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in the house right now, Jared Bledcham Jared, how that
ca are you?
Speaker 2: Buddy? Dude? Great? Ben, thanks for having me. I know
why you're doing great? Is you want a championship. We did.
Speaker 4: Guys won West West Side. He won the champions third
grade tackle football and you're the DC. I'm the defensive coordinator.
We had a great game.
Speaker 1: We played Skyridge at Skyridge, so with two undefeated teams
going at it and uh, you know, it came down
to the very last play of the game they had.
Speaker 2: It was twelve to seven.
Speaker 1: They had the ball in the five yard line and
one last play and we stopped him on the one
on the one game.
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of these boys.
Speaker 1: I mean, they worked so hard and and to see
the knowledge they have at in third grade. We're shifting
our offenses, we're running blitz is where we're motioning, we're
there's so much into these options. I didn't start playing
flag football until fourth grade, you know. And I've got
these boys that are two years deep now two championship.
We're back to back, right, So we won the championship
last year, wanted this year, went undefeated this year. The
only team that beat us last year was Skyridge, who
we beat. Uh A shout out to Skyridge. Great group
of kids. You know what a battle I I have.
I was so overjoyed to be a part of that
group and part of that game.
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to to uh
Raider de Mooney.
Speaker 1: Raider came out and yeah, Rader gave the pep pep
talk before the game, and then Trey was there through
the game and and gave him a little it was
a little after after after the game speech. Congratulations and
but yeah, it's such a fun time.
Speaker 2: I love football. I love coaching football.
Speaker 1: I love the lessons I've learned, good, bad, ugly, devastating,
and being on top of the world, all wrapped into one.
It's called it's a it's football, football, baby.
Speaker 3: I feel like football is a great teacher of the
lessons of life.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It's a a sebastion of toughness, grit, fortitude, mental, physical, emotional,
all those things, even spiritual, all right, and you do
create a certain amount in a world that is increasingly
you know, soft and supple and weak and in all facets, right,
that lacks fortitude, with so much affluence, the so much convenience,
with so much technology, with so much it's like, you know,
what are we doing? What are we doing with our
our the next generation? And and football is a great
way to teach all those things. And you know, I
think mixed martial arts is another way that young men
and even young women can be engaged in that and
learn those lessons.
Speaker 2: And then I think the US military.
Speaker 3: I think if you look at like those three elements,
those three like factions, you know, as you get into
youth and young adulthood, those are the three ways in
which and living on a farm, I guess too, like
being like self sufficient living on a farm, and like
the daily chores, the daily riggers, the daily grind. It's
not maybe as competitive, but it's more like, hey, you
know you got to you gotta go do the chores
or else choice, get it get it done, gets d
right is get stuff done now?
Speaker 2: You have to So I'm right there with you.
Speaker 3: Jared pled So, former Bay Wide receiver, talking some ball
in the segment. Shout out to your team getting the win.
Final play of the game, they were on the five
yard line. They ended up running looked like maybe a
little power, a little off tackle off the sea gap.
Speaker 1: And their number one I don't know his name, excellent
player was the only reason they were down that far.
Speaker 2: Made a couple of receptions, ran the ball and yeah.
Speaker 3: You guys barely stopped him at the stuff the cut beautiful,
well done, bravo, b y U eight and no right now.
Uh they're heading out to the Lubbock for a top ten matchup.
As you're gonna be out, yes right, Jared, heading down there, loyal,
strong and true. I was wearing the white and blue,
gonna be taking a little his talents with his brethren
down to Lubbock to rep the y love that and uh,
there's some good news right now.
Speaker 2: LJ. Martin has been cleared and he's been practicing.
Speaker 3: Pete Damil reported on on Here's the ESPN Platform that
that l J has been practicing, he will be ready
to go, He'll be cleared, which you know I stated
yesterday and even last week on Wednesday. I'm like, to me,
the mechanism looks like an AC joint. Did you have
ever an AC joint?
Speaker 2: Sprain?
Speaker 1: I had a shoulder separation, that class two separation, you know,
was it.
Speaker 3: An AC joint or was it glenno humoroal like so
like the humorou is going into the glenoid or is
it or is it.
Speaker 2: This one that's above my grade? No? No, no, right,
that one? So you can almost so I couldn't lift
my arm up this way. Yeah, so that seems like
a C joint.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a diving past and landed on the
shoulder here. Yeah it was, yeah, you can yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know they taped it up weird And did they tape
it across this way? Did it take all the way back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then down it's a joint, Okay, yeah, and then
I've got a one shoulder that tired, the other.
