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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Boded, Good Morning, Sands, Walk Money In. It's the Down
of Dirty with Scott Mitchell here on ESPN seven ninety
two one FM. It's a Tuesday, but it's kind of
like Monday because yesterday was Labor Day. That means that
the end of summer, it's all over with goodbye, farewell
until we meet again. Actually, summer goes on until September
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twenty second, so officially it's not over, but it's over. Actually,
it's over when the fat lady sings. That's what they
used to tell me. I don't know who she was
or what I never heard her. I never nothing. Ever,
Apparently that goes back to opera and when when the
fat opera singer comes and sings the big giant song,
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that means it's over because until then you don't know
you're listening. It just goes on and on and on
and on. Well, we're gonna do that. We're gonna go
on and on and on. Today we got a great show.
We really have a great show today and you don't
want to miss a moment of it. Because something happened
over the weekend and it was it was big, and
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it was about college football, about the University of Utah.
They made a statement and it's definitely our hot headline
of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
What's the opposite of cold does? And if you know that,
you also know Scott Mitchell doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Want to give you old cold headlines, no way, Hoday,
Scott has sports headlines that will have you say, let's
get to the hot headlines. On about down in dirty
on ESPN seven hundred ninety two one.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Am okay, I'm gonna give you headline.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And I wrote this down in my notebook.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
At the end of at the end of the game
when Utah very very convincingly handled UCLA last week, I
even said, I go, it just feels like it's going
to be a blowout, and it was. And I can't
say I was totally shocked. I can't say I was
shocked at all. I think the thing that probably I
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was shocked the most about was that everything that these
coaches and everything these players have been talking about at
the University of Utah since I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Maybe last spring.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's exactly how things played out, and I'm going to
get into that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But here here is hold your horses.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I hope you're sitting down hot, hot headline, and I'm
making it my own. Devin Dan Pierre should be considered
as a Heisman Trophy candidate, a serious one actually, And
the thing and I wrote it down and I just said, man,
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this guy, this was different, and he's different. There's something
bout him that's different. And I thought, well that's and
I was just I was going to keep it to myself.
I just wrote it down and wrote the date. The
whole thing. I can show you, take a picture of
it and show you. And I was gonna I was
gonna hold off on it. But I'm like, hmm, as
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I as I listened to a lot of the commentary
from people who have a significant influence in college football,
I'm like, yeah, the cat might be out of the bag.
I mean, this could be old news. I may be
stating something that a lot of folks have already had
a had a heydown. One of them was Pat McAfee,
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and Pat McAfee on his show yesterday says, look, I
was boy late Saturday night and there was still football
going on, you know, on the West coast, and Devin
dam Pierre and he went on and he was just
very complimentary of damn Pier and Utah in general. And
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then uh and and and I had thought this, but
Matt Liinert said this.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
He actually tweeted it out.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He says, Devin damp Pierre looks like Kyler Murray and
and I think that's a very fair that's a very
accurate statement. And that was a lot how Kyler Murray
was was just that man. You can't ever get to him.
You cannot, you cannot ever get to him. And uh
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and and you know, coach Whittingham actually said, Devin Dampier
is like a human highlight.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So there is my hot take.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Now we're going to dive in what we're going to
basically dive into college football a lot of a lot
about Utah because this this was this was a powerful
game and and uh and and it was a powerful
game simply because it's it's a it's a marquee matchup,
and the perception of how things go is what people
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see as reality. I don't know how good Utah really is.
It was their best opportunity in their non conference to
give you some indication of who they are. This wasn't
against you know, cal Paul Year, you know, Eastern Montana
State or whomever it was. It was a it was
a big ten opponent, one that is looking to do something,
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one who had a quarterback who is one of the
top rated quarterbacks in the country.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And he's good. He was very good. I was very
impressed with him.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But oh my goodness, and a lot of things that
we've talked about Utah across the board. Yeah, I mean,
you can just go every position except for one, and
but the one they didn't need. Now we'll get into
all that here in a minute, but here's what coach
Whittingham had to say in his weekly press conference about
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last Saturday's game against UCLA.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Coach, this feels different.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, it feels pretty good, and uh some of the alternatives.
And I was proud of our guys tonight, real proud.
And it didn't surprise me. I mean, uh, you know,
I do we expect to win like that, you no,
but but to play like that. We didn't like we
did an offense. You know, we didn't look at what
they did all spring long, and whole fall camp and
how hard they work and how Jason runs things over there.
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I mean it was really no surprise to me.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah what what What position group impressed you the most?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
There's so many life O line.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, there there was a lot of position groups that
stood out, but you got to single out the office line.
I mean, those guys controlled the land of scrimage from
start to finish of it.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Hey, Kyle Bill and Scott upstairs.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Hey, guysations.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, we watch a lot of college football and week
and zero in Week one, and even good teams can
be really sloppy. We've seen a lot of sloppy football
the last couple of weekends. You guys were not that
at all. What Why do you think this game was
so clean execution wise on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, I think it starts with the players work ethic
and the focus and concentration all through spring, all through
the summer, all through fall camp. This is a group
that really pays attention to detail. Jason Beck and his
crew on offense are really sticklers for that stuff, as
his coach Galley and his guys. And it was a
clean game as far as penalties, You're right, I don't
know when we have three penalties the whole game, three
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or four penalties, which in an opener.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Is pretty darn good.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
The thing that really stood out statistically is third down dominance.
You know, we dominated on third down on both sides
of the ball.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Kyle, you were fourteen of sixteen on I'm sorry, fourteen
of seventeen because the last one really didn't go it was.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
But.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You had.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
You were nine of ten on third down from one
to three yards. You were four or five on third
down from four to six yards, and you were one
for one on third down seven to nine yards. You
didn't have a third down of more than nine yards today. Cow.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
That's because of the efficiency of first and second down,
and that's that's, you know, another great job of calling
the offense, executing the offense. Devin Dampier, What a leader,
what a what a guy that just takes care of of,
you know, the football tonight and no turnovers. Almost unsackable.
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I guess you know he's so there's at some points
in Onet'll sack him. But but there's we got a
lot of things going force tonight. I had a lot
of things going force tonight. And again, the offense seemed
to be in a flow and in a rhythm from
drive one all the way through the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There was really no lolls, No, it was it was
just a dominant performance. I mean, I mean when you
you always expecting something not to go right, and it
was like literally every everything you said about this team
was exactly how they played.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Like isn't that always the case?
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, you know, you know it's not always the case,
Like there's always something that surprised you, is you every year?
And I think the surprise to me was it was
like it was just I don't think I've ever seen
seen this where it was just such a dominant performance
across the board from like you said, from start finish,
but really from both sides of the ball. Now everyone says
after you know, you make the biggest improvement from week
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one to week two, Where where does this team improve
from from what it did tonight?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, we had some special teams, miss cues, you know,
we missed the first extra point, missed a couple of kickoffs,
you know, put spray into the field where we're not
you know, we're very uh demanding on where we expect
those kickoffs to be placed. So there's work to do there.
Did had a little miscue with with Smith no one
of the kickoff returns where didn't feel the ball clean.
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They start on the four yard line. So most of
the work clean up and things that we can improve on.
We're on special teams at least at first glance. Now
when we watch the film, guarantee there'll be things to
show up that we got to do better and we'll
address it, trust me. And had some guys banged up
this week, but nothing hopefully extensive, and this is a
good week hopefully to get some guys healed up this
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coming week.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
You mentioned Smith, you said he would play on offense.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He did.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Barton as well and Jackson Benny. So how did you
feel like your two way guys fair tonight?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
They made a big contribution Jackson or Jackson Buttlander had
the touchdown reception. He did some good things blocking Benny.
Even though sometimes he may not get the ball, he's
taking the top off the coverages and he's got such
great speed he stretches the defense and opens things up
for other guys. And then Smith had the ball when
he had eight touches, seven or eight touches, nine touches
and then I've did a lot of good things with
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his touches.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You know, you talk about having players go, I'll play
both sides of the ball, and and there's only so
many practice reps there, you know, and and and you
have limited ways that you can practice this year. And
I'm sure it's it's different than you've dealt with in
the past. You know, how has that been for you
to kind of get your team ready and have to
continue to do it week after week? You know, managing
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kind of the tempo of practice, the reps and who
goes where and how and when and you know, how
do you handle all that?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, it's a work in progress. I think we're getting
better at it. And ready credit the offense defensive coordinator,
you know, Jason to Morgan for putting a plan together
every single day. And it's not just on the field,
it's meeting time that you have to to divide up.
And so so far they've done a really good job.
I think we'll get a really good idea going forward
as we gain more experience with it. What kind of
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pitch count those guys can handle and just try to
manage that. Then also, you got to be very conscientious
during the week. Now that we're in the season, you
can't ask these guys to practice the same as everybody
else because they have a heavier workload on game day,
and so something's got to give during the week where
we can preserve some energy and some and not you know,
take someone the wear and tear off them.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Kyle one area, I was very curious to see how
if we performed tonight. Was your front four and you
saw a lot of NASCAR tonight. I thought you got
good pressure on Yamali Ava four sacks. How did you
feel like your your your ends and your tackles performed
tonight with a lot of guys really getting their first
real big action.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Very proud of I thought they did a really nice job.
We lost Dallas Bakalahi there. He couldn't finish the game.
He should be okay in the long term, but we'll
see how long it takes to get him back. But
Aliki Va Mahi and Jodaala two stalwarts inside. I believe
Poopu is going to be really good number forty five.
