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from tanner Wall. Tannerwall, it's done great things on and
off the football field. We're gonna highlight him today. This
is some postgame postgame commentary from Tannerwall, the the senior
free safety that's been balling out for Brigham.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Some postgame commentary from Tannerwall BYU Free Safety.
Speaker 4: I've been a part of all three of those wins,
so I mean to be able to say, you know,
leaving this place, I never lost to Utah. I'll wear
that with a lot of pridet for the rest of
my life. But it was grateful for our coaches, all
our teammates, best fans in the world too.
Speaker 3: Atmosphere tonight was unreal.
Speaker 4: As el just said, it's grateful to you know, to
win and be one step closer to our goal.
Speaker 3: I grew up loving b YU.
Speaker 4: I bleed blue ever since I came.
Speaker 3: Out of the roomb.
Speaker 4: I've watched a lot of these games. I remember, you know,
dog Pilon with my grandpa and my dad and my
uncles back to Harlen. Right, these moments are the ones
that I grew up watching over and over again. So
to be a part of, you know, a stretch here
in my career where I've.
Speaker 3: Never lost to them, it feels really good. And I
don't want to make that about me at all.
Speaker 4: With just a huge shoutout and a lot of props
to Kloni and the way that he's running this program.
There's been a great shift even amongst recruiting in the state.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I think we've seen that we continue to win on
big recruits who are being recruited by both US and them,
and I believe that this is the start of an
even longer streak of wins for us in our program
over them all.
Speaker 3: Right, there you go.
Speaker 2: That's Tanner Wall post game Duff Tittle, who's a part
of the sports information department down there at BYU. He
states this about Tanner Wall. In thirty years at b YU,
I've never worked with anyone quite like Tanner Wall. To
your starter team captain, He's a part of the AFC,
a good works team, first Team Academic All American. Mary
graduated with a three point eight to nine GPA in
finance and does more service than anyone.
Speaker 3: He's a BYU football all timer.
Speaker 2: Okay, you could sense, you know, Tanner his confidence heading
into this game. And then you hear the validation of
all of the hard work paying off in the post game.
In fact, during the game, and you can watch this
in the cut. Jay Hill defensive coordinator got on the
phone with Tanner Wall and they were chatting, you know,
and it ended up pretty much then both say, hey, man,
love you, love you. That's a player coach trust dynamic.
That is very unique, that is very special. Tanner Wall,
in my opinion, became immortalized in this rivaly game with
that iron t.
Speaker 3: That iron t in many.
Speaker 2: Ways sealed the deal for the Kougs and sealed the
fate of the University of Utah in this rivalry game
Holy War in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I pointing the football.
Speaker 2: And then furthermore, like in his I think he chatted
with BYU Sports Nation there he stated this, maybe we
can play this for Cougar Nation as well, but I'll
just quote it really quick for all you Cougar fans
in Cougar Country. He states this, their drop back past
concepts are pretty basic, and we didn't think Devin Dampier
was a great passer down the field between the hashes,
and that kind of showed.
Speaker 3: But he didn't say it in an arrogant manner.
Speaker 2: He said it as a matter of fact, this is
what we saw on film, this is what we planned for.
Let's listen in this was the BA Sports Nation inner
view in the post game with Tanner Wall.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about your interception and the scout and the
preparation that went into you going out executing and making
that play. What did you see and how were you
able to take that ball away?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean all week we talked about how we
got to get him into second and longer, third and
longer situations where they would be throwing the ball because
their their dropback pass concepts are pretty basic. And we
didn't think that he was a great passer down the
field between the hashes, and I mean that kind of showed.
Speaker 3: And in that tonight, you know, he was attacking.
Speaker 6: Underneath pretty quickly to the to the flats, but didn't
really love have a lot of confidence thrown it deep
down the middle, and when.
Speaker 3: He did, he was able to go capitalize on that.
Speaker 6: But you know, I think, as I mentioned, we had
a big focus on on stopping the run on first
and second down and getting them into third and longer situations.
Speaker 3: That's t wall Tanner.
Speaker 2: Wall and Tanner actually chimed in on duff Tittle's post said,
Daphin's in his team. Tires are tiresly dedicated team or
the reason so many Berry student athletes get recognized for
the things we do on and off the field.
Speaker 3: He's behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: He's a behind the scenes here that we can never
think sufficiently or Kook fan should be blessed to know
duff Tittle as a part of that sid team. So
tennorwall Uh solidifying himself in the archives of BYU football
history with his play on and off the football field.
Speaker 3: Shout out to t wall He had himself a day.
Speaker 2: He became the Big twelve co Defensive Player of the Week,
and quite honestly, like, you know, why didn't they just
give it to him outright with his play? Well, there
was others that were there in the Big twelve balling
out too, and even one of his teammates, Mama Telsata Walla,
also had himself a game. I feel like we need
to give a lot of credit to Jay Hill, but
the other person I want to give a lot of
credit to is Gavin Fowler.
Speaker 3: No one really knows about Gavin Fowler. They really don't.
