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Sean O'Connell Show - Full POD 9-10-26 · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: That's coming up at noon. We have Devin Dampier, who's
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  Speaker 1: fun day. on the show the nfl oh i also
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk all things football with him You've got Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night football right here on the station tonight. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: streaming services are all the way kicked in. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a little college football tonight as well. So
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  Speaker 1: we're almost to the weekend. This is the soft launch
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  Speaker 1: to your football weekend. here in Salt Lake City, and
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  Speaker 1: for me today, here in Saratoga Springs. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: NFL returned last night and came in like a lamb, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bit of a whimper of a game.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly the one that we were hoping for between
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: 10-13 final.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing about the NFL is they are absolutely stink-proof.
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  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is it was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty terrible game to watch, right? Sam Darnold goes out
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  Speaker 1: in the first series. Drew Locke has to play the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the game. Drew Locke is a respectable backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: but he is a career backup. He has the second
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  Speaker 1: lowest completion percentage of any active quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He is a guy that you don't want to trust
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  Speaker 1: for anything more than a quarter or two. And we
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  Speaker 1: got him in the first game of the season. for
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  Speaker 1: most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Now, respect to Drew Locke. He did what he was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do. He took care of the football. 16-22.
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  Speaker 1: He did throw a touchdown pass, so I should be
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  Speaker 1: kind in my evaluation. Drake May on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: who's supposed to be part of this new crop of
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  Speaker 1: superstar quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: 23-33, 178 yards.
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  Speaker 1: That is an abysmal average per completion, 5.4. And he
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  Speaker 1: threw three interceptions, including the game-deciding tried to force it in,
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  Speaker 1: tried to win the game on the goal line, throwing
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  Speaker 1: it down to the goal line, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: wide-open man in front of him, kind of like seemed
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  Speaker 1: like he should have had the right vision window for it. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he forced it into double coverage through a pick that
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  Speaker 1: allowed the hated Seattle Seahawks to seal a win, 13-10.
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  Speaker 1: And look, when I say the NFL is stink-proof, a
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  Speaker 1: game like this, If it's anything else, right? If the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Christmas Day game is the equivalent of this, if
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  Speaker 1: any kind of like, I don't know, World Series game
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  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball is this bad, part of the
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  Speaker 1: storyline is, holy cow, what a crap game that was. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you got a little bit of that coming off the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's kickoff, but mostly it's people now with fodder for
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  Speaker 1: whatever their issues are.
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  Speaker 2: It's people... ready to talk about, uh-oh, Drake May.
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  Speaker 1: This is a problem he's had forever, this is a
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  Speaker 1: problem that's going to continue for the Patriots. The Drew
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  Speaker 1: Locke thing is what it is, but now the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: are most likely going to be in the market for
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  Speaker 1: some type of quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Revamp.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold did not break his hip, thank goodness. The
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  Speaker 1: x-rays came back negative, but who knows how long he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be out.
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  Speaker 3: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown, who was one of the biggest off-season acquisitions for
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, one of the big stories of
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  Speaker 1: roster remaking, really, in the whole National Football League, high
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  Speaker 1: ankle sprain, and again, doesn't play anything close to the
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  Speaker 1: full game.
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  Speaker 2: He did finish with.
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  Speaker 1: Three catches for 26 yards, but A.J. Brown was brought
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  Speaker 1: in to be wide receiver number one. He was brought
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  Speaker 1: in to be a threat that Drake may... does not
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  Speaker 1: have outside of him and now a high ankle sprain
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  Speaker 1: which i heard albert breer on the rich eisen show
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  Speaker 1: this morning uh making his case that they should be
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  Speaker 1: called something else high ankle sprains should be called something
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  Speaker 1: else because it it lends us just from a linguistic
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  Speaker 1: perspective to underestimate how serious that injury is a high
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  Speaker 1: ankle sprain is significant ligament damage and we don't treat
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  Speaker 1: it that way because we just think of a sprained
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  Speaker 1: ankle Well, when you sprain your ankle, you just wait
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  Speaker 1: for the swelling to go down, and then you're fine, right?
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  Speaker 1: A high ankle sprain is a lot more intricate and
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  Speaker 1: complicated than that of an injury, so who knows how
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  Speaker 1: long A.J. Brown is potentially going to be out for
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and who knows how long Drake
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  Speaker 1: May is going to have these same problems as he
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  Speaker 1: cannot seem to protect the football. James Peterson is back
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  Speaker 1: in our Broadway studios producing today. He's a big-time Patriots fan,
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  Speaker 1: so he's lamenting what happened, but 13, 10.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of a stinker of a game, but we're off
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  Speaker 2: and running with the NFL season, James. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And to your point about the NFL being stink proof,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it was having to do with how great the
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  Speaker 4: crowd is at Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Usually I tuned into the radio call.
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  Speaker 4: We have the local Seattle Seahawks broadcast now home of
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks here for this season. Um, The crowd was great,
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  Speaker 4: like a typical Seahawks crowd is. I hate how they
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  Speaker 4: refer to all of them as the 12s, but whatever.
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  Speaker 4: They were a great crowd. I wonder if that atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: also kind of made it feel more interesting than it was, OC,
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  Speaker 4: because I was into it for most of the game,
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  Speaker 4: even though it was terrible football.
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  Speaker 1: Look, JSN had a beautiful game, and he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the, Star player. He's the type of appointment viewing
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  Speaker 1: that some people want when they tune in.
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  Speaker 2: Eight catches, 122 yards.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, credit to Drew Locke because.
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  Speaker 2: Even as I criticize, not really criticize, I'm just speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Facts about what Drew Locke is as a quarterback, but
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  Speaker 1: credit to Drew Locke for realizing, like, setting himself up
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  Speaker 1: for success in a situation like that. It is a
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  Speaker 1: nightmare scenario for a team when QB1 goes down early
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  Speaker 1: in the first game of the season and you've got
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  Speaker 1: to rely on a guy who, let's be honest, probably
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  Speaker 1: didn't think he was going to be getting reps in
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  Speaker 1: this game. But being a professional, getting out there and realizing, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I have at my disposal one of the best wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers in the league. By some people's metric, the best
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver in the league. I'm going to lean on him, okay?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to make myself....
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  Speaker 1: The type of person who just says, I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: best guy on the field right now.
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  Speaker 2: He is. Let me put the ball in his hands.
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  Speaker 2: And he did that. And he did it enough that Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Was able to eke out a win against the same
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  Speaker 1: team that they beat in the Super Bowl, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Now for Seattle, things get a lot more interesting because
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  Speaker 1: you have to figure out the path forward with an
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  Speaker 1: injured Sam Darnold. For the Patriots, you have to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the path forward with an injured A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Brown.
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  Speaker 1: My sincere hope is that injuries, not just for the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season, that injuries for the football season in general
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  Speaker 1: are not a big part of the conversation. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that obviously for Utah football fans you've
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  Speaker 1: had to be sensitive to in recent years. Last year
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  Speaker 1: you were pretty lucky with being a mostly healthy team,
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  Speaker 1: but then you find out after the season that there
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  Speaker 1: were guys dealing with more severe bumps and bruises than
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  Speaker 1: we thought. Your starting quarterback was hampered for a good
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  Speaker 1: portion of the year.
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  Speaker 2: He did miss a start.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't feel the pain of that because Bert Ficklin
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  Speaker 1: as a backup is a He's a quality starter.
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  Speaker 2: He's not just a quality backup. He's a quality starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: What you don't want is for injuries to define anything
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  Speaker 1: about Utah's season, your favorite NFL team season. And weirdly enough,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's your rival, I don't want injuries to
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  Speaker 1: define anything about BYU's football season. And already they're starting
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  Speaker 1: to feel some unfortunate kind of things that.
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  Speaker 2: Came out of a Utah Tech game, right? The main
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  Speaker 2: goal in a Utah Tech game is to just escape
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  Speaker 2: without any kind of season-ending injury.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that both of these injuries to important
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  Speaker 1: players for BYU in that Utah Tech game are classified
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  Speaker 1: as less than season-ending, but they're still significant. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: the official injury report coming up later on the show
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  Speaker 1: because it is a conference game. And in the Big 12,
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  Speaker 1: you have to put out injury reports. four conference football games.
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  Speaker 1: So BYU Arizona had to put out their injury report.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else does so far. Not this week at least.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL is back. College football is back. You
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  Speaker 1: are having to prioritize your viewership on those two things
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  Speaker 1: as we talked about on the show yesterday. And I
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  Speaker 1: put the poll question up yesterday which you prioritize as.
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  Speaker 2: A football fan.
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  Speaker 1: College football the NFL, or you truly consider both to
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  Speaker 1: be a must-watch. Those Twitter polls run for 24 hours.
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  Speaker 2: And we got a.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically 71% of our listeners, to no surprise, prioritize
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  Speaker 1: college football over the NFL. Whether that is truly indicative
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  Speaker 1: of the entire market in Utah, in Salt Lake City,
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  Speaker 1: of the Wasatch Front or not, that is one of
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  Speaker 1: probably the few places that NFL football is.
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  Speaker 2: Not king of the castle.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the last holdover major media markets,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine, in America where college football still has
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  Speaker 1: number one billing. There's maybe like, I'd really love to
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  Speaker 1: do a poll like that in Atlanta because obviously they
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  Speaker 1: have the NFL there.
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  Speaker 2: But the Falcons have been hapless and hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: And you got Georgia and Georgia Tech both that are
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  Speaker 1: both pretty relevant right now, especially the University of Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: very relevant right now. they've also got the Braves who
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  Speaker 1: are really good, the Hawks can't seem to figure things out.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see what that looks like in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the southern markets, the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: SEC markets, where college football is of course king, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part are not major television markets or anything
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  Speaker 1: close to major television markets. And maybe I'm stretching a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, calling our little backwoods flyover state a major
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  Speaker 1: television market, but Depending on the metrics you're using, it's
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  Speaker 1: at least top 30. So this might be one of
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  Speaker 1: the final places that college football is still outpacing the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in terms of fan interest, if indeed that extends
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  Speaker 1: all the way through. And by the way, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if the NFL is number two for most people,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of the responses we got on.
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  Speaker 2: The show yesterday were about.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I schedule my week and I schedule my life
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  Speaker 1: around college football and college football viewership and college football attendance.
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  Speaker 1: But also it's NHL hockey and NBA basketball. It's the
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  Speaker 1: jazz and the mammoth now. And, you know, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: NFL is not the king here in Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 1: than it is in all these other markets, which until
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  Speaker 1: today I hadn't really thought about much because you just assume,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, we're a proud American city and American
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  Speaker 1: sports fans are put the NFL number one on the list.
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  Speaker 1: It is the main driver of all things. And it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be true here. Maybe it's not true.
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  Speaker 1: According to the poll, which is, of course, not the
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  Speaker 1: entire population of Salt Lake City, it isn't true. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just because you're listening to a college football-centric show
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  Speaker 1: that you're a college football prioritizer.
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  Speaker 2: 877-353-0700. I'd love to hear from you. So your reactions to.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL kickoff last night, Seattle Seahawks sneak out a win,
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  Speaker 1: eke out a win, 13-10 over the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: And the Drake-May conversation is the reason that the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: even in a game that should kind of lose with
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  Speaker 1: a game like that, but it's why they continue to win.
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  Speaker 1: It's why they continue to be the major media attention
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  Speaker 1: driver in the United States of America because... You've got
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  Speaker 1: a guy now in Drake May who some people, there's
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  Speaker 1: a good contingent of people, call it a 50 or
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  Speaker 1: a 60-40 split, who believe that Drake May is that dude,
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  Speaker 1: is one of these guys that gets his name into
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  Speaker 1: conversation sooner than later with like the Josh Allens and
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  Speaker 1: the Lamar Jacksons of the world.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced on Drake May and a performance like
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 1: Last night where he showed some of the ugly sort
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  Speaker 1: of issues of his previous career well, college football and
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  Speaker 1: the first two seasons of his NFL career, that reared
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  Speaker 1: its ugly head again for the Patriots. If you're Mike Rabel,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bigger problem for you than Diana Rossini is. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you can survive all that off-the-field stuff. You cannot survive
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  Speaker 1: Drake May not being the franchise quarterback that.
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  Speaker 2: You need him to be.
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  Speaker 1: And when you flip on the radio this morning here
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  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City or anywhere else, That is the debate.
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. Is Drake May that guy or
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  Speaker 1: is he not? The Patriots thought they had found a
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  Speaker 1: guy who was going to end up as a top five,
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  Speaker 1: top ten.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And it is prohibitively rare for anybody to overachieve the talent,
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  Speaker 1: the execution ability of their quarterback. We have rare examples
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  Speaker 1: of that existing in the past. Obviously, the 90s Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers with Trent Dilfer as their quarterback. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: had a couple iterations now of the Baltimore Ravens, the
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco Ravens, primarily used as an example here, where, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the quarterback that is the driving force behind things.
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  Speaker 1: But the New England Patriots are a perfect example of
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  Speaker 1: the franchise, the ultimate example, probably, of a franchise that
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  Speaker 1: goes as their quarterback goes, right? And there were questions
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  Speaker 1: about whether or not it was a Tom Brady thing
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  Speaker 1: or it was a Bill Belichick thing.
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  Speaker 2: We got the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady went to Tampa Bay and played
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  Speaker 1: a couple seasons there just to.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the answer to that question, to leave no
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  Speaker 2: doubt that he was the guy.
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  Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs, a lot of people will give
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  Speaker 1: almost as much credit to Andy Reid as they give
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  Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes. And Andy Reid has always been respected
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  Speaker 1: and always been considered one of the great coaches in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL game When did he get elevated? When did
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  Speaker 1: he get pushed to a new level, a new echelon
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  Speaker 1: of respect? It's when he got the quarterback. Not just
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  Speaker 1: a good quarterback, but he got a great quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 2: And he was able to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had Donovan McNabb for years in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't able to quite get over the hump. He had
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  Speaker 1: Alex Smith, who's criminally underrated, in my opinion, as an
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. Not able to quite get over the hump. Almost.
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  Speaker 3: Almost.
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  Speaker 2: So, so close.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get the right quarterback and you become
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  Speaker 1: a borderline dynasty. And it elevates who you are as
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  Speaker 1: a coach. If you're Mike Vrabel, if you're the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots, if you're Robert Kraft, they know it better
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  Speaker 1: than anybody does.
