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Eric Weddle on No. 12 Utah hosting Kansas Saturday, His son Gaige's recruitment, Any recent talks with Michigan coaches (?) + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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  Speaker 1: Hyundai Studio of ESPN 700 and 92.1 FM.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in the legend, Eric Weddle.
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  Speaker 2: Ring of Honor inductee earlier this year at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Utah.
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  Speaker 3: Friend of the program. E-Dub, welcome back. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: What's up, what's up? Doing great. Can't wait for the
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  Speaker 4: game on Saturday. Wide out. Helmets are fire. Got our
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  Speaker 4: game tomorrow. Get a dub and then enjoy the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Have you wished Utah head football coach Morgan Scali a
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday yet today?
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  Speaker 4: I shot him a text and told him he hadn't
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  Speaker 4: even hit his prime yet. He's like 50th inch and
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  Speaker 4: closer and closer. I'm not sure I want to get there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't worry about it, bud. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: He's still in great shape. 47 for Morgan, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: not mistaken.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah. thriving.
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  Speaker 4: If we all can look that, if we all look,
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  Speaker 4: can look that good at 47, I think we're doing
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 2: If at 47 years old, you're making millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You look as good as he does. You got a happy,
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  Speaker 2: healthy family and your football team is four and oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a lot of things to complain about.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely not. Definitely not. So I should see him very
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  Speaker 4: happy and smiling when he comes across the presser today.
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  Speaker 2: Did you, uh, did he come visit last weekend on
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  Speaker 2: the recruiting, on the recruiting trip?
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  Speaker 4: He did. He did. Uh, it was quite the, uh,
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  Speaker 4: surprise and really cool. Uh, we don't, you know, Gage
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  Speaker 4: and I, uh, especially Gage, right? Like having, having a
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  Speaker 4: head coach of a program, come watch you on a
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  Speaker 4: bi-week when he'd be anyone in the country, uh, was
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  Speaker 4: really cool and just, and it was a great game
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  Speaker 4: to see him, to visit with him, and obviously, not obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but Gage did everything in his power to help us
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  Speaker 4: win and put on a pretty good performance. So it
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  Speaker 4: was really cool, really cool for Morgan and humbled by
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  Speaker 4: it and, you know, kind of shows where Gage is
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  Speaker 4: at priority-wise and how they feel about himself.
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  Speaker 3: Big win for you against Del Norte.
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  Speaker 4: 33-21.
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  Speaker 2: The aforementioned son of Eric Weddle Gage had 137 yards
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  Speaker 2: and two touchdowns passing. 168 yards and a tutty on
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  Speaker 2: the ground as well.
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  Speaker 3: What did he do on defense? Jeez, what a lame game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he had 10 tackles, a sack, forced fumble, and... Again,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've played six games this season, and he
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  Speaker 4: has yet to allow a catch in his coverage. Doesn't
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  Speaker 4: get much action in the passing game, so he just
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  Speaker 4: kind of runs around and just tries to knock people
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  Speaker 4: out and keep everything in front of him. So he
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  Speaker 4: did his thing, 110 snaps played, which is just insane. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how he does it, but luckily he
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  Speaker 4: does for us as a team and all the other teams.
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  Speaker 4: All the other guys we have on the team, the Warriors,
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  Speaker 4: we had guys playing through injuries and guys that hadn't
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  Speaker 4: played all year that had been called upon. So credit
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  Speaker 4: to the coaches, players, the team. We scored 20 in
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  Speaker 4: the fourth to come from behind and take that victory.
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  Speaker 4: So moving forward, moving on, moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats on that. I mean, that's awesome to see.
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  Speaker 2: It's the time of year in football and even more
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  Speaker 2: so in high school football because you're a little bit
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the schedule today. for college and certainly the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the time of year where like teams are
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  Speaker 2: starting to deal with injuries and things are starting to
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  Speaker 2: pile up. And even some star players around the country
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  Speaker 2: are starting to go down. And I know you've seen
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  Speaker 2: the reports out of Provo, LJ Martin, their star running
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  Speaker 2: back offensive player of the year in the big 12 conference.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be out for the next four to
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  Speaker 2: six weeks, four weeks keeps them out of the Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame game. Six weeks keeps them out of the Utah game.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see exactly what happens there. But it inspired
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  Speaker 2: for me a larger conversation, Eric, about... much the star
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  Speaker 2: players on a football team actually mean in terms of
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  Speaker 2: like wins above replacement. Like if you take games, you
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  Speaker 2: went a lot off of your high school football team,
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  Speaker 2: your win loss record looks a lot different. If you
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  Speaker 2: take Eric Weddle off of those old youth teams, the
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  Speaker 2: win loss record looks very different. I think if you
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  Speaker 2: take LJ Martin off this BYU team for six weeks,
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  Speaker 2: their win loss record looks different.
