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on the line, Beatpop. How you living?
Speaker 2: But always.
Speaker 4: Dude, yeah, especially after like it's it does feel good
to have some style points finally right, Like it does
feel good to like win in a such a convincing
fashion that you were like wow, like b Yu is
the real deal. They're not just skirting by by the
you know, by the skin of their teeth here. They
are a legitimate contender this year, not a pretender. Is
some analysts want to put out, what was your reactually
watching this game?
Speaker 3: Be Pop?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was the most complete victory we
have seen since the way you entered in the Big
twelve and I thenk Lawne's soon as much was true.
All three phases played really well. I mean, the only
real hiccup was that punt that the punter dropped the
ball for some reason and it didn't punt. It kind
of an odd still there, but uh, I said to
that everything was functional, clean and excusing us. We would
have anticipated that too. And then we saw tremendous growth
and Bear. I mean because basically what Ronick did is
he said, you know what, we're gonna use the quick
passing game and also movement when we're moving the pocket
with bear and then stretched and then the sply suites
with a you know, with the man I keep number eleven,
my guy, and I mean hid me, my god, who's
umber losing the game? Yeah, Parker Parker there is was like,
uh and then we're you know, running though sly sweets
of Parker and even Tiger got involved in one too,
and that stretches the.
Speaker 5: Defense wider, and so you've got I mean it just
the play calling was perfect, but then put it on
there to say, all right, we need you to basically
closen this defense up before then we could start to.
Speaker 2: Run the ball right at him. That was majeally huge
because the show two things. Hey bear is capable, you
can put that load on them, and then when that happens,
we are a very difficult offense.
Speaker 3: Stuff.
Speaker 2: And just so everybody knows the history behind using the
pass to set up the run, that's West Coast Football
ladies and gym and that's going back to our roots
at the YU. You know, that's what the forty venders
did for so long, and that's what these offensive coordinators
continue to do. And now that we can, but you
got to have a quarterback to can throw the ball
and do it really well and do it on the
move like there was, and then all of a sudden,
everything else opens up. And that defense, I hope everybody understands.
The context is Texas Tech defense is a head That
defense is a nine eight and a half nine. There
were a really good defense, and look what we were
able to do to them so offensive that in the
case the defensively, our d line in front seven continue
to just show up. I mean they are. I mean
we played more light boxes to get that offense than
I think most people realize, and we handled their running
game sufficiently with that, you know, with the with the
the boxes where we're out numbered with those light boxes,
which it's very rarey you're able to do that, and
that's a big, physical offensive line that wants to run
the rope, run the ball right at you. And then
in addition to that, we were just constantly getting Oover
off the spot making him uncomfortable, which is that that's
the problem for him, which was evident. His accuracy goes
down and his his his ability to navigate the punkins compromise,
and that's and he's just not really good when they
do that. And he had one of the worst games
of this of his career. And this guy's a heck
of the thrower. So we made it pretty dark, good TV,
but really really bad. And then I mean we broke them,
you know, nine minutes ago in the fourth corner they're
playing the ball. It's over. You know that that was
the heck of a win because basically we just you know,
we meet them in the sufficient.
Speaker 3: That was pretty impressive, pretty crazy to watch. It was
a complete game. Finally Kilani got the most out of
all three facets and it led to a dominating victory.
Who were you most impressed by on the defensive side
of the ball.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 3: Would you say, is there any standouts from the AUL
twenty two.
Speaker 2: Well, our secondary continues to play well, you know on
our safety especially, you know, I mean they've been excellent
throughout the year. Tenorwall I finally had his pick six,
you know, which was kind of a volleyball playing but
still a pick six it was. And then the two
guys that I keep really seeing a lot of growth from.
In addition to all the guys up every week, you know,
Jack Kelly, Isaiah JT a ton of awesome. You got
Logan there body really he also got the one hundred playing.