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  Speaker 2: That good is the enemy of great. Quarterback play is
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  Speaker 2: perhaps the.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Best example of that phenomenon you will ever see in
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: your life. Good is the enemy of great. Meaning, If
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you have a good quarterback, he's too good to replace.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He's too good to talk about drafting somebody else to develop.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: He's too good to bench when things start to go
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit awry.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: But he's not great.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: He's not someone that he's Jimmy Garoppolo with the San
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Francisco 49ers where he's going to get you to the party.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: But when he's got somebody open in the end zone,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: he's going to miss that one throw.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: That can make you a Super Bowl champion. He's the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: guy that's going to make the one bad decision.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: And it's an overreaction to one single game from Drake
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: May at the beginning of an NFL season. But it
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: is something that you have to talk about in the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: grander scheme of things when it comes to football in general.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Good is the enemy of great with quarterbacks more than
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: anyone else. It's true with every position, but other positions
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it is masked by the people around them. It is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: masked by, like, oh, you've got two good linebackers and
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: one great linebacker. Those two good linebackers are still a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: problem in end-of-game scenarios, goal-line scenarios. third and short scenarios
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: where you need to make a play because they're good enough,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they're going to make a tackle, but if they're great,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: they're going to make a tackle before that.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Guy crosses the line to gain.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: If they make the tackle anyway, you're not benching them,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you're not pulling them, you're not saying, all right, we
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: need to give this freshman a chance. One of the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: things that Utah football, we need to pay close, close,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: close attention to this season where there are questions that
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: have to be answered. Where are players good and where
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: are we finding guys that are actually great? I think
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier is flirting with greatness. I think he's a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: guy that because of his dynamism, we will potentially talk
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: about as one of the great quarterbacks to roll through
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: this university. He's got to get more zip on the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: deep balls. We're going to have Devin on the show today,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Dishing with Dev. We're going to talk about the things
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that he liked and he didn't like from his first
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: week's performance. against the University of Idaho, right? Way Sean Parker.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: We know he's good. We know that Way Sean is good.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Is he great? We find out as this season progresses.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: We might start to get a better indication of that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: with Arkansas, because Way Sean, in a lot of cases
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: last year, didn't have to be great. I think that
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: somebody had a conversation with him in this offseason. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: think Mark Ottawaya pulled him aside and said, look, I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: know you can be great. I think you're almost there.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We know you're good. I need great out of you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: instead of good. And especially this year because last year
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you had great on your offensive line.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I need you to now be the thing in the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: run game that is great. And if we get good
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: out of the offensive line, maybe we get great.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we do.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: But if we get greatness out of you and goodness
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: out of them, now we can have a successful running game.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: In football, you have to have a mix, obviously.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You can't expect every single position to be great all
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the time. You can't expect every individual player to be
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a great. There are plenty of years that we have
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: watched this Utah football team, even really solid Utah football.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Teams, where the.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Overall collection of talent is The whole being greater than
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the sum of the parts was why Utah was good.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: There have been other years where greatness from an important
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: position or two propelled what is an otherwise average or
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: slightly above average or maybe just good roster to great things.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to look back on some of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: those Pac-12 championship years, those two Pac-12 championship years, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: we're going to examine very, very carefully how much Cam
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Rising and him being great had to do with them
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: being successful versus, like, how many great players were there
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on those rosters? Sorry, James, I didn't hear what you
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: were trying to say there. Okay, Darnold, as expected, we'll
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: miss week two. Not really part of the conversation here,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: but good being the enemy of great. Drew Locke, if
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you can get to good... There's enough great on that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks team that maybe the team overall can achieve
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: things that, well, they hope to because that's a team
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that was a Super Bowl champion last year, and they're
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: spoiled now but not satisfied. We're down here at Southern
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Steer Butcher. It is, as I have told you for
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: weeks and weeks now, It's not a brand-new concept. It's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the friendly neighborhood butcher that your grandparents had, that maybe
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: your parents had, but with a modern twist on it
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and the mastermind of the whole thing. Dan Gunther is
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: sitting down here with me. First of all, thanks for
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: having us out here today.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no worries.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: It's great to have you.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Whoa.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I've got to get the sound. Push that mic
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a little closer there. Okay, I'm still not hearing Dan.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: We've got to get Dan's headset figured out just a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: little bit. But, yeah, we're down here at Southern Steer Butcher.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: We've got the sampler combos. We've got the daily rewards program. Thursdays,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it's 20% off the burgers, the sausages, and the hot dogs,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: getting you ready for the weekend, the tailgate party, the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: football watch party, the barbecue, because there's nothing better than
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a nice little late summer barbecue, a couple of cold beverages,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: maybe a side or two, but the main event in
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: all those things.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Is the meats.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see if we can get Dan's mic
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: working here one more time.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Give me a test, test.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: All right, test, test.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Nothing yet. Okay, we're going to have to figure that out.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: To avoid obnoxious radio and terrible radio here, Dan, you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: convey to me, just give me a thumbs up or
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: thumbs down here, chicken, pork, full line of marinades, the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: daily special today I already mentioned, And you've got the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: exotic meats as well, as we have talked about.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: What kind of.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: All right, we're getting one more headset on here. These
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: family meal options, you and I talked about that the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: first time I came down.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: The family meal options that, you know, if I'm like a...
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I consider myself a barbecue guy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I like firing up the smoker. I like to be
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a gourmand when it comes to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the meats. Not everyone is that way. So you've got these...
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: These family meal options where I can come and I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: can pick up everything I need to feed my family
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and just walk right back out the door, throw it
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in an air fryer or on the grill or whatever.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Dinner is done.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, take and bake sides. I mean, we have twice-baked potatoes.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: You've got stuffed mushrooms, jalapeno poppers. We've got rosemary carrots. Honestly,
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: you know, think about it. Anything that's taken home. Throw
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: it in the oven. Like you said, even here when
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: we're doing free samples, we throw our marinated steak tips
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: just in the air fryer at 400 for like nine minutes,
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: and it comes out just awesome, very tender and juicy.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Can we talk about the free samples?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It's a problem for me. My mouth is watering smelling
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: those things. I went and I made the mistake. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: grabbed a little toothpick. I had both of the free
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: samples that are out here. But you have, like, this
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is what I mean when we're talking about an old
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: concept with the friendly neighborhood butcher with the modern twist
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: on it, you've got like this magical machine back there,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the tumbler, the marinator, that really infuses the flavors and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: keeps the moisture in those meats.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of a proprietary piece of equipment that
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Southern Steer butchers have incorporated. The concept comes from New England, basically.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Anybody who's ever visited the Boston area or grew up
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: in that area You know, the marinated steak tips is
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: kind of like the Philly cheesesteak of that area, right?
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Where you put the sirloin steak tips in this vacuum
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: tumbler and it breaks down the muscle fiber and tenderizes
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: the meat. And the vacuum pressure forces that marinade flavor
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: and juices all the way throughout the piece of meat.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: And you can't overcook it. You can't cook it dry.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: It's always going to be tender. Back East, they put
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: it on a hoagie roll with, you know, mushrooms and
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: peppers and you know, onions and make a sandwich out
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: of it. But here, you know, people just take it home,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: you know, throw it in the air fryer, throw it
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: on the grill, and it's just terrific.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: When you say meat in the air fryer, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: what are we doing? Meat in the air fryer? No,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: that's blasphemy. You've got to put that bad boy on
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the grill. But it comes out perfectly.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, come down here to 1705 North Redwood
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Road in Saratoga Springs.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Try the steak tips.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Try everything they recommend because so far you've not led
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: us wrong.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been an awesome opportunity here to serve in
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: this community. Southern Steer also believes in giving back to
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: the community. So there's a lot of times where we'll
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: take some of our steak and some of our marinated
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: meats and we'll take it to first responders like fire
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: stations and senior living centers and so forth. So Project 52,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: once a week every year, we try to get involved
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: in the community and give back.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Last thing.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Because we've got to get to an interview here in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: just a second. But, you know, families out here now,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: you read so much stuff about the food supply chain
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and the hormones and the crazy stuff that's being put
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: into your meats. You're getting this meat from the cleanest
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: sources possible, from the artisanal sort of, you know, family-friendly
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: type farmers. Southern Steer really pays close attention to their sourcing.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the whole reason for the concept, honestly, because
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: you don't know what you're getting when you go to
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: the grocery store. You don't know what you get when
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: you just walk in and buy a shrink-wrapped piece of meat.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: Even today, the government's announced that they're importing meat from
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Argentina and Chile and Mexico, wherever. All of our cattle
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: is raised here in very specific cattle ranches where it's
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: sustainably raised. It's grass-fed all the way up until the
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: week before it goes to the processing facility, and it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: all USDA pure black Angus prime beef.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Come to Southern Steer.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Elevate the meat that you're putting on the grill, that
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you're putting in the air fryer, that you're putting, more importantly,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in your body and in the body of your family
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: members and your loved ones. It is high-quality, artisanal, humanely
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: raised meat, They are paying close attention to where it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: comes from so you don't have to worry about that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: 1705 North Redwood Road, Saratoga Springs. We're going to be
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: down here throughout the show. And, of course, they're always open.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: They're always ready to supply your tailgate party, your family barbecue,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: anything like that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Right, Dan?
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, come on down and get some free samples. Pick
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: up some jalapeno poppers for the weekend. They're really popular today.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Those armadillo eggs over there?
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we could talk about that. That's amazing.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that when Dan sits down with us
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: next time.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That will be coming up in about a minute. Half
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: an hour. Glad to be here at Southern Steer. Glad
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to have them part of the show here on ESPN 700. 92.1 FM,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: we talk Sumer sports and the NFL kickoff next on
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Utah's number one sports talk.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: Born in the U.S.A.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I was born in the U.S.A.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: You're tuned to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Chevrolet studio of ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show, coming at you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: live from Southern Steer Butcher, 1705 North Redwood Road in
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Saratoga Springs. Thursdays down here, you get 20% off hot dogs, sausages, burgers,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: everything for your neighborhood barbecue, your tailgate party, as we
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: march closer towards a kickoff between the University of Utah
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and Arkansas. But we're talking a little NFL today. at
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: least here in hour number one. NFL games kicked off
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: last night, officially in the regular season, with kind of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a stinker, if we're being honest, between the Patriots and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Thursday night football preview here on the Sean
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: O'Connell Show as we get ready for the one that
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: everyone really cares about, the Melbourne-Australia game between my San
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Francisco 49ers and the Super Bowl favorite, L.A.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Rams.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Ben Lindsey from Sumer Sports is kind enough to join
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: us here to talk about what we saw last night,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: what we should expect from tonight, and all things NFL.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: He is the senior content researcher at Sumer Sports, at
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: BenLindsey underscore on Twitter, if you're not already following.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Ben, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm doing well.
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: Can't complain. Had NFL football last night. Had some more tonight.
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: Full slate this weekend, so I'm good.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So back to busy season for all of you folks
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: at Sumer Sports. And one thing I really truly appreciate
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: is the analytical approach from Sumer Sports. But it seems
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like you, better than anyone, translates those numbers into, like,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: practical football information, practical layman's terms that we could all understand.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: And with that in mind, Drake May last night was
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: not the Drake May that the Patriots needed him to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: be if they want to make a return. to the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: super bowl which numbers really jumped out for you besides
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the three turnovers of course on what made drake mays
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: night so disastrous.
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah the the big one that jumped out especially through
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: the first three quarters was his average time to throw
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: so how long it takes from when the ball snapped
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: to when he gets rid of the ball was 2.5
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: seconds which was the same as his average depth of
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: target which is basically just how far downfield the ball
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: is going on average So their game plan coming in
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: early was we saw what happened in the Super Bowl,
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: the Seahawks' pass rush, got them on the ground a ton,
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: forced them to make bad plays under pressure.
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: And the Patriots came in and were like.
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: That's not going to happen again. We're going to get
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: the ball out. It's going to be a lot of
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: quick swing passes underneath, passes close to the line of scrimmage.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: And through three quarters, that was working okay, right? But
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: they weren't really getting any explosive plays. And then when
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: you saw at the end of the game, When he
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: did try to force the ball downfield, throw it 15-plus
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: yards downfield, that's when those mistakes came. And that's really
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: what Seattle tries to do. They try to make you
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: drive the ball down the field methodically. They do a
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: really good job, since Mike McDonald's gone there, of taking
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: away those big plays. And that was really the story
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: for the Patriots a lot of last year, was Drake
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: May was awesome pushing the ball downfield. One of the
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: most efficient quarterbacks in the NFL wasn't able to do
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: that against Seattle. And ended up making mistakes when he
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: did try to push the ball downfield.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I can't say that I fault the game plan of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: trying to make those short throws turn into big yardage
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: if A.J. Brown is available, because I'm looking at your
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Twitter right now, and they mentioned it on the broadcast
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: as well, but A.J. Brown does more than anyone in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the NFL when it comes to receiving yards off of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: slant routes. And as you referenced in your tweet, it's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: not particularly close. This is a guy who turns a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: short throw into a big play. Obviously, he was a
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: big offseason acquisition for the Patriots. But does that game
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: plan then go out the window if you have a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: compromised or an absent A.J.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Brown?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Was that a big problem for them and maybe the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: reason why things went awry?
• 34:56
  Speaker 10: I think so. And they have some other players like
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: Pop Douglas in the slot as a guy who can
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: create after the catch a little bit. But really when
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: the Patriots, you come out of this offseason and there's
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: talk about they had a light schedule. They're probably going
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: to regress a little bit this year. But at the
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: same time, their receiving core on paper looked a lot
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: better coming into this year. Bringing in A.J. Brown, who,
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: like you mentioned, can create after the catch, can also
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: win downfields. and honestly should have had a pretty easy
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: touchdown on the DPI, that guy called, that May underthrew.
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: You bring in Romeo Dobbs, who was a consistent receiver
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: for Green Bay. He has a massive drop in the game.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: So that was one of the more disappointing things in
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: that game is those acquisitions at wide receiver that were
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: supposed to improve the room. Brown gets hurt. Dobbs doesn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: have a great game. Really underperform. And like you mentioned,
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: that game plan, it's harder to execute, right, if you
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: don't have these receivers that you're getting the ball out two,
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: three yards past the line of scrimmage, and they're not
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: able to break tackles, turn those into bigger games.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Seattle was dealing with their own problems, obviously. Sam Darnold
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: goes down early in this game, and Drew Locke, from
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a numbers perspective, has not traditionally been all that fantastic.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that he pictured any scenario in which
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he was going to be playing this much of the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: first game of the season, but he did enough to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: get the job done. and he leaned on Jackson Smith
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and Jigba in order to do so. What did the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: numbers say about Drew Locke's performance?
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was solid.
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: And like you mentioned, it was a lot of Jackson
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: Smith and Jigba. That was basically their passing offense in 2025.
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: He led the NFL with a 36% target share. Last
• 36:38
  Speaker 10: night he had a 46% target share. So the ball
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: almost half the time is going to Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: But I think what Seattle does well is they move
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: him around offensively. the formation a good amount. They get
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: him outside, they get him in the slot. You saw
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: a few plays in the game yesterday where he's coming
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: out of the backfield to try to get him favorable matchups.
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: So Locke executed.
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: And I also think that Seattle did a pretty good
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: job on outside zone runs specifically, with Judarian Price coming
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: in to replace Kenneth Walker. Stat line wasn't super impressive,
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: but I thought the tape looked pretty good on him.
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: And them being able to lean on the run game,
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: not ask Drew Locke to do anything crazy. And then
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: obviously with that defense, you don't have to be super
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: explosive offensively in a lot of games. And I thought
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: Locke handled what they asked him to do.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Ben Lindsay is our guest here talking NFL football. Ben
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is the senior content researcher at Sumer Sports who does great,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: great work on examining the game of football from an
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: analytics perspective and then translating those numbers into to Laban's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: terms for all of us out here who are trying
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: to figure out the intricacies of football. Thursday night game
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and one of the big storylines so far as we
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: get closer to Rams-Niners is the difference in travel schedules.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: The Niners have been in Australia for a week plus.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: The Rams flew out yesterday and they're going to be
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: there on the ground for like 36 hours or whatever
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the total is going to end up being in Australia.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: And the difference of approaches is going to be, I think,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: examined very carefully by all these teams that are asked
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to fly and play international games as we move forward.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Do we have an analytical perspective yet on which is
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the better chance or which is the better idea for
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a team to maximize their success?
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: I can't say I do. I'm not a sleep jet
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: lag expert, but it's certainly an interesting thing to talk about, right,
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: with the two different approaches. The sample size is going
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: to be one, and there's a lot of other factors.
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: But it is something that coming out of this game,
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: even like beyond just the result of this game, how
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: it impacts week two with the 49ers trying to get readjusted,
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: maybe the Rams. have less readjustment to do coming back.
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: There's definitely a lot of interesting angles from that perspective.
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: But I don't know if there's an analytical lean for
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: me on that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I'm a Niners guy, and so this is a game
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I was circling from the very beginning of the offseason.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, you get the news that Aaron
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Donald's coming out of retirement and he's going to be
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: part of this team alongside Myles Garrett. And then, oh wait,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is not going to be In Australia, when
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you remove an Aaron Donald, even an Aaron Donald that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: is two years out of the game.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: The NFL and just coming off retirement, when you.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Remove him from a game, what does that usually do
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: for an opposing offense?
