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I want to get into a college football segment. We

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just got off the line with Devon Ek. Fantastic acquisition

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for the Cougars in the twenty twenty six class.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, very much underrated.

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Speaker 3: He had over three thousand yards as a running back

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in high school for Lehigh High School, won a ton.

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Speaker 2: Of football games, knows how to put in the work.

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Comes from a.

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Speaker 3: Great family, and he surrounded himself with some great mentors

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as well. And I have one of those mentors and

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Speaker 2: We still work on it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, We're gonna still work on it here, but we're

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gonna try to get Luke Han on the line here.

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Luke is a former Rix College football player and coach,

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by the way, and he is the personal trainer and

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strength and conditioning coach and mentor for Jamal Williams. If

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you remember, Jamal had a couple of breakout seasons at BYU.

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Jamal Williams arguably the best running back to come through

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Brigham Young University. It's a conversation everybody has. Is it

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Luke Staley? Is it Harvey Unga, is it Jamal Willis?

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Is it Tyler Algier?

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Speaker 2: Is it l J. Martin?

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Speaker 3: Now right, Who's the best in Cougar football history at

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that running back position? A lot of people love Jamal.

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A lot of people love Jamal and they lean into that.

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Remember Jamal in his first two seasons, you know, he

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broke out. He had seven hundred and seventy five yards

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as a true freshman, just awesome work for seven yards

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per carry, twelve touchdowns. In twenty thirteen he had one

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two hundred and thirty three yards five point seven yards

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per carry, seven touchdowns. He's also good at the backfield

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with eighteen receptions under twenty five yards In twenty fourteen,

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started off hot man one hundred and nine carries, five

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hundred and eighteen yards through six games, four point eight

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yards per carry, four touchdowns, but then he had a

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season ending injury. He ended up sitting out the two

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thousand and fifteen season and found a mentor, a coach,

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a friend of family member, and completely transformed his body.

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Came back in twenty sixteen and had his best season

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yet one thousand three or seventy five yards five point

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nine yards per carrying twenty sixteen, twelve touchdowns, and also

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had an additional seven receptions eighty yards, and just was

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amazing that twenty sixteen season. And we got that mentor,

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that coach, that friend, that family member on the lie.

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Speaker 2: We got lu Con on the dial. Luke, how you living?

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Speaker 4: I'm living great man. How are you guys doing.

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Speaker 3: Doing fantastic man. Appreciate you joining us to talk ball

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to college ball, NFL and more and recruiting as well.

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Let's talk a little bit about that transition and transformation

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of Jamal than what went into that, you know, when

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you when you got Jamal, he was a little bit

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dinged up.

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Speaker 2: He probably wasn't at one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, yeah, yeah, got him the artisan got him,

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molded it into a monster. Look it was good clay,

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let's not let's not get a twisted great clay, but

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you molded him into a monster.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about that process.

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Speaker 4: Well, when I got him, he was more about was

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he was more like torn down, you know, and the ankle,

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the knee, you know, everything just torn up, torn down.

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So you're you're dealing with an athlete that mentally, the

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capacity of his mental is, you know, really low. So

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getting him to try to convince him to be good,

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it's not just great, but just to be good, took

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a lot of time because I mean, he couldn't even

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talk naturally backwards up five steps on a hill without

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being inspreciating pain. And then I said, if you can't

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even do this, there's no possible way you can play

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with the knee brace on, because the knee bras isn't

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going to protect you for so long. And I said,

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what I'm going to have to have you do is

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going a red shirt, sit out, stay up here and

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train and then we'll get to knee and everything else

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around it stronger than it's ever been. And so a

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lot went into it, a lot of running and the

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off season, a lot of hell work, a lot of

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static movements, dieting, meal plan, so a lot went into him.

