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Dishin' with Devon: Dampier on the season starting a week from today, Player leadership taking shape, Boomerang players + 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: 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: Utah football one week from today. The season kicks off
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  Speaker 2: in seven days. And on Thursdays, we talk with QB
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  Speaker 2: number one, Devin Dampier, Dishing with Dev, brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by Culligan, by Valley Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, and by
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  Speaker 2: America First Credit Union.
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  Speaker 3: Dev in studio with us. Hello, sir. Good to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good to be back up in here.
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  Speaker 2: Football season is upon us. Now, let's talk about camp first.
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  Speaker 2: Camp is now in the rearview mirror. Morgan Scali's first
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  Speaker 2: camp is the head coach. Camp is never fun. Camp
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  Speaker 2: is never easy. But give me your description of what
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  Speaker 2: this first camp under Morgan Scali was from the player perspective.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was a success.
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  Speaker 5: Right after our last practice, I made sure I went
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  Speaker 5: up to Coach Scali and just let him know. I
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  Speaker 5: thought he handled being a head coach's first fall camp
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  Speaker 5: was very successful. The way he went about camp was
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  Speaker 5: to get as much done at a high speed When
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  Speaker 5: we do our workouts, it needs to be 100%. There
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  Speaker 5: needs to be no letdown. But then he's also putting
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  Speaker 5: in analytics of how much we're running, making sure we're
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  Speaker 5: hitting our top speeds every week just to make sure
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  Speaker 5: no one's pulling hammies. Just the small things like that,
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  Speaker 5: you could tell that he was taking everything into consideration
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  Speaker 5: and just trying to make it best healthy-wise and also
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  Speaker 5: being able to develop.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like, talking to different people about this, that
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  Speaker 2: it was intense work. He values that intense work, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be long.
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  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's the right way to put it. That's
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  Speaker 5: what I mean by the 100%. When we're out there,
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  Speaker 5: it's straight go. It's straight go. No time to waste,
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  Speaker 5: but it makes it better for us. It feels like
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  Speaker 5: we have more off time.
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  Speaker 2: More or less, you're a quarterback, so contact on quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: But more or less contact than what you've experienced recently
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  Speaker 2: at other places like when you were at New Mexico
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  Speaker 2: and even last year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say he kept that kind of the same.
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  Speaker 5: He gets on the defensive, they get like a foot
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  Speaker 5: away from me. He makes sure, do not get near
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  Speaker 5: Devin at all, no matter what the circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: What about, if I'm asking Way Sean this question, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking Daniel Way this question, was it more physical,
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  Speaker 2: equally as physical?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Big things, and you're probably already aware of this, year
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  Speaker 2: by year, right? We examine what the tackling looks like
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  Speaker 2: in the first few games of the season. And then
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  Speaker 2: you go back to the coaching staff in the media,
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  Speaker 2: we do at least and say, uh, what's with all
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  Speaker 2: the missed tackles or looks like no missed tackles this year.
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  Speaker 2: Did you, tackle more in camp or, Hey, there's a
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  Speaker 2: couple more injuries at campus here.
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  Speaker 3: Were you being too physical in camp?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's impossible to win if you're the head coach,
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  Speaker 2: but that's why I'm asking the question is you want
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  Speaker 2: guys to hit the ground running and be ready week
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  Speaker 2: one against Idaho, but also you want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're not beating up the bodies too much.
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  Speaker 3: So was it not for the quarterback, but was it
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  Speaker 3: a physical camp?
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  Speaker 5: Um, I would say it was a physical camp, uh,
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  Speaker 5: O-line and D-line for sure. I mean, they're blocking each
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  Speaker 5: other every single play. I would say there was a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of, again, the analytics. He was putting in
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  Speaker 5: how many times he thinks it would be useful to
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  Speaker 5: start tackling, and we did some of that near the
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  Speaker 5: middle slash end of camp just so tackling feels more
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  Speaker 5: familiar for, again, game one.
