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Brett recap and starting at Byu. Obviously we did in
the first hour, number eleven BYU still undefeated, aight and
oh taking down Iowa State four he won to twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Delt to booty in the second half, not the first
first half.
Speaker 3: There was a couple of people on our team that
thought when they said they thought b Yu was toast,
they said, uh, oh, BYU's toast. I think the test
message was we're toasted, not we but that Byu was toast.
Iowa State put up seventeen points in that first half.
Speaker 2: They were marching.
Speaker 3: They were marching down the field to either go up
twenty four to seven or it had been twenty to seven,
and then Logan Letwi by the by the good man
above picked the pass off, got an interception and that.
Speaker 2: Changed the momentum.
Speaker 3: Byu was able to go in a halftime seventeen twenty four,
and at that point they said, Okay, Cougars have a
shot here. J Hill's a mastermind. I keep telling you, Brett,
keep telling you. Nobody has been able to out doing
he makes those second half adjustments. We're gonna hear from
Foala toasts Waller and Logan Lutuis how in the next
segment they're gonna tell you what adjustments and what Jay
Hills said to him. But I love that the coaching
staff they challenged their players. They don't do a lot
of talking. You know, sie Alle mentioned this last week
or two weeks ago when they beat Arizona. Yeah, they
pull us on the sideline half conversations, but they're not
up in arms about everything.
Speaker 2: They just say it get to the point.
Speaker 3: So but again, thirty one to three run at one point,
did they have twenty seven unanswered? I think, Brett, Oh
my gosh, so you just you look at that BYU
covered the spread, do what they had to do? Five
and zero now sitting in first right there, haven't had
a loss yet. But again our mind fans, I said,
you gotta win two out of three. You gotta beat
Iowa State, Texas Tech and or Cincinnati. You gotta get
two out of three of those because if you win
both games at home, then you're in the title game.
So Brett mission one, Stage one complete, hashtag cheaper by
the dozen, Stage one complete. You took down Iowa State,
he got the body, get healthy. Now next week is
Texas Tech. Texas Tech, what will they look like?
Speaker 4: Baron Morton will be back, which is a good thing
for them, yes for them, but Will Hammond will not
be there. He is out for the season. Will Hammond
incredible ballplayer, incredible freshman. So we'll have to see they
behind Will uh I almost said Will Farren. Behind Will
Hammond is Mitch Griffiths and he seemed to play well
the other day. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see
what you get out of Texas Tech and how do
these standings shake out, because that's really what we're watching
here is if you're BYU, you want to see Cincinnati lose,
you frankly, you need Houston to lose, and Texas Tech
is now Texas Tech is now a must win and
if you lose to since if you lose to Texas Tech,
then Cincinnati becomes a must win because then you would
all have one loss, uh and the tie breakers would
follow what they may. But if you lose to Texas Tech,
then they hold the tiebreaker over you. Right now, you
have a hot tiebreaker over Utah if you were to
lose two games. So there's a lot of things that
play into this. I don't want to say Texas Tech
is a must win. However, what I will say is
that I feel ten times better going into this game
than I think we did six weeks ago. I by
no means think that this is a guaranteed dub for BYU,
but I certainly feel a lot, about a lot better
about it. To your point, I have a sneaking suspicion
that this is big noon kickoff in two weeks. I
don't know that. I haven't talked to anybody, but I
do think it's really interesting. Look, part of the reason
they're playing the game early is yes, because they're in Texas.
They're not on the West Coast. They're not in Mount time. However,
Big Noon Kickoff does not want to do what they
did the last time with Boyu, which is the Big
Noon Kickoff game actually doesn't get played at noon. They
rarely do that. It does happen occasionally, but that's not
what they want to do. They want Joel Klatt, they
want Gus Johnson, they want their Big crew to do
what ever the noon game is because you watch the
pre game and then it rolls right in to the
main game where it's ESPN will do their they'll do
their pregame, but usually that game doesn't go until primetime.
So I think that because this game has already been again,
we also don't know what network it's on, so that's
what I believe.
Speaker 2: Texas Tech put a post It said ABC or ESPN.
Speaker 4: Okay, so it is ABC.
Speaker 2: So that's why.
Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't see that that came out this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Vic correct me if I'm wrong. Our data
aggregation here. I believe they just put it on Twitter.
I think it was something that just came out, so
it just happens.
Speaker 4: So it is ESPNAC okay, So then my guess is
that it probably won't be. I guess it still could
be Big New Kickoff, but they probably would. They can
go there, they can still go there. They probably won't
go to a game that they don't have unless it
is just easily the absolute biggest game of the week.
If game they also went there, then I could see
Big New going just because they want to have a
presence there. But my guess is that they won't.
Speaker 3: But again, Big Noon that Organ I would game I
was six and two, that is Morgan is seven and one.
Speaker 4: Why was a sleepy team right now in college football?