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: It helps. It's not necessarily something where I guess the
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: Rams were expecting to have Aaron Donald all season. But
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: it's a lot to deal with, as many people have
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: talked about, especially if you're throwing Aaron Donald and Myles
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: Garrett on the same side.
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: Of the line of scrimmage.
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: And to go along with the other talented pass rushers
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: that the Rams already have on their roster and Kobe
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: Turner and Byron Young is a situation where Myles Garrett
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: is a guy throughout his career at Cleveland that he's
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: getting the extra attention from opposing offensive lines, getting double teams,
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: getting chips. That's probably still going to be the case,
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: but it's a lot harder to do that against this
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: Rams defensive front with all the options they have. And
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: he's probably, the other guys.
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: Are going to get more one-on-ones.
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: And just removing Aaron Donald from that sort of helps
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: the 49ers case, allow them to put more attention to
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: guys like Myles Garrett and Kobe Turner.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Are you a big believer in the Rams?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: They are the odds-on Super Bowl favorite in most books,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and obviously the headlining names give you reason to believe
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: that they should, if healthy, be able to handle a
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: lot of challenges that they might face this year. Personally,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: are you as high on the Rams as other people are?
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think they should be the Super
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: Bowl favorites. It's difficult to kind of look at them,
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: whatever their odds are, plus 500, plus 600, and being
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: that heavy of favorites, it's hard to go into any
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: football season with any team and just be like, they're
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: going to win the Super Bowl. And actually, their offense,
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: there is some more fragility than there is with a
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: lot of teams, just given Stafford's age. given some of
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: the questions they have at tackle. Devontae Adams has had
• 41:30
  Speaker 10: a history of lower body injuries. If Stafford or Adams
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: or one of these core pieces on offense goes down,
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: you can say that for every team, but I think
• 41:39
  Speaker 10: it's probably more likely for the Rams. Then that's a
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: cause for concern. But if you just look at their
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: roster on paper, the defense was strong until they got
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: into the playoffs last year, and a lot of their
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: issues were at corner. And they go out and address that,
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: trading for Trent McDuffie, bringing in Jalen Watson from the Chiefs.
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: not to mention the defensive line additions. I think it's
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: hard to see a scenario where their defense isn't really good,
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: and their offense was one of the most efficient offenses
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: we've seen in recent years, particularly in the run game.
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: Super successful running the ball. Then they were able to
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: hit explosives out of heavier personnel in the pass game.
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: So I think they should be the favorites. It's just
• 42:16
  Speaker 10: tough to say. This team is definitely going to win
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: the Super Bowl going into the year.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Besides the Rams, who are you watching– closest who has
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: your attention most whether it's because of the numbers or
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: anything else who are you keeping an eye on this
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: upcoming NFL season that just kicked off last.
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: Night I think in the AFC it's it's the bills
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: have kind of gone under discussed um with a lot
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: of these teams they've been a top four or five
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: offense in the league basically since Josh Allen kind of
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: ascended around 2018. They have a good offensive line. They
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: have a good running game. Allen's one of the better
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: quarterbacks in the league. Their big issue last season, particularly
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: against defenses that wanted to play man coverage against them,
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: was they just didn't have the receivers to consistently beat
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: man coverage. One of their better options was Dalton Kincaid
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: who missed the a lot of time last year with injury.
• 43:13
  Speaker 10: They go out and bring in DJ Moore, and DJ
• 43:16
  Speaker 10: Moore isn't an elite alpha wide receiver, but he is
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: better than the options they had last year on the
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: outside as a guy who can beat man coverage. And
• 43:27
  Speaker 10: then Jim Leonard coming in as defensive coordinator. I think
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: there's a chance that with some of the stuff he
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: can do up front from a pressure, a stunting perspective,
• 43:37
  Speaker 10: can give a little bit more life to their defense.
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: So I think on the AFC, the Bills are interesting.
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: And the other team in the NFC is the Lions.
• 43:46
  Speaker 10: And they have injury question marks on defense. But I
• 43:49
  Speaker 10: think the Lions are a team, really favorable schedule. A
• 43:53
  Speaker 10: lot of their games are indoor, good weather, which is
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: good for Jared Goff, who's struggled outside in cold weather
• 44:00
  Speaker 10: to potentially get a high seed. And they just have
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: one of the offenses in the league I'm most comfortable
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: in with their skill position group.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Some of the.
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: Continuity they have with golf and those guys together. And
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: then defensively, Kirby Joseph, Brian Branch, big injuries. But you
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: do get a Lee McNeil back on the defensive line.
• 44:20
  Speaker 10: It sounds like Joseph and Branch will come back some
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: point early to midseason. And that's a team that could
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: get some momentum going in late.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: In the year.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: We started the show today talking about, I was ranting
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: about how, you know, with quarterback play in particular, good
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is the enemy of great. When you have a good
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: quarterback that can't quite get you over the hump, but
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: he's not bad enough that you're ready to move on
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: from him or whatever else, that can be the nightmare scenario,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, for some NFL teams.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Where is that line, though?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Where is the Mason Dixon line of, you know, this
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: guy can win you a Super Bowl? Do you need
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: a top five quarterback player? Do you need a top
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: ten quarterback from a numbers perspective or otherwise? What is
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the difference between good and great when we're talking about
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: NFL quarterbacks specifically?
• 45:09
  Speaker 10: I think we've seen that line shift a little bit
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: the last couple of years. With Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia,
• 45:16
  Speaker 10: with Sam Darnold in Seattle last year, I think if
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: you have even a top half of the league quarterback,
• 45:25
  Speaker 10: You might not be in the conversation every year like
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: you are with a top-five quarterback, but with a strong
• 45:32
  Speaker 10: supporting cast, strong play calling, a great defense like we
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: saw on those Eagles teams, the Seahawks team last year,
• 45:41
  Speaker 10: you can win a Super Bowl with a quarterback who's
• 45:44
  Speaker 10: in the 10 to 16 range consistently. It puts more
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: pressure on your roster building around them to have elite
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: talent in other places and keep it under the salary
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: cap than it does if you have a Josh Allen,
• 46:02
  Speaker 10: Patrick Mahomes type of quarterback.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Ben, appreciate your time and your perspective. Appreciate all you
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: guys do over at Sumer Sports. It's become one of
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: our favorite resources here. So thanks for joining us today.
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: Appreciate it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Ben Lindsey, at Ben, L-I-N-S-E-Y underscore. Ben Lindsey, senior content
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: researcher over there at Sumer Sports. And whether it's for fantasy,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: whether it's for gambling purposes, or just entertainment and information,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you really should be leaning on Sumer Sports a little bit.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: They pick the game apart from a numbers perspective and
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: then tell you what those numbers should mean on game day.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Really, really great stuff from Ben.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Thursday night football preview here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: We'll have those for Sunday previews, obviously, NFL slate. We'll
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: have them for Monday night football as we take a
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: look at the pro football world. Niners, Rams tonight in Melbourne, 6.30
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: kickoff on Netflix. We're down here at Southern Steer Butcher,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: 1705 North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: It's the neighborhood butcher with the modern twist.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: And part of that modern twist is incredible technology that
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: is infusing your meats with moisture, flavor, and tenderness. Come
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: down and see us today. Free samples are out. It's
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the Sean O'Connell Show on ESPN 700, 92.1 FM.
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
• 47:43
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• 47:45
  Speaker 12: Sean O'Connell Show coming at you live today from Southern
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: Steer Butchers, 1705 North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: A modern day butchery.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: It's like the mom and pop shop that your grandparents
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: used to go to to get their meats. like maybe
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: mom and dad used to, but with a modern twist.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Quality meats, chicken, pork, ethically sourced, humanely raised, artisanal stuff
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: down here. And the brains behind the operation, Dan Gunther,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: is kind enough to sit down with us one more time.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: This place is bumping here on a Thursday afternoon.
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody's gearing up for tailgate and weekend barbecues, you know,
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: kind of finish out the summer, diving into football season.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: So it gets busy.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: How does the traffic flow go? Is it like Thursdays
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and Fridays you're a little bit busier? People gear up
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: on Saturday for the big Sunday dinner, the family dinner.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: When is the busiest time down here?
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Friday afternoons it really gets very busy. Saturday morning
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: is really busy. Saturday is usually busy all throughout the
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: entire day. Believe it or not, Sundays is one of
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: our busiest days too. When we first opened up about
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: six weeks ago, we were concerned that Sundays would be
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: a little slower.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: Especially here in Utah County, right? But no, it's been great.
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: People come in, you know, they're buying their briskets late
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: Saturday afternoon so that they have something for Sunday family dinner.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: Sundays is a great day now that football season started.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: That's right. Football season is back. Niners versus Rams on
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Netflix tonight. A full slate this weekend. Obviously, college football
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: back as well. Dan, you see me, I'm turned toward
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: the front door because if I look back at that
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: butcher case and I see all of those mouth-watering meats,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: my mouth literally waters, especially I got my eye on
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: the dino ribs and the armadillo eggs. I'm leaving today
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: with some of that stuff in my backpack.
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: Of course.
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no worries. We'll hook you up for sure, O.C.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Tell people what the armadillo eggs are.
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a really cool concept. Basically, it's a jalapeno popper.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: So the whole jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese wrapped in
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: like an egg-shaped sausage and then surrounded by bacon.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: You throw that in the smoker. Oh, my gosh. You
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: put it at about 400 degrees for about 12 minutes
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: and crisp up that bacon. And when you cut into
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: it and the cream cheese oozes out and the jalapeno, oh, boy,
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: it's It's amazing stuff.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: This is a family show.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: That's getting borderline dirty with how good that stuff sounds. Also,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: if you're looking for a little surf and turf, I
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: realized over here in the coolers behind me, you've got
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: some seafood, too.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we do have lobster, salmon, cod. You talked about
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: exotics earlier. You can come in and get wild boar.
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: You can get your bison and venison. We don't have
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: it fresh because it doesn't sell fresh. frequently but you
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: know if you're looking for something a little different you
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: got a recipe you want to try something new then
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: we'll have it.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: And you will dry age steaks for people also right
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: if i come in and i buy some cuts and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: i'm like i want to come back and get these
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: after you dry age them a little bit you got
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: the locker right here.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah exactly it's it's basically just for that right people
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: who haven't really tried dry aged meats you'd be amazed
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: i kind of the way i describe it it's like
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: You know, going from watching black and white TV from
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: when I was a kid to then all of a
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: sudden you get this color TV. It's like, whoa, the
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: flavor of your meat after it's been dry aged is
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: is accentuated. And so, yeah, come in and, you know,
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: get a bone in ribeye roast and, you know, we'll
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: tag it with your name and we'll put it in
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: the dry ager for 28, 30 days and. You know,
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: it'll be amazing.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: When you go to these, like, five-star steak restaurants downtown
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: or down in Vegas or whatever, that's what they're feeding you,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: and obviously they're charging you the premium for it. You
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: could do that at home now because of what Southern
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Steer offers.
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: That's exactly right. Yeah, you know, as a matter of fact,
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: a lot of our meat comes from a particular source
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: that typically has only provided their beef cattle to high-end
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: restaurants like a Christopher's or a Morton's. and they haven't
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: actually made it available to the public because these high-end
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: restaurants are kind of monopolizing that. But you now can
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: come into Southern Steer and get the same cut of
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: beef that you would be served at the restaurant and
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: take it home and cook it the way you want
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: it for half the price.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: If that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I'm doing my best here, but if you're not mouth-watering
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: here and all this stuff, you just don't love food
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the way I do. Come down to 1705 North Redwood
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Road in Saratoga Springs.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Talk to Dan. Talk to Aubrey. Talk to the crew.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: They will hook you up.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: They will get you situated for your weekend barbecue, your
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: family dinner, for the whole week full of dinners.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: And it really is a one-stop shop. You don't need
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: to go anywhere else. Thanks for having us out here.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: You bet, OC. It's been a pleasure.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: We got Eric Weddle coming on here in just a
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes. Right now, I've got to remind you also,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: if you're having that barbecue, you're having that tailgate party,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: you need drinks.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Smith's right now has incredible deals today. All up and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: down the Wasatch Front, you know there's multiple locations. You
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: have a Smith's in your neighborhood. You probably have the
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: app on your phone.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Use that. Use the digital coupons.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Right now, mix and match drinks. Buy three, get three free.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: That is on six packs of Coke, seven up. That's
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: also on Pepsi products, the essential water, the Perrier sparkling water, Gatorades, Propel,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Spindrift sparkling water, Monster Energy drink.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: It is a mix and match. So get the healthy stuff.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Get the sugary stuff.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Get the Diet Coke that you and your wife are
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: drinking more than anything else. Get it at your local Smith's.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Right now, buy three, get three free. Tell them OC
• 53:44
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• 53:54
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• 53:59
  Speaker 1: coach of the Rancho Bernardo Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: Joins us next on the Sean O'Connell Show. It's ESPN 700,
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  Speaker 1: We are not at the Broadway studios today on the
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're downtown right now, it is worth the trip.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible meats, incredible discounts, and they are hooking up everyone
• 54:38
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  Speaker 1: And those marinated steak tips are tender, juicy, delicious.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe I'll have an opportunity to share some this
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• 55:08
  Speaker 2: It's Weddle Week. He's going into the Ring of Honor.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: He is the Utah football legend, the, I believe, future
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: NFL Hall of Famer. He is the head coach of
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: the Rancho Bernardo Broncos. He's our guy, Eric Weddle.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: E-Dub, what's up?
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: What's going on, man? Do they ship out of the state?
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: Because I need to order some of that meat. You know,
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: you can't have enough meat in the household.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: They'll ship to Eric Weddle. Big Utah fans down here.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: You can make requests that the mere mortals among us cannot.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Look, it's good luck. It's good luck.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I always start the conversation we have with a little
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: question about your Rancho Bernardo Broncos head coach of the team,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: obviously your son playing for the team, and big win
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: over Torrey Pines. First win on the road at Torrey
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: since 2008, is that right?
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: That is correct. Man, just talk about a gritty, tough...
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, Torrey Pines historically is one of the better
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: programs in San Diego and always a tough team to
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: go against. I mean, the stats show it, right? We
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: had one there... in a long time. So, the boys
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: played hard. I mean, outside of a couple misfortune plays, right? Like,
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: I don't like to blame the rest, but man, there
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: were like five calls in that game that were either
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: missed calls or not that could have swayed and made
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: it not such a close game where we had to
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: score 21 points in the second half on three possessions.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: We had five total possessions in the game for like
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: It's just crazy how we get into these games four
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: drives of 15 plays or more. That's the type of
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: game it was. So really proud. We didn't waver. We
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: stayed connected. And won at the end, man. It was
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: a thrilling game.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And this week it's a Utah team. Westlake taking the
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: trip down there to sunny San Diego. That will be,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: of course, Friday night. And then on Saturday you're coming
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: here to the Utah game. What's the scouting report on Westlake?
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: They're 3-1.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Westlake, really good program. They play tough, play hard.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Got some talented dudes. The receiver is, I believe, a
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: Utah State commit, number 13. And then they have a
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: D lineman, number eight. That's one of the best, probably
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: the best player we see defensively. And we have to
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: have a plan for him every snap. and know where
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: he's at and can't let him ruin the game, which
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: he can on any play. So I'm excited for the
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: challenge and the matchup. I think our boys are. I
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: think they understand what the mindset that needs to be taken.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Like this team's coming down here out of state, so
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: want to take it to us, and we have to
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: defend our home crowd, home state, and take it to them.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: All right, talking a little Utah football now.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: You're coming into town for no big deal, just, you know,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: immortalization on the side of Rice-Eccles Stadium.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: It's Eric Weddle Week.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: You're being inducted into the Ring of Honor. And we
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: talked to you about this when it was announced that
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: it would be happening. Now that the reality of it
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: is here, it's happening in just a couple of days.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Has it changed the way you're thinking about it, your process?
