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Welcome in Utah Utes inside representing KSL dot com. We
got Josh Furlong on the line. Josh, how you living man?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Ben, how you been.
Speaker 2: Doing fantastic man. It's the most wonderful time of the
year where the hate, the vitrel the competition really starts
brewing along the Wassatch front. You've been a part of
this rivalry, covering it for a long time. When the outsiders,
your friends, your family members, those that are not within
the state, maybe individuals that cover the Big Twelve or
other conferences, they ask about this rivalry game, how do
you describe it to them?
Speaker 3: Cool? That's a good question.
Speaker 8: I mean, I get you know, fans of daun Utah
messaging all the time, and you know, it's fun to
be able to kind of have that conversation different people
outside of the state and what this can be and
you know, it's it's crazy because like I think, you know,
what we see on social media is much more vitriol,
but in reality, I think there's just an evil and
even level of respect for each other even if you
hate them right like. And I think that's what makes
us fun is it's a rivalry that clearly has a
lot of heated passion towards each other. And you know,
there can be a lot of entertainment on the field
and none of these games wherever is predicted, and that's
that's what you want, right I mean, I think when
you look at this, this is one of those things
where you want to make sure that in something.
Speaker 3: I think in the years when Bau is in.
Speaker 8: An independence and Utah was in the PAC twelve, these
didn't mean as much and so the rivalry didn't always
feel the same. And so to have it back and
to be you know, conference implications, two ranked teams, I mean,
this is as good as it can get. And I
think you know it's time you know where you can
embrace that and have fun and enjoy it for what
it is and know that there's something meaningful, you know,
on on the table instead of just a simple game.
So you know, it's it's it's fun, it's entertaining, I think,
you know, when you strip down all of the noise
that can come out of it, sometimes it's just it's
just fun to be able to have a game that
means something in the middle of the season.
Speaker 2: Indeed it is is it the Do you feel like
this is the right time for the rivalry though, or
do you feel like it should be pushed back later?
Like do you have a preference covering it? Like hearing
from both fan bases, hearing from both coaching staff, you know,
and even taking into account what the conference once is
just the right time middle of the season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think when this this first all
kind of shook out and the two were in the
same conference again, you know, I think it was jarring
to not see it at the end of the year
because it just felt like it was you're building up
your season, You're going into that rivalry game.
Speaker 3: That's traditionally the week that everybody has that game.
Speaker 8: And I've since kind of come around to the idea
that having it in you know, late October is actually
a pretty solid idea for these two programs in the
Big twelve because now you get an opportunity to showcase
this heated rivalry on a much bigger stage than what
you get. Like, the reality is is BUYU in Utah.
As good as it is, and as much as the
national media of respect it and try to prop it
up in their own right, they're never going to beat
you know, the Ohio State Michigan game or any of
these other big time rivalry games.
Speaker 3: And so to be able to have this.
Speaker 8: Kind of on prime time, to be able to get
the opportunity to showcase this to the world, it's probably
the best that it can be, right, And I think
that that matters to these programs. You want to be
able to market yourself, you want to be able to
put yourself on that national stage. It does have the
risk that, you know, you put so much stock into
this game in the middle of your season that it
can derail things later on.
Speaker 3: But I think both of these programs understand it.
Speaker 8: They understand how much it can you know, propel the
team forward as well and what it can be. So,
I mean, you look at last year. There was no
reason Utah had any business being in that game last year.
But because it's a rivalry game, you know, you go
in there and you have some fun and suddenly it
becomes a competitive game. So you know, both of these
programs get up for it, and I think it's entertaining
and it's fine to have it in October.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was looking a few stats up in preparation
for this game this week and Cougar Stats dropped a
big one. BYU and Utah have had more close games
than any other matchup over the last thirty years. The
games that are decided by eight points or fewer BYU
and Utah have nineteen of them. Florida State, Miami eighteen,
Ball State, Central Michigan eighteen, Wake Forest Duke seventeen, USC
Arizona seventeen, Mississippi State, Arkansas seventeen, Louisiana, Monroe and Lafayette seventeen. So,
I mean, these are some of these aren't the most
iconic rivalries by any means, but BYU and Utah could
be the most competitive rivalry in college football for the
last thirty years.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what makes it so great.
