Speaker 1: When Ben crittalism breaking down Koby some amounts of film
on his beloved Cougar football team.
Speaker 2: He's talking Cougar sports and he's doing.
Speaker 1: It right here on one O three nine at ninety
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Speaker 2: Six pm kickoff.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on Fox, but it's a sold out
crowd at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Sixty four thousand strong will
be converging on Lavell Edwards Stadium where BYU Last they
face the Unit the Mighty Uts of the of the North.
They beat them on their home field. Will they do
it again? Will they send Kyle Witingham into retirement with
three straight losses in the rivalry game? That is the
biggest question of the night for me Vegas is favoring
Utah three and a half point favorites the over under
forty nine and a half.
Speaker 2: Thought that was a little high.
Speaker 1: I've been picking the under, but you never know what
can happen in this game. This could be an offensive
juggernaut type of outing, but it doesn't look that way.
From a statistical standpoint. Both of these teams are top
twenty five, top fifteen in defensive efficiency. Okay, Utah and
by are in both top forty offenses.
Speaker 2: And check this out.
Speaker 1: This is the biggest disparity I think from a metrics
From a statistical standpoint, BYU is a lead on special teams.
They're six in the country per s people and Utah
is forty four. Okay, so that's one disparity, but check
out this disparity.
Speaker 2: This is the biggest disparity of them all.
Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham is eleven and five all time versus BYU
as the head coach of the University of Utah, but
not so fast. Kalani's now two and four, looking to
almost make it five hundred with three wins, three straight
wins versus.
Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham and the Utes.
Speaker 1: Okay, so right now, Both teams have some injuries, some
key injuries. Marcus McKenzie is out, Jojo Phillips out, Shaye
Brian Strather out, Yoni mo Anzonomy Price is all out
rated the movie's doubtful, but they will be getting an
ec Per Sell back along the defensive line that will
aid and support that defensive effectiveness on Utah side.
Speaker 2: Rabbit Evans, Nate Richie.
Speaker 1: Dadrid Zipper Hunter Andrews, Josh Sovereign, Paul Fitzgerald, Grady Morecco,
and Isaiah Garcia all out for the Utes. This is
the ninety seventh game of a long standing rouey and
these two schools forty miles apart, have some of the
most vile, involidile things happen to them in this rivalry game.
We're talking threats to life, We're talking nuclear destruction. We're
talking eighties running onto the field of play when their
team could win the game, going to the pulpit in
the podium, postgame and saying we were excited to be
a part of this conference, but we're no longer excited,
and then get fined by the Big twelve for their comments.
Speaker 2: This rivalry is crazy.
Speaker 1: I want to get a score prediction and a breakdown
from my former executive producer and co host Hunter.
Speaker 2: Miller that is by my side right now.
Speaker 1: He's also a part of the Hype Trained podcast of
BYU Insider podcast, Hunter, how do you see this game
playing out?
Speaker 3: What is going on? Ben?
Speaker 4: It's great to be back in the saddle talking some
BYU ball here on the ESPN nine to sixty airwaves.
Can we first take a moment to appreciate this beautiful
setting Network. I cannot imagine a place better weather for
some tailgating before the Holy War. We've got the stadium
right there with the mountains in the background, right here
with the Royal Army pop up. It is a phenomenal
place to be on a Saturday afternoon, and I cannot
wait to watch BYU take on Utah. You mentioned the
difference between the Special Teams ratings and.
Speaker 3: The S and P plus.
Speaker 4: It was not that long ago, a little under twelve
months ago in which a Kiel and Marion special teams
play turned the tides in that rivalry game. I think
we see another one of those special teams big plays
made here tonight in Lavell Edward Stadium. Well it's yet
to be seen who ends up making that play, but
I can sense it. You know, in rivalry games like this,
especially with two top twenty five teams, we haven't seen
a matchup like this since two thousand and nine when
Max Hall, your boy, was quarterbacking the BYU football team
in an overtime victory two top twenty five teams. It's
gonna be the little things, the little plays, you know,
under the radar moments, and I think we're gonna see
a special teams play made by Kelly Papinga's unit tonight.
I think that could be the difference for BYU. But
ultimately it's gonna come down, I think to the arm
of Bear Bachmeyer. Both teams are phenomenal in the trenches.
