Coaches Show: Kyle Whittingham, Jaren Kump(OL), Lander Barton(LB) on Utes wk 1 win + more

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to talk Utah football with the head coach
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, Utah fans, good evening and welcome in to Kyle
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Late afternoon, brought to you by Smith, the official grocer
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of student athletes who are going to join us coming
up on the program tonight. Two captains with two captains
last week to Foo Brothers. The other captains coming by
tonight Jared Cump and Lander Barton will swing by tonight
after Utah is very impressive and decisive win over the

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UCLA Bruins on Saturday nights. By the way, Utah now
number twenty five of the polls this week, jumping into
the polls after a big win on the weekend. We'll
talk a little bit about that. We'll preview the cow
Poly Mustang's coming up. That's Saturday at four of course,
also Saturday the Ring of Honor inductions for Ron McBride
and Roy Jefferson. They'll go into the Ring of Honor.

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That's coming up on Saturday afternoon of about halftime or so.
So all that coming up on the program is we
welcome the head coach in fresh from the practice field
on a Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
How are you a little sweaty? But I'm okay, still
a little warm.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
We don't have quite fall temperatures yet. But Tuesday is
always your longest practice of the week, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is it's longest day and we call it bloody
Tuesday around here, and very physical day and a lot
of introduction of the new schemes for the week, and
it's definitely a heavy workday for us.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is this the day you begin to introduce the opponent
as well? Do you begin to introduce cal Pauli a
little bit today as well?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Actually started to do that yesterday afternoon, And so yesterday
afternoon we give a little intro, but as far as
on the field exactly, today's the day as far as
on the field work. But we had a good film
session on him yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So you and I sat here after the show last
week and I said, hey, Kyle, how do you feel?
He goes what I feel great, But I don't know
because you just don't know till you play a game.
That's the nature of college football. Well, now you've had
a chance to play it, and you've had a chance
to watch it. What did you like most?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, a lot of good stuff in that game Saturday night.
Both sides of the ball, offense and defense, both played
equally well. Offense, it was real pleasing to see them
start fast and never slow down. I mean they never
hit a lull the entire game. We only planted one time,
and then the other drive that didn't end in a
score was end up game where we took a knee

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in victory. So to have ten possessions and eight of
them score you know, seven touchdowns and six or a
field goal or whatever it was was very pleasing. No turnovers,
very clean game. I think we only got pen lies
three times. We did have a ball on the ground
one time, but we recovered it. So a lot of
good things on offensive. Incredible third down production offensively.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Fourteen of seventeen I think was the final.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Number, and the seventeenth one was the kneel downe so
actually was fourteen of sixteen competitive snaps and so that
was that was very positive. Devon was lights out. You know,
Devin made great decisions. Eighty five percent completion percentage, 're
close to it, a couple of touchdowns. Ran the football.
Still gotta be a little more cautious, and when he

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runs at the end of the run, you know, he's
he's a competitor and he wants to make every play
and he did. You know, there's two or three runs
that we got to take those hits off of him,
and he's got to get down or get out of mounts.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Devin was named today co Offensive Player of the Week
by the Big Twelve Conference for his efforts two hundred
and six yards passing twenty one of twenty five, which
was fantastic, eighty seven yards rushing accounted for two undred
ninety three total yards. Were you at all even a
little surprised at how smooth it because the offense Again,
I don't want to use the word effortless because that
doesn't that isn't accurate, but it looked that way at

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times that he would drop back or you would run
whatever you wanted to run, and it was gonna be.
You only had two negative plays all There were no sacks,
exactly two negative plays all night long, and they were
each I think a minus one yard. It wasn't very much.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you the reason for all those
good things you just said is the offensive line. I mean,
those guys were lights out. We'd touting them all all year,
essentially since last spring, and they were as advertised in
this particular game, and Devin had plenty of time and
they opened up plenty of holes in the run game.
And you're right, we only had two instances where we
lost yards. We were very rarely behind the sticks. And

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when you're in good situations on first and second down,
that's going to lead to manageable third downs, which we
were able to convert.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, I think I read you the stat after the
game there on those fourteen or sixteen third downs, you
didn't have one third down opportunity over ten yards. Frankly,
I don't think you had one over I think eight
yards all night long, and you converted everything in short yardage.
A lot of you know, that goes to credit obviously
to the offensive line, but running the football you ran

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for two undred eighty six yards. I was just really
pleased and seeing how interchangeable both Rogers and Parker were.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, yeah, there are two good backs, and they are interchangeable.
They're unequal footing right now, and if one develops a
hot hand in a game, whereas the season goes on,
we'll lean towards that guy. But right now they're both
both doing an excellent job and they're split and carries equally,
and we'll just see how that develops.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
A lot of talk about the offense, because obviously we've
talked about this to new offense. People want to see it.
It ran pretty flawlessly. Your defense was very good too,
Yet a lot of guys contribute. But first, let's talk
about this your defensive guys played offense. Sure, and you said, hey,
Smith Noden's gonna play some offense, Jackson or Lander Barton's
going to play some offense. I don't know that everybody knew,

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but Jackson Benny started playing some offense for you as well. Yeah,
those guys playing, you got to see him every day
in practice. What impressed you most of their ability to
play both ways?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, just that the ability to play both ways and
play at a high level. Smith Noden with the ball
in his hands is just flat dangerous. I mean, he's
got such great quickness and a tremendous change in direction,
and he's a tough kid. He's got great hands, and
so you know, we got to be smart about it,
and we were in this game. He only played forty
six snaps. I believe in this game total offense, defense

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and special teams. Lander was about fifty something and Jackson
was about the same, about fifty. So, so as long
as we continue to be really judicious with our with
the reps and making sure that we don't wear them
out because it's long season, you know, we gotta we
gotta look look at it as a marathon on a
sprint and you know, anybody that can help us on
offense on from the defensive side will integrate him. That's

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Jason's scheme is so user friendly. You know, you can
you can adapt really quick. I mean we're signaling stuff
and it's not as much of a learning curve as
most offenses are.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Go back to the two way players for just a minute.
What's you know, what's the kind of the process and
figuring out week? But because I know it's opponent based
and where you're at, but how do you guys go
about that during the week? Do you have an idea
going in? Do you determine that during the week how
many snaps you want to use them on both sides
of the ball exactly?

