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Dishin' With Devon: Dampier on the win over Utah State, first road game of 2026 against Iowa State, nickname ideas for the Dampier/Fickli... · 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: Credit Union, and Valley Plumbing, Heating and Cooling. Now here's
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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: It is that time again on the Sean O'Connell show
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  Speaker 2: edition with dev, our conversation with QB one brought to
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  Speaker 3: Devin damn pier three and Oh, how you feeling, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Always better after a win.
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  Speaker 3: Not just a win, a shutout.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I know the credit goes to the defense for
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  Speaker 2: the shutout part, but everybody gets to enjoy that.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to see a goose egg on the other side.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know the last time that's happened, but
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  Speaker 4: pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: We looked it up.
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  Speaker 2: The last FBS opponent, so non-FCS opponent, the last FBS
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  Speaker 2: shutout was 2019.
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  Speaker 3: Dang. So seven years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Right? I mean, that means.
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  Speaker 2: like potentially two whole classes of football player went through
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  Speaker 2: the university of Utah without blanking an opponent.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys did it last Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's shout out the defense for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Cause especially even like with my fumble, I put them
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  Speaker 5: in a rough situation and Ram gets a pig, like
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  Speaker 5: boys capitalize every opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: So shout out them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't going to mention it, but you did
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  Speaker 3: the fumble. Tell me what happened. Tell me how it felt.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how did it come about?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I mean, I'm always disappointed in myself when I
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  Speaker 5: fumble the ball, but it was something we brought up
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  Speaker 5: this week, just ball security while falling. When you fall,
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  Speaker 5: especially forward, your arms are going to brace you from falling,
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  Speaker 5: so it's just a way of cradling and kind of
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  Speaker 5: laying on your shoulder rather than trying to brace yourself
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  Speaker 5: with your arms.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only negative thing we have to say today.
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  Speaker 3: Just a review.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so look, there was, this was a fun game
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  Speaker 2: and it's a game where there's some familiarity.
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  Speaker 3: There's crossover, right?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we asked you last week what it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be like seeing Bronco Mendenhall and some of the
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  Speaker 2: coaches that were on that New Mexico staff. Did you
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to catch up and say hello? And
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  Speaker 2: like you said, you were going to love a Bronco
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  Speaker 2: and expect him to do the same thing. Did that
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  Speaker 2: actually happen?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I mean, I won't claim anything. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: for sure. But it looked like he honestly waited. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't get off the field until I said something to
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  Speaker 5: him because he was kind of just looking there.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was looking for me. So, yeah, I'm glad.
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  Speaker 4: I was just excited to find him, too, after I
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  Speaker 4: dapped up a couple of the players.
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  Speaker 5: It was a very emotional hug he gave me. We
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  Speaker 5: bonded a lot when I was at New Mexico and
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  Speaker 5: things like that. So, just good to see a good
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  Speaker 5: person like him.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Before the game happened, he had nice things to say.
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  Speaker 2: After the game happened, he had nice things to say.
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  Speaker 2: I actually talked with a couple of coaches on the
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  Speaker 2: staff and like, you always hear respect from opposing coaches
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  Speaker 2: about good players like yourself, but to hear like genuine
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  Speaker 2: love and affection for a player because of the relationship
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  Speaker 2: and because you know them, it's part of the new
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  Speaker 2: landscape of college football. But talking to those guys, there's
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  Speaker 2: a man, Dev is good. He's better now than when
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  Speaker 2: we had him in New Mexico too.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that, that, that's really an interesting dynamic for
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  Speaker 2: me that that coaching staff knows you as a player,
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  Speaker 2: but also knows you as a human being. And it's like,
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  Speaker 2: even though they wanted to beat you, seemed like they're
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  Speaker 2: also kind of impressed and happy for your success.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I always try to surround myself and like, that's
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  Speaker 5: kind of the coaches I pick to play under is
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  Speaker 5: the coaches that care about more than just the game
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  Speaker 5: and all that. So not saying I didn't expect it,
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  Speaker 5: but like just how much we've been through and, just
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  Speaker 5: knowing who they were, you know, that was the reason
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  Speaker 5: why I stayed at New Mexico my second year and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, got to know them pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Your guy Braden Pagan went off in this game. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's something that you guys planned
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  Speaker 2: is a corny way to say it because, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you're always planning to have big games and a couple
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns and eight catches for 122 yards. But, that's also
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  Speaker 2: his former team. He came down from Utah state and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear much, but I saw, you know, there
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  Speaker 2: was a little extracurricular conversation, probably good fun, whatever. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: did it seem to you in practice and maybe during
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  Speaker 2: the game that this one meant a little extra something
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  Speaker 2: special for Brayden?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Um, definitely Brayden and, uh, Mack G, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: kind of knew they just came from there. This game
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  Speaker 5: was going to mean a lot to them to be
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  Speaker 5: able to script some and, you know, get things to
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  Speaker 5: work for sure. So, uh, I mean, BP, I think
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  Speaker 5: he's shown that, you know, he's our one receiver.