Speaker 2: Gavin Fowler is essentially the safeties coach for BYU football
right now. I know Jay Hill has that title as
defensive coordinator and safeties coach, and Gavin Fowler is essentially
an analyst, an offensive coach, analyst for or sorry, a
defensive coach analysts for this defense. But day in and
day out, standard operating procedures dictate that Gavin Fowler is
coaching up that crew. He's the one monitoring the substitutions.
He's the one inserting and you know, I guess benching
or uh, you know, just resting some of the safeties.
Speaker 3: So just so everybody knows.
Speaker 2: Tanner Wall and follow Tower Southawala didn't. I don't think
they came out of the game one time. That's that's
my era type of stuff that hasn't been happening in
a long time. And granted there's been some injuries right now.
Tommy moved to Nickel, he got injured. Raider de Moonei
got injured last week, right and so he was out.
But I mean Talan Alfred was healthy. He could have
been inserted in it at strong safety or free safety.
He's played both in this defense. I find it interesting
that Gavin left Tanner and follow Taut in the game,
the entire game, every defensive snap, Tanner and follow Tower
on the fields. That's different than what we've seen since
like twenty sixteen. It was somewhat of a norm under Bronco.
Like you didn't get as many rotations with Bronco in
the second area or in the second level with linebacks.
You always see rotations with defensive line. But I gotta
give some love to Gavin Fowler. Guys, I got a
name that you don't know about that decided to leave
his tenured and his young talent on the field as
they crescendoed their play like they got better and better
throughout it all. They stayed consistent as well throughout it
all in the biggest game of their careers.
Speaker 3: AP your thoughts, well, I.
Speaker 7: Think along these lines, Gavin Fowler is one of the
most underrated coaches on the staff. He's got an incredibly
high football IQ. He came I believe he came in
as a player. He was a quarterback. Yeah, he was
a quarterback. He's Davis, I think and then and then
he was the holder, and I think he played some
defense as well, a little bit he played defensive back
and then he but he converted over to more of
you know, holder specialist because he knew like he knew he.
Speaker 3: Had his eyes set on coaching.
Speaker 7: He's like, he's one of the most versatile coaches because
he played so many positions at the collegiate level that
he can bound Like. I don't think fans understand just
how smart Gavin Fowler is. He's also in charge of
grading the players on defense. He's the one who produces
those for the defensive staff, how well players played. He's
the one who grades every single player on the on
that defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love what Gavin's doing. He deserves a lot
of credit. He deserves his flowers. Top graded PFF safeties
through week eight, by the way, Fiala taus Satawala at
eighty two point three he's fourth on the West Coast Okay,
and then Tanner Wall coming in at number seven at
seventy eight point two from BA. The two safeties graded
at the top of it all. Shout out to both
of those safeties. Shout out to Gavin Valer and Tanner Wall.
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Speaker 3: Today it is time for a little reading between the lines.
Speaker 2: A number of BA you Cougar football players address the
media yesterday, and we want to read between the lines
a little bit. Get up to date on Jack Kelly,
what's his health status? How Wayland Lapuahu and that offensive
line balled out for Brigham and opened up all those
massive running lanes for Bear Bachmeyer and LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin.
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to the sound by Jack Kelly, p YU linebacker Jack,
how do you feel in health wise right now?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 8: The shoulder didn't feel like a guy anywhorse, so no
setbacks there. Obviously it was a physical game, so the
body's pretty sore, but overall doing really good and then
good health.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, how did we feel about Jack Kelly's performance? Leman,
Brett Hammer, Andrew Peterson.
Speaker 9: I mean, if we're being honest, I didn't know what
we were gonna really see from Jack Kelly.
Speaker 3: We knew they were.
Speaker 9: Gonna say that he was gonna play because it was Utah,
but what it actually looked like was gonna be a
completely different story.
Speaker 3: Look was Jack Kelly one? No?
Speaker 9: But was Jack Kelly a lot better than I thought
he was gonna be just in terms of how healthy
he looked. Yeah, there were parts of the pass rush
that I'm sure were just it's hard to get the
leverage to move guys around with that shoulder rotation when
you don't have it. But outside of that, in coverage
he looked great. Tackling was a little spotty at times,
but I thought he did a really good job of
when he couldn't lay guys out, he would just hold
on to him until somebody else could help finish the tackle.
So his presence in coverage and being a body where
he needed to be, I thought he did a really
great job for us. Healthy as he is, I'd give
him a really high.
Speaker 7: Grade for how he played ap Yeah, I thought, like
just full transparency. I was in the rock, So just
from my man vantage point, it felt like a normal
Jack Kelly game like we got.
Speaker 3: Was it his best game ever? No? But was it
still a really good game.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, he got a he got the the you know
that fourth down.
Speaker 2: Sack, seven tackles, five solo, one sack, one TfL. Yeah,
he closed out the game with that great speed rush
forsus Spencer Fano. Spencer Fano was having fits all night
having a match up with Tawo see Lee now Cy
and Jack and Isaiah.
Speaker 7: So like the the the positive about his injury is
it doesn't really like the thing it's gonna hamper is
his tackling ability.
Speaker 3: Is that shoulder strong enough to maintain your.
Speaker 7: We did see and he mounts off some tackles, But
does Jack still have that closing speed?
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And that was the difference maker I think was
the closing speed that if he couldn't get to Devon,
he at least made Devon uncomfortable to move.
