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the line.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Steve. How that are you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Good Man? What's up, dude?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
How are you living the dream?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Appreciate you hopping on? How was the honeymoon? How was
the honeymoon?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Uh? If fun wasn't illegal, I'd be in prison right now.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Boom shock a lock. I'm glad you had a fantastic
time in Hawaii. Look at all and get back into
the real world. Now what a tough transition.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I know, both feed are on the ground now again.
But it was great. It was absolute bliss.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Love it, man, love that you got to experience that
and have fun with it. You're back, and we need
to tap into your mind a little bit regarding to
be with football. Bear Bachmeyer Bear force one. Some are
calling him, some are calling him the bear tar, some
people are calling him, uh you know, air bear. What's
the nickname of choice for you for Bear Bachmeyer?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Dude, I just call it. I just call him big Bear.
I mean, a man is just doing it, you know,
And uh, yeah, it's it's fun to watch. It's fun
to see.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Obviously, everybody's on a high from the last I would
say obviously the last two weeks and you know, in
the grand scheme of things, the entire season. But yeah,
certainly he's a catalyst and certainly he's he's cleared up
a lot of questions that I think a lot of
(03:10):
us had not just as former players. Maybe you know,
I may know a little bit more about this position
than most people, but like generally speaking, the coolest thing
for me to see. And yeah, it's taken quite some time,
(03:33):
but you know, eight, No, the last two years, first
time in school history to go eight no the in
two consecutive years. But I think this year, obviously, the
difference between this year and last year is last.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Year we go up on the hill, we win, and
then drop the next two.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So you talk about a trap game, that trap game
should have been, and I think it was for the
first half.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We still had a hangover on the first half of
a couple of.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Days ago out in Iowa because you know, it's Robberie.
We we you know, put our I think we probably
put all our eggs in one basket last year. Dude,
we kept some eggs out of the basket this year.
And I think that's the difference. And the difference would
be yes, athletically, yes, talent. I think we're better, like
(04:26):
y'all have talked about on air, But I think there's
a lot of coaching that that is going on here
that we don't see that's making I think the biggest difference. Yes,
Big Bears there and whatever you want to call him,
and and he's you know, answering a lot of questions
(04:47):
I think we all had. But to me, it's been
really the coaching staff where k pops special teams.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Jay Hill another year under.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
His belt and and getting over the hump of I
think the biggest win so far was last Saturday. It
wasn't against Utah, it was how do you respond to
robber Ruy and winning a game against them all emotions.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We're at home.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Where yeah, we're not favorable, gosh, thang it, we have
the pressure they don't, yeah, right, And to come out
on top, uh, and then to follow that up and
to dr to fly half across the United States and
beat a really good Iowa State team and and they're
always gonna be good. They're gonna they're gonna put up seven.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Or eight wins every single year.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Maybe they're gonna get to a double digit once every
three forty. But that's Campbell's done a really really good job.
And he's always, you know, the next hottest thing that
when you know, head coaching jobs get come up, that
that dude is usually that's his name, Tempbell, that that's
one of the guys that they throw out there. And
(05:57):
so I think the biggest win and has been Saturday,
and after we took a cold shower at halftime, because
I think we still had to hang over the first
half both offensively and defensively, we took the cold shower,
and I think you really saw what good coaching does
(06:17):
and allows a BYU football program led by Kalani. As
a result, you know, now we're ranked tenth in the
nation and we didn't lose the next game after beating
Arrival previous week, and so man that I haven't been
(06:42):
more excited about BAU football until it wasn't ten days ago.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It was the aftermath of three days ago.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, you bring up a really hot take, and we
asked Congranation earlier today in our one of our our
our questions of the day, how would you rank the
best and worst wins of the season for BYU And
it sounds like you're taking the Iowash State game over Utah.
Would you put Utah's the second best win of the season.
Then you got Arizona double overtime thirty three twenty seven,
(07:18):
you have Colorado on the road twenty four to twenty one,
You have West Virginia thirty eight thirty thirty eight twenty four,
Stanford twenty seven or three East Carolina thirty four to thirteen,
and then Portland State sixty nine to zero.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I'd probably do so I take the robbery out. I'd
go Arizona the Utah three. Wydo Arizona two. Just because because.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Winning, I'm telling you, like winning on the road. Something happens. Well, yes,
because something happens in Provo. That's that's quite to me.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yes, I'm a home or whatever, I play there, whatever crap.
