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Sean O'Connell Show - Full POD 9-17-26 · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, everybody!
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Sean O'Connell Show on ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
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  Speaker 3: Happy to have you with us. That is always the case.
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  Speaker 4: Here on your home of the Utes, we march closer
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  Speaker 4: to the weekend where the Battle of the Brothers will
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  Speaker 4: take place at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Third straight home game. You
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  Speaker 4: don't get those a lot. Three home games on the bounce.
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  Speaker 4: This one, 1.30 kickoff. The weather forecast on Saturday, according
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  Speaker 4: to my iPhone, tells me that you might need to
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  Speaker 4: prepare for a shower or two, but it should be
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  Speaker 4: pretty warm. 71 is reported as the high, so a
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  Speaker 4: lovely fall day potentially with a little wet maybe in
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  Speaker 4: the offings for us as Utah State comes to town.
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  Speaker 4: A Utah State team that is 0-2, that had really
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  Speaker 4: an unforgivable loss in week one to Idaho State, who
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  Speaker 4: is a middling-level Big Sky team, but then bounced back.
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  Speaker 4: with a valiant effort, although ultimately a losing effort, to
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  Speaker 4: the University of Washington. And I will say this, Utah
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  Speaker 4: State is coming in with some confidence to Rice-Eccles Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: They feel like they figured some things out, they found something,
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  Speaker 4: and that if they can protect the football, they'll give
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  Speaker 4: Utah a run for their money. Obviously, that's how they
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  Speaker 4: should feel. You don't get on the bus and drive
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  Speaker 4: down from Logan thinking, oh, we have no chance here, right?
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  Speaker 4: These are scholarship athletes. Some of them are paid, although
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  Speaker 4: not nearly at the level that the Utah guys are compensated.
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  Speaker 4: And the separation between the haves and the have-nots in
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  Speaker 4: college football continues to grow. Utah State is one of
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  Speaker 4: those teams that's trying to figure out its place in
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to a new Pac-12 conference, reconstructed with,
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  Speaker 4: you know, basically every member of the Pac-12 conference has
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  Speaker 4: the word state in their name. The Utah State, Fresno State,
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  Speaker 4: San Diego State, all of that stuff. You're looking at
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  Speaker 4: a team that hopefully will remain relevant. And I mean
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  Speaker 4: that genuinely, even though we don't have, like, any hardcore
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  Speaker 4: connections yet. From a university or broadcasting standpoint, I really
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  Speaker 4: do hope that Utah State remains a healthy and viable
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  Speaker 4: program that provides more opportunities to in-state high school players,
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  Speaker 4: where guys that maybe end up at BYU or Utah
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  Speaker 4: and it doesn't work out there, they can kind of
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  Speaker 4: bounce back and they can have successful careers at Utah
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  Speaker 4: State the way we saw Bryson Barnes do so. You
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  Speaker 4: want the program to remain relevant, at least on that level,
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  Speaker 4: and hopefully more so. Hopefully, you know, every three, four
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  Speaker 4: years under somebody, a very talented coach like Bronco Mendenhall,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you can be an occasional flirtation-type team with college
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  Speaker 4: football playoff, with conference championship, et cetera, et cetera. So
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  Speaker 4: the Battle of the Brothers on Saturday, and we're still
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure out how good this Utah football team is, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: We will spend some time on that. Again, it's speculative.
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  Speaker 4: It's comparative. It's what do we know? What don't we know?
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  Speaker 4: Kind of talk kind of stuff. 877-353-0700. I already have
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  Speaker 4: some poll questions up. One is, is this team better
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  Speaker 4: than last year's team based on what you've seen so far?
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  Speaker 4: The three options are better, not as good or same, same.
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  Speaker 4: The other poll question has nothing to do with Utah.
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  Speaker 4: It's about injury reporting in college football. and the gamesmanship
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  Speaker 4: that is already going on with the LSU Ole Miss matchup.
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin put Sam Levitt, his starting quarterback, the former
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  Speaker 4: ASU guy, former Michigan State, then ASU guy. Sam Levitt
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  Speaker 4: is listed as doubtful on the initial injury report for
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  Speaker 4: the Ole Miss game. This is a top 10 matchup
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  Speaker 4: with two teams that, at least this year, there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of, it's a lot of BYU-Utah stuff going on, right?
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  Speaker 4: Where one guy, a bunch of guys used to play
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  Speaker 4: for the old team, head coach and a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: assistants used to coach for the old team. There's this
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  Speaker 4: like incestuous nature that I've always talked about with Utah
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  Speaker 4: BYU that is permanent at our in-state schools. It's not
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  Speaker 4: at LSU and Ole Miss, but this year it absolutely is.
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  Speaker 4: And it's something that the entire nation is paying attention to.
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  Speaker 4: And this injury report is a hot topic of conversation
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  Speaker 4: because Sam Leavitt is obviously massively important to LSU success
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  Speaker 4: as any starting quarterback is. Many reporters, including the best
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  Speaker 4: ones in the business, Pete Dammel and company, are saying
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  Speaker 4: that folks at both schools are basically acknowledging that this
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  Speaker 4: might be some gamesmanship, that Ole Miss is not expecting
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  Speaker 4: Sam Levitt to miss this game. I genuinely believed, I
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  Speaker 4: say believed, I believed it was 100% Lane Kiffin trying
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  Speaker 4: to mess with people. Lane Kiffin trying to tease people,
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin trying to get under somebody's skin. And then
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  Speaker 4: somebody sent me a video of Sam Levitt post game that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he looked a little, he was moving gingerly
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  Speaker 4: from their last outing. So maybe, maybe he's actually banged up.
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  Speaker 4: The most likely scenario for me is he was in
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  Speaker 4: treatment this week and missed some practice this week, which
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  Speaker 4: justified Lane Kiffin playing this game. because he would get
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  Speaker 4: in trouble if there was an investigation and he falsely
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  Speaker 4: reported Sam Leavitt on this injury report. There's too much
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  Speaker 4: money involved. There's too many gambling interests now that move
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  Speaker 4: lines one way or the other. And that's maybe the reason,
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  Speaker 4: maybe the number one reason why I'm not convinced about this,
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  Speaker 4: because there was a small amount of betting line movements
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  Speaker 4: when Sam Leavitt was placed as doubtful on the injury report.
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  Speaker 4: And then it bounced all the way back to Initially
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  Speaker 4: the LSU was a three point favorite. Now they're two
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  Speaker 4: and a half point favorites everywhere that I can see.
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  Speaker 4: So it went like LSU is a three point favorite. No,
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  Speaker 4: Sam Levin might be doubtful. Now LSU is only a
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  Speaker 4: one point favorite or it's a pick them. And then
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  Speaker 4: it went back to no LSU is a small favorite.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's Vegas doing its due diligence and saying,
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's going to play.
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  Speaker 3: So do you believe the injury report?
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, this is something that, That has
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  Speaker 4: applied to Utah teams in the past. We haven't had
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  Speaker 4: an official injury report for Utah yet this season. I
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  Speaker 4: think I know how Morgan Scali is going to handle
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  Speaker 4: injury reporting, but I'm not a hundred percent sure yet.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll give you my prediction now. So Kyle Whittingham
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  Speaker 4: wanted to share nothing. And even when it became mandatory
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  Speaker 4: in conference games that you have to share, there was
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  Speaker 4: a lot of vagueness to the way that Kyle Whittingham
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  Speaker 4: reported injuries. Unless it was a definitive season-ending injury, there
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a lot of questionable, there wasn't a lot of doubtful.
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  Speaker 4: He listed guys as out if they were out for
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  Speaker 4: season-ending injuries. That's how Kyle Whittingham did it. I think
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  Speaker 4: Morgan Scali will be a little bit better to play
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  Speaker 4: with for the Big 12 Conference. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be fully.
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  Speaker 4: Let's tell them everything they need to know. But I
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  Speaker 4: think that Morgan will be a little bit closer to
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  Speaker 4: the norm in college football. I don't think Morgan Scali
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  Speaker 4: is going to be like Lane Kiffin, where he's playing
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  Speaker 4: with things and operating on technicalities. I think he's going
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  Speaker 4: to play it pretty straight, but lean on the side
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  Speaker 4: of nondisclosure, if that makes sense. So in response to
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  Speaker 4: one of those polls.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wait, hold on.
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  Speaker 4: I got to do good radio here. I got to
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  Speaker 4: tell you what's coming on the show today. We've got
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  Speaker 4: an NFL conversation at 1130 with Eric Woodyard, former jazz
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  Speaker 4: writer and now covering the Detroit Lions. So we welcome
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  Speaker 4: him back to the Utah Airwaves with a conversation about
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  Speaker 4: Thursday night football. Lions at Bills on... prime at 6
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  Speaker 4: PM tonight. So the, to be fair, the Thursday night
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  Speaker 4: football games are getting better when it comes to like the,
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  Speaker 4: the matchup, the headline matchup. This is a good one.
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  Speaker 4: This is a like kind of outlier potential Superbowl preview.
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  Speaker 4: If we're being honest, we'll have Eric Weddle who's joining
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  Speaker 4: us from Italy. So I feel very privileged that he
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  Speaker 4: will take some time out of his evening in Tuscany
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  Speaker 4: or wherever he's at. covering or watching, supporting his daughter,
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  Speaker 4: who is involved in some international acrobatics.
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  Speaker 3: Competition over there.
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  Speaker 4: And then we will have Dishin' with Dev at 1 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: So that's all coming up on the show. Now back
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  Speaker 4: to the question at hand today. Is this year's team
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  Speaker 4: better than last year's team? Much like I was asking
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  Speaker 4: you to predict things in the preseason, I'm still asking
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  Speaker 4: you to guess. Because we don't 100% know. Now we
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  Speaker 4: have a little bit better idea of what this team
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  Speaker 4: is going to be, what this team already is. We
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  Speaker 4: have visual representation. We have seen a two-game sample size.
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  Speaker 4: We have not seen them play against anybody good yet.
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  Speaker 4: But that's often the case early in the college football season.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the teams in the Big 12 right now
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  Speaker 4: are untested. They haven't had elite competition to face yet.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually, you know, Oklahoma state at a great game
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  Speaker 4: against Oregon, BYU, Arizona week to test that to me,
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  Speaker 4: that's a real game. That's a real, like figure it out,
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  Speaker 4: slug it out. Big 12 contest. Arkansas is maybe the
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  Speaker 4: worst team in the sec. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if any of you have paid attention post
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  Speaker 4: radio rant from one of their best fans. to what
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  Speaker 4: Arkansas is now doing, they are like, they are running
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  Speaker 4: campaigns to not attend Arkansas football games. Arkansas radio stations
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  Speaker 4: are giving away other tickets, counter-programming effectively. There is a
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  Speaker 4: blackout proposed in protest of Hunter Urachek's their athletic director
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  Speaker 4: at Arkansas. There's a golf course in Fayetteville that during
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  Speaker 4: game times for the Arkansas Razorbacks is offering discounts, free
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  Speaker 4: cart so that you will golf instead of go to
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  Speaker 4: the football game because they don't want, they know what they're,
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  Speaker 4: they're trying to make it. So people don't support Arkansas
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  Speaker 4: and end up, you know, causing some people to be fired.
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  Speaker 4: It is kind of hilarious social media stunt in most cases,
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  Speaker 4: but that's Utah broke Arkansas. Utah broke the Arkansas fan base.
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  Speaker 4: They kind of knew most people knew heading into the
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  Speaker 4: game that Utah is a respectable program, a respected program
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  Speaker 4: that had some talent. the demolition they experienced at rice
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  Speaker 4: Eccles stadium. I, this led to a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: to have a violent knee jerk reaction and they want
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  Speaker 4: silver field out already. They want nobody going to the games.
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  Speaker 4: They want to not support. And there's like preemptive funerals
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  Speaker 4: being staged because as we talked about on the show
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  Speaker 4: last week, Arkansas goes from playing Utah on the road
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  Speaker 4: at night to playing Georgia this week, pretty crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: As I propose the question, is this team better than
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  Speaker 4: last year's team? Are they as good as last year's team?
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  Speaker 4: Are they not quite as good as last year's team?
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  Speaker 4: And fully acknowledging and realizing that we don't quite know yet.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, so how do we figure it out?
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  Speaker 4: How do we draw a comparison, a fair comparison, an
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  Speaker 4: apt comparison? And the best thing to do is you
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  Speaker 4: look at last year's team and what they did through
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  Speaker 4: the first two games. Eerily enough. And I'm sure this
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  Speaker 4: has been pointed out before. Last year when Utah played
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  Speaker 4: in the preseason, in the non-conference, when they played a
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  Speaker 4: Big Sky team, they scored more than 60 points. It
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  Speaker 4: was 63-9 over Cal Poly last year. In that game,
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  Speaker 4: Utah's offense generated 518 yards.
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  Speaker 3: They gave up 223 yards.
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  Speaker 4: In this year's game against the Idaho Vandals, Again, you're
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  Speaker 4: going as close to apples to apples as you can,
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  Speaker 4: because these are two teams from the FCS, from the
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  Speaker 4: same conference. These are not the Montana States of the
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  Speaker 4: Montana's of the world either. These are not like the
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  Speaker 4: cream of the crop. When you're talking about FCS football,
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  Speaker 4: the Idaho vandals came into rice echo stadium.
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  Speaker 3: They ended up scoring 14 points.
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  Speaker 4: Utah put up over 60 points, 66 in this case.
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  Speaker 4: So last year it was 63. This year it was 66.
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  Speaker 4: This time, Utah's offense put up 633 total yards, gave
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  Speaker 4: up 225 to the Vandals.
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  Speaker 3: So 518 for.
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  Speaker 4: Your offense last year against Cal Poly, and you gave
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  Speaker 4: up 223.
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  Speaker 3: Idaho did score more points.
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  Speaker 4: They scored five more points, and they gained two more
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  Speaker 4: total yards than Cal Poly did last year. You gained
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  Speaker 4: more than 100 extra points. And you scored three more.
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  Speaker 4: So look, I think when you look at the two
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  Speaker 4: performances next to one another, you're like, yeah, these are
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  Speaker 4: equivalent performances. So last year's team and this year's team,
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  Speaker 4: at least against FCS talent, look very similar. This year,
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  Speaker 4: 33 first downs. Last year, it was only 24 first downs.
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  Speaker 4: You gave up 13 first downs to the Idaho Vandals
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  Speaker 4: last year against Cal Poly.
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  Speaker 3: You gave up 12.
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  Speaker 4: So your defense performed very slightly better against Cal Poly.
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  Speaker 4: Your offense performed more than slightly better against Idaho this year.