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: You know, just tell me what it means.
• 58:37
  Speaker 10: To you again.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think now that it's, here I'm probably most
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: excited about is to just see the fans and and
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: I know I'm going around like early to different tailgates
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: and going in different uh parts of the stadium throughout
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: the first quarter to say hello and hang out with
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: fans I mean really like sharing the experience like I said,
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: sharing it with everyone that had a hand in it
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: or supported me to try to let them be involved
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: in it. So I think that's what I'm most excited for,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: is to see old teammates. I know I got a
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: few texts from old teammates that are coming in to
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: reminisce and be there. So it's just going to be awesome. Like,
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: I don't get too emotional about, about things, I'm sure
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: I may get a little emotional about it.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe no one.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: Would really recognize it because I'm a cold-faced type of guy.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: But like you said, this is like one in a million, right,
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: to be able to be in this situation. And I
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: don't take it for granted and really humbled by it all.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to take it all in and enjoy
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: every second of it.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: What did you like most? from your Utes in the
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Idaho game.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Obviously, it went kind of the way that we expected
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: it to, that we thought it should. You know, big demolition.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: You scored a bunch of points. You held them under
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: three scores. I would have liked to see that, maybe
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: even more dominant performance defensively. But what did you like
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: from Utah in week one against Idaho?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, we talked about it last week.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: I wanted to see, like, clean operation. I didn't want
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: to see pre-snap penalties. Obviously, there'll be physical errors and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: mistakes just because it's live action going against someone that
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: you don't know. So that's going to happen. But, man,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: it was just an exciting brand of football. And I
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: liked how Idaho fought back for a little bit and
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: really threw some punches back. It wasn't just a total
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: rollover like some games can be in that situation. And
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: going against that offensive line for Idaho, I think they
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: were all– Returning starters are older guys that had a
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: lot of game experience, so it was good for us
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: to get our feet wet against that group on the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: defensive line. And I just think we got a chance. Obviously,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: a big game against Arkansas, but I think we showed
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: our potential with the running game. Weishan is just so
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: fun to watch. His physicality, his twitchiness, his one-cut ability. Obviously,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: the receiving out of the backfields, and our perimeter guys.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Being able to just throw it up and our guy
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: come down with the ball and win those one-on-one type
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: contests is something that I think is pivotal to have
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: a great offense and to make some waves down the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: stretch against good teams.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: You, as much as anyone, maybe more than a lot
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: of people, you have been a big fan of Bert
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Ficklin and his potential, and we saw good things from
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: him in game one, and He had at least one
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: throw go viral because he's rolling right and he flips
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: his hips and he throws a dot and all that stuff.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: I bring it up because they have found this nice
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: harmony with him and Devin Dampier, but they're both playmakers
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: and you've got to get both of those guys opportunities
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: as often as you can in a game. How do
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: you manage it moving forward? How do you manage it
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: in obviously a much tougher test against Arkansas? How do
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: you get the most out of Bird, not just Devin?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think I think the package of plays,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: whether it's him running the ball, whether it's him, you know,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Devin motioning out, and now he's playing true quarterback, not
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: overdoing it and you're forcing the issue, but also allowing
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: the chance to make plays for the offense with Bird.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: So I don't– I like that he's getting in there.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: I just don't want it to get too much where
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: you're affecting the rhythm of Devin in the offense. of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: being successful series and series. So I think they manage
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: it well. I just don't want it to be, like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: I said, don't want to be too much on the
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: offense because as a quarterback, you like to be in rhythm.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: You like to be in those situations. You like to
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: see it. You like to learn from it from series
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: and series. So as long as they manage that, I
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: think it'll be fine. And the more we can get
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: him experience for when he takes over, it'll be great.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: Eric Weddle is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: It is Weddle Week. He's going into the Utah Ring
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: of Honor this weekend. It's a late kickoff. It's a
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: true night game.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Arkansas is only the second SEC team to come to Rice-Eccles. Obviously,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Florida did it a couple of weeks ago, or a
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I should say. I've been, like,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: you know, dipping my toes in the Arkansas waters, Dub.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I've been, like, what are their podcasts saying? What are
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: their alumni saying?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, me too.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 13: Me too.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: What are they? And, like.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Even what their coach is saying, I think he's a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: good coach, but, like, he's more focused on the kickoff
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: time than any other thing that is going on in
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: this game. And I'm like, I'm trying not to get
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: too gassed up, but I'm like, I don't think Arkansas
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: has any idea what they're going to be walking into.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Are you getting the same sense?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: A thousand percent. It's the typical arrogance of the SEC,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: and coming into, oh, your stadium's only 55,000, and, oh.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: It's not even that big. And, oh, it can't be
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: that loud because of the people. Yeah, when you're going
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: full start six times tomorrow night, Saturday night, and we
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: get after your guys' tails and beat you by 30,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to come on the following week and remind
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: all the podcasts, this ain't your just ho-hum mid-major it
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: was 20 years ago. We're coming for heads. Arkansas is
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: next on the list. So I've been hearing it over
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: and over again just on my timeline, hearing these guys. Obviously,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: it's just funny, commentators and podcast people that aren't even
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: affiliated with the team, they're just talking heads. Like you played,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: and you played on the Utes, so you understand kind
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: of like a night game at Utah, right? These people
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: don't understand. You don't come in. to Salt Lake at
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Rice-Eccles in a night game and come away with a win.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: It just doesn't happen. Why don't you ask Caleb Williams
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: how those games went when they played night games in Utah?
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: They lose. So I can't wait to be a part
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: of it, to celebrate in the locker room, fighting the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: Utah man fight song, and celebrating.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: So Arkansas has got some stuff to figure out, and
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: They've got one guy who's a projected potential first-round pick.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: This Quincy Rhodes Jr., 97, playing DN for them, playing
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: on their D-line. He's a real problem if he's healthy. Now,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: he didn't play a ton against North Alabama. Maybe they
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: were saving him so he'd be more healthy against Utah.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: I think that's what's going on. But let's just assume
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: he's 100%. You don't want to, like, overdo it and
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: over-index to only worry about one guy on their defense.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: But You also have to pay attention to it.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Like you're saying, when they've got a game wrecker, a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: potential game wrecker, you've got to pay attention to it.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: And this is an inexperienced offensive line that's working in.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: A lot of new things. How do you handle that?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: How do you handle a potential outlier-type talent on the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: defensive line for Arkansas?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, we're kind of going at
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: it in a very smaller– example this week, but the
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: offensive line, you have to play together, right? You've got
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: to have great technique. You don't want to, like, a
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: lot of times offensive linemen, I think in general, like,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: when you're going against a really good player on the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: other side that you want to get your hands on
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: as quick as possible, and then you want to lunge,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: and instead of just setting square and understanding where your
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: help is, right? Are we getting the center to slide
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: to you? Are we a full slide? Are we a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: four-man slide? Am I getting the back to chip with you? Like,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: there's so much that the offensive coach can help the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: offensive line when you're going against a premier player that
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: it's going to take everyone, but you don't, it's like
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett or Aaron Donald or these guys, like you don't,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: you don't want to ever leave them one-on-one, right? Like
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: that's just dumb football because they're just that good. So
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: some plays you'll have to like quick game, thirties, fifties,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: where you're getting five out, that quarterback has to make
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: the offensive line, right? You know what I'm saying? Like,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: That's on the quarterback. But when we're going six, seven-man protection,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: be smart, do what your coaches do. And I honestly
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: think the offensive line are going to play great on
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Saturday night because of the coaches, the strength coaches, the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: strength staff, the work they put in. They're going to
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: continue week by week to show what they're all about.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Have you talked to Morgan this week and been like, hey,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: make sure that you're playing some weddle highlights for the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: guys that are on the team? A lot of these
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: guys were born after you played at the University of Utah,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: so they know you from your NFL career. I don't
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: know how many of them have seen the highlights. Did
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: you tell Morgan, hey, make sure they know whose presence
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to be amongst this weekend?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: Well, you know me as good as anyone, so I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: doubt you would think I would say something like that.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: I did talk to him Saturday night. he called me
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: just to check in with the game and then some
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: other games that were going on. So we chatted for
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: a little bit. But this week, like, nothing needs to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: be said. All I care about, and I said this,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: I think I said this last week, I don't care
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: if anything is acknowledged about me as long as we
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: get this win. I really do not care. These kids,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Whether they know about me or not is irrelevant in
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: the grand scheme of things. Just focus on ball, focus
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: on your job, and let's get this done.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Eric Weddle for a couple more minutes here on the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Sean O'Connell Show.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: Weddle Week.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Will conclude on Saturday night when he is inducted into
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor at the Utah versus Arkansas game.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: The biggest story in college football this week was not
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Utah's win over Idaho, even though we stay pretty central here.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Of course, it was a lot of former Utah guys
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: connected now to that University of Michigan team that got
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: an extra second on the clock after a crazy replay,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: after a hard-fought game against the Western Michigan team that kind.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Of took it to them.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: I know you have some thoughts on this scenario, so
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: please share them with us on the Sean O'Connell Show.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, I couldn't, I didn't start watching the game. We,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Gage and I, went to the San Diego State game
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: to see Steve and his son Stone, who's the backup
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: quarterback there, and then Obviously, you know, it's the hometown,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: so I want to support the guys and the players.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: So I didn't start watching the game until about six
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: minutes left in the game. Gage had been watching it,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: and he's like, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan? Western, yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Western.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's like, Western Michigan is going to win. And
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, they're not. Like, they're going to pull
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: it out. Like, that's just how it goes. Like, they're
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: just figuring it out. And then he's like, Dad, they're
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: going to win. Like, they're up. And I'm like, what
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: are you talking about? So I started watching it, and
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: I'm just getting blown up, whether it's on Twitter, whether
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: it's on text messages from coaches, from other schools, this, that,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: and the other. And I don't say that to say
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: that I'm right, right? I don't really care about anything
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: outside of Utah football, right? And I actually want Michigan
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: to win deep down. But I don't, like, I'm not
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: watching them. I don't really, like, support them. So when
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing all these messages come in, like, then I
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: got to go, what's going on? How are they playing?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: And they're struggling. Long story short, it should be, they
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: should be 0-1. Everyone knows it. The voters know it.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: And it's unfortunate that Western Michigan got hosed. somehow some
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: way that they're not going to have that win on
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: their resume for the rest of the time. Right. Like
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: they probably will never be in that situation again to
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: beat Michigan, the big brother. Uh, it would be like,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: you know, what Utah state is, I think is, I
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: believe it's beat us. Right. Some, somewhere down the future,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: maybe even like Weber state, like imagine Weber state in
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: a game against us and they beat us. And so,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: but then we, that wouldn't get taken away. Like that's
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: basically what happened. Uh, But they made the play at
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: the end, and we'll see. I didn't really watch the
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: game other than the last, and I saw what I saw.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: I think they'll be in a rude awakening, Oklahoma coming
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: to town, and we'll see what happens. I don't know.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: Don't know.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 13: Don't care.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: I don't need to say I was right or wrong.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter to me. I live my life. I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: don't need to profess what I said. four months ago
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: was right. It does not matter. Everyone can have their
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: own opinion. And, uh, I wish those guys the best. Seriously. Like,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: I don't want to see anyone not play well. I've
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: been there and it's tough. We'll see how Underwood, uh,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: responds to the lack of good play and the, the,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: the attention that's on them. And especially coach with basically saying,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: if you don't play better, you're, we're going in a
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: different direction. So let's see how he handles it. And, uh,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: Truth be told, I'm hoping that he responds the right
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: way for him in his career because if not, he
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: won't be playing quarterback anymore.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to take the victory lap because
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: everyone already said, we're sorry, Eric Weddle, you were right
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: about Bryce Underwood. And it was hilarious for the rest
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: of us to see because when an average fan who
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't know what they're watching on the same level you
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: is trying to argue with something that you said that
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: wasn't even hypercritical, it was just like an observation, and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: then obviously– They're all feeling the same way four months later.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: It was pretty hilarious.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: But Eric Weddle knows what he's watching when he's watching
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks because that's what he was.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Trying to defeat for 14 years in the NFL, people.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: With that in mind, and maybe you have the same
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: evaluation of Drake May as you do of Bryce Underwood,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: but he had a disastrous start to the NFL season
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: last night. I don't know how much of it you
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: got to watch because you're coaching and all that stuff.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: But three turnovers for Drake May, including a game-deciding interception
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and when they were driving for a potential touchdown or
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: at least a field goal to tie.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: What's going on with Drake May?
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I watched, I watched, I think about
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: the first quarter and then we had night practice last night.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: So I saw the highlights of how those last few
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: series went. And it just goes back to like, even
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: the pros do dumb things. And it's, it's just a reality.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: Like it's human nature. You try to limit everything. the
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: mistakes that are like, like I just, perfect example, like
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: you're looking at the last play, the under 20 seconds.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: It's knowing the situation. It's knowing the play, right? You
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: got both tackles cut blocking. So that, as a quarterback
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: is saying, it's a rocker step ball out, right? If not,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: then I'm just running, right? Like I understand, like I
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: have no protection. So for him to backpedal, lean away
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: and just throw the ball up is just, that's like
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: a fireable offense as a quarterback. And to see that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: from a, a season, like a second year guy, uh,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: it's just unfortunate because you just can't make that mistake.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: And so the mistakes that happen are all in my
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: mind fixable, but when he goes against good teams, this
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: has kind of been what happens. And now their, their
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: schedule is tough with a lot of good teams. So,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: They'll get it right. He'll figure it out because he
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: has the ability and the mind. But to see those
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: kind of mistakes late in the game where you know
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: they're going over those situations, you know they're stressing in
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: this situation, how are we going to play? This is
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: the call. And to be, like, on the other side
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: of it is really unfortunate as a coach because you're
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: just like, what the heck are you thinking right now?
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: But even pros lose their minds. So it's great, a
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: reminder as a coach to, like, gosh, I'm going to
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: rip Gage's you-know-what for a decision, well, dang, the pros
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: are doing it just as bad.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do see some of that. Not supposed to
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: see it as often in the pros, but you do
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: get it every now and again.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: No, definitely not. I'm not even going to ask you.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: About the Rams-Niners game because I don't want you to
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: say hurtful things when we're celebrating you this week, but
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: will you have a chance to even watch it tonight?
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: You know what's about to happen tonight.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: I know what's about to happen. The 49ers are going
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: to dominate Miles Garrett. They're going to make him look
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: like it's his first year.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: Even you don't believe that. Even you don't believe that
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: in the heart of hearts. You don't believe that. Even
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: though you're saying it right now, you don't truly believe it.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: When we talk about the Utes, we really believe. If
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: we had to go play in Ohio State, we would
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: think we could go win. But you know... Australia, they
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: went four days earlier because they're worried about the time.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: You know what the Rams did? They said, man, we're
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: going to fly at 5,000 feet. We're going to sleep in.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: We're going to sleep the whole time. We're going to
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: wake up the next day, and we're just going to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: go play. And we're just going to go beat your
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: faces in. So, you know who's not worried about the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: time change?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: The Rams.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: And you know who is? Arkansas and the Niners. And
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: what is both going to happen to them? They're going
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: to get their faces drugged in the grass.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm most mad about with this Niners-Rams
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: game is the Rams are like, we're not even going
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: to bring Aaron Donald. That's how not worried about this
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: matchup the Rams are.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: They're like, this is a– Yeah, we don't even need
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: a– hey, give them a couple more weeks to get ready.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 13: We're fine.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: We'll manage these couple weeks. We're not worried about birdies
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: and half the guys that are already hurt. Like, we're good.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: That's disrespectful. All right? I hate it.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Like, if Arkansas was rolling into Salt Lake City– And
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: they're like, we're not bringing Quincy Rhodes Jr. He's not
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: coming on the trip. And we'll be like, oh, because
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: he's hurt? No, we're just going to give him a
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: couple more weeks to.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: Get ready for games that we're actually worried about. I
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: would be furious.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. So maybe the Niners will take that approach. Maybe.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I hope.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: I hope they're as mad as I am.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: We shall see. I will be sending a text about
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: 9 o'clock tonight. So be ready for it.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, you're the man.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Absolutely love you, dog. Excited to see you this weekend.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Good luck to you and the boys tomorrow night against Westlake. And, yeah,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: looking forward to Saturday.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: You got it, bro. Can't wait to see you. Love you.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: And let's go Utes, baby!
