Latest / The Sean O'Connell Show / Eric Weddle on the culture Morgan Scalley wants to establish at Utah, Conference Championship Sunday in the NFL + more
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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, what a great pleasure.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Earlier today, Morgan Scally, new head coach for the University
- 0:06Speaker 2: of Utah and of course one of the all time
- 0:09Speaker 2: great safeties in the history of the program.
- 0:11Speaker 1: How he joined us to start the show.
- 0:13Speaker 2: And now as we reach the end of the show,
- 0:15Speaker 2: another Utah football legend and my friend, Eric Weddle joins us.
- 0:19Speaker 1: He dove, Hello, welcome back.
- 0:20Speaker 3: How are you my brother? Hey, I didn't get to
- 0:25Speaker 3: hear the interviews, so I want you to recap a
- 0:27Speaker 3: little bit for me, and then maybe I can piggyback
- 0:31Speaker 3: off of some of those questions and answers and we
- 0:33Speaker 3: can like double down on this awesome interview I've heard about.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Okay, so here's what happened.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I brought him on and I was like, hey, how
- 0:40Speaker 2: come Eric Weddle has a standing job offer, but I
- 0:43Speaker 2: don't have a standing job offer with Utah Football, And no,
- 0:47Speaker 2: that's uh.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Look, it was a lot of what you would expect.
- 0:51Speaker 2: We asked him about what, you know, the identity of
- 0:53Speaker 2: his offense is going to be. He's very, very excited
- 0:56Speaker 2: about Kevin mcgiven. I asked him how he got both
- 0:59Speaker 2: quarterbacks to stay because you know, they were getting phone calls,
- 1:03Speaker 2: their agents were getting phone calls, and you know, the
- 1:06Speaker 2: culture of Utah football is alive and well with Morgan
- 1:10Speaker 2: scally at the hellmeric.
- 1:12Speaker 3: No, no question. Uh you know, I've been trying to
- 1:16Speaker 3: express that over the few weeks and you you as well.
- 1:20Speaker 3: And obviously they're still uncertainty. There's still uh the product
- 1:24Speaker 3: has to show what he's saying, which it will, but
- 1:27Speaker 3: you know, people are gonna be skeptical until otherwise. But
- 1:31Speaker 3: it's uh, it's nice to get him out there and
- 1:36Speaker 3: get these conversations going, and more people are going to
- 1:40Speaker 3: see what we all know and understand of Morgan and
- 1:44Speaker 3: his direction, his vision, his passion is really I mean,
- 1:50Speaker 3: you know, we all we all love coach with and
- 1:52Speaker 3: everyone knows that. But there are some things that Morgan's
- 1:55Speaker 3: gonna bring just from a connection standpoint that you're already
- 1:59Speaker 3: feeling around the building and to the staff or the players,
- 2:02Speaker 3: and and that's really cool to see, especially in the
- 2:05Speaker 3: dynamics of athletics in today's world.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's obviously got the charisma that we
- 2:13Speaker 2: know him for as well, which.
- 2:16Speaker 1: That's it.
- 2:16Speaker 2: That's a difference in like I don't know how concrete
- 2:19Speaker 2: of a difference it can make in recruiting and things
- 2:22Speaker 2: like that. But he is like easy to talk, too
- 2:26Speaker 2: easy to get along with. And and Kyle Whittingham is
- 2:28Speaker 2: one of those guys that you kind of had to
- 2:30Speaker 2: You had to grow on him a little bit and
- 2:32Speaker 2: he had to grow on you from his communication style.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Morgan could Morgan could strike up a conversation with a
- 2:38Speaker 2: fire hydrant, you know what I mean. So I don't
- 2:41Speaker 2: know what that's going to do from a football standpoint,
- 2:44Speaker 2: but it's a heck of a treat when you're a
- 2:46Speaker 2: media guy, I'll tell.
- 2:46Speaker 1: You that.