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  Speaker 4: But there's some equivalence here. There's some rough comparison to
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  Speaker 4: be found. Interestingly enough, when you look at the distribution
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  Speaker 4: of touches and of point scoring last year, In the
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  Speaker 4: Cal Poly game, University of Utah didn't spread the ball
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  Speaker 4: quite as much in the run game, but very similarly
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  Speaker 4: to what we saw this year, this year it was
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  Speaker 4: 10 guys who carried the ball. Last year, two, four, six, eight,
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  Speaker 4: it was eight guys. Sorry, it was nine guys who
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  Speaker 4: got to touch the ball, including Smith Snowden, a defensive player,
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  Speaker 4: who got a couple opportunities here. So there was... Speaker
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  Speaker 4: 0 7, you know who, who the leading rusher in
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  Speaker 4: last year's game against Cal Poly was by the way,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't way. Sean, that's James Peterson behind the glass.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't way Sean. Cause way Sean, it wasn't bird.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a minute to get going to be the
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  Speaker 2: lead back.
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  Speaker 4: I remember it wasn't Deb. It wasn't the Kerry Rogers.
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  Speaker 4: It was Nate Johnson was the leading rusher against Cal
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  Speaker 4: Poly last year.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: He actually got, I remember quite a bit of run
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  Speaker 2: in that game in particular.
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  Speaker 4: Carries in that game. He got 11 carries of that
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  Speaker 4: game against Cal Poly. Nate Johnson got more carries in
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  Speaker 4: a game early in the season than way Sean got
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  Speaker 4: last week.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that wild? So again, totally.
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  Speaker 4: Different coordinators, different competition, but there are, there are ways
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  Speaker 4: you can compare. So in the FCS comparison, Utah scored
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  Speaker 4: a little more this year. They also gave up just
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  Speaker 4: a little more this year. Defense was a little tighter
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  Speaker 4: against Cal Poly last year, but not in a way
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  Speaker 4: that causes you any kind of concern. You didn't give
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  Speaker 4: up too much against Idaho. You gave up one drive
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  Speaker 4: that you'd like to have back against Idaho, I think,
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  Speaker 4: is the consensus most of us felt after that week
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  Speaker 4: one matchup. If I'm trying to figure out, if I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to prognosticate, as we go into week three, is
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  Speaker 4: this year's team better? And then in week four and
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  Speaker 4: in week five, is this year's team better than last year?
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  Speaker 4: Are they equivalent to last year? You can only go,
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  Speaker 4: I can only go on a couple of things. What
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  Speaker 4: I've seen with my eyes out of this year's team,
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  Speaker 4: what I remember from last year's team, what the coaches
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  Speaker 4: are saying in both cases, and of course, what the
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  Speaker 4: actual game results yield. Now, this one is really eerie
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  Speaker 4: and really interesting. Last year, UCLA was not a good
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  Speaker 4: team in the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 4: This year, Arkansas is not going to be a good
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  Speaker 4: team in the sec. I think Arkansas is probably going
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  Speaker 4: to be worse in the sec than UCLA was last year.
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  Speaker 4: But if we're looking for some rough equivalency between these
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  Speaker 4: two opponents, I think.
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  Speaker 3: From a talent perspective, at least.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they're kind of close. I think that the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: play from UCLA, at least the expectation of quarterback play
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  Speaker 4: from UCLA significantly higher than Niko Yamali Ava is more
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  Speaker 4: highly thought of than KJ was, but when we break
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  Speaker 4: it all down at the end of the day, like
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  Speaker 4: UCLA was the 13th best team in the big 10 conference,
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  Speaker 4: Arkansas might be the 16th best team in the sec conference.
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  Speaker 4: But what we're talking about is division one teams that
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  Speaker 4: aren't really good, right?
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  Speaker 3: Have some talent. interspersed around the roster.
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  Speaker 4: No real consistency in where the threats are. Do you
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  Speaker 4: know what the final score between Utah and UCLA was
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  Speaker 4: last year, James?
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  Speaker 3: It was the same. Wasn't it? Wasn't 43, 10. It
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  Speaker 3: was 43, 10. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Utah, Arkansas, 43, 10, Utah, UCLA, 43, 10.
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  Speaker 3: You can't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know that when I looked it up
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  Speaker 4: this morning, I'm really bad at remembering exact scores from
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  Speaker 4: exact years. It's just something that My brain absorbs and
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  Speaker 4: dumps out of one ear or the other. James, you're
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  Speaker 4: really good at remembering exact instances.
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  Speaker 3: Numbers, dates.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You get a little Rayman going on when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to that kind of stuff. I'm pretty good with sports
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  Speaker 4: history in that way, yeah. So, 43-10 against the Razorbacks,
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  Speaker 4: 43-10 against the Bruins. Now, this is where you start to.
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  Speaker 4: To infer some things based on comparison. At least I,
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  Speaker 4: I am willing to start inferring something based on, based
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  Speaker 4: on comparison. And even if all you're inferring here is
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  Speaker 4: that like, all right, that needs to be cleaned up.
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  Speaker 4: It's still something to discuss. It's still something to talk
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  Speaker 4: about last year against UCLA, the university of Utah gave
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  Speaker 4: up 10 points, right? They gave up 220 yards of
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  Speaker 4: offense and UCLA got 14 first downs. They rushed for
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  Speaker 4: 84 yards. It was 4.4 yards per play for UCLA.
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  Speaker 4: last year against the university of Utah. Now, Arkansas ran
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  Speaker 4: more plays. They only had four yards per play. They
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  Speaker 4: got more first downs. I don't know if you've taken
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  Speaker 4: a deep dive into the stat sheet. Utah had 24
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: first downs against Arkansas, Arkansas, somehow inexplicably they had 21
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: first downs in a 10 point game. And seven of
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: those 10 points were gifted to you on a missed
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: interception that bounced off your defender's chest.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And by the way, what's not going to be talked
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: about as much because it wasn't as obviously close to
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: being a turnover is but they also converted what they
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: convert to fourth downs on that drive to two or four.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: On fourth down.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: They were seven of 17 on third down in the game.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: When you look at UCLA last year, a lot more
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: dominance defensively for the university of Utah, UCLA was only
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: two of 11 on third downs in that game. However,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: they were three of four on fourth down as well.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: So from a yards per play perspective, UCLA slightly better
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: in yards per play, they were bad in converting third down.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: They were a little bit better in converting fourth down.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: They also gave up four sacks, four sacks against UCLA,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: four sacks against Arkansas. What this sample size is telling me,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: what the numbers from this sample size are telling, what
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: my eyes from the sample size are telling me is
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that Utah is, I think, very similar from... the offense
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: is not similar. Like the play calling is not similar.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: The play book is not that similar. Some of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: principles in the playbook, some of the philosophies of aggression,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I think are going to be similar as the season
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: plays out, but Jason Beck's offense and Kevin McGiven's offense
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: are not the same offense. Any similarities there are in
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: my opinion, coincidental because I actually think that Kevin McGiven
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: is a little bit more of a mad scientist in
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the passing game. I think that Beck is, fancies himself
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: more of a run game coordinator than anything, right? You
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: heard the quote from Morgan Scali, and shout out to
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: whoever put it together on Twitter, that the quote kind
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: of comes, the philosophy, the idea comes from something that
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: his old Highland High rugby coach Larry Gelwix used to say,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter how we score or who scores, it
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: matters that we score, right? That's the Kevin McGiven way.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: That's really every college football coach's way, but that's how
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: this is going to manifest in the offense this year
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: because of the distribution of talent you have across the board,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: because of the leadership being shown by Devin Dampier and
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: by extension bird Ficklin who are willing to share those reps.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: The way that way, Sean is just like, I don't
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: care how you get me the ball, throw it to me,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: pitch it to me, toss it to me, snap it
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: direct to me, hand it off to me. Let me
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: get my hopefully more than 15 touches a game. Hopefully
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: it ends up being like 24, 25 touches a game.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: And let me score for you. That's all I care about.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: All of these things are great for Utah. I think offensively,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: their potency is very similar. I think defensively, weirdly enough,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: the tackling this year from what we have seen is better.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: The playmaking is slightly worse. And if you're driving around going,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: tackling is playmaking.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: The dynamic playmaking, the turnovers, the stuff that we talked
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: about yesterday, the, and honestly, like a third down stop
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: is somewhere in between for me, because not all downs
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: are created equal. in football. That's why you have a jump.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: That's why you have a bell that rings. That's why
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: you have a stadium stand up and the lights flicker
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: and go weird when it's third down, because everybody knows
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: that third down is where your bread is buttered, where
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: your money is made. It's where, if you're a defensive coordinator,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: if you're Colton Swan, if you don't know what to
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: call on first down, we're probably okay. We probably won't
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: notice much. If you, if you start getting flustered on
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: third down, And we see guys running around and pointing
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: this way and jabbering that way, and they don't know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Third down is where everybody makes their money, right? So,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: based on what you saw only through two games last
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: year against, I will call them at least rough equivalents
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: from a competition standpoint, I think your offense is slightly
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: better than it was last year, which is really saying something.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Through two games, your offense is slightly more potent, maybe,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: or I'll call them equally potent.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Your defense....
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Has some playmaking to figure out, in my opinion.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've had a couple of interceptions, but not long
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: returns on the interceptions, and you've had a lot more
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: dropped interceptions than you've had actual interceptions. That's just one
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: example of how the playmaking that you're talking about is
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: probably lacking from Utah's defense through two games.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So 877-353-0700 at real OC sports and look better or worse. They're,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: they're blanket statements. They're, they're too decisive. I'm not really,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not really married to either of those. What I
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: mean is when you're comparing, when you're watching, when you're contrasting,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: do you have a sense? I think we're getting a
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: sense at least through a couple of weeks.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: We're excited.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: James is going to have to fire up a couple
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: of microphones here. Our Culligan guys are, you've heard the ads.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I'm actually a little peanut butter and jelly. Devin Dampier
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: is now an endorser for Culligan water of Salt Lake city.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: His ads, he sounds cooler on his ads than we
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: ever sound on our ads. Colson from Culligan. Did you
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: guys like when you, when you decided you were going
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: to have Devin read ads for you again, you're like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: hire a better writer, give a, give the goods copy
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: to Devin Dampier because we want him to look cool.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: You know, Chad GPT is a heck of a, you know, writer.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: If anybody didn't know, uh, I think that's the key
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: to this.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: All right. So, uh, We haven't had you on in
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: a little while.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: No, and I see that your water jug is empty
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: back there. We do need a refill on our own.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: We need a refill of your water jug. What's going on?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: On our Culligan water cooler here in the Broadway studio.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: But that's fine.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: So water is one of those things, right, where a
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: lot of us just kind of don't pay attention to.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Water is like an offensive lineman. You don't pay attention
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: to water. This is good stuff. You don't, you don't
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: pay attention to water until you have a problem with
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: your water until you notice that you got hard water.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: That's messing with your appliances or you've got an issue where,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: you know, your wife doesn't like the way her hair's
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: turning out. Water is one of those tastes funny when
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: it comes out of the tap. That's when you notice water.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And that's when you, you know, like, Oh wait, we
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: might have something we need to address here. And Culligan,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I think is the solution we're looking for.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Like, have you ever noticed spotty dishes or have you
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: ever noticed scale kind of around your fixtures and your faucets,
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: your shower heads? Like you said, if you don't like
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: the feel or the taste, you know, Culligan system can
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: treat all of that and we'll do it before it
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: enters the home. So you don't have to waste your
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: time cleaning those spots off or using harsh chemicals or
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: doing any of this additional work. We treat it at
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: the source. And to your point, Water is unique across
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: the valley, right? So water in Bountiful is different than
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: the water in Salt Lake, which is different than in
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: the water in Harriman. And we have customized solutions for
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: each of those different water problems.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: There's also a subscription model here, right? And some people
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: hear that and they're just like, ah, what does that mean?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It can be a little bit scary.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: So describe for me and for the listeners, the subscription
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: model of Culligan Water helping you out in your home.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely.
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: For as little as a dollar a day, you can
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: take advantage of being a partner with Coligan Water. We
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: become a partner in your home to treat your water.
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: One of the big challenges that we're seeing with a
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: lot of our customer base is they are so scared
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: and tired of high labor rates, you know, equipment.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: When somebody.
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: gets called out to a home like an HVAC or
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: plumbing company. They're like, all they want to do is send,
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: sell me this $ 10, 000 system without actually walking through, like
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: helping me find a solution to this problem. So this
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: really creates a partnership between us and the homeowner where
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: we treat all of your water. We come in, we'll
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: service it. We cover the filter charges. We, we cover
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: the salt delivery. Labor is free. Install is free. And we,
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: It allows for us to constantly come back into your
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: home and make sure that we're adjusting the equipment to
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: the needs as the water changes.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I feel like you're speaking directly to me right now.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Because when you are a homeowner, you've got like, all right, man,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I got the lawn I got to worry about. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: got a water softener. I got a furnace. I got
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: all these different things. For the most part, if you
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: have a problem, you want it to be fixed, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: you don't want to have to think about it again.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: But a water filtration system might need what you're talking about.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: It might need calibration. It needs refills on the salt.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It might need you to change your filters. And so
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are maybe hesitant to
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: make this change because they don't want to give themselves
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: another chore.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: They don't want to give themselves another job.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: This subscription model takes all of.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: That out of it. Yeah, with no capital expense.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: Like Kent said, it's crazy how expensive labor and parts
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: have become for I don't understand what reason. but we're
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: trying to make it easy for all Utahns to get
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: better water for as little as a dollar a day.
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: That's 30 bucks a month. We'll come out, we'll service it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: We'll do all the labor. We'll do all the filter
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: changes for free. There's no additional expense. There's no hidden costs.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: And that's good for as long as you participate in
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: the subscription model. And so you're able to get really
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: high quality water and equipment for.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Literally a dollar a day.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: It really, it really feels like kind of a no
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: brainer here. If you're, if you're someone who you don't
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: know if you need this change, if you really want
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: this change, the subscription model without the big upfront costs
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: makes a ton of sense.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: And we'll actually even apply if you decide that you
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: want to purchase this equipment from us, because as the
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: subscription model, like through the subscription model, this is, you know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: it's basically like a rental.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: So it's Culligan-owned and operated equipment.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: If you want to buy it from us, we'll apply
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: up to 12 months rental credit towards the purchase price
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: of that equipment.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of what a barrier would be
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: for people so I can ask you a question to
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: knock that barrier down. But seriously, this feels like kind
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: of a no-brainer. 801-509-9602 or CulliganSLC.com. Colson and Kent are
• 30:50
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• 30:52
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• 30:55
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• 30:59
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• 31:07
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• 31:08
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• 31:09
  Speaker 4: More stuff. 509-9602, CulliganSLC.com. Eric Woodyer joins us next to
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: preview Thursday Night Football. It's ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: You're tuned to the Sean O'Connell show for the Murdoch
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Chevrolet studio of ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM. Welcome back
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: to the Sean O'Connell show time for a little Thursday
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: night football preview. Lions bills tonight. Kickoff at 6 Mountain Time.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: We're lucky enough to welcome Detroit Lions reporter and insider
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Eric Woodyard, a familiar face and name who used to
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: be with us here in Utah, but moved on to
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: what I hope are bigger and better things.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Eric Woodyard, welcome back to the show. How are you?
