Eric Weddle on Utah still having a path to the CFP, Issues with the downfield passing game, Saturday at Baylor + more

The Utes legend & Super Bowl Champion on Utah still having a chance at a CFP at large berth, Issues with the downfield passing game, Saturday vs Baylor in Waco + more

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:59):
Eric Weddle, Welcome back to the show. How are you, sir?
My brother right?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
How's my guy doing that? A nice little week off
after our big win and you're back in the In
the blow of things, I.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
See back in the saddle, very excited about an upcoming
matchup against the Baylor Bears. But we had a great
opportunities lovely to watch a game with you, to hang out,
to catch up with you, to catch up with your son,
gauge Are, our old teammate John Peel. Also there, of
course the illustrious and legendary Justin Hanson.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And you know it's you probably don't appreciate this.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
You probably don't realize this about watching football with yourself,
but you will make comments during a football game about
things that maybe other people don't notice. And that was
something even in a really good performance against against Cincinnati.
You know, you made a couple of comments while we
were watching about the some of the long throws for this.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Utah football offense.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
And I don't want to be overly negative, because obviously
it was a great performance and they won in convincing fashion.
But I asked Devin Dampierre about this. It's something that
you know, I want to flesh out a little bit more.
When you can only hit on like two out of
five deep throws in a game, you're you're limiting the offense.

(02:20):
And it's something that we've asked for improvement on from
this passing game all season. And you were in stadium
and you got to see it up close. What are
the deep throw issues for Utah's offense right now, Well, I.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Think it's.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Don't.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I haven't studied nor watched enough and been there, so
I'm not gonna get I'm not going to sit here
and say like I have the right answer. It just
seems like a lot of times he's he's not centered
and really stepping in like momentum to the target right,
Like a lot of times he's backing up and it

(03:00):
could be timing and also trusting that you know, high
and outside is always a great throw, right because it's
either incomplete or it's catch. A lot of times he's
throwing these he's throwing these passes underthrown and they're having
to come back to the ball. So I don't know,
Like when you're when you're a run in a dynamic offense,

(03:24):
I guess on first and second down, I mean we're leading.
I think we're top hiding the country on third and
short of just having third and I think it's an
average of third and five I think, or third and
four and a half. Like that's insane. And it's so
good when you're playing complete team football, but when you
have those shot plays, when you're getting single higher, getting
man to man that you have to hit on them

(03:45):
because it's hard to generate. It's hard to generate big
plays in general, but as an offense, when you are
methodically going down the field at a ten, twelve, fourteen plays,
it becomes more important to hit on those big plays
to help generate easier offense.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
So demolition by this Utah offense and the defense played great.
You get excellent special teams plays, and back to back weeks,
now we saw Utah smash Colorado, we saw them smash
a ranked Cincinnati team and shake kind of the game
day monkey off the back, the big game pressure off
the back a little bit. And then they head into

(04:29):
a bye week, and now the College Football Playoff Committee
has sent this message that we like your resume, we
like your numbers, we like what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
We're putting you just on the outside looking in.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It feels like if Utah finishes out in convincing fashion,
that they'll be at least part of the conversation for
a college football playoff spot when we get to there.
You got to win these games on I think you
got to win them with some style points.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah, you're one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think they look at us as a team that's
on on the incline improving, playing our best football towards
the end of the year.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
And and they understand that, they understand our two losses.
I think they've taken an account that for up until
nine minutes left in the Texas Tech game as a
three point game and then they pulled away. And that's
a really really top notch team, but you know, something
didn't go our way and injuries and et cetera, et cetera.
So and then obviously the b YU lost. I was

(05:28):
actually calling for b YU. I think it was a
much easier road to get to the Big twelve Championship
with them winning out UH than than the ladder. So uh.
But yeah, I mean we were in a good position
at the end of the day. You go ten and
two and you miss out of the playoffs, and that's
just unfortunate. I think I think we'll have a strong case.