Speaker 7: And then somebody else came and finished the point exactly.
And so I felt like it was a very productive game.
And I think the backup step stepped up in any
way when Glasger went went down or if Jack wasn't
on the field, I felt the backups played very nicely.
You didn't have a moment with the linebacker group where
you're like, oh, there's a huge drop off here.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 2: You grew up in the state of Utah, So tell
us how important is that robbery game to you?
Speaker 8: It's super fun. I'm two competitive teams that want to win.
So I think the environment was great. Kugarnation really showed out.
Like I said, good football was played and uh yeah
it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, look, it's a big game.
Speaker 2: It's a massive game for him and h But he's
also kind of a stoic. You look at all these
football players, you know, how many like really dynamic personalities
do you have on this team? You know, Justin Kirkland's
a new dynamic.
Speaker 3: I feel like Justin Kirkland is the one that we
wanted to like everyone.
Speaker 7: Else seems pretty like even Keel, Like you've got Keanu
out of Like you basically know what Keanutanovas is gonna say.
Speaker 2: It sounds like your state president, right. He sounds like
you're zone leader on a mission.
Speaker 7: Chase, same thing, like you know what you're gonna get,
Like there's only the only player I feel like we
played sound from that you don't know what you're gonna get, Okay,
I say, I say, Trey, you could probably get something
out and if Maury was doing media this year, you
might be able to get something out of him.
Speaker 3: But for me, that's probably it. That's it. Everybody else's
you know, you haven't heard much from Jojo because he's hurt.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I'm trying to think, like, who's the loudest
personality on this team. It's like it's hard because they're even,
like even and yeah, like but it's it's hard to
find a guy who would be like, oh, yeah, he's loud,
Like I think they're loud for b y you guys,
but I don't know that like on Yeah, when I
think of the loud personalities and dynamic personalities, like everybody
to your point, it's pretty even keeled, pretty mellow.
Speaker 3: They're just they're just focused on ball. Like you don't.
You don't have a Williams where you don't know what's
coming out of his mouth. Next loved Jamal loved Jamal.
Speaker 2: Gosh, that was such a good interview this last week
if you miss check it out on the podcast. He
was talking about how there was bishops everywhere on campus
that was every quarter to the bishops of the locker room,
bishops of the math department, bishops everywhere man. Anyway, Jack Kelly,
how do you bounce back and refocused after such an
emotional win over the Utes?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we need to do a better job
this year compared to last year.
Speaker 3: With that.
Speaker 8: Obviously, the game is over, we won, We're happy about
the result, but we need to focus on this week.
We got to play Iowa State. They're a great team,
and we really just got to be locked in on
this weekend. Put that one in the past.
Speaker 2: Locked in on who Rock Obeck? Yeah, I haven't watched
right Rock Obeck. That's what the scouting reports. We heard
Kellane's scouting report on him. Let's get Jack Kelly's scouting
report on the Psyclones.
Speaker 3: Rock Obck good quarterback.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I haven't watched too much as of right now,
but he's got a great arm. He has great accuracy,
so it's gonna be a big thing to keep him
in the pocket and get pressure in his face.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Rocco does far.
Speaker 2: The season has been very good, and I don't know
if you can really put any of the losses on Roco.
You could, you could maybe say that the Colorado game
that you know, they only put up seventeen points. Cincinnati
Colorado they could be. We discussed who the Kansas teams
are from last year, like who's in the Big twelve
is gonna end up being the Kansas of this year
and Colorado who's the favorite? I mean, Cincinnati has just
been winning. They've been finding ways to win weekend week out.
They're they're what there are only a one loss team
right now and there are one loss was to Nebraska
to start the season.
Speaker 9: Cincinnati is your second highest scoring offense in the Big Twelve,
by the way, crazy, which I think when we're talking
about who's the Kansas from last year? Because Kansas last
year was and still kind of of this year. They
could score with anybody. The problem was did their defense
show up, And more times than not, it did not.
Speaker 3: Which is why they were in so many one score games.
Speaker 9: Cincinnati your second highest scoring offense in the Big twelve.
That to me is your Kansas from last year. So
that's gonna be a tough one. And the fact that
that was Iowa State's loss, like I do think it
says a little bit because we thought Iowa State was
the other big dog in the Big Twelve with Texas Tech.
Now because of what Cincinnati has done, we don't necessarily
believe that anymore. But we also don't think Iowa State
is a pushover. Iowa State, for context, is the twelfth
scoring offense in the Big Twelve so which twenty nine
points per game, So it's not like they're not scoring
at all, like this is just a high scoring conference.
Speaker 2: What role in your opinion, Jack Kelly? Number five, what
does what role does sports science department play with this
team right now?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So he has different machines in different tactics he uses
that really work, and it's just, like like you said,
more science based. So it's little things like modern just
changing things in the weight room and doing things like
that that help our bodies still feel good. But we
still get the right amount of work in and continue
to stay up on and not slack on any work.
Speaker 2: Love what Skyler, Maine, Briant, Phillis Golby gloss and they're
doing in that strength and conditioning and even in the
athletic training room. Number six, what have you seen from
the young defensive depth on this team?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they are great players. The amount of work they've
put in, just extra time, extra film, asking questions, They've
done a phenomenal job and they have the want to
get better, which is a huge thing, and then when
they've got their opportunities, they've made play. So it's been
great to see them and they have really bright futures.
