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You probably recognized the voice. I was out for a
little bit. I had to take a little v K
during the season. Season unfortunate basketball ended while I was gone.
It was a tragedy. All my friends who don't know
about BYU who are with were trying to understand what
was going on. But they all knew about AJ and
they said, hey, he great, Ron, He's fantastic. What's up
with the other guys. I was like, hey, look, I
got no common to Look. If you ever met brothers,
brothers from Chicago, the South Side from you know, the
rougher part they don't hold back.
Speaker 1: They don't hold back.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they were saying AJ was him and everybody
else was not him. So that's kind of how the
game looked and looked. I saw a video of one
meet one of the media members and posted h getting
double team forty feet away from the basket, and look,
AJ had playoff NBA defense for him the whole year.
Speaker 1: It pretty much just what it was.
Speaker 3: They said, you're not gonna beat us, someone else will,
and b he didn't show up. So just get my
thoughts on the BYU Texas game.
Speaker 1: It was. He definitely was a disappointment.
Speaker 3: I know Vocal Titus is seven foot, but man, I
think it's very true Jackson pain that's set on our airways.
I've repeated his take. I agree with him. Back to
the basket big. You need a big man that can compete,
or if you're gonna get a seven footer like Vocal Titus,
then you have to have that guy be a true
rim protector. I don't know if BA who is it,
don't know if he should be back next season, don't
know if that experiment worked.
Speaker 1: It did not understand that he's young. I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll discuss it obviously with the folks that we have
here with everything, but keep us locked in. Like I said,
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let's fire up the ESPN, the fans, start the lineup
and I can introduce to you to my co host
today and the rest of the stars of the cast
that we have for this Monday, March twenty third edition
of Cougar Sports BYU Basketball season is over. Love to
get the man's thoughts of like, where do we turn
to now? You know, obviously it's gonna be all football recruiting.
We still got springball. The alumni game is still coming up.
But I said it last week before I left. The
off season is upon us, Brett always bringing the hammer
and we only I feel like I have a few
weeks and then it starts to die down.
Speaker 4: Three words for you, Oh, three words okay, three words
for you?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I was watching r k oh sorry those okay.
Speaker 4: I was watching this man towards my University of Georgia
Bulldogs and school.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know who you're talking about. I think this
man could be good addition to b YU.
Speaker 4: Great words for you, Cream Kareem Kaream obdul Jabbar.
Speaker 1: The man himself, Robbie Avilla, you have eligibility left. I
don't know if he does, but if he does, you
should go out and get that because.
Speaker 4: Like, look, he's coming from Saint Louis so like b
Yu would be a step up for him. He's a
back to the basket guy. He can pass the ball,
he can shoot. Then he has the greatest nickname in
the sport. I think Cream Abdul Jabbar aka Robbie Avila
with the Rex specs and all.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he has eligibility left. But when
I was watching him, he was already wearing some royal blue.
I said, I wonder if we could get Robbie Avila
to b Yu because like all jokes aside, he does
have a lot of what b Yu needs.
Speaker 3: Man, Robbie Fila, does he have any eligibility left? In
the words that Kalonez and Tacky get another year keeps staying.
Can Robbie find some eligibility? Can he come to be?
Who can help b Yu? In the post? Who coulda
stopped Bucking Titus? As I think about it, I'm gonna
ask Darnelt Dixon, who's gonna be one of our guests.
As I'll get you guys into the rest of the
esp and the fan started a line a bing Koda.
Speaker 1: By the way, we'll join us in the next segment.
Speaker 3: In the two thirty segment, Bred and now will take
you guys in the three four o'clock hour and then
we'll get into our interview portion with Ben. Look, look, look,
I feel like as you look at it, the more
I sit here, I know I said downn Hall right,
and I've said that I take it back. But looking
at what happened and just down the stretch Cincinnati, other things,
West Virginia, they got the guard play, they got the
wing play. They don't have the big man presence. And
people are gonna say ron Kiba did this Kiba? Some
people get keba b some give them a C, some
say minus, something like to me, it's not that when
I'm saying big performance, And as my eyes have been
opened up looking at it, it was hard to prepare
for bo you last ye because you're like, oh, you
got a guard Kiba, then you got a guard fust
and Fus could pass out of the double team, and
when it came he wasn't the best at it, but
when he did, it really made it a tough way
for defense to guard. Go back to Mark Pope's here
Bus and Ali Khalif, Well, okay, now we got to
prepare for one big deck and pass the ball all
up and down the Wasu court. Who can go you know,
lily being called him the Egyptian Jokic, who can do that,
and then he can he can dish your dimes and
then he can shoot threes. Now, obviously they lost to
you know, Duquine in the first round, and that was unfortunate,
but that team the entire season, they could have used that.
