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fired it up, fired up the ESPN, the fans starting lineup,
and I can introduce you to my coast and the
rest of the stars that Cas is joining us for
these March fifth Thursday edition of Cougar Sports. So that's
first and foremost welcome in the architect of the show,
scheduling things out, making sure we're staying on time, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Ronald, the three Man Weaver, Ronnie, how.
Speaker 3: You living, living good? Happy Thursday to everybody, and please
be smooth. I see the snow falling here, been up
in Salt Lake. I've been waiting for it to come again.
Hopefully it comes again soon because we need the moisture.
Speaker 1: Yes, hey, I love the moisture, guys. I love the rain.
Speaker 4: I love the snow. Now, the preference is that it
rains in the valley, it snows up on the mountains,
and then we kind of get that, like you.
Speaker 1: Know, at least once or twice a week.
Speaker 4: And then we get those nice sunny days rolling in
as well, so we can really enjoy the fresh air.
Speaker 1: That's ideal, but be.
Speaker 4: Grateful for the moisture that is precipitating from the heavens.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome into.
Speaker 4: The show as well, Brett Hammer, Brett always bringing the
hammer hammertime show.
Speaker 1: What's up, bro.
Speaker 5: I hope it doesn't snow our rain.
Speaker 6: And here's why, I'm too lazy to get a new
wiper blade. So I've been driving for like the last
I think five months with only one wiper blade, but
it like it like kind of makes a scratching noise
on my windshields.
Speaker 5: So I try to just not use my white old
wipers at all. And I realized that this is a problem.
Speaker 6: But like after like two months, I was like, I
wonder if I could make it through the whole.
Speaker 4: Winter ardicularly, I mean, we had we had the perfect
winter for it.
Speaker 6: I know, so so far I haven't so if it
could not rain again, but I.
Speaker 5: Really should just go change out my wiper blades, That's
what I should do. Yeah, But sometimes you know like
that those are do you really need to.
Speaker 7: Or is it you need to see when it's raining?
Speaker 6: Think about the third Well, he's got the one in
front of him. It's the secondary. But I but I
don't really use it because like since it doesn't have
a wiper blade on it, it kind of.
Speaker 1: Likes how often is someone driving in the passenger sheet?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, And do they really
need to see? Now you're the only one that needs
to be able to be fine? It may be a
dangerous thing at times.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 6: That's like such a sixteen year old boy thing to say,
and I'm twenty seven years old. I realize I'm a
grown adult driving without a windshield.
Speaker 5: You're growing up fast. Yeah, yes, that's for sure. That
is for sure. Sixteen to twenty eight, real fast.
Speaker 4: Let's welcome into show, ap Andrew Peterson up, ap Oh,
I'm doing good.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of things that I get away with
with my car. The most recently is that I've been
seeing how long I can go without replacing my windshield.
The crack is like clear across.
Speaker 5: The entire thing.
Speaker 7: It's almost completed, the full windshield.
Speaker 6: You just for it to collapse when there's just a
line and yeah, and the you have no windshield at all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he needs a windshield. But we'll get that.
We'll we'll we'll head over to the sponsors and get
that fixed relatively.
Speaker 4: So you need to go get that that that fixed up, bro. Like,
as soon as you get the crack, guys, bring it
in to big O tires.
Speaker 3: I been remember mine and Ryan took care of me.
Speaker 4: Take care of you as soon as you get that
little divot as soon as it hits Like when you're
driving on the I fifteen and we all know the rubble,
you know the the the the the asphalt that has
like been just just completely disrupted that gets kicked up,
or the the the semi trucks that are just brain
that's what rocks everywhere.
Speaker 5: That's like, okay, we all know that.
Speaker 4: Like so, like I've had so many window or windshields
replaced and cracked here in the state of Utah, so
we all know about it.
Speaker 1: As soon as it hits. Bring it over to big O'TI.
Speaker 7: What you're hearing about now is what happens when you
don't bring it in immediately, because now I'm gonna have
to replace the whole windshield. Yeah, the reality is I'm
gonna do it. I just need to have a day
where I'm not working. Yeah, and that hasn't happened for
a while. So but we're gonna get that into our sponsors.
That's my story with cars and getting through the winter.
Every time it gets cold, the crack gets a little
bit bigger.
Speaker 6: Does it get cold in your like because it's cracked, Well, no,
like it's not colder inside the car. The only thing
is I have just an annoying line through my vision.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's called obstruction a vision. That's it's dangerous. Yeah,
I don't know which one stay.
Speaker 5: I couldn't get pulled over for mine. You definitely could
get pulled over for yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to you get that fixed.
Speaker 7: I'm hoping that are maybe an insurance claim.
Speaker 1: You want to keep those insurance claims at a minimum. No,
I get it, I got it. I know what I mean.
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let's talk about stats.
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start off with I know we talked a lot of
hoop yesterday.
Speaker 1: I feel like we got.
Speaker 4: To give some love to women's basketball here if we
may ken.
Speaker 1: Wait, you know Lee Kamard.
Speaker 4: We had him on the show earlier this week in
preparation for the Big twelve tournament, and Lee and the
Lady Cougars are balling out right. They're playing great basketball
right now and they're surviving and advancing.
Speaker 1: So we got to give a big Cougar.
Speaker 4: Roar to Lee Kamard and his BYU women's basketball team
in this segment. If you're not following, that's why you
stay tuned. They ended up beating Houston seventy six to
sixty six.
Speaker 1: It was a fantastic outing. The only bad thing about
this game was the glass digital floor still controversial. I
think Sean Furlong. And they're playing Utah right now as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so're up eight right now.
Speaker 1: So they got the win yesterday.
Speaker 4: They're playing Utah right now and they're up by eight
with nine minutes left in the fourth. But you know
that I do want to highlight yesterday and the playmaking.
Speaker 1: Look, I know that Houston was.
Speaker 4: A little bit shorthanded they due to suspensions and other
things that occurred prior to this the Big Twelfth Tournament.
Speaker 1: Delaney Gibb had herself a night. Lara Rocle also.
