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Speaker 4: Pros getting an update from Jack Kelly. It's right.
Speaker 3: He's going to be at the NFL Combine and he's
gonna look good, he's gonna feel good. He's going to
perform good at the NFL Comboine. I think he's gonna
shock the world, in my opinion, and really run get
some great times.
Speaker 4: And so we're gonna break down a little bit of.
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few sounds byes here. You know, look, he was use
a Coke captain at BYU. Was a captain at BYU.
He was a fantastic the six foot two, almost two
hundred and fifty pounder. I think for his the combine,
he came in just a hair under six to two,
so he's coming at six to one two forty six.
Speaker 4: His athleticism score kind of pre combine.
Speaker 3: He's seventy one, total score sixty five and production score
fifty seven, so not as much production as they wanted
to see. This is Lance Zerlin's breakdown, NFL analyst, his overview. Okay,
this is his overview. Okay, so take it with a
grain AsSalt. This is just Lance's opinion. Two time team
captain with four productive seasons between Weaver stayed in BYU.
Speaker 4: Kelly is a burly.
Speaker 3: Linebacker with adequate play speed and desired aggression. His reaction
time is average, but his struggles to find his leverage
and fit as a run defender pop up too often
on tape. He has a strong punch but short arms
and can get stuck to blockers who sink their hands in.
He's adequate in coverage but above average as a blitzer
and has some juice when he rushes.
Speaker 4: Off the edge.
Speaker 3: Kelly might need to star on special teams to find
a role as an even front linebacker with third down value,
so that's his overview.
Speaker 4: Strengths.
Speaker 3: Delivers firm punch on climbing blocks, adequate speed for most
sidelined to sideline pursuits. Possess his quality play strength, and
some nasty in his demeanor. Quick to close and pounds
on pass catcher from man to zone. Displays good feel
as a blitzer and is able to trim the corner
off the edge. Has plug and play traits as a
four phase special teamer. His weaknesses ber Lancerlin Nflanalyst NFL
dot Com, average eye quickness and reaction time to his keys,
will turn his pads and overrun his fits against wide runs.
Speaker 4: Needs to leverage his gaps through better.
Speaker 3: Positioning, inconsistent technique and execution to get rid of a block.
Has some trouble finishing tackles with consistency in space. Was
a non factor against the Texas Tech running game. Is
what he pointed out is he evaluated the film as
he was checking tape. I think he's gonna be pleasantly
surprised with his athleticism, even though he does give him
a high athleticism grade.
Speaker 4: I think he could shock some people as well.
Speaker 3: Prospect great overall five point eight two, he says he's
an average backup or special teamer. That's what a five
point eight two ranking would be. Okay, just below the
good backup with potential to develop into a starter.
Speaker 4: I disagree with him.
Speaker 3: Think I think Jack Kelly is more of a like
a six point three. I think he's an eventual starter.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I think he's between a six foot six point three
and a six point one because of his pass rushing ability,
his linear ability, like he's going to get. His pass
rushing ability is his best stability. I'm telling you that's
what he's good. He's dangerous all the other things, but
he has the ability to be a good great I'm
not going to say elite pass rush, a good to
great pass rusher. He projects as a per NFL draft
scout as a four to six three forty at almost
two hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good, and he could if.
Speaker 3: He gets into the four or five to five range,
which I think is feasible I think as possible, then
watch out, guys, watch out. I think there's gonna be
some some individuals within these NFL organizations that want to
take a long, hard look at him and maybe take
him as a mid round pick, third, fourth, fifth. We'll
see how it plays out. Jack Kelly, let's get into it.
A couple soundbites here from Jack Kelly at the combine.
Let's get into you want to get into the brotherhood first,
All right, let's talk Jack Kelly talking about the brotherhood.
Speaker 4: I guess, of B why you here? How do you
approach the game preparation.
Speaker 5: Just by getting ready, watching an extra film throughout the week,
making sure my body is right. I think the biggest
thing is the brotherhood we had on the team. We
all got each other better throughout the week, and we
all made sure that we were all prepared our biggest things.
