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Dishin' with Devon: Dampier on the win over Arkansas, Noah Bennee breaking out, Proud of the OL vs Arkansas + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: It's time to talk to Utah quarterback Devin Dampier. This
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Speaker 1: is Dishing with Devin on the Sean O'Connell Show. Brought
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Speaker 1: OC with Ute Star signal caller Devin Dampier on your
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Speaker 1: home of the Utes and your home for football. ESPN 792.1 FM.
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Speaker 2: It is that time again on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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Speaker 2: QB1 joins us from your University of Utah football team.
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Speaker 3: Devin Dampier, welcome back to the show. How are you, sir?
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Speaker 4: Man, doing well, doing well. Happy to have another week
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Speaker 4: of playing football.
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Speaker 3: 2-0 for your Utes, up to No.
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Speaker 2: 17 in the national rankings, beating an Arkansas Razorbacks team
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Speaker 2: that was only the second SEC squad to come into
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Speaker 2: Rice-Eccles Stadium as visitors.
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Speaker 3: Night game, great atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: Tell me how you felt walking out onto that field
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Speaker 2: for that game and in that place with all those
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Speaker 2: people who want to watch and see what No.
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Speaker 3: 4 could do.
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Speaker 4: Man, I mean, first....
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Speaker 5: I think there was a little extra.
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Speaker 4: Motivation going into that game. Just a couple of things
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Speaker 4: being said before. And, you know, we just, you know,
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Speaker 4: we're a very respectful team. We, we don't play, we
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Speaker 4: play very, I would say we play very nasty, relentless,
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Speaker 4: but you know, we're a normal, respectful team.
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Speaker 5: So just to hear that from the other.
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Speaker 4: Side definitely gave us some motivation and especially our crowd,
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Speaker 4: you know, they, they packed it out.
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Speaker 5: They made sure that They felt that energy.
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Speaker 4: And man, I try to tell people you don't lose
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Speaker 4: that night. Dark hours get real.
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Speaker 3: On the field.
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Speaker 2: As the game progressed, how, how were the Arkansas Razorbacks
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Speaker 2: like as opponents were they trash talking type? Were they
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Speaker 2: guys like when you got hit, they let you know
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Speaker 2: about it. Like how did that vibe play out as
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Speaker 2: the game progressed?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I would, I would say, they were feeling a
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Speaker 4: little confident at the beginning. And then I think we just,
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Speaker 4: I think we played in a way where, you know,
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Speaker 4: it was, it was dominant, both sides of the ball, honestly,
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Speaker 4: at that defense, you know, for them to continue to
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Speaker 4: get stops and let us play on short field. And
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Speaker 4: we definitely tried to make the most, most of it
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Speaker 4: on offense. And, you know, I just thought we were
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Speaker 4: clicking on all cylinders.
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Speaker 2: Speaker 0 7, I know you were asked about this
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Speaker 2: in the post game presser and We have talked about it.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a theme, I think, with these conversations.
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Speaker 2: Your guy, Mac G, he's in his bag, and he
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Speaker 2: is a mad scientist, and he is not afraid to
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Speaker 2: do anything unorthodox.
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Speaker 3: First play of the game, double pass. You to Bird,
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Speaker 3: Bird to Wayshon.
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Speaker 2: And it kind of was a tone setter, I think,
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Speaker 2: when you guys got out there offensively. You were laughing
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Speaker 2: about how, you know, that got put in as the
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Speaker 2: first play of the game. But for the people who
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Speaker 2: did not get to hear you post-game, recount that story
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Speaker 2: again for me. Like, that is a really kind of
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Speaker 2: like out-of-this-world play to start a game with.
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Speaker 3: And yet, that was play number one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: So, no, me and Maggie, we run through the offensive
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Speaker 4: script that Friday. And he was like, I'm.
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Speaker 5: Putting that first. And I got first, you know, I.
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Speaker 4: Didn't I didn't necessarily believe him fully. I was like,
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Speaker 4: there ain't no way he can start off with a
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Speaker 4: double pass.
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Speaker 5: And then we got to Saturday.
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Speaker 4: We had our offensive unit meeting before and he was like.
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Speaker 4: he was like, I ain't going back on my word.
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Speaker 5: Like we coming out, we coming out with.
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Speaker 4: A double pass and everybody was like, oh, he's real
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Speaker 4: about to do it. So, you know, he's all about
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Speaker 4: keeping his word and, you know, we trust him with
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Speaker 4: what he calls out there.