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Gave to have a six percent body fat his senior

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year for the combine and being as successful as he's

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been in the eight years because nothing has changed. We

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just continue doing the same thing every year, and the

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off season doesn't change. Sometimes a day he may come

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back to start working out in the off season, they change,

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but majority of the thing nothing has changed. Even right

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now while he's insurgency, we're treating everything as as he's

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season pull season right now and getting ready to be

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sending from his team to transition into just to recovery

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phase and then they're starting to work back out day again.

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So we pretty much kept everything the same and it's

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worked effectively and efficiently, and there's no need for him

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to change anything. What he's been doing has been successful.

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Speaker 3: He's he's been freaking amazing over the years. I think

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he's eclipsed over four thousand yards rushing, over a thousand

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yards receiving. Now he's had one thousand. I want to

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say he has had like oney sixty nine rushing attempts

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and just thirty two touchdowns. I mean, just a crazy, awesome,

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amazing NFL career. And it's fun to watch Jamal give

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us a brief update right now on all. Obviously, he's

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looking to still get into the NFL. He's still a

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young running back. He's tenured, but he's in good shape.

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What are the opportunities out there as a veteran running

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back do you think towards.

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Speaker 2: The end of the year.

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Speaker 4: I think the opportunity for him towards the end of

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the year is really great because you're gonna have a

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team that's gonna need that veteran running back heading into

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the playoffs making us for the Super Bowl run. And

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you're gonna need that locker room guy that can come

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in as a veteran as well. I think you check

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off those two boxes for him, a veteran guy, experience,

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and then the third thing is you know that experience

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that he has, you know, being able to transition the

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game to another level at the most at the most

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strategic and complicated level, that you're able to have a

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veteran guy in that locker room that can help these

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young guys and show them the ropes, not just tell them,

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but show them and help guide them. I think he

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did a great job at that. When he was in

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Detroit with DeAndre Swift, he mentored DeAndre, and DeAndre has

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had a very very high feeling to the rest of

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his career because I think DeAndre was on their way

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on his way out and Jamal. When Jamal came in

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in Detroit, it helped DeAndre Swift and then DeAndre platform

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Treate the Bear's another contract as well. So I think

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it's very I think it's I think it's very very

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important that for us to understand that these athletes when

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when they when they tell us something and they know

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their body. I was selling they know their body better

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than us, So you have to respect when they say

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something is off slightly and they just want to rest.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to see what happens.

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Speaker 3: And he looks like he's in fantastic shape right now,

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and hopefully he gets that opportunity. You continue to coach

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up and mentor the future running backs of the NFL

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and of football. Recently, you've taken Devon Ekka under your wing,

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the running back out of Lehigh High School, five foot eleven,

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one hundred and ninety pounder, and uh, he had a

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great high school career. How long have you been training

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with Devon? And uh, when did that relationship start?

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Speaker 4: We've had we've been devond off by the year Ed

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Larson when he was the head coach at Lehigh. Ed

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Larson had played I'm sorry, Ed Larson a coach with

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my dad, Ron Hahn at rich Quest some time up

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in Mexburg, Idaho, and at one time Ed Larson coach.

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Larson had the number one offense in the country, even

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not scoring Nebraska at one time. And Ed was telling

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me about Devon last year and he said, Hey, you know,

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there's two of these kids I want to try to

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get to you in Arizona. One was a DV who's

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at chah State now, and then there's Devon. He said,

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but if you can get him to focus and lock in,

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he'll be he'll be a good one. I said, okay,

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in Phoenix, worked out with Jamal and so him and

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worked out so just seeing what he does in his

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as he carried the ball, as he runs the ball,

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Jamal and I were often reminded that he reminds us

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of one of our guys that we used that was

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with us with us and was Ronald Jones, and his

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nickname was ro Jo. Now, Ronald Jones had broken a

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lot of USC records, from Marcus Allen to to Reggie

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why I'm sorry, Reggie, Reggie Bush to Marcus Allen to OJ.

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So he had broken a lot of these records. So

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he was tagged as the Texas Tesla coming out of

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his draft and he couldn't get running in twenty eighteen.

