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Speaker 4: Not enough chaos.
Speaker 3: Occurred in front of them. The teams that you were
hoping would lose did not lose, and so by you.
Most likely tomorrow is going to be receiving the eleventh
spot once again. I don't think they'll be moving and
the eight people reflected that as well. They're sitting at
number eleven in the country and the a people, but
you still got a great win on the road versus
the Cincinnati team that was high powered, a high functioning
offense led by one of the best quarterbacks in college football,
really a good quarterback, and he had all of his
tools surrounding him. He had all of his helpers with him,
depth at running back, depth at wide receiver, a healthy
offensive line, and a defense that was actually pretty healthy
as well. They couldn't knock off the Cougars. They couldn't
do it, and BYU found another way to win, a
unique way to win, this time on the back of LJ.
Martin with a an all time performance, not just the
individual best performance.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: We talk about this a lot like these individual.
Speaker 3: These individual records, total touches, receptions, totes, total yards, total touchdowns.
Speaker 4: All that is great from an individual, but as it relates.
Speaker 3: To historical rushing performances, how does it stack up against
the best running backs and quarterbacks in BYU football history.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, those that witnessed LJ.
Martin tote the ball thirty freaking two times and get
an additional three receptions thirty five touches, not including some
of his pass pro He was probably upwards of like
forty contact reps in this game, which is significant. He
had a what was it like almost seven yards per
carry like margin there, six point nine yards per carry.
Holy Canoli, guys, that was an all time performance from
a running back or quarterback, an all time rushing performance
from LJ. Martin. That rushing performance should go down as
one of the greatest ever because of the location, the opponent,
and the ramifications. College a conference championship game. Okay, without
elgent you don't get there. Without that opportunity, you may
not get to the college football playoff. LJ found away.
Shout out to the offensive line that block for him.
Remember Whyalan Lapoi bay he was a bit shorthanded. Bruce
Mitchell the tip of the spear right, Austin Leousa and
Kyle Sufer, Choke Sunny Macassini, Andrew Gentry, Isaiah Jada, coach TJ.
Speaker 4: Woods, the real MVPs of.
Speaker 3: It all, not getting a whole lot of They don't
get the interview's postgame. Those dudes don't get the interviews
post game. So we'll highlight them today because we talk
ball on this station, and we talk schematics, we talk execution,
we talk personnel. Unlike any other. That offensive line led
by t J Woods deserves a ton of credit, as
does Aaron Roders for riding with the run game, rideing
LJ until the wheels fell off. In fact, I thought
it was really interesting. LJ got a little bit dinged
up on one of those final drives. I think it
was the final touchdown drive. He had two touchdowns and
he came up hobbled and literally like the coaching staff said, no,
stay in.
Speaker 4: Do you remember this.
Speaker 3: I don't know if LJ was trying to pull himself out.
He was kind of hobbling though, looking like he was,
and it was like, get your butt back in there,
and they called the tush push. After I don't know,
thirty seconds or so of rest. LJ was actually very
engaged in the tush push, was pushing bear for the
first down. Phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, And then all of a sudden,
LJ got that second win and was able to rattle
off his best run essentially of the game on that
drive for a Tuddy to close this thing out.
Speaker 4: Man, it was up.
Speaker 3: It was art, it was beauty. It was celestial LJ.
Martin number four. Baby, he's now, in my opinion, he's
engraving himself. He's emblazoned himself. He has now imprinted in
all of our hearts and minds as football fans, Bway
football fans, and media members. One of the most iconic
rushing performances in BYU football history.
Speaker 4: He's immortalized officially through that game.
Speaker 3: Crazy crazy effort, and we'll continue to celebrating here on
your Utah ESPN Radio network. A great win, no IF's
hands or butts about it. A total team wins twenty
six to fourteen on the road versus the Cincinnati Bearcats
that many thought it was like it was fifty to fifty.
Analysts Kirk Heursery did not not buying the Cougar stock
right now has picked against the Kougs two three consecutive weeks,
pick Tech, pick TCU, and pick Cincinnati to beat the Kugs.
And he's one of the most well respected analysts, pundits
right commentators in college football. Kurt didn't want anything to
do with Brigham the last three weeks. Joel Klatt seems
to be coming around, Okay, Others seem to be coming
around as BYU finds ways to win and through diligence,
through grint, through complimentary football, the doubters, converting them into believers.