Both teams run the ball very very well. I want
to see what Bear Bachmer can do with his arm,
not having to run up the middle between tackles, but
let that thing fly around the field. Find guys like
Chase Roberts Parker Kingston A Cody Hagen big play down
the sideline, I think can really open up the game
for this BYU offense. And ultimately I'm hoping that BYU
is gonna come away with the victory. And I'm thinking
they do official score prediction, I'm gonna go twenty seven
to twenty four coups.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting, So I like that score prediction.
I can see it playing out that way as well.
That's kind of a you know, if we're gonna lean
on Vegas here. You know they're saying three and a
half point favorite for Utah, and then you know bou
Fens are like, well, wait a second, this should automatically
as a home game BYU should be a seven point favorite.
Speaker 2: You kind of go between that. Okay, I can see
bou winning by a field goal.
Speaker 1: This game has come down to one score games twenty
out of the last twenty four times. It's an insane number.
It truly is. It's always been competitive. One of the
things that you brought up, I think is very intriguing
all the national media in all of the PAC twelve
acolyte media members the defunct no longer resisting PAC twelve,
any media member that was a part of the PAC
twelve is leaning towards the Utes. Anyone that's more kind
of like National is leaning maybe more towards by You
were seeing Big newon Kickoff. Kind of split on their
predictions Game Day split on their predictions, Dave.
Speaker 2: Portnoy, you know, lean to Utah. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's split, right, and so it's hard to determine what's
gonna happen in this game.
Speaker 2: These are some of the things that they're saying.
Speaker 1: Though Utah is so good defensive, they play a lot
of press. Man, I'm like, okay, that's fine. Fair Bachmeyer's
never played this game. Neither is Devin dam Pierre. He's
never been in a hostile environment like this. They're gonna
have to pass in order to win the game because
they're gonna stack the box, and that's for both of
these guys. In my opinion, the difference here is can
BYU's wide receivers in the modern era beats the Utah
defensive backs. And I think we've seen in the last
two rivalry games where wide receivers from BYU have one.
Remember when SAMs and Nakua made the defensive back of
Utah look silly in that south end zone. What about
Chase Roberts getting open time and time again last year.
You know, there's a reason why Utah fans and donors
wanted to bring Chase in and tried to incentivize him
to go to the portal. Speaking of tampering, right, Uh,
you know they're always blazing.
Speaker 2: It's only when BYU tamper.
Speaker 3: Is one Way Street and Tampa and it's only had
it sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the donors of BYU they're the worst.
Speaker 2: They they don't live up to the standard. They don't
do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: You know, but Utah they didn't forget that they were
tampering a little bit with Chase Roberts at any rate.
That to me is the difference is like now BYU
can win they in times past, Austin Coley, right, Dennis
pitt Up, you have one or two options maybe in
the past game. Now you have three, four, five different options.
They can win one on one. I think that's a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned the spread two and this being a
home game for BYU. I want that should be the
spread from Vegas and these sports books. BYU being a
home underdog should be a taken as an active disrespect
for BYU fans, and especially the Rock and the student
section there in levelle Edward Stadium that's.
Speaker 1: Already the twelfth Man, the Royal Army should be pissed off.
Speaker 2: They should be they should be pissed off.
Speaker 4: And I'm hoping that they answer that call tonight and
they bring the energy, they bring the juice, because in
a game like this, that matters that you know, if
this game was to be played in Salt Lake City,
you better bet your butt that that is going to
be a talking point that the Utah fans are going
to be the difference that Utah is gonna win because
of the home environment. And yet here we are playing
in Provo Utah, the biggest game of the year. Fans
have been camping out since Thursday night. They packed the
parking lot for big noon kickoff this morning, They've packed
the south end of levelop Edward Stadium already, and yet
no one is talking about the home field advantage for
BYU in this game. And I think that the BYU fans,
in particularly the student section, need to take that as
an active disrespect and hopefully they can make that known
tonight that they are a entity that can sway games.
Speaker 2: You know who'd be pissed off about that.
Speaker 1: A former BYU defensive lineman John Nelson. I have his
dad here and he's pissed off about it too. He's
repping that beautiful nine to four across his chest. I
saw John Nelson in a video posted on social media
that man was invested in the U of a game,
unlike any other BYU fan known to man Dave, I
think there's some pisson vinegar in the Nelson home whenever
they're underdogs.
