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your order. Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in

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the former BYU quarterback that we love having on the show.

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We got Steve Clements on all the Live Steve, How thatck?

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Are You's right?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing fantastic, brother. How is everything going with you?

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Speaker 4: Great? I mean absolutely outstanding?

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Speaker 3: Give me up thinks how's the fab doing? Anything new

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in your world?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Fam is great? Married life is great too. Just

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took my youngest son down for a birthday golf trip

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to southern Utah and played Black Desert last weekend and man,

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that's a nice place. Due that was so much fun

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and I kind of surprised him. He didn't know where

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we're going and kind of pulled into place. He's like

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that or we lost? I could No, We're not lost.

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This is where we're supposed to be and so man,

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that was so much fun. But uh yeah, everything's man.

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I'm up and up and just just loving life right now.

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Speaker 3: Love the I love that all who's well in your world?

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Speaker 2: And you got some uh uh some quality time with

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your your your son and uh nothing better than a

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little fathers and sons outing.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah, yeah that's you. Gotta you gotta cherish those

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moments because they're not gonna be there forever.

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Speaker 3: Stevie. So there, I got you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah hear me.

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Speaker 3: We lose you.

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Speaker 4: I can hear you. Hello, you there, I can hear you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can hear me. I saw, yeah, we couldn't.

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I couldn't hear you there for a second. We have

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a little technical difficulties. Well, hey, okay, I wanted to

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I wanted to get into a couple of things with

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you here today on a little keeping up with the

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Speaker 3: You took some heat. We've talked about it before.

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Speaker 2: You said that bear Bachmeyer reminds you of a better

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throwing Tim Tebow. Obviously it played out very much like that.

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Bear Bachmeyer was tremendous. He was fantastic. Give me an

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overall eval of Bear Blackmeyer year one at b Yuh.

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Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I you know, the expectation

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is probably a little bit higher in provo for a

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quarterback based on the tradition, but you know, you have

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a true freshman and you got to be really, really

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careful as far as expectations. So I really didn't have many,

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if at all, because you're just setting yourself up when

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you have unreal hoo, it's unrealistic expectations to create resentment

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when those expectations aren't met. And so, at least for

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me my point of view, didn't have a lot of expectations.

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So when you don't have a lot of expectations, you,

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was absolutely phenomenal what he was able to accomplish at

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his age, with his experience, And really the one thing

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that I've always looked at is, yeah, the performance on

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the field, but I always like to see, especially I'm

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at a game not TV. It's hard to see the

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sidelines a lot of times, but how he reacts to

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both plays that might be a bad play, whether that's

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a turnover or taking a sack or fumbling whatever, and

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even a good play, And what I observed throughout the

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year is you really couldn't tell where he made a

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bad play versus when he made a good play. He

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has a knack, and I don't think.

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Speaker 3: A lot of.

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Speaker 4: Quarterbacks have this. A lot some do and some do,

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and elite quarterback and an average or a good quarterback

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is that ability to come back down or from a

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disappointment or an exciting play, you know, a game changing

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play or maybe a turnover that's that really you know,

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made a big time difference in the game. And what's

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your reaction to the result after the result? How do

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they act, how they interact with their coaches, their teammates.

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And I think he has a really good ability to

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what I would say, come back to five, which for

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me is even you know you're gonna hit a ten,

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nine to ten on a big touchdown, but also on

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a big turnover as well. How how quickly can you

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get back to that five? That even kill calm, cool,

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confident demeanor, And it just seemed like he was at

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five most of the time, very aggressive for a young

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Speaker 2: Do that, always stoic, always even killed, never overly oberctional,

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even like when he got injured, like it was like

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you didn't see him ever really WinCE in pain, like

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he didn't really have any emotions. It was hard to

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see even with the high definition cameras. That that that

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that exposes about everything on a football field.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and and that's that's the ones that I look

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at and gravitate to and go, Okay, he's going to

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be something special because it's almost like he doesn't have

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a pulse. And that works both ways, meaning yeah he can,

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he doesn't. He doesn't get really high. He never really

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gets low either. And some people will say, well he

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doesn't care because look, I mean they scored big touchdown

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and he's just like, ah, whatever. Or he might be

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smiling after an interception, or he might just be stoic

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after an interception that's really cost you know, the team

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either a game or whatever. And now we're trying to

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call back and you know, we have this mistake and

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it's really neither. It's just he has an ability to

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be very stoic whether things are going really well or

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things are going really poorly, like Texas Tech. But you

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can't tell from his at least and his inside might

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be chewing him up, but you can't tell, and I

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don't I don't see that affecting him on the football

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field either, whatever is going in between his ears. So

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after after that happens. But very impressed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I feel like he he met

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that that bar, that standard that you put forth the

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right handed Tim Tebow.