Speaker 4: As well as Sidney Binali all got buckets and then
Olivia Hambler.
Speaker 1: You had four double digit scores all in.
Speaker 4: The team sixteen, fourteen, fifteen and fifteen versus Houston. And
right now they're up against the Utes. I know Ronnie
always keeps a keeping tabs on this Lady Cook's team,
and they're up right now.
Speaker 1: How far is this team gonna go in the Big
twelve Tournament.
Speaker 3: Look, if they win this game, beating TCU, the number
one team who has won the regular season title, for
back to back years. It's tough. It's tough to beat
the number one team. Anything can happen in the tournament, right.
I think they'll make it competitive, but I think getting
to the quarterfinal might be it. But they would have
to beat TCU to get that NCAA tournament. Birth that
think they're on the bubble looking at it, but ben
they were down in this game. They were down Utah
I think had a seven seventeen to two run to
close out the half, and then BYU sparked in the
third quarter. And look, Lee Kamar's beating Utah twice this
year already he was. I think it's he was either
six and two against Utah as a player I believe
in or four and two. But anyway, he's going for
his third victory against him. But I think if they
win this game, I would have to say that the
next round would be the last stop. It's gonna be
tough to beat TCU, But if they prove me wrong,
I'm happy to be wrong. I think it's just as
tough to get this horn frog on women's basketball team.
Speaker 4: But if you beat Utah right like you're this first
year of Lee Kamar, the Lee Kamard era, how close
is this team to be in an NCAA tournament team
would you say right now?
Speaker 1: The women's team led by Lee Kamard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're they're close. To think a couple
of other games where they were ranked opponents that they had,
you know, a couple of games maybe against Baylor Western
ja they could have gotten. They've lost some close games
against higher teams than that, So I think they're two
wins against quality opponents. Off they had a great on
non con and how they want to defeat it. You
mean you go nine and nine and Big twelve play,
I mean to get arguably coming closing in on your
eleventh win in Big twelve play. That's hard to do, Ben,
It's hard to get double digit wins and conference play,
but hard to do it in the Big twelve. But
I think there are two teams away. If they would
have gotten like a Baylor at home or if they
would have gotten to Western JAA, I think that this
team would be in the NCAAAA tournament.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So right now their net ranking is fifty eighth, I
want to say, and they just don't have any Quad
one wins right They're own four in Quad one, and
then eight and four in Quad two, so a nice
healthy record in Quad two opportunities. And then in Quad
three they did have a loss in Quad three games
own one there, and then they're thirteen and one in
Quad four games, but overall a pretty healthy season. They
would have to Essentially, they would they have to win
the Big twelve tournament in order to get into the
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1: Do you think, Ronnie, that's what's gonna have to happen.
Speaker 3: You can't make an arguments, and they would have to
win the whole tournament, which is hard. But I think
if you were to beat a TCU ben and then
you're in the semi final, and then if you were
to beat that team in the semi final and get
to a final, I think that'd be enough. That's why
I gave my original point. I think if they would
have got two Quad one wins, I think that had
been enough for them. With these two other ones, I
think that had been okay. They deserve a birth in
the NCAA tournament. But now you have to go beat
the TCU. You have to go beat whoever you would
meet in the semifinal of that side of the bracket
and be in the final arguably win the whole thing.
So yeah, it's tough. I don't know, maybe they can.
I think they're gonna be on the outside looking in.
But for Lee kamar look to do this in his
first season whenever when Amber Riding went, Brett covered this
team as a solar report when he was at bau
we all thought this guy was falling. To retain the
Landy Gibb, to retain Britany Cannon, to bringing Sydney, but
to keep this roster together as a coach, that says
a lot about who you are and the culture on
what you mean to the program itself. So you know,
getting that berth, you know, to the Wbit or the
Crown wherever they're going, they'll find out. I think they're
gonna have a great opportunity to be a top four
seat there and make a run. And that's a great
stepping stone for Lee Coamard in my opinion.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Shout out to Lee Kamard and
this Lady Kooks team. Hopefully they were able to take
down the University of Utah also wanted to talk Power
for quarterback rankings, Power four Quarterback Rankings, Bear Bachmeyer coming
in at number fifteen in ESPN's top Power four rankings,
with the twenty twenty five stat line to seventy eight
point two QBR, three thousand and thirty three passing yards,
fifteen touchdowns, seven nine ts, sixty four point nine percent
completion rate, twelve point one yards per completion, six hundred
and twenty four non sack brushing yards as well, and
eleven tunnies.
Speaker 1: This is what they had to say about him.
Speaker 4: Sure, he benefited from a strong defense and a ruthlessly
physical offensive line, but Bachmeyer was a true freshman in
twenty twenty five, and he spent the spring at Stanford
before transferring following a coaching change. There was no reason
to expect huge things from him in twenty twenty five.
All he did was throw for three thousand yards, beat
everyone but Texas Tech, defeat Utah with a manly touchdown run,
and indirectly kill a pop tart. It was honestly one
of the best true freshman seasons we've seen in a while,
and you could tell that offensive coordinator Aaron Rodericks still
had some guardrails in place. What might he be capable
of now that he actually knows what he's doing how much?
Speaker 5: Number one?
Speaker 4: Do you feel like this is an accurate depiction of
who Bear Bochmeyer is amongst the power for quarterbacks, he's
right smacking between CJ. Bailey of NC State, a good quarterback.
Bryce Underwood's number seventeen. Marcel Reid is number eighteen. John
mattiars at nineteen. Demon Williams Junior of Washington, who was
a hot commodity in He's only player. He's a good player.
Demond he's at number twenty. Avery Johnson, also part of
the Big twelve still in Kansas State, is at number
twenty one. Ahead of him, Okay is a slew of
great player. Sam Levitt, the ASU quarterback, former Big twelve quarterback.
Speaker 1: Now at LSU.
Speaker 4: You also have Josh Hoover, former Big twelve quarterback TCU.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, number thirteen, he's gonna be.
Speaker 7: Son of Tannor Wallwall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, And then check this out.
Speaker 1: Devon Dappier at number.
Speaker 3: Twelve really also.
