Speaker 1: So we're bringing in the heavy hitters for these moments.
Speaker 2: And right now joining us is Robert Johnson, former ute
Speaker 2: and NFL dB Rojoe.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Hey, I'm doing good.
Speaker 2: How you doing? Oh? You're lying to me. I can
Speaker 2: feel it. I can hear it in your voice. You're
Speaker 2: having a bad You need a shoulder to cry on.
Speaker 3: Come on, tell me what what's going on? Football is
Speaker 3: back in So it ain't. No, I'm not fad now.
Speaker 1: I hear you. I hear you. Okay. I don't ask
Speaker 1: me why I thought this, but I did.
Speaker 2: The NFL Hall of Fame game happened last night, and
Speaker 2: I love to watch a lot of the induction speeches.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious about your football experience. So you're you're
Speaker 2: going into the Hall of Fame, all right, and there's
Speaker 2: a story that happened in your life.
Speaker 1: There was a moment that changed it all for you.
Speaker 2: Tell me what that was where you just fell in
Speaker 2: love with football or it just you just knew that
Speaker 2: was what you were going to do.
Speaker 3: I mean, the best, the main example, the biggest story
Speaker 3: that I can tell that that set me up for
Speaker 3: football was playing baseball, which is strange. Playing baseball yeah,
Speaker 3: it was just happened to be that. Coming around the
Speaker 3: base instead of sliding to the home plate, I ran.
Speaker 3: I ran through the back catcher and.
Speaker 1: Plate.
Speaker 3: And I remember the coach from the other team. He
Speaker 3: was a football coach, and he was just like, I
Speaker 3: need to find your mom and I need to find
Speaker 3: your mommy brother. Just you're somebody, because somebody got account
Speaker 3: for you. Like do you play football? And I was
Speaker 3: like no, I never played flag and just you know,
Speaker 3: just always played all the other sports but never played
Speaker 3: And he said, I need to put you in football.
Speaker 3: And then that's when it all started. That's when everything
Speaker 3: started to wow, start to take off and started goes
Speaker 3: goes all the way back to baseball. Baseball when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, I was around seven years old. I
Speaker 3: remember eight, eight or seven because I remember going to
Speaker 3: the second grade when well I was going to the
Speaker 3: thirty year. I think when that happened.
Speaker 2: Did you did you keep playing baseball as you grew
Speaker 2: up or did or was that it? You were just
Speaker 2: like I just like hitting people, and uh, this is
Speaker 2: what I gotta do.
Speaker 3: Oh that was it. That was it. It was just
Speaker 3: like no more baseball. Even though I was always a
Speaker 3: good center fielder. So I always felt and that's you know,
Speaker 3: you think about centerfield safety or right field, left field,
Speaker 3: those are the best safeties. It just kind of makes sense,
Speaker 3: you know. And yeah, I ran off with football, and
Speaker 3: then basketball was one of my main sports. And then
Speaker 3: football was just enough. I can be physical. I didn't
Speaker 3: have to worry about nobody getting in trouble if I
Speaker 3: ran into anybody.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: And so your your three conferences ago, right, you're Mount
Speaker 2: West guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mount West I was.
Speaker 2: I was four conferences a go, like, we didn't have
Speaker 2: face masks. That's that's how fun? What what what does
Speaker 2: it mean to you to look at this program and
Speaker 2: you you were a part of some really good teams.