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  Speaker 4: He's that guy.
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  Speaker 5: And personally, you know, he told me, he was like,
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  Speaker 5: if there's any point where it's one-on-one, throw me the ball.
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  Speaker 5: So kind of just that mentality of him also, though.
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  Speaker 5: He wanted it this game. And, you know, every situation,
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  Speaker 5: he's definitely capitalizing on it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the touchdown passes you threw to him,
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  Speaker 2: the play before– You got pressured and I think had
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  Speaker 2: to throw it away or something. And I think it
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  Speaker 2: was a backer was chirping. You would run like 30
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  Speaker 2: yards back behind the line of scrimmage or whatever and
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  Speaker 2: to the Utah State sideline. And he was chirping and
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  Speaker 2: talking to you and you were talking back. And then
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  Speaker 2: the very next play, you found Braden Pagan for a
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  Speaker 2: long touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think
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  Speaker 2: you found him again and maybe said a little something.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it goes, Battle of the Brothers, right? But
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  Speaker 2: please give me some insight into both ends of that conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Again, Scali was telling us beforehand, everybody keep your composure.
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  Speaker 5: And I feel like I was keeping my composure for
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  Speaker 5: the most part of the first half.
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  Speaker 4: And then.
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  Speaker 5: I got a club to my face mask or hand
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  Speaker 5: to my face mask, and then he was talking trash,
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  Speaker 5: and we got the ref like, You didn't get caught at. So,
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  Speaker 5: and then we get to that drive, and, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: think I threw the ball out or something. And then
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  Speaker 5: it was just the fact they were like, they thought
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  Speaker 5: they had me or something. They were like, yeah, like,
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  Speaker 5: we're on that. Like, you can't do nothing against us.
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  Speaker 2: Which, like, I get it if it was a sack or, like,
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  Speaker 2: a true negative play.
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  Speaker 3: Like, let a defense celebrate or whatever. I was laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I was sitting with one of my former teammates from Utah,
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  Speaker 2: and we're laughing because, like, He basically ran you out
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  Speaker 2: of bounds, you threw the ball away, and it's just like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he tripped at the wrong guy. I was hot.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what are you.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a play to celebrate and talk trash on
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, and then the very next play was like, gotcha.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at the ref again. I was like, are
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  Speaker 5: you not seeing it? I think, like, not only were
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  Speaker 5: they talking trash, they were, like, bumping me while they
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  Speaker 5: were doing it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, ref, are we serious? Like, I'm getting harassed.
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  Speaker 4: I was, all right, but... So then, next play, BP was...
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  Speaker 4: One-on-one with the corner. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: As soon as I let that ball go, I kind
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  Speaker 4: of knew BP was going to go get up there
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  Speaker 4: and get it. Yeah. I don't know what I said,
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  Speaker 4: but some words definitely came out.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I believe that. It doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: what he said on that one, but it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: I blacked out. I was hot. I was in the moment.
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  Speaker 3: We had another big run, by the way. I always
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  Speaker 3: read off the stats.
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  Speaker 4: 22-32, 253-10.