You know, those guys that they we got the week
and showed great consistency in addition to the guys in
the secondary. But the guys that are really starting to
jump off the table for us is Noosy number five
and tw Seay number thirteen. Their speed and thresh ability
is creating problems. It adds a really nice speed the
power element to our defense. Accelerate sness, twitchiness. I want
to tell you, I mean there's so many plays that
how ceedy aid DEnumber thirteen with his speed and his
physicality that you're just like, we got guys, and I
keep telling people that we got guys. Well, I see
those two dudes simp a rally corner. It's like we
got guys, we got so those two guys that keep
seeing that you know a lot of you know, obviously
Newsey had a big fact there to basically shut the
game down. Does a close out sack, and then I
mean for most two guys, man, they continue to o
they and when when you have that kind of play
fixed in with Hunter Logan, our guys in the middle,
off the ball backers or you know, all American caliber
guys and Jack Kelly and I and Glaster, Isaiah Glaska,
A wow, it's a it's a heck of a front seven.
And then you mixed in the secondary play. That's that's
a great that's a really good defense, you know. And
then you got Jay and his staff doing a nice
job calling the game. I loved it. I loved how
it comes the game. I thought it was really well done. Uh.
They give a lot of stimulated glitches like the sack
and EJ that was the simulated pressure. We were going
to the corner blitz, but we ended up playing rushing
four and they didn't have anybody to account for J
and we and again we you know, create a problem
and that's just Jay stedding it up, you know, as
the game goes on to where he throws a little
proof off, but we're not overexposed on the back end
because we're still in the rushing four. That's just that's
beautiful stuff, man, really fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, offensively, I thought the bounce back from from the
Texas Tech game to the TCU game was just monumental.
Shout out to a Rod for bouncing back. And TC's
a good defensive team, right like when you were watching
this as you were prepping for it, like I thought
TC was a pretty good defensive team. Uh. They they
they've held some teams to low scoring efforts and their
rush defense had been good and then d Wayers came
out and just was dominant at the line of scrimmage.
What what stood out to you about the play calling,
the offense, and maybe even the personnel that you were
most impressed by.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you gotta remember, like you know, PCU, they
got two really good defensive tack was big, uh, hard
to move. They remind me a lot of the guys
in the Texas tecond some ways. They're just as good
as the guys in Texas tecond we're really other than
a couple of plays where they they basically the middle
of the block. What was where pair got hit they
actually highlighted in the DD coffy but with a completed
mass to the park right league. Other than that, I mean,
we were really good against them. But the biggest thing
Heron did, which this is to me, what always has
made him so hard his offense is so hard to defend,
is he gets you moving horizontally. And that's that's what
a zone blocking style offense is meant to do, is
get the defense moving horizontally. Now you're stretched out. Now
it really doesn't matter how big or how fast you are,
because now you're not moving north the south. You're not
trying to say, you know, you're not trying to just
like fold your ground. What you're trying to do when
you're moving east and west or being expanded horizontally, is
you're trying to move instinct with your other defenders, which
is virtually impossible. And what happens is you have natural
gaps that start to get created because everybody these are
moving to the lessons is right, and you're trying to
keep everybody kind of walked in and you know, creating
a fence, and then that's where all of a sudden
you get these gaping holes. And you know what I thought,
LJ was looking healthy, looking like a sprice off. It's
beautiful jump cuts, footwork, then explosiveness when he saw a
little alleyway, and then finishing runs not letting the good
first guy tackle him. The whole thing was very well
put together. And like I said, the key was Bear.
Bear being able to throw the ball and move and
throw is what makes all of that come to come together.
Because now it's like you got to defend that plus
Bear running the ball, plus our inside zones, outside zone,
then you got to fly sweep. And so you could
literally with a with one any play you could fake
a fly sweep, read option, throw it or run it,
and your defense and that defense if you're getting beat
by the fly sweep, getting beat by the quarterback throwing
and moving all of a sudden, the last thing on
your mind a lot of times when you're reacting to
that action, which is a fake fly sweep, and then
the readoption is well, we better like take care of
what's gonna most afflict us, which is the past and
all of a sudden, the boom there's huge gaps you know,
to in the running game or boom, he keeps the
ball and runs it for that touchdown. And it's just
all complimentary in terms of how it fits and there's
layers to it. It's just it's really it's a beautiful
thing to watch because you could you can sense it.
