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Speaker 3: Brother. Look, man, I don't know where to start.
Speaker 2: Just I guess I'll start your takeaways and thoughts on
the BYU Texas Tech game from over the weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, so we we actually were out at the game.
We went out and caught some waves in Waco at
the Waypool and then swung six hours across the state
to Lubbock. And I'll tell you what. My brother and
I were decked out in our blue and we were
out to see what the fan base had the dish
to us. And surprisingly enough, and I think it had
a lot to do with the GoFundMe h for the
barber of Texas Tech football team, but real gracious fans,
we thought it was hate week and it was not
hate week. We walked through every tailgating piece that morning
trying to just seeing if anybody wanted to have a
chat with us, and you know what nobody did. It
was it was real peaceful. The stadium is beautiful. I
related to a little bit to the Colorado Stadium, how
it just really really cool atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know it, Uh getting down to the business
of the game, you know it.
Speaker 5: A couple of the things that I don't think people
could really tell on TV was the way that the
weather was affecting the game. So you had if you
looked at the flags at the top of the stadium,
they were blowing horizontal.
Speaker 4: You had a heavy, heavy wind blowing.
Speaker 5: So for example, when when Parker Kingston went to take
that punt, the wind at the top of the stadium
was blowing towards him. But because it's a bowl and
you have a big building at the end of that stadium,
as the wind would hit that, it would circulate back
through and kind of swirl through the stadium. So from
my perspective and the way that wind was going, you know,
as that ball was coming down, it was going multiple
different directions, very difficult ball to field, and it looked
like last second the wind blew it forward where he
had to reach out to try to get it.
Speaker 4: As a punt.
Speaker 5: Returner in that moment, when you reach forward and you're
looking straight ahead at that point, now you're actually seeing
the guys who are coming right at you at the
same time, it makes for a real difficult catch. I
think Parker should have made the catch obviously, and that
would have would have put us in at better spot.
But there, man, there was just so many opportunities missed
through the game. I didn't feel like Texas Tech was
stomping on us. I just didn't you as much. Everybody said,
we didn't feel like we were in the game.
Speaker 4: I did. I know.
Speaker 5: You know, we just heard a lot of people talking
about it that they weren't in the half. We weren't
in at halftime going into the like we were in
the game and and there wasn't even especially when when
when Raider broke up that pass at the end and
of the first half, you really felt like we've.
Speaker 4: Got a shot.
Speaker 5: We knowing they had to come out and get a
stop right away as well. But yeah, I mean if
you you pack in four or five different plays in
that game, which would be the punt return, I felt
the shank punt, you know, and as a former punter
in junior college, everyone has one every year that goes
right off the side of the foot and you're just like, gosh,
I hope it's more than twenty yards, you know. And
so he had that, and then you had multiple drops,
you know, Chase on his deep ball.
Speaker 4: You know. The first thing I thought when when he
missed that was.
Speaker 5: Like, big players have to make big plays in big games,
and you know, he just just just missed that one.
The Jojo Phillips across the middle drop. I was happy
that that. Right after that play, Aaron Rodgers gave him
a nice easy catch to get him back in the
field of the game, and then the almost pick that
turned into a huge gainer on that ninety two yard
drive with Texas Tech where it looked like I was
sitting with Evans parents in the stands, and you know it,
it looked like from our perspective and we were wrapped
in the top corner, but it was right coming right
into his hands, and that wide receiver just made a
play on the ball and it changed a lot.
Speaker 2: Did the wind moved the ball at all? Because a
lot of people said all of the wind blew it
to him. Did that happen or was it just he
just made the play.
Speaker 4: I think he just made the play.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 5: I haven't gone Usually I go back after watching a
game in person and go back and watch the game
because you miss a lot, you know.
Speaker 4: And I haven't done that yet, But.
Speaker 5: I will say the wind when you have a bowl
stadium like that where there's no exits for the wind
to get out once it gets hits, and then you
have these the big buildings that build up their press
box on one side and then that they're athletic building
on one end zone. As that wind gets in, it
just swirls all through the inside of the field. So
even though you know the wind is say north to
south or whatever direction it's blowing on the field, it's not.
It's all over the place, you know, So it wouldn't
surprise me at that. I feel like, you know, Evan
saw that ball coming straight into his hands and which
just had you know, hands up to make the play.
You see receivers do it all the time where there
it's like, here comes the ball and then the dB
makes a play on the ball and picks it and
they're just you know, falling down without without the ball.
And I think that's kind of what happened, because he
was making you know, playing the ball and felt like
you had to pick the guy had an opportunity.
Speaker 4: To break a big, big run after the catch. But
you know, our defense played great.
Speaker 5: I feel like personally for being there and that this
is the first time that that a defense hasn't made
Bear look like a freshman.
Speaker 4: And now I think they.
Speaker 5: Hit Bear hard that first hit he took when he
should have put his shoulder down and ran the guy over,
but decided to make the oddest leap I've ever seen
in football.
Speaker 3: But that don't jump over that guy, Well.
Speaker 5: You think guy wasn't even going low, you know, and
so he caught him in the air and it was
like a pile driver from about five feet in the air,
straight down with all of his weight on Bear. And
you could tell that hurt. And that was right in
the beginning of the game. But there were three or
four other hits that he took where he laid face
down for a second and then you know how you
know we are in football, you scramble your feet as
fas as you can.
Speaker 4: He was, he was feeling it.
Speaker 5: So a lot of things to fix, a lot of
things to work on. I think, you know, having watched
Texas Tech the week before, I saw quarterback running all
over their defense, so I was confident in our ability.
