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Speaker 3: Brother. Look, man, I don't know where to start.
Speaker 2: Just I guess I'll start your takeaways and thoughts on
the BYU Texas Tech game from over the weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, so we we actually were out at the game.
We went out and caught some waves in Waco at
the Waypool and then swung six hours across the state
to Lubbock. And I'll tell you what. My brother and
I were decked out in our blue and we were
out to see what the fan base had the dish
to us. And surprisingly enough, and I think it had
a lot to do with the GoFundMe h for the
barber of Texas Tech football team, but real gracious fans,
we thought it was hate week and it was not
hate week. We walked through every tailgating piece that morning
trying to just seeing if anybody wanted to have a
chat with us, and you know what nobody did. It
was it was real peaceful. The stadium is beautiful. I
related to a little bit to the Colorado Stadium, how
it just really really cool atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know it, Uh getting down to the business
of the game, you know it.
Speaker 5: A couple of the things that I don't think people
could really tell on TV was the way that the
weather was affecting the game. So you had if you
looked at the flags at the top of the stadium,
they were blowing horizontal.
Speaker 4: You had a heavy, heavy wind blowing.
Speaker 5: So for example, when when Parker Kingston went to take
that punt, the wind at the top of the stadium
was blowing towards him. But because it's a bowl and
you have a big building at the end of that stadium,
as the wind would hit that, it would circulate back
through and kind of swirl through the stadium. So from
my perspective and the way that wind was going, you know,
as that ball was coming down, it was going multiple
different directions, very difficult ball to field, and it looked
like last second the wind blew it forward where he
had to reach out to try to get it.
Speaker 4: As a punt.
Speaker 5: Returner in that moment, when you reach forward and you're
looking straight ahead at that point, now you're actually seeing
the guys who are coming right at you at the
same time, it makes for a real difficult catch. I
think Parker should have made the catch obviously, and that
would have would have put us in at better spot.
But there, man, there was just so many opportunities missed
through the game. I didn't feel like Texas Tech was
stomping on us. I just didn't you as much. Everybody said,
we didn't feel like we were in the game.
Speaker 4: I did. I know.
Speaker 5: You know, we just heard a lot of people talking
about it that they weren't in the half. We weren't
in at halftime going into the like we were in
the game and and there wasn't even especially when when
when Raider broke up that pass at the end and
of the first half, you really felt like we've.
Speaker 4: Got a shot.
Speaker 5: We knowing they had to come out and get a
stop right away as well. But yeah, I mean if
you you pack in four or five different plays in
that game, which would be the punt return, I felt
the shank punt, you know, and as a former punter
in junior college, everyone has one every year that goes
right off the side of the foot and you're just like, gosh,
I hope it's more than twenty yards, you know. And
so he had that, and then you had multiple drops,
you know, Chase on his deep ball.
Speaker 4: You know. The first thing I thought when when he
missed that was.
Speaker 5: Like, big players have to make big plays in big games,
and you know, he just just just missed that one.
The Jojo Phillips across the middle drop. I was happy
that that. Right after that play, Aaron Rodgers gave him
a nice easy catch to get him back in the
field of the game, and then the almost pick that
turned into a huge gainer on that ninety two yard
drive with Texas Tech where it looked like I was
sitting with Evans parents in the stands, and you know it,
it looked like from our perspective and we were wrapped
in the top corner, but it was right coming right
into his hands, and that wide receiver just made a
play on the ball and it changed a lot.
Speaker 2: Did the wind moved the ball at all? Because a
lot of people said all of the wind blew it
to him. Did that happen or was it just he
just made the play.
Speaker 4: I think he just made the play. I have.
Speaker 5: I haven't gone Usually I go back after watching a
game in person and go back and watch the game
because you miss a lot, you know.
Speaker 4: And I haven't done that yet, But.
Speaker 5: I will say the wind when you have a bowl
stadium like that where there's no exits for the wind
to get out once it gets hits, and then you
have these the big buildings that build up their press
box on one side and then that they're athletic building
on one end zone. As that wind gets in, it
just swirls all through the inside of the field. So
even though you know the wind is say north to
south or whatever direction it's blowing on the field, it's not.
It's all over the place, you know, So it wouldn't
surprise me at that. I feel like, you know, Evan
saw that ball coming straight into his hands and which
just had you know, hands up to make the play.