I think the same thing happens in Rice Echels on
Saturday night too.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It just so happens this was in Provo.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Now, we did beat them in Saturday night in Rock
Cycles in twenty twenty four, so I guess maybe that
blows that out of the water. But something happens in
Provo on Saturday nights, typically in the fall, and to
the detriment of the opposing team. So to me, man,
you talk about a home field advantage, there is a
(08:21):
home field advantage there, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't know. I think I sat down for in
between the first.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And second quarter and half of them, and in between
the third and fourth that was it. I stood up
the rest of the game, you know, because it's it's
Utah like, you're not sitting down unless you know there's
a change of possession and you got to wait five
minutes for a commercial break for the game to come back,
and so yeah, I would put because of because of
(08:53):
everything that they these got invested into Utah and leaving
eggs out of the basket. Absolutely, I think Iowa State
it shows the maturity of everybody in that program and
including you know, the coaching staff and everybody in their
(09:17):
support staff.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Is that, Okay, this is not the end all be all.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We can't just we can't exhale, right, we've inhaled for
eight games or at that point, six games.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To game eight. We can't exhale because Iowa.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
States good, They're on the road, their conference foe, and
we're looking this is not about Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Big, big twelve championship. That's you know, it's our goal.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
But now we're we're talking about being nationally ranked, getting
in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So it's not good enough to just beat our rival.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's not even right now, it's not good enough to
beat I will state. It's not good enough to be
undefeated after eight games where you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I understand that.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
But it's axel a little bit because obviously we have
a bye week and it's it's good probably a great,
great timing for us to UH to have this break
right now. But yeah, it's it's it's a great time
to be a Cougar fan because we're we're in good hands.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No doubt about it. Uh, good hands in coaching. Good
hands is a Cougar play caller. Bear Bachmeyer, you stated
prior to the season, okay, that you went down there.
You got eyes on Bear Bachmeyer, the Bear, Tar Bear,
Force one air Bear.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Big Bear, whatever we want to call him.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And you said, you came onto our show and you're like, look,
he reminds me of a better throwing Tim Tebow, and
you took.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A lot of heat.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Steve people declared that this former All American high school
football player, college football player that played at Texas laid
at BYU had some injury issues. Yes, then coach high
school football for years, that he did not know ball.
And I think you're being vindicated. I think you're being
validated now that you are a ball noer.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I appreciate that, but yeah, I mean that's it was a.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It wasn't a snap judgment.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It was based on a lot of experience in watching
different quarterbacks throughout the years, maybe emulate some myself personally
growing up, But.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, that's what I saw. That's who you're reminding me of.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
At the time, and still does and probably well throughout
his collegiate career, will continue to do so. Now is
is the Heisman Trophy winner. No, that's not what I
was talking about. I was talking about the style of
play in which they both performed and have been very
successful doing so. Yeah, Tim Teeber went on and he's
(12:21):
He's known for a lot of different things now, namely
his faith. And that's not bad either then, you know, comparing.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
To someone who who really is adamant about.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
His faith as well and talks about it quite frequently,
even when he was at Florida. But on the field,
in between the lines, absolutely, I think he throws a
little bit better ball than Tvo does. Style of player
very very similar, if not the same as far as
(12:55):
the running ability.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I don't know in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
What he's like, if he's that type of leader, you know,
in the locker room, as Tim was, obviously he was
quite vocal.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I don't I don't know if bears like that.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I don't know the kids from Adam, but I do
know what I see with my own eyes, both in
practice and on the TV or in person at Lavell
Edwards Stadium is absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He's a better throwing Tim Tebow. And that's my story
and I'll stick to it.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Love it, Steve Clevitz.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We also asked the question, you know, I know you
watch college football, like, what is the true ranking of
this BYU football team? Like we look at the polls,
we look at the analytics. I'll give you you know
where BYU ranks in some of these poles and analytics. Right,
so ap poles obviously number ten the coaches polls at nine.
Massy rating, which is an analytic that I like, It's
(13:57):
at eight. Espn FP is sixteenth, FEI is eighteenth. Sp
plus is more of an efficiency rating that's nineteenth in
the country. And then Sagarin is another efficiency met trick
and they're at twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like how good is this BLEA football team?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What do you think the ceiling is at floor is
for this team this year? From like maybe a final
ranking standpoint.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I think right now, writer, I think eight, maybe seven,
but I would I'd lean to more eight right now
as a true ranking in my opinion, I think a
ceiling would be I don't know if Ronnie said it
or somebody said it earlier, but.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I like the six thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I like the ceiling at six and the floor at
more like a thirteen.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And again, I really do think.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I'm man, I'm telling you three days ago was big,
at least for me, just because having played before and
really coached.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, it was just a high school level, but.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Man, to you know, you've been in rivalry games, you
played against them, and coach gets them, and the ability
for these guys, I would say not to.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Excel and go, Okay, yeah, we beat our rival.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
At home and that's a heck of a win, and
Cougar Nations is going nuts and it was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Okay, guess what.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We still got another game and we got to go
travel across the US to play a really good, traditionally.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Good Iowa State team and we saw that.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, we're probably on a little bit more of a
hangover through.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
That first half. And then it clicked, and then the
coaching clicked.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
And whether you believe in halftime adjustments, I don't know.
I think a lot of times that can be overdone.
But uh, because offensively, I think halftime adjustments really are
just running the plays in the second half. The running
the first half, but then you have to actually do
(16:20):
that right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
And so.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
A Rod is becoming or has been, in my opinion,
has become one of the better offensive coordinators because of
I think really just this year and Klonie as a
head coach as well. You go, you start out with
Portland State, and the mark of a good team is
(16:47):
beating beating people you're supposed to beat, and in that case,
beating them like a drum like we were supposed to
but then beating your rival.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And I keep going back to this, I'm sorry, but
that's a big deal to me.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Beating your rival and then turning around and beating a
really good Iowa State team where you start to I mean,
you're down seven to nothing and you hadn't even you know,
cracked open the back of doritos as you're about to
eat to watch the game, you know, because they've already
scored on a double move corner blitz and the safety
(17:22):
has to cover and bless his heart, I think, you know,
sometimes the offense beats the defense. The defense beats the offense.
