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people always want to know why do you do Cougar
bytes around with the bear Bach miner. That's because it's
a bite. It's a long it is literally bred a
bite this man. I think the longest answer I've seen
him give is twenty five to thirty seconds. I always say,
you want to know something, don't ask Bear. It's not
a shot. Don't ask the quarterback. He's gonna be straight
to the point. Now, he might be doing a typical
freshman pr train short to the point, but I also
believe this is who Bear is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Demember. Back in the day, alj used to
be kind of to not say too much.
Speaker 3: And now as he's grown and grown as a football
player but also grown like in the media, training and
all that stuff. And now LJ gaves great answers. He's
so well spoken, he's sop and again not that Bear's not.
I just don't think his brain works that way. He's
not thinking like how can I communicate to the media.
He is literally just going to answer the question that
you asked, whether it's yes, no, whatever it is. He's
not focused on giving you a great answer. He's literally
just focused on answering your question.
Speaker 1: That is it? That is it? That is all.
Speaker 2: How to do how to do tipic hip of the cap,
That's what Bart Bachmeyer is, That's what he does. So
I just want to always make that clear. That's why
Kuckybody's straight to the point. But look, I think he
is gonna get better in the media, kind of like
Jaron Hall, same thing kind of happened. So look, give
them time, give them time and all will work out.
But gonna get into this Bear bachmeer Son. He addressed
everything in the post game in regards to bo. He's
forty one to twenty one win over UCF. Look it
was a scary performance in that first quarter. And you
can't really say, oh, they had him in the first half.
They had him in the first quarter. But man, not
the start that you want to see. We said it
yesterday in a couple of segments. We'll say it again today.
If you start that slow against Texas Tech, oh me,
oh my, oh me, oh my, it's not gonna look
good for you. Those that are NBA basketball fans will
understand that right there. Anyway, let's get into the questions.
This is where the questions that myself and other media
members asked the Bear Backameyer in the post game. Let's
start with number one Bear. Last year, Bo, you came
up short getting to the title game. What does it
mean to get to the title game this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it means a lot, and and especially on on
Senior Day, and and yeah, I mean we've worked so
hard and and just to see the hard work payoff.
But but you know, we know, we know we gotta
big task head and we we gotta we gotta go attack.
Speaker 2: They do have a big task in hand. Texas Tech
is the real deal. Look, I'm just gonna be honest,
and I'll keep saying this. Brad Texas Tech is just
not the best team in the Big Twelve. They might
be the best team in the country.
Speaker 1: I think they're the best team in the country, dude.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna take out your Georgia Bulldog. I
really think they are.
Speaker 3: I still can't believe the Georgia Bulldogs are even gonna
make the playoffs. I think they'll lose this week to Alabama.
Really yeah, because that just makes things worse. Look, if
you know anything about the University of Georgia, it's that
Alabama could roll out second graders on that team. As
they got the crimson tied on their jerseys, they will
be Georgia.
Speaker 1: Because they got immensely But Calen coach too.
Speaker 3: To that point, I think if Georgia matches up to
Texas Tech, they will lose BYU is gonna have to
have the game of their life to beat Texas Tech.
Because to your point, you saw you already tried that
once you saw what happened when you started slow against
Texas Tech a few weeks remember that, yeah, exactly, So
you gotta find a new way to do this. And look,
if you know, as an offense, hey, this it just
might be another slow start for us, because we got
to figure out how we can get the ball to
the edges, how we can avoid this Texas Tech front
seven until we can find a way to tire them
out and beat them.
Speaker 1: If you know that's gonna be the case, the.
Speaker 3: Boy's defense has got to hang on for a quarter,
maybe a quarter and a half until the buoy offingson.
Speaker 1: Figure it out. Now.
Speaker 3: We've also heard the question posed to a Rod before, Hey,
how do you get your team to start faster and
not have these slow starts? And a Rod doesn't think
that the team starts slow now unequivocally definitively in this
game and the Texas Tech game, you started slow offensively.
So maybe you find a new way because you've already
played Texas Tech once. Maybe you feel like you got
some guys healthy by not playing everybody last week.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, awesome.
Speaker 3: However, the point remains, you cannot do what you did
against UCF or what you did against Texas Tech the
first time the second time around, because you will lose.