I think he's got a huge upside, as does Carson
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Kafusi number fifty one, and then we got three other
d tackles that are freshmen that are that are going
to be up and combers as well that have high ceilings.
But but I thought we did a good job inside
on the edge. We got five guys that can play.
You know, Logan Funal's the headliner, he's the guy that
that is the most impactful. But John Henry Daily coming
off that other side, and it applied some good pressure.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Get two sacks tonight he did yep.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Had almost a strip sack. He was just a one
beat away from a strip sack. And then with Lance
Holtzklaw is doing a really nice job. We've got Cash Dylan,
who's he's going to be a superstar in the program.
You wait, he's just a freshman, but he's got it
all and he's just you know, he'll get better and better.
And then Paul Fitzgerald another guy that plays really good football.
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So so we got five deep there at the defensive
end that we really feel good about.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
How important was this game to you?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know, you always take them one at a time
and all that, but you know, the last couple of
years has been a challenge. You know, talked to some
of the players and they're like, we've had a bad
taste in our mouth, and I have to I just
I'm just curious. How good does this game feel? How
how how much does this mean to you and to
your team?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It feels great to me. I mean that last year
was very frustrating. And again it's only one game. We're
not to go professing to have all the answers and
and that we've arrived or anything like that. But we
we saw enough good things tonight that it's very encouraging.
I got a great group of players. They're they're great teammates.
They're they're more concerned with the team than they are themselves,
which is how it has to be. And that's that's.
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Uh you know, we have a mantra that, hey, you
need this team more than this team needs you, and
they have all bought into that, and you can see
it when they practice, you can see when they interact.
And uh so we got we had some good things
going tonight. But again we're not gonna get ahead of ourselves.
We've got, you know, big challenges ahead and we just
take them one at a time.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Kyle, congratulations, go enjoy this one. We'll talk to you
this week again. Thank you. Next weekend, I will enjoy
this one.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
All Right, well we go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, you have a coach at Kyle Whittingham. Of
course he was asked epic questions there by his interview
ease or interviewers.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I guess we're the interviewers.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh yeah, really really quite quite telling in so many ways,
and so let me just kind of break this down
for you. The question mark one of them was the
defensive line, and man where they phenomenal and they were
I mean John Henry Daily just was getting a push
and they and they it was so well coordinated, which
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which really did limit nico Ia Malaiava from actually getting going.
Everything that that UCLA was trying to do is just
very quick passes, just quick pass, quick quick, quick pass.
And then when they had to hold the ball longer,
there was a lot of pressure. It was a brilliant
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game plan defensively. But one of the question marks was
certainly the defense in the defensive line and really kind
of both said. You know, you got the defensive tackles,
which are the big boys inside, and then you got
the edge guys. And really, you know, people talked about this.
I mean I listened to Morgan Scalley way back in
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you know, the beginning of Camp and Bring, and he
talked about all these names that you heard about, and
he really really liked what what he was seeing from
these guys. And you know, it's it's fascinating when you
have you have a situation where the the product is
as advertised. I mean, we we look at we look
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at Alabama and it's scary, like they don't look like
Alabama of old. They don't look that good. And then
they talk a lot about Arch Manning and man, he
doesn't look really good. Uh. And we're going to get
into some of this later, but and then you look
at there's some real contenders in the Big twelve. It
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feels that way. H TCU put put a whooping on
on on Bill Belichick. I mean, it was, it was,
it was fascinating. So the one thing I mean, I mean,
there's a lot of things that really jumped out me
about this game, but it was that this is as advertised. Clearly,
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Smith Noden is a player that's going to play a
lot into what's happening at Utah, and they're they're asking
a lot of him right now. And that's that's We'll
see how that they manage that throughout the season and
if it becomes a distraction and if it if it
kind of limits his ceiling on what he can do
on on a certain side of the ball. But he
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touched it a lot and he was a big part
of what was actually happening, which was exciting, very fun
and uh and then the other question defensively is is
uh that one corner And Blake Cotton I thought played phenomenal.
We thought played really good. I mean the whole secondary play.
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They talked about Jackson Ben Jackson, Benny is more mostly
you know, he's a he's he's kind of a two
way player, but he's brutal, like he's blazingly flat fast
and uh, and you're gonna see a lot of wide
receiver out of him. And he certainly was involved with
the offense, but he's also in on defense as well.
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So all right, let's hear what Devin dan Pierre had
to say after the game.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Devin, man, I just from the jump, you guys just
looked so confident. I know this was your offense last year,
but like, how were you able to get everybody together
and look as good as you guys did tonight?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Yeah, you know, I tell my team that, you know,
practice does mean a lot, and we practice like it
is the game. So when you go into practice and
you know, you take it at that serious level where
it's game time. Just the comfortability that I had a
line has been holding up all week, receivers been getting open,
So that gives me a lot of confidence to go
in there. You know, know my team's gonna execute when
it comes down to the game.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Hey, Devin, bill Riley and Scott Mitchell upstairs, congratulations on
the win. They could have been a whole lot more.
Couldn't have been a whole lot more efficient on on offense,
throwing at twenty one to twenty five, two oh six
and two touches and and you ran at eighty seven
yards and had that touchdown as well. Where did you
feel most comfortable tonight? Because as you just said that,
you looked at home and obviously the offense is yours.
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But what what where did you feel most at home?
Did I Where did you feel most comfortable?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Yeah, you know, I I think, uh just I think
my coach you know, knows me very well, and uh
just you know, kind of the way we went about
things today. You know, obviously that made it very comfortable.
But my old line for sure. Everyone talks about you know,
the quarterbacks have a three second rule, and uh, you know,
today I felt like, you know, my my three second
rule was a little bit more extended.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Uh, being back there in the pocket.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
How do you practice being elusive?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like, I mean, because you were wearing you were wearing
me out tonight, watching you run around the field, You're
going left and right, right and left, and uh, like
I know it's just an intuitive and instinctive thing. But
but seriously, is it something you practice a lot during
the week or is it just kind of, Hey, I
just go with the flow during a game and just
kind of impro advice and it just it just comes instinctive.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Yeah, No, exactly extentive. Definitely get to God. For sure.
I could not explain how I could get in there
and just do that.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
But uh yeah, I'm very glad that I have that
power from him.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Devin. You know you'll you'll be hard on yourself, and
I know you'll want to watch the tape. Where where
do you think you can clean some things up in
a pretty clean game tonight? But where do you feel
like both yourself and this offense could be better next week.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Yeah, you know, I can always be just a little
bit quicker with just uh realizing coverage and just hitting
our hitting our reads a little bit more on time.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Our receivers do a great job of settling in windows.
Helps me out, but you know, just where I can
be more on time with those throws.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know, it seems like this is very similar to
the offense you were running at New Mexico. What what
has evolved or changed from going there to to Utah?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yeah? This again.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Yeah, the line when you have the line that can
you know, truly open up the gaps and hold hold
back there. A lot of our play calls are very efficient.
So you know, he shout outs to those boys up front.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Take him to dinner this week and and savor this
web a little bit. Wins are never easy, but winning
on the road against the good teams not either. So
enjoyed this with Devin. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right, there you have it, Devin Dampier. You know again,
one of the things that I really like about him
is you just you can tell kind of in his interview,
in his discussion that he's like, hey, you know, I
it's just he's just he's just he's just happy. You know,
he's just he's an outward facing person and that and
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that shows in the way he plays, It shows in
how how he how he is is like, you know,
just on the field, the whole thing. It's just so
impressive to watch. I mean that that performance by him
was electric, and it was it was quite amazing. It
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does kind of beg the question of you know, there's
there's one thing about nil right that you go, okay, well,
I you know, we're here. We we got to a
new team. But it's another thing to go to a
team with your offense and your coordinator. And I think
that's as big a move or smart move, a savvy
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move by coach Whittingham and this this team, because there's
there's not the same kind of ramp up period. You know,
you look at Nico Iamaliava and he's a talent, he's
amazingly talented, but in just sense that maybe he's not
one hundred percent gain comfortable with what he's doing. You
know it intellectually, you know it in practice, but you
don't know it in a game. And that's where Devin
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Dampierre really knows it now. I do want to talk about,
you know, because I there is a lot that you
can improve on in Coach Whittingham's certainly talk to the look,
we've got a lot of big games and we take
them one at a time, and that's a great way
to do it, and they do a wonderful job of
doing that, keeping people really focused in the moment. But man,
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I just get a sense that this team is going
to rise to a lot of these moments this year,
and there are a lot of big games and they're
getting bigger as we see kind of who these teams
really are that Utah is going to face this year.
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Speaker 10 (24:55):
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Speaker 4 (25:03):
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just the way you like it. Down and dirty. Of course,
that's sports and man What a what a great weekend,
What a fun game, fun thing to be a part of,
fun thing to watch if you're a Utah fan.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Really wow, what.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
A just just a special, special weekend. The cool part
about college football or the start of football season is
the it's the anticipation, right, It's the it's like Christmas
morning and you just get a rip open those presents
and you get to just go check it out and
find out what it's really like. And not every year
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it's like, oh man, you know, I didn't really want
that gift from my aunt, the bunny slippers and the
outfit that you know that that wasn't my vibe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
But I'm stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And that's kind of you know, sometimes you get those
disappointing moments or there's always a surprise, right, it never
ever ends up the way you think it does. And
I'm telling you this game was one of those like
pure magical moments where everything was just wow, and it
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was a statement game, and I just because there's not
there's not going to be another opportunity for a statement
game for Utah before the season starts, for the regular
season starts, and it's going to be a fun year
I mean, if this is if this is a preview
of coming attractions, this is going to be a fun year. Now.
