Speaker 1: Well this year.
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Aaron rodercks sound your offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He's
going to be delving into all the nicks and crannies,
all the things that you Cougarnation, you fans and the
media want to know about. So we'll read between the
lines here, But I want to welcome into the show
the five foot eleven, two hundred pound middle linebacker for
this esp and the fan team, we got the gurthy
Gern Brandon c. Gurney, the G Man, always filling the
A gap. He is an A gap filler, G man,
How are you b way?
Speaker 4: He's gonna be filling some A gap this year, just like.
Speaker 1: The G Man does.
Speaker 5: And I'm kind of it's kind of ironic that you
touched out talking about.
Speaker 4: The A gap in middle ye backer because I was
thinking about this.
Speaker 5: I've been thinking thoughts like I I love it when
I do when I come over here, middlebacker is a
fascinating position, dude, Like you can just look at al Sair.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 4: Start last year, did a great job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 4: Four star, Yeah, four star time fine, still developing.
Speaker 3: Town kid first play of his career picked off a pass.
Speaker 4: But no, what do they do? Everyone knows mak Labe.
He's coming in.
Speaker 5: He looks fantastic, talks like new Tanabasa experience.
Speaker 4: He's going to play. He's going to play a lot.
Speaker 5: But then the guy that they cannot stop talking about
is Jake Cliff. Jake Clifton is a guy I've heard
too much Kridle. Coaches can only bring up a player
without being prompted so many times to where I'm just.
Speaker 4: Like, he's playing.
Speaker 1: He's a dude.
Speaker 5: So I think the exciting thing you're seeing with this
defense is basically everyone's back except John Tommoypeo and Jake
Jack Kelly, both really really good players, right, especially Jack Kelly.
But that's it, right, I mean Worry Bamba, yeah, that
you got to replace him as well. And Tanner Wall obvious. Yeah,
you don't want to forget about Tanner. That's a big one,
very big one.
Speaker 4: But still that's just four guys, right. So the normal
b WAU teams like bad, they're stocked. Get guys up.
Speaker 5: What you're seeing this year, maybe more so than any
other year I've covered this program, is the influx of
talent where b Way he's just not settling for what's
on the roster, which would be really good. B Way,
you would be fine, just same roster basically go, but
no Katu Lawabe, Jake Clifton, Uh, I forgot good things
about the new cornerback from Mississippi State. Get a lot
of reps out there. It could be Javon Williams. Am
I saying that, and and I think it's really really exciting.
And then Kelly popping in a podcast just drops Braxton
Lindsey looking really good oh, I forgot about him. Oh yeah,
he's here in spring hearing good things about Ken and
Poula playing free safety. It's gonna be hard to break
that safety rotation though. Anyway, it's going to be a really,
really fascinating defense to watch. There's gonna be a lot
of variables. I think they can do a lot of things.
And I'm not saying a weak spot.
Speaker 4: I'm really not.
Speaker 5: And and and yesterday I had in mind I wanted
to interview either schmeb Or or Raider to Mooney. But
I made the mistake. If you requests with the baus idea,
if you put or.
Speaker 4: They'll just give you one of them. A up bull. Right,
But how good was Evan Johnson last year?
Speaker 5: And to think he's coming back, And I'm I've known
for a very long time. If you have one corner
that can just shut that thing down.
Speaker 4: It's big.
Speaker 1: It's a big time.
Speaker 4: It is big.
Speaker 5: Evan Johnson was just about there last year. You could
argue he was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's lockdown.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be worse.
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be better.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: Healthy, right, got to stay healthy.
Speaker 4: Anyway, The potential of this defense is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some A Rod commentary, shall we.
Speaker 4: Let's go?
Speaker 3: All right, Aaron Roderick sound from b why you football practice?
Getting into the offense and what he's seeing from the offense.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it. How did the scrimmage go on Saturday?
Rot good.
Speaker 6: I don't know if i'd call it a scrimmage.
Speaker 7: It was like we did a lot of team you know,
eleven eleven stuff in the.
Speaker 6: Stadium, but we didn't there wasn't any tackling.
Speaker 7: It was, you know, tag off worked a lot of
situations and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't call the days of full.
Speaker 7: Scrimmage are kind of going by the wayside, unfortunately, But yeah,
it was. We got a lot of good work done
and a lot of work out here today too.
Speaker 3: So surprising to you that there was no tackling in springball.
Speaker 4: Not really.
Speaker 5: I think when you have a team as set as
be where you is, where the roster, there's not a
lot of unknowns. I think you saved the bodies. I
think that's the first time I've had that thought. But
you asking that question, Yeah, that makes sense, cause when
you throw about from the scrimmage like, okay, you got
a previewrself, I got to see what you got.
Speaker 4: I think coaches have a better sense with what.
Speaker 5: They have with with this team, maybe more so than
any team Klan's had.
Speaker 4: I believe that.
Speaker 5: I think with what's coming back and it's just a
numbers game, just oh that many stars are Okay, we're good.
So yeah, save the bodies, no need. I think that's
the right course of action.
Speaker 3: So Aaron Rodgers stated that there was no tackling, no tackling,
no full on contact h no live work, true live
work done in the first spring scrimmage. You know that
tells you where BYU's at right now. From a depth standpoint,
I think you can read it one of two ways.
They're concerned about depth right because they you know they
you know, they may be thin. Remember the years in
which we're not gonna have a scrimmage. We're not gonna
have We're not gonna have.
Speaker 4: X, Y and Z every year Bronco men and all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we don't have enough offensive and defensive linement. Right,
it was always it was the it was the truth.
I think it's different this time. I think they have
enough proven depth and they're like, Okay, we want to
get our eleven on eleven one, two and three deep
guys reps sorry, four, five and six guys that we
would probably go live with. You know, we're not going
to go live. We're just trying to get our reps
with our eleven on eleven three deep, you know what
I mean. I think it's a little bit different as
to why they're not going full contact and why why
they're not getting after it so intriguing. I mean, look
ed Lamb when he was the associate head coach. They
didn't do a ton of full contact. They didn't do
a whole lot of tackling. Jay comes in as the
associate head coach and they they didn't contact man, they
went after it.
Speaker 1: Jay's gone.
Speaker 3: Now they're not doing contact. Associate head coach is Shiotti. Puha,
you're OC and DC are K Pop and a Rod.