Speaker 3: There you go, Having a good good teammates help you
prepare at the highst of levels. And so that helped
him uh to be productive and to stand out amongst
some great football players within a great football team. Jack
Kelly giving a shout out to Chad k And why
is this important? Remember Chad Kaha just got elevated from
analysts to outside edge coach. Kelly Papina joint is yesterday
he disgusted. He was fantastic and a great interview, and
he went into depth about why he was the right
decision and the right higher. This is Jack Kelly also
expounding on the higher and how impactful Chad k us.
Speaker 6: Five checks that ten sex last year, who was a
kid thinking?
Speaker 5: I think Coach Chad, he does a who's our assistant
line metage coach?
Speaker 4: Last year? He does a phenomenal job with pass rushing.
Speaker 5: Again us in the film room understanding what keys we
need to see just going into that game.
Speaker 3: With there you go given a lot of credit to
coach Chad k So if you want more pass rushing,
pass rushing technique, individual development, look no further.
Speaker 4: Coach Chad k is the dude Chad.
Speaker 3: Coach Chad k is the guy who's next up at
b YU to step up and be ballers for Brigham, who's.
Speaker 2: Next to Byu that we're not talking about right now,
but a year.
Speaker 4: From now we'll all be talking about.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot of guys, some guys you
probably already know, keanutnoboss Isa and Lasker, l J Martin,
Kidu Uava who just transferred into there. There's a bunch
of guys there that are gonna be ballers.
Speaker 4: What was like going up against LJA every day?
Speaker 5: He made it hard, which is a good thing. It
was great competitive nature. He made me better, I got
him better.
Speaker 4: It was definitely great to have.
Speaker 3: Practice, great day every day at practice. When you go
against the best, you become the best.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 3: There's a fight or flight mechanism. Better to standard ground
and fight, and that's what Jack Kelly did against LJ.
Speaker 4: Martin.
Speaker 3: So there's some sound bites from Jack Kelly at the
NFL Combine. Any thoughts, any commentary there, Ronnie, before I
move on to a couple other notes here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the of note the last clip band,
which is why I save that one for last. All
those guys that he mentioned I believe will get Combine invites.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 7: You have to do the math and the data right
because you're a smarter man than me. That's why I
surround myself with you. But when was the last time
or the most I guess combine invites the BAU football
has gotten. I mentioned it like last month, I think,
or maybe earlier in the month. You're gonna have a
lot next year. If FILA tasots all that decides if
he wants to go, he'll get one count a ton.
Speaker 4: Of vas and no doubt. LG.
Speaker 7: Martin, no doubt, Isaiah Glasker, no doubt. Kdu Lave, no doubt.
There's a bunch of guys been that I think will
get a combine invites on the defensive side and offensive side.
Speaker 2: Of the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to say, let's see here. I want
to say maybe the two thousand and thirteen I'll have
to look that up.
Speaker 3: Most recently, I want to say it was you know
that there is Danny Sorensen, Ethan Mana, Malauna Alani Fue.
It was that drafted may have been twenty fourteen. But
I want to say there's like five to seven guys
from BAU that got the invite, and that was the
most in recent history. So, but Chase Roberts and Jack Kelly,
they're at the combine and I expect big things from Jack. Now,
I think Chase is going to test out well too.
I think he's going to do really well in the
agility drills. I hope he does well in the vertical
and I'm intrigued to see how how he performs in
the forty time. But I don't look at at Chase
as like this overly like explosive, twitchy wide receiver. To
He's a big, strong, fairly fast, smooth operator, good catching radius,
good hands, and I think he'll show decently.
Speaker 4: I want to be proven wrong, though.
Speaker 3: I mean, like he comes in at what six three
two sixteen, he's projected per NFL draft scout to run
a four five four, which would which would be great.
Remember I think Puka Nikua, if I'm not mistaken, was
around a four five six. So it's not like I mean,
it's not like it's it's not slow, it's just you know,
Remember Puka was a value pick, one of the best
value picks, if not the best value pick in the draft.
