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Speaker 3: Uh up down, left? Right? Or in the current age

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of college sports, I guess west is right and right

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is west because we've got we've got G League players

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playing college basketball. Pretty sure NFL draft picks are going

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to be coming back to college football any day now.

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And uh, I think Pet's heads are falling off.

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Speaker 2: Then hey, those that you know, they they they feel

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like there's there's two trains of thought here. Those that

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are saying all is not well, all is ruined, nothing

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is right, and others that are saying all is well. Look, Indiana,

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just one one the national championship. Uh, you know that

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you're seeing in college basketball as well as are we

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seeing Wait a second, let me let me evaluate this

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really quick. Are we seeing something similar in college basketball

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as we are in college football where there's been a

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little bit of the flipping of floppity Indiana, they're losing

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his team in college football history, all of a sudden,

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winging Natty oh Miss, a middling SEC team was there Miami,

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who hasn't been in the in the conversation for like

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thirty years, they got into the national championship game. They

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were a ten. Say that's almost a Cinderella's story. Sean,

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Are we seeing something similar in basketball or just in football?

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Speaker 3: I think you're on the right track then. I mean,

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we're very much seeing the flattening of the playing, of

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the flattening of the curves in college sports right now.

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but I think it's just helped to kind of spread

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it around the left. Like, look, ten years ago, you

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it's all over my TikTok seat twenty sixteen. Apparently it's

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the thing right now. If you go back to twenty sixteen,

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what were people complaining about in college sports, it was

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Alabama is winning everything. It's always two SDC teams in

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the final. You can always count on one hand, you know,

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three or four teams that are that are going to

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be contending for championships, So maybe Ohio State occasionally jumps

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in there. Now, all of a sudden, you have this

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incredibly rich, diverse pool, not only a champion, three different

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all from the Big Ten. We can maybe get into

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that if you want to, but you also just have

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more teams that are relevant right now. You mentioned Miami,

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you mentioned Notre Dame. How relevant were they getting left

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out of the College Football Playoff? Right? Notreed is Notre

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Dame back. I think there's an argument that they are

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byu with suddenly on everybody's tongues, which you couldn't say

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back in twenty sixteen, unless it was for some POI

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talk about it. Don't worry, don't worry about We're not

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gonna talk about it. But yeah, I mean I college

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football to stay on the college football train. College football

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has really never been popular. Thirty million people watched the

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CFP National Championship between Indiana and Miami. That's a thirty

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six percent increase from last year. That's the highest in

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over ten years, since the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen season.

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ten years ago, which is flatt that curve, spread out

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the well, you know, push talent to more than just

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the Alabamas and maybe the Georgia's and the Auto States

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of the world. Like, I'm very much of the half

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glass bull when it comes to college sports, and I

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think it's okay to admit then, quite frankly, that a

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lot of it is because guys are getting paid, Guys

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are allowed to move, Guys are allowed to professionalize or

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semi professionalize at least their brands, and make the players

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it's fine. I think it's great.

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Radio network. Let's talk about this. Let's talk a little

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BYU football for a minute. It looks like not only

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does b YU football have Neucy tom Wy pay you

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uh hopefully they get uh John time, I pay you

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back right and he's elible eligible for next year, but

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they got the brother, the big brother of news, Daniel

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tam we pay, who's on the roster now. Looks like

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he's transfered from Eastern Washington. They got a lot of

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dudes in that locker room, a lot of linebackers, but

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the product at of west Lake High School transfers from

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Eastern Washington to b YU. What do we know about Daniel?

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TELLMI we pay you, Sean. Have you have you done

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any research on this particular move from b YU?

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Speaker 3: I know a little bit about Daniel. When he was

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coming out of high school, he was a little bit

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of a project, served a mission. I think, so he's

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been out for a little while, for a little while,

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right look, Yeah, if he's if he's anything like JT,

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give me all the tamiyaos as possible. If he's anything

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like like Noucy, give me all the TIMI payos possible.

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Great pickup. And again this is another example of a

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guy who, for whatever reason, wasn't on BYU's radar coming

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as much coming out of high school, went elsewhere, kind

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of wandered in the desert a little bit. Uh coming back.

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a problem about it. But he's excuse me, I got

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some of mycro right there. But yeah, big kid, big kid,

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kind of a bit of pass rush specialist. I think

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it will be really interesting to see where he plays

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out position wise on the YU team. Is he an

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a you know, he came out of high school at

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a little over six feet six one to ten. I

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think it was I'm assuming he's probably a little bit

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bigger than that. For some reason, his page over at

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Eastern Washington is down, which conspiracy theorist guys baby to sign.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, batter just got crashed. The internet's probably

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crashing it.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's a little bit of a tweener right

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there between that d and outside buying backers, kind of

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pass rusher spot. I don't know exactly where he fits in.