I'm just all I'm saying is I'm just saying there
are pros and cons to every every you know, element
of the game of football. Kyle Whittingham. Kyle Whittingham, who
is a full contact guy, Bronco Menenhall in his early
career was full contact.
Speaker 1: Bro. We were going, we were smashing each.
Speaker 3: Other's faces during spring and fall camp ct galore. You know,
we got to refine our you know, create fortitude of
the body, and the only way to do that is
through full on contact.
Speaker 1: So interesting.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we've tenured talented, you know teams.
Speaker 1: You could probably get away with it.
Speaker 4: Unproven team That's what I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unproven teams maybe not as much. Let's get back
to it. Hey, Ron, where have you seen the game?
Maybe slow down for bear Bachmeyer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean a lot of ways.
Speaker 7: I just just you know, he he already played like
a veteran player as a freshman, but just year two
in our offense, you can see he's just really has
ownership of what we're doing. He understands, you know, what
all eleven guys are doing on offense and defense. Most plays,
doesn't doing a really nice job, just taking the next step.
Speaker 6: I would say, just he's getting.
Speaker 7: The ball out of his hands really quickly and doing
a nice job bringing along with the other guys like
you know, Walker, Lions and Roger and some of those guys,
building chemistry with those guys to.
Speaker 6: Teach them our offense.
Speaker 1: Basically, GIMI, the.
Speaker 5: Biggest progression players make is between which year and the
first year in the sentid year.
Speaker 4: That's what every coach tells you. Yeah, and you take
the framework of what.
Speaker 5: Bear Botmyer was able to do his first year, and
you just think about what progression he can make this
coming year. Wow, Yeah, it's exciting. It's very, very, very exciting.
Speaker 1: Indeed it is. Indeed it is.
Speaker 3: Look, Bear's an elite intermediate passer, shorts, intermedia pass He's elite.
What I want to see is the deep ball swing
that I want to see him sling that pill fifty
five yards, not on a rope. I need a little
bit of trajectory. I need a little bit aloft on
that bad boy. It's still with good velocity. You want
to see some Jake retzlow action, Well, no, I want
to see like I want to see like, yeah, you know,
little Jared, little Zach Little, John Beck.
Speaker 1: You know, Max could could throw it out there too.
Speaker 3: I think Bear's arm strength is more akin to like
Max Hall than it is like a John Beck, Zach
Wilson Er, Jaron Hall.
Speaker 1: Yeah that you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, and Max is one of our most accurate
passers and most productive passers in Buy football history and
winning his quarterbacks and Buy football history.
Speaker 1: So I'll take that.
Speaker 3: Uh, playbook is completely open with Bear, right, no holdbacks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're There's no limits on what we
can do, really, I mean, I mean the only limitations
you have is just you can't do so many things.
Speaker 6: You can't practice it.
Speaker 7: You have to you have to limit the number of
calls and concepts you have so that you can actually
be good at it. If you water down too much,
then you know you're not gonna be good at anything.
But with Bear, yeah, everything's wide.
Speaker 6: Open, for sure.
Speaker 3: Everything's wide open. That playbook wide open for Bears taking.
I mean he assimilated. He may tricked the right into
the back of his skull with the help of Matt Mitchell.
Remember the entire playbook in about six weeks.
Speaker 5: The back myers are smart kids, Yes, yes they are
they know their craft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what else to add. It's just
really exciting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thinking about all the variables and the framework which
he presented last year and how he could be even
better moving forward, really really really exciting.
Speaker 3: You look at some of these quarterbacks, right, and you know,
I feel for and and some people aren't gonna like
empathize here, but I really felt for like Tanner Megham
because he had in twenty fifteen, Robert and I twenty sixteen,
what it was, it was the TI Deptmer Show, right,
twenty seventeen, Ti Deptmer twenty eighteen, Grimes.
Speaker 1: He had three different OC's. That's hard. That's very difficult.
Speaker 3: Talk to John Beck about like OC changes, right, It's
not it's not easy. Max Hall became the winningest quarterback
in buy football history. I think because of continuity of personnel,
continuity of chemistry and schematics. Like in your best eras,
you have that solidarity and solidification of culture, personnel and schematics.
And that's what's cooking with the Cougars right now. That's
what y BYU is a bit of a hype train
going into twenty six because of all those things. Now
there's going to be like you know, the analystaers say,
like returning talent and like star level and and all
that stuff, but like don't discount that foundation, that foundational
launch point. What have you seen from Wide Receivers the
last three weeks, hey, Rod, A.
Speaker 6: Lot of good things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the groups group's doing a good job. You know,
we have our veteran returning guys that you would you know,
Jojo has much improved that he was.
Speaker 6: He wasn't really healthy al most of the last year, but.
Speaker 7: He's playing really well. I'm gonna forget somebody. But Taynaku
is playing really well. Kyle Kyler Casper is doing nice job.
I'm super impressed with him.
Speaker 6: And uh he's a.
Speaker 7: Big dude, and uh playing really well. Glasger is doing
a good job. I'm gonna forget someone. But there's there's
been a lot a lot of good production there doing
doing a good job.
Speaker 1: G Man.
Speaker 5: The Wide Receivers the name he didn't mention and he
and he gave the apology many times.
Speaker 4: There might be someone I'm forgetting, but I wanted to
mention Cody Hagen. Where's Cody Hagan?
Speaker 3: Where Cody's coming off an injury at the Bowl game.
So I don't even think he's a hundred percent.
Speaker 4: So he's not. Okay, I didn't know that. I did
not know that.
Speaker 1: You haven't been watching the highlights.
Speaker 4: Well I have, but I just haven't.
Speaker 3: He has been in highlights like he's been still playing.
He's just he's probably a little bit. I mean, he's
still not one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I still believe in his talent.
Speaker 5: I still think he needs to be that guy. And
I want to hear Cody Hagen being that guy. The
other name I didn't hear was Reggie Frishnett. And again,
maybe it's just one of those things. But to me,
if a guy's really asserting himself, Arod's not going to
miss that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's doing it. He's our guy.
Speaker 5: I just want to hear more consistency from guys that
I know can be guys.
Speaker 4: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: So this is what I would say. Let me read
between the lions here real quick. All Right, Tay had
a good practice yesterday, so that was first of thought. Okay, Tay,
and then he gave Jojo because JoJo's been the most consistent.
