August 12, 2025 • 52 mins
Brice and Bianucci break down the BYU quarterback battle, Utah Fall Camp, the Brewers' winning streak, the NL West race, the latest NFL news, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They warn't supposed to be here. Hill is the underdogs
of sports radio in the state of Utah. Nothing is
sacred when these two get together. From college to the pros.
Bryce Larsen and Jordan b Anucci cover it all by
from the Broadway Media Building in downtown Saw Makeship. You're
on the crazy Train with Bryce. It be Anuccie in
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the morning on one O three nine at ninety eight
tween the Band, part of Utah's ESPN Radio network.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The Gang is finally all back together again. We're live
on a Tuesday, August the twelfth edition. There we go.
You're ready with that one? You've been waiting a week
and a half to play that?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, that planned out for like ten days. It's like,
hasn't been suffer right, It's gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Kill it At seven am on the Dot live from
our Salt Lake City studios. It is Bryce and Via Noucci.
We're both back in town and we're both ready to
talk some football. More fall camp coming your way as
we get closer and closer. The countdown is on to kickoff.
You can check it out at espndefan dot com. Eighteen days,
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four hours and fifty eight minutes until BYU kicks off
the season.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Utah will be a little bit longer than that because they've.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Got a late one on that Saturday, the first Saturday
of college football here in the state of Utah, just
eighteen days away. And we'll bring you the latest from
around both of those two programs and the rumors and
reports that are coming out of each one of these
fall camps. A lot of baseball coming your way, a
lot of stuff happened over the weekend. We're gonna check
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out those Pennant races and more. That's all coming up
a little bit later on on the program, and just
a recap of everything that we've been up to in
the last little while. So let's jump into the first
pick and we'll talk about the latest. Of course, you've
got NFL news coming your way in the NFL plas.
What's going on with Matthew Stafford in the back. That's
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upcoming Saturday from ten am to two pm. Jordan Bianucci's
back in town. I'm here as well. Yesterday wasn't feeling great, Jordana.
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Was a rough weekend, all right. I was down in
Lake Pow. Now, normally everybody would say, that's not a weekend,
that's great. Well, it wasn't quite the luxury liner that
I thought we were going to be on here.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
On a canoe.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
What happened pretty much not not necessarily a canoe. But
the nicest thing was that we still had some sort
of connection to internet, so it wasn't that bad. A
little bit of electricity. There's no ac though. Oh didn't
have a bed to sleep on. Slept on the on
the top deck all right, got a little sunburned.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I think I drank too much like water.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And then on on Saturday, decided, hey, you know, I'm
still young. I could still wakeboard bad idea really slight concussion. Oh,
bouncing the head off of the water after I caught
the edge on the wakeboard. It got a little bit
of whiplash in the neck as well. I did not
sleep very well the last couple of days, and then
yesterday came down with a little bit of sickness. I
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don't know if it was it was just from being
out in the heat, which it was like one hundred
and five degrees every single day with no air conditioning
all week. That'll probably do it to you. I think
it was a little dehydrated from the weekend.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, Oh man, I'm alive though, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Sounds like a blast, what a vacation. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm a little beat up, but I am alive, and
I'm grateful that I got the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
That was my first chance to ever go to Lake Pow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I've ever been to Lake Pow. I was at the
time you were doing that. I was in Tahoe and
it was beautiful. It was seventy eight degrees. I was
I was just sitting on the beach, really taking it easy.
I liked the I got on the paddle board. I
just sit on the paddle board. I row, you know,
just take it out of the buoys, just hang out,
read some read a book. Well, listen to the giants
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game on the beach. Yeah, I mean that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Lord.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
With one hundred and five degrees.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It was hot out there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Man, I don't even know where to what the else
to ask you? That's I'm sorry, that's not that's not fun.
What kind of boat? How big was this boat?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How old was this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It is pretty old one, it's a pretty old boat.
It was, you know, it was good size. It's not
as bad as you'd think. But there was no air
conditioning just because.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Of do most houseboats down there have ac Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, if you've seen I don't know if you've seen
like the big Bravada boats that are like the fifty
to seventy foot boats. They're really nice, like you're talking
luxury liners. They've got bedrooms, they've got a lot of
air conditioning, they've got a lot of different things. And
you can rent those apparently, and you know what, it's crazy.
Apparently the rule is anything under seventy five feet, which
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is massive. You can pilot yourself, you can captain yourself,
and they'll rent it to you and say, all right,
have fun.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Sure, easy take off, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's all yours, buddy, enjoy the week. I don't know
if I trust myself to do that. They'll take it
out of the marina for you, but once you get
out in that open water, it's all yours for the
full week.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't trust myself driving anything.
I was on a jet ski at oh and Man
slack it was choppy. Yeah, it was choppy, uh the man.
So I just can't get over how hot it was.
How it was water low, real real low.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, it was looking low.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I don't have anything to judge it off of because
I've not you know, I've never been there before, but
it was it was looking low, and from what everybody
was telling me what it is low. There's certain parts
of lake that you can't go to because the water
is so low. So you could see the old boat ramps,
and the old boat ramp is like fifty feet above
where the actual water is.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's not good. I don't know that you're going to
get a boat in off that ramp. That's not good
for anybody that is.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That is not good.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It's it's not great.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Oh man, Yeah, you gotta try. You gotta try a
different lake.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We got a little tour of the dam and they
said that, yeah, if it gets any lower, it's going
to get to the point where it's not it doesn't
have enough pressure to create more electricity.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, things are going great. Things are working out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Do you remember when we were down in Phoenix asking
where all the water comes from?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yep, well there's your answer.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's right the Colorado River. That thing's just overflowing right
now with water. We're gonna have plenty of water out
here in the years to come.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So that was my week My weekend in Lake pal
did drive past Bryce Canyon, which Ruby's in is giving
away a five hundred dollars dift card right here on
this station to go down to Bryce Canyon.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Joan. I've only been to Bryce Canyon once in my life,
and I was super young, so I don't remember it.
I was just driving past it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That whole portion from like Canab through Bryce Canyon and
that portion of southern Utah that not a lot of
people have the opportunity to get to.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It's beautiful down there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh, Canab's one of my favorite towns in Utah, and
I've only really driven through. I haven't stayed there a
lot time, but oh, it's it's yeah, it's a gym,
it's it is. It's beautiful. My mom, by the way,
asked if she can win that gift card to rubies In,
and I said, no, I think that's illegal. So I'm unfortunately,
unfortunately you cannot enter that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So we're gonna need someone out there that's listening to
this program to head over to espnfan dot com and
enter to win the rubies In gift card five hundred
bucks to rubies In. Just outside of beautiful Bryce Canyon,
and you can maybe take a little day trip down
to Lake Palell, check out the lake and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's only an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Take a day trip, gets sunburned. See how our our
water supply is collapsing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you'll get the Arizona side, the wall Weep Bay
side of things. Just what an hour and a half
two hours away from rubies In and Bryce Canyon. So
there you go a lot to talk about this morning, Jordan.
There's one other thing I want to bring up about
that trip. There are there were two different places, one
in kannab and one in Panguich that I passed.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We have an ongoing joke.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You and I do Utah Valley Baseball on ESPN Plus,
and when it gets late into the games, I always
talked about where we're going to go after the game.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
We always talked about the hitching post.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The hitching post.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There were two of them, one in Panguich and one
in Kannab.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's a chain.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think it is hitch in post hitch. I have
a picture of it. I took a picture. I didn't
send it to you yet, but I can show it
to you afterwards. There's two of them. There's one in
Panguich on the on the main street to you director,
and there was one in Cannab right next to Maverick.
Really yeah, I was like, I've got to tell Jordan
about this.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm pulling it up. I'm trying to pull it up
right now. I'm not welcome in Penguich. Have I ever
told you this story on the air?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When I was in the height of the year I
graduated from high school, our like city league baseball team
went down there for a tournament, and are you went
down to Penguich went down to Penguich for a baseball tournament, okay,
and the everyone hit the town that night in Penguich,
went out to the ch Yeah, and they we were
staying at the Koa, and you know, it's never it's
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my opinion, it's never great when one of the assistant
coaches buys the underage team cases of beer. That's that's
my I always think that's a that's a bad to
your opinion. My opinion is like that might be a
bad idea. And things got too rowdy at the koa
and we got booted and it wasn't me, it was
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it was the assistant. Then oh man, watching that assistant
coach because he he he had a fun night, then
watching him try to coach third the next day was hilarious.
Uh yeah, not not great decisions all around, I would
say by the adults in that in that party. Yeah,
but yeah, we were. We were yelled at by the
owner of the koa and got kicked out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Look, I'm not gonna lie. That sounds like a regular
weekend in Panguage.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That should be. That's what we thought. They're like, we're
we're getting a little rowdy and panguige and you got
a problem with this. It's like after nine, it's quiet time,
Like okay.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
All right, there you go things you didn't know about
Bryce and bing Ucci this morning seven, on this Tuesday,
August the twelfth, we're getting into the latest that's come
out from both BUYU and Utah Football here this morning.
But I just wanted to fill you in as to
the last couple of days and the adventures that both
of us have been on. One other final thing that
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I had to ask you, have you ever watched vander Pump?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I never have.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Never. Okay, well, then that question is no longer. They're
all there. They always seem to be at Lake Tahoe,
So I was wondering if you might have seen any
of them.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Is this the vandr Pump Rules? Yeah, I've heard of it.