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  Speaker 2: Just under eight yards per completion, two touchdowns, no interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: When you went back, you watched your own film, not
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  Speaker 2: just those highlight plays, but you know, the, the everyday play,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. Did you feel like this was the
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  Speaker 2: execution you wanted from yourself in the game?
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  Speaker 5: Um, from a past standpoint, I would say, yeah, there
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  Speaker 5: was a couple, um, there's early, early down motions that
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  Speaker 5: I forgot or, uh, this decision-making on handing the ball
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  Speaker 5: off or not. I could have been cleaner on, but, um,
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  Speaker 5: That pass game was pretty solid. One of my better
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  Speaker 5: games I've had in that area of the game.
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  Speaker 2: What was Utah State doing well against the inside run?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Wayshon didn't really break any big ones inside
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  Speaker 2: the tackles, and obviously Bray.
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  Speaker 3: Had the big one that went around the edge.
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  Speaker 2: Wayshon had a huge one called back, so maybe our
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  Speaker 2: conversation would be different, but You got to give credit
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  Speaker 2: to the Aggies. That is one area leading into the
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  Speaker 2: game we were talking about. This is something they're very
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  Speaker 2: good at. Defending the run is maybe the only thing
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  Speaker 2: they're very good at this year. And while the team
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  Speaker 2: finished with five yards of carry, there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of two- and three-yard runs where those could be considered
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  Speaker 2: defensive wins.
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  Speaker 3: What were they doing well against the run?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've seen that from when they play Washington right
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  Speaker 5: before us. Yeah, that's just something they're dialed in on,
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  Speaker 5: on stopping the run. And just also, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 5: Bronco's mentality. Even when I played under him, it's to
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  Speaker 5: be tough. It's to win in the box. Make sure
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  Speaker 5: those guys are prepared to win in the box in
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  Speaker 5: any situation. And Maggie talked about that going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Even he knows the culture, too. That's something they thrive in.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this last week. We'll probably talk about
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  Speaker 2: this every single week. You get a few of the
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  Speaker 2: Really interesting, fascinating plays, the unique kind of stuff with
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  Speaker 2: the two quarterback system.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, we saw a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe less.
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  Speaker 2: Of that in the Utah State game than we saw
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  Speaker 2: against Arkansas was that a by design thing or are
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  Speaker 2: those plays situational and the situations didn't arise where you
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  Speaker 2: were going to use like the really super creative stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I would say it's kind of situational again like
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  Speaker 5: the defense doesn't kind of Show us that we should
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  Speaker 5: do it, then, yeah, we don't run it.
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  Speaker 4: We go to our other things. Our offense is so versatile, so.
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  Speaker 5: We just try to take whatever makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: What day was it, James? Was it Thursday or Friday
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: on the show last week? We were trying to come
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: up with a catchy name for the two-quarterback thing, and
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: I put it out on the text line.
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  Speaker 3: I put it out on Twitter. I'm like, what should
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  Speaker 3: we be calling this thing?
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  Speaker 2: And we got a bunch of play on words with
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  Speaker 2: the bird and the spider. What we decided was the
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  Speaker 2: favorite is two quarters, two quarterbacks. That's 50 cent. Same
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: guy came in. He said, well, call it the 50
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  Speaker 2: cent or the half dollar. I was like, half dollar
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  Speaker 2: is a pretty... The half dollar.
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  Speaker 3: The half dollar offense sounds pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like best?
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  Speaker 2: Is there like, I mean, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: package is called, but if it's going to get nicknamed,
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  Speaker 2: do you want like, what was the other one?
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  Speaker 3: Spider Hawk? They kept calling it.
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  Speaker 4: Spider Hawk. Because you're the spider.
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  Speaker 3: He's a bird.
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  Speaker 2: The Hawk is the Utah mascot, whatever. Got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Spider Hawk. Someone brought in like the native language
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  Speaker 2: word for spider and hawk. I mean, there was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of creativity going on.
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  Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I like 50 cent or half dollar the best, but
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  Speaker 2: what do you like as a nickname for that offense?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Those are all new.