He went fifth over He went fifth round, one hundred
and seventy seventh overall to the Los Angeles Rams, and
like McVeigh and his staff were like high fiving chess bumping.
Speaker 4: They knew they had a dude, they knew they had
a dog.
Speaker 3: And now he's argued the best wide receiver along with
Justin Jefferson and Jackson Smith and others at the top
of the food chain of that receiving receiving that elite
core of receivers in the NFL. So I think if
he runs a mid four or five, that's great. That's
kind of what I.
Speaker 4: Project the matter as well.
Speaker 3: So six three two sixteen, that's a big bodied wide
receiver and he can run I think where he's going
to be impressive though. I mean if he runs a
four to two or below pro agility, a three cone
below like six eight, uh, six point eight, that's really
good because he needs to be able to get use
his quickness and his big body take to to get
out of his brakes obviously, and then you know, come
back to the football and make plays that are contested.
Speaker 4: A lah uh what.
Speaker 3: Pook has been doing. And you can land up Chase
on the outside or inside. You could see him though,
lined up a little bit more inside as a big
body slot.
Speaker 4: See how that lays out for Chase Robert.
Speaker 3: So that's your Cougars in the pros, guys, Jack Kelly,
Chase Roberts getting ready for the NFL combine.
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Speaker 4: What's up, Spencer? How are you?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 7: Good to be with you?
Speaker 2: Brother? While I didn't say anything that could be perceived
as quote unquote bad, I'd be lying if I said
I wasn't thinking bad right along with Kevin Young last night,
he actually said some hard things and I don't fault
him for that, But rough rough night for BYU, and
it feels super dramatic because it's juxtaposed against the best
performance of the season seventy two hours before. So it
just feels like the most dramatic high high and then
an immediate low low.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was the vibe like at the at the arena,
what was the feel like on the core, what was
the vibe like from the players, the coaching staff like.
Speaker 4: Throughout the game? And how would you just describe the
spectacle that was the lost versus U. See, they were
down thirty for most of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go ahead and start chronologically with the first
frustration time out that Kevin Young took when BYU was
down fourteen to four. Before you could say UCF and
guys came over to the bench and immediately Tim Fanning,
who's essentially the defensive coordinator and one of Kevin Young's assistants,
started talking about effort and the game plan of you
know what UCF's gonna do. You've got to get back
on defense, guys, we know what they're going to try
and do, and it just kind of seems like BYU
never engaged. They got punched super early, and where they
have been so good is at some point something clicks.
Sometimes it's at halftime, sometimes it's late in the first half,
sometimes it's midway through the second half. But like typically
they will re engage and then go on like this
crazy run, right, It just never happened last night. And
Kevin Youong said he's been coaching basketball for a long time,
and he said, occasionally you just encountered these games where
it feels like absolutely nothing can go your way, and
it felt like it was a comedy of errors and
the perfect storm all combined into one. And then you
just like you want to keep playing hard, and it's
not like the guys weren't still playing, but it just
felt like the details went out the window early and
it was like, well, what do he want us to do?
UCF has made eleven of sixteen three pointers in the
first half, were down by twenty four. We're not making layups,
we're not closing out on shooters. And not just the
team across the way making three pointers, but it was
the open shots. It was the quality of shots that
UCF was getting. Everything felt easy, and so felt like
no matter how many timeouts to be what you called,
the message was still the same, Like, you guys where's
the intensity, where is the effort you've got to get
out on shooters? I mean they're feeling it guard a
guy five feet behind the line, like you have to
be in his face. And so they tried a number
of different things, tried to go to a zone just
to try and disrupt UCF a little bit, and then
started switching every pick one through five no matter what,
and went with a bigger lineup to try and help
it there, and it just felt like nothing would work,
at least not consistently. So the vibe was defeat really.
I mean at halftime, when BYU walked into the locker
room down twenty four, it felt very different than previous
times when it was like, okay, well they'll make some
adjustments and they'll come back and they'll be okay. And
they were down by twenty one against Clemson at Madison
Square Garden, it was like what the heck was that?
But they came out with a fury and a vengeance.