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  Speaker 4: Situation. I think it was handled well, though.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 5: It was never like the whole entire day is this tackle.
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  Speaker 5: There was periods where we made a tackle. Then there
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  Speaker 5: was periods where we let it be easy, thud tempo.
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  Speaker 5: So I thought it was good. I thought asking the guys,
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  Speaker 5: no one was ever complaining about, oh, it's a tackle
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  Speaker 5: day and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: For you, obviously, when the lights come on next Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to tackle you. Everyone's trying to tackle you.
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  Speaker 2: the right thing to do for a coaching staff is
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  Speaker 2: don't touch the quarterback in practice. Don't go anywhere near him.
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  Speaker 2: Don't roll onto his ankle. Don't swat his hand when
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  Speaker 2: he's throwing a pass and dislocate his finger, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So you're supposed to bubble wrap your quarterback. You're capable of,
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  Speaker 2: of absorbing impact. You can spin away from stuff. You've
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  Speaker 2: got the quicks, right? But like, how do you practice that?
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  Speaker 2: Your evasiveness, your, your breaking of tackles when it's not
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  Speaker 2: happening in practice.
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Because I imagine there's a challenge to it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because the first time you really get hit this season
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  Speaker 2: is going to be in live game reps.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And that might be crazy. I mean, I'm thinking of, like,
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  Speaker 2: from the combat sports perspective, right? Like, when you're fighting,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to put in hard sparring rounds during camp.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't, you're going to go crazy the first
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  Speaker 3: time you get hit hard in the actual fight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're not allowed a hard sparring round. They don't take
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  Speaker 3: that risk.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So the first time you get punched.
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  Speaker 4: It's game one.
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  Speaker 3: It's game one. How do you handle it?
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  Speaker 5: I guess it's something I've grown up to be in now.
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  Speaker 5: Now that I'm in this position of my fourth year
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  Speaker 5: in college, I guess I just happen to get used
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  Speaker 5: to it.
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  Speaker 4: But that first hit, definitely, I feel it. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm back in football mode.
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  Speaker 3: Your body's like, all right, yep, that's what that feels like.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: We hope it's from like a corner.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of a DM.
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  Speaker 4: Someone push me out of bounds. This is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a little love town.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's amazing. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So for the fans who maybe have not ever been
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  Speaker 2: part of the transition from camp practices to game prep
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  Speaker 2: to install type practices, school year starts, schedule changes a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Describe that transition and maybe the major differences
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  Speaker 2: in how practices and workouts are conducted now that it's
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  Speaker 2: not camp.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so again, camp is more about, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 5: we're going against each other. We're trying to put in
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  Speaker 5: plays that we feel really confident about to bring into
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  Speaker 5: the season, and so is defense. They're trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out what ways they like to line up against certain
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  Speaker 5: formations and stuff like that. So the biggest difference is
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  Speaker 5: now we have scout teams. Players have been assigned to
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  Speaker 5: have their scout roles now, and now we're trying to
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  Speaker 5: give the best look that, Whoever we're going to play
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  Speaker 5: against that week, we want to be able to practice
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  Speaker 5: our plays against that type of look, what we think
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  Speaker 5: we're going to get. There's more preparation for sure. This
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  Speaker 5: is where the film gets, I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 5: more serious for me where I do clock in those hours,
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  Speaker 5: just try to see the little tendencies, what a defense
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  Speaker 5: can do and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: As a guy who unfortunately spent way too much time
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  Speaker 2: on the scout team, Do.
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  Speaker 3: You have good looks? I know the coaching staff, right?
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  Speaker 2: They do their best to put guys in a position
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  Speaker 2: to where they can give you an approximation of what
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see in game. But there's a reason
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  Speaker 2: scout team guys are scout team guys, right? And the
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  Speaker 2: speed can be a little bit different. The size is
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  Speaker 2: certainly going to be a little bit different. Obviously, contact.