- 2:48Speaker 3: It'll it'll pay dividends. I can promise you that because players,
- 2:53Speaker 3: when they feel connected, they feel a relationship that's bigger
- 2:57Speaker 3: than football. They're they're gonna they're gonna do and buy
- 3:02Speaker 3: in to what you want them to do quicker and
- 3:06Speaker 3: at a at a higher clip. So it's gonna pay dividends.
- 3:11Speaker 3: And uh, you know what was interesting, I saw you
- 3:14Speaker 3: know on Twitter that you know, some people comment on
- 3:17Speaker 3: the interview, and I saw one that he he said
- 3:20Speaker 3: like since he hadn't been anywhere else, the relationships and
- 3:24Speaker 3: you know, the connection that you hold on a second
- 3:32Speaker 3: trying to open the gate to my high school. Here,
- 3:36Speaker 3: there we go.
- 3:36Speaker 1: He's the head coach. Let him in, Rancho Bernardo.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Seriously, I gotta put in some code. Let me in
- 3:42Speaker 3: the gate so I can park anyway. I thought it
- 3:45Speaker 3: was interesting, and I'm sure he didn't go into specifics,
- 3:48Speaker 3: but every off season it was really cool for me
- 3:51Speaker 3: to hear this is other schools like the Oklahoma's, the Clemson's,
- 3:59Speaker 3: the big time programs when they went out to get better,
- 4:04Speaker 3: to improve, to see other places. Guess where they went.
- 4:08Speaker 3: They went to Utah to see Morgan and his defense
- 4:10Speaker 3: and his philosophy and stuff like that. And what do
- 4:12Speaker 3: you think Morgan did over the last decade plus. He's
- 4:17Speaker 3: going out and evaluating and learning and growing and leadership
- 4:21Speaker 3: and program building. So it was awesome to hear, like
- 4:25Speaker 3: a little tidbit of someone wrote that his explanation of
- 4:29Speaker 3: how he's been working for fifteen years on being the
- 4:33Speaker 3: head coach and building those relationships because he knew one
- 4:37Speaker 3: day he'd be a head coach.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Well, I actually did ask him about that because I
- 4:42Speaker 2: wanted to give him the opportunity to kind of explain that.
- 4:45Speaker 2: How you know, on paper, it can be a negative
- 4:51Speaker 2: if you've been in one place for your whole career
- 4:52Speaker 2: and you don't have the same spider web of network
- 4:56Speaker 2: and things like that. And he told a great story
- 4:58Speaker 2: about how his first coaches can or one of his
- 5:00Speaker 2: first coach's conventions. Urban Meyer actually said, Hey, Morgan, you
- 5:04Speaker 2: got to get out from under the shadow and you
- 5:06Speaker 2: got to get out in the country so people know
- 5:08Speaker 2: who you are. And it would be the easiest thing
- 5:12Speaker 2: to do would be to take the advice of your
- 5:15Speaker 2: one time head coach who led you to the highest
- 5:18Speaker 2: peak of your college football career.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You'd be like, yeah, I'll do whatever this guy says.
- 5:23Speaker 2: But Morgan was actually a skeptic of that, even though
- 5:26Speaker 2: it was urban Meyer who told him and said, I
- 5:28Speaker 2: don't actually think that's necessary as long as I do
- 5:31Speaker 2: the work. And so he did the work and he
- 5:34Speaker 2: stayed at Utah, But like you said, and like he said,
- 5:38Speaker 2: he was able to go out and make those connections.
- 5:40Speaker 2: And look, I think that the most obvious place that
- 5:44Speaker 2: we're seeing We're going to see that in this first
- 5:48Speaker 2: seasons as a head coach is the Kevin mcgiven higher
- 5:52Speaker 2: because they've never worked together, but they have some common connections.