Speaker 7: Tall.
Speaker 5: The number one.
Speaker 3: I had to have my AP moment right there. I
had to give it a that was an ap comment
right now. Also the great Wall of you. Hey, that
one's better because it's against Utah even though he housed
josh Uver.
Speaker 4: Brendan Soresby at number nine, the former Cincinnati quarterback that
I guess is getting sued anyway. Texas Tech is currently
his team at number eight. Gunner Stockton, Georgia, Drew Mesta
Maker Oklahoma State, current Big twelve quarterback Dante More Oregon
number six, jayde and Mayava USC at number five, Arch
Manning number four for the Texas Longhorns, Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 6: If he if he's even playing this year.
Speaker 4: For those that don't know there, I think there's the
NCAA is fighting this one, yep. So we'll get a
little update on this one later on the show. Julian
Say and Ohio State at number two and then number
one CJ. Carr Notre Dame fighting our So do we
like the spot? We feel like it's a good spot
for bear bachmart considering considering his resume, what he did,
how he produced last season, how he led b YU
to the Big twelve tchampionship game.
Speaker 1: All right, Roddie, what do you got for me?
Speaker 3: And to be even more funny, Ben Brendan Soarsby also
the son of Tenor Wall. That's true, he picked off,
He picked off Brendan Soarsby too, just to say.
Speaker 6: That I think the fifteenth spot is really really good. Now,
I don't want to be disrespectful or seem ungrateful, but
there are individuals ahead of.
Speaker 5: Bear Bachmeyer that I have questions about.
Speaker 6: In fact, there's people behind bar Bachmeyer that I think
should be higher on this list.
Speaker 5: I like Josh Hoover.
Speaker 6: I don't know that he's the thirteenth best, but I
think they're attributing a lot of that to he's playing
for Kurt Signettes, who We're giving him some points there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: Devin dam Pierre.
Speaker 6: I know that everyone's gonna say that we're gonna question
this one because he's at Utah.
Speaker 5: I actually think Devin is good when he's healthy.
Speaker 6: But I do think losing your offensive coordinator and your
head coach. If you're gonna give Josh, if you're gonna
give Josh Hoover points for who's coaching him, then I
think we need to take points from Devin Dampierre for
who's not coaching him anymore.
Speaker 5: However, bear Bachmeyer is in a good spot.
Speaker 6: I also just want to take a shot at everyone
who put Jaren kiahwe sagapolute ahead of Bear Bachmeyer for
all these like freshman All American stuff. If he was
that good, why isn't he higher on this list? But
it is pretty incredible. I know I say this all
the time, but like, go back to less than a
year ago when BYU had no idea who their quarterback
was and they weren't ready to have a new QB one.
And now we're sitting at a point a year later
where Bear Bachmeyer in springball is being rated as the
fifteenth best quarterback in the country. I think we all
believe Bear will be even better this year. I think
he's he looks like he's slimmed up a little bit.
And I don't even know that he necessarily like needed to,
but he he talked about the other day how like
this full offseason, in this full spring has given him
time to like get in better shape, better conditioning, better nutrition,
all that stuff. So I think in a lot of ways,
Bear Bachmeyer is going to be even better than he
was last year. I because so then the question becomes,
do we think by the end of this year he'll
be at fifteen or do we think he'll be in
the top ten. I think if this is what we're
looking at the guys on the list. If this is
what we're looking back, I think there's a world where
Bear Bachmeier is sitting in that eight to ten range
at the end.
Speaker 5: Of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I feel like Bear is.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's on.
Speaker 4: A a pretty like just accelerated trajectory, right, Like he's
one of the most accurate passers in college football. Like,
like the only weakness that you really see him his
game is just elite arm strength.
Speaker 5: And then you could say in the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe you could say, Okay, it'd be great
if he was like had like top end speed. Like
we're getting nitpicky here, right, We're getting nippicky, Like we.
Speaker 1: Need a lead arm strength.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, we need to throw a sixty yard bomb accurately.
I'm like, oh, that's you know, not everyone who's got
a lead arms string.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's got a cannon.
Speaker 4: I would much rather have an intermediate, accurate passer with
touch and running ability, powerful running ability, breaking tackles, running ability.
Then you know, great top ends. We have plenty of
guys that are fast. Every Johnson's extremely fast. Now is
he durable enough? Does he make people miss enough right,
or is he having to run out of bounds, Like,
there's the type that can pick up two, three, four,
five six extra yards after contact break guard tackles in football,
and football is typically a contact sport. Okay, it's not
just this spaceport, especially when you're starting from the tackle box.
Speaker 1: So we're nitpicking.
Speaker 4: The trajectory is definitely accelerated. And if he can stay healthy,
which he has, I mean even when he had a
high ankle sprain, he came back in the game, finished
the game and then rehabilitated it in such a way
where you could play in the In the pop Tarts
Bowl and massacre of pop tart?
Speaker 5: Was it cherry?
Speaker 1: Was it strawberry? Was it chocolate? Was it peanut?
Speaker 5: But?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it looked fantastic. Give me all
of the hydrogenated oils and processed sugars of pop Tarts.
Speaker 5: Baby, I'm more of.
Speaker 1: A I'll be honest. I love the Pop Tarts Bowl
and I love Orlando.
Speaker 5: I actually like toaster strudles better. Is this blasphemy?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: Because like the toaster strude that they're not the same.
What I don't think they're the same.
Speaker 4: What did you stick them into a toaster and they
got frosting on them?
Speaker 1: You apply your own.
Speaker 6: Frosting with the strud doesn't sit on the shelf like
it sits in a refrigerated section.
Speaker 5: So that's why I don't know those I frozen.
Speaker 1: It's just all this is a frozen popp because it
actually has like I've never had it has.
Speaker 6: It has perishable ingredients and so it's better for you
real fruit filling that like with the pop tart, you know,
like there's nothing.
Speaker 1: So like what's copa?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Like I figure, what what's the comparable to the pop tart?
I don't know.
Speaker 7: If I'm gonna go for something like a pop tart,
I'm gonna go full unhealthy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 7: Get the healthy option. If that's there, you're going.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not going.
