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caught up with Nate Ritchie BYU starting safety yesterday. Ronald
the three Man Weaver was able to interview him. We're
gonna play that interview for you so you can get
to know the foe at a higher level. Nate Richie's
out this game unfortunately, so he will not be playing
for the Utes. I think this is a devastating loss
for the University of Utah. Nate Richie was a quarterback
on the back end of that defense. And look, I
don't know who's gonna replace them. I don't know if
they have anyone that can replace them. You may see miscommunication,
You may see a little bit of chaos in the
in the d on the defensive side of the ball,
quite honestly, because I don't know if they know where
and how to line up. I know Morgan Skyle is
going to do his best, but Nate Richie was a
big loss, is a big loss for the University of Utah.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Ronald the three man Weaver catching up with Nate Richie,
starting safety for the University of Utah TUTA team.
Speaker 3: He's a ballershot collar.
Speaker 4: Wish he was in blue, I have to do say that,
but he's in red and that's okay. He's been playing
phenomenal this season. Not gonna play this game again. Don't
know if that's good or bad. Maybe that's good for YU,
but still his Utah team is good. We got Nate Richie.
What does brother, how you doing today? I'm going good man,
just evaluate you know the season of your eyes for
the first six weeks.
Speaker 3: You guys are five and one.
Speaker 4: You're coming off a phenomenal win against a very good
Arizona State team.
Speaker 3: You guys are ranked number twenty three. Now, Yeah, I
mean it's been a great season so far.
Speaker 5: I mean it always starts in the trenches in fall camp,
beating up to the first couple of games, and I think,
you know, there's always gonna be some bumps of the
road for a team. I think we've had those, and
I think we've gotten over them, and I think we're
continuing to climb.
Speaker 3: Could you take me through your locker room?
Speaker 4: In the mindset, the national media sometimes and maybe even
local people overemphasize things, Texas Tech, as we know right now,
is the best team in the conference. But I feel
like there's still a little bit of disrespect because people
feel like that lost. They're equivalating everything. You guys blow
West Virginy out. You take care of business on the road,
You take care of a business against Arizona State. Now
you have another opportunity to get another top twenty five
win this Saturday and gets another good ball club.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, shoot, honestly, in the locker room, as the players,
we try to tune all that out because.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, that's just noise. Yeah.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, we're trying to come
together more as a team. We're trying to come together
more as you know, a Utah family and continue to
produce and show the nation that you know, sometimes you
are wrong and we're gonna continue to fight and always
do that because you know, nobody's nobody's been in the
trenches with us. You know, through throughout the whole entire year,
it's only been us. So that's the only thing that matters.
Speaker 6: What's it like having to practice against the guy like
Devin Dampier.
Speaker 3: Man, he's good. He's good. Man.
Speaker 5: Uh, all the all the praise I could ever say
and gives that.
Speaker 3: Man, I can give it to him. Man, he's not
only is he.
Speaker 5: A stellar athlete, a stellar quarterback, he's a stellar guy,
super and super awesome guy, super kind, one of the
great one of the best leaders on our team. You know,
everyone loves him. I mean that's just off the field.
On the field, he's a he's a dog man. He's
he can do anything you want him to do. He's
dual threat. He's I don't know, it's hard to defend.
He's just a dog.
Speaker 4: I do like to ask this because I love asking players.
Did you have a chance and training camp to get him?
Did you get him one time? Get him? I can't
even remember. It feels like forever ago. I think they're
you know, I don't think I ever got him. I
don't think I ever got him. I'll have to change and.
Speaker 6: Change.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love the competitiation on this field. What makes this
team so good and so competitive? You gave me a
piece of it right there.
Speaker 5: I mean, shoot, just like collectively we got we've got
a great culture of just togetherness, like I mean, just
playing for each other, playing for something bigger, playing for
you know, us, turning out all the external noise, because
at the end of the day, it's just noise.
Speaker 3: You know, all that matters is us.
Speaker 5: And like I've been saying, like nobody has gone through
what we've gone through, and in the in the year's time,
starting in January to yeah, even December, you know, after
last year was an unfortunate year where.
Speaker 3: We that's not you know, that's not us.
Speaker 5: So it's been it's been a long time for us
to be able to think and to be able to
continue to.
