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Speaker 4: Welcome in.
Speaker 3: One of our favorite guests, form BA Great super Bowl
champion Brady Papingo's on the line, Beatpop.
Speaker 4: How you living?
Speaker 2: But always.
Speaker 5: Dude, yeah, especially after like it's it does feel good
to have some style points finally right, Like it does
feel good to like win in a such a convincing
fashion that you were like wow, like b Yu is
the real deal. They're not just skirting by by the
you know, by the skin of their teeth here. They
are a legitimate contender this year, not a pretender. Is
some analysts want to put out, what was your reactually
watching this game?
Speaker 4: Be Pop?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was the most complete victory we
have seen since the way you entered in the Big
twelve and I thenk Lawne's soon as much was true.
All three phases played really well. I mean, the only
real hiccup was that punt that the punter dropped the
ball for some reason and it didn't punt. It kind
of an odd still there, but uh, I said to
that everything was functional, clean and excusing us. We would
have anticipated that too. And then we saw tremendous growth
and Bear. I mean because basically what Ronick did is
he said, you know what, we're gonna use the quick
passing game and also movement when we're moving the pocket
with bear and then stretched and then the sply suites
with a you know, with the man I keep number eleven,
my guy, and I mean hid me, my god, who's
umber losing the game? Yeah, Parker Parker there is was like,
uh and then we're you know, running though sly sweets
of Parker and even Tiger got involved in one too,
and that stretches the.
Speaker 6: Defense wider, and so you've got I mean it just
the play calling was perfect, but then put it on
there to say, all right, we need you to basically
closen this defense up before then we could start to.
Speaker 2: Run the ball right at him. That was majeally huge
because the show two things. Hey bear is capable, you
can put that load on them, and then when that happens,
we are a very difficult offense.
Speaker 4: Stuff.
Speaker 2: And just so everybody knows the history behind using the
pass to set up the run, that's West Coast Football
ladies and gym and that's going back to our roots
at the YU. You know, that's what the forty venders
did for so long, and that's what these offensive coordinators
continue to do. And now that we can, but you
got to have a quarterback to can throw the ball
and do it really well and do it on the
move like there was, and then all of a sudden,
everything else opens up. And that defense, I hope everybody understands.
The context is Texas Tech defense is a head That
defense is a nine eight and a half nine. There
were a really good defense, and look what we were
able to do to them so offensive that in the
case the defensively, our d line in front seven continue
to just show up. I mean they are. I mean
we played more light boxes to get that offense than
I think most people realize, and we handled their running
game sufficiently with that, you know, with the with the
the boxes where we're out numbered with those light boxes,
which it's very rarey you're able to do that, and
that's a big, physical offensive line that wants to run
the rope, run the ball right at you. And then
in addition to that, we were just constantly getting Oover
off the spot making him uncomfortable, which is that that's
the problem for him, which was evident. His accuracy goes
down and his his his ability to navigate the punkins compromise,
and that's and he's just not really good when they
do that. And he had one of the worst games
of this of his career. And this guy's a heck
of the thrower. So we made it pretty dark, good TV,
but really really bad. And then I mean we broke them,
you know, nine minutes ago in the fourth corner they're
playing the ball. It's over. You know that that was
the heck of a win because basically we just you know,
we meet them in the sufficient.
Speaker 4: That was pretty impressive, pretty crazy to watch. It was
a complete game.
Speaker 3: Finally Kilani got the most out of all three facets
and it led to a dominating victory. Who were you
most impressed by on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: This week. Would you say, is there any standouts from
the AUL twenty two.
Speaker 2: Well, our secondary continues to play well, you know on
our safety especially, you know, I mean they've been excellent
throughout the year. Tenorwall I finally had his pick six,
you know, which was kind of a volleyball playing but
still a pick six it was. And then the two
guys that I keep really seeing a lot of growth from.
In addition to all the guys up every week, you know,
Jack Kelly, Isaiah JT a ton of awesome. You got
Logan there body really he also got the one hundred playing.
You know, those guys that they we got the week
and showed great consistency in addition to the guys in
the secondary. But the guys that are really starting to
jump off the table for us is Noosy number five
and tw Seay number thirteen. Their speed and thresh ability
is creating problems. It adds a really nice speed the
power element to our defense. Accelerate sness, twitchiness. I want
to tell you, I mean there's so many plays that
how ceedy aid DEnumber thirteen with his speed and his
physicality that you're just like, we got guys, and I
keep telling people that we got guys. Well, I see
those two dudes simp a rally corner. It's like we
got guys, we got so those two guys that keep
seeing that you know a lot of you know, obviously
Newsey had a big fact there to basically shut the
game down. Does a close out sack, and then I
mean for most two guys, man, they continue to o
they and when when you have that kind of play
fixed in with Hunter Logan, our guys in the middle,
off the ball backers or you know, all American caliber
guys and Jack Kelly and I and Glaster, Isaiah Glaska,
A wow, it's a it's a heck of a front seven.
And then you mixed in the secondary play. That's that's
a great that's a really good defense, you know. And
then you got Jay and his staff doing a nice
job calling the game.