The announcers even mentioned in the game that TC was
just constantly on their heels their defense. They had no
read whatsoever on our offense as to what we are
going to do. And everything we did in terms of
fakes that were was influential to the defense. They were
biting them because it was hurting them and so yeah,
that was one of the like to me, it was
a masterclass of coordinating by Roderick and his staff. It
was impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's fun to watch by you finally
get a little style points in their corner. I know,
Kalaniy said post game, he doesn't he's not much for
style points. He's too classy for style points. He doesn't
want to you know, maybe stomp on a throat. Uh,
you know, he wants to keep it classy. But man,
this day and age, it seems like you need some
style points, especially as they they heavily weight these algorithms
and scoring margins and wins UH in a a convincing fashion.
Look at how popular Utah is from the committee side
of things, because they're winning it at UH at an
astronomical rate, in an astronomical margin each and every single game.
Do stop points matter this.
Speaker 2: Day and age? No, they don't matter. I think it's
just this. You gotta remember, the whole ranking system is
a really good way to make money to keep people entertained.
And ultimately they're gonna they're gonna very heavy towards Big
ten or to Day and the SEC.
Speaker 3: We all know that.
Speaker 2: Why, because there's money. It's a money grab, right, The
more viewers you get per game, the more money each
station gets. The committee knows that, and so what they're
doing is they always want to change the goal post.
So now what we've done is we've been convinced by them.
Oh you know, uh. I think they call it like
game control is a big factor for them, and like
you're talking about style points, how much you went by
and they may be even rewarding some teams based off
of that, But it's really not about that. Uh, then
they're all the and say, well it's about straight to schedule,
you know, like who have you beat? Okay? You know,
then then they'll they'll maybe rewards some teams from now,
but like I said, really, when it comes down to it,
they're gonna always favor the teams that are gonna draw
the biggest crowd. And the system set up to where
like twenty says that I've always said this, it's got
to just win your games. You know, you got to
play this out on the field, and it's not done
by style points. This is just go win your games.
Like right now, this is the chance you go show
what you're made of against Cincinnati. This is a quarterfinals game.
It's gonna get you into the conference championship game. Win
the game, You win the game, you're in the conference
championship game. Now you've got a chance to go win
the conference and then at that point you're gonna be
in the play You know, you're in the playoffs, you're
in the tournament. Anything can happen in any tournament. If
anybody's ever been in tournaments, they are surprising. I mean,
you saw the Uyu soccer almost lose to I don't
know if you guys got the women's socker. I just
was watching it because my daughter was doing the plot reporting.
But man, they almost lost Utah State and Utah State
during the regular season got destroyed bur By and b Right, girls,
it's the same thing, So just get into the tonament.
I think his mentality is, Hey, we just got to
get into the championship, but I don't care how we
do it, and that will be what ultimately is going
to determine our destiny versus all these stout points and
should we run the score and do like who cares
go win? And that's why this system is really good
right now because the ultimate thing that you're gonna get
rewarded with and this system is if you win, question
to be when your conference. So I think the focus
is in the right place and hopefully it continues to
be in that place. They go to Cincinnata. This way
you can face a heck of an opponent on the road.
It's gonna be a really you know, hostile environment, and
everybody knows what's at stake. It's a quarterfinals game for
the conference championship game.
Speaker 3: Brady, what do you feel is like the true ranking
of BYU football this year. You know ball, You've seen
a lot of football, and so I want to get
your persuaded. I was chatting with Hank Bachmeyer about this,
and he's like, do you think that BYU is a
top five team? I'm like, I don't know if I'm
convincing their top five team yet, but I feel like
they're in that six to fifteen area where they can
beat and compete with just about anybody in the country.
