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Bill Riley reacts to Utah's big win over Idaho in the season opener, Best and worst parts of the win + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the voice of the Utes, Bill Riley. This
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  Speaker 1: Bill Riley, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Doing good, Sean. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Doing okay. The pipes got nice and warm last night.
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  Speaker 2: You had to call, what, nine touchdowns?
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  Speaker 4: Nine touchdowns, a field goal, an interception, fumble recovery, some
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  Speaker 4: weird decisions by referees.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, lots of stuff last night.
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  Speaker 1: Best thing about that first game for you in this
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  Speaker 1: Utah football team? No major injuries, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line looked pretty good, and I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of weapons that Kevin McGiven has at his disposal
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  Speaker 1: for that offense, too.
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  Speaker 4: I said this after the game. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: this makes any sense on the postgame show. Utah showed
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  Speaker 4: a lot without showing a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There were– it was creative enough– to keep you guessing
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  Speaker 1: and make you wonder without going, I think all the
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  Speaker 1: way into the old magic bag.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't have to go deep in the bag, but
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  Speaker 4: just formationally, they just showed so many different looks and
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  Speaker 4: so many different formations. And honestly, there are seven, eight,
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  Speaker 4: nine different guys on any given, you know, series that
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  Speaker 4: could touch the ball and be a dangerous weapon. So I,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know if that made sense. I said it,
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  Speaker 4: and Zach Moss kind of got it. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of made sense. So I think that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I think they showed a lot without showing a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought it was a good first game. They
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  Speaker 4: gave up the one drive where they made that one
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  Speaker 4: guy look like Mike Allstott running back from Idaho. That's
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  Speaker 4: a reference for some of you that are old enough
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  Speaker 4: to remember Mike Allstott.
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  Speaker 1: Put some respect on the name of Hayden Kincheloe.
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  Speaker 4: Kincheloe, he just looked like a bowling ball that Utah
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  Speaker 4: couldn't tackle on a couple of plays. But outside of that,
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was a pretty good effort.
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  Speaker 3: What about you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, similar to what you're saying, you did
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  Speaker 1: what you were supposed to do against a Big Sky
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  Speaker 1: football team with a couple of moments of mental errors
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  Speaker 1: and some lack of execution. Didn't finish a play on
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  Speaker 1: that– Tillman blitz. That should have been a big negative
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  Speaker 1: for the offense and ended up being a 44 yard game.
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  Speaker 1: Like you got to clean up those types of things,
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  Speaker 1: but I also want to be reasonable and remember that
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  Speaker 1: this is the first game of the season. And this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, first real action for some of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: not for Tillman, but for some of these guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: their first action, either in a Utah uniform or the
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  Speaker 1: first real action period.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to allow for a few growing pains here.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we came in all off season long
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  Speaker 1: as soon as, As soon as last season ended, one
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  Speaker 1: of the major questions was, well, what's the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: going to look like?
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  Speaker 2: And they passed the test. This is a big win.
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  Speaker 2: You kept Devin upright.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part. It wasn't their best, I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: but it was good enough. And I wonder how quickly
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  Speaker 1: the improvement can come and will come and how much
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  Speaker 1: of it will have to do with still getting the
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  Speaker 1: right mix because they played a lot of combinations last night.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Keith Olsen didn't play last night. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a key part of what they do. And
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  Speaker 4: they were mixing and matching some guys in some different spots.
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  Speaker 4: When you tally 633 yards, the most yards you've put
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  Speaker 4: up in 16 years.
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  Speaker 4: That's, you know, that's a good number. And they've played
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  Speaker 4: some teams and put up some numbers. I think the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line, honestly, you know, is going to be a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of a work in progress for a few games,
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  Speaker 4: even if they settle on those five guys, just because
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  Speaker 4: you're getting reps and getting used to playing next to
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  Speaker 4: each other in game situations. Practice situation's great, but doing
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  Speaker 4: it in game situations against another team's different. So, I
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  Speaker 4: thought they were good last night. I thought they did
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  Speaker 4: what they wanted to do. Devin Vampire didn't get sacked.
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  Speaker 4: Bird Ficklin didn't get sacked. They ran the ball mostly.