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Speaker 5: And as you can see, it works out.
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Speaker 2: Speaker 0 7th, it does work out another big performance
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Speaker 2: for you all offensively. Look, Arkansas, I give him credit
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Speaker 2: for that first drive, chewed up half of the first quarter.
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Speaker 2: then the defense boat up, they only gave up the
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Speaker 2: three points. And then it was basically youths the whole
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Speaker 2: rest of the way. Did, did what you saw actually
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Speaker 2: see from them, what you saw from them defensively in
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Speaker 2: real gameplay, did it kind of match your expectations based
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Speaker 2: on the week of film study?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I definitely thought they were, you know, as big.
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Speaker 4: As they looked on film, you know, I think when
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Speaker 4: you talk about size, I think there's a sec, they
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Speaker 4: normally get the sizing and stuff, but I mean, we,
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Speaker 4: we just, we knew we had to go into this game.
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Speaker 4: We had to prepare the right way and, you know,
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Speaker 4: play the way we do. And that was going to
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Speaker 4: get us to win.
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Speaker 5: So I thought we did a good job of that.
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Speaker 1: Way.
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Speaker 2: Sean had another great game, 10 carries. So I think
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who expect at some point
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Speaker 2: that the the handoffs will increase to weigh Sean 10
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Speaker 2: carries on the ground over five yards average on the ground.
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Speaker 2: He had again, five catches in the passing game. One
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Speaker 2: of those was a touchdown catch. And, you know, we
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Speaker 2: had a chance to talk with him after practice the
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Speaker 2: other day. He's obviously, you know, he's put in the
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Speaker 2: hard work this off season, as you said, as the
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Speaker 2: coaches have said, and it's paying off through these first
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Speaker 2: two games. Just talk to me about, you know, the
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Speaker 2: trust you all have in way Sean and his ability to,
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Speaker 2: in both the passing game and in the run game
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Speaker 2: to kind of be that, that guy, he's almost the
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Speaker 2: number one receiver, despite the fact that he plays running back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we, we told way Sean, you know, especially,
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Speaker 4: and that's something he's wanted, you know, we didn't have
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Speaker 4: to put that on him, but he wanted to be
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Speaker 4: a fully complete back. That was his mindset coming into
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Speaker 4: this year. And just the way our offense flows, you know,
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Speaker 4: especially with our deep threats, you know, we get a
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Speaker 4: lot of drop coverage and honestly deacon, the ball down
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Speaker 4: the way Sean is, That's the best part of the
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Speaker 4: play is put way Sean in space and let him
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Speaker 4: go do what he does. And just as efficiency on
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Speaker 4: being able to catch the ball and create plays in
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Speaker 4: the passing game. And then when we need him to
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Speaker 4: get those three yards for a first down, I mean,
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Speaker 4: give it away.
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Speaker 2: Speaker 2, he can run the ball. He can catch
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Speaker 2: the ball. You could throw the ball. You could also
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Speaker 2: run the ball very effectively. You did so again for
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Speaker 2: two touchdowns in this game against Arkansas. Last week when
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Speaker 2: we had this conversation, we were kind of looking at
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Speaker 2: the Idaho game post-matchup. It was like, yeah, maybe I
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Speaker 2: could have not taken this hit here or I could
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Speaker 2: have slid there or whatever. Tell me what the film study,
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Speaker 2: the coach's reaction to your game on last Saturday was like.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, I think my first I believe it was
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Speaker 4: the second or third drive where I felt like I
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Speaker 4: was just a little less efficient than I was the
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Speaker 4: rest of the night. And, you know, that was just
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Speaker 4: something that was communicated to me. Just slow down your brain,
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Speaker 4: slow down your process of what you're thinking out there.
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Speaker 4: And then also having an interception as well, just kind of,
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Speaker 4: it felt like I had a bad drive, then had
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Speaker 4: an interception back to back. So just to be able
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Speaker 4: to have, you know, my teammates, my coaches behind me, just,
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Speaker 4: you motivated me to go out there. We've seen you practice.
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Speaker 4: We've seen you do all this, just believe it's going
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Speaker 4: to happen. And, you know, that's, that was my mindset
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Speaker 4: to go back out there and do what I do.
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Speaker 4: And I thought, you know, after kind of those drives,
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Speaker 4: we were clicking our all cylinders, the rest of the game.
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Speaker 2: So take me inside your like individual mental reset process,
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Speaker 2: because that's a normal thing in the ebb and flow
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Speaker 2: of a football game. You're going to have a great series.