Just felt like BYU was tired and Kevin Young said
they were sleepwalking, which I think is an accurate depiction
of what it felt like, and just a stunned crowd
and didn't help that it was a nine pm tip,
and everyone's tired and impatient and wondering, how is this
the team that we saw beat Iowa State three days ago?
They just could not be more different. I'll add this though,
the presence of Richie Saunders just even being on the
bench in that Iowa State game was an immediate mood
lift and such a boost for guys like k Cata
and some of the bench players like. His presence there
just kind of was like, yes, we need We're so
glad to have Richie back in any capacity were Richie's
doing his thing. He's having surgery this week, so he
couldn't be there last night, and I don't know that
he all of a sudden would have been like this
magic potion for BYU. But my point is even him
being around the team as a true BYU guy brings
an immediate change in the atmosphere of the locker room,
the team dynamic, just because when he's around, he makes
everybody better. And I hope to get him back on
the bench as soon as possible. Hope a surgery goes
super well to replaced or to rather repair his torn
ACL and we'll see. But yeah, I mean the vibe
that's a long answer for you, but there's a lot
there because they felt like dead man walking about four
minutes into the game and it was just like, man,
can we end the game? I when the last time
you remember Ben thinking like, oh, just end the game
and like let's get onto the next But that's kind
of how it felt last night when by was down
by thirty six at one point, absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Like you've been covering BYU for how long now, Spencer
at the basketball basketball specifically at the Merritt Center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is thirteen years.
Speaker 3: Okay, So in those thirteen years, how many times has
BYU fans booed their team?
Speaker 2: I was thinking about that last night as the team
ran off the floor at halftime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought, wow, booze.
Speaker 2: And again Kevin Young was like, look they I get it.
I'm not mad at our fans, like our team deserved it.
They played terrible. Yeah, And but I was thinking, like,
I don't remember. I don't remember the Marriott Center.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the last time, and I mean I've
been around since five is when I arrived at BYU,
Like I don't I don't remember from in the last
twenty years a BYU basketball team getting booed on their
home court. Like even when you lost by like thirty
to Gonzaga at home, they weren't getting booed because, like
the effort was good, It's just Gonzaga was that much
better and we weren't. Just we just weren't hitting shots right,
and so they were like, Okay, it wasn't an effort issue.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Like, I don't remember the last twenty years BYU fans
going out of their way to boo their team.
Speaker 2: Correct, especially not in the Marriott Center. I do not
remember a single time.
Speaker 4: Like Edwards is different.
Speaker 3: The fans there they boo about anything, right, But like
Merritt Center's different, they don't boo. So do you do
you think the fans are Do you think they're ticked
off about? Are they ticked off more at the coaches
or the players?
Speaker 4: Right now? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, I think it's kind of a a combination of everything.
I think there's frustration that there there are injuries and
BYU is I mean, I think all of the frustration
just boiled over for all of the reasons, injuries piling up,
inconsistent defense, and I mean, where's the you like to
use the will of accountability. Where is the where is
the accountability in that? It's Is it on the coaches primarily?
Is it on the player?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Or is it just like a perfect mix of both?
And I think the answer is probably closer to an
even draw on that blame. But BYU's defense, especially after
playing better against Arizona and Iowa State, they were engaged,
they were better, they executed the game plan. They this
never showed up last night. So I think it all
kind of culminated in this Dang it. We miss Richie,
we missed Austin Baker, like CABE's hand is injured, we
miss Nate Pickens, who's a good defender, and and he's
happening to sit out like and you showed us that
you're still capable, So what the heck changed? And is
it on the coaches? Is it on the players? Probably both,
But I think it just all boiled over. And then
we saw them play the worst half of basketball we've
seen all season. Seventy two hours after they're two halves
of the best basketball and the most complete game they've played.