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But again, give me all the time we pay as possible.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, give me all the time

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we pay. There's no doubt about it, and we'll see

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what role he'll play and what you're what he has

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as far as eligibility is concerned. But I think you're right.

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I think you just got back off on the mission.

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So we'll see. We'll see how it plays out. Sean,

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it is a basketball season. We've started off with football, obviously,

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but BYU lost the U of a nail bider. I'm

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sure you covered it. They've had three games this season

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where they've fallen almost twenty points deep in deficit and

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somehow work their way back into the game and get

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into like a last possession. What's up with these Cardiac coops?

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Why is it that they are the seventieth team in

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college basketball the first half and the first best team

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in the second half.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of that just goes down to

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one worry. We've talked a lot about it, about a

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lot about it on this show, then, and that's depth.

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This isn't a particularly deep team. Yes, the Big Three,

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as they're being called, the break three, the Probo Power Company,

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the Provo smoke Stacks, They're they're awesome. AJ, DeVonta Rob Rights, third,

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Riggie Saunders. They've been great. The supporting cast hasn't always

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been there. So if the Big Three shows up, this

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is a great team. It's capable of hanging with anybody

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in the country. All three of them showed up big

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time in that second half against Arizona, but in the

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first half there was some struggle. Bus rob Right didn't

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shoot the ball very well from three. AJ was fine,

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pointers didn't really get to the rim. Maybe as well,

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if you would like two or three times, but probably

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not as well as you would like. Richie struggled a

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a sudden, all three of them came alive in the

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Cannard Davis Junior and Alexa Kostitch who decided to make

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some pretty significant shots in the second half, and all

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of a sudden, this team is continuing with the number

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one team of the country in Arizona. So, I mean,

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bit of the inverse of last year's team, where I

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throw him in the mix. But it was a team

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that was capable of going eight to nine, sometimes ten

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guys deep. Right, We saw significant minutes and significant actions,

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guys like Tray Stewart from the end of the bench.

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a deep, consistent bench, or at least it hasn't shown

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a team as anybody in the country. It's when they don't,

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they just see a little bit more of a struggle.

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what are we up to on the year? Three losses

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is kind of really sort of weird. It's uglyhead, if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's something that we've been trying to diagnose

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in treat this BYU basketball team. Some some are complaining

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about refs, Some are complaining about free throws, some are

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complaining about defensive effort. Some people are just you know,

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wanting to see the brig three you know, you know,

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not shooting nine to forty, right, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean yeah, like like again, you've got Delonta Sanders, right,

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who are all averaging double digit points per game twenty

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three point six to eight point eight seventeen point four

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Speaker 2: Who is it?

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Speaker 3: I want? I want to be Can you guess it?

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Speaker 2: Know? You what I want to.

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Speaker 3: I want to see I want to be a little tribute.

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Speaker 2: It is it Dawson Baker who's been in.

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Speaker 3: Dawson Baker seven point five points per game through eight

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this is good. I kind of felt like it was

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a trick question of like it's probably Dawson.

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by U men's basketball roster. Now Cannard David Junior is

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right up there seven point two points per game. But

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other than the prolo smokestack, You've got a whole lot

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of just roleplayer minutes, you know, I think, and I don't.

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some of these role players can do, because I think,

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like Keva Keda, for example, he's way down in the

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scoring ball of six point nine points per game. Also

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a team I seven point eight rebounds per game. So

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like Keava's doing what he's got to do, right, He's

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that rebounder, he's that red rning rit protector. He's averaging

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a couple of locks per game. Like I think there

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is value in role players. I'm not saying there isn't.

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really shoulder much of a load outside of that day three.

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any member of those three struggle, that's when you see

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the struggles continue for Byu Bassbay. I think it's a

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lot more likely for something like that to happen. Then

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if you have say six, seven, eight guys who can

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put the ball in the bucket, you're probably going to find,

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you know, three guys that are playing pretty well on

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any given nights.

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Speaker 2: Pretty crazy, Dawson Baker your fourth leading scorer, I mean,

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after that it is Canard Davis Junior. Though Cannard is

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is nipping at the heels at seven point four points

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per game.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was probably actually the biggest story to

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come out of ULA's loft Arizona. Quite frankly then, which

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Canard Davis Junior finals got a shot back a little

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bit six or six and three in the second half.

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doesn't want to talk about it too much, but he

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really came alive to that second half, and again it

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was him and Alexi Coastage hitting a couple of threes

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about midway through that second half that I think really

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drought the UYU back into the game. In addition, too,

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obviously you want the ball in the hands of one

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of your big three, probably one of your big two

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in Aj and Rob at the end of that game.

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were really kind of the difference in leaving that comeback charge.