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  Speaker 2: They're not letting scout players especially play. come and hit
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback and things like that. But there's also the
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  Speaker 2: question of depth on teams now because of the transfer
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  Speaker 2: portal and because it used to be right. Scout team
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  Speaker 2: guys could be a future all American. He's just a
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  Speaker 2: freshman red shirting right now. There's less of that in
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  Speaker 2: modern day college football. So are you getting good looks from,
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  Speaker 2: from an athleticism perspective from the scouts?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, coach, coach Galley was a scout team player
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  Speaker 5: for more than two years. So, he embodies that into
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  Speaker 5: our scout players that, like, when you're out there, like,
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  Speaker 5: take advantage of what's happening for you. You're able to, like,
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  Speaker 5: for the scout defense, they're able to go against the
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  Speaker 5: one offense. They're able to get to see talent going
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  Speaker 5: against them every single day. So it's good for them
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  Speaker 5: to take those reps. And same for our offense going
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  Speaker 5: against their defense. I mean, they get one's defense playing
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  Speaker 5: against them, and they can just perfect their craft. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Coach Galley is big on embodying that role of,
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  Speaker 5: If you are a scout player, do what you do.
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  Speaker 5: Try to be as much into it as you can.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they have brought to you by Culligan Water,
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  Speaker 2: Valley Plumbing, Heating and Cooling, and America First Credit Union
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  Speaker 2: here on the Sean O'Connell Show. So the end of
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  Speaker 2: camp also a lot of times signifies really the end
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  Speaker 2: of some of these position battles that have been happening
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  Speaker 2: in camp. And we talked last week, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: who would the starting offensive line be? And you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is there any more clarity? And no
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  Speaker 2: one's going to tell me who those starting five are.
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  Speaker 2: I don't expect you to. But do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: now that camp is closed, the clarity there has been established?
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  Speaker 5: I would say maybe three. Three of the spots are.
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  Speaker 5: But again, we're still, I guess. Certain players do certain
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  Speaker 5: things better. Which three spots? But, yeah, certain players have,
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  Speaker 5: you know, their own skill set on what they do.
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  Speaker 5: So I guess kind of depending.
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  Speaker 3: On the vibe.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, I'm glad we have depth. I'm glad
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  Speaker 5: that we have this problem where we're trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out who goes in because that just means the next
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  Speaker 5: guy is able to play.
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  Speaker 2: Could you see a situation where, I mean, almost always
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  Speaker 2: in football, the starting five is the starting five. And
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  Speaker 2: unless someone gets hurt or whatever, it's that starting five.
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  Speaker 2: given some of the flexibility or the differentiation and skill
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  Speaker 2: set or things like that could you see a situation
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  Speaker 2: where this year's offensive line is handled a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more like other position groups are where there is like
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  Speaker 2: regular substitution or Jordan Gross Kevin McGiven do they want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure it is a starting five By the
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  Speaker 2: time you roll out an actual game plan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for the most part, I think you want a
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  Speaker 4: starting five.
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  Speaker 5: But I could imagine, you know, the first game we
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  Speaker 5: just dinkle around, just probably show those different groups of
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  Speaker 5: guys that's up there in that front five and just
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  Speaker 5: kind of see how they work in a real game situation.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, the starting five was obviously fantastic. but then there,
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of big body packages. There's jumbo stuff, right?
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  Speaker 2: So it was like, you had like the starting five,
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  Speaker 2: but then also like the starting six sometimes. And now
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  Speaker 2: you got these Rhino packages and stuff. So it's like,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about potentially six or seven big body blockers
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to be using.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: We, we get in, we make it real stressful for
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  Speaker 5: the defense. You got to prepare for every single thing
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  Speaker 5: when you're a DC going against us.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Last week when we talked, we touched on way
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  Speaker 2: Sean a lot.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about your wide receiving core.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we had a good conversation about Hunter
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  Speaker 2: Andrews and what role he could play in this offense.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously we saw some flashes from him last year,
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year, last year, and then an
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  Speaker 2: injury kind of washed all that away. The coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: at that point, wasn't a hundred percent sure what they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do with them. Is he a running back?