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  Speaker 5: Um, bird definitely has, I think three or four formations
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  Speaker 5: named after him for him to get in with different personnels.
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  Speaker 3: All right. So we'll have to brainstorm on that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm about to get back to that though.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to, Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The McDouble was also a really good one because it's
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  Speaker 2: Mac G's double quarterback offense.
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  Speaker 3: I like McDouble.
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  Speaker 4: McDouble. The Mac double. The Mac double.
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  Speaker 2: David Dampiers, I guess you're on the Sean O'Connell show
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  Speaker 2: First Credit Union. So now you move into Big 12 play,
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  Speaker 2: and you move into Big 12 play concurrent with your
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  Speaker 2: first true road game, your first road game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's great to have three in a row
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: kind of tune things up at Rice-Eckel Stadium, not like
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  Speaker 2: you haven't played on the road before. Even the guys
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: that were backups last year played on the road. What
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: do you expect from the first road game of the
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  Speaker 2: season at Iowa state?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, definitely expected a good crowd. I think they
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  Speaker 5: played Iowa pretty solid just coming off momentum. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I think this game's matters to them as well. So,
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  Speaker 5: and I mean, yeah, they're, they're a strong, tough team
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  Speaker 5: and chances of rain coming out there, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, that game could go either way.
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  Speaker 5: Just in the standpoint of, we don't know if it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be sunny or, It's going to be truly raining.
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  Speaker 5: We have no clue what the circumstances will be, but
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  Speaker 5: we're prepared.
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  Speaker 4: I think Sky was doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 5: Week by week, we're throwing the ball wet and just
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  Speaker 5: small stuff like that just to make sure we're dialed
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  Speaker 5: in for any environment we go into.
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  Speaker 2: Playing your prep ball in Arizona, you probably didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of super bad weather or rainy games in
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  Speaker 2: high school. I don't know how many you played in college,
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: but Do you like a messy game, a muddy game,
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  Speaker 2: a wet game? Like some football players enjoy that. Usually
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  Speaker 2: it's guys who are slow because it's the best guys down, right,
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  Speaker 2: and everything's straight line and it's harder to be twitchy
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  Speaker 2: on a wet surface. So guys like me enjoy a
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  Speaker 2: muddy game. Do you like that stuff?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's cool.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's what I signed up for. I signed
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  Speaker 5: up to play football in any environment. But, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: would say cool is the word. I wish I could
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  Speaker 5: get the whole, like, I guess there's somewhat of like
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  Speaker 5: you dial down on some things just because of, you know, again, speed,
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  Speaker 5: the speed you're able to run at on that, on
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  Speaker 5: the grass and stuff like that. But yeah, I'm definitely
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  Speaker 5: an Arizona boy though. I'm all about the sun being out.
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  Speaker 2: So Iowa state, like you said, they're, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: a solid team. They had a really close loss to Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: It was a, Top 25, Big Ten team right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's an in-state rivalry for them. That's obviously a game
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  Speaker 2: that really matters, and those things are sometimes hard to
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  Speaker 2: judge by. But what are you seeing from this defense
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  Speaker 2: on film in terms of how quick they swarm to
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  Speaker 2: the ball, maybe some exotic things, the pressure that they
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: usually bring? I know you're just starting this film study,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: just getting this stuff rolling, but what are you seeing?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, just a little bit of everything, disguising things,
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  Speaker 5: just i mean it's definitely different than i guess you
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: could say the old iowa state meta they used to
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: always run like there was a iowa state kind of
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  Speaker 5: thing everyone knew they ran three safety things so just
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: kind of them starting their new defense in a way.
