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Coordinator's Corner: Utes DC Colton Swan on tomorrow's rivalry game, Pick 6 streak alive, Jackson Bennee's strip sack vs Houston + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's dive into this week's matchup in the coordinator's corner
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 2: Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 1: OC chats with the coordinators every week of the Utah
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  Speaker 1: football season. On your home of the Utes and your
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  Speaker 3: All right, coordinator's corner this week. We catch up with
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  Speaker 3: the D.C. Colton Swan, kind enough to give us some
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  Speaker 3: time here ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Holy War.
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  Speaker 3: Massive game as the undefeated Utah football Utes take on
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  Speaker 3: the BYU Cougars. 10 a.m. Rice Echo Stadium on ABC.
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  Speaker 3: On paper, at least, it is the biggest Holy War
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  Speaker 3: game ever played. And the guy calling the defensive plays
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  Speaker 3: for your Utes is Colton Swan. Coach, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? Hey, thanks. I appreciate it, man. Doing good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Great, man. This is my favorite week of the year,
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  Speaker 3: every single year. And here we are obviously massive game
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  Speaker 3: coming up, but we got to look back before we
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  Speaker 3: look forward. This Utah football team and your defense is
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  Speaker 3: a huge part of that with an incredible performance on
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  Speaker 3: the road at Cincinnati in what, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the national pundits, even some of us locally, we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about is like maybe a trap game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: emotional win against Houston. Look ahead spot because BYU is
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  Speaker 3: coming to Rice Eccles and you all went on the
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  Speaker 3: road and took care of business. Tell me how you
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  Speaker 3: got it done. Tell me how your guys got it
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  Speaker 3: done against the Cincinnati team that has shown they're capable
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  Speaker 3: of beating top 10 squads.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Absolutely. I can see how that notion was perceived and,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, viewed because you know, they're a really
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  Speaker 2: good program. I mean, the week before us, they'd take down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Texas tech at home, they got a great
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  Speaker 2: crowd and, and atmosphere there. And, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting there going, okay, this is a good appointment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that we're playing here. And, and that's one
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  Speaker 2: thing that you fight against as a coach and as players, even,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just that mental side of things of being
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  Speaker 2: prepared and getting up for, you know, your, your next opponent.
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  Speaker 2: And we do a good job here at university of Utah, just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, letting the guys know that, Hey, we've got
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  Speaker 2: something coming. It's where we'll want to be wanting to
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  Speaker 2: know we've got something great coming down the pipe, but
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  Speaker 2: not to look ahead and always just, you know, enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the process, focus on it. And, you know, just end
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  Speaker 2: the week with being 1-0. Don't look at anything more
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  Speaker 2: than that. And so, yeah, it's a lot of mental
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  Speaker 2: preparation and really pleased how we performed.
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  Speaker 3: Part of that performance was a couple of defensive scores,
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  Speaker 3: and I know that brings a twinkle to your eye
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  Speaker 3: and a smile on your face when you get points
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  Speaker 3: directly from your guys. Scoop and score touchdown. Pick six
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  Speaker 3: to keep the 23-season streak alive. Let's start with the
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  Speaker 3: scoop and score. I know that havoc plays, forcing fumbles,
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  Speaker 3: all that disruptive stuff is something you work on and
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  Speaker 3: you emphasize. Finally paid off in this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And that's something we look at every week
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  Speaker 2: is just the amount of havoc plays that we're creating from,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sacks and PB use interceptions. That play in
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  Speaker 2: particular was a huge havoc play, especially for Ethan day.
