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Welcome in former BYU Quarterback. We got Steve Clements on
the line. Steve, how you living?
Speaker 3: Oh great man? Can't complain even if I did, No
one cares.
Speaker 1: So I care. I care. I'm moving forward, buddy, I
care when you complain.
Speaker 4: Man, I do I listen. I'm an mpath I love.
I love you know a little ideation synergistic empathy, I
guess you know.
Speaker 1: Conversation that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Saday was tough. That was kind of a
nasty all we put on the board, and and it
really started early with you know, with a shake pot
which didn't cost us anything, but then a muff punt
after after that that, I mean only even gave up
three points. But it just, man, we just kind of
we really need to start, uh way faster than than
we did. And you know, the defense grind as much
as they could, and I mean by field goal, that's all,
that's all they gave up.
Speaker 3: We just couldn't do anything offensively. It's just we were
out of sync.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they were good and they're defensive line was
great and they spent millions of dollars and uh n
I L money and and getting those guys and they're good.
Don't get me wrong, they're good. But you know, it's
hard for me because Texas Tech. It's it's still Texas Tech.
It's just that that was that was a tough one.
But the puzzles that came out of it was obviously
the defense is that's kind of where we're hanging our
hat this year. And that's great because defense was championships.
Everybody understands that. And gets that. But again, I think
this is where I still have more confidence going into
this next game. Like I go back to the Iowa
State game and beating our rivals and going across the
planet to go play a good Iowa State team, and
how we responded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, after the first half let down.
Speaker 2: Hangover maybe, but then we turned it on and kind
of put it on them in a big way. And
I expect that same turnaround and response from a very
mature football team on Saturday night, Lovella Edwige Stadium.
Speaker 3: I look for us to bounce back.
Speaker 2: Don't know if it's gonna be in a big way,
but I think it's gonna be a comfortable and out
comfortable enough amount to where kuon Nation's like, Okay, this
is we're back on track because we still have a chance.
Speaker 3: Obviously we got you gotta win out, but you gotta.
Speaker 2: Focus on the horn Frogs first and foremost and in
pro tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Steve Klements from the BAU Quarterback Talkings for BAU Football, Yeah,
the lessons learned. What lessons can be learned from the
Texas Tech game that can help you to finish the
season out right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think we got to do a better job.
Speaker 2: On the well on special teams K Pop's I'm not
worried about there.
Speaker 3: They're gonna He's gonna have that figured out.
Speaker 2: The three turnovers were unfortunate, and I think we talked
about it last week.
Speaker 3: We have to win the turnover battle, and we didn't.
Speaker 2: We were we had three turnovers, had zero, And yeah,
that was a factor in the game. Absolutely, when when
two good teams play, you're gonna look at turnovers, You're
gonna look at first downs, You're gonna look at efficiency
on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: Uh special teams really really struggled.
Speaker 2: But I think that was I think it's an anomaly.
I think offensively it's an anomaly. We had some drop passes,
we had some things that didn't typically. I don't think
that's that's buy A football. I don't think that's the
buy U offense.
Speaker 3: Uh LJ had thirty five yards for ten carries. Could
he have got the ball a little bit more? Yeah? Probably,
I mean three point five yard to carry. It's not bad.
It's not awful, but it's not bad. We just got
too far in the hole too quick in the game.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's defense gives up nineteen points through
three quarters. Yeah, we got to do something on offense.
I'd like to see a Rod throw it more than
probably he's maybe used to throwing it. Go you go
back to Iowa State type game plan. Yet you still
got to run the ball. That's still your bread and
butter with Bear and LJ back in the backfield.
Speaker 3: But I'm hoping to see a lot more play action
pass and.
Speaker 2: A lot more three and four and five route combinations
offensively in the passing game rather than a max protect
and a two receiver.
Speaker 3: Route combination that we had really the majority of the
game on last Saturday.
Speaker 1: Love that breakdown.
Speaker 4: Steve Klements from boor quarterback talkings would be why you football?
Speaker 1: The TA see you game.
Speaker 4: Right and at the Texas school you're well familiar with,
having played ball in Texas coach high school ball in
Texas for a long time. TCU, What do we know
about TCU? What's your scattering reports say about the horn Frogs.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're gonna try to air the ball out.
Speaker 2: That's just they've been really good in the passing game
for a long time. Traditionally, I believe the same quarterback
had born in fifty or some midd yards when we
got beat got destroyed by them down in Fort Worth
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: It's the same kid as Hoover kid. He can play,
he's good. I think he's.