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Speaker 2: You're going to have one that's not so great. There
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Speaker 2: are going to be turnovers, right? And I think one
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Speaker 2: of the most important things for anyone in your position
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Speaker 2: is you've got to forget about that last one, and
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Speaker 2: you've got to go out and perform.
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Speaker 3: The next time. Do you have a deliberate process? Do
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Speaker 3: you have a method? Do you have, like, a self-speak?
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Speaker 2: Is there something that you do every time, or is
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Speaker 2: it just, you know, absorbing in the moment? Tell me
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Speaker 2: how that reset goes for Devin Dampier.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, I try not to be the.
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Speaker 5: Biggest isolator, but that is– I love that.
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Speaker 4: My teammates come next to me. They're telling me, we're good,
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Speaker 4: you're good, and all that. But I definitely need just
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Speaker 4: a quick thing. It's normally just 30 seconds.
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Speaker 3: A minute.
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Speaker 5: I kind of coast off to the sideline, away from people.
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Speaker 4: And just kind of breathe and let my body reset, relax,
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Speaker 4: and forget about it.
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Speaker 3: Is that something that you developed deliberately?
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Speaker 2: How did you come to that as your reset?
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Speaker 4: Just calming me down. I think when I'm able to
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Speaker 4: just make it where it's just me and me only
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Speaker 4: in my brain at that point, I'm able to kind
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Speaker 4: of talk to myself and just... tell myself to move on.
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Speaker 4: And it just, it seems to slow down my, my,
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Speaker 4: like my heart rate, my heart rates are going out
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Speaker 4: a little bit and, uh, I can just feel my
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Speaker 4: mind kind of ease down.
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Speaker 2: Um, Small grievance against you. We did not know that
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Speaker 2: you were a dancer.
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Speaker 3: Okay. You have not told us about this in the past.
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Speaker 2: You had your little MJ celebration on that last rushing touchdown.
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Speaker 2: Took a big lick credit to that. I think it
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Speaker 2: was a safety coming downhill. But at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, you're in the end zone and then you're celebrating.
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Speaker 2: Where did the Michael Jackson come from?
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Speaker 4: Um, you know, I told him, I actually, I told
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Speaker 4: my little brother and my grandma, like this summer, I
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Speaker 4: was going to do that. I was going to be
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Speaker 4: my first Sally.
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Speaker 5: Um, my first touchdown, I was still frustrated about my interception.
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Speaker 4: So I, I didn't have it in my, my heart
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Speaker 4: to celebrate yet, but, uh, near definitely third quarter, it was,
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Speaker 4: you know, it was fully fleshed out. I was, I
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Speaker 4: was ready to hit it the next time I got
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Speaker 4: an end zone. So yeah, bust, bust them MJ.
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Speaker 2: And, the spider, the spider band celebration seems to be
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Speaker 2: catching on with everybody. I don't know if you noticed
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Speaker 2: the must is doing it now.
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Speaker 3: Some of your teammates are doing it. That's it's becoming
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Speaker 3: a branding thing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I, after the Michael Jackson, I like, I
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Speaker 4: turned to the must and I started webbing them.
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Speaker 5: Up and like all of them, all of them caught on.
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Speaker 5: So it was pretty sick.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: This year with dev, our conversation with starting quarterback, Devin
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Speaker 2: and cooling Noah, Benny with a really big game. Four catches,
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Speaker 2: 113 yards. He was making fun of himself for stumbling
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Speaker 2: down to the sideline on that one catch. But just
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Speaker 2: a really incredible game from a guy who was part
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Speaker 2: of this program, transferred out, transferred back in, gets to
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Speaker 2: play with his brother again. And I'll be honest, there
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Speaker 2: were a lot of us kind of in the media
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Speaker 2: and in the fan base wondering if the tight ends
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Speaker 2: were going to be a huge factor in this offense.
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Speaker 2: And at least in the early goings, guys like Noah
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Speaker 2: Benny are starting to show what the tight end role
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Speaker 2: can be. for Mac G and for you talk about
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Speaker 2: his game. And is this something that you guys saw
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Speaker 2: in practice during the week and felt like maybe Noah,
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Speaker 2: Benny or the other tight ends were going to be
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Speaker 2: a weapon you could use in this matchup with Arkansas.
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Speaker 4: Speaker 4, yeah. We're normally like our offense is all
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Speaker 4: about like.
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Speaker 5: Where we can find the mismatches, where we can find what.