But we some of the things I think Bear was
was struggling. He was he was spending more time in
the pocket than usually he does. Usually he'll look one,
two and then he'll scramble and run. He seemed to
be scrambling a little bit more than normal, trying to find.
Speaker 4: That extra receiver.
Speaker 5: And from my perspective on a lot of his throats
that seemed like he was his eyes were on his
number one target from the snap almost and and then
through to that guy, you know, so made it easy
for the defense to make plays on the ball. I
do think that we have we're going to have a
good bounce back week. That the team's confident, and I
think we have still such an opportunity ahead of us.
There's there's nothing we can't achieve that we couldn't have
achieved last week, you know.
Speaker 4: And so I look forward to this game TCUs.
Speaker 5: We got to make a statement and we've we've got
to be ready to play. TCU is coming into a
cold environment and it's a really late game for them.
It's absolute one am game for those guys, and and
that's that should be in our favor, and playing at
home will be in our favor.
Speaker 4: But you know, we we It's kind of funny.
Speaker 5: We talked to a couple of fans as we were
leaving and and you know, a couple of trying to
hackle a little bit, and I the only thing I
said was, you know what.
Speaker 4: Our loss is to you? Your loss is to a
su so facts not a whole lot.
Speaker 5: They could say back to that one, you know, but uh,
but let's see how it all plays out. I'm excited
to see where it goes and it was definitely.
Speaker 4: A lot of fun. I ate a lot of a
lot of brisket while we were out there, and uh
brisk a lot of driving across the state of Texas too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were moving probably mileedge that you put on
those those wheels, got those caf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a brand well, we got a brand
new rental car.
Speaker 5: We took that thing from from Dallas to Waco, from
Waco to Lebick and then Lebick back to Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, Yeah we.
Speaker 4: Got we got a little bit of the whole state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely got a little bit of the whole state.
Love that you were down there in Texas. We got
Jared lets a former b y UI receiver on the line. Here,
last couple of things Jared, before they let you go,
what do you feel like offensively?
Speaker 3: Should they have gone up Temple the whole game?
Speaker 2: Because they go up tempo, they score that touchdown, and
then I started thinking, well, maybe you should have ditched
the game plan or just done that from jump and
just put Texas Tech in that type of you know,
they can't rest, they can't substitute. You go just up
tempo fast. You know exactly what you're doing two minute
drill the whole time. Should they have done more of
that in the game, because when they did that, they
were able to move the ball actually pretty well.
Speaker 5: Maybe, I mean, maybe that would be something I know
that that being that Bears refreshman at giving him his
time to think and giving a Rod a little bit
more time to make play calls with him.
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of been why we've huddled so much.
Speaker 5: Also, that drive, I feel like they were they weren't
playing the same defense that they are playing us. They
weren't definitely not playing as aggressive, and they were kind
of sitting back a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Not that they wanted us to score by any means.
I'm sure they.
Speaker 5: Wanted to shut out, but it felt like they were
playing often and just not quite as aggressive at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, you mentioned tc Let's move
it on. So now the matchup here. Look this, they
got a good run defense, Jared, but TCU they can
be had in there. I've seen Colorado was able to
throw on There's a lot of teams that can throw.
Could you see a three hundred plus your performance through
the air from Bear. Look you let you just said
it they're gonna make a statement. I think they might
beat TCU by two three scores. I don't want to
get hyperbolic, but I think they're gonna make a statement
to be angry on Saturday night.
Speaker 5: Well, I agree, and I think we're at the point
in the and I hear a lot of people talking
about it where we need some statement wins. It's no
more twenty four to twenty seven wins. We need to
get up and show that we can put people away.
And that's just the state of NCAA football and playoffs
and and that you got twelve guys making decisions for
I believe it's twelve for for all the teams uh
on on the committee, and so it's important now to
to kind of step in and play hard to CC
is not a team we can just walk over. You know,
they got a great passing offense. They there's there's a
lot there for us to play. And I feel like
although there weren't any major injuries coming out of the
Texas Tech game, which is great, there's there's a lot
of real sore guys because that was a hard hitting,
very physical football team that we oh yeah no, and
and you know they they paid a pretty penny for it.
So uh but but you know, looking forward to this week,
it's gonna be a lot of fun. I expect this
to come out. And you know, the big thing for
me was, you know, everything in these games momentum.
Speaker 4: You know, where where where is our momentum?
Speaker 5: And in Texas Tech game, I don't think we had
a period where where we, as as the fans and
and you know, sitting with all the players families, felt
like we had momentum other than the couple of stops
where we really shut them down, but then the offense
never got going, you know. So it was like the
beginning of momentum and then it shifted straight back. And
so if we need to capture the momentum in the
beginning of this game with TCU and just drive straight
through it, that that's going to make a big difference.
If we start giving momentum to TCU or even any
of our future opponents, that that's where we start to
get in a really bad spot. Our offense needs the
momentum from the defense, and then we've got to capitalize
when our defense makes those stops and stands. We've we've
got to come out on top and get points on
the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely need the points on the board. You think
of what would happen if Evan Johnson gets that picker.
I know, the game is might have been out of hand.
But if Trey gets down when there's just a couple
of moments where don't ye exactly you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't know what one of those plays different. And
even if Parker just would have fielded that that.
Speaker 3: Punt and it doesn't turn me an.
Speaker 5: Incredible stop you know, on that on their first drive,
and the crowd was a little bit iffy at that point,
you know, because we just shut down their offense and
had he just made and fielded that ball, and we
got a few plays rolling with the with the offense,
and it just felt like we were always in a
what can we do?