Speaker 2: Ranked top ten nationally in passing offense, passing yards so
and only a few interceptions. So I think they'll try
to do the same thing. They're gonna test us on
the back end, which I don't believe no one really has.
Speaker 3: Up to this point. I know Jay hill Is is
leary of that.
Speaker 2: Obviously, he spoke to it as much this week about
their passing game and how they got to have a
coverage and they got to be tightened up and but
probably more importantly, they've got to get to the quarterback.
Having played that position, it is very, very difficult to
throw to be comfortable when you got guys running in
your face and you don't know where a blix is
gonna come from and disguise up front, or you just
have four dudes that can rush the passer and get
to the passer and you can drop seven in a
zone or play some games with you know, a half
zone half man look in the back end. But man
if if you as a quarterback, you start looking down
instead of up down the field.
Speaker 3: You're screwed. You're in big trouble.
Speaker 2: And so hopefully we can get that get to the
court back before he has a chance to get comfortable,
because well, you had a kid like who were comfortable,
you could be in for a long night.
Speaker 3: So and don't see that happening.
Speaker 2: I think we're good enough upfront and in the back
end to get to the quarterback to at least make
him uncomfortable, just change his platform a little bit, make
him throw from different vantage points in different areas in
the pocket.
Speaker 3: And I see this playing really well Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Are you confident in BYU's secondary right now? In their
pass coverage versus Texas Tech? Baron Mooreton, who was hobbled,
was able to sling it connect and he was able
and capable of moving the ball down field against the secondary.
What do you make of what what happened versus Texas
Tech and and what can be modified or or ultimately
change heading into TCU game.
Speaker 3: Well, I think.
Speaker 2: Because I have so much confidence in Jay to come
up with something for TCU, specifically because Texas Tech didn't
throw it. Traditionally thrown the ball all over the lot,
but not as much I think with a defense that
they have, they that Morton kitt didn't have to throw
as much to win a lot of games. But yeah,
we were definitely tested, and we'll be tested again this week.
Speaker 3: I think, ja he's gonna have a pro you know,
he's gonna have a.
Speaker 2: Way in which to probably bring in a nickel, maybe
a dime every once in a while.
Speaker 3: The guy's so freaking smart. The game plan is gonna
be there.
Speaker 2: It's gonna Yeah, we're gonna have to rely on our
talent and our back end, which we haven't really been
tested all that much until Texas Tech, but even not
as much as we're gonna be tested on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So I don't feel like he's gonna be a track meet.
Speaker 2: I still think our front seven gets to the quarterback
before he has comfortable enough time to throw. But yeah,
we're gonna be tested, and it's gonna be that first
half is gonna bo. I think have a lot of
questions answered in that first half and see how we
do in the front end get into the quarterback. If
you don't get to him early, boa we could get
into a track meet, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Any questions looming, questions about the health of L. J.
Speaker 1: Martin. Did he seem like himself? Do you think he's
gonna be okay down the stretch?
Speaker 3: Oh, I think he's gonna be fine. I don't. I
don't have any qualms about him whatsoever.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be He's such a big, powerful
and I think, you know, I only got the ball
ten carries.
Speaker 3: I don't see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might have some, naight, I mean, but everybody
is going to at this point in the sea.
Speaker 4: Youon.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're in week ten. You're gonna have the
bumps and the bruises, and your.
Speaker 2: Backup is gonna have to come in and spell guys.
I think our depth is gonna be just fine, even
though we're kind of thin there and that behind him
having to bring over Rex over but from the defense,
but so, I no, I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I think our offensive line would be great.
Speaker 2: I think we get back on track on Saturday and
look for a win by I'm gonna say about ten
points in twelve points.
Speaker 3: Love that.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 4: Steve Klements here on ESPN The Fan, a little keeping
up with the Cougar S form, review your quarterback, talking
b YU football and what's in store down the stretch,
you have a good team coming in TCU six and
three BA. You're slightly favored in this game. It started
out as I think four and a half point favorite,
now three and a half money maybe going a TCU's
ways right now at these points on the spread. ESPN
Analytics likes b YU as a seventy percent probable or
probability of winning.
Speaker 1: And then you take on Cincinnati on the road.
Speaker 4: Is there a game that you're most concerned about on
this final stretch TCU at home, since you away UCF
at home.
Speaker 2: The only concern and the biggest game of the year
is always the next game, and that's TCU tomorrow. Yeah,
that's the biggest game. That's the biggest concern. We've got
to take care of business at home first tomorrow, and
I think we do because we're playing in provo and
I'm telling something happens.
Speaker 3: It's magical.
Speaker 2: And again I go back and I harp on this
freaking game with Utah and then and then beating the
Iowa State.