Speaker 4: That's what it's about, guys.
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If you're grateful, you're a happier human being. Right, You're
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Speaker 5: Definitely a week of gratitude, not weekend will be a
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this is the one week where you can eat whatever
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Speaker 5: Much turkey if you like turkey, chicken wings, because that's
something you do in the South Ham The mashed potatoes,
the stuffing, the dressing, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: The pies.
Speaker 5: Man, this is where you can gain fifteen pounds. And
I think the Lord is okay, so no one is
breaking the word of wisdom this week being in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Well, gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: There are times in places and you gotta have moderation
in all things. You can be a little bit gluttonous
on Thanksgiving and engage in high caloric intake, no doubt
about it, and then you know you're gonna eat. You're
gonna be eating a lot, a lot of turkey, and
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Speaker 4: It gets a little bit sleepy.
Speaker 3: You can take your nap and one of my favorite
things is to eat like a pig, right, eat uh
with with with ferocity, and then take a long nap
and then get up. I'm like, I'm ready for round two. Baby,
show me where the left overs are, alright. I grabbed
my corn, I grabbed my potatoes, I grab my stuff thing.
I grabbed my turkey, I grab my gravy, and I
heat it right back up. I combine it all together.
I'm a guy that mixes it all together, throws that
that that that delicious and sometimes nutritious.
Speaker 4: Gravy on top of it, and then I just chow
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over Cincinnati. He was grateful, as he always is, grateful
and gracious. We'll get to that in the first segment.
Then we'll get into k Y and Robert right the
third we're gonna recap the by men's basketball win as
well at the Delta Center, a thirty point win versus
a top twenty.
Speaker 4: Five to Foo Boom Shaka Laka.
Speaker 3: This team is built different because they were down two
of the best players, Nate Pickens and Cannard Davis Junior.
Speaker 4: Shout out to them.
Speaker 3: We'll get a into some sound with Tanner Wall, the
Great Wall of Provo, as they say, Tanner Wall, he's
got four picks on the season and man, now we're
just we're like, we should have moved him to safety
a little bit sooner. Shout out to Tanner Wall four
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Cougar bet. We got Bruce Mitchell comments as well, the
tip of the spearl on that offensive line. And then
Brady Papenka and John beck is always bringing up the
kaboos in the five and Allower breaking down this BAYU
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the road versus a formidable big twelve four.
Speaker 4: This was his opening statement postgame.
Speaker 1: De signed about the result, obviously proud of the guys,
proud of the team. Hats off to Cincinnati. I thought
they he gave us a really hard on us and
and uh, you know, defensively, they played they played lights out. Man.
We just we just uh we're able to possess the
ball and get some get some uh you know, some
first downs and and I'm just really proud of l
J and the Old Lion and and Bear the entire
offense defensively, I'm glad. I'm proud of what they did too.
And we gave up some big plays, but we know
the what the the mistakes were there, there was a fixable.
We can fix them by next week. And so, uh,
all three phases, I'm pretty proud the way they played.
It wasn't perfect, but we'll take We'll take the result,
and we'll keep learning get better for next week. But uh,
you know, it's we got a senior senior night coming
up for us or we're never doing when the game
is you don't know yet, but whenever the game is,
any time of the day, we'll be ready for that.
And uh, you know, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
But really, really fortunately we got the win here. Proud
of the fans that came, and it was a cool
environment here and and Cincinnati did a great jobs. It
was it was a big told football So we're glad
we got the win. We just keep working and get better.
Speaker 3: You hear the positivity in Killone's voice, Impressed with his
team always finding ways to win a diligent process through
love and learning and staying humble and hungry. Now, Kalate,
what does this say about the resilience of your guys
That you didn't have Chase out there? It looked a
bit like a slugfest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's it's not kind of style.
We like winning a lot of different ways, you know.
So I'm proud of the way the guys did. And
I'm glad that we had to count on LJ and
the and O line and all the tight ends everybody
blocking the make to win the game. You know. It's
proud of the way the guys did it. So I
like their response to any adversity we get, and so
that that's a lot of the leadership. Even though Chase
didn't finish the game, he was able to lead on
the sidelines too. So really proud of the entire team.
Speaker 3: Like I said, an individual, a collective, collectively, a great
performance all three facets.
Speaker 4: Was very much impressed. I pulled up the sp.
