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Dan Sorensen on the defensive playmakers for Utah FB, Can't underestimate Utah St, Utah and BYU best in Big 12 (?) + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 3: which means we check in with the folks from Ute Zone.
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Speaker 3: Dan Sorensen, kind enough to give us some time today. Dan,
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Speaker 3: welcome back to the show. How are you?
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Speaker 1: Doing well. How are you doing? Good.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man. It was awesome to be out
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Speaker 3: there on Saturday night to see you hang out at
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Speaker 3: the game a little bit to meet your better half.
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Speaker 3: That was lovely. And obviously a big Utah win over Arkansas.
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Speaker 3: What was the biggest takeaway for you from that game?
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Speaker 1: Biggest takeaway for me was just how impressive it was
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Speaker 1: to see this team show up against a team with
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Speaker 1: size and with strong athletes. Look, Arkansas is not a
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Speaker 1: good football team, despite the SEC affiliation. That does not
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Speaker 1: mean that they don't have good players and good athletes. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, Coach Scali, he talked about it in the
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Speaker 1: pretty much every media availability he's had since the game,
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Speaker 1: but talking about the offensive line and the defensive line
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Speaker 1: in particular and what a strong job that they did.
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Speaker 1: I think that the grades played out. Jai Moy is
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Speaker 1: becoming a national star just for no other reason than
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Speaker 1: the fact that that spin move went viral on X. And, but,
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Speaker 1: but just seeing this team go out, compete with better athletes,
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Speaker 1: blow them out of the water. And they were playing harder. Like, look, look,
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Speaker 1: look at all the past defenses or passes defended and
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Speaker 1: the cornerbacks, how tight the coverage was, the tackling and
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Speaker 1: how that's improved from a season ago. Nate Ritchie is
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Speaker 1: a revelation in the sense of him getting in there
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Speaker 1: and sticking his nose in it. And, and, and finishing
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Speaker 1: tackles and the, and he's, he's proven to be the
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Speaker 1: player that Utah always thought he could be. So just
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Speaker 1: those types of things were the things that really showed up.
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Speaker 1: I know Arkansas is not good. Do we really know
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Speaker 1: who this Utah team is yet? Probably not. It's we're
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Speaker 1: going to need to see a road game or two
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Speaker 1: before we get their full identity, but there's an awful
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Speaker 1: lot to like. And when you've got an sec team
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Speaker 1: coming to your house and and you beat them 43-10,
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Speaker 1: and you make some poor old lady swear off her
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Speaker 1: lifelong love on sports radio in the South, you've done
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Speaker 1: good things.
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Speaker 3: I wish we got 877-353-0700 in the next segment if
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Speaker 3: you want to call in with a Southern accent and
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Speaker 3: the amount of passion that we got going viral across
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Speaker 3: the Internet this week. Please, you're more than welcome here
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Speaker 3: on the Sean O'Connell Show. So 2-0, obviously this team
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Speaker 3: has shown some really good things, but let's be reasonable,
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Speaker 3: let's be fair. It hasn't all been perfect. What is
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Speaker 3: the largest remaining concern for Dan Sorensen?
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Speaker 1: A couple of things. I would like to see a
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Speaker 1: little bit more cohesion on the offensive line, especially when
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Speaker 1: it comes to run blocking. They've been outstanding in pass protection.
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Speaker 1: They've given up the one sack. They're pretty limited on
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Speaker 1: the pressures that they're giving up. You know, Devin Dampier
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Speaker 1: is definitely helping out a lot in that department. But
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Speaker 1: when you see– look, we're seeing amazing things, especially from
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Speaker 1: a formation and an interesting– personnel groupings and things like that.