Speaker 7: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I loved how it comes the game. I thought it
was really well done.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: They give a lot of stimulated glitches like the sack
and EJ that was the simulated pressure. We were going
to the corner blitz, but we ended up playing rushing
four and they didn't have anybody to account for J
and we and again we you know, create a problem
and that's just Jay stedding it up, you know, as
the game goes on to where he throws a little
proof off, but we're not overexposed on the back end
because we're still in the rushing four. That's just that's
beautiful stuff, man, really fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, offensively, I thought the bounce back from from the
Texas Tech game to the TCU game was just monumental.
Speaker 4: Shout out to a Rod for bouncing back.
Speaker 3: And TC's a good defensive team, right like when you
were watching this as you were prepping for it, like
I thought TC was a pretty good defensive team.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: They they they've held some teams to low scoring efforts
and their rush defense had been good and then d
Wayers came out.
Speaker 4: And just was dominant at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: What what stood out to you about the play calling,
the offense, and maybe even the personnel that you were
most impressed by.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you gotta remember, like you know, PCU, they
got two really good defensive tack was big, uh, hard
to move. They remind me a lot of the guys
in the Texas tecond some ways. They're just as good
as the guys in Texas tecond we're really other than
a couple of plays where they they basically the middle
of the block. What was where pair got hit they
actually highlighted in the DD coffy but with a completed
mass to the park right league. Other than that, I mean,
we were really good against them. But the biggest thing
Heron did, which this is to me, what always has
made him so hard his offense is so hard to defend,
is he gets you moving horizontally. And that's that's what
a zone blocking style offense is meant to do, is
get the defense moving horizontally. Now you're stretched out. Now
it really doesn't matter how big or how fast you are,
because now you're not moving north the south. You're not
trying to say, you know, you're not trying to just
like fold your ground. What you're trying to do when
you're moving east and west or being expanded horizontally, is
you're trying to move instinct with your other defenders, which
is virtually impossible. And what happens is you have natural
gaps that start to get created because everybody these are
moving to the lessons is right, and you're trying to
keep everybody kind of walked in and you know, creating
a fence, and then that's where all of a sudden
you get these gaping holes. And you know what I thought,
LJ was looking healthy, looking like a sprice off. It's
beautiful jump cuts, footwork, then explosiveness when he saw a
little alleyway, and then finishing runs not letting the good
first guy tackle him. The whole thing was very well
put together. And like I said, the key was Bear.
Bear being able to throw the ball and move and
throw is what makes all of that come to come together.
Because now it's like you got to defend that plus
Bear running the ball, plus our inside zones, outside zone,
then you got to fly sweep. And so you could
literally with a with one any play you could fake
a fly sweep, read option, throw it or run it,
and your defense and that defense if you're getting beat
by the fly sweep, getting beat by the quarterback throwing
and moving all of a sudden, the last thing on
your mind a lot of times when you're reacting to
that action, which is a fake fly sweep, and then
the readoption is well, we better like take care of
what's gonna most afflict us, which is the past and
all of a sudden, the boom there's huge gaps you know,
to in the running game or boom, he keeps the
ball and runs it for that touchdown. And it's just
all complimentary in terms of how it fits and there's
layers to it. It's just it's really it's a beautiful
thing to watch because you could you can sense it.
The announcers even mentioned in the game that TC was
just constantly on their heels their defense. They had no
read whatsoever on our offense as to what we are
going to do. And everything we did in terms of
fakes that were was influential to the defense. They were
biting them because it was hurting them and so yeah,
that was one of the like to me, it was
a masterclass of coordinating by Roderick and his staff. It
was impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's fun to watch by you finally
get a little style points in their corner. I know,
Kalaniy said post game, he doesn't he's not much for
style points. He's too classy for style points. He doesn't
want to you know, maybe stomp on a throat. Uh,
you know, he wants to keep it classy. But man,
this day and age, it seems like you need some
style points, especially as they they heavily weight these algorithms
and scoring margins and wins UH in a a convincing fashion.
Look at how popular Utah is from the committee side
of things, because they're winning it at UH at an
astronomical rate, in an astronomical margin each and every single game.
Speaker 4: Do stop points matter this.
Speaker 7: Day and age?
Speaker 2: No, they don't matter. I think it's just this. You
gotta remember, the whole ranking system is a really good
way to make money to keep people entertained. And ultimately
they're gonna they're gonna very heavy towards Big ten or
to Day and the SEC.
Speaker 4: We all know that.
Speaker 2: Why, because there's money. It's a money grab, right, The
more viewers you get per game, the more money each
station gets. The committee knows that, and so what they're
doing is they always want to change the goal post.
So now what we've done is we've been convinced by them.
Oh you know, uh. I think they call it like
game control is a big factor for them, and like
you're talking about style points, how much you went by
and they may be even rewarding some teams based off
of that, But it's really not about that. Uh, then
they're all the and say, well it's about straight to schedule,
you know, like who have you beat? Okay? You know,
then then they'll they'll maybe rewards some teams from now,
but like I said, really, when it comes down to it,
they're gonna always favor the teams that are gonna draw
the biggest crowd. And the system set up to where
like twenty says that I've always said this, it's got
to just win your games. You know, you got to
play this out on the field, and it's not done
by style points. This is just go win your games.
