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Dishin' with Devon: Dampier on the win over Idaho, Arkansas on Saturday, Big 12 games in week 1 + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: It's time to talk to Utah quarterback Devin Dampier. This
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  Speaker 1: is Dishing with Devin on the Sean O'Connell Show. Brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Colligan Water, Salt Lake City, America First
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  Speaker 1: Credit Union, and Valley Plumbing, Heating and Cooling. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: OC with Ute Star signal caller Devin Dampier on your
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  Speaker 1: home of the Utes and your home for football. ESPN 792.1 FM.
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  Speaker 2: It's that time again on the Sean O'Connell show edition
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  Speaker 2: with dev, our conversation with Q B one, who is
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  Speaker 2: one to know as you're starting quarterback this year at
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  Speaker 2: the university of Utah, big game coming up against Arkansas.
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  Speaker 2: This Saturday, Devin damp here brought to you by Culligan water,
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  Speaker 2: Valley plumbing, heating and cooling and America first credit union dev.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome again. How are you, sir? Do well, do well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so 1-0. The best thing about being 1-0
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  Speaker 2: is a chance to go 2-0. No surprises, really. It
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  Speaker 2: was a dominant performance against Idaho, but tell me how
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  Speaker 2: it felt. Tell me how it was to get out
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  Speaker 2: there against a team that didn't wear the same colors
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  Speaker 2: as you after camp and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the best part about it is, again,
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  Speaker 3: I've been preaching it the last two weeks, just everybody
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  Speaker 3: being together for once and being on that same side,
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  Speaker 3: but honestly, offensive-wise, I was I was pretty excited how
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  Speaker 3: we came out. I feel like you look at a
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  Speaker 3: couple other teams during week one and their offense didn't
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  Speaker 3: look like they.
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  Speaker 2: Came out prepared.
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  Speaker 3: There were some tweaks they had to make by halftime.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we kind of came out on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 3: I was just proud of our preparation. How did it
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  Speaker 3: feel getting hit for real? Because one thing, you don't
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  Speaker 3: shy away from it, Dev. There's a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us watching, just like, oh, don't take
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  Speaker 3: that hit. Oh, Dev, don't get hit so much. Dev,
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  Speaker 3: just step out of bounds. But you're not shy about it.
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  Speaker 3: You're a football player. How did it feel to get
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  Speaker 3: hit for real?
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  Speaker 2: Because obviously they kind of bubble wrap you for the
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  Speaker 2: last seven or eight months.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely felt the first one. And then after that,
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  Speaker 3: I was good. But yeah, the first one, I think
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  Speaker 3: I threw a ball and I got smacked. But I
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  Speaker 3: was like, all right, but. I think it was Wayshawn's touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That was the one, yeah. I got, yeah, yeah. But
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  Speaker 2: you're all right. I'm good, I'm good. Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: do you kind of like that? Does it feel like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, now it's football again? Because I got, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I got tackled, I got hit a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a real game.
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  Speaker 3: Does that wake you up somewhat? Yeah, it puts me
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  Speaker 3: in that mode. Like, all right, we're here.
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  Speaker 2: We're here. We're playing. All right. So, self-scout. You've seen
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  Speaker 2: the film now. Obviously, you played the game itself. Give
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  Speaker 2: me a grade for Devin Dampier. How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you did first time out? I would say like
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  Speaker 2: a B. Okay. B plus. Yeah. I would put myself
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  Speaker 2: around there. Okay. Elaborate for me if you don't mind. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What would have been an A? Why wasn't it an A?
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  Speaker 2: We're nitpicking like everyone else is, so tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to see better from yourself looking back at
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  Speaker 2: it or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Well, protection-wise, I hope I helped myself without getting hit more.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I prefer to not get hit every time I throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball because it's me not telling the line to
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  Speaker 3: go block him and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's always every game you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I could have done this slightly better. Of course.
