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three Man Weaver was able to catch up with the

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Connor Pay yesterday at our Crumble event.

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Speaker 3: And UH.

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Speaker 2: Look, if you don't know Connor Pay, the former BYU Center,

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with teams in the NFL as a center, but he's

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also been coaching at BYU and he's been helping the

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offensive line just become better each and every single week.

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Ronald and three Man, we were interviewing Connor.

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Speaker 3: Pay, former b YU great in front of me. He's

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on the don't know if he's officially on the staff.

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Gonna have to find out what he's doing. I need

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to know. But hey, look, anytime you can have a

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legacy player play at b YU, come back to b Y.

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You see him in the gear, you see him on

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the sideline helping out. It's phenomenal, right, coaching up these boys,

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a great center. Why he was here, command at the offense,

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no doubt, enjoy covering him his time when he played here.

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Now seeing him get back or be a part of

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the staff, dropping knowledge. He knows a lot about the game.

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On Saturday as well, we got Connor Pay on the

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line with this se Pay. How we doing. I'm good, man,

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I'm good. Let's start with that. You know, I've seen

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you practice. You know, I don't know if you're helping out,

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what's the official role with the team. Just kind of

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want to get caught up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've gotten a lot of questions about that, Like, oh,

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I thought he was in the NFL on the side,

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I'm like, well, I got I got fired twice. Oh no, no,

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but uh so yeah, after after the draft and stuff,

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I went to the Seattle Seahawks, okay, and I was

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cut from there, got picked up by the Raiders, and

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then I was cut from there a few months ago,

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and so I was just back at YU training for

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my next team, and Klonne approached me and was just like, Hey,

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you're here training every day anyways, do you want to

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come help? And I was like, yeah, ive ay Rod

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and Coach Woods are down, then I'd love to. And

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they both were down and so and they were pretty

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excited about it, so I was like, sure, I'll come help.

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So I'm I'm kind of serving more like a consultant

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role right now, is kind of how I would describe it,

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just so I have the freedom that if I do

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get picked up, I can leave. Okay, that's kind of

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They didn't want to like lock me in as an

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official staff member because then I'd have to go through

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all that logistical time there of being hired and then

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if I do get picked up by an NFL team,

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having to figure that all out. So it was just

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easier to make me kind of just like a volunteer

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consultant right now, and then if I end up, if

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I don't get picked up by the end of this

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year and I end up retiring, then we'll TRANSI in

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next year more of a full time role. Hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Well thanks for getting update. Now we can officially know

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what's going on because see with the team, I was like,

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but I gotta I gotta go through the sid you never.

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Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, technically I am on the staff helping with

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's I know that. Hey, that's just that's the

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right where you're at. You know, you kill it, you

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kill it there. What has it been like from the

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coaching standpoint, I guess now hoping out then the player standpoint.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting you look at the game differently, and I

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think I always kind of viewed the game through a

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coach's lens. I guess I didn't. I didn't realize in

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the moment that that's what I was doing. But that's

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kind of just the the analytics kind of all that stuff.

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That's just the way I think. And so that's kind

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of how I approach the game. I wanted to know, like, Okay,

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I look at the call sheet. As a player, I

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looked at all the formations we're doing our runs out of. Okay,

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what are their top front stunts, pressures out of those formations.

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That's kind of how I studied. And you do a

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lot of that as a coach and and so and

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you know, I get a breakdown a lot of film,

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right kind of as as the gas and the other

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analysts and stuff. That's kind of your role. You break

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down film for the position coaches, and so I get

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to watch a lot of defense, and so I've learned

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a lot too, and it's been it's been really fun,

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but to just kind of think of the game differently

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where it's like, Okay, I'm not I'm not solely focused

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on how to execute my job as a player. Now

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it's okay, how can we put the offensive line specifically

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in my case, but for the other coaches, how can

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we put the offense in general in the best position

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to succeed? And then once we do that, how do

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we then go and teach the concepts we want to

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run as clearly as possible so the players are confident

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when they go in and because I mean, you can

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never know for sure what a defense is going to

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do to you, they got to be able to adjust

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and do some things. And I think that's one of

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the really strong skills that Coach Woods has is being

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able to teach that way well.