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: What's up? What's up, man? How you doing?
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Doing all right. How's life treating you on the new gig,
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: new-ish gig?
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: It's been cool, man. I'm out of Buffalo right now,
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: so I'm Been eating so many wings, I feel like
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I'm about to explode.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I did see that. Is that a rental that was
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: the Bronco? And you were like, I don't know if
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: I should be driving. Any issues driving a Bronco in
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Bill's country?
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: No, I'm cool, man.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: I'm cool.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: I'm cool. That's good.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: That's good. All right, let's talk a little Lions here. Obviously,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: there is some local interest, Panay Sewell. is a guy
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: that did his prep ball here in the state of Utah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: And then Sione Vaki, who's now the second string running
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: back for the Lions, played at the University of Utah.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I want to start with Panay Sewell making the move
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: to left tackle this year. We've got a one game
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: example of what that looks like.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: What are you hearing?
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: What are they saying in Detroit about that transition for Panay?
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, so far, so good. You know, Jared Goff,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: we spoke to him, and, you know, I asked him
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: kind of before, you know, he was saying he almost,
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: he's done it pretty seamless. I mean, at this point,
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: you know, Sewell is one of the, you know, one
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: of the foundational pieces of the team. Ever since he
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: was drafted seventh overall in, you know, 2021, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: he's become one of those guys. So, you know, he's
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: made the transition pretty seamlessly. He hadn't played it since
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: he was, you know, back in college at Oregon, but...
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Right now, he's doing good, but the Lions are going
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: to be out without two starters this week. He's going
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: to have to take on a lot of that load.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: They're going to be without left guard Christian Mahogany and
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: without right tackle Blake Miller. That's a big loss for
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: this team coming into the game.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: How do they feel about the offensive line depth? It's
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: always like an oxymoron, offensive line and depth, because nobody
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: has everything they need when it comes to backup offensive linemen.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: But are they in a good spot with the twos?
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, of course they're going to tell us that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: You know, you got Ben Bartz and Larry Borum filling in. But,
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's only a small sample size.
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: We're only going into week two, so we got to
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: really see.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure personally, but, I mean, you know, Dan
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: Campbell and those guys, they're feeling confident in the guys. But,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: you know, it's going to be– you're going against one
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: of the best players in the league in Josh Allen. So,
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: you know, if any– you know, and that defense as well. So,
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: you know, any– they want to have every advantage that
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: they can. Obviously– Josh isn't going against the O-line, of course,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: but still, they want to be at their best to
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: try to get themselves in a position. I'm not sure
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: how that O-line looks. I'm just being honest. I'm not
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: sure how it looks without those guys.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: You wrote a good piece, I guess about a month
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: ago now, on whether or not the Lions Super Bowl
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: window is open. Transparently, I'm a Niners guy, and I
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: asked that same question about San Francisco. Whose windows are
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: opening and closing in the 2026 season?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: San Francisco, because of age and a lack of depth,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: is one of those teams that if everything goes well, yes,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: they should be okay. The Lions, maybe for other reasons,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: if everything goes okay, I could see them being a
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl contender, a significant injury here or there, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not so convinced. Why are the Lions feeling like
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: their Super Bowl window is still open?
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, you got to look at number one there,
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: and they committed over a billion dollars to their core.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: You know, even this offseason, they paid Jameer Gears, making
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: him the highest-paid NFL running back in history. You know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: they paid Jack Campbell, the all-pro linebacker. But you also
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: got Amirat St. Brown. You got Panay Sewell. You got
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: Aidan Hutchinson. You got, you know, even Jared Goff. And
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: most of these guys on his team are 25 years
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: old or younger. You know what I mean? So I
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: think that gives them the confidence that, hey, we got
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: all these, you know, pro-bowl-level and all-pro guys here. And
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: we put them in this window of the next two
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: to three years. And I think if everything goes well,
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: they see themselves in that spot. But like you say,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: everything has to go well. I mean, this team has
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: been plagued by injuries the last couple of seasons. And,
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: you know, even right now, you got Kirby Joseph and
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Brian Branch out, both of their safeties, who was a
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: part of that core, what they built, that foundation. But
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: I think if everything goes as.
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: Well, the window could be open at least another two years.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Just because they're running things much differently in Detroit now
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: than they did back in the day as far as
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: signing and developing these guys and, you know, bringing them
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: back in and showing that they want these guys there. So,
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: and the guys that produced the ones that they've drafted.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: So I think the window is open for a couple
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: more years.
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: At least.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: They just restructured some big contracts to open cap space.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And the last comment I saw about that was we
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: don't know what we're going to do with this 30
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: or so million dollars, whether it's committing it to guys
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: that are already here or it's making a move and
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: getting another piece. I mean, we're in season now. So
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: what do you think the plan is with that restructuring
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: of Amon Ross, St. Brown, and Panay Sewell and the
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: flexibility under the cap now?
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it was simply that, just giving themselves
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: some flexibility. They still have to figure out what they're
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: going to do with, you know, Sam LaPorter, who's coming
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: up on extension, and Brian Branch, who's coming up. Both
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: of those guys are available for extensions as well. And
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: as I said before, they committed over a billion dollars
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: in extensions and, you know, contracts as well. So I think,
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: you know, in some aspect, it could be, you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: freeing up some space to sign one of those guys.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: And then it could be, you know, if this team
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: gets off to a rough start, you know, bringing in
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: another guy to help in the secondary or somebody on
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: the defense or even offensive lineman. So I think it's
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: just giving them options. At this point, I don't think
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: it's like, hey, we're going to make a trade tomorrow.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: I think it was really just, you know, giving them options.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: NFL football, like every level of football, is very quarterback-driven.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Is Jared Goff in the right space mentally, health-wise, age-wise,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: that he can still lead this team to their highest potential?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: I think so, man. I did a story on him today.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: He's become a father in the last year. He's also married.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: From me just observing him, I've been around him since
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: 2021 now when he first got to Detroit. It just
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: felt like he was a lot lighter entering his training
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: camp and I think, you know, the pressure is not
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: really from, you know, the outside. It's more so of
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: him feeling like, okay, I'm at my best right now.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I got all the weapons I need to be successful,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: and I want to capitalize as much as I can
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: right now, so I think he's playing with a sense
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: of urgency to try to get this team back to
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: the playoffs and try to maximize on what they can
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: do because he do understand that Super Bowl window doesn't
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: stay open long, and if it's going to happen, it's
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: going to happen within these next couple of years, and
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: I think he's He's in the right mental space right
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: now where he's strictly focused on football and trying to win.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: A little Thursday night football preview here on the Sean
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: O'Connell Show with Eric Woodyard, ESPN, Detroit Lions insider. What
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: is Aiden Hutchinson going to be for Detroit this year?
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: A healthy him is one of the best players in
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: the league, I think. Can they keep him healthy? And
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: if they do, what does his stat line look like?
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, we're looking at a player who could potentially
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: be the defensive player of the year. I mean, that's...
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: That's his, you know, his ceiling right there. And they
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: kept him healthy last year. I mean, you know, he's
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: almost two years removed from that. So I don't even
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: think that's in his mind frame or his head space anymore.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: I think you're looking at a guy who's one of
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: the best in the league and one of the best
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: at what he does. You know, you even look at
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: the week one game. I think he had two sacks.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: You know, I mean, he's definitely a man on a
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: mission this year. And I think, you know, they're going
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: to need him to be at his best. I'm not
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: really concerned about the D line. It's more with the
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: secondary when I'm looking at this Lions defense. And Hutch
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: is one of the leaders.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously a pass rush helps out with that secondary.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: You mentioned maybe they're a little bit banged up, but
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: when you express that concern, is the secondary good enough
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: to hold water and let the rest of this team
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: make them good enough? Or is it a real liability
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: that other teams are going to exploit to the detriment
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: of these Lions?
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: I can only go off what I watched them do
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: versus New Orleans. We didn't think that game would be
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: as close. They could potentially also be playing without You know,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: another one of their guys back there as well today,
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: you know, DJ Reed is questionable as well tonight. So,
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're going to need literally everything they can
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: to already, you know, try to beat this Bills team. But, yeah,
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's definitely something to worry about. But like
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I say, it's only week two, so we'll see if
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: these guys get better. They got Rockets in and Keith
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: Abney and Chuck Clark, Devontae Maddox, some of those guys
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: back there. But they're going to need to step up
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: for sure. But at some point, the Lions will also
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: be getting back, you know, Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch,
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: which will help them as well. But, yeah, it's definitely
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: a concern, I feel.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: How much are we going to see Sione Bakke this year? Obviously,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Ute fans have a certain amount of affection for him
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: and what he did at the University of Utah on
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: both offense and on defense. He's playing running back in
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: the league, and he's a good special teamer as well.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: But he's backing up one of the best guys in
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: the NFL. How much do we see him?
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, man, I'm not sure, man. I mean, for now,
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: it's the Jameer Gibbs. So, you see what he was
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: able to do. You know, this guy getting a career-high
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: 34 touches, you know, 29 carries, 156 yards rushing, and,
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: you know, 30 receiving yards. I mean, he's doing it all.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: You know, he's the bell-cow guy. So, I mean, knock
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: on wood, and if something happens to Gibbs, which, you know,
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: and I expect not to happen, but, I mean, I
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: don't know how much, you know, he's going to get, but,
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's the Jameer Gibbs show. So, Seoni Vaki
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: definitely is appreciated on special teams, and Dan Campbell and
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: those guys really love him. They've really worked hard to
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: develop him, but it's just the Jameer Gibbs show this year.
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: And that's why I got rid of David Montgomery because
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: even as good as Montgomery is, you see he had
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: three touchdowns in his debut with the Texans. They got
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: rid of him to free it up for Jameer Gibbs.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: So I'm not sure, man. I mean, it's all Gibbs
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Have you had a chance to get inside the new
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: stadium in Buffalo yet?
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: No, not yet.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: No, I'll be getting there very early. I've been on
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: a wing tour since I've been here. I've been to
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: about four or five different places. The whole Detroit media,
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: we've been going around and just sampling stuff. But I'm
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: going to plan to get there early today and check
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: everything out. I think it's going to be really cool.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: It's E underscore Woodyard, if you're not already following Eric
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: on Twitter. Before I let you go, I've got to ask.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: We don't know a lot of Western Michigan alum, all right?
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: And you might not want to be talking about it, but...
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: A great, a grave injustice was done in week one
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: of the college football season. Now the FPS competition committee
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: has acknowledged that replay protocol was not followed. The results
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: should be different, but Oh, sorry.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Nothing we can.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Do about it. Tell me how you're feeling. Tell me
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: how you're feeling after all that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: Hey, I'm still a Bronco to the court, man. That's
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: my squad. That's my school. And we got robbed and
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: I could have been a generational win for us, but
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: it's only going to push us to try to come
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: and win the MAAC and have one of the best
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: seasons we've had in a long time, probably since the
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: World of Boat days with Corey Davis and, you know,
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: those guys were undefeated that year. So I think definitely
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: we got robbed. We should have beat them. And, yeah,
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, it sucks. I mean, what can happen? So, yeah,
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: y'all acknowledge it, but it don't mean nothing. So we
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: just got to put that into the rest of the season.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Does the acknowledgement make it any worse? Because I hate
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: this when, like, the NBA comes out and is like, oh,
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: that should have been a foul, should have got two
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: shots there. They do these things after the game, and
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: they say, this was an error, but nothing can be
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: done about it. I almost don't want to hear it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: As a Western Michigan alum, is it better if they
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: just let it die instead of saying, oh, yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: Just let it die.
• 43:20
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Let it die.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: We'll let it die there.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: We got the recognition. I'm glad I gave it to recognition.
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Look, it was a great game for Western Michigan. Like
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: on paper, Michigan won that game in everybody's hearts. It's
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: your alma mater that won that game. So I don't
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: know if that's worth anything, but that's how everyone feels
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: about it.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: Well, I appreciate it, man.
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Eric.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Thanks for giving us some time today. Enjoy the game tonight.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: We'll have you on again later in the year.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: All right. No problem. I appreciate you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: That's Eric Woodyard. now reporting on the Detroit Lions for ESPN,
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: at E underscore Woodyard on Twitter. Good stuff from him,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: including a great new article that he just referenced about
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Jared Goff becoming a dad and talking about how that
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: changes him as a quarterback and as a football player
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: and all that stuff, which, you know, if you're a dad,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: especially of young kids like I am, it's a sentimental
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: piece while also still being a football piece. So go
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: read Eric's stuff. Big thanks to him for joining us.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Well done, James, for getting him on. Thursday night football
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: is Lions at Bills, 6 p.m. on Amazon Prime. We
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: got a PGA Tour leaderboard update from the Biltmore Championship next.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: We'll talk with the Culligan guys again, and then Eric
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: Weddle joining us at noon. It's the Sean O'Connell Show
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: on ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: The Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM. 877-353-0700.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: If you want to answer the poll question I have
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: on Twitter, but do it here. Is this year's Utah team,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: based on what we've seen through two games, are they
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: as good as last year's team? Are they better? Are
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: they maybe not quite as good? Right now, better is
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: winning the poll. Plenty of time left on it. Some
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: responses on the text line when we get to it
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: here in just a second. Right now, a PGA Tour
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• 45:38
  Speaker 4: All right, James, what does the leaderboard look like at Biltmore?
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Biltmore Championship in Asheville. I believe North Carolina there. Coles
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: is your leader. Ben Coles.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Ben Coles is your leader.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: He's tied for first, in fact, with Chris Kirk.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Christian Kirk? No, Chris Kirk.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Mackenzie Hughes, the Canadian, also tied atop of the leaderboard.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: And Max Gracerman. is also tied at six under. Alone
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: in fifth is Cam Davis from.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: Oz, right?
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Australia? Is that how you say that?
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Don't get me started on that again. Tied for sixth.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: You have a bunch of guys, including Nick Dunlap and
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: let's see, Chad Ramey, and that's at four under there.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: A couple shots off the lead. That rounds out your
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: top ten of the Biltmore Championship. This is the time
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: of year we learned last year, OC. It's the guys
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: who are trying to hold on to their tour card,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: trying to get extra points. After the FedEx Cup Championship,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: which ends in August, the bigger names, they don't need
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: to keep getting points to compete on the tour next year, obviously.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: So this is the time of year, guys getting extra
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: work in. and getting more FedExCup points to be able
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: to hold onto their tour cards.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: So this is your time of year for them.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: It's your time to shine if you're like, you know,
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Lucas Glover. Let's go.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 47:21
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• 47:25
  Speaker 4: You Went to Golf by Worldwide Golf. All right, here
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: we go.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: Um.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say this year's team is better than last
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: year's team. I would say this year's team definitely has
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: more enthusiasm and there's a noticeable renewed sense of enthusiasm
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: on the year's team. All right.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Ryan and Ogden says this year's team and last year's
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: teams close interior D line healthier so far. I feel
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: like the offense will not be as one dimensional against
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: better teams. We'll be able to pass when needed. Go Utes.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: That is a great text. That is a great piece
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: of feedback. That might be as important or more important
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: than any other thing that we talk about or hear
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: because the ability to run these crazy plays, the ability
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: to spread out your offense, the ability to be unpredictable.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: It matters against Idaho yet matters against crappy Arkansas. It's
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: going to matter a heck of a lot more against
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: Houston and BYU and Colorado and your big 12 schedule.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: So great observation there from Ryan in Ogden. Colson and
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Kent from Culligan Water, Salt Lake City, here in studio
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: with us once again. Guys, I didn't even ask you
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: the poll question of the day. Based on a two-game
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: sample size, is this year's team better than last year?