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  Speaker 2: I know that rabbit, you know, did the scoop and
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  Speaker 2: score and got the points, but I mean, you look
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  Speaker 2: at the edge of that defense from a defensive end
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  Speaker 2: standpoint is about as pretty as you can get just
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  Speaker 2: absolutely destroying the tight end back into the running back,
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  Speaker 2: then ripping the ball out, you know, just how he
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  Speaker 2: handled that edge in that power play that was coming
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  Speaker 2: his way. It was, it was beautiful. And then you
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  Speaker 2: got rabbit doing great technique with a scoop and score
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  Speaker 2: and then, you know, putting it all together. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's good to see as you know, you're standing on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline, you'd not really quite telling what's happening until
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  Speaker 2: you see rabbit scoop it up and take off with it.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, Oh crap, here we go. Let's you know,
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  Speaker 2: so it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: Great to see. And you mentioned Ethan day, right? And like,
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  Speaker 3: I know we've harped on this and everyone's probably done
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  Speaker 3: talking about it, but when your defensive ends, aren't piling
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  Speaker 3: up the sack numbers and getting those obvious numbers, it's
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  Speaker 3: important to note the effect that they've had in these
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  Speaker 3: run downs, right? Because you have to, you have to
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  Speaker 3: play that position well against the run. You guys have
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  Speaker 3: obviously been excellent against the run. And I feel like
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  Speaker 3: that play was a great example of it, but both
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  Speaker 3: Ethan and Lance and, You can tell me more about
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  Speaker 3: Paul Fitzgerald and company, Cash Dillon. It feels like they've
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  Speaker 3: been pretty solid against the run all year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're stout individuals. And we really preach to our guys,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be well-rounded. Like, if you're just a
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  Speaker 2: defensive end that can get vertical up the field and
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  Speaker 2: rush the passer, you're really limiting us in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think our defensive ends really understand that. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you look at the cue draw that they ran, right,
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  Speaker 2: and how our defensive ends reacted to the quick set
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  Speaker 2: by the offensive tackles. And it's like, geez, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a selfish defensive end would have ran up the field
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  Speaker 2: vertical and then I go, Oh, well, that's not me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when the interior, but these guys just saw
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  Speaker 2: that Reddit and collapse the pocket, knock out the cute draw.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was just nothing. And that just tells you
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  Speaker 2: that they're not the guys that are sitting there chasing
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  Speaker 2: the sack number under the guys that are taking a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pride in controlling the edge of the defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, controlling offensive tackles, controlling tight ends. And they,
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  Speaker 2: and they take a lot of pride in it. And that,
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  Speaker 2: that play right there specifically, you know, speaks volumes for,
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  Speaker 2: for what they do for us defensively. They're just well-rounded.
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  Speaker 3: As a complete defensive unit, six tackles for loss, three
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  Speaker 3: sacks in this one and the turnovers, some past breakups.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of those really disruptive downs, was it
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  Speaker 3: something in practice? Was it something like, tell me how
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  Speaker 3: that happened in this game in particular that you were
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  Speaker 3: able to get into the backfield so much?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we, we play with an aggressive style for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but it's, it just comes down to attitude and effort
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  Speaker 2: with our guys practicing that way and making sure that
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  Speaker 2: they understand, Hey, in order to be successful, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to have that juice and energy at practice. You got
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  Speaker 2: to break the stack. You got to run to the football.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you do things like that. you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not running to the football is rabbit right there
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  Speaker 2: to scoop and score that things like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really show up when you see all 11 guys bursting
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  Speaker 2: for that football, you know, and it really excites you
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  Speaker 2: when you got backside corners and, and safeties that are
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  Speaker 2: finishing in dominant positions. What we talk about is never
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  Speaker 2: finishing the rep with, you know, being blocked or, or
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  Speaker 2: something to that fact. So always finishing those dominant positions.
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  Speaker 2: So we practice a lot. We talk about it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, we are getting a lot of havoc
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  Speaker 2: plays and a lot of production, you know, out of guys.
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  Speaker 2: And you just keep showing them what it does for
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  Speaker 2: us defensively. You keep showing them those culture clips, you know,
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  Speaker 2: week in and week out and how getting your hands
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  Speaker 2: up at the line of scrimmage can help in coverage. uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing, playing the run game, you know, and allowing,
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  Speaker 2: taking away offenses and making them one dimensional and, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, using great technique with inside hands and great
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  Speaker 2: pad level. And he has to show those to show
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  Speaker 2: those types of clips to kids over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over again. And they really start to understand the impact
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  Speaker 2: that has on you defensively.
