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What does this say about this team? Kalany's culture, Aaron
Roderick's offense having bear ad and O as well compared
to last year because BYU was in the same position
last year. A no going into week ten because they're
going into the buy this week.
Speaker 4: Well, I think, first of all, I gotta say one thing,
and since Ben's not here, I can definitely go talk
about it, because he was the one that was kept
giving me the crap every time he's like, hey, so,
what's your realistic expectation? Not your blue goggle one, be
a realistic one. I'm like, okay, in the undefeated, why
can't that be my expectation?
Speaker 3: And look where they are. I don't know why I
have to keep getting bullied for that.
Speaker 4: So look, we're eight no and we're there so but obviously,
you know, if we drop one whatever, I still believe
this team is an amazing team.
Speaker 3: But I think, going back to what you were.
Speaker 4: Saying, it's such a like, such a tell tell of
how good this team is, well, the culture is, and the.
Speaker 3: Coaching staff, how good they are.
Speaker 4: The fact that we can go eight no hopefully nine
and oh two years in a row with two different quarterbacks,
with two different systems with Bear, like, I think it's
a testament to how good Bear is and how great
he's been. But also it kind of it's like a
weird thing where it shows, oh, that's crazy that bears
eight no. But also maybe it's not as much bear
as we want to say it is, and it's really
this offensive staff and obviously the defense carrying a lot
of us in this way is just that good. Because
we go a year with Jaco awesome quarterback but also
had his flaws, and now we have a freshman who's
doing the same thing.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is just the dang good team.
Speaker 2: I agree. I think it's a dang good team. I
do think this team is better than the team last year,
and that was a good team last year. I don't
want to take anything away from him. A ten and
an eleven and two team, I mean, double digit wins
are hard to come by. I don't want to be
disrespectful at all, but what I see on tape and
on paper, this team is more talented. They're more aggressive.
I mean, you have how many transfers playing. You see
Tessilia Kana getting a lot of time, You see nucy
thal Mopea getting time, you see a bunch of guys playing.
They were way more talented. And I know that their
transfer portal was still one of the worst, but you
look at the additions of what they made defensively, braiding
this defense is extreme It's definitely a top twenty five defense,
no doubt, top ten, one of the best in the
Big Twelve. This defense can compete for a Big Twelve
title and maybe an opportunity to be in the College
Football playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the defense, I think the linebackers being dinged
up has been was really what we saw in the
last two games. Honestly, I think, you know, Glaster playing
one hundred percent, Utah doesn't go off.
Speaker 3: Because I think he gets to the edge of mixing
tackles where he.
Speaker 4: Got blocked in spots that they weren't normally places he
would get blocked.
Speaker 3: I think Jack and then obviously going out in the
Iowa State game really hurt us.
Speaker 4: But I think as a whole in the talent it's
in those all that defense is incredible. So LJ is
the only thing that worries me right now is just
if we can get it back. I'm hearing all kinds
of rumors that he's coming back to Texas Tech, and
then rumors then he's.
Speaker 3: Not for the season. So I don't think anybody knows
right now where we're at.
Speaker 4: But that's the one thing that does scare me about
whether this team can be better than they were last year.
Is because last year we had a stable of running
backs with you know, LJ and Hinkley and then obviously
some of the guys behind them that now if we're
down to Preston Rex is are RB one. Like I've
been a huge component of Presson Rex on this show.
I think he's great. I think he's going to be going.
Speaker 3: To be really well.
Speaker 4: But having him as RB one with kind of the
running style we've been running over the last ten years,
I really just I'm.
Speaker 3: A little more worried than about that.
Speaker 4: And I'm really hoping that LJ can come back and
hopefully if c as compartment syndrome stuff goes gets fixed,
I don't I have no idea what the timeline is
on that either. So I'm a little worried about the
running back throom. But besides that, like this team is great,
like great great.
Speaker 2: I think there's a good point, as you bring up
in regards to LJ, if he is out for the season.
By the way, Bill, he's keeping this really underrap, So yeah,
we'll still evaluate. Kolani is like nice try. In the
media availability, he basically said, nice try. You thought you
got me, but not you're not gonna get it. And
I mean it's our job to ask the questions. Those
medias are the member we're we're supposed. If we don't
do that, then we're not doing our job. But I
have no problem with Kilanie being a little bit tongue
and cheeking us and poking us. But I agree with you.
I'll say this, no LJ, no Big twelve title, no
even Big twelve opportunity to get to you can't do it.