Speaker 2: You saw a big transferformation for the program. But what
Speaker 2: does it meant to you? What's it been like for
Speaker 2: you to see kind of the rise, to see the
Speaker 2: progression of the program and even college football and where
Speaker 2: it is today?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean college football has completely changed. The landscape
Speaker 3: is so different, you know, it's such a It's a
Speaker 3: great way of looking at it because I always tell
Speaker 3: myself that back then, if they've had this playoff thing,
Speaker 3: you know, when I was when I was a part
Speaker 3: of the undervieated season. We could have at least shown
Speaker 3: exactly the type of domination that we was able to
Speaker 3: do against teams. But you know, like right now, the NFL,
Speaker 3: the NCAA layout is it's it's tough. It seemed like
Speaker 3: we're there. They're still trying things right now, and this year,
Speaker 3: I know that the NFL playoff picture has changed, so
Speaker 3: I know they're trying things. And to talk about the
Speaker 3: University of Utah conference wise and just where we started,
Speaker 3: you know, and where everything has happened. And I think
Speaker 3: I've said this before on the radio station or on
Speaker 3: our show, on your show, is that when I go
Speaker 3: back home people, when I go back to California, go
Speaker 3: back to Los Angeles, people are really wearing Utah stuff,
Speaker 3: and it always like like throws me up, Like, man,
Speaker 3: nobody knew anything about Utah when I was saying I'm
Speaker 3: about to go to Utah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it changes up everything. But I'm really happy and
Speaker 3: proud of the program and whereas and where is it
Speaker 3: going because it's still it's still going high, which is
Speaker 3: unique in its own way. Because now University of Utah
Speaker 3: has gotten some respect from a lot of those colleges.
Speaker 3: That's that's a Southern you know a lot of those
Speaker 3: southern colleges. They all know about Utah and it's been
Speaker 3: it's been a great experience to just say that I
Speaker 3: am a University of Utah youth.
Speaker 1: How much money do you think you would have been worth?
Speaker 1: In nil?
Speaker 3: Exactly? I mean we cracked jokes about it, and I
Speaker 3: always tell myself, I'm like, they could have gave me
Speaker 3: just sixty thousand, I'd have been fining. Me and my
Speaker 3: family have been fine, we can you know, we can
Speaker 3: make that work. But gosh, like I just wish I
Speaker 3: could have got all the free stuff that they're getting,
Speaker 3: all the endorsements, because Comcast had a picture of me
Speaker 3: when I was when I was going to the University
Speaker 3: of Utah, and they wouldn't even give me a discount
Speaker 3: on Comcast back then.
Speaker 1: Do you think you would have transferred? Do you think
Speaker 1: you would have ever entered the porter?
Speaker 2: Was there was there a time when you were playing
Speaker 2: you go, boy, I wish I you know, things maybe
Speaker 2: aren't working the way I want or might be a
Speaker 2: better opportunity that ever cross your mind.
Speaker 3: It's pretty funny that you speak about that because me
Speaker 3: and my group of my group of Hall of famers,
Speaker 3: that's why I said my Sugar Bowl team, we always
Speaker 3: kind of talk about it a little bit because you know,
Speaker 3: back then, the school that I want you, that's the
Speaker 3: school that you was representing. You was part of. You know,
Speaker 3: you loved your school. And right now it's a lot
Speaker 3: of the player that's not loyal to you. They're not
Speaker 3: loyal right now. They followed the money. So in my case,
Speaker 3: being that you know, immature, you know as well as
Speaker 3: I would say my age at that time, it matters
Speaker 3: where my family was standing at right at that moment.
Speaker 3: Because I believe that if it wasn't for coach Toataki,
Speaker 3: that that looked at me and seen me as a
Speaker 3: good player, I don't think I would have been able
Speaker 3: to go anywhere. So I think my loyalty would have
Speaker 3: stayed here at the University of Utah as long as
Speaker 3: coach of Taki it was part of the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: I believe in my heart, I wouldn't I wouldn't win anywhere.
Speaker 3: Now if he would have left, then that would have changed,
Speaker 3: you know, that would change up a mindset. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I believe I would have been loyal to the soil
Speaker 3: when it comes to the University of Utah, in the
Speaker 3: state of Utah, how they put their hands and hugged
Speaker 3: me and kept me good. So no, I don't I
Speaker 3: really don't believe I would have left the University of
Speaker 3: Utah no matter what the type of money that was
Speaker 3: being thrown at me.
