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at Vanderwealthanderwealth dot com. We're gonna get into a keeping

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up with the Cougar segment. A young man that's to

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be playing in the alumni game, I stay young. He's

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still young in spry. He still's got a little bit

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bit of biggeran VM. He's still a good athlete, still

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got some proper quick twitch fast twitch muscle fiber. He's

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gonna be balling out for the Brigham Young University fans

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at the alumni game. Hopefully he stays warm and toasty.

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We do have a cold front that he's uh has,

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that he's upon us here, and we do have precipitation.

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But we've had this before and this man has played

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in many games up in Cash Valley, Cash Money in

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the inclement weather, so he's no stranger to it. Let's

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welcome in one of the best tight ns BA football history.

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We got Moroni Laoluputu Tao MLP. What's up? Bro?

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Speaker 3: What's up? Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: You feel hey? Loud and clear? Bro, he sounded.

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Speaker 3: That's quite the introduction.

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Speaker 1: So what like, that's an easy peasy one.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 1: That ain't that? Ain't that? Ain't nothing? My friend?

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the reasons why I like MLP is

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because he was like he was a defensive back and

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a wider receiver in high school and then uh converted

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to the tight end room.

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Speaker 4: That's right, yeah, play both ways. I think I first

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got on the radar was Nick hal the defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Nick is the one that found you.

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Speaker 3: And then I found me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, and uh, what was his pitch to you

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at the time. There's no pitch. There's no pitch. It

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was just they we love you athlete. I think at

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the time he just got guys like Alani Fua, you know.

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So I think he first initially was looking at me

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and was like, we could do a lot with the frame.

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Speaker 1: And then so he was looking at defense first.

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Speaker 3: He's looking at defense first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I first got on the field as

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a sophomore as a corner. I didn't start as receiver

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in high school high school, so I started as a

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corner and that's where I got all my pt and

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then and then I'd rotate a little bit here and

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there receiver.

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Speaker 1: But so you're like, what six two at the time?

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Speaker 3: Six three the twig?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, that's great, kind of.

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Speaker 3: Jarring to look at when I go back and look

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was until Yeah, it's it's pretty crazy.

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Did you play multiple sports though? Were you more than

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a football, basketball, track?

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Speaker 3: Football?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're kind of getting out of the era of

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like multi sport athletes.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you feel about it? Like when you're like,

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you know, because you have you got some boys. You

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got some kiddo's coming on that. I mean they're still

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ways away from specializing obviously, but are you gonna kind

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of make them like you got to play all the sports?

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Speaker 4: I'm going to try and prolong multiple sports as long

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as I can. Yeah too, and that that's kind of

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my thought process. I mean, I have three boys, so

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they're already in like some Muay Thai mixed martial arts,

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they've done some gymnast.

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Speaker 1: Because you've been doing some way time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, And I mean they're young, but I

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can already see like they're figuring out their bodies. I

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don't want to keep that as long as possible. I

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think I think it will help in the long run.

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Speaker 1: It's great names and ages.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got three so Maroni, Junior A, Malachi and Gid.

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So yes, they're all. They're all booking more Renee keep

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it in the six. Four and two are the ages?

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Speaker 1: Ye wait, wait, you're you're Malachi is four?

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Speaker 3: Malachi's four, okay.

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Speaker 1: So my Malachi is four and a half. So yeah,

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we got to get them together. A little Malachi a

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little do you call Kai Kai.

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Speaker 3: I think it'll come. I mean, friends will probably give

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him on your nickname.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is long. Yeah, but you guys

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go on Malacha. Yeah, it's a beautiful name, man, beautiful name,

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no doubt about it. What convinced you? Who convinced you

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to play the alumni game this year?

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Speaker 3: Jack?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Jackson out there back? He said, who's ready to running back?

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: Last year was my first year. Yeah, I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: So and we're coming from Boise Eagle, Idaho area, so

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it's kind of becoming a trip, a fun little thing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you guys made the move up there.

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three years now, and you were you were in the

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kind of the real estate development world. Is what you

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were looking at and what you were you were getting into,

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I want to say, even five years ago. And so

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how's the move been. It gives a little update on

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the corporate world that you're living in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the movesment awesome. It's been really good for our family.

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super good fit. I think it's funny because myself included.

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of is East Idaho, like Rexburt, like that's everyone's perception

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of Idaho. And so when we got to you know,

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the West side, it's completely different, different vibe, different climate,

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different everything.

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Speaker 3: So we've enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: I'm still in the space, so I'm still in the

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real estate development space, specifically land development. I have a

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civil engineering side to my company now, so we just

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help other developers or landowners develop land so kind of

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manage the development process for them.