Speaker 1: I like a toastert is not healthy. Y.
Speaker 4: I just find it to be more delicious because it's soft,
it's crispy, and it's like a it's that the frosting
is it just melts into the heated strudle.
Speaker 6: I can't put it in my backpack though. You can't
take it and go, you can't. You can totally take
it and go it comes out of the freezer.
Speaker 4: You can you can refrigerate a toaster strudel and then
just put it into your bag.
Speaker 1: You can carry it around.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like with a pop tart, I just go
to my pantry I just grab it and put in
my backpack where it's like, do you eat just toaster
strootles straight out of the freezer without toasting them?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: No, Like I mean the toaster strudele in the freezer.
Sometimes you have to like actually defrost that thing. I mean, yeah,
you know you have to defrost the Struy're both incredible.
Speaker 6: I want that on the record. I'm not arguing that
it's not good. I just I don't you don't think that.
I don't them against each other. You don't think them both.
You don't think they're in the same product category as
what you're saying. Yeah, but then the same thing, right, Yeah,
I mean they I don't know what else would be comparable,
that's the thing. But I'm like, yeah, ones refrigerated ones not.
I love both of them. That's what I want on
the records that they're both.
Speaker 7: I do have to say this about pop tarts though, Yeah,
I don't think there's enough frosting on them, Like I
get a lot of them where there's a lot, I
get a lot of them where they're like. I don't
really eat pop tarts a lot, So I don't want
to say I get a lot of them, but most
of the time when I eat them, it feels like
there's way too much of.
Speaker 5: That crust, and that's not good to be honest.
Speaker 7: So I'm going to have to I will commit to
going and eating a toaster strudle this week. I'll come
back next week and report perfect.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 4: I like that return and report, my friend, do we
feel that Bear Bachmer is going to be a top
ten quarterback in college football this year?
Speaker 7: That is a really hard thing to see.
Speaker 4: He was the highest rated, right, he was the highest
rated true freshman quarterback for PFF.
Speaker 7: Well, all right, I'll make a bold prediction here. Whoever
they've got Auburn. Let's see.
Speaker 5: Last year.
Speaker 7: I know he was good at USF, but anyone that
goes to Auburn these days just gets eaten up.
Speaker 1: So that's one. That's one that's.
Speaker 5: Still don't think is a guarantee either.
Speaker 7: Devin Dan Piers resume will die when he throws three
picks against by U in November. Uh, that's one down
for bear to climb. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Jade and Mayava. I'm not like that.
Speaker 6: There's there's only a few guys who I'm one sold
are top ten quarterback Trinidad Chambliss again if he plays.
Speaker 5: Julian's saying I'm not sold that C. J.
Speaker 6: Carr is gearing the best quarterback and they keep I
don't even know if he'll be top ten when the
year is over. I do think arch Manning will be
top ten. I do think Dante More will be top ten.
I don't love gunnersockten, even though I am a Georgia fan,
but I think nationally they'll say he's top ten and.
Speaker 5: Brendan Soorsby is gonna be the interesting one.
Speaker 6: Right because like Texas text whole deal was, they were
apparently a paper tiger because once they got to play
Oregon they had no offense. I think Brendan Sorosby is
more athletic than I don't know why he's his name
is eluding me the quarterback they had last year.
Speaker 5: I think he's more athletic.
Speaker 6: I don't know if he's necessarily better, so I think
you could see a lot of these guys fall out
and Bear Bachmeyer move up.
Speaker 7: I will say, though, someone like Demon Williams is gonna
be I think he's gonna ride.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing.
Speaker 6: I think there's guys behind Bear who are we gonna
move up into that top ten, and I'm with you,
I think Demon Williams is one of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's take a time out, guys, I think we
can all agree. Bear Bockmeyer is a top fifteen quarterback
in college football hitting into twenty twenty six. The question
is does he enter into the top ten top five
phase of things?
Speaker 7: If are you asking if he's gonna be a Heisman candidate?
I mean a top five quarterback is usually a Heisman kendidate.
Speaker 5: Yeah. All I'm saying is if.
Speaker 1: He like what where where can he improve?
Speaker 4: Obviously vertical threat, like I do think the deep ball
will be better than it was a season ago. Yeah,
I think it'll be a little bit better. So like you're, you're, you're,
his sliding would be nice.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think he's gonna hurt you.
Speaker 7: He's gonna hurt something like his ankle or his knee
every year. If he doesn't, he's too big. He's done
it the last two seasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I heard his knee in high school and he heard
his ankle last season.
Speaker 5: It's true. Don't put that on me, Ricky Bobby curse.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: It is tough to to to stay healthy in this
game of attrition, There's no doubt about it. But if
he does, yes, he'll be in the conversation for I'm
not gonna say Heisman, Uh, but you look at the schedule.
It could be fortuitous for for for Bear, it could
be fortuitous. Still to be determined. How this offensive line
comes together, still to be determined. How this this wide
receivement core comes together. We like the tight ends a lot.
We love LJ a lot. Looks to be RB two.
We'll get we'll hear from later on in the UH.
In the show Ronald three man, we were caught up
with him, but we we they got some good pieces.
Is the offense as a whole better this year than
it was last year?
Speaker 5: Do you think?
Speaker 1: Do you feel that way? You know what I mean,
you lose Chase, you lose Parker.
Speaker 7: Well, who'd you lose on the offensive line?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you're having to replace Waylan Lapois, who
who was in and out right.
Speaker 7: He was taking his spout a lot too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was it was Kyle.
Speaker 4: How good was Kyle last year? You mentioned the yeah
who missed the block? I mean, I'm not trying to
throw anyone out. You lost Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Jahna too at left tackle.
Speaker 7: You did to pick up three guys that I feel like,
I feel confident that one of the three offensive line
guys can slide in pretty nicely.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, to be determined, I'm not sold yet that
the offense will be better than it was last year.
To be determined for me, we're we're only you know,
day three or four into spring ball right now, so
I got.
Speaker 1: To see a little bit more. There's talent, you know,
there's a They're gonna be tested.