- 5:56Speaker 2: And then coach Brekterfield, the defensive ends coach that he
- 5:58Speaker 2: brought in that the connections or even looser, that's a
- 6:02Speaker 2: very very important position in this defense. You know it
- 6:04Speaker 2: better than me. And that's just two examples of how
- 6:07Speaker 2: that work is going to pay off for this Utah
- 6:10Speaker 2: football team.
- 6:12Speaker 3: No questions. And you know, as a coach, you're either
- 6:16Speaker 3: learning growing or you're getting left behind. And that's on
- 6:21Speaker 3: every level from a coaching standpoint. How you teach, how
- 6:25Speaker 3: you motivate, how you inspire the fundamentals. There's there's so
- 6:28Speaker 3: many different ways to do things nowadays, right, and I
- 6:33Speaker 3: think some in the grand scheme, like there's a certain standard,
- 6:36Speaker 3: there's rules like within the defense, within the offense, but
- 6:40Speaker 3: there's different ways to practice, there's different ways to schedules,
- 6:43Speaker 3: there's there's different ways to work out what Let's find
- 6:46Speaker 3: the best right, the best way to do it that
- 6:49Speaker 3: makes sense, and let's go execute it with the with
- 6:52Speaker 3: the vision and the goals in mind. And I and
- 6:55Speaker 3: I seeing that and being like a little fly on
- 7:00Speaker 3: the wall in some of those interactions with the interviews
- 7:04Speaker 3: and just getting my opinion on stuff was really cool
- 7:07Speaker 3: because I know he's doing it. The right way. I
- 7:09Speaker 3: know what he's trying to build for the future is so,
- 7:15Speaker 3: in my opinion, the right way to do it, and
- 7:17Speaker 3: so it's easy to get behind him and see what
- 7:21Speaker 3: it's going to be, because I think it's going to
- 7:22Speaker 3: be something special in the years to come.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I also asked him how he knew.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Like a Jordan Gross who doesn't have a wealth of
- 7:29Speaker 2: coaching experience, I mean, from a coaching standpoint, he's underqualified
- 7:34Speaker 2: to be the offensive line coach at a place like
- 7:37Speaker 2: Utah right now, but obviously from a playing and football
- 7:41Speaker 2: experience and sort of real perspective, he's far from being underqualified.
- 7:46Speaker 1: He just doesn't have the level of experience.
- 7:47Speaker 2: And I asked him how he knew, and he was like, oh,
- 7:50Speaker 2: come on, he's the smartest guy in every room, and
- 7:52Speaker 2: his development, his own growth as a player, et cetera,
- 7:54Speaker 2: et cetera. Like you played with a bunch of different dudes,
- 7:59Speaker 2: and if I asked him any of them, I'd say,
- 8:01Speaker 2: who did who did you play with?
- 8:02Speaker 1: Who you know could be a great coach?
- 8:04Speaker 2: Your name comes up from every one of those guys,
- 8:07Speaker 2: the guys that you played with that you know will
- 8:10Speaker 2: be great coaches, or you knew if they already got
- 8:13Speaker 2: jumped into coaching, would be great coaches just by how
- 8:15Speaker 2: they played handled the job of a player.
- 8:22Speaker 3: Uh, you know, Philip obviously comes to mind. Nick Hardwick,
- 8:25Speaker 3: who's coaching with the Charges right now as an assistant
- 8:27Speaker 3: online coach. I think Andrew Whitworth would be an incredible coach,
- 8:32Speaker 3: but I think he could be an even better GM
- 8:34Speaker 3: one day. And we've talked about, you know, him being
- 8:38Speaker 3: the league guy and you and I be as little
- 8:39Speaker 3: runners and coffeegoers if he needs it.
- 8:43Speaker 4: But uh, you.