Speaker 3: Plus rankings after this game, and right now BYU at
ten and one. Overall their s P plus efficiency ranking,
he is sixteenth in the country. They're twenty third on offense,
nineteenth on defense, and then twenty fifth on special teams.
Nice work moved up actually I believe one spot from
where they were last week, and and they continue to impress,
continue to do what they what they set out to do,
which is just win baby. Getting back to Killate. Was
that the plan coming in to lean on LJ in
this matchup versus Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I think so. But you know, he was doing so
good it's hard to not give him the hot and
he's the hot hand. Just keep feeding to him. And
again we just needed him to rest a little bit.
And one, I mean there's times that he was pushing
Enoch and everybody else out of the way. He wanted
to stay in the game. So I know he's not
one hundred percent, but man, he's When he plays with
that mindset, it's hard for anybody to sooffer.
Speaker 4: LJ was the hot hand.
Speaker 3: Bear got a little dean up, Chase got a little
deaned up, and you know, as far as the receiving
was concerned BYU really wasn't slinging it a whole lot.
Speaker 4: LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin ended up being the leading receiver. Parker was the
most targeted with seven receptions and thirty nine yards. Carson
Ryan was also targeted minimally to two reception sixteen yards.
Jojo got one reception for thirteen yards, and Cody Hagen
was a bit limited one reception four yards BYU did
not sling it, but did they really have to? With
LJ being the bell cow towards the end of the
season like this, when wins matter most, you just find
a way to win, and you feed the hot hand
and you throw out the whole load management out the window.
He say, thing goes for bear Bear took a shot
on the right shoulder. Shouldn't have shouldn't have been going
east west. He shouldn't be taking those shots. He realized
to a degree, and maybe this is a little bit
aggressive in my terminology, but he realized he's a mortal
man that if he takes a direct shot to the shoulder,
it's not gonna feel too nice.
Speaker 4: The bear Tar does have some weakness.
Speaker 3: He can't just pummel everybody that he He can't just
run through and jump over everybody. So hopefully it's not
a lesson learned that he's going to impact his throw
ability versus UCF. He only attempted one throw after that
hit to the right shoulder, and it was an I
int on a two point conversion.
Speaker 4: The ball was thrown a little bit behind.
Speaker 3: You have to wonder, he's he gonna be okay, He's
he gonna be healthy and that's strong enough to continue
to sling it like he has been so accurately thus
far this season, with the way he's playing, if he
continues down this path with almost three thousand yards throwing
the ball, six hundred and seven hundred yards rushing the ball,
he's got eleven touchdowns on the ground. He's got thirteen
through the year, only four I in t's going into
next year if BYU gets to the college football playoff,
or let's say they just get to the conference championship
game and then they go to a fairly high level bowl.
It's Alamo, maybe it's the Pop Tards Bawl. He's going
to be a preseason Heisman Trophy Canada going.
Speaker 4: Into his sophomore season. Can you believe that that's insane?
Speaker 3: Last time we were talking about this was Taysom Hill
when he was doing same similar things. Bear blockmar just
beat surpassed Tsom Hill's single season rushing touchdown record, sir
pass Steve Young Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: I think Steve young at in nineteen eighty two, maybe
it's eighty three, and then tysom Hill in two thousand
and thirteen or fourteen, crazy crazy, the one season taysom
Hill essentially stayed healthy.
Speaker 4: That's what he did, bear the bear tar.
Speaker 3: He's a big boy, big back with great decision making
and he's an accurate passer as well, completing sixty three
percent of his passes. That's efficiency, my friend. Let's get
back to kilate commentary. How big was the offensive line
this game? Kilatate blind did a great job.
Speaker 1: It was assignment sound football for them. Fundamentals, it comes
down to blocking and LJ was able to find the
holes but over tight ends and receivers walking downfield too.
It helped spring the big plays. So just really proud
of everybody and what they did all three phases. It's
hard defensively to hold this team to those two scores,
and they did a great job. Jay and the boys
did great, and I thought Kate Pop did great and
we'll kick field goal, you know. So we're just we're
in a really good spot right now with all three phases.
Just got to finish it next week.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know what I may do. I'm
gonna put together a a thank you Thanksgiving card. Say,
I'm gonna put t J. Woods fan, I'm gonna put
all the faces of the offensive line on this card
on my Thanksgiving card for kugarnation to engage in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin, we need, we need to give thanks to for LJ.