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  Speaker 3: You obviously played it at the highest level.
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  Speaker 2: And there's depth in certain positions and some teams do
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  Speaker 2: better with that than others. And Utah looks like they're
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  Speaker 2: a pretty deep team this year, but there's some guys
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  Speaker 2: like I'm, I'm looking at way Sean Parker and I'm saying, man,
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  Speaker 2: how many wins is that guy worth by himself? So
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  Speaker 2: when I take like just the stars that you played with,
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  Speaker 2: or you played against just the elite, elite, elite at
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  Speaker 2: whatever level, how much is an individual running back safety,
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  Speaker 2: anything but a quarterback? How much is that guy worth
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the win loss column?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man, what a great question. Man, I think it
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  Speaker 4: comes down to obviously the position and then the depth
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  Speaker 4: at the position and then what are they being asked
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  Speaker 4: within the scheme and the side of the ball that
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  Speaker 4: it may be. I think the higher level you go,
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  Speaker 4: the less impact it has. in overall wins and losses,
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, because, you know, the coaching, the players
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  Speaker 4: are much more at an equal rate or the drop-up
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  Speaker 4: isn't as big. And shoot, I mean, that running back
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  Speaker 4: that got in there last week, what a cool story
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  Speaker 4: for BYU. I don't remember his name, but I think
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  Speaker 4: he's a walk-on and did his thing in the second
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  Speaker 4: half or whatever it was and ran the ball well. So,
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  Speaker 4: I just think it's going to be a hit. Hopefully
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't have that big of an impact, but I
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  Speaker 4: think it'll, it'll show itself against the better teams because
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  Speaker 4: you're taking away, uh, like Martin's a superstar and he's
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  Speaker 4: not just a good back. He's a star. So it
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  Speaker 4: will have an impact, but I don't know, like the
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  Speaker 4: wins and losses, I would say maybe one, like, give
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  Speaker 4: or take like one, it would be one, one win
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  Speaker 4: or loss that he's not there. Yeah. In my opinion. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe not, maybe not have that big of impact
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  Speaker 4: overall because I've been like, we didn't have LT. I'm
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  Speaker 4: just thinking about the times that star players like LeBain
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  Speaker 4: and Thompson, we didn't have him in the second round
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  Speaker 4: of playoffs at Indianapolis, but we still won because we
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  Speaker 4: had Michael Turner behind him and Daryl Sproles, which, are
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  Speaker 4: really good players. Yeah, they're not star like a Canadian,
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  Speaker 4: but they're, and we manufactured it and made it work,
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  Speaker 4: and there's other examples, but it'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 4: the games that BYU over the next four or six weeks,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully he's back because we want him back, but if
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  Speaker 4: he's not, if it will have an impact over those
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  Speaker 4: games getting missed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Notre Dame game, it's Iowa State on
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  Speaker 2: Friday night, and then it's Notre Dame next weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: that one was already circled for everyone for very obvious reasons,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that know, with LJ Martin fully healthy,
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  Speaker 2: you feel decently confident hosting a really good Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: team without your best overall player on the whole dang team.
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  Speaker 2: That even from a mental standpoint, that's, that's a hard
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  Speaker 2: thing to overcome.
