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getting ready for this by U UCF matchup. We've discussed
a number of different topics before we get into keys
to the game and.
Speaker 3: Our score predictions.
Speaker 2: Here in this segment, we will give you all the
college football games that you should be watching throughout the
day and who you should be rooting for here momentarily.
Speaker 3: But I also have Ronald the three Man.
Speaker 2: We were by my side, Roddy, how's the tailgate gone
so far for you?
Speaker 3: Buddy?
Speaker 4: Looks gone well. I know I've been going on the mic,
but I've been interacting with fans. You know, everybody's very
confident about this game, but everybody the consensus is from
the fan base. You gotta win comfortably. You got to
show the committee with this eleven o'clock games to the
East Coast voters that you can get it done. So
I think that's the biggest thing. Coogre Nation showed up,
showed out right now in Coogary Canyon. There's still an
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love it till get. I love interacting with the fans.
A lot of people showing up and tuning into the
show on their way here as well.
Speaker 2: A couple of things here as we get you ready.
This is senior Day, so BYU's against UCUP is the
last regular season game at home and the program is
expected under eighteen seniors playing in their final game at
Lavelle Edwards Stadium. Additional players may choose to be honored
at the game as well, but these are your seniors
that will be celebrated. Talon Alfree safety, Moriy Bomba cornerback,
Jaydon Dumlat cornerback, Ethan Erickson, tight end, Will Farren, kicker,
Garrison Grimes, long snapper, Colehagen, quarterback, Isaiah Jada, offensive line
Jack Kelly linebacker, Gwayland Lapuahu offensive line, Austin Leauza offensive line,
Logan Latuwey defensive.
Speaker 3: End, Enochnawaheene running back.
Speaker 2: Kalfusikofe defensive tackle, Chase Roberts wide receiver, Carson Ryan, tight end,
John Tomwaypeu the defensive tackle, and then Tanner Wall safety.
Do you expect any other individuals to be walking today
and being celebrated Guys that could enter the draft early
at l J.
Speaker 4: Martin's walking. Let's just get that one out of the way. Uh,
let's not even play around with the right the four
star from El Paso that's built like a Greek god. So,
if I may ask, honestly, no, Lj' is gonna walk.
Keanu Tonavas, I think is also gonna walk. I think
a lot of these guys that can go to the
NFL will have that opportunity. They'll get their stock. But
I think he's another one. You could see Evan Johnson
maybe even walk. You could see that. I don't want
to lie ben, I don't want to make that up,
but yeah, I think those are the three guys I
could see walking today.
Speaker 3: Extra so two blanket guys, two blanket guys. They could
be too blank they could.
Speaker 4: I think all those guys will be well, minus LJ.
I think Keano and Evan will come back. But yeah,
so I didn't in the ear. Uh this is Andrew
maybe actually ap get onto I can say, is I
want to steal this person? He just gave me another
one he could walk as well this other person.
Speaker 2: But got all right, who are the guys that are
underclass man, or rather the h the juniors that could
be walking today? And you hope, if you're a b
YU fan that the nil offering will be.
Speaker 3: Robust enough to make.
Speaker 2: Two blanket by your football players, two senior blankets form.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you Isaiah Glasker just because of the thick.
I think there's a real shot that he could get
picked in the NFL Draft if he went, probably closer to
fifth to seventh round because of his injuries this year,
but it's still a possibility. I think maybe the injuries,
maybe the you know that affected his production a bit
this year, he's still been fantastic. Maybe that helps him
come back for another year. But I do think it's
a possibility that this is the last time we see
Isaiah Glasker in provo.
Speaker 2: Jack Kelly could come back as well, I think, But
I don't think he will.
Speaker 4: Don't think you will. I think he's going.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I don't. Did Jack Kelly walk last
last year?
Speaker 4: He did not because he planned on coming back. Yeah,
because Kevin Reynolds of the Salli Like Tribute asked him
and he's had put that notion in bed and said,
I'm didnting. I'll talk about that next year. So I
think Jack is walking. He's done.
Speaker 2: So those are your seniors and maybe some of your
juniors that will be walking today, and so come on
out and celebrate them. You gotta love and appreciate these
Cougar football players that laid on the line, their blood,
sweat and tears, all for the glory of Brigham, all
for the glory of the fan base. Shout out to
all these seniors and juniors that will be walking today.
We got to protect at Lavelle's house like ice that
one of the reasons why b YU was so good
at home is because the twelfth man shows up. So
just because this game doesn't seem as big because you're
going to the Big twelve championship game, right You're going
to Arlington, which is awesome. You sealed the deal, or
rather you have a SAMI deal. Thank you bear down
you of a. Yes, indeed, it was a great win
for them. They are a top twenty five team and
they knocked off a top twenty five team and ASU
last night to help BYU sealed did you want to
get into the Big twel championship game. But one of
the reasons why BYU has played so well okay over
the years and one so many college football games, is
because they win at home and they win convincingly at home.
Speaker 3: Look at what happened in that TCU game.
Speaker 2: The spread was minimal right BYU was not the barely
even favored in.
Speaker 3: That game, and they destroyed TCU on their home field.