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Speaker 2: Sean Walker, what do you got cooking for us at

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ksel dot com? What are you gonna be writing about

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here shortly? What have you written about recently? Tss A

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little bit.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we've got a little bit of everything. If you're

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a BUYU fan. We're diving into well overlap season right now.

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Did you guys see the YU softball pick finished sixth

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in the Big twelve. I'm just kidding. We won't go

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into that too much, but Big One on Saturday, b

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YU Kansasday? Is this the biggest game in BYU men's

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basketball history? Whoab from from an NBA draft perspective, You've

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got the very likely number one and number two pick.

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I won't say likely, but a very possible number one

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versus number two pick in the NBA draft and up

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this Saturday at fog Allen Filhouse between a j De

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Bonsa and Uh and Darren Peterson. Like from an NBA draft,

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from a talent perspective, from an NBA profile perspective, I

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would put this game up there with any NBYU basketball

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history because that has that has that really happened very

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much before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how how often you've had,

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you know, to one and done's, you know, going against

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each other. In BOE basketball history. You have Yegor, who's

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a one and done. Right, Sean Bradley was a one

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and done before before Jegor came to town. Right, Sean

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the original one and done after serving a mission. I

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guess you could say, but he would have been a

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one and done easy after the nineteen ninety one season.

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But yeah, I mean, this is it's a high profile game.

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I mean, obviously there's gonna be a ton of eyeballs

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on this because it's AJ versus versus Darren, Right, it

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is gonna be a hopefully it's a it's a scoring fest.

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Hopefully it's actually entertaining a j uh. He kind of

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fell short a little bit. He kind of fell short

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in that u of a game, didn't shoot the ball

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as well, was looking for calls, looking for fouls. I

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know he's gonna come. He's gonna bounce back. There's no doubt.

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It's you know, he may take this one personally like

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he did the Utah game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if there's one thing about this YU team

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in general, it's it's that they take as personally. It's

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it's that they bounced back. Obviously, they lost three times

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on the year, but they've yet to lose back to

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back games. I mean, I think that says something about

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just a team that comes back. I think that says

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something about a coaching staff. Kennyyam doesn't like to lose.

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I think he used the pyboard. He said he was mad.

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He was real mad about losing after that game. Didn't

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want any part of moral victory. Is that kind of thing?

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They bounced back from that Texas Tech loss with a

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big win against Utai. Expect a much better effort on

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the road this Saturday. This Saturday afternoon, I guess afternoon,

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almost at night, Saturday afternoon and Lawrence for a pretty

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significant road stretch I seen for this BYU team. Three

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of the next four are on the road, Kansas, Oklahoma State,

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and Baylor. You've got a top ten team in Houston

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coming to the Marriott Center in between there. So these

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next four games I think may help define BYU basketball

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the regular season as much as any in terms of

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do we slot them into the top of the conference

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and to the kind of that cream of the crop echelon,

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or they just sort of a nice team, a good team,

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and maybe half a step behind there. Look, being a

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half a step behind, if you will, the second tier

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of the Big twelve is still pretty good. That's still

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an NBA playoff team if we're really dragging out the

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comparisons a little bit, a little bit far like that.

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But I think BYU could do some damage with the

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next four games to really show that they belong in

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that upper echelant here in the Pig twelve.

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Speaker 2: Sean Walker. Best way to support you, What you do,

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how you do it over at KSHL dot com.

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Speaker 3: You guys already know KISL dot com, ks dot com

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listening right now in Utah County. Appreciate you guys, but yeah,

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we've got a little bit of everything you talk. Abathar

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on a nice hot speak. I'm disappointed man, you didn't

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ask me any hockey questions today.

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Speaker 2: Clay Kell, Holy mambo.

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Speaker 3: Klayt Keller still maybe the best athlete, definitely the best

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dog dad in the state of Utah. Shout out to

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Clayton Keller uh and his best boy. But the Jazz

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are doing what they do best, which is solidifying their

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top eight protective pick in the NBA Draft, maybe putting

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themselves in position for aj We'll see. But any Utah

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Speaker 2: Sports, my guy, Sean Walker, appreciate you, great content at always.

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We invite everyone to follow you and read all of

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your content. KJAL dot com, thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: Brother, Thanks Ben, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: There you go with that Sean Walker. Great segment and

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really fun fact of the day. Dawson Baker is still

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the fourth leading scorer for the bu Events basketball team.

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Speaker 4: That's crazy. I did not know that. I know I'm

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hopping on, but I went and had.

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Speaker 5: To look at the stats, and I said, I was

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just sketching out of like that is that gonna bite

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them later on? Like, oh man, that's just it's sad

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that these injuries occurred. But again, a lot of silver

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linings Canard and Alexi. I believe they're both gonna play

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minutes on Saturday. And that's perk Kevin Young, that's not me.