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Speaker 3: Coach would definitely been phenomenal. Has had to be Team

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six and zero. Talk to Bruce, talk to eight Rod.

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They've thrown besides to the Arizona game, five different things

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that you guys. You guys studied something different and they

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went into those games besides the Arizona game something completely different.

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Take us through how you were able to adjust to that,

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because I have to think that's difficult. We're studying this

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and you're gonna make a game adjustments right as a

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part of it. But then they throw something different at you,

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maybe on the third or fourth play, that you weren't

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necessarily prepared for.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, No, I think I think it makes it

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a lot easier. When you teach, you don't teach plays,

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you teach concepts. And that's that's how coach Woods teaches

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is he teaches concepts because then it's just okay, how

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does the con the overall concept apply to the defense

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we're playing? Okay that week, and so we have our

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base set of rules where it's like, look if it's

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just base four to two defense or base three four defense,

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these are our set rules, and everybody knows the set rules.

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then you get into game week and it's like, okay,

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here's what this defense does. So here's that set of

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rules that you guys know, here's the tweaks for this week,

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and then okay, here's this other play, here's this set

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of rules that all the guys know, here's the tweaks

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for that week, all right, And so when you teach

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overall concepts like that, I think it makes it a

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lot easier to adjust because it's not like you're learning

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all new plays. The application of the play is just

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a little bit different. And so I think Coach Woods

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does a really good job of that. And so that's

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I think that's kind of what's made our life a

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little easier, being able to adjust week to week to

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very different defenses.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you breaking it down and sit in the

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life of the fans. The concept of it, you know,

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takes me back to the mission of applying this concept

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of the application. I think people can relate to that

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as well, especially for the idiots like myself. You guys

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don't know that inside Joe Connor knows it. It's for

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me and Connon to know. For you to find out

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if you go check tape. As he says, he's been

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watching a lot of tip Former BYU Offensive Line Center

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here on the line with me as we love from

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the crumble here a great event that by the way,

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that's being put on. Love you guys are giving back

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an opportunity for fans this week. Let's get right into it.

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There's no secret this game on Saturday, it's one of

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the most it should be. It's a big one. It's

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one of the most biggest, vile, vicious it should be

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on football team, you know. But you want to love

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your brother up game in the state, right This game

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means so much when you played, it meant a lot.

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Take us through that as a player, and now you're coaching,

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you know to in trying to help the players get

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a dub. What now is that on the coaching side,

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I know you've been able to look at Jason's.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think as a player, my my second start

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of my entire career at b YU was when we

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beat Utah on twenty twenty one, Jared Hall. That was

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my first experience with fans in Lavell Edwards Stadium, and

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so it was kind of all these things I'd never

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experienced before, all at once, and it was amazing. Especially

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I remember that very last drive knowing we needed one

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first down and we'd be able to take a knee

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and end this thing. And they knew we were going

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to run the ball three times. We knew we were

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going to run the ball three times. They threw the

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whole defense at us, and we were still able to

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get that first down. And I remember that feeling and

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just being so elated with my teammates and together as

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an offensive line, knowing that on those three plays when

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they relied on us, we got it done. That's a

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very vivid memory. And then last year. Last year it

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was a little bit harder for me. That was I

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was very close to being back and I had tried

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very hard to get cleared for that week and I

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was just not quite close enough. They I was literally

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forty eight hours off because the doctor. The doctor cleared

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me to play on Monday, and so I did everything

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I possibly could. I called the doctor. I was like, hey, like,

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can I shoot this up or something? And can we play?

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Like can I play? And all this stuff, and they

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were like no, like you can't do it. And they

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had my best interest heart, but I didn't see it

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that way in the moment, right and the motions of fine,

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And so that was hard to watch that one from

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the sidelines, But also still just as exhilarating, right, And

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so I'm imagining now in this position that it's probably

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gonna feel similar to that. You know that I'm going

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to be on the sidelines, and at least now I

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don't have the heartache of knowing that I had an

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option of playing. Right now, I know the sideline is

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the only place I'll be, so that puts my mind

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to ease a little bit there. But no, it's been

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really fun. I think it's going to be fun to

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because basically what I'm doing from the sideline during games

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is I'm trying to read and pick defenses apart and

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figuring out, Okay, we line up in this formation, what

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are they doing blah blah blah, how are they attacking us?