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  Speaker 2: Is he a tight end? Is he a hybrid of
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  Speaker 2: those things? What sort of, Description would you give to
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  Speaker 2: his role in this year's offense if you could characterize it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I guess, man, I think he's like a true playmaker
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  Speaker 5: when you talk about, like if you could build someone
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  Speaker 5: like on Madden to like be able to play every
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  Speaker 5: skill position.
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  Speaker 4: It would be Hunter.
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  Speaker 5: Like he's tall enough, he's big enough to play tight end,
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  Speaker 5: he's physical enough to actually block. if a linebacker wants
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  Speaker 5: to come in and, you know, he's able to add
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  Speaker 5: himself in protection. And then he's also faster than the linebackers.
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  Speaker 5: He's also able to take a handoff and make positive
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  Speaker 5: yards out of that. So Hunter, like he's, he literally
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  Speaker 5: does everything. He, he finds value in just being able
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  Speaker 5: to be on the field. Like we can trust him
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  Speaker 5: to be in any position and he's, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to go ball out.
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  Speaker 2: Utah fans aren't going to like this comparison, but like
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  Speaker 2: Taysom Hill, what he was in the NFL, obviously a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more quarterback situation for him, but like, I
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  Speaker 2: see Mac G using Hunter Andrews in that kind of
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  Speaker 2: a role where, like you said earlier with the blocking schemes,
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  Speaker 2: like a defense is just going to be like, what,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell, what are they doing with this guy now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to stay prepared for all of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He, he causes a lot of stress. So, you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy he's on my team.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice for you and for everyone cheering for these
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  Speaker 2: youths in the 2026 campaign. Uh, some big picture stuff here.
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  Speaker 2: I know you focus on Idaho. You focus on week one, uh, but,
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  Speaker 2: as the, the game plan comes together, the playbook really
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  Speaker 2: comes together because some of camp is experimentation with what's
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  Speaker 2: working and what's not working and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Are you, I won't say satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: Are you happy with the progression of the offense from
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  Speaker 2: the first day of install back in the spring to now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I think just having the amount of meetings, us and
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  Speaker 5: the receivers together, like just having those type of meetings and,
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  Speaker 5: Even me stopping by in the O-line meetings every once
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  Speaker 5: in a while just talking about stuff. I feel like
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  Speaker 5: we've created offense. It's our offense now. And Mac G,
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  Speaker 5: he gives us that authority to make the offense ours.
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  Speaker 5: We started making checks and stuff that hasn't really necessarily
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  Speaker 5: been taught to us. Just small things like that where
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  Speaker 5: we're making offense us where it feels like we embodied it.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're probably not this type of guy, but
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  Speaker 2: you also have friends and family that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be sending you links and showing you where you appear.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're on the Davey O'Brien watch list. You
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  Speaker 2: know that ESPN is like, this is the top 15
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the nation, whatever. How do you react to
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  Speaker 2: the external expectation that these random publications and award watch
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  Speaker 2: lists and stuff like that, how do you think about
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  Speaker 2: those things as you go about your daily business?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Um, man, I try to, I try to stay off
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  Speaker 5: the internet when season starts scrolling up. I'm just, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not big into seeing myself. I be telling my mom
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  Speaker 5: and dad, don't be sending me nothing during the season.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to see it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm okay. I'm a, just let, just let me
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  Speaker 4: keep going week by week. Let me keep balling.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, my mom and dad, I just ruined
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  Speaker 3: all that. I just told Deb where he is on
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  Speaker 3: all the watch lists.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, they're, I'm so happy that they get
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  Speaker 5: excited about those things. And they're so involved in, my
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  Speaker 5: whole entire football journey. So I know it's so exciting
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  Speaker 5: for them, but I'm like, keep it away from me.