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  Speaker 4: But they did what they should have done against an
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  Speaker 4: Idaho 1AA team. Now next week when Arkansas comes rolling
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  Speaker 4: in with some SEC athletes and some good players, it'll
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  Speaker 4: be a bigger test. But I thought for game number one,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't answer all the questions, Sean, but they answered
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the questions.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think, because we got to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, as you already referenced, and there's weapons all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Do you think anybody surprised even the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff a little bit? Like LaMarcus Bell, did he
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  Speaker 1: earn himself some more run against Arkansas and or Utah
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  Speaker 1: State by what he did last night? Or is it
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  Speaker 1: going to be compartmentalized because this coaching staff knows... who
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  Speaker 1: he was going up against at what point in the
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  Speaker 1: game he was being asked to do it and credit
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  Speaker 1: to him because he took advantage of his opportunities. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, great things from him, great things from Steve Chavez, Soto,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the guys who maybe we haven't been
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  Speaker 1: talking about a ton in the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that he jumps three spots on
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  Speaker 4: the depth chart, but I mean, they like LaMarcus Bell.
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  Speaker 4: This guy was the 6A player of the year in
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  Speaker 4: the state of Oregon two years ago. This guy, 25 touchdowns, 1,500 yards,
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  Speaker 4: number two recruit out of Oregon. So he's a really
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  Speaker 4: good player, true freshman. I think what he does is
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  Speaker 4: he and Matiaki Helu are now probably battling for that
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  Speaker 4: fourth spot a little bit. You know, I think that
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  Speaker 4: effort last night, although Helu was good, too. He had
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  Speaker 4: three carries for 25 yards. I don't think you're supplanting
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  Speaker 4: Wayshawn Parker, Daniel Bray, or Chavez Soto. But I think
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  Speaker 4: what you've done is you've shown you can do it
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  Speaker 4: in the game. And I think that if something happens,
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  Speaker 4: I think now, you know, not that they don't trust him,
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  Speaker 4: but I think it gives the coaching staff a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more trust to have seen him do it in
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 1: Colton Swan calling his first defensive game in for the
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  Speaker 1: university of Utah. And there's a couple of schools of
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  Speaker 1: thought from both the offensive and defensive side of things.
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  Speaker 1: You can play pretty vanilla. You can just tell your guys,
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  Speaker 1: let's see what you can do. Let's see what you've got.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to physically outmatch these individuals. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: do our base defense all game. We're did not take
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  Speaker 1: that approach. He went out there and he ran a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stunts. He was blitzing like crazy. He was
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  Speaker 1: rotating a bunch of different guys. I was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit surprised at how much we saw of that creativity
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  Speaker 1: from the defense. Where did you think that was going
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  Speaker 1: to play out?
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  Speaker 4: I was a little surprised, too. The one thing I
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  Speaker 4: would say is I think Utah, for all that aggressiveness,
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  Speaker 4: I would have liked to have seen a couple of
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  Speaker 4: more plays made. You know, like you mentioned the Tillman
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  Speaker 4: play where that could have been like a 25-yard sack
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  Speaker 4: for a loss. There was one play, you know, there
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  Speaker 4: were a couple of plays that might have been turnover-worthy
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  Speaker 4: type plays, but I like the aggression from Colton Swan.
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  Speaker 3: I do. I like that. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 3: going to.
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  Speaker 4: Be every game in game out maybe he just wanted
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  Speaker 4: to cut these guys loose because they've been a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more vanilla in fall camp and given an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to do some things so you know i like try
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  Speaker 4: but trey reynolds was really really active last night i
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  Speaker 4: thought you know defensive end ethan day had a nice
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  Speaker 4: night last night rabbit evans who's back in healthy again
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  Speaker 4: i thought he had a nice night last night so
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  Speaker 4: i thought there were some guys that really popped last
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  Speaker 4: night but i'm never going to be upset when a
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  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator decides he wants to get after and be
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  Speaker 4: aggressive It's.
