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three man Weaver, Yes Anddidi. He went down to be
a practice and caught up with Justin Ena, the linebackers
coach at Brigham Young University. Got some great content. What
type of questions did you ask him, Ronnie? What type
of topics did you delve into with Justin Enna?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the stuff that was prevalent obviously.
Speaker 4: You know, I hadn't caught up with him in a while,
so started with the nice one about Hey, how was Thanksgiving?
You know one I always ask about people's families. Football
is great, Ben, but his family's the most important thing.
That's who he goes home too. Then got into the
nooks and crannies of it. You know, I asked about
an update about Max Alford, how he thought he played
until his occurred. Ace Kafusi as well as you know
Jack Kelly asked him how how does he balance as
a linebackers coach of advice of do you tell Isaiah
Glasker to come back for that last year?
Speaker 3: Do you know if he wants to move on to
the draft? What do you do that?
Speaker 4: I asked him that I pressed him, you know a
little bit about you know, Jay Brian Straw, the what
does his recovery look like? I didn't shy away from
those things. I think, you know, you have to ask
those questions. And then I said, from your advantage point,
you're in the room where not we don't see things
as media members and the fans definitely don't. But a
rod Right, your defenses and your linebackers is going up
against Baron LJ.
Speaker 3: Please give us some insight on that.
Speaker 4: And he says that the reason that the off that
they're eleven into is because of a rod Right. He
specifically said that, and I teased that yesterday and you'll
hear from it in just a sex so I asked that,
and then, of course, you know the hard hitting Capitol
J journalistic question. I asked him what his favorite pop
tarts are. He's not a big fan of pop tarts,
so eatam if given, but he likes a different type
of candy.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it.
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We were caught up with Justin and the linebackers coach
for BA Football.
Speaker 4: Here with the BYU linebackers coach, Justin and we haven't
caught up in a while, so I'll just start the house.
Speaker 3: XM with the family.
Speaker 5: It was awesome.
Speaker 6: Thanksgiving was always great. Good to get that win against UCF.
So everything's going well. Guys are starting to get a
little more healthier, and now it's just making sure.
Speaker 5: That we can crank it up a little.
Speaker 4: Bit more for the pop Tarts goal gives thoughts on
a pop Tarts Bowl supposed to be Norton Dame at first,
and then being Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: Yea excited.
Speaker 6: I mean both are good teams, so we're really excited
about Georgia Tech.
Speaker 5: They got an explosive offense.
Speaker 6: It all goes through that quarterback and he's he's special
right there. I think Ain Skiing is a is a
really really good football player, and with him.
Speaker 5: Running the ball or passing the ball, he's he's.
Speaker 6: A dual threat and he's the.
Speaker 5: Offensive rush leader. So we better be able to stop
him for sure.
Speaker 4: Pop Tarts Ball, opportunity to go down to Orlando. What
are the activities you guys got planned to go down?
Speaker 6: You know, I think we're got Disney World and we
got like Universal Studios, so I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 5: Here there's a lazy river at the.
Speaker 6: Hotel, so I might just be getting as much of
the sun as I can.
Speaker 4: Absolutely got to get the sun, definitely while you're in Orlando.
Any golf to any golf plan.
Speaker 5: I am a horrible golfer, so I will not touch that. Yeah,
I'm not very good at golf.
Speaker 4: So all right, the lo had yourself us get back
to the serious thing. Evaluate how Jack Asian Glass the
linebacker room is.
Speaker 3: Performed this season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jack getting that ten sacks was a big deal.
I'm excited to see even gets a couple more. Great
leader does things right. I'm excited to.
Speaker 5: Just see him go out on it with a bang.
Isaiah Glasker's got another year. Whether he stays or.
Speaker 6: Not, we don't know, and so it's really up to him.
It's been banged up a little bit throughout the year,
but I think he's starting to hit that peak again
of making sure that he's just locked in and doing
what he's supposed to do. They're both both again they're
all conference players and would love.
Speaker 5: To get him back.
Speaker 6: But if he doesn't come back, appreciate of what he's
done for the program.
Speaker 4: You mentioned, you know, getting back is no secret. Obviously
he could declare for the Drafty, how do you manage
as a coach and having those conversations with the players.
Speaker 6: You know what it's it's it's all about the players
these days. So again, whatever they feel is best for them,
we'll sway him either way and what we believe.
Speaker 5: But completely it's up to them.
Speaker 6: I mean, they're grown men and they get to make
their own decisions and choices and and we'll we'll support
them one hundred percent. So again, on it's all said
and done, it's it's their choice.
Speaker 4: When I talked to you about a year ago, you
said that Isaiah Glaska is one of the best athletes
that you've coached and that he can be. How do
you feel like that assessment has come into coruition now
a year later.
Speaker 6: No, I still believe that, And that's one thing I
think with a few of uh he's been banged up
a little bit here and there, but he is by far,
and I think I told him that this week, that
he's the best athlete that I've coached thus far. It's
now just making sure that we get the very most
out of him too as well. And so and again
there's there's injuries that do occur, but it's also making
sure that we understand what we have and we try
to put him in the best position possible.