You get is very rare in life that you get
a do over, and if if you're gonna get this opportunity,
you best not waste.
Speaker 1: It best not wasted. Look, and what needs to happen
is this.
Speaker 2: I know there are a lot of media people out
there and people saying, oh, well, you know Arizona State
b Tech Tech how though, ye, how oh and they
went quick to the edges, you know, and you speed
and got the bottom and hands of it. Yeah, but
do you know what happened before that in the first quarter,
in the first half, again, what happened you guys can't
pull it out because you weren't paying attention, Like, look,
just don't listen to what all of eve, including myself
the media people say is sometimes don't just take that.
Whether they have played before, whether they've been working this
business a long time.
Speaker 1: You have to watch the game.
Speaker 2: Sam Levitt hit on two chunk yardage plays fifty to
fifty balls. One I would say was they're even lucky.
What did that do to the defensive coordinator on the road?
He got nervous and the offense coordinated with the backup
quarterback who's very who's well him. It's a great quarterback.
By the way, they'll be just fine when Baron Morton
is gone. That forced him to be like, okay, wait
then your quick out routes getting the ball to Jordan Tyson,
run the ball that mad Texas Tech scampered. If Yu
doesn't do that, if you don't hit a deep shot
to like that Chase ball to Chase, if you can't
push the ball vertically and give fair time to throw,
if Parker can't run those over the middles, if you
can't make checks to Texas Tech chase you, if you
cannot spread them out and actually make them play man
to man, it's not gonna.
Speaker 1: Work well for you. It won't work. And that's the
only reason to work well for Arizona State.
Speaker 2: I just have to be declared of and say that
because a lot of people are like, oh, look what
Arizona State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they basically played backyard football, So let me
byu this for you guys. They basically had Zach Wilson
throwing to Tedoroa McMillan. That's essentially what happened. Literally, and
Sam Levitt was able to run around for long enough.
And as soon as you break three to four seconds,
any defense is breaking down.
Speaker 1: You're not hanging on for that long.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and so Texas Tech's defense, while structurally it was great,
when it came to finding time being special playing backyard
football with Arizona State, it's very hard to do that.
And again once you did it a couple times, and
Baron Morton, we know, took some shots in that game.
And and so if your bou doesn't have the ability
to play backyard football the way that Arizona State did,
and so you're gonna have to find a new way
different than that and certainly different when you did the
first time around.
Speaker 2: Look, if you win, you're in, and if you don't,
you still might not be going to the college fotball playoffs.
So what do you have to lose? Let it rip,
Let bear rip it. Bring everything out of your playbook,
so everything who cares?
Speaker 1: Who cares?
Speaker 2: Because guess what the next game you're going to play
in is the ball game probably going to be your
last one because you're not going to the college football playoffs.
Can't evance, So let everything and I expect they rod
to do. So let's get back to the sound. Bear
is the third time you guys have fallen, As we
said to a fourteen nothing whole? What is it about
your ability to rally back? You had thirty one an answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Unfortunately, you've been there a couple times and you
don't want to be there. But or good stocky harps
on the ladge, just culture at BYU and just trussing
the guy next to you to get their job done,
and just comes down to execution.
Speaker 2: That's what it comes down to. None of this culture
stuff and all of that rallying back. Look, every team
is body and they think they could come back. So
I'm not trying to take a shot of Ba's culture,
but like, no, it's it's executing. They didn't execute in
the first quarter. The defense put the offense in a
bad situation pressure, there was no momentum. They played great,
complimentary football. They have to so the defense, offensive, special
teams has to play well less. It's the way it goes.
UCS defense came out a little bit. Ba's offensive line
was playing a little bit sluggish. I would say, weren't
maybe finishing blocks away this shit. It weren't being as violent.
And you see if got home and they had a
couple three and outs and then the UCFS offense said
we will not be denied because they had to get eligible.
And then you turn it on in the second quarter.
Dare I say that some seniors are making senior mistakes
and look, that was it. So I promise you that's
not gonna happen this next game. They're not gonna they
can't afford to start slow defensively, and it's never this
is the issue. The issue has been, and I agree
with Kalanne with us where they have not played collectively
their best ball because you've had issues where the defense
has started slow or the offense has started slow. You've
never had both of those come together where they've been
able to make it work. And I think that's the
biggest issue is you have not seen the offense start
fast or the defense hold out.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, against a very good football team.
