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Jared Bledshoe on the line in studio. What's up, Jared?
How are you good?
Speaker 2: Ben? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Great to have you. I'm just kind of I'm just
gonna adjust your mic there.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So let's start off with this real quick.
Speaker 5: We were discussing earlier in the show who the best
offense coordinator is in BYU football history. I've been putting
it out to like coaches, former coaches, former players, media members, uh,
individuals that are just huge BYU fans as well, try
to get and there hasn't been a general consensus yet.
I get a lot of people that say, like Doug Skolville,
Norm Chow, you know, those kind of are probably the
two lead dogs right now in the fight. But I
don't know if there's a general consensus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I we were kind of chatting a little
bit before. I think Norm Chow is who I look
at until I grew up with as well. I think
I think that a lot of us kind of are
are going to be a little more prone to to
who we grew up watching and and you know Kolani
and a Rod both played for Norm. You know, I
one of the things that I was mentioning that I
felt like that that Norm Chow brought to the table
that was really intriguing is that he was able to
build an offense based on personnel.
Speaker 2: And when I say that.
Speaker 4: I mean we you could have three five ft ten
and seventy five pound wide receivers that round the four six,
four seven forty but good routes, and he could build
an offense that could be successful around the strengths of
the guys that he had.
Speaker 2: And I saw him do it with Ronnie Jenkins.
Speaker 4: You know, he was able to use Ronnie and his
strengths where he may not have done that before. You know,
I don't think we ever had the best athletes. I
think we had really good coaching and I think that's
what Norm chowd did a really good job at and
in fact, talking more than RM chow went when after
he left BYU at deen See State and then to
USC so I had, you know, having played for coach
Chow and and uh in the summer was when I
was back in California, I would throw with Carson Palmer.
Speaker 2: So Carson was going to be a senior at Santa Margarita.
Speaker 4: High School, and uh so we'd get to go and
throw and and that dude was throwing fifty sixty yard
bombs on a line. And when I said that means
that means I had to jump, stretch my hands out
and pull the ball out of the air and pull
it down.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even believe it. Dude, I was. I would
go up to my coaches and said, how do I
play for this guy? You know? Yeah, I want to
catch his balls.
Speaker 4: So when he went, when Chow was heading to SC
and Carson Palmer was there and the whole group that
they had there, it was like I knew right away,
And in fact I was I remember telling people down
in Orange County, like Norm Chow is going to change
USC offense simply because they had. Now he's got the
athletes he never had at BYU. Now he's got the
four to three, four to two forty guys, the side
to side speed that is just unreal, and a quarterback
that has an arm unlike anything I'd ever thrown with.
I threw a Steve Young before, Carson Palmer had an
armed like so just knowing what child could bring the
table in the amount of athletic ability he now had
within his grasp.
Speaker 2: I knew they were going to be successful.
Speaker 5: He came in with Pete Carroll. So Pete Carroll's the
guy that hired him. The first season and O one,
they went six and six. The next year they went
eleven and two with a win in the Orange Bowl.
Then they went twelve and one with a Rose Bowl
win in two thousand and three, and they're listed is
you know national champions that that season? And then two
thousand and four thirteen and oh were they were thirteen
and oh that was the national championship season as well, so.
Speaker 4: You know another and then yeah, another interesting point about
coach Charlis is uh I didn't feel like when he
became a head coach. I thought that was a mistake.
I didn't feel like he he brought to the table,
at least for me. I mean, maybe Kevin Frederick or
a couple of the other guys that used to hang
out in coach Chile's office, Yeah, feel a little bit different,
but the majority of us didn't feel like. Well, I'll
speak for myself. I didn't feel like when he became
a head coach. That was going to be a good
role for him because being on the back end and
the coordinator side of it, he was not a label
Edwards or a Kolonie Sataki. He had a whole different
kind of vibe. So and personabout uh, I'll give it
to him. And I ran into a player at SC
when when he was there, and I was like, oh man,
how's coachwi? You know, I was real curious about how
he goes. Oh man, we hang out in his office
every day. It's like he's the best. I was like,
what the hell is this.