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And it's been pretty fun like that. The chess match

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has always been a part of the game that I

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loved as a player, and now that's all I get

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to do as a coach is play the chess match, right,

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and it's it's been fun, and so I'm looking forward

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to doing that on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing that that's going

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to and didn't know that you know, and that's why

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I love being able to interview you guys, they didn't

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know you were four d eight hours off. I know that

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that must have been tough, so thank you for sharing that.

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But like you said, just exhilarating what this game means

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in that reguard. Now your heart rate gets up on

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the sideline not being in the game in that reguard. Now,

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I don't know, Connor. I know you want to play

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in the NFL, and I want you to, and I

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know you have a great career if you do. But man,

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you got a future in this coaching thing. I can

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tell you that. Man, that's for sure, we might see

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a future offensive light coach and you never know offensive court.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying that because I really, truly do you know

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believe that looking at you, your dad, your your brother's

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in the program. Man, it's been awesome to could be

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able to cover you guys in the in the In

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that reguard, let's talk about Kilane. This is a guy

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that if you hate him, I just think you're a

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bad person. Or if you don't like him, I just

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gotta say you all, I'm just gonna say I just

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think because because this man walks back, Lebron dask me

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up and like I need to know my name, you

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need to like what, okay, what's it like? Jaywa he

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knows the other media members names, like man, this guy

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really goes out of his way. And I know for

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you guys, you know that's something. But coming in every

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day and someone like who always keeps the same energy, Like,

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take me through what that's like? Because I'm like, this

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is contagious. I'm like, I shouldn't have any emotion as

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a media member, but I do, Like I feel so loved.

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Speaker 4: It's hard. It's hard when someone's kind to you, right,

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especially this week. No, it's uh, I think it's it's

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funny because I get to see both sides of him.

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I get to see the true Kilanie and then I

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get to see head football coach Kilani come out on

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occasion when we're not doing what we're supposed to be

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doing right and and so it's fun because what you

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what you experience, the kindness, knowing everybody's name. He just

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loves people and that's his default, Like that's him, that's

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his character at its core. And then we, uh, we

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pull him out of that sometimes if he gets angry

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enough and you know, you get the screaming matches getting

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cussed out or something like that. Not many people get

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to see that side of Kilane. But obviously Klanie and

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I have grown very close over the years, and and

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of the five years that I was there, and so

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we got to work closely together on a lot of things,

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a lot of handling problems together and things like that.

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and things like that and how he handled it. And man,

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I just I hope to be half the man that

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he is one day. To be able to be mentored

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by him has been one of the great privileges of

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my life and also one of the things I'll cherish

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the most about my time at BYUS, my association with him,

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and now to have him invite me back to stay

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around that meant a lot to me. And we're doing

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we're working on some nonprofit things together and stuff to

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help the BYU Pathway program, something we're both passionate about,

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and and things like that, and so now we're getting

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to work together on things outside of football, and it's

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just been so much fun. What a phenomenal leader, and

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it's you know, I just feel blessed that I still

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get to be around him and still be led by.

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Speaker 3: Him, felt the spirit all while you said it, I'm

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never going to shy away from that or to wear

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it on my sleeve. That was very touch and especially

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as you mentioned the BAU pathways. How can I guess

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fans and how can we stay up to date about

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those things?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So there's two main things that we're working on.

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One is actually a placement business that myself and Isaiah

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Kafusi are a part of, and I know Colone loves it.