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: Like equivalent or maybe not quite as good as last year?
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Based on what we've seen, it's still guesswork at this point.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Colson, you first. I think the offense is better.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: That's what I said.
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: And I think the offense could average better.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Can I say like 75 points a game? Is that crazy?
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: It looks like every time they touch the ball, they're
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: going to score. It's awesome.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: You can't say 75 points a game. Maybe like 45. Okay, fine.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: I'll go 45. Last year, they had the top five
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: offense in the country. And to be better than that
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: would really be something.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Love the two quarterback thing.
• 49:12
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's hard to say if you if you
• 49:14
  Speaker 11: look at like the two loss season that were better
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: than exactly but i i do think and i think
• 49:22
  Speaker 11: the secondary's much improved.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: All right nate richie's been playing out of his mind
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: through the first two games i love it uh i
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: did put.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: A there's some high quality h2o up there at the
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: u by the.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: Way they it quarterback. Number one, Devin damn peer. He's
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: a Culligan salt Lake city disciple. This coming in on
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: our text line. And I love it. 8 7 7
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: 3 5 3 0 700. If you have any questions
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: for the Culligan guys, send them in. I'll pass them on,
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: on air while we're here.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: All right. All right.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: How does it work with an apartment that if you
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: live in the software to the systems, if you would
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: ask them, that would be nice. Thank you. How does
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: it work in an apartment?
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: So you can get a landlord-tenant agreement. So we can
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: go to the landlord depending on the type of apartment
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: that it is. Or if there's a big apartment complex,
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: we can actually put in a commercial-sized system for the
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: whole complex.
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: Nice.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: So there's solutions.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: There are options.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: If you're just renting or if you own an apartment
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: complex and you want to get better water, soft water
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: for your– for your tenants, which by the way, I
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: just read that big article they did. Apparently you got
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: to like spiff it up because there's an over, there's
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: a flooding of available rental spaces in the market. So
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: like Culligan water.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Hey, if you don't have better water for your tenants.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: If you can offer them filtered water, that's a.
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: Nice little, and if you want a drinking water solution,
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: you can always do the five gallon jugs that we
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: deliver to office buildings, you know, apartments, uh, homes all
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: over the city.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: So the, There's a couple of ways we could approach this.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad you just brought up the drinking water thing.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Cause like, yeah, there's the, the hard water and the
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: soft water and the, how does it feel when I
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: shower and all that? But for me, I'll be honest,
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: I'm a lot more worried about the quality of my
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: drinking water and the drinking water for myself and the
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: drinking water for my family, especially you got young kids.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: I got three little girls who knows what's in the water.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: There's this emergence of microplastics and forever chemicals that can
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: cross the blood-brain barrier, cause cancer, build up in your system.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to drink purified water.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: And you guys have whole home filters. You have the
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: filtered water that you can just drink out of the
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: jug here like you're in the office. You've got solutions
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: all over the place.
• 51:30
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to The Sean O'Connell Show. Welcome in the
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Utah football legend and recent Ring of Honor inductee, the
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl champion, the head coach of the Rancho Bernardo Broncos,
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: our guy Eric Weddle. Buona sera, Eric Weddle.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: What's the word?
• 54:58
  Speaker 9: What's the word?
• 54:59
  Speaker 12: I'm out here in good old Italia, Italy for Silver's competition.
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: So I'm just hanging out, getting some pizza right now
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: by myself.
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: How's the competition going so far? Have they done their
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: thing yet? Have they competed yet? How goes the dad life?
• 55:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's great. Uh, they first, first comp, they have
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: basically two routines today and Saturday and then top 10
• 55:27
  Speaker 12: moved to Sunday to basically figure out who, who's the
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: world champ. So, uh, they did pretty well today. They're,
• 55:37
  Speaker 12: they're in, uh, I think around 20th out of 42 countries.
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: So they got some work to do on Saturday to make,
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: make Sunday.
• 55:44
  Speaker 9: So fingers crossed.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: What, uh, what level of expertise in this sport have
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: you developed, uh, watching, right? Because like, that's one thing
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: I'm guilty of. I watched the Olympics and like three
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: days of watching gymnastics or swimming or whatever.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: I'm just like, Oh, that's terrible.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, that was the best thing I've ever seen. So, uh,
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: how big of an expert are you on this acrobatic
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: stuff after her involvement?
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: I'm definitely a pro. Like I can, I can, I
• 56:10
  Speaker 12: know when there's deductions, I know when it looks good and,
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: The artistry, I don't really know how they get points
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: or not, but the skills, the actual skills, when they're
• 56:20
  Speaker 12: throwing each other up and holding is insane. It's really
• 56:24
  Speaker 12: crazy and cool to see. a kid be so dedicated
• 56:33
  Speaker 12: and passionate about something that they're in the world stage.
• 56:35
  Speaker 12: So it's just here. The supporter is pretty awesome.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: It's really great.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Let's talk a little Utah football. Let's talk last Saturday night,
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: a big night for all of us who love you
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: so much to see your name go up on the
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: side of the building. And you know, the, the drone show,
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: like the full on beard and Mohawk show. in lights
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: at the drone show. I don't know if you expected that,
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: but just tell me how it felt, you know, that
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: ceremony and that, that moment where you were honored officially.
• 57:04
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it was man, the whole day, uh, you know,
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: we got up there, landed about one and then, uh,
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: got everything situated and heads up to the U around
• 57:15
  Speaker 12: five 30. And just for really from five 30 to
• 57:18
  Speaker 12: about halftime, I was, uh, running around and, uh, Seeing fans,
• 57:24
  Speaker 12: seeing donors, just saying hi and thanks and really seeing
• 57:29
  Speaker 12: the support and having people share stories and telling me
• 57:34
  Speaker 12: just what a joy it was for them to watch
• 57:38
  Speaker 12: me and how I made them proud really was like
• 57:40
  Speaker 12: some of the highlight of the whole 24-hour experience was
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: spending time with the fans and just sharing stories, sharing experiences,
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: and then obviously the whole halftime show. I didn't know...
• 57:54
  Speaker 12: what the whole drone, the drone show was going to
• 57:56
  Speaker 12: have me in it. They just made sure like, Hey,
• 57:58
  Speaker 12: make sure you watch the drone show at halftime. And
• 58:01
  Speaker 12: I was like, okay, like I'm not really, that's my
• 58:04
  Speaker 12: first live drone show. So that was pretty, pretty incredible.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: It was cool.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard this part of the story.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: So our guy shark, uh, good friend of mutual friend
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: of Eric's of mine was down on the field. We're
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: talking and we saw it. We were, we were chatting.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: We were looking at the drone show. He wasn't paying
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: much attention. He was like, and it was like, they
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: had made like, I don't know, the drum and feather
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: out of the drones or something. And he goes, it'd
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: be cool if they did something for, for Eric. It'd
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: be cool.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: I was just like, just watch.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: And then like the very next thing was, was you
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: with the number 32.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: And he was like, Oh, okay.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: They are doing something.
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: It was great.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: We had a big laugh about that.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: That was great.
• 58:44
  Speaker 12: It was, it was, it was awesome. Like, I don't
• 58:46
  Speaker 12: even know how that stuff, like how they even do that.
• 58:48
  Speaker 12: So way out of my league, but to see just
• 58:53
  Speaker 12: everything in capital, encapsulated, encapsulated, I don't even know that word,
• 58:58
  Speaker 12: but at halftime and just all the love was, was
• 59:03
  Speaker 12: really second to none.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: It's really cool to see. And you and I talked
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: about this last week. for you. It's nice to be honored,
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: but you're a you till you die. So what you
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: really wanted was a good game from the football team
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: and you got that as well. So that's the more
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: important part of the recipe, I suppose.
• 59:20
  Speaker 12: Speaker 3, Oh, that's that. That was really the only
• 59:24
  Speaker 12: thing that mattered. And I was kind of... I didn't
• 59:28
  Speaker 12: really get to see much of the first half. I
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: was going sweet to sweet, saying hellos and whatnot. So
• 59:34
  Speaker 12: I've heard and saw some highlights of the first half
• 59:39
  Speaker 12: and how awesome it was. And, you know, then I
• 59:42
  Speaker 12: was able to sit down and take all the second
• 59:45
  Speaker 12: half in and see that. So I loved how... Really, like,
• 59:52
  Speaker 12: we talked about this last week and just... the understanding
• 59:56
  Speaker 12: that people on the outside don't know what they're, they're
• 59:59
  Speaker 12: getting themselves into when they come to a night game
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 12: in Salt Lake at Rice Eccles. Like it's a very unique, close, uh,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 12: venture that you, you come here and you don't leave
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 12: with a win and you.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 9: Usually get blasted.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 12: So, uh, it was nice to see that and to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 12: really take it to a SEC team, regardless of where
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 12: they're at. It will bode well with us over the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 12: course of the season, just, to show how we stack
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 12: up against a talented team, even though they're not very good. We,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 12: we treat them like such.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: We've we've been complimenting Nate Ritchie this week for, I
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: think that, you know, for through a couple of games,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: his play has been, he looks like he's playing a
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: little freer. It looks like he's playing a little faster.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Sounds like you only really got to watch half of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: this game, but what have you noticed about him and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: his improvements from last.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 9: Year to this?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think Coach Odom has something to do with that.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 12: Coach Odom is very detailed, really pushes the limits on
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: what you are as a player and opening the box.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 12: I think with him and Nate, it's like... allowing him
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 12: he's he knows the system inside out right he's very
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 12: confident like allowing him to move around allowing him to
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 12: use his personality out there and really like like you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 12: said like play free is so uh uh so huge
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 12: for a football player when you uh can get to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 12: that point and i think you're seeing that and he's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 12: making plays he's he's finally healthy right like for the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 12: most part of the course of this career he's always
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 12: battled some type of injuries and He's a stud, and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 12: he's a leader, and he's a guy that guys look to.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 12: And now for him to be on the field making
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 12: plays is really, really awesome for him and not a
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 12: better guy because I've gotten to know him over the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 12: last couple of years and always willing to listen and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 12: work and looking for tidbits here and there. And to
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 12: see him taking it is really great to see.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: Eric Wedler is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell show.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: He is joining us live from Italy. That's how reliable
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: my guy is. He's, he's out supporting his daughter in
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: an international acrobatics competition. And he's still kind enough to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: give us some time today to talk a little Utah football. This, uh,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: that's the kind of friend we all need in life. Uh,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: so this, this Utah offense, uh, the multiplicity, the crazy
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: different looks, the two quarterback thing, the 50 cent, the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: half dollar formation, we're calling it cause it's two quarters. Uh,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: As a defensive expert, as a guy who played at
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: the very, very highest level and tore apart and dissected
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: offenses pre-snap, give me some sense of what kind of
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: fits this causes for a safety, for a middle linebacker,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: for someone who's trying to get his guys in the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: right place before the snap happens defensively.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I was in awe when I saw,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: who was it? it was a bird handed to dev
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 12: on like an inside zone and they ran speed option
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 12: off of it. I've never, I've never seen that before.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 12: And I'm like, this is, I'm adding it to our
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 12: playbook for one, two, I just need to find out
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 12: who can pitch it back to gauge. But that's the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 12: priority one. But two, I'm like just the creativity and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 12: the innovative mind. I mean, Morgan told us and talked
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 12: about this when he hired, put some given and just
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 12: said how he's able to adapt and work, you know,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 12: change things up and formations and really pressure the defense.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 12: I mean, that's one of the things, main things that
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 12: he took from the interview process and what he, what
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 12: he really liked and enjoyed about competing against him. So
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 12: to see it and just see how you're, you're always
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 12: keeping the defense on their toes and not knowing where
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 12: the ball is going and what, what, what are they
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 12: really trying to do? And the counters off of it is,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 12: it's just like, It's fun to watch, man. It's like,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 12: you know, every play you're like, what's going to be next.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 12: And I know for our, for our coach, like, geez,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 12: how do I keep up this, this standard of, so
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 12: the fans still want me around, but it's it's, it's
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 12: been fun to see. And at the end of the day, like,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 12: I think for, for the offensive line, obviously it was
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 12: a question mark, but the reason you're able to do
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 12: all this stuff is you're winning line of scrimmage and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 12: you're establishing a the run and the physicality. I know our,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 12: our yards per carrier, just win rate run is a
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 12: little down from last year, but that was like, you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 12: one every decade, you're going to have a, a run
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 12: running game like that. But I just think like the
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 12: bigs are getting more comfortable, more confident, more nasty, and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: it allows you to do fun things on offense. Yeah.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: I got obsessed with, this week, the difference between being
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: there to make a play and actually making the play.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Because now through two weeks, and I know it's a
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: small sample size, we're seeing some of that from the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: defensive ends where they beat their man and then maybe
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: don't actually get the sack or make the tackle. And
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: a pressure, a hurry is wonderful, but obviously the big
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: play comes when you get that guy to the ground.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: We saw against... against Arkansas, Jackson Benny had an interception.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: He also had one go right through his hands. You
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: should have had at least four interceptions in that game.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: And so I'll focus with you on the interception thing
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: because I don't think, and you can correct me if
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong, I don't think that for defensive backs... it's
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: just as simple as getting on a jugs machine. Cause
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: a lot of times you're not catching that ball in
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: a perfect passing scenario. A lot of times it's off
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: a tip or it's a, you know, kind of a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: crazy thing or you're turning around and the ball's right
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: in your lap, whatever. But, but how do you go
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: from being there to make the play and then actually
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: making the play? How do you practice that? How do
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: you improve that part of your game? If you're, if
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: you're right there, but now you just got to catch
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: the damn thing.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 12: Uh, honestly, I think, I think more so than anything you're,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 12: how do I put this without making everyone mad? You
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 12: like a lot of it is you can either catch
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 12: or you can't like, I mean, some of that is,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 12: is you have natural ball skills and you're able to
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 12: track the ball and really hand eye coordination. But some
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 12: of it is technique and fundamentals of your leverage and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 12: angles of the break. And, and are you wasting steps, uh,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 12: on your breaks and the angles getting to the football
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 12: where that ball is going to be. Like, I don't,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 12: it may not make sense to a lot of people,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 12: but like if I'm breaking at 45 and I'm taking
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 12: a half step longer to get out of that break,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 12: that means I'm a 10 further away from where I
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 12: need to be of making that play. So I think
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 12: it's not so much of, can I catch the ball
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 12: or not? It's more so like cleaning up the footwork
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 12: and cleaning up your eyes and angles. So therefore you're,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 12: you're getting to the spot quicker and now you're making
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 12: like a, a routine instinctual catch than trying to make
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 12: some crazy acrobatic interception.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: I guess that makes sense. You're talking, you're talking, you're
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: talking to a guy that never made the play. So
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: I really am just like, how do you do it?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: How do you, how do you make a play?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: I don't like how hard you.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: Did knock a lot of people out.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 12: So that's something that I cannot say.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: You just got, you just kind of, you got to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: find your lane eventually in life. Some of us, it
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: takes a little bit longer, Dub.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 12: Hey, we found it, though, babe.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: We found it.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: How was the Arkansas-Utah experience for Gage? I mean, I
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: guess I could ask him, but, like, that's a pretty
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: unique sort of half-recruiting trip because you're there on a
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: big recruiting weekend, everyone's down on the sideline, a bunch
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: of other, like, guys targets that this team's trying to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: get to sign, but none of their dads are being
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: enshrined in immortality on the side of the building though.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: So how was it for gauge?