Speaker 2: You know, I hadn't thought about that question until, you know,
Speaker 2: I was thinking about what I wanted to ask you today,
Speaker 2: and I just thought, I wonder, because you know, I
Speaker 2: was thinking of myself, what I would I ever consider
Speaker 2: what I have ever considered leaving? And uh, and we
Speaker 2: we had some lean years back when I was playing,
Speaker 2: but but a lot of those same reasons. I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's something about this loyalty, there's something about uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the you just feel that you feel that
Speaker 2: into your program. I wonder how many players today where
Speaker 2: they've transferred a couple of times, you know that I
Speaker 2: don't know that they'll ever have that or maybe I
Speaker 2: guess they will with whatever the last team they were with.
Speaker 2: I just I just think that would be I think
Speaker 2: that loyalty thing would be a hard thing to get
Speaker 2: over now having you know, maybe you are in a
Speaker 2: bad spot. I don't know, and then you go, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe there is a better, better opportunity for me, but
Speaker 2: but I think it'd be hard.
Speaker 1: I really do yese.
Speaker 3: And then think about this as a sucky feeling one
Speaker 3: like me as a as a retiring fl player that
Speaker 3: when I was watching the Hall of Fame game last night,
Speaker 3: DJ the quarterback DJ, I can never say his last name, right,
Speaker 3: the one that bounced around, the one that went from
Speaker 3: yeah him. Like when they pulled up his stats and
Speaker 3: everything in stat line, it's like, you know, I wish
Speaker 3: some of the players were really some of the current
Speaker 3: players the same college would look at that stat line
Speaker 3: and really look at it and like, you know, look
Speaker 3: at the details. Because he was once one of the
Speaker 3: highest ranked high school prospects coming out of high school,
Speaker 3: and he went to a school that he did really good.
Speaker 3: Then he bounced to another school, which was Oregon State
Speaker 3: and did okay, and then he bounced to the Tenant Well,
Speaker 3: he bounced to Florida State, and then he had had
Speaker 3: a rough, rough season and then he wind up being undrafted. See,
Speaker 3: so so I wish some players would look at it
Speaker 3: in the way of like is it really worth it
Speaker 3: to not show any loyalty because then you think that
Speaker 3: your NFL career is going to take off. But I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that he's a terrible player, but he's tagged
Speaker 3: right now as one of those journey players now of
Speaker 3: like how loyal would he be to a team? So
Speaker 3: he wounded up being a free free agent pickup.
Speaker 2: One of the things in the Utah program that's been
Speaker 2: kind of a staple has been that loyalty, but it's
Speaker 2: also been the development of players. And you really, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure you went through that. Tell me a little
Speaker 2: bit about your experience with kind of growing and developing
Speaker 2: in the program and getting your opportunity to play, and
Speaker 2: how much it meant to you.
Speaker 3: Well, it helped so much because Kosataki when he came
Speaker 3: and got me, he the first thing he said was, hey,
Speaker 3: we we really don't have a set position for you.
Speaker 3: So we really don't have a seposition for you, but
Speaker 3: I really believe that you can do something special for
Speaker 3: the for the program, and for me, it was like
Speaker 3: somebody giving me the opportunity. So when I came out
Speaker 3: here to the University of Utah back in the day,
Speaker 3: is my very first week here a training camp. You know,
Speaker 3: I was playing receiver, corner and safety and you know,
Speaker 3: and I had a red jersey in a white jersey,
Speaker 3: and right at that moment, nobody knew exactly where it
Speaker 3: was going to place me. But it was just like
Speaker 3: whatever position that we put you, and we can develop
Speaker 3: you into that position. And you know, I got really
Speaker 3: lucky where I had Coach Odham at that time. Coach
Speaker 3: Odham was my position coach, and Coach Scaley was our
Speaker 3: GA at that time.
Speaker 1: Wow. And the development.