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  Speaker 4: Speaker 3 1 0 100%. 100%. And hopefully I still
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  Speaker 4: think they can, I think BYU is going to beat
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  Speaker 4: them personally. I don't think Norden's all that. And I
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  Speaker 4: think it's a perfect game, defensive game. situational football. And
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  Speaker 4: then it comes back to the head coach and culture
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  Speaker 4: and belief and inspiring and connection and all those things
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  Speaker 4: that Kalani does so well. that, you know, maybe they
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  Speaker 4: could be in, which I expect an inspired group that
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  Speaker 4: maybe a running back type by committees and bear runs
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  Speaker 4: the ball more. It doesn't matter whatever it takes for a,
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  Speaker 4: for a game against Notre Dame. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's talk about this Utah football team coming off
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  Speaker 2: of bi-week where there's been so many years where like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what a great time to have a bi-week so-and-so's banged
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  Speaker 2: up and injured and whatnot. And knock on wood, thankfully
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  Speaker 2: this Utah team has been relatively injury-free, very serious injury-free,
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  Speaker 2: and that's your guy Steve Saunders having an impact, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: But when you've got your full roster and you're in
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  Speaker 2: a bye week and you can just kind of clean
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  Speaker 2: some things up, what do you expect now on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night against Kansas? You're already better than them. You've already
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  Speaker 2: played some pretty clean football. What should this team look
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  Speaker 2: like off.
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  Speaker 3: A bye week?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think... First off, let's always give a shout-out
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  Speaker 4: to Steve. You know, there's a reason why. I think the.
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  Speaker 5: Way Morgan handled the spring, the summer, and camp had
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  Speaker 5: an impact on how our guys are feeling and how
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  Speaker 5: they are trained for football.
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  Speaker 4: And honestly, the truth is in the pudding. And I've
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  Speaker 4: said it all along, the training is top-notch. So got
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  Speaker 4: to give a shout-out to Steve like you already did.
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  Speaker 4: On top of that, I think when you're able to
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  Speaker 4: focus on ourselves and have the guys out there to
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  Speaker 4: do so, right? We talked about the techniques and fundamentals
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  Speaker 4: and getting back to the basics and really. hammering situational
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  Speaker 4: football like that just it just accelerates the process of
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  Speaker 4: a team getting ahead of everybody else because you're not
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  Speaker 4: having to hold back practice plans you're not having to
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  Speaker 4: hold back guys from practice because they're injured or they're
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  Speaker 4: banged up and you're not getting those physical reps so
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  Speaker 4: I think it's huge. I think we're going to get... Kansas,
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  Speaker 4: their defense, I think, will give us some... It's a
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  Speaker 4: good matchup for us to see how we handle a
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  Speaker 4: good defense, a good run defense. I think what they're
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  Speaker 4: strong at is what we like to do offensively. I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to see what wrinkles we added, what different variations offensively.
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  Speaker 4: How are we going to... If we do stumble... What
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  Speaker 4: is the counter? How are we going to adapt? So
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to see that. And really just to continue
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  Speaker 4: our style of football and really clean, penalty-free, exciting, physical,
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  Speaker 4: smash-mouth football that we're known for, but also innovative and
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  Speaker 4: explosive and continue to progress to being a championship team.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of the whiteout uniforms, the icy helmets?
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  Speaker 2: I know that, you know, a fashion show is not
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  Speaker 2: your favorite thing, but it's a big deal for the fans.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm actually surprised that we're doing
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  Speaker 4: it for a home game because it's, you know, it's white.
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  Speaker 4: So we usually don't, I don't know if we've ever
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  Speaker 4: wore white unis at home or you, you'd be able
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  Speaker 4: to answer that for me, but I think it's cool. Like,
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  Speaker 4: The guys like it. The players love it. Switching it up.
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  Speaker 4: I leave it up for our leadership committee to figure
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  Speaker 4: out what we're wearing every week and the accessories because
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  Speaker 4: it's what the players want. If they're excited and they're
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  Speaker 4: juiced up, geeked up to go wear these white unis
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  Speaker 4: and the helmet, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: If you're.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's hard for me to have a
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  Speaker 4: negative thing to say about it. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: see it. I'm excited to see the stadium on TV.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have nothing going on Friday night or Saturday night,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm going to be sitting in my theater watching
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  Speaker 4: the game, primed maybe with a root beer zero, and
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  Speaker 4: watch us smash the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the dad beverage of choice now for the
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  Speaker 2: Utah football legend, root beer zero?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, if I have any energy drink left from
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  Speaker 4: the day, I'm allotted one energy drink usually a day.
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  Speaker 4: And in most cases, that carries over to the next day.