I don't know what it is though.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, all those people from LA that have their own
TV show.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Okay, I'll tell you what. There were far fewer people
at Tahoe this year, which thank Evans. Really yeah, it
was actually really a lot nicer.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
They usually do that celebrity golf tournament down there at
some point.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, they do it like the week I don't know,
maybe three weeks before I go. Okay, Yeah, that's I
would love to see that in person.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That would be fun.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It would be really fun.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
A lot of dudes out there.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Good, good golfers. Some of these dudes, some of them
really bad, some of them really bad.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Steph Curry himself, he's a I think I've said this man.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm telling you, if he wanted to be a pro golfer,
he could do it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Probably he could do it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, he seems like he's that good that he could
be out there on the tour. But hey, basketball seems
to be going just fine for him. All right, Let's
shift over and talk about the weekend that was from
both BYU and Utah football. Two scrimmages took place in
the state of Utah. I'm sure three did one up
in Logan with Utah State, and we can get into
a little bit of that as well. But Utah and
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BYU underway on Saturday. Both of the two head coaches
spoke to the media about how those scrimmages went, and
let's start with BYU down in Provo. One thing that
came out from that scrimmage on Saturday was a report
stating that Aaron Roderick had mentioned that there might be
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a little bit of separation between one quarterback from the
rest of the pack. Jordan Bianucci. Any idea which quarterback
he could possibly be talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I did not see this, so I have no idea.
I would think it would be Hillstead, but I don't know.
I did read Kevin Reynolds said something in the Tribune
this weekend where it sounded like he's like bart Bachmeer's
the number two guy, essentially. I found that interesting, but
I did not know. I did not see what Roderick
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said here.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Last week, we were able to go to fall camp
and I was standing there watching everything that was taking
place before I was able to get an interview with
Will Fair and the kicker. And one thing that I
noticed during the twenty to twenty five minutes they let
us watch these guys run the offense was that bear
Bachmeyer really started to struggle. And I think the later
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you get into fall camp and the more they ask
you to start doing, the more complicated it gets. And
that's when you start seeing the struggles of younger quarterbacks
who just haven't quite ran a full offense. He had
early on. There was a lot of praise towards bear Bachmeyer.
It was a lot of skeleton stuff. They had asked
him not to scramble, they had asked him, not really
to make tough decisions with the football. Now you throw
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on the full pads, you see what's happening. It's full speed.
You've got guys breathing down your neck coming after you.
I think part of it you could also chalk up
to bear Bachmeyer was running with the number two offensive line,
which obviously might not be as stout. You might not
have enough time to get the ball off. He's holding
on to it a little bit longer, and there was
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a little bit more struggles in terms of just trying
to get rid of the football. He's just holding on
to it, stepping up into the pocket, and he's got
to make faster decisions.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
That's kind of what we saw last week.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So just surmising from that and hearing Klonie Satake talk
about how there were no turnovers overall. He thought the
defense won the day, but there were no turnovers by
the offense. The quarterbacks really did a good job of
taking care of the football. I would think that McKay
Hillstead has probably separated himself from the rest of the pack.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Aaron Roderick spoke about it. You said, we had the clip,
we're going to play that for you here. This is
what Aaron Roderick had to say on Saturday about that
quarterback competition.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Okay, today I thought we were a little bit sloppy.
We've been playing well in practice and having a good
amount of success. And you know, one of the reasons
why it's important to scrimmage in the stadium, I believe,
is there's something about going in that stadium and playing
in a game like situation with a with a real,
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big twelve officiating crew. You learn quickly that some of
the little mistakes that you get away with in practice
sometimes that don't cost you anything because there's no consequences
for a false start or a holding penalty or something
like that. Those things get exposed in a in a
scrimmage like setting with a with a a real officiating crew.
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And I thought we learned some good lessons today. I'm
not not not down or freaked out by it. We
did a lot of good things today too. But that
was the biggest takeaway I got today was just our
younger players, especially learning that when you go in the stadium, man,
you gotta be locked in, and you got to execute,
and you gotta be able to perform at a high
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level when the lights are on and all the eyes
are on you, and you're on TV, and the refs
are watching every little thing. You can't get away with
a little somebody moving their feet while somebody's in motion.
You know, some of those things that I think are
great lessons for us. And that's why you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Have to scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
And so I thought today was not our best football,
but it's part of the process of getting there because
you have to go have this type of scrimmage and
learn those lessons and and you know, the next time
we scrimmage, hopefully next week sometime, hopefully we'll be better
and keep taking steps towards being ready to play a game.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
All right, thank you, Eron.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
We'll go ahead and start with questions with Jay Drew
with the Desert News, followed by Jake Hatch with kiss on. Yeah, Aaron,
you probably know the questions coming with quarterback stood out,
how were the reps divided?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And and who caught your eye today?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
The reps were evenly divided, And I did know your
question was coming. And you know my answer, I need
to watch the film is a true statement.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I need to watch the tape.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
But what I will say is it's not going to
be keeping equal reps, you know, forever we're There's gonna
be a point pretty soon. I'm not not ready to
say exactly when, but there's gonna be a time pretty
soon where we're gonna have to start, you know, establishing
a pecking order and getting somebody, you know, more reps
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with the ones and twos, and maybe somebody's gonna get
a little bit less. If we keep going the way
we're going forever, then nobody will be ready to play
in our first game. So that move will be happening soon.
I would need to watch the tape, and I need
to discuss this with my staff and with Kolaney before
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we decide how and when.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We're going to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
All right, that's Aaron Roderick, in his first couple of
questions and statements to the media on Saturday, obviously said
he had to go back and watch the film. Jem
Jordan to b YU TV also tweeted this out and
said b YU offensive coordinator Aaron Rodger tell Spencer Linton
there's a little bit of separation among one of the quarterbacks,
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but he needs to continue to evaluate the film. He
added to the general media and Spencer that they will
whittle the reps down soon, saying quote, we are watching
it very closely every single day Jordan b and Ucci.
It sounds like one quarterback is art and to get
a little bit ahead of the others. But as you heard,
there might be a little bit closer still and they
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still have some work to do in deciding who that's
going to be.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean, this is kind of what we thought,
right And to be honest with you, the sooner Hillsted
or whoever separates himself, the better for BYU, this is
what you want. You do not want to go into
the last week of fall camp going in. These guys
are pretty even. Guys are pretty even. No, you want
him to separate him. If he's going to separate himself,
do it now and then get him more reps. But
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the first team. So I think that this is good
news if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Very little spring football work for any of these quarterbacks
with the ones, just because Jake Retzloft took up a
lot of those, which, by the way, Jake Retzloft sounds
like he's doing some real work there at Tulane trying
to separate himself. And when that quarterback battle and did
well on Saturday in Tulane scrimmage over the weekend with
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their team. So one other thing I do want to
shift over that's from BYU. Let's talk about Camp Kyle
with Kyle Whittingham and what's going on at the University
of Utah. A lot of reports this last week, Jordan
and I wanted to get your thoughts on this that
there's quite a few players making the jump over to
play a little bit of offensive football at the University
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of Utah. Lander Barton going to try and play some
tight end. I don't know if you've heard about that one.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Did not hear about that one?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, Lander Barton's apparently going to play some tight end.
There's also a couple of reports that came out last
week saying that Smith Snowden had jumped over and was
catching some passes from Devon Dampier. What does that tell
you that two defensive dudes are jumping over to play
a little bit of offense and try and catch some
footballs from from from Devon Dampier.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Neither tells me. They're so athletic and so great that
they just can't pass up the opportunity to get them
some reps on offense or they're a little bear on
that offensive side. I don't know. I don't know what
that tells you, because I lean towards that tells you
they don't have the weapons or you know, the depth
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on offense that they think they do. I don't don't.
I don't know. It's a good question. I would lean
towards because here, here's the thing you're telling me, Kyle
Whittingham is super open to that idea is like love
loving taking dudes from his defense because that's the This
is about the defense that Utah football and putting them
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on offense. I don't think that's his first choice. I
don't think that is something he's you know, jumping out
of his shoes to do. So it tells me that
maybe they don't have as many weapons as they would
hope on offense. But at the same time, the last
three days four days, we've heard reports saying that the
receiver's room at Utah is a lot better than we
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thought it was going to be. Certain guys are stepping
up that Merriweather cal transfer. So I don't know what
to think about the whole situation. May and you know,
it may just be partly Jason Beck is kind of
an innovator. He's you know, he's a career, out of
the box thinker. Maybe part it may be that as well.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Those two things seem to contradict one another.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If you have guys that normally play defense, yeah, jumping
over to the offensive side to catch passes, it would
seem like you don't have a lot of talent catching
passes exactly. It would shock me to see Lander, Barton
and smith Stone catching a lot of balls. But you
never know. I mean, we've seen that with Kyle Whittingham
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in the last couple of years. A lot of guys
jumping over from one side of the ball together and
switching back and forth, and may you know, making appearances
here and there. I believe it was Chase Hansen, one
of the first guys that ended up running the football
for Utah back in the day. If I'm not mistaken,
you could correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm a
little off there. But eight seven seven three five three
zero seven hundred is that text in line? It can
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get you in on the program. If you've got thoughts
about BYU football or Utah football, we want to hear
from you here this morning. Eight seven seven, three, five,
three zero, seven hundred. Give us your thoughts on the
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Let's talk some baseball, a couple of different things that
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are going on around Major League baseball, and we'll start
with the New York Yankees, where things seem to not
be going great. They did just come off a six
to two win against the Minnesota Twins the other night,
but before that they were struggling, especially on the back
end of the bullpen, which, by the way, Jordan should
be a strength at this point in time because they
it's not like they just traded for three back end
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bullpen guys, one that they dfa'd already after two awful
starts and the other two. I just don't understand why Boone,
more specifically, is sticking with the guy and Devin Williams
versus letting David Bednar go out there and close out games.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
He's I don't either, because last was it last or
two nights ago he did go with he went with Bednar.