Like right now, this is the chance you go show
what you're made of against Cincinnati. This is a quarterfinals game.
It's gonna get you into the conference championship game. Win
the game, You win the game, you're in the conference
championship game. Now you've got a chance to go win
the conference and then at that point you're gonna be
in the play You know, you're in the playoffs, you're
in the tournament. Anything can happen in any tournament. If
anybody's ever been in tournaments, they are surprising. I mean,
you saw the Uyu soccer almost lose to I don't
know if you guys got the women's socker. I just
was watching it because my daughter was doing the plot reporting.
But man, they almost lost Utah State and Utah State
during the regular season got destroyed bur By and b Right, girls,
it's the same thing, So just get into the tonament.
I think his mentality is, Hey, we just got to
get into the championship, but I don't care how we
do it, and that will be what ultimately is going
to determine our destiny versus all these stout points and
should we run the score and do like who cares
go win? And that's why this system is really good
right now because the ultimate thing that you're gonna get
rewarded with and this system is if you win, question
to be when your conference. So I think the focus
is in the right place and hopefully it continues to
be in that place. They go to Cincinnata. This way
you can face a heck of an opponent on the road.
It's gonna be a really you know, hostile environment, and
everybody knows what's at stake. It's a quarterfinals game for
the conference championship game.
Speaker 3: Brady, what do you feel is like the true ranking
of BYU football this year. You know ball, You've seen
a lot of football, and so I want to get
your persuaded. I was chatting with Hank Bachmeyer about this,
and he's like, do you think that BYU is a
top five team? I'm like, I don't know if I'm
convincing their top five team yet, but I feel like
they're in that six to fifteen area where they can
beat and compete with just about anybody in the country.
Speaker 4: How do you see it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm saying, well, I mean I'm not a
big rankings guy, just because, like I said, the system
set up now where we can play everything out. You
know you can because you can because all these rankings
are always trying to use like, you know, similar opponents
head to head matchups, which like, let's think about it,
if Texas Tech had to come to b y U
play a night game, there's a very good chance that
in provo colder weather. You know, it's just not gonna
it's not the same as on their own turf in
the morning game day at home. This is huge parad
I mean, you know, that's just and it's it's like
you can't you can't sit there and say like well,
he that makes the you know, that's stuff so much
better than you what you can't say that. And that's
why these championship games are all played in neutral site fields.
And that's why it's like everybody, you have the regular
season and then you go to the postseason. You know,
I've seen it in the NFL. I mean, I've seen
this so many times with the Giants, you know, in
two thousand and seven when they went on to win
the Super Bowl, we played them in Week four and
in New York, by the way, and we beat them
so bad that we basically were like the game was
over middle of the third quarter, and they ended up winning.
They coming to Lampo, by the way, and the NFC
Championship game, beating us and going on to win the
Super Bowl against the Patriots. So it's like, teams change,
circumstances changed, and so I don't know why we always
are trying to search for these standards of how to
like determine where these teams are ranked without actually just
letting them vote determine that on the field. And that's
what this new system is, you know about let's let
let's let the field to play like when they actually
go play each other in these tournaments. Let's let let
that determine where everybody's ranked. And so based off of that,
I'm not afraid of anybody. I don't care who we play.
I think we have the talent and when we execute
the right way and we play the right way, we
can beat anybody. Anybody, you can put that down. But
so we have the talent, that's my whole point. We
have the talent to beat anybody. It comes down to that.
At the next level is the execution like we saw it,
where see Texas Deck had the same amount of talent
as we have the same as they do. Turns down execution,
and that's how it's gonna be when you play teams
like this weekend since that year. You know, hopefully if
we get the chance to play Texas Deck again, or
hopefully if we get in the tournament, that's what it
comes down to. You gotta be able to execute. And
that's a differentiator. Because we got guys, ladies and gentleman
b Yu has guys, we have the most talent we've
ever had a BYU and we can beat anybody.
Speaker 3: I promise you, how much better will the talent get
over the next few years, Brady, do you see an
elevated talent coming to b YU outside of what is
already there?
Speaker 2: Well, look at our young guys. I mean, you got
hunk play, You're getting action, doing some good things on
a couple of good pressures. You got taw c Lee,
you got a new seat. Just three guys right off
the top.
Speaker 9: Of my head.
Speaker 2: Studs. They're only gonna get better. And we got guys
and Bedell you we got guys that have that are
being redshirted right now, but I think could be contributors immediately.
But I'm assuming I don't have inside information on this,
but I'm assuming that you know, coaches want to keep
them around and they have them red shirting and they're
gonna get better. I mean, everybody is only I mean, dude,
I turned off the Houston versus US last year's game,
the last home game of the year. KT wasn't even
a starter last year and now he's one of the
most dominant defensive linement in the Big twelve. That's only
in like a matter of like six eight months he
developed into that kind of player. There's gonna be more
guys like that, and our studs right now, they're only going.