Speaker 2: That's what you need tonight, or is rather today with
the twelfth nation showing up. So just because this isn't
seemingly a big game doesn't mean you're not rising and shouting,
elevating your game, elevating your play. As a fan, you
got to be loud and proud because with a win,
BOU will go six and oh at Lavelle Everardge Stadium
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: It would be the first.
Speaker 2: Time the Cougars go undefeated at home since twenty and
twenty when they went seven and oh.
Speaker 3: It would be the seventh time, only the seventh time in.
Speaker 2: BYU football history where BYU went undefeated at home. Well sorry,
since two thousand, so I mean it's happened a lot
in Boa for history, but since two this would be
the seventh time. Seventh is the seventh is the perfect
number according to the Bible.
Speaker 4: According to the Bible, seventh is the best number. And
Hebrews and here's the thing, here's the best part. It's
not jet it just would be the seventh time in
the Big Twelve. Then when it happened, that's the Bay
in a Power four conference third year. They said that
in the in the pressing leads from the Big Twelve.
B YU is going to its first Big Twelve title
game in its third season in the Big Twelve. Reminder,
twenty twenty three not a good football season, right, all
the skuys falling chicken little and what has Kalani done
twenty one and three since then? You have to give
him credit twenty one and.
Speaker 2: Three last two years, but not enough brand equity apparently
to be meriting a top ten college football ranking. Two
loss teams are ahead of them with more brand equity,
with more I mean they don't even have the algorithm
in their favor. The strength of record for BYU is
better than some of those two loss teams.
Speaker 3: It is what it is. Brett or Mark.
Speaker 2: Last night said like verbally attacked, Notre Dame specifically, and.
Speaker 4: Not Dame fans that have been here they've got verbally attacked.
They did. He said, you don't deserve it. That's pretty
much what he said. And it's not just Bray you
or mark Joey McGuire's attack nor yeah McGuire, But Joey
McGuire's gwire came after Notre Dame too, so I was
declared of about it twice. He doubled down.
Speaker 2: Which is interesting that there's like the Big Twelve is
a sailing and attacking Notre Dame specifically.
Speaker 3: Now BA fans they don't appreciate.
Speaker 2: They have no love loss for Notre Dame because you know,
they they did not complete. They thought that arm in arm,
hand in hand in their quest for independence is b
Why you wandered the desert the wilderness if you will.
During independence they thought that Notre Dame would help them.
All they did was allow BYU to come out to
South Bend twice and lose, and then they didn't provide
a home game back to be white.
Speaker 4: They don't want to be a part of that seven
to oh you know, yeah.
Speaker 3: They don't want that.
Speaker 2: They instead took their talents to Vegas and gott to
win on a neutral field. That is a store for
another day. But yeah, there's no love loss there. And
the Big Twelve thinking a fight with Notre Dame specifically, that's.
Speaker 3: Interesting to me.
Speaker 4: They want to smoke.
Speaker 3: They want to smoke.
Speaker 2: Brett or Mark wants the smoke, purposefully calling out Notre
Dame crazy, and Joey McGuire did it as well.
Speaker 4: You have to wonder, you have to wonder.
Speaker 2: If this is a Big twelve initiative to get two
teams in. They're going to They're going to attack the
fighting Irish and their independence ways. Furthermore, which conference are
is Notre Dame aligned with?
Speaker 3: Unofficially ACC?
Speaker 2: Which power conference is the weakest out of the conferences
right now?
Speaker 3: In college football? ACC?
Speaker 4: That's true, the.
Speaker 3: G six conference, And you can't.
Speaker 4: Change my bye in my mind book, it put it
on the socials. The ACC is a glorified G six.
Speaker 2: Book at ap Yes, indeed, all right, guys, let's get
into this. BYU is a seventeen and a half point
favorite versus the UCF Knights. BYU's scoring offense thirty three
point four points per game, scoring offense for the UCF
Knights twenty four point six.
Speaker 3: It seems that.
Speaker 2: BYU at home has met or exceeded that thirty three
points per game mark and has limited teams to under
their scoring average.
Speaker 3: Yep, okay, So how do you guys see this?
Speaker 2: Game playing out and what are some of your keys
of the game, Ronald start us off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought about this for a while and I
was like, Okay, well they're gonna put up forty. But
then I thought, okay, hold him to ten. And I'm like, well,
Kline likes to put younger guys and give them an
opportunity to get some reps, so they could give up
a field goal or a touchdown late, depending on it.
So I change it. I'm gonna go forty one to
thirteen BYU is my score prediction.
Speaker 2: Hey, the over under, by the way, is forty seven
and a half, so they're not even picking a fifty plays.
Speaker 4: And I didn't pick a pit Wow. Okay, I guess
they trust you se have defense more. Or maybe because
the BoA's clinch the BIGCTO title, you're predicting maybe the
starters won't play in the four. Nonetheless, forty one to
thirteen BYU is what I'm going with. I think they
put this game away very early.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 4: I think it's twenty one nothing in the first quarter.
I think a ro Klaney, they understand the task at
hand doesn't matter if you had the Big twelve title.
Berth clinch you gotta go out and take care of business.
They show those on the East Coast, We're gonna score first,
score fast, score early. Theyre going to halftime with the
big league, come out dominating a third and then in
the fourth quarter. Bind you get all those other guys,
extra seniors that haven't had opportunity to play reps, younger guys.