I feel like against Texas, I feel like Ali could
have made a presence. I feel like Fos even though
being an undersized center at sixty six, how strong he was,
maybe he could have got vocal titus in foul troup.
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong in that assessment, but I just
feel they didn't have that skill set and it was
tough and it was just it was a lot to
ask of Mahailo boop keba and uh beat you down
the stretch.
Speaker 4: Bright your thoughts, No, I agree, I push back a
little bit saying I don't know that they fully have
the guards and the wings locked down, only because we
don't know what Nate Pickens looked like shooting the basketball.
Because if we're being real, run, we are assuming that
had Nate Pickens played, you would have solved a lot
of issues. And I mean no disrespect to Nate Pickens
at all because from what we see on him at
tape at UC the Riverside or Irvine, you see Riverside,
you see Riverside.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was Dawson Baker who was a lot of
u C's on the roster.
Speaker 4: The point being, though, we're assuming that Nate Pickens would
have solved a lot of your issues as what we are,
but we also assumed Tyler Moross was going to solve
a lot of your issues. We assume Canar Davis was
going to solve a lot of your issues, and we
assumed that Alexei Kostitch was going to solve a lot
of your issues. And I love all of those young men,
all friends of this program or the other program I
do one way or another, great individuals.
Speaker 1: I've met them all.
Speaker 4: What I will say, though, is they didn't necessarily show
up in the way that you would have expected.
Speaker 1: And so what I need going forward.
Speaker 4: I know it's a cheap cop out to just say,
like better roster construction, but like you need to find
out what you need and go get it, because this
year you thought you had guys who were what you needed,
and then you found out that they weren't exactly what
you needed. And I think there was a little bit
of a scouting discrepancy. And I do agree with you,
like I do think they need a back to the
basket big, because you go down the line like Florida
they got back to the basket, Big Texas they got
back to the basketball. Every like everybody who's dancing right now,
had to back to has a back to the basket.
And if you don't have a back to the basket big,
you need a big who can at least stretch the
floor and give you better space and exactly one or
the other. Because I was talking to someboddies yesterday about
I was like, man, Alex Khalifa looks nice, and they
were like, well, he's not back to the basket. I'm like,
you don't stretch. You could do one or the other.
I don't need him to do both at I'm able
to do one or the other. And I guess what
he can do when he gets you down there on
the low block. He may not be able to power
you the way that you would like, but you know
what he can do. He can chick dimes, baby, he
can dish and so and I'm not saying go out
and get ale like Klee. If I'm not saying Bo
you would have won if they had him. I'm just
saying you need someone who does that for the floor.
Because to your point, AJ was playing NBA playoff defense
all season long. And I think I said this every
breakdown we did after every game, BYU basically had a
sign that said or these teams had a sign that
said we're gonna guard AJ. Well, let somebody else beat this,
but we don't think anybody else will. Nobody else did.
BOYU ended up with the season that they did, and
AJ ended up with the lack of spacing that he did.
So I need a little bit better as far as
talent scouting goes.
Speaker 1: For BYU going forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think definitely think the scouting is something they're
definitely gonna have to to bring up, and they're definitely
gonna have to look at the players that they scouted
that they brought in. Some performed, some step saw like
what I saw from Lexi coachch like what I saw
when Kanar. When Richie went down on how he stepped
up his approach per Kevin Young Move's approach right, he
said that hadem's of development. You saw that after a year,
But still that's a problem. Here's something else that is
also getting overlooked because looka tid has just had such
a game. The defense was still struggling. Pool still hit
a couple of big threes. You still need byu there.
And look, I hate to like get on Alexi coach
in this moment, but dude, your guys in the corner,
why are you watching the guy all the way across
like you're supposed to be looking over here, like they
gotta get the three point defense down.
Speaker 1: Canard I feel like stepped up and played great.
Speaker 3: You saw Canard's on ball defense, and why you know
he's an elite defender. Now obviously when he gets himself
in foul trouble, like anybody is tough. But when Canard's
not in foul trouble, he makes it a problem. Saw
in Iowa State, saw on the Texas Tech game, Gannar,
Really he can do a lot for you. Even in Texas,
I thought he played, you know, he had great moments.
So they're gonna have to stay fix that. But I
think as they going to the offseason, Kevin Young mentioned shooting,
it's not just shooting Kevin like I really want Kevin
to not.
Speaker 1: I know the the NBA has a lot.
Speaker 3: Of good things it does, and you can prepare young
men for that, but you need to go to college game.
Speaker 1: You need to find a guy that can do that.
Speaker 3: I understand the NBA doesn't have maybe a traditional guy
unless it's Jokic who can do that. And Yo can
do both. He can do lily shoot the three, and
he can body you up in a pain and do that.