I realize that every game is different and it's all
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unique in in and of itself, but the basic foundational
things that you like to see were there, and they
are there and you're just going to continue to see
them as the season goes.
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uh we got more postgame reaction we want to we
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want to dive into.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Let's listen to old Loganfano.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of course, Spencer offensive line and gets a lot of
public But Logan had a great game.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
The afore mentioned Logan Fano downstairs right now with sly
slot cap.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
How you doing man? First of all, you guys started
on a mission. Talk about the start of this game.
All off season.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You've been waiting, you know, Nico's coming in.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
What you guys are gonna have to do talk about
how you guys started this football game.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
I guess how much we respect Nico as a player.
He's a really good quarterback and they had a pretty
good old line. So our preparation all fall camp and
all offs has been to make sure that we put
the onus on us as a D line to get
after and help us win his game.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Hey, Logan, Bill Riley, and Scott Mitchell upstairs, congratulations on
the win tonight. You were feasting up brunch and a
couple of tackles for loss in the sack. But we
saw a lot of guys. I talked to you the
other night at the coaching show, and I was wondering,
we know what you are, but you got those young
guys who haven't you know, played a lot yet. But boy,
John Henry had himself game tonight. Two sacks, CARSONSI up
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front tonight. We saw a lot of the NASCAR package too.
So what did you make up your teammates up rount
with you?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Man?
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Yes, it goes back to that conversation we had, like
I know what I've seen from the boys and from
the D line especially, and I was just super excited
to see them put it on the field, and.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Man, they did it tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Last season was, you know, I think a huge disappointment
for all of us. How important was this first game
for you guys to come out and make a statement?
Because I mean really from the very beginning to the
end of the game, it was a massive statement that
you guys made.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So how important was this game for you guys to
do that?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I mean, I know for myself, I was asked a
lot of questions about how I felt about last season,
and I think a lot of the guys were and
over and over the question. The response that we gave was,
you know, left the bat taste in our mouth. We
don't want that to happen ever again. And so I
think tonight it was just, you know, proof that that's
really how we felt and we took our business.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So last year, Logan, you guys were on the field
a lot. We talked about that the other night too.
How about your offense tonight, giving you guys some rest
That one drive they had a twenty play drive that
took up nine and a half min off the clock.
It must be nice to be able to sit over
and they and they scored to most importantly, you guys
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got some time to get a breath over there.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It was insane. I felt like fresh legs the whole night.
It was crazy.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
And then just looking back and seeing dev dude to
another defense. What we've had to deal with for the
past six months has been awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
So you know, it's first game a lot of times,
and a lot of new players, you know, some new faces,
a defensive line trying to figure out some new players,
defensive tackles, some defensive ends, offense, a lot of new players.
But you guys were just sharp across the board on
both sides of the ball. What contributed to being just
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it looked like mid season form in the first game
of the season.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Just going again, I keep going back to last year.
We wanted to make sure, you know, we know anything
could happen at any moment, and we don't want to
feel those feelings that we had last year again and
we're really adamant about doing whatever we can to win
football games.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
What was the message from coach Wit to you guys
after the game and how did you feel about the
performance overall?
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Logan, I mean, he told us it was a hell
of a way to open the season, but know, if
that's beating UCLA was a.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Goal, but it's not the ultimate goal.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
And so we got more in front of us, and
we're gonna keep working to accomplish those goals that we
have for ourselves.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Well, it's good to see you back out there again,
and good to see all you guys on that d
line getting after tonight. Go enjoy the win. We'll talk
to you this week. Oh, I will appreciate you, Bill.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
There you have it, Logan Fano. He was one hundred
percent and you could see it. And you know, so
many good things in what he said and that you
should be excited about.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
And one is.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Kind of keeping this game in perspective and focus and
there every game has kind of its its meaning, right
and uh you know, non conference games have have a meaning,
uh and and they're they're also there are games that
you have during the season that changed the course of
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where things go. They just do Utah was four and oh,
four and oh last year headed into uh, you know play.
They just won their first conference game against Oklahoma State
at Oklahoma State. So they're one and oh in the conference.
They're looking great, and they got Arizona at home and
they lose and man, that that just took that took
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the air out of the building. They should not have
lost that game, not not in a million years. And uh,
you know, it shouldn't that shouldn't even have been a
close game.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It was and it you know, and they and they
unfortunately lost it in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
But these games have meetings and and this one had
a meeting and they had to make a statement today
last night because if they if they don't, then you're
you're you know, then then all the questions in your
mind are are just running rampant.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I I saw some things online about, you know, the
frustration with cam Rising the last couple of years and
seeing how what this team could have been, uh and
and kind of where he was and and I think
the feeling is that, you know, he wasn't any good,
he knew he wasn't any good, and and uh, you know,
he just kind of maybe took advantage of of the
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school and and I don't, I don't, I don't. I
hope that's not the case. Think it's the case because
Cam Rising did some amazing things for the school. So
but we can talk about more in depth about Cam
rising at another time, because right now isn't the time
for that. But what it does is these games make
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a statement and there's a there's a purpose to them,
and you wanted to see a lot of things that
you saw, and you and these players need to get
out on the field, and you know, Logan's is nice
to go have to deal with someone else and not
Devin Dan Pierre and and so that was accomplished and
and that was great. But then at the very end,
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and Coach Whittingham, of course, he alluded to this as well,
you know, it's just one game, it's not the end prize.
It's very important in our progression. It could be one
of those, you know, really jumpstart type of games, but
it's it's it's certainly not not where we ultimately want
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to be with everything. Let's let's listen to Smith Noden
hearing what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Offensive output coming from where's all that? I feel like
I covered you in high school and I ain't see
all this. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (35:11):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
I guess coach had seen some type of ability to
give me an opportunity, and I'm just grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
We don't ask questions, you just go.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
He's team player, man.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
So how'd you feel out there with the offensive game plan,
the looks that you get, the calls that are.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Going your way.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
What is your comfortability and how do you feel about that? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (35:31):
I felt comfortable out there. It was I was really
able to just have some fun out there. I feel
like before the game, my pregame Butterflies, they were coming
more for offense rather than defense. So just getting out
there and getting that first play out the way, I
was like, oh, yeah, I'm we good.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Let's go nice Hey Smith, Bill Riley and Scott Mitchell upstairs. Congratulations.
Six catches fifty one, three carries, fifteen and a touchdown.
I knew you had a package and we're gonna see you.
I think there was a I don't think you got
on the field defensively for at least three drives. Did
you get offense early?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
Can you believe it? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
I was just blessed that we were able to take
care of business really, so I didn't have to, you
know what I'm saying, be out there.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
So, how how does that work during the week? You know,
how much time do you spend with the offense and
the defense and is it you know what what kind
of challenges that for you?
Speaker 11 (36:27):
Yeah, practice is kind of just like game.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
I'm with defense obviously most of the time, but there's
some periods that I'm gonna go over with offense and
they're gonna you fail me. Coach me up and just
get me prepared for the week coming.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
We were talking about this throughout the broadcast, but how
much fun is this offense to play in? Smith?
Speaker 11 (36:47):
I mean, you guys can see it.
Speaker 12 (36:49):
It's it's an electric We have a bunch of electric
guys and with scheme man Coach beck Is is a
genius and tonight really just showed that it's it was awesome,
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Uh, it was definitely a statement game. What I'm just
curious why why did you guys? What? What what led
I guess to you guys playing so clean? Uh? Really
for for the entire.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
Game, I think it's exactly what you said. It was
a statement game.
Speaker 12 (37:15):
Uh, kind of going off of last year, wasn't how
we wanted to be and to kind of show the
country and show everybody that this Utah football team is
back and we're ready to roll.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Well, hey, go enjoy this one. Tonight. Go watch those highlights.
That was It was fun to watch out there. I
know you see a little more on defense probably moving forward,
but that was fun tonight.
Speaker 11 (37:35):
Smith congratulator, Yes, sir, means a lot. I'll see you
guys later.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Are they having smith Snton boy?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
He he did a lot and he's.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Going to have an impact.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And I just think games and scenarios they're going to
have to, you know, juggle where where.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
He ends up.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But when you have a player like that, you want
to where do you find touches?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
You know, it's the kickoffs? Is it on offense?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And they were they were pretty good about when he
was in the game, he was going to touch the
football and and uh, you know and and and you
want to have that, you know, just you want to
get your swings at bat and if you do, then
you're you know, that's that's when you're really going to have.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Uh you're going to see the production.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
But it's also going to come on the other side
of the ball, because there were a lot of times
where where he was not a part of the defense
and he wasn't out there, and I'm sure that's uh,
these coaches managed it. And you have to see it right,
and I think he said it. He says, look, you know,
we were handling our business on defense, and so there
wasn't as much of a need for me to be
over there. Uh And and it was a good opportunity
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for him to get confident and and get touches offensively,
which which I absolutely loved. So Smith is going to
be a fun one to watch. All Right, We're gonna
take a break. We come back, so much more to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Get a little call reaction here before we wrap up
the show. It's the Down and Dirty with Scott MITCHELLI SPA.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's the Down and Dirty with Scott Mitchell on your
Home of the Youths ESPN seven hundred at ninety two
to one a f am.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
It was sports and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
It's the Down of Dirty Scott Mitchel here on ESPN
seven hundred ninety two nf you touched number one sports
talk and Home of the Utes, and of course the
Utes showed up in a big fashion over the weekend.