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  Speaker 2: When i mean we're all getting used to it now
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  Speaker 2: you you experienced it so i'm sure you're used to
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  Speaker 2: it but like This is, for Iowa State, you got
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of new, a lot of new players, a
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: lot of new staff. And we have not been able
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: to put our finger on it with you, like, exactly why. But, like,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: it seems like everything about you in year two at
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: the University of Utah is better, more comfortable, smoother, whatever. Like,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: and I attribute it to people ask all the time,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: what would I do? Why is it different this year?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, I think part of it is
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: he's just more comfortable. I don't want to put words
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: in your mouth. I think part of it is he's
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: more comfortable. He's just used to the routine and things
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: like that. And I think also part of it is,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: especially when we talk about what we saw later in
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the season, I was like, now you're healthy.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Knock on wood.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: And I've answered those questions to people when we're just
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: casually having conversation.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: If you can.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Describe for me the difference you feel just being in
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: a program for a second year, because there's a ton
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: of Cyclones that are great players, just like you were
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: a great player last year, but it is still their
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: first year. And maybe that full comfort of that full
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: integration hasn't happened yet.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: I'd say probably leadership is the biggest part of that.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Like coming into this program, I mean, we talk about
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: it like I'm not. set to be a leader just
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: because I play quarterback. Like, I still had to earn
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: that respect last year. And I wasn't a captain last year,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: but just, again, I got to kind of see the
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: way people carried themselves as a U, Lander and Spencer, Jaron,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: all those guys. So, yeah, that was big for me
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: to just kind of notice that, what leadership looks like
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: at the next level. And, yeah, I just feel like
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: I've kind of fully taken that this year where, like,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: I could just tell the whole team Like I made
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: it important to me this offseason to make sure the
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: whole team kind of respects me as their leader and,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: you know, someone they can trust when things are hard
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: or when things are going good.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm always going to be the same individual.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: So just that respect for my team that I was
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: able to gain this year, I think it just, again,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: allows me to play confident in myself. Also, yeah, being
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: healthy is probably definitely the biggest one. Just I'm able
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: to do what I do out there. There's no second guessing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: What I can and cannot do.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: All right. The respect thing.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We saw in pro football, I don't know if you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: saw Kayla Williams getting carted off for a hamstring strain
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and rolling around and screaming on the ground. I was
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: making fun of that. Everyone in the NFL is making
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: fun of that. It's easy to make fun of when
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: you're armchair quarterback, right? I feel a little more entitled
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: to make fun of people for not being tough because
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I spent 12 years of my life getting beat up
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: for a living.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: That's neither here nor there. When it comes to football,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: playing the quarterback position, right? How important is it for
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you to, to be thought of as like tough, right?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: If you're a linebacker, you gotta be tough. If you're
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: a fullback, you gotta be tough. If you're an offensive lineman,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you better be tough quarterbacks. You want to be known
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: as tough, but being skillful and a good decision maker
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and having a great.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Arm are all much more important for you personally.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: How much do you want toughness to be part of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: your reputation as a QB?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: A lot.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you should just know.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I want people to be able to tell whoever they're
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: talking to, yeah, my quarterback's going to do whatever it takes.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Simple as that. You never know if he's hurt for real.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: You never know if he's having a bad day for real.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: He's always that guy. That's kind of the mentality I
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: always wanted as being the QB.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I think it matters.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I think it matters a lot, too. I think we learned.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: We didn't know until after the season was over, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I think we learned that about you last year, that
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: he's going to show up, he's not going to complain,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: there's not going to be any excuses, because you hit
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of bumps, bruises, injuries, right? You never said
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a word about any of it, never complained about any
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: of it. And there's a way you could even do
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that with your body language, right? Where, like, you make
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: it obvious that you're hurting when you get up after
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: being hit or something.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: You never really played up that sort of thing. And so...