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  Speaker 3: This is how I feel about every single play. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, I could have probably did this and we
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  Speaker 3: would have did a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: So a really, really solid stat line, obviously 13 of 18, 176,
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  Speaker 2: almost 10 yards of completion. That's a nice number. Let's
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  Speaker 2: keep it up there all year. Right. Three touchdowns, no interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: running the ball, six carries for 31 yards. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have it in front of me. How many of those
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  Speaker 2: were designed and how many of you actually just had
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  Speaker 2: to kind of pull the ball down and scoot. But,
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  Speaker 2: Felt like an even split maybe. Is that accurate? I'd
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  Speaker 2: probably say I got a lot more off scramble. Okay. Design.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, because, I mean, partially because it was Idaho,
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  Speaker 2: partially because you jumped out to a big lead and
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  Speaker 2: got to run. Ten different guys got to run the
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  Speaker 2: ball in this game, and I know that's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be the norm, but we've been talking about it
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  Speaker 2: all offseason long. You got all these weapons, and you
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  Speaker 2: got to spread the ball around, and you got to
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  Speaker 2: keep everybody happy. What was the vibe at halftime and
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  Speaker 2: then in the locker room after the game? Because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the skilled guys, a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 2: who've been putting in this work did get the reward
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  Speaker 2: of actually getting touches in the game. And plenty of
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  Speaker 2: you got touchdowns in the game. So probably one of those,
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  Speaker 2: those post game situations where everyone feels pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely went into the game, you know, wanting
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  Speaker 3: to get certain people, the ball for sure. Just especially way, Sean,
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  Speaker 3: make sure way Sean's feeling good about running the ball,
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  Speaker 3: especially for this week coming up.
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  Speaker 2: And then, I mean, yeah, just, Keeps trickling down.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted everybody to get an opportunity to get in
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  Speaker 3: the game and feel that experience. It was due to
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  Speaker 3: us ones to make sure we made that gap early.
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  Speaker 2: Even the defensive side, too, that they could get in
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  Speaker 2: as well. A lot of Ute fans have been watching
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  Speaker 2: this team for decades. One of the things that people
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  Speaker 2: always come into the year, and we've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: plenty as I comment, Running game's going to be good.
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  Speaker 2: Hope we get really solid quarterback play. We think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the case. And there's always this insecurity,
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  Speaker 2: this trepidation about what the wide receiving core is going
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  Speaker 2: to look like. There's been a lot of optimism and
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  Speaker 2: positivity around that position, but people were still holding their breath.
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  Speaker 2: And then what we saw from Braden, what we saw
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  Speaker 2: from Larry Simmons, what you saw even in just a
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  Speaker 2: couple catches from Creed Whittemore, was that representative of kind
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  Speaker 2: of what you expected it to be? Because you've been
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  Speaker 2: practicing with these guys for, You've been telling us, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: We've got plenty of talent there. And it looked like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Idaho was completely overmatched, but it looked like
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff is going to translate even against Arkansas. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think almost everyone that caught a ball had at
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  Speaker 3: least like two catches almost.
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  Speaker 2: So just. Yeah. Mana and Noah Benny were the only
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  Speaker 2: ones who got a catch. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Besides that, I mean, we feel very comfortable just. Not
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  Speaker 3: overloading one receiver or two receivers. It felt like everybody
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  Speaker 3: is able to make their separation. We're able to call
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  Speaker 3: stuff depending on who the defense wants to give the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I thought those boys did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: The number one topic of conversation between us and everyone
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  Speaker 2: in the market has been what's the offensive line going
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  Speaker 2: to look like? And we were told there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be different combinations against Idaho. I don't know how many
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  Speaker 2: guys actually played. It felt like 15 offensive linemen got
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  Speaker 2: a few snaps, right, especially when you go down third
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  Speaker 2: and fourth quarter. But even early, there were some different
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  Speaker 2: combinations tested out. How did you feel about the protection?
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel about the run blocking and just
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  Speaker 2: the performance of that offensive line?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're still trying to finalize that, obviously, just
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  Speaker 3: with the different groups of last week. But, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I feel– I don't really recognize who's in and who's
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  Speaker 3: not just because I don't have alignment. I need to
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  Speaker 3: worry about when he's in. I need to do something
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  Speaker 3: different or exotic. I feel pretty comfortable with whoever my
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  Speaker 3: five is up there that they're going to get that
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  Speaker 3: job done.