Speaker 5: I absolutely when we hear that there's underdogs of Nelson's
or b YU were associated with that, those are fighting
words like those are you know, like it doesn't take
much to get a Nelson.
Speaker 2: Up for a game.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, But when that happens and like you're at
home and you're an underdog, I mean, come on, man,
like you're giving us even more strength, even more willpower,
even more, even more ship on our testos.
Speaker 2: Throne to get out there and get it done.
Speaker 1: Hell's bells. Yes, I can't wait to say. Now we
got a different defensive line last year. It was the
Salem Samn right, it was it was the jew ab
Jack Haver Blake Mangelson. You also had Tyler Baddy, the
patient punisher, great defense line, and this year's been good
too though. I've been impressed with Navasa, Justin Kirkland and
he C Purcell, John Tamway, Pae on the defensive end,
sign of thing, Loan Logan too. We haven't been as
good in past rush, but run stuffing we've been tremendous.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think Jay always aisles it up and they're going
to find a way to control the game. In fact,
today I was watching a replay of last year's BYU
Utah game at Rice Echols, and the D line really
stood out. I know there was a change in quarterback
for Utah, but you know we stuffed the run. There
were some big plays on some of their receivers. But
I think the D line today is going to be ready.
They follow the game plan, they stay in their lanes,
They're very disciplined, They're gonna work hard, and I think
just surviving last week with your big rival coming up,
I mean that is more than enough motivation for the
Cougars to get it done. And I think from mister
Nelson's point of view, I say Koug's thirty one Utah
twenty one.
Speaker 1: We talk about the parody in this rivalry as far
as these two teams statistically this year, right, they look
the same, They look congruid, they look symmetrical. The robbery, though,
even though it's been very close, has been one sided
towards Utah. The one score games have always bounced Utah's way.
Why is that? Well, I said it many times on
this show over the last twelve years. Number One, they
have way more resources twenty thirty million more in their
organizational design because of TV revenue, because they got the
invite to the PAC twelve rather than BYU due.
Speaker 2: To religious bigotry.
Speaker 1: They stiff armed us and they kept us out of
the big boys clubs, and we had to go to independence.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not holding a chip on my shoulder
because that conference is now defunct. It's dead, ding dong.
The Wicked Witch is dead. That conference no longer exists. Okay,
But Utah's dominated, okay in this ribery because they got
that money.
Speaker 2: Okay. Furthermore, they never had an honor code.
Speaker 1: They don't have an honor code that kept BYU for
maybe recruiting at the highest level.
Speaker 2: We didn't have P four affiliation. We got that.
Speaker 1: Now they're academic standards. Let's not get it to us.
I know there are our one research institution. That doesn't
mean that the student athletes have to level up to
that in that standard. They don't trust me. I've talked
to former Utah football players. I've talked to former BA
football players that went up there. It's easier up at
the U. All of those reasons have In the game
of inches, the margin is so thin when it comes
down to a field goal, it comes down to one point,
et cetera. That turns the tide towards a particular team.
Now the playing field's a little bit equal. We've seen
a little bit more leniency with how we operate with
the honor code. We got the twenty million, now, we
got the thirty million, Now we got P four filiation.
Speaker 2: We're two wins in a row. Now that's what's even
the score.
Speaker 1: And we could see a flip flopping of the rivalry
tonight under the lights of levelle your thoughts on that, Hunter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean you can feel it over the
last several months and over the last year and some change,
the tides turning in Ba's favor a little bit and
as a especially pertains to nil with what BYU is
doing in terms of player acquisitions, developing these players, making
sure these players are treated right, like they are absolutely
doing everything right on and off the field, and you
can sense that change happening in provo, happening under the
shadow of Edwards Stadium, and I think it only bodes
well for the Cougars moving forward. Now, obviously this is
a big game, right like, not only just for this season,
because the winner of this is going to have a
leg up on the competition in terms of a big
twelve championship birth.
Speaker 2: Not only that, recruiting playoffs, recruiting in state.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but not even just you know, a single season.
Things on the line for the Cougars and youths here tonight,
but moving down the road the future of both programs.