Speaker 2: Now TCU, good football team where it's at and they're
having some struggles at the end.
Speaker 1: Iowa State good football team.
Speaker 2: Like that's the only games you could really say that
bou had formidable opponents where they executed.
Speaker 1: The UCF not good coming back. West Virginia not a
good football team.
Speaker 2: Right, So the issue is you're starting to slow against
bad football teams sometimes and even the good ones that
you should be putting away. You really didn't a non
conference and you did it against Iowa State against TCU.
But I'm telling you if you go three and out
to start your first two drives on Saturday, it's over.
Speaker 1: M AFO mess around and find out.
Speaker 3: Except I'm using a different word, yes, because again, if
you mess around with Texas SEC, I know, I know
it's beating a drug. I know we're beating the same drum.
I know we're beating a dead horse, all that stuff.
But I truly believe Texas Tech might be the best
team in the college football playoffs. I think they could
probably be any of those teams up there at the top.
They may go ahead and go to the national championship game.
You come to the King, you best not miss, and
you cannot afford the slow start. Now, what I will
say is I do feel like that last home game
of the season sometimes BOU is just a little sluggish.
Remember last year against Houston, you knew BOYU was gonna
win the whole time, but you felt like they should
have played better against Houston than they did. That kind
of let them hang around for a little bit, even
though you never thought you was going to lose that game.
So I think that that could be part of it.
And then what happened the first game they played after
that Houston game, which I know was a few weeks
later than this one's going to be. But remember when
everyone talked all that mess about oh, BYU is not
good enough to compete with Colorado, and.
Speaker 1: BYU threw their best punch.
Speaker 3: Now you're not going to get to do against at
Texas Tech what you did to Colorado last year.
Speaker 2: They're also not going to give you propaganda exactly. And
if they talked, they know they're good enough where you
go to GETT Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: They're not that dumb. This is a smart football team. However,
the point remains the safe. You got to bring your
best punch to that game. And again, you cannot start
slow on offense and you cannot start slow on defense.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3: So it was UCF Iowa State, which was the other
game that they were down fourteen to, oh Colorado Colorado.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, you're right, yep. And I mean.
Speaker 3: What's incredible about I guess not really the UCF one
because you were at home, but the other two if
you think about it, like we didn't know how bad
Colorado was at the time, and because they were competitive
and it was really Bears first true road environment in
a p four game early September.
Speaker 1: Even the East Carolina game.
Speaker 3: That game now looks really good as well, because I
believe East Carolina is eight and four right now.
Speaker 2: To be honestly, you could argue maybe played better in
the Carolina game if he did the color game. You
can make that argument, but the point being you're not
getting it would be really concerning if their fourteen point
deficits had all come at home. Two of them came
on the road, and they that I don't think it
was fourteen points. But they didn't have to play behind
in that Arizona game as well, that was on the road.
So this is a BYU team that can play from behind. Fortunately,
there's gonna be less Texas Tech fans.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be absent of the Red Raiders, because
again it's it's a few hours down the road. But
it is a little bit of a boost to know
that you're capable if you have to play from behind,
but you just you can't do it for too long
because they're the white sex Tech will capitalize.
Speaker 2: On unum percent. They're definitely gonna capitalize. If you do it,
you could. They don't have a bend on break. They
have a don't break at all, so you're gonna have
to really expose them. We'll see what happens. Number three Bear,
the first quarter was different than the rest of the game.
Did they show you something different that you weren't prepared for?
Speaker 1: No, not really.
Speaker 4: I mean we just, uh, you know, we just weren't
playing our best and uh yeah at that point, I
think we had like three plays and pretty long duration
in that first quarter. So it's just kind of.
Speaker 1: Slow for for for us.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we just kind of we had We knew
we had to bounce back, and I thought we responded well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they responded well, and yeah, there was nothing that
they didn't We've heard the Heavan Johnson's sound. Nope, couldn't
tell you. That just happens when you start slow. Sometimes
you pay for it. But you got to bounce back.
Number four Bear ipick was Parker Kingston on Saturday, and
I haven't chasing a lineup, uh, I.
Speaker 4: Mean pivotal role in our offense and then to see
him step up, Yeah, Parker's Parker is a dude.
Speaker 1: Pivotal role in the offense.