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 4: I mean almost any player that well other than Ken
Frederick and Ronnie Jacobs babies. I love you guys, but man,
you didn't really want to go hang out in coach
Chow's office. You didn't want to get called in. You
didn't so to hear that the whole. So I think
as he he developed after BYU was a good.
Speaker 3: Change for him to you let your hair down on
two well.
Speaker 4: And so so for me to compare, like Aron, right,
if we're gonna continue in down that, I think they're
they're two of the best for different reasons. A Rod's
definitely had a more difficult schedule to face. Uh, he's
done some things that are incredible.
Speaker 2: As he's a quarterbacks coach too. Right, So Norm Chow
had Robbie Bosco.
Speaker 4: He was our quarterback coach when I was a b YU,
So more roles maybe for Aaron. I mean, coach Chaw
worked with us as receivers quite a bit more. But yeah,
a Rod's developing guys. So it would be interesting to
see what what if a Rod ever was to go
to another job and see if he elevates, you know,
because I felt like Coach Chow elevated each time he
moved up until he became a head coach, and then
it was maybe I should stay.
Speaker 5: You almost wonder you know what would have happened in
b YU football history had Norm become the head coach
of b YU in his play calling prime, right, like
if Lavelle, you know, if you would have said, hey,
you know what I mean, like, yeah, and you're going
to be a head coach.
Speaker 2: No, I.
Speaker 3: Know he was never gonna be, but like what would
it have been like? Yeah, what it would have been like?
Because he left? Right? He left because he wasn't going
to be the head coach.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I couldn't see him standing up in front of the
team and given us a heartfelt like congratulatory speech or
or or just ended up encouraging us from the bottom
of his heart. It's that's I just couldn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. No, no, it's different. Just that.
Speaker 4: That's why I didn't feel like he was going to
be a great head coach when he became that, you know,
and should have put a couchy bed on that one.
Speaker 2: But uh, it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Win it, sure, sure, sure, But in the end, I
felt like his skill as a coordinator was one hundred
percent on point and and that's why I would put
him as my at this point, all time greatest.
Speaker 4: With Aaron Roddick, I would put as a close second,
but still with more to prove.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's transition biggest concern and what's your most optimistic
about heading out to Orlando to face the Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets right now?
Speaker 2: So I've been watching some film Georgia Tech. That really good.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 4: So you watch the highlights in some of the parts
of the game against Georgia right and what I like
to do is can get Georgia was fourth in the nation.
We played the fifth in the nation, Texas Tech team.
Who's more competitive? We weren't. Georgia Tech was definitely more competitive.
It came down to a helm Mary at the very
end of the game. They had opportunities to win that game.
We did not have opportunities to win it. Once we
got past that three minutes in the third quarter, it
was gone. So much more competitive game, and so it's
going to be a real test for our defense for
a coach, for Jay and for the defensive staff to
put together a game plan to stop these guys.
Speaker 2: They're very good. But then you go back and you
watch their game against Pitt.
Speaker 4: And you're like, who tail the two teams and two
games back to back, right? I mean they were down
twenty eight zero in the first half, you know. Now
they came back twenty twenty fourteen I believe at halftime
and ended up losing that game. But they did not
look so they played up to the hype for the
Georgia game. Now it was a granted we got a
rivalry game, you know, so I would expect the same
thing out of us if we were against Utah in
a similar circumstance.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think that they're very good, and.
Speaker 4: Their ranking is because of the end of the season,
not because of how they started. The only other comparable game,
right is Colorado, and both of us played them in
the very beginning of the yearn I think that it
was still a feeling out process for both teams to
get to know their uh what what their strengths.
Speaker 2: Were and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And and so they beat they beat Colorado by seven, right,
and uh but yeah, I think that we're both completely
different teams than when we both played Colorado.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a fun game, but it's it's
a statement game again. You know.