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  Speaker 9: I think it was good.
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  Speaker 12: I think he went in with a mindset of like,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 12: it's not about me. It's about my dad. And I
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 12: think he really enjoyed the moment and, and just like
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 12: being a part of this and seeing the fans and,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 12: I mean, the fans show him so much love, and everyone, like,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 12: it's very unique for him in going through this, because
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 12: he is beloved by everyone, and he knows everybody. So
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 12: I think he just, like, really loved it. He loved
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 12: getting back with his older sister, who's at BYU, and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 12: she was at the game. So they were just hanging out, cheering,
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  Speaker 12: and having fun during the game, and then obviously on.
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  Speaker 9: The field, and.
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  Speaker 12: Really just taking it in as a family. Very rarely
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 12: do we get uh all six of us together and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 12: we were even missing one silver was in italy already
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 12: so we just try to take advantage of those times
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 12: that we're together as a family and really uh he
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 12: just went there more so to support me and and
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 12: taking that moment and i think he really enjoyed it.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: Eric Weddle, for another minute or two here on the
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: Sean O'Connell Show. Obviously, it was a busy weekend for you.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: I imagine you flew back on Sunday, so I don't
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: know if you got to watch any of the NFL weekend.
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  Speaker 4: How much did you get to see?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 12: Let's see. I saw the night game. I watched the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 12: Dallas game. Everything up until that point was highlights. I
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 12: know pretty much what went on and the upsets and everything.
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  Speaker 12: I've done my research, so you can fire away.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the game that you watched, I mean, are the
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: Giants legit? A lot of people, I mean, this is
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: New York, number one media market. Everyone is so desperate
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: to see that franchise be relevant again. How significant was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: that win over the Cowboys?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I don't necessarily know if they're legit or not.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 12: I'm more, I'm more, what's the word? You could just tell,
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  Speaker 12: like you either got it or you don't as a
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 12: head coach. And I just don't think Schottenheimer is the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 12: guy to lead that team. Like to look at all
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 12: the penalties, look at the, the unfortunate play on the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 12: offense defense. It comes back to culture and vision. And
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 12: you look at Harbs and they're just like tough. They're physical.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 12: They run the football, play great defense. Like that's just
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 12: who they are. And that's instilled. So I don't know,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 12: like you, you spend all this money on fixing the defense.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 12: There was a worst defense in league last year. and
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 12: couldn't stop a run. And then they, they give up
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 12: almost 200 yards rushing. Like you're never going to be
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 12: taken serious. If you can't run the football, you can't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 12: stop the run. I mean, it's at any level. So
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 12: I was, I was more like shocked that Dallas thought
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 12: of rookie DC with those players and scheme, like was
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 12: going to be good. And it obviously wasn't. So they
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 12: got a, they got a lot to figure out. I
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 12: think that the giants at this point are probably a
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 12: 500 team, maybe nine wins. in that division and whatnot.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 12: But that was, that was more of what stood out
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 12: to me. And obviously, I don't know what we talked about.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 12: I got, I got to give a shout out to
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: the Niners from whooping the Rams, but really a healthy,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 12: a healthy Niners team with all those dudes are a real,
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  Speaker 12: real problem for everybody. So it's gotta be exciting for
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 12: the Niners fans. I think the Rams will be fine,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 12: but I was more impressed with that. how the Rams
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 12: defense and most importantly, the D coordinator didn't really adjust
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 12: to the, the quick game, the flats, the spring game.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 12: And the first series you knew, like how you take,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 12: how you play well against the Niners, make pretty throw
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 12: outside the numbers and, and get after them, not just
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 12: sit back and two shell and let them, think and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 12: dunk all his way down the field.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: Any other thoughts on Niners-Rams? It just feels good for
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: me to hear you give the Niners credit over the Rams.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 12: Hey, Warner, Greenlaw, and Bosa, I could watch that defense
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 12: play all day long.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: Yikes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: I'm knocking on wood because obviously they all need to
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: stay healthy because all of them are paid so well
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: that there's zero depth behind any of these starters. But
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: for now, I'll just take the depth.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: We might have got disconnected, but that's all right. We
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: got 25 good minutes from our guy, Eric Weddle in Italy.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: He's supporting his daughter in her acrobatics competition. He was
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: obviously in the building last weekend for Arkansas versus Utah.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: And the only thing I had left to ask him. Okay.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: You're backed up.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 12: I'm back.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: Your thoughts on Detroit versus Buffalo.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think, I think it's going to be a
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 12: high scoring affair. I didn't, man, I didn't think Buffalo
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 12: was going to put 36 on Houston. Holy smokes.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: He was supposed to be something this year. We'll, I
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: guess we'll find out.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 12: I guess we will. I think, you know, the first week,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 12: the first week you never take too much stock into it,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 12: whether it's good or bad. So, you kind of just
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 12: take what it is and see over the course of
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 12: four to six games. Then you kind of identify who's
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 12: real and who's not. But I think it's going to
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 12: be an exciting game. Weapons all over the place. Great offenses.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 12: Where is it? It's in Buffalo, correct?
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: The brand new stadium. First game there.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm taking Buffalo all day.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: Last thing before I let you go, it's a very
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: small sample size. It's the question of the day on
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: the show, based on what we have seen so far
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: is this year's Utah team better than last year's team.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe not quite as good, or are they same, same?
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 12: Speaker 4, I think their ceiling is higher at this point,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 12: the potential to be better to go 11 ones last year.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 12: They went 11, two, 11, three. What'd they go?
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: 11 and two after the, after the ball game, 11
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: and two.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 12: So I mean, I've, I've already been on record saying
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 12: that this is going to be a special year. So
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 12: I'm going to, I'm going to say we'll be a better.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: We'll take it.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: We'll take it. That's the official response from Eric Weddle
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: on the Twitter poll. You can go vote at Real
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  Speaker 4: OC Sports. Say hi to the family for us. Enjoy Italy.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: Have some more pizza. We'll chat next week, all right?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 9: You know it, bro.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 12: Love you guys.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: Love you, dude. Safe travels. Eric Weddle in Italy. Utah
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  Speaker 4: football legend and I think future NFL Hall of Famer.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: He's got the Super Bowl championship and a great resume
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: to go with it. more responses on the, the poll.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: If damp here is healthy, then way better than last year.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know how you be way better. Cause like
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: Eric just said, this is a, an 11 win team
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: from a season ago. Ryan on the Twitter says it
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: has a chance to be a better team this year,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: still early on. And that's why I'm asking the question
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: because we're going to do it again. Halfway through the year.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: Is this team better? And maybe on Saturday, Utah State
• 1:15:36
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• 1:15:38
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  Speaker 3: 1853 says, if we're.
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  Speaker 4: Up 3-0 at half this Saturday, I'd say we're the
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  Speaker 4: same as last year. Last year it was UCLA, Cal Poly,
• 1:15:50
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• 1:15:55
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  Speaker 4: A new look us men's national team for the upcoming
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  Speaker 4: First of all, gozo. Gozo, we were happy for you. Gozo,
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  Speaker 4: you're the man. We wish you were still with RSL. Gozo,
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  Speaker 4: Xavier Gozo, now with Crystal Palace, got called up to U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Men's National Team duty for this. Christian Pulisic has been
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: left off the roster for now. And this Kevin Sullivan kid,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: who is supposed to be the next big thing in
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 4: American soccer, 16 years old, makes the U.S. men's national
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: team international roster for the very first time. The great
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: white hope for American soccer lies in the hands of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: a 16-year-old. I don't know if I feel real good
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: about that, but the U.S. men's national team, which will
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 4: certainly look different by the time the next World Cup
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: rolls around, starting to tweak the roster just a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And one of those tweaks is, for this window, Christian
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: Pulisic has been left off. We referenced this when Eric
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: Woodyer joined us on the show a little bit earlier.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: The FBS Oversight Committee, you know, the rules regulators, the
• 1:23:22
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• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: have any power to do anything. The Oversight Committee has
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: released an official statement that Replay protocol was not applied
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: correctly at the end of the Western Michigan-Michigan game, and
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  Speaker 4: they have said Western Michigan should have won the game.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: They also said, but we didn't do it right, so
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Win the game.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: If I'm a Western Michigan alum, if I'm a Western
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 4: Michigan fan, if I'm a Western Michigan anything, this almost
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 4: upsets me more because they're confirming something that I already knew.
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  Speaker 4: They are giving me an official statement that letting me
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  Speaker 4: know that this grave sense of injustice that I am
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: waking up with every day is fully deserved. But they're
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: also saying we're not going to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: This is like your dog goes missing. You know, it
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: was your neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, is that weird guy with the washing machines
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  Speaker 4: outside of his house? And he's got like a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of strange crap in the backyard. I know that guy
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  Speaker 4: did something to my dog. My dog is gone. And
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  Speaker 4: I know it was him.
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  Speaker 3: The clopex. You knew it. What's the clopex? Did you
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  Speaker 3: ever see the burbs?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Hanks?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 12: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: What's up with the Clopax? Is that like a family
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 4: in that show?
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They are the family you're describing, except everyone thinks they're murderers.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 4: We all grew up around, like, there's something off about
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: that house. And I know they're the ones. They're the
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: reason my dog is missing. And then you find out
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: a couple weeks later, like, oh, yeah, for sure, that
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: guy kidnapped your dog. But you can't get the dog back.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: The cops are like, yep, he's got your dog. Statute
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: of limitations has passed. It's a common law ownership now. Wait,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: so there's no resolution to my problem? You're just acknowledging...
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  Speaker 4: That I was right all along?
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we're doing.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: It's the end of the two-minute reports for the NBA
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: that they have now, the officiating reports. It's like, oh, yeah,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: we admit that we screwed this really big call-up with
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: a minute left in the game.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: I appreciate transparency. Here's what I want instead, okay? At
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 4: the end of the NBA season... Give me like a
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 4: full report of all the errors you found in officiating
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: and give the officials a report card based on that.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: And they're either allowed to come back or they're not.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: They're either promoted or they're relegated. I don't want to
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: hear at the end of every single hockey game, football game,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: baseball game. Well, now in baseball, you get it in
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 4: real time with the strikes and balls and things like that.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: I don't want that. to be something after every single game.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: It annoys me where.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, I know.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 4: I know you got that call wrong, but you're not
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: changing the result. Western Michigan. I've, I feel sorry for you.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: I still, to this day, when I've let myself think
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: about it, I cannot imagine like what if Boise state
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: against Oklahoma is They deem that the Statue of Liberty play,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: the iconic touchdown for Boise State, has to come back
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: on some phantom call. And then, two weeks later, they're
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: just like, oh, actually, you know what? That touchdown should
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: not have been overturned. Boise State should have won that game.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 4: They didn't, but they should have. Imagine if the punt
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: block touchdown for Appalachian State, the big house, big upset.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: They were like, oh, you know what? He was offside,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: so that thing comes back. And then two weeks later,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: they're just like, actually, that didn't happen. Imagine if you
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: took away some of those great moments that have formed
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: the underdog belief in college football. You took them away,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: and then you tried to be like, oh, but guess what?
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: We were wrong.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: It changes everything for Boise State. It changes everything for
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: Appalachian State. Utah doesn't really have, like when we overachieved...