(05:50):
There's there's some games this weekend, like Georgia Texas one
of you know, Texas, I think UH is gonna is
gonna lose, so they dropped them out, and and some
other some other matchups they're going to cancel each other
out that that might slide us in and you never know,
three week three games left that we could get into
the Big Toll Championship, which would be awesome. But I
don't think it's uh, it may not be necessary if

(06:13):
we go out and destroy every opponent left and see
what happens with.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
What you've seen.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I guess posted to BYU loss, How confident should we
feel that went healthy this team is capable of, you know, Baylor,
Kansas State, Kansas going out and taking care of business
that way. I mean, I keep I look at these matchups,
I look at what we've seen from these last two performances,
and to be overly reductive, I say, if you can
play like that, you can beat anybody in the country

(06:39):
right now. I know it's easier said than done to
maintain that level of performance, but it feels like, you know,
the recipe is there if you stay the course.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
A thousand.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Uh. We play our we play together, play clean, stay
ahead of the chains, don't have some mishaps offensively, make
them compete on their offense against our defense. It's hard
to score. It's hard to go up and down the field,
like yeah, they're gonna hit a couple of shots up
the field. Because that's just the style of football we play.

(07:14):
On defense, we're gonna get after, you're gonna pressh the quarterback,
and we play great man and man defense. So at
times you're gonna get a slot baid or a goal ball.
But over time, like, look at what we've made that quarterback,
I mean thirty percent completion and going into that game, uh,
you know, we were I was able to hang out
with the coaches and whatnot on Friday and spend some
time with them, and Gale said the exact weakness of

(07:37):
his game where outside the numbers of vertical throws and
how many incompletions did you see where they weren't even
close like ball going out of bounds and really taking advantage.
So you know, we're gonna make opponents, opposing offenses do
what they least like to do and what they're not
efficient at. And over the course of a game, it's

(07:59):
gonna it's gonna your inability to be successful and whatever
that is is gonna show its face when we play us.
So don't I don't foresee any hiccups as long as
we stay the course. The team looks like it's peaking
at the right time. And let's go see what we'll
see what will happen.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Eric Wedda's our guest here talking a little Utah football
on the Sean O'Connell Show. Now, Baylor is interesting because
they're the number one passing offense in the Big Twelve Conference.
They've got especially a tight end who he's their leading receiver.
He's a freak of an athlete. He started his career
at USC. I don't know how much you've seen of him,
but this Michael triguecat is like he's a freak at

(08:39):
He's going to be an NFL tight end and they
can line him up anywhere and they can do different
things with him. Would you, as a safety rather face
if an opposing team's number one threat is like a
traditional wide receiver build if it's a tight end, I
don't know. There were some teams at their best past

(09:00):
catching thread is like a slot receiver type guy. Which
one is easiest or hardest to defend when you're playing
in the safety position.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Well, I think schematically it's much more difficult if you
have a stud receiver outside that you literally cannot leave
by himself. Like every coverage, whether it's single high or
whether it's two shell roll coverage, like you have to
have a plane plan so that guy doesn't ruin the game,
you know, like when we played Tyreek Hill in his

(09:31):
prime days, you weren't going to leave him by himself
like that. It just was a non negotiable. And then
it limits what you can do on defense, Like you
could steal Jimmy Rigge as best you can, but there
are times where we have a pressure called and the
post player needs to be shading that side, but you're
on the opposite hash. So you either get out of there,
out of the disguise and run your butt over there,

(09:53):
or you you chance it, and now you're giving the
opportunity to get a go ball or one on one outside.
So I think it's much more difficult to stop those
guys than tight ends. You can combo, you can match coverage,
You can play zone with those guys because they're interior aligned,
so a lot of guys can get their hands on
them if they move them around. You know, you live