Speaker 4: What? What is even available for us? On offense?
Speaker 5: You know, a rod he gets into a rhythm as
he starts and drives. When we have three and out,
three and out, it doesn't allow him to get into
that rhythm and play calling he is a very I
don't know the right term, rhythmatic play color you know.
Speaker 3: Rhythmatic. Yeah, well I make words all that the time, right,
that's a word.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so, but you know what I mean, Like
he as he starts making calls and the plays and
the drive is longer, it just seems like that play
fed off the next play to the next play, and.
Speaker 4: He's on a roll.
Speaker 5: And when he's on a roll, it's I feel like
the offense is not is really unstoppable.
Speaker 4: So we just never had those opportunities.
Speaker 5: I we we as as a fan base in the crowd,
it was, man, we just felt so uneventful and we
couldn't get excited, you know.
Speaker 4: We we we needed a drive to.
Speaker 5: Get excited about him or a play or two, and
we just couldn't get it on offense.
Speaker 4: And uh but man, every team had.
Speaker 5: You look at there's what three undefeated teams left in
the country right on. Almost everybody has taken a loss
this year, and some of them worse than others. Our
loss is to a top ten team, right Our.
Speaker 4: Loss is a good loss. Yeah, I mean, I hate
that term, to be honest, with a good lass.
Speaker 3: You told me that every single time.
Speaker 4: I said.
Speaker 5: But but in the end, though we didn't lose to
an unraked team with a losing record, we lost to
a top ten team. So it will be interesting to
see where they go tonight with the rankings, we'll see
where the respect level lies. You know, we we lost
to a very good Texas Tech team, who I hope
we get another chance at in the Big twelve championship game.
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and I can give you a little tease. He was
not happy, not happy Bob Ashtack the Incredibles.
Speaker 3: He was upset.
Speaker 2: In his first comment, he did not like that they
did not perform up to expectation. No one likes to lose,
especially when you're competitive and you played sports, some of
you play church ball on Thursdays. You don't like to lose.
I know you don't, because I don't like to either.
So just imagine when you're playing in a highly competitive sport,
You're on the biggest stage of the mall college game
day and then you don't execute. That does not sit right.
So Carson is gonna tell us, let's go question by question.
Carson number one, just give us a sense of how
you're feeling coming out of that Texas Tech game.
Speaker 7: And I'm pissed off. I hate losing. And you know
we had Optusdy to do some great this year. And
go twelve to alve. You know we lost that chance,
but you know it's whatever. You just move on to
the next. And right now we got TCU next, and
you know our destiny is still in our hands. We
got to go out and perform, and you know, bounce
back as an offense, especially, so you know, I'm pissed off.
You always hate to lose, but you know we'll be fine.
I trust in our team and all our coaches, like
we're gonna bounce back and we're gonna be even better
from this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, not happy. He's upset, rightfully. So look he's
right though. The destiny is still in her hands. You
went out, You're going to the big top title game.
No if answer butts about it. You do exactly what
you're supposed to. You'll be in Arlington and what it
looks to be because I don't believe Texas Tech is
gonna lose to UCF or I think they play maybe
West virgin I don't think it's gonna happen, So you
could be in Arlington again in that rematch against Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: But you heard it from there. I teased it. He
is po pissed off.
Speaker 2: So look when you lose, and you know when it
doesn't sit right, and Carson is a highly competitive dude,
a kid that's gonna play at the next level in
the NFL. Look, when you don't get it done, that's
not gonna sit right with you. But got to move
on to TCU, Like you said, got to keep that focus,
take that anger out on the horn Frogs, let that
beat them up, and then you're on the track to
getting back to Arlington, slowly but surely. Number two, you
played in a fair amount of football. Where do you
rank that Texas Tech defense?
Speaker 3: Carson?
Speaker 7: Oh, they're They're one of the best defense I've been against.
You know, I played a lot of played with and
against a lot of great players in my time in
college football. And you know, they got some great players
over there on their defense, especially in their front seven.
All went against those guys a lot in that game,
so I was really impressed by them. But you know,
we can hopefully get know a chance at them in
a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get another chance at him in a few weeks
if you take care of business. He said, Oh, no,
they're up there. Yeah, they're they're one of the best
that you know, he's played against. That's it's not a joke.
I mean the money outllocated, the way they're playing, they're
getting their money's worth, per as I mentioned multiple times
articles that have been written, and you look at the numbers,
Texas Tech is getting their money's worth with romel Hed
and David Bailey, So all those guys are going to
get drafted, go to the next level. Jacob Rodriguez that
he can win the Heisman. So when you look at
this defense, it's it's a great defense. Texas Tech has
built it really the right way, and they're bought into
the culture. So you got to give Jody McGuire credit
number three. Carson, what do you see from Bear in
the huddle regarding his poise and composure and how do
you expect them to respond following the toughest out and
gainst a coup this past Saturday.
Speaker 4: Hey, bro, we'll be fine.
Speaker 7: You know, he's a really tough guy, and you know
he's hasn't experienced lost in college before, but I'm sure
he's lost a football game at some point in his life,
and so you know, I just we just got to
tell him, like it's the same thing, dude, just gotta
bounce back. Just gotta move on, look at what mistakes
we made and what we can do better, and just
how we can.
Speaker 4: Learn from it.
Speaker 7: Now its just being a learning experience for him. And
so you know Bear, he's a really mature guy, and
so I think I think he'll be fine and we'll
we'll be good as offense.