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Speaker 4: Works for us. And you know, me just being back there,
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Speaker 4: you know, I thought Noah First, talking about practice, Noah's
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Speaker 4: one of our harder workers. He definitely asked me for
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Speaker 4: the extra reps after practice if.
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Speaker 5: He felt like something didn't feel good to.
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Speaker 4: Him or he just wanted a second rep on it
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Speaker 4: so he felt good about it in the game. Everything
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Speaker 4: in there, we've definitely practiced before. We've built the scenario in.
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Speaker 4: Benny's such an athletic guy. And how big he is
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Speaker 4: and how much he fits in the run game and
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Speaker 4: stuff like that. Just how good he is in the
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Speaker 4: past game too is amazing. And yeah, just, I thought
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Speaker 4: there was some mismatches in the middle of the field.
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Speaker 4: I thought, you know, Benny being able to get in
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Speaker 4: the middle of the field, that's, that's where.
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Speaker 5: The throw was.
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Speaker 4: And he was definitely capitalizing on it.
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Speaker 2: Now you take a look at the offensive line. We
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Speaker 2: have talked about them. Every conversation you and I have
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Speaker 2: had since we restarted this for the 2026 season, we've
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Speaker 2: been talking about the offensive line. And still it's a
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Speaker 2: little bit unorthodox with how much rotation is going on.
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Speaker 2: But I think that I'm encouraged by it. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to put words in your mouth, but it feels
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Speaker 2: like it must be encouraging when they pass a test
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Speaker 2: against SEC talent. There's a couple of guys on that
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Speaker 2: defensive front for the Razorbacks that are probably going to
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Speaker 2: be playing on Sundays. Both of those guys were non-factors
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Speaker 2: against you, and you've got to give credit to the
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Speaker 2: offensive line for that.
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Speaker 3: You've been optimistic, and you've told us, just wait. I
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Speaker 3: trust my guys. You'll see.
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Speaker 2: But I felt like this was another opportunity for them
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Speaker 2: to kind of pass that test. And they did so
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Speaker 2: with flying colors. What were your thoughts on the offensive
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Speaker 2: line and their performance against Arkansas?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm very proud of them. Yeah. Especially, you know,
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Speaker 4: who they have up front. We very much respect our opponent. And,
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Speaker 4: you know, we knew it was going to be a
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Speaker 4: challenge for a line going against them all game. And man, I, again,
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Speaker 4: I thought they handled it the best possible. It's, know, I, I,
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Speaker 4: I had those guys up all the time, but you know,
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Speaker 4: there's a point where I'm like, y'all see what they do.
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Speaker 4: Like the worry shouldn't be there anymore. Just cause of there.
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Speaker 4: I let them prove it on the field. I let
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Speaker 4: them show it on the field, how good they are.
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Speaker 4: And this is another week of, you know, them proving
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Speaker 4: that they were ready to step up.
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Speaker 2: Speaker 0 7, I appreciate the saving the collective mentality
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Speaker 2: that those guys have, where they haven't shied away from that,
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Speaker 2: that kind of like sentiment that people are like, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. had a really great offensive line last year.
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Speaker 2: These guys might be a big drop-off. When we talk
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Speaker 2: to them as individuals, every one of them mentions, like, no,
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Speaker 2: we know what people are saying about us, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to play with a chip on our shoulder so
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Speaker 2: that nobody feels that way. I mean, they keep performing
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Speaker 2: like this, and it's going to be one fewer thing
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Speaker 2: I can talk about on the show, right? We're not
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Speaker 2: going to be able to fill five minutes with, hey,
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Speaker 2: how's the offensive line going to do? Because, I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're really kind of stepping up to the plate here.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if I've seen a whole unit–
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Speaker 2: share that exact same mentality as much as I've seen
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Speaker 2: it this year with those guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. That just talks about their characters from, you know,
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Speaker 4: them being behind those guys last year and you know, being,
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Speaker 4: being the starter now and still wanting one in the edge,
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Speaker 4: like it's, it's never enough for those guys. And you know,
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Speaker 4: that's what you want out of, out of your starters.
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Speaker 4: You want guys that want to continue to be better
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Speaker 4: than what they feel like is good. It's, it's never
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Speaker 4: good enough. And you know, that's, that's how those guys
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Speaker 4: are taking it.