Speaker 2: Dare I say new wide receiver number one chases out
come on I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I'm dollar back.
Speaker 2: But Parker eight oh four, hey, brother, one hundred and
ninety six more yards and PK's gonna have one thousand
yard season that I want him to have. I'm excited.
I hope it's able to get done. Man, you think
about Parker kingseon me and wire receiver number one next
year being the guy that's a target. Look, you're gonna
lose Chase, you got La Mason Waller. Still, you got Tainakua.
I don't have to go get a guy or two.
I mean, look, and I think you would agree with this.
I've seen this from Darius Lassiter. I don't know if
we'll see this from Baby Keeling because he's at Miami.
Once is done, Darius put out a tweet. I want
to see Tray Spivey in a BYU uniform. Remember BYU
was going after Hi when he was in the portal,
it was Arizona BYU and I can't remember the other
two schools. Those are like top four, top five, and
he went to he committed to Arizona.
Speaker 3: To me, the interesting question is where do you think
BRU needs to be more focused than the Bordal this offseason?
Speaker 1: Receiver or running back. Okay, with else not to discuss.
We know where it's at, but I think it's close.
I know what the right answer is. Gets close. Sure,
you're not.
Speaker 2: Wrong when you look on paper and when you really
delve into it. Both are definitely critical.
Speaker 3: Because running backs you really only need one or two
wide receivers.
Speaker 2: You need a lot of the plethorrough of wide receivers.
And I think you can easily get a plethora, and
you can have the pass game work well enough to
be able to do it, but you can't set up
the pass it out the run right like you can
make it. And you can make this offense look really
good in the past game, especially with Aronahowie schemes things
up even with other guys, but you can't do it
unless you have a good running back. So I think
in this offense running back, they gonna need to go
get two dudes, if not three.
Speaker 1: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Because I keep telling you all, y'all came from me,
and I think you you know this. With the fans,
LJ ain't coming back. He ain't coming back. He ain't
coming back. Unless we didn't think Chase was coming back.
We did for a little while yeah, we didn't. But
I think that was different. I think Chase's stock was
not as high as LJS. I think l is a
better football player and Chase. Yeah, I just said it
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I will. I don't have to do the numbers. I
don't know. I guess LJ did have a better ye
this year. Now it depends.
Speaker 2: There's obviously these negotiations with Kilani and if we go
to Penn State and all these other things, Like the
question is how much could you pay to come back
next year?
Speaker 3: Right, maybe with all these discussions, which is there's a
couple extra bucks you can.
Speaker 1: Because he's a seven figure running back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Kilani has said Klannie was asked in it
was either Monday media availability or post game I can't
remember about LJ coming back, and he said, look, we're
just in the interest of doing what's best for our players, period,
and so if LJ wants to come back, then LJ
can come back.
Speaker 1: But like we're not gonna tell him to not go
to the NFL to come back.
Speaker 3: Now, maybe if BYU gets left out of the playoff,
maybe there's a part of LJ that says, you know what,
I got to unfinished business with the CFP. I'm coming
back because we're gonna make a run at it. And
who knows Bear in his second year. I don't know
if he can get better because he's already been so
great this season. But all of those things play into
that decision, all of it does, So we will see
what happens in regards to everything in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Bear LJ. Look, Bear's gonna be poached.
Speaker 2: You gotta think if Colannie goes to Penn State, what
happens to the entire defensive offenses. As a nature of
college athletics, coaches take players with him, they take coaching staff.
So your best case scenario is keep planning here and
keep building. I think that's what ultimately will be the outcome.
But we'll see. We'll find out more as the we
goes on. But you need to get this deal done
sooner rather than later. Let's keep going. Number five, what
is Chaseman to you? In your shirt time here?
Speaker 4: Bear, He's meant a lot and he's given me so
much confidence and trust in our relationship. Is just great
And yeah, I can't wait to have him back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ask that question because Chase was a senior. This
is senior day. What has he done? Look, I make
the jokes about Parker Kingston wide receiver number one. If
Chase had been playing in this game healthy, he's still leading.
They're probably close, maybe all by eighty yards. But think
about that, if Chase would have played, he's above, He's
probably close to nine hundred yards and that in two
more games. Because you're gonna play in this You're gonna
play in a bowl game that BYU receivers, you could
have two thousand yard receivers.