Speaker 3: Part, yeah, the development part was tough because I was
Speaker 3: a lean guy, you know, like I was a tall,
Speaker 3: skinier on the slim side. And it turned into like
Speaker 3: Coach Odham was just like, hey, we put some weight
Speaker 3: on you. We can place you in different spots. And
Speaker 3: it just happened. Like all the developed part of it
Speaker 3: just happened because the loyalty of the alumni of alums
Speaker 3: that's there at the University of Utah. They talked to
Speaker 3: me a lot. Because that first year, if y'all remember,
Speaker 3: even the fans that's listen, we played we had a
Speaker 3: points ahead a game against Navy that year. We made
Speaker 3: it to the points head of bow and it's in
Speaker 3: San Diego. Eric Weddle came and spoke to me, like,
Speaker 3: you know, one on one, and I just was like like, man,
Speaker 3: this is this is crazy, you know, like it's just
Speaker 3: an NFL player that's talking to me and you're talking
Speaker 3: about safety, pride and.
Speaker 1: You know it.
Speaker 3: It made me feel like I can develop here and
Speaker 3: I can develop on a different level that even if
Speaker 3: I didn't make it to the pros, at least I
Speaker 3: will make some really good connections with some friends and
Speaker 3: some alums that I know that it's time needed. Where
Speaker 3: I'm done with football, I can lean on them. So
Speaker 3: the development was out was not even just straight football.
Speaker 3: It was outside of football because that's how the University
Speaker 3: of Utah works.
Speaker 2: This time of year, of course, camp is starting, NFL
Speaker 2: camps starting, and college. What does this time of year
Speaker 2: mean to you when you're going back to camp? Do
Speaker 2: you still feel it in your body? What does it
Speaker 2: mean to you?
Speaker 3: It's such a right now because I'm not playing, but no,
Speaker 3: it's it's so different. I literally just sent a video
Speaker 3: to one of my good friends that I played flag
Speaker 3: football with my current player flag football with him, and
Speaker 3: I was showing a video the day in the Life
Speaker 3: of the Tennessee Titan, and they was talking about Randolly.
Speaker 3: I think his name is Randell the receiver, the little
Speaker 3: fast receiver. They were showing about the day in the
Speaker 3: life and he was like, I start my day off
Speaker 3: at five forty five in the morning. I was just like, man,
Speaker 3: I remember when I had to start my days off
Speaker 3: at that time. But it's it's nice to see things
Speaker 3: like that on social media. And it does suck sometimes
Speaker 3: because I still mentally feel like, oh, I can get
Speaker 3: it done, but physically, you know, I'm thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3: My body is not going to hold up for a
Speaker 3: day of practice. But I miss it. And this is
Speaker 3: always that time of the year where it feels like
Speaker 3: life is finally great again because football is back in.
Speaker 3: But it's definitely enjoyable, and it just makes you miss
Speaker 3: it if you really have that big heart for football.
Speaker 2: So you listen to some of the coaches up on
Speaker 2: the hill talk about they got a lot of players,
Speaker 2: you know that they like that not necessarily all of
Speaker 2: them have experience, and yeah, how long does it take
Speaker 2: for a player like you know, they've got some of
Speaker 2: the they got to figure out kind of some of
Speaker 2: the dbs. They got to figure out some of the
Speaker 2: defensive linemen. And uh, and how long do you think
Speaker 2: that process takes? Uh, when you go into fall camp
Speaker 2: and can you can you get up to speed, can
Speaker 2: you get where you're playing at a high level or
Speaker 2: at least an efficient level, or or does it take
Speaker 2: you know, two or three games or a season or
Speaker 2: half a season? How long does it take for a
Speaker 2: new guy with with talent and but but still kind
Speaker 2: of raw to get kind of really flowing and playing
Speaker 2: at a high level.