Speaker 4: The great thing about this offense is they're going against
a top twenty five defense right now, right now in practice,
they're going against the top twenty five defense. Maybe possibly,
if if Kate Poppins is good of a play callers,
I think he can become, you could have a top
ten defense. And maybe that's you know, maybe that's a
little bit over the aggressive.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's hot take.
Speaker 4: But like they got some dudes, they got some guys,
and they got a good and I think even a
great coaching staff. You never know how good of a
play caller someone's gonna be until they really step up
to the mic and and put the headset on and
and go through the vicissitudes and the the trial and
air and the refining fire of high level high quarters
all you know, situational play calling.
Speaker 1: But I really do trust capob. I think it's gonna
be a great one.
Speaker 4: And if he is, you could potentially see I think
the ceiling is top ten UH in the country.
Speaker 7: At the very least. I think he's gonna be a
very aggressive play Callerfestily like that seems like his person
like you're gonna see You're gonna see him go after
the quarterback differently than Jay Hill, like I think, I
honestly think this. I think that k Pop is going
to prioritize sacks. I think he's going to be very
aggressive going after the quarterback.
Speaker 6: I don't know if i'd say prioritize sacks because we've
heard him say before the sacks are under or over
eighty sacks are, but I do, and maybe we're saying
the same thing. I do think prioritizing the pass rush
and getting after the quarterback and putting pressure because what
he loves is what he calls havoc plays, I think
is what he calls him where anytime you are putting
the quarterback und pressure. Again we're saying the same thing,
and I'm with you. But again, he's a D line guy,
so like that is his min I just see that's
the way he sees the game.
Speaker 7: I almost feel like he was saying that a lot
because I felt like that was more coming from j
Hill and he was going along with that. I really think,
especially with this year, the main concern so far with
the defense, like our our biggest concern is the corners.
The best way to mask that is to sack the quarterback.
Speaker 6: It's also the best way to leave him on an
island if you send too many guys.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 4: You can definitely, You're true, you can definitely expose I mean,
there's a whole lot more wiggle room on fifty to
fifty balls in one on one coverage. When you're bringing
the heat, you better have your your technique on point,
and you better have some really really good corners out there,
really good safety sec because you're exposing safeties and linebackers too.
Speaker 5: In that man coverage.
Speaker 6: It's not just make you feel good about we feel
good about linebackers and feel good about safeties, and we
feel really good about.
Speaker 5: Our top two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just depends on like the matchups. It just
depends upon on the matchups.
Speaker 4: I mean, like tight ends can beat linebackers in one
on one situations one hundred percent. Yeah, I mean even
Isaiah you know, if he's if he's not one hundred percent,
can be exposed. You know, anyone can be exposed when
you're a little bit uh, a little bit deemed up anyway.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but once upon a time, Ronald, I just sent
you a sound by Once upon a time Kelly pipingat
did actually say sacks or over a Do you remember?
Speaker 5: Did you remember hearing this or no?
Speaker 1: I don't. Okay, we'll play for you real quick, just
so you know. But like, look, I will agree with you.
Speaker 4: He is an aggressive play caller, Like he'll be an
aggressive play card. He does love pressure, havoc and uh
getting a quarterback quarterback hits and getting quarterbacks off their
their line of sight and off their point right off
of their they're they're wherever they're they're setting up for
their footwork.
Speaker 1: So, uh, this is what he said.
Speaker 4: I want to say this was during during the football season,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: The date was October night, so kind of.
Speaker 5: In the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: I do remember this Ken picking on how this bou
defense has created havoc.
Speaker 3: Hey sacks are overrated guys.
Speaker 10: At the end of the day, have we played great
defense for seventeen games in a row or whatever?
Speaker 5: Eighteen games?
Speaker 10: Pretty dang good defense, right, So I'll take interceptions and
turnovers over sacks ere any day. We're getting pressure on
the quarterback and we're making quarterbacks make bad decisions, so
at the end of the day, I'd rather take that
than sacks. But yeah, I think Logan's did some good stuff.
I think Hunter's been there, Villain Bode. I thought Body
played one of his best games of his career last week.
Got some pressures on the quarterback. So yeah, do we
want sacks?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I want. I want to have like our goal as
a team by the end of the season. We win
a thirty sacks every year, but the ultimate goal keep
points off the board, play good defense, and I think
we've done that well and we're gonna have to We're
gonna have to pressure the quarterback this week at a
high level, and that's gonna help us I think play
a complete games.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we need to we need a pressure with
this guy. Hey.
Speaker 4: So last year they got thirty sacks. Thirty sacks, dude,
so like that. They started off maybe a little bit slow.
They ended up, I want to say, ranked in maybe
the top thirty.
Speaker 1: Was it top thirty in college football? I have to
look at the ranking here, but yeah, thirty thirty sacks.
Pretty impressive, nice work, very nice.
Speaker 4: So he said that this was October ninth and they
hadn't tallied a whole lot of sacks, and then they
went on a bit of a tear on the back
end of the regular season and into the postseason.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh so pretty you.
Speaker 4: Know, he may he may say, you know, we don't
you know, sacks are overrated. He said that October ninth,
and then he's like, oh, we got a lot of sacks.
Speaker 5: This is kind of nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyways, I mean, he likes to bring, likes to bring
the fuego, likes to bring the five. Trust me, when
I was playing alongside Bring, he wanted.
Speaker 5: To blitz every single place. So he wanted. He wanted sacks.
He loves sex.
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Speaker 6: But I went to a pretty redneck high school, so
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but but it was like yeah, yeah,
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I want to get into a few other things here
by the way, little update BYU Women's basketball up seventy
to fifty two. It is gone final. It is gone final.
Lee Kamard leads the Lady Coogs past the University of Utah.
Lee Kamard and the BA women's basketball team trending in
the right direction, seeing how they're playing right now, Ronald,
I know that it's gonna be a difficult task in
the next round, but anything is possible, right Kevin Garnett
once told us anything is possible. Do you feel like
they can shock the world in the Big twelve tournament
of these lady couogs.
Speaker 3: I mean as March, Ben, Absolutely, March is where chakras happen.