Speaker 3: Think of where we want to be to this day.
Speaker 5: And so it's just taking a lot of heart work,
a lot of mental maturity, a lot of I mean
everyone just putting in their work and then coming together
as a team and putting it, putting our work together,
just to continue to come out and be better every
day and most importantly, play for each other and forget
everything else outside of that.
Speaker 6: You get to sit behind one of maybe the best
pass rusher in all of college football, and John Henry Daily.
What's that like knowing, Hey, I only have to do
this for so long because I know John Dan Henry
Day's getting.
Speaker 3: On John harry Man. That's my dog.
Speaker 5: You know, not only John Henry got we got a
heck of a d line, but I mean, you do
John Henry. I've known that kid. We went to high
school together, and I love that guy. He is a dog,
He's a fighter, and you know, there's always gonna people
that doubt There's always gonna be people that doubt him.
And the advice that I have to those people are
stopped because He's gonna keep proving your own.
Speaker 3: Not only him, but I mean, you got on the
other side.
Speaker 5: You got Logan Final, you got our d tackles, Dallas Bakalahi,
you got John Ola Al, you got all those dudes
that rotate in, you got cash dling like those are
all some stellar due?
Speaker 3: Is that our physical or smart? Who know what's coming?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 5: I mean, shoot, we got a great front and I
love my boy giant.
Speaker 6: What did you think when you found out, Okay, Smith
Snowton's also gonna play a little bit of offense.
Speaker 3: Shoot, I mean that was a surprise to me. I mean,
but why not? Right? Why not? I loved it? Yeah,
Smith is ah.
Speaker 4: When I heard that, Okay, he's gonna go to offense,
I said, just why why you gotta do that?
Speaker 3: Just just keep on defense. He's fine in the cornerback room.
No one asked you. You don't have to dominate.
Speaker 4: You're a busy body and get creative. No, I mean,
I mean to bring Smith and Lander, who was recruited
as the tighten at place. It's right, it's Funmenal, A
lot of people like I mean, well, he didn't play tight.
Speaker 3: No, he was recruited and tight and he played that nice.
He played both.
Speaker 4: Lots of people forget lots of high school athletes, guys
played two sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: He just plays linebacker.
Speaker 4: Now, so you got two of your best athletes, you
know on defense now playing on offense.
Speaker 3: You mentioned John Henry Dayly.
Speaker 4: I just want to go back to that point and
something that maybe other people need to stop down. But
I don't think there's a b YU fan out there
when that when that transfer happened, I think.
Speaker 3: BO fans will shop through the hard bond job.
Speaker 4: I think they were hurt, really and I'm serious because
when he left that said that's gonna be a difficult
one to watch the Walkway because of what he's putting
on this season.
Speaker 3: And I want to go back to that.
Speaker 4: You said the offseason, what motivated you guys from last
season and how it ended? From this season, you guys
have made a full one to eighty.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, I think a lot of the motivation
just comes from knowing that what we produced last year
is not us, not only on a collection level of
individual level. That was just a lot of them not us.
It's kind of just I know, it's just weird and
how it ended, and you know, we accept that. We
we just looked back and we learned from it all
and just wanted to be able to show the country
and show everybody football is who each of us are.
Individually as players, because you know, we're some dogs up there,
and you know, playing together as a team. Shoot, it's
it's deadly.
Speaker 4: So you guys have been able to shut out, almost
shut out some people to the defensive stack.
Speaker 3: Talk about Morgan Scully, what does it like playing in
that scheme?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, it's so fun.
Speaker 5: One of the smartest men football wise and off the
field as well.
Speaker 3: He's a great man. I love, he's a great mentor,
he's a great example.
Speaker 5: But I mean, shoot, the positions that he puts us
in as defensive backs, let alone linebackers.
Speaker 3: You know, detackles. Just the schemes and the.
Speaker 5: The pressures that he's able to drop and you know,
create sunmatched and the way he calls the way he
calls the game. There's no one else in the country
that does it that way. So it's it's special. I mean,
and for me as a player, it's special to be
in the position room with him specifically too, because I
get a lot, I get to pick his brain, I
get to learn a lot from him and continue to
elevate my game, you know, not only on the field, but.
Speaker 1: All right, having a little technical difficulty with the sound there, apologize,
but Brett, you were there interviewing Nate Richie.