I'm sorry if they if they if won the Big
twelve title without LJ. Martin, I will not say a
bad thing about this offense ever. Again, couldn't I make
the argument to you though?
Speaker 5: Like if I had told you before the Iowa State game, hey,
you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose LJ in the first quarter,
you probably would have come back with me, oh, yeah,
you're gonna lose that game, right, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Gone that deep. I would have been it's probably fifty fifty.
I don't want to get because we saw them win.
Speaker 3: To get to go to that point if we we
saw them win.
Speaker 4: But also when LJ went down like we started, Like
if you would have said, hey, LJ is gone and
we're down by whatever it was ten or fourteen at
that point, That's where I was saying, Oh, I started
getting a little nervy there. And I'm not normally the
nervy type in terms of this, so I definitely it
worries me. If if was healthy, like I if you
would have told me preseason, like, hey, LG gets hurt, but.
Speaker 3: Is gonna run.
Speaker 4: I'm okay, this team be great or he was there,
but having it be pressed them just pressed. He's a
speedy back, but I just don't between the tackle. Enix
has shown some stuff. Enix shown some stuff that he
can be that he did okay for you know, a
couple of games last year we had to fill in.
But just not having one of those three bigger backs
just because we are like Harvey's that's just the back
that obviously he played like that. But having this offense
and the zone read, I think having a bigger back
that can run between tackles when it does open up
the is really really important. And I'm just I'm a
little nervous so we don't have one.
Speaker 2: You bring up a good point with how you know
there's probably fear and cougarnation of LJ and you know,
I mean, does he come back for Texas Tech? I
don't know. I haven't delved into the situation. I haven't
talked to you know, my people, or as Brandon Gurney
would say, his people. And if he is out for
the rest of the season, that's that's not that doesn't
bode well for BYU. That's not what you want to
hear going into a big time game on the road
against a top fifteen opponent and the game that could
determine and could knock you out potentially of the big
to Toddy gam and everyone, every game is a knockout game. No, no, no,
there are games of opponents at the top that if
you lose to this late in the season, it is
more critical. This is not basketball. This is not March
Madness where you get credit for the entire season and
if you lose later on, okay, you can still be
you know, a projected top five team in the bracket. No,
you lose now this latenest season. That affects your talads,
especially with the College Football Playoff Committee meeting next Tuesday,
that affects everything. So you lose it hurts way more. Actually,
in college football it's probably better they should lose a
non conference really in this season, then you losing conference
late in the season, because if you do, we have
data of that. Look what happened last year. You lost
to Kansas You lost to Arizona State, and I don't
want to sell you went to bed. You just didn't
execute down the stretch, and look what happened. You were
begging Kansas State, hey, could you please take out Matt
cambll and Iowa State and they said na, na na,
and they went and then you were on outskirts looking
at it. Now, you smack Colorado in the ball game,
you gave built the booty that was the real Big
twelve championship. But you want outskirts looking in because of that.
So what do you have to do Bradon to not
be in that situation again?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I think losing the Tech obviously are undefeated,
because until they're not, they're undefeated in that face.
Speaker 3: That's our prediction. But I think if you lose the Tech,
that's okay.
Speaker 4: I don't want to lose the Tech, but I think
just with with who they are and what the clout
they're getting, still, I think losing the Tech still doesn't
it doesn't hurt us in the in the voting as
long as we keep that game close, But any other
game on the schedule, even Cincinnati, depending what Cincinnati does
this week with Utah, I think we can lose when
one game and still will be in a great spot
to go to the I think I think if we
just lose one more, we're in the Big Twelve Championship game.
And if we lose two more, depending on what what
goes there, we're still there's a chance to be in
the Big Twelve Championship. But that's where you get really scary.
So I think I think we could drop one and
be okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you drop one, I think you could be okay.
Your thoughts. It sounds like from everything that's going on,
Josiah Phillips could make a return back at Texas Tech.
If Josiah were to come back for Texas Tech, how
big would that be for the b AU offense? Give
bear another weapon he's been out for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think getting Jojo back would be would be
huge for that just because I do think if if
Lj's out and we're gonna have to go past Sevvy,
I think teams are gonna drop back a little bit.
The thing is is, yes, LJA is so important to
us this offense, but if teams have to play back
because we have three weapons that are as good as
they are with with if Jojo you know, reaches his
potential is ready to go full one hundred percent, then
they have to.
Speaker 3: Play back and take guys out of the box.