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  Speaker 4: I usually sip on it throughout the day, and then
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  Speaker 4: I usually have it the next day because I don't
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  Speaker 4: really drink a full one because it's a lot. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, anything like, you know, cherry Coke, zero. I
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  Speaker 4: like to, you know, if I could get a soda
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  Speaker 4: a day, that's, That's, you know, I think that's okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's not too over the top. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: watch us do work. Pretty simple life for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not judging. I'm not judging. I'm a chocolate milk guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's my, like, that's my beverage of choice. Just a
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  Speaker 2: gourmet chocolate milk.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. Do you add extra chocolate, or do
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  Speaker 4: you just buy it already made?
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  Speaker 3: No, look.
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  Speaker 4: What's the go-to for you?
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  Speaker 1: No, I.
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  Speaker 2: Putting chocolate syrup into regular milk, that's what we did
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  Speaker 2: when we were kids before we had our own money.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm willing to spend some premium. I'll go to
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  Speaker 2: Whole Foods even to get my chocolate milk. That's the
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  Speaker 2: gourmet thing I'll.
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  Speaker 5: Put in the fridge.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's on another level, man. I don't know. Can
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  Speaker 4: we still hang out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, next time I come over, all right, we'll sit
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  Speaker 2: by the pool. We'll sip some chocolate milk. It's a
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  Speaker 2: weird combination, but it's good stuff, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm totally down. I'm totally down.
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  Speaker 2: Have you talked to anyone in Michigan, Eric Weddle?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I texted Coach Witt, I think the night before,
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  Speaker 4: two days before, the weekend when I was going to
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  Speaker 4: the Ring Honor, and I just told him, how much
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  Speaker 4: I loved him, appreciated him, and this never would have
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  Speaker 4: happened without him. And he shot me a quick text back,
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  Speaker 4: as Coach Whit Fashion would do. And just saying, you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember, you're welcome, whatever. And so, honestly, and
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  Speaker 4: we've talked about this, I have not spoken to one
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  Speaker 4: coach or anyone from Michigan since that whole fiasco of
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  Speaker 4: my comments about Underwood and the lack of QB play,
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  Speaker 4: which we're all seeing. And so it's really interesting and
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  Speaker 4: unfortunate because actually the only coach that I've had talk
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  Speaker 4: to is Coach Powell, and he's texted me randomly. And
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  Speaker 4: we've stayed in touch because of the ring honor and
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  Speaker 4: just the college football fame. And, you know, it's not–
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  Speaker 4: it's bigger, I think, with him and some other guys,
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  Speaker 4: so I appreciate that. But the other guys, unfortunately– I
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  Speaker 4: haven't talked to, and it's all good, I get it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's really unfortunate that you're going to lose out.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Michigan really, in the grand scheme of things,
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  Speaker 4: had a chance with Gage. He really liked it when
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  Speaker 4: he went out there, but from what I did or
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  Speaker 4: said to have an impact on myself when there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of other bigger issues with other kids and their parents,
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  Speaker 4: that that's the stance you take is unfortunate. But hey... again, I,
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  Speaker 4: I don't lose sleep over Michigan. I really could care
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  Speaker 4: less if they win or lose. And, um, you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 4: I'm used to doing through, like I've been my whole
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  Speaker 4: life and always will be, but, uh, really, really, it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's unfortunate on that sense, uh, because I think my
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  Speaker 4: relationship with those guys are bigger than anything else. And
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  Speaker 4: if they had an issue or problem, they should have
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  Speaker 4: just called or texted me, but they never did. So
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  Speaker 4: in my mind, it's not an issue. And, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 4: moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: It's honestly, I didn't know that there was like a
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  Speaker 2: silent treatment thing going on. That's crazy to me, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get further into it because I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure it'll resolve itself at some point. You are a
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  Speaker 2: football coach now, and we all see what's going on there.
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  Speaker 2: And we're all, whether it's a love or a hate
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  Speaker 2: reason that you're watching Michigan football, there's at least a
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  Speaker 2: curiosity with this Utah fan base about what's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen there. If you're a coach, don't you have to
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  Speaker 2: make a change at the quarterback position based on what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there's so much more involved with that situation, right?
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  Speaker 4: Like how much– we're not in those meetings. We're not
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  Speaker 4: in the game plan. We don't know exactly what is
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  Speaker 4: being taught for the most part. We can guess. And
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, in my mind, like I can kind
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  Speaker 4: of tell what is being asked or where I should
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  Speaker 4: be and this and that. But you can't– if you
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  Speaker 4: have an opinion, then you'll get killed for it. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just, you kind of just go with the flow
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  Speaker 4: in that instance. But I don't know, like the money
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  Speaker 4: involved could put a roadblock on making a change right now.
