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Speaker 1: We got John Beck on the line. John, how is
your weekend, buddy?
Speaker 4: It was a good weekend, Ben, a lot of all
good big win at the high school. But Popwasher games
didn't go quite as good.
Speaker 5: But you know what, you learn a lot of lessons
from the tough ones as well. So the back boys
are growing and learning through all the experiences they're going through.
Speaker 3: How much cross pollination is there in your in your
playbook and your game planning from high school to the
Pop Warner level? I mean, are you are you strategically
creating personnel groupings and schematics for your your Pop Warner
team that also extend to the San Clementy team as well.
Speaker 4: No, not necessarily, Like Dennis Pitt and I, actually we
both coach on Pop Warner teams that actually practice on
the same field. So he and I go from the
varsity practices and we walk right over to the fields
where our kids do the Pop Warner.
Speaker 5: We always talk about like, you know, you have.
Speaker 4: To build a game plan that is going to give
your team an opportunity to move the football.
Speaker 5: But we also one of.
Speaker 4: The reasons why we're doing it is because we want
to help our kids have a really good football foundation.
And so when you can build a base level of
understanding of foundational plays, a lot of offensive football builds
off of that foundation, off of those understandings. And so
if you can create that at a young level individually
for you know, our own kids, but then all so
as a team that then if that group can stay together,
it just builds on top of each other.
Speaker 5: So we don't necessarily run like, oh, hey, we're going.
Speaker 4: To do exact things that the high school is doing,
But we always talk.
Speaker 5: About we are structuring kind of the foundation of our
playbook in a way that when our.
Speaker 4: Kids do get to that high school level. They should
feel advanced. They should feel that they have a great
understanding week to week, anything that comes up in a
game plan, any little tweak that.
Speaker 5: You want to do, they understand the where and the why.
And so I've always kind.
Speaker 4: Of prided myself on pushing the kids when they're young.
And maybe some people that have been on my teams
might say, man, it seems that John you know, really
kind of does a lot offensively for young kids. But yeah,
I do, because I believe that football is like a language,
and if you can get a young kid to learn
how to speak a secondary language by just speaking it
all the time in your home and really pushing them,
that can happen in football as well. And then when
they get to those upper now you can get more
out of them.
Speaker 3: John Beck, Ladies and gentlemen, talk to some football. How
did the Beck fam compete this weekend? What was the
win loss record?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 4: It was one and two. Probably the highlight was the
varsity team. My son got to start for the varsity
team in a big game and we had to play
an undefeated Los al Amidos team, and it was it
was a huge win for our team, huge win for
the program for the seniors as well on Senior Night,
and it guaranteed us a playoff spot, and so it
was a big one. That was kind of the highlight
of the three games. Family came into town to watch,
so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 3: Man, Well, everyone thinks that a former b YU rate
NFL that you know, second round draft pick, et cetera,
they win every single game that they coach in and
that that's not that's not accurate.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, this is completely not accurate.
Speaker 4: I think one of the toughest things is, here's one
of the toughest things.
Speaker 5: When you coach the very youngest kids.
Speaker 4: You can see everything that will work, but it's it's like,
it doesn't matter what you.
Speaker 5: Know football wise.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what you could scheme up or any
of that like that goes out the door. It matters
what those kids can do, what they understand. You know,
you'd to have Dennis Pitta on the show and see
what he's going through his team. I mean, I think
they've only won one or two games, and it's just
you can know all the football that you want, but
it's about who you have on your team, their capabilities
and what they understand, and quite honestly, you could have
a coach that doesn't know that much football, but if
he's got guys that can outplay your guys, he can
keep it very simple and win the football game.
Speaker 5: And so where I feel like my.
Speaker 4: Experience comes into play is when we face teams that
are evenly matched or we're slightly below where can I,
through coaching the kids throughout the week and throughout the season,
give us a little bit of a schematic advantage where
now we can play a little bit above our actual
level and compete with some of the teams that maybe
if it was just straight up we wouldn't get a
chance to compete with. And then I really try to
do a good job of just overall throughout the year,
building the kids understanding of what sports is really like
and how it relates to life like ups and downs, challenges.