Speaker 3: And if they beat Organ, they will be ranked they'll
jump into like the top like twenty in my opinion.
Speaker 4: So knowing that it's on ESPN or ABC and it's
not on a Fox network, that makes me think that
Big New kick sorry not Big New Kickoff College game
days not going to be a Texas that care. And
here's why.
Speaker 2: Texas A and M that one right.
Speaker 4: Probably I think that'd make the most sense. But they're
already going to a Big twelve game this week ESPN.
They don't really give a rip about the Big twelve
even though they should. They don't care. They're doing their
their charity work. This weekend by going to Utah Cincinnati
and then they probably won't be back for another Big
twelve game the next week. They should, but I don't
think that they will.
Speaker 3: It's so unfortunate because I wish this game was on
Box because then you get Gus Johnson and Joe Cladden.
They've already done one Son, you worked in television, but
they got to get this together.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're missing out on some opportunities in
those things, in those regards, So it just sucks because
you're competing with other great matchups.
Speaker 4: So if you're the second best, like and it's a
really great matchup, it doesn't matter because the number one,
the number one game is always going to get you.
And especially when ESPN's not really that incentivized to go
to Big twelve because they have exclusive rights with the SEC,
it sucks. But my guess is Texas Tech BYU is
not going to be College Game Day, even though I
really hope that it is.
Speaker 2: That'd be fantastic if it was. How fantastic would that be?
Speaker 3: B YU twice in one season, Big Newon Kickoff featured
there on the Fox National Network, and then you go
to ESPN. You're futured on college game to how sick
would that be? I'm gonna turn the time I was
to vic our data aggregation person here on ESPN the
fan Big. What you got for me, one little comm
man that maybe fans are interested in is when the
time came out for the game being at ten or
eleven Central time, you're gonna miss that Texas tech rowdy
night crowd.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: That's I mean, there's gonna be a difference there. That's
an advantage BYU in my opinion. But just thought, I
think of that a little bit. So Taylor too. They
do get loud there and love it.
Speaker 3: You do the atmosphere they throw on going but vampire
Kog's yeah, vampire cooks and.
Speaker 4: Go to the vampire cook. I don't know what we
want to call it, but I mean, look, I think
you could argue that your Iowa State game this year
was your Baylor game.
Speaker 2: Yeah last year, last year, you know point.
Speaker 3: So ah, But I mean, hey, you gotta like Ba's opportunity.
Speaker 2: Like Baron Morton has been digging up.
Speaker 3: I went to Will Hammon's profile and I just wanted
to read the bio just a little bit.
Speaker 2: During the you know, the break and check this out.
Speaker 3: He relieved more than twice in the twenty twenty four season.
Baron Morton gets hurt, Like what if you were to
get hurt again? And obviously if you're a backup quarterback
coming in on your home field, this is a little
bit different, Brett.
Speaker 2: But I just look at it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, BYU I think has a shot,
Like I really think they got a greatest shot.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be tough already.
Speaker 3: But if Baron Morten's already dinged up and then you're
able to somehow And again, I'm not wishing injured. I'm
not single hurt. I don't want toell anyone to take
that the wrong way. That's not how Ronald the three
man we were saying. But I'm saying we saw Devin
dan Bier take hits frohim, like do you want.
Speaker 2: To take too many of those?
Speaker 3: Like not by this Boe defensive Baron Morten takes those
and b he's already played him once, by the way,
and they beat him when he came to provo. That
just makes things worse, Like it just makes things worse
for you in that regard, And Chase Roberts said this. Hey,
we're not gonna let these are his words, not mine.
We're not gonna let what happened in Utah happened again.
If they go in there knowing that they got to
injury Baron Morton, that you got a guy named Mitch Griffiths,
who's the backup, who, by the way, did not play bad,
Blood's gonna be in the water.
Speaker 2: Like, think about this.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State, they stopped them fro running the ball, stacks
Tech and running the football.
Speaker 2: This is what they did on the ground. They have
forty carries.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of carries on the ground Brett for
only eighty eight yards. They rush for two touchdowns. But
think about that, and that was Oklahoma State's defensive line.
Imagine what Bau's defensive line can do that. Obviously they
aired the ball out, it didn't matter. But I don't know.
I just when I look at Texas Tech BYU, I
think matches up well with them.
Speaker 2: They can.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be a defensive ball game. I think
it's gonna be a low scoring game. I think it's
gonna be somewhere between like a twenty four to seventeen
or twenty one seventeen type game. I don't think it's
gonna be very high scoring. Both offenses can be explosive,
but both of these defenses can get after the quarterback.