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Speaker 3: I really do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Brady Quinn even piggybacked off of your comp

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remember that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely, yeah, that was that was kind

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of fun. But I do I do think that his

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ability to throw, I mean, his ability to run and

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his his style of play lends you, yes, to run

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the game, you're the running game, and and and ground

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it out on the you know, in between the tackles.

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But his ability in a couple of games Iowa State

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the ball game to throw the rock and have a

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rod just cunning, loose man, you know he Now, I

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think he's shown that ability and really maybe not for Cougarnation,

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but for all the opponents the next year is Okay,

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this dude can throw it down the field. He's not

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just a you know, two hundred and forty pound running

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back that's playing behind the center. But my man can

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throw too, So we got to be ready for that

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too next year, no doubt. That's why I'm really really

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excited because he's of course he's got another year experience.

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But I think I think you may see a little

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bit different offensive philosophy this year. And man, just take

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the reins off the horse, letting go.

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Speaker 2: What improvements would you like to see from Bear Bachmeyer

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in the off season?

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Speaker 4: Boy, I don't know. I mean, I mean, you can

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always it's hard to go against speed, right, It's hard

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to defend speed. It makes it the the defense very

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very difficult to defend when you have speed. And so

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I would say, I mean, if if there's one thing,

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I would say, get faster, but I would say that

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to an out lineman and the dB just as much

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as a quarterback, if if not more so. But and

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I'm I'm sure he's doing that. I'm sure they all

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do that. They have a great weights program and strength

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and conditioning program, and that's going to be handled between

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you know, January and August. But yeah, I would say,

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just a little bit more speed. He's gonna throw the

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ball more. And so when practices this spring, I guarantee

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he's gonna get his rep with his arm. So obviously

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arm endurance is gonna be play a part in how

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well he does next year. He just didn't throw it,

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probably as much as he's gonna throw it this next

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year and probably in year three, is it's gonna move

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up even more so, So I would say speed and

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arm endurance and get ready for to light up the skuys.

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Speaker 2: I was debating with a few people earlier this week

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about weight gain, weight loss, you know, staying the same.

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What have you seen, like you know, in your career

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as a as a quarterback and coaching quarterbacks. You know,

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he's a big quarterback, obviously a big body guy. Do

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you kind of try to keep him at that weight?

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you know, gain the lean muscle mass? Do you want

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to put on?

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Speaker 4: Way?

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Speaker 3: What do you where do you put that?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: You know, if I was to ask you what you

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would do with his.

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Speaker 2: Body, uh as far as strength and conditioning and things

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of that nature are concerned, what would you.

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Speaker 4: Say, Well, I think you're not going to go wrong

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with lean muscle mass. He hasn't had you know, he

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hasn't really had a full off season to be in

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the weight room and to increase his speed and his

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strength and his lean body mass. And yeah, it would

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be great if you know, he's at five percent ten

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percent body fat, was still at two twenty five to

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twenty and my guess is that's probably where they're going

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to want him to be. You don't want him to,

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you know, be at one ninety five because that's kind

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of not really part of the offense. But again, I

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don't think it matters with a rod because he's got

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plenty in the pantry to utilize. And this is just

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one aspect of his offense. Having a kid that's you know,

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six two sixty three, two hundred and thirty, two hundred

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and thirty five pounds versus someone like Zach Wilson wasn't

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even closed. I mean he might have been two hundred

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pounds or two oh five. But so I think the

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lean body mass, yeah, is going to be essential for him,

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but he still has to be able to sustain. And

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if you're gonna throw the ball more, that means you're

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gonna run the ball less. And this is projection, This

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is not law that says they're gonna throw the ball more.

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I want him to throw the ball more. I think

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you would tend to think they might throw the ball

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more with one year experienced by your freshman quarterback. But

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so if that's the case, then he's gonna run a

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little bit less, so he's not gonna take as many hits,

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so he doesn't have to be two hundred and forty pounds.

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I didn't think he would sustain the offense they were

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running in the first two or three games for the

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entirety of the season, and the only thing he had

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They're in the championship game and that was it. So

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like he went beyond my expectations as far as being

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sustaining being really relatively injury free the entire season, running

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as much as he did in between the tackles. So

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I think, you know, you're two twenty to twenty five

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lean body mass, more speed. It might create a little

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bit more of a dynamic offense because now it's not

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in between the tackles anymore. Now he can bounce that

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sucker outside, you know, and instead of going to take

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as many hits, maybe he avoids a couple of those

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hits because he's a little bit quicker and he has

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a little bit more speed and a little bit thinner

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but lean, you know, muscle mass type, If that makes

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any sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm I'm intrigued to see where Bear takes

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his game this offseason. I'm sure he'll be training with

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three DQB John Beck and the crew, as well as

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putting in reps there in provo with his wide receiving group.

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What do you how would you evaluate the supporting cast

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right now that's coming back. Obviously Parker Kingston had himself

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a season. You got Jojo Phillips coming back, Cody Hagen.

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four star, former four.

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Speaker 3: Star wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Not much productivity though that though they're at Oregon Walker

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Lions coming in from USC at tight end obviously LJ.