Sometimes you're having a great run, sometimes you gets your
freaking butt kick, sometimes things work out for you, and
other times you can't seem to get anything to work,
and just building their resilience, building their belief, building also
a better relationship with losing and not having them compare
of like.
Speaker 5: Well this team lost to this team, and we should
beat that team. And if we lose to this team,
then that means we're not as good as this team.
Like all of that, I'm trying to teach these kids.
Speaker 4: Just toss it out the window. Be the very best
version of you you can be right now in this moment,
and then learn from it and then improve going forward.
And I try to really just hone in on those
things so that when the kids older and they face
whatever challenges they're going to go through, whatever high schools
they're going through, they're better prepared for him.
Speaker 1: It brings up an interesting point.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it segues into the topic that that is most
intriguing to me right now.
Speaker 1: The national pun is many.
Speaker 3: That even that that that maybe contrived some of their
their conclusions off of objective metrics. They think BYU is
not winning UH due to merit. They're winning doing due
to luck. They're finding a way to win in different ways,
be it special teams, creating turnovers, et cetera. And and
I wanted to get your your perspective on how BYU
is winning UH since arriving the Big twelve. I remember
in twenty twenty three, we did discuss, hey, are are
these wins? It was like BA was like five and
two at the time, and they were on the brink
of getting Bowl eligible. It is like, are these are
these these ways in which BO is winning? Are they sustainable?
And they had a not being sustainable and then bahead
an eleven two season completely overachieving, maybe versus their talent,
maybe versus the hype, and they found ways to win.
Once again, they're finding ways to win. And you have
to wonder, Okay, is this just who BYU is is
or is there some lack of associated with it that
not all the analysts right now are giving b what
you credit for.
Speaker 1: Give me your perspective on this.
Speaker 4: Well, I think when you talk to football people like
toss the analysts out right, Like, first off, analysts love
to create, right, whatever can cause a story. Are are
they really watching every snap of BYU football?
Speaker 5: I doubt it.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, They probably are watching kid bits here and there.
They're probably calling somebody, Hey, are you watching that football
team over there in Provo?
Speaker 5: What do you think about them?
Speaker 4: Give me your Most people aren't analyzing everything. They're trying
to gather information quickly so that they can say something
that grabs attention.
Speaker 5: That's the truth of it. If you talk to football people,
Let's go back.
Speaker 4: To that twenty twenty three year, because I remember having conversations,
you know, with Keeton Slovas to get Cleyton, Keeton Slovis
to BYU and what what it was believed that BYU
was going to be able to do that year twenty
twenty three, things happened that nobody could have anticipated with
the run game, the past protection. They're like, there were
so many things and there were some changes made, right,
There were some changes made to the staff. Those changes
were believed to have a great impact, which they did.
You go to BYU last season where people would say, hey, well,
ye had this Voa football team overachieved? If you talk
to the football people, they had seen the foundation that
was being laid, and twenty twenty three was like this,
you know, unique anomaly. If we didn't expect that, this
is what was out of our control, but we're going
to get better because of it. And so those little
tweaks kind of catapulted BYU to.
Speaker 5: A due place.
Speaker 4: If you got around the football people going into the
twenty twenty four year, could they have predicted that hard
of a start, No, but they all would have said,
we know we are very good football team.
Speaker 5: We know we're going to be able to do a
lot of things. And even in.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty four, they were already saying, twenty twenty five
has the chance to be a really special team, probably
the best team that we've had in the last decade plus.
That's what the football people were saying. And so I
think what you're seeing is you're seeing a lot of
years of hard work of building something. It's what you
Why do they say build a program, because you do
build towards something. You build a foundation, you grow upon
that foundation. Then you bring in all of these parts,
and in today's era, adding coaches with the experience that
they brought in absolutely helps. Getting to bring in a
tight end coach that has the NFL experience that he has,
you can see an impact.
Speaker 5: The old line in a way that the O line.
Speaker 4: Is playing, you can see an impact. So you see
all these pieces come together. The football people have understood
it for a long time. The non football people, they're
the ones that are going to have to find reasons
for why doyus winning. They don't want to just say, oh,
this is a really good football team. You win football
games a lot of different ways. You're never going to
be able to go out and dominate in thirty two
quarters on one side of the ball for all thirty
two quarters. It is impossible. You just don't do it.