So understand the Booze still kind of shocked by it
because it never happens at home, And I was trying
to think when it happened in general from like BYU fans,
and I thought of two occasions. Remember when by you
lost that absolute head scratcher at the Depth Center. I
think it was against South Dakota in twenty twenty one
or twenty twenty two, and it was like by you
just lost to a team that has a net ranking
of like two hundred and eighty in Salt Lake City,
and fans were they were a little disgruntled, and there
were some booze when BA you lost that game, or
the game in the West Coast Conference Tournament against San
Diego in Day Roses last year when it was like
four forty seven to nineteen at halftime or something, and
then there were some booze and a lot of frustration
BA fans. But gosh, those were both on neutral sites. Yeah,
this one, this one is unique. I know you probably
want me to answer the question, like where is more
of the accountability? Because I know how these coaches operate,
and I know them well, and I know how they
probably would answer. They're gonna say it's on them, like
they will take the blame. Kevin Young's gonna take the blame, like, hey,
I have got to figure it out. I got to
find my core, my rotation. I don't know if he
deserves it and if Tim Fanning deserves it, but he
is going to take the blame for his players about
not having them mentally right and then falling victim to
the whole big win hangover it fell last night.
Speaker 3: Yep, No, Dad Spencer Lytton BYU Sports Nation here on
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Speaker 4: Talking some Brigham basketball.
Speaker 3: So a couple other things that we've been broaching today
is you know, best path forward? Obviously there were some
a couple of silver linings, Tylan Russ Lexi Costick. You
always like to talk about silver linings, But what what's
the best path forward right now? And where do you
see this team going to end the regular season?
Speaker 2: Well, I think the challenge for BIU is to find
the true ability to have that flush mentality where like, Okay,
this is a game where you watch film, you discuss
basic consistent breakdowns in it and say we're never going
to do that again, Like this is absolutely unacceptable effort
and I don't care who's playing, Like, we will find
the five on the floor who will give maximum effort
for the whole game. Like that is that's the feeling
I got from Kevin Young last night. We got to
find the five guys who were giving the most consistent
effort on both ends of the floor. So like locating
the core of who's going to do that. They thought
it was Mihaila Boskovich that could be the guy that
is the consistent starter, and he has been for the
past few games in place of Richie. But maybe it's
somebody else. Maybe maybe it's a Lexi Coostitch, or maybe
it's a game where adem boop starts because they want
more They just want more energy on the floor immediately.
I don't know, but like they have to find the core.
And then the great thing about basketball is BYU doesn't
have to wait that long, Like they can just get
back to work and they got to go win a
road game at West Virginia, so rediscovering the winning formula
and getting right back after it. Like it's not like
football where you have to sometimes like you lose a
game and you have a buy sometimes you got to
sit on the loss for two weeks. BYU doesn't have
to dwell on this for very long. It's like, Okay,
we're gonna be on a plane in Morgantown on Thursday,
and like we got we gotta go again. As far
as big picture for what was still available for BYU,
man the loss to UCF really hurts in the Big
Twelve standings because they only play once speaking of the
Knights and the Cougars, and now UCF has a full
game lead on BYU plus the tide breaker with only
three to play, which means BYU has to win out
and UCF has to drop two of three games for
BYU to regain that sixth position for the Big Twelve Tournament.
I don't think it's gonna happen because UCF's schedule includes
a home game against Baylor, a home game against Oklahoma State,
and then a road game against West Virginia. So maybe
they go two and one. BYU wins three. They finished tied,
but by is most likely going to be the seven
or gold the eight seed in Kansas City for the
Big Twelve Tournament. Best course of action, Ben is just
beat West Virginia and and figure out how in the
world you're going to go to Cincinnati, a place you
got boat raced in last year and try and do
something that you're not expected to do, which is the
sweepest road trip before you come home and now have
to take on a resurgent Texas Tech team playing without JT. Toppin.
But they looked awesome. Christian Anderson's still awesome. And now
you've got to beat Texas Tech on your home four
on Senior night when you're honoring Richie's honors and Kava
Cata and you don't want to send them off with
a loss. So gosh, just just beat West Virginia. Try
and write the ship a little bit, find your defensive
corps and start with the simple things.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Just effort, consistent effort. That's what BA needs to find
right now, more than anything else.