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  Speaker 3: We've been going through some stat comparisons with your unit
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  Speaker 3: and with other guys, other teams in the conference, and
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  Speaker 3: especially BYU for the matchup coming up. And something that
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  Speaker 3: jumped out to me when I got to the linebacker group,
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  Speaker 3: but I know it's something we've probably already addressed, but
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  Speaker 3: you've got four interchangeable guys. There's not a drop-off when
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  Speaker 3: Elijah Ellis and Cyrus Polo, and maybe even in some downs,
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  Speaker 3: they're better at certain things than the starters are. But
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  Speaker 3: that's not to take anything away from Hall and Reynolds.
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  Speaker 3: And I just I'm kind of blown away by the
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  Speaker 3: depth of your linebacker room and the fact that there
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  Speaker 3: is no perceivable difference of the effectiveness of the aggression
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  Speaker 3: of the physicality of anything kind of regardless of whoever
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  Speaker 3: you got in there. How has that been achieved with
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  Speaker 3: this group?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a blessing?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Just all amazing kids, you know, obviously two of them
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  Speaker 2: a little bit older out of the four and two
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  Speaker 2: a little bit younger, but just the camaraderie and the
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  Speaker 2: friendship between the four is unbelievable. When you hear them
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  Speaker 2: talk to one another in like a meeting room and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you'll see Trey make a TFL or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And the first guy that speaks up is like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jono straight, that's a fricking hell of a play, dude.
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  Speaker 2: That was off, you know, like his buddies are, I
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  Speaker 2: are giving them encouragement. There's no like, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I can remember as a player sitting there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you might be buddies with them, but you're always trying
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  Speaker 2: to beat them out, you know, and, and you can
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  Speaker 2: just tell that they're truly excited about the success of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, their teammate and especially of the other linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: And that just speaks volumes to their maturity and, and,
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  Speaker 2: and just how they love one another. So it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: awesome to have, like I said, they're all four extremely productive.
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  Speaker 2: They all four, uh, possess different skill sets. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we try to utilize them accordingly.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to jump around here, but we, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't address the pick six enough as the defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: There's a pressure. You gotta, you gotta keep a 23
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  Speaker 3: season streak alive and you guys did it. So a
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  Speaker 3: little relief for you. Like, okay, I checked that box.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about that for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That little thought hangs out in the back of
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  Speaker 2: your head. That is for sure. You know, and you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting there going, okay, we're in our eighth game here. And, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we haven't got it yet. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we did the scoop and score. We're all like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: does that count? Kind of jokingly on the sideline. And
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  Speaker 2: then sure enough, a few plays later, Scooby shows up
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  Speaker 2: with a pick six and man, what a, what a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you get the, um, keep the record going, but
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  Speaker 2: even more so for Scooby and his performance. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he just, you would talk about the defensive ends being well-rounded.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the corner position is doing such a great
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  Speaker 2: job in coverage and such a great job in coming
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  Speaker 2: up and supporting the run and keeping the ball leveraged and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cupping it and turning it back to pursuers
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  Speaker 2: coming from the inside and there's a really understanding you
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  Speaker 2: know good good hat and hands and leverage and and
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  Speaker 2: um you know scooby is is a great example of
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  Speaker 2: all that and so really happy to see him kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know disguise a little cover three and jump
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  Speaker 2: that uh little hitch to the sideline there.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked a lot in the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: about the aggression of this defense and some of the
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  Speaker 3: play calls. And I haven't had a chance to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you since that unbelievable turnover play at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the Houston game, just a perfect call. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what a, you don't pat yourself on the back. I
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  Speaker 3: know it's not your nature. So we spent a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time doing that on the show that week, but
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  Speaker 3: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 2: When you dial that up though, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, There's a risk in the final drive when
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  Speaker 3: you're going against Connor Wegman and you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go zero. There's a risk associated with all that.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me what's going through your mind, what you're feeling
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  Speaker 3: as you're sending that call in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely, you know, it's like, okay, we're, we're
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  Speaker 2: up one score. They obviously got to need a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: and a two point and they got to go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: essentially the length of the field in order to do
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  Speaker 2: it and just, you know, film study on, on quarterback
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  Speaker 2: like that. And, and not just him, but all quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: or anytime you put in, you know, pressure on them,
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  Speaker 2: can they step into throws? Can they, you know, have,
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  Speaker 2: have the time to evaluate coverages and things of that nature. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if, if you're going to go down, why
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  Speaker 2: not freaking go down swinging? Right. I don't see. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the worst thing would be to sit back and him
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  Speaker 2: March down the field and freaking score on you. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just having that, having that mindset, it's just
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  Speaker 2: trusting the DBS, trusting the guys that are blitzing that
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to get home and time up those pressures.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's a lot that goes into it, but love,
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  Speaker 2: how they executed in that last drive. And it wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, perfect by any means. But that huge sack
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  Speaker 2: fumble by Benny and then turn around and have to go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, into another two minute situation against essentially the
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  Speaker 2: same type of circumstances just as a big. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Were you yelling at McGiven? Like, could you take a
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  Speaker 3: little more time off the clock before you score?