(10:17):
with it because you're not so worried about the guy
just running by a corner for a touchdown for eighty right,
Like that's that's the difference from a stud wide receiver
than a tight end, Like, yeah, he may catch a
go ball for twenty twenty five yards, Okay, so be it.
The guy catches a go ball for eighty for a touchdown,
that'll ruin the game.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
So I mean, Morgan Scalley knows how to scheme these
things up. I think probably just as important that he's
got the personnel that should be able to take away
a guy like Trigg, even if he is, you know,
a top three, top five tight end in the country.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, of course. I mean you gotta remember as much
as these offense and players and scheme, they have just
the amount of emphasis on handling what we do defensively
and handling our scheme and pressures and different looks, and
understand that you're not just going to have four seconds

(11:16):
to throw the wall. So yeah, it may sound all great, Hey,
we're gonna move them around, we're gonna stack them, we're
gonna ice on them here, Okay, did you spend any
time picking up our pressures and blocking our edge guys
and this and that. So at the end of the day,
you try not to get so much enamored with the
opponent and understand that we fear no one, right, you

(11:38):
try to implement that in that mindset and in our
players' minds, and I think they they understand that that
we play our game, nobody can can handle us, and
so let's go out next to be us, don't don't
try to be someone or not right, and and go
out next year.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
The offensive line at the University of Utah got news
that they've been elevated to semi finalists for the Joe
Moore Award, which is an award handed out to the
best offensive line in the country every year. They're one
of ten finalists, and obviously we came into the year
talking a lot about them, and we've seen them have
incredible games like Colorado, like Cincinnati. We've seen them in

(12:18):
some other games we're probably wished a little bit more
could have happened upfront, or you would have won the
line of scrimmage a little bit better against the team
like Texas Tech, whatever. But now that you've seen them
in person as well as watching them on TV, how
good is this offensive line?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Man? Seeing them live, just seeing their work. I know
the atensions detail Coach Harding and Coach Beck and that scheme,
and man, it's just it's crazy to me, the athleticism
and just the size and strength that these guys are.
I feel either I am getting smaller as the years

(12:57):
go on. For these we are just getting bigger and
stronger and faster. I don't really know. And then and
then I take a step back and said, how in
the world did I ever play this game with these
guys out there? Uh? It's it's really humbling, uh to
see first and and just uh really as a fan

(13:18):
and as a supporter, just just proud of the work.
I know how hard it is and how much work
and sacrifice goes into it to be at the top
of your game. And that unit is one of the best.
So it's nice to get their recognition and just to
see them lead our team. I mean that they're It
comes down to the to the big boys.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
In the old line, D line, in the trenches and
if you have if you have excellent play in the
in the fronts, you always had a chance to win.
And that that's where the games won and lost. In
my opinion, it's never going to change. You either win
the line of scrimmagery.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Don't now, look, I don't. A lot of stuff has
to happen. You already alluded to this. There there still
is a mathematical possibility that Utah could be in the
conference championship game. And we had Devin dan Pierre on
the show earlier today. I asked him the same question.
It's different when you're an active player versus an alum.

(14:11):
But if you could, if you could get a second
crack at either Texas Tech or BYU in the conference
championship game. And let's also throw in there that if
you lose the conference championship game, you're definitely not going
to the College football playoffs. So which of those teams
do you want to see in Arlington?

Speaker 6 (14:30):
If you got the choice, A better side at winning
would be BYU.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
In my opinion, I don't think they're as counted or
as good overall. And that's no slight on BYU. They're
freaking good. I think Texa Tech is really really good,
and so I'd rather play BYU if I'm trying to
see what gives us the best shot of winning, But
either or, but you never know. Honestly, like we match

(15:06):
up well with text Tech in my opinion, and honestly,
the starting quarterback that's playing and the backup that got hurt,
I actually think it's he's not the better quarterbacks and
we shut them down for the most part, and if
we get just some competent offensive play, I don't think
it's It was close, in my honest opinion. We talked
about that some odd weeks ago, so I don't know.