But the thing is Bear is tougher than Baron Morton
and he hasn't gotten injured and Baron Morton has. So
I guess we're gonna find out next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this weekend, BYU fans, your homework and your fandom,
you're since well, I guess it doesn't really matter. You're
kind of rooting for Utah this weekend because you would
like Cincinnati to get a Big twelve, to get another
Big Twelve loss, But either way, what you're really rooting
for is Kansas State, Kansas and who by the way,
Case State looked good on Saturday versus Kansas three twelve
play Kansas State. I think that they had like two
touchdowns in the first six minutes or something like that,
like they played really well. Yes, Kansas State is gonna
be the game wrecker. They're gonna be the home wrecker
in the Big Twelve this year, where look, they may
not be able to get to a Big Twelve title,
but they are sure going to make sure that you
can't get to a Big twelve title. They're sitting pretty
far down there in the standings right now because they
have two conference losses. They're three and two in the
Big twelve, four and four overall, so they really don't
have a whole shot at anything other than being Bowl eligible.
But they are going to do everything they can. Uh
the UTA Cincinnati game, I mean, I think you you
just will have to decide for yourselves and your fans
who you want to root for in that game. I
will just tell you Cincinnati is the only other team
in the Big Twelve without a conference loss besides BYU,
So if BOYU could make it a while longer without
getting conference loss, that would certainly be helpful. And then
because you would want Cincinnati louse so that if you
lose that game, you can get a tie breaker. But
the Big twelve is good right now, man, there there
are I think there's four teams, maybe five or six,
depending on how BYU and Cincinnati fair the rest of
the season. The hunt for the Big twelve title race
I still think is wide open right now.
Speaker 2: It is wide open.
Speaker 3: I'm alorried though, because I feel like the Big twelve
conference area I'm gonna ask our friend John kirtch who
had joined us later in the week this because him
and I were discussing this off air. I'm starting to
think to the Big Twelve, I have an identity crisis,
like you don't know ever since Oklahoma and Texas left,
who the face of it is? Obviously you would think
it'd be Texas tech Loo's number two? Is it o
A State? BA just act? Then they're two and three? Now,
I mean is it Arizona State?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 2: Three and two? They look to not be dinged up.
Speaker 3: Kansas State can't seem to pull away, right, Dave arn
and Baylor are two and three. Is just it's not
going the way you thought in that regard Brandon's course,
but he has Cincinnati at the top, saving Scott Saderfield's
job in Miami because I know he was on.
Speaker 2: Win.
Speaker 3: Like Oklahoma State is completely like Gundy's gone, like who
would have thought? So there's so much of like, okay, well,
what is the Big twelve? Like could be why you
emerges that? I mean, Utah still in the mix. I
know where Brett Hammers picking for the Utah Cincinnati game.
I know exactly what he's doing. He's picking, don't it
helps exactly I don't care.
Speaker 4: It's gonna knock you snatty bearcat all day.
Speaker 3: Bears, and I said, bear uh, Brett is like, have
the Bearcats knock the youths out of the time.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what Brett wants.
Speaker 3: Ronald three man, we were, on the other hand, give
Cincinnati that first loss so you can help be with
chances and then someone else knock Utile you know later on.
Speaker 2: But that's just how it goes in that regard. But no,
what brit said is right.
Speaker 3: The updates BYU, then Cincinnati Texas Tech owns a tie
break over Houston. They're both for all, remember they beat them.
Houston is over Utah based on strength of schedule, and
then you got the Utes there three and two, Arizona
State and the Sun Devils, Kansas State and TCU all
tied at three and two for a five with tie
Utah owning the tie break over the Sun Devils, and
then strength to schedule again obviously the TCU horn Frogs
right there in the mix being that last team, and
then you got two and three the Cyclones and the
Baylor Bears and the Kansas Jayhawks right there, and then
following up you got one in three, Arizona Wildcats and
the UCF Knights, and then the Colorado Buffalo is one
and four, and then Westergin Oklahoma State haven't won a game,
as you mentioned, So any of those teams right now,
there's a lot of parody. Like honestly, all of the
teams from BYU to Kansas are still in the mix.
A lot of people are gonna say, Ron, that's crazy. No,
how this thing shook up last year there was multiple times.
Maybe you can say Iowa State, Baylor, and Kansas are
out of the title game. I would say they are.
I think the losses knock them out. But any team
right now with one or two losses is still in
the mix. So TCU still in the mix, Kansas State
is still in the mix, Arizona State is still in
the mix, Utah still in the mix. It's gonna be like
by East first year in the Big Twelve, we you
had like Neil Brown who was like an eight and four,
nine to three team or whatever that did terrible non conference,
but ran through the Big Twelve and finished like I
think third that season. So you have no idea what
it's gonna be. So we'll find out in the next
couple weeks. But if you're BYU you beat Texas Tech,
that puts you in the driver's seat because if you're
able to take care of business at home, you win
those two games. You just lose the Cincinnati on the road,
they want to go un defeated. Obviously, that puts you
in the title game and throws regards. But to give you, guys,
just to recap of last week, Oklahoma State got trashed
by Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati beat Baylor.