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He just can't work on a business. He's a full

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time head coach, right, And so Isaiah and I have

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been kind of working on it where we're basically helping

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helping companies outsource to Pathway students because the challenge with

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BYU Pathway is they get this great, super affordable education

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from a university and they get these certificates in these

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degrees in their home countries, but then they graduate and

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there's no jobs for them in their countries and so

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they go back to just doing whatever they were doing

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before and they're not even using the degree. So what

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they need are jobs, and so Isaiah and I have

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been going out to businesses and seeing what opportunities they

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have for positions in their company that they can outsource

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to and whether that's three or five three to five

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back office employees to help run the books or do

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some management things, or you know, more front facing stuff

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like call centers. You know, call centers have been very successful.

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Obviously you can hire in larger numbers and they have

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great English skills and all that stuff. And so that's

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been very fun to be a part of because I'm

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in the process. I've kind of been a Pathway student

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mentor for the last four or five years now since

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I got to BYU, mentoring some of these students, and

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I'm in the process of becoming a BYU Pathway missionary

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officially and just because I'm doing it anyway, so I

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was like, why not just get the tag, you know

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what I'm saying. But but for anyone listening, if you

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have a company or you know some one who has

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positions that they can outsource internationally, that's what we're trying

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to help people do, and we'll make it extremely smooth

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and easy for your company to not only bring greater

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business value because it's cheaper to hire someone overseas, it

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just is that's just the reality, and so it's better

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for your business. And also you're changing the lives of

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these Pathway students, these people who need help just because

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the opportunities aren't there in their home countries. And for

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those who are listening who are Latter Day Saints, this

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is the gathering of Israel at its highest level. And

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then right like there's economic success has always preceded someone's

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true ability to serve and to gather Israel. There's a

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reason that in foreign countries that there is a certain

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amount of money that church leaders have to make in

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order to qualify to be a bishop or something like that,

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because they don't want to burden the family, right, Like

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they're not going to put someone in a bishopric or

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call someone as a bishop who is barely making ends

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meet for their family, right, And so they call it

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living wages, like you have to you have to have

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a living wage in order to serve in leadership positions.

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And so you know, getting these jobs for these people

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all of a sudden, now they have a living wage,

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and it opens up so many more opportunities for them

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to serve. And it's a it's a physical gathering, a

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spiritual gathering, but it's also an economic gathering of scattered

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Israel because it's just the way our world is set

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up that it takes economics a lot of times to

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be able to move your life forward in ways you

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want to, right, and that's what we're trying to bring

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to these people all over the world. So please reach

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out to me on any social media that I have

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or or anything like that. If you know someone who

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has a call center who's hiring lots of internationals, or

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a company that needs some help in their back office work,

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we can. We've got We've got literally tens of thousands

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of Pathway students ready who will fit the job description

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you need. So please reach out to me where we're

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trying to help these people.

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Speaker 3: Please reach out. Very touched about that, man, if you

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want to talk about doing the work of Jesus Christ,

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serving as he would, as it says in Matthew, you know,

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putting off you know, and you know, not saving your life,

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what you just mentioned just really touched my heart. I'm

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not trying to get a most I just I think

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that's powerful because I'm looking at my conversion story to

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the Gospel and those regards someone giving my family an

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opportunity in that regard to go to these e fys, right,

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go to these things in that regard, like people helped

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me get to BYU and I had to put it

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in the work on my own, like I had to

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go out. But then it's afforded me an opportunity to

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get a degree and surround myself by wonderful people. So

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I love that you guys are doing that to get

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back and those are things they really do matter, especially

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for church leadership spiritually, you know, financially does take economics

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and really all this. So I echo that that same message.

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We'll finish on this to get you out of here.

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You said, you know the concepts. What do you see

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on tape from Utah? Defensively, obviously you guys know a

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guy former well you know the Fano and obviously no,

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they're familiar with both the familiar with the whole team.

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With the whole team, right right, that's just the nature

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of the robbery. What do you see on tape for them?

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What challenges could they implement, you know on Saturday to

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the Kuks.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean the challenges that they face are the

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the challenges they cause for us, are the same challenges

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that a Utah defense causes every year. They're very disciplined

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and how they play, they're they're very good on defense

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because they're very disciplined in gap sound and they've got

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everything covered, right, And then that's been a staple of

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wits defenses and Morgan Scalley's for a long time, right,

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And so obviously they're well coached. You know, I think

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they're I think they're very skilled in the secondary, right,

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And and you know, those edge players are good all right.