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i was stayed at number five, Houston at number seven,

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Kansas at fourteen, BYU at fifteen, Texas Tech at seventeen.

470
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The next one's up TCU at forty nine and Baylor

471
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at fifty two. So both both of them, you know,

472
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maybe top heavy, right, top heavy a little bit, but look,

473
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you got you got six, you got seven teams in

474
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the Sorry, you have six in the in the top

475
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I misread that six in the top thirty in the

476
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Big twelve and seven in the top thirty in the

477
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Big Ten. But it's been a gauntlet, it's been crazy

478
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BYU prepping getting ready for that b y U Kingsas matchup,

479
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and the Darren Peterson versus AJ two Bonsa matchup is

480
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the one I am very much intrigued by. I'm wondering

481
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if Darreon Peterson is actually gonna be healthy enough to

482
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showcase his abilities at the highest of levels. I do

483
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expect a rejuvenated, reinvigorated, much more motivated AJ to Bonsa

484
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after what happened with the U of A game. He

485
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wasn't as efficient, wasn't as physically as he had been

486
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in the games maybe leading up to the home the

487
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home set versus the number one team in the country.

488
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That U of A team is stacked though. That is

489
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one of the most talented teams I've ever seen come

490
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through the Merriott Center. That is a national championship caliber team.

491
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And that's I'm not trying to take anything away from

492
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Brigham Young. I think Brigham Young is very much a

493
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an Elite eight team. I think they can be that.

494
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I think the metrics would would actually confirm that. Right now,

495
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per Ken palm BYU's eleventh in offensive efficiency in twenty

496
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fifth in defensive efficiency. The biggest issue is in the

497
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first half. They don't know how to play defense, and

498
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they they've misshots, especially on their home court. Can't do that.

499
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Can't do that. They're trying to find someone to step

500
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up off the bench. Maybe that's election coasting. Maybe maybe

501
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that's you know, somebody else. Maybe it's a Deem boop.

502
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Maybe it's abdul Ackman, maybe it's somebody else. So I'm

503
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not sure, but they got to find a way. I

504
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,880
put out a poll that I think is shocked a

505
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lot of people by the way this BYU basketball team.

506
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Obviously he's built by the brig three, AJ Ritchie and

507
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Rob Right the third. But who's the fourth leading score

508
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BYU fans getting this one wrong? We discussed it with

509
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Sean Walker at the prior segment ksel dot com. Who's

510
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the fourth leading scorer on of the BWE basketball team?

511
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Everyone picking Keva thirty one point three percent, Kennard Davis

512
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Junior coming in at number three, with actually number two

513
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now twenty seven point one percent, Mihailo Boskovic twenty five percent,

514
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Dawson Baker coming in at number four sixteen point seven percent.

515
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And the answer is and the winner is Dawson the

516
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bucket to getter Baker. He's been out for a month

517
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with an ACL injury. You know, he played six games

518
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this season, nineteen point eight minutes per game, seven point

519
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five points per game. He was having a decent season,

520
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a solid season. Some people, you know, they're like, man,

521
00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:54,039
I'm miss I miss Dawson Baker, the six foot four

522
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:59,559
hundred and ninety pounds senior Adakota de Casa, California transfer

523
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from uh U c Riverside. Okay, Uh, sorry you yeah, yeah,

524
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you see, sorry, you see Irvin. Excuse me, So Dawson,

525
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we miss you. Man, need your back. It'd be nice.

526
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That was a pretty devastating injury, man, pretty devastating to

527
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,160
this BAU basketball team because you got to find someone

528
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,920
that can hit a set three and you know, semi contested,

529
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,119
wide open. Uh. I feel like Rob A J And

530
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,759
Ritchie they all they all force double teams, you know,

531
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in these half court sets. So who can hit a

532
00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:41,400
standing three? Alection Coastick could be the hero of b

533
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,079
YU basketball if he continues to play high level defense

534
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,559
like he did and uh he continues to hit to

535
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,279
those standing three point shots like he did in the

536
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U of a game. I want to transition a little

537
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,200
bit with some BUA football talk here, b yus win

538
00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:02,400
at Arizona. Okay, a great win, overtime win. Loved it.

539
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,160
ESPN has put out their Top one hundred games of

540
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the twenty twenty five season, and I was surprised only

541
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two games were listed on the season from BYU. One

542
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,400
of them was the Arizona game. On the road, there

543
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,680
was a massive storm b Way. You started off hot

544
00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:26,279
and then went cold in quarter two and quarter three

545
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,440
with about five minutes remaining, finally they found their groove

546
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,559
and started moving the football offensively, and they ended up

547
00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:35,839
pulling out a big victory, A bit of a nail binder.