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  Speaker 1: Fun to see the stunts also give you a little
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to see like what, when you put a young
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  Speaker 1: player like a Carson Kalfusi in the right situation and
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  Speaker 1: allow him to use what God gave him, the results
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  Speaker 1: of some of that, you're like, okay, if you can
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  Speaker 1: get more of that from Kalfusi, now we're cooking with
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  Speaker 1: gas here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mention Carson, but he's a guy when I
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  Speaker 4: talked to Luther Ellis this summer, I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 4: a chance to be that next great Utah interior defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a sophomore. He comes from that Kofusi bloodline.
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  Speaker 4: The Kofusis just keep coming in Utah and coming and coming,
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  Speaker 4: and they're always hard workers. Carson's got a chance, I think,
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  Speaker 4: to be really special. And he flashed that a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times last night, got the quarterback sack for Utah.
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  Speaker 4: So I think they, I think they're still kind of
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  Speaker 4: figuring out with some of the new guys, the rotations.
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  Speaker 4: I think the one guy they don't need to figure
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  Speaker 4: out is Carson Kapusi because I think, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: was locked in as one of the starters last night
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  Speaker 4: and I don't think he did anything but reaffirm that.
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  Speaker 1: As long as we're talking about legendary names and, and
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  Speaker 1: bloodlines here in the state of Utah, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to football, uh, I did a disservice to Elijah Ellis
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  Speaker 1: in this preseason, not talking about him enough. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the field from the first defensive snap all the way
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  Speaker 1: deep into the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: And it's clear that they want to use him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He has that kind of tweener size versatility that obviously
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  Speaker 1: his brothers have possessed both in college football and And
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, they're going to use him to rush
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  Speaker 1: the passer every now and again. He's still listed officially
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  Speaker 1: as a linebacker rather than a defensive end. What did
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  Speaker 1: you think of Elijah Ellis, his performance, and also the
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  Speaker 1: way they want.
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  Speaker 2: To use him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think they pie he pie. a little bit
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  Speaker 4: at the end of last year. I saw him in
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  Speaker 4: fall camp. He looked good again. And I think kind
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  Speaker 4: of the same way we talk about a guy like
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  Speaker 4: Hunter Andrews as a weapon on offense, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of how you have to talk about Hunter or
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  Speaker 4: Elijah Ellis on defense, because you can move him around
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  Speaker 4: because of his athleticism and versatility. I mean, you've got
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  Speaker 4: three really good linebackers in Polu and Reynolds and Hall.
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  Speaker 4: He can play linebacker, but I think because of his speed,
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  Speaker 4: his athleticism, and I think everybody named Ellis has a
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  Speaker 4: nose for the ball. I think you can line him
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  Speaker 4: up on the edge and just say, go after it.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's that that weapon, Jackson, Benny's kind of
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  Speaker 4: one of those guys too. You can line Jackson, Benny up.
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  Speaker 4: If you told Benny to give you a couple of
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  Speaker 4: reps of defensive tackle, he'd probably give you a couple
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  Speaker 4: of good reps. So I think Ellis's role is only
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  Speaker 4: going to grow as this year goes along. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't know where he's going to end up or if
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  Speaker 4: he's just going to be one of those chess pieces that,
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  Speaker 4: that Colton Swan likes to move around quite a bit,
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  Speaker 4: because I don't know that there's a defined.
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  Speaker 3: Position for him.
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  Speaker 4: I think we just, he's one of those guys you
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  Speaker 4: just refer to as a ball player, right?
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  Speaker 1: Football player is the ultimate compliment you can get from
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  Speaker 1: a coach when you get to a certain level and
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  Speaker 1: they tell you, oh, he's just a football player. That's
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  Speaker 1: them saying you're the king of.
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  Speaker 2: The world, effectively.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly right. So, you know, I thought it was
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  Speaker 4: a good night. You know, I thought, you know, Special
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  Speaker 4: teams were pretty good. I think Utah may have caught
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  Speaker 4: a break.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen a definitive angle on that punt return.
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  Speaker 4: But then, you know, then Monica Valio comes back and
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  Speaker 4: makes amends and gets a 25-yard return. Kicking game looked good.
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  Speaker 4: They only punted once last night. So, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: an opening game. And you check the boxes. I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to see the line of scrimmages be good.
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  Speaker 3: They were. I wanted to see them get out of
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  Speaker 3: there healthy. They did.