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Speaker 3: And it's been fun. I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Naming the company and how can they follow you, connect

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with you on LinkedIn, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, LinkedIn, just my name and then our company's SD

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 4: We're we're pretty much all in Idaho now, Treasure Valley,

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just trying to stay in my backyard. And we're small,

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we're still new, we're still a startup.

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Speaker 3: Growing and building to building and still alive, still in it.

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Speaker 1: So I love it, man, Yeah, I love it. And

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then you've been doing some moy Thai. Then somebody decided, like,

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did you do any MMA stuff prior to but that's.

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Speaker 3: Something I always wish I could have done.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of athletes, especially football players, think

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the same thing, and you just can't really get in there.

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Speaker 1: I learned the guard in arm barring from my brother

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when I was like twelve, because he had gotten into

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it so likely with brothers like you're like and that

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he they like like the octagon and like some of

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the MMA stuff. It was just coming about right. Like

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it's true, it's still fairly new, Hoyce Gracie. Like I

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knew all like the names of like these individuals, like

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so the the the og jiu jitsu world, Yeah, that's

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the jiu jitsu world. And then but you had some

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really good moy Hi guys and boxers and like wrestlers,

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you know, and Ken Shamrock and like all these guys

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that were just jacked. Yeah, you know a lot of regulations,

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no regulation jack. That's some t RT if I've ever

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seen any anyway, But yeah, dude, I was. It was

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something that I was kind of taught a little bit.

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I mean, you grew up with so many brothers who

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grew up in the big family too, It's like you

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kind of get into some scuffles.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, stuff, So you learned a little bit able to

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actually get in there and learn it. I mean, I'm

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six years out now from from playing yep, and about

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last year I got that itch that I was like, man,

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I need something competitive. Yes, and pickleball is just not

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doing it for me. You don't you know what I mean, Like,

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people don't like playing with me. It's like, dude, it's

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not that serious.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm sorry, this is in my DNA. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And so I tried it and I just fell in

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love with it, and I'm like, oh, this gives me

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that This scratches that itch that football gave me. And

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it's competitive and it's something my joy keeps me in shape,

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gives me something to work out for.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to just work out for nothing, at least

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for me unless I have it.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm like, oh, I got a fight coming

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up where I got something to do. Yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 1: I love it. That's awesome. Yeah. Well ben bo is

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like a you know, a bare knuckle boxer. Don't ever

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I try to stay in shape, enjoy it, but I'm not. Yeah,

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gotta go home to the wife and the kids.

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Speaker 1: Well, what's interesting is, like I thought, once upon a time,

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we did We've done this maybe I think once or

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twice where we have a rivalry like Legends boxing matches

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where we pit. It'll be like a corporate sponsored thing

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where like there's like corporate entities involved in it and

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they're like boxing each other. But then we'll have some

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premiere fights where like Riley Nelson boxed I want to say, man,

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who did Riley box? He boxed the former place kicker

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for Utah, who's like an Olympic skierd I must have

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been side no Snowski. You look up Riley Brian Keel

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boxed Boo Anderson, a former Utah linebacker. So we need

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to do this again. You missed it? Oh yeah, man,

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you can look it up. It was a Legends fight

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and so he boxed Andy Phillips. We should probably continue

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to Yeah, oh, it totally does because it gets a

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bunch of fans out there like, oh, well Utah and

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you know Utah football player versus b what you football

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player and you do enough marquee fights. There are different

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weight groups. Yeah, it's it's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 1: You'd be a heavyweight, heavy heavyweight right, because you're over

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to a five, right, a little bit over to who

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do you? Who do you? Who do we match you

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Not a lot of people

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in our class.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to think who you played against during

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that time, roughly in the in the in the in

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the Holy War games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Holy War Let's see.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, say, like in my era, it would

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have been like me and like Steve Taate or something

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like that. You know, it's like me, you know too,

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two white defensive backs brawling. Yeah, and then in the

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fight club, you know, I like it. Yeah, yeah, I'm

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b AU football. I don't know if you've been able

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Speaker 3: Got to town. I haven't been there, but yeah, keeping yeah,

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keeping stuff.

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Speaker 1: Cody Barty you want to fight there? Cody? Oh yeah, yeah,

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have a good matchup. Cody Barton. Is Cody still playing ball? Okay,

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is he still playing balls?

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Speaker 3: He don't know, is he Let me take a look.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taking more m LP all day on this one.

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Cody is a good football player, though. What did you

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make of the of the b A Cougar football season? Though, Yeah,

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he's he's still playing in the league, so he's probably

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gonna may want to fight still. You know, you good shape.

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But twenty twenty five, twelve and two almost gonna you

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get to the Big twelve championship game. I mean, this

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is the stuff that you know, we dreamed about nil

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nil money, big total championships on the knocking on the

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door of the College Football PLAYFF, I think were you

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a part of the twenty twenty team?