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: As a, as a community, as a football program in
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: that undefeated Fiesta bowl season, there wasn't.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: Like a one play kind of a thing.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: None of the games were close and you can say this, say,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, there were closer games in 08, but as
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: far as the big nationally relevant game, the equivalent of
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: what you're talking about, the, the upset went over Alabama
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: and the sugar bowl.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: There's also a blowout win. So, right.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe you could say, imagine if two of
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: those touchdowns were overturned because of something dumb, the TCU
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: game that.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: Year was the really close. Like that was the kind
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: of the defining moment game. Imagine, if instead of you
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: finishing the season undefeated and getting to go play the
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: sugar bowl against Alabama, some phantom call, some phantom replay
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 4: issue means you lose to TCU 13 to 10. And
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: then your whole season is different. And then TCU beats Alabama.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: And you're looking like that should have been us.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 12: Exactly.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: And then the oversight committee comes out and is just like,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: you know what? It turns out you actually did win
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: and you should be undefeated. I would never get over this.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: I know I've talked about it. I've said this exact
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: thing on air many times. Stop discussing it publicly because
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: it's making me mad every single time. Alright, I'm done.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: Utah mammoth begin camp today. They're in practice today. We
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 4: had Jack McBain on the show yesterday. It was a
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: great conversation with Jack McBain. Uh, you can find that
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: on ESPN, 700 sports.com or on the ESPN 700 app,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: Connor Hellebook.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: Team USA goalie, right?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: A guy who at his very best is among the
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: best goalies in the NHL. He's been suspended by the
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: Winnipeg jets because he failed to report to training camp.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: So they tried to kind of work this thing out
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: in a classy way for a couple of years where
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: he was like, I want to trade. It wasn't a
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: couple of years for several months.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: I want to trade.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you, I want to trade. I'm
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: not going to make a stink about.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: It in the media.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 4: And then they started reporting on it. And then he
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 4: came out eventually said, yes, we were trying to handle
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: this in house, but I do want to be moved
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: on from the Winnipeg jets. I would like to have
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: an opportunity elsewhere. I'm grateful for my time here, but
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 4: you know, the relationship is over. We're done. And he's
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: on the market. And you heard about, you know, the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: Buffalo Sabres being a likely destination, the mammoth, kind of
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: working their way into that conversation. Now the divorce is ugly.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: Connor Hellebuck didn't show up for training camp. And what
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: that does for everybody in the NHL is it drives
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: his price down drastically. He is now a suspended. I'm
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: not going to show up. I'm not helping you in
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: hockey games type player.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: He is an offload.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 4: He is a guy that no law. I mean, and
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: the mammoth are in the conversation because they're just seeing
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: what the price is going to be. A lot of
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: these NHL podcasts, a lot of these NHL radio shows
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 4: are like, Hey, the Utah mammoth have a boatload of prospects.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 4: They could very easily go acquire a Connor Hellebook.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: And absolutely.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: If that's what bill Armstrong wanted to do, it already
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 4: would have been done. If he wanted to pay the
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 4: hefty price for a Connor Hellebook level guy, he could have,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: because they do have those assets in the pipeline, but
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: the Utah mammoth have a plan for those assets. And
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 4: it's not to offload them, to develop them a little
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: bit and send them somewhere else.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: They want these.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: Guys to be part of a Stanley Cup contending core
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: sooner than later. And of course, there's always trade-offs to happen.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: First of all, they really like Veggie. We talked about
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: it earlier on the show. Veggie's numbers and Hellebuck's numbers
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 4: from last year were so similar that you can't really
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: say that one is an obvious upgrade over the other.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 4: It's not normal in the NHL to have a two
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: goalie system. You got to have your main guy and
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: your backup guy. Now you need more of a backup
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: than they had last year, but they also like Cosa,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: the newly acquired backup for this Utah mammoth roster right now.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: So hella buck they're hanging around in this conversation because
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: if the price gets driven low enough, you got to
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 4: pull the trigger, but that price is going to, I
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: think have to go pretty low. Otherwise the mammoth already
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: would have paid something. They already would have offered the trade.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: They already, cause they, it's not a lack of assets.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: There are some teams out there that want Connor Hellebuck.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 4: They don't have enough to get him from the jets
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: or they didn't. Now they probably do because the failure
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: to report and the suspension means that his price is
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: falling through the floor as we speak. So the mammoth
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: hanging around here, I don't think they want to make
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: a move, but he's a good enough player. He's a
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: good enough goalie that if the price drops low enough, then,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 4: You make the trade.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: Well, you take the flyer that maybe last year, at
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: least in the Olympics, he was not underperforming. He was
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: incredible in the Olympics. But as far as NHL regular season,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: you take a flyer on maybe that was just a
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: down year if you don't have to sell the farm
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: for him.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: Because you can say that Veggie's numbers, Veggie's and his
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: numbers were basically the same. But long-term, it's clear that
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: Connor Hellebuck's a better goalie, and you are going to
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: bet on that upside if you're the Mammoth, if you
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: don't have to completely empty your cupboard to get a
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: guy like that, absolutely. So this would be fascinating to
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: watch to see if it drops low enough for the
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: Mammoth to be able to make that kind of a trade.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: Also, Connor Hellebuck has, and I don't know if the
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 4: suspension and the failure to report, he has a no-trade clause.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 4: with all, but like eight franchises, I think in the NHL,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: Winnipeg's not allowed to trade him unless he signs off
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 4: on it. Clearly he's going to sign off on whatever trade,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: but Utah is one of the places that he would
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 4: sign off for a trade. There are some other teams
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: that might be interested in him where he could potentially
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: be like, nah, man, I'm not going there. I don't
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: know how much that changes because of the suspension, but
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 4: interesting stuff, fascinating stuff. And we are two weeks from today.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: That's when puck drops on the NHL regular season. Chicago
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  Speaker 4: Blackhawks at the Delta Center at the newly constructed, like fresh,
• 1:33:46
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• 1:33:49
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• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: All but one section of the upper bowl completed. So
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: you still have one part of the upper bowl obstructed
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: view seats for this year, but you're like three quarters
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: of the way through this, this complete renovation.
• 1:34:05
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• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: And for most of the upper bowl, you're not going
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: to have to deal with those obstructed view seats, which is,
• 1:34:13
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• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: you mentioned two weeks away from puck dropping a regular season,
• 1:34:18
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• 1:34:21
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• 1:34:23
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• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: Keller Schmaltz, Daniil boot top line at practice today, Kraus, Trocek, Yamamoto, McBain, Hayton, Tanev, Lee, Cooley, Gunther,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: Those were the top lines, but these are practice lines
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 4: and bear famously likes to mix and match and do
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: these things. It's day one of training camp, Utah mammoth,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: right around the corner, Utah football playing this weekend, jazz basketball,
• 1:34:51
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  Speaker 4: All right. Dish in with dev QB one starting quarterback
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 4: for the university of Utah. Next on the Sean O'Connell
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  Speaker 4: show ESPN 700 91 FM. It's time to.
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  Speaker 5: Talk to Utah quarterback Devin Dampier. This is Dishing with
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  Speaker 5: Star signal caller Devin Dampier on your home of the
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  Speaker 4: It is that time again on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 4: QB1 joins us from your University of Utah football team.
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  Speaker 4: and Excavation. Devin Dampier, welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 9: Man, doing well, doing well. Happy to have another week
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 9: of playing football.
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  Speaker 3: 2-0 for your Utes, up to No.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 4: 17 in the national rankings, beating an Arkansas Razorbacks team
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 4: that was only the second SEC squad to come into
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: Rice-Eccles Stadium. As visitors, night game, great atmosphere. Tell me
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 4: how you felt walking out onto that field for that
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 4: game and in that place with all those people who
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 4: want to watch and see what No.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: 4 could do.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I mean, first.
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  Speaker 9: I think there was a little extra motivation going into
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 9: that game. Just a couple of things being said before. And,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 9: you know, we just, you know, we're a very respectful team. We,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 9: we don't play, we play very, I would say we
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 9: play very nasty, relentless, but you know, we're.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 10: A normal, respectful team.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 9: So just to hear that from the other side, definitely
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 9: gave us some motivation and especially our crowd, you know, they,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 9: they packed it out.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 10: They made sure They felt that energy.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: And man, I try to tell people, you don't lose
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 9: at night. Dark hours get real.
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  Speaker 4: On the field, as the game progressed, how were the
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: Arkansas Razorbacks like as opponents? Were they trash talking type?
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 4: Were they guys like when you got hit, they let
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 4: you know about it? Like, how did that vibe play
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: out as the game progressed?
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah. I would say.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 9: They were feeling a little confident at the beginning. And
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 9: then I think we just, I think we played in
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 9: a way where, you know, it was, it was dominant,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 9: both sides of the ball, honestly, at that defense, you know,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 9: for them to continue to get stops and let us
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 9: play on short field. And we definitely tried to make
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 9: the most, most of it on offense. And, you know,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 9: I just thought we were clicking on all cylinders.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: Speaker 0 7, I know you were asked about this
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 4: in the post game presser and We have talked about it.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: It's going to be a theme, I think, with these conversations.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: Your guy, Mac G, he's in his bag, and he
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: is a mad scientist, and he is not afraid to
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 4: do anything unorthodox. First play of the game, double pass.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 4: You to Bird, Bird to Wayshon. And it kind of
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: was a tone setter, I think, when you guys got
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 4: out there offensively. You were laughing about how, you know,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 4: that got put in as the first play of the game.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: But for the people who did not get to hear
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 4: you post-game, recount that story again for me. Like, that
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 4: is a really kind of like out-of-this-world play to start
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: a game with. And yet, that was play number one.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 9: So, no, me and Maggi, we run through the offensive
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 9: script that Friday. And he was like, I'm.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 10: Putting that first.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 9: And I got first, you know, I didn't I didn't
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 9: necessarily believe him fully. I was like, there ain't no
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 9: way he can start off with a double pass. And
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 9: then we got to Saturday. We had our offensive unit
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 9: meeting before and he was like. he was like, I
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 9: ain't going back on my word.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 10: Like we coming out, we coming out with.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 9: A double pass and everybody was like, oh, he's real
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 9: about to do it. So, you know, he's all about
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 9: keeping his word and, you know, we trust him with
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 9: what he calls out there. And as you can see,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 9: it works out.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: Speaker 0 7th, it does work out another big performance
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 4: for you all offensively. Look, Arkansas, I give them credit
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 4: for that first drive, shoot up half of the first quarter.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: then the defense boat up, they only gave up the
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: three points. And then it was basically youths the whole
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: rest of the way. Did, did what you saw actually
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: see from them, what you saw from them defensively in
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 4: real gameplay, did it kind of match your expectations based
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 4: on the week of film study?
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 10: I definitely thought they were, you know, as big as.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 9: They looked on film, you know, I think When you
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 9: talk about size, I think there's a SEC, they normally
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 9: get the sizing and stuff, but I mean, we, we just,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 9: we knew we had to go into this game. We
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 9: had to prepare the right way and, you know, play
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 9: the way we do. And that was going to get
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 9: us to win. So I thought we did a good
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 9: job of that.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 12: Way.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: Sean had another great game, 10 carries. So I think
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people who expect at some point
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: that the, The handoffs will increase to weigh Sean. Ten
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 4: carries on the ground, over five yards average on the ground.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: He had, again, five catches in the passing game. One
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 4: of those was a touchdown catch. And, you know, we
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: had a chance to talk. with him after practice the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 4: other day. He's obviously, you know, he's put in the
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: hard work this offseason, as you said, as the coaches
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 4: have said, and it's paying off through these first two games.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 3: Just amazing.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 4: Talk to me about, you know, the, the trust you
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: all have in way, Sean, and his ability in both
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: the passing game and in the run game to kind
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 4: of be that, that guy, he's almost the number one receiver,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 4: despite the fact that he plays running back.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, we, we told way Sean, you know, especially,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 9: and that's something he's wanted, you know, we didn't have
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 9: to put that on him, but he wanted to be
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 9: a fully complete back.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 10: That was his mindset coming into this year.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 9: And just the way our offense flows, you know, especially
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 9: with our deep threats, you know, we get a lot
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 9: of drop coverage and honestly deacon the ball down the
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 9: way Sean is. That's the best part of the play
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 9: is put way Sean in space and let him go
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 9: do what he does. And just as efficiency on being
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 9: able to catch the ball and create plays in the
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 9: passing game. And then when we need him to get
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 9: those three yards for a first down, I mean, give
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 9: it away.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 4: So he can run the ball. He can, Catch the ball.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: You could throw the ball. You could also run the
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 4: ball very effectively. You did so again for two touchdowns
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 4: in this game against Arkansas. Last week when we had
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: this conversation, we were kind of looking at the Idaho
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 4: game post-matchup. It was like, yeah, maybe I could have
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 4: not taken this hit here or I could have slid
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 4: there or whatever. Tell me what the film study, the
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: coach's reaction to your game on last Saturday was like.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Um, you know, I think, I think my first,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 9: I think, I believe it was the second or third
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 9: drive where I felt like I was just a little
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 9: less efficient than I was the rest of the night. And,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 9: you know, that was just something that was communicated to me,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 9: just slow down your brain, slow down your process of
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 9: what you're thinking out there. And, um, and then also
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 9: having an interception as well, just kind of, it felt
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 9: like I had a bad drive, then had an interception
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 9: back to back. So, um, Just to be able to have,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 9: you know, my teammates, my coaches behind me, just motivated
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 9: me to go out there. We've seen you practice. We've
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 9: seen you do all this, just believe it's going to happen.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 9: And you know, that's, that was my mindset to go
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 9: back out there and do what I do. And I thought,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 9: you know, after kind of those drives, we were clicking
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 9: our all cylinders, the rest of the game.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 4: Speaker 0 7, take me inside your like individual mental
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 4: reset process, because that's a normal thing in the ebb
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 4: and flow. of a football game, you're going to have
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: a great series. You're going to have one that's not
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 4: so great. There are going to be turnovers, right? And
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 4: I think one of the most important things for anyone
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: in your position is you got to forget about that
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 4: last one and you got to go out and perform.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 3: The next time.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: Do you have a deliberate process? Do you have a method?
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 4: Do you have like a self-speak? Is there something that
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: you do every time or is it just, you know,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 4: absorbing in the moment? Tell me how that reset goes
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: for Devin Depp here.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 10: Try not to be the biggest isolator, but that is.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 9: What calls me down. Like, I love that my teammates
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: come next to me. They tell me, like, we're good,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 9: you're good, and all that. But I definitely need, like,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 9: just a quick thing.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 10: It's normally just, like, 30 seconds a minute.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 9: I just kind of coast off to the sideline away
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 9: from people and just kind of breathe and let my body,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 9: you know, reset, relax, and, you know, forget about it.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: Is that something that you developed deliberately? How did you
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: come to that as your reset?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 9: Just calming me down. I think when I'm able to
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 9: just make it where it's just me and me only
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 9: in my brain at that point, I'm able to kind
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 9: of talk to myself and just.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 10: tell myself to move on. And it just, it seems to.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 9: Slow down my, my, like my heart rate, my heart
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 9: rates are going out a little bit and I can
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 9: just feel my mind kind of ease down.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: Small grievance against you. We did not know that you
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 4: were a dancer. Okay. You have not told us about
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 4: this in the past. You had your little MJ celebration
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 4: on that last rushing touchdown. Took a big lick credit
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 4: to that. I think it was a safety coming downhill.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, you're in the
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 4: end zone and then you're celebrating. Where did the Michael
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 4: Jackson come from?
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 9: You know, I told him, I actually, I told my
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 9: little brother and my grandma, like this summer, I was
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 9: going to do that. I was going to be my
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 9: first Sally. My first touchdown, I.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 10: Was still frustrated about my interception.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 9: So I didn't have it in my, my heart to
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 9: celebrate yet, but near definitely third quarter, it was, you know,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 9: it was fully fleshed out. I was, I was ready
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 9: to hit it the.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 10: Next time I got in the end zone. So yeah,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 10: bust them MJ.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 4: And the spider, the spider band celebration seems to be
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: catching on with everybody. I don't know if you noticed
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 4: the must is doing it now. Some of your teammates
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: are doing it. That's it's becoming a branding thing.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 9: Speaker 4 05,0 Yeah, no, I, after the Michael Jackson,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 9: I like, I turned to the mess and I started
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 9: webbing them up and like all of them, all of
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 9: them caught on.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 10: So it was pretty sick.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 4: Speaker 1 05,0 That's pretty cool. This year with dev
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 4: Our conversation with starting quarterback Devin Dampier is brought to
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  Speaker 4: with a really big game. Four catches, 113 yards. He
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  Speaker 4: was making fun of himself for stumbling down the sideline
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 4: on that one catch, but just a really incredible game.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 4: from a guy who was part of this program, transferred out,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 4: transferred back in, gets to play with his brother again.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 4: And I'll be honest, there were a lot of us
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 4: kind of in the media and in the fan base
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 4: wondering if the tight ends were going to be a
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 4: huge factor in this offense. And at least in the
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 4: early goings, guys like Noah Benny are starting to show
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 4: what the tight end role can be for Mac G
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 4: and for you. Talk about his game, and is this
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 4: something that you guys saw in practice during the week
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  Speaker 4: and felt like maybe Noah Benny or the other tight
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 4: ends were going to be a weapon you could use
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  Speaker 4: in this matchup with Arkansas?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we're normally like... our offense is all about like.