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Speaker 1: I think the option game is going to be really,
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Speaker 1: really solid all year long. But when you really need
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Speaker 1: to line up and get a yard or two, when
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Speaker 1: you need to just play traditional Smash Mouths football, I
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Speaker 1: think that we still need to see some more growth
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Speaker 1: and cohesiveness on that offensive line the other thing that
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Speaker 1: i think that we need to see is is really
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Speaker 1: at the defensive tackle spot look moe and kafusi look
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Speaker 1: like potential stars if not this year certainly next year
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Speaker 1: uh and uh they they can both be really really
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Speaker 1: special defensive tackles amongst the best that the youths have
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Speaker 1: had and that's saying a lot given the fact that
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Speaker 1: the guys that we've rolled through that program my biggest
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Speaker 1: concern with that group is Who are the number three
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Speaker 1: and the number four guys? Mike Tatioli has been a
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Speaker 1: big part of that rotation, and it's great to see
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Speaker 1: him getting on the field. He's had some really solid moments,
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Speaker 1: but I think we need to see more consistency from him,
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Speaker 1: from a guy like Lucas Samsula. But getting that rotation
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Speaker 1: a little bit tighter, especially when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: run defense, that's what's going to be the difference maker
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Speaker 1: for this team. you know, the question still on the line,
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Speaker 1: but that's where you win football games. If you can
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Speaker 1: be the physical team that can dominate and, and show
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Speaker 1: your assertiveness and then impose your will on the other team,
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Speaker 1: like you're going to win and you're going to win
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Speaker 1: pretty much every time. And we've seen what we need
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Speaker 1: to see. I think out of the skill positions, we've
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Speaker 1: seen what we need to see out of the cornerbacks.
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Speaker 1: I love the back seven of this defense. And so if,
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Speaker 1: if defensive tackle, if they can shore that up and, and,
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Speaker 1: To a lesser extent, the defensive ends, look, they're getting
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Speaker 1: tons of pressure. Lance Holtzclaw is top 10 in the
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Speaker 1: nation in pressures, but there's not a sack yet for
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Speaker 1: the end. And I know that that room knows it.
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Speaker 1: And so seeing those guys get home and get a
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Speaker 1: quarterback down, we need to see more of that as well.
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Speaker 1: But look, they're well on their way. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that this team is even close to playing its best
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Speaker 1: football of the season. And it's going to be fun
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Speaker 1: to watch them develop week to week.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out that thing that you just
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Speaker 3: alluded to, the difference between being there to make the
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Speaker 3: play and actually finishing the play. Utah could have come
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Speaker 3: away from the Arkansas game with at least four picks
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Speaker 3: if you just caught some balls on the defensive side. Like,
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Speaker 3: it was wild. Jackson Benny could have easily had two
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Speaker 3: picks in the game instead of just the one. Chenault
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Speaker 3: had one go right off his chest, right? I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's examples of this. And you just brought up Lance Holtzclaw,
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Speaker 3: who has got a great pressure rate right now but
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Speaker 3: no sacks. I was walking behind him exiting the stadium
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Speaker 3: the other night after the press conferences, and I think
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Speaker 3: he was with his parents. Forgive me, Lance Holtzclaw and
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Speaker 3: the Holtzclaw family. I don't know who's who. But he
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Speaker 3: was describing the play in which he was literally right there,
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Speaker 3: off a spin move to make a sack, and just
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Speaker 3: credit to the Arkansas quarterback. He scooted out and avoided
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Speaker 3: the pressure and things like that. There are guys that
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Speaker 3: we have seen come through this Utah football program that
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Speaker 3: never miss a tackle, but they don't make the big
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Speaker 3: sacks either. They don't intercept the ball. They don't force
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Speaker 3: the fumbles. They're not that guy, right? They're the reliable,
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Speaker 3: mistake-free type football players. And then there's the guys that
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Speaker 3: are the habit players, that are the guys that do
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Speaker 3: finish that sack, that do force that fumble, that come
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Speaker 3: down with the interception or tip the ball that ends
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Speaker 3: up being an interception. And those guys end up being
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Speaker 3: the legends, the all-conference individuals, etc., Where is the line, Dan?