Speaker 3 (07:11):
We have a ballpark number that we want to use
them and we were just almost exactly at that number
in this past game. And that number will fluctuate per play,
you know, as per the opponent and per player. You
know sometimes you know, Lander may get more snaps and
Smith and Little less, Jackson Moore just depends on how
Jason wants to utilize them. And and I thought he

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did a masterful job not only utilizing those guys but
calling the game on Saturday. It was the flow of
the game was outstanding offensively, had UCLA on their heels
from really the opening snap and never relinquished.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Everybody play callers all, you know, have their own kind
of vibe that they're in. You're on the headset, you're
listening both ways. What was Jason's demeanor like as you
listened to him. You've heard him in the spring game
of things, but in real game action, what was he like?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Cool as a cucumber, just up. He's up in the box,
which I believe every offensive coordinator should be in the box.
That's my own belief. The coordinator should be down. I
mean that's just it just functions better that way. So
he prefers to be in the box. I mean, he's
it's his show, it's Jason show, and he's got complete
autonomy and he's been in the box for his career
and he is very calm, calculated, measured, and very much

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in control. And it was, you know, it manifested on
the field.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was interesting, you guys score on a twenty play drive.
It went eighty yards and nine forty four off the clock,
and I didn't realize my statistician Dave spatafour hands me
kind of the stats on the scoring drive. I couldn't
believe it because it didn't feel like a nine and
a half minute drive when you looked at it, because
you got it was just everything flowed so nice and

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so easily. When I got the numbers, I couldn't believe
it was a twenty play drive exactly.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I couldn't believe when I wanted to really count the plays, obviously,
but when I looked at the clock after we scored it,
it's like, what you know, there was like four minutes
left in the third chorer. I said, how did that happen?
And so it was just very But and with a
clock rule of no longer stopping the clock on first down,
which they impluded last year, that tends to eat up
the clock quite a bit more on a drive like that.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
What does that do to a defense When you're on
the field that long and there's no negative plays and
you're just picking up six and seven and ten and four,
you've played defense. I don't know how many drives you
face like that, But that's got to be demoralizing.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It is demoralizing. That's the word. That's the exact word
to use. And you're just getting hammered. They're running the
ball right at you and there's nothing you can do
about it, and the chains are moving, you know, it
just constantly up the field, and you know, we didn't
sub a whole lot, and so they're you know, wearing
out the defense and it really gets frustrating for a
defense to be in that situation. And we practice that.

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You know, we have a during camp, we have long
drive you know simulations where we do that a couple
of times during camp. So in the game, that's not
the first time our guys have experienced it.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
The defensive guys, now, your defense hold you see LA
to ten points. You force a turnover, so you're plus
one there. You get four sacks primarily from your front four.
You didn't bring a ton of pressure. What stood out
defensively for you? What did you like.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Most Well, the run defenses where it always starts for us,
and to hold him under one hundred yards and three
yards of carry, that was an outstanding rush defense. Then
you force him to throw the football, then you just
tee off on the quarterback and play coverage back there.
And that's our formula. It's been their formula for a
lot of years, and I thought coach Galley did a
great job preparing for this game. And their quarterback is

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he's talented. You know, he didn't have the best game
against us, but there's a reason for that. You know,
we were contributing to that. But it was just exactly
how you want to plan it out. Stop the run,
get him in third long, get out of the quarterback, ye,
and how we do it.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
The area I was most curious to watch was your
front four because again, a lot of new faces there.
You know, Logan Fano, one of the older guys, Aliki Viamahi,
but you have so many young, talented guys and it's
one thing to see it in practice, but let's see
how it works in the game. Lewis Pale has been
talking about John Henry daily all fall long, Right, John
Henry dally is two sacks, Cash Dylan red shirt freshman,

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Red schan Now is now he comes in. He has
a good game too. You guys, really, I think found
some nice some nice play from those younger players.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
We sure did, and and I was very proud of
in particular Eleaki and Jonah inside those guys played played
the vast majority of the snaps and and uh, Jonah.
You know, he's not the biggest kid. He's tall, but
he's only about two eighty five. We got to still
he's still a work in progress. We figure he'll top
out about three hundred. But he has got such great
technique that they can't block him. I mean, he's always

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got great separation, he stays square, his pad level is excellent.
And those two guys really held down the Ford inside
and then those edge guys. Logan Fund is a special player.
He is a special athlete. And John Henry is just relentless.
He's like a bowl in a china shop, just a
just a physical, one speed guy. He's his motor is
going one hundred miles an hour every snap.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
We saw a little flash from Lance Holtzklaw saw a
little flash as well from Paul Fitzgerald, Cash Delan and
Cash Dylan as well. They all they all had their moments.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
They did, they did, and it was it was really
a great game. Defensively, Like I said, two hundred and
twenty yards is in this day and age of football
is abysmal for an offense if that's all they can muster.
And so a great job by our defense making that happen.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, the win is the best thing, but the samest
thing is you came out of it relatively healthy pretty much.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, we got some guys banged up, but nothing that
hopefully is going to be any more than you know,
not a long period.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Of time, right, So that's about all you can ask for.
In an opener, we'll take a time out here at
the Kyle Witting Game Coaches Show, which is brought to
us by A Smith. We'll come back talk a little
bit about week two and there's an old thing I
want to see if Kyle agrees with this. You make
a lot of improvement from week one to week two.
Is that tried and true. We'll talk a little bit
about that. We'll also talk about Kyle Pawly and of
course Lander Barton's going to come by in a minute.