Speaker 3: My goodness, Baylor struggling this year, just kind of clapped
Baylor like this BYU Cincinnati game that might be tougher
than the Texas Tech game. Not I've been thinking about it.
Not because Texas Tech is not a better team. Obviously,
we're gonna talk to Brady pipinkabout this in the in
the last hour of the show. They paid the most money,
so therefore they have the best roster of courting of talent.
But the way they're playing right now, Cincinnati is like
Kilani of last year's team, like the team that BYU team.
Scott Satterfield has these guys ready to go, like to
put fourteen in the first, ten in the second, three
in the third and fourteen and the fourth. The way
they're just playing right now, Brennan scores be is phenomenal.
Like I know, Bears playing really well. But at the
end of the day, if you're gonna ask me who's
going to be the Big Twelve offensive player of the year,
I think Brendon Scores might be in that discussion. You know,
I'm not saying he definitely has it, but he's got
his team five and zero right now in conference play
seven to one, tied for first, well secondcuse me, second
in the Big Twelve right now, tied for the first
of conference record, and they've been honestly demolishing everybody.
Speaker 4: Brendan Soresby has thrown one interception, saty like see what
I mean? And he can run the ball. Yes, this Cincinnati,
This Cincinnati offense like b what you couldn't figure out
their offense against Iowa State until the second half. Cincinnati
came out firing on all cylinders and pretty much just
blew the Siowa State defense away. And then obviously we
saw what they did last week to Baylor. Dropping a
forty piece on Dave Randa ain't easy. Brendan Soarsby, I
think is honestly what we thought Josh Hoover and Sawyer
Robertson were going to be in this conference. In terms
of winning games, I knows Josh Hoover and so Robertson
have played well. They're two of the top passers in
the conference yards wise and touchdowns wise. But their teams
are not top of the Big Twelve. But I think
part of that is because their defense is struggling. But
I don't know that anyone would argue that Cincinnati has
the best defense in the Big Twelve. So from that standpoint,
I think, yeah, Cincinnati has the thirteenth best defense in
the Big Twelve. So Brendan Soorsby is doing a lot
with not a lot of help. I don't know which
game scares me more at this point, honestly, like genuinely,
and I never thought that I would say this, but
I think you could make the argument to me that
Cincinnati is scarier than Texas Tech. It really just depends
on what you value. Do you evalue do you value
elite offense or do you value elite defense. So Texas
Tech you got elite defense, Cincinnati you have elite offense.
I think overall both things combined, I think Texas Tech's
the better football team. I think Ohio Texas Tech's offense
is better than Cincinnati's defense in that regard. But either way,
both of these teams are vying for that top spot
in the Big Twelve, vying for a Big Twelve championship. Honestly,
I think all three have a shot at making the playoffs.
But we'll have to see. I never thought that we
would sit here and say, Ron that we didn't know
who was scarier, Cincinnati or Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: I agree with you in that regards, and yeah, I
think Cincinnati is a very good case. I think Rennan
Scores is gonna have his name at the end of
the season on that Big Twelve All Conference team, that
first team, that Offensive Player of the Year could be his.
Speaker 2: You never know in that regards, You'll just have to
wait and see.
Speaker 3: This a reminder, Arizona State, as I call him, one
trick pony, if Jordan Tyson is not there, they can't
seem to win.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 3: Mind you, they got shut out for three quarters three
and check this out. They scored twenty four points in
three quarters. They didn't score anything. They scored sixteen to
the fourth and Houston didn't score anything, so Houston could
have lily given up, and so let's not go score
the ball. And Arizona State still lost the game, so
they go in that regards and then obviously ky State
wins the in state battle again to Kansas. You already
mentioned that Avery Johnson is still the dude. He can
go crazy. It's probably a good thing to be what
he doesn't play the Avery Johnson this year because this
year Kansas State is the Kansas last year.
Speaker 2: They're gonna ruin somebody from getting it.
Speaker 3: Like someone's gonna have to come across their path in
that regard, and I feel bad if you do. Like
you mentioned, Texas Tech has to play them this year.
This year they get him at the crib. They could
get Texas Tech like Texas Tech can be had this week.
Texas Tech, if very well next week have two losses.
If it well could be like Kansas they could not
potentially knock him out of the title game or set
him up to be in Bau deliver the final haymaker.
Speaker 2: Then they gotta go at Utah.
Speaker 3: Like if you got to see Kansas State this year,
you don't want to see the or Baylor both of
those teams the Big Twelve too much parody, too much
parody in deep but man couldn't get through everything. But
that was your Big Twelve recap. If you're missing the
scores you always you can catch them at ESPN dot com. Guys,
we'll be covering everything. But this week be what you
want to buy. So all of you fans, are you
rooting for Utah to give the bear counts the first loss?
Or you a bear cat like Brad Hammer through and
through and you want to see Utah get that third loss?
To me, I think three losses is too much to
not get to the title game.