Speaker 8: It's no matter what the record is for either one
of these teams, most years, it's going to be a
competitive game, right like, for whatever reason, and when we
get it, like the players want to play up for
this game, it becomes this you know, I don't want
to go quite that same level that everybody wants to
call it the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't believe that's the case for either
one of these programs.
Speaker 8: But you get the true passion right and you get
to see that this game really does matter. And even
if it doesn't matter to some of the players that
have transferred in, they finally get bought into it once
they start playing the game. And it's just this is
what college football is about. When you strip down everything
away from you know, the transfer portal and nil and everything,
this is why we love college football. We want to
be able to see competitive games. We want to be
able to see, you know, your hated rival and different
things that way. Those things are so much fun and
it gives people kind of a purpose to watch. And
so if you can always get that, you know, that
notch on the belt, it's just it's just one more
cool little thing to add and you could still be
the better team and the other team wins, So it's
it's fun.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, don't take it for granted, because
this is one of the best rivalries in the country.
Speaker 2: Josh Furlong here on espndfan represent a KSL dot Com. Josh,
you were able to get out in front of the
coaching staff as well as maybe some of the players
this week. What were your takeaways from the press conferences
this week.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think this year Utah is trying
to be very measured in how they approach this game,
trying to not say anything to earth shattering, to kind
of create.
Speaker 3: Locker room fodder or whatever that may be.
Speaker 8: If you remember last year, Utah running back Jalen Gover
Glover kind of threw out some stuff that they got
people a little upset inside in Utah because they don't
want to add that added hate or give the enemy,
so to speak, you know, an extra field of the fire.
But then you can argue that Kyle Whittingham kind of
did that himself by not wanting to even mention anything
about BYU. So, you know, it's an interesting situation. I've
never seen Kyle go fully that way where he just says,
we're not even going to talk about them outside of
talking about his friendship with Colonus take or you know,
the coaches that have been on his staff. But it's
definitely a different strategy. I mean, I think at the
end of the day, whether he said something or not.
You know, he's in a no win situation. All of
these coaches are. I think it's so easy to twist
and contort and spin certain things from these guys, and
for whatever reason, he's decided that that's just not the
direction he wants to go. And if this is the
last year he's coaching, which many believe it is, maybe
he just feels like this is the best strategy to
not have the noise or even give any indication that
maybe he's going to say something inappropriate or not about
a certain player or team or different.
Speaker 3: Things that way. So different strategy, for sure. I can't
say that I've ever seen that before.
Speaker 8: But you know, he's a man that does what he wants,
and you know there's not much you can do to
change his opinions on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look at his trajectory, I look at his life.
I look at his football career and his football coaching career,
and I see extremely competitive individual and he's a he
and it's a different level of competitivism. It's actually petty
competitivism where and look, there's a lot of greats in
any sport that are petty competitive, creating stories in their
brains and their minds, being superstitious about certain things, what
they say, how they approach the games, how they approach
these competitions. He's a petty competitor, There's no doubt about it.
And that has led him to become the greatest coach
in University of Utah football history. And it's not even close.
My question to you is this is his legacy. Is
it cemented due to his dominance over his rival or
his ability to win big time games and win championships
in the Pac twelve, right, Like, I look at both
of those and even you know, in the Mountain West
Conference too. If you want to go back into his
early tenure, which one do you think, from a fan
base standpoints, maybe lends itself to more like validation cementing
his legacy at the University of Utah.
Speaker 8: Do you think, Yeah, that's a that's a really good
and fascinating question that I don't know that I've actually
really thought about, you know, and I think, ooh, man, Like,
I obviously like a nine win consecutive streak over your
rival is not something to not look at, right, I
think that's that's an important stat that many Utah fans
are going to look at with Witningham and say, look
for a nine year Well it was more than nine years,
but you get the point. The nine consecutives games, it
was you know, pure dominance from them, and that's going
to give them, you know, a lot of respect.
Speaker 3: But I kind of get the sense that Utah.
Speaker 8: Fans are more interested in those championship runs and kind
of how he developed the program that way, even saying
that that feels kind of like empty, right, Like, I
feel like there's more there, and so I don't know
that you can fully separate them.