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So then his agent in Busanzk we had gotten on

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the phone call and then I ended up mentoring Ronald

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Jones well in twenty nineteen. He goes for seven hundred

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and twenty five yards and he's the biggest at any

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weight he's ever been. He came into the league and

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played unless he had too to eight. He got them

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up to two hundred and twenty pounds. He ran the

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fastest forty that he'd ever ran at the biggest way

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he'd ever been, and then he ran for seven hundred

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and twenty five yards that year. That year he taught

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about three hundred and twenty five yards of receiving yards,

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which he was supposed to be a bad receiver. And

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then the second year, in the offseason we got up

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to two hundred and thirty pounds, he ran a four

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four five and four four six forty electric and then

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went on that year and of course they won the

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Super Bowl, and he had nine hundred and seventy five

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yards from scrimmage rushing yards, and then he became I

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think one of six NFL players in history to have

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a ninety nine yard run from scrimmage against the Carolina Panthers.

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So this is who Devon reminds Jamal and I is

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another Ronald Jones. Now, for anyone that's wondering about can

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he take a hit, Davon is very strong. He's one

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of those kids that have that man's strength when he

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needs it. So him in between the tackles, I don't

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see that being an issue at all. And plus he's

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learning how to make guys mess before the guy's actually messed.

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So he's seeing the game his level right now. From

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the time we've been together, has he He has grasped

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and grabbed at the opportunity, at every opportunity to be great.

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He's always constantly texting, Hey, we're don't work out. What's

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 4: So he's he's one of those guys. And he reminds

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me a lot of Jamal as far as his or

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his detail oriented ways, as far as how he goes

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about the game and how he sets up plays. And

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he may go to a bag drill and he's visualizing

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and I remember that. I remember I was taught one

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time when he was doing the bag drill and I said,

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what did you do this move here for? He said, well,

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I'm visualizing that this guy had to sail down and

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I had to. Those little things are huge because for him,

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he just turned eighteen years old, you know, for him

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to have these things and then and again, it's a

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lot of it is coming from him being around Jamal

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every day in workouts, seeing what Jamal does and then

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doing it. And I can always tell him you can

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see what he does, you can do a lot of

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what he does, but then add added to how it

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fits into your game. So to watch Devon Ecua in workouts.

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It's great, But I'm gonna enjoy watching him in pads

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because he's gonna be He's gonna be a real deal.

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Speaker 3: He's he's a nice pride. I like the the player cops,

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the body type. He's fast, He's got good top end speed.

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How is he built? You know, he's five to eleven

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one ninety. Uh what was jam I wonder how heavy

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was Jamal coming.

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Speaker 2: Out of high school? He was a young buck, right,

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he was like seventeen with ride.

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Speaker 4: Six.

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Speaker 2: So how do you put on so much weight?

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Speaker 3: I think Jamal came into a senior season at like

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two twenty just transformed. Like obviously it has to be

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done sequentially. It can't just be put on all in

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one one off season, But like, how quickly can a

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guy get up to you know, like that two oh five,

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two ten, two fifteen weight if you're five 't eleven?

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Speaker 4: See him with with DeVaughn what we're going to try

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to do and the word we've been using with him

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and you know, for me, I called him For me,

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I call him kidfresh. I call him kid fresh each

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I see him, Hey, kids fresh, because he's he's always

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you know, he's got that fresh cool walk. You know,

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he just he comes up to you and he just fresh.

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He just missed the kid fresh. So when I see

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him coming, it's you know, looking at him.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: The word that we use to him is just to

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take his time and just to have fun and enjoy

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it because it's going to come and go really quickly.

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Enjoy your first Enjoy your freshman year. That's going to

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come and go really quickly, So enjoy it. So but

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while you're enjoying it, do things that's fun, you know,

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because Jamal is encourasing him. You know, you don't want to.

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You know, you get to school. You know, people don't

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know who you are. It's your first year, and you

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know you don't want to change up who you are.