I mean, he's the tenured guy. I'm gonna read between
the lines. Okay, this is it. This is what the
show is for. You know, I know a rod very
well all right, Like JoJo's the tenure, tried and true,
experienced guy that's been consistent throughout a fall camp. He's
got a ton of reps, ton of catches and everything else.
Speaker 1: Kyler Casper is finally healthy. You heard him? Ooh in
awe just ooze.
Speaker 3: Like I've been extremely impressed by Kyler Casper. Watching Kyler
healthy was I mean, he's a legitimate four star guy.
I mean sixty six, two twelve, but he can run.
I mean his dad's an NFL wide receiver of like
eight years with the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: I want to say, and he in an.
Speaker 3: Era that was you know, I mean it was good,
good wide receivers back in the day.
Speaker 1: But like like he's.
Speaker 3: Got the genealogy, he's got the town, he's got the clay.
Speaker 1: He's just been not as healthy. Right.
Speaker 3: I watched him do one release versus Jonathan Ebaya, and
I'm like, dude, remember when I said, like, you know,
Reiner swans that we show up. We watched Reiner like
first time spring ball. I walk in and I see Reiner.
I just see him and I see him go off
the NIGHTE like, dude, dude, dude, just one rap, get
off the line of scrimmage. Same thing with Kyler. He's
a dude, and so that's what you heard. That's what
you heard from a ron.
Speaker 4: I thought the same thing with Parker Kingston first practice.
I saw him.
Speaker 5: Obvious guys are obvious, griddle they are one point. I'll
bring up another guy. You're hearing people mentioned a rod
VESSI players legend Glocesgar the legend, and I feel really
dumb because I covered a lot of Lehigh this past year.
There was not a single game I covered where Legend
Glacester wasn't breaking it. Break every time, yeah, every time,
be kick return, punt return, just taking a simple pass
out in the flat, gone right. He has extraordinary ability.
And when I'm talking to Lehigh, they're they're playing that's
the top prep competition in the state.
Speaker 4: They're playing in Region three. That's stacked.
Speaker 5: He's playing corner canyon won't beak right. He's breaking it
every single game. And when you have that aspect, that component,
it's extraordinary.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of guys on this team.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's anyone on this team where Yeah,
he can just break that. That's what you're gonna be
missing with Parker Kingston. Yes, the legend Glaskar. I want
to see him returning kickoffs, definitely, maybe punts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he can be a guy. I really do.
Speaker 5: I think, and I feel dumb because he's not one
of the freshman I had of mind. Yeah he could
do things as a true freshman.
Speaker 4: No, he can.
Speaker 5: He absolutely can't. Good size, and he has that game
breaking ability.
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Speaker 1: And Legend.
Speaker 3: So I'm letting you watch Deshaun Jackson right now. I'm
pulling it up for g Man because g Man, he
has become much more astute with his with his I'm not,
like I said, Deshaun is in a league of his own,
but like Legend has a similar build, a similar running style,
how he glow, how he moves, and how he avoids
contact as well, great top end speed, but shifty. He
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he's shifty too, though, Deshaun watch him kind of like
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Speaker 1: I see you a Deshaun Jackson light. It really is.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's go to break. Jalen Brown coming up next.
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Speaker 1: Man? It's March madness. Things are getting crazy.
Speaker 3: How about them Longhorns surviving and advancing? Let's talk about
the game last night. NC State fought hard, fought long,
but came up short. That's twice now that NC State
has fallen to the Longhorns this season. One in a frenetic,
high powered, high octane offensive neutral court and then or
actually I think that one would maybe been at home
for you guys, and then in this NCAA tournament, a
nice win for the Longhorns.
Speaker 8: Correct that first game, it was in Maui and as
you said, a high exactly, yes, So in that high
first game was you know, I believe combined almost two
hundred points between the two and as you see now,
sixty eight to sixty six. That was just a game
that most wouldn't have expected, being that both offenses were
so efficient coming into this game. But as you said,
Tom Mark had an amazing shot to win this game
and a great win for the long Horns.
Speaker 3: So who is this Longhorns team? What's the identity of
this team this season? How would you describe them to
someone who hasn't been watching the Longhorns this season?
Speaker 8: You know, I would just say that when you look
at the team, you really have to look at for
the difference makers in this team. And for sure you
can go a game without Dylan Swayne, who is projected
to be a first round pick by some mock drafted
out there, as well as the big man inside Modest Vocatitis,
who is as physical as they become, a guy that
is top five in drawing file, the top guy, top
five guy at getting through the free throw line. And
when you have those two that want to attack the
paint and either put your team in foul trouble or
are efficient of underwin, it can bring a lot of
troubles to those opponents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's interesting that it's the Sean Miller era
right now, and Sean Miller used to be at U
of A, went to Xavier, now he's at Texas. What's
been the overall vibe and feel from the longhordination about
the Sean Miller hire.
Speaker 8: I would say they they are behind him right now,
and I mean, to my eyes it seems like for
the future because they witness that they're acquiring talent. I
believe Technic has a top ten recruiting class coming in
next year. They realize that this is still year one
and although you know, being in a playing game isn't
that isn't really where they want to be for the future.
It's a step that's needed to get to that spot
where they want to be in terms of a secure
program for basketball. I would say that the people in
Austin like the hire. They are behind them. It's just
a thing of let's wait and see for him to
get his guys in place. That way they can see
where this train can head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the year over your expectation?
Speaker 3: Typically from from the Longhorns fan base and donor base,
would you say it's a you got to at least
get the NCAA tournament and win one game.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the standard?
Speaker 8: I would say that was the standard pretty much for
I would say in maybe the past two years or so.
But with a guy like Miller and a guy like
him that's bringing in such talent for the next year.
With that recritic class and his notion of being a
guy that can develop guys into the next level. I
would say that right now they're starting to believe in
what he's bringing to the program. So NIO should be
a thing that increases as of late, as well as
the fan base should be growing and more. I would
say more attention should be brought to this program as
a whole from the people of Austin.
Speaker 3: What would you say are the weaknesses of this Texas
team this year?
Speaker 8: I would say the weaknesses are they're discipline on defense.