Fun to be a part of, fun to watch, and
clearly one of those powerful games. And it's just it's
just fascinating how the world of sports acts and responds
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in how they they'd look at things and they just
go they make they make a determination based off of
what they see and what they perceive. One of the
things that's challenging in the first week of the season
is it's the first week of the season, and teams
are going to get better, teams are going to get worse.
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It's not it's not completely indicative of how a season starts,
and sometimes it is. I just feel like what we
saw with the Utah on Saturday night was who they are.
I don't I don't think they know how to be
anything else. And they have they have enough. I mean
there are people say Utah is a legitimate playoff contending.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Contender. I mean that that's kind of where they are.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
And I'll tell you I was a little bit a
little bit concerned coming out of spring football because I
wasn't overly like, oh wow, this is exciting.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I was like whow. But I you know, I also
don't want to overreact to this game as well.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Every again, every week is different and they're all different,
and coach Whittingham has been around long enough to know
and to deal with, you know, taking care of business
every week.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
One of the things I liked about this game a
lot is.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
They didn't sit on a lead like they clearly the
game was in hand. I think they were up thirty
to ten, and I want to say maybe the start
of the fourth quarter and they're throwing the ball, they're
they're just out there just executing, calling plays and doing
their thing. And it's really why the game was forty
three to ten. So so many times you'll see these
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Utah games be twenty seven to seventeen by the end
of it. That there's just this lull, there's this let up,
there's this something. And to develop that killer instinct is
huge because it's it's all about creating, you know, habits
that are are that result in success and you and
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which is which is what this week is. This week
is about just taking care of your opponent, just as
if it's any other opponent. Because they should just blow
the roof off of off.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Of this cow poly team next week. They absolutely should.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
And so we'll see, we'll see, you know, how it
how it plays up. But it's going to be another
tail tale sign about where this team is, how mature
it is, how focused, how kind of into it that
they really are, because there's a lot of praise being
heaped on Utah big time. I mean across the country.
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I mean it's not it's not local people, it's people
all over the place that are talking that that that
game was, which it was just impressive.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
It is like it was like U. C.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
L A.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Wasn't even on the field and.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
They they they aren't without talent. This is not a
you know, this is this that they got something there?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
How much? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I mean it's it's hard, and you see, you know, defensively,
they're they're basically reached. You know, they're starting over, and
so is Utah. Again, I I can't I can't tell
you how easy or how much easier it is when
you have a system that you already know.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
It's so hard to go like like you know the system, okay,
you you spend enough time in meetings and practice and
you go, I got this. Games are different Devin Dampier
when he said, look, I don't know what I do
in a game. I just I just have this gift.
I have this ability. I just I can do this.
And it's true. I just you know, you and here
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here's you kind of look around college football and there's
so some interesting things that happened that kind of make
you question, you know, some of the statements people make.
And one of the things I think UH is starting
to emerge is that there's a significant amount of Big
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twelve teams that are serious contenders. So you have Iowa State,
you have Arizona State. You know, maybe Texas Tech is
a team TCU just I mean annihilated on the road.
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UNC and Bill Belichick and they're they're a team that
wasn't half bad before and and it's kind of one
of those you know, they were in the college football
playoffs a couple of years ago, so they're they're not
chump change. And of course you have Utah and and
maybe I don't know where BUYU is because they still
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have a freshman quarterback, but they're they're going to compete.
They they're going to show up. I mean, this isn't
a this isn't a Charlie chump changed team at b YU.
They've they've they've you know, so you've got h am
I missing anyone.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Martin.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I'm trying to think of if there's a team, you know,
maybe Kansas, I mean Kansas is Jade Daniels is a
is A is a player. Uh yeah, I mentioned Iowa State.
You know, I don't know where Kansas State is. But
you know, because they were one team that really looked
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like it was going to be a serious contender.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
The point is is, there's this year. It looks like
the Big twelve has.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Some legitimate teams in it, and and and it's not
one team. And then you look at you look at
the SEC, and you look at Texas. They looked yeah,
I mean they were the number one ranked team in
the country. Like watching Texas and Ohio State, I wasn't
sitting there going, boy, this is exciting. These teams are
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just really you know, and and but again it's the
first game of the season and an arch Manning, you know,
had had the pressure of the world on him, and
he's a Manning and they usually handle that well. But
he didn't. He didn't play well. He didn't look like
a guy, you know, seasoned and ready to go. And
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you know, Texas, I don't know, Texas doesn't look good.
And neither did Ohio State, by the way, And so
here's kind of the cream of the crop of these
two conferences. And I don't know, I mean, maybe Penn
State might be the team this year, maybe you know,
who knows, Maybe it's maybe it's Penn State's year. But
the point is is that it's it's not the same
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teams every year, and so these preseason polls are stupid
and and people go, well, it's not a big deal
because it only matters when the when the college football
playoff poll. And I believe it matters, and I believe
it matters from perspect perception, right because after this first
week of the season, all of a sudden, we play games,
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and now our whole perspective, our whole perception changes. Alabama's
not very good, nick, I mean, Caylin de Boor all
of a sudden is on the hot seat and he's
a really good coach, but but they don't look good
and he's not doing a good job right there. And
then you have Florida State that was like down and out.
I mean, they could hardly win a game a year ago,
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and and they're they're looking like a world beeg and
and again it's still way early. Now Miami is a contender,
and we don't know about Notre Dame. We have no idea.
But the point of all of it is it's it's
the that these polls come out and they and they
base it off of assumptions. They base it off of
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last year's production, returning production, they base it off of recruiting,
and you just don't know how recruits are gonna are
going to pan out.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
You have no idea, no idea.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I mean, the team, you know, Texas A and M
should win every year based off of how they recruited,
and they're horrible and they've been horrible, and so so
what happens is when when people talk about college football
when they're watching college football, because people tune into college
game day, they tune in and so they're they're watching
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games throughout the day, so they it all starts on
the East Coast most of the time, and so you
get you just get information about the teams that are
in the top twenty five. They don't sit and talk
about if you're unranked. They don't go, oh yeah, this
unranked team and they're really there. And that's why being
ranked and being ranked high because right now Arizona State
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is the team like it's like right now, everyone just goes, well,
that's that's the only team in the in the Big twelve.
And then uh, if Arizona State flounders and they have
a mix up, they're gone. And then and then guess
what else is gone? The whole Big twelve for the year,
because it's like, well, the only team you have on
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your in your in your conference is is Arizona State.
And a year ago, no one thought about Arizona State.
And and but it's an opportunity because everyone's talking about
them now so that the perception is they're the team.
And what you need to have is the conversation really
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needs to be we don't talk about anyone right now.
Let's get through our non conference and then we'll go, oh,
look at look at who? Look who really looks like
there's something in in the Big twelve. And then then
you then you really evaluate it or or play hard
games all the way through your whole schedule, and you'll
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have you'll have a better idea.
Speaker 4 (49:58):
But so Utah, I don't know if the rankings have
come out yet, but.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
But they're gonna get they might pop into the top
twenty five. There's there's a likelihood they will because it
was massively impressive. They're going it was that impressive that
it would get them in. And but they're they're gonna
be They're not going to be like eleven. They're not
going to be in the top fifteen. And so they're
gonna have to work and continue to work and continue
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to work.
Speaker 4 (50:27):
They may get in the top.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
You know, top fifteen to twenty by the time they
if they if they win all their non conferences, they
got two of those, they beat Texas Tech, and then
they're gonna play Then they go to West Virginia. They
could they could have been in the top fifteen if
they if they continue to win and look impressive winning.
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But then then they're playing Arizona State and that'll be
a huge game. That could be a college college game
day game if it goes right. But I don't know,
we'll see anyways. But then you have like, uh, so
you have all these teams that are that are really good,
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supposed to be really good, and then you have these
teams that are you know, it's it's like like Deon
Sanders in Colorado looked horrible. Like they I mean, I
don't want to say they look horrible, but they're at
home and then and they they should have showed out
and showed up so much better than they did. And
I I get. I get the whole thing. I understand
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it's just the first week. We don't want to but
we have to react to it because that's part of sports,
is like you know, you react to what the people
did on the on the field. You don't react to
what your opinion of what you think they are. You know,
this whole subjectiveness which is it is I hate the word.
I think it should be banned from college football. Yeah,
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here's another interesting thing. Oklahoma State and I believe Oregon
play and and Mike Gunny goes man, I would love
to have the budget they have at Oregon and no
one has it better maybe in the country than Oregon.
I I don't, I I would. I would like to
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see who it is if they do. And they've just
gone all in. They just said we're going to go
all in on this and they do and guess what
it produces results? And the coach, Dan Lanning, he didn't
bat an Eyeli. She goes, hey, we we spend to win.
That's our that's what we do, and we're not. You know,
if if you're going to be a top ten program
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in the country, that's what you're gonna have to do.
You're gonna have to spend. So that's the name of
the game in college football, spending to win. That's what
we're gonna do. Let me tell you about my h
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and on. Well, we're gonna do that. We're gonna go
on and on and on. Today we got a great show.
We really have a great show today and you don't
want to miss a moment of it. Because something happened
over the weekend and it was it was big, and
(01:22):
it was about college football, about the University of Utah.