(15:29):
They're both really good teams. Let's just hope we get
a crack at one of them, and if not, then
we should have beat one of them when we had
the chance.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Eric Weddle for just a couple more minutes here on
the Sean O'Connell Show, let's talk about the important stuff now.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Dub playoff win for your.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Rancho, Bernardo Broncos last week, first playoff win as a
head coach.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
How to feel?

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, man, we're a lot like the youths were. We're
coming together after we're getting our butts kick against Mission,
and I think that was more of an anomaly than anything.
But we took it, and we took it on the
chin as coaches, as the head coach, and looked at
myself to improve and to get better as a coach

(16:14):
and have my boys ready to play. That's ultimately on me,
and I think we've done that the last two weeks
against our rival against Paway, we all played them and
smoked them, and then against a league opponent who really
at their place in league play was a tough matchup.
We beat them by fourteen, but it was a tie
game going in the fourth quarter. To completely demolish them,

(16:38):
you know, having them quit mid second quarter was a
sight to see. And that goes back to the execution
and the belief and the confidence that these kids are
playing with. And we're excited. We're excited for the challenge.
We've got Granite Hills at their place. They've either won
Division one or Open the last three years, been a
state champion. This is a this is a juggernaut of

(17:02):
a program, really good players, talent across the board. But
I like our chances.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
I really do.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
I really do. I like I like the mighty thirty
eight guys that we've got. We're up to about forty
five now, and boys are playing hard, playing together, and
I can't wait to watch them tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Granted, Hills, you stink, all right. We hate the Granite
Hills Eagles. And guess what their Their logo looks stupid.
It it's it's like an interlocking GH.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
But you can't tell if it's a GH or ach.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Like, exactly what are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
What he's do it? Granted, Hills, you're not cool. No Broncos.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Before we let you go, some interesting things happening in
the NFL. The coaching carousel starts to spind there Dables
out with the New York Giants.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
How appealing is that job?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Like we saw some articles and you know they're trying
to suss it out and talking to people and anonymously
and obviously they got a lot of young offensive talent.
As an organization, there's some things I think left to
be desired there. What do you think of the Giants
as a franchise?

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, man, I love the idea of those pieces in
that quarterback and you know, the defensive line. There's there's
a lot of a lot of nice pieces to work
with and but man, they are just in shambles. I'm

(18:31):
kind of shocked that they fired day Ball and not
and not the GM along with them, Like what are
we doing the jam put this team together? So how
does he get a pass? And I and I like,
I don't have anything against him. I'm just saying like
the coach always gets usually gets a shaft. And I

(18:53):
think Dave Ball's a good coach, but really, you haven't
done anything in two plus years, and at the end
of the day, you don't win for two plus years,
you're gonna get fired. And he probably knows that. Coaches
know that you gotta you gotta show improvement, you gotta
you gotta win some games. And too many games this
year for the Giants, they've lost at the end of
the game, just inexcusable type losses. So I think it's

(19:15):
a great looking job. It's the Giants, it's New York.
But you never know, man, some of these organizations are
trash buckets, and I don't know if they're that, but
they're they're not as well as what they once were,
maybe a decade ago.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
The uh Jackson Dark concussion situation. He's been evaluated for
concussions now four times, and this time he he got hit,
he went back out, he played a couple more plays,
and then they're like, well, something's not right with this dude.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Now let's go check on him.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
So they're being investigated for the hand, how they handle
the concussion protocol, that kind of stuff. As a teammate,
you're all professionals, and there's fifteen other people in on
the sideline and in the stadium that it's their job
to watch out for that kind of stuff, not yours.
As a teammate, when you're seeing something like that kind
of unfold and a chronic problem maybe starting to show

(20:14):
itself with especially a young guy, especially at a position
that's so so important, how do you handle it as
a teammate?