Bednar I think is basically your your closer right now,
and then Camillo d'vall is your setup guy. I don't
know what you do with Devin Williams. Devin Williams, I mean,
there's just he can't get anybody. He can't get guys out.
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He's got a I don't know what you do with him,
but he's stuck with him. You're right for a long time.
The problem you mentioned it, you go get Bednar, you
go get Doval, and Bednar for the most part, has
been good. I should pull up his numbers with the Yankees.
But Doval, he was great with the Pirates this year. Yeah, oh,
he's fantastic. But Doval's blown or giving up runs in
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a few different outings for the Yankees, and they haven't
all been his fault. The first, the first outing he
had after getting traded, they lost the game because there
was an error in right field from the Yankees right fielder.
He over ran a ball, and then there was a
seriously a tapper out in front of home plate that
no one could get to and the winning run came
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in from third. So really it was bad luck and
just bad play by Yankees defense. But overall, I mean Bednar,
he's been good. He's basically he's your closer now, right
if you're the Yankees. I think that he pitched, I'll
pull up his game log. I think he pitched last night,
and I thought he pitched.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He pitched, Well, yeah, he did one inning, two strikeouts
to close out the game for the New York Yankees
against Minnesota town.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He's been great. That's your closer because since he came in,
he blew one save against Miami, gave up two runs
in an inning and two thirds. Since then, he's had one, two, three,
four outings and by the way, two of those four
outings he's gone more than one inning, has not given
up a run. He's given up just one hit in
those outings. So he's your guy.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, to tell you and to kind of drive home
the point of when David Bednar and how good he
was with the Pirates before the trade deadline, the Pittsburgh
Pirates were something like thirty two and five when they
led after seven innings this season, Jordan, I mean, it's
the back end of their bullpen. We're not giving up
a lot of runs and blowing saves and leads, laying
the games. The problem with the Pirates is that they
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just didn't lead very often.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Just here. No, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And the problem with the Yankees is that you need it.
That's great. You have bednar in the ninth, you need
that bridge to the ninth. You need Camillo Duvall to
be a shutdown guy in the eighth. You need Devin
Williams in the seventh or the eighth, and man, the
Yankees are just hanging on. I mean just barely hanging on.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's very true. And we're gonna have to see if
the Yankees can continue to win and if they can
hold on and stay in that playoff race. A lot
of other storylines going on right now around Major League Baseball.
At this point in time, the Brewers have the best
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record in Major League Baseball. They hit their second ten
game win streak of the season. They're now thirty games
above five hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Jordan b and Ucci, they were and I darn it,
I need to pull this up, but in like late May,
they were like a game over five hundred. They have
been red hot obviously since they This is the second
ten game win streak, like you said, of the season
for the Brewers, first time that's happened since twenty nineteen,
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when the Astros did it.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The team has had two ten plus game winning streaks
now in May end today because they're going against schemes
later tonight. But they're unbelievable. They're the best team. But yeah,
I mean, they're the best team in baseball and it's
not not really that close right now. And it's been
it's been everything. They've scored runs, they've pitched well, they've
just been all around. They've been they played well.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I saw the first Autuva jersey that I've seen in
quite some time. Someone was wearing it last night as
I was getting food. Really, I leaned over to my
wife and said, Hey, tell that person blank Altuve.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
She wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
She didn't want to do that. Do you want to
swear at the at the random stranger. That's odd, that
shocking to me. Astros aren't good.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
She well, here's the problem is she doesn't know the
back story.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh she's not big, she's not.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That was the problem. If she knew what had happened,
she would have done it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
She would have done it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, she would have done it. If she knew the
backstory and what was going on with Altuve, she she
would have done it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
It's too bad about Altuve, you know, because like, that's
a guy he should be the biggest, one of the biggest.
He is one of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball,
but also should be one of the most likable dudes
in Major League Baseball. But because of all that, you know,
whether it's true or not, all that stuff be man. Yeah,
he's like he's a villain.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That all resurfaced recently, did it not? Someone just recently did?
Was it Bellinger? Cody Bellinger just did a post game
the podcast? Was it a podcast where he was asked
about it, and he brought it all back up and said, Oh,
I don't know of a guy that hits a game
winning home run, rounds third base and tells people not
to rip his jersey.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Off and then goes in and changes his shirt and
does another interview. So that's all resurfaced once again.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, Dodgers still not real happy about that, which I mean,
I mean the Dodgers are not happy. Also the Yankees,
but yeah, bummer, I don't you know it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You don't have any sympathy. Yeah, no sympathy for the Dodgers,
who are currently leading the NL West. But only by
one game. The San Diego Padres had a good weekend
against the Boston Red Sox this last weekend, which I
did get to watch quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Of while you were sweating bullets one on the deck.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sitting down in the middle of the sun. At least
I had some TV that I could watch the Boston
Red Sox play the Padres.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
The Potterys won again last night, they beat the Giants.
They you realize the Potters are one game back of
the Dodgers. This is insane. I don't think any of
us if you would have when we were talking about
this in April with that Dodger lineup, with them going
out getting Yamamoto snail they have glass. Now back on
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August twelfth, were we buying that the Potterys were going
to be a game out in the division? No, I
was not buying that. It's the Dodgers have so underachieved
so far this year and don't and they've had some injuries,
but I don't even think that's an excuse because they
have so much depth. It's unbelievable. And by the way,
the Potterys would be leading the division if they could
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beat the Dodgers and a head to head matchup. The
Dodgers have dominated that series, had to head this year.
So the I just if the Dodgers do not win
the division with that roster they are, it's just gonna
be I don't even know what in la I mean, listen,
don't get you. You win the wild card series, it's
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like whatever, I guess, but good lord, you can't win
that division with that roster. And I know you've had
a lot of injuries, but again that you have so
much depth. And you know, we were talking yesterday on
the show. Look at the Dodgers starting rotation now because
everybody's pretty much healthy. You have Snell, Blake Snell back,
you have Glass now, you have Yamamoto, you have Shean,
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you have Kershaw, which in that the Hall of Famer
in that group, Kershaw is the one I probably have
the least confidence in. That is a shutdown. I mean,
how do you not you have to win the division
if if you're the Dodgers with those guys healthy, It's
it's just it really is. But the Padres are doing
is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
All I'm asking for, Jordan is a Padres Dodgers playoff series.
That's what I want and you're gonna get a taste
of it this upcoming weekend is the Padres will visit
Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers a Friday, Saturday Sunday.
I'm sure it'll be Friday Night Apple TV, Saturday Fox,
and then I'm sure it'll be Sunday Night Baseball on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's that'll be. I'm locked in on that. That will
be that. I mean, as far as August series go,
that's bigger than than anything that I mean, that's a
that's a great series and we'll see I mean, look,
the Dodgers could go into that series trailing the Padres
in that in that or in that division? What where
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is it that? San Diego or.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
La at Los Angeles? You want to take the drive?
I would.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I would drive to see that series. That's gonna be unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You know what, we could fly out of Provo Airport
into Orange County, just drive a little bit from there.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I could do that. We could do that, go to
lax E, man. I would.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's jeez, we'll get to make prices for that series.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I want to see that. I'm sure it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, I mean, if you're so right now. The reason
I so, if you're talking about a series in the
playoffs between these two, if the Dodgers, if the season
ended today, the Mets would go to LA to play
the Dodgers in a three game series and the Podreys
would go to Chicago for a three game series. If
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you switch that, let's say the Padres are the division winners,
you would have the Mets at San Diego and then
the Dodgers at the Cubs, which is great because now
you're guaranteed, not guaranteed, I'd have to look at the bracket.
You'd at least get a five game series between those
two teams. Hopefully you get it in the NLCS. That's
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what I would like to see. Well, you're at least
paying one hundred bucks to get in. You could be
down the left field line up in the top seats
for one hundred and seventeen bucks, all right over by
the poll out there, one hundred and seventeen bucks. You
know those types of series. That's like an NFL crowd
where you're like, how many fights am I going to
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see in the stands. That's not a family friendly environment.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
You do not want to be in the parking lot
late no, outside of Chefes Revine, No you do not.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That is a game I'm not taking my kid to.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
No, no chance at all.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Like if you want to see as close as you
possibly could get to what Oakland Raiders game used to be, like,
go to a Padre's Dodgers game at Chevezvine.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
My dad when the Giants played at Candlestick and I
was a little kid, my dad would not take me
to Dodger Giants night game. And looking back on it,
I've actually heard people talk about it. They go, yeah,
ever since the Giants moved to Oracle, They're like, oh, man,
the crowd, it's the crowds are a lot, a lot better.
They're like, they're like, you got a little scary at
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Candlestick Dodgers Giants. There are a lot of fights. It's yeah,
that's an NFL type dudes throwing punches in the crowd
at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
So maybe Sunday, the one ten pm Pacific time start
would would be the best one for you.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So they're not flexing that to Sunday night. Who's on
Sunday Night Baseball?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Oh you're right, because yeah, it wouldn't be a one
to ten pm start well.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
They, I mean, they probably already know who's on Sunday
Night Baseball. But that's a how that.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
ESBN if.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I don't know what the rules are as far as
flexing games, but if you'd like to have huge ratings
and sell base you know right, you may want to
flex that one. Tonight Mariners Mets are Sunday Night Baseball.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
What a match up?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, fellas, you gotta we gotta switch that one out.
Take it lesson from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm sure that Friday nights seven ten pm Pacific time
start will be Apple TV, and Saturday night's got to
be on Fox, right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
One of them's on Roku and then and then PBS.