Speaker 7: To get better.
Speaker 2: Bear, Are you kidding me? There is getting better every
single week. That dude has a chance to be an
all time great Kylever quarterback at YU, which obviously that's
saying something. So just by the not even including an
injection of new talent, just by who we are already
have there and anticipating them continually to develop and and
to improve their game, they're going to be phenomenal. By
is recruited well Ryder Lions, the stud is going to
becoming I mean, this is only going to get more
and more and more impressive as this continued. This is
just the beginning. That's my whole point. This is going
to become the new norm. And there are people that
want to come to YU and they like and I'm
talking about guys that would never when when we were
in the you know, G five kind of rankings and
didn't have, you know, the ability to pay players. You know,
these guys would have gone elsewhere. Now they're coming to us,
and so it's it's going to be a completely different animal,
which is good. So I wouldn't just be getting used
to this, and that makes it to where work can
be legitimate contenders year in the year out as long
as we, like I said, learn how to execute really
high packed are excuse me, high pressure pack situations where
we're going to be fined.
Speaker 3: I want to get philosophical for you with you here
for a secon because I know I can delve into
this particular topic with you. There's this, uh, there's this
growing movement of maybe individuals that are not b A
fans or even UH anti LDS, but you know some
are LDS and they're just anti b YU. They they
kind of feel like, hey, there's a there's a there's
like a rift and they they between b YU and
the LDS standards and actually paying student athletes, right athletes,
students for representing a university's athletic department, football, basketball, whatever
it may be.
Speaker 4: They feel like there's an immorality to it. They shouldn't
do this.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't pay for play essentially, UH for representation, right,
That's how they feel. They feel like BYU Athletics isn't
a missionary too. There's a lot of negative propaganda that
comes out from it.
Speaker 4: The Jake retz Love situation they'll bring up.
Speaker 3: They'll bring up the most recent d d uy of
the men's basketball team, right, Like, this isn't positive publicity,
there's negative things. This is an ambassador tool, it's not
a missionary tool. When you hear that, like what's your
your reaction and why? You know, the way the form
and fashion that the athletic department is operating trying to
bring in the best talent that wants to align with
BYU is the right thing and is a moral thing
as well.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: Morality, I mean, what are we talking about here? Like
is it imral to make money and to capitalize on
your market value? You know, I think that's obviously not
in question. There's nothing im moral with that. If anything,
it's it's the right thing to do, because you're contributing
something to society and to a market system that is valued,
and if you're not compensated according to that value, you
will not be in a position to continue to provide
such services or value. So morality wise, yeah, I mean
you're going to want to pay your talent, your workers, service,
whatever it is products according to the value it brings.
And and in sports the value comes to basically like
how a market system determines the amount of skill that
specific player brings to a team, you know, And that's
that's very fair. I mean, and then when you're talking
about the mission of BYU, I mean it's being accomplished.
I mean, we had a heck of a showing on
Saturday where we are on Fox eleven with our basketball
team that showed that they are also capable of, you know,
winning a national championship, which I don't know if we've
ever said that buy you outside of just being a
scrappy team that Mayson Price and teams, this this team's legit.
You know that that fits to the mission of the university.
I think more close to than when we're just putting
a bunch of guys out there they're scrappers rather their
best and not paying them. The same goes for football.
So I think at the end of the day, I
do believe that the church is seeing that's why we're
really leaning into this and having fun with this, the
value behind the mission of the university and the payment
of players and athletes. That they're allied together and they're
they're they're they're catalyzing each other to do the very
thing that events do, which is bringing the best players
that align with the mission of the university, and then
it helps us become more visible, which that's what the
church wants. And I don't think we've ever been more visible.
I mean, we had Jalen Rose talking about b YU
basketball on a national basketball talk show on Saturday, and
I don't think he's ever made I don't know. It
was kind of weird for me to hear they do
come out of this battle, you know what I mean?
Like this is this is new territory. We are as
sending it to new space, which is great and uh
and having to pay players, which look, the university's making
money too, churches making money, so this too is not
like you're paying them and it's just like a donation
to somebody coming and participating in a in a colleague
and athletic sport. No, you're paying them and they're they're
giving you in return something of a head way more
value than just the actual money you spend on that.
So a heck of an investment if you really look
at the.
Speaker 3: Love the comment, it's Brady always love delving into this
stuff with you. Let's get you on again later on
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Speaker 3: Brady, always appreciate our time, man, great insight and knowledge
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Speaker 2: Awesome man, Always a pleasure, buddy. All right, especially all
right man.
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Welcome and former BYU great, one of the best gun
slingers to quarterback at BYU. We got John Beck on
the line. John, how you living?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good?
Speaker 4: Then, how are you guys doing fantastic? How was the
weekend in the back home?
Speaker 7: It was awesome.
Speaker 8: We actually had a Friday playoff win and then ran
up to the game on Saturday morning, so I actually got.
Speaker 9: To be up there for the game.
Speaker 8: I got in Saturday afternoon, went to the game, got
to be there to see Johnny Harlene do.