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Speaker 3: How do those guys cross that line? Where you're there,
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Speaker 3: you make the play, or you're there and you almost
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Speaker 3: get it. Maybe it ends up being a tackle for
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Speaker 3: no gain, but you didn't quite get the tackle for
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Speaker 3: a loss kind of a thing. You understand what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: I understand exactly what you're saying. And I think that,
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Speaker 1: you know, when we're talking about questions for this Utah
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Speaker 1: football team, that is a really valid one, especially on
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Speaker 1: the defense, because what we've seen through two weeks is
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Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of really solid guys. doing their
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Speaker 1: job you know scally talks a lot a lot about
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Speaker 1: owning your 10 square yards of responsibility and we're seeing
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Speaker 1: a lot of that and even you know scally when
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Speaker 1: you talk about sacks he he doesn't necessarily care about
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Speaker 1: the sack he wants the play disrupted but at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day the sack is the best thing
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Speaker 1: possible because not only do they lose the down but
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Speaker 1: they lose the yardage as well it just it puts
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Speaker 1: more pressure on the offense when you talk about who
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Speaker 1: those guys are i look Who are the Havoc guys?
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Speaker 1: Moe is a guy that I think has absolutely proven
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Speaker 1: that he's a Havoc guy. He reminds me of the
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Speaker 1: football equivalent of those old insurance commercials with the mayhem
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Speaker 1: guy that caused all the chaos. He does it in
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Speaker 1: his tiny frame, tiny five-foot frame. 10, 6-foot, whatever he is,
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Speaker 1: and 280, 290, he's causing as much chaos as I've
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Speaker 1: seen a defensive tackle cause in a long time. And
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Speaker 1: so he's absolutely a have-it guy. But you do need
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Speaker 1: more guys to step up. I think John O'Hall, he's
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Speaker 1: been playing really, really good football the first two weeks.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for him to step up and be that
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Speaker 1: guy that'll pick off the ball and house it, that'll
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Speaker 1: do that. I think Scooby Davis has a chance to
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Speaker 1: be that guy. He was so good against Arkansas in
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Speaker 1: the coverage. And, you know, he didn't have the pick
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Speaker 1: go through his hands. He had a couple of pass breakups,
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Speaker 1: and he's playing aggressively. He's got it in him. I
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Speaker 1: know he's got that dog in him. But to your point, like,
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Speaker 1: it's got to– They got to find a way to
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Speaker 1: get it to come out when the lights are on
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Speaker 1: and and make the big big transitional play I I
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Speaker 1: don't know who that guy is just yet I think
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Speaker 1: that they'll emerge in the next two to three games
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Speaker 1: you know Utah State look maybe they take it out
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Speaker 1: on Utah State and this this offense of Utah State
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Speaker 1: is not exactly a juggernaut so getting some confidence and
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Speaker 1: some big plays like that would be a good thing
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Speaker 1: that they can take to Iowa State and beyond. But, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is definitely a need. This is a good defense.
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Speaker 1: If they want to be great, they need the Jonos
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Speaker 1: of the world to step up, the Lances and the
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Speaker 1: Ethan Days of the world to start getting home and
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Speaker 1: really making life exceptionally hard on those offenses.
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Speaker 3: Dan Sorensen from Mute Zone is our guest here on
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Speaker 3: the Sean O'Connell Show talking all things Utah. This Utah
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Speaker 3: State matchup is really interesting because I think the Aggies
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Speaker 3: are solid defensively. I think they've got a lot of
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Speaker 3: problems on their offense. It's not a lack of skill.
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Speaker 3: I think, for the most part, it's shaky quarterback play.
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Speaker 3: Can't really figure out what to make of their line
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Speaker 3: yet because you played horribly against Iowa State. Played pretty
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Speaker 3: well against Washington, but still ended up dropping that one.