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Speaker 2: Okay, back to the playbook because it is, I think,
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Speaker 2: one of the funnest, most interesting, most creative playbooks we've
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Speaker 2: seen so far in this 2026 season. And we speculated
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Speaker 2: on this with you and Bird and your relationship and
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Speaker 2: the ability that both of you guys have. We saw
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Speaker 2: another crazy play where it's, you know, you're the dive
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Speaker 2: man on an option and then you're also the quarterback
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Speaker 2: on the option. And now he's the pitch man. I
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Speaker 2: asked Bird after practice if that play also exists in
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Speaker 2: the playbook where you are the pitch man, where you
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Speaker 2: get the pitch back from Bird, and then you're the
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Speaker 2: guy who gets to score or whatever. Do you guys
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Speaker 2: fight over who gets to be what? Does Mac G say, no,
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Speaker 2: I need Devin playing this role? Do you guys decide
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Speaker 2: that between yourselves? When it is a two-quarterback... you know,
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Speaker 2: back and forth, who makes the decision on who ends
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Speaker 2: up with the ball on who runs, which role in
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Speaker 2: the play?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, I, I normally call the shot, but
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, there's certain situations where I think
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Speaker 4: it benefits me more if I'm going a certain direction
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Speaker 4: and birds go another direction or vice versa. I think,
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Speaker 4: you know, it just, it benefits our offense depending on
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Speaker 4: which way the play is going. So, but we practice
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Speaker 4: it so much in practice by game day, you know,
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Speaker 4: we're kind of, we know exactly what's going on. I
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Speaker 4: give a look at the defense and then we'll kind of,
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Speaker 4: when we're, when we're both meeting at the middle, I'll
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Speaker 4: tell him he's taking QVR. You'll see him the other
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Speaker 4: way around. He'll point at me. So, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 4: we were pretty locked down on the playbook, but yeah,
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Speaker 4: Maggie's cooking up.
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Speaker 3: So, And I know you probably are sick of talking
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Speaker 3: about this.
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Speaker 2: You two have this kind of, like, unique relationship. Is
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Speaker 2: there any, like, selfish element to it that you have
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Speaker 2: to even fight? Like, where you're just like, man, I
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Speaker 2: want to be the one that ends up with the
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Speaker 2: ball in his hand. Or I know this play is
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Speaker 2: going to be big, so I want to be the
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Speaker 2: one throwing it.
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Speaker 3: Or I want to be the one, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, that receives the pitch.
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Speaker 3: Or whatever it is. Because.
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Speaker 2: that mad scientist stuff allows for so many different possibilities.
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Speaker 3: You and bird, you always say the right thing.
17:00
Speaker 2: Do you always feel the right thing where you're like,
17:02
Speaker 2: you know, I don't care as long as we score.
17:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think, I think bird is, you know, for,
17:10
Speaker 4: for him, like he knows he's the backup this year,
17:13
Speaker 4: but he knows that we need, we need him on
17:15
Speaker 4: the field as well. So him having that, being a
17:19
Speaker 4: quarterback in that play playmaker mindset, you know, there's a
17:22
Speaker 4: lot we ask on his plate and I just kind of, I'm,
17:26
Speaker 4: I'm a guy, whatever gets the offense wrong, whatever, whatever
17:29
Speaker 4: moves to change, you know, that's, that's what I'm in for. So,
17:32
Speaker 4: and you know, bird's the same way he's, he, as
17:35
Speaker 4: much as he knows I'm the starter, he's still trying.
17:38
Speaker 5: To find a way to show value to our team.
17:40
Speaker 5: Cause man, we need them on the field as well.
17:42
Speaker 4: So, and I think he goes in there and, you know,
17:45
Speaker 4: he does what he does that, at the highest levels
17:48
Speaker 4: that he can. And it's a, it's great that, you know,
17:51
Speaker 4: we're both able to be back there and do his
17:52
Speaker 4: best for the team and wouldn't move the six.
17:56
Speaker 2: How much of your own defense do you get to
17:58
Speaker 2: watch during the actual games? Like I'm not paying attention
18:01
Speaker 2: to where you are when the defense is on the field.
18:03
Speaker 2: Obviously I'm watching what Arkansas is doing and what your
18:06
Speaker 2: defense is doing. And I asked that question because like
18:09
Speaker 2: Jai Moore had an unbelievable game and he You might
18:13
Speaker 2: not know that until the game's over.
18:16
Speaker 3: I don't know.
18:16
Speaker 2: Do you get to watch your defense at all, or
18:18
Speaker 2: are you talking to Mac G, talking to Jordan Gross
18:21
Speaker 2: and everyone on the sideline when that's happening?
18:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say normally. I feel like we've been
18:28
Speaker 4: scoring in about six, like eight plays, every kind of drive.