- 8:44Speaker 3: Know, hey, you know a lot of a lot of
- 8:46Speaker 3: people I think, like you would get those same sentiments
- 8:52Speaker 3: if Morgan hired me on the staff. Yeah, and then
- 8:54Speaker 3: would would anyone with a logical brain not say he's
- 8:59Speaker 3: gonna be and would be and will be one of
- 9:02Speaker 3: the best secondary coaches in the entire world. So whether
- 9:06Speaker 3: I had college coaching experience or not, Like, but that's
- 9:10Speaker 3: that's for others to talk about. But within the building,
- 9:13Speaker 3: you just know, like when you're talking ball, you're talking scheme,
- 9:15Speaker 3: you're talking techniques, fundamentals, Like some people have it who
- 9:19Speaker 3: are ex players, some people don't. And that's okay. Coaching
- 9:23Speaker 3: is not for everybody. Can you relay? Can you teach
- 9:26Speaker 3: what made you a good professional to younger generations and
- 9:30Speaker 3: get them to try to do what you do. It's
- 9:34Speaker 3: not easy, but it can be done. And on the
- 9:36Speaker 3: flip side, I would say anyone that's the head coach
- 9:39Speaker 3: in high school is probably more qualified than anyone to
- 9:44Speaker 3: coach college or the NFL because we're getting guys to
- 9:47Speaker 3: do things that have no business playing football. So if
- 9:51Speaker 3: we can do that, imagine what we could do with
- 9:54Speaker 3: really talents of guys who are motivated that want to
- 9:57Speaker 3: be the best. So I think it's kind I have
- 10:00Speaker 3: a funny question for him. Yeah, he's going to learn
- 10:03Speaker 3: to recruit and the dynamics of that with the parents
- 10:07Speaker 3: and the runners and the agents and this and that,
- 10:10Speaker 3: like yeah, like okay, everyone has to change with that
- 10:12Speaker 3: because it wasn't the same five years ago. So I
- 10:15Speaker 3: was pumped when he hired him. I'm I think he's
- 10:19Speaker 3: a rock star and we're lucky to have him.
- 10:22Speaker 2: All Right, we got to talk a little NFL here.
- 10:24Speaker 2: We're down to AFC and NFC championship games.
- 10:28Speaker 3: I'm sure your Niners are still in it, right?
- 10:30Speaker 1: Why do you do this?
- 10:32Speaker 4: What?
- 10:33Speaker 1: There's no reason I.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Was able to watch the games last week.
- 10:37Speaker 5: There's no reason for you to come on my show
- 10:42Speaker 5: and try to hurt me like this, all right, that's
- 10:45Speaker 5: just me.
- 10:51Speaker 3: So they wonder they lost, Like, can you recap that
- 10:54Speaker 3: game for me real quick?
- 10:57Speaker 1: They did not win the game, Eric, You know it
- 11:01Speaker 1: and I know it. It was It was.
- 11:03Speaker 6: One of the worst performance as a fan of the Niners. Okay,
- 11:08Speaker 6: honest question, what are your what is your opinion on
- 11:12Speaker 6: how the IU situation was supposedly handled not handled?
- 11:18Speaker 3: And how disgruntled and frustrated was Kyle Shanahan and John
- 11:22Speaker 3: Lynch trying to comprehend what it happened with you? Can
- 11:27Speaker 3: you just can you just chime in on that?
- 11:28Speaker 2: Well you know more, you know more about it than
- 11:32Speaker 2: I because you you could talk to these actual people
- 11:35Speaker 2: that are involved in this type of thing. But look,
- 11:37Speaker 2: I'm of the opinion and I know that this is
- 11:39Speaker 2: an outdated sort of mentality, especially when you're talking about
- 11:43Speaker 2: pro athletes and wide receivers most likely in particular. But like,
- 11:49Speaker 2: I don't want diva type players, no matter how talented
- 11:52Speaker 2: they are. And he strikes me as a guy who
- 11:56Speaker 2: thought as soon as he had two good seasons in
- 11:59Speaker 2: the NFL deserve to have a red carpet rolled out
- 12:02Speaker 2: for him in every situation. I don't know how you
- 12:04Speaker 2: coexist with that mentality when you have fifty two other
- 12:07Speaker 2: guys on the roster that deserve that respect, that deserved
- 12:11Speaker 2: the money, that deserve a couple of targets and game
- 12:13Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. He just felt like an awful
- 12:16Speaker 2: fit for an organization that that feels kind of team first.