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: That's the legend.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: That's Eric Weddle going into the Ring of Honor Saturday
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: He is the absolute best.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Except he likes the Rams too much, and they're playing
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: the Niners.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: No one can be perfect, all right?
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: He's almost there, but he just has bad taste in
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: NFC West teams, which is a plague in my life.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by people who don't root for the Niners
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: or Rams or Seahawks or whatever.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: But that's fine because you know what makes me feel better?
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: Being down here at Southern Steer Butcher, 1705 North Redwood Road,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Saratoga Springs. We've got a nice little flow of people
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: coming in, getting their meats for the weekend. They've got
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: tailgate parties. They've got barbecues going on. Dan Gunther is
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: the brains behind the operation.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: Happy to have us out here, I hope. Man, what
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: a cool day so far.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: And congratulations to Eric Weddle, man. What a legend. I mean,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: talk about Utah, man. There's the guy.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: You know, right, he heard me talking about the meet.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: He's like, hey, do they ship?
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Can I get them to ship to Southern California?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: I'm like, look, we can probably make something happen for
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Eric Weddle.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: Sure, sure. Send him a dino boat.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: So what's the top seller, right? When people come in,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: what is like the main driver? What's the bread and
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: butter of this place?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the most popular is the marinated meats, right? I mean,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 6: you know, those steak tips, obviously, we put out on
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 6: sample every day. People come in for the first time.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 6: They try those. They're like, oh, yeah, I got to
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: get that. As a matter of fact, there's times when
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: my team and I, people will come in. They'll buy
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: a T-bone or something, and we'll just send them home
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: with a couple of steak tips just to try because,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 6: you know, we– We want them to have that experience
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 6: with those. And then they come back in there, those
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: steak tips were so good. So that's usually the key,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: you know, most popular item here.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you've got that. You've got all the mains, right?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: The centerpiece of pretty much every meal at my house
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: is the meat, right? And you've got the chicken. You've
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: got the pork. You've got the exotic meats. Obviously, you've
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: got every cut of beef you could imagine.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: But also.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: You've got sides, and you've got, like, breads, and you've
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: got dips, and you've got marinades. So really, I mean,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: it's not a full grocery store here. It is the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: old-school butcher shop with the modern twist. But I can
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: walk in here, and I can walk out with everything
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: I need for a meal for the family, multiple meals
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: for the family.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we even have, like, local farmer eggs
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: from Eagle Mountain, right? Fresh eggs right behind you in
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: the case there. Yeah, they're right here. We're really trying
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: to accentuate Utah-owned vendors. My wife and I, before we
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 6: opened the store, we spent a lot of time going
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: to farmer's markets and checking out local vendors with honeys
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 6: and cheeses and things like that. So we're really trying
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: to bring in a lot of that local flavor into
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 6: the store, just kind of the way it was back
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 6: in the day, right? You go to a small-town butcher somewhere,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 6: and it's mostly just the vendors that are in that
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: local area that are providing those products in that store.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: So that's kind of the theme or the element for
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 6: this concept.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: It is worth the trip.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Even if you live up above downtown Salt Lake like
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: I do, I'm in the avenues. It didn't take me
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: long to get here today.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: I timed it out.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: It was about a little over half an hour to
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: get down to 1705 North Redwood Road, where Southern Steer
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: has everything you need for this weekend's barbecue, for the
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: birthday party, for the tailgate. And Dan and Aubrey, they
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: might sucker you in with those steak tips, all right?
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: The samples, they're going to get you.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to warn you because you think I'm
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: just going to get the hamburgers, I'm just going to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: get the hot dogs. You're going to want to leave
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: with more than that. So just prepare yourself for it
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: because it's great stuff all up and down the menu
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: here at Southern Steer.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we have picanha, hanger steak, I mean, you name it.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: If you want to experiment on your grill and try
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: a cut of meat that you've never tried to cook before,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, all of our team members are really well-versed
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: on how to prepare these meats and can kind of
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: talk you through it. Try something different.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: I think that's probably my favorite thing about this whole concept, right?
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Because for the people who are foodies and the people
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: who want to try something new and the people that
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: want something like truly gourmet, high attention to detail, you
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: could serve that market, right? You can get those people
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: the best meat, the best meal that they can imagine.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: But also, if you're just a mom or dad on
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: the go that's busy.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: And you just need something that's convenient.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: You need to come in and grab something that's healthy,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: that's got real nutrients for the family. You've got the
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: pre-made meals, right, that's just like, okay, here's your sides,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: here's your meat. Go throw this on the grill. Go
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: throw this in the air fryer. Go throw that in
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the microwave if you have to. And you've got a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: family meal tonight, tomorrow night, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I mean,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: you can feed your whole family here, which is what
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: they have at Southern Steer.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course. People go to the grocery store, the supermarket,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: for the convenience of being able to get everything. Obviously,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: we're trying to make them come for an extra stop.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 6: But when you come in for that extra stop, you
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: can pick up everything you need for a meal for
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 6: that evening, right? Really quick and easy. You take it
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 6: home in half an hour, and it's ready to go
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 6: for your family.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how you're doing it with this
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: high-quality stuff at these prices, but I'm glad you are
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: because everyone here in Utah is real price conscious, and
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: you're meeting people where you need to.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been really fun. The concept and the folks
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: that have come in since we've opened have really expressed
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 6: gratitude that we're here to provide this type of service.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: Artisanal meats, humanely raised, clean, without all the stuff, the chemicals,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: the hormones, the things that you don't want in your
• 1:24:08
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  Speaker 2: All right. You know what? I'm going to get it
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start with the sad news so we
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  Speaker 1: can move on to more humorous or enjoyable things.
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  Speaker 2: This does stink, though, because.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Melrose, who has been the main hockey guy on
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  Speaker 1: television broadcasts, on television analysis for ESPN for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time. Barry Melrose, when they contracted and they stopped
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  Speaker 1: covering hockey so much, Barry Melrose was like the last
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  Speaker 1: holdover because Barry Melrose was the man of the people.
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  Speaker 1: He was the guy that everyone wanted to hear from.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Melrose has passed away at the age of 70.
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  Speaker 1: They made the announcement yesterday. That's tragic. You hate to
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  Speaker 1: see it happen to anyone. You hate to see it
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  Speaker 1: happen to anyone that's a relatively young age right now
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  Speaker 1: in modern technology and medicine. Obviously, he was a part
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  Speaker 1: of everyone's hockey experience before we were a big-time hockey
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  Speaker 1: market even.
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  Speaker 2: RIP to Barry Melrose.
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  Speaker 1: And condolences to his friends and family and all the
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  Speaker 1: people that grew up on Barry Melrose hockey and Barry
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  Speaker 1: Melrose hockey analysis. It's a weird thing when we see
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  Speaker 1: this happen with our the sports announcers of our childhood,
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  Speaker 1: the celebrities of our childhood, right? Because they don't know you,
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  Speaker 1: but you have, like, memories associated with them on your
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  Speaker 1: television or sparking conversations that you have with your actual
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  Speaker 1: loved ones and stuff. It's a really weird place where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're mourning a stranger kind of. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Barry Melrose passes away at age 70.
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  Speaker 2: Huge bummer. Yeah, OC, just real quick.
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  Speaker 4: As someone like myself who did not grow up a
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  Speaker 4: hockey fan really at all, I always liked his hits
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  Speaker 4: on SportsCenter with Steve Levy or whoever it was growing up.
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  Speaker 4: He was that guy that, and I think in the
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  Speaker 4: early 2000s, 90s, before that, there seemed to be one
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  Speaker 4: guy of every sport that worked for ESPN that would
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  Speaker 4: do those SportsCenter hits that even if I didn't like
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  Speaker 4: the sport or I was not yet a fan of
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  Speaker 4: the sport, I loved hearing them talk about the sport.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what Barry Melrose was for me. I hardly
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  Speaker 4: ever watched a hockey game, but I always looked forward
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  Speaker 4: to hearing Barry Melrose talk about that night's hockey or
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  Speaker 4: what's coming up because he was that great of a personality.
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  Speaker 4: He was that great of an advocate for the game
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  Speaker 4: and just that good at making it entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I didn't like the sport.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's just, His accent, everything, like the presentation, the slick
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  Speaker 1: back hair, the cool suits. Barry Melrose was just, you know,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: cooler than the other side of the pillow. And unfortunately,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Parkinson's brought a premature end to his life. So a
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  Speaker 1: bum deal. But I like this is this pretty much
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  Speaker 1: sums it up for me. The unquestioned face and voice
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  Speaker 1: of hockey in the U.S. is how ESPN. That's the
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: headline they gave it. And you can't argue with any
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: of that when you were. Like the example you just gave, James,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: when you were tuning in and watching other things, the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: information you got about hockey was from Barry Melrose. So,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: condolences to his friends and family. Alright, trying to switch
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: to less depressing subject matter. Sports Illustrated put out a
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: list of their best home field advantages in college football.
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  Speaker 2: James, did you see this?
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  Speaker 1: We sometimes overestimate where our local venues are placed in
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: the overall lexicon.
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  Speaker 2: Of sports, right?
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  Speaker 1: There was a time when the Delta Center with the
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz was one of the more feared places in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA because there was a lot of winning going
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: on at the Delta Center. And, of course, that begets
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: a rabid fan base, which then creates a lot more
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: craziness and a lot more loudness.
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  Speaker 2: In more recent years.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Where the on-court success has not been quite as prevalent
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: you've had uh delta center crowds uh develop a reputation
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: for things that are less flattering uh now that it's
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: a hockey barn also starting to get a little attention
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: there in the league si put out a list ranking
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  Speaker 1: the 12 best home field advantages in college football james
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  Speaker 1: where do you think rice echo stadium appears on the
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  Speaker 1: list if they.
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  Speaker 4: Do what sorry how many are on the list again
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  Speaker 4: 12 top 12 yeah nine.
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  Speaker 2: Seven. Seven. All right. Shout out to you. Rice Eccles
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  Speaker 2: Stadium at number seven.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of whole field advantages, Rice Eccles Stadium offers
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  Speaker 1: the Utes quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: For starters, the stadium sits.
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  Speaker 1: At 4,600 feet above sea level, which can make a
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  Speaker 1: visiting team more quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's the must. Shout out to the must.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most electric and rambunctious student sections in
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  Speaker 1: the country, never failing to pack the house. To that end,
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  Speaker 1: the Utes have sold out 96 consecutive games at Rice Eccles.
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  Speaker 1: The blurb goes on to cite that the run from
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  Speaker 1: 2018 to the early parts of the 2024 season before
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  Speaker 1: the wheels fell off. The Utes had dropped just three
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  Speaker 1: home games in a seven-year span, and they even played
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: a number of ranked teams in that time. One of
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  Speaker 1: the loudest and toughest environments by multiple coaches in the
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  Speaker 1: Big 12, and it is the only Big 12 venue
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  Speaker 1: on the list. So you've got that going for you,
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  Speaker 1: Rice-Eckel Stadium. A little shout-out from Sports Illustrated.
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  Speaker 4: Before the 24th season, one of those losses was that
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: USC season opener in 2020, which we don't even like
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  Speaker 4: to count the whole season, but particularly the season opener
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  Speaker 4: when you had to start in, what, November or whatever
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  Speaker 4: it was, October, when you didn't even know you were
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  Speaker 4: going to have a season until then. That was as
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 4: fluky as all get out. Cam Rising has that season-ending
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: shoulder injury in the first quarter of that game, too.
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  Speaker 4: after he won the job in 2020.
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  Speaker 2: 2020 doesn't count. So, yeah, that one you can wash out.
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  Speaker 4: So if you take that away, they only had two
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  Speaker 4: home losses in that seven-year stretch. And even if you
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  Speaker 4: count 2024, they.
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  Speaker 2: Barely lost at home.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm glad that Sports Illustrated is recognizing them in
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: this way. And it just validates again what Weddle said
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  Speaker 4: about Arkansas being scared to play Utah at night. And
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 4: while also saying, ah, they can't be that good of
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 4: a home crowd, only 50,000 people in the stands. We're
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  Speaker 4: used to closer to 100,000 in SEC country. Well, I mean,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 4: Weddle's probably right again that they're going to find out
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: just how hard it is to play at Rice-Eccles.
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  Speaker 1: The full list is available on Sports Illustrated, and it is,
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  Speaker 1: as one might expect, it is full of a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of SEC stadiums.
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  Speaker 2: My computer is frozen, and that's why I'm filibustering. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Flattering list for Rice-Eccles Stadium and the University of Utah
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  Speaker 1: to appear on. You've got, you know, every stadium in
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the country is eligible to be one of these top
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: home field advantages. And Rice-Eccles, the fans here, Utah fans,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: not just University of Utah fans, but fans in the
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: state of Utah seem to be as prideful about about
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: that as they are about anything. Is that an accurate assessment?
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  Speaker 2: About our home court or home field advantages? 100%, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's great argument to be made that Jazz
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: fans have the– that the Delta Center and Jazz fans
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: create the best home court advantage in the NBA even.
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  Speaker 2: But they're good, yeah. There's others.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: The full list goes like this. It's Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma's stadium is the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Ben
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: Hill Griffin Stadium, more affectionately referred.
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  Speaker 2: To as the Swamp.
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  Speaker 4: Utah fans experience just what kind of home field advantage
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: that could be a few years ago, yeah.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: Memorial Stadium of the Clemson Tigers. Saban Field at Bryant-Denny
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  Speaker 1: Stadium for the Alabama Crimson Tide, number seven, as we
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: already mentioned, Rice-Eccles. Sanford Stadium, home of the Georgia Bulldogs.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: Beaver Stadium, where the Penn State Nittany Lions play. And
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: they talk so much about the whiteouts that it's like, okay,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: are you a great home field advantage just during whiteout games?
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  Speaker 2: Number four, Kyle Field, Texas A & M, the 12th man.
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: The original 12th man. Thanks a lot for copying another thing,
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Ohio Stadium, the shoe for your Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Autzen Stadium is number two on the list, home of
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: the Oregon Ducks. And then Death Valley, Tiger Stadium. where
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: LSU applies their trade, is the number one home field advantage,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: according to Sports Illustrated. Since 2000, the Tigers are 154-26
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: at home, and a particular emphasis, as it is at Rice-Eccles,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: on night games. It used to be even scarier because
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: they actually had the Tiger on.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: The field at LSU. The live Tiger.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: They decided that was animal cruelty, and they stopped bringing
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: Mike the Tiger home. down to the field during games
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: where the decibel level is hitting like 130. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they've created a world-class zoo enclosure for Mike the Tiger
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: across the street from the stadium. They still have a
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: live LSU tiger mascot, but now he's in the best
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: tiger enclosure from a captivity standpoint that you can find,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: which is probably much better for the animal.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: Better than Joe Exotics? wow or doc antles all right um.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: I i've been debating on whether or not we actually
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: want to play this dan i mean from dan from
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  Speaker 1: dan patrick uh let's just play the sound and see
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: if people can recognize without me telling you who this
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: is calling in to the dan patrick show.