Speaker 3: I feel like they do go hand in hand.
Speaker 8: But it's also tough because during a lot of that time,
Utah and Buyu were in different areas meeting independence in
the PAC twelve and it did mean something different to
Utah fans, right They didn't feel like the rivalry game
was that important to them because they had other games
that were more important in the standings. The only value
that it provided, at least from a season to season
thing was just being able to have another you know,
a dominant win or something like that over your rival.
And so, you know, I think they go hand in hand,
but I think it also is different because of the
different nature of the time that they were in. So,
you know, maybe it's a copat answer to say both,
But I don't know that it's easy to separate those
two because they do come at very differing periods of time.
But I do feel like later in this in this era,
it's becoming much more back to where that dou game matters, right,
And I think you start to see much more of
the fans wanting to have this win more than anything,
and having Kyle win this game is much more important
to them than it's ever been.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The reason why I bring it up because you
study the rivalry over the last fifty years plus. From
like nineteen seventy two to nineteen ninety two, it was
complete and utter dominance, right. I think Utah maybe won
three times, maybe four times in that in that section
of the rivalry, Ronnie Mack comes in and changes the game,
and from like ninety two to you know, two thousand
and four, we'll say it was kind of split down
the middle. It's kind of fifty fifty even through like
two thousand intents, So for like ninety two to twenty ten,
it was kind of it was it was fifty to fifty.
And then what happens. Utah gets the invite to the
PAC twelve, They get you know, thirty twenty thirty million
plus and TV revenue, they get the branding of the
PAC twelve, access better recruiting. They don't, you know, necessarily
have to deal with what Blau has to deal with
with like honor code in other things, maybe academically, and
they just take off right as dominance and and and
so it's kind of a social study for me, you know,
because where do we get the most validation from as humans?
It's comparative competitive culture, right, It's like my neighbor, my
social circle, how do I compare to them?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And even though Kyle Whittingham time and time again said
labeled this game as the in state rivalry, there's nothing
that leads me to believe that actually the Utah USC
game was actually a rivalry because you have to have,
you know, synonymous feelings like did USC really feel about
it was a rival or did Colorado feel like it
was a rivalry game? Did did ASU or U of
A feel like it was rivalry? Does that make sense?
Like it feels a little bit contrived. And so that's
where I lean into like legacy. It's like, Okay, did
Utah ever win a championship? Did they actually get to
a uh that that upper echelon of like winning a
big time bowl game and winning a outright championship? And
I don't know if they did. And that's what I
kind of lean into, Like, but he dominated his neighbor,
he dominated in recruiting, and wins his neighbor. And so
that's what that that social study of validation and legacy
being cemented. Yeah, it's a little bit of both obviously,
but I feel like it lends itself more towards the
robbery game that elevates him to like this immortalized status.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And I think, you know, especially the years that these
two programs didn't play, you know, I feel like there
was always kind of this feeling between both fan bases.
Speaker 3: But what about going against the other team?
Speaker 8: Right, But at the same time, like I kind of
look at it the same way as you know, I
think we expect, you know, Ohio State and Michigan to
probably have one of the most heated rivalries in all
the country.
Speaker 3: And I feel like those teams, you know.
Speaker 8: You could go win the national Let's look at Ohio
State they go win the national championship but lose to Michigan,
like that drives them absolutely crazy that it just it
buzzed them that they yes, they won the national championship
and you're going to celebrate that more than anything. But
internally they're all talking about you didn't beat Michigan, and
Michigan can take that. I don't know that Utah and
ba you are quite to that level. And obviously neither
one of them are in that reign right now where
they can can necessarily be considered national title contenders. But
I think, you know, there's still some totalitary code. I
can't even say the word right now, but there's it
still kind of goes into the complete pitcher where I
think it all matters and it all comes in. But
you're right, I mean, I think this rivalry is always
going to be something that that these these coaches are
judged on. Kyle Whittingham will one hundred percent be judged
on that, and you know it'll he'll be judged on
that and more if they lose this game on Saturday,
right Like, how do how do you go in and
have this dominance over a team where you you know,
quote unquote have this leg up on them forever being
in the power for ye and then suddenly b when
he comes in and steps in well three you know.