Speaker 9: The national anthem and the Cougars win. So it was
pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: John, You and I have been working hard behind the
scenes trying to get Johnny Harlen on the football field
to melt our faces with that guitar solo.
Speaker 4: How validating was that?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: That was awesome.
Speaker 8: I told Johnny before the game, I said, I flew
up here to watch this and I'm catching the game, you.
Speaker 7: Know, because I'm up here for his guitar solo.
Speaker 8: So it was pretty awesome, you know, like you said,
for years We've been trying to talk to Duff and
a lot of people at UYU, and it's awesome that
Johnny on his own went to the tryouts and.
Speaker 7: Made it happen. And I mean he crushed it.
Speaker 9: I think the guy absolutely nailed it. So it was
really cool to see a teammate and.
Speaker 7: Friend do that.
Speaker 3: You played in the in the National Football League for
a while, right, And I think Johnny Harlen may have
the biggest hands that I've ever been around, and that
includes a lot of the offensive linemen that we played with. Man,
he can just i mean just cover the expanse of
that of that less Paul guitar and really melt faces
with his solos.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what's funny though, I used to mess
around and play the guitar with Johnny here and there.
He has ginormous hands, which is great for catching, great
for pulbing and basketball.
Speaker 7: But I'm like, how does he.
Speaker 8: Actually get some of those like the A cord is
not easy, Like there's certain chords with how big his
fingers are. I'm like, oh that I even have trouble
sometimes on So I'm like, you know, he has a
great reach across the threats, but sometimes like you must
have to adjust and use like some special barkboards that
are a little bit different, because not only does he
have big hands, but he's got thick fingers and huge nailbits.
Speaker 7: So it's impressive. But that guy can do.
Speaker 4: Love it man, well, it was glorious to watch.
Speaker 3: Speaking of glorious BYU dominant victory, just what the doctor order,
especially considering after just the abysmal performance in Lubbock.
Speaker 4: What did you make of the performance? How good was that?
Speaker 7: I thought it was great.
Speaker 8: I was so impressed with BYU's ability to create chunk
plays in the offense, especially in the past game. I
thought this was a huge game for bear Love. You know,
you love to see a quarterback have bounce back games.
Every quarterback, especially young quarterbacks, they're gonna take their lumps.
You know, they're just gonna have some games where things
are a little bit off and maybe that throws them
off a little bit. You know, it feels like a struggle. Which, okay,
that was last week, and it was great to come out.
I thought he made some really really good progression throws.
I thought he made some very accurate throws towards the sidelines.
I loved a Rod's aggressiveness in the play calls in
trusting Bear after a tough game to just come out.
Speaker 7: And sling it, especially on some first downs.
Speaker 9: I thought the offense did a great job of getting
yards after the catch.
Speaker 7: There was just so many good things that happened.
Speaker 8: It was great to see Bair, you know, get another
touchdown run on that option play.
Speaker 7: I know against Texas Tech it felt like.
Speaker 8: Bear's runs like they had a great plan for that,
So it was great to see him kind of open
back up and create some things with his legs. Again,
to me, this was a really good win for a
BYU team that's now trying to earn their way to
a conference championship game back against Texas Tech.
Speaker 7: And so this was a huge game in my mind
for the offense.
Speaker 3: Bear Bachmeyer, how would do you evaluate his performance? He
was pretty gosh dang a fishing. I know you mentioned
a few things that you liked about out bears performance
this particular game. He was I think he was second
in QBR in college football this week. Twenty three of
thirty three, two hundred and ninety six yards and what
was that sixty nine point seven percent completion percentage?
Speaker 4: One touchdown?
Speaker 3: Should have had another one, and then he had ten
totes for fifty nine yards in an additional touchdown.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's about as good as you can play.
I mean, I know that we see the Mendosa kid
for Indiana, who probably was the number one guy right
this week. I think he only had two incompletions and
like four touchdowns. But you know, here we have a
young quarterback that.
Speaker 9: To me, this has to be one of his best games,
if not his.
Speaker 7: Best game of the season.
Speaker 8: And I know that, like you love the performances that
happen in tight ball games where critical plays are made
and close ballgames to win him like especially against quality opponents.
Speaker 7: To me, this was a game that Byu went in.
Speaker 8: And you know, you have a lot of the odds
makers saying this could be a tough game for Byu.
I think you had some of the ESPN people saying,
is this a trap game?
Speaker 7: Could be why you actually lose this game?
Speaker 8: And so for a young quarterback to go out there
and play as efficient as he did and look like
like I said, the receivers they also did a great
job of getting yards after the catch. I thought Bear
made some progression throws that it's the accuracy of a
young quarterback as he progresses to number two and number
three in the progression.
Speaker 7: There are so many guys young, even.
Speaker 8: In college football, that when you give them number one,
they have enough reps. They're gonna go out there and
they're gonna throw a really clean ball to number one. Okay,
well what do they do when they have to progress?
What do they have to do when they have to
move in the pocket and progress to two and three?
Speaker 7: Are they accurate there? And that's where I thought Bear.