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Uh, And I don't. I don't really worry about it
me as a player. I'm I got a job to do,
so I'm I'm not really concerned with other guys and
are they out there? And if you're out there, you
can help us. If you're not, then the next guy's
got to go. So it's a little it's a little cutthroat,
but that's just the reality. The next guy's got to

(20:46):
be ready to go. And if he's not ready, then
you're gonna get fired because you're not you're not ready
for your opportunity. So I don't know, like it's so
much has changed, and the injuries and this and that.
I mean, I deal with the high school level, like
the guy gets banged up and normally like it wouldn't
even be anything, but then they go to the doctors.

(21:07):
Then the doctors won't clear them. And and like you're
dealing with like a sprain ankle or something and you're
out for two weeks. It's like, what are we doing?
But I don't even I don't even like really fred
about it. I just move on to the next player
because it's not it's not worth the fight nor getting

(21:28):
fired over it. So I just move on. And I
think I think at the NFL level, they're they're watching
that stuff. It's definitely not on the players or anybody
else to be worried about can the guy player or not?
Or should he get checked out or not? Like we're
always going to push through it. And if I'm a teammate, obviously,
if he's not himself, I would I would hold him out.
But if I know the guy and I know like

(21:49):
he can shake it off in a player too, Like
we're gonna keep on rolling. That's just the way the
way it was and the way it is for us
old school guys.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
I guess all of your old franchises in the NFL
in your career are on some win streaks right now. Uh,
Baltimore is the Baltimore's most interesting one for me because
it was looking pretty grim there for a minute, and
now they've won three in a row.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
They do you think that this is sustainable?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Oh yeah, baby, it's uh. I mean I think I
brought I brought it up on the show. I think
they can get on a run. It's hard to do.
They've done it in the past. We went six games
six one six in a row Lamar's rookie year, uh
to make the playoffs and win the division. And then
they went on like crazy fourteen to two the next year.
So streaks can happen. You just have to win one,

(22:37):
right and just get that feeling of winning and finding
a way, and then one turns into three and now
shoot three is gonna turn into six. Their next three
games are a bunch of a bunch of bumps in
the league right now. So you're gonna look before you know,
they're gonna be They're gonna be seven and five leading
the division and and we're gonnall gonna be like watch out. Uh.

(23:00):
Thing happened last year with the defense. They were terrible
the first quarter for six games. Then they were a
top five defense second half of the year. They figured out.
The biggest improvement they made was trading for a low
heat from the Chargers, being able to put Kyle Hamilton
down in the box and let him be a difference maker.
And that's been the single most best offseason mid season

(23:21):
trade addition for any team because it's allowed the Ravens
to get back to being the dynamic defense and getting
Lamar back healthy obviously makes any franchise a competitor.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
I don't want to talk about the rams most recent
success because it was against by forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, it's fine. We
don't need we don't need to discuss that.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
That's fine, Okay, Okay, we don't want to talk about
the MVP.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
They want to talk about the MVP.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
Your MVP maybe, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Murph that we know who the MVP of the league
is right now. Uh, I'll just give a quick shout
out and it's funny. I bet the listeners will get
a kick out of this. You know, obviously we're all
watching the game as prime time. This was a must
win for the Rams, and it showed by the focus
and how we came out. If we lost that game,
then we got really no shot at winning the division.

(24:18):
So it was a must win. But I'm in the
in the fourth quarter and the Rams just went you know,
the Niners went down and scored out of the half, right,
Rams came back and scored. The Niners scored in the
Rams and those three scoring gives for the Rams was
some of the most magnificent play calling I've seen from
Sean and I texted the mid game, I'm like, you

(24:40):
are in your bag right now, I'm taking notes. I
love what you're doing. Love you. And then literally twenty
minutes out of the game, he says.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
We got them.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I love you, brother, fight. This guy is awesome. So
to your demise the Niners, they think too many injuries
the Rams. The Rams are going all the way, uh
hopefully and that they're they're playing some good football right now.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Did you have any, uh, any memorable interactions with Antonio
Brown and your shared years in the league.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Honestly, always competitive on the field, he was an outstanding player, dynamic,
obviously one of the best. He I mean, he had
a crazy run of six seven years that was just insane.
So we've we had our battles and it was always
you know, Pro Bowls were cool. It got it. We
got into a little after after the fact, when you know,