Speaker 2: Which straight right and lead him into retirement. Right. That
that that's exactly It would sole it a little bit.
Speaker 8: And I think that would that would make winning him
really frustrated for his own legacy, that he wasn't able
to go out on top. Even if you know they
could go to the playoffs, they could go win their
first game of the playoffs, I think that would still
bug him tremendously to not go out on top against
his rival.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's interesting. I was looking at analytics right, and
obviously Utah is a slight favorite heading into anime territory,
and that that very well could be validated through metrics
s P plus. I think has Utah is like the
eighteenth best team BYU is the twenty third best team
from an efficiency standpoint, offensively, defensively special teams? And so,
how do you see this game from your perche from
your perspective going into enemy territory? They are a favorite
looking at the spread, looking at some of these objective
data points compared and contrasting the data, how do you
choose this game playing out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean this one, this one is as close
as you can probably get. I think you've got two
teams that are really solid. They have a lot of
similarities in how they operate. Obviously built a little bit
differently in how they operate, but they operate in kind.
Speaker 3: Of a similar mindset.
Speaker 8: Having you know, all of these coaches essentially work together
in different times in different areas, but it's just kind
of they mirror each other in a lot of way
on the field of how they operate. We know that
both programs are going to have tremendous defenses and that
they can go out there and stop and stop everything.
And so for me, you know, the big decider is
honestly going to be on offense. And maybe that's an easy,
you know, explanation for this game, but I think whoever
can be most efficient, whoever can win the battle in
the trenches, you know you don't turn the ball over,
I think that's going to be a true decide. And
if I'm not mistaken, the two games that Buys won
most recently, they.
Speaker 3: Haven't had a turnover.
Speaker 8: So you know that that's been a big key in
this game where trench play turnovers those types of things
are going to be a big factor, and that may
be enough, right, Like, that may be enough to be
able to come in there and and help. You know,
I'm really fascinated to see, you know, Buyu's defense go
against this Utah offense.
Speaker 3: It's been pretty efficient this year.
Speaker 8: Obviously, they they got tripped up against Texas Tech. And
you know, we'll never know if that was fully on
Devin dan Pier being injured or Texas Tech is just
that good.
Speaker 3: I tend to lean that Texas Tech is is really good.
Speaker 8: But you know, we'll see what that brings and if
there's any separation between these two teams. But statistically, I mean, yeah,
some are gonna be led. You know, each team is
gonna lead in different areas, but this is this is
as close as I think you're ever going to.
Speaker 3: Get between these two teams. And that's that's what makes
it so entertaining.
Speaker 8: Is you can go into this game and both fan
bases can honestly feel confident that their team's gonna win,
but still feeling, you know, that hesitation that caught, you know,
that cautious optimism, knowing that there's a real possibility that
the other team will come out on top.
Speaker 2: Josh, you're about to drop a piece at KSL dot comery.
You may have already dropped it. What's its entitle or
what's it is it entitled in? What do you delve
into there in your piece in the lead up to
the Holy War?
Speaker 8: Yeah, and this one's this one's more just usta specific
in the sense of, you know, looking at the mid
season and kind of where Utah is that offensively in
their efficiency. You know, last year was clearly not the
year for them. It's actually been the last two years,
but they haven't been great. And you know, through the
transfer portals, through bringing in Jason Beck, who has a
much more simplified offense that allows these guys to work,
you know, Devin dan Pier the offensive line, this has
been an offense that has been far more efficient and
it's been effective.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 8: There's there's no game this season this year that Utah
has won what they've won by less than twenty five points.
So you know, it's it's a complete overhaul in the offense,
and it's just kind of looking at how Utah got
there and what it's really kind of gotten to get there.
Speaker 2: Josh Furlong, Ladies and gentlemen, great segment. Make sure you're
following him on x check out all of his content
at casale dot com. Also, you've got a podcast as
well for Cougar fans to peruse if they have the time.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Utah Checkdown Podcast.
Speaker 8: Happy to Happy to talk with anybody or share that
with anybody and kind of give some insights. It's not
a perfect platform to get it all, but it's an
opportunity to just kind of go a little deeper than
what some written articles could be sometimes.
