He had a game.
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  Speaker 4: He was snapping.
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  Speaker 2: It's an incredible game.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason I bring that up is because you
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  Speaker 3: go back to Aiden Flora, the same player against you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and he had 13 carries for 54 yards.
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  Speaker 2: Four yards a carry. It's like his lowest average.
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  Speaker 3: Your defense did an incredible job of shutting down an
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  Speaker 3: Iowa State run game that they really needed to get going.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I think that was a big emphasis
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  Speaker 4: for us going into the week, too.
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  Speaker 5: You know, their coach is all about We're able to
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  Speaker 5: run the ball against anyone, and that was our mentality
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  Speaker 5: going into the week. We started off doing nine-on-nines the
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  Speaker 5: first two days of practice, just making sure that we're
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  Speaker 5: able to fight in that box.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I almost don't want to mention this because I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little superstitious and I don't want to curse anything, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm knocking on wood here as I say it. You
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  Speaker 3: guys have been taking care of the football very well.
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  Speaker 3: You personally, the only interception was when you got hit
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  Speaker 3: while you threw and threw the trajectory of the ball off.
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  Speaker 3: Can you explain for me, can you articulate, is that
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  Speaker 3: easier this year? Are you just better at it this year?
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  Speaker 3: Are your receivers more open this year?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me why it's translated the way it has through
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  Speaker 2: these games.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I just think another year of making high decisions.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think I brought down my picks from
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  Speaker 5: 12 my sophomore year to 5. my junior year and
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  Speaker 5: then I just feel very comfortable back there. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like I can operate the game. It's a little bit slower.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm able to just be smarter with the ball almost.
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  Speaker 5: And then, I mean, especially even our teammates, just them
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  Speaker 5: receivers are catching the ball. No one's tipping the ball
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  Speaker 5: up and it's getting picked. Everyone's taking care of the
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  Speaker 5: ball when the ball's in their hands.
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  Speaker 4: No one's fumbling.
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  Speaker 5: So that's just a big shout out to Scali too. Just,
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  Speaker 5: we definitely put emphasis in practice that we have ball
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  Speaker 5: security drills and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of Scali, it's the first bye week under
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  Speaker 3: Morgan Scali.
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  Speaker 2: And, I mean, you can win a bye week or
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  Speaker 2: you can lose a bye week. How did it go?
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  Speaker 2: Was practice clean? Was it still physical?
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  Speaker 3: How did he handle the bye week, especially for guys
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  Speaker 3: like you who probably do need a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: rest before you get into the home stretch of a season?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Scali's very fair with us. His approach
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  Speaker 5: was if we can be locked in during practice, we
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  Speaker 5: won't do as much. And if we're not locked in
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  Speaker 5: in practice, we'll do more. So that was kind of
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  Speaker 5: the ultimatum that was set up there at the beginning
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  Speaker 5: of the week. And I thought we had a very
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  Speaker 5: good week. I thought we took advantage of it for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Able to throw in wrinkles of plays, able to put
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  Speaker 5: in new things and stuff like that. So just to
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  Speaker 5: be keyed in on being able to try new things
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  Speaker 5: just during the bye week. And I thought the offense
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  Speaker 5: took full advantage of that, and so did the D.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so you're 4-0. A lot of us expected
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  Speaker 3: this team to be 4-0 to this point. The bye
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  Speaker 3: week goes well, and now you get into a slightly
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: tougher part of the season. Maybe not immediately, but some
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: big-time opponents coming up, and you've got to make sure
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  Speaker 3: you're playing the right kind of football at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: Kansas is no slouch, but a game that you all
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  Speaker 3: should win. Does the bye week... um, change the calendar
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  Speaker 3: of this week at all? Like, did you guys get
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  Speaker 3: to do a little bit extra install last week? So
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  Speaker 3: you're ahead of schedule this week, or does the routine
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  Speaker 3: go back to exactly what it would be in a
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  Speaker 3: normal game week?
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Um, I think the routine, yeah, I think the routine
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: definitely stays the same. Um, we were able to obviously
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: lift a little bit more last week, just be able
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: to build up, build our muscle back, um, that we've
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: lost the first four games. You could say, um, And then,
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, install was definitely, we're able to, again,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: put in, tried so many new plays just to see
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: do we want to continue to take it into the
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: season or what do we feel comfortable with and things
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Who did you watch this last weekend football-wise, or did
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: you get away from the game?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: I watched everybody.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: I had the one TV had the mixture of all
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: four things, and then the other one was, I think
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: it was switching between like Auburn and Ohio state.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I want to say, but yeah, I got to watch
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: all of them. Yeah. There was some interesting games this weekend.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: There was some crazy games this weekend when you, when
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: you were watching, um, are you, do you hone in
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: on quarterbacks and be like, I like what that guy does.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I got to try that. Like, or do you just
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: watch as a fan?