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  Speaker 2: Devin Dampier is our guest here. Dishing with Dev is
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by Culligan Water, Valley Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling,
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  Speaker 2: and America First Credit Union. Big win over Idaho. That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what we expected. It was the short week,
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  Speaker 2: so what were Friday and Saturday like for you, having
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  Speaker 2: played on Thursday? It's not quite the regular season schedule
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  Speaker 2: when you've got that early game, so how did you
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  Speaker 2: handle those next two days?
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  Speaker 3: My family was in town, so definitely with them all weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely got to watch a lot more college football
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  Speaker 3: than I ever have, just because We're normally playing.
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  Speaker 2: On one of those days. That's right, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get to watch all of the games, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was able to just literally sit down and watch
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  Speaker 3: all the games play by.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice.
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  Speaker 4: You get to be a civilian. You get to be
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  Speaker 4: like the rest of us. Well, there's one of those
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  Speaker 4: games I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about for obvious reasons here coming up because it's
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  Speaker 2: the big story in college football, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: stay focused on the Utes for now. And now you
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  Speaker 2: turn the page. And you've got to get ready for
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  Speaker 2: an SEC team coming into Rice-Eccles Stadium. That doesn't happen
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  Speaker 2: very often. Obviously, Florida came here a couple years back,
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  Speaker 2: but SEC teams don't go west that often. And this
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  Speaker 2: is an Arkansas team that has some real talent on it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're top of the conference, top of
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  Speaker 2: their conference, but it's a game you have to take
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  Speaker 2: very seriously, and there's athletes, and it's definitely going to
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  Speaker 2: look a lot different on the opposite side of things
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  Speaker 2: than the Idaho Vandals did. What are you seeing from
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  Speaker 2: Arkansas so far on film? What is something that you're
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think they're a very athletic team. Just
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  Speaker 3: the height, the weight, and, you know, the way they
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  Speaker 3: move around. You know, they're definitely a well-polished team. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's got to be whoever steps their best
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  Speaker 3: foot forward and, you know, closes out that game.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm pretty excited to get to go against Arkansas. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of conversation from the Arkansas side of
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  Speaker 2: things about the kickoff time for this game. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you've heard about any of this. Their athletic
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  Speaker 2: director sent an email complaining that it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be midnight by the time the second half started for them.
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  Speaker 2: It's a 9.15 local time. Their body clock will think
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  Speaker 2: it's 9 o'clock. Do you care what time a game
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  Speaker 2: kicks off from like a body clock perspective because obviously
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  Speaker 2: you know pack 12 after dark now big 12 after
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  Speaker 2: dark sometimes you're playing until midnight one in the morning
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  Speaker 2: almost like do you even pay attention.
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  Speaker 3: To that no not really i i mean we we
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  Speaker 3: normally try to adjust the schedule to make us feel
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  Speaker 3: like the week is normal, I guess, or the game
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  Speaker 3: will be normal. I don't know if they have a
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  Speaker 3: structure like that, but we definitely do everything we can
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  Speaker 3: to try to prepare our bodies to be awake at
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  Speaker 3: that time, be ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm quite surprised. An athletic director should do those things.
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  Speaker 2: They should campaign for their team. Their coach was talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. in his media availability this week, like, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a late game for us. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is crazy. Why, why are you giving your players excuses?
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  Speaker 2: But that's not my business. They can handle it however
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  Speaker 2: they want to. So knowing that it is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit tougher on the opposite side this week, right?