No Friday Night. Let's see, let's Friday Night. Why isn't
it telling me?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
What got the Food Network?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And food now? Aw, they don't have any pit I'm
trying to figure out who will be the starting pitchers
for that series. But that is gonna be That's gonna
be fantastic. That's that's a great, great series, man, that's
gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
All Right, that's your little snapshot of baseball. We'll take
a break here. Coming up next to the NFL Blitz,
We've got the latest for you around the National Football League.
The latest news from training camps, some preseason games got
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Maurice Jones Drew call all of the action right here
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Speaker 4 (40:30):
The Fan.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
One topic of discussion was centered around the quarterback. Will
Matthew Stafford be ready to go in Week one? You
might be asking why if you haven't been following that situation.
Apparently there's a little bit of a back injury going
on with Matthew Stafford, and it's gotten a little bit
more serious than what they have expected it to be
in the off season.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
The NFL Network touched on this.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Former NFL offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams who
played alongside one Matthew Stafford, DeMarco Farr on a Good
Morning Football This Morning, had this to say about the
Matthew Stafford situation.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
For this long could be a problem, and I hope
that this back injury or situation issue doesn't rob Matthew
Stafford of what makes them special. The guy's got world
class arm talent. He protects himself very well with.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
A quick release.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
He can throw on the move, he can throw on platform,
from any platform, off platform. He's just one of the
best quarterbacks we've ever seen. But you know, back's a
tricky You don't know how he's gonna respond, So this
is going to be touch and go. But I will
say this about Jimmy g They feel confident about Jimmy
Garoppolo as their starter. He could have gone other places
to compete for a starting job, chose to stay here.
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He's really really ingrained in the offense. They trust him,
so if Matthew Stafford is out for any period of time,
they feel like the offense can just keep going until
he's back. But you'd want Matthew Stafford out there. But
I agree with Ky, this is not nothing. This is
it could be a big deal. You'd rather have your
guy taking snap.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
That is former Rams offensive lineman to Marco far this
morning on Good Morning Football in the NFL Network, Jordan Bianucci,
big deal or note deal Matthew Stafford being out for
the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
If that is indeed the case, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I don't buy that. They're thrilled having Jimmy Garoppolo back there,
like you, of all people would know. Yeah, I think
he can. He can step into that offense because listen
with Shanahan to and McVeigh, you can to a certain
degree have quarterbacks that are not you know, Hall of
famers run the offense and be successful. They're not going
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to be great, like you still need good quarterbacks. I
think It's like the idea that brock Perty, you know,
can't play anywhere else. I don't buy it. But is
he a lot better because he's in Shanahan's offense. Absolutely.
The same goes with McVeigh. I don't. Yeah, I think
it's a big I think it's a big Gil. And
this is what I was worried about all off season
when everyone was so high on the Rams. I said, yeah,
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that's great. I'm also the Rams. Are I'm in on
the Rams if Stafford stays healthy, which is a huge
if the guy's fifty five years old. I mean, this
is not a shocker to me that he's not super healthy.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
JB.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Long will be joining us on Friday the Voice of
the Rams, and we'll get the latest on Matthew Stafford, Pukinakua,
Brittain Covey, and the rest of the crew this upcoming
Friday before they get ready for preseason game number two.
All right, Jordan, I want to shift over to another
quarterback situation that's happening, this one in Cleveland. Should Or
Sanders made his debut for the Cleveland Browns through a
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couple of nice touchdown passes over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Are we overreacting.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Is it an overreaction to say that should or Sanders
ad a good weekend and that it's actually going to
mean something come week one in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
No, I mean, I don't know if it's overreacting to
say he had a good weekend, he had a nice
he had a nice weekend. Does it mean anything week one?
Is he going to be the starter?
Speaker 5 (44:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:05):
I don't think so. But look, I'm still trying to
figure out what happened to him in the drug I
still don't understand how he dropped that far in the draft,
Like I want to know what's going on behind the scenes,
but not, I mean, I think it's a Look, he's
got a lot of work to do. He's got he's
got to rehabilitate basically his image and how people have
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perceived him, which has not been good. And it's a
good start start playing well.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Yeah, and a couple of good throws.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Do you see the highlights of that that first touchdown
pass between two defenders in the back of the end zone,
It was it was a really good pass. Now, it
was against the Carolina Panthers, but his preseason, so I
don't know, I don't know what to make of that.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
With the list of the Browns quarterbacks, is he going
to be I think he starts again. Does he start
a game this year? I would lean towards you if
I had to guess, like the Browns. Yeah, but I
think he starts a game this year.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I think he will as well, and I'm not so
sure that it won't be game number one. I think
he's making a really good case for himself to be
the guy in Week one coming up against the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Who do you have I'm pulling him up. If you
have Dylan Gabriel, Joe Flacco and.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
Although he's rehabbing, yeah, see he's.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Out, Tyler Huntley, Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
What a list.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, if you can't beat out those guys, there might
be an issue.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Might be an issue.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
We'll keep an eye out on the shud Or Sanders
situation and what's happening there with the Cleveland Browns elsewhere
around the.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
National Football League. Give you an update.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I think there should be an update here on the
Atlanta Falcons Detroit Lions game that was suspended over the weekend. Jordan,
did you see this safety for the Detroit Lions went
down had to be carted off, the Falcons and the
Lions both came together decided just to end that preseason
football game.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, that's brutal. That's why, Toy, you don't want to
play a lot of preseason games because the game is
so dangerous. It's stupid to have games that don't mean
a lot. I was like, if you're gonna play football,
you gotta play football. It's it's you can't go half
in and I look, you have to have some preseason games.
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I get that, but but just yeah, you hate to
see that.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
According to head coach Dan Campbell, Maurice Norris, the safety
that went down and ended up having to go to
the hospital in that preseason game in Atlanta, is back
with the team.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
He is doing well, per the head coach of the
Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
So glad to hear that he is doing okay and
that everything is all right in that situation, A scary situation.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You never want to see it.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
There's been a lot of dudes injured already in the
preseason to this point, Jordan, and I wonder if that
makes Zach Taylor and the Bengals shudder a little bit,
knowing that they had Joe Burrow out there for like
the first two or three series of that preseason football game.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
I was watching the highlights of that game him and
Jamar Chase on multiple drives.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Like what are we doing just carving up the defense?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Look me and Zach and even Martin got into this
a little bit last week talking about how I personally,
if you have there's only three teams, three or four
teams in my opinion, that have the luxury of not
having to put their starters out there on the field
for any preseason games. I'm gonna say it's the Kansas
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City Chiefs, the Buffalo Bills, and the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
That's about it. You could maybe convince.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Me on the Philadelphia Eagles, but I still think they
need a driver too, the more important ones. I also
believe if you have a divisional game Week one that's
really gonna matter, like the Atlanta Falcons do against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you've got to see your starters get
out there for at least a few drives, especially if
you have a quote unquote essentially a rookie quarterback of
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Michael Pennix with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. It depends who you have and
it's I don't know, it's interesting because you're right. Like practice,
it's just not the same thing. So I don't have
a problem with a series, but after at some point
you gotta be and that's when what most teams do.
We've talked about it in September. There's a reason teams
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do not look sharp. Yeah, because they haven't played real games.
So I don't know, there's no real good answer to it.
It's just you want to get them out there, get
them some reps. But as soon as they get hurt,
you look like an idiot, you look reckless.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
The only time I would not I would never do
it as head coach is if if your Week one
matchup is not a divisional game, if you have some
random team on the schedule, you can afford to lose
that game. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, if you're the
Cincinnai Bengals who were taken on the Cleveland Browns in
Week one, I still think you've got to have your
guys out there for a couple of drives, not four
or five, but maybe two or three throughout the preseason.
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Just get it, get it going a little bit, and
let them kind of knock off the rest.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. There's no right answer
to this. There just isn't.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Makes it a little bit tough for these NFL head coaches,
and that right there is why they get paid the
big bucks. That's the latest round the National Football League.
We'll keep you up to date. Seventy yard field goal?
How about that, Jordan. I wanted to touch on that.
I know you guys talked a little bit about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
That was impressive. That was impressive.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
That's insane. That should not be a thing. Seventy yards
You get the forty yard line, your own forty yard line,
and you could kick a field goal.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
I don't even know, like how Yeah, that was I
told Martin yesterday it's time to narrow the goalposts in
the NFL. It's too easy. It's automatic. These dudes are
hitting field goals like it's nothing. By the way, this
little trivia for you, do you know the longest high
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school field goal in the history of high school football?
Speaker 1 (49:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Sixty eight yards? Wow, nineteen eighty five Reno High School. Really, yeah,
that's a little that's a little. And Dick Borgione I
got to look up his name.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Shout out to that guy.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, there was an article in the paper yesterday. My
dad was still manage sixty eight yardfield goal in nineteen
eighty five high school.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Well Will Farron down at BYU. I interviewed him for
twelve and a half minutes. It was a great interview.
You should listen to that interview because you would love that. Okay,
just everything about the mechanics of kicking. Maybe we should
replay it. The mechanics of kicking. How he feels.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
He told me he feels comfortable and confident hitting from
sixty four or sixty five this upcoming season in good conditions.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Okay, I want to see that.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
I gotta see that.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
You know, in college having a great kicker is a
huge advantage. I think it is because there are not
a lot of them. There are not a lot of them.
That's just that's huge. By the way, the dude that
hit that sixty eight yarder in high school, I think
he missed almost every other field goal the.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
I saw that in the article.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Incredible and greed.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Will Farin is on track to become the most accurate
kicker in BYU history. So by Fens, knock on some
wood right now. Hopefully he has a good final season
with BYU. But yeah, he's on track to be the
most accurate kicker in BYU history.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
I remember when I when I was in high school,
was Swornsen? Was it Bingham?