- 12:19Speaker 1: But what's your assessment of it?
- 12:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm with you on all that. I
- 12:25Speaker 3: think you can get by with those types if your
- 12:29Speaker 3: leadership is really strong and your players, your older leader
- 12:34Speaker 3: players keep that guy in check, right, Like you know,
- 12:38Speaker 3: receivers are you kind of want them selfish? They're gonna
- 12:42Speaker 3: be that way. That's okay, But you gotta you gotta
- 12:45Speaker 3: be you gotta somewhat at the end of the day,
- 12:48Speaker 3: be team first at the end of the day, right,
- 12:49Speaker 3: And so ultimately, I'm I always I just go back
- 12:54Speaker 3: to the fact that they should never extended them, they
- 12:56Speaker 3: should have traded them, and they were on the brink
- 12:58Speaker 3: of it, and Kyle sham Hand at the last second.
- 13:01Speaker 3: From what I've read, you know, like they got a
- 13:04Speaker 3: deal done and they were pumped about it. But man,
- 13:07Speaker 3: this all they could have got a couple first round picks,
- 13:09Speaker 3: maybe at least one, and would have been got rid
- 13:12Speaker 3: of the headache. So that makes me think that it
- 13:14Speaker 3: wasn't always bad, Like I think he was maybe a
- 13:18Speaker 3: good team guy and then it just kind of went
- 13:21Speaker 3: awry with the injury. And you know, I don't know,
- 13:25Speaker 3: and I really don't care at the end of the
- 13:27Speaker 3: day because they're they're the Niners and they lost. So
- 13:31Speaker 3: let's just talk about the rams.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Wait before we before we move on, did you like
- 13:38Speaker 2: the conspiracy theory of the Niners practice facility being too
- 13:42Speaker 2: close to that electric substation and stuff? How how prone
- 13:46Speaker 2: to these types of things are NFL guys, Like if
- 13:49Speaker 2: if you're because it's never my fault. If I get
- 13:53Speaker 2: injured and I didn't do anything wrong, if I got injured,
- 13:55Speaker 2: and I would definitely be like, it's because of that
- 13:58Speaker 2: that power station. You guys ruined it for me. Like
- 14:01Speaker 2: they're actually doing an investigation on this.
- 14:03Speaker 4: Where do you stand, Well, uh, you know, I think injuries,
- 14:13Speaker 4: You know there is an uptick at the Niners like
- 14:16Speaker 4: that that's not like not true.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Right, like over the last few years. I think it's
- 14:23Speaker 3: the marijuana, the smoking, and the bad eating and staying
- 14:27Speaker 3: up late playing video games and not working out like
- 14:30Speaker 3: they used to. I think that's the real reason with injuries.
- 14:33Speaker 3: But I'll be the old head and they'll be like,
- 14:36Speaker 3: you're dumb because I know I didn't like to do
- 14:39Speaker 3: yoga and I don't like to do you know, stretch
- 14:42Speaker 3: for thirty minutes for for practice and then do another
- 14:45Speaker 3: fifteen minute dynamic and then also the crap. It's like, guys,
- 14:49Speaker 3: we're wasting like so much time, Like let's just go
- 14:53Speaker 3: work out, get strong, let's prep practice for five eight
- 14:57Speaker 3: minutes and let's get to work. But these guys that
- 15:02Speaker 3: they got to do all this other craps. So I
- 15:04Speaker 3: don't know. I do know, Like the EMS stuff is
- 15:08Speaker 3: there is some some what's the word information like data
- 15:14Speaker 3: that says when you're around it. This is like the
- 15:16Speaker 3: same thing with Bluetooth. You shouldn't have listened to your
- 15:19Speaker 3: headphones with Bluetooth more than an hour or two hours,
- 15:21Speaker 3: but we all do it. So I mean, I don't know,
- 15:24Speaker 3: there's so much that's gonna hurt us in the long run,
- 15:28Speaker 3: but it's good that they're trying to see it out
- 15:31Speaker 3: if it's true or not. And I don't know how
- 15:33Speaker 3: they're gonna ever prove it one way or the other.