Speaker 1: But you need that guy.
Speaker 3: You need to find that six ten six' eleven guy
or find a seven footer, that just Like, vocatada is
gonna deny you from getting to the. Basket that needs
to be on the roster. Period in the, discussion even
With Ali, khalifa let's be. Honest who was struggling with
his weight gain when he was here AT byu, right
that was an issue a little bit because of his
knees and he couldn't work out and he had an.
Injury what happened, though you still Saw ali perform even
to a, degree AND i THINK ba and we're not
asking him to be a world, Beater, brett but you're
telling me that You're Ali khalifa had WITH byu or
The foo's had that. Year let you telling me, that,
bo you couldn't use that this year in? Games definitely
think they could. Have so we'll see as we head
into the off. Season but let's check out the rest
of OUR espn the fans start a. Lineup we're gonna
get Into Kalonie sataki sound in just a. Second in
the nitty. Gritty we also are going to get into
former by you crazy to, say FORMER. BIO i remember
covering these guys when they first got THE byu and
now they're. Gone but FORMER byu Safety Tenor wall addressed
the media At Pro. Day Chase roberts did as. Well
we'll get all into that at three h five and
three thirty, respectfully three forty, five we'll get into Little
krueger's and the. Pros Jack kelly also caught up with the.
Media how Is jack? Doing how's he up in his pass?
Coverage what can he? Do is he A day two?
Guy can he slip into round three at the earliest
or is he excuse, me day two? Guy or is
he going to be A day three? Guy, fourth, round,
fifth round six or? Seventh, also what other guys will
discuss it in question of the, day gave themselves the best.
Opportunity Did Mary bomba do? It Did Garrison grimes do?
It Did Chase roberts do with running a better forty?
Time who did?
Speaker 1: It AM i missing? Someone is it ten or? Walk
his numbers look.
Speaker 3: GREAT i think he's one of what the, longest you
know safety so by measurement with hands and you, know,
fastest you don't really get him that tall and that
quick compared to the likes Of Daniel swarrenson And Zane.
Anderson we'll discuss, that you, know in the second, hour
and then of course we're gonna try to welcome in J.
Speaker 5: T for.
Speaker 3: Three he's gonna try to join. US i think he's
traveling right now with a little. Business i'm gonna get
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he addressed the MEDIA byu at a multitude of athletes
can be gonna pull up the press releases is PER Byu.
Athletics several Former cougars at standout performances amongst the seventeen
players participating AT byu twenty twenty Six proday held at
THE ipf On friday. Morning just reminded everybody know they're
discussing On. Friday just wanted to let people know that
it switched back, obviously as you can, Tell big twelve
was doing it. Now he was giving it back to
those schools in the conference to do it themselves. Again
we'll discuss this later in the show about the idea
Of brett AND i will give our, thoughts so we'll save.
That but back at b why you love This the
ADDITIONS nfl combined participants Of Chase roberts And Jack kelly returned.
Speaker 1: To participate in.
Speaker 3: Pro they will get caught up with them on why
they came, back what if they want to showcase as?
Well and then other members of the twenty twenty five
roster participating included the likes Of Talan, Alfrey Mariy, Bomba Jaden.
Dunlapp remember my interview With Evan, johnson he, says look
out For Maury moury is a guy that you could
definitely see and he was also excited to Watch jayden perform,
too And maury did turn some heads or break that.
Down in our next, Segment Tennel wall offensive Lineman Isaiah
jatta will And lapuau And Austin leus a kicker Will
friend the kicker as there was who was With brett
always bringing a hammer on the. Mission, Lockxnapper Garrison, grimes
defensive Tackle kafuoke and Then john Down mopeu and tight
End Carson ryan were also that and then Former cougars
from the twenty twenty four, roster the likes of Quarterback
Jake rhetz laugh byu j when he was, here running
Back Kinkley Ropazzi hinckley loved to See hinckley out. There
and then of course defensive Back Mark. Collins Remember Mark
collins came to by you transferred From Weaver, state Those
Weaver state DB's mark did, That, Brett that's a that's
a lot of. LISTS i don't know if you're ever
to give your thoughts On, friday that group of lists
of people your thoughts on just the people from twenty twenty,
five but also a couple of people from the twenty
twenty four roster.
Speaker 4: Too do we know why that? Is the guys from
the twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Roster, yeah, So, Jake i'm pretty sure to landon have
enough people.
Speaker 4: Right jake wouldn't make. Sense what but Like Mark, Collins
Mark collins that ONE i don't. KNOW i don't know
If mark, participator if he's allowed to. COME i didn't
get confirmation on Why, mark and need to. Ask but For,
HINCKLEY i Think, hinckley what is it he was in
the process of getting that way he thought he was
gonna be. Playing he didn't participate in last year's pro,
day so that was his op between now to showcase
and do that's still UNFORTANB i.