Between field position, the luck of calling good plays. Sometimes
plays look amazing. Sometimes you can make a good play
call based off.
Speaker 5: Of the off the study you've done throughout.
Speaker 4: The week, and it looks like absolute crap on game
day and you're like, that was not how we saw
that playing out. I think that it's a testament to
Killanne his staff, the players buying in the belief that
they've cultivated throughout the year so that when they face
tough times they are becoming a good football team by
a phase, stands up and wins the game. Like you
look at this last game, was BAU playing bad football
in the beginning though they weren't playing bad football, but
Iowa State was making some big plays and they got
him down and.
Speaker 5: BYU was having a little bit of tough time offensively,
but it wasn't bad football.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, boom, a turnover happens
deep in Dius that backed up and it completely changed
the game. And then what happens. The offense gets an
opportunity to go down on a two minute drive, they score,
and they get the ball right back and then they
drive again.
Speaker 5: That's the mark of a good football team.
Speaker 4: You don't have to knock a team and say, well,
if they were that good, they never should have been down.
I truly believe the best football teams when things aren't
going their way, they find a way to come back
when they're down. And that's maybe what the outside of
football people don't understand that that is the mark of
a good team, not a lucky team.
Speaker 3: How much of this also has to do with the
anomaly of special teams creating turnovers and also scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: This year it's creating turnovers.
Speaker 3: They haven't really scored touchdowns, but they've also flipped fields
and they've been able to you know, I think the
return game has been strong, and also their punt cover
and kickoff cover has done a great job of limiting
big plays. But more so than anything, they're creating turnovers
on special and we saw that in twenty twenty three,
we've seen it in twenty twenty four, and we're seeing
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Dude, it is huge when you can have special teams
contribute in that way, it is gigantic.
Speaker 5: I think when you go back to some of the
metrics of last season and.
Speaker 4: The punt return and kick return yards, I mean, that
was a huge thing in field position for for BYU
and in some really critical games. And you look at
this last game the special teams play where a very
heads up play to push his guy into the ball.
Speaker 5: I mean, and it came at a critical moment.
Speaker 4: Like all of those things are so big again, and
I know you and I have said this for years,
whenever you try to string together an undefeated regular season,
you have to have some things.
Speaker 5: Happen in critical moments that go your way.
Speaker 4: Like again, it is just impossible to dominate every quarter.
And there's going to be critical parts in a game where.
Speaker 5: You need a ball with that at the opponent kicks
hit the upright.
Speaker 4: You need a punt to bounce off somebody and you
recover it.
Speaker 5: You need a tipped.
Speaker 4: Ball off of a defender's hands to landing your guys's
hands for a completion like I've just seen it. I've
seen really good football teams where hey, they have one
or two losses in the regular season because a few
of those things didn't go their way. And whenever you
go and you point towards the undefeated teams a lot,
And I'm not talking about the like the Ohio States
that are sitting at the top the entire season and
they just go out and they run through everybody into
the playoffs.
Speaker 5: And I'm not talking about them.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the teams right below them that are
sitting at like six to twelve rankings and they're stringing
together undefeated seasons.
Speaker 6: They have to have.
Speaker 4: Those plays in moments of games that turn things and
it's just not all dominant.
Speaker 5: And that's what I see. That's quite honestly what I
see BYU doing.
Speaker 4: Like, yes, I know they've had to come back in
a number of these games and win, But isn't that
what people say they want to know if their team
can do. How does a team play when they're down.
When you're recruiting kids, I tell you.
Speaker 5: What, you don't want to just have a bunch of
kids that have dominated everybody all through high school and
have never been down in games to be the makeup
of your football team. That team will fall apart in
critical moments you.
Speaker 4: Got to find some kids that have been in tough situations.
They know how to pull together and make plays in
critical moments when they are down.
Speaker 5: And so that's where when I look at this BAU
football team. Is it a guarantee that they're going to
be undefeated.
Speaker 4: No, but they should definitely have a resolve and a
confidence and a faith right now that when they're down,
they can find a way to.
Speaker 5: Come back and win.