Speaker 3: BYU has suffered many season ending injuries. This is the
most season ending injuries I've ever seen in basketball, and
it's crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't know why, I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll try to diagnose and treat that particular
their issue in the off season, try to figure it
all out.
Speaker 4: But uh, I want to ask you this question.
Speaker 3: So we've seen the jackal and hyd we've seen the ups,
and now we've seen the ceiling. We've kind of seen
the floor of this team as it is currently constructed.
How much grace will be what you fans have considering
the investment, considering the expectation of the preseason, considering everything
that has gone into not only the personnel on the roster,
but the personnel and the resource allocation on this staff. Right, Like,
I wonder if our happiness as people as humans and
the fallen state that we're in okay is uh? It's
determined by expectations. Let's be honest, Like what our expectations
did we meet?
Speaker 4: Right? What have we have we met?
Speaker 3: The have we met the expectation? Did we get the
roy we were looking for this year? And I know
that there have been expectations, maybe modified. I didn't change
all things considered right those season, any injuries, But what
is what is the expectation now going forward from the
the fan base, the donor base, the collectives, you know,
those individuals that have buoyed up this program to be
set up for a potential deep run in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The key to happiness in life really is managing expectations,
isn't it. It's a simple concept, but it really.
Speaker 3: Is true and tell you gotta have low expectations with me.
Just don't have high expectations. You're gonna be a lot happier.
Speaker 2: And you'll be happy.
Speaker 4: You're so happy, You're so happy.
Speaker 2: The question you ask is difficult because it's been such
a moving target based on who is available and when,
and the injury is no doubt about that factor in.
I think once Dawson Baker and Nate Pickens went down,
it was like, Okay, well, we're good as long as
nobody else gets injured, like this is still like an
Elite eight caliber team. And then when Richie went down,
it was like, oh, man, like can BYU win a
tournament game? And I thought that was a little dramatic
to think that It's like, okay, stop it aj is
still the best player in college basketball. He is now
at this point the expected number one pick in the
NBA draft. You still have Rob right the third, and
you still have a great length on your team, like
you have athletes you as a long team. And they
they showed what they are capable of in the games
against Arizona and Iowa State when they were playing elite
level competition and their backs were up against the wall.
So the AA fans got a taste of what it
could look like without Richie, and when they were close
at Arizona and then finally had the breakthrough against Iowa State.
I think it went from man, can BYU win again?
They can? They can they even get out of the
second round? Two? Okay, you're still sweet sixteen? Good, We're good,
right bed Iowa State? Like yep, like DUI still sweet
sixteen team. But after last night, it's like, again, oh, man, well,
what if the OA gets like a seven seed in
the NCAA tournament and they're in a brutal seven to
ten matchup and it's not great? Like are they Are
they gonna get upset in the first round? Like an
if they win the first round, is there any chance
they could beat a two seed and get to the
sweet sixteen? No way you can expect that that that
BA is gonna all of a sudden magically rediscover what
they did against Iowall say it's all about matchups. In
March madness, it's all about the matchups, And the prospect
of BA being a seven and taking on a two
is not great at the moment because you just you're
kind of floundering for consistency. So I would say that
right now the general expectation, and I would love to
hear if people feel differently about this. But I mean,
I've talked to a lot of people. I spent a
lot of time with BYU personnel, whether it's staff, coaches
and athletic administrators, school officials, and then obviously we're dialed
into the fan base through our social media interactions. But
if I'm kind of combining all of that right now
for what Bya's expectation is this season in the moment,
it's it's probably okay, ba's probably a second round exit
from the NCAA Tournament, and that will feel disappointing because
of everything that's gone into this, even with the injuries,
even with the excuses, Like I think the expectation is, yeah,
probably win a game and then fingers crossed, like maybe
they make you know, they do something that they haven't
done a lot of the season, They make a bunch
of threes, like they bring great effort, and then they
get out of the second round, they get back to
the sweet sixteen. But I don't see how it's fair
to expect this currently constituted team with who is available
to go farther than the Sweet sixteen. And maybe you
feel differently, Ben, but I feel like if BYU got
to the Sweet sixteen after everything that has happened, most
people would feel like, gosh, you know, it was a
wild ride, a lot ups and downs, but boa got
to another Sweet sixteen, back to back Sweet sixteens for
the first time ever. AJ was incredible. We'll call it good,
like get to the Sweet sixteen, We'll call it good.