(25:39):
we get into Twitter and this and that, and you
know me, I speak my mind and when people are
acting dumb or saying dumb things, I'm gonna call him
out on it. So we had a little we had
a little whatever that was. It's nothing because it's not real.
Twitter's not real. You know, most the most ninety nine
percent of the conversations go on you'd never say face
to face, I'm not I'm not talking by myself. I

(26:00):
say what I say no matter what, but most people
would never say what they say on Twitter. But outside
of that, it's I hope what's going on in his life.
I hope he can. On a serious note, I hope,
I hope things will get right because I've had too
many guys that aren't here anymore that I've either been
teammates with or players that I've played with, been competitors against,

(26:24):
that aren't here anymore for the struggles that they're going
on inside their mind or inside closed doors. And we
always got to make sure we're checking in on each
other and telling each other we love them, and then
we're here for him. It's harker guys to swallow their
pride and ask for help, and we got to make
sure that we're there for each other.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
How is your head, dub.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
You've played a lot of years in the league, You've
had a great college career, and you know there are
sometimes costs to that. I know that you got bumps
and bruises and creaky joints here and there, But what
about the brain stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Do you feel like you escaped the CTE thing?

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, I mean I don't. People will probably get mad
at me for saying this, but I don't. I don't.
I don't think ct is doright, but I think it's
a crutch. I think it's an excuse in my opinion,
and I know it's it's not true. I know it's
it's real. But for me personally, yeah, I mean, there
are moments where I'm on edge and and I can

(27:28):
be a little flustered, but I try to stay I
try to stay with it. I know why I'm here right,
and I know the bigger picture. I know that football
isn't who I am, It's just what I did. I'm
much more than that, and I try to stay sharp.
I work out every day, not so much other than
to make myself my mind, body, and spirit feel better.

(27:51):
And I do a lot of reading, and I just
try to stay sharp, man, I try to stay sharp.
I don't. That's not going to be the reason Eric
Weddle's not here. I'm an I lived on one hundred plus.
It's a goal of mine. I believe it in my heart,
and I love life and there's so much more to
this life to give and to help and to see
it through. So yeah, I mean, I think it's just

(28:14):
a lot of guys struggle with the next step and
what's next for them, whether it's family or direction or
vision or what's my purpose or you know, faith and
things that are bigger than myself. So I think a
lot of guys struggle with that and then they just
go down a spiral that it's hard to come back from.
But I'm good man. I appreciate you asking, and it's

(28:36):
good having a great circle of family and friends like
yourself that are always there and just to call away
to talk to each other, in vent and get things
off our chest and move forward.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well, to end it on a lighter now, since you
do like reading, have you started reading the book yet?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I'm almost I'm like twenty pages left of the Misborn
series of book three and then I'm the next book
or two books will be yours, and that will be
a read that I look forward to reading.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
So I look forward to you that I look forward
to it because I know that you will tell me
what you really think about it, and everyone else is
kind of like it's like my grandma being like, this
is the greatest book I've ever read in my life,
and it's like, you can't say anything else.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Eric Weddle will tell me the truth.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
I mean what I like, I love to read, and
it's uh, I'm looking forward to it. I mean, it
only took you, I don't know, a decade to finally
send me your book, so I guess I'm finally in
the inner circle of the Murph.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I don't use the mail service that often. That's what
I'll blame it on.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I don't, Uh, that's I should have just handed you
a hard copy myself.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
But I'm glad you got it. I look forward to
your criticisms and critiques and love you, dog.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I love you too, brother. I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Eric Weddle. You tell football legends.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
NFL football legend head coach of the Rancho Bernardo Broncos,
who are in action this weekend against Granite Hills for
a Round two matchup