They are gonna play the rest of the way. Get
the bear, tar the Cintaur. Hey, you are what he
is built like, you know, a damn Cintaur. Get him
some ress, Get ljs ress, get the boys up fronts
of rest. Chase Roberts. I know you might be dressing.
You don't need to play this game. And look, and
here's if they're all twenty one nothing without Chase, he's
not gonna come in the game. You want that hamstring
to be as fresh as possible for next weeks. The
Red Raiders, who are already dominating West Virginia from what
it looks like, those are my keys to the game.
Run the football like always run the football through LJ. Ben. Look,
can I be honest with you? Don't throw it until
they can stop the run. They proven it. Run the
ball ten straight times like you did against Oklahoma State
a year ago. You know what I want this game
to be like? Remember Oklahoma before Jake threw the you know,
oh yeah, the detrimental pick six Boston twelve. That's what
I want to see. I want to see inside zone,
all tackle, constant, wide open holes for number four.
Speaker 2: How many touches does LJ need today? What's your idealic
touch rate?
Speaker 4: I think you keep him in himum. I think you
go fifteen to twenty. I don't think you want to
bruise him up too much, but fifteen twenties ideal and Ben,
he can get one hundred yards off fifteen, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: So he got the score prediction and his keys to
the game, AP give me a score prediction keys to
the game for this this Cougar football team.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make a bold prediction here with my score prediction.
Today will be the first time ever that BYU puts
up forty plus on a Big twelve team in the
powerfour era without a defensive touchdown. Oh, every time they've
done that in the Big twelve era, it's been with
a defensive touchdown. This will be the first time ever
they do it without the defensive touchdown. They're gonna win
it forty one to six. And my keys to the game,
I think BAU needs to force a lot of turnovers
because quite frankly, UCF is really good at giving away turnovers.
Take advantage of that their mistake prone offense. They don't
have their their normal qbs. I think they're on their
what third string QB? Now, just force some turnovers, get
some short fields. Forty one to six, take care of business,
throwing the backups. I want the game to be over
midway through the third quarter.
Speaker 3: Love that I can appreciate that. Look.
Speaker 2: I think in an idealistic world, yeah, you want to
sit your starters out in the second half, I think
I think you see us a better football team him.
Then then we want to believe ap What breaking news
we got? What's going on?
Speaker 5: Chase Roberts. It was reported that Chase Roberts will officially
not play this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't need to you don't need to play.
So we've been saying that all week he does not
need to play. Glad that they finally said that. Look
rested up, Ben, you don't need him, Like I told you,
If you can't beat UCF with Dowt. Chase Roberts buy
and cover the spread. You don't belong in Arlington. I
don't think that's the case. Parker Kitson has proven all
season why he's going to be wide receiver number one.
We might need to interview vest. He's a tucky this
next week. But look, you're fine without Chase Ben.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so game time decision. Chase Roberts will not play.
Any word on Tavian Beasley. Will Tavian Beasley be playing
for the for the Kougs. I had that Nickel spot.
I haven't heard yet. But Chase Roberts will play next week.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, No, I mean it's a soft tissue.
Speaker 2: I mean he's probably close to being able to play.
Speaker 3: I risk it, though, I agree with you. Why why
receive like my keys to the game?
Speaker 2: And I know Kirby Smart went off on this yesterday.
I think it was after their win over Georgia Tech
because they were talking about injuries and and how how
important is the state healthy going into the SEC Championship
game and and should you play it? Should you play
conference championship games? And he said, look like I grew
up watching the SEC Championship game, like this is an
important game. Who cares about injuries? It's football. But at
the same time, I'm hoping I know that, like, I
don't think BLI has the depth that Georgia has to
be able to speak.
Speaker 4: That well, you got five stars from one to five.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say, like, my key to
the game is I want to I want to be healthy.
I want to win by bye bye by more than
seventeen and a half points.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
Speaker 3: Results oriented approach. And from my keys of the game.
Speaker 2: It was like LJ doesn't get injured, Please, Bear doesn't
get injured.
Speaker 3: Please, we don't have any more offensive line injuries.
Speaker 2: No, we stay overall healthy coming out of this game.
Speaker 3: Uh and and and you win by three scores. Okay,
so that's the end result.
Speaker 4: He's in the game.
Speaker 2: Obviously, win the turnover margin. We gotta be plus two.
I think you need a special teams touchdown and or
a defensive touchdown this game as well. When BYU plays
its best football, b YU gets a defensive touchdown or
a special teams touchdown.
Speaker 3: This may be the game in which p K goes
to the house.
Speaker 4: I'd also like to see it next week. But you
know this week works too. You may see and capitalize offen. Yeah,
I mean a scoop and score like you. You had
one taken away from you last week? Did Isaiah was
gonna scoop and score?
Speaker 3: If that Tavian Beasley forced bubble, I need that. I
want that. What do you got from me?
Speaker 5: AP fourteen years ago, Cody Hoffin took a kickoff back
for a touchdown, You get a Cody Hagen touchdown problem.
Speaker 4: This is what we got, a boyd This is to
the roster.
Speaker 2: If they run the wide return, meaning you know, you
start off the return, you go about two, three, four
five yards upfield and then you bow it out and
you'll utilize that speed and get up around that wall.