Speaker 2: Look, he's been poised, he's been collected. Gonna find out
on Saturday against TCU. How are they bounce back. But look,
I'm on the side of Bear is not gonna let
this get at him. He's lost football games before. He's
lost in the biggest moments. John Beck, who we had
on the show yesterday, who we have on every Monday
during football season, by the way, guys, and he talked
about playing against Bear. He's seen Bear score clutch touchdown
after clutch talent in the biggest moments when they matter.
Speaker 3: He's seen Bear fail.
Speaker 2: So I have no doubt that Bear has an experienced frustration, anger, upset,
and doubt before. And look, it's all about how you
bounce back. And now the focus is TCU. We're gonna
be hitting down to practice. So we're gonna ask Bear
if he's presented to the media, which I wouldn't. I
would be surprised if he wasn't. Hey, how are you
gonna bounce back? We're gonna get his take on the matter,
and if we hear from Bear, will be able to
play that that sound and everything for you tomorrow. But
I have no doubt that Bear's going to bounce back.
That's the energy that I've always received from him. So
we'll find out later on number four, Carson, one of
Kalaaney's saying is to stay humbling, hungry. Does a loss
like Saturday reemphasize that to go back to the drawing
board a little bit?
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 7: I mean it definitely like losing like that helped, like
really points out where we can be better as a
team and as an offense. So, you know, there's a
lot to learn from from this game, and you know,
hopefully we can take it as a team and you know,
get better. Just take this off tune to learn from
the mistakes we made and just final ways being ever
a better team for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta take opportunities ways to get better to
do that. So and in order to do that, I
think the only l's you have taken life for lessons
and this is one of those that is going to
sting for by you may maybe steal some stinging, but look,
the stinging goes away when you when you have joy.
And they got an opportunity to rectify it and beat
TCU and not let it slip.
Speaker 3: Honestly, and it's not just TCU.
Speaker 2: A lot of people might say, oh, well, look they
had the slip last where they lost too, or it's
not about losing two in the Rugs losing period. Actually,
if you beat TCU bel lose to Cincinnati, you're not
going So these are the two biggest games.
Speaker 3: Honestly, you gotta win the next games.
Speaker 2: You don't want to lose the UCF and a Senior
Day or Senior Night, and I don't believe they would
that game. I have to the last week of the season,
that after Black Friday. But look, you gotta win the
rest of the games. You're out of the title game.
You have to go un defeated. It is a musk.
You have no room for air. You you know, maybe
a little bit of a setback you have that now
you have to go execute. If you don't execit, you're
gonna be in the same position. And look, I being
and I said in the beginning of the season Orlando.
Now I don't think that's happening. I think b YU
will go undefeated and it will go in the tititle game.
I said eleven to one. I think that will be
the case. But don't let DejaVu creep into the building.
I've been mentioning it all show. Don't let Dejavo creep
into the building. Carson, you faced TCU last year at
Riceycle Stadium. What do you remember about their defense in
that game in particular?
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know too much about the team this
year yet. I haven't done a whole lot of scotting
with them yet, but I remember last year they were
they're a good physical team, and you know, they're's just
how it is in the Big twelve, Like they're always
gonna be physical guys, and they're gonna be big and
they're gonna play fast. You know, they're a good team,
though they're only a two loss team, and so they're
gonna they're gonna fight for their chance to get in
the big total championships. So they're gonna come in everything
they have in this game, and so we just gotta
be ready to just play our best.
Speaker 2: Gotta be ready to play our best and what he means,
and this was yesterday and playing it today. Normally they
go look at film and things on tape on Tuesday
as a team and in the position groups. Some guys
might watch some things earlier, but it's mainly the coaches
that will go and watch them together. Kalani and his
staff will meet and then they take that and they
meet with the players on Tuesday as a team, they
watch them and then they'll get into their position meetings.
So that's why Carson made that comment. It's not that
he hasn't seen the tape. They just haven't gone over
it yet. Reminder, these kids are in school. This is
not the NFL where this is. They do this on Tuesdays.
Tuesdays is normally when they have that meeting collectively. So
today which Carson I don't think will be available for
the rest of the week. But when we talk to
other offensive players or even coaches now, they will have
had those meetings. You know by this time of you're
hearing this interview, you know what about or you know
here now in the afternoon, but in an hour or
so and we're at practice. That's what will happen is
they'll have what they see on film. Now we've talked
to Brady Papenny yesterday of Joshuver can throw the football.
I have my analysis. We'll give that a little bit
later in the week. But yeah, TC is a good
football team.
Speaker 4: They're not bad.
Speaker 3: Senny Dykes is a good coach. Just looking at it
from a service level.
Speaker 2: Number six, Carson, they've been having you do a lot
more max protection to keep guys like Bear clean in
the pocket. Do you relish in that blocking paralysis role?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7: I mean I love blocking. It's one of my favorite
parts about playing tight end. You know, you always want
to get the ball, but like you know, part of
your role is tight end is to be a blocker
and be an extra alignment and being able to do
that and just have the coaches rely on you for that.
You know, it's a big testament, you know, to me
and the work I put in for my blocking ability
and just being physical and dominating dudes, especially guys they're
bigger than you sometimes. And so no, I don't I
don't hate the fact that I got to block a lot. Know,
I love that part of football and that part of
my game, and I've always been a big blocking tight
end my time in high school and in college. So
I love that part about it.
Speaker 3: He loves that part of it.
Speaker 2: Should have asked him the question to follow up, So
do you like Rob Grokowsker do you prefer Travis Kelce?
Speaker 3: I'm always trying to throw that debate out there.
Speaker 2: Look, Travi is good in the blocking game, but he's
more of a catching, you know, the passing tight end.