This can be a pivotal matchup that can change the
fate and the forecast for both programs for the next
several years. Whoever comes away with a win today, not
only for this season, but for seasons beyond.
Speaker 1: Give me a score prediction, Dave Nelson, and then we'll
let you go.
Speaker 5: Thirty one twenty one BYU double digit win. I like
that got Will Ferirn, We got Jack Kelly Back, we
got Hell the Rock, we have the stadium, the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be tons of energy tonight. Go Coop and
the Hunter. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned defensive line play Kean Utnavasa.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the game you bring.
Speaker 6: In.
Speaker 4: He should be pissed off, have a chip on his
shoulder because of what happened last week in Tucson, having
to sit out the whole second half. He should come
in here rested, ready and playing against his former team,
what the fans and his former teammates said about him
after leaving. I hope he comes into this game pissed
off and is able to stifle that running game of
Utah that's been so prolific through a few games.
Speaker 2: And reiterate your reiterate your score prediction.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven twenty four.
Speaker 4: You mentioned Will Fair and a couple of field goals
on the board. I hope it doesn't come down to
a last second field goal like it did in November
of last season. But I do think the leg of
Will Farren is going to make the difference for bou tonight.
Speaker 1: Love it, love it, appreciate you Hunters. Shout out to you, Dave,
appreciate you. Stop and by enjoy the game under the
lights of Leavelle. Let's hope for three straight victories for
Kilani and the Cougars, sending Wit into retirement with three
straight losses solely in the legacy of his tenure at
the University of Utah. Yes, yes, he's been dominating the rivalry,
but three straight losses. He may want to try to
come back in twenty twenty six, just to try to
even the score.
Speaker 2: But Morgan Scally.
Speaker 1: And the admin may say, no, no, no, no no,
you need to be the personal assistant here in the
athletic athletic directing room. No longer, will you coach? We
got to hand the batam. We'll see how it plays out. Gentlemen,
we appreciate you. Let's go go Coogan. You take a
two thousand and six finus too, that too, I would
love that, no doubt about it. Real quick score update
Ohio States. Ohio State dominated Wisconsin thirty four to zero
in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Arizona State up by twelve.
Speaker 1: It looks like nineteen to seven currently over Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: They're in the fourth quarter six twenty left.
Speaker 1: ASU maybe may take down the favorite, the favorite of
the Big twelve Texas Tech College football cannibalism at its
finals Texas A and M twenty one to twenty at halftime,
and then Oregon versus Rutgers fourteen to three.
Speaker 2: There's some score updates in the top twenty five.
Speaker 1: Let's get a little basketball report coming in right now.
BYU fell earlier today, but it was a close one.
It was an exhibition, so it doesn't count. Aj to
Bonsa was getting buckets. The aj to Bonsa era is here.
Let's welcome in former BYU great basketball player Trevin Nell
to talk some BYU hoops and to give a score
prognostication for this holy word.
Speaker 2: Trevin, how you living?
Speaker 7: I'm good.
Speaker 2: How are you guys living? Right?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 2: What did you see?
Speaker 1: What did you like from what you saw from this
BYU basketball team earlier today?
Speaker 6: Well, you can call me a super fan because I
had to pay the freaking and I'm Plus network to
watch it.
Speaker 7: It was good.
Speaker 6: I feel like we definitely just BYU in general, like
we don't worry. I think fans are already ready into
it too much. But the game was good. I feel
like we're a really good when we get out in transition,
we got to play it through an aj Son. I
think the Aja rob Wright connection is going to be
super dangerous this year. And then yeah, I think we
just got to kind of dial in. It's gonna take
some time to get some chemistry and the play calling down,
but this seems gonna be super dangerous and I'm excited
to see what people are going to do win they
get a couple more weeks under the belt playing against
different teams.
Speaker 1: Why said this last year, I'm like, we've never been
in an era in which BYU doesn't need to win
big indominantly.
Speaker 2: Early on in the season.
Speaker 1: They have to crescendo and become their best selves in
February in March. Last year, we got to see that,
like where there was question marks. You know, is jegor
Uh living up to the hype? Is this BAU basketball
team gonna be as good as we had hoped it
to be. They ended up climaxing reaching their potential in
February and March, and that is unique to be why
you typically were front end loaded. We're more prepared, We're
executing at a higher level in the early season and
then Wayne in the offseason or towards the end of
the season that wasn't so last year, and I think
we're gonna see that once again this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree. I mean this seems this seems gonna
be really fun to watch, and I think we're they're
gonna start hitting on off the cylinders really quick because
fortunately for them, they're gonna have a really tough schedule.