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  Speaker 10: Where we can find the mismatches, where we can.
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  Speaker 9: Find what works for us. And, um, you know, me
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  Speaker 9: just being back there, you know, I thought Noah.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, First, talking about practice, Noah's one of our harder workers.
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  Speaker 9: He definitely asked me for the extra reps after practice
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 9: if he felt like something didn't feel good to him
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 9: or he just wanted a second rep on it so
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 9: he felt good about it in the game. Everything in there,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 9: we've definitely practiced before. We've built the scenario in. Benny's
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 9: such an athletic guy. and how big he is and
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 9: how much he fits in the run game and stuff
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 9: like that. Just how good he is in the past
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 9: game too is amazing. And yeah, just, I thought there
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 9: was some mismatches in the middle of the field. I thought,
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 9: you know, Benny being able to get in the middle
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 9: of the field, that's, that's where the throw was. And
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 9: he was definitely capitalizing on it.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Now you take a look at the offensive line. We
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: have talked about them. Every conversation you and I have
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 4: had since we restarted this for the 2026 season, we've
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 4: been talking about the offensive line. And still it's a
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 4: little bit unorthodox with how much rotation is going on.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that I'm encouraged by it. I don't
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 4: want to put words in your mouth, but it feels
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 4: like it must be encouraging. when they passed the test
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 4: against SEC Talent. There's a couple of guys on that
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 4: defensive front for the Razorbacks that are probably going to
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 4: be playing on Sundays. Both of those guys were non-factors
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 4: against you, and you've got to give credit to the
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 4: offensive line for that. You've been optimistic, and you've told us,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 4: just wait. I trust my guys. You'll see. But I
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 4: felt like this was another opportunity for them to kind
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 4: of pass that test, and they did so with flying colors.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: What were your thoughts on the offensive line and their
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 4: performance against Arkansas?
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  Speaker 10: I'm very proud of them.
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  Speaker 9: Especially who they have up front. We very much respect
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 9: our opponent. We knew it was going to be a
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 9: challenge for our O-line going against them all game. Again,
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  Speaker 9: I thought they handled it the best possible. It's know, I, I,
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  Speaker 9: I had those guys up all the time, but you know,
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  Speaker 9: there's a point where I'm like, y'all see what they do.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 9: Like the worry shouldn't be there anymore. Just cause of there.
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  Speaker 10: I let them prove it on the field. I let
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 10: them show it on the field, how good they are.
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  Speaker 9: And this is another week of, you know, them proving
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  Speaker 9: that they were ready to step up.
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  Speaker 4: Speaker 0 7, I appreciate the seeming the collective mentality
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 4: that those guys have, where they haven't shied away from
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 4: That kind of like sentiment that people are like, I
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 4: don't know, had a really great offensive line last year.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 4: These guys might be a big drop off. When we
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 4: talk to them as individuals, every one of them mentions like, no,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 4: we know what people are saying about us. And we're
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 4: going to play with a chip on our shoulder so
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 4: that nobody feels that way. I mean, they keep performing
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 4: like this and it's going to be. one fewer thing
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 4: I can talk about on the show, right? We're not
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 4: going to be able to fill five minutes with, Hey,
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 4: how's the offensive line going to do? Because I mean,
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 4: they're really kind of stepping up to the plate here.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know if I've seen a whole unit
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  Speaker 4: share that exact same mentality as much as I've seen
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 4: it this year with those guys.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that just talks about their characters from, you know,
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 9: them being behind those guys last year and, you know,
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 9: being the starter now and still wanting the edge. Like,
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 9: it's never.
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  Speaker 10: Enough for those guys. And, you know, that's what you
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 10: want out of your starters.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 9: You want guys that want to continue to be better
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 9: than what they feel like is good.
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  Speaker 10: It's never good enough.
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  Speaker 9: And, you know, that's how those guys are taking it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, back to the playbook, because it is, I think,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 4: one of the funnest, most interesting, most creative playbooks we've
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 4: seen so far in this 2026 season. And we speculated
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 4: on this with you and Bird and your relationship and
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 4: the ability that both of you guys have. We saw
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 4: another crazy play where it's, you know, you're the dive
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 4: man on an option and then you're also the quarterback
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 4: on the option and now he's the pitch man. I
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 4: asked Bird after practice if that play also exists in
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 4: the playbook and where you are the pitch man, where
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 4: you get the pitch back from Bird, and then you're
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 4: the guy who gets to score or whatever. Do you
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 4: guys fight over who gets to be what? Does Mac G... say, no,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 4: I need Devin playing this role. Do you guys decide
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 4: that between yourselves? When it is a two quarterback, you know,
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 4: back and forth, who makes the decision on who ends
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 4: up with the ball on who runs which role in
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 4: the play?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. You know, I normally call the shot, but I think,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 9: you know, there's certain situations where I think it benefits
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 9: me more if I'm going a certain direction and birds
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 9: go another direction or vice versa. I think, you know,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 9: it just, it benefits our offense depending on which way
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 9: the play is going. So, but we practice it so
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 9: much in practice by game day, you know, we're kind of,
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 9: we know exactly what's going on. I give a look
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 9: at the defense and then we'll kind of, when we're,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 9: when we're both meeting at the middle, I'll tell him
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 9: he's taking QVR.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 10: You'll see him the other way around.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 9: He'll point at me. So, you know, I mean, we
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 9: were pretty locked down on the playbook, but yeah, Maggie's
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 9: cooking up.
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  Speaker 4: So, And I know you probably are sick of talking
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 4: about this. You two have this kind of, like, unique relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any, like, selfish element to it that you
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 4: have to even fight? Like, where you're just like, man,
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 4: I want to be the one that ends up with
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 4: the ball in his hand. Or I know this play
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 4: is going to be big, so I want to be
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 4: the one throwing it. Or I want to be the one,
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 4: you know, that receives the pitch.
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  Speaker 3: Or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: That mad scientist stuff allows for so many different possibilities.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 4: You and Bird, you always say the right thing. You
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 4: always feel the right thing where you're like, you know,
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 4: I don't care as long as we score.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. No, I think, I think Bird is, you know, for,
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 9: for him, like he knows he's the backup this year,
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 9: but he knows that we need, we need him on
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 9: the field as well. So him having that being a
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 9: quarterback in that play playmaker mindset, you know, there's a
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 9: lot we ask on his plate and I just kind of, I'm,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 9: I'm a guy, whatever gets the offense wrong, whatever, whatever
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  Speaker 9: moves to change, you know, that's, that's what I'm in for. So,
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  Speaker 9: and you know, bird's the same way he's, he, as
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 9: much as he knows I'm the starter, he's still trying.
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  Speaker 10: To find a way to show value to our team.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 10: Cause man, we need them on the field as well.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 9: So, and I think he goes in there and, you know,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 9: he does what he does that, at the highest levels
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 9: that he can. And it's a, it's great that, you know,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 9: we're both able to be back there and do his
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 9: best for the team and wouldn't move the six.
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  Speaker 4: How much of your own defense do you get to
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 4: watch during the actual games? Like I'm not paying attention
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 4: to where you are when the defense is on the field.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 4: Obviously I'm watching what Arkansas is doing and what your
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 4: defense is doing. And I asked that question because like
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 4: Jai Moore had an unbelievable game and he You might
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 4: not know that until the game's over.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Do you get to watch your defense at all, or
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 4: are you talking to Mac G, talking to Jordan Gross
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 4: and everyone on the sideline when that's happening?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say normally... I feel like we've been
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 9: scoring in about six, like eight plays, every kind of drive.
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  Speaker 10: So normally if the other team gets.
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 9: A first down, then I get to watch our defense go.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 10: But if our defense gets a three and out.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 9: Man, it's, it's cooked. I'm I'm over there watching the iPad.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 10: And then we're like, it's third down and third down
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 10: and third.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 9: And then I'm getting up.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 10: So it depends how fast they, they get off the field, honestly.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 4: So like in this game, did you get a chance
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 4: to see number 90 Jai? Did you get a chance
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 4: to see him have kind of the breakout performance that
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of people were expecting was coming at some point.
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  Speaker 9: Speaker 4, I did not get to see all, all
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 9: of jive, but I didn't get to see him until after,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 9: after the game, obviously just going up.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 10: To the press conference, I was like.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 9: Oh wait, John was snapping. So, but yeah. And then,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 9: you know, everybody's kind of talked to him on the sideline. You,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 9: you hear people like Jai, Jai's going crazy. And then
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 9: I don't get to see it, but I'm like that.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 4: That's got to be kind of cool. It's like a
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 4: little Christmas present after the game where you're like, oh,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 4: not only are we playing well, but look what my
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 4: guy did.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of nice. I like that.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 4: Devin Dampierre for a couple more minutes here. Edition with
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• 2:02:51
  Speaker 4: So now turning the page to Utah State. The Battle
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 4: of the Brothers, they call it. It's kind of one
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 4: of those weird games where it is also an in-state rivalry.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 4: It is not the main rivalry. That's obviously BYU. But
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of familiarity between these two teams. You got,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 4: you know, when your top receivers came from there last year.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 4: Your offensive coordinator came from there last year. That, I guess,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 4: is the nature of college football these days. But what
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 4: are your expectations for Utah State? What do you know
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 4: about the Aggies?
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Um, so Bronco mineral was my head coach at New Mexico.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 10: My sophomore year. And, um, you know, I personally.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 9: Know how he runs a program and, uh, he's very
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 9: tough minded, just, just like us here at Utah. Um,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 9: you know, he wants, he wants his guys to be
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 9: the tough.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 10: Minded people that's able to play the full four quarters.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 9: And, um, yeah, just fight. So, you know, we're expecting,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 9: you know, a very, very competitive team to come out here. And, and,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 9: you know, there's, there's that little bit of little brother,
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 9: big brother kind of mentality where, you know, they're, they're
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 9: going to come out, they're going to come out on
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 9: on cylinders and we're expecting that. So, you know, we
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 9: need to prepare the right way as well.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 4: What are they showing on film from what you've been
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 4: able to see so far?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think, you know, up front, I think, you know,
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 9: they're showing that They can battle, they can battle. You know,
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 9: I thought they battled Washington pretty well on the run game.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 9: You know, they show they can be there and, you know,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 9: they got some, they got athletic safeties, athletic corners. So,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, but they're, they're very well-rounded team. You know,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 9: there's a reason why they're able to stick around with
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 9: Washington and, you know, it's again, our job to prepare
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 9: the right way and, you know, do what we do
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 9: when game time comes.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 4: OK, so now that we've seen some more of the
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 4: craziness in this playbook, do you feel like is that
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 4: going to be a theme that continues? I was asking
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 4: this question to one of our NFL guests yesterday, like
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 4: how sustainable this level of creativity is when you get into,
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 4: you know, not only a game like this one, but
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 4: when you get into like conference play and like. the
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 4: gadget plays, the stuff that people don't really see, is
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 4: that going to be part of this offensive identity, or
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 4: is this just something that you're putting on film so
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 4: everyone's got to prepare for it? Do we see more
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 4: of the craziness? Do we see more of the creativity
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 4: against Utah State?
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  Speaker 9: Man, I would say, yeah. I mean, with who we
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 9: have back there, you know, I wouldn't say– it may
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 9: seem like it at times, but like, man, there's so
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 9: many elements to our, our, which I call gadget plays.
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 9: Like there's so many things that we can do during
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 9: those plays to make sure the play goes right. So,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 9: you know, if the, if what we want to run
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 9: isn't there, you know, there's a way me and Bert
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 9: can check out of something there's, you know, we don't
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 9: have to, do that. We don't have to force it.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 9: So I feel like there's definitely a good balance of
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 9: the plays we're doing, even though they're exotic, there's, there's
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 9: definitely reasons why we're doing it and why they work.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 9: There's reasons for it. So I think, I think, you know, it's,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 9: it's a good element of our offense for defenses to
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 9: be able to prepare for every week.
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  Speaker 10: Cause man, that just puts in.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 9: A whole nother 20 plays, 20 play scenarios that they
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 9: could expect and didn't never happen. You know?
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  Speaker 4: Even as I was asking the question, I guess I
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 4: wonder if gadget plays the right way to characterize this
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 4: because of what you just said. Gadget plays are these
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 4: things that you run once or twice during a season,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 4: and it's a home run or it's a strikeout. They're
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 4: slow developing. It's craziness that nobody has seen on film before.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 4: But if that's not the approach in these plays, and
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 4: if there are secondary options or they're check down or
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 4: check out options, and it's just part of the fabric
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 4: of the offense, I guess gadget play probably isn't the
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 4: right way to characterize that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: That's a, yeah. It's almost like just, it's, it's a normal,
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 9: it's a normal offense to play, but we got to,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 9: we got a good way of dressing it up for sure.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 9: And you know, if, if it isn't there yet, again,
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 9: there's always a way to check out of it and make.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 10: Sure we're in the right situation at the right time.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: To get nitpicky because that's what fans do when everything's
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 4: going very well. There, there were people last week, Myself included.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 4: I was watching the second half of the game with
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 4: Eric Weddle and his people that he'd been inducted into
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 4: the Ring of Honor at halftime, which is cool to see.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 4: But more than one of us were just like, man,
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 4: this game is already in hand. There's no doubt that
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 4: Utah is going to win this. Why is Devin still
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 4: in there and why is Devin still running the ball
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 4: and getting hit at the goal line and things like that?
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 4: How should we feel about you being in when the
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 4: game is already won? You're a football player, so you
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 4: don't mind, I'm sure, but.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 9: We don't want to see.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 4: You get hit late in the game. That's already decided.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm a true competitor. I think that,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 9: you know, that's one of my biggest characteristics when it
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 9: comes to football is, you know, I, I didn't not
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 9: even disrespectfully. I just, my mindset is I want to
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 9: put 50 on the board every single game. Like that's
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 9: just the type of mentality that I have when I'm
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 9: able to come out and play football.
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 10: So, um, you know, we weren't at 50 yet and
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 10: I was.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 9: Just like, let's keep going. Like let's, let's keep moving
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 9: the chains. Let's keep doing what we do. And, um,
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 9: you know, that's also good work for me to just, uh, get,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 9: get those plays that, um, You know, we we practice maybe,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 9: I don't know, two, two, three.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 10: Hundred different plays during during the week.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 9: And then, you know, we only run 60 when we
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 9: get out there. So just to get a feel of
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 9: what those plays look like in practice and what they
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 9: look like in game two and making sure we're getting
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 9: them in.