Speaker 3: Rob.
Speaker 2: I would say maybe is the more complete tight end
of where he blocks and catches. But it doesn't matter.
But you know, I would have to ask Carson to
get the chance to maybe. I'll return and report at
a later different time. But he thrives in a row.
He says, oh yeah, He says he loves a block
and he wants to go block. He doesn't mind if
he has to do that. And look him can need.
They both are able to seal blocks and Lj's able
to run, So we'll see what they do. But when
they go at you know twelve thirteen fourteen personnel, and
Carson is a part of that block and package. Man,
it's special. I mean, you got some good blockers on
this team. Carson can't need Jojo Phillips can steal the block.
Look when Darius was on the team, he could seal
the block.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: They got some guys like a block. Chase can block.
They got a lot of guys down for like a block.
Even Lj's gotten better in his pass protection now he's
been good. So when they need to throw the football
and they need to protect Bear, they all do a
very good job from what I've seen what I've scouted.
Number seven, Carson, let's get you out of here on this.
In terms of rounding up the wagon, that's something that
Klane has been has been saying the last couple of days.
What's the mindset in the locker room right now in
regards to that.
Speaker 7: I mean everyone's no one's worried, no one's like stressing out,
and no one's freaking out. Like we're just you know,
just take the loss and take it on the chance.
Just move on, you know, like I've been saying, just
you know, find ways to correct the things that the
mistakes that we made, and just you know, like Colonia said,
just around the wagons and just folks on ourselves, and
you know, folks on each other, build each other up.
You know, keep keep that confidence in ourselves, like you know,
just like we're we're still at eight and one team,
one of the best teams in the country. You know,
we think that we can hang with anyone out there,
and you know, hopefully we get our chance those guys
again and we can get get our revenge. But you know,
we're just worried about ourselves and how we can get
better right now.
Speaker 2: Look, he's right, you're still eight and one team. You're
the second best team in the Big twelve. You lost
to the best team in the Big twelve on the
road in a true road environment.
Speaker 3: Regardless of what it was.
Speaker 2: You gotta beat how everybody gets beat, but you probably
put up the best performance coming into Lubbig per the numbers,
and you have an opportunity to still be ranked in
the top fifteen, if not top twelve of the college
football Playoff. Now, reminder that committee will meet probably in
what an hour and a half or so, will be
coming from practice A way, I have to stay tuned
into that and we'll address that tomorrow on the show.
But look, Bow he's gonna have a new ranking because
they lost. They are gonna drop Utah was gonna buy
Louisville lost Cal beat Louisville, So I mean that's gonna
help b Yu. I mean per the AP pole and
the AFCA. I think that's the other pole. They were twelve,
So when you look at the correlation, b Yu, I
still think it's gonna be ranked, you know, somewhere in
the top fifteen, if not the top twelve. So losing
that game, I think they'll still be in good position.
I'll be very interesting to see where they put texts tech,
but that's gonna happen. That's gonna come out, you know,
later tonight, so we'll know where BYU is at. And
Mike Carson said, look eight and one right there in
the mix to being the title game, you control your
own destiny. You're still probably a top twelve to fifteen team.
There's a lot to be joyful about in the locker room.
You take it on the chin. Look, that's the best team,
best defensive, the hat you keep it pushing. Now if
that starts spiral, as everyone is asking in the post
game sound, that we played yesterday and now and all
the availabilities sure in this rifle reasons. So because they
were in this position last year, now they have a
chance to go prove us wrong. Chase Roberts says that
we don't care about the narrative, and you know, all
of it being them saying us were the underdog and
all this.
Speaker 3: You go prove that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it shuts us, myself and the rest of the
national people up. But if you don't, then that proves
are the right. So again, I think this team is
way mature than it was last year. I think they
understand that. I think Saturday is going to be a
dog quite But look, if you want to put the
narrative bet are reiterated, go put belt to booty. Go
beat tc the way you beat Iowa State, make a statement,
beat TCU the way Utah beat Cincinnati. I know people
might not like me bringing it up on this areas,
but I'm serious. If you want to put all of
that notion to bed, if you don't want, I always
say this, you have the opportunity to change the national
media what they say in the narrative or even at
the local level.
Speaker 3: You have an opportunity to make us talk about you.
To go with.
Speaker 2: I remember telling a certain player you want me to
talk about you. You want to say this, then you get
on the field. You make the most of the opportunity
that you have. That's how it goes. That's the nature
of sports. We discuss and we talk about what you're doing.
If you don't like something that's doing it, stop doing it.
I'm not going to bring up anything that's fakeing out
of the wazoo. I'm only going to talk about what
is relevant and what is going on right now BYU
is very relevant.
Speaker 3: They're very much in the mix.
Speaker 2: They control their own destiny, and I truly believe this
team is gonna correct what happened last year.
Speaker 3: I believe they're going to do that.
Speaker 2: I when you hear them speak about it and the
way they play and what they've been doing this season, teez,
He's gonna tell us a lot about who this team is.
It is, so we're gonna find out sooner rather than later.
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the offensive linemen along this BYU front.
Speaker 3: They've been doing a good job.
Speaker 2: I know the game against Texas Tech didn't go their
way and maybe you know, Bear took some hits that
he shouldn't have. I felt like the worship that Bear
took was the one where he's trying to hurdle Winowski.
I think a guy on his own, or it might
have been Curry actually, and then it just gets flatlined.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't don't do that, Bear, don't put.