If they do that, Cody's Cody could take it to
the house. Cody could take it to the house. Otherwise,
if you want to get linear with a return, my
personal opinion is I like Tiger Blackmeier back then right now,
I really do. I like Tiger getting linear. That guy
runs with fearlessness. Now does he does he take the
return a little bit too far deep in his own
nnzil Yeah, sure, but that dude is fearless. He runs
and returns the way that a kickoff returner should in
my opinion, that's trying to get linear and he's.
Speaker 3: Big, strongest, fast, he's physical.
Speaker 2: But if Cody's taken into the house, which I think
is a good omen. Last time they were a Cody
returning kicks for b y U versus UCF. He took
one to the house for uh for the Cougar Nation.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: It was actually I wonder if that that was I
think that was a that was a night game. I
believe if I'm not mistaken under the lights lavel then uh,
that that could that could bode well for me.
Speaker 3: What you know that about? So I'm gonna call.
Speaker 2: A special teams or a defensive touchdown. My question is
how how much throw game will we see from bear Bachmeyer.
Bear Bachmeyer took a shot to the shoulder versus Cincinnati.
He only threw one pass after that and it was
an I N T. So I'm wondering if he'll be
limited at all now. He didn't show up on the
injury reports, did not so it could have just.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 2: But you know, does he have as much does he
have as much velocity? Like already like Beart to me
has a has a solid arm.
Speaker 3: It's not an elite arm No.
Speaker 2: If that is, if he was at one hundred percent
and now he's at ninety percent of his throw ability,
how does that impact.
Speaker 4: The pass game?
Speaker 2: And do we have to rely on Preston Rex and
Enik nawahine RB two RB three. I don't want to
run Bear as much as we have over the last
two I think it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be like Kansas State from last year. Can I
be honest? I think you might see that type of game.
When you're saying plus two, when you're talking about defensive
special teams touchdown, it gives vibes of that Kansas State game.
How many passes did Jake throw in that game?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think he threw seventeen and he completed I think
fourteen of them or something right, very short because when
the defense is given you a short field and you
don't have to you can go that X delay route, right,
you can go all those things. You can run the
ball a little bit more. That was when his breakout
game popped open. So I think that's what you're gonna see.
I think you're gonna see a rok keap Bear two
under twenty attempts to rowing the football. They don't want
him to throw and I don't think he's gonna run
the ball more than can. I be honest, six or
seven times I think a Rod is gonna tell Bear
you do not run this game hand the I think
you'll see less rpo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of one of my keys.
Speaker 2: Like, like I said, I don't want to come in
here and like not be aggressive. But at the same time,
like we need other guys to also step up.
Speaker 3: I need Preston Rex, I need Enoch now when he need.
Speaker 4: A step bounce back, you know, see him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the offensive line has been dominant.
Speaker 2: The last few weeks, pushing guys start to run behind
those guys with other running backs as well, some of
my keys in the game I'm calling a victory, I
don't think it's as dominant.
Speaker 3: I was like to be like, i'ma call it twenty
one point victory.
Speaker 2: Okay, and uh, I feel like, you know, I think
we'll meet the threshold of what on average we're scoring,
what thirty three points.
Speaker 4: Per game they're going for you.
Speaker 2: So I'm feeling like a thirty five to like maybe
like a thirty thirty five seventeen type of game tonight
or today thirty five seventeen nine. It's a three score victory,
but thirty five seventeen a convincing one at home and
BYU obviously already clinches their Big twelve championship spot Versus
Texas Tech. You get a solid dub at home to
finish the season, you celebrate the seniors and uh then
you get prep for Texas Tech and the Red Raiders
in Arlington. Okay, so those are some of my keys
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get out to the hotline.
Speaker 2: Welcome in former BYU Great, former NFL quarterback the Quarterback
Scientist A three DQB. We got John Beck on the line, Gine,
how that ca are you man?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good, Ben, how are you guys doing good?
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, this season right has been one of glory,
right it is. It has been a fantastic season, and
you really have to realize, like going into this last
half of the season, Aaron Roderick the OC said, this
is going to be the toughest stretch of BYU football
in BYU football history. I'm like, you know what it's arguing,
it arguably is, and BYU is five and one in
that span.
Speaker 3: Pretty special, no doubt, absolutely.
Speaker 6: I mean the way they're playing ball in all three
phases and to do so many of these things on
the road against teams that are traditionally been pretty tough
to play on the road. And I know that some
of these teams maybe you could say, like haven't quite
been the same, like Iowa State's been so tough on
the road and they've been a little bit tougher in
years past. But you still have to do.
Speaker 7: It in the moment.
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of times you're finding out afterwards
sometimes that oh, hey, you know, these teams lose a
couple in a row.
Speaker 7: But I also think it's because they're playing BYU.
Speaker 6: I think it's because of just how good of an
all round team BYU is and how physical, Like you
look at how physical the defense plays, how physical BYU
is in the run game. I think a lot of
these teams when it's you know, the day after and
two days after, I think there's a lot of guys
on the teams that they play that are just probably
a bit beat up as they head into that next
week having another opponent because they're playing BYUS.
Speaker 3: It's a difficult schedule, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Still the SEC Big ten pundits and analysts don't want
to give the Big twelve as much credit. But BYU
only can compete with the schedule that's before it, and
they've proven that they are I think a top ten team.
How do you see BYU right now? Are they a
top ten team in college football?