Speaker 2: There you go, check it out today, Josh Furlong. Ladies
and gentlemen, Josh, appreciate you man, thanks for joining us.
There's always our pleasure having on our airwaves.
Speaker 3: Sounds great, man, appreciate it all.
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I used to go to a different mechanic and nothing
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So I got tired of it. Then I said, hey, Ben,
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Speaker 5: It's Ryan.
Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, I got him on the line.
I got the owner of big otars an American Fork.
How we doing today, Ryan doing great?
Speaker 10: Thanks for the shout out, and those of you that
haven't you in us a shot chance, Darby do coming
to the store. You're probably getting me a player because
we always got someone in there at least one point
in the week. So give me a chance. And we've tried.
We promised you will not regret it.
Speaker 5: He's not wrong.
Speaker 9: I've run into Matthias Leech, I've run into multiple athletes there,
and you have a good time and it's good to
you know, always talk ball as well while you.
Speaker 5: Get your car fix.
Speaker 9: There's no better way and there's no better shot than
Ryan and Big O' tires. Ryan, though, hey a, it
was a good dub on Saturday double overtime. Maybe a
little stressful for fans want your takeaways. What'd you like
about the double overtime win against Arizona.
Speaker 6: I love that we won, right you can't.
Speaker 10: You can't be mad about going on the road to
the Big twelve and then getting a win. Obviously, we'd
always like it prettier and better, like Coloney said in
his post game. But was something that I really loved
was everyone was freaking out on the end of the
fourth quarter, like, oh, they gotta get going, they got
to hurry, or even the announcers were like what are
they doing? But Bear looked poised. A rod knew what
he wanted to do, what plays they wanted, and we
still had twenty seconds to score, right and when we
scored that touchdown, so obviously it's still twenty seconds. Is
cutting it close, But still they were calm, collect keeping
their posure. Like I was very impressed on how the
offense handled that in that five minute, four minute you
know time laps of the last few minutes of the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bear's definitely been poised. It's very interesting.
Speaker 9: We haven't seen this and you know, we all loved
Jake and what Jake did, but Jake had a different
level of experience. But I don't think any of us
expected Baron Bachmaarer are having to have this type of
poison as a freshman, to have turnovers and to bounce
back so quickly. I mean, BYU has a gym in
this quarterback Ryan, and you're talking about his first year
playing college football. This just gets you excited because you're
gonna have him for another two until until Ryder gets
back at least another year for sure.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 10: It's exciting. And how big he is and how he's
able to run the.
Speaker 6: Ball and pan the ball twenty times last week on Saturday.
I mean, and he took some hits.
Speaker 10: He's a big boy, and you know so I love
that you he can take those hard yards and he's
getting some yards after a contact as well. He's getting
hit and he's still getting two, three, four or five
yards sometimes, which is awesome because it's another person you
got to a fan in the box besides LJ. And if
Elgick keeps having the season he's having and stays healthy,
I mean, he could be up for one of the
best running backs in the country. I think he's number
six right now in the country the ressing yards.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's up there in the top ten. No doubt
is we're here with Ryan Elgers, the owner of big
otires in America. Four on the line. LJ, speaking of him,
we'll turn into that was named the Big twelve Offensive
Player of the week. Obviously he had for a day
with carries and with you know, yardage as well. If
LJ keeps us up, looks like a thousand yard season's
definitely gonna happen. I hate to be so declared of
one that, but the way it's going, in five of
the six games he's rushed for a one thousand yards.
Would LJ come back for that senior season? Because you
said it, I think right now he is the best
running back in the Big twelve, if not one of
the best in the country.
Speaker 5: Is he gonna come back for that senior year?
Speaker 9: If I feel like, when it's your opportunity to go,
it's time to go. But I don't know if LJ
comes back, if he keeps us up for that senior season,
he might just declared and go to the NFL.
Speaker 10: Obviously, as a bou fan, you wanted to come back
for your senior year, but I'd like get to know
the players and get a little closer to some of
these players like you want what's best for them, right,
you get you get to grow to these know these
players and.
Speaker 6: Who they are.
Speaker 10: And obviously, yeah, if he got a chance to go
be a first or second round draft pick, maybe even third, Yeah,
I hope he goes because you never know what can happen.