Speaker 2: Give me some of the takeaways that you got from
Nate if you would.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was fun to hear talk about growing up
as a BYU fan, and so when he said that,
I was like, dude, then how in the world.
Speaker 2: Are you in Red?
Speaker 6: But what I got out of having a conversation with
Nate Richie was a getting an appreciation for this in
state rivalry. He was talking about how he has family
on both sides of the rivalry. I believe his dad
played at BYU, And so I said, is there a
lot of talk about it? You guys, just what he's like? Nah, dude,
he's like a lot of times we just have to
avoid talking about otherwise things and get out of hand.
Speaker 2: But it was just, we don't know.
Speaker 6: It was cool to hear him talk about just from
both ends of it, how you grow up a BYU
fan and then you go to the University of Utah
and that love that you had for a university growing
up completely not necessarily flips.
Speaker 2: But it just changes.
Speaker 6: And I think the rivalry is different for the players
than it is for the fans, whereas sometimes with the
fans it feels.
Speaker 3: Like I hate.
Speaker 2: X y Z, I hate that school.
Speaker 6: Whereas for Nate Ritchie, it's I believe in my guys
and I'm going to war with my guys a number
of times. Like no one has been through what we've
went through. Nobody's worked as hard as we've worked. I
will always go to war with my guys, and so
for them, not necessarily as much about oh we hate BYU,
it's just, oh, we want to dominate because we believe
it were the better team. So it was really cool
to get that unique perspective from him, even though it
is a massive bummer he doesn't get to play in
this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Ronald the three Man, We were just
down there as well and wanted to get your thoughts
on it as well. Ronnie, you were interviewing him. The
sound was a little bit disjointed, so we didn't get
to hear everything. But what did you make of that interview?
What gems were you able to obtain through that interview
with Nate Richie?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I was able to fix the sound
so we can try maybe to give it again.
Speaker 2: I think I got it to work.
Speaker 4: But the biggest thing is this kid should be in
blue and he's in red, and I think this is
one where you could have a patarit of accountability that
b why, you you know, maybe missed out on this one.
This is a kid that right there in the backyard. Ben,
I've been big on this. I've harked on this long time.
You can't miss how you cannot not recruit these guys.
This kid played phenomenal and it sucks that he got hurt, right.
I was loving the way he was playing. A big fan,
even guys that you know transfer John Henry Daily is
you know at.
Speaker 3: Utah you'd like to see the kids ball out.
Speaker 4: You know, even though b why you wasn't the place
for him ultimately, but I think that's the thing.
Speaker 3: And Nate just he really struck me.
Speaker 4: I really felt the spirit when he gave this interview
because as much as football is important, you know, he
had the bigger perception of what it is he was
saying and not me right, like, this game means a lot.
But like at the end of the day, you know,
regardless of the outcome, even though the youths do want
to win, it's about being with your family, you know,
It's about being with the people around.
Speaker 3: He's got a good support system, so sucks that he
can't play in this game.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like what Will Snowden, you know, said
when we had him on the show, and you know,
back in the summer, Ben, I'm you know, rooting for
Nate Richie even though fans might be he wanted b
Why you to You want to see that kid ball out?
So I pray that he gets healthy so he can
finish out the rest of the season because he was
playing good up until this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd love to see him get back in and
and get healthy, get strong. Did you want to try
to sound one more time to see see if it works?
Let's try to break Okay, let's let's tune in as
Brett Hammer and Bronald the Three Man Weaver interview Nate Ritchie.
Speaker 4: There's a lineman that gone out of state that have
gone to the league, right, not just b a Utah.
But I want to take it broader than that, right
because I feel like those two schools have always put
in guys in the NFL. Looking what Devil Loyd's doing now,
contract year ball now right, look at what Fred Warner
doing for you Like it's there, But I want to
take it further than that.
Speaker 3: But this game in particular.
Speaker 4: It's just something about that gives people routed from your
vantage point, What is the rivalry mint to you growing
up and you know this game on Saturday, what is
it gonna take to get a double?