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  Speaker 2: More talented, bigger, faster, stronger. Does it change how you
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  Speaker 2: guys are preparing, practicing, doing treatment, anything like that? Does
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  Speaker 2: it change the Utah football routine at all? knowing that
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  Speaker 2: it's Arkansas instead of Idaho? No, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they run a different defense. So, I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 2: most you're going to get a different scheme from us. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, besides that, I think you go out there
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  Speaker 2: and you got to be that guy when game day
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  Speaker 2: comes up. They have one defensive end who's like, I've
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  Speaker 2: seen his name popping up, Quincy Rhodes Jr. His name's
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  Speaker 2: been popping up on, like, mock drafts and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: When you know that there's a guy like that, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe even a couple of guys like that on the
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  Speaker 2: opposite team, do you pay extra attention in film, trying
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  Speaker 2: to find their tendencies, trying to find what their strengths are,
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  Speaker 2: how you can avoid those and things like that. Do
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  Speaker 2: you ever hone in on individual players in an opposition,
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  Speaker 2: in an opposing defense? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you definitely respect your opponent and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of those guys are very talented as well. So, Um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you just find, you just try to find
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  Speaker 3: ways to slow them down and make our stuff work. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's our thought process when, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: have good players on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We were the home of the Utes. We've
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  Speaker 2: been talking more Michigan football this week than I ever
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  Speaker 2: wanted to because of the controversy at the end of
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  Speaker 2: that game. I imagine for you who got to be
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  Speaker 2: a fan for once, seeing some of that was very,
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  Speaker 2: very different, right? Cause these are your friends. These are
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  Speaker 2: guys you were on the team with last year. like
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  Speaker 2: JJ caught the game winner. What were your thoughts watching
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing unfold? Um, man. Well, I could tell
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  Speaker 2: wit wasn't happy. He was, I know that face. I
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  Speaker 2: have seen that man look a little displeased even after
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  Speaker 2: wins in the past. That was the same wit after
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  Speaker 2: that you see after a loss though. Yeah. Like it's,
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  Speaker 2: that was not in his mind. That was not a victory.
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  Speaker 3: Like the camera was on him on the sideline. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I, he's not happy right now, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, man, yeah, it was, I hope they come out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that the way they should against Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: Can we block any Michigan phone numbers from contacting you
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  Speaker 2: or bird or any, like, can we keep it from
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  Speaker 2: the Michigan area code for being able to contact you?
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  Speaker 2: Is that, is that something we could do? Because I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about this and people are probably going to
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  Speaker 2: be mad because that I'm bringing this up when we're
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  Speaker 2: talking to you, but like their quarterback completely underperformed. And
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  Speaker 2: the natural thing for me is to go, oh, wait
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  Speaker 2: a second. If they try to fix that problem, obviously
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  Speaker 2: they can't do it this year, but they try to
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  Speaker 2: fix that problem. They're going to go with somebody. They
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  Speaker 2: know like dev block, block the Michigan numbers. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? Don't go for it. Don't go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get any phone calls yet.
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  Speaker 4: You heard it here first on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 4: In week two, Devin has not yet been contacted by
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  Speaker 4: the University of Michigan. Big week also, as you guys
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  Speaker 4: take on Arkansas, from like a program history perspective, it
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  Speaker 4: is a ring of honor inductee day, right? Eric Weddle,
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  Speaker 4: who is a former teammate of mine, good friend of mine,
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  Speaker 4: a guy who's, I think for a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: in Salt Lake City, he is like the quintessential Ute.
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  Speaker 4: He's the guy they think of when they think of
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  Speaker 4: Utah football in the last 20.
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  Speaker 2: Or so years. What is your sense, perception, relationship? What
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  Speaker 2: is Eric Weddle for you? Because you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: there and watch as his name goes up and is
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  Speaker 2: immortalized on the side of that stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to meet him twice since I've been
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  Speaker 3: here and just the conversations I've had with him, he's
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  Speaker 3: been Like, top-notch, respectful guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, somebody you want to be around for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So, I'm glad, you know, the character adds on to
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  Speaker 3: what he does on the field. Because even I told him,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I knew you as the Madden safety. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I was taking the charges of what do we play
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  Speaker 3: with you. Like, it was kind of, he had that
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  Speaker 3: type of aura just in the NFL, too.