They made a statement and it's definitely our hot headline
of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
What's the opposite of cold does? And if you know that,
you also know Scott Mitchell doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Want to give you old cold headlines, no way, Hoday,
Scott has sports headlines that will have you say, let's
get to the hot headlines. On about down in dirty
on ESPN seven hundred ninety two one.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Am okay, I'm gonna give you headline.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And I wrote this down in my notebook.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
At the end of at the end of the game
when Utah very very convincingly handled UCLA last week, I
even said, I go, it just feels like it's going
to be a blowout, and it was. And I can't
say I was totally shocked. I can't say I was
shocked at all. I think the thing that probably I
(02:26):
was shocked the most about was that everything that these
coaches and everything these players have been talking about at
the University of Utah since I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Maybe last spring.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's exactly how things played out, and I'm going to
get into that.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But here here is hold your horses.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I hope you're sitting down hot, hot headline, and I'm
making it my own. Devin Dan Pierre should be considered
as a Heisman Trophy candidate, a serious one actually, And
the thing and I wrote it down and I just said, man,
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this guy, this was different, and he's different. There's something
bout him that's different. And I thought, well that's and
I was just I was going to keep it to myself.
I just wrote it down and wrote the date. The
whole thing. I can show you, take a picture of
it and show you. And I was gonna I was
gonna hold off on it. But I'm like, hmm, as
(03:30):
I as I listened to a lot of the commentary
from people who have a significant influence in college football,
I'm like, yeah, the cat might be out of the bag.
I mean, this could be old news. I may be
stating something that a lot of folks have already had
a had a heydown. One of them was Pat McAfee,
(03:55):
and Pat McAfee on his show yesterday says, look, I
was boy late Saturday night and there was still football
going on, you know, on the West coast, and Devin
dam Pierre and he went on and he was just
very complimentary of damn Pier and Utah in general. And
(04:17):
then uh and and and I had thought this, but
Matt Liinert said this.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
He actually tweeted it out.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He says, Devin damp Pierre looks like Kyler Murray and
and I think that's a very fair that's a very
accurate statement. And that was a lot how Kyler Murray
was was just that man. You can't ever get to him.
You cannot, you cannot ever get to him. And uh
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and and you know, coach Whittingham actually said, Devin Dampier
is like a human highlight.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So there is my hot take.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Now we're going to dive in what we're going to
basically dive into college football a lot of a lot
about Utah because this this was this was a powerful
game and and uh and and it was a powerful
game simply because it's it's a it's a marquee matchup,
and the perception of how things go is what people
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see as reality. I don't know how good Utah really is.
It was their best opportunity in their non conference to
give you some indication of who they are. This wasn't
against you know, cal Paul Year, you know, Eastern Montana
State or whomever it was. It was a it was
a big ten opponent, one that is looking to do something,
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one who had a quarterback who is one of the
top rated quarterbacks in the country.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And he's good. He was very good. I was very
impressed with him.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But oh my goodness, and a lot of things that
we've talked about Utah across the board. Yeah, I mean,
you can just go every position except for one, and
but the one they didn't need. Now we'll get into
all that here in a minute, but here's what coach
Whittingham had to say in his weekly press conference about
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last Saturday's game against UCLA.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Coach, this feels different.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, it feels pretty good, and uh some of the alternatives.
And I was proud of our guys tonight, real proud.
And it didn't surprise me. I mean, uh, you know,
I do we expect to win like that, you no,
but but to play like that. We didn't like we
did an offense. You know, we didn't look at what
they did all spring long, and whole fall camp and
how hard they work and how Jason runs things over there.
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I mean it was really no surprise to me.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah what what What position group impressed you the most?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
There's so many life O line.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, there there was a lot of position groups that
stood out, but you got to single out the office line.
I mean, those guys controlled the land of scrimage from
start to finish of it.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Hey, Kyle Bill and Scott upstairs.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Hey, guysations.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, we watch a lot of college football and week
and zero in Week one, and even good teams can
be really sloppy. We've seen a lot of sloppy football
the last couple of weekends. You guys were not that
at all. What Why do you think this game was
so clean execution wise on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, I think it starts with the players work ethic
and the focus and concentration all through spring, all through
the summer, all through fall camp. This is a group
that really pays attention to detail. Jason Beck and his
crew on offense are really sticklers for that stuff, as
his coach Galley and his guys. And it was a
clean game as far as penalties, You're right, I don't
know when we have three penalties the whole game, three
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or four penalties, which in an opener.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Is pretty darn good.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
The thing that really stood out statistically is third down dominance.
You know, we dominated on third down on both sides
of the ball.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Kyle, you were fourteen of sixteen on I'm sorry, fourteen
of seventeen because the last one really didn't go it was.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
But.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You had.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
You were nine of ten on third down from one
to three yards. You were four or five on third
down from four to six yards, and you were one
for one on third down seven to nine yards. You
didn't have a third down of more than nine yards today. Cow.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
That's because of the efficiency of first and second down,
and that's that's, you know, another great job of calling
the offense, executing the offense. Devin Dampier, What a leader,
what a what a guy that just takes care of of,
you know, the football tonight and no turnovers. Almost unsackable.
(08:39):
I guess you know he's so there's at some points
in Onet'll sack him. But but there's we got a
lot of things going force tonight. I had a lot
of things going force tonight. And again, the offense seemed
to be in a flow and in a rhythm from
drive one all the way through the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
There was really no lolls, No, it was it was
just a dominant performance. I mean, I mean when you
you always expecting something not to go right, and it
was like literally every everything you said about this team
was exactly how they played.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Like isn't that always the case?
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Everything?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, you know, you know it's not always the case,
Like there's always something that surprised you, is you every year?
And I think the surprise to me was it was
like it was just I don't think I've ever seen
seen this where it was just such a dominant performance
across the board from like you said, from start finish,
but really from both sides of the ball. Now everyone says
after you know, you make the biggest improvement from week
(09:32):
one to week two, Where where does this team improve
from from what it did tonight?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, we had some special teams, miss cues, you know,
we missed the first extra point, missed a couple of kickoffs,
you know, put spray into the field where we're not
you know, we're very uh demanding on where we expect
those kickoffs to be placed. So there's work to do there.
Did had a little miscue with with Smith no one
of the kickoff returns where didn't feel the ball clean.
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They start on the four yard line. So most of
the work clean up and things that we can improve on.
We're on special teams at least at first glance. Now
when we watch the film, guarantee there'll be things to
show up that we got to do better and we'll
address it, trust me. And had some guys banged up
this week, but nothing hopefully extensive, and this is a
good week hopefully to get some guys healed up this
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coming week.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
You mentioned Smith, you said he would play on offense.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He did.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Barton as well and Jackson Benny. So how did you
feel like your two way guys fair tonight?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
They made a big contribution Jackson or Jackson Buttlander had
the touchdown reception. He did some good things blocking Benny.
Even though sometimes he may not get the ball, he's
taking the top off the coverages and he's got such
great speed he stretches the defense and opens things up
for other guys. And then Smith had the ball when
he had eight touches, seven or eight touches, nine touches
and then I've did a lot of good things with
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his touches.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You know, you talk about having players go, I'll play
both sides of the ball, and and there's only so
many practice reps there, you know, and and and you
have limited ways that you can practice this year. And
I'm sure it's it's different than you've dealt with in
the past. You know, how has that been for you
to kind of get your team ready and have to
continue to do it week after week? You know, managing
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kind of the tempo of practice, the reps and who
goes where and how and when and you know, how
do you handle all that?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, it's a work in progress. I think we're getting
better at it. And ready credit the offense defensive coordinator,
you know, Jason to Morgan for putting a plan together
every single day. And it's not just on the field,
it's meeting time that you have to to divide up.
And so so far they've done a really good job.
I think we'll get a really good idea going forward
as we gain more experience with it. What kind of
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pitch count those guys can handle and just try to
manage that. Then also, you got to be very conscientious
during the week. Now that we're in the season, you
can't ask these guys to practice the same as everybody
else because they have a heavier workload on game day,
and so something's got to give during the week where
we can preserve some energy and some and not you know,
take someone the wear and tear off them.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Kyle one area, I was very curious to see how
if we performed tonight. Was your front four and you
saw a lot of NASCAR tonight. I thought you got
good pressure on Yamali Ava four sacks. How did you
feel like your your your ends and your tackles performed
tonight with a lot of guys really getting their first
real big action.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Very proud of I thought they did a really nice job.
We lost Dallas Bakalahi there. He couldn't finish the game.
He should be okay in the long term, but we'll
see how long it takes to get him back. But
Aliki Va Mahi and Jodaala two stalwarts inside. I believe
Poopu is going to be really good number forty five.
I think he's got a huge upside, as does Carson
(12:46):
Kafusi number fifty one, and then we got three other
d tackles that are freshmen that are that are going
to be up and combers as well that have high ceilings.
But but I thought we did a good job inside
on the edge. We got five guys that can play.
You know, Logan Funal's the headliner, he's the guy that
that is the most impactful. But John Henry Daily coming
off that other side, and it applied some good pressure.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Get two sacks tonight he did yep.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Had almost a strip sack. He was just a one
beat away from a strip sack. And then with Lance
Holtzklaw is doing a really nice job. We've got Cash Dylan,
who's he's going to be a superstar in the program.
You wait, he's just a freshman, but he's got it
all and he's just you know, he'll get better and better.
And then Paul Fitzgerald another guy that plays really good football.