Speaker 2: The boys up front. They've done a really good job
and Austin's been a part of that. The six foot
five red shirt junior out of West Jordan, Utah three
hundred and fifteen pounds, he was named the Polynesian College
Football Player of the Your Preseens to watch list last year.
Austin and his wife have two daughters. He is majoring
in sociology and he served a mission for the Church
jes Christ of Lota Day Saints in the Philippines from
twenty seventeen to two thousand nineteen. We've heard from Austin before,
but gonna get caught up with him again momentarily. He
addressed the media actually on Monday yesterday in preparation for
this TCU game BYU obviously, and this is how it goes.
Just explain because some people are like BYR maybe the
media asking questions about last game. Look, you don't get
a chance to ask an interview every player, So how
to open locker room like the NBA, you know, or
the NFL where you can go and ask players any
questions you want.
Speaker 3: You are a lot about what the.
Speaker 2: Sports information directors give you, So when certain student athletes
come and especially at certain positions, you got to ask
them follow up questions to the game and then as
well as preparation for this week. That's just how it goes.
So let's get caught up with Austin. Let's start with
number one. Austin, what did you chalk up the inability
to run the football against Texas Tech on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 8: Definitely us just not playing our best. I think there
was a number of things that we could have done better.
I know, especially from an online perspective, we could have done,
you know a little bit more than we should have,
and you know, we just we just weren't playing on
our ball Saturday.
Speaker 3: Wasn't playing their ball Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was a rough outing for everybody on the offense,
not just maybe the offensive line. Bear you know, struggled,
had his worst performance of the season. You know, completed
twenty three passes on thirty eight attempts for one hundred
eighty eight yards, had a touchdown at the interception, but
also had the backwards pass which went as a fumble.
So you never like to see that if you're a
BYU fan, when you're minus in the turnover category and
you're given the opposition, who already has a prolific offense,
who has a great defense, you give them more opportunities.
That's just going to make things harder, like really really hard.
And then of course you had the fumble by Parker
Kingston on the muck punt, just didn't go BAYUS way
did not go BYUS way at all. But I mean, look, hey,
I thought they did for the most part, you know,
protecting Bear. I mean look, TC Texas Tech only got
one sack, So for the most part, I feel like
they really did a good job of protecting Bear.
Speaker 3: You know, they had four tackles for loss.
Speaker 2: But look, I thought the offensive line did a good
job being able to be physical and staying up front.
But sometimes that's the way it goes is even if
the boys upfront able to do it, it doesn't matter,
and he didn't necessarily need to get sacked. That just
shows you the speed of Texas Tech and how fast
that they are number two in terms of the variety
where it's a top ten opponent.
Speaker 3: Was the moment too big for you guys, No.
Speaker 8: I don't think the moment was too big for us
at all. I think that we just like I said earlier,
we just didn't play at the level that we needed
to play at and the level that our coaches expected
us to be at.
Speaker 2: True, they didn't play to the level that the coach
is probably expecting to be at. Lane mentioned it in
the post game. He says, hey, we have to get
these guys. Ready, these guys weren't prepared and say there's
some accountability on the players. The players weren't able to
execute when they needed to the most. And when you're
playing that type of defensive line, lots of NFL talent,
you have to be on point.
Speaker 3: Miscues don't really help you.
Speaker 2: And again I just I go back to the speed,
the speed, everything that Bear wanted to do. They did
a good job of neutralizing and not letting Bear go
in the run game looked It wasn't mentioned yesterday on
the show, and I didn't give my thoughts and opinions,
and John Beck was the one that said, and I agree.
It was the last segment of the show. If you
missed an interview, go download on the podcast. But how
many third and fourteens, thirteens, fifteens or sixteens as BAU
come close to maybe converting or come close to where
they've gone fourth and fourth down? Remember the Utah game,
Bear was short on fourth to one. They didn't get
the fourth down, but they came close there. Remember the
first down against East Carolina, the one that Bear got
West Virginia. Look that one that Bear goes where he
pulls it down and they pulled the tackle and they
leading with the guard. He got Bruce Mitchell out there,
and you have Andrew Gentry and you know, Austin or Whaling,
whoever you have running at QB draw.
Speaker 3: It's dangerous.
Speaker 2: So Texas Tech did a good job of mitigating that
and says you're not going to beat us with that.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to beat us with your arm. And
they made sure that they they did. They didn't do that.
Speaker 2: So number three, Austin, did you notice anything about Bear
in the huddle?
Speaker 3: Did he keep his composure?
Speaker 8: He's yeah, he's done. He's done a great job for
us all year. He's kept his poise all year. I
don't think anything really distracted Bear. I don't think it
really did anything to him personally. I know that may
not see him just with the outcome how you know,
everything played out. But Bear has been poised all year.
He's done his job. He's done more than just his job.
And yeah, I don't think that had anything to do
with the outcome.
Speaker 2: He's been poised. This question has been asked throughout the
show one hundred percent. Look everyone as asked his question.
In the media, was Beary able to keep his composure.
Was he poised in the huddle? And it's a valid
question on the on a road environment that's very tough
against the best opponent in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: How is Bear doing? Is that is that poised going away?
Speaker 2: As you getting nervous and his offensive lineman says, no,
he's been poised all year.
Speaker 4: It's got it.
Speaker 2: They've got beat and it happens number four, Austin, How
do you feel like you protected him on Saturday?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely think that that gives us confidence, especially
with the talented group that we played last week. You know,
those were two of the best defensive ends probably in
the country, and a pretty good interior defensive line and
overall just a good front seven, and I think we
held our own. I think we did a very good
job and knowing, you know, in the situations when we
needed to protect Bear the most, and essentially that is
our job.