March is where sometimes people take their foot off the gas.
So here's the advantage of BYU has besides the five
game win a streaking. They said it on the broadcast
been when I was producing and watching the game, I
had to make sure I listened to both. But the
color you know commentator said, head ahead has to matter
against Utah if Utah is gonna get in the tournament
or someone else. Ba's beating them three times. They're three
to zero against Utah this season. But to your point,
maddeness does happen in March TCU. Ben hasn't played the
double bys nice, but sometimes it doesn't benefit you and
a team like BYU who's trending, who's trended in the
right direction. I feel like on a five game win,
this streak still missing a couple of pieces, and for
the fact that they're in sync like this, for the
fact they going into the third quarter one point, Ben Delaney,
Sidney Benali, and Olivia Hemley were two of thirteen from three,
and they still pulled out and won this game and
won on the thirty two to nine run outscored on
forty one to sixteen to the second half. That is
a basketball team that can knock off the number one
TC Hornfrog Frog team. Let's see what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Guys, shout out to this women's basketball team. Can't wait
to see what they can do in this next tournament
matchup in the Big twelve. Are we getting used to
the digital court yet? Like the look, the feel, the vibe,
the gray. There's like highlights too, like whenever, like it'll
like the imaging will light up on the perimeter at
the three point line when you hit a three.
Speaker 6: They added a half court line today, which yeah, that's
always good.
Speaker 1: That's improvements.
Speaker 6: It's it's good when you get to play on a
court that has a half court line so you can
know whether or not you were actually back court feels
essential to the game.
Speaker 5: But some people yesterday maybe feel so.
Speaker 1: Let's talk hoops here for a minute. Bruce Branch the
third earlier this week committed to the.
Speaker 4: BYU Cougars amidst a BU basketball team that is struggling mightily.
This was a nice public relations boon for BYU seeing
that Bruce Branson third wants to be a BYU Cougar
despite some of the trials and tribulations that this team
has faced recently with all these season ending injuries. You know,
you know, you wonder what role that plays when you're
not winning. There's a recency bias. But this is what
Jeff Borzella to say about how Bruce Brands the third
fits with BYU.
Speaker 1: With the potential.
Speaker 4: Number one pick aj debonsa leaving by in a few weeks,
brand should step in immediately as his replacement in the fall.
He's a high level shot maker with great positional size
who can get points at all three levels, but he
is at his best as a catch and shoot, perimeter
shooter or with his mid range game. Kevin Young will
need to replace plenty of points this offseason. With Richie
Saunders out of eligibility in addition to Debons's departure, expect
by YOU to hit the portal for another high scoring
perimeter option as well.
Speaker 1: Is Rob Right? Where are we?
Speaker 4: How are we feeling right now about Rob Wright? You
also have kJ Perry who has been red shirting this season.
Speaker 1: How do we feel about the potential returners this next year?
Speaker 4: A Lexi Costick. I think that many BYU fans are
hoping he returns. They've seen enough from him down the
stretch that they really want to have that shooting ability,
that shot making ability. He's got like this Chase Fisher
type shot making ability. I remember Chase Fisher one of the
better three pointers in BYU basketball history.
Speaker 1: The Wake Forest transfer. He was a bucket getter for Brigham.
Speaker 4: I think at one point he had the three point
single game record as well. Guys, what are we expecting
as far as returning players next year from this roster?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting to see who does
return the attitude going forward through the rest of the season.
Will Rob Wright be here? I know there's there's a
lot of speculation about whether or not Rob Wright will stay,
But until we hear some things to the contrary, I
think we assume that he will be here and then, honestly,
to me, the biggest priority for returners is whatever you
have to do. Whatever lawyers like Dawson Baker needs to
be back next year because and and because to me,
you need a culture that carries over. And we love AJ.
And even though he told desrav Voices, he said he
may not go, he's.
Speaker 5: Going to the draft.
Speaker 6: And I think AJ Demonta right now is the biggest
flag bearer for Kevin Young's culture that's playing right now,
and you're not gonna have him. The only guy that
you can really look to is who has been able
to soak up that culture, that vibe, that coaching from
Kevin Young is Dawson Baker. And I think if you
can bring him back and allow him to sprinkle that
on to some of the new guys and carry them up,
even if he doesn't go out and average twenty points
a game next year, I think that will be just
as valuable as bringing in a guy who can score
you twenty points a game.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: For me, Look, when I'm watching this Baya basketball teams,
there's only a few guys that I look at that
are consistently giving effort the whole game. Number one, that's Aj.
I think I don't think you can fall AJ's effort,
like he's giving it his all every game, all forty minutes.
The other one that stands out to me is Coastitch, Like,
I don't think Coastage just giving out. He's he's playing hard.
When it comes to the point guards, I I'm not
really sure how the current point guards fit into a
team fit and fill the needs of a BYU team
next year because what BYU needs is a passer, and
they don't have a passer on this team right now.
Speaker 4: And there's not a distribution first type of mentality. There's
not a playmaking ability in these guys.
Speaker 5: Innately, you need these are scores.
Speaker 7: You need someone who you who can who can get assists,
who can drive and kick to the open three, who
can make the wow pass.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't Pickens be that guy?
Speaker 7: Possibly? Possibly, But that's what I want to see coming
next year for BYU because it looks like you're Kevin
Young's trying to get some three point shooters. Like they said,
Bruce Branches at his best when he's a catch and
shoot three guy, which is what Richie was.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 7: Richie's drives to the rims are nice, but his strength
was three point shooting, and that's what Dawson Baker's strength
does is three point shooting. You need someone who could
pass the ball, and that's that's what I want to see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. You need you need
you need some you need some help. There no doubt
about it. Maybe I mean kJ Perry in uh JUCO,
I think kJ could do it. Yeah, I think you
want to. Like, I was really impressed with kJ when
we interviewed him. I was impressed by like his like
team first mentality.
Speaker 5: Uh, he's a he's a.
Speaker 4: Kind of like a late bloomer, late developer, but he's
he's turned into a supreme athlete, a really good point
guard and a scoring point guard at that And he
was like, I think he was the number one JUCO
player at the time when b YU ended up signing him.