There's no doubt about it. He's a unique and singular back.
He's an NFL back. We're going to say his name
in the same vein, in the same paragraph as guys
like Tyler Algiers, Jamal Williams, Harvey Unga, Curtis Brown, Luke Staley,
Jamal Willis. These are record setting running backs that made
it to the NFL okay and had some success, especially
the most recent running backs having tremendous success in the NFL,
with Tyler's young Jamal Williams.
Speaker 4: Shoot, you can even add as.
Speaker 3: An extension of that if you want to throw in
Taysom Hill as a quarterback.
Speaker 4: He's not even a true quarterback.
Speaker 3: He's a tight end running back, quarterback, wildcat, wild saint.
I don't know what they call him. There in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: But you can throw him in in the mix too.
Speaker 3: Think of all the guys you've had in the backfield
over the years, LJ deserves to be in that same
conversation with the way that he's trending. He finally eclipsed
one thousand yards in a Cougar football season.
Speaker 4: That's not easy to do, guys, It's not an easy
thing to do.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of how many seasons historically there
have been one thousand yard rushers. It's I think there's
maybe nineteen nineteen seasons that from which running backs or
quarterbacks have eclipsed one thousand yards. I mean, we're talking
one hundred, one hundred year history here of BYU football.
Even if you go back to nineteen seventy two once
Lavelle took over, I think the only season that came
pre nineteen seventy two was when Eldon Fourtie galloped like
a gazelle for one forty nine yards. He was the
og Taysom Hill five point eight yards per carry out
of the single wing most likely fourteen tunnies for Eldon
four Tie at that quarterback position. I guess you I
don't know if he was necessarily considered a he is
considered running back. Quarterback. He was, he was the original quarterback.
Speaker 4: He really was.
Speaker 1: L J.
Speaker 4: With his rushing yards, I believe.
Speaker 3: Sits in the top ten all time single season rushing
yards and we still have two automatic guaranteed games left.
If he continues, he could surpass Taysom at number five
for a single season rushing output of over one thousand,
three and forty four yards. That was the twenty thirteen season.
That was the season in which Taysom tutted for ten Tuddies,
toted for ten Tuddies that year. He'd be right behind
Jamal Williams, beat Van Vackenberg, Luke Staley, and Tyler Row's
year for the season a single season rushing records pretty tremendous,
no doubt. Anyways, I'm gonna do a thank you card
to TJ, to Bruce, to Austin and Kyle, and Andrew
and Isaiah. It's been a good offensive lie this year,
even a great offensive line, sometimes even on an elite
offensive line. The last two weeks, they've been great, they've
been grand, they've been wonderful. Now, Kalate, how serious you
know we're a little anxiety field. How serious is Chase
Roberts injury? And do you think he'll be back next week?
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be back. We'll see. I
think he was just being a making a smart decision
to take himself out and let the other guys do it,
and he didn't feel like he was going to be effective,
and so I appreciate him making that decision for the team.
Speaker 4: He pulled himself out. He felt he wasn't healthy enough.
Speaker 3: He felt like there's been times right where if you're
not if you're sitting at eighty percent, seventy five percent
and there's a risk of worsening the injury, that's where
you say, Okay, I'm going to pull myself out because
my backup's better than me. Judicious, don't worsen the condition,
especially if you have a guy that's that's behind you
that can be better than you at whatever percentage you're at.
And I think that's a bus decision and a good
decision at that. Now, Kalaate, how would I how would
you assess Bear and in that rackish environment?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he played good. I mean, this is
there's a lot of plays that we love to have back.
But I'm really pressed with his with his ability to
play and take care of the football. And I mean
he made a lot of checks, we gave, made a
lot of audibles, and I think he put us in
the right position.
Speaker 3: He did what he had to in order to get
the win. Was it Bear's most impressive game?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Bear is much better at home. Bear is much better
inder the lights of Lavelle. He's better on grass. He's
better when he's uh getting north south in the last
in that Texas Tech game and in the Cincinnati game,
I felt like he was you know, there were times
in which he was less linear than he needed to be.
And Uh, I think he's learning his lessons. If he
goes back and watch tape of the of the Tech
game as well as the Cincinnati game, he's gonna want
to get linear a whole lot more.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati gets a lot of explosive got a lot of
explosive plays. You were able to limit those on Saturday.
How big of a defensive performance was it?