Speaker 4: And you know, we don't know the situations of these
next few games. We don't know about LJ, we don't
know about certain guys in the team if we're going
to be fully healthy. But Texas Tech, even though they've
lost their quarterback, it's going to be a dog fight.
You can go down to other games and say it's
going to be a dogfight, going to be a dogfight,
going to be a dogfight all the way to the finish.
Are we going to be winning every single quarter? Is
BYU going to be up in every moment?
Speaker 5: Absolutely not. So we better hope we have.
Speaker 4: A makeup of kids that know how to come back
from behind, and right now, that's what they showed and
I think that everybody should be proud of that.
Speaker 5: And yes, the outside.
Speaker 4: World is going to point too, well, maybe they're not
as good as they think as people think.
Speaker 5: They are, so be it.
Speaker 4: Let them think that and then DYU just focuses on
doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I've said this time and time again.
Speaker 3: I was handing out my game balls for this game
versus Iowa State, and my first game ball actually went
to Aaron Roderick for his play calling, for his ability
to scheme wide receivers open. People don't really realize that
they want to give all the credit to the quarterback.
I'm like, guys, these are schematic, like, these are linear
schematic executions, and he's allowing bear Bachmeyer to make an
easy throw sometimes many times in this game, to go
over three hundred yards because he didn't have a running
back in this game LJ went out in the first
quarter or you know, at the end of it, I believe,
and I just I felt like a Rod deserved this
game ball. Wanted to get your perspective on this because
there hasn't been a coordinator in BYU football history, minus
Doug Scolville, who was only with us for like four
years in the seventies that has been applauded as being
a good play caller. And I'm like, guys, like, we've
had some great play callers per dollar spent in our
illustrious history, and no one's been perfect. But a rod
deserves a bit of his flowers right now. In my opinion,
all things considered, one of the toughest schedules in boa
football history with a true freshman quarterback. He lost his
regro freshman redshirt senior excuse me, and then he just
lost his running back in this game versus Iowa State.
Speaker 1: I think he'd needs some love.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know what, here's the thing that I really enjoy
watching Aaron Rodgercks schemes is he does such a good
job of creating levels.
Speaker 4: Of throws that they mirror a concept that is a
staple concept. And then what he does is he create
through formations, through motions, different ways to get to the
same foundational type scheme. You know, it's kind of like
what I said earlier in the show talking about building
a foundation, Like there are areas of the field that
he does a great job of attacking a variety of ways,
but when you look at where people get to on
the field, it makes the read simple for the quarterback
because he has something to say, well, that is a
lot like this play. They're getting to the same spots
on the field. I can read it the exact same way.
We're just getting there a little differently. The o other
thing that he does well is he creates really good
stuff off run game.
Speaker 5: You look at some of the actions that they have.
Speaker 4: They have such a large variety of play actions that
they use off of their counter game, and he does
a really good job of also off of run game.
I'm gonna have quick hitters that I'm gonna utilize space
and numbers. And if we have space and numbers, the
quarterback is going to not choose the run. He's just
going to throw the ball out on the edge.
Speaker 5: And then he's gonna have these these mid level throws
where people are based off of the way that a
defense reacts to the run. I can now get people
right behind in those windows, and so you see Bart
come off of a quick action and he's going to
drive a ball right behind those windows. And then you
see those even deeper shots off of actions that are
hitting those throws.
Speaker 4: You know, sixteen to twenty two yards down the field.
That's where he does a really good job in his
game plans and those things. And you know, I'm always
reminded of a conversation I was having one.
Speaker 5: Time with Carson Palman.
Speaker 4: We were talking about play callers in the NFL, the
job that it is to be a play caller in
the NFL, and the word that he.
Speaker 5: Used was offensive coordinator is such a thankless job.
Speaker 4: And it's so true because when your team scores points
and does well, most of the time people just say, well, yeah,
that's what he's supposed to do. He's the offensive coordinator.
He's supposed to go out there and put points on
the board, and they don't realize how much goes into
getting those points on the board. Especially with some of
the defensive schemes that people run. It is not always
easy because you a lot of the times are calling
what you are anticipating. But when things don't go good,
it is so easy to just point the finger terrible
play calls.
Speaker 5: This guy sucks.