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  Speaker 3: Zach in california joining us on the program good morning
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: zach what's on your mind.
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  Speaker 13: Ciao, DP. I got to say, first time, long time, 6'6, 220,
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  Speaker 3: Eh?
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  Speaker 13: All right, and I got three things for you, but
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  Speaker 13: I'll make them quick. Number one, I don't remember if
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  Speaker 13: it was you or Marvin that was talking about an
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 13: owner meddling with the draft or somebody asking about the
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 13: fastest 40, but it was killing me when you guys
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 13: were talking about it because you missed the biggest story.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 13: Al Davis, God rest his soul, walked into– I was
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 13: doing the Raiders pre- and post-game at that time. He
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 13: walked into the room and said– I don't care who
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  Speaker 13: you guys want to take, who has the fastest 40.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 13: And they said Darius Hayward Bay. And they were going
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 13: to take Michael Crabtree, who ironically got drafted by the 49ers.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 13: And I was like, how did you guys not put
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 13: that story together? But you probably didn't know that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 13: I know you love Reggie Miller. I do too. But
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  Speaker 13: my favorite, number 31, is the Matrix, Sean Marion. I
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 13: would love to know your thoughts. on him as a player.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 13: And finally, Dan, you're simulcast in like a thousand cities.
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  Speaker 13: I've worked in one of those. I will not name
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  Speaker 13: the station, but one of those quote unquote consultants that
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 13: I'm sure at some point during your career, you've come across,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 13: came in and literally hit me with, well, why can't
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 13: you just be like Dan Patrick? And I said, I said, well, look,
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  Speaker 13: I know you love your front room and your back
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  Speaker 13: room and all your guys. I told him, I said
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 13: straight to his face, I said, because not many people
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 13: are Dan Patrick. Anyway, I don't want to toot your horn,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 13: love you, Paul, Todd, Patrick, Marvin, Dylan, all the guys.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 13: My point is, is like, you know, people don't really
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 13: understand the industry until you're in the industry.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Zach. And Zach in California, full of energy there.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's our guy Zachariah. Remember what he used to
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: fill in for me? I still love him.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: I know that there were a certain contingent of you
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: that didn't like Zachariah on the radio.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: He was too cowly for you. I love the dude.
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  Speaker 2: Great friend of mine.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: And hearing him call into the Dan Patrick show, I
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: can't wait to call him after this show is over
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: so that I can give him a hard time about that.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: James heard that live.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: I was not listening to Dan Patrick when that happened.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: James alerted me to it. Thanks for pulling that sound, James.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: That's a little local connection.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: Our guy Zachariah, who used to be a part of
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: the station here, is my fill-in host when I was
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: away for PFL duties.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: Zachariah on the Dan Patrick Show.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 4: And now if you didn't know, everyone knows the station
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 4: he was referring to when he told that story.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: About working at one of.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 4: The stations that aired the Dan Patrick Show.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: He didn't name who he was talking about, the consultant
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: he was talking about. I know who he was talking about.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: Can't speak to that, but great story about our station.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: You know who he's talking about, too, James. Well, I
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: don't know for sure. I'll just put it that way.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: All right, great stuff. Reminder to all of you as
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: we finish up the Daily Dump that we've got an
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  Speaker 2: injury report coming. It's the first official one because it's
• 1:39:01
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  Speaker 1: No official injury report for the Utah game because it's
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: not a Big 12 game, but what we are hearing
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: is that Keith Olsen should potentially be available. Ike Garcia
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: should potentially be available. So the rotation on the offensive line,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: hopefully at full strength. For the Arizona-BYU game, because that is,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: of course, a Big 12 game, Arizona will be missing
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: three players, Everett Rosa Jr., Dajon Hinton, Ezra Funa. Questionable
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: for their linebacker, Myron Robinson. Much more importantly, we got
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: news that Sione Moa tore his PCL and MCL, the
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: backup running back for BYU. And really, backup is not
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: fair to him. It's more of the one-two punch running back.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: With L.J.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 4: Martin.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: He's an incredibly talented player, a hard runner. He's going
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: to be out for a significant amount of time with
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: those knee injuries. Also, Rader Damuni, who got banged up
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: against Utah Tech, he is going to be out for this.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: One, as is Javessa Damuni.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: But Sione Mola and Rader Damuni, big losses for the Cougs,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: and both of those guys expected to miss a significant
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: amount of time. Although, Rader Damuni's prognosis is was better
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: than they initially thought. They thought maybe he'd be out
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: until like November, could be sooner for Raider to Mooney.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Also of note, Isaiah Glasker is probable for the Arizona game.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: And this is the first Big 12 game, big time
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: matchup of the year. That one will kick off at 1.30
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: Mountain Time in Provo this Saturday. So actually, if you're
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: a real hardcore football, college football junkie, and you have
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: access to tickets to both, you could go watch Arizona BYU,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: and then jog up to Rice-Eckel Stadium and catch the
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: night game against Arkansas if you really want to pack
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• 1:41:55
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• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: at Southern Steer Butcher. 1705 North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a big day of college football coming up.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: We've got a big weekend in the NFL coming up.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Feels like now is the time everyone should be stocking
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: up on the meats and getting everything stocked up for
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: the barbecue, the tailgate, whatever, Dan.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we just got a big old truck delivery here.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 6: We got all the fresh meats just came in from
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 6: our distributor. We're ready to go for the weekend. Excited
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 6: to have folks come in and, you know, get their
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 6: tailgate material and have fun cooking it up. I mean,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 6: definitely try those armadillo eggs.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to impress, like, the guests that are
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: coming over to the tailgate or the guests that are
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: coming over to the barbecue, obviously just having good, solid,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: great meat It's a good starting point. But you roll
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: out a couple of those armadillo eggs that they've never
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: had before. They've never seen something like that.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: I go, okay, what is this? Bacon wrapped what?
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: The armadillo eggs are a jalapeno popper wrapped in sausage
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: and then wrapped again in bacon.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. You cut that bad boy open.
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  Speaker 6: That's a meal.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: In and of itself.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 6: It can be. We also have some really cool dips, too.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 6: We home make our... Hot Honey Crack Chicken Dip. We'll
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 6: pull some of that out for you to try. It's really,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 6: really good.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: By the way, we've got Devin Dampier Dishing with Dev
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: coming on, and we recorded that earlier in the week,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: which means I'm going to be eating all the samples
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: in the store. If you want to catch some samples,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: 1705 North Redwood Road, Saratoga Springs, you're running out of
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: time because as soon as I get some free time,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: I'm demolishing every sample that they've got here in the store.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: It smells good down here. The meat case, it looks
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: so excellent.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: And if you know how to do it, if you
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: already know your way around the grill, this is the
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: perfect place for you to come. But also, if you're
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: kind of a beginner, come on in. Let Dan, Aubrey,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: the crew tell you, all right, here's the meat.
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  Speaker 2: This is how you prepare it.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: I love that you offer not just great product but
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: advice on how to make it turn out the right way.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, funny you should say because last segment we had
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 6: a guy come in who earlier today bought a marinated
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 6: chicken Chicken breast.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 2: I saw him come in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 6: And a sausage. And he went home and he cooked
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: it on his barbecue and he had to come back
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 6: and tell us how good it was.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 6: Just that stuff, it's priceless, right?
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: And look, that's not the relationship you have with your
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: grocery store people. That is the relationship you're going to
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: have with Southern Steer Butcher. You've created this mom and
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: pop shop with a modern twist.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, we call our team
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: members here culinary consultants because they really need to know
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 6: You know, where the cut of meat from, what portion
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: of the cattle it comes from, how to prepare it.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 6: We often ask people when they come in and they're
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 6: picking up a piece of meat, well, how do you
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 6: plan to prepare it? And they'll describe it to us
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 6: and we'll try to accentuate things for them. We have
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: rubs and sauces that you can apply to some of
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 6: your barbecue or grilled meats that I think are amazing ingredients.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 6: Our black garlic steak crust is phenomenal. I mean, you
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 6: just sprinkle a little bit of that on before you
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 6: sear your steak. And that brown, you know, crust on
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  Speaker 6: the outside of your steak has such a wonderful flavor
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 6: to it. Like, those are the little nuances that when
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 6: you come into Southern Steer, you're going to get some
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 6: little bit of advice, you know, some culinary tips, if
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 6: you will, to help you do a better job when
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 6: you're on your grill.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you it is worth the trip down here
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  Speaker 1: to Southern Steer Butchers. 1705 North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 1: Come down today during the show. We've got another hour
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  Speaker 1: of the show. Come down after the show. Tell them
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  Speaker 1: OC sent you. We start hour number three with Devin Dampier.
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  Speaker 1: Edition with Dev is next right here on your home
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  Speaker 8: It's time to talk to Utah quarterback Devin Dampier. This
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 8: is Dishing with Devin on the Sean O'Connell Show. Brought
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  Speaker 11: And your home for football. ESPN 792.1 FM.
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  Speaker 1: It's that time again on the Sean O'Connell show edition
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  Speaker 1: with dev, our conversation with Q B one, who is
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: one to know as you're starting quarterback this year at
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: the university of Utah, big game coming up against Arkansas
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  Speaker 2: Welcome again.
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  Speaker 9: How are you, sir? Do well, do well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so 1-0.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: The best thing about being 1-0 is a chance to
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: go 2-0. No surprises, really. It was a dominant performance
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: against Idaho, but tell me how it felt. Tell me
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: how it was to get out there against a team
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: that didn't wear the same colors as you after camp
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: and all that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the best part about it is, again,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: I've been preaching it the last two weeks, just everybody
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 5: being together for once and being on that same side,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 5: but honestly, offensive-wise, I was I was pretty excited how
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 5: we came out. I feel like you look at a
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 5: couple other teams during week one and their offense didn't
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 5: look like they came out prepared. There were some tweaks
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 5: they had to make by halftime. I feel like we
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 5: kind of came out on all cylinders. I was just
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 5: proud of our preparation.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: How did it feel getting hit for real? Because one thing,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: you don't shy away from it, Dev. There's a lot
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: of people, a lot of us watching just like, oh,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: don't take that hit. Oh, Dev, don't get hit so much. Dev,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: just step out of bounds. But you're not shy about it.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: You're a football player. How did it feel to get
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: hit for real? Because obviously they kind of bubble wrap
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: you for the last seven or eight months.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely felt the first one. And then after that,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: I was good. But yeah, the first one, I think
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 5: I threw a ball and I got smacked. But I
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 5: was like, all right, but. I think it was Layshawn's touchdown.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 5: That was the one, yeah. I got, yeah, yeah. But
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 5: you're all right. I'm good, I'm good.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: Do you i mean do you kind of like that
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: does it feel like all right now it's football again
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: because i got you know i got tackled i got
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: hit a little bit and and it's it's a real
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: game is that wake you up somewhat yeah it puts.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 9: Me in that mode like all right but we're here
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  Speaker 9: We're here. We're playing.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: So, self-scout. You've seen the film now. Obviously, you played
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: the game itself. Give me a grade for Devin Dampier.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: How do you feel like you did first time out?
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 9: I would say like a B.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: B plus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I would put myself around there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Elaborate for me if you don't mind. Like.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: What would have been an A? Why wasn't it an A?
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: We're nitpicking like everyone else is. So tell me what
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: you wanted to see better from yourself looking back at
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: it or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Well, protection-wise, I hope I helped myself without getting hit more.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I prefer to not get hit every time I throw
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 5: the ball because it's from me not telling the line
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 5: to go block him and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know. There's always every game you're like, oh,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 9: I could have done this slightly better. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: This is how I feel about every single play. I'm like,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 5: all right, I could have probably did this and we
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 5: would have did a little bit better.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: A really, really solid stat line, obviously. 13 of 18, 176.
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  Speaker 1: Almost 10 yards of completion. That's a nice number. Let's
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: keep it up there all year, right? Three touchdowns, no interceptions.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: Running the ball, six carries for 31 yards. I don't
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: have it in front of me how many of those
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: were designed and how many you actually just had to
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: kind of pull the ball down and scoot, but felt
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: like an even split.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 5: Speaker 2 I'd probably say I got a lot more
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: off scramble.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Design Speaker 3 You guys, because I mean, partially because
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: it was Idaho, partially because you jumped out to a
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: big lead and got to run the 10 different guys
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: got to run the ball in this game. And I
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: know that's not going to be the norm, but we've
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: been talking about it all off season long. How you
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: got all these weapons and you got to spread the
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: ball around and you got to keep everybody happy. What
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: was the vibe at halftime and then in the locker
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: room after the game? Because a lot of the skilled guys,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys who've been putting in this
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: work did get the reward of actually getting touches in
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: And plenty of you got touchdowns in the game.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: So probably one of those, those post game situations where
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: everyone feels pretty good.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 5: It was definitely went into the game, you know, wanting
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 5: to get certain people, the ball for sure. Just especially way, Sean,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 5: make sure way Sean's feeling good about running the ball,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 5: especially for this week coming up. And then, I mean, yeah, just,
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 5: keeps trickling down. You know, we wanted everybody to get
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 5: opportunity to get in the game and feel that experience.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 5: So it was due to us ones to make sure
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: we made that, that gap early. So even the defensive
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 5: side too, that they could get in as well.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: So a lot of, a lot of youth fans, right.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: I've been watching this, this team for decades. And one
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: of the things that, that people always come into the
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: year and we, we've talked about this plenty as I
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: come in, Running game's going to be good. Hopefully get
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: really solid quarterback play. We think that's going to be
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: the case. And there's always this insecurity, this trepidation about
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: what the wide receiving core is going to look like.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of optimism and positivity around that position,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: but people were still holding their breath. And then what
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: we saw from Braden, what we saw from Larry Simmons,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: what you saw even in just a couple catches from
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: Creed Whittemore, Was that representative of kind of what you
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: expected it to be? Because you've been practicing with these guys.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: You've been telling us, don't worry. We've got plenty of
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: talent there. And it looked like, I mean, Idaho was
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: completely overmatched, but it looked like that kind of stuff
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: is going to translate even against Arkansas.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think almost everyone that caught a ball had at
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 5: least like two catches almost.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 9: So just.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Mana and Noah Benny were the only ones who
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: got a catch. Okay. Yeah.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, besides that, I mean, we feel very comfortable just
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 5: not overloading one receiver or two receivers.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 9: It felt like everybody is able to make their separation.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 5: We're able to call stuff depending on who the defense
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 5: wants to give the opportunity to.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 9: So, yeah, I thought those boys did a great job.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: The number one topic of conversation between us and everyone
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: in the market has been what's the offensive line going
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: to look like? And we were told there's going to
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: be different combinations against Idaho. I don't know how many
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: guys actually played. It felt like 15 offensive linemen got
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: a few snaps, right, especially when you go down third
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: and fourth quarter. But even early, there were some different
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: combinations tested out. How did you feel about the protection?
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: How did you feel about the run blocking and just
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: the performance of that offensive line?
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we're still trying to finalize that, obviously, just
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 5: with the different groups of last week. But, yeah, I mean,
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 5: I feel– I don't really recognize who's in and who's
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 5: not just because I.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 9: Don't have alignment. I need to worry about when he's in.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 5: I need to do something different or exotic. I feel
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 5: pretty comfortable with whoever my five is up there that
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 5: they're going to get that job done.
• 1:53:29
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• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Big win over Idaho. That's kind of what we expected.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: And it was the short week. So what were Friday
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: and Saturday like for you having played on Thursday? Just
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: it's not quite the regular season schedule when you've got
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: that early game.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: So how did you handle those next two days?