They're a team that files opponents at a high rate,
and if they're not controlling that at times, it can
sometimes throw the game script off for them. And whether
it's a team that isn't known to getting to the
line or a team that is known for getting to
the line, teams can typically expose them on that end
as well as from deep from three point nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting as we watched this game today yesterday,
you look at the Ken Palm analytics, it's a very
good offensive team and a lead offensive team.
Speaker 1: They didn't show it last night.
Speaker 3: Why were they a little bit less efficient than they
have been all year.
Speaker 8: I would just say it's really kind of been a
thing of the whole season. They haven't really had much
ball movement, to say the least. I would say that
they're a team that relies heavily on isol players and
guys to make their own plays. So if they're matched
up against guys that can hold their own in that sense,
then the offense can sometimes hit a stand still and
which leads to just shout selections that you wouldn't liked
to see for an offense like this or a roster
like this. But when they're not hitting some deep and
you're kind of having trouble in the paint, that can
lead to them shooting nearly thirty six percent from from
the field.
Speaker 5: Last night break down, b YU, what's your perspective as
a guy that covers college basketball and how does Texas
match up with BYU? What could give Texas problems as
far as with that matchup?
Speaker 8: I think for by US case with no Richie is
Sounder's that's a big headline for this game. I believe
over the last ten games they've really been a team
that emphasizes going into the paint and necessarily in the
rim or for AJ's case near the mid range area
and for this game, like like tomorrow, will be a
guy like Dennis Wayne who was brought in and known
as a defensive first guy. His assignment should be on
AJ tomorrow, and it'll be interesting to see how Texas
defense can hold up such a prolific athlete like AJ.
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Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I know Sean Miller addressed the media and maybe he
commented a little bit on BYU, what he expects, what
he's he's kind of scouting on that front. What takeaways
did you get from maybe his most recent press conference.
Speaker 8: Just the fact that he understands that this team's defense
needs to hit that next stride and the fact that
when you're playing a guy such as AJ, who is
definitely one of those players that could easily be the
number one pick in this year's draft, it just he's
the motor engine of this team and it starts on
the defensive end for them as well as just rebounding,
being efficient on offense, and staying the course even when
things don't go their way on offense.
Speaker 3: What's the culture like right now with the roster, the
chemistry like as far as like returning players are concerned
like tenured players. When you have a transition of coaching staff,
you get some attrition. How much retention was there on
the roster from last year to this year, et cetera.
Speaker 8: I would say I believe there is a current four
players right now that were from Texas last year that returned.
You got guys like a point guard in Jordan Pope
who is known for being a score first guard and
especially one that you have to respect from deep Tremont
Mark was a guy that transferred in from Houston years ago.
Has been at Texas for I believe two or three years,
but it's definitely made his name known in Austin as
a great score for the Longhorn. And last night, a
guy like Kenda Weaver who is just a sports plug
off the bench and can easily get eleven points and
ten rebounds as a six to three guard. And a
guy like Nick Cody who came back as well, So
in terms of the roster, there was a few guys
that came back, but mainly it was people that either
were came from transfers or overseas, such as modest Vocatitis
who came from Fau and Swaying Huk who followed from
Miller from Xavier came into Texas. It's been a quite
a bit of new new faces. But over the course
of the season, Dave, they've found out to get that
energy together and play on the right foot.
Speaker 3: This Texas team gets to the foul line a lot.
Speaker 1: They also foul a lot. What's up with that?
Speaker 8: It's a thing that Sean Miller's probably been paying the
drum on the most this season, is he commands how
great of a job they've gone to the line. However,
like you said, on defense, they're founding way too much
that It's a thing that kind of keeps opponents in
those games when they go on these stretches of either
they've either they've made it, they've went on a run,
or they've made seven of the last eight shots. You
look at that free throw attempts for the opponent and
you're sitting across maybe twenty to thirty in a game,
and for a guy like AJ, who is so skilled
that getting to the line that can kind of be
a problem for Texas.
Speaker 3: Give me a prognostication, how do you see this game
playing out? Are you expecting an upset in Portland and
that the Longhorn survive in advance?
Speaker 8: I would say that it really relies on which Dyland
Swayne shows up, not that he's been bad, but if
Dylan Swayne is able to put in arguably his best
performance on defense, and if like we mentioned, they're able
to control the fouling on defense, Texas definitely has a
chance to win this game. But with the player like AJ,
it's just something that a guy who's average twenty seven
points a rebounds forces the game in the Big twelve
play Ball over the last ten games, that's something that
you kind of can't hit your head on. Especially in March.
I would say that I expect by you to edge
out this one in a very very close game. But
don't get no thing wrong from here, Texas does have
a path to win the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Look this, Sean Miller knows how to coach. When he
was at you were very I mean when he was
a Xavier the first go round, I mean he was
he was A.
Speaker 1: He got to an Elite eight with Xavier.
Speaker 3: Then it goes to u A. He got to an
Elite A Sweet sixteen. The lad day to the lead day,
the lead at them. He can get deep in these
in these tourneys when he's got talent, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Uh. What's the expectation this year for Texas? Right?
Speaker 3: Is it just to win one game? How deep can
can Texas scope with their talent and coaching staff.
Speaker 8: I think they could go deep knowing that you know,
a team like b E YU is dealing with some injury.
Gonzaga is dealing with injuries. So if they're if they're
able to put it together on defense and pull off
and up to it against b YU, I do think
they do have a good chance against Gonzaga. And then
what we're we're talking about a potential Sweet sixteen apparent
in year one, which, as we mentioned before, we'll just
have the fans more bought into this program. But in
terms of year one, I would just say that like
the fans and Austin should be proud of just either
one win or just signed that there is a program
that's capable of being consistent in terms of showing up
in March.
Speaker 1: Best way to support you. What you do, how you
do it.
Speaker 3: Jalen, appreciate you hopping on uh and giving us some
insight on this Texas men's basketball team.
Speaker 8: Of course you can follow me on Jalen Polo Brown
on on Twitter and on Orange Buds. We you know,
we recap the games, football recruiting, foo football inside notes.
Make sure to support us and again, thank you so
much for having me take care.
Speaker 1: Hey much love to you, Jalen. Thanks for hopping on
and talk some ball with us today.
Speaker 8: Of course, thank you.
Speaker 1: There you go. Gimn thoughts commentary follow up here.
Speaker 4: If I was a coaching college basketball, I would foul.