Speaker 4: And that's why it's so important to have a quarterback
that can also see and understand what is trying to
be accomplished with the play call and get you in
and out of the right things. And when it is
bad or when it's not what you thought, you know what,
Sometimes taking a sack is not a bad thing. Sometimes
throwing a ball away is not a bad thing. Taking
the checkdown can be a great thing. And although it
doesn't look pretty, a coordinator that has somebody that can
manage the decisions really really well, it helps the coordinator
so much.
Speaker 5: Because when you get in situations where.
Speaker 4: You can't trust a quarterback to do that, you have
to be careful with your play calls. You have to
be careful that you're not talking him into throws by
your play call.
Speaker 5: And that's why we've seen it this year like this
is a.
Speaker 4: Very put together football team, very put together, with a
great understanding of the offense that these guys have been
in one offense the entire time.
Speaker 5: And you insert this young but very smart.
Speaker 4: And good decision maker that can always bail us out
with his legs, and you put that together.
Speaker 5: And things are working really, really well.
Speaker 4: But Aaron Rodgers has done a good job of taking
that foundation that he built with the players, recognizing what
they can do, bring in a young quarterback and managing
that and.
Speaker 5: Balancing it out so well. And that's the art of
being a coordinator. It's not always gonna just look great.
Every single quarter. But he has done such a good
job of in.
Speaker 6: The things that he does, of how creative it is.
Speaker 4: Because you don't get to back you like, you don't
get to go back and watch the full eleven on
eleven view.
Speaker 5: You don't get to see how.
Speaker 4: Something from week three or week four is utilized, and
how he knows what a defense is going to do,
and how he's capitalizing off of back week seven to eight.
Speaker 5: But he's done a good job of that.
Speaker 3: John Beck former b au Great the Quarterback Scientiss Stove
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to get fifteen percent off. Bear Bachmeyer threw for a
lot of yards in this game. Very impressive work from
bear Bachmeyer over three hundred and seven twenty two to
thirty five, sixty two point nine percent completion percentage, two touchdowns.
He also ran it twelve times for forty nine yards
and a touchdown, averaging four point one yards per Carrie.
How would you assess his performance in this game on
the road in front of sixty two thousand enemy, Well
most of them were Enemy fans. Not not as many
BA fans got tickets to this game, because Iowa State
fans show up to Jack Trice Stadium and they never lose.
They very rarely lose at on their home field. What
did you make of Bear Bachmeyer's performance?
Speaker 5: I thought Bear had a super solid day.
Speaker 4: You know, playing those three three five defenses, it's not
easy because they based off of their rules, they're going
to get into looks that don't necessarily have defined coverage
where you would say, oh that's cover two, Oh, that's
cover four, Oh that's cover six. Like a lot of
the times you're going back there, you're going through your
reads and there is no defined coverage. They play very
unique responsibilities sometimes three three five defenses based off of
motions and different things.
Speaker 5: They can take themselves out of position. And so you.
Speaker 4: Actually saw some of BYU's big plays were some busts
by Iowa State and a really good job of Bear
of recognizing them. That's either thing that's not easy to
do as a young player. It's not easy to recognize,
you know when they bust and all of a sudden,
your clear out go route that is literally there for
what you call love of the game. He's just running
defenders off all of a sudden, that guy's who's popping open,
and Bear find Chase.
Speaker 5: On the run, and Chase is really the clear out there.
Speaker 4: So Bear does a really good job of staying within
the offense, even some of his sacks.
Speaker 5: Like, I know, it sounds funny to compliment a.
Speaker 4: Sack, but Bear took a couple of really good sacks
because there was nowhere to go with the football.
Speaker 1: And slid one time.
Speaker 5: Great, yeah he did, Yeah, yeah he did.
Speaker 4: You know, young quarterbacks learned that when you start getting
knocked around, you.
Speaker 5: Learn how to sigh real fast. But he did a really.
Speaker 4: Good job of just, you know what, even though we're
down right here, even though it feels like we're having
a little bit of a tough time getting things going,
it's not worth it right here to chance it.
Speaker 5: And the thing that's cool, too, is with Bear is
like the demeanor of staying the same guy despite the situation.
I think that that, you know, I'm going to go back.