Speaker 2: Now a joint. Yeah, so like you can play through
an ac Yeah, like you were able to play through it.
Speaker 3: They taped it down. You put a little padding there,
and you're, yeah, you just feel it. You feel that,
but you can play through. And that's what I'm saying.
You ought to put your other shoulder down when you
try to run into somebody.
Speaker 2: And that was my only thing.
Speaker 3: Like when I was valuing the mechanism and and I
sent it off to all my docks, I'm like, what
does this look like to you? And like even his
reaction afterwards, Like to me, everyone was like, the mechanism
looks a c joints and that could be a great shoe,
could be.
Speaker 1: When I saw his reaction, it was that hurt not
sure what it is. Doesn't feel like it's something's really broken,
but it hurt.
Speaker 3: Hurts, Yeah, it hurts. And so they shut him down
and Bill, you still got the win. Incredible, but he's back,
which he could have kept him going. I think they
could have kept him in the game.
Speaker 1: But I think that I mean, obviously looking back, you know,
a great decision and keeping him out because.
Speaker 2: We were able to pull out the win. And now
he's healthy for the biggest game of the.
Speaker 3: Year, no doubt about it. And you know, healthy is
a subjective term. Here, he's able to go. Will he
be lowering his shoulder in the same similar fashion to me,
I don't think you need to bend at the waist.
You just have to lower your center of gravity and
like the correct leverage, correct leverage, you know, and fight
through contact. And so hopefully, hopefully he can do that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's real good at using his lower body. He's
shifty because he's got the mobile hips that kind of
goes side to side that they kind of shuck people off,
so he doesn't have to run people over. Although we
we need him, we need him the bully through the middle,
you know. And and uh yeah, I think he's going
to do well. I'm excited that he's back.
Speaker 3: Aaron Roders said on The Coordinators one of the last week,
a pretty large junk of our game plan is centered
around l J.
Speaker 2: Morton.
Speaker 3: I agree with you now you say LJ is the
keystone of the b YU offense, so getting him back
is critical, I think. And although it was fun to
watch bear throat for three hundred fifty years.
Speaker 2: It was great the other side of what what we
have and there was.
Speaker 1: You know, like we talked last week, it's great to
see a rod have an opportunity to get thrown into
the fire that you you the whole game plan is
out the window. Now we've got to put something together
and we got to figure out how.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're out a way to win, right, Uh,
by't know. As I mentioned top ten, and this is
the first time in b YU football history that they've
faced another top ten team.
Speaker 2: While they are a top ten team, that's awesome. Check
this out right.
Speaker 3: So the other two like when b top ten, they've
played two teams that were also in the top twenty
five or the highest ranked were Coastal Carolina in twenty
twenty and then in nineteen ninety seven Cotton Bowl versus
Kansas State, they were number fourteen.
Speaker 2: Kansas State was coach Schneider. So those were the two.
Speaker 3: Like when they've matched up with the best teams, they've
lost one, they've won one in those games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty crazy when they're ranked right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now this is new territory, but I think it's
something we're gonna get used to I think we're going
to continue to recruit well and we should be battling
it out like this. And I don't generally record games
to watch after the fact other than by yeah. I
recorded the Texas Tech game and I went back and
watched it on Saturday because they played similar time as
we had our game then. And if Texas Tech plays
how they played this past week, we should do really well.
I just felt like they kept they stumbled so many
time times. But Kansas State just didn't have the turnovers.
And you know, they didn't have it any but if
you had a Kansas State team that didn't turn the
ball over once, it would have been a different game,
you know. So having having some of the ball control
and the ability to hold the ball and not turn
it over, which b why who has done well this year,
will have a big effect. But this is this is exciting.
I mean college game day. There you have everything coming
to a head in this game. The two best teams
in the conference are playing. So exciting to have a
conference again, you know, and and be able to have
these kind of battles and and who knows, I mean,
there's so many different directions as that we win. We
could we could play tex Tech again in the championship game,
you know, or we could play Utah and but all
all of the games, everything matters from here on out,
and and that's fun, you know, it's it's uh. We
we have a chance to just have an amazing season,
and we have up untill now, and and I think
we'll continue to work hard and do it.
Speaker 3: So, if you're a BYU fan, who would you want
to face in the Big twelve Championship Game?
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 3: Would it be Texas Tech? Would it be Utah? Would
it be Cincinnati? These are the top teams and b
wu's playing all of them on their back end of
their schedule, and they're gonna have to.
Speaker 2: Play them again.