Speaker 5: And coach Hield does a heck of a job that way.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm telling you that's why that's why Jack
Kelly has tense sacs is because we know what their
strengths are and this is are and we want to
make sure we always play to their strengths.
Speaker 3: Evaluate guys. How Askfusi and Max alf.
Speaker 5: For a player?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I love I love As and Max there.
They're really good football players. The way they're flying around.
I'm excited to see Max come back from his injury.
Speaker 5: And he's he's a tough guy.
Speaker 6: He's a throw kind of a throwback in one of
those guys where he just he loves ball. Ace is
a very good athlete, a lot in the way of
Isaiah Glasker, long, tall, athletic and uh and then a
mismatch for a lot of people. He's he's great to
put on a tight end or a running back because
of his length and they do some good things. Sally again,
I love his speed, the ability of him just flying
around and letting.
Speaker 5: Him play football.
Speaker 6: And so we just got to make sure they keep
on working on on just the instincts with all our
young backers, making sure that they see what they're supposed
to see and then go attack. And so I love
what Dewey Gray said, just again, we need to be
more violent, more physical, and that's going to be a
huge huge focus for.
Speaker 5: Spring Wall making sure that we're more violent physical and
that we that were hell razers inside.
Speaker 4: Speaking of more violent physical, getting bracks and lindsay, you
can talk about it now the signing class of.
Speaker 5: The twenty twenty six class.
Speaker 3: What do you like about it?
Speaker 5: Oh, there's there's there's a bunch of guys. I didn't
go on and on.
Speaker 6: With those crews. I think Braxton is just a tough guy.
Hopefully we get him in January and he's gonna be
He's gonna be exciting to be on our roster because
of what he is.
Speaker 5: Whether he's an outside back or an inside back or
a d N he can do it all.
Speaker 6: But the kid is a kid loves football and a
guy that loves football.
Speaker 5: We can't get enough of those guys here at b YU.
Speaker 4: Coach, what does that say about the program being down
an sec team like Arkansas coming to BYU.
Speaker 3: The times have change and Baya Authetics.
Speaker 5: It really has.
Speaker 6: So it all pretty much works around Kilane, right. So
the culture is very very strong here and it's it's
making sure that we find the guy that fits us.
Speaker 5: And to be.
Speaker 6: Honest with you, a lot of these guys need Buyu
more than Bay he needs them. But once they figure
that out, I mean, b Yu is a We've had
a few people transfer out and I'm telling you a
lot of them want.
Speaker 5: Back in because of what we are and because of
what Kilani does.
Speaker 6: He promotes brotherhood, family love, and they go other places
like hey, it's not the same and it's not the same.
Speaker 5: BYU is a special place.
Speaker 4: Take us through that moment when he announced that the
team hey staying, not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: That was exciting because there was a good for him.
Speaker 6: Maybe it was like a week for us, It was
like seventy two hours of like touch and go, like
what the heck's going on? And when we were able
to announce that, when he was able to announce that
last week, it was a lot of weight off our
shoulders because we know what he does.
Speaker 5: We know what he does, not only for.
Speaker 6: The players, the staff, the coaches, but for our families
as well. So it's all about making sure that we
take care of family, and he is a perfect example
of emulating love and making sure that everyone.
Speaker 5: Is part of the full.
Speaker 4: Ron Weaver here with Cougar Sports here with linebackers coach
Justin and a coach. Clownie said that Chab Brown Strawla
coming back next season. How has he been so far?
Speaker 6: I think with the reab, Yeah, Chase done a good
job so towards acl the week of the Stanford game,
and so he's probably about three three months out and
he's done a really good job.
Speaker 5: He went out to a surgeon in Atlanta and he's
kind of fast tracking right now.
Speaker 6: I think we want to make sure that we're we're
not pushing him in too quick, but he is flying.
Speaker 5: Around and doing a lot of things right now, and
I think he's ahead of schedule.
Speaker 4: Last couple of things for me, what is it going
to take defensive wives from the group to be.
Speaker 3: Able to pull off this one against Georgia Tech in
a couple weeks.
Speaker 6: It's just when you're one to eleven, being more assitement
sound they they run that quarterback. I mean there's a
lot of misdirection everywhere it's going to be making sure
it's almost the option football, right, make sure we have
someone for the dive. It's the keep, and the pitch
and and and all the aspects in all the realm
of the of our defense is making sure that we
do our job. And if we have eleven guys doing
our job, we'll be successful.
Speaker 3: Last two things I ask you.
Speaker 4: One is about the offensive player of the year as
well as the freshman year.
Speaker 3: Have they made this defense better? Bear back Mari and
j Martin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, LJ is a beast, and so like when you
when you're dealing with a.
Speaker 6: Guy that's just power and speed and just a humble,
humble teammate.
Speaker 5: He makes everybody around him better.
Speaker 6: And then having Bear step up in the way that
he did when we needed someone to step.
Speaker 5: Up, he's just he's he's.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you can really describe an eighteen
nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 5: With all the weight of the world on him, of.