- 15:36Speaker 3: But if it is affecting the guys, then they should
- 15:39Speaker 3: move their facility.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Eric weddles Ore, I guess for a few more minutes
- 15:43Speaker 2: here on the Sean O'Connell Show. More importantly, the matchups
- 15:47Speaker 2: for a championship weekend and your Rams. I'm calling them
- 15:51Speaker 2: your Rams because that's where you won a Super Bowl.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Your Rams are in it.
- 15:55Speaker 3: And yeah, baby, I mean it was.
- 16:00Speaker 2: An It was crazy how we saw we saw in
- 16:04Speaker 2: the two games that played out so similarly. Overtime, situation, turnover,
- 16:09Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. Uh, catch no catch all that.
- 16:13Speaker 2: But how confident are you that the Rams are on
- 16:16Speaker 2: their way to the Super Bowl?
- 16:18Speaker 3: Well, I mean confidence is always Uh, I'm always confident, right,
- 16:31Speaker 3: but this is this is a huge challenge. Uh, They're
- 16:35Speaker 3: they're rested. They blew out a no name team in
- 16:40Speaker 3: the divisional round, so you know it's they're gonna be
- 16:44Speaker 3: coming in. They had that big comeback a few weeks back.
- 16:49Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we got Stafford and
- 16:51Speaker 3: we got Sean, and we have the experience in big games.
- 16:56Speaker 3: They're Super Bowl champions. You gotta you gotta think that
- 17:01Speaker 3: amounts for something. Now does it overcome how good Seattle
- 17:06Speaker 3: is across the board? I'm not sure Mike is up
- 17:11Speaker 3: for Coach of the Year. Everyone knows how much I
- 17:14Speaker 3: respect and love him. I still talk to him. The
- 17:18Speaker 3: offense runs through the running game. If they shut down,
- 17:21Speaker 3: not shut down. If they limit first and second down
- 17:23Speaker 3: yardage and make Sam throw the ball twenty five times
- 17:26Speaker 3: or more, I think they win the game. I really do.
- 17:30Speaker 3: And I think offensively for the Rams they'll have success.
- 17:33Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be the four hundred and fifty
- 17:36Speaker 3: yards thirty eight points or whatever they did a few
- 17:38Speaker 3: weeks back. I think it's going to be much more
- 17:40Speaker 3: difficult to move the ball. But at the end of
- 17:43Speaker 3: the day and evenly matched teams, you go with the
- 17:46Speaker 3: best quarterback and that Stafford.
- 17:52Speaker 2: The interception that everyone is debating for me on the
- 17:56Speaker 2: Brandy Cooks catch was an interception. I imagine you usually
- 18:01Speaker 2: air on the side of the defensive back. But you
- 18:03Speaker 2: tell me was that a pick or a catch?
- 18:08Speaker 3: Anyone that knows the rule and actually like looks at
- 18:10Speaker 3: the rule and understands what they're going off of it.
- 18:14Speaker 3: It's an interception all day, every day, and it's it's
- 18:18Speaker 3: kind of odd to see the amount of people that
- 18:20Speaker 3: are actually football supposed experts saying it's a catch, and
- 18:26Speaker 3: you know, it's just unfortunate, Like you're in that situation,
- 18:31Speaker 3: you're jumping, you're coming down. You didn't make a football moose.