Speaker 7: So well, So, say, say Rob Wright is back at
b YU next year, would it be weird to suggest
that he play a shooting guard role instead of a
point guard role because he's the way he's playing, He's not.
Speaker 1: You can't have k J Perry and Rob right they're
on the court at the same time.
Speaker 7: Came well, I'm just saying at times you're probably going
to wow, like that not for extended minutes, but like
there's gonna be times Like the way Rob Wright's playing
right now, he's not a distributor, and I don't necessarily
value that in the point guard with a team that
is catching shoot guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, both of these guys, I think kJ and Robert
more scorers anyway. I think CAJ is a score too. Yeah,
there's he averaged seventeen point five points per game at
Citrus College, got forty nine point five percent from the field,
thirty four point seven percent from three, and seventy seven
point two percent from the free throw line. Uh, there's
no there's no recollection of assists.
Speaker 5: In his bio on his bio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and to that point, though, like BYU has never
had anyone like Rob Right the third a point guard
that can score the forman fashion which he scores.
Speaker 1: I know, Jimmer was a scorer and he was a
volume scorer. Tyler Hawes was to Tyler Haws was not
a guard though he's not a point guard. Yeah, TJ.
TJ was a point guard.
Speaker 4: TJ was you know, you could say TJ was the
Ginger Mamba. The form and fashion which he scored. That
that was, I mean he was a good score. There's
no doubt he was a bucket too. He had a
really nice cross, silky smooth, was had trickeration in his game.
Speaker 1: He had a bag. He had a nice pass too.
But like And he could he could distribute.
Speaker 4: So TJ one of the more underrated point guards in
BOE basketball history in my opinion, as he trended towards
tenure his junior and senior year, in particular senior year
he really.
Speaker 1: Stepped up as well.
Speaker 4: But like Rob Wright and kJ athletically as far as
quickness and speed that there at a they're at a
different level than what we typically have had at point
guard at b YU Right, So h I'm intrigued to
see if Rob has bought into being a b y.
Speaker 1: U guy for the long haul.
Speaker 4: And to be determined, I don't know what the dynamic
would be with with Rob and and kJ though that
that's Nate Pickens, due and Nate Pickens and if Dawson
Baker comes.
Speaker 7: Back, it's a lot deeper than you are right now.
Speaker 4: You hope, so right, you hope if everything goes to plan,
if everything goes nicely, then yeah, then it would be uh,
it would be a deep crew there's no doubt about it.
So a couple other things, let's transition over to uh
a little big twelve talks, shall we chemistry issue is
called the chemistry issue at Kansas is called Daddy Peterson,
says Jeff Goodman. Jeff Goodman on his on his podcast,
on his show discussed in depth, okay, uh, the Darren
Peterson versus A japons to debate who.
Speaker 5: Is going number one overall?
Speaker 4: This was the field of sixty eight after Dark podcast
with Jeff Goodman, and I quote he says, it's Daddy Pierson.
Speaker 1: This is Darryl Peterson.
Speaker 4: Now, if you recall, Darryl did go to social media.
He was the first one to comment when all the
pr negative pr started coming out about Darren Peterson, his
son at Kansas. People were questioning his effort, people were
questioning his health, people questioned his mindset, his lackadaisical nature.
Speaker 1: He was the first one to come out.
Speaker 4: And I believe he said something to the effect of,
it's not how you start, it's how you finish. Is
it possible that this report, this accusation is true from
Jeff Goodman, that it's not Darren who's the issue.
Speaker 6: It's Darryl, his daddy. That's the issue with all this
hulla baloo. So I listened to the full podcast, and
Jeff Goodman is very supportive of Darren Peterson. He said
multiple times in that in that podcast, I really like Darren.
Speaker 5: He's a really good kid, but he's just not himself
right now.
Speaker 6: And we're not making up the chemistry issues we've heard.
I believe, I'm trying. I can't remember, uh Price Prince counsel.
That's something we heard council postgame. I think I want
to say after Oklahoma State.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 6: Say, like, we have some things going on in the
locker room. We've seen Bill self crack a little bit
in terms of his pr defense of Darren Peterson and
and being all in and acting like everything's good. We've
seen him crack a couple of times. So we're not
making up that there's a chemistry issue with Kansas. That
is a real documented thing. So then listening to this podcast,
what happened was I believe I want to say it
was Robbie Hummel, who was also on the podcast, is
talking about this chemistry issue, and so the conversation boils
down to who would you take number one overall, Darren
or AJ? And they are outlining the fact that, like,
we would take AJ because AJ doesn't seem to have
any issues surrounding him, and even though we don't know
what it is, like, AJ just seems to have less
problems surrounding him, so it seems like the safer pick.
And then Jeff Goodman jumped in just for two seconds
to say, I can tell you what the chemistry issue is.
The chemistry issue is Daddy Peterson so, and then he
didn't say a whole lot more. But usually in sports
media when things like that happen, it's either because you
don't know that much and you're speculating, or you have
deep sources you know everything that's going on and you
don't want to say too much because then your sources
may get into trouble. And Jeff Goodman is one of
the most connected people in all of college basketball. I
think Jeff Goodman's telling the truth here because he had
a lot of nice things to say about Darren and
so he supports him as an individual. But I think
he's also telling the truth that like Daddy or I
don't know, I'm calling Daddy Darryl Peterson daddy, Darryl Peters
Daddy Darryl Peterson.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a podcast like Call Her Daddy or something
like that.
Speaker 5: I think it's like the number one women's podcast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, Darren Peterson isn't the issue, but it
sounds like Daryl Peterson is the issue. What's interesting is,
I think if Daryl never posts on a social media
I don't think any of us really know who he is.
Speaker 5: But as soon as.
Speaker 6: He posted that it's not about how you start, it's
about you finish. Now everybody is aware that you exist,
whereas before we were just talking about some ambiguous individual
who happened to be Darren's dad. Really interesting that Jeff
Goodman said that Darryl's gonna be Daryl seems to be
the issue with Kansas.