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  Speaker 2: So, I was just like, yeah, like, I have huge
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  Speaker 2: respect for you. You know, I'm happy to, I got
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  Speaker 2: to learn what he did here, being a Uta as well. So, yeah. Very,
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  Speaker 2: very respected guy. As Morgan showed you guys any Eric
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  Speaker 2: Weddle film in the Utah uniform, has that been part
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  Speaker 2: of the week or anything? No, we haven't got to
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  Speaker 2: see it yet. We haven't got to see it yet. Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Scali, that's something. You've got to let these young
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  Speaker 2: bucks know what your former teammate was all about. He was,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have some of these guys on the
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  Speaker 2: roster right now. I mean, you're probably one of these
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  Speaker 2: guys yourself. Like, you could line Eric Weddle up and
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  Speaker 2: have him play a couple downs at quarterback. they put
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  Speaker 2: them in the wildcat all the time, right? He was
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  Speaker 2: the holder. He could throw passes. He could catch passes.
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  Speaker 2: He could run for touchdowns. And obviously he was an
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  Speaker 2: all American defender for his entire time at the university
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  Speaker 2: of Utah. So you got a couple of guys like
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  Speaker 2: that on the roster. Now, when we're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the guys who are great at their position and then
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  Speaker 2: the guys who are just great at football, does that,
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  Speaker 2: does that carry a different weight in the locker room?
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  Speaker 2: When you're like, I could be anywhere. You can put
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  Speaker 2: them in any position. It'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think, besides quarterback probably or O-line, like
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  Speaker 3: if you can add, because Scali always talks about it,
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  Speaker 3: if you can add value to yourself, if you can
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  Speaker 3: be a football guy and you could get placed anywhere
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  Speaker 3: and honestly like be able to talk and do what
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: you need to do, like that's what's going to get
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: you to the next level because, you know, everyone's looking
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: for someone to be more valuable than just playing their position.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So it's definitely preaching.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: It's good to know that, you know, your guys are,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: they're so football into it that they're able to do
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: that and step up to different positions.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Uh, is there anyone, cause everyone kind of got a
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: little bit of love offensively in this game, in this
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: game against Idaho. Is there anyone that you're like, all right,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: let's get him the ball a little bit more against Arkansas.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Is there anyone that you, you want to see, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Mack G who we're going to be talking to also
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: this week, uh, design a couple of touches for, so
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: that you can, the rest of us can see what
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: they've been doing.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Um, Man, I mean, obviously the receiver core, I want
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: them to be able to shine, you know, against anybody
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: we play against. I don't want it to just be
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: an Idaho fluke. You know, I want those guys to
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: shine any time we need them. And I think Weishan's
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: pretty passionate about getting to his 100 yards this game, too.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: So you should be able to see that from him.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: It was interesting, Weishan, in the post-practice media availability this week,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you know, he was praised for not only making an
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: impact in the run game, which... We expect him to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: every week, but he was obviously valuable catching passes as well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Two touchdown catches in that game. And he kind of
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: laughed and said, that's just a little bit of what
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I can do in the passing game. You're going to
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: see a lot more. He's hinting at, you know, more
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: way Sean as a pass catcher. Is that something you
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: guys expect as the season wages on? Yeah, no, for sure.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: We expect waste on the, You know, it's just the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: matchup things. You know, normally they want linebackers to guard
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: running backs. And, you know, for us, that's like, wait, Sean,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: do what you do, because I don't think I wouldn't
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: take any linebacker over guard to you. So, you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: normally you can get in those type of things or even. Yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: he's he was a big check down piece this last
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: game where I'm able to give him a check down.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: He takes it for eight, 10 yards like that's huge
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: for an offensive play.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: You and bird, we've talked a lot about this, the
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: unique nature of your relationship, the fact that you seem
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: happy to share the ball and happy to share the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: position a little bit. He played great. He had a
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: big impact on this game. You played great, had a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: huge impact on this game. Tell me what, you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: how bird graded out, how you guys evaluated each other
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and how you're pushing each other to get better after
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: now live action. Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Um, Yeah, so Bird's like the playmaker. He's the playmaker
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: in our offense. So he's trying to find the ways
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: to continue to get better at the playmaker stuff we
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: put him into, but also developing as a quarterback too. So,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: you know, I give him kudos for being able to