Speaker 1: That could be crazy.
Speaker 2: Now if they go to the college football playoffs and
with Chase, he's gonna have an opportunity to make that.
You know, we have a couple more games to get that.
But pks an one hundred and ninety six away. Yeah,
he can get that in the next game by himself. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I think you can get it in the next two
if you split it up.
Speaker 2: So look, it's been a minute, and who would have
thought that the kid from Roy who they call it
just a gadget guy, just.
Speaker 1: A speed guy by the way, who's.
Speaker 2: Run for a touchdown, throwing for a touchdown, and caught
a touchdown and return retard as well. Like he's got
all that in the bag. But just a gadget guy.
Stop it. He's the Tyreek Hill of college football?
Speaker 1: Is he?
Speaker 3: I don't know if people like me saying this, but
is he the Written Covey of B White?
Speaker 2: And I know people don't like that guy, but you
should have been a BYU should have been.
Speaker 3: But I do feel like they're very similar in the
fact that both of them played quarterback in high school. Facts,
and both of them were kind of doing everything kind
of guys in college and uh throw for a touchdown
that I don't know, I.
Speaker 2: Have to look it up close to it, but that's
probably the best of your version. I like the comparison.
I think, yeah, But I also think, you know, Parker,
go back to it Tyreek Hill college football. That's too
much of a hot take. But no, look like I mean,
I just think I bring that up of the narrative.
They call it Tyree Hill just a return guy, just
the gadge guy. And up until that injury, bro what
top you would say, top seven receiver, top ten receiver.
So Covey through for two yep. So yeah, so he's
the Breton Covey there, it is. Both takes are right.
He's the Britain covey of e YU and he's Tyreek
Hill of college football. Uh not maybe the Tyrek Hill
of college football, but the Tyreek kill on this BYU
football team.
Speaker 1: Oh dall it back.
Speaker 2: I won't be I won't be too extra, but look,
I Parker is phenomenal and like Bear just said two
questions ago, pivotal role in our offense. Let's keep going
because we do got to get the Breaku. We pontificated enough.
Number six, Bear, knowing you were in the championship game before,
did they have any excuse me, knowing that you were
in the championship game before the game started, did they
have any effect on the start of the game in
the slow start?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. I think we're all pretty
mature and growing up, so you know, it didn't affect
affect us.
Speaker 2: Look they're not They're gonna say it was just slow start,
didn't execute. But come, placency can have you start slow.
And I think this team thought that then being clinched,
UCF would have rolled over a little bit and then
they had the dollut and they had to bring the intensity.
And sometimes in every game you don't bring every intensity.
I don't know if from playing rugby, Oh, we're gonna
go out there, they're good. Like no, Sometimes people are
way more physical from the point of attack and you
have to execute.
Speaker 1: They didn't do that.
Speaker 3: You also have to look at it from UCF's perspective,
where first of all, they want to ruin your season period.
Speaker 1: Like you just you're in.
Speaker 3: That position where you know you don't have a ton
to play for, so you want to ruin the season
of the team that you're playing on their day at
their house, all those things.
Speaker 1: On top of that, UCF was playing to go bowling.
Speaker 3: They were playing for win number six so they could
get a bowl game, which they did not get because
of that game.
Speaker 1: And I again, I don't know if it's complacency.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that last game of the season
is just always weird to BYU. I don't know what
it is, but it definitely didn't look good. Definitely didn't
look good. Gotta play better.
Speaker 2: Like you said, number seven, Bear, what was it like
to watch those seniors do the senior walk and you've
relied on in a lot this season, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just.
Speaker 4: See you see you kind of going to a realization,
like you know, this is their last year, and and
but I yeah, it was sad, but you know, also
also joyful just to see them smiling and to get
the win on the on with the game today. But
we gotta make this season last even longer for him.
Speaker 2: Gotta make this season last even longer. Seeing him walk,
I'm gonna tease something. He's gonna talk about one guy
that walked. He's not a senior. I'm not gonna say
Bear slipped up, but Bear definitely hinted at something we'll
read between the lines. And a couple of questions Number eight, Bear,
does this team deserve to be in the College Football
Playoffs in European?
Speaker 1: And if so, why, Yeah, I think we deserve to
be in the CFP.
Speaker 4: I just think we got a great team.