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Speaker 3: As you've taken a dive into the Aggies... where there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of familiarity, obviously. What do you make of
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Speaker 3: Utah State?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the schizophrenic team, absolutely. The opener against Idaho State
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Speaker 1: is just something that never should happen in Logan. Look,
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for Bronco Mendenhall as
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Speaker 1: a coach. I think he gets... as much out of
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Speaker 1: the talent level that he has as anybody in the country.
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Speaker 1: I think he's a smart defensive coach. It's no surprise
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Speaker 1: that the Aggie defense played Washington tough. And I do
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Speaker 1: think Washington showed up and just thought that by virtue
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Speaker 1: of showing up in the building, they were going to
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Speaker 1: walk away with the win. And it bit them in
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Speaker 1: the butt. And Utah cannot afford to do that. Look,
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Speaker 1: this is a rivalry game. These Utah State guys do
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Speaker 1: not Like the fact that they're, they're taking a backseat
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Speaker 1: to the other programs in the state and, and they're
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Speaker 1: going to try to take it out on the youth
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Speaker 1: and they should. And so Utah needs to be prepared
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Speaker 1: and they need, look, they're vastly more talented than the Aggies,
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Speaker 1: but Utah needs to be prepared and they need to
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Speaker 1: be prepared to, to take a punch to the mouth and, and,
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Speaker 1: and to deliver in kind. But yeah, I think that
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Speaker 1: I don't love the Utah state offense. So I know
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Speaker 1: we don't know who's going to start at quarterback. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's the, the potential injury issue, but they've, they've turned
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Speaker 1: the ball over a lot. They're not super effective in
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Speaker 1: the run game just yet. They do have a couple
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Speaker 1: of guys at wide receiver that can make plays. So
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Speaker 1: you can't sleep on them. But it's that defense that's
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Speaker 1: going to keep them in the game and, and they're,
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Speaker 1: they're disciplined and they're not overly talented, but they run
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Speaker 1: that scheme really well. And it's, It's kind of a weird,
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Speaker 1: kooky scheme that Bronco, he's ran for years, but he
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Speaker 1: does make those tweaks to it. So this is going
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Speaker 1: to be another test for the Utah offensive line, especially
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Speaker 1: as they're communicating. But if the Utes don't turn the
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Speaker 1: ball over, if they stay disciplined on penalties, they should
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Speaker 1: walk away with this game. Any other results, it would
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Speaker 1: be highly concerning.
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Speaker 3: When you take a look at the kind of overarching
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Speaker 3: Big 12 conference, the power structure of the Big 12 conference,
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Speaker 3: we're very, very early in the process, obviously, of figuring
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Speaker 3: out who's who. I'm ready to say that for now,
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Speaker 3: BYU and Utah have been the most impressive. They're the
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Speaker 3: two best. Kansas State deserves to be in a conversation
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Speaker 3: that we weren't putting them in before the season started
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Speaker 3: based on what we know so far. Colorado's a lot
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Speaker 3: better than I thought. They've looked a lot better than
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Speaker 3: I thought they would look. Oklahoma State, you just talked
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Speaker 3: about the schizophrenia, the bipolar nature of what we've seen
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Speaker 3: from Utah State. Lose to Tulsa, beat Oregon. Who had
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Speaker 3: that on the bingo card? When you're handicapping the Big
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Speaker 3: 12 through two weeks, heading into week three, how do
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Speaker 3: you see it?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the state of Utah. Look, BYU and
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Speaker 1: Utah fans aren't going to like hearing it. This BYU
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Speaker 1: team is really, really good, and they're going to be
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Speaker 1: a tough out for everybody. And they're well-coached, and they're
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Speaker 1: bought into what Kalani's selling. And so that Holy War
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Speaker 1: game in November is going to loom really large and
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Speaker 1: might be for the conference title if– if things continue
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Speaker 1: on the way that we've seen them. But yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Utes and BYU, I think, have been the two most
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Speaker 1: impressive teams. Like you, I'm shocked that Colorado is where
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Speaker 1: they're at. Their defense especially has been good. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that their offense is... is particularly special or impressive
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Speaker 1: by any means. And they might get better as the
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Speaker 1: season goes on, but they'll get exposed at some point.