Speaker 4: I think I just don't want to live in a
world where somehow Utah finds a way to be in
the Big Twelve championship. Fair. I would rather us be
out in Cincinnati and Tech go then find a way
for either Utah to meet us there or for Utah
to sneak in and we don't.
Speaker 3: Hey will Utah sneak in or will they be bounced
out this week?
Speaker 2: And a lot of people like Ron, it's a lot
of season left.
Speaker 3: Again, I just think three losses way too much, way
too much to get in by you had two last year.
At crucial moments late in the season, or what happened
they missed. You just have to rely on other people
and you can't control your own destiny. But right now,
BYU does so gotta get healthy, Get healthy, and then
you attack Texas Tech next week and are you rooting
for Kansas State? Are you rooting for Texas Tech? I
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sound here. Volatiles Soaktuala made a mistake. The first play
of the game is not good. Not good, Bob. But
what do you like to see from players? You love
to see players bounce back. This is why you let
them play the whole full game, because what do they do?
They get a pick six, they give up the score
on the first play of the game.
Speaker 2: Then they have the last score of the game. Ballers,
that's what they do.
Speaker 3: This guy, Volatile has been earning his money balling out
in the game against Iowa State at ten total tackles,
six solo, four assistant, one tackle loss and then obviously
he had the forty yard pick six, no doubt. But
it wasn't just him. It was also Logan Latuiti as well.
Logan had a baller game. Both of them were in
the post game. We're gonna catch up with both of
them right now, Gonna go through the post game sound
from Volatile and Logan. Gonna go question by question for you.
So let's start with number one. Let's start with Logan.
Let's start with you. Actually, how could you describe the
energy on the sideline and what that did for the team.
Speaker 5: I think it was a great momentum ship for us.
Speaker 8: It all goes back to our coaches and putting us
in great positions, and that's what they did all game.
We just had to execute and yeah, I just got
I was in a good place too, was able to
execute that call.
Speaker 2: He's referring to the interception. A lot of people might
not know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the question got cut off there
when we cut it up, but the part that I
heard was that the energy was able to go from
his interception that he had right, and that was because
of the coaches putting in a good situation. Now, you
mentioned Brett to me this during the break, he threw
the ball right to him. I don't know if Roco
Beck didn't see him. That's what I'm saying. I'm pretty sure,
I need to look up the clip. I might have
Vic look it up. But I thought there was pressure
along the edge, and because he wanted to get the
ball out of his hands quickly, and he thought that
all the flat of the car out's going to be there.
Get rid of the ball, and he did, but Logan
was right there to take it away.
Speaker 4: I don't understand. I've went back and watched that play
a number of times and I can't remember if there
was and I don't see whatever it was that Roco
Beck saw. And here's why. It's not as though Logan
Latoui baited him or lurked him, or was sitting in
a spot in size eyes move and then got over there.
This is not a shot at Logan. This is just
the fact that roc O bect is sitting there and
just pitches and catches with Logan Latui. He just tosses
him the football. Logan had been sitting there. Now, my
guess is the wide receiver was on a comeback route
or a hitch route or or a curl or whatever
terminology you would like to use to call it. And
that's and so he just mentally said, okay, they're in
this coverage this route should be open here and tow
Io State's credit, the curl, the dig, the comeback. It
was open a lot at that point into the game.
But rocobecks for a guy who really doesn't turn the
football over, a guy who's one of the smartest quarterbacks
in the Big twelve just tosses it over to Logan. Now,
shout out to Logan, because a lot of times your
dns they don't always have the greatest hands in the world.
And that's okay. They don't need to Logan had no
problem with that one. He said, coach, get me on
the jugs machine. I can make catches. He caught it
on rock obecked turned it over and then after the
ball game sorry, at the end of that play, Io
State really struggled to get on the ball, to get
on the board. After that they rockobecked. I think I
offense scored three points after Logo shut him out almost
pretty much this I was State team after Logan, who
he did, what he did.
Speaker 2: They couldn't recover. No, they couldn't recover at all.
Speaker 3: No, dal Vic's gonna find a clip for us if
and what occurred, I don't know what he was looking at.
Speaker 2: Either. But the point is Logan was in the right
position through it.
Speaker 3: By the way, Logan almost had two, like there was
another one that went the one hand and then they.
Speaker 2: Went through his head.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh my goodness. So Logan and again mentioned
this in the first hour. Rock O Beck had only
thrown three interceptions coming into the season.
Speaker 2: He threw three against BYU. So that tells you everything.
Speaker 3: Jay Hill mastermind puts his guys in great positions to
make plays. He's just he's he's the guy that's had it,
had these quarterbacks numbers, he's had their number.
Speaker 2: Really stop by you.
Speaker 3: And and I'll say this, I was talking to a
Big twelve insider and some people at Big twelve media days.
You want to hear something. I don't know if I've
ever shared this with you. We're watching the play right now, Yeah,
we are.
Speaker 2: Stopped in that moment. He just yeah, he just know.