Speaker 2: Look, and I edit didn't cut those two questions because
it's very short. He thinks they have a good team
and they should be And look, I think it's gonna
be crazy. We've sent us on Twitter. They're gonna be
the only power for a team with one loss left
out of the College Football Playoffs. That might be the greatest,
one of the greatest seasons in school history. And you're
not going to the CP that's wild bright in the
regular season, not conference championship.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: You know their losses to where it's either a team
who was top ten at the time or is a
top ten team. Now, yeah, it looks like they're getting
in and they're not even playing for a confge championship.
Speaker 1: But guess what. Guess what Miami.
Speaker 3: First of all, they got more losses than by U
and uh, either of those losses come against top ten teams.
I don't believe five. So so yeah, make that one
makes sense. Committee can shove it. I'm gonna say it. Yeah,
I said it. It's okay.
Speaker 1: I'll get reprimended, lated from being in the bosses. I
don't care.
Speaker 2: But the committee can take it in chovity to power
up manure. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: I test Olympic Committee. Oh goodness, that's exactly what they are.
We need to start that nar let's get that on
a T show. I know that can be a royal
army rants. I test olymp That's what it is.
Speaker 2: Number nine. When you see the talent on this team,
did you imagine that you could be eleven and one bear?
Speaker 4: Of course? Yeah, I mean we've we've got a great team.
We've got a great culture and and everybody's bought in
and uh yeah, I mean we we just got guys
that can go and and uh I'm so proud to
be at by U and and it's just it's been great.
Speaker 2: Look you heard me laughing. We got to turn my
mic off. That's my fault, that's bat producing. But look
I was laughing because duh, Like they're on the team.
Speaker 3: Yes, they think they don't want to the problem Like,
it's a valid question for you to ask me. It's
not a valid question to ask the quarterback, because what's
it gonna say? Honestly, you know, man, I thought we
were only gonna win six games this season, like the
Chris Paul is like, de Chris, do you think we'll
be back here for a game seven?
Speaker 1: No? No, I think we're gonna lose.
Speaker 2: That's why everybody laughing at what. I'm on the team,
bro say no, we're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: Even if I did think we were gonna lose, I
would never say it when these questions get asked, like
I just think of the Chris Paul. No, what you
want to say?
Speaker 2: I'm on the team, man, Yes, of course, yes, we're
going back That's why I might laugh at here.
Speaker 3: Like you can't ask that question, Like, no, I do
think not to kind of take down this completely. I
do think there's a valid principle in this question, because
let's be honest, like, let's just be grateful for where
BYU is today. I know we're gonna have to talk
a lot about the CFP rankings, whether not BOYA should
get in, how they're gonna do against Sex Sec. All
of that stuff, But let's be real about the fact
that you went eleven and one this season. You won
more games this year than you did last year.
Speaker 1: With Jake Retzov. And that's not a shot at Jake.
Speaker 3: That's just saying like, this team continues to improve, the
culture continues to infect all of these young men and
make them play at such a high level. Again, this
is the team three fourteen point comebacks this season, again,
a true freshman. Again, you didn't know what you had
going into the season until you snapped the ball against
Portland State. It is so incredible to see that Byu
is sitting at eleven and one this year. Given the
fact that the Vegas guys thought Byu was gonna win
no more than six games, there were conversations about whether
this team was gonna go bowling, and I know there's
a lot of blue guy with people who said I
knew this the whole time, and I'm like, look, I'm
grateful that you believe that, but you didn't know that.
And now we can sit here and say we knew it,
and this team proved a lot of people wrong, be included,
and I'm so happy to be wrong. I'm so happy
to this VYU team. I mean, run this year. Remember
year one in the Big Twelve. Remember how bad that
was watching just get the boat raced by some of
these teams. You're sitting there going, man, how long is
it gonna take BAU to really compete in this conference?
Well apparently not that long because the year after that
they were on a tie Reker to get into the
Big Twelve Championship, And this year they're playing in the
Big Twelve Championship against the team who is likely.
Speaker 1: To go to a national championship. Yep.
Speaker 3: So all of those things they just make you sit
back and say, look, there's a lot of things left
on this season, and we won't overlook any of those,
but let's also be grateful for what we have right
here with this team and what that says about the
future of this team.
Speaker 1: PA is money.