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Speaker 1: I'm curious about Houston. I do think that, look, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of talent. They're better than they were last year,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion. And we'll, you know, we'll know a
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Speaker 1: lot about that either with Houston and Texas tech is
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Speaker 1: coming up this weekend, but you know, Texas tech hasn't
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Speaker 1: been as dominant as their payroll would suggest. It should be,
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Speaker 1: and that game is going to loom large in terms
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Speaker 1: of what the conference will look like and should look like.
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: I think it's Utah, BYU, Texas Tech, potentially Houston, especially
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Speaker 1: depending on how they perform in Salt Lake City in
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Speaker 1: a few weeks. Um, and yeah, K state's probably that,
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Speaker 1: that out, outlier, the, the, the team that like Arizona
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Speaker 1: state a couple of years ago came out of nowhere and, and,
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Speaker 1: and did something. And, and those are, those are the
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Speaker 1: teams that are at the top of my radar. That's
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Speaker 1: of course going to change as, as the games get
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Speaker 1: played and teams drop games, especially games that maybe they shouldn't, but, uh,
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Speaker 1: We haven't seen Utah get tested yet. I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: see when that happens, how they respond, how they respond
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Speaker 1: to adversity. And, you know, that's where culture kicks in.
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Speaker 1: And hopefully with the culture that Scali is implementing, the
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Speaker 1: youths respond, and they're going to be in it until
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Speaker 1: the very end.
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Speaker 3: We need to come up with, like, I don't know,
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Speaker 3: a catchy name. for this two quarterback system that the
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Speaker 3: Utes are running. Uh, I mean, it is truly unique
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Speaker 3: and not just because of the X's and O's, but
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Speaker 3: the relationship that Bird and Devin have with one another in,
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Speaker 3: in the modern era of college football, the unselfish nature
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Speaker 3: of that whole thing is, is really, I mean, it's refreshing, honestly, uh,
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Speaker 3: because we, we get jaded to like, oh, this guy
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Speaker 3: is just looking out for number one and it's all
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Speaker 3: about money for him and this and that. And, these
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Speaker 3: guys just want to win football games and they're willing to,
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Speaker 3: you know, give up touches to the other guy, or
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Speaker 3: they're willing to let some of the glory be shared.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know if there's, there's not even a
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Speaker 3: personnel package, like a proper name for, for the two
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Speaker 3: quarterback thing. We got to come up with something, Dan.
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Speaker 1: We do. I I'm, I'm brainstorming now. We'll, we'll have to,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to outsource it. We'll, we'll, we'll bring it
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Speaker 1: up on, on Twitter or something, but yeah, I, it's,
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Speaker 1: astounding to me I've never seen it look I've covered
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Speaker 1: college football for more than 20 years at this point
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything close to what this looks like
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Speaker 1: now people talk about like Tebow and and and Chris
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Speaker 1: Leak back in the day playing the two quarterback thing
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Speaker 1: at Florida but it wasn't like this and to your
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Speaker 1: point about the relationship the the the lack of selfishness
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Speaker 1: the the excitement for other guys and and and really
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Speaker 1: going to bat for for your teammates I I Coach
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Speaker 1: Scali talked about it the other day, talking about the
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Speaker 1: fact that there's a lot of... And not just the quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: but the wide receiver room, I think, is what he
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Speaker 1: was talking about, where not a lot of me guys.
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Speaker 1: You can either go somewhere else and be the guy,
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Speaker 1: or you can come here and do something and be
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Speaker 1: something as a collective. And they've really got the guys...