Speaker 4: To what I watched this kid do for three years
in high school, whether it was our games, sing him
on tape like he was involved in so many shootouts
forty seven to forty nine, fifty two to fifty seven,
thirty eight to forty one.
Speaker 5: I think Bear literally has.
Speaker 4: Just been programmed to just be the same guy no
matter what is going on, because that is just the
game that he's had to play for so long. And
so when I look at this game, like, yes, Iowa State,
it felt like.
Speaker 5: They had a ton of momentum.
Speaker 4: I mean I was driving from one Pop Warner game
to the next Pop Warner game with my phone on
my car watching and Iowa States driving and I'm like,
oh my gosh, like this is the first half, and
they if they put points on the board, especially a
touchdown right here, this is going to be a huge
gap that, like, you know, I don't think anybody expected that.
And then boom the interception happens, and then all of
a sudden, you feel this momentum shift. And then, like
I said earlier, they score before half, they get the
ball coming out of half, they get the ball getting
after the over on the punt, like things start happening,
and the same old Bear just keeps chipping away, right,
and he runs around. He finds guys open, you have
the other thing he did a really good job of
he recognized when the other team was in drop eight
and he could feel, oh.
Speaker 5: They're only bringing three right here.
Speaker 4: That's a skill that, like you have to develop over time.
Most of time a young quarterback, you know, he'll he'll
force certain balls and then you'll watch tape and go,
oh man, they're.
Speaker 5: In drop eight right there.
Speaker 4: Like I really didn't need to try to throw that
on time in such a tight window.
Speaker 5: I can move a little bit.
Speaker 4: Like you found him, find Parker Kingston on the backside.
It was a little three by one front side, you
have an option route with a little rap incut and
into the field backside concept you have a corner with
two double unders. Well, the coverage, yeah, the coverage would
not tell you to go backside.
Speaker 5: So he starts front side to the two receiver side.
Speaker 4: But he recognized that they were in a drop eight
and you see him just softly kind of move and
stay behind the line, and he brings his eyes all
the way back to the left sideline and finds Parker
Kingston sitting by himself.
Speaker 5: You know, like that type of comfort. You know, there's
like there's no panic, there's no worry. He just he
feels it out again. I just go back to where
he has loads of experience, Like teams would do that
all the time. Uh to his high school team, they
would drop eight and they.
Speaker 4: Would say, well, we don't want to bring pressure because
I like, if we bring pressure and he sees the
pressure well and understands where to go with the football,
he can gash us. The other thing is if we
bring pressure and he takes off with his legs, he's
gonna gash us.
Speaker 5: All right, so let's go ahead, let's drop eight.
Speaker 4: Well, if you have a patient quarterback that recognizes that
they can sit back and as they move their eyes
they know defenders move.
Speaker 5: You know, he's just he's playing in it like in
a way where.
Speaker 4: Because of his presence and because of his comfort level,
even if things don't go well for a little.
Speaker 5: Bit, he just keeps chipping away, keeps chipping away.
Speaker 6: And he made it comment.
Speaker 4: I watched one of the interviews afterwards where he said
he's one of eleven that is one of the best
mindsets that you can.
Speaker 5: Have as a quarterback. And that's why playing on.
Speaker 4: Good football teams always helps quarterbacks. You know, the mind
can at times in highly competitive people take you to
a place where you feel like you have to do
more for your team because you so badly want to succeed,
you so badly want to win, you so badly want
to play well, and so you start to feel not
one of eleven. You start to feel like everything falls
on your shoulders and you got to make it happen.
And playing within the offense doesn't always work for you,
and so you try.
Speaker 5: To do more.
Speaker 4: And that's why sometimes you see on teams tough football
teams that are struggling to run the football, struggling to
get first downs.
Speaker 5: Sometimes the quarterbacks go through some struggles. And that's why
I meant that to be able to give a young
quarterback that.
Speaker 4: Feeling, which BYU has done because of going back to
the foundation that the team has built, the staff, the players.
Speaker 5: What he got to get inserted into.
Speaker 4: That is the best feeling you can give a young
quarterback is you are one of eleven. Just do what
you need to do, don't try to do too much,
and just distribute the ball. This team around you can
help you, and by that feeling, then you get to
watch the really cool things happen where then that player
is doing so much to help the team, and he's
made so many critical plays in good plays for this
football team because of that awesome balance that he gets
to live in and that space he gets to live in.