I would be that physical team. I really would I foul.
Speaker 1: Look at Houston, Yeah, they just visit.
Speaker 5: So the Ruffs have it in their mind. Okay, that's
just how this game's going, right, And so no, you
dictate the course of the play and he's like, no,
this is what we do, right, And I think most
reps are like that.
Speaker 4: They just kind of go with the flow. You establish it.
Speaker 5: Oh well, Houston is a good team, right, and that's
how they play and all that. I think it's a
subliminal thing. Subconscious might not work with all Rushlers why
they buy and large that's the way to play basketball.
And you reyelled coach Miller and what he's done. Yeah,
I mean record kind of speaks for yourself. I want
b WA you to be Houston.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I look at every team in the Big twelve Conference.
Houston's that team, man, I that's the team you want.
Speaker 1: That's Kevin Sampson. I like, how well you have?
Speaker 3: You have a lot going with with Kelvin Sampson and
the culture and the way that he recruits and the
way that he speaks to parents and grandparents and like
he coaches those kids apart it and like when you
come there, there's no entitlement. Everything is earned, nothing is given,
Like and look at those guys that that that go
through that program. And then for the He's like, we
don't have a rich NIL program, Like I mean, I
think they're trying to be competitive.
Speaker 1: They're not always going.
Speaker 3: There just for the NIL offerings. They're not going over there.
You don't have like this mercenario culture or culture there.
So it's it's tough to be Who's Houston. I'm right
there with you tough to be Houston, and that's what
makes me optimistic about Boy's chances NCAA turn up because
I truly believe wholeheartedly that Houston is an elite A
team and possibly a Final four team this year.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Kingston Flemings is my favorite player in
the Big twelve. That he might be.
Speaker 5: It's hard not to like that kid, how he conducts
himself in the interviews, the way he plays.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, big fan.
Speaker 4: I'm a fan. Anyway, ended up talking about Houston, So.
Speaker 1: You did it? Okay, why'd you do that? We're talking
about bau here.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't like playing the team that
had a playing game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like that. You don't like it.
Speaker 4: They're warm, they're they're battled, they're coming in b ways.
Speaker 1: They didn't play in Portland though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're traveling here.
Speaker 1: Benefit they were in Dayton.
Speaker 6: Dayton, they played g Man.
Speaker 4: They got there.
Speaker 9: What is it the day before if I'm correct from
when I from what off As Texas people. They played
yesterday and then they traveled today and then they played
the malls.
Speaker 4: That's a lot on the body.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of travel I remember. I mean I
did some research, you did. I did some independent research
Capital J journalism.
Speaker 5: Number eleven seeds with the playing game or nine and
nine when they get through that playing game, fifty fifty man.
Speaker 3: In in what time span the last since it was
since it was instant, yah, since it was instant.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, so yeah, they're nine and.
Speaker 9: Nine four though have been in the Pacific time zone
if I'm correct.
Speaker 4: But they got there tuesday, though. Bear down the hatches, man, right,
let's go to break. Its gonna be wrong.
Speaker 3: We'll get into an inside report on the flip side
more Aaron Rodert commentary from huh from from springball? You know,
what does he think about his offense? Where is it going?
Why are they here?
Speaker 4: Twelve personnel, twelve personal. Let's talk about twelve personnel on
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Speaker 3: Ronald goes there as well, who has impressed you in
the running back room during springball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean just that's I mean, we missed him
last year. We missed him a lot and we had
a great year. But he was a huge part of
our offense going into the season and played really well.
Speaker 6: In the first two games. And it's nice to have
him back. He's a very.
Speaker 7: Good football player, and you will see him on the
field a lot this year with.
Speaker 5: LJ even though he completely trucked me on the sideline
when he was in high school. Would be a fantastic story. Well,
when you're covering a team, you won those stories. And
he's a heck of a nice kid. I reminded him
mel but like in an interview like a few years ago,
and he still felt back, Oh were you okay. I'm like, dude,
I was the idiot. You were just playing. It's just whatever.
But uh, it would be a fantastic story if is
able to recover fully in just ball out and all that.
And if you remember, wasn't happy with his play even
before the compartment syndrome thing happened. He was playing hurt.
Yeah yeah, and he was not himself and so some
fans like, oh man, we gotta get thee onny back.
He wasn't really what he could have been at any
time last year, so having that year off, I mean
it could be a blessing in disguise.
Speaker 4: Just get his body to hell. I mean, we.
Speaker 5: Always go back to the Jamal Williams thing right where
he sat out of here comes back.
Speaker 4: It's like, whoa, he was good, but now he's really good.
They love me.
Speaker 1: I would love to see it.
Speaker 4: That'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3: RB two, baby, RB two. Let's get back to it.
A Rod giving some breakdown to hear of springball. With
there not being a transportal window, are you and the
staff more likely to have a too deep chart.
Speaker 1: Out by the end of spring ball?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 7: That's a in some positions, Yeah, I think. I think
some positions you'll end springball and knowing pretty well who
you're too deep are. There'll be some other position groups
where you know, competition continues into the fall, you know,
and with us at the skill positions, we don't really
think of it as a too deep. We just think
of it as if you play any of the offensive
skill positions, just prove that you're indispensable, you know, prove
to us that you deserve to play, And doesn't matter
if it's six receivers and three tight ends and two
running backs, or it could be any combination or any
number of those guys.
Speaker 6: Just prove to us that you can help.
Speaker 7: Us win, and then we have to it's our job
to find ways to use those guys. And so I
don't ever really think about it as who's first string,
who's second string on offense, at least at the skill positions. Now,
the old line, you play five guys every play, But
the other spots, it's just prove that you can help
and we'll use you.
Speaker 3: Prove that you can help, and we'll use you. Yeah,
you're gonna have maybe some some too deep there. You're
gonna have it solidified someone. You're gonna know who your
guys are.
Speaker 5: We'll becoming interested in the offensive line. Who's going to
be playing that left tackle spot. And one thing I
noticed when they were walking off, uh.
Speaker 4: I forget the con the trustper Michigan. What's his name?
The right tackle?
Speaker 1: Andrew Gentry.
Speaker 5: Andrew Gentry the most enormous human being I've ever seen
in my right Yeah, all the lineman new linemen are
that big.
Speaker 3: Andrew Williams Cayden got some big Thomas and Bayes just
right there. Dude, he's big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's a monster.