Speaker 6: Next year you get hurt, You never know, right Tomorrow's
promise to no one.
Speaker 10: And so if he keeps having the year he's having,
the way he's improved his blocking and his leadership role
and just pounding the ball, Yeah, there's no reason at
all that he should come back. In my personal thing
always says up to him in his fan winning decision,
I'll make.
Speaker 6: But he he's fiving the year he's having. Yeah, he's
going to the league.
Speaker 5: Always tough. You mentioned a good point.
Speaker 9: Never you know, want to risk the opportunity to come
back and get hurt. You and you're hot, you're hot,
but you always want to see maybe somebody come out
and finish that that last year, Bau.
Speaker 5: You never know.
Speaker 9: Let let's go back to bear a little bit name
for the Big twelve freshman a week for the third
and secutive week in a row, fourth time in six weeks.
Speaker 5: Stead that he's received this honor.
Speaker 9: Is Bear gonna be the Big twelve freshman player of
the year when this all said and done if he keeps.
Speaker 6: To this up, Uh, yeah, I would. I would love
to know, maybe, you know, Ron, who.
Speaker 10: Are others some other Big twelve freshmen that are playing
at a high level or playing good. We'll say, I
don't know of any true freshmen that I can think
up out of my head right now that are on
any of the teams so far.
Speaker 6: So i'd have to know his competition.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I think he's playing like he's playing and
keeps improving like he's improved over the last few games,
last five games. Then yeah, I think for sure he'll
he'll be the freshman of the year from the Big Twelve.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's one of the few quarterbacks that are playing
right now. When you look at how he's been been
doing that. There a couple other, you know, transfers that
come in as a quarterback. I think the only other
freshman quarterback and I think he's a freshman is the
Oklahoma State a kid that transferred in the early part
of twenty twenty five. I think, or I don't know,
if he's a richer freshman. I'd have to double check
on that, but there are not many freshmen competing at
the higher level that Bear is, so it's gonna be
really hard. I think for Bear to lose this with
what he's doing, I think he's gonna I think in
the next couple of weeks he keeps up, he's gonna
have this locked up, especially at BYU States undefeated, which
takes us to this week.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: I've talked to a lot of BYU fans, Ryan, you're
a BAU fan yourself. I've heard people say, Ron, we
could go eleven and one and go to the title game,
and I would be upset if that one losses of Utah.
I'm like, that's crazy. The Big twelve tititle game. One
loss and you talk, but that's the nature of the
robbery game. That's how much win it holds to people.
How big of a game is it this week for
BYU to go seven to zero.
Speaker 10: I think it's huge. I mean, Utah's got blood in
their mouth, right. They they don't want another loss, and
on the Big twelve that you don't want more than
one or two losses. The way things are shaping out,
and like I said, they have blood in their mouth
from last year. You know they want to beat us.
I'm I'm excited for the game. I'm glad it's at
Lavelle Edwards Stadium. I'm glad Or got Jack Kelly back
to just put Dan Pierre on hold and just qbs
by the heck out of him and let Jack Kelly
do his his thing against him.
Speaker 6: I just I'm excited. I'm super excited for our defense
to go up against.
Speaker 10: Them, and I'm hoping to see that how how our defense,
our offense does against their defense. They got a really
good defense. They are a very good defense, and so
seeing how our offense handles that the four quarters of them,
I think could really decide the game.
Speaker 9: Not special teams, Yes, special teams has been phenomena. Kelly
pipinga I kind of went yesterday on the show. I
went the Incredibles of Edna. You know, ma I said
no fix, like she says no capes, no fix, because
you've done to fit the last couple of weeks and
it worked out for you. Well one week it didn't
work out for you. Well, look, k Pop's k Pop.
He's gonna dial it up if he sees it. You know,
you just never want to put Sam in a in
a place to get injured or not turn the field over,
because I think the time of possession and the possessions
you have in this game are gonna be critical. Any
turnovers I feel I could cost any team in this moment.
But you bring up a good point. I want to
go back to Jack Isaiah Glasker. We know who he is, right,
but it looked, honestly, you saw BYU's defense maybe not
I don't want to say struggle, but take maybe a
step back without Jack Kelly in the pass rush. You
saw them be affected by that to a little bit
with no feet and not too much, but just a
little bit.