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We'll talk to Kyle about Lander's legacy. There's been a
lot of Bartons that have come through this program. We'll
talk about Lander, having him healthy and what he means
to the defense and the team. All coming up here
on the Kyle Whitting Game Coaches Show, which is presented
by Smith, who also present us our game coming up
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Speaker 1 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (13:34):
Back in the Eccles Football Building tonight, it is the
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four o'clock kickoff against Cal Poly Mustangs. Are you a
believer in that old adage, Kyle, you make the most

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improvement between game one and game two.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think there's a lot of truth to that, and
improvements a relative word. I mean, I think most individuals
will improve, especially the guys that are new to college
football and you know, don't have any experience, and so
I think there is a lot of a lot of
merit to that statement. But but you know, it doesn't
happen every time, obviously, but there's it's a good a
good portion of the time you will find significant improvement

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in your team execution wise and tackling and that type
of thing between game war in game two as oppost to.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Game one, after watching the tape and seeing where would
you like to see things progress into week two? For
what you guys are doing.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, I would say defensively, we got to tackle better.
We didn't tackle as sharp as we usually do. We
had eleven miss tackles, which isn't a ton, but it
was only fifty STAPs of defense, and that's a little
bit too high. You know, in fifty STAPs we should
have six or seven miss tackles, and so a few
too many there, and primarily from the secondary, that's where
the mist tackles primarily came from. And so and to
their defense, we didn't do a lot of live tackling

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in the in the fall camp just because we didn't
want to risk injury and so there were a little
bit rusty there. But I think you'll see an improvement
there this week. Special teams needs to be cleaner. You know.
We dropped the kickoff, got pinned on the four yard line,
we missed a pat, we miss hit some kickoffs, So
there's some work to be done.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
There when you go back and well, yeah, sometimes we
talked about miss tackles after openers before. I remember the
one that you were most frustrated with was the Florida
opener a couple of years ago. Down there was awful. Yeah,
but that's, you know, to be expected. Even in the NFL.
You'll see it, although not as often, just simply because
they play a little bit more live in the NFL
because preseason games. But starters also don't play very much

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to the NFL preseason, so you clean that up. It's
hard to find a lot of stuff that you don't
like offensively because you were so smooth across the board.
But I'm sure Jason's got a few things to right.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah. I think the thing that stands out we were
so consistent and as we talked about no negative plays
or hardly any negative plays, but we didn't get enough
chunkyard at We got to get the ball up the
field a little better in the throw game, bust three
on some runs. Get those fifteen yard plus runs that
make drives much easier. It's hard to go, you know, three, four, six, four,

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three seven on a drive without big explosive plays. Those
explosives really assist you in scoring drives, and so that
really is probably a point of emphasis is try try
to get some more chunkyard.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
How did you feel like your special teams performed overall?
Obviously Dylan missed the bat early, but then he comes
back and drills that big fifty four yard field goal
before I have.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
He knocked that through with he was That was a
great kick. But we have a system on special teams.
We have goals that we set and statistics that we track,
and there's really ten different categories that we look hard
at and we won five of those in this game,
which means that was about a wash a draw. In
the special teams. We want to get seven or more
goals a week. If we get seven or more, that's

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a dominating performance on special teams, and we got to
get to that point.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Dylan Curtis, Ryan Phillips return game. A chance to get
that a little bit better this week as well. You're
playing col Paul the Mustangs one double.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
April Dad's alma Manter. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
And also coaching against a guy you coached against a
couple of times when he was at Wazoo.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's right, Paul Wolf, great great guy, good, good football coach.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I didn't even know he was at Cal Paul
until we started study him the other day. And good
for him. That's where I was born, as a matter
of you're born in and Louisbispo.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
And which, by the way, is a gorgeous it's gorgeous spot.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's no longer a hidden jab everybody knows about. And
then the price is there insane, I would imagine, But
but it is gorgeous there. And it was a Pismo
beach and Avela beach, and and it's just uh, you know,
one of those great spots to to uh to live in.
But but uh, anyway, they're you know Cal Paul, they're
coming off a big win. They beat you know, USD

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and and it was the final. Yeah, we we just
watched the cutup so you oftentimes you don't get the
flow of the game. You just want you compartmentalize and
watch it. But but they did some good things and
they've you know, they've got a quarterback who's very similar
in statue to the guy we just played. He's six
foot six, a transfer from pitt so he's a big kid.
And and uh, you know, we gotta just prepare like