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Speaker 3: Uh No, the twenty nineteen was technically this season.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you didn't get to be a part

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of the two. They were kind of knocking on the door.

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They were c FPAF. Well, yep, no, it's been fun

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Speaker 4: It's just like you said, it's every fans dream was

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like that season, and yet you still have the fans.

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Speaker 3: That are like complaining. You know, I'm like, this has

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been the best year and arguably history.

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Speaker 1: It really is versus the strength of schedule really good.

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Speaker 4: So it's so fun to watch, so fun to be

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a fan again and just and just watch them do

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their thing, and and also see Kilane like because I

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was his first year sixteen twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was my sophomore year.

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Speaker 1: Great year by the way, Yeah, it's a great year.

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Speaker 4: And so just to see how the culture's grown and

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the team he's built around them and how dialed in

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they are. There's a lot of momentum velocity, and you

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can see it on the field, you can hear it

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from the players.

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Speaker 3: So it's been fun to watch.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how have you seen Kilane change and evolve over

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time since that first year because obviously you're around him

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like what has what has grown.

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Speaker 5: In Kilanie's coaching philosophy since then that you've seen.

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Speaker 3: I think the main thing was culture.

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Speaker 4: I think I mean any coach right there trying to

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figure out who their team is, what their culture is,

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and then also how that's actually practically implemented, right, how

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the schedule looks, how the systems within the team work,

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how your leadership operation works within the team. Right, how

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do you want to operate as a coach or you

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kind of more hands on or more hands off, or

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you player led, and so I think at the beginning

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it was it was interesting because every year we felt

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something there, like we felt him tweaking something. Oh, we're

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moving more and more towards the leadership roles of the players,

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more and more into the love and learning culture. And

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it actually like you could see it visually as a

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player from year one to the next year to the

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next year. Oh, things are starting to change. Also, he has,

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you know, a bunch of staff changes those years, if

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you remember. I mean there's a new OC every year.

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Speaker 3: So that's one of the big things.

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Speaker 4: Him finding his people too right and and dialing that

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in and it's just man, you can see it just

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dialed right now. It's cool to watch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you bring up some really interesting points. We were

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talking about dynamic duos in the tight end room. I

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know you started off as a wide receiver, kind of

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like a slot, big, big body, wide receiver that could

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be deemed as a flex anyway. But I saw you

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some iso I think a couple of deep posts early

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on in your career, coming down with some balls. Who

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who's the best? Uh, you know what? Who was the

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the counterpartier? In twelve personnel settings. You were at b YU.

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Speaker 3: Oh it is Matt Bushman.

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Speaker 1: That's a great crew MLP and a young Matt bush

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that's Matt Bushman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt Bushman.

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Speaker 1: You guys are good together. That's a good deal. That

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was a fun That was a fun time because you

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were more of the in line, but you could flex

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and then Matt was a flex Yeah, yeah, I had.

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Speaker 3: I had a couple of pounds on him and it

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just fit. It just worked normal that way.

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Speaker 4: And so I ran a lot of the true Y positions,

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although we we switched and flip flop, but if it

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was twelve typically we'd say he was at the F

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so he's in that like you back off offset position.

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Speaker 3: And I've run a lot of the Y and I

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loved playing with Matt because.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you get people that take an eye off

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you to go worry about someone else and vice versa.

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Speaker 3: It just it just works.

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Speaker 1: It was fun. Yeah, I was kind of pulling up

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like the best duo tight ends in BYU football history.

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you crossed over with Matt, but it wanted to make

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sure because like he had some injuries as well.

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Speaker 4: That's the most years I crossed over with We had

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a young dollon Hoole at the beginning. So the cool

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thing about playing with Matt was it was just the

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IQ right, Like we knew going in. We could just

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give a look or a glance and we knew, or

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we could swip switch the drop of the hat in

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the middle of the play and be just fine. And

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so it was fun playing with Matt.

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Speaker 3: In that garden.

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Speaker 1: Because you had your injury in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had one in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: The twenty eighteen was the was that getting rolled up

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on or yeah? That was Washington in twenty seventeen, was

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that Liz Frank? I was Liz Frank before the even

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the season even, Yeah, So we didn't get to see it,

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but two thousand, yeah, twenty eighteen and nineteen yep, yeah yep.

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stats with Matt Buschman in twenty nineteen forty seven reception,

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six hundred and eighty eight yards and four touchdowns and

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then you had nine with one twenty four in a touchdown.

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So yeah, that's a good duo right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the year prior you had only played in

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six games, but Matt, I think Matt ended up having

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where was Matt at there? And as far as his receiving,

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Matt led the team in receptions in twenty eighteen. Yeah,

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twenty nine for five to eleven, two touchdowns. And then

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in six games you were trending really well too, fourteen receptions,

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one twenty in a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, was a good year.