But I think people are not saying the quiet part
out loud, which is this is probably a second round
exit team right now, and we're hoping it ends in
the Sweet sixteen at least.
Speaker 4: Yeah, quota expectations. They got to win it, well, at
least one game.
Speaker 3: If they don't win one game in CUA tournament, bou
fans are gonna be to oed.
Speaker 2: Then it's gonna be really weird. Absolutely, they're gonna be
to oed.
Speaker 3: All right, Spencer Lynton, we appreciate you, We love you.
Thanks for hopping out for a Cougar beat. Let us
know if you need anything from us, Thanks for all
that you do.
Speaker 2: You got it, brother. Just remember this DYU team. There's
still twenty and eight, still twenty one in the net,
still still have rob right third, still have shown the
capability to be a competent team. So my word of
caution as I say goodbye to you guys, is do
not judge EYU on the pinnacle gaming as Iowa State.
Do not base your judgment of this team on the
low point either. Rather look at the whole resume, which
is they've still beaten five Quad one teams and their
worst losses are against Oklahoma State and UCF, which are
Quad two. BYU is the team that has played twenty
eight games that they have been showing you consistently, especially
over the last few weeks, which is, hey still top
twenty five calibers, still in the six seed range. Like
I think they're going to prove it again when they
go and win at least one of these two road games.
And I think they're going to beat Texas Tech on
Senior Night, and we're all going to be saying, like, Okay, yeah,
there was a regression of the mean. This team is
still worthy of a six seed in the NCAA Tournament
regardless of what happens in Kansas City. And that, my friends,
is how I will end that. But I appreciate you guys,
Thanks for having me on.
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Com Lance Zerlin. He's been doing this for a long
time NFL analysts. He's check tape, he's evaluated at the productivity,
he's looked at that at the athleticism, and he has
waged Chase Roberts now Chase Roberts getting a higher grade
than Jack Kelly per NFL dot com. Would you agree
or disagree with that? Is he a more highly rated
talent than Jack Kelly? I mean it's not by much.
Remember I told you Jack was at like a five.
Oh goodness, gracious, let me have to I have to
pull it up real quick. I think Jack was at
a five point eight two. Chase is at a five
point nine to four. He's listed as an average backup
or special team or the six foot three, twent sixteen pounder.
So agree or disagree with that? They're kind of like
right on park. So they could be they could be
mid to late round draft picks depending on or high
priority undrafted free agent depending on how they test out,
how they interview at the NFL Combine, Ronni, Who's the
better NFL prospect in your opinion?
Speaker 7: This is tough, right because, I mean it really depends
on fit men obviously. What is a team looking for?
You know, are you looking for a two deep guy
as a wide receiver, guy that's a big body, possession receiver.
Do you go through a lot of injuries? Who's your quarterback?
What's your system? All that play as a factor but
it's so tough been on your great prospects. But I
have to believe that, uh, you know, Chase just based
on because the offensive player in my test a little
bit better. But Jack, I feel like it's right there.
Speaker 4: This is so close.
Speaker 7: I hate that I have to pick these because I
like Jack. I like, you know, the speed, the physicality
that he brings. But I think when you look at
the production of what Chase has done over is BYU
career and you you saw it, Ben, We hadn't seen him,
but it was the West Virginia game, his top speed
of what he got up to. He's gonna test well, Ben,
I think he is. So if I had to pick,
I think I leaned just a little bit Chase Roberts.
But this is like a fifty one forty nine.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4: What do you got Vic? I know you want to
chime in on this.
Speaker 6: Hey, I just gotta go with my my guy Jack Kelly.
I mean just watching him, uh go after you know,
spy the quarterback. Watch him closed on some of those
guys with speed, and then how he got to the
quarterback it seemed like with ease and uh and then
when he came back from that injury.