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 5: You know, my family is in town, so definitely with
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 5: them all all weekend. I definitely got to watch a
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 5: lot more college football than I ever have just because.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 9: We know we're normally playing on one of those days. Right.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 5: I don't get to watch all of the games, but yeah,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 5: I was able to just literally sit down and watch
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 5: all the games play by.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: That's nice. Yeah.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: You get to be a civilian. You get to be like, well,
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: there's one of those games I want to talk about
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: for obvious reasons here coming up. Cause it's the big
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: story in college football, but I want to stay focused
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: on the Utes for now.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: And now you turn the page.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: And you've got to get ready for an SEC team
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: coming into Rice-Eccles Stadium.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: That doesn't happen very often.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: Obviously, Florida came here a couple years back, but SEC
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: teams don't go west that often. And this is an
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: Arkansas team that has some real talent on it. Now,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're top of the conference, top of
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: their conference, but it's a game you have to take
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: very seriously, and there's athletes, and it's definitely going to
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: look a lot different on the opposite side of things
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: than the Idaho Vandals did. What are you seeing from
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: Arkansas so far on film? What is something that you're
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: paying attention to? I think they're a very athletic team.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: Just the height.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 9: The weight, and the way they move around.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 5: They're definitely a well-polished team. It's got to be whoever
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 5: steps their best foot forward and.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 9: Closes out that game. I'm pretty excited to get to
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 9: go against Arkansas.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, there's a lot of conversation from the Arkansas side
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: of things about the kickoff time for this game. I
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard about any of this. Their
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: athletic director sent an email complaining that it was going
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: to be midnight by the time the second half started
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: for them. It's a 9.15 local time.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: Their body clock will think it's 9 o'clock.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: Do you care what time a game kicks off from
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: a body clock perspective?
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: Because obviously.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: You know, Pac-12 after dark, now Big 12 after dark.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're playing until midnight, one in the morning almost. Like,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: do you even pay attention to that?
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 9: No, not really.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, we normally try to adjust the schedule to
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 5: make us feel like the week is normal, I guess,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 5: or the game will be normal. So I don't know
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 5: if they don't structure it like that, but we definitely
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 5: do everything we can to try to prepare our bodies
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 5: to be awake at that time, be ready to go.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: I was actually, I'm quite surprised even like for an
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: athletic director should do those things. They should like campaign
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: for their team. Their coach was talking about it in
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: his media availability this week. Like, oh yeah, it's going
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: to be a late game for us. I'm like, this
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: is crazy. Why are you giving your players excuses? But
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: that's not my business. They can handle it however they
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: want to. So knowing that it is going to be
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit tougher on the opposite side this week, right?
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: More talented, bigger, faster, stronger.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: Does it change how you guys are preparing, practicing, doing treatment,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: anything like that? Does it change the Utah football routine
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: at all, knowing that it's Arkansas instead of Idaho?
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 9: No, I mean, you know, they run a different defense.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, that's the most you're going to get
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 5: a different scheme from us. But, you know, besides that,
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 5: I think you go out there and you got to
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 5: be that guy when game day comes up.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 2: They have.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: One defensive end who's like, I've seen his name popping up,
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: Quincy Rhodes Jr. His name's been popping up on mock
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: drafts and things like that. When you know that there's
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: a guy like that, or maybe even a couple guys
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: like that on the opposite team, do you pay extra
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: attention in film trying to find their tendencies, trying to
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: find what their strengths are, how you can avoid those,
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: and things like that? Do you ever hone in on
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: individual players' in an opposition, in an opposing defense.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, you definitely respect, uh, your opponent and, you know,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: some of those guys are very talented as well. So, um,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 5: you know, you just find, you just try to find
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 5: ways to slow them down and make our stuff work. So, uh,
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 5: you know, that's our thought process when, you know, you
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 5: have good players on the other side.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: All right. We were the home of the Utes.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: We've been talking more Michigan football this week than I
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: ever wanted to because of the controversy at the end
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: of that game. I imagine for you who got to
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: be a fan for once, seeing some of that was very,
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: very different, right?
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 2: Because these are your friends.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: These are guys you were on the team with last year.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 2: Like, J.J. caught the game winner.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: What were your thoughts watching that whole thing unfold?
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 9: Man, well, I could tell Whit wasn't happy. I know
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 9: that face.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: I have seen that man look a little displeased even
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: after wins in the past. That was the same wit
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: that you see after a loss, though. Yeah. In his mind,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: that was not a victory.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 9: The camera was on him on the sideline, and I
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 9: was like, he's not happy right now. Yeah, I mean, man, I.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 5: Hope they come out the way they should against Oklahoma.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: Can we block any Michigan phone numbers from contacting you
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: or bird or any, like, can we keep it from
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: the Michigan area code for being able to contact you?
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Is that, is that something we could do? Because I
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: was talking about this and people are probably going to
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: be mad that I'm bringing this up when we're talking
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: to you, but like their quarterback completely underperformed and The
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: natural thing for me is to go, Oh, wait a second.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: If they try to fix that problem, obviously they can't
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: do it this year, but they try to fix that problem.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: They're going to go with somebody. They know like dev block,
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: block the Michigan numbers.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 9: Don't go for it.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 2: Don't go for it. Did you get any phone calls yet?
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: You heard it here first on the Sean O'Connell show
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: in week two, Devin has.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 2: Not yet been contacted by the university of Michigan.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: Big week also, as you guys take on Arkansas from
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: like a program history perspective, it is a ring of
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: honor inductee day, right? Eric Weddle, who is a former
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: teammate of mine, good friend of mine, a guy who's,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people in Salt Lake City,
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: he is like the quintessential Ute. He's the guy they
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: think of when they think of Utah football in the
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: last 20 or so years.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 2: What is your.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: sense perception relationship like what is eric wettle for you
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: because you're gonna be there and watch as his name
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: goes up and is immortalized on the side of that
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: stadium yeah um you know i got.
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 5: To meet him uh twice um since i've been here
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 5: and just the conversations i've had with him he's been
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 5: like top knots respectful guy you know somebody you want
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 5: to be around for sure so i'm glad you know
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 5: the character adds on to what he does on the
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 5: field because Even I told him, I was like, I
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: knew you as the Madden safety.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 9: Like I was picking the charges of what do we
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 9: play with you?
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 5: Like it was, it was kinda, he had that type
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: of aura, uh, just in NFL too. So I was
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: just like, yeah, like I have huge respect for you. Um,
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm happy to, I got to learn what
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 5: he did here, uh, being a Utah as well. So, uh, yeah, very,
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 5: very respected guy.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: As, as Morgan showed you guys, any Eric Weddle film
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: in the Utah uniform, has that been part of the
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: week or anything?
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 9: No, we haven't got to see it yet. We haven't
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 9: got to see it yet.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 2: Morgan coach Scali.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: That's something you got to let these young bucks know
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: what your former teammate was all about. He was, I mean,
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: you got, you have some of these guys on the
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: roster right now. I mean, you're probably one of these
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: guys yourself. Like you could line Eric Whittle up and
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: have him play a couple of downs at quarterback. They
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: put him in the wildcat all the time, right?
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: He was the holder. He could throw passes. He could
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: catch passes. He could run for touchdowns.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: And obviously he was an all American defender for his
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: entire time at the university of Utah. So you got
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: a couple of guys like that on the roster. Now,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: when we're talking about, you know, the guys who are
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: great at their position and then the guys who are
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: just great at football, does that, does that carry a
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: different weight in the locker room?
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 2: When you're like, I could be anywhere. You can put
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 2: them in any position. It'd be great.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think, besides quarterback probably or O-line, like
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 5: if you can add, because Scali always talks about it,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 5: if you can add value to yourself, if you can
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 5: be a football guy and you could get placed anywhere
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 5: and honestly like be able to talk and do what
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 5: you need to do, like that's what's going to get
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 5: you to the next level because, you know, everyone's looking
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 5: for someone to be more valuable than just playing their position.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 9: So it's definitely preaching.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 5: It's good to know that, you know, your guys are,
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 5: they're so football into it that they're able to do
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 5: that and step up to different positions.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: Uh, is there anyone, cause everyone kind of got a
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: little bit of love offensively in this game, in this
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: game against Idaho. Is there anyone that you're like, all right,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: let's get him the ball a little bit more against Arkansas.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: Is there anyone that you, you want to see, you know,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: Mack G who we're going to be talking to also
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: this week, uh, design a couple of touches for, so
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: that you can, the rest of us can see what
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: they've been doing.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: Um, Man, I mean, obviously the receiver core, I want
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 5: them to be able to shine, you know, against anybody
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 5: we play against. I don't want it to just be
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 5: an Idaho fluke. You know, I want those guys to
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 5: shine any time we need them. And I think Wayshawn's
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 5: pretty passionate about getting to his 100 yards this game, too.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 9: So you should be able to see that from him.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: It was interesting, Wayshawn, in the post-practice media availability this week,
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: you know, he was praised for not only making an
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: impact in the run game, which... We expect him to
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: every week, but he was obviously valuable catching passes as well.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: Two touchdown catches in that game. And he kind of
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: laughed and said, that's just a little bit of what
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: I can do in the passing game. You're going to
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: see a lot more. He's hinting at, you know, more
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: way Sean as a pass catcher. Is that something you
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: guys expect as the season wages on?
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, for sure. We expect waste on the, You know,
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 5: it's just the matchup things. You know, normally they want
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 5: linebackers to guard running backs. And, you know, for us,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 5: that's like, wait, Sean, do what you do, because I
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: don't think I wouldn't take any linebacker over guard you.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 9: So, you know, normally you can get in those type
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 9: of things or even.
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he was a big check down piece this
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 5: last game where I'm able to give him a check down.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 5: He takes it for eight, 10 yards like that's huge
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: for an offensive play.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: You and bird, we've talked a lot about this, the
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: unique nature of your relationship, the fact that you seem
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: happy to share the ball and happy to share the
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: position a little bit. He played great. He had a
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: big impact on this game. You played great, had a
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: huge impact on this game. Tell me what, you know,
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: how bird graded out, how you guys evaluated each other
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: and how you're pushing each other to get better after
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: now live action.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 5: Um, Yeah, so Bird's like the playmaker. He's the playmaker
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 5: in our offense. So he's trying to find the ways
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 5: to continue to get better at the playmaker stuff we
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 5: put him into, but also developing as a quarterback too. So,
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 5: you know, I give him kudos for being able to
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 5: handle both of those at the same time because that's
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 5: hard to do, especially in college. So, yeah, just the
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 5: type of playmaker he is, though, we definitely try to,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 5: get him on the field as much as possible and
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 5: make sure he's touching the ball.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 2: He had that one throw rolling to his right.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: He's left-handed and beautiful, accurate pass kind of, you know,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: twist the body. It went a little bit viral, not
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: like crazy viral, but people were talking about that throw.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: When something like that happens, when you're on the sideline
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: and you see that pass, and then of course you're
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: in the film room and you see that, I mean,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: that's a, it's a special play.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 2: What was your reaction in the moment? And then, you know,
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 2: the conversation after.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 5: It's, it's funny that like, that's just something, you know, we,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 5: we do daily practice. Like we practice that coach Gundy
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 5: has us do that throw like almost every day. So like,
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 5: even for him, like we thought it was just like
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 5: a normal throw. Like we were just like, Oh yeah,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 5: we do that. And then for the public to see it,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: we're like, ah, not that. So, but yeah, it was, uh,
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 5: it was cool to see him make that throw. That's,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 5: It's definitely a unique throw in the situation, and he
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 5: made the best of it for sure.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: Big win over Idaho.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: Everyone in the Big 12 that played kind of lesser
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: competition handled that lesser competition. And we were joking when
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: you walked in about how already the rivalry is in
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: full swing, right?
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: Like being a fan and being able to watch.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: College football this weekend, did you watch, I don't know,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: like Texas Tech extra close?
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 2: Did you watch BYU extra close?
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: Did you select the games that you were going to
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: watch based on teams you're going to be playing or
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: just who you were curious about? How did you choose
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: your viewership this weekend as a fan? Yeah, I think
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: I had three games going at once.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 9: So on three different screens to lose this. I had
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 9: at least. The game, I knew that was going to
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 9: be a good game.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 5: I had that in the middle, and then I had, like,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 5: the curiosities just kind of switching between the other ones
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 5: of who I felt like watching at the time and
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 5: whose score was a little bit closer and stuff like that. But, yeah,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 5: I feel like I watched probably every single game that
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 5: was played.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 2: Did anybody in the Big 12, did anything, like, stick
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 2: out for you?
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: Was there anything that you're like, oh, okay, I didn't
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: know about that team looking that good or they didn't
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: look as good as I thought they would?
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: There's, you know, mixed results. I thought you played on
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 2: the same night.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: So we could watch the Colorado game, Colorado beat in
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: Georgia tech on that block field goal. That was that
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: surprised me because Georgia tech was a really physical team
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: last year. I don't think Colorado is going to be
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: able to keep pace with that. That was a good
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: win for the conference. Anything else like from at least
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: a big 12 perspective, jump out at you this week.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 5: Um, I mean, not in a disrespectful way. I just
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 5: expected more out of Oklahoma state. Just the way that
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 5: was talked about. I was definitely expecting a little bit more.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: I think all of us were, and I, we were
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: skeptical that, you know, everyone was like, Oh, this is
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: the team. Uh, drew mess to maker respect to him.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: Cause we all love guys that come from like a
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: slightly lower level.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 9: I came that same way.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Right. Like I, I know there's a lot of really
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: good guys, uh, that got under-recruited out of high school
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: and stuff. People were talking about Drew Mestemaker like he's
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the Big 12 conference now.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 2: And we've kind of been like, well, hold on a minute.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of guys that are already a little
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: bit more proven than that. But he didn't have his
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: best day. They didn't have their best day. 24-10 loss
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: for Oklahoma State.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: I got mad about the Baylor game because that's Big
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: 12 versus SEC.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: I love Dave Aranda. Dave Aranda.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: went for the win instead of playing for overtime. I
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: know that that's something you got to do. You got
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: to make that decision as a head coach. They get stopped.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: Beautiful tackle at the goal line by an Auburn defender.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: They get stopped just short. And I guess you got
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: to live with that because one person executed better than
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: you executed. But I wanted to see that game go
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: to overtime. I thought that Baylor was going to be
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: able to win it. You're the starting quarterback.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 2: Your coach is like, We're going to play for overtime,
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 2: or we're going to go for the win right now.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: What do you prefer?
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 9: I would have went for the win, too.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 5: I think it was the right call. I honestly think
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 5: he was open, too. I think the quarterback left it
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 5: behind him just slightly. He couldn't really get in position
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 5: to at least run in there. That's a good tackle.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 5: That's a good way to make up him being.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 9: Open, too.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 5: There's something about I trust myself to get that situation
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 5: done when it comes to winning that game.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 2: Even as I ask that question, I'm like, why am
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 2: I asking this question? Of course, we know Dev well
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 2: enough now to be like, he wants to be aggressive.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 9: That's why we let the coaches make the decisions.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 2: He wants to go for the win.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one I was like, dang, Baylor, we needed
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: that one for the Big 12 conference. But now you
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: roll forward, week two, Arkansas, and now it'll be Utah
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: with a win over an SEC team. Do you feel
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: any kind of, any certain type of way about the
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: fact that it is an SEC squad? Is there any,
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: we want to prove to people that, you know, the
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: Big 12 and the SEC are at least on equal
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: footing here?
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, conference-wise, no. But, I mean, just us as
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 5: a team, our goal is to go undefeated. So this
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 5: is just the next game that's in our way of
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 5: doing that. So this is the game that we just.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 5: We've got to do what we've got to do to
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 5: make sure we're putting ourselves in the best position to
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 5: make playoffs.