Speaker 4: Last year it was against Colorado, we had that same
feeling like we we need to come out and and
not just win, but really put these guys away. And
and they did that, and that that springboarded what I
feel like this the season. It started right after the
end of that game. And so my expectations we do
the same thing and.
Speaker 2: And maybe we pull in that linebacker out of Texas jumping.
Speaker 4: Jack Kelly's spot. Yeah, I mean, there's so there's a
lot a lot of opportunity and and but let's let's
see what we can do, and we we got to
play hard and and it's not going to be it's.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be an easy game by any means.
Speaker 4: It sounds like Georgia Tech is all in and everybody's
playing and so far we as far as I've heard
by us as well, this.
Speaker 3: Is a good Georgia Tech team, Like there's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 5: And so last it's it's akin to what you experienced
last year in the alim with with Colorado and getting
a win versus a top twenty five team.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's a little bit even last year. Maybe
is a little bit more.
Speaker 5: Powerful because of Shador and Travis and yeah, yeah, but
but it's still a quick I think there's some equivalent
set there.
Speaker 3: So how does that play?
Speaker 5: I think that win, I think that win really mattered
to Cougarnation because, b what, you had lost two games
at the end of the season, and so if you
lost to call out on the Alimble Bowl, then that
b way you fans would have been a little bit disheartened,
disillusion with the season even though you won. Even though
you won games have a quadrupling of people calling yea, yeah, yeah,
I mean the whole no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But but I think that we're in a great spot.
Speaker 5: With how how impactful is that then at the end
of how for all these Bowl games right too, like
the fan donor well being of the future, right like
going into the offseason, even that even the team as
a whole, their well being, their mindset, you know, their motivation.
Speaker 4: I think the top twenty five Bowl games mean something.
I think that the fan bases see it as a
big game and opportunity. Ye watch the Boise State Okay,
what were they like eight thousand fans there?
Speaker 2: I mean it was almost embarrassed.
Speaker 4: I felt bad for the players that they're put in
that situation, the big, beautiful stadium and no fans, you know.
Speaker 2: So I guess that's the end of that Bowl anyways
this year.
Speaker 4: But uh, I think for the teams that are the
top twenty five games, they're competitive games. You have two
teams that feel like they probably should have had a
better year, even though they both had really good seasons.
They feel like they should have, you know, surpassed one
more step and and so I think it'll be fun.
Speaker 2: It'll be a good game for BYU to to come out.
Speaker 4: And and show, hey, we can still dominate, and I
expect him to go out and dominate. This needs to
be another statement going into the off season where these
these guys can come out and work hard, uh and
get ready for next year. But I think it's gonna
be a great showcase for the seniors and I'm as
happy they all get an opportunity to play one more game.
Speaker 3: Opt outs? Do you think there's gonna be opt outs?
Speaker 5: Where do you think? Where do you you predict opt outs?
L J was a little bit coy with us. Wasn't
over to the declarative about playing in the game.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, if you're not declaring for the draft,
it's a mistake not to play, in my opinion, right
if you're declaring for the draft, and you know that
now without without putting everything out there, I don't think
decisions are made right now. I think they typically are
made in January and going into February, and you go
into your your pro days and you really see.
Speaker 2: How you show out and and see.
Speaker 4: Who's had interest to you, where you think you might
go in the mock draft, and and so sitting out
right now doesn't feel right to me. For players that
are juniors that are questionable and guess what, what better
opportunity if you are going to go out.
Speaker 2: To go have a statement game right now?
Speaker 4: Because because if you're a junior, you're not playing the
Senior Bowl and you're not playing in any of.
Speaker 2: Those extracurricular deals. So this is it.
Speaker 4: You know, you have an opportunity to go in and
put a statement on a good team, go rush for
one hundred and forty yards, you know, really really put
your stock up in the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's you're planning. But if you're planning on coming back,
you should be playing on hundred percent.
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