Speaker 4: He's a big guy.
Speaker 1: I think speaking of left tackle, I think he's your
left tackle.
Speaker 5: Coaches have mentioned him, coaches have mentioned yeah, Rostler, Tren
Trevan's good too, I think yeah.
Speaker 3: Bruce, Bruce brought up Trevan uh day one. He said, hey,
watch out for Trevin.
Speaker 5: I think this is gonna be between Trevan Osler and
Pocket Fino.
Speaker 4: That's that's what I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's so hard to judge anything that's going on.
Speaker 3: It's funny Trevin has been under the radar since his arrival.
Guys like, no one talked about Trevan Ostler at all.
I mean, I think every once in a while, ge
Man and I when we'd see like I think even
with Funk, Funk would like insert Trevin like in the
two D, like he would always be roaming around in
the two DP, Like, oh, Trevan's in the two D,
Like Trevent's getting reps.
Speaker 1: Last time.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, we were watching Trevan though he was
like playing like that sixth offensive lineman tight end role
last season six four three twenty red shirt senior.
Speaker 1: He's been in the program forever, for esver.
Speaker 5: He's I mean he red shirted twenty twenty two freshman
years twenty twenty three, red shirt sophomore obviously twenty twenty four,
and then red shirt junior twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: He was a three star. He was also recruited by
un l V. He helped lead Bountiful to a Region
five championship in A five A quarterfinals in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh.
Speaker 3: By the way, nature's music education and enjoys making rap
music wow fun facts.
Speaker 4: Trevn throws down a beat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trevin, he knows a rap verse or two. He
knows how to lay down some lyrics.
Speaker 10: As the uh the modern He gets jiggy with me,
just two white guys hanging out talking about rap music.
Speaker 4: Ron But do you want to help him outell that beat?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I'm doing it too. I mean I really mesgined that
What do the kids say now? Like when they when
they put a rap lyrics together is much more.
Speaker 1: What do they say?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What's the new? What's the new terminology?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you'd have to ask.
Speaker 1: Bars, Bars they're laying bars.
Speaker 9: But I mean, I mean, come on, let's be real.
I hate to do this in this kid's gonna catch
it straight. But you have Bear Bachmeyer after one game
rapping about the offensive line. It's like, I'll be honest,
it's gonna be a shot. My people don't do that.
We just listen to those with the headphones and keep
it pushing. No, no, no, no trying to rap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no wrapping.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, let's get back to the real rap,
which is a football rap of Aaron Roderick speaking of
offensive line. Uh, what if stick out to you about
the new transfers.
Speaker 6: They're all doing well. Our line is gonna be good.
Speaker 7: We have a solid group, solid solid mix of returning guys,
veteran players and some new guys that are really gonna
help us. And yeah, I again, I'm hockey finale stands
out to me at times at times, and and uh,
all those new guys are really gonna play and it's
gonna help us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so pockey pockey's You know, I got a lot
of heat for did you see my tweet about pockey females?
Speaker 1: Tricep? No, you didn't see that.
Speaker 3: Utah fans like just and I remember there too, like
they all thought it was weird.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, like if you know anything about me.
Speaker 4: Like, oh I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm always evaluating body types, movements, you know. Biomechanics was
kind of body fat percentage, like just explosivity nor amos. Yeah,
I mean what they're wearing too, you know, yeah, all
that stuff. But like when I evaluated Pockey's film and
then looked at his high weight body type, you don't
always see like super defined triceps from an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: And I pointed, I.
Speaker 3: Just literally screenshot of the track, like this is really interesting.
Look at this tricep Like things are gonna be good
along this offensive line with podcation and it was.
Speaker 1: Like you are you were gay? You're weird.
Speaker 3: Like I'm like, dude, like I don't know what to
tell you guys, like you are wed. Yeah, I'm weird
in that regardy like you guys have never seen NFL
football coaches size up NFL talent before.
Speaker 1: They are weirder than me.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're spreading out hands and looking at thumbs, they're
looking at fingers, they're for like bone structure.
Speaker 1: Like Jay Hill's weird too.
Speaker 3: Jay would discriminate on ankle circumference if you were big
boned at all in the ankles, He's like, no, nope,
not gonna do it, not gonna do it. Like you
know how like if you got cankeles. You know, like
a lot of like I see it all the time
amongst the latter day saint men, Like they don't do cankeles.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: They want the skinny blonde girl that's like one hundred
and five pounds. That's who they want to marry for
whatever reason. I'm like, good luck breeding some Division one
athletes with that, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying, you know what I mean, she better
have a lot of fastoresss muscle fiber.
Speaker 3: But anyway, like you can discriminate all you want, but
like getting weird with it.
Speaker 1: Pockey Fien now is a different dude. Okay.
Speaker 3: I've been around a lot of great offensive linemen in
my career and watching them come through BYU. Pockey's a
little bit different. I played with Richie Incognito. He's one
of the few individuals that was ripped and had like you.
Speaker 1: Could see a six pack. You can had like a
four pack, two.
Speaker 3: Packs sometimes depending on the time of the year and
had massive triceps that you could actually see. There's a
reason why Richie was a pro bowler. One of the
greatest in my opinion over the last twenty years. One
of the most violent and strong and just tenacious offensive.
I'm one the best offensive lineman in the NFL. That's
who he kind of reminds me of. You know who
else is as a similar build but doesn't move as
well as Pockey. Latterly, Joe Brown is also very like
He's built a little bit different and he's just had injuries, right,
He's had injuries and we'll see how that plays out.
But Joe's been getting reps too, But there's unique individual.
Pockey is going to be very very good. I think,
use your left tackles what I'm getting to go come
full circle. A Rod like, I've been drooling over Pockey
for a long time. I wanted him at BYU coming
out of high school. He didn't come here. Finally we
got him, Thank goodness, odelujah. I get weird with Pockey,
I'll be honest. Yeah, I put him up on a
pedestal well.
Speaker 5: And he's the only offensive lineman that A Rod mentions.
That's that's a pretty good testament right there.
Speaker 3: He's violent too, like he's he's got he's got violent hands.
Speaker 1: He's twitchy.
