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Morgan Scalley 10-20-26 Post Practice Media Availability · ESPN 700 & 92.1 FM | Utah's #1 Sports Talk

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  Speaker 1: So this game pits the two top two scoring offenses
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  Speaker 1: in the Big 12, but it also pits two strong defenses.
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  Speaker 1: What do you kind of expect? Which way will it
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  Speaker 1: go on the spectrum?
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  Speaker 2: Well, evenly matched. And so a lot of it comes
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  Speaker 2: down to how good are you on special teams and
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  Speaker 2: how disciplined are you. So much respect for their coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff and how they do things.
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  Speaker 3: They're very well coached. we're excited for what we've got
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  Speaker 3: prepared as well. Morgan, when you look at coverage and
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  Speaker 3: stuff on your team.
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  Speaker 2: I know you guys like to play the press man,
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  Speaker 2: but when do you think it's time to maybe switch
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  Speaker 2: it up occasionally and throw in some zone? It all
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  Speaker 2: depends on the situation, really, and what an offense is
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  Speaker 2: trying to do to you. If you're constantly getting picked
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  Speaker 2: or stuff that takes advantage of man coverage and you're
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  Speaker 2: not being able to pass stuff off, then it's probably
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  Speaker 2: time to mix it up. But we also have to
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  Speaker 2: be better with communication across the board.
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  Speaker 3: What's been the response from the players this week at practice?
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Very good practice today. Now it's got to translate. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't had a bad practice.
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  Speaker 3: It's been really good. We've got very good leaders, so
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  Speaker 3: that's not an issue where coaches have to be cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a matter of getting.
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  Speaker 1: The work in. You knew that eventually as the season
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  Speaker 1: progressed that you'd have a game that went down to
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  Speaker 1: the wire. What do you feel like the team learned
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  Speaker 1: from having that experience where it was close down to
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  Speaker 1: the final minute?
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  Speaker 2: We've had adversity in different stretches. That was one of
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  Speaker 2: the first times that we were down in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: So it was good for those guys to be.
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  Speaker 3: Able to fight back. You're trying to learn from every
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  Speaker 3: mistake that you make, and not making.
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  Speaker 2: The same mistake twice. That's part of our growth mindset.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay to make mistakes, but you have to learn
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  Speaker 2: from them, and that's what our guys are doing right now. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we're excited for a new challenge. Guys came to work today,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll be prepared for Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: What stands out about their frontstop in Houston? Well, just
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  Speaker 3: a lot like Colorado, very athletic on the edges.
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  Speaker 2: They do a really good job of mixing up pressure
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  Speaker 2: and foreman and going to an odd front. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of variety in what they do, and then they're
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  Speaker 2: very sound on the back end.
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  Speaker 3: Morgan, just kind of a bigger picture question. If the
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  Speaker 3: need arised, how confident are you.
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  Speaker 2: In Dylan Curtis to go out there and hit a
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  Speaker 2: field goal if you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Needed to win? Oh, man. Well, how many has he missed? One? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: very confident. I love that dude. Thanks, Morgan. Thanks, Morgan.