Speaker 2: Who's been the biggest surprise of the twenty twenty five
season thus far offensively, defensively, if you want to chime
in with the special teams as well, biggest surprise you
know where you're like, wow, Like I didn't expect this
from them, to.
Speaker 7: Be honest, I looked up during that Utah game and
I saw Max Alford get that sack on Devin Dampier.
Like we've heard a lot about the linebacker depth, but
when we talk about line depp Well linebacker depth. We
were saying, as Kafusi, I've been really high on him,
Cilia Sarah maybe a.
Speaker 3: Miles haul in there.
Speaker 7: I haven't heard that much about Max Alford and he's
going out there making big plays in the biggest game
of the year so far. For BYU, I've been really
surprised and pleasantly surprised. Not that I didn't really believe
in him, but you never know, with like a Utah
State transfer coming in, if they can translate to the
power forward level. I've been really pleasantly surprised with his
ability so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you keep on thinking, is that SIONI moo, No,
that's Max Alfred, number thirty out there running on the
football field looking good. We highlighted him on our show
after I believe the second strimmage in fall camp because
Jay Hill went out of his way to highlight him.
And now we're seeing that he's truly a baller. He's
a really good football player. Who's been the biggest surprise,
would you say, Brett Hammer?
Speaker 3: I think cialis aiah.
Speaker 9: As you mentioned, he deserves a ton of credit because
we talk so much ad nauseum about this linebacker room
and what Isaiah Glasker does and what Jack Kelly does
and Sialia Sarah stepping in for Jay Bryant Strather who's
also out cialis Ara Doo deserves a ton of credit.
The person who I have my eye on a little
bit and I didn't play last week because he got injured,
but he showed up big in that Arizona game was
Raider Mooney.
Speaker 3: And look, the safety room is full right now.
Speaker 9: The safety room, it just feels like there's not any
reps to go around. Raider de Mooney said, no, no, no,
I'm gonna be getting some of those because I'm making
plays out on the field the plays he makes in
the backfield.
Speaker 3: I mean, these safeties almost just.
Speaker 9: Feel like hybrid linebackers, Like they are not afraid to
get in the backfield, They're not afraid to tackle, They're
not afraid to get between the tackles.
Speaker 3: And make stops the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 9: This safety room has been awesome, And Raider de Mooney,
I hope he get him back soon because he's been
awesome as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for me on the defense side of
the ball, be honest, Like, I did not expect Folatow
to be this goodes anyone that expects Folatow to just
be this good. Twelve tackles, okay, Like I'm looking at
his stat line, eight solo, one TfL one pass defended,
a forced fumble. He had a forced fumble too, like like, look,
I know he was a four star, but like I
did not, judging off of what he did last year,
I did not expect him to crescendo into twelve tackles,
eight solo, one TfL one pass deflected and a force
fumble in the Holy World. I did not expect that
the biggest hit in the rivalry one of the biggest
hits in the rivalry game that we've seen in a
long time.
Speaker 3: Like he just annihilation. He killed a man. That play
was awesome. Yeah, I mean it's just.
Speaker 2: Like folatow I salute you man like look And granted
he was playing at a position last year. He was
at free safety, but they I think he was at
a position because they he's a true freshman. They want
to protect him a little bit, you know, bring him
up to speed. Even in fall camp though, I mean
he had he had a good fall camp, there's no doubt,
but he was able to tally a lot of iron
t's that just kind of floated to him.
Speaker 3: They just came. They just came to him.
Speaker 2: And I chalked that up to you know, McKay and
Tracon and bear inexperience. I'm like, okay, Like he got
a lot of picks, but look what he's doing, Like
he's not even picking off passes necessarily, but he's just
balling out. He has flipped the script for me, and
he's way more physical than I expected him to be
as a true sophomore.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to follow tout.
Speaker 2: He is putting himself into a draftable position very very quickly.
Speaker 3: Is it at strong safety? Probably not.
Speaker 2: It's probably more of a hybrid safety linebacker type of
position because he can cover. I'm intrigued to see what
his speed is when he's testing out. If he can
stay lean and he can get faster than maybe it
is strong safety for him at the NFL level.
Speaker 7: Is he playing like a Chase Hansen did at Utah?
Speaker 3: Does he remind you a little bit of that? Yeah,
Chase Hansen.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good cop because Chase came in
as a quarterback, moved immediately to safety, and then was
kind of in this hybrid role similar to Zane Anderson.
Sane Anderson was also a safety who moved down into
what we would deem as the sam linebacker position, but
he was a he could he could cover and then
rotate back into the safety position. Now, now Zaying has
leaned out in the NFL and he's playing free. Yeah,
so maybe file Oftal has those same uh, those same
abilities is that of Zay train? Now, last thing from
Jack Kelley and will take a brief time out. What
have you seen from Bear Bachmeyer in this offense, and.
Speaker 8: He looks even more comfortable and confident each and every week.
He's making some great throws, great runs. The whole offense
has done a phenomenal job. Oh line's been killing it
with giving Bear time or giving him the.
Speaker 3: Right blocks, the right reads.