Speaker 4: He thought, yeah, and look if he layers the ball,
if he puts it over Logan, he can he calls
could have hit.
Speaker 2: So he just under threw it.
Speaker 4: Then that's ROI under threw it or thought the route
was supposed to be shorter than it was. I don't
really because there's not really pressure make that throw and
it's he didn't get hit.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's no pressure. Ball bugget tipped ball? Does the
ball get tipped and that's why it's short. It could
have been tipped. That could have been Hunter Cligg that
tips it on the end right there. It's so tough
to tell. Yeah, I'm gonna have to time this up
and put it. That might not even that might a
ton of I think it was.
Speaker 4: We saw him on it on the edge in quite
a few on Saturday, which well.
Speaker 3: Keiano drew two holding pemal like. People might say, hey,
Keanu doesn't do that. I know you're slowing it down
right now. I don't know if Kiandon tips the ball.
I know this might be bad radio bow. We really
want to give you guys the best for watching it.
If that ball gets tipped, that ball got tipped by
tipped by the ball guy got tipped. So he is
throwing it and is trying to layer it to the guy,
but the ball gets tipped by Keanu and it Logan
catches the ball made like had an impact on this game.
That again, these things don't show up on the stat sheets,
but that deflection of the ball and then to draw
the to holds, to get calls called back, to force
long field goals attempts, and to force a punt that
goes a really, really long way. So I'm glad that
we slowed it down. Sorry, guys in the would have
known this earlier the whole weekend. Now it makes sense.
He didn't make a bad ball, was open and he
was calling for should have hit him. Who has not.
Speaker 4: Gotten enough credit clearly for this play because everyone thought
that he just threw a bad pass Logo two. He
still deserves all the credit in the world, especially because
when a ball gets batted down, you're not always ready
for how it's coming to you, and your hands aren't
always in the right position. Just shout out to Keanu
for making the play and nobody talking about it till
this morning. And shout out to Logan for catching that
and really swinging. The momentum of this football games.
Speaker 3: Is why you check tape. So shout out the bread
always bringing the hammer check and say but no again.
Rock go Back had throwing three interceptions coming into the
game through three against byu Hey Jhill has these guys
always prepared and ready to go, no doubt about it.
At all, and I mean, look, Iowa State is a
team that they're very hard to beat. I was going
to tell you that when I heard at Big twelve
Media and this Big twelve ins that I talked to
most difficult team to plan for, they said was Iowa
State interest And I think you can see why even
in this game the first play of the game, could
you have predicted that right? That the scout and report
they had it right, obviously, but we needs to do
a better job of getting lined up. I mentioned that
in the first hour, but that lets you know Iowa
State one of the most difficult teams to prepare for.
Let's move along here. Question number two. What caused the
slow start for you guys? Was there any hangover from
the Utah game? In your opinion?
Speaker 8: I think it just before this game, we had our
mindset of just being us being able to play our football,
and I think that's what we didn't do in the
beginning of the game.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason. We're gonna get back to that.
Speaker 8: But I'm glad that we're able to flip the switch,
especially towards the second half and in the second half,
and be able to play our ball.
Speaker 3: Look, anytime you give up a big play on the road,
it gets the crowd, you know, entice, the crowd gets
super hyped. But the second part about it is if
you do it on the first play of the game
and it's a seventy five yard touchdown, that's not ideal
in that situation. Now, the best part about it was
be what you march right back down the field and
Bear was slinging the football all over the place and
LJ runs it in and ties it up, so it
was like, Okay, it didn't matter. But then Iowa State's
offense got right back on the ball, so it gave
them a lot of momentum confidence coming into the game. Now,
I think when you're on the road, you're just automatically
at a disadvantage anyway.
Speaker 2: But those big plays.
Speaker 3: You can't get big plays to the opposition when you're
on the road because it just fuels them. And I'm
gonna be honest, I'll say this, if they do that
next week against Texas Tech, it might look different because
the Red Raiders have a good defensive line and they
can't stop the run and they have cornerbacks that can
keep up, so you might not want to make that mistake.
Speaker 2: Follow tell let's turn to you, though you were.
Speaker 3: Involved in the first scoring play as I mentioned early
in the segment, and the last. Take us through both
of those moments for you.
Speaker 9: No, yeah, that first, that first place one hundred sei
on me. You know, a little hitching go, But I
just got to keep better eyes and as soon as
I saw the hitch, I jumped it, which our coach
is definitely peaches, just to make sure we're turning our
eyes toward man. And he was kind of gone after that.
Speaker 4: So that was one hundred time me.
Speaker 9: But the last score, I guess I had to make
it up a little bit. So just being able to
make it play all my all my teammates and coaches
the whole game were just like making sure it's keeping
my head up and telling me, you know, like I
can still go make more plays.
Speaker 5: The game's on over.