Speaker 1: GUESS i Guess Mark collins is really the main question
that he was.
Speaker 3: There i'm just, curious, curious AND i didn't get the
confirmation on, that BUT i liked that be he was
able to do this is lets me. Know AND i
wonder If mark didn't have didn't have the pro, deay
if he wasn't at the one in The big. Twelve
SO i wonder if that was the. Case now that
have to double. CHECK i could be, wrong yeah, though
but it would make. Sense BUT i know that for
Reason jake didn't have enough people and The hinkley didn't
get his waiver And trent was training this whole. OFFSEASON
i think As i've seen him around just in, passing you,
know at fall camp and spring. BALL i think he's
training At by and was getting ready for. This so,
yeah so you never know one hundred. Percent so, Yeah
jake was back at practice doing.
Speaker 1: That so it was it was.
Speaker 3: Crazy so and then, uh several Former cougars currently playing
in THE nfl return to support their former. Teammates not
surprised by these names at, all AND i think these
will stand out The cougar. Nation Tyler, Algier tyler's been
there every time that he could be.
Speaker 1: There T y cycle t will show up and show.
Speaker 3: OUT i remember he was there When Caleb hayes ran
HIS i think it was his first year into.
Speaker 1: It, Yeah tyler was definitely.
Speaker 3: There Kyris tonga, Obviously Zach WILSON i know has come
once or, Twice Tyler baddy defensive, end and Then Zane
zane train, Safety Zany anderson who just.
Speaker 1: Signed with The Miami, dolphins and then Cornerback Jacob.
Speaker 3: Robinson not surprised by any of those guys who showed
up and showed out to come. Support how do you
can expect those guys every year if they have the opportunity.
Speaker 1: To Do, yeah it feels Like TYLER'S.
Speaker 4: I GUESS i shouldn't say every, year but this This
prode and then the PRO da before it went To
big Twelve. PRODE i know he was there because he's
been On Sports nation both. Times SO i mean it's really,
cool right because they don't have to come back to.
Speaker 1: This they.
Speaker 4: Don't they got plenty of other things they could be
doing that they probably have to be. Doing they don't
have to come back To provo to be a part
of this because like it's not even for.
Speaker 1: Them they get nothing out of coming back to.
Speaker 4: This they come out because they want to support AND
i think they deserve a ton of credit for that
BECAUSE i think it is something that's so.
Speaker 1: Unexpected, yeah definitely.
Speaker 3: Is, LOOK i think there are a couple of guys
who definitely were able to raise that draft stocks show
people maybe what they weren't able to show at THE
Nfl combine or just at the prote and did general
not getting you.
Speaker 1: Combine so we will.
Speaker 3: See but shout out to all of the Former cougars
without further, ado let's not wait any. Longer this Is Kaline.
Sataki he addressed the media at Pro. Day let's see
what he had to say regarding everybody that was there
participating those that returned as.
Speaker 6: Well all, right first is today and how fun does
this stay for?
Speaker 1: You, no it's.
Speaker 7: GREAT i MEAN i think The big twelve took the
Pro day away from us, earlier you, know in the
last couple of, years a few, years and it's good
to have a back in. PROVO i, MEAN i JUST
i think our people do a great job at, it
and just really really happy that they were able to
give our guys a great prota and in a great.
Speaker 1: Environment for them to.
Speaker 7: Perform and SO i thought the guys did. GREAT i, mean,
overall the vibe from The scouts and from THE nfl
personnels is really, positive and SO i think our guys
did some really good things to help. Themselves and you,
know it was it was good to see the whole
group and see this thing, back the event back again
in our.
Speaker 1: Facility and it was good to See jake back in.
Speaker 7: Probo, yeah great to Have jake. HERE i, mean once A,
cougar always a. Cougar and so we cheered for him
as he his team went to the playoffs last, year
AND i was just really proud of what he's been
able to, accomplish and it's always good to have him back.
Speaker 1: Home what we set that up was.
Speaker 6: That you guys reaching out to the, end you reaching
out to.
Speaker 4: You how did you guys decide to.
Speaker 6: Add Any probably make sure.
Speaker 7: Both we've always been in contact with, him, uh just
wishing him the best during the, season you, know and
he's chiefs cheering for, us and so there's there's already connection,
THERE i DON'T i, mean even though he wasn't playing for,
us he's still he's still part of our. FAMILY i
think he's got he's got a great, arm AND i
have a great shot next. Level so, yeah that's so
why we brought him here so we can do. That
and we we have a good history of some quarterbacks
that are still in the league right. Now SO i
think he'll BE i think he'll be just fine in THE.