You see receivers do it all the time where there
it's like, here comes the ball and then the dB
makes a play on the ball and picks it and
they're just you know, falling down without without the ball.
And I think that's kind of what happened, because he
was making you know, playing the ball and felt like
you had to pick the guy had an opportunity.
Speaker 4: To break a big, big run after the catch. But
you know, our defense played great.
Speaker 5: I feel like personally for being there and that this
is the first time that that a defense hasn't made
Bear look like a freshman.
Speaker 4: And now I think they.
Speaker 5: Hit Bear hard that first hit he took when he
should have put his shoulder down and ran the guy over,
but decided to make the oddest leap I've ever seen
in football.
Speaker 3: But that don't jump over that guy, Well.
Speaker 5: You think guy wasn't even going low, you know, and
so he caught him in the air and it was
like a pile driver from about five feet in the air,
straight down with all of his weight on Bear. And
you could tell that hurt. And that was right in
the beginning of the game. But there were three or
four other hits that he took where he laid face
down for a second and then you know how you
know we are in football, you scramble your feet as
fas as you can.
Speaker 4: He was, he was feeling it.
Speaker 5: So a lot of things to fix, a lot of
things to work on. I think, you know, having watched
Texas Tech the week before, I saw quarterback running all
over their defense, so I was confident in our ability.
But we some of the things I think Bear was
was struggling. He was he was spending more time in
the pocket than usually he does. Usually he'll look one,
two and then he'll scramble and run. He seemed to
be scrambling a little bit more than normal, trying to find.
Speaker 4: That extra receiver.
Speaker 5: And from my perspective on a lot of his throats
that seemed like he was his eyes were on his
number one target from the snap almost and and then
through to that guy, you know, so made it easy
for the defense to make plays on the ball. I
do think that we have we're going to have a
good bounce back week. That the team's confident, and I
think we have still such an opportunity ahead of us.
There's there's nothing we can't achieve that we couldn't have
achieved last week, you know.
Speaker 4: And so I look forward to this game TCUs.
Speaker 5: We got to make a statement and we've we've got
to be ready to play. TCU is coming into a
cold environment and it's a really late game for them.
It's absolute one am game for those guys, and and
that's that should be in our favor, and playing at
home will be in our favor.
Speaker 4: But you know, we we It's kind of funny.
Speaker 5: We talked to a couple of fans as we were
leaving and and you know, a couple of trying to
hackle a little bit, and I the only thing I
said was, you know what.
Speaker 4: Our loss is to you? Your loss is to a
su so facts not a whole lot.
Speaker 5: They could say back to that one, you know, but uh,
but let's see how it all plays out. I'm excited
to see where it goes and it was definitely.
Speaker 4: A lot of fun. I ate a lot of a
lot of brisket while we were out there, and uh
brisk a lot of driving across the state of Texas too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were moving probably mileedge that you put on
those those wheels, got those caf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a brand well, we got a brand
new rental car.
Speaker 5: We took that thing from from Dallas to Waco, from
Waco to Lebick and then Lebick back to Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, Yeah we.
Speaker 4: Got we got a little bit of the whole state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely got a little bit of the whole state.
Love that you were down there in Texas. We got
Jared lets a former b y UI receiver on the line. Here,
last couple of things Jared, before they let you go,
what do you feel like offensively?
Speaker 3: Should they have gone up Temple the whole game?
Speaker 2: Because they go up tempo, they score that touchdown, and
then I started thinking, well, maybe you should have ditched
the game plan or just done that from jump and
just put Texas Tech in that type of you know,
they can't rest, they can't substitute. You go just up
tempo fast. You know exactly what you're doing two minute
drill the whole time. Should they have done more of
that in the game, because when they did that, they
were able to move the ball actually pretty well.
Speaker 5: Maybe, I mean, maybe that would be something I know
that that being that Bears refreshman at giving him his
time to think and giving a Rod a little bit
more time to make play calls with him.
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of been why we've huddled so much.
Speaker 5: Also, that drive, I feel like they were they weren't
playing the same defense that they are playing us. They
weren't definitely not playing as aggressive, and they were kind
of sitting back a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Not that they wanted us to score by any means.
I'm sure they.