Speaker 3: I think this a lot of time. You need a
loss to refocus.
Speaker 2: And my hope is and I really do feel like
this year that one loss is going to be a
good thing and a positive thing and something that we're
going to build upon. Because we went to Lubbock, Texas
got beat by now the what fifth or sixth rink
team in the nation. They have a great defense, they
have a great overall ball club. Game day was there
and something you say it was a blowout. Yeah, I
felt like forty points actually at one point.
Speaker 3: But it's not. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I don't feel as bad as I did
after the game now now that you have time to
reflect and look at the film.
Speaker 3: I know. My dad is an old high school football coach.
Speaker 2: He always told me when I got into coaching, when
you watch film after the game, and how you feel
after the game is any different.
Speaker 3: It's never as bad or as good as you think
it is right after the game. Didn't you watch him?
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, wait a minute. We had some turnovers here,
We had them a pump. We had a chap punk
especially team that play were like, we didn't. We didn't
necessarily we got beat. Yes, there's difference and get beat
and losing. I don't think we did eat one. I
don't know if if if we play a clean game.
Speaker 3: We beat them at home. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I think we had to play almost a perfect game,
but they didn't beat us either. I mean, at some
point we lost, and so it was Yeah, there was
probably some.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Coach hill A.
Speaker 2: Rod Klane probably didn't get some sleep that night. But
if it had been forty to nothing, they'd got plenty
of sleep. If it had been ten to seven, you
don't get any sleep. So I don't know. Just I
go back to I'm confident in their ability to rebound,
whether it's after a win or in this case, after
a loss, just because I think the mentality is different
than it has been in the past.
Speaker 3: I truly believe that, Steve.
Speaker 4: I'm optimistic that where you can finish off the season
and win all three of these games, they get into
the Big Twelve Championship versus Texas Tech in Arlington, as
Fansas media, we can discuss these things in prognosticate. If
b Way loses to Texas Tech again in the Big
Twelve Championship game, they're a two loss team. Do you
think they get an at large bid to the College
Football Playoff with you having lost twice to a top
five team at that time, Well, you.
Speaker 2: Would hope so, and you would think so as an
outsider looking in. But if I would say, we're Notre Dame. Yes,
we're a member of the Big Ten. Yes, we're a
member of the SEC. Yes, but being independent for as
long as we have been, or were up until a
couple of years ago, and playing in the Big twelve,
it's US Utah and well this year Texas Tech, and
I just, man, I just I don't know, Ben, I
think we should be because if your two losses are
away in a neutral site, and let's face it, I
mean Dallas de Lovick is way further than that, are
closer than Dallas to Provo, Utah, So that's really two
away games, and then you get beat by a top ten,
top seven football team both times. Boy, it's I don't know.
I'm optimistic, but I'm constantly optimistic. I don't know if
it happens, to be honest with you, on paper, yeah,
but a lot of times they don't do things on paper,
and that's obvious. And some of the teams that rank
and how they rank them, and who's in the playoffs
and who's not, and who's member of the SEC and
the Big ten and who's not, it's I mean, eventually
we all see it. There's gonna be two Super conferences anyway,
and that's gonna be the SEC. It's gonna be like
the AFC in the NFC in the NFL, and it's
gonna be SEC and Big ten whatever they're gonna call
the Super Conferences.
Speaker 3: At some point, there's just gonna be two. That's where
it's all going.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody, the writing's on the wall, and so
you're gonna go from you've gone from P five to
P four, it'll be P two. Man, at some point
it's gonna be P two. I really do feel that way.
And so until that happens, man, it's I think it's
gonna be tough sledding for us to be a two
lost team in the Big twelve and with and being
Bringham Young University. I think it's really difficult.
Speaker 3: Should we be? Yes? Will we be? I don't know
if we will be?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Steve Clements, Ladies and gentlemen, Steve always appreciate our
time together. Give me a score prediction. How do you
see this TCU game playing out? What do you what
do you make of? Maybe the line as well, BA
only three and a half point favorite think it's another
nail bider close one one score victory.
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go twenty, I'm gonna
go twenty seven nineteen, Let's go twenty seven night, let's
go go plus eight.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: I like it all right, Steve, You always appreciate our
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Speaker 3: Brother, always fine, brother, See man, there you go.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the last thing is the most important.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 5: As we get down, Look, I'm expecting Georgia and Alabama
to beat Texas and and to be Oklahoma to knock
them down and bare you move up into be number
ten if they beat TCU this weekend. And look, if
they just stay at ten and they went out Ben
and losing this out again, that should be enough to
make them twelve. But see brings up a very ballid
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