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this before with Devin Dampier.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: QB1, Dishing with Devin, brought to you by Culligan Water,
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• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are excited this week NFL kicks off.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: The NFL, you watch players rather than teams.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 2: Yep. Kind of weird.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: It's kind of weird you don't have an NFL team.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard because I was born in Minnesota, so I
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 5: was somewhat raised around the Vikings.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 9: Then I went to Arizona. Then Kyler Murray came.
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 5: Then I became a Cardinal fan. You get the Lamars.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 5: You get the Mahomes. You get the Baker Mayfields. I
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 5: grew up watching Aaron Rodgers. There's so many different players
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 5: I respect to a level where I'm like, I can
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 5: never just pick a team because players motivate me.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: To watch, watch the game. I think we got to
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: the bottom of it because.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: The Vikings and the Cardinals being the two teams that
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: you can attach yourself to two teams that have.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 2: Never really won anything. So that, that might be the problem.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 9: Hey, they were solid when they had Randy Moss.
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 2: They've been good.
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: They've been almost at AP, the Vikings.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 2: They've been Oh, so close. The Vikings many, many, many times. Yeah.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: But they've never actually won Superbowl. So I get it.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: And Arizona, you know, that's its own animal.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 9: For sure.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: Now I realize why. The team allegiance has never treated
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: you kindly. So now you're just attached to players.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 9: We can go with that. We can go with that.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: It's always great having you come in. I appreciate you
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: giving us time.
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 2: You're healthy. You feel good. Everything's right.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: Just a final message for Utah fans ahead of an
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: Arkansas game.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: Rice Eccles. For real, for real, night game, we expect
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere to be rocking.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because, I mean, even other teams say when they
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 5: play at Utah and it's dark outside, it's the truth.
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 9: So fans, bring it.
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 2: Do you know what the uniform combination is yet?
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: Because you guys, you get to help pick it, right?
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a red out, isn't it?
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: Is that the plan?
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure it's a red out.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: I think it is the plan. No, you're absolutely right.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: I think that is the plan because we were talking
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: about that earlier in the summer when When they sent out,
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: they announced sort of the fan schedule or whatever. I
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: think the red out, because I was like, that's how
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: Weddle would want it.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: And that's his day.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah, red out. We should be wearing red. I couldn't
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 9: imagine we have red out now.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 2: Have you talked to the younger Weddle yet?
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: Have you had any contact with Gage, who, of course,
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: is being recruited by everybody in the country?
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Gage made it out. He had his visit through us,
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 9: and yeah, he was able to. I forget what time
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 9: period it was, but, yeah, just in our quarterback meeting.
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 9: He was chilling. We all showed up to him, and
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 9: then he got to watch us practice.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: He also plays the quarterback position, so he probably is
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: watching guys like you because dual threat for sure.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 2: He's an athlete like you are.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. I'm excited for Gage.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get him in a Utah uniform someday.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 2: Dev, great seeing you, man. Good luck. Stay healthy. Have
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 2: a great game. We'll see you Saturday night.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 9: Appreciate it.
• 2:14:42
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  Speaker 14: All right, marching toward the end of the Sean O'Connell
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  Speaker 14: Show today, we are at Southern Steer Butcher, 1705 North
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  Speaker 14: Redwood Road, Saratoga Springs in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: And if I sound a little weepy, it's because Dan
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: has gifted me with something we've been talking about all day.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: I have in my hands, which you can't see because
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: we're not on camera today, I have in my hands
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  Speaker 1: one of the legendary armadillo eggs of Southern Steer.
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 2: Dan, thank you for the hookup. I appreciate you very,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 2: very much.
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  Speaker 1: This thing is a jalapeno popper wrapped in sausage.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: And then wrapped in bacon.
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 6: That's it? Yeah.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to crack into this thing. Yeah.
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: And before we get out of here, we're going to
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: make sure we check out. I had more samples of
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: the steak tips. I hope you don't have a hard
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: policy on how many samples people are supposed to take.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, we're good.
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: I've definitely violated that policy today.
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: But over there on the sample table, you've got some
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 2: of the other stuff, right?
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: You've got the olive oils and the balsamics and the
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: bread to dip it in. You've got some exotic honeys
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: over there. You really have kind of like a gourmet
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: food shop, not just a butcher.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the balsamics and the olive oil are from a
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 6: local Utah company as well as the Amarita's honey. You know,
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 6: like I said, my wife, Aubrey, who's here in the
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 6: store today with us, she's done a terrific job, you know,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 6: sourcing local vendors, going to farmers markets and picking out really,
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 6: you know, great stuff that we can, you know, showcase
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 6: here in the store. You know, we even have some,
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 6: you know, hot sauces that are locally produced that, you know,
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 6: have some kind of unique flavors to them. You know,
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 6: pineapple scotch bonnet. You name it.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 2: You also have your daily rewards program. I see the
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 2: video board, the menu over there.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: You've got discounts on different things Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: all the way through Friday.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Every day of the week you come in, you know,
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 6: we put your phone number in the system. You know,
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 6: when you come in every day there is a discounted special.
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 6: You know, tomorrow's a great day, especially for weekends, because
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 6: all of our cool appetizers, bacon-wrapped shrimp, stuffed mushrooms, our
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 6: jalapeno poppers, even our jerky. We didn't even talk about
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 6: our jerky.
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 2: We haven't talked about the jerky. I saw that over
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 2: in the butcher case also, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so our jerky comes from the same smokehouse that
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 6: provides their jerky to Buc-ee's. If you've ever been back
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 6: east on a road trip, you stop at a Bucky's
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 6: rest stop, they've got a wall of jerky. They're famous
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 6: for their jerky. Southern Steer has been really forward-thinking in
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 6: terms of sourcing their products, right? The cattle and pork
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 6: and all that. But we also now get our jerky
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 6: from the same exact smokehouse and production facility as the
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 6: Bucky's rest stops do. So Our jerky's phenomenal. Come in
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 6: and try it. We'll even give you a free piece
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 6: of jerky for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I saw, and I was ogling everything in the store
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: while we played the Devin Dampier interview, the Dishing with
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: Deb segment, and I went and took a gander inside
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: the dry-aged locker, and you got some tomahawks in there.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 2: It looks like maybe some prime ribs or whatever in there.
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 2: And is that tallow? They're slathered with tallow?
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's funny. Basically, when you dry-age meat, you want
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 6: to basically take– you know, a whiskey or a bourbon.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 6: And you just kind of coat the outside basically to,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 6: you know, sterilize anything that might be on the meat.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 6: And then you coat it in tallow and you hang
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 6: it in this, basically it's a locker or, you know,
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 6: some butchers have like entire rooms that are dry age room,
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 6: but it's humidified or humidity controlled and temperature controlled so
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 6: that it basically will slowly dry age the meat. And
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 6: it basically takes that, meat flavor and accentuates it and
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 6: allows it to tenderize over time so if.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: You want a like expensive steakhouse quality steak they can
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: hook you up with that down here at southern steer
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: if you just want some dogs and some burgers you
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: can throw on the grill for a quick barbecue they
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: can take care of that everything in between on that
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: entire gourmet meat to just like let me get something
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: in my kids mouths for the family you really that
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: whole spectrum is covered down here When it comes to
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: Southern Steer Butcher, and it's all clean, hormone-free, antibiotics, like
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: all the chemicals that we're worried about going into people's bodies,
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: you guys get the meat from the cleanest, most ethical sources.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you bet. If you've never tried a Wagyu hot dog,
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 6: that's another recommendation, right? I mean, you know, you get
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 6: your really good all-beef hot dogs that are terrific on
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 6: the grill, but a Wagyu hot dog is something completely different.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 6: It's a melt-in-your-mouth type hot dog.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: I saw our guy, our sales guy, Chad's sitting over there.
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: He's guarding his Wagyu steak that you gave him. I
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: might try and steal that before we get out of here.
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: Chad's always talking trash about the Seattle Seahawks and my
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers. Big weekend coming up. Utah, BYU both
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: in action. Full slate returning in the NFL. Perfect time
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: to come down to Southern Steer, grab the meats for the.
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: Barbecue, right?
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, go Utes. Let's go.
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 2: Let's go. You going to go to the game?
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, of course. Season ticket holder.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 6: My tailgate partner is roasting a razorback.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 2: A pig, I guess.
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 6: We're going to do it up for taking care of
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 6: the hogs.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: Before I leave, I'm going to have to find your
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: tailgate spot. We'll come on over.
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's important that I should sample everything.
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 2: Of course. You know what I mean? I've accepted that role,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 2: even though nobody wanted to give it to me. I've
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 2: given it to myself. In all seriousness... 1705.
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  Speaker 1: North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 2: It's a really incredible shop.
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: It's the kind of place you want to come if
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: you're having a barbecue, if you're just looking for something
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: that you can throw in the air fryer on the
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: grill for dinner. They've got that covered as well. Sides, marinades, rubs, salsas.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: They locally source a lot of their product. And, of course,
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: the meats are the main feature here. And that meat
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: case truly is a thing of beauty. So come down
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: to Southern Steer, and when you do, tell them OC
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: sent you. Dan, thanks for having us out here today.
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 6: Sean, it's been terrific. Thanks for coming. We really appreciate it.
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 6: We love being partners with you guys.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 2: We love having you.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: We're going to have one last segment where I'll give
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: away a pair of tickets to Weezer September 15th. One
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: more time, James. Oh, Dishing with Dev is going to
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: premiere right at the end of the show. The video
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: of Dishing with Dev, the YouTube feed, will come out.
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: In about 13 minutes.
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: One more segment, like I said, to give away some
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: Weezer tickets with a question. It's the Sean O'Connell Show
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: on ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
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  Speaker 8: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: Closing out the Sean O'Connell Show here on ESPN 700
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: and 92.1 FM. Edition with Dev, the video portion. We'll
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  Speaker 1: Dan just busted out some jalapeno poppers for us right
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  Speaker 1: here as we close out the show.
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 3: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: Southern Steer.
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: We've been at Southern Steer Butcher all day, 1705 North
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs. Yes, it is like your
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: grandma and grandpa's butcher shop, but it's got a modern
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: twist on it. Mealtime combo, the butcher combo, the sampler combo.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: All very affordable.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: You can get three full meals for you and the
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: family for less than $ 60 with.
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: The mealtime combo.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: The butcher combo, two pounds of ground beef, two pounds
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: of marinated chicken, two pounds of boneless pork chops, two
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: pounds of sirloin fillets. Man, I'm stocking up on the
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: meats before I get out of here. And they've treated
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: us really well. They're treating everyone who comes in really well.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: It is the vibe that you're looking for. It is
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: the product that you're looking for. It is the kind
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: of place that you should be supporting as a local business,
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: and they pay attention to all the details so that
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: you can, if you're like a chef, they'll elevate your meals.
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: If you're not a chef, if you're someone who's just
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: looking for convenience and you're trying to find something that
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: I can get some healthy food into my family's bellies
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: without putting too much thought into it, they can take
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: care of that as well. Really, really great stuff down
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: here at Southern Steer Butcher. And the sides, the rubs,
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: the marinades, everything. They really have it all. I have
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: a pair of tickets to give away to the Weezer
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: concert at the Maverick Center. Two tickets on September 15th.
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: Utah-Arkansas on Saturday night at Rice Eccles Stadium. If you've
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: been paying attention to the Arkansas sphere of influence, the podcasters,
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: the broadcasters, the Arkansas radio. They're overlooking Utah, and a
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: lot of what they're talking about is the fact that
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: this team is not as physical as they're used to being,
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: is not as formidable on the offensive and defensive lines.
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine.
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: One thing that we noticed about Utah watching, and it
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: is only a small sample size, but this looks like
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: the best wide receiving core Utah's had in quite a while.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: And With that, my question is, who led the Utes
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: in receiving yards in the season opener against Idaho?
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 2: 877-353-0700.
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: Nice, easy question for you. Grab yourself a pair of
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: Weezer tickets. They're coming to the Maverick Center on September 15th.
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: We will see you out there.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 2: At the tailgate.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: The ESPN 700 tailgate will be live. Across the street
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 1: from the stadium, hopefully you can stop by, say hello.
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: We've got free admission to the Greek Festival if you
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: want to stop by down here at Southern Steer and
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: pick up a couple of tickets for that. That's going
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: on this weekend, September 11th, 12th, and 13th, so Friday
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: through Sunday, 50th annual Salt Lake City Greek Fest, by
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: the way. And we also have some of our Taffy
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 1: Town ESPN 700 shows. Ute-themed taffy. So we're really just
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: hooking it up all over the place. Dan and Aubrey
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: have been really great to us. Southern Steer has been
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 1: really great to us. Make sure you get down here
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: as soon as you can, and we will turn you
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: over to the drive with Spence Checketts here in just
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: a matter of moments. James, is Spence in studio today,
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: or is he on the road?
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 2: He is in studio. I don't think we'll be able
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 2: to do crosstalk, though. That's fine. We don't need to
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 2: do crosstalk. Spence gets to talk.
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: Has to talk to me too much during the week,
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: so he probably doesn't need to do it again today.
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow's show should be a lot of fun. We've got
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: some Coordinator's Corner coming your way. Obviously, we're going to
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: dive deep into the matchup with the University of Arkansas,
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: where the Razorbacks are good, where the Razorbacks are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more vulnerable, and, of course, how the Utes
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: can build on the momentum from Week 1, because that
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  Speaker 1: was a big offensive explosion.
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  Speaker 2: But as we.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about on Monday, as we talked about last Friday...
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  Speaker 1: there are some things that you probably need to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things that need to be workshopped just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit for this Utah football team. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: pretty specific with it as we give you three hours
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  Speaker 1: of great radio tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: That will be the effort at least.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, on Saturday, it is Utah versus
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: Arkansas and the induction of our friend, of the Utah
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  Speaker 1: football legend, of the NFL football legend, Eric Weddle, into
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  Speaker 1: the Utah football ring of honor. That feels like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: SEC team coming in, that's already special enough, but he
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  Speaker 1: is everyone's favorite, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's our guy.
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  Speaker 1: So very much looking forward to having an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: honor Eric Weddle. He's the type of person, the type
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  Speaker 1: of player that deserves it, but definitely also the type
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  Speaker 1: of person that deserves it. So great weekend at Rice-Eccles
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: coming up.
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  Speaker 4: And speaking of that, O.C., Utah football, that is, if
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 4: you missed the Morgan Scali Coaches show from this week
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  Speaker 4: on Tuesday, there's, of course, the podcast on ESPN700Sports. com you
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 4: can check out. But we're also going to re-air it.
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 4: tonight at 6. We're going to try to re-air it
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 4: every week. It'll probably be on Wednesdays most weeks, but
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 4: because we had the Seahawks game last night, we're doing
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 4: it tonight on this Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: So if you missed it, 6 o'clock tonight.
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: If you missed Dishing with Deb, that'll be available at ESPN700Sports. com
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: and on the ESPN700 app. And we'll do the same
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: thing with Coordinator's Corner after the show tomorrow. So we're
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: giving you the best Utah content during football season and beyond.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll chat with you again tomorrow. Stay tuned
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 1: for the drive with Spence Checketts. One last time, the
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: address is 1705 North Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs. Tell Dan,
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: tell Aubrey, tell the whole crew you heard about it
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: on ESPN 700. Come down, stock up on your meats. Today,
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: the special is sausage, burgers, and hot dogs. Tomorrow, it's
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: all the sides, like the stuffed mushrooms, the jalapeno poppers.
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 2: And stuff like that.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: So get yourself ready for the weekend with Southern Steer Butcher.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Sean O'Connell Show. We'll do
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: it again tomorrow on ESPN 700, 92.1 FM.