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we always do and come out ready to play.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, he threw for almost three hundred yards, ran for
just over fifty yards. He's got a couple of good
wide receivers too that he'll throw to.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, he does, he does, And and uh, you know
they're they're uh well coached. Like I said, they're they
want to throw first typically unless they get in twelve
personnel and you know those two tights, and just like
everybody else, that becomes a little more run heavy. You
look at their roster, at least offensively. I think of
the two deep twenty of the twenty two are from California,
so heavy heavy recruiting base in California for them.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, you know, they don't have they probably don't have
the recruiting budget a lot to do, so they're probably
hopping in their cars and doing a lot of driving
on recruiting trips. Yeah, before we go to break and
we'll bring him in coming up on the other side.
Lander Barton what what his land? I mean it feels
like because of Cody and because of h and because
of Jackson and the Barton family legacy and Danny well

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and Danny too.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Mom.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, we've had Barton's coming through Utah forever in a day.
But you know you've seen Lander since he was about
yay hi, because your kids went to Brighton. He went
to Brighton. The Bartons all went to Brighton. So you've
known this family forever.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
We haven't.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I think we offered Lander in fourth grade literally, not
just not jokingly, and so and so you can't go
wrong with the Barton It's kind of like the Kafusi
last name. You know, there's not a bad Kafusie uh
football player ever that I've met. And so that name,
the Barton name, has been synonymous with Utah athletics. Mickey
the mom was was first team All Whack and two

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sports sport Yeah, volleyball and basketball. I believe in the
two sports. And Paul was a heck of a baseball
player and a quarterback. And then of course it started
with Jackson as far as their children, and right through
on Dakody and now Lander and Danny was still playing volleyball.
I believe uh in state now I think you know
we got to Yeah, we got a pro team now.

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So anyway, tremendously athletic family.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
To say, you've coached both brothers. What's Lander like to
have in your program?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Awesome? He's They're all great kids, I mean Jackson, and
they're all different. Their personalities are so different. Jackson's like
a he's very reserved, he's very he's a he's a
mild mannered guy. He's very polite and all that. And
then Cody's more of a little bit of a rough,
little redneck in Cody a little more edgy. And then

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Lander is his own personality. Lander's got a great sense
of humor and such a hard worker. They're all hard workers,
but each one of them brings something different to the table.
But they're all really good players.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
If you would have just decided out of high school
to make him a wide receiver or a tight end,
could he have thrived at that?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
For the whole question, he would be one of the
top five tight ends in the country if he had
committed and gone that direction. Uh and and now he's
we believe he's one of the best linebackers in the country,
you know. But but I think you're going to see
as the season wears on, just his skill set is
a tight end. He saw a little touchdown catch the
other day, and there he executed some really good blocks.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I was about to say, he made a couple of
really nice blots ties.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
And like I said, he's perfect size, say six four
and a half and two hundred and forty plus pounds,
And so if if he decided that that's what he
had wanted to do, he'd have been wildly successful at
that as well.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
We'll talk to Lander at a minute, by the way,
before we go to break. Speaking of blocks, Keith Olsen,
he found himself a nice little role in short yardage,
hasn't it.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
He did that heavy package that we have where we
got seven alignment out there at times, and he's he's
got a role and he executed that very well on
Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
He did, and the backs did a nice job following
him as well. So we'll take a time out here
with Kyle when we come back. Lander Bart will join
us talk about catching that touchdown pass on Saturday night
and what he wants to get done at his final
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Speaker 1 (22:18):
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Speaker 2 (22:27):
Coaches Show continues here on a Tuesday night. It feels
like a Monday, but yesterday was a Monday, was a holiday.
I'm sure it doesn't too our next ass hearing comp
pumping in here. We'll have Lander Barton coming up here
in just a minute. Senior Center proud harrim and guy
coming in. Uh, you've been waiting an entire off season,
you've been waiting an entire fall camp. How did it

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feel to be out there Saturday night and what you
guys were able to do?

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Oh? It felt so good.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
I mean, it's always fun to go and play somebody else,
but this last Saturday night, you know, as obvious on TV,
it was really fun for us.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
You know, I wanted to see how you guys kind
of work together, but just really everybody wanted to see
how the offense looked. It's one thing to see it
out on the practice field, you know that, But when
you're playing somebody else and a team that's got good
athletes and a high power for program like UCLA, you're like, okay, man,
I'm telling you, Jared, you guys run for two hundred
and eighty six yards. You don't give up any sacks.

(23:21):
I think there were two negative plays all night long,
and they were like one yard two yard loss is
not bad at all. Are you surprised you had that
kind of success or did you guys expect that?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
I mean someone asked me earlier today about that, and
you know, with this new offense and you know, playing
our defense the entire spring, in the entire summer. You know,
part of me was kind of curious, like, Okay, I
wonder how this is gonna go against somebody else, and
and and I knew that, you know, I obviously knew
that we were talented. I knew that this is a
good offense, and I honestly wasn't one hundred percent sure

(23:52):
how it would go. And so I answer your question,
I was pleasantly surprised. I was pleasantly surprising, man. And
it was fun.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Though.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
You have played a lot of football in your time
here at the University of Utah, and you and I
were just talking about this off the air. Twenty plays,
eighty yards, nine minutes and forty four seconds off the clock.
What's it like to be part of a drive like that,
especially upfront when you're just imposing your will on the
other team.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Yeah, if I'm being honest, I was actually surprised to
hear it was twenty one plays. When we came off
the side. Then coach Hardy told us, yeah, that was
a twenty one play drive. I was a little bit surprised, because, yeah,
I was tired, but I wasn't as exhausted as you
would imagine. And I think that's credit to our coach
and stuff for preparing us, especially with Gassers this offseason
that I was really in shape. But honestly, it's a