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that about you.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I also, when I see it from someone at the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: very highest level, who's a Heisman Trophy winner in college
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and a first-round draft pick and all these things, I'm like,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I wonder how that affects his teammates and his locker room.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: We know that fans in a city like Chicago are
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: going to hate on you for it if you don't
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: redeem yourself with great play. But when you see it
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: at the very highest level, it's like, doesn't that matter
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: also to someone like that? Don't you want people to
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: know that you're not only great and skilled, but you're tough?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Like, football matters. Toughness matters in football.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: No, I, I strive on toughness. That's part of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: reason why I'm here at Utah. Like that's just, that's,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: that's our culture. That's what we preach. Hopefully he was
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: that hurt where.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: He really felt like he, that it needed to be
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: what it was, the situation.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about our guy.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about Devin Depp here being, being turned
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: into a meme like we saw on Twitter with the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: cart and the tears and the thumbs up and all
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that stuff. back to more important things back to big
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: 12 play. There's, you know, some of the results I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: won't say have been surprising, but as we've looked around
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the conference, it's like, okay, Houston and Texas tech played
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: a great game last Friday. Both teams looked awesome. Texas
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: tech ended up winning that game. BYU looked really good. Again,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: you guys looked really good. Again, Kansas state looks awesome.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: West Virginia, all of a sudden belongs in the conversation.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much you've been able to watch
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: of the rest of the conference. You had a day game,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: so maybe cause some night action and things like that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But it seems like, uh, the race is shaping up
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: at least a little bit and maybe there's some surprises
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I think we're getting like, I honestly think our conference
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: is getting pretty better. Like we're starting to, we're starting
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: to average out and, you know, hopefully all of us
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: are able to show that like, going into these weeks
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: where we are playing each other and stuff like that,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: people are playing at a high level just because, like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: even at the top 25, I think there's, like.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: 10 SEC in there. There's, like, eight Big 12, four ACC,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: and then, like, four of us or something like that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I forgot what it was, but I just think, like,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: we're showing that it should be a little bit more
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: leveled out where maybe you take two of those SEC
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: teams out and maybe one of those Big 10s and
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: You know, you start putting a couple of Big 12s
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: in there just because I think, honestly, our conference is
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: playing at a high level.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Three teams, three Big 12 teams in the top 15
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: right now, BYU, Texas Tech, and Utah. Houston is in
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the top 25 at 25. West Virginia, Oklahoma State, they're
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: in that also getting votes category. Arizona's, some people cast
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: a vote for Arizona, but they're a little bit further back.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So I think the conference is getting... A decent amount
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: of respect. I just think that everyone then gives even
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: more to the SEC and the Big Ten, which is annoying,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: but it's something you're just going to have to deal with.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something we're going to have to deal with for
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: a while, sadly.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: So, day game, what was the rest of the day
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like for you on Saturday? Obviously celebrating a big win,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you ice.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: It up, or did you get to go hang out
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: with the family? What did you do with the rest
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: of your day?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I always get dinner with my family after games.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: This is something.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know why, but I, I love the, the
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: environment of just being with my family, going to get dinner, um,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: and sit down. So we went to Capitol grill last
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: week and, um, yeah, it was great. Just good vibes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: And then went home.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: We actually got to watch the, it was Ole Miss,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Ole Miss and LSU that night.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: We got to watch that game, which was, that was fun,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: entertaining for me to be a fan with my family,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: like be able to watch games together.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: But, uh, Yeah, just tell me the vibes after the game.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Last thing before we let you go, the schedule on
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the road, like each head coach has their own routines, right?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And Morgan Scali strikes me as a guy who's going
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to keep things more the same than try to change things.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: But do you know yet what the routine for the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: road game is going to look like? I imagine it
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: was probably similar to what you guys did in the bowl.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it would be similar to even what
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: we've been doing here.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: We'll probably– leave earlier just so what our day normally
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: starts like on friday feels the same as what it
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: starts like when we're out there to give that same
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: vibe of what time we eat dinner um what time
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: rather we watch a movie or not rather we um
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: just chill and hang out as a team he probably
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: keep that all the same just so you know we
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: feel good about going into the game feel.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Normal For my sake, I hope there's rain. For Devin
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Dampier's sake, I hope it's.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: A nice dry game.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: In Iowa when they take on the Iowa State Cyclones
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: at Jack Trice Stadium. That'll be a 1.30 Mountain Time kickoff.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: The game is on Fox and QB1 Devin Dampier. We
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: wish you luck. Stay healthy. Thanks again for giving us
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: some time. Maybe a little stuffy. Feel better.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: We hope for that also.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Good thing it's early in the week. It should be
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: gone by weekend.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: We're recording this early in the week, so you should
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: be all right. Just a little vitamin C. Thanks for
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: being here, Dev. Thank you. That's Dishing with Dev and
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Dan Pierre.