Speaker 7: I think they should be.
Speaker 6: I can see just because of the past and the
way that some of these decision makers view some teams
that are fringe teams.
Speaker 7: I can see why it feels like they.
Speaker 6: Want to say, well, oh, you know, we can't guarantee
on a spot. Here's here's my take on it. I
think that when you when you get to hear the
people that watch YU football play meaning the guys that
are commentating on the game, that are a part of
the crews that have seen BYU multiple times. It seems
like they're the ones that stand up and say, now,
this is a really good YU football team. This is
a football team that has what it takes to be
in the playoffs. You look at what they do, what
they've accomplished, the teams they've beat, how they've beat them.
I know outside people want to say, well, if they
beat Arizona, it should have been by more. Well, Arizona's
a pretty va good football team beating a lot of
people this year. And even though you can say it
would have looked better to beat them like a different way,
how about the fact that BYU is still beating those
teams every single time they play them, and they're doing
it in tough moments, like really good football teams have
to win tough moments. You look at the Utah game
right now. You know Utah is nipping on BYUS Hills
like most people have. I'm a spot behind YU, and
you look at the way that DYU won that game.
Like to me, those are where the people that really
truly see BYU, they know what they're looking at.
Speaker 7: They know how good of the team they are.
Speaker 6: What BYU has to do now is just try to
control their own destiny.
Speaker 7: And I think that's why, Like, look, this thing's probably
going to end up being decided by the Big twelve
championship game.
Speaker 6: And I know we talked about it last week, but
what an awesome opportunity if it does come down to that,
to get to play the same Texas Tech team you
played a few weeks ago, and really everything is on
the table right, everything you could hope for as a team,
as a player of go out win that game.
Speaker 7: Now, there's no questions asked John Bear.
Speaker 2: Bachmeier didn't have his best game fifteen to twenty five
one hundred and twenty seven yards five point one yards
per attempt. He did run the ball thirteen times forty
six yards three point five yards per attempt in one touchdown.
RG three kept on saying, hey, he's a linear runner,
not at north south runner, not an east west runner.
Speaker 3: What did you see from Bear?
Speaker 2: What did you like and what does he need to
maybe improve a bond heading into the final stretch of
the season.
Speaker 7: Well, I think this is was a very gritty per
by Bear.
Speaker 6: I think that you could see at the end of
the game, what he's playing through and how he's battling
like crazy. I know, from a statistics standpoint, a passing standpoint,
all of those things like it wasn't a great night
for him, but you know, look, every young quarterback has
those during his journey. Bear has started every single football game.
That's a huge accomplishment for how much he's ran the
football this year, For the way that he's played, to
be able to play every single snap of the games
that he's been in, to carry the guys and the
team the way that he has, it's been super impressive.
Speaker 7: I think that like any young quarterback.
Speaker 6: Like I was saying, they are going to experience some
games where it's tough, your battling through something and your
run game carries you and your defense carries you.
Speaker 7: And that's okay.
Speaker 6: Any young quarterback that's gone on to be a really
really good quarterback looks back and has some of those
games that you go through and you just do. And
this is where the team around BYU, I mean sorry,
the team of BYU around Bear really stood up and
show just how good of a football team they are,
right like this is around Bear.
Speaker 7: This is an exceptional football team. Look at LJ. Martin,
the load that he carried.
Speaker 6: To go and set his rushing you know, I think
it was most yards right that he's done. And you
get to hear some of the statistics in all of
the categories that he's leading the Big Twelve. If we
are sorry, if BYU wants to beat really good football teams,
it has to be because they are a team that
is well rounded that when it's a little bit of
a tough night on a young quarterback in the passing game,
that the run game steps up and plays the.
Speaker 7: Way that they played.
Speaker 6: And I just hope, you know, we got to get
Bear healthy, We got to get keep guys healthy, get Chase,
you know healthy. All of those things need to happen
over the the next few weeks in preparation for what
looks like can be a big game for the championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how deemed up Chase is, LJ is
Bear is?
Speaker 3: Right now? Do you think they all.
Speaker 2: Three of those guys play versus U see after you
think some of these guys are held out in that
UCF game at home?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, that's that's kind of a tough
one to say, because the one thing you don't want
to do is you don't want to you know, walk
into a game ever being like, hey, guys, look like
this is an easy one because I I've been a
part of one game like that when I was in college,
where like I was kept out of a game because
we were playing a team that hadn't won a single
game in like fourteen weeks or twelve weeks. Like, you know,
there are some situations where the coaching staff does approach.
Speaker 7: A player and say, hey, look, we know you want
to play, but in.
Speaker 6: The best interest of what's going to happen the week
after and going forward, you know, we really like we
have to set you down because this team we're playing
against really is so bad.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I had to look at UCF on
tape or anything like that, Like I'm.
Speaker 6: Not sure what their situation is like, but I do think,
you know, you have to be smart in what the
signal sends to the rest of the team, Like it
has to be an opponent that you really can and
you're not concerned in.
Speaker 7: The slightest to make that happen. I think if it's.
Speaker 6: A game that that you know could be competitive, if
the other team absolutely shows up.
Speaker 7: Then you got to be smart about it.