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Speaker 4: Get to get back to the sound here.
Speaker 3: Sorry for the technical difficulties and we cut the last
segment a little bit short. We'll get back to the
sound for Kalate Stock and we're celebrating the double digit
win over the Cincinnai Bearcats on the road, finding way
to win on the road in the big twelve ain
o joke. It ain't easy being cheesy, as they say.
By you got the double digit win twenty six to fourteen,
and LJ Martin the bell Cow, the tip of the
spear of the offensive line was tremendous in opening up
holes and allowing LJ to do a ton of.
Speaker 4: Damage versus that Cincinnati Bearcat defense in front.
Speaker 3: Maybe the most impressive thing, though, was the BAU defense
holding a Cincinnati Bearcat team that was averaging thirty four
points a game to only fourteen on their home freaking field. Guys,
I mean, I feel like college football.
Speaker 4: Still to this day.
Speaker 3: I mean, it used to be defensive defense wins championships.
In the new era, it's just heavily waited from a
public relations standpoint, heavily weighted towards the offense. I mean,
Bla's defense was tremendous in love it. They were really
really good, and none of the pundits, none of the analysts,
none of the commentators were willing and ready to even
give them any love.
Speaker 4: I know the offense was down trodden, I know.
Speaker 3: The special teams was booboo, but goodness great, oh my,
that defense was good and they continue to be good TCU.
They held Hoover to one of his worst performances in
his career. He had to go back to twenty twenty three,
the last time he had that much of a.
Speaker 4: Piss poor performance.
Speaker 3: Soarsby Also, I mean like he didn't have a great performance.
He really didn't had an okay performance. Yeah, I mean
they got some explosive plays, but they couldn't find a
way to win. They couldn't find a way to put
the football into the end zone. And that is quarterback
play in the red zone. Red zone play and execution,
it really resides on the quarterback as much as the
play caller.
Speaker 4: Hate to say it, like that's the nature of it.
Speaker 3: And Brendan couldn't find a way to get the ball
across the plane, across paydirt. So Killine discussed it post game.
This segment, as I mentioned, brought to you by Roy
lombiybrand dot com. Cincinnati gets lots of explosive you were
able to limit those on Saturday.
Speaker 4: How big of a defensive performance was it?
Speaker 1: I mean you say that, but all we're talking about
in the locker room with as coaches of the big place,
we gave up so a lot of that. I mean,
we just played clean football. When we do that, I
think we have a really good chance of doing something special.
Speaker 3: Great defensive effort, no doubt about it. Jay Hill, Gary Anderson,
Kelly Papinka, Justin Anna Jennaro, Guildford.
Speaker 4: Chad k They all deserve it's out of credit. Great coaches.
Speaker 3: Gavin Fowler, what kind of statement do you think your
team sat on Saturday? As far as the college football
Playoff Committee is concerned and in trying to enhance your resume.
Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about that. Like I said, I'm
not here to campaign. I'm just here to play football
and with our team, and we just try to find
ways to win the game. Let the other experson figure
that stuff out. Where's going to try to get our
next win next week? And just be thankful for what
we were able to do. Football is hard, man, I
think I want these guys to embrace every moment of it,
and we made some really cool memories. Tonight.
Speaker 3: Doesn't care about the style points, doesn't care about the resume.
I'm here to win, here to focus on what I
can control. How gratifying was it that that four minute
drill to close out the game was so efficient.
Speaker 4: Not quite in victory formation the way you like, but almost.
Speaker 1: No. We we could have gotten victory formation if LJ
just went down. But that's okay, I mean, that's that's Uh.
It's okay for the defense to get out there and
and uh and and get a get a stop too.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't blame LJ for the The goal was to
just get a first down, but I was really proud
of I mean, if it's that open and you just
got to go take it, you know, so I don't
mind him doing that. So I went. We went for
two to make it, to just just make it to
two full score, two full touchdowns. And and uh, I
thought that the throw was there. We just maybe a
little late on it. But Bear will be better next time.
But overall, guys, the team team played well, played physical.
It's what we asked him to do. And and took
care of the football.
Speaker 4: So onto the next Yeah, to two different philosophies.
Speaker 3: You know here, I don't think anyone expected, you know,
from the thirty three going in that that the that
Cincinnati was just gonna stop tackling. In fact, they were
trying to tackle. They were trying to actually they were
trying to stop Bway's run game. They were trying to
force a field goal rather than allow for a touchdown.