How do you see it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm saying, well, I mean I'm not a
big rankings guy, just because, like I said, the system
set up now where we can play everything out. You
know you can because you can because all these rankings
are always trying to use like, you know, similar opponents
head to head matchups, which like, let's think about it,
if Texas Tech had to come to b y U
play a night game, there's a very good chance that
in provo colder weather. You know, it's just not gonna
it's not the same as on their own turf in
the morning game day at home. This is huge parad
I mean, you know, that's just and it's it's like
you can't you can't sit there and say like well,
he that makes the you know, that's stuff so much
better than you what you can't say that. And that's
why these championship games are all played in neutral site fields.
And that's why it's like everybody, you have the regular
season and then you go to the postseason. You know,
I've seen it in the NFL. I mean, I've seen
this so many times with the Giants, you know, in
two thousand and seven when they went on to win
the Super Bowl, we played them in Week four and
in New York, by the way, and we beat them
so bad that we basically were like the game was
over middle of the third quarter, and they ended up winning.
They coming to Lampo, by the way, and the NFC
Championship game, beating us and going on to win the
Super Bowl against the Patriots. So it's like, teams change,
circumstances changed, and so I don't know why we always
are trying to search for these standards of how to
like determine where these teams are ranked without actually just
letting them vote determine that on the field. And that's
what this new system is, you know about let's let
let's let the field to play like when they actually
go play each other in these tournaments. Let's let let
that determine where everybody's ranked. And so based off of that,
I'm not afraid of anybody. I don't care who we play.
I think we have the talent and when we execute
the right way and we play the right way, we
can beat anybody. Anybody, you can put that down. But
so we have the talent, that's my whole point. We
have the talent to beat anybody. It comes down to that.
At the next level is the execution like we saw it,
where see Texas Deck had the same amount of talent
as we have the same as they do. Turns down execution,
and that's how it's gonna be when you play teams
like this weekend since that year. You know, hopefully if
we get the chance to play Texas Deck again, or
hopefully if we get in the tournament, that's what it
comes down to. You gotta be able to execute. And
that's a differentiator. Because we got guys, ladies and gentleman
b Yu has guys, we have the most talent we've
ever had a BYU and we can beat anybody.
Speaker 3: I promise you, how much better will the talent get
over the next few years, Brady, do you see an
elevated talent coming to b YU outside of what is
already there?
Speaker 2: Well, look at our young guys. I mean, you got
hunk play, You're getting action, doing some good things on
a couple of good pressures. You got taw c Lee,
you got a new seat. Just three guys right off
the top of my head. Studs. They're only gonna get better.
And we got guys and Bedell you we got guys
that have that are being redshirted right now, but I
think could be contributors immediately. But I'm assuming I don't
have inside information on this, but I'm assuming that you know,
coaches want to keep them around and they have them
red shirting and they're gonna get better. I mean, everybody
is only I mean, dude, I turned off the Houston
versus US last year's game, the last home game of
the year. KT wasn't even a starter last year and
now he's one of the most dominant defensive linement in
the Big twelve. That's only in like a matter of
like six eight months he developed into that kind of player.
There's gonna be more guys like that, and our studs
right now, they're only going to get better. Bear, Are
you kidding me? There is getting better every single week.
That dude has a chance to be an all time
great Kylever quarterback at YU, which obviously that's saying something.
So just by the not even including an injection of
new talent, just by who we are already have there
and anticipating them continually to develop and and to improve
their game, they're going to be phenomenal. By is recruited
well Ryder Lions, the stud is going to becoming I mean,
this is only going to get more and more and
more impressive as this continued. This is just the beginning.