- 18:34Speaker 3: You got to you gotta survive the ground, and the
- 18:36Speaker 3: ground means getting the ball taken away as you're rolling
- 18:40Speaker 3: through the ground. So don't get the ball taken away.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Don't turn the ball over five times, Josh Allen, don't
- 18:47Speaker 3: do dumb things before half to give up a field goal.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Like so many people are up on arms. I just dated,
- 18:54Speaker 3: I just go back. There are a few instances, like
- 18:56Speaker 3: you go to the Rams game and it was a
- 18:58Speaker 3: very similar situation. I don't know if you watch the
- 19:00Speaker 3: game and saw Devonte Adams catch that ball over the.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Middle, yes, and thy game, fourth quarter, that.
- 19:07Speaker 3: THI game, et cetera, and it was pretty much the
- 19:10Speaker 3: same situation. But the refs and the way they looked
- 19:14Speaker 3: at that play is he got two feet down and
- 19:16Speaker 3: made a football move. Quotation marks like In my mind,
- 19:21Speaker 3: I thought it was the same as the Bills won.
- 19:23Speaker 3: I did an interception.
- 19:24Speaker 2: I thought that the Bears should have got the ball there,
- 19:27Speaker 2: and that that the Bills Broncos won was the correct call.
- 19:31Speaker 3: Yes, and so, but I also understand what they saw,
- 19:35Speaker 3: and they deemed that is a football move. And then
- 19:38Speaker 3: his knee went down, So if that goes by that rule,
- 19:42Speaker 3: it's a catch and he's down by his knee and
- 19:44Speaker 3: then on the coax one, that's what they said. So
- 19:47Speaker 3: again it goes back to the whole des Bryant catch
- 19:51Speaker 3: against Green Bay. You know, like this is when it
- 19:53Speaker 3: all started, because that should have been a catch and
- 19:57Speaker 3: Dallas maybe in the NFC Championship game, but they're not.
- 20:00Speaker 3: And even to this day, odd years later, we still
- 20:04Speaker 3: have these issues and until the Competition Committee and all
- 20:10Speaker 3: this other craft stop changing the rules and get back
- 20:13Speaker 3: to what the game was twenty years ago. It was
- 20:16Speaker 3: much more pure and much more of a sound rules
- 20:22Speaker 3: and font, you know, like a playing field that everyone
- 20:24Speaker 3: knew what's the catch, what's not, what's a what's the
- 20:27Speaker 3: rough in the pass or what's not? Can we hit someone?
- 20:29Speaker 3: Can we not? Can we hit a guy up top?
- 20:31Speaker 3: And not get kicked out or do we blow out
- 20:34Speaker 3: people's knees like that's what it's turned into. And you know,
- 20:37Speaker 3: but I'm sure they love it because we're talking about
- 20:40Speaker 3: it and it's drama. And again, at the end of
- 20:42Speaker 3: the day, it's it's an entertainment and they're trying to
- 20:46Speaker 3: trying to get eyes watching the entertainment.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Yeah, you're probably right, we're probably playing right into it
- 20:51Speaker 2: by having these debates. All right, So before we let
- 20:54Speaker 2: you go, the super Bowl matchup when we talked this
- 20:56Speaker 2: time next week is going to be who.
- 21:00Speaker 3: It's going to be Rams Patriots rematch a few years back,
- 21:06Speaker 3: and Sean gets his his get back on one of
- 21:10Speaker 3: his you know what, he said, one of his lowest
- 21:12Speaker 3: moments as a coach in the Super Bowl getting shut
- 21:14Speaker 3: down by a Belichick and gets his uh, gets his
- 21:18Speaker 3: revenge in that. So Rams super Bowl champs.
- 21:21Speaker 1: What a shocking pick from Eric Weddle.
- 21:26Speaker 3: Turkey.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Oh great, talking to you as always. Thanks for joining us, dude.
- 21:32Speaker 3: You got love you love you, dude.
- 21:34Speaker 1: That's Eric Weddle, you tough football legend.