Speaker 6: Then it might be something where it's like, hey, if
we get a lead by x amount, we're shutting people
down rather than just going into a week saying, hey,
we are going to not play you this week. And
so I think that's what kind of matters, is how
the team views UCF. But I do think doing things
to get guys healthy. I think in some cases there's
nothing you can do, it's just a part of the season.
And then in other guys' cases, it can make a
huge difference. I remember in that game that happened to me,
I remember feeling very frustrated because it's like, you don't like,
you don't even let that enter your mind that you
might not be playing in a game because you want
to be on the field, and you have to kind
of like swallow your pride a little bit, or you
have to look at the betterment of what's what's actually
the best thing for the football team, what's the best.
Speaker 7: Thing to win a huge game the following week.
Speaker 6: And I will say, like I remember that I did
feel better, like the injuries that I was trying to
battle through, it did make a significant difference to not
play a game on him, and so that that could
be the case for those guys at u AU.
Speaker 2: When you saw a Bear take that hit to his
throwing shoulder and he was win singing pain as he trotted.
Speaker 3: Off the football field, what was your reaction to it?
Speaker 6: I know what that feels like, you know, he's he
When I'm trying to think of the right way to
say this without saying too much, here's the thing.
Speaker 7: It's just part of the.
Speaker 6: Way that things are being played right now, and what
can happen to a quarterback playing that style and yet
what you have.
Speaker 7: To do in the passing game.
Speaker 6: It's not uncommon for quarterbacks to have to push through
a similar injury, but because of the style that Bear plays,
it's something that's kind of like you just are crossing
your fingers, like, let's hope that he doesn't get hit
in certain ways where then that thing slares.
Speaker 7: Up even more.
Speaker 6: Everybody's pushing through things, but as a quarterback, when you
have things that you're dealing with, you know, shoulders, lower half,
ankles and knees, those type of things. I have a
number of quarterbacks that I'm hoping that you know, ankle
injuries for a quarterback man, because of the ground and
the force production and delivering footballs ankles and shoulders, you
can play through them, but man, it is just tough
because like a little hit here or there, certain throws
that you need certain juice on or you're accustomed to
throwing a certain way.
Speaker 7: It's just those can be tough.
Speaker 6: And I just think, you know, we got to see
a little bit on you know, in front of everybody,
what playing that position in battling through an injury looks
like in a really tough kid. I mean Bear is
a super tough kid, and you could see like he
goes to the side and it's painful and he's battling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wonder if it'd be best to sit him
in the UCF game and maybe give McKay Hillstead or
Tracing borgea shot, whoever is winning that QB two spot.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's where, like you're smart about it,
like what's the situation of that team.
Speaker 7: Like what like what level are they?
Speaker 6: You know, I think that it could be something where
you see BA you say, look, we're gonna have everybody
because it's young players, right, It's not like it's not
a veteran player like Bear's still young. He's only got
what eleven starts under his bed. Will consider a young player,
you might have him played the beginning and if BAU
gets out to a good lead early, then make a change,
you know, just because every opportunity that bear gets right
now to face the opponents can. But sometimes when you're
talking about more like juniors and seniors, guys that just
have so much experience already, they might be the ones
like a Chase, like an LJ. Of saying like, hey,
like we're going to be good, like we got this.
Let's completely give your body the rest that it needs
because we absolutely need you in a huge way.
Speaker 7: And I remember that conversation like the conference.
Speaker 6: This next game can determine the conference, and we have
to think about how important that game is compared to
this one right here that I know you want to
be in, but we don't necessarily need you in.
Speaker 3: John LJ.
Speaker 2: Martin had one of the best rushing performances in BYU
football history when you take into account maybe location, opponent
ramifications of conference championship.
Speaker 3: And college football playoff birth.
Speaker 2: He had thirty two carries two or twenty two yards
six point nine yards per carry, two touchdowns. He also
had three receptions forty four yards, and he was involve
in past pro as well, So a lot of reps,
a lot of productivity, a lot of just grit there,
a lot of physicality with him, I believe from a
total rushing standpoint total rushing yards, that's like number five
or number six in total rushing yards from an individual
and an individual performance at BYU, where do you think
you ranked this rushing performance all time in BYU football history?
We saw Curtis do some magical things when we were there.
We saw Harvey as well, right after you. Jamal Williams,
Tyler Aziers had some great games, and Luke Staley had
some phenomenal games.
Speaker 3: Where do you think that ranks out?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think, you know, LJ has to be
up there with all of those guys. I love all
those guys so much.
Speaker 6: Had the opportunity to be around Luke a little bit
when I was a freshman and just blown away by
how somebody that big and muscular.
Speaker 7: Could be that fast and that explosive.
Speaker 6: And I think, you know, got to play with Curtis
and Harvey, both two unbelievable backs, and we've got to see,
you know how Jared There's been a stretch of guys
that are just so so talented, and I've been so
impressed with LJ the entire time he's been at YU.
Speaker 7: What an impressive young man.
Speaker 6: I mean, how muscular and the balance like he is
such a physical runner that just gets off so many
tackles and has such great balance. And I think you
have to My guess is that there are NFL teams,
you know, watching him. They will show up in pregame
warm ups because they want to see why they want
to be upfront and personally see what his body looks like.
Speaker 7: And they're taking that in during pregame warm ups, and then.
Speaker 6: They are watching him in the game just shed off
so many tacklers and run through tackles and bounce off hits.