Speaker 8: Did a really good job this game on some of
his progression throws of throwing very accurate footballs.
Speaker 3: When you look at how he plays at home versus
on the road. Why is it that Bears as a
true freshman and he plays well on the road, There's
no doubt, but he just elevated into almost in a
lead status under the lights of level.
Speaker 4: What happens under the lights of level for these quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, there's always that.
Speaker 8: I think that like gamesmen competitive, like when you need
to be at your best, when you can feel that
this is a moment that I need to be dialed in,
sometimes that's when you can fall into that light flow state,
right like you enter the field, you go through pregame warmups,
you try to just get yourself in that natural competitive
place where you aren't overthinking.
Speaker 7: Your thoughts are clear, they're concise. It's not too much,
but it's just enough to execute.
Speaker 9: The game plan.
Speaker 8: The brain, when it flows smoothly, you can handle a
lot effortlessly. Mentally, you are holding onto all the information
in your game plan. It doesn't feel like you're balancing plates.
It feels like it's retrievable, very easy. And then also
the creativity, your creativity of those those plays when you
have to make something as you're playing backyard football, that
happens as well. And so I think when a guy
is in that state, it just things happen.
Speaker 7: Things happen.
Speaker 8: It looks easy, it looks comfortable, they look in control.
And that's not to say that there still won't be
a few, you know, like I know Bear had one
where he was slide and lefty through it. He threw
it a little bit low, like that's just football, that's quarterbacking.
You're not going to go out there and hit absolutely everything,
but you're going to be really efficient when you're in
that space. And it felt like that's the space that
Bear was in And that's what I like to talk
about in terms of, you know, mental and emotional performance.
To come off of a game that felt shaky, which
I'm sure he felt shaky last week, and to follow
it up with this game that seemed comfortable and precise
and dialed in. That's that's the great thing about growth
and a young quarterback.
Speaker 3: Are you seeing improvement from Bear on some of these
tougher throws, the opposite hash throws, the vertical throws like
the seam up the early in the game to Park Kingston.
I thought that was a great ball. He had another
one where he went vertical I think to Chase Roberts,
and Chase got a little bit tangled up, but I
thought the trajector was good and it was probably going
to be in the right spot for a catchable play,
if you will.
Speaker 4: What do you make of his progress in that regard?
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's comfort as well.
Speaker 8: I know early in this season there were a few
balls down the field that he wanted to be able
to be more accurate and being able to drive him,
you know, more easily. I think that as I've watched
him throughout the course of the season, you can sense
the comfort in how he's seeing the field.
Speaker 9: You know, you hear the term all of the time. Well,
when the game.
Speaker 8: Slows down for a player, you can see it, you know,
of when the game is not too fast. And I
think what Bear right now is getting a really good
feel for what his eyes are seeing down the field,
and that.
Speaker 9: Comfort allows them for you to drive the ball.
Speaker 7: Places confidently and stretch people down the field knowing I
have that window or knowing this is where.
Speaker 8: I got to take my guy in that situation. Look, Texas,
I mean sorry, TCU did some things shell coverage wise,
where they were rotating at the snap. They were playing
that like what looks like a shell coverage, but the
nickel has a little bit of depth, and you're trying
to gauge who's going to be moving the nickel. The
strong safety, you're trying to fill what the backers doing
pressure because they tie together the secondary and the backers
and the movements and what they give. And so to
me finding that throw right there, and you know, one
thing I don't know is I don't sit in any
of the game planning, so I'm not sure, Hey, that's
the exact throw we thought we were going to get
or was it where there was multiple receivers And because
Bard did such a good job of feeling the space
he took that shot. To me watching it there and
seeing it like, that's what it looked like. And to
me that spills comfort of looking through the backers into
the secondary and feeling confident and comfortable with the speed.
Speaker 9: And the rotation of how things are going to make
a throw like that.
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John BYU and and and this offense specifically made significant
improvements from last week to this week. Obviously, TCU not
as good of a defense as Texas Tech, but that
DC defense has actually been pretty good this season. So
B what you're trending in the right direction offensively down
the stretch?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: What do you feel like needs to be improved upon
heading into the a road slate?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: With with Cincinnati who has been good this season, but
they just fell now two games in a row.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, one to Utah and then a close
one to U of A.
Speaker 8: I mean, look, I don't want to sound overconfident, but
if the team that showed up Saturday night shows up
in Cincinnati, I don't think there's anybody left on the
regular season schedule that could be any type of close
contests heading into the conference championship. If we went out
or they went out BYU's in correct to the Conference
championship game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so they went out there there they are
facing Texas Tech once again in the Conference championship game.
Speaker 8: Well, in my mind, if I'm talking to this team,
I'm saying, you know who you are, you know what
you're all This BYU team needs.
Speaker 7: To do is go out there and be themselves.
Speaker 8: And I don't think there's a team on the regular
season schedule left who should be able to compete.
Speaker 9: With the team playing the way I saw them play
on Saturday night.
Speaker 7: And it's okay to.
Speaker 8: Have that mindset like, yes, we will like respect our opponent.