Nfl it's just a matter of timing and who he
gets to work. With how important for, You, yeah that's my.
Job my job is to try to get as many
of our guys drafted and and give them opportunities in free.
Agency it's good to see the former athletes here and
and a lot of THEM nfl players, too you. Know so,
uh it's just a really exciting for me to just
see everybody do. It and, then, honestly the best thing
for for this is that our current team is watching
it and they can visualize themselves doing this, too and
and for some of them next, year and for all
all the freshmen that just got, here this is something
that they can look forward to and then being able
to connect with the former players and connect with the.
Speaker 1: Guys that just.
Speaker 7: Graduated so it's it's a lot of. Fun But i'm
really proud that these guys are able to give them
this environment and this, opportunity AND i just wish we
could have had it. Before but that's, Okay, well we'll
just keep running with what we got.
Speaker 1: Now a kind of kind.
Speaker 6: Of like your last end off for the.
Speaker 7: Group of guys that, yeah we'll have a dinner tonight
and you, know give them their helmets and their jerseys
and stuff like. That BUT i just any chance you
can get the whole group, together it's for, me it's
it's getting the current team connected with the guys that are.
Leaving AND i don't really have to do anything other
than have them just connect and talk to, them and
they just give him some words of wisdom and some
things to think about as they go into uh this next.
Season so it's something that these guys, built and so
it's good to have the whole group back together. Again,
YEAH i THINK i SAID i thought he's gonna run
faster than, That to be honest with, YOU i, mean
he's we know he could, run SO i think maybe
the nerves got to him and he wasn't able to
do as much as he. Can but, yeah he's we
knew he's, fast, right That's.
Speaker 3: Kalona sataki addressing the. Media how about Bomb? Mambas what
is a bombas?
Speaker 1: Forty?
Speaker 3: Oh, YEAH i knew he was, fast but thought he run.
Faster look four nineteen four to two seven really. FASTER
i don't know what to say about, That.
Speaker 1: BRETT.
Speaker 4: I i really Think kilani was being sarcastic and usually
he's good at, it AND i don't think it played well.
Speaker 1: Because there's no way he's being. Serious there's no unless
he just doesn't know the.
Speaker 4: Numbers it was like a four or, Five but he's
got to be being. Sarcastic but either, way LIKE i
love that From. KILANIE i don't think you can really
over sell just how fast bomba was and that's not
one of those where it's, like well was it hands
like regardless of what timeer they, used like you're not
off by three tenths of a, second like he. Didn't
it's not like he ran a four two seven they clocked,
it but it was actually like you come back and
find it to four to, Five like it's not that far.
Off so even if it's even being unofficial whatever it is,
officially still unbelievably.
Speaker 1: FAST i thought the other cool part.
Speaker 4: Was Getting jake having his send off from B YU
i think is really. Cool given again the whole, history
backstory track, record all of that, stuff how things went,
down it's pretty story bookending forget to. It for him
to get his send off to THE nfl from the
college that really put him on the big stage because
nobody knew who he was coming out Of. Juco Obviously
john summerl, Did that's why he picked him up down
there At, tulane but outside of, that, like nobody knew
Who Jake retsoft. Was so FOR byu to bring him
in and then be the one to send him off
to THE nfl hopefully give him a boost going to
the next, level is really, cool AND i think it's
emblematic of WHAT byu is. Like The gospel Of Jesus
christ is a gospel of second. Chances and to get
to see by you have a second chance With, jake
And jake has second chance WITH.
Speaker 1: Byu really cool.
Speaker 4: Story probably the biggest story of The, proday even though
it had the least to do with the actual on field.
Speaker 1: Football.
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Speaker 1: IS i want to see who your.
Speaker 3: Guys the question of today is this WHICH byu player
who performed at PRO da increase their draft stock the.
Most SO i don't know if you have your, answer
and if you, DON'T i can start and then let
you finish.
Speaker 4: Up BUT i know who the. COUPLE i know who
the GUYS i have are because here's we're talking, about
like draftstock. Moving we're not talking about who we think
is gonna go. First, No, FIRST i don't know that
Anything Chaser jack did at their pro day moved their
stock that much from what it already. Was to, me the,
answer which is probably the easy, ONE i, think is
More bomba just because anytime you do something like, that
that's something clear that nobody can fight, about nobody can
disagree with, about and it also goes. Viral, right SO
nfl scouts are forced to see it because the number
is so good that it. Exploded, now scouts were obviously,
there but you have other people who are in the
building who may not have been in their RESPECTIVE nfl,
buildings who may not have even sent anybody to B,
yu who see that number and they, go, okay we
can work with. This because if you'll, Remember i'm not
comparing him, exactly but Like Reek wolling with The seahawks
and now with The, eagles like Speed demon guy wasn't
necessarily the guy everybody will, love wasn't necessarily didn't really
necessarily go to the biggest school down there AT, utsa
but they found a way to make him effective and
he hasn't been a perfect cornerback for The seahawks by any,
means but he's been a championship level player by all,
means by all. Accounts so for, me the ANSWER i
think is moriy. Bomb but even THOUGH i think that's
the easy, One, yeah that is the easy one for.