Speaker 3: If they continue to win, or even if they're just
a one lost team, even if there are two loss team,
they could make it into the Big twelve Championship game,
and they're gonna play one of these teams once.
Speaker 1: I mean, you love to play Utah again just for
have two Holy Wars in one year.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's unheard of. But Utah's rolling right now.
Speaker 1: Utah is playing their best football right now, and I
don't know. I had to see how this Texas Tech
game goes and and after watching Cincinnati and Utahs, unless
that was a flute game by Cincinnati, I don't know.
Speaker 2: How they're gonna fare out the rest of the season.
You know.
Speaker 1: They Utah just walked all over them, and and they
out gained Utah by Cincinnati and the yardage and but yeah,
what a game by Utah. So so I would love
to see, you know, I already told my friends and
my my, my traveling brothers and cousins that if if
we if we beat Texas Tech this week, I'm buying
my ticket to the Big twelve championship game. Bye, I'm
buying my buying my plane ticket, you know, and then
expecting to.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, what do you make of the odds here?
Speaker 3: And I'm not a baker, they go up, so they
were ten and a half still, so yeah, I'm pretty
sure it's still ten and a half. I'll double check
on that, but yesterday was ten and a half. Yeah,
point favorite as a as a b YU side, I
love it. Yeah, throw us under the bus.
Speaker 2: It's at nine and a half and half would just
drop yeah, yeah, I mean what a great throw that
up on the wall.
Speaker 1: Talk about it every day, you know, remember in twenty
three the spitting you know, might just remember it all.
Speaker 2: Now, let's bring it all yeah, the Spig game, bring
it all back together.
Speaker 1: You know, everything builds momentum up until that game and
until they kickoff.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I like the ten and a half.
I thought it was crazy.
Speaker 1: You know, I would understand a six and a half,
maybe a six point because they're home, you know, and
and there's a lot of hype. They've played well this year,
they have their starting quarterback back, you know. So but yeah,
the respect level to BYU is is definitely not there.
Speaker 2: What's your theory on that?
Speaker 3: What's your theory on why b YU has been an
underdog in the last two games, they found a way
to win. And I mean, if you go side by
side statistics, is like like BYU was was not only
good enough to win those games statistically, but they dominated
in turnover marching. They dominated like plus six in turnover
march in those two games.
Speaker 1: And so so I'm curious the odds. So the odds
are for the for the gambler, right, But I'm.
Speaker 3: Not even talking about just like in general, I'm talking
about like favoritism and like like analysts picking against b
y U. B Yu is an underdog, uh, not only
from per Vegas, but for even the national pundits and
analysts that.
Speaker 1: They want to be They all want to be right
from their prediction at the beginning of the year. Jake
retzof left they're not going to have a good season.
They're they're they're a five hundred team, you know. And
and I think a lot of the pride in some
of these guys, they they they want to be able
to say, see, I told you, I told you that
that b.
Speaker 2: Yu wasn't as good as that they said.
Speaker 1: And so I think they keep with their pride and
what they initially said in the beginning.
Speaker 2: See, now we go out and beat Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: There's nothing they can say at that point that that
things have to change and moving forward.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that they just they got a
lot of pride. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys, these guys predict things and they
say will b why he's not going to be good
and we're proving them wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, do you think it's a conversation we
had earlier this year. I keep bringing up the plus
six turnover marks in the last two games being dogs,
and you know you're playing at home and on the road.
Ball security has been really good. Efficiency has been good. Offensively,
we're seeing Baird now even throw the ball more effectively
through the air, and it's not just Yak. He's starting
to push the ball down feel a little bit more too.
You're looking at Jake over at Tulane and they're six
and two right now. They've done well. They did lose
to Utsa, who's the four and four team, and he
got hold, he got pulled. He threw for one hundred
ninety four yards six point nine yards per attempt, one touchdown, two.
I and t's Brandon Sullivan came in to spell him,
and he was six of seven sixty three yards, one
touchdown one I T. It wasn't like I means from
an efficiency stampo. He was a little bit better, but
they were probably just looking for a part they were behind.
Jake also ran the ball seven times, sixty three yards
and nine yards of carry and had a touchdown. If
you you look at the the.
Speaker 2: Total stats comparative two.
Speaker 3: Bear Bachmeyer with a more difficult schedule, Jake's at one
six twenty two.
Speaker 2: Yards fifty nine point six percent completetion.
Speaker 3: Percentage, so not as efficient, he's never been as accurate,
seven touchdowns, three I in ts. He's been sacked five times,
but he's ran the ball extremely well seventy seven times,
five hundred thirteen yards six point seven yards per carry,
nine touchdowns.