That's my whole point. This is going to become the
new norm. And there are people that want to come
to YU and they like and I'm talking about guys
that would never when when we were in the you know,
G five kind of rankings and didn't have, you know,
the ability to pay players. You know, these guys would
have gone elsewhere. Now they're coming to us, and so
it's it's going to be a completely different animal, which
is good. So I wouldn't just be getting used to this,
and that makes it to where work can be legitimate
contenders year in the year out as long as we,
like I said, learn how to execute really high packed
are excuse me, high pressure pack situations where we're going
to be fined.
Speaker 3: I want to get philosophical for you with you here
for a secon because I know I can delve into
this particular topic with you. There's this, uh, there's this
growing movement of maybe individuals that are not b A
fans or even UH anti LDS, but you know some
are LDS and they're just anti b YU. They they
kind of feel like, hey, there's a there's a there's
like a rift and they they between b YU and
the LDS standards and actually paying student athletes, right athletes,
students for representing a university's athletic department, football, basketball, whatever
it may be. They feel like there's an immorality to it.
They shouldn't do this. You shouldn't pay for play essentially,
UH for representation, right, That's how they feel. They feel
like BYU Athletics isn't a missionary too. There's a lot
of negative propaganda that comes out from it. The Jake
retz Love situation they'll bring up. They'll bring up the
most recent d d uy of the men's basketball team, right, Like,
this isn't positive publicity, there's negative things. This is an
ambassador tool, it's not a missionary tool. When you hear that,
like what's your your reaction and why? You know, the
way the form and fashion that the athletic department is
operating trying to bring in the best talent that wants
to align with BYU is the right thing and is
a moral thing as well.
Speaker 2: Well. Morality, I mean, what are we talking about here?
Like is it imral to make money and to capitalize
on your market value? You know, I think that's obviously
not in question. There's nothing im moral with that. If anything,
it's it's the right thing to do, because you're contributing
something to society and to a market system that is valued,
and if you're not compensated according to that value, you
will not be in a position to continue to provide
such services or value. So morality wise, yeah, I mean
you're going to want to pay your talent, your workers, service,
whatever it is products according to the value it brings.
And and in sports the value comes to basically like
how a market system determines the amount of skill that
specific player brings to a team, you know, And that's
that's very fair. I mean, and then when you're talking
about the mission of BYU, I mean it's being accomplished.
I mean, we had a heck of a showing on
Saturday where we are on Fox eleven with our basketball
team that showed that they are also capable of, you know,
winning a national championship, which I don't know if we've
ever said that buy you outside of just being a
scrappy team that Mayson Price and teams, this this team's legit.
You know that that fits to the mission of the university.
I think more close to than when we're just putting
a bunch of guys out there they're scrappers rather their
best and not paying them. The same goes for football.
So I think at the end of the day, I
do believe that the church is seeing that's why we're
really leaning into this and having fun with this, the
value behind the mission of the university and the payment
of players and athletes. That they're allied together and they're
they're they're they're catalyzing each other to do the very
thing that events do, which is bringing the best players
that align with the mission of the university, and then
it helps us become more visible, which that's what the
church wants. And I don't think we've ever been more visible.
I mean, we had Jalen Rose talking about b YU
basketball on a national basketball talk show on Saturday, and
I don't think he's ever made I don't know. It
was kind of weird for me to hear they do
come out of this battle, you know what I mean?
Like this is this is new territory. We are as
sending it to new space, which is great and uh
and having to pay players, which look, the university's making
money too, churches making money, so this too is not
like you're paying them and it's just like a donation
to somebody coming and participating in a in a colleague
and athletic sport. No, you're paying them and they're they're
giving you in return something of a head way more
value than just the actual money you spend on that.
So a heck of an investment if you really look
at the.
Speaker 3: Love the comment, it's Brady always love delving into this
stuff with you. Let's get you on again later on
this week to discuss Cincinnati so we can break it
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Speaker 2: Awesome man, Always a pleasure, buddy. All right, especially all
right man.
Speaker 3: We'll chat with you again soon. Thanks so much, Brady, popinga.
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