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (51:17):
Yeah, dude could not miss in high school in like
eighty yarders. It felt like kicking our ass at Riverton
and then goes to b Yu, can't, can't, can't hit
a damn field goal?
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Really he ended up having a lower back injury.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Great, thanks a lot, Like, really, you couldn't you couldn't
miss one against against us when you were beating them
and him and Harvey Lane. You were beaten, beating us
sixty five to nothing.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
It was brutal, to be fair, they were beating everybody
sixty five Toho. That hurt all right?
Speaker 2 (51:50):
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Yeah, that planned out for like ten days. It's like,
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
Utah will be a little bit longer than that because they've.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Got a late one on that Saturday, the first Saturday
of college football here in the state of Utah, just
eighteen days away. And we'll bring you the latest from
around both of those two programs and the rumors and
reports that are coming out of each one of these
fall camps. A lot of baseball coming your way, a
lot of stuff happened over the weekend. We're gonna check
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upcoming Saturday from ten am to two pm. Jordan Bianucci's
back in town. I'm here as well. Yesterday wasn't feeling great, Jordana.
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Was a rough weekend, all right. I was down in
Lake Pow. Now, normally everybody would say, that's not a weekend,
that's great. Well, it wasn't quite the luxury liner that
I thought we were going to be on here.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
On a canoe.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
What happened pretty much not not necessarily a canoe. But
the nicest thing was that we still had some sort
of connection to internet, so it wasn't that bad. A
little bit of electricity. There's no ac though. Oh didn't
have a bed to sleep on. Slept on the on
the top deck all right, got a little sunburned.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I think I drank too much like water.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And then on on Saturday, decided, hey, you know, I'm
still young. I could still wakeboard bad idea really slight concussion. Oh,
bouncing the head off of the water after I caught
the edge on the wakeboard. It got a little bit
of whiplash in the neck as well. I did not
sleep very well the last couple of days, and then
yesterday came down with a little bit of sickness. I
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don't know if it was it was just from being
out in the heat, which it was like one hundred
and five degrees every single day with no air conditioning
all week. That'll probably do it to you. I think
it was a little dehydrated from the weekend.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, Oh man, I'm alive though, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Sounds like a blast, what a vacation. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm a little beat up, but I am alive, and
I'm grateful that I got the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
That was my first chance to ever go to Lake Pow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I've ever been to Lake Pow. I was at the
time you were doing that. I was in Tahoe and
it was beautiful. It was seventy eight degrees. I was
I was just sitting on the beach, really taking it easy.
I liked the I got on the paddle board. I
just sit on the paddle board. I row, you know,
just take it out of the buoys, just hang out,
read some read a book. Well, listen to the giants
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game on the beach. Yeah, I mean that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Lord.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
With one hundred and five degrees.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It was hot out there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Man, I don't even know where to what the else
to ask you? That's I'm sorry, that's not that's not fun.
What kind of boat? How big was this boat?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How old was this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It is pretty old one, it's a pretty old boat.
It was, you know, it was good size. It's not
as bad as you'd think. But there was no air
conditioning just because.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Of do most houseboats down there have ac Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, if you've seen I don't know if you've seen
like the big Bravada boats that are like the fifty
to seventy foot boats. They're really nice, like you're talking
luxury liners. They've got bedrooms, they've got a lot of
air conditioning, they've got a lot of different things. And
you can rent those apparently, and you know what, it's crazy.
Apparently the rule is anything under seventy five feet, which
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is massive. You can pilot yourself, you can captain yourself,
and they'll rent it to you and say, all right,
have fun.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Sure, easy take off, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's all yours, buddy, enjoy the week. I don't know
if I trust myself to do that. They'll take it
out of the marina for you, but once you get
out in that open water, it's all yours for the
full week.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't trust myself driving anything.
I was on a jet ski at oh and Man
slack it was choppy. Yeah, it was choppy, uh the man.
So I just can't get over how hot it was.
How it was water low, real real low.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, it was looking low.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I don't have anything to judge it off of because
I've not you know, I've never been there before, but
it was it was looking low, and from what everybody
was telling me what it is low. There's certain parts
of lake that you can't go to because the water
is so low. So you could see the old boat ramps,
and the old boat ramp is like fifty feet above
where the actual water is.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's not good. I don't know that you're going to
get a boat in off that ramp. That's not good
for anybody that is.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That is not good.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It's it's not great.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Oh man, Yeah, you gotta try. You gotta try a
different lake.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We got a little tour of the dam and they
said that, yeah, if it gets any lower, it's going
to get to the point where it's not it doesn't
have enough pressure to create more electricity.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, things are going great. Things are working out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Do you remember when we were down in Phoenix asking
where all the water comes from?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yep, well there's your answer.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's right the Colorado River. That thing's just overflowing right
now with water. We're gonna have plenty of water out
here in the years to come.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So that was my week My weekend in Lake pal
did drive past Bryce Canyon, which Ruby's in is giving
away a five hundred dollars dift card right here on
this station to go down to Bryce Canyon.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Joan. I've only been to Bryce Canyon once in my life,
and I was super young, so I don't remember it.
I was just driving past it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That whole portion from like Canab through Bryce Canyon and
that portion of southern Utah that not a lot of
people have the opportunity to get to.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It's beautiful down there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh, Canab's one of my favorite towns in Utah, and
I've only really driven through. I haven't stayed there a
lot time, but oh, it's it's yeah, it's a gym,
it's it is. It's beautiful. My mom, by the way,
asked if she can win that gift card to rubies In,
and I said, no, I think that's illegal. So I'm unfortunately,
unfortunately you cannot enter that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So we're gonna need someone out there that's listening to
this program to head over to espnfan dot com and
enter to win the rubies In gift card five hundred
bucks to rubies In. Just outside of beautiful Bryce Canyon,
and you can maybe take a little day trip down
to Lake Palell, check out the lake and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's only an hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Take a day trip, gets sunburned. See how our our
water supply is collapsing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you'll get the Arizona side, the wall Weep Bay
side of things. Just what an hour and a half
two hours away from rubies In and Bryce Canyon. So
there you go a lot to talk about this morning, Jordan.
There's one other thing I want to bring up about
that trip. There are there were two different places, one
in kannab and one in Panguich that I passed.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We have an ongoing joke.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You and I do Utah Valley Baseball on ESPN Plus,
and when it gets late into the games, I always
talked about where we're going to go after the game.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
We always talked about the hitching post.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The hitching post.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There were two of them, one in Panguich and one
in Kannab.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's a chain.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think it is hitch in post hitch. I have
a picture of it. I took a picture. I didn't
send it to you yet, but I can show it
to you afterwards. There's two of them. There's one in
Panguich on the on the main street to you director,
and there was one in Cannab right next to Maverick.
Really yeah, I was like, I've got to tell Jordan
about this.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm pulling it up. I'm trying to pull it up
right now. I'm not welcome in Penguich. Have I ever
told you this story on the air?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When I was in the height of the year I
graduated from high school, our like city league baseball team
went down there for a tournament, and are you went
down to Penguich went down to Penguich for a baseball tournament, okay,
and the everyone hit the town that night in Penguich,
went out to the ch Yeah, and they we were
staying at the Koa, and you know, it's never it's
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my opinion, it's never great when one of the assistant
coaches buys the underage team cases of beer. That's that's
my I always think that's a that's a bad to
your opinion. My opinion is like that might be a
bad idea. And things got too rowdy at the koa
and we got booted and it wasn't me, it was
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it was the assistant. Then oh man, watching that assistant
coach because he he he had a fun night, then
watching him try to coach third the next day was hilarious.
Uh yeah, not not great decisions all around, I would
say by the adults in that in that party. Yeah,
but yeah, we were. We were yelled at by the
owner of the koa and got kicked out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Look, I'm not gonna lie. That sounds like a regular
weekend in Panguage.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That should be. That's what we thought. They're like, we're
we're getting a little rowdy and panguige and you got
a problem with this. It's like after nine, it's quiet time,
Like okay.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
All right, there you go things you didn't know about
Bryce and bing Ucci this morning seven, on this Tuesday,
August the twelfth, we're getting into the latest that's come
out from both BUYU and Utah Football here this morning.
But I just wanted to fill you in as to
the last couple of days and the adventures that both
of us have been on. One other final thing that
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I had to ask you, have you ever watched vander Pump?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I never have.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Never. Okay, well, then that question is no longer. They're
all there. They always seem to be at Lake Tahoe,
So I was wondering if you might have seen any
of them.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Is this the vandr Pump Rules? Yeah, I've heard of it.
I don't know what it is though.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, all those people from LA that have their own
TV show.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Okay, I'll tell you what. There were far fewer people
at Tahoe this year, which thank Evans. Really yeah, it
was actually really a lot nicer.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
They usually do that celebrity golf tournament down there at
some point.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, they do it like the week I don't know,
maybe three weeks before I go. Okay, Yeah, that's I
would love to see that in person.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That would be fun.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It would be really fun.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
A lot of dudes out there.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Good, good golfers. Some of these dudes, some of them
really bad, some of them really bad.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Steph Curry himself, he's a I think I've said this man.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm telling you, if he wanted to be a pro golfer,
he could do it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Probably he could do it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, he seems like he's that good that he could
be out there on the tour. But hey, basketball seems
to be going just fine for him. All right, Let's
shift over and talk about the weekend that was from
both BYU and Utah football. Two scrimmages took place in
the state of Utah. I'm sure three did one up
in Logan with Utah State, and we can get into
a little bit of that as well. But Utah and
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BYU underway on Saturday. Both of the two head coaches
spoke to the media about how those scrimmages went, and
let's start with BYU down in Provo. One thing that
came out from that scrimmage on Saturday was a report
stating that Aaron Roderick had mentioned that there might be
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a little bit of separation between one quarterback from the
rest of the pack. Jordan Bianucci. Any idea which quarterback
he could possibly be talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I did not see this, so I have no idea.