18:31
Speaker 5: So normally if the other team gets.
18:34
Speaker 4: A first down, then I get to watch our defense go.
18:37
Speaker 4: But if our defense gets a three and out, man, it's,
18:40
Speaker 4: it's cooked. I'm, I'm over there watching the.
18:42
Speaker 5: iPad and then we're like, it's third down and third
18:44
Speaker 5: down and third.
18:44
Speaker 4: And I'm getting up.
18:45
Speaker 5: So it depends how fast they, they get.
18:49
Speaker 4: Off the field, honestly.
18:57
Speaker 2: that a lot of people were expecting was coming at
18:59
Speaker 2: some point.
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Speaker 4: Speaker 4, I did not get to see all, all
19:03
Speaker 4: of jive, but I didn't get to see him until after,
19:07
Speaker 4: after the game, obviously just going up.
19:10
Speaker 5: To the press conference.
19:11
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh wait, John was snapping. So, but yeah.
19:16
Speaker 4: And then, you know, everybody's kind of talked to him
19:17
Speaker 4: on the sideline. You, you hear people like Jai, Jai's
19:20
Speaker 4: going crazy. And then.
19:23
Speaker 5: I don't get to see it, but I'm like, bet bet.
19:26
Speaker 2: That's that's got to be kind of cool it's like
19:28
Speaker 2: a little like christmas present after the game where you're
19:30
Speaker 2: like oh not only are we play well but look
19:31
Speaker 2: what my guy did that's that's kind of nice i
19:33
Speaker 2: like that yeah seven day up here for a couple
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Speaker 2: the page to utah state uh the battle of the
19:47
Speaker 2: brothers they call it it is it's kind of one
19:50
Speaker 2: of those weird games where it is also an in-state rivalry.
19:53
Speaker 2: It is not the main rivalry. That's obviously BYU, but
19:58
Speaker 2: there's a lot of familiarity between these two teams. You got,
20:02
Speaker 2: you know, when your top receivers came from there last year,
20:04
Speaker 2: your offensive coordinator came from there last year. That, I guess,
20:08
Speaker 2: is the nature of college football these days. But what
20:11
Speaker 2: are your expectations for Utah State? What do you know
20:14
Speaker 2: about the Aggies?
20:16
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:17
Speaker 4: So, Bronco Minnehall was my head coach at New Mexico
20:20
Speaker 4: my sophomore year. And, you know, I personally know how
20:24
Speaker 4: he runs the program and everything. He's very tough minded. Just,
20:28
Speaker 4: just like us here at Utah. You know, he wants,
20:32
Speaker 4: he wants his guys to be the tough minded people
20:35
Speaker 4: that's able to play the full four quarters and.
20:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, just fight.
20:39
Speaker 4: So, you know, we're expecting, you know, very, very competitive
20:43
Speaker 4: team to come out here. And, and, you know, there's,
20:46
Speaker 4: there's that little bit of little brother, big brother kind
20:50
Speaker 4: of mentality where, you know, they're, they're going to come out,
20:53
Speaker 4: they're going to come out on on cylinders and we're
20:55
Speaker 4: expecting that.
20:56
Speaker 5: So, you know, we need to prepare the right way
20:58
Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 3: What are they showing on film from what you've been
21:02
Speaker 3: able to see so far?
21:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, up front, I think, you know,
21:07
Speaker 4: they're showing that, They can battle.
21:09
Speaker 3: They can battle.
21:10
Speaker 4: You know, I thought they battled Washington pretty well on
21:13
Speaker 4: the run game. You know, they show they can be
21:15
Speaker 4: there and, you know, they got some, they got athletic safeties,
21:19
Speaker 4: athletic corners. So, I mean, yeah, but they're, they're very
21:24
Speaker 4: well-rounded team. You know, there's a reason why they're able
21:26
Speaker 4: to stick around with Washington and, you know, it's again,
21:31
Speaker 4: our job to prepare the right way and, you know,
21:33
Speaker 4: do what we do when game time comes.
21:35
Speaker 2: OK, so now that we've seen some more of the
21:37
Speaker 2: craziness in this playbook, do you feel like is that
21:41
Speaker 2: going to be a theme that continues? I was asking
21:43
Speaker 2: this question to one of our NFL guests yesterday, like
21:46
Speaker 2: how sustainable this level of creativity is when you get into,
21:51
Speaker 2: you know, not only a game like this one, but
21:52
Speaker 2: when you get into like conference play and like. the
21:56
Speaker 2: gadget plays, the stuff that people don't really see, is
21:59
Speaker 2: that going to be part of this offensive identity, or
22:02
Speaker 2: is this just something that you're putting on film so
22:04
Speaker 2: everyone's got to prepare for it? Do we see more
22:07
Speaker 2: of the craziness? Do we see more of the creativity
22:09
Speaker 2: against Utah State?