Speaker 2: This season, and it's not like a week schedule.
Speaker 3: He's played Northwestern, Duke, Ole, Miss, Tulsa, ECU, Army, UTSA.
Speaker 2: That's a decent schedule.
Speaker 3: I don't know where it ranks out amongst the G
six is and even amongst the P fours, but uh,
definitely a a tough schedule for a G six program.
Speaker 2: And then you have Bear.
Speaker 3: You go side by side here on the season, and
Bear's at one thousand, ninety three yards three percentage points
more or efficient at sixty two point seven eleven touchdowns,
so he's got more passing touchdowns, he's got equivalency, and
I in t's he's been sacked nine times, he's taken
actually some good sacks, and then he's ran the ball
ninety four times four under eight yards four point three
yards per carrier and then nine touchdowns. So you go
side by side and they're actually pretty similar. But you
can make an argument that Bear has been more effective
and efficient than.
Speaker 2: Jake with equivalency.
Speaker 3: Or actually a better strength of schedule than Jake, And it's.
Speaker 2: Like wow, BYU.
Speaker 3: To your point, a lot of the analysts want to
be right for their preseason. You can't win with a
true freshman, or you can't win with you lost your
red shirt senior.
Speaker 2: No chance you can win like you like you did
last year.
Speaker 3: You have to pick b YU being a seven win
eight win team at best.
Speaker 2: Look at what they've done. You can make an argument
that b what you.
Speaker 3: Was better off with Bear than they were with Jake,
even Jake coming into a senior now now the only
the only other thing that I would add to that
conversation is the supporting cast at b YU was much
better than the supporting.
Speaker 2: Cast at two lane.
Speaker 3: I think sure wide receivers, running backs where I think
we are better at his pactet.
Speaker 1: Jake would have been a senior and he's gone, there's
a freshman, you know, So I would have taken Bear,
even if the stats were a little bit lopsided towards Jake.
I'd still take Bear because we know what we have,
what we're building with as well, and that we're just
getting started with.
Speaker 2: Bear, Bear, Bachmeyer, t Bow and the Bear Tar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so much, so much to play. Tibo was
so amazing.
Speaker 2: Days of forty seven, right, days of forty seven.
Speaker 1: The parade Utah is going to be different, right the
air Bear. You know, did you see on the from
Halloween they guy the kid that dressed up as that
was at my son's elementary school.
Speaker 2: So there's a parade walk. When we were dying, I
was like, it's.
Speaker 3: A kid that's dressed up in a B football uniform
and there's like you there's a dummy Utah football player
getting dragged behind him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that thing went viral. That was that was hilarious.
I saw that.
Speaker 1: That was like, where's my phone? I gotta yeah that
that was super funny. But yeah, no, there there's such
an upside to Bear. You know, they's got so much
time left. I mean, we get a full off season
with them next year, you know, where we can continue
to develop and put more things in and and now
we get a recruit with him, So that changes the
whole recruiting side where you get to go out and
you've got some receivers that might be on the fence
or some receivers that are looking at other schools some
running backs or whatever and you're like, hey, or even
offensive line d The whole group now is looked at differently,
so when you go to recruit, but you yeah, you
will be playing with Bear.
Speaker 2: You know, you see what he's.
Speaker 1: Done as as a freshman with with only a couple
of months of work. So there's a lot on the
table now in the recruiting side to to really bolster
the next group coming in.
Speaker 3: Any of the thoughts on your comments here or how
do you see this BYU Texas Tech game playing out.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a battle. You know.
Speaker 1: We have to go in and you know, be a
dominant defensive team. And if we can do that, if
if if they play the way they played Kansas State
and our defense plays how we know they can, we
should win.
Speaker 2: But it's I think going at Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: And and their fan base is is excited. You know
ESPN Game Day there, it's it's it is the biggest
game of the day coming up this Saturday. And you've
got people who don't watch BYU and and and probably
don't even follow the big twelve months and they're excited
to watch this game. So I expect really a real
physical game. And the weather's going to be perfect. It's
gonna be mid seventies, and yeah, we're we're ready to go.
I'm excited to get out there. Never been to Lubbock,
you know, and excited to get some barbecue in me
and and enjoy some time in Texas. And yeah, no,
but I think we're gonna We're gonna farewell. We just
have to stay on top of the game. It's an
early start for us, so I'm not sure, you know,
I'm sure that the coaches are doing things to get
the team ready for that early start. And but the
weather's going to be great. There shouldn't be any any
issues there. And keep guys healthy and let's go hit hard.
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