I would think it would be Hillstead, but I don't know.
I did read Kevin Reynolds said something in the Tribune
this weekend where it sounded like he's like bart Bachmeer's
the number two guy, essentially. I found that interesting, but
I did not know. I did not see what Roderick
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said here.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Last week, we were able to go to fall camp
and I was standing there watching everything that was taking
place before I was able to get an interview with
Will Fair and the kicker. And one thing that I
noticed during the twenty to twenty five minutes they let
us watch these guys run the offense was that bear
Bachmeyer really started to struggle. And I think the later
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you get into fall camp and the more they ask
you to start doing, the more complicated it gets. And
that's when you start seeing the struggles of younger quarterbacks
who just haven't quite ran a full offense. He had
early on. There was a lot of praise towards bear Bachmeyer.
It was a lot of skeleton stuff. They had asked
him not to scramble, they had asked him, not really
to make tough decisions with the football. Now you throw
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on the full pads, you see what's happening. It's full speed.
You've got guys breathing down your neck coming after you.
I think part of it you could also chalk up
to bear Bachmeyer was running with the number two offensive line,
which obviously might not be as stout. You might not
have enough time to get the ball off. He's holding
on to it a little bit longer, and there was
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a little bit more struggles in terms of just trying
to get rid of the football. He's just holding on
to it, stepping up into the pocket, and he's got
to make faster decisions.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
That's kind of what we saw last week.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So just surmising from that and hearing Klonie Satake talk
about how there were no turnovers overall. He thought the
defense won the day, but there were no turnovers by
the offense. The quarterbacks really did a good job of
taking care of the football. I would think that McKay
Hillstead has probably separated himself from the rest of the pack.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Aaron Roderick spoke about it. You said, we had the clip,
we're going to play that for you here. This is
what Aaron Roderick had to say on Saturday about that
quarterback competition.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Okay, today I thought we were a little bit sloppy.
We've been playing well in practice and having a good
amount of success. And you know, one of the reasons
why it's important to scrimmage in the stadium, I believe,
is there's something about going in that stadium and playing
in a game like situation with a with a real,
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big twelve officiating crew. You learn quickly that some of
the little mistakes that you get away with in practice
sometimes that don't cost you anything because there's no consequences
for a false start or a holding penalty or something
like that. Those things get exposed in a in a
scrimmage like setting with a with a a real officiating crew.
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And I thought we learned some good lessons today. I'm
not not not down or freaked out by it. We
did a lot of good things today too. But that
was the biggest takeaway I got today was just our
younger players, especially learning that when you go in the stadium, man,
you gotta be locked in, and you got to execute,
and you gotta be able to perform at a high
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level when the lights are on and all the eyes
are on you, and you're on TV, and the refs
are watching every little thing. You can't get away with
a little somebody moving their feet while somebody's in motion.
You know, some of those things that I think are
great lessons for us. And that's why you.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Have to scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
And so I thought today was not our best football,
but it's part of the process of getting there because
you have to go have this type of scrimmage and
learn those lessons and and you know, the next time
we scrimmage, hopefully next week sometime, hopefully we'll be better
and keep taking steps towards being ready to play a game.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
All right, thank you, Eron.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
We'll go ahead and start with questions with Jay Drew
with the Desert News, followed by Jake Hatch with kiss on. Yeah, Aaron,
you probably know the questions coming with quarterback stood out,
how were the reps divided?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And and who caught your eye today?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
The reps were evenly divided, And I did know your
question was coming. And you know my answer, I need
to watch the film is a true statement.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I need to watch the tape.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
But what I will say is it's not going to
be keeping equal reps, you know, forever we're There's gonna
be a point pretty soon. I'm not not ready to
say exactly when, but there's gonna be a time pretty
soon where we're gonna have to start, you know, establishing
a pecking order and getting somebody, you know, more reps
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with the ones and twos, and maybe somebody's gonna get
a little bit less. If we keep going the way
we're going forever, then nobody will be ready to play
in our first game. So that move will be happening soon.
I would need to watch the tape, and I need
to discuss this with my staff and with Kolaney before
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we decide how and when.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We're going to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
All right, that's Aaron Roderick, in his first couple of
questions and statements to the media on Saturday, obviously said
he had to go back and watch the film. Jem
Jordan to b YU TV also tweeted this out and
said b YU offensive coordinator Aaron Rodger tell Spencer Linton
there's a little bit of separation among one of the quarterbacks,
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but he needs to continue to evaluate the film. He
added to the general media and Spencer that they will
whittle the reps down soon, saying quote, we are watching
it very closely every single day Jordan b and Ucci.
It sounds like one quarterback is art and to get
a little bit ahead of the others. But as you heard,
there might be a little bit closer still and they
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still have some work to do in deciding who that's
going to be.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean, this is kind of what we thought,
right And to be honest with you, the sooner Hillsted
or whoever separates himself, the better for BYU, this is
what you want. You do not want to go into
the last week of fall camp going in. These guys
are pretty even. Guys are pretty even. No, you want
him to separate him. If he's going to separate himself,
do it now and then get him more reps. But
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the first team. So I think that this is good
news if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Very little spring football work for any of these quarterbacks
with the ones, just because Jake Retzloft took up a
lot of those, which, by the way, Jake Retzloft sounds
like he's doing some real work there at Tulane trying
to separate himself. And when that quarterback battle and did
well on Saturday in Tulane scrimmage over the weekend with
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their team. So one other thing I do want to
shift over that's from BYU. Let's talk about Camp Kyle
with Kyle Whittingham and what's going on at the University
of Utah. A lot of reports this last week, Jordan
and I wanted to get your thoughts on this that
there's quite a few players making the jump over to
play a little bit of offensive football at the University
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of Utah. Lander Barton going to try and play some
tight end. I don't know if you've heard about that one.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Did not hear about that one?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, Lander Barton's apparently going to play some tight end.
There's also a couple of reports that came out last
week saying that Smith Snowden had jumped over and was
catching some passes from Devon Dampier. What does that tell
you that two defensive dudes are jumping over to play
a little bit of offense and try and catch some
footballs from from from Devon Dampier.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Neither tells me. They're so athletic and so great that
they just can't pass up the opportunity to get them
some reps on offense or they're a little bear on
that offensive side. I don't know. I don't know what
that tells you, because I lean towards that tells you
they don't have the weapons or you know, the depth
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on offense that they think they do. I don't don't.
I don't know. It's a good question. I would lean
towards because here, here's the thing you're telling me, Kyle
Whittingham is super open to that idea is like love
loving taking dudes from his defense because that's the This
is about the defense that Utah football and putting them
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on offense. I don't think that's his first choice. I
don't think that is something he's you know, jumping out
of his shoes to do. So it tells me that
maybe they don't have as many weapons as they would
hope on offense. But at the same time, the last
three days four days, we've heard reports saying that the
receiver's room at Utah is a lot better than we
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thought it was going to be. Certain guys are stepping
up that Merriweather cal transfer. So I don't know what
to think about the whole situation. May and you know,
it may just be partly Jason Beck is kind of
an innovator. He's you know, he's a career, out of
the box thinker. Maybe part it may be that as well.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Those two things seem to contradict one another.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If you have guys that normally play defense, yeah, jumping
over to the offensive side to catch passes, it would
seem like you don't have a lot of talent catching
passes exactly. It would shock me to see Lander, Barton
and smith Stone catching a lot of balls. But you
never know. I mean, we've seen that with Kyle Whittingham
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in the last couple of years. A lot of guys
jumping over from one side of the ball together and
switching back and forth, and may you know, making appearances
here and there. I believe it was Chase Hansen, one
of the first guys that ended up running the football
for Utah back in the day. If I'm not mistaken,
you could correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm a
little off there. But eight seven seven three five three
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Let's talk some baseball, a couple of different things that
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are going on around Major League baseball, and we'll start
with the New York Yankees, where things seem to not
be going great. They did just come off a six
to two win against the Minnesota Twins the other night,
but before that they were struggling, especially on the back
end of the bullpen, which, by the way, Jordan should
be a strength at this point in time because they
it's not like they just traded for three back end
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bullpen guys, one that they dfa'd already after two awful
starts and the other two. I just don't understand why Boone,
more specifically, is sticking with the guy and Devin Williams
versus letting David Bednar go out there and close out games.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
He's I don't either, because last was it last or
two nights ago he did go with he went with Bednar.
Bednar I think is basically your your closer right now,
and then Camillo d'vall is your setup guy. I don't
know what you do with Devin Williams. Devin Williams, I mean,
there's just he can't get anybody. He can't get guys out.
(27:35):
He's got a I don't know what you do with him,
but he's stuck with him. You're right for a long time.
The problem you mentioned it, you go get Bednar, you
go get Doval, and Bednar for the most part, has
been good. I should pull up his numbers with the Yankees.
But Doval, he was great with the Pirates this year. Yeah, oh,
he's fantastic. But Doval's blown or giving up runs in
(27:58):
a few different outings for the Yankees, and they haven't
all been his fault. The first, the first outing he
had after getting traded, they lost the game because there
was an error in right field from the Yankees right fielder.