(24:43):
it's such a good feeling, you know, knowing that essentially
you can impose your will in the defense, you can
do what you want against the defense, and in a
way there's you know, they're not going to stop you.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
It's such a good feeling. It's such a dominant filling.
And so it was fun.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
You know, it was fun. I mean, you know, credit
to UCLA. You know, they have some great athletes on
their team and there, but there were times when they're
even their defensive linemen were asking them to be subbed
out in the middle of the drive. But you know,
obviously all linemen don't get subbed out. So it was fun.
It was fun to see.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
That Kyle Whittingham talks about doing the long drives that
you guys do in practice at the end of late practices,
after you've gone for an hour and a half, does
that get you ready for a drive like that?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Absolutely, it does, one hundred percent, it does. And yeah,
that's uh. I was pleasantly surprised to uh, to really
feel how you know, kind of good in shape. We
were during that twenty when play drive, when they didn't
feel like a towy when play drive it, you know, yeah,
I feel like, you know, I feel like a good drive.
But I didn't expected to be that long. So so absolutely, yeah,

(25:45):
the practice practicing those long drives, he really does help.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
I've talked to cover the NFL for a long time
doing this talk and offensive lineman over the years. They say,
there's no better feeling in the world than when you're
on that and you you know it. You can sense
it in the drive because when you're able to do that,
everything else opens up. If you're able to control that
line and get five and six and seven yards of pop,

(26:08):
there's nothing you can't do, isn't there?

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Absolutely and absolutely it is. And it's such you know,
those who play football will understand. It's such a like
a dominant and good feeling to have, knowing that.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
You can kind of do what you want and nothing's
stopping you.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
So what makes this group, this this offensive line group
so good together? Why do you guys have such good chemistry?
Why do you function so well together.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
I mean I think a big piece of that is
we're all very experienced. You know, we have a lot
of games. Not only not only a lot of games,
but a lot of games together. You know, we have
a lot of experience together, which really helps. I think
we're all you know, we all have our different strengths
which kind of add on to, you know, to each other.
And also I think we're you know, those are some
of my best friends on the on the line, you know,

(26:52):
those are the guys like to hang out with outside
of the football facility as well. So you know that
that really helps a lot, knowing that those guys have
my back and that I have there back as well.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
New offense, nobody quite knows what it's going to look like.
Everybody thinks of the quarterback as the leader, but you're
the number two guy. You have to call protections, you
have to call slides and shifts up front. Do you
like that? Do you like to have that on you?
Do you like to have that responsibility?

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Actually I would to answer your question today, Yes I do.
Actually I do like that. If you were to ask
me when I first started playing center, probably not because
it's a it's a lot you know, it's a it's
a you're playing chess essentially with with the defensive with
the defensive players and defensive coordinator, you know, and so
but I like it because I know, you know, I've
kind of gotten a good grasp how to how to

(27:41):
prepare for that in a game week, and I'm confident
myself to be able to make those decisions and communicate
them clearly to the rest of my guys.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
For those of you guys that don't know, Jaren has
played and started at every position on the offensive line,
I'm gonna guess that helps too, with that leadership and
the line calls and the reads because you've played left tackle,
because you played left guard, right guard, and right tackle
as well.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Correct, correct, Yes, and yeah, it absolutely does.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
You know, I know, you know, I have to have
an understanding of you know, what my what spencer, my
right tackle is going to do and how he's going
to have to block, because that's going to affect how
I'm going to make calls and how I'm going to
adjust my play and I have to know, you know,
I have to know that for everybody, and so being able,
you know, having played those positions myself, it really does
help having that experiential experience, experiment experiential knowledge.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, I'll say this, I don't think you have to
worry much about what Spencer final is going to do
on the right side. He generally takes pretty good care
of business out there.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
How did you and Devin develop chemistry? Because you have to,
you had quarterback and center have to be on the
same page at all times. So when did you guys
start start at it? And when do you did you
feel like, Okay, we're together on this thing.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, I mean I started the day he gone campus.
The day he gone campus the coaching stuff, had me
go out to dinner with them, and uh, you know
that then, And that's really when I started. You know.
Obviously building a friendship in a relationship ship with him
is a is key, you know, to building that that chemistry.
But also you know, going through reps throughout spring and
throughout the summer and throughout fall camp, you know you
have to have you have to have those reps with him,

(29:11):
and not only that, but you have to you have
to give each other feedback like, hey, I like it
when you do this. Hey, let's maybe let's try this
around O. Hey, how come we did that versus this,
you know, talking, you know, talking back and forth with
each other about things, and so that you kind of know,
you can kind of get a feel of how the
other one plays because it makes a difference as a center,
you know, as a center and as a quarterback to

(29:32):
really have a good commistry between the two.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I've been told he takes you guys out to dinner occasionally.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah he does. He does a really good job at that.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Actually does he pick or do you guys get to pick?

Speaker 5 (29:40):
He lets us pick. But we try to be modest,
you know, we we don't go to the most expensive places.
We honestly we're more concerned of how much food do
we get at the places we select, so so, but yeah,
we try to be modest a little bit.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
But he does let us pick.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
And you know he's phenomenal, phenomenal leader, phenomenal quarterback and
you know he it's it's good knowing that the guy
behind us has our back.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
It's interesting because you've played with a couple of guys
and I know people the end with Cam he was
beat up a lot, but he was a tremendous leader
for this football team. It kind of feels like different ways,
I get it. But cam Or Devin has stepped in
in a pretty short period of time and become one
of those guys too.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
He has actually, you know, he stepped in as a
almost like you know, in his different way, in his
in his you know, good way, a type of cam
you know, having that experience, having that swagger to him,
you know, having that up, uplifting, positive, you know, attitudes
with him as well. He's done, He's done a phenomenal
job with that, and we're we're we're very pleased.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Before I let Jared Cump go here, I'm gonna get
kind of deep with you. Now you've been here a while,
so I want you to just kind of tell me
when you're done here playing at Utah, how do you
want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy
to be here?