548
00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:39,960
That particular game was ranked eighty six in the college

549
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,160
football Top one hundred Games of the twenty twenty five season.

550
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What would you guess is the other game? Okay? What

551
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,759
would you guess is the other matchup? How about this?

552
00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:59,720
The pop tards ball number thirty three as the number

553
00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:02,599
T twelve B Way you Cougars took on number twenty

554
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:07,279
two Georgia Tech. Shout out to the Bway. You Cougars

555
00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:09,519
were coming away with a victory. This is what ESPN

556
00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:12,240
had to say about it. What's better than devouring and

557
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anthroppro morphize pop tar doing so after an awesome game,

558
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BA you want its twelfth game of the season with

559
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,839
a desperate late charge. That's a really desperate late charge.

560
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Trailing Haines, Kinging and Tech by twenty one to ten margin,

561
00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:29,200
that margin heading into the fourth court of the Cougars

562
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,720
drove eighty yards for one touchdown, then went ahead on

563
00:30:31,799 --> 00:30:34,119
a Joevez de Moudi run. With two minutes left, King

564
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,240
completed a sixty six yard fourth and fifteen bomb to

565
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,160
Eric Rivers to keep the Jackets alive, but Evan Johnson

566
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picked off a pass in the Sprinkles decorated end zone

567
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and it was time to do whatever win had come

568
00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:51,440
to do, eat some pop tards. The celebration after the

569
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game was tremendous by you got a victorian. Remember b

570
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,799
why you did not have their best defensive player and

571
00:30:56,839 --> 00:30:58,680
they did not have their best offensive player in this

572
00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:02,079
game makes it a bit more sweet. Didn't mention that,

573
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,839
did you? ESPN didn't mention LJ listed as a possible

574
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,799
Heisman Trophy candidate heading into twenty twenty six. You didn't

575
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:16,920
mention that, did you? Oh? You poor unfortunate souls? And look,

576
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,519
Jack Kelly was out with his shoulder injury by the way.

577
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:23,519
Shout out to Jack Kelly and other players playing in

578
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:27,279
the Senior Bowl. Hopefully Jack Kelly gets some good reviews

579
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elevates his draft stock. He's a fantastic second level rusher.

580
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I think he can be a tremendous edge linebacker in

581
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a stand up three four type of scheme. We'll see

582
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where he gets drafted. We'll see if some good reports

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come out of the Senior Bowl. Guys, let's take a

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nine ninet eighty point three is extra strid Alabi.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the latest news coming out of BYU Athletics

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with a Cougar Sports press release.

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Speaker 5: After falling to number twenty two Western, the Cougar has

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looked for their fifth consecutive bounce back when as they

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try with a Stielwater to take on the Oklahoma Stake

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Today Wednesday, January twenty eight. Tip off the step the

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five thirty pm Mountain time, but the game being streamed

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on ESPN Plus and broadcast live on BAU Radio with

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Jason Sheppard. UYU trails three to two in an all

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time series dating back to nineteen eighty nine, zero too

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against Oklahoma State in games at Gallagher Ivor already and

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the most reached a matchup. The Cougar has handed the

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twenty three Cowgirls a sixteenth to sixty four defeat in

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Provo on February fifteenth, to twenty twenty five and the

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contest last.

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Speaker 4: Year, Blade Gave won for fourteen points.

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Speaker 5: Seven rebounds and six assists and three skills. In the contest,

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former bay You guarded Mario White. He scored nine points

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to go along with four assists and four rebounds.

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Speaker 4: And two steals in the win.

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Speaker 5: A Mario transfer to the Cowgirls this offseason will take

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on her former teen tonight. With the win this evening

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BYU would match his most wins in the season since

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going twenty sixty four in reaching the NCAA Tournament in

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twenty twenty one twenty two. A win would also move

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coach lead camardin too, a tie with Embra whiteing for

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third most wins by a first year Air.

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Speaker 4: Coach in program history with sixteen.

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Speaker 5: Staying on the topic of women's basketball, after an eighteen

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six to sixth performance in bau's win over Texas Fat

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conference games due to injury, Gibbs found her rhythm, leading

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BYU and scoring the twenty three points per game while

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proven himself as the best wide receiver in the National

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like Puka was doing things that had never been done,

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point one PFF grade thirty contested catches. Puka nikuas set

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two PFF records this season, by the way, two not

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one dose crazy crazy. And so I thought that was

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the case. And I thought Jerry Rice, one of the

693
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best receivers, if not the best receiver ever in the NFL,

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would feel the same way. Would feel the same way. Okay,

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but he doesn't. He gives his take on who he

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believes is the best wide receiver in the NFL. Want

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to get to that here in a sound bite. This

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is what he had to say earlier there on the

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Rich Eisen Show. Who's the best receiver in the NFL today?