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You want to be the same person. You don't want

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to be the guy that all of a sudden gets

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a scooter because you know you have status. Don't worry

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about the status. Just worry about coming in here. Do

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what you have to do because when you leave here

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for good, it's a business and they don't care about you.

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So he's getting that raw, unfiltered version from Jamal what

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the next level is, and he's also getting the raw,

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unfiltered version of just being a humble young man. I mean,

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here we are we you know, Jamal had his is

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foundation and Devon calls me up and he's like, hey, coach,

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can we is Jamal's thing just for him or can

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I come? I said, you want to count. He's like, yeah,

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he said, he supports me, so I want to support him.

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So we went down to Salt Lake and you know,

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Jamal had his foundation thing, and here's Devon sending out,

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you know, passing out presence to the kids as well.

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So he's getting into the community and Jamal's helping him

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with that. He's getting into the community at an early

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age and he's building he's understanding about building that brand.

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So he's building that his brand earlier, earlier than most

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kids would be building their brand as freshman's going into

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college and him being local, it's great because he's right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so if there's people listening right now that

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have running backs and they want to get trained up,

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there's not a whole lot of running back trainers here

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in the state of ut I know you're based out

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of Arizona, but you have also a connection here in

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the state of Utah where you're training guys in the

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in the off season, maybe even during the season. But

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do you offer any of those services to others in

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the locale consistently for those running back prospects that are

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looking to take their abilities to the next level.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And and what we what I'm doing is, you

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know a lot of the kids that are you know,

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everybody wants to play certain positions. So now everybody will

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play those certain positions. You know. It's like I tell people,

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there's a difference when you're being identified, and there's a

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difference when you're being recruited. And I ask these guys

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that I'll say, Okay, the recruitment part is when you

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go to college, when you go to high school, you

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ask them can you do certain things? Can you do

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certain things? And can they will they do certain things

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for you? They is a mutual agreement that's being recruited.

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When you looking to play in the NFL, they will

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use a void it's called identify. So when you're being identified,

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you're being identified as NFL potential NFL player. What I

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do is I look at certain guys that I feel

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will have that potential to play on the collegiate level

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and on a professional level, and then to me, I

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look at it as is it worth the risk to

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spend time and get this person to do them up

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and spend four years with them through college and not

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accept any money from them. So so often nowadays you

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have so many guys, people being you know, parents and stuff,

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being charged a lot of money for results that aren't

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even going to happen. So for us, for me, it's

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different because I'm saying, hey, I'm not going to charge

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you any money if your kid has the potential to

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play Division one football and to the NFL. So what's

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going to happen is I'm not going to charge you anything,

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but your kid has to have that potential. I've got

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to be able to identify that he can play at

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that level. And if I identify that, then we'll go

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into an agreement. You still won't pay anything to your college,

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collegiate career, or your when you're in high school, but

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we're going to work it out to where in the

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next five years because we're going to be together that

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long and longer. If it happens to where you do

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get in contract, now we'll work out percentages because now

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you'll have money to pay. So it's one of those

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things where we try to I try to bring it.

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I try to I try to be positive and understand

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with parents and people and athletes to know that this

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is you know, one percent of the people play this game.

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And I'm not here to bust anyone's the bubble, and

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I'm definitely not here to take anyone's money. But if

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you're paying money to a bunch of people that are

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promising you the world and the moon, and you know

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at the end of the day you can't go anywhere

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and play anywhere else, well it's all it's all a gamble.

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But for me, my gamble is different because I'm gambling

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on you when you're not really gambling on yourself. And

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I'm telling you that I know that you can play

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potentially at the next level, and I'm going to show you,

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and I'm going to even take my time and spend

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my time with you and get you there. So that's

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kind of how I kind of identify certain guys as

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playing at the next level, whether they're running backs, wide receivers,

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defensive backs, or what have.

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Speaker 3: You love that feedback and break down and you know

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you're always giving back, always trying your best to mentor

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this the youth and UH the young adults that come

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into your your your mentorship and coaching group. We got

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uh lu Khan former Rix College football player, RIX College coach.