So it's gonna be fun to be able to see
them play a top five matchup against Yukon. It's gonna
see them play, you know, these these really really tough teams,
these huge at venues to get them ready.
Speaker 7: For the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: What did you like today and what do you want
to see improved upon from this BYU basketball team as
we get into the real schedule.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think what I would like to see them
more is just get the ball out quick. Like I
think they got to press the issue of getting points
in transition. If you think back to how good Gonzaga
was in previous years, they would get the ball back
over the line in you know, two seconds after a
make or a minute they would cross the half court
line and beyond that attack. So if YU can kind
of take that identity, put it into their own and
be able to attack on Austinlanders in the first five
seconds of the shots off. I think they're going to
be really dangerous. And then something that coach Young was
really good with us last year, especially me, was just
the being able to get shooter stops, to be able
to run plays effectively. I feel like this this exhibition
showed that, you know, they'd run a play and come
down to the last ten seconds getting the ball to
a j and so that's that's a very awesome thing
to have a guy that can be able to create,
you know, do all that, but it's it also has
a lot of pressure, a lot of weight on his shoulders,
so they can be able to exceute them quick easy
plays early in the stalclock. I think it's gonna help them.
Speaker 1: Well, we got a rivalry holy war here in Provo, Utah.
Speaker 2: I know you're a Hooper.
Speaker 1: But I know you stay locked in during football season
as well. What do you see happening tonight under the
lights of level be why you're not the favorite? Maybe
a chip on their shoulder because of that. How do
you see this game playing out?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean you know, I'm not. Actually, I'm not even
a player anymore. So I don't like like Utah has
always been a game where people get up for. I
feel like this game is gonna be awesome. I feel
like the Rocks can be, you know, doing what the
Rock does. But if you guys saw a clip of
Kilaney he told everybody, he said, they know, but they
don't know about us, but they're about to find out.
I think you guys gonna put the world on noted they.
Speaker 2: Don't know, but they about to find out.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy Brad Hardley as well showing
up to the tailgate.
Speaker 2: I love that prognostication.
Speaker 1: This Utah, this Utah team don't know, but they about
to find out. Trevinell, Ladies and gentlemen, always appreciate our
time together and uh and great great insight into the
basketball world as well.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you brother, thanks for hopping on today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, everybody that's a BYU fan, I's not
an open invite to you, Thob. If you're a buy fan,
go out to the telgate, say what's up to my
man Blaine and Ben. Thank you guys for having me on.
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Speaker 2: Love that giving you a score prediction.
Speaker 1: How do you see this game playing out BYU versus
Utah tonight?
Speaker 2: Well, I love I.
Speaker 8: Love what you and Trevin we're talking about that they're
about to find out.
Speaker 7: I kind of like that we're underdogs in this game.
I do feel like that it fires the guys.
Speaker 1: The pressures on Utah's pressures on Utah, the corners, all levels,
the ayre spiking up on the hill up in Salt
Lake City, they're tents, they're they're you know, a little
bit tight where you know it's not supposed to be tight.
I'm telling you, guys, there's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 8: And you know, there's even been a few Utah fans
around here that are come to join us here at
the Ultimate tail game.
Speaker 7: That's all good, but I could feel it amongst them.
Speaker 8: Even when we bring it up that they're favored, they're
always kind of like, yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Know, it doesn't quite make sense, but we'll take it.
Speaker 8: It's just a more fuel for our guys and to
get them pumped off. I think it's gonna be close.
I think it is going to be a defensive battle.
I mentioned yesterday, twenty one to twenty our guys, that's
my prediction.
Speaker 2: I love it. Well.
Speaker 1: It would be glorious to send Kyle Winningham out with
a third straight loss in this ribery game after he's
been very dominant eleven to five. What's interesting is like
all of these competitive advantages that I've enumerted, okay.
Speaker 2: In when I left off, and Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Riley and others have claimed that Utah engaged in. Now,
this Utah defense still a top fifteen, top ten.