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  Speaker 2: Don't score so fast. Don't score on the first play.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I know you get the sack fumble. He scored the
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  Speaker 2: very first play. And you're like, all right, we're right
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  Speaker 2: back up with the exact same situation. Your voice. So
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  Speaker 2: let's let's freaking blow up now. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Coordinators corner with Colton Swan here. It's rivalry week, baby.
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  Speaker 3: do it against a BYU team where whatever it says
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  Speaker 3: on paper and it says on paper, they're really good.
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  Speaker 3: And on film, they're really good. But this game is
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  Speaker 3: always crazy. This game is always tight. And now you
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  Speaker 3: take over the play calling duties against BYU, BYU offense that.
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  Speaker 3: He's coordinated by Aaron Roderick. There's familiarity with guys on
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  Speaker 3: the coaching staff on both sides. There's great players. There's
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  Speaker 3: familiarity with players on both sides. It's just a different dynamic,
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  Speaker 3: but you have to treat it the same way you
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  Speaker 3: do every other game. How do you achieve that?
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  Speaker 2: I think you hit the nail on the head. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to treat it the same way. Like we mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: going into the Cincinnati game, hey, we want to end
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  Speaker 2: the week at 1-0. How are we doing that with
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  Speaker 2: our nutrition and sleep and film study and practice habits
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  Speaker 2: and things like that? That's really what's stressing to the
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  Speaker 2: kids this week is, Hey, you have an opponent. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to study the crap out of them
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to know everything that they do and
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  Speaker 2: all about them. But at the same time, it's about
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  Speaker 2: us and what we do. Okay. And not to focus
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  Speaker 2: so much on, you know, what a lot of fans
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  Speaker 2: do and a lot of outside perimeter people do is that.
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  Speaker 2: you know, the hype and stuff like that. Not don't
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  Speaker 2: focus on that. Focus on, you know, having a great practice,
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  Speaker 2: focus on, you know, getting a good night's sleep, focus on, uh,
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  Speaker 2: your film study and, and knowing situational football. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: so that's a big thing for us, um, is really
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  Speaker 2: kind of taking those distractions out that are on the outside,
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  Speaker 2: you know, staying off social media, you know, just to
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  Speaker 2: eliminate those distractions. And, and focusing on just kind of
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  Speaker 2: the plastic hand, because as, as you know, we're all
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  Speaker 2: humans and you can get wrapped up in emotions. Everybody does.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm truly trying to limit those distractions.
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  Speaker 3: I am, by the way, I am those distractions this week.
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  Speaker 3: Tell them, don't listen to my show. Cause I'm gassing
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  Speaker 3: this game up. I can't wait for this one. And
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  Speaker 3: I love the matchup, but, but there's some problems for
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  Speaker 3: you to solve.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And the biggest one of those is bear Bachmeier. He's
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  Speaker 3: an excellent player. He's a physical specimen. He runs through contact.
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  Speaker 3: He keeps himself alive in the pocket. He's better and
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  Speaker 3: better every week, it seems, as a passer. He'll take
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  Speaker 3: some risks, though, with that big arm of his. When
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  Speaker 3: you evaluate that quarterback, what are you seeing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he is, he's extremely well-rounded. You know, he knows
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  Speaker 2: exactly what to do with football. He knows his progression
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  Speaker 2: in the throw game. He knows his box counts in
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  Speaker 2: the run game. He knows exactly what to do with
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  Speaker 2: football makes him very good. And he's very diverse. Um, that's,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the best things about him is he
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  Speaker 2: has the ability to flick a ball and he has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to pull it down and run with it.