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Also uh a mentor, UH coach, uh a strength and conditioning.

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Speaker 2: I think I don't know how to describe you.

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Speaker 3: I have all these like terms that like that that

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encompassed you as like a coach, a mentor for for

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Jamal and others. Uh, you do a fantastic job, father figure,

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right to to anybody that comes into your your fold.

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Lukan here on your Utah ESPN Radio Network. A couple

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last things before he let you go. Luke devon Eka,

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what is b why you getting in this young man

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on and off the football field? Do you think he

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can make an impact his true freshman year?

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Speaker 4: I would be shocked if he doesn't make an impact

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his freshman year. I'll be absolutely shock. Even Jamal said it.

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You know, Jamal has even told him if you don't,

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if you if you don't make an impact of freshman,

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if I'm all here still, I'm beating you up. So

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so yeah so. But by he's getting an electric player.

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I mean, this kid is going to be so electric.

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He reminds me, so much of Ronald Jones, and Ronald

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was very exciting and electrifying in college at USC and

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anyone that doesn't know who Ronald Jones is, go look

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at go look up Ronald Jones on YouTube, and then

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you will see. I mean, they walk identical. They walk

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him in Devon, Ronald and Davon walk identical with the

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outside snoop foot, you know, and they run kind of similar.

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I mean, it's just it's gonna be fun watching him.

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I'm excited to watch him because he's learning a lot

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of things right now and he wants to put them

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all together. And he reminds me of you know, mister

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Mayagi and Danielson, you know, and he's so he's so like,

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I won't to do this. I said, okay, but don't

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do that yet, because you don't understand what that's for.

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He said, But but I do notice for I said, no,

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you don't. Your mind is trying to get your body

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to understand and be on the same page to work

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as one. Your body is so far ahead of if

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your mind right now, your mind is trying to catch up.

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So let's just go slow. And that was the biggest

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thing was he picked these things up so quickly, and

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then he would he would forget that. You know, there's

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three phases to our workouts. There's phase one where we're

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teaching our minds to teach the body what it is

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we want to do. Then there's phase two where we

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start incorporating a little bit quickness. Then phase three we

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go fast. So he's having to go through these three

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phases and you know, he gets it and he's wanting

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to get out there and after it right away. But

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then he has to pull himself back because he's so

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excited and he's I'm learning something new and I've never

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learned this before, and this is cool as a running

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back and all these things that he's seeing now. So

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he is one dynamic player that will leave you in

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the seat gasping. I'm saying, like, how did he come

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out of that? And how did he get that way?

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But he's going to be fun to watch. I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Love it, Luke. We appreciate you, Love you always good

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connecting with you.

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Speaker 3: We invite everybody to uh uh you know, best way

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to I guess contact you.

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Speaker 2: What's the best way of doing it?

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Speaker 4: Content? Yeah, the best baking contact me is if they

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can get in touch with you and then you just

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send them to me, sending my number. What's happening?

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, if you guys need any running back, help, some mentorship, help,

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hit me up at Cridel Benjamin and I'll send you

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over the number to Luke Looke.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you, man, thanks for hopping on again. We'll

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catch up again soon.

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Speaker 4: Thanks man, Love you guys. Man go coops.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Lukan Ladies and gentlemen. That's our segment, and

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that's our show.

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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna hand the mic over to Bryce Larson and

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the crew over at Utah Valley University.

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Speaker 2: The Wolverines on the hardwood.

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always bringing the hammer, all the guests that joined us

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Tyler Morass, Devon Ekka Lukan.

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Speaker 2: It was a fantastic show. We appreciate all.

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Speaker 3: You Cougar fans and Cougar Country tune it in today.

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From all of us here at ESPN the Fan, we

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wish you a very good night, have a safe night.

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You've you men's basketball coming up next. You are on

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your Utah ESPN Radio Network. One of three nine ninety

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eight point three