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  Speaker 4: If I, if I were them to jolt this team
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  Speaker 4: and the offense, you need to make a change. And
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not going to relieve play calling duty
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  Speaker 4: from coach back. He's, historically been a really good play caller.
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  Speaker 4: And at times, like, yeah, like, you're figuring it out.
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  Speaker 4: So are they still going to figure it out the
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  Speaker 4: next seven games with the quarterback and the situation that
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  Speaker 4: you've already seen through spring, summer, training camp, and five
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  Speaker 4: games in? Or do you make a change? And whatever
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  Speaker 4: that is, whether it's quarterback change, whether it's play calling change,
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  Speaker 4: you need to make a change for the team and
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  Speaker 4: the team dynamics because it sounds like there is definitely
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  Speaker 4: some friction and or the team is breaking up. And
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  Speaker 4: as a head coach, you have to always make decisions
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  Speaker 4: on what's best for the program and what's best for
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  Speaker 4: the team and keeping the team together and competing and
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: fighting every single Friday or Saturday night. So I believe
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: that as a head coach, a change needs to happen. Now,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: is it warranted for the quarterback? There's a lot of
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: other issues with that team and offensively from what I've
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: read and seen from the limited time I've watched them.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: So that's ultimately what Coach Witt and They got to
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: figure that out. But at the end of the day,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: they're just not very good. And we'll see if they
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: can rebound. I'd expect them to rebound with Coach Witt
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and just the lead leadership of that. But he's only
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: been there six months. He's trying to turn around a
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: culture that we built and he built and had a
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: standing for 20-plus years at Utah. People don't understand to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: build a culture and to– to instill those characteristics, it
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: takes time. And now you're struggling, having some adversity. Who's
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: going to be the expense of the head coach and
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: to have his back, right? Like, I don't know. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: don't know. It'll be interesting to see. So I think
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: changes need to happen. Long story short, any changes need
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: to happen. What those changes are, we're going to eventually
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: find out.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Eric Weddle for another minute or two. You want to
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: talk about how the San Francisco 49ers are 4-0 right now?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, let's tip our hat to the Niners every
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: week or every other day. I see another guy going
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: down though. So is that ultimately going to be the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: story of the Niners?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Don't do that. Don't bring that up. Let me just
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: enjoy this for now.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Niners, hold on. Do I need to call Lynch to
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: save the season and move forward to maybe make this
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: more than just a second round exit? Do you need
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to come get my boy Steve to change the way
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: you guys are working out so you guys are healthy
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: like the Utes did. So I don't know. Is that
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: something I need to do for your Niners, or do
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: we need to keep Steve worried that? You tell me.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I was hoping you were going to say, do I
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: need to call John Lynch and say I'll come out
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of retirement again? You know how many Eric Weddle 49ers
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: jerseys I would buy if you ever signed?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Hey, I look good in red. I'm not denying that, but... They're, hey,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: party's MVP level, even though he struggled for a lot
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: of that game against the Broncos. And I'm just waiting
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: for a team, you know, to make the Niners do
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: something that they're not good at. But, man, Shanahan, not
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: a better play caller in the NFL than him. It's
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: just when big games come around, then he tends to
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: forget how to play call or time management and those
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: types of issues, so. But that's a Niner thing. That's
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: not an Eric Lowe thing. You Niner fans have to
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: answer those questions and those types of things.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Will they win in Seattle this weekend?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Do I think they'll win in Seattle this week? I
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: don't think so. But I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I think, honestly, I think Mike McDonald in Seattle, even
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: though the Chargers end up scoring a bunch of points
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: in the third quarter, I think they'll force Purdy to
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: do things that he's not very well equipped to do,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: and that's throw outside the numbers, throw past 15, 20 yards.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I think that's when he'll pack the paint, he'll get
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: them off the spot, but Purdy's always played good, so
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: the only time he struggles is if he gets pressure
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and he has to move off the spot and has
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: to throw outside the numbers, so... Can he do that?