And that's where you just have to tip your hat
to the program as a whole, because the program has
built this theme that is now moving forward and also.
Speaker 5: The experience of a young player.
Speaker 4: He's coming in very experienced and that experience has helped
so much and you're getting to watch this really cool
thing happen. A thing pupped up on my Instagram the
other day of like, there's been four quarterbacks that have
started off. Three quarterbacks that started off I think it
was like seven and zero, and right now there's there's
been only three and it's Jalen Hurts, it's Trevor Lawrence, and.
Speaker 5: It's bear Backmeyer. Well, look at the schools you're talking.
Speaker 4: Alabama in their heyday, Clemson in their heyday, and BYU,
just BYU.
Speaker 5: Is in such an awesome place right now. It's so
cool to see.
Speaker 1: Love that perspective. John. Last thing before we let you go,
train three.
Speaker 3: DQB offers a plethora of services to quarterbacks around the
country and it's not just you know, training in person.
You guys get into film work, you guys will take
on essentially this telefootball elf model, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Explain a little bit.
Speaker 3: People can sign up for it on Training Train three
DQB dot com.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what's happening right now as well that
I should probably say is with high school playoffs being
right around the corner, you have some of these teams
in different states that they're getting first round bys. You know,
the coaches give them a weekend off after you know,
their final regular season game. We have a lot of
players saying, hey, you know they always give us the
Saturday Sunday off after our last.
Speaker 5: Game before we head into playoffs. Can we come down?
Speaker 4: And so we already have a lot of quarterbacks that
are setting up kind of that end of the year
tune up, end of regular season tune up. And people
ask me all the time, John, what is it you
do for your pro guys, you know, in college guys
during the season.
Speaker 5: Well, we watch all their tape. We're giving them feedback
throughout the year.
Speaker 4: But then during bye weeks, me and my partners were
always on the road.
Speaker 5: During bye weeks for tune ups, and.
Speaker 4: People ask, well, how come these guys need tune ups. Well,
there isn't usually as much of an emphasis on mechanical
efficiency throughout the course of a season because everything is
on scheme, everything is on understanding what the defense is,
giving coverage, game plan. You're putting in so much time
to the actual game that there's not really that that
I that is on mechanics. And so sometimes kind of
like your cleat, you know, gets a little loose and
you got to come and you got to tie it
back up to tighten it up.
Speaker 5: That's the same thing that we do with quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: We could go out during certain times of the year
and you get little tune ups, just a little fine tuning.
And so right now is a big time of year
as high school football regular seasons are winding down, a
lot of guys are looking for that tune up before
they head into playoff time.
Speaker 3: John Beck, Ladies and gentlemen, John, always appreciate our time together.
Thanks for hopping on at pontificating and giving us some
football knowledge we can't get anywhere else.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: You're welcome. I'm always happy to hop on and pontificate. Ben.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're a pontificator of palabras. Man, that's what you are. Man,
And I don't know how you say. How do you
say polabras in Portuguese?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Words, same things.
Speaker 1: See, you're a pontificator of palabras. You're a Portuguez. So yeah,
that's what you are. Baby.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: It's good talking to be a you ball Burro. It's
fun to watch these guys play so well.
Speaker 3: Always a pleasure, always a blessing talking about with you. John,
thanks so much for hopping on, brother.
Speaker 5: Okay, sounds good. We'll see it.
Speaker 1: They go.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, final hot take before we call it
a show.
Speaker 3: Hammer time, Ronald the three man Weaver, Ronnie, what do
you got for me?
Speaker 7: Bear Bachmeier is the Big twelve Freshman of the Year,
not candidate. He is the Big twelve Freshman Player of
the Year. Give me the award now, I don't care
who got selected. A lot of controversy.
Speaker 3: I give the award Big Twelve Football Week nine honorees
offensive Player of the Week Bert flick Ficklan of Utah,
as well as Connor Wigman, quarterback Houston, and Freshman in
the Week Beard. Excuse me, Bert Ficklin got both of them,
got both of the awards. That sounds like Bear fatigue
to me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, bear fatigue.