Speaker 5: Oh man, that's a that's a big question, because I
mean it's overloaded. Yeah, I mean for me growing up,
I mean I grew up with BYU fans, so you know,
on the on the opposite side of it as I
am now. So you know, it's just it's always been
just I feel like this kind of like turf war,
like who's like who runs the state? Like who's gonna
get the recruits, Who's gonna this, and who's gonna that.
But you know, one of the things that I really
do love about it is it brings a lot of
tension to Utah, like you're saying, because there is a
lot of great talented football players here in the state
of Utah, and you know, we have two great programs
in my opinion, and so it's I love that it
puts us on the map because you know, in the
national stage you talk about even Utah high school football
players whatever. People are like, it's just Utah. Whatever we
feel we focus on you know, Texas, Florida, California.
Speaker 3: But I do love that it puts it on the map.
Speaker 5: But I mean, talking as a players had point man,
it means I mean, I don't know, it means a
lot for me personally, it means a lot for other
other people personally as well. So it's just gonna be
very interesting to see because there's a lot of emotion,
there's a lot of other things that are tied into
this rivalry and to see I don't know, just to
we'll see how how the outcome turns out on Saturday.
Speaker 3: We'll see how people feel after that.
Speaker 4: Hey, you're not wrong, but you're you're definitely a looking
to play spoiler on Saturday, no doubt you guys. All right,
I'll ask you this, you know, but before we transition
to a little bit of family and the end on that,
what do you see on tape from this quarterback? Because
the freshman that you know can play, but I mean
he's got BYU six and oh, I don't think you
guys are overlooking him at all. I think you guys
see this kid is he can throw the ball, but
he can run it too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, shoot, every game that is the next
game is the most important game that we're ever gonna play,
and so we don't look past anything, you know.
Speaker 3: Props to them, Props to him.
Speaker 5: I mean, look six and oh great, I'm telling some
great things, you know, but there's not a little detail
that we're overlooking. There's not a little even I don't
know on even how to say, I mean, not a
little speck of little dust that we're not inspecting, you know,
just to try and figure out where we can, you know,
take our advantages from, whether it be the quarterback, whether
it be I don't know, offensive line, whatever it may be.
But I mean overall, props to him, Props to them.
I mean they've done eight. I mean the record shows it,
the numbers show it. So it's just it's gonna be
a great opportunity for us, is our defense, to see
what we can put together and who can and how
we can you know, to help our win, to our
team to take the win this this Saturday.
Speaker 6: As a guy who got to play in this rivalry
last year, I'd swear the media asks every time there's an.
Speaker 3: Opportunity that they mean more.
Speaker 6: But as a guy who's played in it when you
go and you line up in the by U Utah game,
when you're in the moment on the field, does it
feel different or is it really just this is.
Speaker 2: Just the next game on the schedule.
Speaker 5: There's always a little bit more energy, for sure, but
for the most part just trying to For me personally,
I try and just take every game as it's my
super Bowl. Yeah, because it's my opportunity to go out
there and show what I can do, not only as
an individual, but as a teammate, and how I can
produce in this scheme and to show be it, you know,
to show scouts, whatever it may be, people that you know,
all them all in pretty much.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously there's a lot of extra noise that
comes wrong with this, you know, a lot of people
talking about it, But for me personally, it's just the
next game and I'm just ready to attack the next game.
Speaker 3: Gotta attack it.
Speaker 4: Each week an opportunity, as they would say, go want
to know percent, stand focus, no doubt, big game on Saturday.
We want to We wish you all to be able
to best a lot, but the team to be at
a ball out. This is one of those those type
of games but you know, like I said in you
know the opening, look, it means a lot. But at
the end of the day, you go home to the family,
what does that mean to you in your life? You know,
the people surrounding you, your support system.
Speaker 3: I mean, shoot, my my family's my everything.
Speaker 5: You know, I got I got great parents, I got
great siblings. I have a beautiful wife and you know
her family's amazingly supportive. So I mean, at the end
of the day, like all this football is great, bat
the end of the day, it's just something that's so
tangible that doesn't really mean you know, the world. What
means the world is you know that I'm sealed to
my wife for all eternity. You know, I've sealed to
my face family for all eternity.
Speaker 2: Facts.
Speaker 3: You know that I get to be with them and
then that you know.
Speaker 5: That's life. That's the that's the really important things. But
obviously the given football is very fun. So but yeah,
that's what it means. I mean, my family means everything
to me. They're they They're there for me when I'm up,
there there for me when I'm down, and it's it's
a support that you know, you can't find anywhere else.