To believe that you can go out there and just
freaking whip their tail, that is a great feeling also
to believe.
Speaker 9: And so I would say if you feel this way,
build on that.
Speaker 8: You should have a confidence and a swagger, and you
should feel like, yeah, there is nobody else left on
this schedule that should compete with us, and so we're
going to go dominate. And I think that BYU I
like that they felt what they felt it against Texas Tech.
They got to feel what they felt like last night, like, look,
that's a good TCU team, not a great TCU team.
I think that when people were watching him, they were saying, well,
what team of BYU is going to show up? I
think that's the only reason why some odds makers had
it close, because if you watch throughout the year, there
were elements throughout the season where you could see a
little sputter here or there, and then you could see
greatness here or there, and so odds makers can't count
on the greatness.
Speaker 7: Just showing up all the time.
Speaker 8: But if I am the staff right now, if I'm
on that group, I am saying, you know exactly what
that felt like. Your responsibility, what you should aim for
every single day is to repeat that feeling, that emotion,
that performance, that state, that togetherness. And we're gonna go
on the road one last time in the regular season,
and you're gonna bring all of that against the Cincinnati team.
And the truth is the Cincinnati team should not stand
a chance bury them. Right, they've lost a couple of games. Okay,
let's like, let's learn as a team how to go
step on somebody's throat, finish them, and then finish the
season because we know where we want to end up.
Speaker 3: John, this uh, this team is trending in a direction
that that you know, we could get over the hump.
And but what I mean by that is, you know,
ninety six didn't necessarily get over the hump, even though
you had a New Year six or New Year's Bowl game,
right the Cotton Bolvers Kansas State, Oh one, we didn't
get over the hump.
Speaker 4: Six didn't get over the hump like we were a
part of that.
Speaker 3: We were essentially to play short of being over the
hump and probably playing maybe being a Boise State that right,
the BCS busting team seven once again close losses one
score losses eight oh nine, same thing two thousand and
twenty twenty one. While TCU and Utah over the last
twenty years, UCF, Boise State, all these teams that they've
been able to get over the hump.
Speaker 4: B YU hasn't. Is this the year, are you feeling it.
Speaker 8: Well? I think that knowing that if they win out
they can go to a conference championship game.
Speaker 7: And I think that there's two scenarios.
Speaker 8: You know, and going back to some of those conversations,
you know, where you start the season in the rankings
helps where you finish starting high some of those Boise years,
those Utah years where we've seen some of the other
teams go over the hump, they've started higher. Like one
of the tough things is if you have an early
season loss and then you catch fire. Even though you
catch fire at the end of the year, it's much
tougher to go far enough up if you're not in
one of those power conferences to make it. If you
start higher, that helps you by us in a good
position because you know they climbed.
Speaker 9: Early in the rankings, they've been up there.
Speaker 8: In my mind, you win these next two games, you
go to the conference championship game.
Speaker 7: If you win, you're over the hump.
Speaker 8: Like if you go and you knock off Texas Tech
and the conference championship game, like you're in if you
I honestly think that if YU can go and let's
say that they can make it a super tight game.
I want to see BYU go to that game and win.
I think that would be amazing. That's what we all want.
But let's say for some reason they don't. I'm going
to use what I watched on Saturday night when everybody
was waiting for the football game to kick off.
Speaker 7: Was the game against Yukon the men's basketball game. Like,
even though the men's.
Speaker 8: Basketball team didn't beat Yukon, how good was that for
everybody in the country to see what BYU is capable of.
Speaker 7: If BYUS has.
Speaker 8: Two losses on the season, and those two losses are
only to those two teams and allow me to storry
to Texas Tech, and if the last one is a
super close game?
Speaker 7: In my mind, how do you keep them out? You know?
Speaker 8: Like how like you know, okay, we have to have
like the qualifying team that's outside of the P four conferences, Like,
don't they make it as like a qualifier If you're
going to say that that team gets to qualify because
of a rule that brings somebody else in, how do
you keep a team that just went toe to toe
with a team that could potentially be buying for a
national championship and so that would be the argument. But
you know, look, and here's what the coaching staff is
going to say. Don't leave it up to anybody else.
If you can win the next two games, don't leave
it up to as somebody sitting in a room trying
to make a decision.
Speaker 7: Don't just go win, find a way to win.
Speaker 8: And that's the cool part about what I like about
this situation, Like how awesome would it would be to
be a player on the BAU team right now, sitting
at the record that they're sitting at, looking at the
next two games, saying, if we go take care of
our business, we get to be in the exact position
we always wanted to be in, playing in the conference
championship game. And how awesome of an opportunity to go
play a team that we.
Speaker 7: Know we can play much better against.
Speaker 8: Man, I would just as a competitive person, I would
love to be in the situation that these guys are in.