Speaker 5: And you mentioned.
Speaker 9: It is did you know not having Jack on the field,
because the defense still turned up in the second half,
I thought and was phenomenal.
Speaker 5: DB's really tested. They were stout and true.
Speaker 9: But I felt like you could notice that number seventeen
wasn't in the middle spying note of Noah fa.
Speaker 6: Fida a hundred percent.
Speaker 10: I mean Jack, he's a freak athlete, he's fast, he's
one of the strongest guys in the room on offense
and defense on the team, and he's a baller, right
and so I obviously you're gonna show some regression as
far as the defense goes when a leader and captain
like him goes down. But it's also encouraging to see,
you know, someone like AECOOSI come in and play as
well as he did right next guy up mentality. But
I do think having Jack out there against against the Utes,
we're gonna keep him in the pocket and make him throw,
and I think we're gonna hurt him. That's where our
secondary is gonna eat Dampierre alive.
Speaker 6: He's got he's throwing decently.
Speaker 10: His passing percentage is very high, but he's not throwing
ball down field very It's all short checkdowns, you know.
And so I think if we if Jack, Kelly and Glass,
we could keep him in that enter D line, keep
him in the pocket and make him throw that ball.
I think we could have Evan Johnson and Tanner Wall
going off and each getting a pick or two.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you say, Evan Johnson, Tannerwall. Evan Johnson was the
coverage on that last play. Schmev I asked Volatas Twala
in the post game. He says, you're not getting anything
on Devin Johnson's head. He's you know, playing as one
of the best corners in the nation, and I can't
disagree with them. It's hard to get the ball pass zero,
but it's also hard to get the past ballpass Trey
Alexander Morty bomb. I felt like I have his best
game of the season right now. Dan Pierre struggles with
the ball twenty five yards downfield. In my opinion, I
think if you're getting pressure and you're keeping him contained,
it could be a big game for one of these
defensive guys. So I ask you, who's the X factor
in this game on the defense? Who do you think
is going to be the guy that that has a
takeaway or that is going to make a big time
play on Saturday.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go back to Jack Kelly. I think it's
gonna be him.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 10: He may not get the pick, but he's gonna he's
in it to the where we need get that pick.
And just to go back to Evan Johnson. Everyone talks
about him defending. How about that third down stop and
open field that tackle he had the boss on the
left side like that was a great play. He you know,
squared him up and got him a half yard yard
shore to the first down.
Speaker 6: They obviously went for a fourth down and they end
up getting it.
Speaker 10: But everyone talks about Evan's coverage, but he could tackle too.
Speaker 6: He reminds me a lot of j Rob.
Speaker 10: And his tackling ability and getting in front of him
picking an ankle. Get you know, And that's the saying
a lot because j Rob was one of our best
tacklers last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jay Rob was phenomenal.
Speaker 9: J Rob could it was sticky in the nickel position
and coverage on the outside. He was great in the
tackle game. He was great when you blitz him at
the lat of scrimmage. I mean I remember the picky.
I don't know if I lily jumps up pops it
up in the air like catches it. The only reason
need scores because no attack. If not, he'd been to
the house. So it sounds like whoever wears jersey number
zero on defense?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 9: Hero with Ryan Eldricks, owner of Big Otis in America,
folking line, I want to ask you about this, is
Vegas getting it right? Utah favorite three and a half
over under his forty nine and a half. But I
was surprised that Utah comes out as the early favorite.
In this game for Saturday.
Speaker 6: And I'm not a big gambler, so I don't really know.
Speaker 10: I do know they say that if you're home it's
three points of technically some of them think it's actually
six and a half points.
Speaker 6: The Vegas is giving them, yeah, a touchdown, So I
don't really care what Vegas says.
Speaker 10: To be honest, I do know they are right a
lot of the time, but they're also wrong a lot
of time too. So we'll let our players figure out
who's gonna make money if they bet on those games
as far as like the fans, but the players will
take your themselves and they'll we'll get the dub.