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So so we got five deep there at the defensive
end that we really feel good about.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
How important was this game to you?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know, you always take them one at a time
and all that, but you know, the last couple of
years has been a challenge. You know, talked to some
of the players and they're like, we've had a bad
taste in our mouth, and I have to I just
I'm just curious. How good does this game feel? How
how how much does this mean to you and to
your team?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It feels great to me. I mean that last year
was very frustrating. And again it's only one game. We're
not to go professing to have all the answers and
and that we've arrived or anything like that. But we
we saw enough good things tonight that it's very encouraging.
I got a great group of players. They're they're great teammates.
They're they're more concerned with the team than they are themselves,
which is how it has to be. And that's that's.
(14:15):
Uh you know, we have a mantra that, hey, you
need this team more than this team needs you, and
they have all bought into that, and you can see
it when they practice, you can see when they interact.
And uh so we got we had some good things
going tonight. But again we're not gonna get ahead of ourselves.
We've got, you know, big challenges ahead and we just
take them one at a time.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Kyle, congratulations, go enjoy this one. We'll talk to you
this week again. Thank you. Next weekend, I will enjoy
this one.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
All Right, well we go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, you have a coach at Kyle Whittingham. Of
course he was asked epic questions there by his interview
ease or interviewers.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I guess we're the interviewers.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh yeah, really really quite quite telling in so many ways,
and so let me just kind of break this down
for you. The question mark one of them was the
defensive line, and man where they phenomenal and they were
I mean John Henry Daily just was getting a push
and they and they it was so well coordinated, which
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which really did limit nico Ia Malaiava from actually getting going.
Everything that that UCLA was trying to do is just
very quick passes, just quick pass, quick quick, quick pass.
And then when they had to hold the ball longer,
there was a lot of pressure. It was a brilliant
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game plan defensively. But one of the question marks was
certainly the defense in the defensive line and really kind
of both said. You know, you got the defensive tackles,
which are the big boys inside, and then you got
the edge guys. And really, you know, people talked about this.
I mean I listened to Morgan Scalley way back in
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you know, the beginning of Camp and Bring, and he
talked about all these names that you heard about, and
he really really liked what what he was seeing from
these guys. And you know, it's it's fascinating when you
have you have a situation where the the product is
as advertised. I mean, we we look at we look
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at Alabama and it's scary, like they don't look like
Alabama of old. They don't look that good. And then
they talk a lot about Arch Manning and man, he
doesn't look really good. Uh. And we're going to get
into some of this later, but and then you look
at there's some real contenders in the Big twelve. It
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feels that way. H TCU put put a whooping on
on on Bill Belichick. I mean, it was, it was,
it was fascinating. So the one thing I mean, I mean,
there's a lot of things that really jumped out me
about this game, but it was that this is as advertised. Clearly,
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Smith Noden is a player that's going to play a
lot into what's happening at Utah, and they're they're asking
a lot of him right now. And that's that's We'll
see how that they manage that throughout the season and
if it becomes a distraction and if it if it
kind of limits his ceiling on what he can do
on on a certain side of the ball. But he
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touched it a lot and he was a big part
of what was actually happening, which was exciting, very fun
and uh and then the other question defensively is is
uh that one corner And Blake Cotton I thought played phenomenal.
We thought played really good. I mean the whole secondary play.
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They talked about Jackson Ben Jackson, Benny is more mostly
you know, he's a he's he's kind of a two
way player, but he's brutal, like he's blazingly flat fast
and uh, and you're gonna see a lot of wide
receiver out of him. And he certainly was involved with
the offense, but he's also in on defense as well.
(18:11):
So all right, let's hear what Devin dan Pierre had
to say after the game.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Devin, man, I just from the jump, you guys just
looked so confident. I know this was your offense last year,
but like, how were you able to get everybody together
and look as good as you guys did tonight?
Speaker 10 (18:28):
Yeah, you know, I tell my team that, you know,
practice does mean a lot, and we practice like it
is the game. So when you go into practice and
you know, you take it at that serious level where
it's game time. Just the comfortability that I had a
line has been holding up all week, receivers been getting open,
So that gives me a lot of confidence to go
in there. You know, know my team's gonna execute when
it comes down to the game.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Hey, Devin, bill Riley and Scott Mitchell upstairs, congratulations on
the win. They could have been a whole lot more.
Couldn't have been a whole lot more efficient on on offense,
throwing at twenty one to twenty five, two oh six
and two touches and and you ran at eighty seven
yards and had that touchdown as well. Where did you
feel most comfortable tonight? Because as you just said that,
you looked at home and obviously the offense is yours.
(19:11):
But what what where did you feel most at home?
Did I Where did you feel most comfortable?
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Yeah, you know, I I think, uh just I think
my coach you know, knows me very well, and uh
just you know, kind of the way we went about
things today. You know, obviously that made it very comfortable.
But my old line for sure. Everyone talks about you know,
the quarterbacks have a three second rule, and uh, you know,
today I felt like, you know, my my three second
rule was a little bit more extended.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Uh, being back there in the pocket.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
How do you practice being elusive?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like, I mean, because you were wearing you were wearing
me out tonight, watching you run around the field, You're
going left and right, right and left, and uh, like
I know it's just an intuitive and instinctive thing. But
but seriously, is it something you practice a lot during
the week or is it just kind of, Hey, I
just go with the flow during a game and just
kind of impro advice and it just it just comes instinctive.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Yeah, No, exactly extentive. Definitely get to God. For sure.
I could not explain how I could get in there
and just do that.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
But uh yeah, I'm very glad that I have that
power from him.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Devin. You know you'll you'll be hard on yourself, and
I know you'll want to watch the tape. Where where
do you think you can clean some things up in
a pretty clean game tonight? But where do you feel
like both yourself and this offense could be better next week.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Yeah, you know, I can always be just a little
bit quicker with just uh realizing coverage and just hitting
our hitting our reads a little bit more on time.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Our receivers do a great job of settling in windows.
Helps me out, but you know, just where I can
be more on time with those throws.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know, it seems like this is very similar to
the offense you were running at New Mexico. What what
has evolved or changed from going there to to Utah?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yeah? This again.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Yeah, the line when you have the line that can
you know, truly open up the gaps and hold hold
back there. A lot of our play calls are very efficient.
So you know, he shout outs to those boys up front.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Take him to dinner this week and and savor this
web a little bit. Wins are never easy, but winning
on the road against the good teams not either. So
enjoyed this with Devin. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right, there you have it, Devin Dampier. You know again,
one of the things that I really like about him
is you just you can tell kind of in his interview,
in his discussion that he's like, hey, you know, I
it's just he's just he's just he's just happy. You know,
he's just he's an outward facing person and that and
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that shows in the way he plays, It shows in
how how he how he is is like, you know,
just on the field, the whole thing. It's just so
impressive to watch. I mean that that performance by him
was electric, and it was it was quite amazing. It
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does kind of beg the question of you know, there's
there's one thing about nil right that you go, okay, well,
I you know, we're here. We we got to a
new team. But it's another thing to go to a
team with your offense and your coordinator. And I think
that's as big a move or smart move, a savvy
(22:28):
move by coach Whittingham and this this team, because there's
there's not the same kind of ramp up period. You know,
you look at Nico Iamaliava and he's a talent, he's
amazingly talented, but in just sense that maybe he's not
one hundred percent gain comfortable with what he's doing. You
know it intellectually, you know it in practice, but you
don't know it in a game. And that's where Devin
(22:50):
Dampierre really knows it now. I do want to talk about,
you know, because I there is a lot that you
can improve on in Coach Whittingham's certainly talk to the look,
we've got a lot of big games and we take
them one at a time, and that's a great way
to do it, and they do a wonderful job of
doing that, keeping people really focused in the moment. But man,
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I just get a sense that this team is going
to rise to a lot of these moments this year,
and there are a lot of big games and they're
getting bigger as we see kind of who these teams
really are that Utah is going to face this year.
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just the way you like it. Down and dirty. Of course,
that's sports and man What a what a great weekend,
What a fun game, fun thing to be a part of,
fun thing to watch if you're a Utah fan.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Really wow, what.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
A just just a special, special weekend. The cool part
about college football or the start of football season is
the it's the anticipation, right, It's the it's like Christmas
morning and you just get a rip open those presents
and you get to just go check it out and
find out what it's really like. And not every year
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it's like, oh man, you know, I didn't really want
that gift from my aunt, the bunny slippers and the
outfit that you know that that wasn't my vibe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
But I'm stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And that's kind of you know, sometimes you get those
disappointing moments or there's always a surprise, right, it never
ever ends up the way you think it does. And
I'm telling you this game was one of those like
pure magical moments where everything was just wow, and it
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was a statement game, and I just because there's not
there's not going to be another opportunity for a statement
game for Utah before the season starts, for the regular
season starts, and it's going to be a fun year
I mean, if this is if this is a preview
of coming attractions, this is going to be a fun year. Now.
I realize that every game is different and it's all
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unique in in and of itself, but the basic foundational
things that you like to see were there, and they
are there and you're just going to continue to see
them as the season goes.
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So a lot, a lot to be excited about.
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uh we got more postgame reaction we want to we
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want to dive into.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Let's listen to old Loganfano.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Of course, Spencer offensive line and gets a lot of
public But Logan had a great game.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
The afore mentioned Logan Fano downstairs right now with sly
slot cap.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
How you doing man? First of all, you guys started
on a mission. Talk about the start of this game.
All off season.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You've been waiting, you know, Nico's coming in.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
What you guys are gonna have to do talk about
how you guys started this football game.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
I guess how much we respect Nico as a player.