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: Um, I would definitely say I definitely key in on
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: the quarterback more than any position just cause I play it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: But, um, I definitely just watch as a fan. I'm
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: just like, dang.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: That's crazy. There were some really interesting games this weekend.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: In the Big 12, there were some interesting games. I mean, obviously,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: we're watching teams like Houston. They're coming up on the schedule. Arizona, BYU.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: BYU had a tough one on the road against TCU.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: It's an ugly win, but it's a win, right? I mean,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: we've said this kind of every week when you've sat down.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: The more I watch you all and the more I
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: watch the rest of the Big 12, the more confident
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I've become that this thing is very attainable, that it's
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: wide open. I don't know who would be on the
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: opposite side as a favorite. I mean, Texas Tech keeps winning,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: but BYU keeps winning. But that game against TCU showed
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: that they maybe have a couple awards here. So, I mean,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: what we're seeing is that the Big 12 and the
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Big 12 championship are very attainable.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I think it's– I mean, for us, I
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: think it's pretty good.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: We feel pretty confident about, you know, every game we
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: go into.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, the.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Big 12 is definitely hitting the point where, like, who
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: you think is the bottom of Big 12 can easily
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: shock you and start competing with maybe the top five
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: teams that we think that's in the Big 12.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Which is another– because the schedule says what it says, right?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: You look at the schedule, and we did the whole
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: preseason things like, oh, this is actually a pretty friendly
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: schedule for the University of Utah. But you just made
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the point, and it's absolutely accurate that, like, a team
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: that you you didn't think much of can also be dangerous.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: And that has been a characteristic of the PAC 12 before.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The big 12 thing happened. And now obviously the big
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: 12 has been that way.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: So I guess it just means you got to stay
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: dialed in and prepare for everybody the same.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Thanks.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Is that a challenge for this team?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Like you all start reading your own headlines, feeling like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, like we got a squad here.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: We're really good. Or does everybody stay on an even
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: keel for the most part?
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: I think, Scali keeps us on a trajectory of staying humbled.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Scali definitely humbles us and just lets us know, like,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: every game is our championship, however you want.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: To look at it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: If we're not undefeated, I mean, we've seen last year
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: that our one loss kept us out of playoffs. So
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: our two losses kept us out of playoffs. So we're
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: just like, you know, losses aren't affordable.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: They just aren't, so.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Going into every week, we make sure we dial in
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: to who our opponent is. We're not overlooking anybody. We
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: got to get it done week by week.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Devin Dampier for another couple of minutes here on the
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Sean O'Connell Show. When you look at a team like Kansas,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: they're kind of what we're talking about here with the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: parity in the conference. They're 2-2 right now. They beat
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Long Island because, of course, you're supposed to beat Long Island.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: They beat Middle Tennessee. they played against Missouri in the
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: border war. They had a close loss against Arizona state.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: So right now, Kansas has not proven to us on
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: film that they can beat a team like the university
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: of Utah. You guys are heavy favorites in this one
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: for an obvious reason. How do you go out and
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: make sure that, you know, you, you don't stub a toe.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: How do you go out and make sure that this
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: game goes according to prediction?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I think the way I carry myself is huge for
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: the offense throughout the week on how I carry myself,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: how dialed in I am on the details. If we
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: do something wrong in practice, let's not let it slide.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: We all got expectations that we need to live up
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: to every single week.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Again, Scali is probably the best.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Best coach right now for us i think he's doing
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: honestly a wonderful job but um he's just putting us
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: in situations where we're able to like he's he's preaching
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: it he's showing us he wants us to be the
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: best team possible by the end of the week every
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: single week.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: What's he like at halftime like we morgan scally practice
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: morgan scally high energy guy I mean, as a coordinator,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: he was loud.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: He was crazy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: He's dialed that down. It seems a little bit as