Speaker 9: In my opinion, Ry, let's finish up on this for
the second I think season in a row. Big new
kickoff is coming back to Provo. Happened last year now
this year for the rivalry game. What does that say
about what Klonie Shittaki is? And I thought that Arizona
double overtime win was a big part of his makeup,
his culture and really solidified his career. Will go down
in history as a game that people won't talk about.
When you think of the Georgia's, the Alabama's, the Organs,
the other premier programs, they all have had a win
like that where maybe you didn't play your best, but
then you able to get the gritty, gut out win.
Now that's led to Big New Kickoff back in provo
for the second year. What does that say about the
BYU football team or where it's headed?
Speaker 6: Exactly what you said.
Speaker 10: It talks about the culture that Kawana is creating, but
more portly, it's going to play even more seeds. How
many more recruits are gonna be watching Big New cook Kickoff.
I saw on Instagram that wrter Lions is gonna.
Speaker 6: Come to the game.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 10: I think it's just great for the culture, great for
the program and the attention that we're gonna get. Correct
and then like I said, playing the seeds for future
recruits to be.
Speaker 6: Watching, Oh look at the what you's not playing on
Big Name Kickoff? Like, hey, maybe that maybe I do
go here. I mean they've kind of talked to me.
Speaker 10: I think it's gonna gonna plant even more seats to
continue to create that culture and create a team that
we want here at by U and continue to create
a dynasty for Colonney and what he's done with this program.
Speaker 6: Just like his mentor level.
Speaker 9: He's solidifying the culture if it not already has done.
So the dynasty is in the making and it's gonna
be a big game on Saturday. I gotta ask you,
will you'd be in the tenants of the game. Yes,
of course, of course I knew what the answer was,
but I had to ask it. Shout I always got
to ask to make sure. Shout out to Ryan. Also,
shout out to your boys, the champs. Saw you guys
got it done. The Elgence family took home gold only
excellence in that household.
Speaker 10: Yeah we uh my first, my younger boy, he plays
on a first grade and he plays up here on
a second grade team. Coach quote those teams. He took
home first in both those divisions for the grid Iron.
And then my oldest he's the fourth credit coaches team
as well.
Speaker 6: We got second.
Speaker 10: But yeah, it was a good weekend for the Elders family.
Six games and one day. It was a little crazy.
And I'm actually driving home right now to go to
our our team banquet that we're having at six o'clock.
Speaker 6: So it was fun. We love football in the Elders house.
Speaker 9: You gotta love it as well, honestly, one of the
elder boys looks like Parker Cakeston out there. Honestly should
be a shitty on the field. Can't touch them. I'll
be seeing the highlights. I'd be like, oh, that might
be a future sticks a feature BYU. I receiver open
there in the wet to keep tabs.
Speaker 10: We can only hope that would be awesome. Yeah, he's
he loves that. He eats, sleeps and dreams football. I
mean he stayed up till midnight watching football with me
on Saturday night.
Speaker 6: So he loves it and we just we enjoy It's fun, fun,
fun to be in our house.
Speaker 5: Hey, that's okay.
Speaker 9: I was talking with one of my friend's sisters and
she does flag football, and I'm like, you know what, Jersey,
I want you to do soccer, but I might be
putting you in flag football. You might have to go
out there and do that, so I might be switching up.
But hey, I'm gonna be looking for your son in
the class two thousand and thirty nine, just throwing years
out there.
Speaker 6: Ida.
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: He's seven right now, so I have no idea.
Speaker 9: I have no idea. I'm just throwing numbers out there.
Maybe and I said it maybe after the mission. You
never know, Ryan, before we let you go. You help
the student athletes a lot. Why should people come to
big otiers in American Force?
Speaker 5: Tell us?
Speaker 10: Why give us a chance? Most people aren't married to
their tire guy or their mechanic. They just go as
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If I can just speak from experience. Ryan's gotten me
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Speaker 5: Trust me.
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catch up with you.
Speaker 6: Next week, all right, Thanks John, go on take care
you too.
Speaker 9: That was Ryan Eldrich and a little Cougar Insider report.
Lots of good thoughts in there. Hey, we'll see if
if Vegas is right. Sometimes Vegas is right, sometimes Vegas
is wrong. I guess we're gonna find out on Saturday.
No doubt Big Newon Kickoff is back. But that was
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