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: handle both of those at the same time because that's
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: hard to do, especially in college. So, yeah, just the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: type of playmaker he is, though, we definitely try to,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Get him on the field as much as possible and
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: make sure he's touching the ball.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: He had that one throw rolling to his right. He's
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: left-handed and beautiful, accurate pass, kind of twist the body.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It went a little bit viral. Not like crazy viral,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: but people were talking about that throw. When something like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: that happens, when you're on the sideline and you see
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that pass, and then, of course, you're in the film
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: room and you see that. I mean, that's a special play.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: What was your reaction in the moment and then, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the conversation after?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny. That's just something, you know, we do
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: daily practice. Like, we practice that. Coach Gundy has us
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: do that throw, like, almost every day. So, like, even
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: for him, like, we thought it was just like a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: normal throw. Like, we were just like.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we do that. And then for the public
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to see it, we're like, ah, not, not.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, it was cool to see him make that throw.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: It's definitely a unique throw in the situation, and he
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: made the best of it for sure.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Big win over Idaho. Everyone in the Big 12 that
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: played kind of lesser competition handled that lesser competition. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: we were joking when you walked in about how, Already
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the rivalry is in full swing, right? Like being a
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: fan and being able to watch college football this weekend,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: did you watch, I don't know, like Texas Tech extra close?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Did you watch BYU extra close? Did you select the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: games that you were going to watch based on teams
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you're going to be playing or just who you were
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: curious about? How did you choose your viewership this weekend
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: as a fan? Yeah, I think I had three games
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: going at once. Nice. So on three different screens to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: lose this.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I had at least the game I knew that was
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: going to be a good game.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I had that in the middle.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: And then I had like the curiosities just kind of
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: switching between the other ones. Who I felt like watching
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: at the time and whose score was a little bit
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: closer and stuff like that. But yeah, I feel like
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I watched probably every single game that was played.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Did anybody in the big 12, did anything like stick
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: out for you? Was there anything that you're like, oh, okay.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't know about that team looking that good. Or
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: they didn't look as good as I thought they would.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: There was, you know, mixed results. I thought you played
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: on the same night. So we could watch the Colorado game,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Colorado beat in Georgia tech on that block field goal.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: That was that surprised me because Georgia tech was a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: really physical team last year. I didn't think Colorado was
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: going to be able to keep pace with that. That
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: was a good win for the conference. Anything else from
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: at least a Big 12 perspective jump out at you
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: this week?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, not in a disrespectful way. I just expected
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: more out of Oklahoma State. Just the way that was
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: talked about. I was definitely expecting a little bit more.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I think all of us were. We were skeptical that
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: everyone was like, oh, this is the team. Drew Mestemaker.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Respect to him because.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: We all love guys that come from a slightly lower level.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: For sure. I came that same way. Exactly, right? I
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: know there's a lot of really good guys that got
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: under-recruited out of high school and stuff. People were talking
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: about Drew Mestemaker, like he's the best quarterback in the
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Big 12 Conference now. And we've kind of been like, well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: hold on a minute. There's a bunch of guys that
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: are already a little bit more proven than that. But
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: he didn't have his best day. They didn't have their
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: best day. 24-10 loss for Oklahoma State. Okay. Okay. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: got mad about the Baylor game because that's Big 12
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: versus SEC. Yeah. I love Dave Aranda. Dave Aranda went
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: for the win instead of playing for overtime. I know
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that that's something you got to do. You got to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: make that decision as a head coach. They get stopped.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Beautiful tackle at the goal line by an Auburn defender.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: They get stopped just short. And I guess you got
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to live with that because one person executed better than
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you executed. But... I wanted to see that game go
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: to overtime. I thought that Baylor was going to be
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: able to win it. You're the starting quarterback. Your coach
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: is like, we're going to play for overtime, or we're
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: going to go for the win right now. What do