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  Speaker 5: Let me, let me lock in. Let me do what
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  Speaker 5: I got to do.
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  Speaker 4: Cause none of it matters to the end.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I think I understand that mentality, but articulate it for me.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you not want to know where the athletic
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  Speaker 2: says you belong ranking with all the other quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 3: And why do you not want to pay attention to
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  Speaker 3: that stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's, I think the normal things I get is, like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe he runs too much.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: People come up with, like, the craziest narratives I've ever
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  Speaker 5: heard of.
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  Speaker 3: It's the blurb, right? It's the blurb that bothers you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or, like, oh, this guy threw for more yards
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  Speaker 5: than him, or he had a, like, just stuff that
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  Speaker 5: would make me start to question my gameplay and how
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  Speaker 5: I'd want to go about things. I never want other
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  Speaker 5: people to tell me how I should play football, like,
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  Speaker 5: I was able to get myself in this position of
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  Speaker 5: all the great coaches that's got me here and things
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: like that. And I just want to continue to trust
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: in my game, play how I play, not let others dictate.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: That does make sense. With respect to that narrative, right?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Two dependent on the legs or his arm is this
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: or it's that. I feel like what we saw from
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you last year was excellent quarterback play where you could
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: do it all. The asterisk, if there is one, was
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: we don't really know because of the health problem what
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the ceiling of that looks like.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Where it's like when you watch last year's film, even
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: in games where you played great, maybe you didn't feel great.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: So I look at some of those numbers.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: That's a hell of a game from Dev. Would it
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: have been even better? if both of his legs worked properly.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? For sure.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the right way for us to be viewing
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: our expectations of you for this year?
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, even out of myself, I'm expecting myself to, like,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: I would say this is the first fall camp where
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I felt like it was, playing out there never got
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: too fast for me. Like, I felt like, you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I've been here before. The game's really slowed down. where
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: it didn't slow down during camp. I got in there,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: and I was already prepared. I feel like I'm at
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: a level where I should be able to be at
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: my best every single game.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: We already talked about last week the chemistry with your
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: receivers and that kind of thing. What about throwing motion, footwork,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the mechanics of being a passer? do you have to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: tweak things like that because you were adjusting again to some,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: like a lack of a base last year, your arm
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: angle probably had to be a little bit different or
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: you were throwing more with your shoulder than with your
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: hips because you had all these injuries and stuff like that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Was there an adjustment period of getting back to throwing
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: like a healthy person?
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say, you know, that's, that started, um,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: as soon as I could throw a ball, it took,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: it took about six, eight weeks for me to be
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: able to throw a football again after my surgery. And, um,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: you know, that was, about kind of spring coming in.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: So I was able to get in Arizona, get back
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: with my QB trainer, just hitting those types of things.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: But man, in game, it's, it's so rare that, that
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: you get the exact clean pocket. Like when there's no
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: movement where you don't have to make arm angle throws.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: And you know, that's something my coaches like about me
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: that I'm able to change my arm angle at times
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: to be able to get the ball through the D
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: lineman and stuff like that. So there's a little bit of,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Things going into it, just the way we call plays,
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: the way we read through things, obviously changed the way
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: my footsteps work. But, man, ultimately, you know, I feel
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: like I'm in a good spot where I can make
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: any throw.
• 19:02
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  Speaker 4: You are....
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: More popular than you were last year. You're more established
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: than you were last year. You are thought of highly,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: not only locally, but nationally as a quarterback with that
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: comes opportunities and IL opportunities, who knows what else, right?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Part of being a modern day college football player, especially
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: quarterback is you also have to be a good businessman.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Have you been able to put that in the proper
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: box as the season approaches as you know, these, interviews
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: like this more common, et cetera, et cetera. Um, how
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is the extra curricular football stuff been now that you're
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: a more firmly established starter as the season approaches?