Speaker 4: You know, we protect Bear. You know, he is our
little brother.
Speaker 8: We have that little we have that mindset, you know,
we're gonna pick him up.
Speaker 3: And essentially I think we did that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, look, it is two of the
best players in the conference, in the country, to the
best ends and Romela Height and David Bailey.
Speaker 3: Look, and they didn't. They didn't even have Scott A.
Speaker 2: Gill their other person, Gil Howard, Like, Look, those guys
are all three of those guys going to the next level,
going to play in the NFL. Yeah, when you got
the top two defensive ends in the country arguably and
you only allow one sack, be able to protect Bear. Now,
a granted there was a lot of pressure that they
probably put on Bear and on the offensive line and
didn't allow the rows.
Speaker 3: I think they had a bad ball or two.
Speaker 2: I think that's the best performance you could have asked for,
And a lot of people thought it could have been worse.
A lot of people thought that man could have really
let Bear get sacked, They could have really gotten after him.
Speaker 3: But it didn't.
Speaker 2: So that just shows you the protection up front, and
it does give them confidence.
Speaker 3: I agree with Austin.
Speaker 2: That's going to give you confidence going into the TCU
in Cincinnati and the ECU game. Look, the Boa is
not going to play another defense like that unless they
see Texas Tech and again in the Big Toal Championship,
and if they were to make it to the College
Football Playoff, you're not going to see another defense like that.
I'm serious, that's no shot. That's no shot at TCU's defense.
That's no shot at Cincinnati's defense. That's no shot at UCF.
You're not going to see another defense that's this formidable,
that's this dominant, that has this much talent at the
next level. I mean, for crying out out, they're talking
about chickob Roriguez for Heisman. I mean, look, I mean,
do you see any other potential Heisman candidates on any
of those three opponents that buis left.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, there might be in it.
Speaker 2: There might be a lot of NFL talent, but not
as dominant as Texas Tech, not that discipline, not that
locked in.
Speaker 3: With that much speed. Like the speed is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: There was snapping the ball and getting to the line
screm even by the time the ball was released, they
were there. There was one pass where I don't know
if it could have been completed to chase er Jojo
and the ball ends up getting tipped because Bear is
just a half a second late, and Texas Tech speed
is that fast, like you would have had to release
the ball immediately quick into the flat and end up
tipping and knocking it down like the speed all game
I felt was just so disruptive for Bou's momentum in offense,
and Bo you should have probably went up tempo, as
Ben said yesterday, match speed for speed.
Speaker 3: But look, it's not what happened.
Speaker 2: So it's a learning lesson, and I think they also
can help you going forward, like, look, if you're stem
made or if I'm using that right word, if your
stey meat against TCU, if your offense is not moving,
then hey, look you're gonna be able to take that. Okay,
we went up temple against Texas Tech, better defense, faster,
more athletic, and you got the advantage. This Saturday, you
got the advantage against TCU home crowd vampire kouks. In
that game, you're gonna have every opportunity to be able
to control the crowd, control the temple, the game. So
there's no excuse, what BA, you should win this game
on Saturday, and no tc' is good. Now, if you
want to rectify what happened last year, we want to
show that hey we're not that same team. You want
to show it to the media, us, to the world
that look, you deserve that rematch. You got to go
take care of business against CCU, and I think Texas
Tech prepared them for that. Number five. Austin, you've had
a couple of games. What a slow start where you've
fallen behind the double digits. Is that a matter of
execution or does there need to be more urgency?
Speaker 3: What's your thoughts on that matter.
Speaker 8: I definitely think there needs to be more urgency. I
think Coloney preached a lot this week. You know, we
have to we have to take the fight early, take
take the fight to our opponents early. And obviously in
previous games we've kind of you know, it's been the
slow starts for us, kind of what you said. But
at the end of the day, you know, it comes
down to us and what our coaches want and expect
from us, and you know that is that was to
take to a fight early. And I think we just,
you know, need to just have the right mindset going
into the game. I know the coach is prepared for
every situation and ultimately it's really up to us as
a team to do that. And you know, that's just
how we're gonna get the jobs done in the future.
Speaker 2: So they've been off to a slow start, I'm gonna
go through the games for you guys, so you know.
Obviously Portland State, it doesn't matter. It's the worst team
in football. They scored fourteen points in the first quarter,
thirty five in a second. At Stanford, he go, you
start to get into more opponents. Six points in the
first quarter, eight in the second. Now if I did
math correctly, if I'm correct, that's fourteen points going in
the halftime. Not the ideal ballgame you EASTI won the
game twenty seven to three, but look still too slow
to start. East Carolina on the road thirteen to three
at a half time, but three points in the first quarter. Again,
slow start on that first drive. Go to Colorado, remember
that one. Colorado got off to the fourteen nothing start,
three points in the first quarter. Once a halftime, it
was fourteen to ten. They end up coming back in
that game and winning it. It was a great game.
Still slow start. Arizona probably was their quickest start. Obviously,
West Virginia is not a good opponent, you know Arizona's
I say their defense is better. That's why I'm bringing
it up. West Virginia has a good defense, but you
can exploit it. It's not as talented as Arizona's in
my opinion. But look, before the rain delay, they started
off fourteen to nothing. I believe that they had an
opportunity to go down to score making twenty one to seven,
but the rain de lay killed that. But that was
probably your best game, and that was on the roads.
You'd like to see that from Bear against West Virginia
fourteen to nothing, but again it's the first drive where
they're not being able to get down into the field
or across midfield. Then against Utah, I mean that's your
rivalry game. No one scored in the first quarter, so
you chalk that one up to that. But again, slow start.