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  Speaker 4: I think it checks a lot of boxes, and now
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  Speaker 4: you've got a couple of extra days. To quote my
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  Speaker 4: old friend Larry Kristowiak, he used to love to say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: the price of poker goes up, and it will next
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  Speaker 4: week because an SEC team comes in next week, and
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  Speaker 4: they're going to have better athletes across the board. Coming
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  Speaker 4: off an 0-10, 10 straight losses, they're probably not going
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  Speaker 4: to lose tomorrow to Northern Alabama. But it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be an interesting adjustment for Utah to go from a
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  Speaker 4: 1AA middle-of-the-pack program to an SEC program that's got great athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Riley, our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show,
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  Speaker 1: talking all things Utah football. With that in mind, let's
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  Speaker 1: get a little nitpicky on this first Utah performance because
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't all pretty, right? There were some things that
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to see cleaned up. If you're prioritizing, if
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  Speaker 1: you're in the film room with Morgan Scali and his
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  Speaker 1: staff today, Where do you think that primary focus is?
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  Speaker 1: What is job number one when it comes to fixing
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  Speaker 1: the few things that did go wrong in the Idaho game?
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  Speaker 4: I think to me it's making the plays when they're there, Sean.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the Tillman sack. Make that play. You can
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  Speaker 4: get away with that in Idaho, but if you have
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  Speaker 4: that opportunity against Arkansas or Colorado or Houston or BYU,
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  Speaker 4: those are plays you've.
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  Speaker 3: Got to make. So make the plays when they're there.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Devin Dampier had a really efficient night last night.
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  Speaker 3: He threw two balls off.
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  Speaker 4: Of his back foot that might have been if he
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  Speaker 4: was able to step into him a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns to Braden Pagan. I think the other one was
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  Speaker 4: to Ricky Johnson, maybe. Anyway, I just thought they left
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  Speaker 4: some plays out there, and that's going to happen in
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  Speaker 4: a first game. But if I'm out there, I might
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  Speaker 4: be circling those or bringing those up and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: if we make this play, yeah, we're going to score
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  Speaker 4: more points, but these are plays we have to make
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  Speaker 4: against other opponents. Um, just trying to think of some,
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  Speaker 4: some other stuff, you know, probably that one drive that
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  Speaker 4: Idaho had, that was one Matt Morgan mentioned that the
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  Speaker 4: post game show too, you know, you don't want to
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  Speaker 4: give up a 13 play 75 or whatever it was
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  Speaker 4: yard drive. And, you know, you made that running back
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  Speaker 4: look pretty good last night. You'd probably like to clean
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  Speaker 4: that up a little bit too.
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  Speaker 3: What about you? Where, where would you go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, we're nitpicking.
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  Speaker 1: I was happy to see Colton Swan show us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of his personal flavor, but I also wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see him test his guys a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: just be like, all right, four-man rush.
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  Speaker 2: Go get that quarterback. Create some pressure. Win your battle.
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  Speaker 1: Idaho's got decent amount of experience on their offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: So they get, they get some credit here as well.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, those are scholarship guys too. But if
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  Speaker 1: Utah football is going to be the team, I think
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  Speaker 1: they can be this year. I need more from that
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  Speaker 1: defensive front in the run game and in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta be able to flip that switch
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  Speaker 1: and win your battle. and do it, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: more than once per game. And we didn't really see
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  Speaker 1: that because a lot of the pressure was manufactured pressure,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a little exotic. They've got creative to
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  Speaker 4: do it. You're right, it wasn't just that traditional four-down lineman,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to line up, beat you around the edge,
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  Speaker 4: and get to the quarterback. Now, with that being said, too,
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  Speaker 4: it was a lot of three-step drop stuff, too. He
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  Speaker 4: wasn't standing in the pocket for a long time, and
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  Speaker 4: when he would flush, he would move pretty good. But
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  Speaker 4: you're right, you would love to be able to get
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of pressure with just four.
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of laughing about this in the
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  Speaker 1: first segment, right? All off season long, we were talking about,
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  Speaker 1: holy cow, look at this embarrassment of riches. There's only
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  Speaker 1: one football. How do you share it around? Well, last night,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McGibbon was Oprah's favorite things. You get a carry
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  Speaker 1: and you get a reception and you get a touchdown play.