Speaker 4: Faith, family, football, or the you know, the three apps.
That's what they say has to model, right. I just
want to ask you, you know, as we're live from the
Crumble event, Uh, what is it you know just meant
to you to be here to get back to see
you know Keenan Pula one of the Utah comments coming
in next year, little kids were here, you know, getting
autographs to see the community.
Speaker 3: How important has that been to you?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 3: The community is everything?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I don't know, it's always it's
always been my goal to be able to show people,
you know, who I really am as a person. That
person I always try to emulate is my savior, Jesus Christ.
And I think there's only well, there's only ever place
to spread kindness and to spread love, you know, and
that's at the end of the day when this world needs.
I mean, we see so much hardship, we see so
much disagreement in all these things go on in the world,
but there's really no place for at the end of
the day, what really matters most is you know, being kind,
showing who who really matters the most, and that's our savor,
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you know.
Speaker 5: I love sharing that to the community, no matter what
community is, if YU community, the Utah community, whoever we play.
That's why I really try to emulate well.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you sharing those words, naming this a message
that I'll read tweet as they say, the kids sail
next these days, right, I'll echo it. It needs to
be more love, the peacemaker mentutare at you talked about.
There's so many, you know, little things that don't matter,
and there's so many bigger things and love that You've
been a great example. You represent not only the state
of Utah, but the program in Utah great itself and everything.
As you're done balling out on the field, and we
want to.
Speaker 3: Wish you and the team go luck this Saturday. I
appreciate it. Thank you guys. Of course we'll go to
break God.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. That's Nate.
Speaker 1: Ritchie Ronald the three Man Weaver and Brett Hammer were
interviewing him yesterday when we were at Crumble.
Speaker 2: Great interview.
Speaker 1: Nates a stand up individual like you're just listening to
him like this, this is a big loss for Utah.
I'm telling you, not only is he a good football player,
but he is the smartest guy on that defense. I
have it on good authority, very well familiar with with.
Speaker 2: His role up at the U.
Speaker 1: Morgan scally leans heavily on Nate Ritchie and has leaned
heavily on Nate Ritchie to put certain players in the
right position to make plays. He is an orchestrator. He
is a quarterback over that defense. Typically you see it
at the mike linebacker position and at the free safety spot.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if they they rely.
Speaker 1: More on the free safety in this defense, but it
sure sounds like it from my sources. And so this
was a big loss. And we wish him well, want
to get him back, and I think he it's not
season ending, you know. He gave us a few details
on the injury there at our Crumble remote and we're
hoping he gets back soon. But this is a big
loss for the University of Utah. All right, guys, we're
live for Myers Meets and find foods. We'd love to
see you here. Come on in earn your chance to win.
All you gotta do is come on in to the register,
put your name down, and we're gonna announce a winner.
Speaker 2: We're gonna give away three.
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Utah guys, stop by, say hello, talk ball with us,
and get yourself a try tip. Get prep get ready
for this BYU Utah rivalry game. Right, this is a
great day to be a Cougar. You're six and zero
and you're going against a top twenty five rival? Are
you kidding me? At your home stadium? Now's the time,
now's the place. Hopefully, those that are heading down to
Lavelle Edwards Stadium tomorrow evening, they need to rise and shout.
They need to be louder than they've ever been before. Disruptive,
then more disruptive than they've ever been before. Tell those
West stands, all the blue hairs, okay, they need to
rise and shout. They need to also be engaged. Don't
just let them have their headphones in to listen to
Greg Rebel. They can stand up and listen to Greg Rubell. Okay,
you got to show up, show out at levell It
is a sold out crowd. By the way, Greg Rubell
always staying on top of it. As it pertains to
the metrics he tweeted out for the fourth time in
four home games, Levell Edwards Stadium is sold out. YU
is averaging sixty four thousand, three hundred and sixty eight
fans through three home tilts, where that ranks among FBS
programs twenty six in average attendance. That's first in the
Big twelve tenth in percentage of stadium capacity at one
hundred and three point seven percent, so the standing room
only is also impressive. At Byul Edwards, we'll go to break,
don't go anywhere more to get you as we break
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