Speaker 5: Wanted to shut out, but it felt like they were
playing often and just not quite as aggressive at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, you mentioned tc Let's move
it on. So now the matchup here. Look this, they
got a good run defense, Jared, but TCU they can
be had in there. I've seen Colorado was able to
throw on There's a lot of teams that can throw.
Could you see a three hundred plus your performance through
the air from Bear. Look you let you just said
it they're gonna make a statement. I think they might
beat TCU by two three scores. I don't want to
get hyperbolic, but I think they're gonna make a statement
to be angry on Saturday night.
Speaker 5: Well, I agree, and I think we're at the point
in the and I hear a lot of people talking
about it where we need some statement wins. It's no
more twenty four to twenty seven wins. We need to
get up and show that we can put people away.
And that's just the state of NCAA football and playoffs
and and that you got twelve guys making decisions for
I believe it's twelve for for all the teams uh
on on the committee, and so it's important now to
to kind of step in and play hard to CC
is not a team we can just walk over. You know,
they got a great passing offense. They there's there's a
lot there for us to play. And I feel like
although there weren't any major injuries coming out of the
Texas Tech game, which is great, there's there's a lot
of real sore guys because that was a hard hitting,
very physical football team that we oh yeah no, and
and you know they they paid a pretty penny for it.
So uh but but you know, looking forward to this week,
it's gonna be a lot of fun. I expect this
to come out. And you know, the big thing for
me was, you know, everything in these games momentum.
Speaker 4: You know, where where where is our momentum?
Speaker 5: And in Texas Tech game, I don't think we had
a period where where we, as as the fans and
and you know, sitting with all the players families, felt
like we had momentum other than the couple of stops
where we really shut them down, but then the offense
never got going, you know. So it was like the
beginning of momentum and then it shifted straight back. And
so if we need to capture the momentum in the
beginning of this game with TCU and just drive straight
through it, that that's going to make a big difference.
If we start giving momentum to TCU or even any
of our future opponents, that that's where we start to
get in a really bad spot. Our offense needs the
momentum from the defense, and then we've got to capitalize
when our defense makes those stops and stands. We've we've
got to come out on top and get points on
the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely need the points on the board. You think
of what would happen if Evan Johnson gets that picker.
I know, the game is might have been out of hand.
But if Trey gets down when there's just a couple
of moments where don't ye exactly you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't know what one of those plays different. And
even if Parker just would have fielded that that.
Speaker 3: Punt and it doesn't turn me an.
Speaker 5: Incredible stop you know, on that on their first drive,
and the crowd was a little bit iffy at that point,
you know, because we just shut down their offense and
had he just made and fielded that ball, and we
got a few plays rolling with the with the offense,
and it just felt like we were always in a
what can we do?
Speaker 4: What? What is even available for us? On offense?
Speaker 5: You know, a rod he gets into a rhythm as
he starts and drives. When we have three and out,
three and out, it doesn't allow him to get into
that rhythm and play calling he is a very I
don't know the right term, rhythmatic play color you know.
Speaker 3: Rhythmatic. Yeah, well I make words all that the time, right,
that's a word.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so, but you know what I mean, Like
he as he starts making calls and the plays and
the drive is longer, it just seems like that play
fed off the next play to the next play, and.
Speaker 4: He's on a roll.
Speaker 5: And when he's on a roll, it's I feel like
the offense is not is really unstoppable.
Speaker 4: So we just never had those opportunities.
Speaker 5: I we we as as a fan base in the crowd,
it was, man, we just felt so uneventful and we
couldn't get excited, you know.
Speaker 4: We we we needed a drive to.
Speaker 5: Get excited about him or a play or two, and
we just couldn't get it on offense.
Speaker 4: And uh but man, every team had.
Speaker 5: You look at there's what three undefeated teams left in
the country right on. Almost everybody has taken a loss
this year, and some of them worse than others. Our
loss is to a top ten team, right Our.
Speaker 4: Loss is a good loss. Yeah, I mean, I hate
that term, to be honest, with a good lass.
Speaker 3: You told me that every single time.
Speaker 4: I said.
Speaker 5: But but in the end, though we didn't lose to
an unraked team with a losing record, we lost to
a top ten team. So it will be interesting to
see where they go tonight with the rankings, we'll see
where the respect level lies. You know, we we lost
to a very good Texas Tech team, who I hope
we get another chance at in the Big twelve championship game.
Speaker 3: You take care of business, you definitely will.
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