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, I mean I want to be I want to
be known as a as a Utah man. You know,
I've had my struggles and I've had my downs, I've
had my falls, but I having I've had my upset
you know, here at the university. But I want I
want to be known as a as a Utah man,
as a man who you know and to me what
Utah man is. It's uh, it's someone with integrity and
someone with grit. It's someone you know, it's it's someone
who has good morals and good standards, but also you know,

(31:13):
has that has the edge to them. You know that
that is always competing and always pushing himself past the limits.
And I want, I want to be remembered as as
a true Utah man because to me, that that that
that's a huge honor to be able to say that.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
So well, I think you're well on your way to that.
It would also be nice to be a part of
a team that got to the playoff for the first time.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Absolutely, that's uh, absolutely, it's that given that that's and
that's our goal.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
You know, we're not shy about it.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
You know, as a team, our goal is to win
the Big Twelve championship and play more games after that.
So and that that's our goal. When you know, I
have no problem not being shy about that. That that's
what we that's what we are striving for.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Hey, thanks for coming by.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Good to see you, Thank you, Bill, Good to see you.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Drink up with us. Starting center and leader and captain
on this Utah football team. Quick time at another one
of the captains coming in next, Lander Barton, here are
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(32:41):
swinging by here to say hi. Tonight knocked out all
of our captains in the first two weeks, we had
the fanos last week, just add jarin in. Now the
other captain joins us, that's Lander Barton. How are you?

Speaker 4 (32:52):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (32:52):
How are you I'm great? How do was Saturday night
for you?

Speaker 6 (32:54):
It's fun?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
It was late?

Speaker 6 (32:57):
What has fun?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
You knew going in that you were going to play
both ways? I did, and you know Kyle made no
secret of that. He told everybody in the world a
big twelve media day that you were, You and Smith.
I don't know what if everybody knew Jackson was going
to be about that, but he's in there too, knowing
that you're gonna get to play some offense to go
along with your defense. Does that make it even a
little bit more fun?

Speaker 6 (33:19):
It does?

Speaker 7 (33:19):
I mean, it makes me feel like a kid again
back in high school going both ways. I mean, it's
been a blast so far.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You you were a Kyle said this. You were a
heck of a receiver at Brighton. Did you ever think
I want to go someplace where they'll let me play why?
Or did you say, no, linebacker's going to be it
for me? Because he thinks you could be a top
five tight end in the country if you just played
tight end.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
I mean, I always thought it'd be cool to play
both ways, but I never knew how serious the idea was.
But I mean, we've talked about it a few times
in my career here and finally came true.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, he hinted at it a little bit. In fact,
you practiced last year. I think a little bit in practice,
didn't you. Was it twenty three before you got hurt? Yeah, okay,
people are always worried and rightful. Oh you're gonna wear
these guys out. Did you notice being a little bit
more tired or any more tired playing both sides on
Saturday night than you normally would have been?

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Not necessarily, I mean, it wasn't a lot of snaps
as a as a full game. I mean I only
played forty something defensive snaps and a handfall on offense,
So I mean, not really, it wasn't too too tiring.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
When you think about what Travis Hunter did at Colorado,
isn't that insane playing one hundred and twenty two snaps
a game?

Speaker 6 (34:27):
It's crazy. That's just insane cardio levels right.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
There, I'd say, So, so let's go to the touchdown
for a minute. I don't know if that was coming
to you, if you were the first read on that,
but walk us through the touchdown that you scored on
Saturday night.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
I mean, I don't even know if I'm the first read,
to be honest, but I know I have a corner out.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
It was a boot.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Rollout play action, so I mean I'm just reading that
corner and hoping he jumps the flat, and once he did,
I was like, Oh, this ball's coming, so I mean,
is a good feeling.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, because Devin rolls that way, so you're in his
purview and you're right. You ran right past. I don't
know if it was a backer in the corner came up.
You were wide open. So the ball's coming to you.
Anything going through your.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Mind, gotta catch it, gotta catch it.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
And you did and you got six. It was a
great night. The Smith got himself a touchdown to Jackson
had a seventeen yard catch. Yeah, you guys, you know,
how's that to Kyle said, He goes, We're gonna be
smart about the snap counts and how much they're out there.
But as you guys are on the field, that's got
to be a cool feeling. And then you go back
to your defensive huddles, you're like, yeah, we were just
out there. We just we just help things out.

Speaker 6 (35:32):
I know, it's fun. It's fun.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
Sometimes you get a little smack talk from the defensive
guys in practice, but it's just all love. I mean,
we're just happy for each other. Like seeing Smith go
out there and ball out, that was just awesome to watch.
He had a bunch of catches, touchdown and then Jackson
almost had a deep ball and then yeah he had
that seventeen yard catch.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
He said.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
So, I mean it's been exciting to watch the guys.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, And that's kind of to be fair, it's just
it's utilizing your personnel and playing to people's strings. Yeah,
you're seeing it around, you know, the last few years,
even before Travis Hunter, there were a lot of people
that were playing two ways here and there. And I
just think it's smart if you've got talented guys, utilize
them right exactly. I'm sure they didn't have to twist
your arm when they say we're gonna play a little
bit offense, did they?