I mean that to take that hit that he took
last night and to stay on his.
Speaker 7: Feet and I'm sorry not last night on a Saturday
night and run forward. I mean, I've just.
Speaker 6: Been so impressed with him, and I know the physicality
that he runs with. He is a guy that his body.
I mean he is probably in ice tubs doing tons
of treatment. I mean I remember being around like a
guy like Willis McGahee in the NFL and Ricky Williams
very very physical runners, but you see what they have
to do every day for their body so that they
can continue to run that way throughout the course of
a season. And so you know, those guys that run
the way that LJ does are just absolute warriors.
Speaker 7: And it's been so awesome. As somebody that.
Speaker 6: Loves BYU football and watch what he's done and how
that's helped his football team. That performance on Saturday night
was especially because of where this team is at vying
for I mean, arguably one of the biggest conference games
a BYU's played, will play and in all of their
whack you know, Mountain West, all of the conferences that
they've been a part of, to help carry a team
on the way to what could be one of the
biggest ever conference games you know that they've played in.
I mean, it's just so impressive and we're lucky to
have a back like LJ at BYU and to do
what he's done and awesome.
Speaker 2: They're at the Cincinnati game, something controversial happened, John, I
know you remember at the Church of Jesus Christ the
Latter day Saints, another f the Mormons chant emerged at
the Cincinnati game. These are typically coming from the student sections, right,
and so I have a I have probably more grace
than some. But there has been violence that has occurred
amongst the Latter day Saints this past year, where there's
been attacks on churches and deaths and murders.
Speaker 3: Is is it a big deal? Is it not a
big deal?
Speaker 2: You know, I've I've always said, hey, you can say
F B YU, but just don't say F the Mormons, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, look like we've been players, right, and so
FDYU F the Mormons.
Speaker 7: I mean, you play at Wyoming their entire stadium.
Speaker 6: One site says F the next site says the other
site says B YU. And you know, I mean, look,
I'll admit I've had it so much you just kind
of laugh at it because it happens all the time
to yeah, like the f DE Mormons, Like you know,
I mean, I can remember in pregame warm ups student
sections that are there early, right, the student sections love
those things, you know. I mean, look, as a member
of the church, something that means a lot to me.
Speaker 7: I wish they would choose something different they don't.
Speaker 6: I think it was absolutely amazing what the church did
and donating the gigantic donation that they did to their
like their food pantry for students. You know, I think
those are the types of things that there are some
people that they could care less. Right, They're going to
do their thing no matter what. I think the hope
would be that maybe there's a few people afterwards that
think about what they were saying and maybe take into
consideration like what the church stands for, Like the Church
stands for Christ. The Church stands for goodness and love
and compassion and forgiveness and caring for humanity. And are
you know the church went out and made a gigantic
donation for humans because a christ Like act is caring
and loving others. And I would hope that maybe there's
some people in that student section maybe pause to think
about once they learned the full magnitude of what was
done for their university by the church, and then what
happened afterwards, and maybe just pause and say, maybe that
wasn't the best thing.
Speaker 7: Because all we can hope for, right is change, change
for the better.
Speaker 6: Right, Like everybody's going to make mistakes, Like everybody in
our lifetime is going to say things that they look
back and regret.
Speaker 7: And you know what student sections.
Speaker 6: I grew up going to Arizona State football games, and
so I heard a lot of things yelled by student sections,
and you know, it's part of just what happened sometimes
on game day, and you know, things build, and you know,
you can get into the psychology of things of how
people follow others, you know, and I'm sure the alcohol
and everything.
Speaker 7: I mean, look, it is what it is.
Speaker 6: Like, Yes, it would be way better if it didn't happen,
but it did.
Speaker 7: And I think at the end of the day, if.
Speaker 6: There's some people that can pause and recognize, like, let's
think about what really we were yelling at, like we
were saying f the people that were just doing all
these kind acts like, and then we can just hope that,
you know, something changes and it's better. And I'm sure
there's going to be something that happens with the university.
I'm sure there's going to be something where the university
probably talks to their student body. There may be some
type of fine by the Big twelve. I mean, ultimately,
do I think the F BYU or f the Mormon
chance are going to go away because of it? No,
Like it doesn't go away, it's been happening forever. It's
going to continue to happen. But I would just hope
it would be awesome if some people could be influenced
by the goodness and recognize, you know, what.
Speaker 7: The church is trying to do with the kind things
that they do.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: John Beck, Ladies and gentlemen, former BYU great former quarterback
talking some BYU football.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 2: For those that are tuning in right now, I know
we're getting into late November. Now, what does three DQB
provide to quarterbacks this time of the year.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, we already have some people coming down
during the Thanksgiving break getting some work in.
Speaker 7: What I have seen is a lot of people win.
Speaker 6: Their season ends. Well here's this, I'll say. The best
thing I think I can do is you need to
sit down and review all of your tape. Go back
through all of your tape, because this is a way
to extract all of the information that can help you
grow as a player. A lot of kids and I
and I suggest this, like go play basketball, Go do
another sport, Go and start working and build your athleticism
different ways, but finish the season by extracting what you
can extract. Work and improve just a little bit more.