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John Henry and and Logan are both really good football players,

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both former teammates of mine, and uh, you know, we

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respect them that way. And uh, you know, I think

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it's gonna be a really good test because we've got

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good players too. And I feel like, you know this

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is probably on paper, I mean you probably know this

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better than me, But on paper, this feels like one

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of the more evenly matched rivalries we've had in a

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long time. Because nobody was expecting us to win in

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twenty one, yep, right, and then we didn't win for

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a long time before that, and then last year was

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almost the opposite. We were kind of more heavily favored,

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and yeah, and uh, you know, but the I mean

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everyone says this about rivalries, right, rivalries even the odds,

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they regardless of rankings, teams, whatever, And so it's gonna

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come down to who can execute, and that that's that

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defense can execute really well, and that that's our challenge

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is how how can we execute better than them? Right? Like,

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they're they're gonna get their calls, they're gonna know what

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they're doing. You know, they're not going to have missed assignments,

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and so it's it's gonna be man on man who

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can win, right, who can win in their one on

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one match? And you know, those those are the games

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that can be the most challenging. But in my experience

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as a player too, especially, those are the games are

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the most fun because it's it's me and you, Right,

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it's mono a mono, absolutely, who's gonna win, who's gonna lose?

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All right? And so, uh, I think that's what that's

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what jumps out to me as you know, we get

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ready to play him and stuff. But they're they're a

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really good defense. We're looking forward to the challenge. It's

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gonna be a challenge, indeed. But I mean, hey, look

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like you said, you got pretty good players. I think

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Isaiah john is pretty good. I think he's the next

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level player. Andrew Gentry is pretty good. Last time I

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checked Bruce E.

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Speaker 3: Mitchell, I don't know who he is, but whoever decided

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that he should make a switch and take over for

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you after you left or stepping up like he looks

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to be pretty dog good as well.

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Speaker 4: The next level. Bruce is a very good players established

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Austin Son. Goodness, we're blessed, man, We're blessed. We have

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good players. And I'm glad that they've had this extra

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year in coach Woods system because they've been able to there.

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They've been able to take their skill sets so much

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farther than we were able to push it last year,

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you know, just because it was getting the bearings, learning

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how he coached, how we taught. Now they've had a

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whole full year in that system and it's it's paying off.

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You know, they're doing a good job. I love those guys.

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Speaker 3: You should that powerful. They do it year two. Always

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tell people watch how athletes driving the system. You're two

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compared to your one. I've noticed that my last five

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to six years of covering be what you cause the

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lineback of you. They call it qbu. I'm gonna call

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it O line. A lot of old line out there

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and maybe not get some love. Always say you want

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to talk about offensive coordinate, it might be the most

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you know, unforgiving or thank position the boys up for

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some time. But shout at the bear Blackmeyer. Hope you

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got the boys and you got some rest. Chris retreats

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you guys definitely deserve it after the Arizona win. Tough

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task on Saturday, but we wish you the best. There'll

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be a great game, uh, no doubt and coming out

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with the victory, opportunity to go one to no, seven

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to no this week, well, we'll let you go to

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Connor thank you of course. All right, there you go.

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Speaker 2: That's Connor pay alongside Ronald the three man. We were

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getting your prep. Get you if that Yu Utah rivalry game,

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and if there's any way that's familiar with Utah football,

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it's Connor Bay. He knows that roster. Pretty guys staying well,

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having played in this rivalry recently and then knowing a

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lot of the key players. One of some of the

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best players that Utah is fielding on the grid Ion

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we're a live for Myers meets and find foods, stop by,

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So if you're looking to win a try tip, head

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on over to Myers Meets and find foods in Highland, Utah.

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Let's take a brief time out. We'll be back. Don't

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go anywhere more to get to as we break down

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this holy war here on your Utah. ESPN Readio Network

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one of three nine ninety eight point three es