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's been a lot more me now.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I think I came in a little bit more on
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: the nervous side of last year, just not fully expressing
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: who I was, I guess you could say in a way.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Um, but man, this year, you know, just.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: The, the amount of respect people are allowing me to have. And, um,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: you know, just, it's allowed me to feel like, you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: I can be myself at all times. And that's just
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: something that I've kind of told myself I want to
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: do this year. You know, I want to be myself
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: no matter the situation. And, uh, that just goes into
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: my leadership also, like that translates on the field. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: don't want to be the guy where, you know, if
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: they score first and then we don't score, I'm, being
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: pouty on the sideline. Like I want to be the
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: same guy. I want everyone to, I never want to
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: switch up for any situation. So, and I think it's,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: it's honestly some people have been enjoying, I've been getting
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: feedback about it. Just they're like, man, I've never had
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: an interview like you. It's, it's very, you're very uplifting
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: and very yourself. And you know, that's just something I
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: want to give off.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Speaking of leadership, the way that the leadership dynamic on
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a slightly remade roster is, has developed through camp and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in the first week of, you know, installing things like that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Any surprises for you? Is it the guys that you
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: thought were going to be those guys?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah. For the most. Yeah. Cause I don't know.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: There's this guy, you can tell the other guys in
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: the locker room too, that have influence on others. They're
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: able to say stuff and, you know, you see guys
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: turn their head and they really listen. So we already
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: had our leadership council group and, you know, you could
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: tell those guys were, You can tell they're all taking
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: steps in their own leadership role.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: As well going through fall camp.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: There's different types of leadership on football teams, right? Like
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Morgan Scali, your head coach now, he was the great
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: player who was also a great vocal leader. And the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: other two best players on the team on that year's team,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman who never said a word, Chris Kamoyatu, scariest
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: guy on the planet. Never said a dang thing. Alex
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Smith was the best quarterback in the country. Didn't really
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: say a lot in the locker room. So who fills
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: those roles? Who's like the strong silent type? And who's
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the one that you know is going to say the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: right thing at the right time?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I would say me and Lance are probably the most
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: like both-sided players. Both sided leaders, I would say, if
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: that makes sense. I feel like I can go to
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: the defense and say something and they will respect my opinion.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: I think Lance is that defensive guy that can come
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: over and say something to offense and respect what he says.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: How has Lance become that?
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Because.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: With respect to Lance, and I know there's a lot
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: of factors that play into this, his on-field resume does
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: not yet say he is undeniably that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Because sometimes it takes production. You've got to be a
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: guy coming off an all-conference season and things like that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And I have no doubt his capabilities, and I'm crazy
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: impressed with him, but it's not like he's coming off
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: an All-American year last year. So how has he established
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: himself to that level, even with an offense, when his
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: on-field production maybe hasn't met that just yet?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's his compelling.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Again, he talks to the offense just as much as
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: he talks to his side of the ball. To put
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: that type of effort into trying to make the whole team,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: trying to be a compelling guy to anybody on the team,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: that's something he does very well. He makes sure he's...