Speaker 8: So, uh, the whole offense has been awesome to watch.
They've been big plays after big plays, and yeah, you
can't forget l J. Martin breaking runs every game. So
it's been awesome to watch the offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, the biggest surprise offensively, I mean, we're all
just gonna say, Bear, how could you not spare?
Speaker 7: It's like the only competition is I didn't I know,
I know Ron's been high him. I didn't expect Parker
to be railing off und I was so wrong on Parker,
and I'm so happy to have been so late. I
always knew he had the speed. I just that doesn't
always translate, you know, And I just didn't quite know
if he had the size or if he was gonna
really if he was gonna make that jump.
Speaker 3: But it is.
Speaker 7: It's absolutely Bear because during the off season it was
that the narrative was we need a game manager. Let's
put to bed that bear is a game manager. Yeah,
because he put Byu on his back and won that
hole Game four. But he used a different type of quarterback.
We did not expect.
Speaker 2: I'm like, we knew he could run, we didn't know
he would have to run for twenty two or fifteen
times a game in order to win football games. He's
been accurate enough with his throw game, and I would say.
Speaker 3: He's been dynamic enough in this throw game.
Speaker 2: It's not in a traditional Byu sense of a vertical.
Speaker 9: Passing and he can't do that, and extending he can't,
Like it's not his strength, but he's able to.
Speaker 2: It's not Zach Wilson vertical game. And it's not Sharon
Hall vertical game. It's not Keaton Slova's even vertical game.
Like if sorts arm strength is concertain. But that ball
he put on Chase Roberts on the sideline over the top,
the chop top throw, kind of this top shelf throw.
That that that John Beck describes, that's a phenomenal throw.
Speaker 3: It really is. He's the right handed Tim Tebow. Steve
Clements was right. He was right. He's the right handed
Tim Tebow. Right now.
Speaker 7: It's funny because I remember I watched him do that
point two yard run and when he juked, it's like
it's a slower taste him. And then when he ran
over and through the pile of defenders, I was like,
that's Tyler Algier, Like that's what Tyler Algeer would do.
Speaker 9: It is funny how slow, Like he's not slow, but
like when he runs, you're almost watching the play happen
in slow motion, if you understand what Like when he
when he got to the first down on that touchdown und,
I was like, okay, cool, he's gonna go down and
then he just kind of mosies and motors and rumbles on,
but he's not like I mean, yeah, he's just not
doing it at high speed.
Speaker 3: It's effective and it works and it's awesome. Bear.
Speaker 9: I think it's not what any of us expected day, yes,
because he's.
Speaker 3: Like he's almost like a he's like a corgy centaur.
He's got really short legs.
Speaker 2: He's got really short legs, but he's like a he's
like a he's a I.
Speaker 3: Don't know why it's to see the.
Speaker 2: Centaur, because like he's not fast top end speed, but
he's quick, he's dynamic, shifty because he got short legs
and they're really big and he's just super quick side
to side.
Speaker 7: Well, it's like and he's winning games the same way
Tim did. Tim Tebow, did I look. I was looking
at that two thousand and six Florida team. Yeah, they
had some one score games over like a South Carolina,
unranked and unranked Georgia, and those teams obviously are I
put those those teams over Colorado.
Speaker 3: And in Arizona.
Speaker 7: But like it's a similar manner of just just get
the job done. Sure, anyway you can throw it running,
just get it done.
Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Now, Waylan was a little bit dinged up.
Speaker 2: We didn't get to see Waylan at full force throughout
the entirety of this year.
Speaker 3: And finally he's getting back.
Speaker 2: Into the groove and balling out for Brigham number sixty one.
Speaker 3: But he's been rotating too.
Speaker 2: I mean, sonny Ma Cassini has been in there and
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There's a lot of good offensive linemen on this roster
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senior out of South Jordan, Utah.
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Wait Land Lapo b yu off. It's a lot at
number sixty one. Walk us through pushing Bear carrying Bear
Bachmeyer into the end zone.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, uh, we all know this Bear doesn't
go down, so you know, just falling behind him and
just seeing where he was gonna be. Yeah, I knew
he was gonna be stood up, so I knew there
was an opportunity to push the pot. I don't know
it was gonna be right there at the goal line,
but I knew it was gonna come. So just just
following him down down the field, you know, and just
just trying to make a play for the team. You know,
Bear's always trying his best to keep the play going.
So as the on line, we have a philosophy of
a big brother either go pick him up or or
push him up, push him for a couple of X yards.
So we had the opportunity to do that, which was
pretty cool.
Speaker 2: The real MVP what do you say, the real MVP
wa Lapoo finishing the play, not giving up on his
brethren picking him up. It's the old adage, the old
picture in all of our all of our church meeting rooms.
You know, where the footprints, Hey, why why don't I see?
Why don't I see two sets of footprints? You know,
is carrying you off, Whalan, Whalen, Why don't I see
an extra footprints set of footprints? Why weren't you running
next to me? Why aren't you blocking with me? And
Whyland says, that's where I picked you up. I'd lifted
you into the end zone. That's when you scored the
touchdown because I lifted you up. I carried you on
my shoulders like the lamb, like the the the ninety nine.