Speaker 2: D defense this year, by the way.
Speaker 1: But another thing that has changed over the years is
like no more sign stealing, and that's something.
Speaker 2: That Utah has been accused of.
Speaker 1: Now they've continued to be good over the last couple
of years, even though sign steeling can occur, so you know,
you may have to throw that one out as a
competitive advantage. But those competitive advantage that UTAH has been
beneficiaries of no longer are going to be existing in
the present and into the future. Even though they say
they're going to be a part of the Big ten
in the future because of X, Y and Z, I
don't see it happen, and they're gonna have to live
and die with the Big twelve, no way if sands
or butts about it. All right, let's talk keys to
the game as we finalize this segment. Obviously, the last
two games in which b YUS won, they have not
given up the football turnovers. Obviously, it's cliche to talk
about it's always a standard for good football play. You
don't want to cough up the football. BYU has been
great minus the last two games. They've actually been in
the negatives on turnover margin, but somehow found a way
to win.
Speaker 2: Now that would be transcendent.
Speaker 1: If BYU is not winning the turnover battle versus Utah
tonight and still wins, that would be insane. So hopefully
they don't turn the ball over because it bodes well
for them. And then, furthermore, you're gonna have to win
the trench warfare. In twenty twenty one, when the Max
Hall curse was finally broken due to Jaron Hall playing
under the lights of Level Kyle whitting him.
Speaker 2: In the postgame state, He's like, I would.
Speaker 1: Have never guessed that we were gonna lose the trench
warfare battle they did. Furthermore, you know what happened in
that game, BYU ice the clock.
Speaker 2: With an NFL running back by the name of Tyler
Al's year.
Speaker 1: Yes, they kept feeding them and Utah couldn't stop it.
I wonder if we will see something similar tonight with
LJ and Bear and this offensive line led by your
tackles Andrew Gentry and Isaiah Jada, Bruce, Mitchell Wayln Lapuahu,
Austin Lelousa, Kyle super chob Sonny Macassini. They got some
guys up there that can move that defensive front. The
one weakness you could say that Utah has defensively is
they have not been as effective in stopping the run
as you thought they would be. West Virginia expose that
a little bit. They give up like twenty and sixty
yards on the ground. B Yu. Their run game has
been tremendous. They put up two hundred and sixty yards
versus you of A, the most yards that they had
given up all season, the most they had given up
prior to BYU one hundred and sixteen. So, like you
see the disparity of statistical output. So what I've declared
in this game, I'm calling a very close one twenty
one to twenty. I'm taking the under BYU wins by
one point. That's all it takes in this game, just
like it was twenty two to twenty one. I'm gonna
say one twenty in this game under the lights levelle
BYU comes out victorious.
Speaker 2: Ronald Real Quick your score prediction.
Speaker 7: Going twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Matters with the boys up front. Jack Kelly's the key.
Speaker 7: Gotta puppression a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Don't let him be outside the tackle box.
Speaker 1: Devin Dampier, he's gonna have to be. He's gonna be
forced to throw the ball tonight. And everyone's talking about
how Bear Bachmeyer has never been in a rivalry game.
Neither is Devin Dampier. Nor does Devin Dampier. Has he
ever played in front of sixty five thousand loyal, strong
and true opposition fans.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 1: So, uh, he's gonna be in a world of hurt
in my opinion, because he's gonna have to use his
arm in order to win the football game. Good luck
using your legs to win the football game, because that
defense swarms and they make you pay. As Derwin Gray stated, Okay,
every single one of those runs.
Speaker 2: Will be taxed. It will be a tax.
Speaker 1: And I know you're you're a metross guy, so it's
gonna be tax my friend.
Speaker 7: That's good. That's a great comment.
Speaker 8: Gosh, I'm hoping to see Bear Baukmeyer maybe fifteen carries tonight.
Speaker 2: I know that might be a lot, and then, uh,
I think we're gonna have to run him.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to run him and LJ get him
twenty carries. Let's run the ball and let's let let's
see a ton of wissa. This is our breakout game tonight.
Speaker 1: Let's go defense, let's go offense, and special teams is
the biggest disparity, by the way, we'll go to break
Coming up next.
Speaker 2: Nick Ritchie joined us earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you the Utah standpoint, the Utah perspective.
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