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Speaker 1: That would have been. Actually, you play all twelve thirteen

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games and you know you're at you're at almost thirty

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receptions and he's trending forward fifty sixty. That's a really

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statistically that's like where you guys were trending at that time.

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Is one of the better seasons in Buley football history.

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From the tight ends and that twelve person off set.

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Speaker 3: It was a fun first five six games for sure.

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Speaker 1: All Right, sorry, I'm bringing up the pass. This is

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what we do on radio. And then my knee up

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blow down. Tried to try to make it's hard, man,

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this game I can't I call football game of attrition

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right like it's just is it's just it's.

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Speaker 4: A it's all out war on and off the field

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and physical. It's it's not for the faint of heart.

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And I mean, but but that's what makes it great.

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That's what makes it, you know, worthwhile and makes the

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memories fun to go back and look at it, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: What do you got a p Yeah, Well, we were

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talking a little bit earlier about tight ends and running backs,

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and and I noticed that buy us all time. Great

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running backs usually have really great tight ends to go

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with them, Like you know, Luke Staley had had a

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couple of great ones with them, Harvey and had, Dennis Pitta,

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and Andrew George and and and I mean you were

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with Jamal and LJ had Carson Ryan last year. What

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role is or if it like, what is the role

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of a tight end? And and how do they how

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do they connect with a running back? Do you guys

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help take the load off of a running back?

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Speaker 1: How does that? What's the connection? Now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think anytime you have more weapons on the

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field in general, it's gonna help everybody.

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Speaker 3: Right, you just can't focus. You can't just load the box.

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If you've got tight ends.

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Speaker 4: That can leak out and make plays downfield, you can't

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just focus on LJ or jamal right and and things

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like that. I think a tight end specifically in the

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run game is super underrated. I think their impact in

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the run game is huge. And if you have a

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tight end that can block to your point, it makes.

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Speaker 3: Running back shops a lot easier.

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Speaker 4: You can have an extra guy that you bring in

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the box that is not also going to bring more

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guys on the defensive side in the box, but actually

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add value and and and and and affect the game

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in that regard.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's cool.

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Speaker 4: And running backs always love their their O line or

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their tight ends right whoever's blocking for them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, I think, uh you know, I will

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say that double digit wins in BYU football history seemingly

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come when there are two NFL caliber tight ends. It

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coincides two thousand and one, does Jolly Spencer ned both

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NFL guys. There may be a few outliers, right, like

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you had, I want to say in twenty twenty, you know,

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you kind of had like Mason Wake in combination with

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with Isaac Rex and Isaac was on the on the

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trajectory for NFL until he dislocated his ankle twenty twenty one.

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You had you had Isaac Rex and Dallan Holker right

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my era, Johnny Harlen, Dan Coats in six and then

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you know, like you had like seven, which was uh

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Dennis Pitta, Andrew George so uh, Chad Lewis or Tulameily.

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You just go down the list. It's like, oh the

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double digits.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's just so much you can do with

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tight ends and yeah, to that point, it just mismatches, mismatches.

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It helps you wins game and just to stay unpredictable.

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Like as a defense, you love nothing more than knowing, oh,

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it's either gonna be this or that, Like I only

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have to guard this if it's not that is this?

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Speaker 3: So when you have the tight ends that are such

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a versatile piece, Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: Most underrated position in football.

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Speaker 4: Well, I would also say one of the most difficult,

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I know, the corners besides quarterback.

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Speaker 3: I don't bias, but I don't think there's a harder

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position to play tight.

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Speaker 1: End stuff, especially Q and physically you.

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Speaker 4: Block every single person. You're blocking a d tackle and

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you're blocking a safety in a corner. You're also running routes.

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You have to know the whole route tree. You have

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to do all the past pro So it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: You're in space and in your stock blocks, and so

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you're you're, you're you're matching up with some good athletic

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guys in the slots. But then you got to get

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in the trenches the next place. Yeah, then you got

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a down block on a y. You know, you're like,

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Holy Cad, that guy's master.

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Speaker 3: Block this three tech Right now, let's go run out

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of little patri towel m l P.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you hopping on and now uh message to

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Kugarnation to come out and support the the the old

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heads that they're gonna be playing now in the alumni

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game tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, come come cheer on. The old farts are running

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around all of it. It's gonna be cold, it's gonna

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be cool.

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Speaker 1: Little trip down autographs, man, coming get into the autographs

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and let these guys really soak it up, these former

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b A greats.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: And connect with Moron I. If you're looking at you know,

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land Development, hook up with him on LinkedIn. He does

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great work and great stuff. MLP appreciate you, man,