Speaker 4: How we played against Texas Tech, uh, and you know,
he dominated.
Speaker 6: He dominated the number four team in the country, it seemed,
making plays all over the field when you know the
rest of the team wasn't playing very well.
Speaker 4: Well his defense was.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think there's an interesting like I think
if Jack Kelly didn't have like hyper mobile shoulders, and
I know he got his like he's got his surgical
procedure done.
Speaker 4: And so he's probably in good shape now.
Speaker 3: But like if he didn't have like my hypermobile shoulders,
I was actually I would actually pick Jack, but just
because of like he's the juggernaut Jack, the juggernaut Kelly.
Speaker 4: He's linear, he's physical, He's he's gonna test out well.
Speaker 3: I truly believe that. And I love his closing speed.
I love his off off the edge, and I think
that kind of takes him over the edge as an
NFL prospect than that of Chase Roberts. But and the
other question I have too is from a competitive standpoint, Like.
Speaker 4: I say this a lot on the show Missions Marriage.
Speaker 3: You know, our faith, it provides perspective, perspective can be
a a an element of our lives. That we revere,
we love, we appreciate, because it's all about perspective in life.
But it can take the legs out from anddia as
far as like your hyper focused like transactionality of playing
high level football, fight or flight, sense of urgency. It's
all about ball. When you're a borderline late round you're
a late round draft pick, undrafted free agent type of player,
special teams. If these are accurate grades, average backup to
the special teamer, you got to be willing to like grind.
Speaker 4: For a minute.
Speaker 3: You gotta find a way on the football for you.
You gotta be able to tackle, you gotta be able
to block. You gotta play football. You gotta be a
football player. You can't just be a wide receiver. You
can't just be a linebacker. You got to be a
football player. Mitch means you're winning at everything. Chase has
to learn how to tackle, He's got to learn how
to block, he's got to learn to run down a kickoff.
Because if you're a borderline guy and you don't have
any other specialty, Like I think Mitch Matthews was a
tremendous wide receiver athlete, big, strong, fast, I think he
just wasn't good at all those other things that because
he was a borderline guy, and he wasn't a wide receiver,
a tried and true wide receiver three or four. He's
in that wide receiver five range, specialty wide receiver. I
kind of feel that way about Chase. I'm like, so
I lean I'm leaning Jack Kelly, even though he's got
some injury issues. I'm leaning Jack in that debate, not
taking anything away from Chase. I just wonder how much
of a dog he is and how much of a
sense of urgency and a passion he has for competition.
It is a transactional doggy dog dog just dog you
dog world like, that's what it is. It's crazy in
the NFL. So, but this is what Lan Serland had
to say about Chase.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Roberts is a two time captain and has stare stepped
his production in each season at BUYU. He has good
size and adequate speed, but won't be an NFL separator
on deep throws. He runs routes with good disguise and
above average technique. He lacks foot quickness for easy press release,
but has the footwork necessary to get in and out
of breaks cleanly.
Speaker 4: Over the first two levels.
Speaker 3: He plays tough through contact and is an above average
combat catch winner. He slowed to gain positioning on fifty
fifties downfield, though, Roberts is an older prospect, which could
impact his draft slotting, but has the size and talent
to make a roster. Strengths are good size with smooth
strides getting downfield, maintains discipline to disguise pattern intentions, breaks
off shorter routes at chrisp angles, rhythmic footwork getting in
and out of intermediate breaks, keeps himself between the defender
of the ball, plays through contact and make contestant catches.
Captures tight window throws with sudden hands. His weaknesses average
foot quickness when stemming his press release, lets his foot
off the gas when turning to locate the deep ball,
has trouble making adjustments to off frame throws, tardian attempting
to gain top positioning on downfield fifty five fifties, and
then below average run blocker for his size. Those are
the strengths and weaknesses per NFL dot COM's Lance Zerlin
overall production score seventy, athleticism score seventy three, and then
total score seventy three that would be number eighteen amongst
wide receivers in this NFL draft pack class per Lance
Zerlan within five point ninety four grade on the prospect
grade that he's given them.
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