Speaker 2: This all I gotta say, He's earned it in the
entire staff. Ask all right, here's my tease for the
question that I was talking about number ten. What is
it like to have l J Martin is your backfield buddy?
Speaker 4: Uh? Bear, Yeah, it's been it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Obviously a veteran.
Speaker 4: I saw him walking out there at the end and
I was, you know, I want him to come back,
but yeah, I mean he's just he's just another eyes
in the backfield and just having him and yeah, sometimes
he h he'll alert me on on some pressures and
so it's just it's just been great, great having him.
Speaker 2: I want him to come back and then switches it
thinks about it, look a a. I know people are like, oh, no,
he's walking. He says he wants to come back. Did
you hear the palls? Did you hear the switch up?
Speaker 1: You heard it? Brett? Yeah, Bear, he stopped himself. He
stopped himself. But look, yeah, I'm telling you LJA coming back.
Speaker 2: Like when when this happens, I'm going to take a
victory lap because everybody on Twitter thinks so like, well,
I knew there was a chance he could not. No,
say to what you feel, say say speak of mine
And if you're wrong, you're wrong. Look I was wrong.
I say eight and four. No, they're eleven to one. Yeah,
it's okay to be wrong. You can't get everything right.
But LJ is not coming back. I be's shocked, and
if he does, his draft stock must not be well.
But moving on, number twelve, got to finish up, get
out of here. How was his shoulder? You look like
you were slinging around?
Speaker 1: Bear?
Speaker 4: Yeah, shoulders good?
Speaker 1: Asked that question because he had tape on the shoulder.
Speaker 2: I saw it through its pad. Yeah, and when I
mean as patty shirt. Just wanted to make sure because look,
he got dinged up. He was really in pain. But
he threw for a lot, you know, against you see
if you did well, his arm looked fantastic. So, uh,
let's finish up with his last two. Number thirteen, Bear,
there was a kid that said he was your twin.
What is it like to have kids who look up
to you in that regard?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He did?
Speaker 4: He did look like me, so no, no, yeah, so
I was a pretty pretty reasonable poster.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I did see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was cool and uh man, yeah, it means
a lot. And it's kind of just in the back,
like you're playing for something bigger than just yourself.
Speaker 1: You know why you put the up?
Speaker 4: I did see I was it was a two minute
and uh yeah, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do anything.
Speaker 4: But uh, I don't know, I just did it whatever.
Speaker 2: He wasn't, but he then he was. And that's why
that's not why he put the wife up, because he
saw it on the screen. He looked up and he
acknowledged it, meaning that he saw.
Speaker 3: It, which is wild because you you always wonder if
the players actually look up at the jumblesone definitely and
all of the in arena stuff that's going on, and
especially in that situation, for him to put the wy
up like that, I was like, Oh, he's really looking
at this and I hadn't seen a player do that before.
Speaker 1: It was really cool. What a cute kid.
Speaker 3: Those kids who come to the games though, by the way,
like those are the moments that make the game, Those
are what makes sports great. Uh And so shout out
to him for bringing that Austin poster, and shout out
to Bear for not getting too caught up in the
moment that he realizes what this is all about. And
it's just about like working hard, going out there, but
also inspire and end uplifting others.
Speaker 1: It is, and that's what leads us to this last question.
Speaker 2: You talk about playing for something bigger, Bear, is that
a part of being at BYU and European?
Speaker 1: What is your experience meant to you so far?
Speaker 4: Of course? Yeah. I mean because Colin is always harping
on you know, we're not We're not You're not just
playing for yourself. I mean that that's the mission statement
at b YU is a service to others and you know,
family and and just just serving others. And when we
do True Blue on True Blue Heroes on on Wednesday
and et cetera, et cetera, that's just what BYU is
and that's the culture. And again I'm so proud to
be here.
Speaker 1: That is what the culture is.
Speaker 2: Two Blue Heroes on Wednesday exactly what Bear said, Look,
people love this kid, rightfully so, and that's exactly that
that blew up on Twitter. Why because that's exactly what
it is. Is like ye, the Yegor thing, That's exactly
what people want to see. It's not just about on
the field, that's off the field as well. But speaking
of being off the field and off, we got to
get the break we've.
Speaker 1: Been going along. It's been a thirty minute segment.
Speaker 2: Great though, to get caught up with the bear in
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