22:12
Speaker 4: Man, I would say, yeah. I mean, with who we
22:15
Speaker 4: have back there, you know, I wouldn't.
22:19
Speaker 5: Say– it may seem like it at times, but like, man, there,
22:24
Speaker 5: there's so many elements to our, our, which I call
22:27
Speaker 5: it gadget plays.
22:28
Speaker 4: Like there's so many things that we can do during
22:30
Speaker 4: those plays to make sure the play goes right. So, um,
22:35
Speaker 4: you know, if the, if.
22:37
Speaker 5: What we want to run isn't there, you know, there's
22:39
Speaker 5: a way.
22:40
Speaker 4: Uh, me and Bert can check out of something. There's,
22:43
Speaker 4: You know, we don't have to do that. We don't
22:45
Speaker 4: have to force it. So I feel like there's definitely
22:49
Speaker 4: a good balance of the plays we're doing. Even though
22:52
Speaker 4: they're exotic, there's definitely reasons why we're doing it and
22:56
Speaker 4: why they work. There's reasons for it. So I think,
22:59
Speaker 4: you know, it's a good element of our offense for
23:02
Speaker 4: defenses to be able to prepare for every week because, man,
23:05
Speaker 4: that just puts in a whole other 20 plays, 20
23:07
Speaker 4: play scenarios that they could expect and didn't ever happen,
23:11
Speaker 4: you know?
23:13
Speaker 2: Even as I was asking the question, I guess I
23:15
Speaker 2: wonder if gadget plays the right way to characterize this
23:17
Speaker 2: because of what you just said, right? Gadget plays are
23:20
Speaker 2: these things that you run once or twice during a
23:23
Speaker 2: season and it's kind of, it's a home run or
23:26
Speaker 2: it's a strikeout.
23:27
Speaker 3: They're slow developing.
23:28
Speaker 2: It's craziness that, you know, nobody has seen on film before,
23:32
Speaker 2: but if that's, if that's not the approach in these
23:36
Speaker 2: plays and if there are, secondary options or their check
23:39
Speaker 2: down or check out options. And it's just part of
23:41
Speaker 2: the fabric of the offense. I guess gadget play probably
23:44
Speaker 2: isn't the right way to characterize that.
23:47
Speaker 1: Yeah.
23:47
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:47
Speaker 3: That's a, yeah.
23:48
Speaker 4: It's almost like just, it's, it's a normal, it's a
23:52
Speaker 4: normal offense to play, but we got to, we got
23:54
Speaker 4: a good way of dressing it up for sure. And
23:57
Speaker 4: you know, if, if, if it isn't there yet, again,
24:00
Speaker 4: there's always a way to check out of it and make.
24:03
Speaker 5: Sure we're in the right situation at the right time.
24:07
Speaker 2: To get nitpicky, because that's what fans do when everything's
24:09
Speaker 2: going very well.
24:10
Speaker 3: There were people last week, myself included.
24:14
Speaker 2: I was watching the second half of the game with
24:17
Speaker 2: Eric Weddle and his people that he'd been inducted into
24:21
Speaker 2: the Ring of Honor at halftime, which is cool to see.
24:23
Speaker 2: But more than one of us were just like, man,
24:26
Speaker 2: this game is already in hand.
24:29
Speaker 3: There's no doubt that Utah is going to win this.
24:31
Speaker 2: Why is Devin still in there and why is Devin
24:33
Speaker 2: still running the ball and getting hit at the goal
24:36
Speaker 2: line and things like that? How should we feel about
24:39
Speaker 2: you being in when the game is already won? You're
24:44
Speaker 2: a football player, so you don't mind, I'm sure, but
24:47
Speaker 2: we don't want to see you get hit late in
24:49
Speaker 2: a game that's already decided.
24:50
Speaker 5: Exactly.
24:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:52
Speaker 5: Um, you know, I'm, I'm a true competitor.
24:55
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, that's one of my biggest
24:57
Speaker 4: characteristics when it comes to football is, um, you know, I,
25:02
Speaker 4: I didn't not even disrespectfully. I just, my mindset is
25:05
Speaker 4: I want to put 50 on the board every single game.