Speaker 3: You don't always see twitchy offensive lineman, you know what
I mean. Yeah, it's just it's a little bit different,
uh in my opinion. And so anyway, let's get back
to the sound. Uh, Jake retz Law attended practice big deal,
not a big deal that he's at BYU during spring
ball and throwing at Proda this week.
Speaker 7: I think it's sure, Yeah, we love sure, Yeah, we
love you.
Speaker 4: No go ahead, no go he go and play.
Speaker 7: Sure, Yeah we love Jake. And uh he's you know,
he's got his pro day coming up, so nice to have.
Speaker 8: I'm out here.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. So for you, big deal and
not a big deal.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5: I think it's just the culture Klon's built. It's welcoming.
Speaker 4: It's it's yeah and then like you wanted. And I
think it says a lot about the culture and and
just the welcome nature that Klan's created.
Speaker 5: I think it also says a lot about Jake Redslow.
I mean, he could have compt an attitudes like no,
I'm done with that. You know, it's like, no, he's
and he's a guys loved him at be what you
And it kind of breaks my heart that that's how
he has to come back. I I really wish he
never laughed, even with Bear doing what he did.
Speaker 4: But I just think it's tremendous.
Speaker 5: I really like that aspect of people finding any way
to criticize him coming back.
Speaker 4: I don't understand it well.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's criticizing Jake for coming back to
hang out at BYU. They're criticizing BYU for a line
of Jake RT's left to come back to the YU.
Why because he was accused of a civil rape and
many people feel like whenever you're accused of something.
Speaker 1: So there's it's twofold number one.
Speaker 3: There's still a segment of the population that believes that
Jake was guilty of rape even though charges were dropped
or and or like we don't know because like there
wasn't any sort of like there was different verbiage, right,
settle drop, settled drop, Like what does that mean? We
got additional evidence that showed that the female, the accuser,
was still propositioning herself to Jake after the supposed rape.
Speaker 1: So anyway, We don't know all the details.
Speaker 3: All we know is that it was drops, I settled
whatever and it just went away. There was an honor
code violation, he received a seven game suspension. He chose
to leave rather than to take the seven game suspension.
So that those are the facts that we know. But
there are people out, typically out I think it's more outsiders,
but there are also like b YU fans that don't
want anything to do with Jake anymore.
Speaker 4: I don't understand that. I really don't. That's not in order.
Speaker 3: And the Utah fans and Utah State fans and everyone
that hates b YU, they're saying, why would you associate
why would you allow an accused rapists who infringed on
the honor code and and and back to b YU.
Speaker 5: Fortunately, I haven't come across many of those fans. So
when you say there's fans that don't think there's some
that surprises me because I think most BWAU fans are
like that. And because of that, Jake knows it's comfortable
to come back.
Speaker 4: I I'm all for it.
Speaker 5: I loved it when he was I was like, yes,
that is awesome that he's back at b WA. You
and I really don't understand any other thought besides that,
I really don't hope for the historical to understand.
Speaker 1: You've been covering BWA you for a long time.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the fan base become much more forgiving,
oh Grace field over the last twenty five years?
Speaker 4: Oh, no question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, U should be. I mean it was.
Speaker 3: You hold to that iron rod or else hearing no evil,
speaking no evil, see no evil, no grace. You're saved
after all you can do. Not at this grace business.
I mean hearing the word grace a whole lot more
from the pulpit over the last five years, you know
what I mean, A lot more, a lot more Jesus
talk and a lot more grace talk. He used to
just all be restoration and fire and brimstone and obedience.
Speaker 5: I probably should bring this up, but I know I've
told you this story. But I remember getting lectured about
grace by a Baptist.
Speaker 4: Preacher three months Wait a second.
Speaker 5: He taught me more about my religion than I knew
all through seminary.
Speaker 4: I was wow anywhere. I'll tell that story another time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, grace, Grace is what we believe in
as Larity Saints.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that.
Speaker 3: But but our actions that by you wouldn't necessarily like
you know what I mean, Like, I don't think we
always like have we don't have that brand of so
whether what like You're gonna have a lot of people
internally like, hey.
Speaker 1: Well this is what we believe, We've always believed this.
What are you talking about? We don't like.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know what brand of Laturday say them
you grew up in, but I didn't grow up and
they were like, well that was your family, Like no, no, no, no, no,
that was that was my community, that was my war,
that was my stake. And what I was hearing from
the pulpit, I mean, look, I was handed the miracle forgiveness.
Speaker 1: As a young lad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just go into depression and you're like, well,
I'm not getting to heaven.
Speaker 1: I guess So I don't know you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3: Like anyway, Uh so my thought and look I went
off on a diatribe when all this stuff went down
with Jake and had a lot of interesting feedback from
a number of individuals, and uh, look, I mean, you know,
we don't have all the facts about it. The people
that actually know probably as much of the facts as
anybody in this is probably the football program, Yeah, and
the coaches and the players, because you know what, Jake
probably kept in conducting, gave him anything and everything and
chatted with him about it, and and probably internal BYU
they know pretty much. They know by having Jake there
at the pro day, they have to feel really, really
comfortable with the facts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: And we're still waiting on the Parker Kingston situation, which
that's what people are are extending this out to and saying, well,
you have a current player that's you know, been accused
and was arrested and is going to possible trial to
defend himself. You know, there's a hearing, I believe on
the twenty third or twenty fifth of this month. So
that's the other component that the haters are going to
bring up in this process. And so you know, hater's
gonna hate, there's no.
Speaker 1: That about it.
Speaker 3: But I do believe BYU knows a little a little
bit more than the rest of the the rest of
the commentators, the armchair quarterbacks as as they are.
Speaker 1: So anyway, let's get back to it.
Speaker 3: I know we've gone along on this inside report, but
let's get back to Aaron Roderick talking BYU Football, in
your description of Barry Rod, it sounds like you're talking
about a senior. Is he an offensive coordinator's dream quarterback?
Speaker 7: Well yeah, I mean he still definitely has lots of
things we're working on to improve. But what's nice is
just his command of what we're what we're doing makes
it so that we can take take it to the
next level. Now you know, we're you know, we already
audibled more last year than I think I ever have
in my career with a freshman quarterback.
Speaker 6: And now just about.
Speaker 7: Every play out here, he's got two or three options.
He can get us in the right play, get us
out of it. Sometimes just getting us out of a
bad play, you know, and might be a three or
four yard game, and that nobody thinks of anything special, Bud.