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Speaker 6: I would say probably, I still got to go with

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Justin Jefferson. And even though he hasn't have had a quarterback,

702
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this guy can do it all. He can stress to feel,

703
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,400
he can out jump you, he's not afraid to go

704
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,519
across the middle. And you know, there are some great

705
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:01,480
receivers out there, But I would still put him as

706
00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:02,000
number one.

707
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 4: Who's the best receiver in the NFL today?

708
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 2: Best receiver in the NFL? He says, Justin Jefferson. Agree

709
00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:10,480
or disagree with that assessment? Ronald and three man Weaver.

710
00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:13,559
Speaker 5: Look, I mean there's an argument for Puka and the

711
00:38:13,599 --> 00:38:15,760
cool I mean, Justin Jefferson is up there. But I

712
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,039
mean I think if you're that big of an impact player,

713
00:38:19,119 --> 00:38:21,320
you should be able to get your team to the playoffs.

714
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,760
And it's like, oh, he hasn't had a quarterback. I

715
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,639
mean been was Sam Donald not there last year? Did

716
00:38:25,639 --> 00:38:28,119
Sam Donald not lead them to the playoffs? I mean

717
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:29,920
they just went the bad when it mattered the last

718
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,719
game of the season and choked in the wild card.

719
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 4: But sort at the Lions, So I don't know.

720
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 5: I think there are data points that disagree with that,

721
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:38,480
that say that Puka is I mean, if Puka wins

722
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:40,920
Offensive Player of the Year, it's up there. I think

723
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,559
he's gonna have to get a triple crown two to

724
00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:44,960
be at a also push that one out. But look,

725
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:47,480
I mean, is twelve on the LA rams does he

726
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:49,760
not go across the middle of the field. I'm just

727
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,119
being honest, like, this is just a and he's right,

728
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:54,079
and he's not saying that there are no other good

729
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,519
receivers you know, out there, because there are. But I

730
00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:59,440
mean Puka does go across the center bend and he's

731
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,440
not afraid to take a hit. I mean, arguably, I

732
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,039
would say Pooka maybe he's a little bit more durable

733
00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:06,960
than you know, justin and getting hit because he's so

734
00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:09,840
dense and he's so thick and he's so physical.

735
00:39:10,199 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 4: So look, I don't want to hear the argument of oh,

736
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:13,400
no quarterback.

737
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 5: I mean the quarterback that they had who got through

738
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,480
a double digit shout and then you know Kevin O'Connor,

739
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,679
who's a quarterback guru whisper. Last time I checked that

740
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,000
quarterback is in the Super Bowl.

741
00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 2: Now.

742
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 5: So obviously that's a good quarterback. And if he wins

743
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,039
it all been then you can't really make that argument

744
00:39:28,039 --> 00:39:29,719
and say, oh, well you didn't have someone, I mean,

745
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:30,360
Kirk Cousins.

746
00:39:30,599 --> 00:39:32,599
Speaker 4: Do we not view kirk Cousins as a guy that

747
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:33,559
could get to the super Bowl?

748
00:39:33,599 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 5: The Vikings were contenders when he was there, So I'm

749
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,519
not really gonna go with that. I'm gonna push back

750
00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:41,519
on that and say he's had quarterbacks. If you want

751
00:39:41,519 --> 00:39:43,840
to say with Jijim McCarthy it hasn't worked out, I'll

752
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,679
hear that one. But Sam Darnold, kirk Cousins, he had

753
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,360
guys that could throw in the football, Like I don't

754
00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:50,239
you're talking about a Vikings team that took down the

755
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,719
Bills on the road, Ben, and he threw the ball

756
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,960
on triple coverage and Justin Jefferson came down with it

757
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,320
like that quarterback put the ball only where he could

758
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:56,559
get it.

759
00:39:56,599 --> 00:39:58,519
Speaker 4: So I don't know if I buy this argument, Ben.

760
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 2: Look Jeffon Jeffers, I would say he's more talented, talented right,

761
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:10,920
athletically talented, longer, maybe a little bit faster, not necessarily bigger,

762
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,480
but like you know, I mean, he's he's a four

763
00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:14,800
four six guy. He's got a thirty seven and a

764
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,920
half hiss vertical. He's a ten six broad jump guy

765
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,719
and super quick, super fast, very explosive. There's no doubt

766
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,519
on the outside. Yeah, you feel pretty good about getting

767
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:27,000
vertical with Justin Jefferson and going deep, right, going deep.

768
00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:30,480
But Pooka, to me, is just such a well rounded

769
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:33,719
football player and he's he's a he's a I think

770
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,840
he's a better blocker. I think he can run the

771
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,840
jet for you. You can line up up in the

772
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,280
backfield as a running back and he can. He can

773
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,599
get out on routes and he's good. He can pass pro.