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Lance is everywhere just because we all feel comfortable and
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: invite him just because he's made it where... Um, that's
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: something he put work into. He put work into making
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: guys feel welcome when he's around.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Do you, what do you think of the stuff that's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: happening in college football right now? We're like dudes who
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: were on NFL rosters last week are coming back to
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: college football. Guys who were in the NBA last week
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: are coming back to college basketball.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: And this was unthinkable.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Ten years ago, even five years ago when NIL and
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff started to happen, we didn't think of
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: this being a possibility. And now, I mean, you're going
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: to have your own decision to make at some point
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: about a fifth year of eligibility and all that, but
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: this is, for me, really, really hard to swallow and crazy.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: What's it like for someone who's actively in the game
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean, you know, if the opportunity makes sense,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: you know, I hope people are able to get that opportunity,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: but Yeah, it was a little crazy. Somebody broke down
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: something like someone actually played in a preseason game and
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: got paid for it and then came back.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: To me, that's insane.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: That's bananas.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: To actually compete in a game, get paid for NFL,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: be in the NFL, and then come back to college.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: It does sound a little crazy to me.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's guys who have signed NBA contracts. They're
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: just like, nah, just kidding. I played for BYU. What?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I'm coming back.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: No, you're not. That's not... It's like we all had
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: that dream, right?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You woke up one morning and you're just like, I
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: had a dream last night that I went back and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: played another game for my high school.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: And it's just like you laugh at yourself about it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: That's what they're doing now in college football.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something about.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: College may have a better life than NFL right now. Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Well, we got to find a way.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: There's got to be some type of balance where, like,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: we still want people to go to the NFL.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Do you watch Hard Knocks? Have you seen any of
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the Hard Knocks?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Uh-uh.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this was hilarious because I think it was
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: from this year's Hard Knocks. They do the thing where
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a rookie stands up, introduces himself, and says what his
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: signing bonus was, right? And if you're a first-rounder and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: you got some crazy huge signing bonus, everyone's hooting and hollering.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Most people are just like, ah, you know, fifth-round pick,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: seventh-round pick. $ 15, 000.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Signing bonus or whatever.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And one guy was just like, $ 15, 000 signing bonus. Made $ 700, 000
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: last year in NIL.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And all these old guys in the league, it's like, what? Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: What are you doing here then?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Because you don't want to stay another year.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because those guys are like, we made $ 0 when
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: we were in college. And, you know, that's crazy because
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: you're talking about a guy who was an unbelievable college player,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: got compensated for it. maybe there's some doubts if he'll
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: be a good NFL player. So they're just like, yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: you can have a $ 10, 000 signing bonus or whatever. So
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it's just like, that's gotta be a hard learning curve.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: If you're in that category, if you're like, if you're
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a bubble guy on an NFL roster, but you were
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: like Diego Pavi is the best example I can think of.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Heisman trophy finalist at Vanderbilt making millions at Vanderbilt.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: The NFL doesn't want him. You're probably like, let me
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: go back to Vanderbilt.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Right. Like that, It's crazy to me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: It's crazy to me that you just hear people say,
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I'd rather stay in college. That shouldn't be the case,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: but it is the case.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: We're going to wait, but you and I are going
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: to have this conversation at some point when we get
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: close to the end of the year because these are
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: things that are going to rear their head for everybody.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Crazy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: A week away from playing the first game, what is
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the nervousness, the feeling, the anticipation when you got seven
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: more days before football season is actually for real here.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I don't, the nervousness has not hit me
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: this year. I don't know.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: I don't think, I don't think I'm nervous at all. Honestly,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: I think like this is, this is my fourth year
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: of college.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: They're like, if you were playing Arkansas in week one
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: instead of Idaho, would that be different?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: No.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I think like, Just my self-confidence, my self-belief, and how
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: far I've been able to see myself come up as
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: a football player. Man, my confidence is through the roof.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I'm just like, this is everything. I work to be
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: at this situation. I work to be here and feel
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: like I'm getting to my complete self. I'm very confident
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: just going into this situation.
• 28:22
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• 28:34
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• 28:37
  Speaker 2: week were like, where's the YouTube? Cause you want to
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: see Deb's pretty face.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: It's here.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: ESPN, 700 sports.com. Uh, the YouTube link is there on
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the page. So you can go watch it and it'll
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: be available on the app and all that stuff.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Deb, it's great to see you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Good to see you too. It's always fun.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I will be doing this every single week. Uh, good
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: luck with game prep. And then obviously the next time
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: we have this conversation, uh, It's for real, for real.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: It's for real, for real. Game week.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: That's Devin Dampierre.