He over ran a ball, and then there was a
seriously a tapper out in front of home plate that
no one could get to and the winning run came
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in from third. So really it was bad luck and
just bad play by Yankees defense. But overall, I mean Bednar,
he's been good. He's basically he's your closer now, right
if you're the Yankees. I think that he pitched, I'll
pull up his game log. I think he pitched last night,
and I thought he pitched.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He pitched, Well, yeah, he did one inning, two strikeouts
to close out the game for the New York Yankees
against Minnesota town.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
He's been great. That's your closer because since he came in,
he blew one save against Miami, gave up two runs
in an inning and two thirds. Since then, he's had one, two, three,
four outings and by the way, two of those four
outings he's gone more than one inning, has not given
up a run. He's given up just one hit in
those outings. So he's your guy.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, to tell you and to kind of drive home
the point of when David Bednar and how good he
was with the Pirates before the trade deadline, the Pittsburgh
Pirates were something like thirty two and five when they
led after seven innings this season, Jordan, I mean, it's
the back end of their bullpen. We're not giving up
a lot of runs and blowing saves and leads, laying
the games. The problem with the Pirates is that they
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just didn't lead very often.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Just here. No, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And the problem with the Yankees is that you need it.
That's great. You have bednar in the ninth, you need
that bridge to the ninth. You need Camillo Duvall to
be a shutdown guy in the eighth. You need Devin
Williams in the seventh or the eighth, and man, the
Yankees are just hanging on. I mean just barely hanging on.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's very true. And we're gonna have to see if
the Yankees can continue to win and if they can
hold on and stay in that playoff race. A lot
of other storylines going on right now around Major League Baseball.
At this point in time, the Brewers have the best
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record in Major League Baseball. They hit their second ten
game win streak of the season. They're now thirty games
above five hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Jordan b and Ucci, they were and I darn it,
I need to pull this up, but in like late May,
they were like a game over five hundred. They have
been red hot obviously since they This is the second
ten game win streak, like you said, of the season
for the Brewers, first time that's happened since twenty nineteen,
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when the Astros did it.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
The team has had two ten plus game winning streaks
now in May end today because they're going against schemes
later tonight. But they're unbelievable. They're the best team. But yeah,
I mean, they're the best team in baseball and it's
not not really that close right now. And it's been
it's been everything. They've scored runs, they've pitched well, they've
just been all around. They've been they played well.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I saw the first Autuva jersey that I've seen in
quite some time. Someone was wearing it last night as
I was getting food. Really, I leaned over to my
wife and said, Hey, tell that person blank Altuve.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
She wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
She didn't want to do that. Do you want to
swear at the at the random stranger. That's odd, that
shocking to me. Astros aren't good.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
She well, here's the problem is she doesn't know the
back story.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Oh she's not big, she's not.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That was the problem. If she knew what had happened,
she would have done it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
She would have done it.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, she would have done it. If she knew the
backstory and what was going on with Altuve, she she
would have done it.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
It's too bad about Altuve, you know, because like, that's
a guy he should be the biggest, one of the biggest.
He is one of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball,
but also should be one of the most likable dudes
in Major League Baseball. But because of all that, you know,
whether it's true or not, all that stuff be man. Yeah,
he's like he's a villain.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That all resurfaced recently, did it not? Someone just recently did?
Was it Bellinger? Cody Bellinger just did a post game
the podcast? Was it a podcast where he was asked
about it, and he brought it all back up and said, Oh,
I don't know of a guy that hits a game
winning home run, rounds third base and tells people not
to rip his jersey.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Off and then goes in and changes his shirt and
does another interview. So that's all resurfaced once again.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, Dodgers still not real happy about that, which I mean,
I mean the Dodgers are not happy. Also the Yankees,
but yeah, bummer, I don't you know it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You don't have any sympathy. Yeah, no sympathy for the Dodgers,
who are currently leading the NL West. But only by
one game. The San Diego Padres had a good weekend
against the Boston Red Sox this last weekend, which I
did get to watch quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Of while you were sweating bullets one on the deck.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sitting down in the middle of the sun. At least
I had some TV that I could watch the Boston
Red Sox play the Padres.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
The Potterys won again last night, they beat the Giants.
They you realize the Potters are one game back of
the Dodgers. This is insane. I don't think any of
us if you would have when we were talking about
this in April with that Dodger lineup, with them going
out getting Yamamoto snail they have glass. Now back on
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August twelfth, were we buying that the Potterys were going
to be a game out in the division? No, I
was not buying that. It's the Dodgers have so underachieved
so far this year and don't and they've had some injuries,
but I don't even think that's an excuse because they
have so much depth. It's unbelievable. And by the way,
the Potterys would be leading the division if they could
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beat the Dodgers and a head to head matchup. The
Dodgers have dominated that series, had to head this year.
So the I just if the Dodgers do not win
the division with that roster they are, it's just gonna
be I don't even know what in la I mean, listen,
don't get you. You win the wild card series, it's
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like whatever, I guess, but good lord, you can't win
that division with that roster. And I know you've had
a lot of injuries, but again that you have so
much depth. And you know, we were talking yesterday on
the show. Look at the Dodgers starting rotation now because
everybody's pretty much healthy. You have Snell, Blake Snell back,
you have Glass now, you have Yamamoto, you have Shean,
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you have Kershaw, which in that the Hall of Famer
in that group, Kershaw is the one I probably have
the least confidence in. That is a shutdown. I mean,
how do you not you have to win the division
if if you're the Dodgers with those guys healthy, It's
it's just it really is. But the Padres are doing
is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
All I'm asking for, Jordan is a Padres Dodgers playoff series.
That's what I want and you're gonna get a taste
of it this upcoming weekend is the Padres will visit
Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers a Friday, Saturday Sunday.
I'm sure it'll be Friday Night Apple TV, Saturday Fox,
and then I'm sure it'll be Sunday Night Baseball on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's that'll be. I'm locked in on that. That will
be that. I mean, as far as August series go,
that's bigger than than anything that I mean, that's a
that's a great series and we'll see I mean, look,
the Dodgers could go into that series trailing the Padres
in that in that or in that division? What where
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is it that? San Diego or.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
La at Los Angeles? You want to take the drive?
I would.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I would drive to see that series. That's gonna be unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You know what, we could fly out of Provo Airport
into Orange County, just drive a little bit from there.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I could do that. We could do that, go to
lax E, man. I would.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
That's jeez, we'll get to make prices for that series.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I want to see that. I'm sure it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, I mean, if you're so right now. The reason
I so, if you're talking about a series in the
playoffs between these two, if the Dodgers, if the season
ended today, the Mets would go to LA to play
the Dodgers in a three game series and the Podreys
would go to Chicago for a three game series. If
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you switch that, let's say the Padres are the division winners,
you would have the Mets at San Diego and then
the Dodgers at the Cubs, which is great because now
you're guaranteed, not guaranteed, I'd have to look at the bracket.
You'd at least get a five game series between those
two teams. Hopefully you get it in the NLCS. That's
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what I would like to see. Well, you're at least
paying one hundred bucks to get in. You could be
down the left field line up in the top seats
for one hundred and seventeen bucks, all right over by
the poll out there, one hundred and seventeen bucks. You
know those types of series. That's like an NFL crowd
where you're like, how many fights am I going to
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see in the stands. That's not a family friendly environment.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
You do not want to be in the parking lot
late no, outside of Chefes Revine, No you do not.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That is a game I'm not taking my kid to.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
No, no chance at all.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Like if you want to see as close as you
possibly could get to what Oakland Raiders game used to be, like,
go to a Padre's Dodgers game at Chevezvine.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
My dad when the Giants played at Candlestick and I
was a little kid, my dad would not take me
to Dodger Giants night game. And looking back on it,
I've actually heard people talk about it. They go, yeah,
ever since the Giants moved to Oracle, They're like, oh, man,
the crowd, it's the crowds are a lot, a lot better.
They're like, they're like, you got a little scary at
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Candlestick Dodgers Giants. There are a lot of fights. It's yeah,
that's an NFL type dudes throwing punches in the crowd
at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
So maybe Sunday, the one ten pm Pacific time start
would would be the best one for you.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So they're not flexing that to Sunday night. Who's on
Sunday Night Baseball?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Oh you're right, because yeah, it wouldn't be a one
to ten pm start well.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
They, I mean, they probably already know who's on Sunday
Night Baseball. But that's a how that.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
ESBN if.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I don't know what the rules are as far as
flexing games, but if you'd like to have huge ratings
and sell base you know right, you may want to
flex that one. Tonight Mariners Mets are Sunday Night Baseball.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
What a match up?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah, fellas, you gotta we gotta switch that one out.
Take it lesson from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm sure that Friday nights seven ten pm Pacific time
start will be Apple TV, and Saturday night's got to
be on Fox, right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
One of them's on Roku and then and then PBS.
No Friday Night. Let's see, let's Friday Night. Why isn't
it telling me?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
What got the Food Network?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And food now? Aw, they don't have any pit I'm
trying to figure out who will be the starting pitchers
for that series. But that is gonna be That's gonna
be fantastic. That's that's a great, great series, man, that's
gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
All Right, that's your little snapshot of baseball. We'll take
a break here. Coming up next to the NFL Blitz,
We've got the latest for you around the National Football League.
The latest news from training camps, some preseason games got
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Maurice Jones Drew call all of the action right here
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Speaker 4 (40:30):
The Fan.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
One topic of discussion was centered around the quarterback. Will
Matthew Stafford be ready to go in Week one? You
might be asking why if you haven't been following that situation.