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  Speaker 2: And he runs really, really well. He's a big stout kid. And, and, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not only his game against us last year,
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  Speaker 2: but in games that he's played against other opponents, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he punishes guys in the run game. Uh, and so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of kudos to him and what
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  Speaker 2: he is, you know, from a skillset and as an
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  Speaker 2: individual and, and also the coaches that, you know, put
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  Speaker 2: him into those situations I think they really understand who
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  Speaker 2: he is and what he does best. And so, you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: they cater to that.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: When you're rushing against the quarterback like this, and we've
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: talked about it and you mentioned it earlier in this conversation, right?
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Collapsing the pocket instead of running upfield and making sure
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: you maintain gap integrity and the ability to tackle and
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: not fall off of something because an arm on a
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Jersey is not going to bring a guy like that down.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Is there any alteration of what's been going on in
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: practice to accommodate that, or is this just a continuation
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: of what you've been coaching up all year?
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I think it goes a lot into a continuation. We
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: face quarterbacks like him. We face guys that are athletic
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: and very nifty on their feet. We face guys that
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: can sling the ball. I think he provides complications and
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: difficulties in both areas. areas uh which makes him you
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: know even more difficult but it's just really letting these
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: guys know okay here's this type of quarterback okay how
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: do you stop this type of quarterback okay and so
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: guys are very cognizant about the style and what it
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: takes in order to stop him um but yeah um
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: just kind of kind of going with with the same
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: philosophy and mentalities that we've always had on every quarterback
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: that's a dual threat like he is.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: How does the availability or lack thereof regarding LJ Martin
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: change your job?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Well, he's, I mean, you're always wondering, is he going
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: to play? That is for sure. You know, cause I
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: know he's missed some games prior to now. And, and
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: so you're always wondering, is he, is he going to play?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Is he healthy? But you know, when, when he is
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: playing and when he is healthy, I mean, he's one
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: of the best backs out there. I mean, he runs
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the way running back supposed to run. He runs over
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: his over his legs extremely well, good pad level, forward
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: lean to him, great ball security, great vision. I mean, he's,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: he's the ideal running back and he is, he's very
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: good for them. And you know, as, as a defense, he's,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: he's definitely a guy that you're sitting there going, okay,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that's one of their better players as is Brock. And, and,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and so you got to just target them and just
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: make sure that you're always accounting for, you know, players
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: such as he.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: What are you seeing from them in the past game?
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: They've got the freshman wide receiver really fast, really good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: They've got a couple of big body guys out there
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: on the edge as well. Do you like your matchup
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: with your defensive backs?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. They're extremely skilled. They're long-bodied. They're big kids
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that run very crisp routes and have great catch radiuses.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And then they put number one in the slot, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: he can pick them up and put them down. He
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: can flat boogie, and so he poses a lot of
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: threats for defenses. But being able to take the throw
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: game away, uh, is, is something that you've got to,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: you've got to be able to do. I mean, if
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you can make a team one dimensional and they're going
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to rely on the throw, if you can take the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: runaway or, or vice versa, you know, uh, definitely helps
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a lot. Um, but understanding what's difficult for them and,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: and being able to exploit those things.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Before we let you go, um, how many text messages,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: phone calls, whatever did you get from your, your cowboy
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: buddies when they, they showed that little piece on you
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: on game day, you know, When we get a little
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Colton Swan rodeo on national television, I imagine you got
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: a little reaction from that circle of friends.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not very often that, you know, some Cowboys
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: are going to be put on ESPN. So I'm sure
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the reaction was pretty good. I got quite a few
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: text messages, you know. It's kind of funny. The national television,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: they call it the Cowboy Channel, you know, puts some
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: stuff up. It's pretty cool.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool to see even cooler to see is Utah
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: football sitting at eight.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: One of the top defenses in the country. My guy,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Colton Swan called most plays. Let's have another great one
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Shall we? Absolutely. I appreciate you.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you. That's Colton Swan, your defensive coordinator at the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: university of Utah brought to you by mountain home services
• 20:05
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