Speaker 3: I go into a numbers game, like to me, like,
Speaker 3: you can go into training camp and do everything in
Speaker 3: training camp. That's cool, That's that's nice, you know, but
Speaker 3: you got to remember you going up against teammates and yeah,
Speaker 3: it might get it might get tough. You know, by
Speaker 3: the end of the day they wear the same color
Speaker 3: as you. So what I like to tell my tell
Speaker 3: myself and also tell some of those new those newer players,
Speaker 3: It's like, by the time you hit that that hundred
Speaker 3: play mark, Like when you in the season, when you
Speaker 3: hit that hundred play mark, you you start knowing, you know,
Speaker 3: you start like like getting the feel of it. And
Speaker 3: then now when you hit that hundred play mark, like
Speaker 3: you know the basics of playing in a Division one
Speaker 3: football game, but then also when there's something that's being
Speaker 3: thrown at you that might throw you off, it's okay,
Speaker 3: you won't you won't fall apart because now you've got
Speaker 3: a good base. So I always say, if a player,
Speaker 3: a student athlete can get to one hundred plays, you know,
Speaker 3: like by the time you get that hundred plays, it's
Speaker 3: like everything started clicking. It's almost like working a normal job.
Speaker 3: Most people say that when you work most jobs, by
Speaker 3: the time you get to that six month period, everything
Speaker 3: start to click and then you start just like knowing.
Speaker 3: I give it one hundred play mark because you got
Speaker 3: to think about this and for some of the fans
Speaker 3: that's not really familiar with it, is that defense wise,
Speaker 3: you get about like you get about thirty, you get
Speaker 3: about thirty to forty plays, and if your defense is
Speaker 3: not as strong, if it could push to sixty plays
Speaker 3: in one game. See, so I say, like to be
Speaker 3: on the safe side, maybe two and a half games,
Speaker 3: maybe three games in is when you finally start to
Speaker 3: like get that like, okay, now I'm comfortable. Now let's
Speaker 3: you know, now I understand it. I understand what practice
Speaker 3: look like and things like that. So one hundred plays
Speaker 3: would be my guest my guestimate of like, now you
Speaker 3: adjust it, Now you got your you got your feet wet,
Speaker 3: now you deep in there, you know, now you're ready
Speaker 3: to play play.
Speaker 2: Do you think maybe coaches look at that too and
Speaker 2: they go, all right, we're giving this. We got to
Speaker 2: give a guy a fair opportunity because it does take
Speaker 2: some time.
Speaker 1: But do you think they kind of go, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: at our hundred playmark or.
Speaker 2: Where at a certain level and he ain't getting it,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna we're gonna go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: You feel like coaches maybe do that as well.
Speaker 3: I feel sometimes they do, But then there's so many
Speaker 3: different variables. Because I'll use myself as an example. When
Speaker 3: I first got there at the University of Utah, the
Speaker 3: first game we played against Oregon State only had six
Speaker 3: plays I think, and three of the plays was a
Speaker 3: kickoff return. See, so I didn't really get like the
Speaker 3: live action. But then going into that second game where
Speaker 3: we played against air Force. I think we played against
Speaker 3: air Force, I had about fifteen I think fifteen sixteen plays,
Speaker 3: and you know, four of them was a special teams,
Speaker 3: but the rest of them was I was on the
Speaker 3: field and like I made a couple of tackles that game,
Speaker 3: and you know, and it was like I'm starting to
Speaker 3: get the field of this Division one football, Like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's going pretty good. And then you know, a variable
Speaker 3: was thrown in because maybe coach Otaki or maybe coach
Speaker 3: Coach Anderson at that time was kind of ramping me
Speaker 3: up to like get me prepared for it. But then
Speaker 3: when we lost those first two games, it was like, okay,
Speaker 3: we might need to we might need to throw throw
Speaker 3: a wrench into this plan and change up some stuff.
Speaker 3: And then we wind up playing against UCLA and there
Speaker 3: was ranked number eleven and at that time, and coach
Speaker 3: Anderson just was like, okay, Roger, you're starting this game.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: So it was it's a lot of variables that throws
Speaker 3: into it because you might have a coach that might
Speaker 3: want to see a player get a couple of reps
Speaker 3: in and see how they react, and then they're like, okay,
Speaker 3: we might want to you know, put them on the
Speaker 3: shelf for a little bit. But then injuries happen or
Speaker 3: the season is already not going the way that you thought,
Speaker 3: and it's like, maybe we need to throw this player
Speaker 3: in and see how it goes. So it's a lot
Speaker 3: of experience, Like it's a lot of experimental things that
Speaker 3: happens that you have to do as a coach. So
Speaker 3: I don't know what every coach thinks about, but I
Speaker 3: do know that when when things happen, players get hurt
Speaker 3: or a player not performing to the to the ability
Speaker 3: that they thought, that's when you start going to that, hey,
Speaker 3: we might need to throw this kid in and see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 1: Uh. College camp is a month.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of practice and there's there's no games,
Speaker 2: like like it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, you start having games and it's a better thing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I have two questions about that.