Sure AND i, LOOK i think anytime you, do like
what you said when you run that four two seven
one guy clocked at these were handtimes by the, way
four one, nine that that type of speed is.
Speaker 3: Different you can't teach, that especially as a. Cornerback you
want to play that. Speed they love. That that's where
you have to.
Speaker 1: Test.
Speaker 3: Well there are a couple of the, guys THOUGH i
do want a. HIGHLIGHT i do Think chase may be
locked down what people already believed about. Him the six
four six was not what he wanted at the. Combine
maybe he had too many cookies in the. MORNING i
being tongue in cheek WHEN i say, THAT i don't
know what the reasons. Were you could be nervous because
you're performing in front a lot of. People that's a fair,
reason you. Know, See oh it's a lot of pressure
live television people are, Watching, Okay BUT i, mean anytime
you have that much, production like when he's caught that many,
passes that many, yards that many touchdowns he's, played his
body will work his entire. Motor you saw his top end,
speed so when you saw the top in speed Against West.
VIRGINIA i will discuss this more in this segment in
the second, hour but it's just in. Correlate i'm, like
that's not. CORRELATING i don't think how can a six
or four guy get up to twenty one point?
Speaker 1: Two you, know, like really could that be the? Case
so you thought.
Speaker 3: Nervous then he bust out and runs a four or
five to. One my, goodness he was. Moving it's, like,
okay there it. Is SO i think that helped trying
the effort to get chased on the show so he
can explain and tell us what the scouts tell him
after the feedback he got, in you, know and we'll
hear from him. Himself is he pleased with? That AND
i think that's one of the reasons he came was
to run a better forty, times no. Doubt but it's
Not chase EVEN i know more he's one of. Them to,
me it's the GUY i think that turned a lot
of heads that people are not really looking, at AND
i hope they.
Speaker 1: Do it's the one Tenor.
Speaker 3: Wall Tenor, WALL i feel like really gave himself an
opportunity to get his name called if he's projected to
be undrafted in that seventh. Round phenomenal. NUMBERS i opened
up the segment with explaining, it you know, What, tenner
but just re emphasize. It excelled in the agility three
cone drill and twenty yard. Shuttle the safeties six point
eight cone drill time in the four point one eighth
shuttle time are both second best overall from the.
Speaker 1: Combine this is the ENTIRE nfl. Combine that's what it
is that is.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous and the top positions at his, position like make
that make, sense like in his, position and second at the,
combine look at the safeties that are free or, strong
it doesn't matter that are going that have declared for the,
draft that are projected to be first round. Pick but
look at those. Guys T wall tested better than. Them,
now this is Per you, know your old, EMPLOYER Bo Sports.
Nation he got With Spencer linton And Blaine. Fowler and
what you said was just basically the paraphrase, was he's
a taller free, safety one of the tallest testing wise size,
wise hand, wise his speed and the four five seven
forty his broad JUMP i think was over eleven so
tanner to me if he were to get, DRAFTED i
would not be surprised later on because those type of
numbers stick.
Speaker 1: Out he can't teach. SIZE i always say, that, right
can't teach, that you, know and maybe you. Can Maybe i'm, wrong,
Right Maybe i'm wrong about.
Speaker 3: That BUT i just feel like guys who are, bigger,
faster stronger at their position more than the average good,
athletes they can do. That he's got the. Speed we've
seen him go to the house on the pick. Six
he can track people. Down he's a very smart football,
player very, disciplined does make a lot of, mistakes very well.
SPOKEN i, mean if you want someone to write a
novel for, you you're looking for the next stake president
of your. Stake if you're looking for the next you,
Know bishop mission, president it's gonna Be tannewall at some
point when his football career is. Over but this man
is very, humble willing to work really, hard AND i
think he was the guy THAT i honestly shocked. People
Moriy bomba had the biggest. MOMENT i, think you, know
the with the obviously like Remember Michael. Simon When Michael
simon ran, THAT i think that shocked everybody and that's
what Got mike of that contract with The, panthers, right
and now he's in the coaching wide receivers coach of
The autah Up. North BUT i Think, tanner his numbers
stole the day AND i think how he tested was
very well in my.