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a head coach, you'd have to tell me, but what's
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: he like at halftime? Cause on the sideline during games,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: he's like stoic. He doesn't really get worked up. He
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: just like, he's just standing there with his arms folded.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't expect him to be that way when he
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: became the head coach. I thought he'd be a little
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: bit more animated. We'd see him talking a little bit more. He,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: he seems like he's just like cool and collected the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: whole game. What's it like at halftime? Um, You know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: it definitely depends on who we played. Some teams has
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: talked a little bit more trash than others towards us.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: So sometimes you'll get the, that's a great first half.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Let's finish it. And sometimes you get, let's continue to roll.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Like it gets a little fiery.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah. They, they asked for this. So let's, let's keep
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: it going.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: And you know, it's kind of the two vibes you
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: rather get like that, but yeah, no, he's, very supportive,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: very chill. And I think the chill aspect of a
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: coach honestly helps. It makes us feel like, you know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: we're good. There's no need to panic. The way needs
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: to panic.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: The distribution of touches is something that you and I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: have talked about literally every week. And we've seen kind
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: of this, like a way Sean had a quiet week.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: And now last week, way Sean was doing everything. And,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: he was also the leading receiver and you have this
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: stable of wide receivers. All of them are really talented
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and really good. When you're running that successfully, you don't
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: need to throw the ball as much. When you're playing
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: with a lead, you don't need to throw the ball
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: as much. Now that we're, you know, a third of
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the way through the season, has there been any trouble
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: in paradise? Is there anyone coming up to your locker
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and just be like, man, you've got to get me
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the ball a few more times this week. Or Mac
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: G's getting his ear chewed off by like whoever saying like, Hey,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I can do more than I'm doing right now because
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: that is one of the, it's a great problem to have,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: but it is one of the things we've been talking about.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: How do you keep all of these offensive weapons happy?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: And I guess winning keeps everyone happy, but we've seen
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: it with a couple of guys now where they show
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: they can have a monster game and then the next
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: week there's not much.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: So how is it handled?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think offensive-wise the biggest thing that everyone knows
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: is we honestly take advantage of what the defense gives us.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: We take advantage of the situation. That comes apart. Practice
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: is very, everyone gets the ball as well too. It's
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: nothing new when we get to the game. It's not
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: like we're trying to force the ball to one person
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: throughout practice and then some people randomly get the ball.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: During practice, I feel like the ball.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Is just as equally as spread just because we're trying
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: to mimic the same looks that we're going to get.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: In the game.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I just don't think Scali recruits people that Don't think
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: team first. I think that's one of his biggest things
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: when it comes to him recruiting players to the Utes
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: is to get team player first guys.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: We saw some crazy stuff this weekend, including, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you have players getting kicked off teams a couple of
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: weeks ago for not handling a situation right. This last weekend,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Colorado State's defensive coordinator walked off the sideline, left the
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: team in the game.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: D.C.? The D.C. Like, what do you mean?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Jim Mora, the coach said, Hey, you're doing a terrible job.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Basically.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how he said it, but said
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: somebody else is going to call the defensive plays.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: The rest of the game took the play calling duties
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: away from him. And he just left.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Whoa.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: So that's wicked.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: And it gives me an appreciation for what we're talking
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: about here. Like just sort of an even keel coaching
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: staff and even keel team culture where look, success and
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: failure are going to cause people to be emotional or whatever,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: but correct me if I'm wrong. It seems like this
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: team is kind of insulated against that volatile reaction, anything,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: because like, even if a guy reacts poorly to a
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: loss or a bad play or something, I don't anticipate
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: him getting kicked off a football team or asked to
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: leave the football team.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: He did that at Colorado a couple of weeks ago, right?