He just avoided a bad play by getting us into
that three or four yard game and just just uh yeah,
it's it's fun to fun to have a guy that's
smart and experienced.
Speaker 4: Was Bear audibowling or was it a LG mart That's
my question.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, on a few of those situations, LJ.
Speaker 5: Was holping out so much, especially I think, well, yeah,
I agree, with did you mean to jump in?
Speaker 9: I think at the beginning, to hear man, it was
probably warranted, right man, But I think by the end
of the year, I don't think so. I mean, not
even just LJ. Let's give credit to Bruce. Remember the
touchdown run Ben that iicted against I think East Carolina. Yeah,
Bruce was the one that audible and says, hey, he
like tapped his leg, look back, hey switched this Actually,
so it both of them, and I think once you
were by, you know, the pop Tars Bowl of Bears, like, nope,
we're checking out of this.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm pretty sure that Bruce Mitchel is my
favorite player on the entire You love Bruce the most.
Speaker 1: The tip of the spears.
Speaker 5: This is Demeter his story and he's good. I think
he's the most underappreciated player on the entire team. Last
year he was the best center in the Big twelve.
Yeah he can ball, he can go pro. Yeah, yeah,
I think he's an NFL type.
Speaker 3: Remember Bradya came onto our show and said he compared
him to I believe it was. It was a Bartots
former b y U Great played for the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Anyway, Bruce, that's that's who he compared
him to.
Speaker 5: Bruce Mitchell is a huge credit to this team. Fantastic
story anyway, that's that's my Bruce Mitchell fandom.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 1: That's why you come here.
Speaker 3: Uh you know he said Bartots was his player comp
for Bruce Mitchell.
Speaker 1: He called it.
Speaker 4: That's a deep poll.
Speaker 3: The Bartots. Three time Super Bowl champion, five time pro bowler. Yeah,
played for Philadelphia New York Giants and then the San
Francisco forty nine ers, so they have it.
Speaker 1: That's Brady Papa, all right, guys.
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alone those watch such front roads. When you said you
were talking to Bear on the headset walking him through
the play, he's that pretty much gone.
Speaker 1: Now give us some thoughts.
Speaker 7: I'll still be talking to him every play, But I
think you know that wasn't all year. I mean it
was early in the year. I would talk talk to
him a little bit. But that's why we went to huddling,
you know. It's one of the reasons why we went
to huddling was just you can read the play on
a wristband and and I really process it before you
go line of scrimmage. So I actually after the first
couple of games, I actually wasn't talking to him all
that much. I just called a play and then he
would read it off his wristband and go. And that's
that's how we intend to play again this year.
Speaker 1: And that's how they're going to play again this year. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't want to PUNTI icate much about this one
because I want to get to the next question.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't want to contificate?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know what I could say. It's just like, yeah,
all right, yeah, that's the process.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the thing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been waiting all later segment for this.
Speaker 3: Let's twelve personnel, Yes, one back, two tight ends. How's
Walker Lions been flat fitting here at b YU.
Speaker 7: Yeah, great fit. Super impressed with Walker. He is a
really complete player. I would say he's a good blocker,
he's an excellent receiver.
Speaker 6: He's smart.
Speaker 7: You know, you can just tell he's been well coached
and played a lot of a lot of good football
and he's gonna be a big part of our offense.
And so so is Roger. Uh, both of those guys
are It's two of the best players in our team
for sure.
Speaker 5: Two of the best players on the team. That's that's
something that that's that's high praise.
Speaker 4: That's and you know what that is. It's twelve personnel.
It's right.
Speaker 5: The future of B way us off man, B way
you needs to be a twelve personnel based offense. You
play to your strings and what does be way you
coming in? Tight end after tight end after tight end.
The flow of top tight ends for the next decade
is tremendous. I mean, you mentioned Ryin Swanson earlier. You
got that kid from Saint George coming in.
Speaker 4: It's pretty good. Broad Harris Brock Harris.
Speaker 5: They are's really good too, man, They are flushed.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good football players.
Speaker 5: But Roger sally Pong is really interesting to me because
Rocker lines you can just okay, he's gonna be Carson
Ran plug.
Speaker 4: Him in right, whatever, Saliaponga.
Speaker 5: I think it's a guy you could split out, maybe
be that Andrew George type.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of it's a four star They. Yeah,
he's a bigger Neil.
Speaker 4: Not the bitch of that.
Speaker 5: They's still like Keed and on Milaki. Those guys are
good football. They are flushed and you're gonna see twelve
personnel more than any other offensive formation you are. I
like the white outs, but I'm not convinced of the
white outs. I'm already convinced. When a Rod throws out
a quote like that, you believe him. They're two of
the best players on our entire team. Okay, two of
the best players on the entire team. Okay, they need
to be on the field all the time. Right, twelve personnel,
Let's go play to your strengths future bwave football offensive
line And you mentioned Pocky Finale.
Speaker 4: That got me really really excited.
Speaker 5: Just here do you tatipic about Packy Feenale, Bruce Mitchell.
They're stacked at offensive line. I haven't been able to
say that in a lot of years. Yeah, and tight end,
they're absolutely stacked. That's what the way football needs to be.
That's what's developing, and that's what has me excited.
Speaker 1: There you go love that, g Man. Twelve personnel, get
ready for it.
Speaker 3: I did say, I don't know if you saw this
or not, g Man, but I asked the question, uh this, Uh,
I want to say it was a couple of weeks ago.
Uh could we see this empty set from BAU this year?
Walker Lions, Roger seallya Paga Kyler, Casper Jojo Phillips, and
Reggie Frishnet.
Speaker 1: The average, like some size.
Speaker 4: Group is Walker Lives might be the smallest kyout.
Speaker 1: There, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like goodness gracious would be an interesting one. And I
don't think that that's going to be an empty sets.
I think there's going to be more like it'll probably.
Speaker 4: Have LG more.
Speaker 3: You're probably it'll it'll probably still be like twelve personnel, right,
And because LJ can be split out into empty that's
what makes him so unique, because he's like another tight end.
LJ is like another freaking tight end wide receiver. So
most likely it's l J. And uh, you know, it'll
be interesting to see what that rotation looks like. What
type of empty sets be always going to be employing,
but g Man's excited for twelve personnel. I am as
am I by that inside report.