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you prefer? I would have went for the win, too, partially.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I think it was the right call. I honestly think
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: he was open, too.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I think the quarterback left it behind him just slightly,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: and he couldn't really get in position to at least
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: run in there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, I mean, that's a good tackle. That's a
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: good way to make up him being open too.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, there's something about I just trust myself to
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: get that situation done when it comes to winning that game.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Even as I ask that question, I'm like, why am
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I asking this question?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Of course, we know Dev well enough now to be
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: like he wants to be aggressive.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: That's why we let the coaches make the decisions. He
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: wants to go for the win. Yeah, that one I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: was like, dang, Baylor, we– We needed that one for
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the Big 12 conference, but now you roll forward, week two, Arkansas,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and now it'll be Utah with a win over an
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: SEC team. Do you feel any kind of, any certain
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: type of way about the fact that it is an
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: SEC squad? Is there any, we want to prove to
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: people that the Big 12 and the SEC are at
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: least on equal footing here?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, conference-wise, no, but I mean, just us as
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: a team, our goal is to go undefeated. So this
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: is the next game that's in our way of doing that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: So this is the game that we just got to
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: do what we got to do to make sure we're
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: putting ourselves in the best position to make playoffs.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this before with Devin Dampier. QB1 Dishing
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• 25:37
  Speaker 2: people are excited this week NFL kicks off. The NFL,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: you watch players rather than teams. Yep. Kind of weird.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It's kind of weird you don't have an NFL team.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It's hard because I was born in Minnesota, so I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: was somewhat raised around the Vikings. Then I went to Arizona.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Then Kyler Murray came. Then I became a Cardinal fan.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: And then you get the Lamars, you get the Mahomes,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you get the Baker Mayfields. I grew up watching Aaron Rodgers,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: so it's just like, there's so many different players I
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: just like, I respect to a level where I'm like,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I can never just pick a team because players motivate
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: me to watch the game.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I think we got to the bottom of it because...
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: The Vikings and the Cardinals being the two teams that
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: you can attach yourself to, two teams that have never
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: really won anything. So that might be the problem. Hey,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: they were solid when they had Randy Moss. Solid. They've
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: been good. They've been almost there. And AP. The Vikings.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They've been oh so close, the Vikings, many, many, many times. Yeah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: But they've never actually won Super Bowls. So I get it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And Arizona, you know, that's its own animal. For sure.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I get it. Now I realize why. The team... Team
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: allegiance has never treated you kindly, so now you're just
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: attached to players. That's fair. We can go with that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: We can go with that. It's always great having you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: come in. I appreciate you giving us time. You're healthy.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: You feel good. Everything's right. Just a final message for
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Utah fans ahead of an Arkansas game. Rice Eccles, for real,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: for real, night game. We expect the atmosphere to be rocking. Yeah, because....
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, even other teams say when they play, when
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: they play a Utah and it's, it's dark outside is,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: it's the truth.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: So fans bring it. Do you know what the uniform
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: combination is yet? You get to help pick it, right? Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: It's a, it's a red out, isn't it? Is that
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: the plan? I'm pretty sure it's, I think it is
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the plan. No, you're absolutely right. I think that is
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the plan because we were talking about that earlier in the,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in the summer when, when they sent out, like they,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: they announced sort of the, the fan schedule or whatever,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: like you, I think the red out, cause I was like, that's,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: that's how Weddle would want it. And that's his, his day. Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Right out. We should be wearing red. I couldn't imagine
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: we have red out. Have you, have you talked to
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the younger Weddle yet? Have you, have you had any
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: contact with gauge who of course is being recruited by
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: everybody in the country? Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Gage made it out to, um, he had his, his
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: visit through, through us and yeah, he got, he was
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: able to forget what time period it was, but yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: just in our quarterback meeting, he's just, He was chilling.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: We all showed up to him, and then he got
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: to watch us practice. He also plays the quarterback position,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: so he probably is watching guys like you because dual
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: threat for sure. He's an athlete like you are. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for Gage. Hopefully we can get him in
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a Utah uniform someday. Dev, great seeing you, man. Good luck.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Stay healthy. Have a great game. We'll see you Saturday night.
• 28:45
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