774
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,679
He can pass pro for you. That's how good Pooq is.

775
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,079
He can sit there, he can line up single back

776
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:55,039
okay and probably stay in for protection. So the versatility.

777
00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:56,360
You can line up up on the inside, he can

778
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,559
line up on the outside. That's why I think puuk

779
00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:04,440
is actual actually a better receiver, a better football player

780
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,519
than Justin Jefferson. Now, Justin Jefferson has been doing this

781
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,880
for you know, six seasons now, since he came out

782
00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:15,280
from LSU as the first pick twenty second overall, first round,

783
00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:20,039
twenty second overall pick you know, to the Minnesota Vikings,

784
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,880
and there has been you know, probably some tumultuous nature

785
00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:30,400
in the quarterback room at Minnesota. There's been a lot

786
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,960
of quarterbacks that have got starts there. So you can

787
00:41:33,039 --> 00:41:35,519
make that argument, There's no doubt about it. I'm willing

788
00:41:35,519 --> 00:41:38,960
to hear that. How many different quarterbacks have started for

789
00:41:39,159 --> 00:41:45,159
the Minnesota Vikings since Jeffer, justin Jefferson came to the Vikes.

790
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,039
I mean, do you know how many of that is?

791
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,039
I mean, I want to say it's like five, five

792
00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:55,599
or six. I mean, there's been a lot of different

793
00:41:55,679 --> 00:42:01,840
quarterbacks that have seen starts for the Vikings since twenty twenty.

794
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,719
Whereas Puka has had the benefit of Matt Stafford, a

795
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,199
Hall of famer. You know that that. Honestly, the Cooper

796
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,119
cup was a great wide receiver too. Look at what

797
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:17,480
Cooper did with Stafford as his quarterback and McVeigh as

798
00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:23,199
his OC. So is Cooper the most talented wide receiver?

799
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,599
Obviously he wasn't. He went to Eastern Washington, had to

800
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:28,920
like overachieve, found his way, found a role, and one

801
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,039
of the best possession receivers in the modern era. There's

802
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:38,480
no doubt about that, but talent wise, he's not as talented.

803
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,079
And some people will say, well, pook is not as

804
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,440
talented because he ran like a four five six forty

805
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,639
and only had you know, I mean, he wasn't as

806
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,000
explosive in his prod. The didn't get the invite to

807
00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,360
the Combine that he probably should have, but he had

808
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,920
some injury issues. While that be yu and so you

809
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:02,639
look at Pooka's athletic results at his pro day and

810
00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:06,239
you're like, okay, you compare and contrast that to Justin Jefferson,

811
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:13,559
And obviously Justin has more athletic talent, but Pooka six

812
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:17,239
two came out at two hundred pounds. He's a good athlete.

813
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:24,800
His acceleration, his physicality, he's got football speed, not track speed. Okay,

814
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,159
So I think you can make an argument that Pooka

815
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:29,280
is the more well rounded football player and maybe even

816
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,280
the better wide receiver because he can do so much.

817
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,400
You can line them up, like I said, the blocking element,

818
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,480
and I'm not trying to knock on Justin here, but

819
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:39,599
he's just he's more spelt. He's not as thick, he's

820
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:42,800
not as dense, he's not as physical Justin. He's a

821
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:49,679
smooth operator. He is an athletic, twitchy, dynamic rangey, you know,

822
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:55,840
just elastic dude. And but Pooka, Pooka's nipping on his heels. Guys,

823
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,840
you keep doing this, Pooka. You keep putting up one

824
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,800
hundred yard receiving one hundred yard or sorry, one hundred

825
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:08,840
receptions in a season and eclipsing one thousand yards consistently.

826
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,800
How sustainable is it? I don't know how long will

827
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,719
Stafford be slinging it. It sounds like from mcveigh's standpoint,

828
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,239
Matt Stafford's coming back. Why because they have a great

829
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,599
supporting cast. You saw Peyton Manning and Tom Brady continue

830
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:24,079
to come back to the game because of the supporting

831
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:26,960
cast and because of the coaching staffs. And if you

832
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:29,639
build around him, they know they do their one eleventh.