Speaker 6 (36:12):
No, they did not.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Were you surprised at all how smoothly things went Saturday night?
First games could be weird. You've played enough first games,
you don't have any false preseason games, so sometimes they
can be sloppy. Sometimes you can have a lot of penalties.
I thought both sides of the ball for you guys
Saturday and that went really smooth.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
I agree.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
I mean you could just feel it going into game week.
I mean, we had a good camp, a really tough camp,
and I think it kind of just it brought a
bunch of grit to the guys. I mean we are
conditioning hard. We were practicing hard all camp, and I
think everyone was just ready. I mean it came as
no surprise to me that we did what we did.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
What's it been like for you finally starting a season
feeling one hundred percent like yourself again, because you weren't
last you played, but you weren't one hundred percent yourself
probably till midway through the I had a lot of
chats with your dad on the road about those things.
But how does it feel to be feeling like lander
Barton again?

Speaker 6 (37:02):
It feels good.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
I mean, get my feet on the ground, move and
it's just I don't know, it's just a good feeling.
Just feel like myself.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Going back to twenty twenty three again, right, yeah, tell
me what's unique about this year's defense? Every defense is
different every year. Personnel kind of shifts comes and goes,
and you've got some new faces. But what's unique about
this year's defensive inner?

Speaker 7 (37:24):
I believe we have a lot of depth in almost
every position. I mean, we got guys that can step
up and play and make plays. And the even younger
guys that just got here, they're they're able to come
on the field and make plays. So I mean, it's
nice when you know that because it's always next man
up mentality when things go bad or not how you
want them. So it's just a good feeling to know

(37:44):
that if someone comes up the fielding, the next guy
comes up, you won't miss.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
A perfect example of that's in your room. Trey Reynolds.
It's his first career interception. The other night, he's you know,
he backs up you and John Hue and in Levanni
he's the fourth linebacker. But he gets on the field
and he makes place.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
And he had a great camp and it was no
surprise he was making plays all camp like that, So
I mean, it was just good to see everyone out
there making plays.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
So you were selected a captain this year by your teammates.
Not a coach's vote, not a fan vote, none of that.
Your teammates select you as a captain. What's that mean?

Speaker 7 (38:14):
And it's a it's a huge honor just to know
my teammates, the guys I'm working with every day, voted
for me to to take that role. So I mean,
it's just a lot of humility and a lot of
a lot of thanks to them, and I just try
to wear it with honor.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
How many text messages did you have from Cody after
the game?

Speaker 6 (38:31):
I had from Cody.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Didn't you say? Cody is the one that's always like,
you know, he's on.

Speaker 7 (38:37):
Yeah, I think i'd one or two. But he was
in Tennessee. He was late, okay where he was. He
stayed up and watched the game. I was surprised, But yeah,
I think I had one or two. But I talked
to him the next day on the phone.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah I figured so, yeah, yeah, I figured so. All right,
before I let you go last go around here for you,
what would you like your legacy to be when you
step off that field for the final time?

Speaker 6 (38:54):
As you use, I just want to win the pig twelve.
Finish her right, get the call.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
It's football playoff, that's right, Yeah, because if you do one,
the other one's coming. Oh yeah, well that should be fun.
Thanks for doing this. Great to see again, and let's
keep having some fun this year.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
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(39:44):
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(40:06):
mater of Kyle Whittingham's father, Bred Whittingham, and yeah, coming
off of win themselves over the weekend. What do we
need to know overall about this cal Poly team? Not
personnel as much, but what are we gonna see schematically?
What are you gonna what are you gonna be facing?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Well, eleven personnel is there is their base personnel group.
Now we only have one game to go off this year, obviously,
but there's not a lot of change from last year.
They will get in some twelve, they will get in
some ten, but eleven is their lead group. You know,
they got the big quarterback. Like I said, they got
a couple of tackles from JC number seventy number seventy two,

(40:46):
seventy four. You'll also see him play tackle. Nineteen is
a primary running back. Twenty three is good running back
transfer from Temple. But you're gonna see, like I said,
eleven personnel in a balanced attack overall, but you know,
through more throw game and ten and eleven a little
more run game in twelve.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Are we getting near the end of the time, Kyle,
as we evolved more in college football to where one
double A opponents for power forward type schools might go away?
Or do you think that stays?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
I think it goes away. Ultimately, I think it does.
How many years away that is, I couldn't tell you,
But I think when the super conferences become a thing,
you may see the end of scheduling one double A teams.
I think that's going to be a thing in the past,
but you know, we'll see. But I guess it's It's
kind of sad because a lot of one double as

(41:36):
rely on that the money.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
That they makes is going to probably pay their bills
for the yearly close to it by coming here to
play Utah Saturday exactly.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
And so when that day comes, who knows how things
are going to look, what the landscape's going to be,
But I can very easily see that that will come
to an end at some point.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Part of the festivities on Saturday are going to be
the Ring of Honor festivities. Jefferson was the players program.
History is going in and the man that brought you
here thirty one years ago is going in as well.
And I was talking to back today, I said, you know,
your legacy is certainly going to be there, but your
legacy continues on the field. How long have you known
Ron mcbriden. When was what was your earliest memory of

(42:17):
knowing the coach.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Man well as far as personally and uh and uh,
you know, just as a observing him as a coach.
It was when he hired me here. I did not
know him prior to that is, except for the fact
that I had watched his career and played against his
offensive line when I was a linebacker back in the day.
He was then o line coach here at Utah and so,

(42:39):
and I just know that his guys were always prepared,
They were tough. You knew you were in for a
physical day when you played his own offensive line and
and so I had a lot of respect for him
as an on line coach. And then of course he
got the head job here and you know, fortunately I
was able to get on board with him back in
December of ninety three and ninety four was my first seat.