Speaker 2: One, do you think that it can hurt you as
Speaker 2: a player because you're you almost over practice or overtrain
Speaker 2: or you know there's and and you don't know you
Speaker 2: don't have the barometer of a game to kind of
Speaker 2: gauge how where you are in your performance.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And Two would it makes sense to change this, like
Speaker 2: to have maybe a non conference game like a it's
Speaker 2: like a preseason game, it doesn't count. Maybe you play
Speaker 2: more regular season games during the season. But you know what,
Speaker 2: it what it makes sense to to put in a
Speaker 2: you know, maybe it's a scrimmage against another school or
Speaker 2: something anything, or a game or a non confidence anything.
Speaker 1: I don't so so practicing too.
Speaker 2: Long and the idea of actually having a non conference
Speaker 2: game in the middle of the summer while you're going
Speaker 2: through this month of practice.
Speaker 3: Well, you mentioned it, and you know Deon Sanders, you
Speaker 3: know coach Bryan he he mentioned this. I think was
Speaker 3: either last season or a year. A year he was
Speaker 3: trying to get I think it was Syracuse. He was
Speaker 3: trying to get the University of Syracuse where they can
Speaker 3: have like a practice against each other because in the
Speaker 3: NFL we do that a lot.
Speaker 1: In the NFL.
Speaker 3: When I was playing for the Tennessee Titans, we drove
Speaker 3: down to Atlanta to go scrimmage or go scrimmage against
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons. And this was before we even had
Speaker 3: a we had a scrimm. We had a preseason game
Speaker 3: against the Atlanta Falcons that saying week, which was always
Speaker 3: kind of strange because it's like I'm practicing against them
Speaker 3: and we and now we got to have a TV game.
Speaker 3: It was just always a little bit weird, but I
Speaker 3: really believe that they should add that end there, because
Speaker 3: that would be really cool to kind of add that.
Speaker 3: But then it does at that dynamic of like a
Speaker 3: player being injured or you know, something might happen where
Speaker 3: where you know, big fights, you know, things like that.
Speaker 3: It's it's a lot of it's a lot of things
Speaker 3: that can happen. But I feel like they should we
Speaker 3: should have it because you can only do so many
Speaker 3: mental reps and then you can only be so physical
Speaker 3: with your own teammates without feeling like you're trying to
Speaker 3: you're trying to mess up their career.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I think we should get a team like b YU,
Speaker 2: bring them in, you know, kind of kind of a
Speaker 2: lesser opponent, just you know, a lower.
Speaker 3: Tier h I ain't deal with them not heck, then
Speaker 3: that maybe Weaver State, you know, Utah State, those who's
Speaker 3: but not not team down South because that rival that
Speaker 3: practice practice won't finish. Well, my team practice won't finish.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't it be fun to watch and it'd be
Speaker 2: fun to be a part of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: But you're totally right, though, I feel like I feel
Speaker 3: like like maybe it's the NCAA. I mean, the way
Speaker 3: the NCAA is going, this is turning into a professional
Speaker 3: professional college experience pretty much. So it's like if the
Speaker 3: professionals is doing it, the NCAA might turn around and
Speaker 3: start agreeing with it. Of like you can play against
Speaker 3: your local colleges and you know, and not have anything
Speaker 3: that's like too crazy, because I can fully see we
Speaker 3: were we were State coming down to us, or we're
Speaker 3: going up to Weaver State and have one practice, I
Speaker 3: have one or two practices against each other, you know,
Speaker 3: and kind of see what it's like to kind of
Speaker 3: have some live bullets. I always say live bullets. I
Speaker 3: kind of have some live some live action of like
Speaker 3: somebody with a different color really trying to make the roster,
Speaker 3: trying to show that they're worth you know. I can
Speaker 3: see that being a really good thing. But the NCAA
Speaker 3: is the they monobolize everything. So if they can't make
Speaker 3: any money out of it, then maybe they might not
Speaker 3: want to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why why you do a good idea? Heaven forbid,
Speaker 1: it'd be a terrible thing.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I want you to take off your rose
Speaker 2: colored glasses. I want you to be completely objective with me. No, No,
Speaker 2: like Homer Speaker, where is this Utah football team this year?