833
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,440
You keep him protected, you keep him, You get guys

834
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,320
around him that can be coachable, do what he wants

835
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,760
him to do, and he's gonna put the ball out

836
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,760
there on time. He's one of the best anticipatory throwers

837
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,320
in the National Football League to ever come through the

838
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:50,440
National Football League. Matt Stafford is a Hall of Famer, guys,

839
00:44:50,639 --> 00:44:53,920
so I think he's coming back. He hasn't announced his

840
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,079
retirement yet. He still has some He still has got

841
00:44:56,079 --> 00:44:59,199
some gas in the tank. And if I'm not mistaken,

842
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,320
Matt Stafford only thirty seven years of age. How many

843
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:12,119
seasons did Tom Brady play after forty Tom Brady age

844
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:16,360
at retirement and then also check out, yeah, I think

845
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:21,679
he was forty five. They retired for good at forty five, right,

846
00:45:23,199 --> 00:45:29,679
So Stafford's got more gas in the tank. Retirement age

847
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:34,000
of Peyton Manning, he was thirty nine though, remember you

848
00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:36,800
had the uh he had a little bit of a

849
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,800
neurological issue, little neck issue that was weakening his arm strength.

850
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,000
He had a little bit of impingement. Okay, so nerve

851
00:45:44,039 --> 00:45:46,880
impingement kind of slowed him down. But still thirty nine,

852
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:50,840
eighteen year career Matt Stafford, he still has got some

853
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,800
gas in the tank. And I think as long as

854
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,880
Matt Stafford has gas in the tank's if he can

855
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,440
give you three more years Pooka through year six. Remember

856
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,559
he's got three years now over that expansive time, three

857
00:46:04,639 --> 00:46:07,880
hundred and thirteen receptions and forty four games on four

858
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,039
hundred and thirty two targets. Like I said, contested catches

859
00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:13,880
every It seems like every single ball is that started

860
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,960
as a contested catch that he comes down with ninety

861
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,400
one yards, thirteen point four yards per reception, nineteen touchdowns,

862
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:26,519
and he's also toting the ball to thirty three carries,

863
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:30,000
two hundred and forty yards, two touchdowns running the ball.

864
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:33,639
Put him at punt returner too. Let's just make it

865
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,920
make it so. He probab played defense forty as well.

866
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,360
He's just a football players, football player. Put him on

867
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,360
special teams and see what he can do. All right, guys,

868
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,280
that's uh. Actually, we have a couple other things. Kyris Toga.

869
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,880
Do we want to talk Tiris? Some rabral quotes on

870
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,159
on Kyiris Tonga. He came from a two star rating

871
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,360
to become a BYU Great, a seventh round pick, and

872
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,599
now he's going to a super Bowl after participate, after

873
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:02,519
playing with five different NFL teams. What is Rabel Vrabel

874
00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:04,639
his head coach say about him, vic Ramp.

875
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 7: That's a guy plays on three phases, helps us win defensively,

876
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,280
helps us win offensively, then goes out there and stands

877
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:16,440
in the three uh in way of three guys on

878
00:47:16,559 --> 00:47:20,119
the field goal protection unit. He's a key part of

879
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:23,920
our group effort. Then he goes on says, just trying

880
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,960
to look at the way that we are constructed. We

881
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,840
need a little bigger size in there to try and

882
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,119
push the pile a little bit and then get some movement.

883
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,639
I think he does a nice job at that too.

884
00:47:36,159 --> 00:47:39,159
He's a he's got a good feel for it. Helps

885
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,360
us on the short yardage in Atlanta. Uh throughout the year.

886
00:47:43,559 --> 00:47:46,559
I know that he asked to call He's asked and

887
00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:49,320
called upon. He'll be willing to help us again.

888
00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 2: Love that. What else do you got for me?

889
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 7: He says, I think talking about cairis. I think it's vision.

890
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:01,239
And then just watching the skill set, maybe how they play.

891
00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:06,079
It's impressive how he plays, it's impressive just on him

892
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:09,599
real quick, just how quickly he gets out of his stance.

893
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,559
He's been able to get out in front of the

894
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:14,760
running back when he gets on offense.

895
00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 2: Sometime sometimes full.

896
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:20,159
Speaker 7: Blood full backs are a little slower, they're out of

897
00:48:20,159 --> 00:48:23,599
phases with the runner and the runners run up their heels.

898
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,840
And so he's just talking about how good he's been

899
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,480
in short yardage and goal line situations leading for the

900
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:32,000
full back.

901
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:36,679
Speaker 2: Well, if I'm not mistaken, in his senior year, he

902
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,280
was able to tote for a teddy for BYU. Do

903
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,760
you guys know this? He had one carry, three yards

904
00:48:44,159 --> 00:48:47,880
one touchdown. This was actually twenty nineteen, not twenty twenty.

905
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,239
Did you guys know that Kyris Tonga probably one of

906
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:57,159
the the only linemen in BYU football history to run

907
00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,960
for a touchdown. And I'm trying to remember what game

908
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,800
it was in. I'm gonna have to look that up anyway.

909
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,079
Shout out to Kiristonga. UH seeking that that Super Bowl ring.

910
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,960
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