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Speaker 1: to buy into that. Yeah. What, what it's, what it
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Speaker 1: can be called. Like I, I, you're right. We need
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Speaker 1: a purple people eater, fearsome, foursome type nickname for it
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Speaker 1: because it merits it. And, and frankly, I don't think
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Speaker 1: we've seen anything yet. We, we've just seen little tiny
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Speaker 1: bits and pieces of what they can do, but, but
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of special football and
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Speaker 1: some exciting things, especially with those two guys on the field.
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Speaker 3: I just want to, Bring up Wayshon for the sake
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Speaker 3: of bringing up Wayshon because through two games, I mean,
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Speaker 3: the headliner is, wow, two quarterbacks, Devin and Bird, crazy offense.
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Speaker 3: Wayshon Parker is playing an unbelievable brand of football right now.
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Speaker 1: Oh, without question. Leading the NCAA in touchdowns with six.
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Speaker 1: He should have seven. Well, maybe not, but he was
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Speaker 1: pretty close to seven against Arkansas. And really, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: things that he's doing, both in the running game and
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Speaker 1: as a receiver, I... I don't know that I've ever
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Speaker 1: seen a back be that way. Like, look, it's not
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Speaker 1: weird to have a twitchy back. That's good coming out
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Speaker 1: of the backfield and, and, and catching balls. But way
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Speaker 1: Sean's got the body control in the hands of a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. And he, and he's got the bulk of a,
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Speaker 1: of a, the bell cow running back. And, and, He
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Speaker 1: hasn't broken one yet, and that's the crazy thing to
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Speaker 1: me because he's capable of being a home run threat
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Speaker 1: every time he touches the ball. He hasn't broken a
19:45
Speaker 1: long run yet, and I'm waiting for that to happen
19:48
Speaker 1: because he's more than capable of it. it. But he's
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Speaker 1: playing great football. And, look, you talk to people in
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Speaker 1: the program, and there are a lot of NFL scouts
19:56
Speaker 1: that are around this team taking a look at what
19:58
Speaker 1: these guys– potential are to offer and and way Sean
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Speaker 1: is the number one guy that everybody's coming to look
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Speaker 1: like look at right now and the fact that he's
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Speaker 1: young the fact that frankly he doesn't have a lot
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Speaker 1: of workload on his body he only averaged 12 touches
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Speaker 1: a game last year and he's averaging like 14 or
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Speaker 1: 15 this year So it's not even like he's carrying
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Speaker 1: this massive load where he's touching the ball 20 to
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Speaker 1: 30 times a game to pile up the yardage. He's
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Speaker 1: doing this in limited touches. He's doing it in style.
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Speaker 1: And then he walks off the field with that giant
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Speaker 1: Wayshon Parker blinged-out necklace and makes him one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite guys on the team. He's got a personality. He's
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Speaker 1: a cool personality. It's not just... he's not arrogant he's
20:42
Speaker 1: just fun so like we're the hashtag team fun place
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Speaker 1: and he fits in with that 100 i cannot wait
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Speaker 1: to see everything that he accomplishes this year uh.
20:53
Speaker 3: Some early entries in the cool slash clever nickname for
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Speaker 3: the two quarterback system coming in on the text line
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Speaker 3: this is from charles says my first thought was double
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Speaker 3: barrel shotgun but since they're not always in the shotgun
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Speaker 3: how about double dragon Double Dragon for all of us
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Speaker 3: old enough to have played the amazing Double Dragon video games.
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Speaker 3: That's the current leader in the clubhouse for me, Dan.
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Speaker 1: That takes me back to Peter Piper pizza back in
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Speaker 1: the day and dropping quarters. Look, I'm an old guy.
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Speaker 1: I can say that. I approve.
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Speaker 3: Love it. Keep the ideas coming in 877-353-0700. Dan, always
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Speaker 3: appreciate your time. We'll see you up there on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Thanks for having me on, and I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to see what they're able to do.
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