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I heard about that one.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: That's it's all wild to me, but it feels like,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: that in just, I mean, not even a full calendar
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: year now, it feels like Morgan has it figured out
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: with you guys.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I honestly think he's been so prepared. And, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: that's a shout-out to Witt, too. I think Scali was
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: able to take all the goods out of Witt and
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: also make his spin on what he thought needed to
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: change when he became the guy. And I just think
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: he's been under that position so long, just waiting to
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: become a head coach for so long that, like, He
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: probably felt like he was a head coach for maybe
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the last three years, just like honestly just being ready
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: for it. And now, like, now that it's here, it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: nothing that he wasn't expecting to happen.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You just mentioned Witt.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Have you been talking, have you been texting, have you
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: been chatting with any of your guys that are at
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Michigan right now?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Things are ugly right now in Ann Arbor. Have you
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: talked to any of them?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't got to talk to them, but, man, yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: It sucks. Yeah, it hurts. It hurts for them, no doubt.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: They'll like to see it for those guys.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Or maybe if you're a Utah fan who's mad about
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: the whole thing, maybe you do like to see it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: But whatever.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That's not what we're here to talk about on the show.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So back at Rice-Eccles Stadium, that road game was kind
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: of what we thought it was going to be. What
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: do you expect as you guys make the trip back,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: another night game at Rice-Eccles?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Man, night games at Rice-Eccles.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: That's really the... That's really the saying. It's always electric
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: at night. Our fans always show up. I think we
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: always show up at night. So definitely expecting a good turnout.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: We definitely got to be dialed in for the time.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: But, you know, I'm extremely confident in our team.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: 82 degrees and cloudy is what's expected for Saturday in
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Salt Lake City. So it'll be a lot cooler by
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the time you guys all roll out there to actually play.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Did the weather affect you in Ames at all on
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: the road at Iowa State? It ended up being not
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: as rainy, I think, as they expected it to be
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: at first?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't as rainy. I want to say there
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: was only one quarter. It started raining a little bit.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: But besides that, yeah, just the ground was wet and
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: freaking hard to cut and stuff.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: But besides that, I mean. We're good.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: We were, we were trying to figure out, this would
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: be the last thing I'll respect your time here. We
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: were trying to figure out, cause we get to be
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: really nitpicky when a team's four and O and you've
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: got a top five offense and defense in the conference.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: When you look at all the efficiency numbers on both
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: sides of the ball, you're the only team in the
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: country right now, actually that's top five in both on
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the offensive and defensive S and P plus, if I'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: not mistaken. So like, Really good things are happening. So
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: we have to find problems in a bye week to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: talk about. The third quarter is the quiet quarter for
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you all. Offensively and defensively, you score fewer points and
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: get more points scored on you than all the other
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: quarters in a game. Is there something at halftime that
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the coaches have talked about or you feel a need
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to adjust or anything? Is there an explanation for third
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: quarters being slower than the other three?
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know if there's any big explanation um i
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: mean for the most part most of our games are
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: kind of up by a lot by the time third
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: quarter comes around so um you can maybe say there's
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: a motive of just running the ball getting time out
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: uh defense just getting stops as usual um but yeah
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: no i wouldn't say there's a reason that i think
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: that's something that you know we're able to pay attention
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: to now now that we see um we were efficient
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: there last week. That is definitely going to be emphasis
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: this week that after halftime, you know, we come out
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: rolling the same way we start off games.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Like no one gets bored at halftime or like eat
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: too much at halftime or anything like, cause, cause there's this,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: there's this fan. I think it's a, it's a misconception where,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, we, and we had this conversation last week
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: during the bi-week just like, Oh, we'll halftime adjustments. And
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: it's like, not that many things are actually adjusted at halftime.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: It's like guys have a snack and pee at halftime.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And then, kind of go back out there. There's not like,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: you're not putting new plays in a playbook at halftime.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: So I don't think that much can change.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: At halftime for a game, but then when the results
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: are what they are, you're like, okay, is there something
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: going on there?
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, I always say definitely, I wouldn't say full
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: out switch their defense, but they definitely did it a lot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Did they change something? It was definitely different. So, so you.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Came out and in the third quarter, like you're seeing
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: a different pre-snap picture than the whole first half.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just the stunts and stuff they started doing, different twists,
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: the whole line game and stuff like that. So, yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: they definitely came out with a new motive. But that after,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: you know, we settled down. You know, a lot of
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: that stuff's on us, too. We just got to be
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: better execution. You know, we always want that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: But, yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: When– when they got to within a score and you
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: all had to just play big boy football and all right,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: let's go seal this thing out.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: What is the conversation like?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Is there a conversation between you and the offensive line way? Sean,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: maybe Morgan sticks his head into the offensive huddle when
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: it's like, all right, they're getting a little bit too
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: close for comfort here. Let's go seal this game. And
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: obviously you did. Was there a conversation beforehand?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Um, I just brought together the offense and I just
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: told them like, Relax. We're good.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I just felt like there was a lot of panic,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: a lot of looking at the scoreboard. I wouldn't say disbelief,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: but I just wanted to be the guy that made
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: sure we're chilling.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: They play ball.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: None of that above respect for them, but we know
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: who we are.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Simple as that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: We thought LeSean was having a great game already.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: You know, why not give them that ball?
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: And then I think that allowed the pass game to
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: get open with a few times we were able to
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: throw on that drive. But, yeah, for the most part,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: just we felt like they were dropping a lot of guys.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: The safeties were playing deep. You know, they stopped respecting
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Wade Sean, and we just started handing it again.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Well, good luck. Obviously, have fun. Stay healthy. We'll see
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: you out there Saturday night against Kansas.
• 31:22
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