Speaker 9: So I think it was pretty cool to have everyone
rally around me and let me know and just keep
my head up.
Speaker 2: Hold you, I think there's power in that.
Speaker 3: You want to keep your head up when you make
a mistake like that, especially on the first play of
the game when you get beat on the double move,
when you're just looking completely at the quarterback, and I
follow its how it does like to jump right. He
had the forty yard interception, so he does do a
good job of jumping routes.
Speaker 2: But you got caught on that first place. You got
a little bit exposed in that regard.
Speaker 3: But makes up for it, right, ret makes up for
a big time because he gets to pick six. So
it doesn't even matter as like it's obsolete. But in
film it definitely will be recognized because in film they'll
spend about three to five seconds good job, hey, and
then ripping you.
Speaker 2: You can't let this happen. That's how film goes, if
you ever one to know how film goes.
Speaker 4: And I think part of the issue is that Folataw
was late getting lined up, and I don't know if
it was I know there was emotion involved, but it
did look a little delayed, and I think that played
a factor into why Folatow jumped it so early, is
because he was already feeling a little pent up from
getting over there late that he wanted to you know,
overcome and maybe overcompisate a little bit and say, you
know what, I'm not getting beat on this thing. I'm
gonna jump it. Because he was feeling a little wish
you watched you from getting over there late, and shout
out to him for taking credit for it, and then
shout out to him obviously for taking over the game
late with the pick six that wasn't as finals elemtics. However,
he didn't. He didn't let the guy like he chased
him the whole way. He didn't give up on the play.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't.
Speaker 4: But to me, this almost goes to a larger issue
which maybe we need to save another segment for, because, uh,
these guys played incredible and I don't want to speak
poorly about this defense at all. However, this is not
the first time we've seen them have trouble. I don't
want to say have trouble getting lined up. There's just
and this happened quite a few times in the Utah
game where there was one guy who was left open
and there was a conversation about who was supposed to
be on said player, and then when they went in motion. Obviously,
in that first play against Iowa State, follow Tower was
laging over there and because he's late and the hitching
go causes him to bite when he shouldn't, and then
it's a touchdown. I think this would be something they
work on in the buy.
Speaker 3: We can frankly have you because if you're gonna not
be matched up on Texas text receivers, all three of
those dudes can go hit their head on the goal
post and go score one hundred yards. Excuse me, received
for one hundred yards. You don't want to make that mistake.
The follows out back to you look like you knew
that pick six was coming.
Speaker 9: Yeah, from film and stuff, you know they have their
top concepts obviously, and you kind of tell pre snap
what Rocco was seeing with the safeties and how he
was trying to manipulate what our defense is doing. So
with the motion, obviously he was trying to get him
quick to the flats, and then their househide receiver is
kind of trying to get a little pick going. So
I kind of slowed over the top end and when
I turned, the ball is kind of right there, and
at that point he had to make a.
Speaker 2: Play turned and at that point just had to make
a play.
Speaker 3: And the play he did indeed make took that ball
out of his hands, like taking candy from a baby
or trying to steal the pebble from the master's hands.
Speaker 2: My goodness, stole it and was gone the other way.
Stole it. He stole it from us.
Speaker 3: Sage shouldn't be taking straight shots at people randomly in
the segment, but it is what it is. Let's keep going.
Number five, speak of that folatileity. You did have the
pick six. You've been playing well adjusting. What were the
big adjustments from j Hill that works so well for
the defense, particularly in the second half.
Speaker 9: Just when Coach Hill came in. I think the biggest
thing you pushed on us was just be more physical.
Speaker 6: They were.
Speaker 9: They were really physical the first half, and when Coach
Hill came in and just told us like, if y'all
want to win the skin, y'all got to be more physical.
So that was the biggest thing adjustment, I think. And
then just being ourselves and trusting each other making sure
that we're doing our job was a big thing too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta have physical they were. They were all
physically upfront, no doubt. I always said offensive line was
getting a push that I was like, wow, okay, if
they keep this up, my goodness, this is a big
twelve title contener offensive line.
Speaker 2: But obviously, you know it came down to it.
Speaker 3: Later where BYU was able to make those second half
adjustments and things became different. You know, you got holding calls,
started pressing them, started hitting them, being more physical, disrupting
the quarterbacks rhythm and momentum, getting hands on receivers. Even
the Titan Evan Johnson was tasked with a tight ending
get to up into them, I think or might have
been a receiver three yards into it, releasing them at five,
knocking the ball down. Bleeves got way more physical. The
entire defense did and sent a message in that second half,
and it showed for because again Cougar's outscored him thirty
one to three. Even the defense got the scores. Well
even give and I know that the offense receives the points,
but we need to give seven points to the special teams.