Speaker 6: All Creer nations just watching him and he's rolls in
the occasion. I'm I'm really really grateful for both those
guys and really for the whole offense right for making
sure that everybody was in tune, in step and making
our defense out much better.
Speaker 5: So going through faul camp and.
Speaker 6: It's nice because we still go good versus good this
whole season, and it's fun to see the development not
only on the defensive side of the ball, but the
offensive side.
Speaker 5: They just keep on getting better.
Speaker 4: You mentioned offense, keep getting better. Look, you're in the room,
give us a little bit of insight. There's always these
and I don't understand it, the negative things about you know, offense,
and fans don't understand what's going on. You guys obviously
know way more than we do. But I feel like
the disrespect Aaron Roddocks sometimes is too far to have
a coordinator have a too freshman eleven and two.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what else you could ask for.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's that's almost impossible.
Speaker 6: I mean that's I kind of compared it to having
an inside backer that was a freshman trying to come
in and play.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's nearly impossible.
Speaker 6: And not only that, the very most important position of
all positions at quarterback, and what.
Speaker 5: He does with their is just it's been phenomenal. We're
we're eleven and two because of Aron definitely.
Speaker 3: Last day and coach favorite pop tarts.
Speaker 5: I like the cinnamon and sugar Womans. It's really good.
Speaker 3: And that's okay.
Speaker 5: Kellie likes those two and they're they're tasty.
Speaker 6: I'm not a big pop tart guy as much, but
I'll make sure I get a box or two and
make sure I down know.
Speaker 3: So, so what are you a big what's your favorite sweet?
I guess treat?
Speaker 5: Then you know what?
Speaker 6: I like candy, so like rope and stuff like that,
and I love Skittles.
Speaker 4: Sokt's what's your favorite? They have a bunch of new
flavors coming out on the standard.
Speaker 5: I go with the red bag and that's about it
right for me.
Speaker 4: I liked og a linebackers coach doesn't everybody? Thanks ron
Thanks coach, appreciate you, thank you absolutely.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: That's Ronald the three man Weaver getting caught up with
Justin Enna your linebackers. It's got a lot of gems there,
Roddy tremendous amount of gems.
Speaker 2: How about that hot take? Hey, we're we're eleven to
two because of.
Speaker 4: A rod Yeah, yeah, Look, I think the best way
been to sometimes get the best answers from is just
to ask it, you know, and preface a little be like, hey,
this is coming out like, you know, give a defend,
you know, And in that way, my job is asked
a question. I thought it was a great answer of
it's nearly impossible. He compared it to his room. It's
like taking an inside backun as a freshman to say, hey,
do this. It's nearly impossible to do. And we're eleven
and two because of a rot. That was a quote,
I mean. And look, he talked about also the culture
of BYU, right, Kalani Stan.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys will leave BYU.
Speaker 4: And they want back in because they realize and I
should have maybe asked them who are those guys? And
maybe that's an all record conversation, but he mentioned there
are people that have left at one back right, that
see the success, that the grass isn't always green or
been right, that that's how it goes. And I think
that's powerful of you know that he said. He said
that he says people b YU needs these players more
than they need b Yu.
Speaker 3: And I thought that was extremely powerful and I agree
with that.
Speaker 4: There's so many people that whether the members of the
church or not that can make an impact. You're like, look,
yeg Or, let's just to basketball, right, I know I
always bring that up. You're telling me that By you
didn't need, didn't need Yegor more than Yegor needed By,
you know, like it was a matchmate in heaven. But
I love that example, Senta Troior, like right, b Yu
needed those type of people. Like I know some people
are gonna look at this in a negative light, and
you can come from me, right, there has to be accountable.
But I even believe Jake Rhetz laugh. I believe Jake
bought into his faith. You know, when he became the
starting quarterback. I think he truly fully changed, you know,
wearing his faith around his neck, right, still doing it
at too late? That changes you, Right, There are things
that maybe you don't know. We evolve every year, Ben,
So I love that those are a couple of gyms
that he brought up and look to be funny. He's
not a big pop Tards guy, Ben, but he's an
O G Skittles guy.
Speaker 2: I like it. I like it about Shay Bryant Strother
make it his way back.
Speaker 1: Don't want to rush him too much, but he's gonna
be a baller for Brigham next season, should be Uh
should vote well for Brigham as you know, you you
could you're gonna lose a couple of key playmakers, uh,
you know, and Jack Kelly and and maybe others.
Speaker 2: Right, So, uh did you did you ask him about
I G? Isaiah Glasker?
Speaker 3: Yes, I did asked him about I G.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: He said that that, you know, Isaiah has a decision
to make and he and again good inside another one
maybe not as big as the other ones. He's gonna
they said. They try to sway him, you know, but
at the end of the day they're going in. They said, So, yeah,
So I G has a decision to make.
Speaker 3: Ben.
Speaker 4: It sounds like they've given their pitch at some TOIH,
He's gonna probably test where he's at. But he's another
one that could could come back.
Speaker 3: Ben. But I G's in that process. I think with
l J.
Speaker 4: Martin and you know Keanu Tonavas as well, those guys.
Could they go or could they come back with that
last year.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it, No doubt about it.
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