Speaker 3: I feel, and this is me coming from my mind
Speaker 3: because I haven't I haven't went to practices. I haven't
Speaker 3: seen the practices. I just be hearing. I think that
Speaker 3: the offense that we're putting in that is going to
Speaker 3: be a very It's gonna be a huge socker to
Speaker 3: a lot of the fans and also me myself because
Speaker 3: the way that this offense is set up, it's a
Speaker 3: powerful offense that can put up points. And I don't
Speaker 3: think that we're going to be used to seeing the
Speaker 3: points going up so fast if we're doing it the
Speaker 3: right way. So I think this year is going to
Speaker 3: be one of those years of like the second game
Speaker 3: of the season is when you're we want to start
Speaker 3: seeing how the machine is going. So I really think
Speaker 3: that we should have a really good eat season. And
Speaker 3: the reason that is because we can put up big points.
Speaker 3: And now in college football, whoever can put up the
Speaker 3: most points, you know, it's like, well, I mean that's
Speaker 3: common sense. Once I talk about common sense, who put
Speaker 3: up the most points? But I just think that we
Speaker 3: struggled a little bit with scoring, like it's like fast
Speaker 3: and scoring like you know, on drives that need to
Speaker 3: be done and right now with this new offense, we
Speaker 3: can score on one play easily and it could be
Speaker 3: a ten second, eighty hour drive like easy, you know,
Speaker 3: like a touchdown at it. So this year is just
Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit different for other fans to
Speaker 3: kind of see, like there's going to be a lot
Speaker 3: of the Utah man being played. From what I feel
Speaker 3: on Miami.
Speaker 1: All right, I believe you. I actually am really excited.
Speaker 2: I think this will be a lot to look forward to,
Speaker 2: and I think so much of it as some of
Speaker 2: these new young players jelling and like you said, getting
Speaker 2: that hundred reps in to really feel comfortable out out
Speaker 2: on the on the field. So it should be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun to watch. It's really been a pleasure
Speaker 2: having this conversation. Thanks for tuning in and giving your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed it. And have a great guest your day.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you. Then quickly quickly I want to say,
Speaker 3: like I did, I never seen our Fiesta Bowl year,
Speaker 3: but I feel like our offense was kind of similar
Speaker 3: to the field, like this offense that's coming in and
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to put presson on the current team,
Speaker 3: but I really feel like this offense that we're doing
Speaker 3: that from what I keep hearing about, it's almost similar
Speaker 3: to what I've heard about the Fiesta Bowl offense. Because
Speaker 3: I heard the Fiesta Bow offense was like they can score,
Speaker 3: like they was like Alex Smith had the team kind
Speaker 3: of rolling. So I think that this might be the
Speaker 3: same type of of that type of offense where you
Speaker 3: might have a receiver, you might might have a mad Dog,
Speaker 3: you know, Madison at tight end that's pretty much a
Speaker 3: real receiver. But then he works in the system as
Speaker 3: a tight end. So we'll see where it all goes.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be definitely exciting. And I really appreciate
Speaker 3: you at least giving me the time to speak about football.
Speaker 1: No happy to do it. Anyways, Take care and have
Speaker 1: a good day.
Speaker 3: You take care too, Go Utes.
Speaker 1: Go utes.
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