Speaker 10: And one my favorite part about that though, what he
just said was it's like a big brother, you rather
pick him up and push them And he was about
to say push him down, but he's had pushed him through.
Speaker 3: I was like, that is such a big brother thing.
Depending on their mood, they'll pick you up or they'll
just true just push them down.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Whaling, great job, great work the real MVP.
What strides Wayling have you seen from this offensive line
and how this group performed so well against Utah?
Speaker 11: I think it's just our preparation throughout the week. We
knew we had to win the line of scrimmage, especially
later in the game. You know, the run games kind
of like a compound interest. You know, it gets harder
for them to defend it later in the game, as
long as we keep keep our physicality up and just
keep pushing the line.
Speaker 2: Look, preparation, preparation. If you are prepared, you shall not fear.
And this offensive line is battle tested. Okay, they have
a great coach, they have a great culture, they have
a great strength and conditioning staff, have a great nutritional staff.
But then you also have conglomerate experience. Look at how
many starts they have under their belt between JUCO and transfers.
I mean Isaiah Johnah was a multi year starter at SNOW.
He's an All American before he ended up at Colorado
and then now at BYU. Obviously, Andrew Gentry starter at
Michigan and a rotational player at Michigan for years as
they made their quest for a national championship and got that.
So he's seen it all and done it all. Bruce
is like the youngest out of all of them. Brucey,
your center is the youngest. Wayland's been a four year starter.
Austin Leusa was a starter at SUU. Kyle Servituer starter
at SUU and then came to BYU. Like, these are
battle tested dudes. Sonny Makassini's been in the program for
a long time. We've been hearing his name for a
long time and he's seen rep since last year. So
you got Sonny and Brucey who are kind of like
your your youngest and so it's that combined with proper
preparation from proper coaching.
Speaker 3: That's what you got right now. And they were awesome.
Speaker 2: They were balanced, physical, they were extremely engaged. Did they
hold a little, Yes, thank goodness, they did. You're supposed to.
If you're not holding, you're not trying as an offensive
line and let the Zebras make the calls. You hold
for a one one thousand and two and then you
let them go one one thousand and two is they
get separated from me, then you let go, and more
often than not you can get away with it. That's
what you're supposed to do. It's what all the other
teams have been doing. I guarantee you Tah has been
doing it for a long time. They just weren't as
good as b Why you went at hiding it this
last week?
Speaker 7: I think it's just if you're screenshotting and circling holds
on the offensive line, It's like you can do that
on literally every football play. That's how you block, you
grab their jersey a little bit. It's just when you
get a little bit too excessive that you get a
and so I agree with you. It's like guys offensive
linement hold. It's like corners they hold. You can call
a hold on every play.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: Like, let's I know U tough ends are mad, they're
circling and screenshotting. It's like, do you want us to
do that on your end? We can because Utah's off.
There's the line had plenty of holds that were not called.
But it's like they're just playing football.
Speaker 9: And that's how the officials chose to officiate the game,
which was and you see that a lot in games
where they know it's a heated rivalry where they just say, Okay,
we're gonna let you play. When it gets extra excessive,
that's whe're gonna when we're gonna step in and throw
the flag. But anyone who watched that game knows, yes,
Utah held, but we also know that BYU also held.
Speaker 3: Again, That's why I.
Speaker 9: Had issues with the past interference calls at the end
of the game, not because they were or they weren't,
but because the precedent that the officials had set throughout
the entirety of the game was We're gonna let them
play until it becomes excessive. And so to your point, like,
that's just how they chose to call the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Waylan, you were injured to start the season, But how
are you feeling now?
Speaker 11: Man, I'm feeling great pretty much at one hundred percent now.
You know, I had to deal with some small minor
injuries earlier in the season.
Speaker 3: But I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2: Now, feeling better, feeling good, I'm feeling healthy.
Speaker 3: What's that feeling good? I almost said the same good shit.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a good jam. It's a good, great song,
no doubt about it. And Waitlan, feeling good? Like you
should shout out to number sixty one? Now, Whyalan? Seems
like the offense has been rotating a lot of guard.
Speaker 3: What is that like for you?
Speaker 11: You know, to be honest, it's been nice. I'm taking
some snaps off off of my body and you know,
just being able to be healthy later in the season,
and props to Uh Sunny Kyle and Austin to uh.
I think we're all pretty solid and we're all good
enough to start, so, you know, just having that rotation
and taking snaps off off of our body has been
it's been nice.
Speaker 2: Pros and cons, right, pros and cons, like yeah, you
you you. When you're a little bit deemed up, it's
nice to get a few a series off just to
kind of get back to maybe Homeostasius.
Speaker 3: And that's what it sounds like it's been for Whalan. Whalan.
Speaker 2: He's uh given the tip of the cap to Austin
and Kyle for stepping up in a big way early
on in the season and filling the big shoes of
Whalan obviously and uh and now with Waitlan being inserted
back into the lineup, he's his priority is health late
in the season. Being healthiest is your best abilities, your availability,
So he wants to be available down the stretch. This
is the toughest portion of the season, strength of schedule wise,
there's a reason why everyone doubted b why you and like,
I gotta see what's gonna happen at the end of
the year. You know BYU has didn't played anyone just yet,
so I can't rank them in my top twenty five.