25:07
Speaker 4: Like that's just the.
25:08
Speaker 5: Type of mentality that I have when I'm able.
25:11
Speaker 4: To come out and play football. So, um, you know,
25:15
Speaker 4: we weren't at 50 yet and I was just like,
25:16
Speaker 4: let's keep going. Like, Let's keep moving the chains. Let's
25:19
Speaker 4: keep doing what we do. And, you know, that's also
25:23
Speaker 4: good work for me to just get, get those plays that,
25:27
Speaker 4: you know, we, we practice maybe, I don't know, two, two,
25:30
Speaker 4: 300 different plays during, during the week. And then, you know,
25:34
Speaker 4: we only run.
25:34
Speaker 5: 60 when we get out there.
25:36
Speaker 4: So just to get a fill of what those plays
25:39
Speaker 4: look like in practice and what they look like in
25:41
Speaker 4: game two and making sure we're getting them in, you know,
25:44
Speaker 4: that's also somewhat of that mentality as well.
25:48
Speaker 2: Um, you mentioned it, you played for Bronco. What will
25:51
Speaker 2: like a conversation, what will an interaction with Bronco Mendenhall
25:54
Speaker 2: look like for you on game day? If you have one,
25:57
Speaker 2: if you know, out in pregame warmups, cause I really
25:59
Speaker 2: don't know what it's like in modern day college football.
26:03
Speaker 2: When a coach loses his most important player to the
26:06
Speaker 2: transfer portal. If there's bitterness, if there's hostility, I imagine
26:10
Speaker 2: most coaches are just like, that's just, it's the nature
26:12
Speaker 2: of the game these days.
26:14
Speaker 3: Uh, what is your relationship with Bronco Mendenhall?
26:16
Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, me and Bronco are like, I'm definitely going
26:22
Speaker 4: to love him up, and I believe he's going to
26:25
Speaker 4: love me up.
26:26
Speaker 3: The same way.
26:28
Speaker 5: We've had a lot of one-on-one conversations.
26:30
Speaker 4: When he was my head coach of me going up
26:33
Speaker 4: there and him trying to develop me as, one, a
26:36
Speaker 4: football player, but just as a leader and coach. He
26:41
Speaker 4: was kind of my first head coach that gave me
26:44
Speaker 4: the leadership role, first time being a starting quarterback in college,
26:48
Speaker 4: and he definitely paved the way for that. Yeah, just
26:51
Speaker 4: so many one-on-one conversations, and it's also about life. So yeah,
26:57
Speaker 4: there's definitely more than just we play football together. Yeah,
27:01
Speaker 4: I'm expecting a good meet-and-greet when we see each other.
27:09
Speaker 2: Well, we're looking forward to this game. I don't think,
27:12
Speaker 2: are the uniforms red out again? Because twice now it's
27:15
Speaker 2: been red on red on red, and I love that.
27:17
Speaker 2: It's like the traditional, it's what Utah football is supposed
27:21
Speaker 2: to look like in my book.
27:22
Speaker 3: Do we know what the uniform is so far?
27:26
Speaker 4: I believe there will be red. I will believe there
27:32
Speaker 4: should be some red. You know, I try not to
27:34
Speaker 4: spoil it with the.
27:37
Speaker 5: Jersey reveal.
27:38
Speaker 4: I don't want to be put on the spot for
27:42
Speaker 4: telling the jersey combination.
27:44
Speaker 5: The jersey reveal isn't out yet.
27:46
Speaker 3: You know what?
27:46
Speaker 2: That's my fault because I shouldn't put you in that
27:49
Speaker 2: position because, you know, equipment is supposed to be able
27:53
Speaker 2: to put the announcement out themselves.
27:54
Speaker 3: That's my bad, Dev.
27:56
Speaker 2: But that's how, you know, Devin, Deb here is savvy
28:00
Speaker 2: with the media.
28:00
Speaker 3: Now there will be red.
28:02
Speaker 5: Yeah.
28:02
Speaker 3: We'll have some red on there. Oh, thank you, sir. Wonderful.
28:05
Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear it.
28:07
Speaker 5: What other colors is going to be out there?
28:09
Speaker 3: Oh, that's crazy. All right, Dev. Well, good luck. Stay healthy.
28:13
Speaker 3: We'll see you up there on Saturday.
28:14
Speaker 2: All right.
28:16
Speaker 5: Awesome.
28:16
Speaker 4: Appreciate you.
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