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Speaker 3: Martin coming back.

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Speaker 2: How would you evaluate the skill position players that surround

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Bear going into his sophomore season.

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Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's going to be. It's

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going to be has the potential to be really good,

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especially on the outside. Now, in order for you to

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throw the ball, you've got to have the five guys

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up front, and where we're losing three, I believe that

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would be a bigger concern for me than on the outside,

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because I guarantee your help is coming. Because you've got

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the Pula twins. One's probably gonna play defense. My guess

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is the Jaron kids is going to be offense. You've

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got the Glaster kid that's coming in from Lehigh, which

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I think makes I think he plays on the special

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teams really really early and makes an impact on their

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special team, especially on their kicking game. That allows Parker

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maybe Cody to focus a little bit more on receiving

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and on the offensive side of the ball. But because

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my man can do it like that kid is. He's insane.

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I'm telling you, this legend kid is absolutely insane. And

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everybody's gonna seem this next year. And yeah, I'm making

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a prediction that he's gonna he's gonna be on the

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field and and and be a difference maker, especially initially

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with his youth, probably in special teams first, before you know,

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a rotation into the receiving corps. But just because of

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his inexperience but talent, now he's that's already there. It's

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it's it's beyond anything I think I've seen. I got

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to watch him in practice every day, the last two years,

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and the plays that he made in practice were crazy, dude. Anyway,

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So I think, you know, you got to shore up

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in the middle obviously the line, but I think on

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that outside, you've got another year experience with all three

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of those guys. You know, Jojo, I think was just

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trying to find his footing this year, and I think

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he's fine there. I think they're going to be really

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I think they're going to be deeper than normal I

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think for those guys typically in a typical year. But

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there's gonna be some inexperience too with that depth, and

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so that's going to be you know, Fessi's job to

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get them up to speed and learning the offense and timing.

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Right spring is all about timing with Bear and the

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quarterbacks and new receivers and where those guys are on campus. Now,

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I'm looking forward to a really good year and really

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I see him just throwing the ball a lot more,

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and LJ is, Yes, we're gonna lean on him. We've

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got to have five solid dudes up front though, for

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anything to work. So there, it's the backbone of the team,

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that's the skeleton of the team. It's the offensive line

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it's not the quarterback, it's not the defensive backfield or

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the defensive line. I think most important position on the

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field is offensive line.

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Speaker 2: Well, they went out and got three offensive linemen of

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the portal. Thus far looks like they're they're fortifying that

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front right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Last thing for you, what's been your favorite Mark Harlan moment?

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Has it been the you know that the game was

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stolen from us after the Holy War twenty twenty four?

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Was it? They give me a break? Tweet that he

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he quote tweeted Dennis Dodd. Dennis Dodd had reported that

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the Big twelve was ready to pounce on the four

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Corner schools. As doubt creeps in about the Pac twelve's viability,

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he retweeted that obviously they eventually went to the Big twelve.

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He's at his most recent tweet attacking a former BYU

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commit and signy who entered the portal and is now

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taking his talents elsewhere. He kind of got a little

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petty there. Do you have a favorite moment for Mark Harlan?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Oh, that guy. I don't say about him. I don't,

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I don't, I don't know if I haven't a favorite moment,

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but I have an unfavorite moment. As soon as Morgan

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Scalley became the head coach, that's my unfavorite moment. And

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obviously he's the athletic director. He made that happen. He's

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he's gonna be good. I'm I'm concerned because he's he's

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not gonna be like Kyle was there. There's they're two different.

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I know a lot of people are like, oh, it'll

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just be the same old Utah, this, that and the other.

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It's not. Trust me, it's not. As a matter of fact,

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we had a conversation Morgan I a couple of days ago.

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It went quite a lengthy discussion and he goes back

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to the years of when he was recruiting down in Texas.

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I was at Uless Trendy High School. He'd come down

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and recruit and we go out lunch and so we've

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kind of been friends over the years and kept in contact,

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and yeah, we had a pretty lengthy conversation. And man,

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he's a he's a culture guy. And yes, he's gonna

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he's gonna want to beat us to a bloody pulp

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in those four hours when we play, but he's not flaming.

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I mean, he's not gonna fan any of the flames

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before and after the game, and I think that's that's

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that that concerns me because he's a culture guy and

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Klonnie is a culture guy, and that's I guess that's

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my most unfavorite moment, at least as a by U

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alam Uh. He's good. He's gonna be good, and Utah

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is going to be good for as long as Morgan's

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running the show. And that's from a YU alarm, but

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I have a lot of respect for Morgan. He's a

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good friend of mine, and yeah, there's some things going

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on up.

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Speaker 2: There that are.

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Speaker 4: A little bit concerning to me, at least for those

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four hours on a Saturday in the fall.

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Speaker 2: So yes, indeed, uh, Steve, we appreciate you, man think

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for ropping off for a little keeping up with the

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