(43:00):
Somebody hired in December.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Ninety three, Idaho. That's right, coaching up there for the
coaching up there for the.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Bank Bengals and the Mini Dome.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
What what kind of an impact did Mac have on
you as a coach. Obviously you grew up with your
father as a coach, and you played for Lavelle and
you had other but coaching with Mac for those years,
what was that like?

Speaker 3 (43:19):
It was great? And and coach Mac, if you know,
every coach has a strength and recruiting was certainly coach
Max strength. And if you're in college football, that's not
a bad strength to have because that's what it's all about.
And he was a masterful recruiter, and he had really
learned the ropes from Dick Tomy. He was a Dick
Tomy disciple and spent time on Dick's staff and and really,

(43:39):
uh you know, patterned a lot of the things that
we did recruiting here at Utah. You know, it was
Dick's Dick's blueprint for it. And uh, you know, he
started the Polynesian pipeline here at Utah, which has proven
to be huge for the you know a huge part
of our success. And uh, just so good with the players,
and so good in the homes and with the parents,
and and he was just so genuine and and that

(44:02):
was really the thing that stood out for me when
I'd go on home business with him, is how genuine
he was. Now, how the parents just warmed up to
him right away.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
He helped re establish Utah on good firm. Oh yeah,
the program built the foundation that you urban and then
you have built upon from that. So he told me
he's going to have several hundred people friends.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
Fam Oh yeah, before he said we're going to be.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Partying for three days.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Coach mac is a he's a he's very popular and
very well liked, and uh, not only a good football coach,
but done so much for the university, the community and
still is he's still you know, out there and helping
high school kids and and his foundation and and he's
still very much involved and got his hand.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
In a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
So it's halftime on Saturday, So wait to go to
the bathroom or go get that extra drink or popcorn
or whatever, because Macenroy Jefferson will be honored. Coming up
at halftime, we'll take our final break. We'll come back,
take a quick spin around the Big twelve and get
Kyle's game keys or thoughts on the game. Final thoughts
of the game coming up. This is the Kyle Whittingham Show,
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Kyle Big twelve, first weekend? Did you get to watch
any football after your game?

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Not after the game, but well I did. I said, well,
the Sunday game was was that Florida Notre Dame in
game last night? Of course?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (46:01):
TCU. They looked good. T was explosive. They're athletic, their
physical Uh the quarterback kid lit A big fan of him.
He's a he's a tremendous quarterback. And and Sonny always
hasn't ready to play. So it didn't really surprise me
that game. To be honest with you, I knew that,
uh you know, TCU was probably a little chip on
their shoulder and was ready to to, uh you know,

(46:23):
get after it.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Sonny in fact said that himself. He said, Hey, there
was a lot of talk about this game, not.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
That one about them. Yeah exactly, they paid attention to that.
Yeah what they beat him by thirty or something was yeah,
thirty four. Yeah, my math is right anyway, And then uh,
let's see Saturday. You got to watch a little bit,
but I I can't remember who played who this week
in the Big four.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
You had you had Baylor that lost to on Friday.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
I did see if the series of that game.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Nebraska ended up beating he had a chance.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
They got a little They got a little impatient there
at the end and through that deep I thought they
could maneuver in for at least.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Kansas State skate. They got by North Dakota State with
a touchdown with twenty second and see that in the game.
I did hear that maybe a little hank Iowa State
looked good again. Big win. Yeah, I'll tell you who
else is all good as Kansas bag They beat Fresno
State a week ago. And I'll tell you what two
dynamic quarterbacks you've got one? Kansas got one too that
the Daniels kids pretty dynamic too, very similar to what
they like to do running through.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I saw rich Rod got to win. I can't remember
who it was.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, they Virgind in West Virginia beat somebody. So it
was mostly up for the big twelve years one.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Yeah, I would say, so.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
All right, what do you want to get done in
Week two?

Speaker 3 (47:35):
We want to continue to play efficiently on offense, clean game.
You know, I don't think we had a drop in
the game on Saturday, and so just continue to catch
the football, run the football, continue to be dominant up
front on the offensive line, and like I said, Chunkyard,
as you know, we got to be able to bust

(47:56):
some runs and get guys up to the third level
and help out those drives because it's like I said,
it's very difficult to consistently drive, you know, have touchdown
drives where you don't have at least some chunk yardage
in the drive. Then defensively, we've got to clean up
the tackling. We want to tackle better and be more
efficient just with tackling. And uh, that's that's our goals.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
That's all coming up on Saturday afternoon pregame coverage on
our flagship radio Home at noon with a four o'clock kickoff.
By the way, big shout out to the folks that
feed you guys, the coaching staff on the weekends.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Oh yeah, Cholo, they come through every week for us.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
And great Mexican food in sugar.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
House exactly exactly over on ninth.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Ninth East and.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Second.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
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southern California. Mexican family or Mexican food family brought the
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for us, for Kyle Whittingham, for Alonzo, for Lander, for Tarik,
for Jared Cump as well. I'm Bill Rynan. Thanks to
Porter Larsen too. We'll talk to your Saturday Formrycle Stadium.

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