He's a really good quarterback and they had a pretty
good old line. So our preparation all fall camp and
all offs has been to make sure that we put
the onus on us as a D line to get
after and help us win his game.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Hey, Logan, Bill Riley, and Scott Mitchell upstairs, congratulations on
the win tonight. You were feasting up brunch and a
couple of tackles for loss in the sack. But we
saw a lot of guys. I talked to you the
other night at the coaching show, and I was wondering,
we know what you are, but you got those young
guys who haven't you know, played a lot yet. But boy,
John Henry had himself game tonight. Two sacks, CARSONSI up
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front tonight. We saw a lot of the NASCAR package too.
So what did you make up your teammates up rount
with you?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Man?
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Yes, it goes back to that conversation we had, like
I know what I've seen from the boys and from
the D line especially, and I was just super excited
to see them put it on the field, and.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Man, they did it tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Last season was, you know, I think a huge disappointment
for all of us. How important was this first game
for you guys to come out and make a statement?
Because I mean really from the very beginning to the
end of the game, it was a massive statement that
you guys made.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So how important was this game for you guys to
do that?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I mean, I know for myself, I was asked a
lot of questions about how I felt about last season,
and I think a lot of the guys were and
over and over the question. The response that we gave was,
you know, left the bat taste in our mouth. We
don't want that to happen ever again. And so I
think tonight it was just, you know, proof that that's
really how we felt and we took our business.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So last year, Logan, you guys were on the field
a lot. We talked about that the other night too.
How about your offense tonight, giving you guys some rest
That one drive they had a twenty play drive that
took up nine and a half min off the clock.
It must be nice to be able to sit over
and they and they scored to most importantly, you guys
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got some time to get a breath over there.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It was insane. I felt like fresh legs the whole night.
It was crazy.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
And then just looking back and seeing dev dude to
another defense. What we've had to deal with for the
past six months has been awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
So you know, it's first game a lot of times,
and a lot of new players, you know, some new faces,
a defensive line trying to figure out some new players,
defensive tackles, some defensive ends, offense, a lot of new players.
But you guys were just sharp across the board on
both sides of the ball. What contributed to being just
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it looked like mid season form in the first game
of the season.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Just going again, I keep going back to last year.
We wanted to make sure, you know, we know anything
could happen at any moment, and we don't want to
feel those feelings that we had last year again and
we're really adamant about doing whatever we can to win
football games.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
What was the message from coach Wit to you guys
after the game and how did you feel about the
performance overall?
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Logan, I mean, he told us it was a hell
of a way to open the season, but know, if
that's beating UCLA was a.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Goal, but it's not the ultimate goal.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
And so we got more in front of us, and
we're gonna keep working to accomplish those goals that we
have for ourselves.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Well, it's good to see you back out there again,
and good to see all you guys on that d
line getting after tonight. Go enjoy the win. We'll talk
to you this week. Oh, I will appreciate you, Bill.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
There you have it, Logan Fano. He was one hundred
percent and you could see it. And you know, so
many good things in what he said and that you
should be excited about.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
And one is.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Kind of keeping this game in perspective and focus and
there every game has kind of its its meaning, right
and uh you know, non conference games have have a meaning,
uh and and they're they're also there are games that
you have during the season that changed the course of
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where things go. They just do Utah was four and oh,
four and oh last year headed into uh, you know play.
They just won their first conference game against Oklahoma State
at Oklahoma State. So they're one and oh in the conference.
They're looking great, and they got Arizona at home and
they lose and man, that that just took that took
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the air out of the building. They should not have
lost that game, not not in a million years. And uh,
you know, it shouldn't that shouldn't even have been a
close game.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It was and it you know, and they and they
unfortunately lost it in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
But these games have meetings and and this one had
a meeting and they had to make a statement today
last night because if they if they don't, then you're
you're you know, then then all the questions in your
mind are are just running rampant.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I I saw some things online about, you know, the
frustration with cam Rising the last couple of years and
seeing how what this team could have been, uh and
and kind of where he was and and I think
the feeling is that, you know, he wasn't any good,
he knew he wasn't any good, and and uh, you know,
he just kind of maybe took advantage of of the
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school and and I don't, I don't, I don't. I
hope that's not the case. Think it's the case because
Cam Rising did some amazing things for the school. So
but we can talk about more in depth about Cam
rising at another time, because right now isn't the time
for that. But what it does is these games make
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a statement and there's a there's a purpose to them,
and you wanted to see a lot of things that
you saw, and you and these players need to get
out on the field, and you know, Logan's is nice
to go have to deal with someone else and not
Devin Dan Pierre and and so that was accomplished and
and that was great. But then at the very end,
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and Coach Whittingham, of course, he alluded to this as well,
you know, it's just one game, it's not the end prize.
It's very important in our progression. It could be one
of those, you know, really jumpstart type of games, but
it's it's it's certainly not not where we ultimately want
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to be with everything. Let's let's listen to Smith Noden
hearing what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Offensive output coming from where's all that? I feel like
I covered you in high school and I ain't see
all this. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (35:11):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
I guess coach had seen some type of ability to
give me an opportunity, and I'm just grateful for it.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
We don't ask questions, you just go.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
He's team player, man.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
So how'd you feel out there with the offensive game plan,
the looks that you get, the calls that are.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Going your way.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
What is your comfortability and how do you feel about that? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (35:31):
I felt comfortable out there. It was I was really
able to just have some fun out there. I feel
like before the game, my pregame Butterflies, they were coming
more for offense rather than defense. So just getting out
there and getting that first play out the way, I
was like, oh, yeah, I'm we good.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Let's go nice Hey Smith, Bill Riley and Scott Mitchell upstairs. Congratulations.
Six catches fifty one, three carries, fifteen and a touchdown.
I knew you had a package and we're gonna see you.
I think there was a I don't think you got
on the field defensively for at least three drives. Did
you get offense early?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
Can you believe it? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
I was just blessed that we were able to take
care of business really, so I didn't have to, you
know what I'm saying, be out there.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
So, how how does that work during the week? You know,
how much time do you spend with the offense and
the defense and is it you know what what kind
of challenges that for you?
Speaker 11 (36:27):
Yeah, practice is kind of just like game.
Speaker 12 (36:30):
I'm with defense obviously most of the time, but there's
some periods that I'm gonna go over with offense and
they're gonna you fail me. Coach me up and just
get me prepared for the week coming.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
We were talking about this throughout the broadcast, but how
much fun is this offense to play in? Smith?
Speaker 11 (36:47):
I mean, you guys can see it.
Speaker 12 (36:49):
It's it's an electric We have a bunch of electric
guys and with scheme man Coach beck Is is a
genius and tonight really just showed that it's it was awesome,
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Uh, it was definitely a statement game. What I'm just
curious why why did you guys? What? What what led
I guess to you guys playing so clean? Uh? Really
for for the entire.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
Game, I think it's exactly what you said. It was
a statement game.
Speaker 12 (37:15):
Uh, kind of going off of last year, wasn't how
we wanted to be and to kind of show the
country and show everybody that this Utah football team is
back and we're ready to roll.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Well, hey, go enjoy this one. Tonight. Go watch those highlights.
That was It was fun to watch out there. I
know you see a little more on defense probably moving forward,
but that was fun tonight.
Speaker 11 (37:35):
Smith congratulator, Yes, sir, means a lot. I'll see you
guys later.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Are they having smith Snton boy?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
He he did a lot and he's.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Going to have an impact.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And I just think games and scenarios they're going to
have to, you know, juggle where where.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
He ends up.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But when you have a player like that, you want
to where do you find touches?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
You know, it's the kickoffs? Is it on offense?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And they were they were pretty good about when he
was in the game, he was going to touch the
football and and uh, you know and and and you
want to have that, you know, just you want to
get your swings at bat and if you do, then
you're you know, that's that's when you're really going to have.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Uh you're going to see the production.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
But it's also going to come on the other side
of the ball, because there were a lot of times
where where he was not a part of the defense
and he wasn't out there, and I'm sure that's uh,
these coaches managed it. And you have to see it right,
and I think he said it. He says, look, you know,
we were handling our business on defense, and so there
wasn't as much of a need for me to be
over there. Uh And and it was a good opportunity
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for him to get confident and and get touches offensively,
which which I absolutely loved. So Smith is going to
be a fun one to watch. All Right, We're gonna
take a break. We come back, so much more to
talk about.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Get a little call reaction here before we wrap up
the show. It's the Down and Dirty with Scott MITCHELLI SPA.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's the Down and Dirty with Scott Mitchell on your
Home of the Youths ESPN seven hundred at ninety two
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Speaker 4 (39:33):
It was sports and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
It's the Down of Dirty Scott Mitchel here on ESPN
seven hundred ninety two nf you touched number one sports
talk and Home of the Utes, and of course the
Utes showed up in a big fashion over the weekend.
Fun to be a part of, fun to watch, and
clearly one of those powerful games. And it's just it's
just fascinating how the world of sports acts and responds
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in how they they'd look at things and they just
go they make they make a determination based off of
what they see and what they perceive. One of the
things that's challenging in the first week of the season
is it's the first week of the season, and teams
are going to get better, teams are going to get worse.
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It's not it's not completely indicative of how a season starts,
and sometimes it is. I just feel like what we
saw with the Utah on Saturday night was who they are.