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: And then can Seattle score on the Niners? The Niners
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: have got one of the best teams in the league,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I think, for the most part. And so I think
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a close game, toss-up, rivalry game.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: And I can say going both ways, obviously I'll take
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: the home team because I think they're very similar in
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: defending champs.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are also 4-0, which I think, at least
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: for me, was a decent surprise.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: The Kansas City Chiefs are 4-0.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And with that, it's Niners, Vikings, Chiefs that are still
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: undefeated teams right now in the NFL. Are all three
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: of those teams for real as at least, you know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: legit playoff teams?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Or are the Vikings going to come back to earth?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think they're playoff teams. I don't necessarily think
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the Vikings at this point, seeing Kyler Murray play quarterback,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's a Super Bowl team as of
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: right now. Kansas City, obviously, because of the experience and
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the history. And the Niners, so that's three. Who was
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the fourth one? Was there four?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: No, there's three. It's Chiefs, Niners, Vikings.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the Chiefs and Niners are legit Super
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Bowl contenders. I'm not sold yet on the Vikings until
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I see better quarterback play and offense play. They're winning
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: because of their defense right now.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Is it time for the Chargers to reconsider the whole
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh thing?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Wow. Oh, I don't think they will because they're notorious
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: of hanging on head coaches for a long time. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's because continuity or they don't,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: would rather not pay two coaches at once. And so,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: but from everything I'm hearing and reading that it's just
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: dysfunctional and not how it's been the last two years
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: as Harbaugh has run that ship. So, I don't know, man.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: You look at their schedule and how are they not 0-9?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: And then you're looking at, holy smokes, total rebuild, burn
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: it up. You got the number one overall pick, potentially
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: their top three pick. Then how do you rebuild this
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: roster around Herbert? And then is Herbert the guy going forward?
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe you trade him and get a bunch of first-round
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: picks and go in a different direction. I don't know.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Those are the questions that are going to happen because–
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I don't see it turning around, and it's unfortunate.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: What would you do with that Herbert situation? Because it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: kind of a love-hate with the fan base. Even some
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: analysts are like, he's not the problem, and some are like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: he is the problem.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: What would you do with Herbert?
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I already know that he is. he's a, he's
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: a franchise quarterback. Now to what level that is, that's
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: to be determined, right? Like he's had a struggle to
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: play off, but he's shown that he can lead a franchise.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: So you don't want to like bank on some young kid.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Like I wouldn't do that. So I would continue, like,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I know they drafted the tackles over the last like
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: five years, they've drafted some, some top talent on the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: offensive line and they've just been hurt. So, you've just
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: got to remind yourself, like, hey, I'm trying to build
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: around him. They don't have any weapons on the perimeter.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: So if I have an overall pick, I'm drafting Jeremiah Smith,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: or I'm trading back to get a second first-round pick
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: or third, like three first-round picks, and I'm getting, like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: multiple receiver running back types to give Herbert and have
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: them grow together, right? So if there's the depth at
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: that receiver position or maybe tight ends– For running backs,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: if there's enough talent, high-end talent, I would– because I
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: think they're still a couple years away, so really is
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith going to make that big difference? If you
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: feel that way, then you take them. If you think
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: the depth is there, trade back, get a couple of
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: other picks, and then build your roster out around Herbert.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: So I'm keeping them, and I'm building around them.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: All right. Final prediction for Utah-Kansas before I let you go.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Uh, we're playing at home. What's the spread?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I haven't even looked. I think it's eight and a
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: half for Utah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Honestly, I think it's going to be like a 34,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: 10 type game. Maybe like a, maybe, maybe like a 28, 31, seven, uh,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I think they went by double digits. I don't think
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a 40, 50-point output from what
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I've read on their defense. And then depending on the rain,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: who knows on that. I think it's a 17 to
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: 20-point victory, 30 to 10 around that area.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I lied to you. It's 15 and a half for
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: the Utes.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Okay. I still stick with what I'm predicting.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: 68 and wet is the forecast, but they never get
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: it right in Utah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: We got crazy weather.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, dude. Have a great weekend. Good luck to
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you and your Broncos, your Rancho Bernardo Broncos. Tell the
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: family we said hi.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: You got it, brother. Love you. Love you, dude.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: That's Eric Weddle, the Utah football legend, all things college football,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: high school football, NFL football.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: You can pick his brain. On all of it.