Kevin Dough finishing plays, pushing that guy into the football
for Bay to get that score. So you got I'm
gonna say that, I know special teams didn't turn up
punt or a kickoff, but I'm gonna give so seven
points still to the special team. So you got seven
points from your defense, seven points from your special teams
out of the forty one and the other ones came,
you know, from the offense right there, twenty seven in
that regard. So I mean, hey, look, I think that's
how you play great complimentary football.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was a full team effort by BYU. It
wasn't just bear. It wasn't just the offensive line. It
wasn't just the punt coverage team. It wasn't just the defense.
It wasn't just falls outside to all. This was a full, deep,
full team effort, including those final drives at the end
of the game when Iowa State was really trying to
make a push to try to put this thing and
make it a two score game. Go for all those things.
And the defense, even though Iowa State was driving and
they did get to the red zone, the defense still
showed up when they absolutely needed it kept Iowa State
from having any shot at the end of this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. They shut up in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: It was fourteen point game at the start of the
fourth I think or they had ten minutes left, and
I said, I looked at my wife and said, yeah,
this game's over. And she says, I don't know this
to a lot of time, that's premature. She's like, you
know better than anybody said, no, this game's over, Like
this Boe defense is gonna buckle down, and buckle down
they did. Speaking of buckling down, Logan, what does it
do for the conference of the team? Last year, you
guys running this spot down big against the Arizona State.
It didn't go the way you wanted it to, but
you fought back in this one. What does it do
for you going forward?
Speaker 8: I think it just shows that we're a team that
knows how to win. I think it comes back down
to our culture, to our brotherhood, to the unity that
we have that we've built since last year offseason, throughout
fall camp, and up to this point in the season.
I think that's something that's stuck with us throughout the
season and up to this point.
Speaker 5: And Yeah, like Folly was saying, we just in.
Speaker 8: A position that no matter what happens, we know we
could trust each other. I mean, the offense has kept
us in the game that whole first half. So we're
new as a defensive squad that once we step it up,
like we're gonna, you know, just start running the score up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they both did exactly what they were supposed to.
Offense kept them in the game when they needed to
the most. Defense showed up and showed out in that
second half and made the offense get the insurance touchdowns
and scores.
Speaker 4: That they needed.
Speaker 3: Number seven, Logan, you guys, number seven Logan LJ. Martin
and Sile both were out. How are you guys able
to overcome those two key personal losses?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean this isn't our first time losing key players.
We've had that throughout the season. But I think with
the mentality of our team, it's just next man up,
next man up, don't let know there'd be any drop off.
And I think that's something that our team has done,
stepped up to the occasion of whoever in the game
is able to make plays, and I think we saw
that with as making a big third down stop.
Speaker 2: Ace did have a crucial third down stop. I remember
that one.
Speaker 3: You never want to have personnel losses in a game,
but that's a part of It's a game of attrition.
But the depth that they have is have the experience
has been able to play since last year. Now a
lot of them coming back as true sophomores or red
shirt sophomores, some even richer freshman's.
Speaker 2: That goes a long way Brett.
Speaker 4: I wonder how many Big twelve teams if forced with
being on the road at Iowa State. Of all teams,
you lose probably your most effective offensive player, I think,
outside of quarterback. Either way, you lose one of your
best offensive players, you lose one of your best defensive players.
How many of those teams could come from behind did
and win on the road at Iowa Say, I don't know,
but I do think it speaks to the coaching on
the team, and it speaks to the depth on this
team because again, reminder, we're already out a linebacker. You're
already out Jay Bryant Strauther, and you're already out of
running back being out, so you're you're you're basically three
deep at both of those positions. Nbou wins getting a
crucial one at Iowa State, and the coaching deserves a
lot of credit for getting these guys ready and in
position to win a game like this.
Speaker 3: They definitely got them in a position. Again, they got
some of the best coaches in the nation. Let's finish
with this logan, We'll get you out of here on this. Actually,
for the both of you guys, I apologize. I know
he's on the offensive side of the ball. But how
impressive has Bear been. He had another three hundred yard game.
Speaker 5: That guy is just a competitor. He's a winner.
Speaker 8: He's somebody that you can that I put my full
trust in. He's the right man to head this team
in no matter how young he is. He's somebody that
steps up to the occasion. I mean, that's somebody that
I always put my trust in.
Speaker 9: And to add to that, that dude is tough, like
just seeing how the hits he takes and how he's
willing to take hids.
Speaker 5: To get more yards and tough like.
Speaker 9: Probably one of the toughest dudes I've seen played.
Speaker 5: Especially for quarterback.
Speaker 2: Probably one of the toughest dudes I see play for
a quarterback. That dude is tough. That dude tough.
Speaker 3: Volatilesa to Island Logan Latui give their words and share
they're all tough.
Speaker 2: Beer Bock myners.
Speaker 3: How tough is beer Bachmera might have to ask that question,
how tough is the centaur?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: In that regard, he's got a lot of nicknames. We're
still gonna crack that joke off season. The Centaur three
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Speaker 2: We'll go to break, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Still a lot more to get to here on one O,
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