Speaker 4: And yes, that that be blees well and helps some
of our running backs, but also Bear can pull it
because you got guys you know, dropping back into coverage
and Barck and can get some yards.
Speaker 3: Liv Grum. I don't think we want Bear to be
a twenty five carry a game guy.
Speaker 4: But he's shown he can be durable through that right now,
and if we have to to get through the games
until l J.
Speaker 3: Rcione or whoever it can get.
Speaker 4: Back, I think we can survive without him if we
have you know, the receivers, those weapons.
Speaker 3: I think Jojo helps out in that way.
Speaker 5: Brandon, what's the belief level in the potential of Jojo
Phillips Because obviously we saw him have a couple bang
bang plays last season and then this year I think
he had three catches in though for those first two games,
so we haven't seen a lot.
Speaker 2: We know the potential is there.
Speaker 5: How much belief do you have that if Jojo comes back,
that he makes a significant impact on this offense.
Speaker 4: That's a great question. I think his potential is out
of this world. I think he might be one of
the higher potential players we've had. Not I'm not saying
the highest, but one of the higher potential players. Whether
he realizes that it is something I have no idea
he's gonna get there. I'm really hoping that that he
takes that step from last year where she showed flashed
on that potential, but it wasn't really proven yet. There
was some times where I feel like he could have
made bigger efforts, like I think that Arizona State game
that that throw from Jake down the sideline still haunts me.
Jakes thrown a little better, but I really think, I
really think Jojo could have got there if you would
have laid out I just agree. So I'm still I'm
still a little sad about that one with Jojo, But I.
Speaker 3: Think the potential there.
Speaker 4: I mean, you think he's super super fast, uber athletic,
like pretty dang good hands, like I think he has
really high potential. But I mean to answer your question
with a non answer. I have no idea if he'll
reach it, but I think his potential's out of this world.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need that potential or whatever he has in
the tank to help you if he goes next week
against sexist SEC because I can promise you this, I
guarantee Texas Tech is like, Okay, even if LJ. Marnus
eighty five percent, we're not gonna let you run the football.
We're gonna throw it. And they got a good defense
similar to BYU's. They got some linebackers in that room.
This is the most expensive defensive line that's been paid
for in the Big and you've seen it right now.
They granted they did lose the Arizona Stalles rol.
Speaker 5: Jacob Rodriguez, that the linebacker at the second level, he projected.
Speaker 2: To be the big te vv or player. Yea, yeah,
he's a pro. It's a problem. Those guys are gonna
make plays. So I just think this is I don't
know what Aerondic's game plan. Well, look, I mean he's
game planning. He's had every answer. Just like Jay Hill,
they've been able to do. They've been able to make
the adjustments. And when I say they haven't been stumped,
I mean that they haven't been beaten because a lot
of people, well, Ron Oklahoma game, Oklahoma State game last year,
I would say the first what I'm saying, boy, that
is no one's been able to get it done yet.
Kansas and obviously Arizona State did last year. But I
think that was more Jake having a crucial turnover that
cost you in that game. I still feel like Jay
Hill executed and aeronic to a degree. I feel like
Jake just had moments where I'm like, I'm gonna put
that one more on you than this because I feel
like adjustments were made. Do you go to Jojo early
in this game? Like, do you if you're gonna if
you're gonna pass the ball five times on your first
opening drive, shore three of those go to joj. Obviously
you don't want to over do it, but I have
to feel like there's gonna be a lot of tension
to Parker and Chase rightfully, so what they've done, I think,
you know, how early? Should you go to Jojo? Early
and often?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I think depends on who they're putting on
him cover wise, If they do go to man is
I think if you can get Jojo on the spot
where they're already keying the other two, then you go
to Jojo early because of that. If they're not respecting
Parker and Chase at first, I think you go to
them and get them now to start expecting it, and
then you go to Jojo. But if you feel like
you can catch them off guard, I think you go
to Jojo early because they're expecting it to go to
Parker or Chase. So and one comment you said about
the last two games last year that just popped into
my head and I thought this the other day, is
we keep talking about how we were nineteen and two
in the last twenty one games.
Speaker 3: But what we I don't think I've seen is we're
not just nineteen to two those two losses.
Speaker 4: We had chances in the very end of those games,
like we're one play away from winning those games.
Speaker 3: We have blown out in two games. Well, I think
we're so.
Speaker 5: Saying that, like even in the games that like they have,
they haven't had a multi digit or a two score loss, no,
since I was state.