Speaker 7: It's so awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I look at SMU. Last year, they had one
loss and it was actually two BYU. They got to
the ACC championship game, they lost to Clemson and it
was a close one thirty four to thirty one, and
so they the committee has already set a president for
this now. Albeit SMU got demolished by Penn State in
the first round, and so there were some out there
that we kind of feel like, oh, well, they shouldn't
have gotten in. Look, they ended up getting demolished.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's going to be intriguing to see how the human
base evals are combined with the algorithms metrics within the
College Football Playoff Committee and how they take maybe data
sets from even last year and experiences from last year,
and how they maybe evaluate this year's teams.
Speaker 4: But I'm intrigued by it.
Speaker 3: Bear Bachmeyer as a true freshman, what he's been able
to accomplish this year, it's been a surprise to me.
I thought he'd be good. I did not think he'd
be this good. Like, are you surprised at all or
were you taken back at how efficient and effective and
how good he's been this year.
Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing that is impressive, and I've said
it a number of times on the show, to arrive
at BYU, when he arrived to absorb the offense in
the amount of time that he did, to go into
camp and to compete and perform at a level where
the coaching staff says, maybe this needs to be our guy,
and maybe we just need to give him.
Speaker 7: That opportunity to grow and start him day one.
Speaker 9: To me, that's the really impressive thing I've seen there
for a long time.
Speaker 8: I've been around him a long time, so I've always
known the ability with the legs, the ability to extend plays.
He's smart and twitchy and athletic, especially for how big
he is. He's so good with his eyes. Also, like
he's just a really good football player. And I personally
believe it's like anything else in.
Speaker 7: Life, right, Like you want to get really good at it,
you need a lot of reps.
Speaker 8: Well, when you get a lot of reps, you can
step into college football.
Speaker 7: I've seen it where guys the level of.
Speaker 8: Experience that they have is high, and they have a
high talent level, and then they're given an opportunity and
a good football team, and I've seen them kind of
thrive and excel young. So you look at Bear, you
look at the team that he was going to, and
also how much experience he was coming out of high
school with, Yes, you can see like this guy can
step in. I mean I had conversations with other colleges
when Bear was coming out of high school, because if
they knew that I'd known Bear and they were feeling
the same thing like this, I think this can be
a guy that we can bring in.
Speaker 7: I think he can play young.
Speaker 9: I love his ability to extend play with his legs.
Speaker 8: He can get us out of trouble, like a lot
of people were seeing that, and I think that's also
why Yu wanted to be able to give him the
opportunity to play young, was because you could see going
into it what he was bringing to the table. And
I think, look, like any quarterback, you need to be
on a good team in a good situation if you
want to thrive as a young player. There is no
young player that can get dropped into difficult situations and
just magically like lift the team out of things because
of his talent or ability. Talent alone or ability alone
can't just completely change a team. You have to have
a team around a quarterback. And I think that it's
just been such a good match. The way that a
Rod utilizes Bear's legs, Bear's ability to withstand the hits
throughout the course of a season, all of that has
just been impressive and fit so well this year.
Speaker 3: John, do you think if a Rod could go back
and do it again versus Texas Tech, he would have
maybe maybe Xci's taken out some of the the max
Pro and chips and maybe been a little bit more
aggressive and just let.
Speaker 4: His tackles try to fend for themselves, or what do
you think?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 8: Game planning is tricky when you're an offensive coordinator, because
you see certain things that you feel like this can work,
and then you put them out there, and you're always
going to go back and say, wow, was that a
good thought?
Speaker 7: Now knowing what I know and now seeing how it
played out.
Speaker 8: I think every coordinator is always learning, you know, really
really good coaches, they like they understand like sometimes stuff
looks really good and works really good.
Speaker 7: Sometimes stuff looks really good and doesn't work.
Speaker 8: And sometimes just running our plain old simple stuff that
we know at the back of our hand that can
work too. Even though we may think that they're going
to be really prepared for it, sometimes we're just better
at executing it than they are at stopping it. And
so all coordinators go back and learn a lot from games.
And I'm excited to see what a second opportunity could
look like you know, and I know we can't get ahead,
but a Rod has always been really.
Speaker 7: Good of coming up with little wrinkles here or there.
Speaker 8: And then I think also finding that balance between you know,
are we scheming on too much stuff? Are we trying
to do too much because of what we see on tape?
Are we sometimes giving the opponent too much credit? You know,
like that that can happen sometimes, like you can see
things on tape and you're like, man, well then I
don't want any chance that, or we need to make
sure that we do this, or man, they got beat
so many times on that, like we shouldn't maybe use
that because they're gonna be ready for it and it
may not always play out that way on game day.
Speaker 7: And so then you get to go back to the
drawing board. You learn, you grow from it.
Speaker 8: And you know, I've always respected the coaches that are
always willing to learn and be open and not ever
like you know, point the finger at somebody else that
just say, okay, hey, you know what the ideas that
we had maybe that didn't work for us, that's okay.
You know, it's on all of us, and we're just
gonna learn from it, grow from it. And will be
a much better team because of what we learned from
that loss. And that's what excites me about another opportunity
to play Texas Tech is because how much does BYU
learn about what they can do better? Sometimes the team
that loses is the team that learns the most. And
sometimes on the winning end, you don't always learn the
most because you don't look at the tape the same
way after a win as you do a loss.
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