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  Speaker 1: you're probably not going to be able to do that
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  Speaker 1: against Arkansas.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And, and maybe not against Utah state. And as this
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  Speaker 1: season progresses, I think you have to kind of like
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  Speaker 1: narrow the focus a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I have no doubt that way. Sean is going to
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  Speaker 2: be leaned on heavily.
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  Speaker 1: I have no doubt that we're going to see Devin
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  Speaker 1: Dampier allowed to spread his wings, both in the passing
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  Speaker 1: game and in the run game. Who else do you think,
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  Speaker 1: if it does come down to, instead of what do
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  Speaker 1: we have, 10 rushers last night, 10 guys with carries,
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  Speaker 1: who are the maybe five that you see get the
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  Speaker 1: bulk of the touches in the run game next week?
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Well, I think it's always going to be Dampier. And
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: I think as we saw last night, they like using
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Bird Ficklin. Um, I mean, bird's just a weapon. He's
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: just explosive, but I think it's probably those top three
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: running backs. I mean, Daniel Bray, way, Sean Parker and
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Chavez Soto. I think those are going to be your
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: primary run game guys. I mean, I just, I think
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: that's what it's going to be. Um, but as we
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: saw too, Brayden Pagan is fast and he's big and
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: he's strong. They got him on an end around, but
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I think in the traditional run game, um, It will
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: be the two quarterbacks and then those top three running backs.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: What's going to become interesting though, too, is, I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Hunter Andrews can run the football.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: He was a running back.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: He was an all district, all region running back in
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: high school in Texas, and he could catch it too.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: So he is there. It's just that you, you just, there's,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: there's one ball. There's about 10 different guys and it's
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: going to be, you know, Maybe it's the old, how
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: did you practice during the week? What kind of effort
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: did you give in practice? Because you know that, Sean,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: the best motivator can be carries in a game for
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: how you perform in practice. So maybe it goes that way.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: It's going to be the same thing in a passing game.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I think there's a pretty defined top three wide receivers.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I think it's Pagan. I think it's Johnson.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: And I think it's probably Whittemore in the slot. But
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Larry Simmons, when he touches the ball, makes things happen.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: That should have been a.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Little nine-yard in-cut route that he turned into a 25-yard
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: pitch and catch or a 30-yard pitch and.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Catch last night.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: So I think there's a top three, but a guy
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: like Simmons and maybe a guy like Scholes could threaten
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: that as well.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: What games are you going to be watching this weekend, Bill?
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I'm going to take an, I mean, I just want
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: to look at Arkansas. I know they're playing Northern Alabama,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: but I just want to get a look at, you know,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Ryan Silverfield's team just to kind of see what is
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: coming in here this, this, this next week and see
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: what they look like again against a Northern Alabama team
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: that they should probably handle. But let's, let's see what
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: they look like on the field because it doesn't always
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: work that way. As far as other games that are interesting, I, Tonight, Miami-Stanford,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know Miami's got to travel west, but
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: nothing really intrigues me there. Other games this weekend, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: kind of want to duck in and see what Houston
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: looks like. They're hosting Oregon State. Boise State goes to Oregon.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Is Oregon what we think they are? Are they going
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to blow Boise State out? Does Boise get competitive in
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: that game? Kind of want to see that just a
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: little bit too. Clemson LSU is interesting, even though Clemson's
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: not ranked, you know, is all this stuff at LSU
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: is all this outside noise of distraction. Is it going
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: to be a distraction to the team or are they
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: focused on this thing? I think Wisconsin Notre Dame could
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: be interesting on Sunday too.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: What about you?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you hit most of the ones I'm
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: going to be looking at. I, especially Houston. I want
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to look at, I want to know what they are
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: before we see this Utah team go against them. Iowa state,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: same thing. They got Southeast Missouri state though. There's not a,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it's not a real excellent slate of premier matchups in
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: week one, but we'll take what we can get because
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: football's back.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That's absolutely correct. And I, I'm just, it was glad
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: to have it back. It was just so fun to
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: have everybody back to stripe the stadium last night and,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: you know, having an SEC, team come in next week,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: a bicycle stadium would be a blast.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk before then, but enjoy your weekend. And
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
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• 20:27
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