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  Speaker 10: You know, that's also somewhat.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 9: Of that mentality as well.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 4: Um, you mentioned it, you played for Bronco. What will
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 4: like a conversation, what will an interaction with Bronco Mendenhall
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 4: look like for you on game day? If you have one,
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 4: if you know, out in pregame warmups, cause I really
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 4: don't know what it's like in modern day college football.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 4: When a coach loses his most important player to the
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 4: transfer portal. If there's bitterness, if there's hostility, I imagine
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 4: most coaches are just like, that's just the nature of
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 4: the game these days. Uh, what is your relationship with
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 4: Bronco Mendenhall?
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 9: Like, Yeah, me and Bronco are like, I'm definitely going
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 9: to love him up, and I believe he's going to
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 9: love me up the same way. We've had a lot
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 9: of one-on-one conversations when he was my head coach of
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 9: me going up there and him trying to develop me as, one,
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 9: a football player, but just as a leader and coach.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 9: He was kind of my first head coach that gave
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 9: me the leadership role, first time being a starting quarterback
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 9: in college, and he definitely paved the way for that. Yeah,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 9: just so many one-on-one conversations, and it's also about life.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 9: So yeah, there's definitely more than just we play football together.
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm expecting a good.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 9: Meet-and-greet when we see each other.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 4: Well, we're looking forward to this game. I don't think,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 4: are the uniforms red out again? Because twice now it's
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 4: been red on red on red, and I love that.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 4: It's like the traditional, it's what Utah football is supposed
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 4: to look like in my book.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 3: Do we know what the uniform is so far?
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 9: I believe there will be red.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 10: I will believe there should be some red.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 9: You know, I try not to spoil it with the
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 9: jersey reveal. I don't want to be put on the
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 9: spot for telling the jersey combination. The jersey reveal isn't
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 9: out yet.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? That's my fault because I shouldn't put
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 4: you in that position because, you know, yeah, that's equipment
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 4: is supposed to be able to put the announcement out themselves.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 4: That's my bad, Dev. But that's how, you know, Devin,
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 4: Deb here is savvy with the media. Now there will
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 4: be red.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 4: We'll have some red on there. Oh, thank you, sir.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 3: Wonderful.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 9: I'm glad to hear it. Yeah.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 10: What other colors is going to be out there?
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's crazy. All right, Dev. Well, good luck. Stay healthy.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 4: We'll see you up there on Saturday.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 9: All right. Awesome. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 6: Yep. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Devin might even deliver your salt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not, but maybe. Do you want Devin to come?
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  Speaker 3: He's a Culligan Water Salt Lake City guy. He's a guy.
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  Speaker 4: You're kind of taking away all the reasons to not
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  Speaker 4: do it, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I don't want to have to keep buying salt
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 4: and refilling the dang thing. Honey, deal with the hard water.
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  Speaker 4: Everything's going to be fine. This filtered water, is it
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• 2:14:32
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• 2:14:35
  Speaker 4: test anyone's water first, right?
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know what the baseline is, so what needs to
• 2:14:39
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: We can provide you with all of those things.
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  Speaker 11: The thing that was shocking to me, I've been a
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  Speaker 11: part of the Coligan family for seven years now. The
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  Speaker 11: thing that was shocking to me getting soft water and
• 2:15:22
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  Speaker 11: When I added that monthly bill, I didn't realize that
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• 2:15:40
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  Speaker 11: I will also say all of the treatment for the kids, eczema,
• 2:15:45
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• 2:15:48
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• 2:15:52
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  Speaker 7: To treat bad water.
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  Speaker 11: All of the additional expense with soap for laundry, it
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• 2:16:10
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• 2:16:16
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• 2:16:19
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  Speaker 4: All right, one more break. We'll give away a pair
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  Speaker 4: University of Michigan. Only 13%, just shy of 13%, think
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  Speaker 4: that this year's team is not as good as last year.
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  Speaker 4: About 27% think that it's kind of apples to apples, same, same.
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  Speaker 4: I think that the potency of the team, the ability
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  Speaker 4: of the team, the final result of the team might
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  Speaker 4: be kind of same, same. This is on a two-game
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  Speaker 4: sample size. I'll ask the question again when we get
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  Speaker 4: to game five or six and we know a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more. Are they better than they were last year?
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  Speaker 4: Are they the same as they were last year? Are
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  Speaker 4: 61% of you think that this is an improvement in
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  Speaker 4: Miss game as the LSU injury report suggests? 87% of
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  Speaker 4: the respondents expressed doubt that Lane Kiffin is being honest
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  Speaker 4: about that situation. People at Oxford, Mississippi think that he's lying.
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  Speaker 3: You have a court date? What's going on? What a
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 1: You look nice. My goal is to never have one
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  Speaker 3: Okay. On today's Thursday.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Other than pajamas, which is, again, my favorite part of
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  Speaker 4: We don't have to look good.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to see you, man. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: We've been ships passing in the night.
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  Speaker 3: Which is good, right?
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 2: Remotes.
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  Speaker 1: A really fun remote yesterday at the Red Zone store.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's the campus store now. For me, it
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: will always be the bookstore.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 3: I know it as the bookstore. It was the bookstore
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  Speaker 3: in the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, they have up there, they
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  Speaker 1: have the best ute gear. I think if we're honest,
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: sometimes the ute gear is like, yeah, we could do better.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: But they've got some good stuff up there. Got myself
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  Speaker 1: a sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 4: Did you?
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  Speaker 3: Nice little t-shirt.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Where were you yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: I was at All Trade Staffing yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice.
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  Speaker 10: Very nice.
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: Obviously, with football back, business is better for all of us.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: As I often say, two seasons in American sports now.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: football season and waiting and waiting for football season.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 3: Uh, but here we are.
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: I've been able to catch bits and pieces of your show.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: Good job with Devin today. We'll bring that back today
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: on the program. Ron McBride live in studio. Oh, the
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: legend himself. So that'll come your way. He's the best
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: in about 30 minutes from now ish. But I wanted
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: to ask you bottom line, like in the conversation about
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: the football team right now, the undercurrent is like, I
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: think Arkansas sucks.
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Idaho, you know, is what it is.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: How much of what you're seeing is something that will
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: sustain itself throughout the season when the competition gets better?
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 4: Well, I put a poll question out based on this
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 4: exact thing. Like, what do we know right now? And
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 4: I said, is this year's team better than last year's team?
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 4: Same as last year's team are not quite as good.
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 4: And we have very similar, like good analogous competition from
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 4: the first two games last year.
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 12: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: Get a 43, 10 win over UCLA, uh, a 43,
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 4: 10 win over Arkansas. You had 60 plus points against
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 4: an FCT, FCS team, 60 plus points against an FCS team.
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 4: And if you look at the numbers and you look
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 4: at a little bit of the film, uh, it kind
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 4: of comes out to, well, the defense probably not quite
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 4: as strong as of yet. And the offense shockingly, amazingly,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 4: maybe even stronger than they were last year, which was
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 4: a big deal for Utah.
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 4: We're not accustomed to having a top-five running game. We're
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 4: not accustomed to having a top-20 offense on the Hill,
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 4: and that's what you had last year. And if you're
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 4: getting more of that and maybe even an improvement on
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 4: that in this 2026 season, I think it's reasonable to
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 4: expect similar results based on what we have seen so far.
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 4: And you might even expect better results because this year's schedule,
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 4: at least on paper, might be a little bit more friendly,
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 4: might be a little bit easier for you.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the schedule's lining up. There's no doubt. I'm curious
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: to see what Friday night in Lubbock looks like. Texas
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: Tech has just been fine, right? They have not been dominant.
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: And Houston has looked really, really good. So that game,
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: I think, will give us a good idea of what
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: Utah's up against when Houston is here.
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 3: BYU, they're really, really good. They're tough.
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: So that's going to be a tough task no matter what.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: But you do start to... see this thing manifesting in
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: a way where it's like, I said, to start the year,
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: I said, anything over eight wins, I will take because
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: it is the first year. But now I think we
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: can start getting a little bit greedy. And I always
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: say this during football season. I'm not one to dampen
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: excitement of fans. If you want to get weird, get weird.
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: It's the best thing about being a college football fan
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: right now. You're one of the many programs in the
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: country that has legitimate reason to hope Utah football has
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: caught the attention of people across the landscape of college
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: football media. And who cover the sport, not just locally.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: You start to see 10, 11 wins. You start to
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: get a little bit weird about the potential of playing
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: for a Big 12 championship. And more than anything else,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: I definitely wanted to kick the tires with you on
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: this today.
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 3: And I'll start here. Winning breeds joy.
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 12: Period.
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 3: End of story.
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: In this business, no matter what sport, no matter if
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: you're a fighter, if you're a football player, if you're
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: a golfer, a basketball player, you win.
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 3: It breeds joy.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: So what will this feel like if there's a tough loss,
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: an upset loss, or a close game against a bad team?
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: The way I've kind of characterized it over the past
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: week or so is I think playing for Kyle was
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: probably hard, and that's okay. And I'm not saying that
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: playing for Morgan is easy. But it does feel like
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: there's just a little bit more joy in that building.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: I just think there's a little bit like relief where
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: all the things we heard about the end of Kyle's
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: tenure seem to be hard for people. And Morgan seems
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 1: to have kind of infused this thing with his energy
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: and his joy and kind of unbridled passion for the
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: sport and is balancing things really well so far.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 4: So far, I think that's true. I think that's the sentiment,
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 4: you know, an accurate reflection of what we're hearing and
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 4: seeing from people. And look, the sustainability of that, to
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 4: be fair to everyone, including Kyle Whittingham, is the sustainability
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 4: of that is dependent on repeated success.
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 4: On how much you keep winning, because that's when people
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 4: start to slip. That's when people start to, well, you
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 4: know what? Why are we having so much fun? This
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 4: isn't for fun. We're here to win.
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 4: Right? I don't think you're going to get to that point.
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 4: I think that Morgan, like, he is a winner. That's
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 4: one thing about Morgan Scali is... You go back to
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 4: when he was a high school player. You go back to, like,
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 4: what he did in rugby. Look what he was at
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 4: the University of Utah himself.
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 3: He's a winner.
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 4: He knows the good stuff that he's been able to
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 4: glean from the previous regime and even the one before
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 4: that with Urban, right? And he knows the stuff that
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 4: he wants to tweak and maybe improve and make more
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 4: his tone of speech and enthusiasm and.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 3: The dang music, whatever.
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 9: So.
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 4: It's all still being figured out. And it's a really
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 4: interesting matchup against Utah State because of Bronco. Because Bronco
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 4: Mendenhall knows this Utah football program. He knows Morgan Scali
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 4: very well. He's got assistants on his staff who've been
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 4: coaching against Utah for years.
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 3: And nobody knows.
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 4: Kevin McGiven as well as Bronco Mendenhall does.
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: That's the biggest dynamic, I think, right now. And to
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: your point, this is the honeymoon moment. This is you
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: meet a partner, and you think they're perfect, and you
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: live in bliss for a while, and then you walk
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: into her room, and she has Rob Thomas posters, and
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: she loves Matchbox 20. It's like, wait a second, what happened?
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 3: This is great. Please don't. Please don't. Please don't. Right now,
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 3: you can't tell.
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: We've got to take a break. We've got to take
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: a break. No, will we feel like this in five years?
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: Will we feel like this in five weeks? Yeah, so
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: right now... Number one, winning and winning big. Number two,
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: all the things you said about Morgan are absolutely on point.
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: And I will add to he knows what it means
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: to do that here. Like Ryan Silverfield probably can't go
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: to his house right now in Arkansas. You know, a
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: first year head coach that isn't a local guy did
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: a really good job of Memphis. But I'm telling you, man,
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: that was it. I hate this whole like, hey, they
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: beat an SEC team. Just because you play in the
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: SEC doesn't mean you might suck. Doesn't mean you might
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: not suck.
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, they suck.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 3: They're horrible.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 4: They're bad.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: But look, the bad news would be, because there are
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: plenty of teams across the landscape of college football that
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: have played teams that were thought to be bad and
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: didn't look great. Utah looked great, period. Because you're good
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: to bring up the UCLA game last year. I think
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: for the casual fan, they'll just say, oh, they smoked UCLA.
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 3: UCLA, blue blood program.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 9: No, they're not.
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: They were awful a year ago, and that turned out
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: to be the case. So how much of this is sustainable?
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: How good is Houston?
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 3: How good is BYU?
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: The two toughest teams on the schedule. Will Arizona bounce
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: back and be the team a lot of people thought
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: they could be? But with Tech looking very pedestrian early on,
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: I think if you're a Utah fan, I think if
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: you're a BYU fan, there's no reason to not believe
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: your team has a chance to win the conference this year,
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: or at least play in that game.
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 4: I'm very curious if you end up, and you just
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 4: made this point, if like Utah State, this is a
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl for the Aggies.
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 4: If Utah State comes down and it's a 24 to
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 4: 31 victory, right? You're not blowing them out. Devin's got
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 4: to play to the final snap, that kind of stuff.
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 4: Are you feeling the same way that you do now?
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 4: Are people starting to get, to lose confidence? If, you know,
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 4: Bronco Mendenhall knows some of the Kevin McGiven tendencies and
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 4: or some of the gadget stuff and the creative stuff
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 4: gets blown up, are you now starting to question whether
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 4: it's going to work for the rest of the year?
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a reason why these two first games
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 4: are just that sample size. It's just enough for you
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 4: to get pumped up and excited. Beyond that, we still
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 4: don't know. It's going to take, like Morgan keeps telling us,
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 4: it's going to take four, five, six weeks before we
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 4: really have a sense of what this team is. All
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 4: you have right now is highlights.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 4: Nothing bad has happened yet.
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 4: Haven't really turned over the ball in any kind of
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 4: stupid way. The penalties have been manageable, all that kind
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 4: of stuff. You haven't faced real adversity yet. We learn
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 4: what this team is when they do that. I think
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 4: Utah State defensively might be good enough to show you
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 4: some of that. Offensively, they are bad.
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, these in-state games can get weird. After
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: watching Utah State go up to Seattle and nearly get
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: that done, my guess was, okay, that line's going to
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: open up at like 18 or 19.
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 3: It opens up at 28.5.
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: And my first reaction was, I wouldn't touch that line.
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: If you're into such things, I wouldn't touch it. Because
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if Saturday turns into a 24-10
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: Utah win. It wouldn't shock me if that happens. Now,
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: do I hope they blow them out? For sure. Do
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: I hope what we've seen through the first two games
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: manifest through this in-state clash and throughout conference?
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: We're starting to move from curiosity to conclusion, but I
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: still kind of exist in the space of ambiguity about
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: what I feel like I can definitively say.
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 3: About this team. Do you know what?
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 4: UCLA finished the season last year.
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 3: Not great, Bob.
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 4: Three and nine.
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: So we talked to you and I talked about it.
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: It's like, that's not a good football team.
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 4: This year and last year, your start has been almost
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 4: apples to apples. It's almost the exact same. I think
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 4: that's encouraging. especially given the schedule you've got this year.
• 2:33:18
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• 2:33:20
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• 2:33:27
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• 2:33:29
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• 2:33:31
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