They did go into ten in a halftime with the
ten to seven lead, and then look Iowa State, same thing,
seventeen to seven. They were going for the kill shot too.
If it wasn't for Logan Latwoi's interception. Shout out to
Jay Hill and Kelly Papinkan having the defensive ends ready.
Speaker 3: I mean, who knows what that game could have turned into.
And then you winn.
Speaker 2: You lit up in the second half and he outscored
him and you won that game forty one to twenty seven.
But the slow starts have been an issue when you
go back and you look at the drives, when you
look at the points that they have not done it,
and then obviously no points against Texas techaves ten zero,
thirteen to nine and a half time, you still had
a chance in the games. Can you imagine the Bayu
actually executes and gets it done. Like, look, if you're Byu,
I know that Kilanie's not going to do it.
Speaker 3: He's not.
Speaker 2: But if this were me and you had a slow start,
if I was Aaron Rodder, I'd be looking at Klonna like, look,
we win the coin toss, We're actually gonna take the
football and we're gonna go down and we're gonna score
a touchdown and make a statement. Not gonna happen, right,
They're gonna let the defense go out do things, probably
the right way. But for me, I'd be like, you
know what, I'm sick and tired of seeing the offense
not go out there and go down the field and
push it to the end zone on the first play
of the game. We're gonna take the football, run it
down TCU's throat with LJ. Martin, gonna throw the ball
with Chase Roberts, with Parker Kingston with Cody Hagen, with
Josiah Phillips, the Carson Ryan and we're gonna get it
to the end zone. And let TCU know, Hey, y'all
got a person that can slain the football, Well, guess
what way?
Speaker 3: Two b YU can slean the football too.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm probably saying in the meeting if I'm there,
but I'm not. But they're gonna win the coins. Austin defer,
it's exactly what's gonna happen. But look, the slow starts
you can't have. That offense has to get rolled, and
especially against TCU, they can throw the football. Josh Suver
is a very good quarterback. Don't think because TCU lost
Iowa State that oh they're not good. No, they're good.
They're damn good. And at the end of the day,
they're looking for blood. They gotta win this game to
stay in a lot of people think, oh, TCU's out
of it.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: They beat b YU, that just helps their chances. That
puts BOU at a second loss, and they still got
Cincinnati the week after. So a win for TCU could
put BYU in a vulnerable position. It could it could
help them, even though Cincinnati's right behind BYU. So you
never know, you never know what could happen. You gotta win,
you gotta win out and that's the way to do it.
So last thing, Austin will get you out of here
on this number six, Austin. Do losses like this put
the humbling hunger saying that Kialani preaches more into perspective?
Speaker 3: Is this mentality more going forward?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely does.
Speaker 8: Staying humbling and staying hungry has been a big part
in this program especially you know, the past two years.
I think Kilani and the coaching staff have done a
good job and embedding in that into our in our minds,
and you know, not only on the football field, but
you know when we go home to our families, it
just helps us. It just helps us be better. I
think another thing that he tries to embedd in us
is to love and learn. You know, when we love
to learn, we learn to love. And so essentially that's
how you know we're going to become better each and
every week and ultimately do what we need to do.
Speaker 2: It definitely puts it into perspective. When you lose, you
you don't get anything. I know, Jaron Hall said, Oh,
you learn more for your wins than on your losses.
And that could be true because when you look at film,
you only look at what you did wrong. You spend
like maybe four or five seconds of what you did right,
and you correct what needs to be corrected. But look
to me, at the end of the day, this is
very simple. When you lose, you got that gut feeling.
You're angry, you're upset, you're not happy. Parsonal And said
it in his media Vailuay. He was po and he
said the actual word that lets you know. They're not
happy down there. School down south a son they call it,
and they shouldn't be.
Speaker 3: They lost.
Speaker 2: Offense, didn't perform the way and needed two defense kept
a minute, but they got a beating. Now, granted, according
to the numbers of the metrics, they held Texas Tech
to a different number than everybody else did going into Lubbock,
but still you didn't play the football and the brand
that you wanted to.
Speaker 3: So what are you gonna do going forward?
Speaker 2: BYU has an opportunity to see Texas Tech again. They
control their own destiny, just like they did last year.
Just like they did last year. You went out and
you're in. It didn't take care of business. They had
the two losses back to back. So what BAU football team?
Speaker 3: What will see?
Speaker 2: Will we see the BAU football team that looks mature?
Will they not allow it to happen? Or will deja vu?
Because it's slowly starting to creep, it's slowly making us way.
It's like a snail moving moving back in. I don't
think it will happen. I think this team is mature.
I think they corrected on Saturday, but it's clear it's creeping.
It's creeping, and ta try to be the Kansas. They're
gonna try to spoil It might not be a pooch punt.
Speaker 3: But they're gonna try something.
Speaker 2: They're gonna try to something to play spoiler alert because look,
if they're able to knock you out, then that would
just make things worse.
Speaker 3: Then a Cincinnati win is a must win.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a must win regardless because you can't
let Cincinnati have the tie break over you. But that
puts you in a really tough spot if you lose
to Cincinnati. You do not want to lose to Cincinnati
because then the tiebreaks if Houston comes into a mix.
I mean, look, obviously you'll be over Utah because BA
you beat them, and Arizona State will still be behind.
But that just makes things way difficult when we get
in too many tie breaks.
Speaker 3: So went out.
Speaker 2: You're the second team, you automatically improve that you're the
second best team in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: They have that opportunity on Saturday. We'll see what they do.
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