Speaker 4: Opinion, Yeah AND i mean you can go look at
the Relative Athletics, scorer THE, ras THE. Raz they give
him great numbers on his explosion, grade great numbers on
his agility, grade good numbers.
Speaker 1: On his speed.
Speaker 4: Grade BUT i mean he ran under four, six so.
Good it's good and. Safety if you can play, smart
you don't have to be, fast, right and he plays smart.
Right you don't need a four to three guy a
safety especially if that four three guy doesn't know how
to cover it doesn't know how.
Speaker 1: To read an.
Speaker 4: Offense, absolutely AND i think that's the other part of
this conversation that doesn't play into what he did at
The Pro, day but clearly when you turn on the
tape it's a guy who understands what he sees and
is able to diagnose what's about to, happen and did
that in clear fashion. Ways The West virginia pick, six
the interception Against utah goes up in high points the.
Ball SO i think Tanner wall does all those things exceptionally.
Well he reads the, field he's the, fast he's sorry
performed well as athleticism score. Wise but the other thing
is something THE nfl teams can't grade, either which is
the chip on his. Shoulder and every, year whether it's
THE Nba, draft THE nfl, draft whether it's recruiting, rank
like there's somebody that everybody misses on because they said
he wasn't that. Good go look at guys Like DeVante,
adams guys LIKE i mean Even Justin herbert coming.
Speaker 1: Out of high. SCHOOL i don't think was that highly.
Speaker 4: Recruited like there is somebody in every talent pool that
everybody passes on for who knows what.
Speaker 1: Reason and everyone is.
Speaker 4: Wrong and clearly everyone in college, football INCLUDING, buyu was
wrong About Tanner, wall because IF eou was right on,
him they wouldn't have preferred.
Speaker 1: Him as a walk. On, now maybe tanner should have
grown up soul life playing.
Speaker 4: Safety who, knows but either, way the point being like
he has made it to a point where he is
in the talent pool available for The National Football, league
and that to me says a. LOT i keep going
back to the comments we heard FROM aj before The
texas game where he talked, about, how you, know high
school was really easy for me BECAUSE i was.
Speaker 1: The, biggest the, strongest the, fastest.
Speaker 4: And so there were certain things WHERE i developed bad
habits because at the time they weren't bad. HABITS i
got away with those things and nobody, ever no coach
ever called me out on, it and no players wherever
to expose me in it BECAUSE i was just the,
biggest the, strongest the. Fastest, now the difference WITH aj
IS aj found a scenario where he had to, improve
and he has.
Speaker 1: Improved, yes BUT i will always.
Speaker 4: Take that guy over the most talented guy in the,
pool who, says you know, WHAT i don't want to
do the hard.
Speaker 1: Thing if it's gonna get, Harder i'm gonna avoid the Hard,
yeah don't Want Tanner.
Speaker 4: Wall it started being hard man day one when he
wanted to go TO, byu when he wanted to play college.
Football that's when it got, hard and he didn't.
Speaker 1: Run he never.
Speaker 4: Has all he's continued to do is get, better prove
more people. Wrong and if that, doesn't if that's not
a quantifiable trait that THE nfl, WANTS i don't know what.
Speaker 3: IS i think you hit it out of the. Park
he's everything that you. Want when it gets, hard he
watches more. Film when he's, slower he works harder in
the weight. Room when he feels, tired he changes his dire,
more he gets more. Strict the guy gets more. Disciplined
then people Get he gets more disciplined than those that
crumble and get on.
Speaker 1: This, undisciplined like it's not even in his.
Speaker 3: Vocabulary like if we're just gonna be, honest this is
probably one of the most disciplined football Players i've seen
in a really long time in terms of, craft, preparation
in mental and physical. Toughness And i'm serious WHEN i say, that,
because like you just, mentioned could have packed it. Up,
yep didn't work out can my? DREAM i was a
walk on WHILE i Persud, HEY i think we should play.
This let's do, it no, Hesitation And i'm, sure pretty
sure he's grateful for.
Speaker 1: IT i Know Jay.
Speaker 3: Hill is he telling me that That Jay hill's JOB
a part of that is not Because Tanneh. WALL i
know What Jay hill.
Speaker 4: Did we.
Speaker 3: Restable jay had to do it on the highest level
before he got To. Michigan you need a. Qualifier you
don't get a job In michigan coming From Weaver. State
this is no, Knocker Ja. Hill i'm just being so for.
Real J hill Took ba's defense and that elevated. IT
a key piece of that Was Tanner. Wall you know,
why you know who had the green dot on his.
Speaker 1: Helmet that.
Speaker 3: Guy just to remind you in case you missed, it
football players in college now have the green dot that
you can speak to. Them they can't speak to, you
but you can tell them what the play call.