Had they wanted just to let up, they could have
at that time.
Speaker 4: They didn't. LJ.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could have slid right at the right at the
end zone and they could have maybe milked the clock
and got into victory formation.
Speaker 4: I was fine with it.
Speaker 3: You know, there's you know, is it a super duper
high Q football IQ play if LJ slides right at
the goal line or runs out of bound right before
the pylon, Well, you don't want to run out of bounds,
you would slide. Uh yeah, I mean it's but at
the same time, like there's points there, there's points there,
and typically from the thirty three going in, you're not
you're not just you don't see a defense that just
cowers and opens up the holes and allows them They
don't like just like tag off and let him score.
Cincinnati was still trying, so that's why probably lj Rumbled
and stumbled into the end zone. Boy's defense found a
way to stop Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Name is what it is.
Speaker 3: Great win, great win, and if almost if you're looking
for style points, you didn't want a kneel down. You
wanted a touchdown there. So you can't speak up both
sides your mouth. You can't say, well, I want style
points and a better resume and double digit wins on
the road versus a respected team like Cincinnati. It would
have been great. Yes for me, it would have been
great to have that double digit win victory. Uh and
Cincinnati beating you of a the week prior. It is
what it is, though, you know there's you have wishes,
you have hopes, but you get a deal in the reality.
Speaker 4: Let's move on number ten.
Speaker 3: How impressed were you with Tavion Beasley forcing that fumble
and Isaiah Glasker being the one who scooped and should
have scored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wish, I wish we would a
I think Glasgow would have been gone. You know, we
picked it up, but defensively, man, we that we caused
turnovers We're good on fourth down. Keanu and JT were
great up front, and the entire D line did a
great job and so I mean, I don't know what
we held them too and rushing, but yeah, eighty seven
yards is really good. So the guys are peaking at
the right time. We just got to gotta get the
next one.
Speaker 3: Tavion Beasley, man, he's really improved from the day that
he arrived.
Speaker 4: Looks so everybody knows.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Tavion wasn't really in the mix to
be like, I mean, he was maybe in the three
D four deep at that Nickel spot when he came here.
Came from Colorado, San Diego State, you know, where he
had played minimally, and it was a late acquisition via
the portal General Guilford needed.
Speaker 4: Some more depth.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Baya was the guy, was a dude day of
Canon Debrees also in the mix, and then Tavon and
then Tommy b Way You free safety was moved to
as the best cover. Safety was moved over to Nickel
in fall camp, kind of a late addition to the
Nickel room because of the injuries that Jonika Devea was
was experiencing and and then probably Taveon just not looking
that great and Cannon being a young transition corner. Remember
Cannon was a free safety in a and a receiver
in high school. He was not a corner. There is
a there's a huge difference, guys, I cannot tell you
like huge difference in cornerback play versus safety play. It
just is like I would have loved to play safety.
I played safety at Glendoe Community College. It was one
of my favorite seasons all time. I mean, I was
in on on the run of the past, picking off plays, uh,
picking off, running the alley, big hits, force and fumbles,
scoop and scores. You can get more pick sixes that way.
I mean, it's it's so fun. It is so fun
playing free and strong. Cannon took him a minute to
act cle maiden, so they moved Tommy over there. Tavon
has grown. That play that he made versus Cincinnati, beating
the kickout on the screen the wide receiver screen was tremendous.
And then force of the fumble with that little gator role,
that's why he fumbled it. He let go of the football.
That wide receiver let go the football because like I'm
not trying to enter anybody. But like the way he
he had to dive at the ankle and then he
rolled right. And because he rolled, and I don't think
it was malicious, the wide receiver got a little bit
of torque on the ankle and the knee and he's like,
oh crap. And the autonomic neurological response when you have
an injury or potential injury like that is to leg
all the ball and just kind of go limb, and
that's what he did, and Isaiah was out there to
scoper score. I was really ticked off at the refs,
like that should have been a defensive touchdown. Ig would
be on the real high stepping in to the end zone.
The refs messed that one up. They should have let
it play out. It's really unfortunate, especially for Bay's resume.
You could have you could have won by You could
have won thirty two, thirty three, right, thirty four to fourteen,
a three score victory versus Cincinnati. That would have turned
some more heads. I think that would have been a
nice stamp of approval from the committee. I don't know
if you move up, but at least you get a
little bit more pr momentum going into the final a
few games of the season. All right, back to Killane commentary.