You know, whether you're David Pollock or Joel Klatt, or
your Josh Paid or your Nick Saban like, I mean,
look like they're all gonna doubt you until the end
of the season. So it's okay, it's all right. Now
we're in the meat of it. We're in the heart
of it, and uh, you want guys to be healthy.
You want your best players to be healthy, your most
tend your players to be healthy, and you're getting that in.
Speaker 3: I think Whalen speaking to that well.
Speaker 7: And I think this may be something that the coaches
learned from last year. It felt like last year they
didn't really switch out the offensive line much and it
was a good offensive line and the backups were good too,
but there wasn't a ton of rotation, and towards the
end of the year it was a really beat up
offensive line.
Speaker 3: You had a lot of injuries.
Speaker 7: And so maybe an underrated storyline here is I know
some fans are a little frustrated with the rotation of
the guards and everything, but it's, like Whalen said, it's
keeping the guys healthy. Like it's it's allowing Whalen to
go deeper into the season. Whereas if he was just
the starter, or maybe Kyle's just the starter, one of
them is probably down with an injury, right now.
Speaker 2: You never know, guys, the wear and tear on the body.
This is a game of attrition and violence and volatilities,
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: So it's just good to have whyaland healthy.
Speaker 2: Last game, Whaling is last game verus ioway State didn't
go so well for the KuPS. How much of that
game sticks with you, guys.
Speaker 11: Man, Yeah, it definitely still left the bad taste in
my mouth. You know, we got handled pretty well up front.
I think just using that as some extra motivation throughout
the week and remember what happened in l E s
And you know, I'm trying to do it to them
this coming up with Saturday, yop.
Speaker 2: You give them a little piece of a little a
little dose of their own medicine, right, Like, that's what
you want. You want to show show up, show out
like they did to you guys at level. I mean
that was that was one that was rough. Two thousand
and three twenty twenty three was a rough game. Uh
BYU was in their blackouts with royal accents.
Speaker 3: We were like, yeah, we look great, and then you
looked like trash.
Speaker 2: You looked like doodoo, you looked like fecal matter, You
smelled like it like it was one of the worst
performances that I've seen it under the lights of level
in a long time. Slipping and sliding, wearing molded cleats,
wearing vapors rather than screw ins, raring the right cleats
on your on your own turf, on on your home field.
We we thought it was a home field advantage. Right
home field advantage means exactly that, knowing your home field
and wearing the proper attire to which from which to
play on it and be sure footed on it.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? You know? I was ticked.
Speaker 2: I I went to social media and I was I
was very angry, and I was reprimanded. I reprimanded for
being hyper critical, and I was like, look, I think
I'm I'm validated in that criticism. I hate to be
that guy, but come on, like, I'm a part of
the team, part of BYU. I love the Koges, but
come on, if you are prepared, you shout out feel
And we were not prepared with the proper footwear. Gosh
dang in that game till we better be taking the
proper footwear to Iowa State they also play on a
grass field.
Speaker 3: We also were not prepared because we were black.
Speaker 9: When we play, when we win, or when we wear black,
we do not play well because if you remember the
last time we were black before that, do you.
Speaker 3: Remember Notre Dame?
Speaker 9: And that would didn't go our way either, So I
have My father in law was asking me to day,
He's like, how come we don't wear black anymore? I
was like, well, remind you. I would say Notre Dame.
Enough set, it's too big of a that's too big
of a distrection. And I'll even go back.
Speaker 2: In twenty twelve blackout, Oregon State came to town. Cody
Vadz the backup quarterback in for Sean Man and you
guys don't remember you got were just little pups.
Speaker 3: This was my first BAU game ever at Laville.
Speaker 2: Okay, Marcus Wheaton and I want to say, oh gosh,
another Speedster wide receiver. They just demolished us, killed us.
Cody Vaz looked like an NFL quarterback. It was insane
and we were wearing blackouts. It was not good. Well
it's good.
Speaker 7: It's funny because my only memories from that game is
the one where Oregon State the ball gets batted up
at the line and somehow they still caught it for
a touchdown, and then I remember this guy behind us
being like, okay, guys, Riley's gonna find someone, like we're
gonna come back and b White. That was the moment
where Byu actually never answered back the rest of the game,
and I was like, wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, forty two to twenty four. It was.
Speaker 2: It was not good guys, but like there's some reason
that Cooks. Brandon Cooks was the other. Oh, there's only everything.
There's only receptions one seventy three and then Marcus had
five receptions sixty six and two touchdowns.
Speaker 7: Well, it's like Byu has three in the blackouts, okay,
UNLV that was dominant. We played well that game Utah State,
we played well, but taysoon went out that was he
broke his arm or something. And then the Zach Wilson
over San Diego State. It was kind of a sluggish.
Twenty eight to ten I think was the final score.
It was little sluggish.
Speaker 3: It was cold. Never wear the black.
Speaker 7: There was no It's like it's like we've had one
so cool though, they're so cool, but.
Speaker 3: We just got to find a way to avoid you.
Speaker 2: Black is the void. It is the void. You don't
know what's in the void. You know, it's the black hole.
It's it's it's where death can can great you, you know,
the the unsavory void.
Speaker 3: You don't want that.