Speaker 2: Iowa State, Yeah, going back to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and not even just like losing a touchdown though,
when you're in the last play like that Kansas game.
And I love myself Connor pay he's one of my
favorite people out there. But Connor fall started right down
on the last that fourth and seven or right before
we were fourth and two and Jake got up to
the line, he rushed it and I was in that
end zone that's where I sit, and Chase was uncovered.
And that's why Jake got so antsy trying to get
the playoffs. And when John Beck came into my store
a few months going over there, he said that on film,
like they both all of them talked about like that
was going to be a touchdown and they got so
excited that they that Connor snapped it, missnapped it and
it happened like that game. We win that game if
that happens. And so we're so close to being unfeated
the last you know, a couple of years. And so
really this team is just I mean, what a time
to be a Cougar fan.
Speaker 2: Love Well, I say this in basketball, and hopefully you
don't get mad at me and the listeners because it's
still football. Seven basketballs are gonna start on Monday, November three. Look,
the biggest You don't pay these players and you don't
go practice for the first quarter keeping up with Iowa State.
You do it for the second half. You do it
for the most critical moments, the most crucial moments like
that fourth down or the Darius Lassiter walk off touchdown,
the Chase Roberts fourth and seven. That is where these
players in their careers and legacies are defined. Or even
games like the robbery, The biggest moments are when those
plays happens. So when you don't execute those in those
moments in your undefeated team or get a good football team,
that is what people look at and what defines it
in that regard. Sure you could say they don't they
shouldn't be in those moments. Absolutely, Chase Roberts was right
last year. They should have blown teams out by twenty
thirty maybe even forty. I agree with that to a degree.
But when you're placing other Division one talent, you need
to execute in the biggest moments, and they didn't do that,
and they have done that. So see what they do
against Texas Tech next week. Because to me, the national
media is not going to pick you even if college
game Day goes down and I'll finish getting your thoughts
on that. Even if the game it doesn't go to
Texas Tech BYU down there on Lubbick, I still feel
like people are picking Texas Tech to upset BA You
want to run. It really shouldn't be an upset. Both
of the teams are ranked, but I feel the national
media thinks that the Red Raiders are still the team
to be and Bau's gonna have to go in there
and do it. And I believe that's when BA You
will get its respect. Is if they beat Texas Tech
next week? How do you see that game turning out? Well,
I'll wait to askers corporate diction later because they're still
a week out. But College Game Day? Do you feel
College Game Day will go back to back weeks at
a Big Toe school this weekend, Cincinnati Utah next week?
What do you think they'll be?
Speaker 4: I think, looking at the other games that day, I
can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I.
Speaker 3: Think we're still the best game that day.
Speaker 4: And I think there's been some hints on different places
that are leaning towards coming to watch that game. I
think it depends on if Tech loses to Kansas State.
I think that would be the only thing that could
stop that happening. But I think it's going to happen,
and I think it's a good time for them to
try and say the they're not just the SEC TV,
and so I think I think they're gonna end up
coming just as another way, there's not a really huge
game for anybody else. I think there's one more game
that's ranked, but they're not ranked to size ours. So
I think they'll end up coming to our game.
Speaker 3: And then I think it is.
Speaker 4: I think it's the game that's gonna We're gonna prove
ourselves if we're going if were gonna win that game.
That's where people start believing, because I think people still,
even after two seasons of winning a lot of close games,
they still just feel like somehow we're just lucky over
this many. I mean, after so much time with luck,
I think you'd finally start believing that it's maybe preparation,
but it is.
Speaker 3: What it is.
Speaker 2: You're right, it is what it is. And I agree
people still think that they're praying and reading scriptures before
and they might do those things, but that's not contributing.
They're not paying eleven percent hiding to help them get
these victories. That's my joke I always say, but I'm
I'm serious and in that regard. So you need the
Red Raiders to get a win this weekend. Don't allow
game day to go to Texas A and M in Missouri.
Don't allow them to go to that matchup. Or if
they went to Nordre Dame, who's number twelve and Navy.
I don't think that's a baut one either. I wouldn't
mind that they talk about Landscape. I think that'd be
another good one to go to. But couber Nation wants
to see ba you gotta love it, can spoil it.
So you gotta beat Kansas State because I think it's
easier to beat the Red war Raiders coming off a win.
I don't think they would drop back to back games
if they lost to Kansas State this Saturday. But k
State looking to play spoiler. They look like Kansas of
last year where they might mess up a couple of
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