Speaker 1: Is tanner call.
Speaker 3: Plays he was the signal. Caller what else do you
want safety being a signma. Caller last TIME i checked
this into the middle. Linebacker normally the mic usually it's the,
mic but it was this. Guy not guarantee If tanner
came off the, field they probably you, know had you,
know another guy called the, plays not just gonna act
Like tanner's not on the, field because they would rotate those.
Guys but if come on, now it's a privilege to
be able to have the green.
Speaker 1: Dot it is.
Speaker 3: SO i think you bring up all all very valid,
Points but to, me it Was tanner's te, wall no
doubt about. IT i Think tanner blew it out of the.
Water AND i really hope that he's able to get his.
NUMBER i hope so BECAUSE i WOULD i would be
very happy for him and everything that he's come.
Speaker 1: For and, look it might.
Speaker 3: Happen you, see you've seen a bunch of Walk these
walk on stories are, Crazy. Tyler If tanner got his number,
called he got called on day three between that fourth
and seventh, round DON'T i don't know how you cannot
look at. It kline's having a lot of success now
in this program because of. That and he said that
a couple of years. AGO i think it was When
Jaron hall And Puku, naku all of them after the
year Before bo he joined The big, twelve and he,
said my job is to help prepare young men to
be better as husband's. Fathers he was bossed to prepare
them for the next, level make it to THE. Nfl
is he is not just, okay, listen do it is
to get them to the next. Level AND i believe
that he has done, That so shout out to. Him
shout out to all of these guys to. Compete we
wish them the best of. Luck hopthugh we can get
some of them on AND i. DO i think all
of them have a place and a. Chance so hopefully
we can catch up with them before they get contracts,
signed because at that point they no longer you have
to go through THE nfl communications and that could be more.
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of The sweet sixteen. Coaches this is per you, Know Dan.
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Speaker 1: One Kelvin.
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a free. Throw he's Seventy John Kala hari sixty. Seven
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why you're not going to the sixteen a day last
year thought that we're gonna. Go but just to give
you a Little March madness bracket, UPDATE i wonder how
everybody's bracket is is. Done how's your bracket, Doing, brad
is your bracket? Doing he's, like he's, Like i'm not
even gonna. Comment he just shook his heads At nay And,
uh that's kind of how it. HAPPENED i think everybody's
bracket is. BUSTED i don't think there are any perfect.
Brackets When florida went, DOWN i think that's, uh it's. Over,
now it's. Over it's really tough to predict. It no
one would have thought That iowa would have done. That
i'm at a max what, oney seven hundred and thirty
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again and you're gonna have some premiere. MATCHUPS i Guess
Darren peterson shouldn't have Picked. KANSAS i Guess darren shouldn't
have Pick Kansas brett because he went out in the
round of thirty. TWO aj went on around of sixty.
Four darren went out in the round of thirty thirty.
TWO i, guess you, know they just. Stay they shouldn't
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should have went To North. Carolina certain you, know television
personality says that no premier matchups that everybody will have
their eye On. Texas can they Beat? Purdue can they
get to the? ELITE aid still don't understand how you
Know Sean miller lost fourteen. Games if he Beats purdue is,
like where did that come? From iowa would take On,
Nebraska arkansas Against Era. Zona all eves are going to
be on the two night games On. Thursday Can john Get?
Arizona can? They i've heard and, look this is What
i'm gonna. SAY i know people gonna, Say, ron that's not.
True this is Now Jaydon bradley's biggest test to lead
and it has nothing to do WITH, BYU. Byu that
first go, Around Richie saunders is out of the. Game
wasn't on the floor to last, play even THOUGH i
think that's the closest be you way you played. Them
now the second go round it was. Different he didn't
shoot as, well but they still won the. GAME i
think this is the toughest. Desk you got a coach
that's been to how Many sweet, sixteens how Many elite,
eights how many national, championships or how many different. Teams,
yeah this is gonna be the Tough LIKE i don't
even know who should say upset alert Because john is
just a good coach and he's still coaching at the highest.
Level But i'm excited to See Okay arizona open up
at the seven a half point favorite by the, Way Jayden,
browley you're The big Twelve player of the, year, right
you weren't unanimous first, team which means obviously you know
what that. Means so you were the most outstanding player
in the. Tournament see what you got Against darius A.
Cup i'm really gonna be intrigued to see that. Matchup
and then, lastly the night, game can My illinois find
an a LINE i knock Off Kelvin? SAMSON i don't think.
SO i bring all of this up to SAY i
think the old coaches will. PREVAIL i think you could
See john Kyla pari in An ellegate. EIGHT i definitely
think you'll See Kelvin sampson in The elite at.
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