I don't I don't think they know how to be
anything else. And they have they have enough. I mean
there are people say Utah is a legitimate playoff contending.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Contender. I mean that that's kind of where they are.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
And I'll tell you I was a little bit a
little bit concerned coming out of spring football because I
wasn't overly like, oh wow, this is exciting.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I was like whow. But I you know, I also
don't want to overreact to this game as well.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Every again, every week is different and they're all different,
and coach Whittingham has been around long enough to know
and to deal with, you know, taking care of business
every week.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
One of the things I liked about this game a
lot is.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
They didn't sit on a lead like they clearly the
game was in hand. I think they were up thirty
to ten, and I want to say maybe the start
of the fourth quarter and they're throwing the ball, they're
they're just out there just executing, calling plays and doing
their thing. And it's really why the game was forty
three to ten. So so many times you'll see these
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Utah games be twenty seven to seventeen by the end
of it. That there's just this lull, there's this let up,
there's this something. And to develop that killer instinct is
huge because it's it's all about creating, you know, habits
that are are that result in success and you and
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which is which is what this week is. This week
is about just taking care of your opponent, just as
if it's any other opponent. Because they should just blow
the roof off of off.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Of this cow poly team next week. They absolutely should.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
And so we'll see, we'll see, you know, how it
how it plays up. But it's going to be another
tail tale sign about where this team is, how mature
it is, how focused, how kind of into it that
they really are, because there's a lot of praise being
heaped on Utah big time. I mean across the country.
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I mean it's not it's not local people, it's people
all over the place that are talking that that that
game was, which it was just impressive.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
It is like it was like U. C.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
L A.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Wasn't even on the field and.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
They they they aren't without talent. This is not a
you know, this is this that they got something there?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
How much? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I mean it's it's hard, and you see, you know, defensively,
they're they're basically reached. You know, they're starting over, and
so is Utah. Again, I I can't I can't tell
you how easy or how much easier it is when
you have a system that you already know.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
It's so hard to go like like you know the system, okay,
you you spend enough time in meetings and practice and
you go, I got this. Games are different Devin Dampier
when he said, look, I don't know what I do
in a game. I just I just have this gift.
I have this ability. I just I can do this.
And it's true. I just you know, you and here
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here's you kind of look around college football and there's
so some interesting things that happened that kind of make
you question, you know, some of the statements people make.
And one of the things I think UH is starting
to emerge is that there's a significant amount of Big
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twelve teams that are serious contenders. So you have Iowa State,
you have Arizona State. You know, maybe Texas Tech is
a team TCU just I mean annihilated on the road.
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UNC and Bill Belichick and they're they're a team that
wasn't half bad before and and it's kind of one
of those you know, they were in the college football
playoffs a couple of years ago, so they're they're not
chump change. And of course you have Utah and and
maybe I don't know where BUYU is because they still
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have a freshman quarterback, but they're they're going to compete.
They they're going to show up. I mean, this isn't
a this isn't a Charlie chump changed team at b YU.
They've they've they've you know, so you've got h am
I missing anyone.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Martin.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I'm trying to think of if there's a team, you know,
maybe Kansas, I mean Kansas is Jade Daniels is a
is A is a player. Uh yeah, I mentioned Iowa State.
You know, I don't know where Kansas State is. But
you know, because they were one team that really looked
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like it was going to be a serious contender.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
The point is is, there's this year. It looks like
the Big twelve has.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Some legitimate teams in it, and and and it's not
one team. And then you look at you look at
the SEC, and you look at Texas. They looked yeah,
I mean they were the number one ranked team in
the country. Like watching Texas and Ohio State, I wasn't
sitting there going, boy, this is exciting. These teams are
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just really you know, and and but again it's the
first game of the season and an arch Manning, you know,
had had the pressure of the world on him, and
he's a Manning and they usually handle that well. But
he didn't. He didn't play well. He didn't look like
a guy, you know, seasoned and ready to go. And
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you know, Texas, I don't know, Texas doesn't look good.
And neither did Ohio State, by the way, And so
here's kind of the cream of the crop of these
two conferences. And I don't know, I mean, maybe Penn
State might be the team this year, maybe you know,
who knows, Maybe it's maybe it's Penn State's year. But
the point is is that it's it's not the same
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teams every year, and so these preseason polls are stupid
and and people go, well, it's not a big deal
because it only matters when the when the college football
playoff poll. And I believe it matters, and I believe
it matters from perspect perception, right because after this first
week of the season, all of a sudden, we play games,
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and now our whole perspective, our whole perception changes. Alabama's
not very good, nick, I mean, Caylin de Boor all
of a sudden is on the hot seat and he's
a really good coach, but but they don't look good
and he's not doing a good job right there. And
then you have Florida State that was like down and out.
I mean, they could hardly win a game a year ago,
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and and they're they're looking like a world beeg and
and again it's still way early. Now Miami is a contender,
and we don't know about Notre Dame. We have no idea.
But the point of all of it is it's it's
the that these polls come out and they and they
base it off of assumptions. They base it off of
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last year's production, returning production, they base it off of recruiting,
and you just don't know how recruits are gonna are
going to pan out.
Speaker 4 (48:04):
You have no idea, no idea.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I mean, the team, you know, Texas A and M
should win every year based off of how they recruited,
and they're horrible and they've been horrible, and so so
what happens is when when people talk about college football
when they're watching college football, because people tune into college
game day, they tune in and so they're they're watching
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games throughout the day, so they it all starts on
the East Coast most of the time, and so you
get you just get information about the teams that are
in the top twenty five. They don't sit and talk
about if you're unranked. They don't go, oh yeah, this
unranked team and they're really there. And that's why being
ranked and being ranked high because right now Arizona State
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is the team like it's like right now, everyone just goes, well,
that's that's the only team in the in the Big twelve.
And then uh, if Arizona State flounders and they have
a mix up, they're gone. And then and then guess
what else is gone? The whole Big twelve for the year,
because it's like, well, the only team you have on
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your in your in your conference is is Arizona State.
And a year ago, no one thought about Arizona State.
And and but it's an opportunity because everyone's talking about
them now so that the perception is they're the team.
And what you need to have is the conversation really
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needs to be we don't talk about anyone right now.
Let's get through our non conference and then we'll go, oh,
look at look at who? Look who really looks like
there's something in in the Big twelve. And then then
you then you really evaluate it or or play hard
games all the way through your whole schedule, and you'll
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have you'll have a better idea.
Speaker 4 (49:58):
But so Utah, I don't know if the rankings have
come out yet, but.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
But they're gonna get they might pop into the top
twenty five. There's there's a likelihood they will because it
was massively impressive. They're going it was that impressive that
it would get them in. And but they're they're gonna
be They're not going to be like eleven. They're not
going to be in the top fifteen. And so they're
gonna have to work and continue to work and continue
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to work.
Speaker 4 (50:27):
They may get in the top.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
You know, top fifteen to twenty by the time they
if they if they win all their non conferences, they
got two of those, they beat Texas Tech, and then
they're gonna play Then they go to West Virginia. They
could they could have been in the top fifteen if
they if they continue to win and look impressive winning.
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But then then they're playing Arizona State and that'll be
a huge game. That could be a college college game
day game if it goes right. But I don't know,
we'll see anyways. But then you have like, uh, so
you have all these teams that are that are really good,
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supposed to be really good, and then you have these
teams that are you know, it's it's like like Deon
Sanders in Colorado looked horrible. Like they I mean, I
don't want to say they look horrible, but they're at
home and then and they they should have showed out
and showed up so much better than they did. And
I I get. I get the whole thing. I understand
(51:38):
it's just the first week. We don't want to but
we have to react to it because that's part of sports,
is like you know, you react to what the people
did on the on the field. You don't react to
what your opinion of what you think they are. You know,
this whole subjectiveness which is it is I hate the word.
I think it should be banned from college football. Yeah,
(52:00):
here's another interesting thing. Oklahoma State and I believe Oregon
play and and Mike Gunny goes man, I would love
to have the budget they have at Oregon and no
one has it better maybe in the country than Oregon.
I I don't, I I would. I would like to
(52:22):
see who it is if they do. And they've just
gone all in. They just said we're going to go
all in on this and they do and guess what
it produces results? And the coach, Dan Lanning, he didn't
bat an Eyeli. She goes, hey, we we spend to win.
That's our that's what we do, and we're not. You know,
if if you're going to be a top ten program
(52:44):
in the country, that's what you're gonna have to do.
You're gonna have to spend. So that's the name of
the game in college football, spending to win. That's what
we're gonna do. Let me tell you about my h
my good friends at wait Vision. I love them and
they have an incredible place. It's right there off of
(53:04):
the freeway, UCCU Building Thanksgiving Point. They do all kinds
of vision correction surgeries. If you have any issues with
your vision, I don't care what it is, lasix, cataract, anything,
they will take care of you.
Speaker 4 (53:19):
They're amazing.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
They do a thorough analysis and work up with you
on your eyes. It's actually kind of fun, and they
determine what the best course of action, what the best
plan for you is, and then they execute on it
and they do a tremendous job. My surgery lasted about
fifteen minutes I was awake. It's a little bit invasive,
not a big deal, very minimal downtime, and it's just
(53:44):
made all the difference in the world. Like I'm just
telling you, don't wait around, because everyone who has surgery
is why did I wait so long?
Speaker 4 (53:50):
And I'm one of them.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
I see now so clearly it's insane and I love it,
So go check them out. Waitvision Dot com w A
I T E vision dot com. All right, that does
it for us here on the down and dirty.
Speaker 11 (54:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
The Sean O'Connell Show is next. I'm Scott Mitchell. This
is ESPN seven hundred ninety two one f M. Until then,
We'll see you then
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