Apparently there's a little bit of a back injury going
on with Matthew Stafford, and it's gotten a little bit
more serious than what they have expected it to be
in the off season.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
The NFL Network touched on this.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Former NFL offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams who
played alongside one Matthew Stafford, DeMarco Farr on a Good
Morning Football This Morning, had this to say about the
Matthew Stafford situation.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
For this long could be a problem, and I hope
that this back injury or situation issue doesn't rob Matthew
Stafford of what makes them special. The guy's got world
class arm talent. He protects himself very well with.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
A quick release.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
He can throw on the move, he can throw on platform,
from any platform, off platform. He's just one of the
best quarterbacks we've ever seen. But you know, back's a
tricky You don't know how he's gonna respond, So this
is going to be touch and go. But I will
say this about Jimmy g They feel confident about Jimmy
Garoppolo as their starter. He could have gone other places
to compete for a starting job, chose to stay here.
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He's really really ingrained in the offense. They trust him,
so if Matthew Stafford is out for any period of time,
they feel like the offense can just keep going until
he's back. But you'd want Matthew Stafford out there. But
I agree with Ky, this is not nothing. This is
it could be a big deal. You'd rather have your
guy taking snap.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
That is former Rams offensive lineman to Marco far this
morning on Good Morning Football in the NFL Network, Jordan Bianucci,
big deal or note deal Matthew Stafford being out for
the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
If that is indeed the case, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I don't buy that. They're thrilled having Jimmy Garoppolo back there,
like you, of all people would know. Yeah, I think
he can. He can step into that offense because listen
with Shanahan to and McVeigh, you can to a certain
degree have quarterbacks that are not you know, Hall of
famers run the offense and be successful. They're not going
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to be great, like you still need good quarterbacks. I
think It's like the idea that brock Perty, you know,
can't play anywhere else. I don't buy it. But is
he a lot better because he's in Shanahan's offense. Absolutely.
The same goes with McVeigh. I don't. Yeah, I think
it's a big I think it's a big Gil. And
this is what I was worried about all off season
when everyone was so high on the Rams. I said, yeah,
(43:05):
that's great. I'm also the Rams. Are I'm in on
the Rams if Stafford stays healthy, which is a huge
if the guy's fifty five years old. I mean, this
is not a shocker to me that he's not super healthy.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
JB.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Long will be joining us on Friday the Voice of
the Rams, and we'll get the latest on Matthew Stafford, Pukinakua,
Brittain Covey, and the rest of the crew this upcoming
Friday before they get ready for preseason game number two.
All right, Jordan, I want to shift over to another
quarterback situation that's happening, this one in Cleveland. Should Or
Sanders made his debut for the Cleveland Browns through a
(43:44):
couple of nice touchdown passes over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Are we overreacting.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Is it an overreaction to say that should or Sanders
ad a good weekend and that it's actually going to
mean something come week one in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
No, I mean, I don't know if it's overreacting to
say he had a good weekend, he had a nice
he had a nice weekend. Does it mean anything week one?
Is he going to be the starter?
Speaker 5 (44:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:05):
I don't think so. But look, I'm still trying to
figure out what happened to him in the drug I
still don't understand how he dropped that far in the draft,
Like I want to know what's going on behind the scenes,
but not, I mean, I think it's a Look, he's
got a lot of work to do. He's got he's
got to rehabilitate basically his image and how people have
(44:27):
perceived him, which has not been good. And it's a
good start start playing well.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Yeah, and a couple of good throws.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Do you see the highlights of that that first touchdown
pass between two defenders in the back of the end zone,
It was it was a really good pass. Now, it
was against the Carolina Panthers, but his preseason, so I
don't know, I don't know what to make of that.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
With the list of the Browns quarterbacks, is he going
to be I think he starts again. Does he start
a game this year? I would lean towards you if
I had to guess, like the Browns. Yeah, but I
think he starts a game this year.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I think he will as well, and I'm not so
sure that it won't be game number one. I think
he's making a really good case for himself to be
the guy in Week one coming up against the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Who do you have I'm pulling him up. If you
have Dylan Gabriel, Joe Flacco and.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
Although he's rehabbing, yeah, see he's.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Out, Tyler Huntley, Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
What a list.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, if you can't beat out those guys, there might
be an issue.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
Might be an issue.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
We'll keep an eye out on the shud Or Sanders
situation and what's happening there with the Cleveland Browns elsewhere
around the.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
National Football League. Give you an update.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
I think there should be an update here on the
Atlanta Falcons Detroit Lions game that was suspended over the weekend. Jordan,
did you see this safety for the Detroit Lions went
down had to be carted off, the Falcons and the
Lions both came together decided just to end that preseason
football game.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, that's brutal. That's why, Toy, you don't want to
play a lot of preseason games because the game is
so dangerous. It's stupid to have games that don't mean
a lot. I was like, if you're gonna play football,
you gotta play football. It's it's you can't go half
in and I look, you have to have some preseason games.
(46:21):
I get that, but but just yeah, you hate to
see that.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
According to head coach Dan Campbell, Maurice Norris, the safety
that went down and ended up having to go to
the hospital in that preseason game in Atlanta, is back
with the team.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
He is doing well, per the head coach of the
Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
So glad to hear that he is doing okay and
that everything is all right in that situation, A scary situation.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You never want to see it.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
There's been a lot of dudes injured already in the
preseason to this point, Jordan, and I wonder if that
makes Zach Taylor and the Bengals shudder a little bit,
knowing that they had Joe Burrow out there for like
the first two or three series of that preseason football game.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
I was watching the highlights of that game him and
Jamar Chase on multiple drives.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Like what are we doing just carving up the defense?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Look me and Zach and even Martin got into this
a little bit last week talking about how I personally,
if you have there's only three teams, three or four
teams in my opinion, that have the luxury of not
having to put their starters out there on the field
for any preseason games. I'm gonna say it's the Kansas
(47:28):
City Chiefs, the Buffalo Bills, and the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
That's about it. You could maybe convince.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Me on the Philadelphia Eagles, but I still think they
need a driver too, the more important ones. I also
believe if you have a divisional game Week one that's
really gonna matter, like the Atlanta Falcons do against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you've got to see your starters get
out there for at least a few drives, especially if
you have a quote unquote essentially a rookie quarterback of
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Michael Pennix with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. It depends who you have and
it's I don't know, it's interesting because you're right. Like practice,
it's just not the same thing. So I don't have
a problem with a series, but after at some point
you gotta be and that's when what most teams do.
We've talked about it in September. There's a reason teams
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do not look sharp. Yeah, because they haven't played real games.
So I don't know, there's no real good answer to it.
It's just you want to get them out there, get
them some reps. But as soon as they get hurt,
you look like an idiot, you look reckless.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
The only time I would not I would never do
it as head coach is if if your Week one
matchup is not a divisional game, if you have some
random team on the schedule, you can afford to lose
that game. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, if you're the
Cincinnai Bengals who were taken on the Cleveland Browns in
Week one, I still think you've got to have your
guys out there for a couple of drives, not four
or five, but maybe two or three throughout the preseason.
(48:52):
Just get it, get it going a little bit, and
let them kind of knock off the rest.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. There's no right answer
to this. There just isn't.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Makes it a little bit tough for these NFL head coaches,
and that right there is why they get paid the
big bucks. That's the latest round the National Football League.
We'll keep you up to date. Seventy yard field goal?
How about that, Jordan. I wanted to touch on that.
I know you guys talked a little bit about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
That was impressive. That was impressive.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
That's insane. That should not be a thing. Seventy yards
You get the forty yard line, your own forty yard line,
and you could kick a field goal.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
I don't even know, like how Yeah, that was I
told Martin yesterday it's time to narrow the goalposts in
the NFL. It's too easy. It's automatic. These dudes are
hitting field goals like it's nothing. By the way, this
little trivia for you, do you know the longest high
(49:48):
school field goal in the history of high school football?
Speaker 1 (49:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Sixty eight yards? Wow, nineteen eighty five Reno High School. Really, yeah,
that's a little that's a little. And Dick Borgione I
got to look up his name.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Shout out to that guy.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, there was an article in the paper yesterday. My
dad was still manage sixty eight yardfield goal in nineteen
eighty five high school.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Well Will Farron down at BYU. I interviewed him for
twelve and a half minutes. It was a great interview.
You should listen to that interview because you would love that. Okay,
just everything about the mechanics of kicking. Maybe we should
replay it. The mechanics of kicking. How he feels.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
He told me he feels comfortable and confident hitting from
sixty four or sixty five this upcoming season in good conditions.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
Okay, I want to see that.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
I gotta see that.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
You know, in college having a great kicker is a
huge advantage. I think it is because there are not
a lot of them. There are not a lot of them.
That's just that's huge. By the way, the dude that
hit that sixty eight yarder in high school, I think
he missed almost every other field goal the.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
I saw that in the article.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Incredible and greed.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Will Farin is on track to become the most accurate
kicker in BYU history. So by Fens, knock on some
wood right now. Hopefully he has a good final season
with BYU. But yeah, he's on track to be the
most accurate kicker in BYU history.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
I remember when I when I was in high school,
was Swornsen? Was it Bingham?
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (51:17):
Yeah, dude could not miss in high school in like
eighty yarders. It felt like kicking our ass at Riverton
and then goes to b Yu, can't, can't, can't hit
a damn field goal?
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Really he ended up having a lower back injury.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Great, thanks a lot, Like, really, you couldn't you couldn't
miss one against against us when you were beating them
and him and Harvey Lane. You were beaten, beating us
sixty five to nothing.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
It was brutal, to be fair, they were beating everybody
sixty five Toho. That hurt all right?
Speaker 2 (51:50):
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