You don't have to still be playing games. We have
a lot of guys down here that are coming down
throughout this week and throughout the weekends in December where
it's just before basketball hits, before baseball starts again at
the turn of the year, like all of these things,
like they're just trying to find ways to improve a
little bit more having gone.
Speaker 7: Through the season.
Speaker 6: And we have guys that will say, hey, I'm going
to pull some clips. Can we get sit down and
can we go through some of my clips together so
that I can see what your I see so that
I can improve going into this next offseason. Because what
happens a lot of time with multi sport athletes is
they don't get at as much time in the winter spring,
and so they're trying to pull what they can right now,
build on a few things so then once they finish
their sport, they hit the.
Speaker 7: Ground running know exactly what they want to work on
for the upcoming season.
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Speaker 2: That's where you go if you are looking for a
quarterback help bio mechanical elite bio mechanical support obviously, but
also the mental game to you guys, Delvin Day, it
all is it pertains to a quarterback play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know this, Like for example, today today is
a big day for the collegiate quarterbacks to go through
some mental stuff where there's situational of you know, what
they were experiencing in situations in the game leading up
to the game, during you know, the roller coaster ride
that a quarterback goes through during a game. You have
to have tools to handle those situations. This is why
experience matters so much. You know, you you've gained so
much by going through the experience. But what I've seen
is if you can start the the acquisition of the
correct tools, then as you go through those experiences, you're
sharpening those tools rather than going through the experience and
then wondering, oh my gosh, like what tool did I
need for that.
Speaker 7: And then you're trying to acquire it during the season.
Speaker 6: Use this the season as an opportunity to sharpen those tools.
And like I said, today's a big day of where
I get on the call with a bunch of collegiate
players that are hey, here's what I experienced, Here's what's
going through, here's my notes of the game, and the
things I want to improve on from an emotional standpoint,
and mentally you just want to be so sharp and
you have to be able to ride through the storms
like an experienced sailor.
Speaker 7: Right, You're not like I've.
Speaker 6: Been here, I know what to do, you know, But
like when the crowd's yelling, when the communication is tough,
when the coaches are responding a certain way, when you've
had certain outcomes, maybe you've had an interception early, maybe
you've taken.
Speaker 7: A few poor sacks.
Speaker 6: How do you not let those experiences alter who you
are as a football player. So you can go out
and you can play one play at a time, and
all that matters is you're at your very best on
that giving play.
Speaker 2: John Beck, Ladies and gentlemen, John always a pleasure man.
If BYU gets to the Big twelve championship game and
they lose a close one versus Tech, I hope they
get into the colleg football playoff and they get over
the hump, do something that we weren't able to do, right,
just get over that hump. And I mean it's just
a it's been a special season, but in the modern
era it's it's been a little bit. I don't know,
it eats at me that byu wet since nineteen ninety six,
we have been able to get over to hump, whereas
Boise State and UCF and Utah and TCU and just
go down the list, Northern Illinois even they all kind
of got over the hump when we could.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that there is I view those some
of those things as its multi year meaning when when Boise.
Speaker 7: State was able to do it.
Speaker 6: It wasn't and now look a stattician might be able
to go back.
Speaker 7: And prove me wrong.
Speaker 6: I'm just kind of going off the top of my head,
but you know, I think that it's because the season
before the great season, you know, needed to be much better.
Speaker 7: A lot of the times you need to have a
ten eleven win.
Speaker 6: Season before you have the season that gets you over
the hump, like going six and six, going seven and five,
something like that, like or you.
Speaker 7: Know, seven and six, like those type of.
Speaker 6: Seasons, and then trying to follow it up with a
great season, like you need to start higher.
Speaker 7: You need to be people be aware of you a
little bit more.
Speaker 6: You don't want to start the great season with close
losses in the beginning and then all of a sudden
it hit a stride where you're on fire and you
can go play with anybody. Like it helps to finish
the season with eleven wins, go into a season with
people saying like, man, this could be a really good
football team. You're on their radar, and then when you
start winning early, you start moving up faster and sooner.
Like I think some of those Boise years, some of
those TCU years, even some of those Utah years, Like
look at the season before it. They had a good
season before it that helped put them on the map,
and then they started out and that's why they were
able to climb, and so you're viewed differently.
Speaker 7: I believe when you've done it for a few years.
Speaker 6: That's why I actually think like this one BYU, I think.
Speaker 7: Has the best chance it's had because.
Speaker 6: Of last year's season, because of how they started, how
they've flown up early, you know, and you only have
a loss against arguably, you know, Texas Tech may end
up top top four. You know, they're top five right now,
like they could be one of the teams that ends
up getting a buy.
Speaker 7: We don't know what happens the.
Speaker 6: Rest of the year, but I do think that at
BYU look, I want to see them win, but if
for some reason they don't, and they can keep it
super super close. Man, to be a team that has
won twenty something games in two years and to do
what they've done this year, I think that people have
to take a look at that they really really do,
especially if Texas Tech ends up being a top four
and you barely lose to a top four team, and
with what BYU's done, I think it sets them up
as good as it's been for Byu.
Speaker 2: John, We always appreciate our time and invite everyone to
elevate their suit game, just like you've elevated your SUP
game at Odion.
Speaker 3: Mensword, thanks for hopping on, Buddy, sounds good to see it.
There you go.
Speaker 2: That is John Beck and a great segment with him.
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