Last thing from Galadia. I know you said you don't
control what the playoff committee does their things, but how
do you feel your team stacked up stacks up against
other teams in the country.
Speaker 1: Just like playing football, you know. And so we've extended
the season. We want to hang out together and then
place more football. And we can do that next week
by getting a win.
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Speaker 4: Guys, check this out. Big Twelve Championship Scenarios Week twelve.
Speaker 3: Only four teams can clinch a spot in the twenty
twenty five Big twelve Championship. It's BYU, Texas Tech, Arizona
State and Utah BYU will clinch if BYU beat UCF
or Arizona State loses, or third scenario BYU loses to
UCF plus Texas Tech loses, plus Arizona State wins, plus
Utah wins. Crazy Texas collect Tech will clinch if Texas
Tech Texas Tech beats West Virginia or Arizona State loses.
What's interesting, Arizona State, this is gonna be a great
game to watch. Okay, you'll b why you gets to win? Obviously,
b YU needs to beat UCF or Arizona State loses.
Who is Arizona State playing? It's rivalry week, not for
BYU and Utah obviously, but for Arizona State and Arizona.
Arizona State is an eight and three team, good football
team with a three game winning streak. Their last loss
was versus the Houston Cougars. It was a twenty four
to sixteen loss at home. They've had some injuries, right,
but since then, they beat Iowa State that was in ames,
they took it to West Virginia at home, and then
they beat Colorado at fulsome Field and Boulder. Now they're
taking on their rival, the Arizona Wildcats. The Arizona Wildcats
are a good team. We know they're eight and three
as well. This matchup is a big one. It's a
rivalry game. And guess what, you of A's on a
four game winning streak right now. They beat the Buffs,
the Jayhawks, the Bearcats, and the Bears. They had two
losses in a row to YU and the Houston Cougar's
little Cougar Cougar losses. But those two losses were by
a combined I believe it was BYU's with thirty three
to twenty seven, and then the Houston game. So these
were one score games. One was doublet the Houston game
they only lost by three. Uve's a good team. You
could knock off the Arizona Wildcats, excuse me, the Arizona
State sun Devils. So you, of A, that's a game
to watch. You don't want to lose to UCF because
then you're hoping for Texas Tech to also lose. Now,
what's going on with West Virginia right now? Are they
playing good football? Are they playing good enough football to
knock off the best team in the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be in West Virginia Country Road. Let's take
me home to a place. Now, you don't really want
Texas Tech to lose, though, do you or do you?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 4: Do you want tex tex to lose?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: If Texas Tech loses, you know, then you could have
a situation. And if Arizona State wins and BYU wins,
would you like to take on ASU get a little
revenge game?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: That could happen. Ladies and gentlemen, you may want to
be rooting on Rich Rodriguez and the Mountaineers. They're playing
in Morgantown and right now West Virginia is four and seven.
They're gonna be playing spoiler how much salt has Rich
Rodriguez consumed?
Speaker 4: How much does he want to help the.
Speaker 3: The last three games have been pretty impressive, I think
for West Virginia and even going back to the TCU game,
they barely lost to TCU twenty three to seventeen. They
beat the Houston Cougars forty five thirty five, They beat
the Buffs twenty nine to twenty two, and then they
barely lost to Arizona State a couple of weeks ago,
twenty five to twenty three. Rich Rodriguez and the West
Virginia Mountaineers are coming off a bye week. They've got
two weeks to prepare for the Red Raiders that vote twelve.
The only issue is Texas Tech has also had a
week to prepare for the Red Raiders or for the
West Virginia Mountaineers. So that's the situation. Other scenarios, right,
let's talk about it. Arizona State clinchers. If ASU beats Arizona,
Texas Tech loses and Utah also has to lose plus
BYU wins, that's their scenario. Or as U beats Arizona,
BA you loses, Utah loses, or ASU beats Arizona plus
Texas Tech loses, plus BA you loses and Utah wins.
Speaker 4: Utah clinches. This one may be the most difficult.
Speaker 3: Utah beats Kansas plus Texas Tech loses, Arizona State wins
and BYU wins. Maybe that one's not so far fetch.
Speaker 4: That's the clinching scenarios, ladies and gentlemen. And that segment.
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