Speaker 7: That's I don't know, just the whole it's not how
you start to tell you finish thing is Uh. That's
a very big risker to take because if all this
is true, Darryl's strategy for his son Darren was sit
out the regular season and make a run in March,
which like, if it pays off, it pays off. But
at the same time, if he had just played for
Kansas this year and played say the way he did
when he played against BYU that first half, like we're
not really having a debate. AJ is awesome, but Darren
would be the number one pick, but because of the
way he's just kind of had his issues, you're risking
a chunk of change off your contract, your first NBA contract.
Speaker 6: So just as some further context from this podcast, Jeff
Goodman did also say that he has it on good
authority that a preseason this was the word he used.
I don't know if he met non Connor before the
season started, but he said there was a point where
Darren Peterson had like a full body cramp and he
couldn't really move it. It was freaking him out. So there
is some legitimacy to the cramping. What I and Jeff
Goode and we talked about this last week went on
Colin Cowherd's show and said some of this is mental,
so blending that altogether. What I think is really happening
is Darren is being led by some people who have
money at first interest and not necessarily what's best for Darren.
Darren is dealing with some abnormal cramping issue.
Speaker 5: I think it's a mix of both.
Speaker 6: But if you go into the combine and go into
these NBA draft interviews with hey, I have bad family
issues and also I have some serious, undescribable injury issues.
You go in with both of those, it becomes not
one red flag, but two red flags combined. And I
wonder if the reason Darren is quiet and weird it's
podium is he knows he has all these issues going on,
and some of them are really genuinely not his fault.
But that's a lot for an eighteen year old kid
to deal with, especially when you have that many people
putting the pressure on you, and then people externally who
are speculating because they don't know. I think that would
be a lot to deal with for a young man
who it sounds like, is a good kid, but he
has things going on outside of him.
Speaker 5: They're not necessarily his fault.
Speaker 7: Well so so he's but that sounds to me like
he's he doesn't trust his own PR people around him,
like you're saying, and I would I wouldn't, but like,
what that was all true, If that's all true, Well,
if that's all true, I don't trust the PR people
around me. I don't know what to say at the
podium to be honest.
Speaker 6: Yes, because like if I say everything, am I then
gonna get clapped back by my dad and my agent
and everybody else, Like what am I allowed to say?
What do I say? I think it's just a mix
of a lot of bad things, right, it sounds like
a mess.
Speaker 7: Yeah, which to the point of of everyone on the
AJ for number one pick, why would you pick that
number one? When you're a franchise, If you have the
number one pick, you need a generational player that you
can depend on, that can come in and fix your
team because you have your own problems as a franchise
if you're in position to make the number one pick.
And it's it's nothing against Darren as a as a person,
but the reality is taking all that into a franchise
that already has massive issues. That's not a recipe that
usually leads to success.
Speaker 5: It just sucks because.
Speaker 6: It's not Darren's fault and he like, at some level,
he's a kid who wants to hoop, and we this
is not the first time we've seen It's like, this
is not exclusively an Nile thing, because if you remember
we saw this with the Ball Brothers, Like you do.
Speaker 5: See this across the history.
Speaker 6: Of sports, no matter what era you're in, where a
dad gets too involved to the point where they may
believe in their head that they're doing what's in the
kid's best interest, but what they really want to do
is guarantee the golden goose that's gonna make.
Speaker 5: Them a lot of money someday.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure it's hard as a parent to be like,
I know what's best for you because I'm the parent
and you're not.
Speaker 5: And I just want to get you to the league.
Speaker 6: I get that, but it's also like you're doing it
so much to the fact that nobody sees you. We
only see Darren, but you're making your choices through Darren,
and therefore Darren looks like the guy who's making questionable
choices when he's just trying to be respectful of the
people who are around him who he's given them a
meal ticket.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 6: There's a big discourse right now in sports of like
not overdoing youth sports and letting kids enjoy the sport,
letting kids have fun.
Speaker 5: And I think this that we're seeing right now is.
Speaker 6: A big part of that even bigger issue, and it'll
be really interesting to see sports going forward, like how
kids like this get managed. Making sure people are being
managed by the right people. It's really tough when it's
your own dad.
Speaker 4: Last thing before we go to break, guys Big twelve
Player of the Year, we've I've kind of been looking
at this and I'm like, Okay, is AJ gonna be
the big to play of the year. I think Billy
has lost too much down the stretch and they've weighed
too much to merit this. Now with JT topping out,
he had a perfect opportunity. Billy had a perfect opportunity
to kind of put him up on a pedestal. Even
if Billy is not winning consistently and going deep in
the NCAA tournament and going deep in the Big twelve tournament,
et cetera, like they're not training in the right direction.
If AJ is still the the un you know, un
just undoubtedly indubitably the best player in the Big twelve, uh,
you want to give it to him. I think if
he goes off versus Tech, we're about two days away
from this. He needs to go off. He needs to
have an iconic performance. Okay, break Jim's record. He just
has to as an iconic performance to finish off the
season and then the recency bias will take over, right
that that's kind of my belief here, and then media
members are gonna vote him. I don't know if Billy
loses again, I don't know if it happens, I don't
think he gets it.
Speaker 1: Like I think you need two things.
Speaker 4: Maybe, I mean, is Christian Anderson arguably the best player
right now for Tech?
Speaker 1: Right is.
Speaker 5: You know he's on Iowa State.
Speaker 6: Maybe can you give it to Jaden Bradley and just say, like, hey,
this is going to Jaden Bradley because the Arizona team
as a whole has been so extraordinary.
Speaker 5: We can't give it to one guy. But like that's kind.
Speaker 6: Of it's so weird because like preseason, you felt like
you had a million options for this award, and like
Houston has kind of taken some shots down the stretch.
Speaker 5: Obviously b Yu has taken some shots down the stretch.
Speaker 1: JT.
Speaker 6: Topping goes out this it doesn't feel as easy as
we thought it.
Speaker 5: Would be even just a month ago.
Speaker 1: Sure, Uh, let's take a time out.
Speaker 4: We'll be back. It's a Thursday, March fifth edition of Sports.
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