Speaker 7: Bear has made the voters fatigue now because he's been
so dominant. But at the end of the day, the
Big Twelve will try anything they can been to make
sure that Byu is not nastally recognized.
Speaker 8: They don't want Brigham. They don't want Brigham.
Speaker 1: They don't want Brigham. You don't think I.
Speaker 8: Don't think they want Brigham. Think about it.
Speaker 7: Bear has had how many performances where you could have
been both the Big Twelve Freshmen of the Week and
the Offensive Player of the Week where they just have
chosen not to give it to him. I find it
pretty interesting at the backup and that this Utah team
was running up the score on a bad Colorado team
and they decide, okay, well let's just do that. So
I don't know, at the end of the day, it
doesn't matter. Bird whatever, fickle fickling fickle, the award over
to Bear Bachmeyer because Bear is gonna Bear's gonna win
the award. That's what's gonna happen at the end of
the day. I'm telling you, Bear's gonna have it. When
it's all said and done, they will have to literally
deliver the award in person, mail it, put a statue
however you want to do.
Speaker 8: His name is already engraved on it and they know
it as we all know it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think car Rauder is a bad team.
I mean, they beat Iowa State, they did at home
twenty four to seventeen. They were competitive against TCU. They
lost a close one to Bay on their whole field.
It's about home and away to me, and you just
have a home field advantage. Especially in the Big twelve.
A lot of a lot of fans show up. It's similar.
It's a kin to the Big ten and the SEC crowds.
And and that's why I always stay was in this game.
I think Bay is a better football team. It's obvious
to me that they're a better football team. But in
front of the their home crowd, uh, it's it gets
a whole lot more difficult. How many false starts, illegal
procedures at b what you have in front of that
student section of of of Jack Trice Stadium, they were
like on their own two yard line, backed up.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was ugly, man. It looked very similar kind to
what the Rock does at our home field of Lavelle
Edwards Stadium. So I think I think Utah also has
a very very good home field advantage, which then begs
the question the form and fashion which Utah demolished Colorado.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a lot of.
Speaker 3: Bo are Utah fans saying, look like, you know, the
rest were in on it and they had their home field,
but on a neutral field, we're taking it to the
BYU Cougars. So you have a lot of Utah fans
right now, especially with Texas Tech having to start the
third string quarterback, they're wondering, they're praying, they're wishing, they're
hoping that they meet up with Brigham Young University in
Arlington in the Big twelve championship game. Now, don't sleep
on Houston, don't sleep on Cincinnati. They're very much still
in the race for this and so is Texas Tech.
But anything can happen to the Big twelve, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 1: A holy war in Arlington.
Speaker 7: The team that's ridiculous Colorado. Colorado's not a bad team.
Bad team by record, they've been in every one of
these Bug games. Look, you lose to Houston by sixteen,
bin you lose a TCU thirty five to twenty one,
That game really doesn't tell because up until five minutes
it was a one score game. Colorado was marching and
it just didn't convert the fourth down. So Colorado by
record and show. But I mean they still got opportunity
to get be eligible three to five. People may say
that's crazy, which means they got to win three out
of the last four. But check this out. Listen, this
has been Arizona. They get it home, that's possible. West
Virginia on the road. Westernia is not a good football team.
They haven't won game yet. Then you got Arizona State
at home and then Kansas State on the road.
Speaker 3: So it's possible, still possible if b WA, you and
Utah meet in Arlington at is it going to be
an AT and T Stadium?
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 8: Yes, it's still there I think until twenty thirty one.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's an eighty thousand seat stadium.
Speaker 1: Does it sell out last year in a twelve championship?
I did not.
Speaker 3: Fifty five thousand showed up. That's a good pool in
a neutral state in Arizona State r idea. Yeah, you
know what I mean. It's chilidd so eighty thousand. I mean,
I don't want to get ahead of myself with the
cart before the horse, but man, that would be tremendous.
And Utah looks good. Utah is a good football team.
You talks a good football program. Don't get it twisted.
You you put a goose egg up on your whole
field and you dominat in that form of fashion. Yeah,
you've ran it up, but still you did it. You
were able to perform at a high level. So I'm
just saying, like, don't sleep on the youths either. They're
a good football team. All right, guys, download the podcast.
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