Speaker 9: And the Notre Dame game when we were black, that
was when they had pooka fly to Vegas and do
the UFC uniform reveal.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys remember that.
Speaker 9: They had like a magician who did it and he
would look it was sick. But at that moment, I
was like, I don't know, this might be a little
too much. And that's why we don't do uniform reveals
like that anymore because when we do, we lose.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna like that. We couldn't guard the tight end.
Michael Mayer went crazy. I mean, Michael Mayer's good. We
made him look like the greatest tight end effort to
play college football, and that's actually Gordon Hudson.
Speaker 3: So that was good.
Speaker 7: Maybe these special helmets are the problem because helmets and
Arkansas helmets, those are mountain ones. It's like, I want
to bring those back. Those were sweet, but we played awful.
When we do too much, we lose distractions. Guys, limit distractions, focus.
Speaker 3: Can we get one more hand painted helmet. No, please,
we will if you. If you want to lose football games, sure, yeah, yeah,
go for it.
Speaker 2: Just no more distractions, keep it, keep it simple, stupid
all right, this team is in a similar spot to
last year. How do you refocus? For Ioway stayed after
such an emotional game, whaling.
Speaker 11: I think we're very aware, you know, the the game
this past weekend much time. It was a very emotional game.
Speaker 3: So I just think.
Speaker 11: Just kind of letting yourself emotionally realize that and then
you know, letting it go. You know, it was fun,
it was good. But you know, just like what we
said last week, it's a week to week basis. We
got to worry about our opponent this week and almost
forget what happened last.
Speaker 2: Week, moving on, moving upward. I think that's a great idea.
I can't relish in the past. Let the media and
the fans do that as we so we can we
can eat, drink and be merry over our neighbors. And
by the way, speaking of neighbors, want to bring this
up kind of an interesting thing that just came across
my timeline here. So Jamie Beck, the wife of Jason Beck, okay.
Jason Beck, the offensive coordinator, states on she's off X
now because of what's happened in the post game aftermath.
It's been really sad to see so much anger and
hate spewed it the people I love on social media Lately,
I can't wrap my head around it. I've made the
decision to step away from my public X account, which
I've had for over eleven years.
Speaker 3: It makes me sad to leave.
Speaker 2: I have an incredible community there, built up from every
stop on our football journey. There are some who have
been with our family since the beginning. I've watched our
kiddos grow up and supported our family so much. Thanks
to everyone for falling on X for the last eleven years.
Grateful to have shared a small part of our story
with so many.
Speaker 3: Team back on.
Speaker 2: A lot of hate from their fans right now, even
though this is what's crazy. They put up over almost
five hundred yards. They out gained through the air and
on the ground and out first down BYU. They had
one turnover Devin dan Pierre through a pick to Tannerwall.
Speaker 3: Tannerwall stated in the post game.
Speaker 2: You know, we felt like Devin couldn't really throw outside
the hashes you know, or I think that's what he said,
something to that effect, that simple, simple concepts that we
were able to anticipate, and you do. Fans are taking
that like this is the most dumb down, horrible offense
that has ever been showcased in a round.
Speaker 9: Oh so she's referring to hate from internally, she's not
referring to b YU fans. No, because that was my assumption.
But what you're saying actually makes a lot of sense.
I mean a lot of that. I don't think youth.
Speaker 2: I don't think BA fans are like se suck on
that Jason Becker right team back like, no, Like, I
don't think that that's happening.
Speaker 3: I don't see that. I don't. I saw a lot of.
Speaker 2: You though, fans coming after coordinators. So that's typically what happens. Right,
Morgan's the the head coach and waiting and I think
he's the he's a favorite amongst the fan base because
of the defensive they've been so good. It's that you
get you get a longer leash, right, That's just been
the name of the game. Jason doesn't have as long
as a leash, but no offensive coordinator under Kyle has
ever ever had a leash. Ludwig was pushed out, Ludwig
who turned down or or rather Notre Dame couldn't afford Ludwig.
They're at Notre Dame. And so he came back to
Utah and then by mid season he didn't have a
job or he was getting paid out and he went
to his beach house in so Caow. That's what you
get up there, volatility, craziness, and and once again.
Speaker 3: It's the it's the the hubers.
Speaker 2: Like you think you're better than you really are, and
you deserve more than you really do, and you should
be in the Big ten.
Speaker 3: And and like why am I in the truck trucks?
Speaker 2: Truck stopped conference and we have the worst OC and
you brought Devin Dampier that can't even complete a pass
outside the hashes. It's all your fault, Jason. And it's
all your fault, Jamie. That's what I'm seeing. It's insane.
It's insane, all right, last thing from Whalen, what do
you got?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Does it give you guys any boost to know, uh
you have a bye week after this game?
Speaker 11: I think it doesn't. I think you know, just kind
of what I said last week or just barely. It's
it's a week by week thing. We got to put
put it all on the line every week. You know,
it's not easy to be undefeated. You you know you
have a big target on your back. Everyone's everyone's un
be gunning for you. So you know you just got
to take each week for You can't take each week
for granted, and you just gotta put everything you got
into it.
Speaker 2: Crazy times guys, uh uh, not even looking towards the
the bye week now.
Speaker 3: Just want to keep on on that grind. That's your segment.
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