They saw something on film or first play. They were
gonna motion, they were gonna double move boom, and there
was you know, we're down seven and nothing already. But
again we came back there, We came back the second
(17:44):
half and that and it were beating the teams that
were supposed to beat. They were beating the teams that
are on the schedule. And uh so yeah, I would
put a six ceiling thirteenth floor.
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the line.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Steve. How that are you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Good Man? What's up, dude?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
How are you living the dream?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
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the honeymoon?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Uh? If fun wasn't illegal, I'd be in prison right now.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Boom shock a lock. I'm glad you had a fantastic
time in Hawaii. Look at all and get back into
the real world. Now what a tough transition.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I know, both feed are on the ground now again.
But it was great. It was absolute bliss.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Love it, man, love that you got to experience that
and have fun with it. You're back, and we need
to tap into your mind a little bit regarding to
be with football. Bear Bachmeyer Bear force one. Some are
calling him, some are calling him the bear tar, some
people are calling him, uh you know, air bear. What's
the nickname of choice for you for Bear Bachmeyer?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Dude, I just call it. I just call him big Bear.
I mean, a man is just doing it, you know,
And uh, yeah, it's it's fun to watch. It's fun
to see.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Obviously, everybody's on a high from the last I would
say obviously the last two weeks and you know, in
the grand scheme of things, the entire season. But yeah,
certainly he's a catalyst and certainly he's he's cleared up
a lot of questions that I think a lot of
(03:10):
us had not just as former players. Maybe you know,
I may know a little bit more about this position
than most people, but like generally speaking, the coolest thing
for me to see. And yeah, it's taken quite some time,
(03:33):
but you know, eight, No, the last two years, first
time in school history to go eight no the in
two consecutive years. But I think this year, obviously, the
difference between this year and last year is last.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Year we go up on the hill, we win, and
then drop the next two.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So you talk about a trap game, that trap game
should have been, and I think it was for the
first half.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We still had a hangover on the first half of
a couple of.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Days ago out in Iowa because you know, it's Robberie.
We we you know, put our I think we probably
put all our eggs in one basket last year. Dude,
we kept some eggs out of the basket this year.
And I think that's the difference. And the difference would
be yes, athletically, yes, talent. I think we're better, like
(04:26):
y'all have talked about on air, But I think there's
a lot of coaching that that is going on here
that we don't see that's making I think the biggest difference. Yes,
Big Bears there and whatever you want to call him,
and and he's you know, answering a lot of questions
(04:47):
I think we all had. But to me, it's been
really the coaching staff where k pops special teams.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Jay Hill another year under.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
His belt and and getting over the hump of I
think the biggest win so far was last Saturday. It
wasn't against Utah, it was how do you respond to
robber Ruy and winning a game against them all emotions.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We're at home.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Where yeah, we're not favorable, gosh, thang it, we have
the pressure they don't, yeah, right, And to come out
on top, uh, and then to follow that up and
to dr to fly half across the United States and
beat a really good Iowa State team and and they're
always gonna be good. They're gonna they're gonna put up seven.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Or eight wins every single year.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Maybe they're gonna get to a double digit once every
three forty. But that's Campbell's done a really really good job.
And he's always, you know, the next hottest thing that
when you know, head coaching jobs get come up, that
that dude is usually that's his name, Tempbell, that that's
one of the guys that they throw out there. And
(05:57):
so I think the biggest win and has been Saturday,
and after we took a cold shower at halftime, because
I think we still had to hang over the first
half both offensively and defensively, we took the cold shower,
and I think you really saw what good coaching does
(06:17):
and allows a BYU football program led by Kalani. As
a result, you know, now we're ranked tenth in the
nation and we didn't lose the next game after beating
Arrival previous week, and so man that I haven't been
(06:42):
more excited about BAU football until it wasn't ten days ago.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It was the aftermath of three days ago.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, you bring up a really hot take, and we
asked Congranation earlier today in our one of our our
our questions of the day, how would you rank the
best and worst wins of the season for BYU And
it sounds like you're taking the Iowash State game over Utah.
Would you put Utah's the second best win of the season.
Then you got Arizona double overtime thirty three twenty seven,
(07:18):
you have Colorado on the road twenty four to twenty one,
You have West Virginia thirty eight thirty thirty eight twenty four,
Stanford twenty seven or three East Carolina thirty four to thirteen,
and then Portland State sixty nine to zero.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I'd probably do so I take the robbery out. I'd
go Arizona the Utah three. Wydo Arizona two. Just because because.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Winning, I'm telling you, like winning on the road. Something happens. Well, yes,
because something happens in Provo. That's that's quite to me.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yes, I'm a home or whatever, I play there, whatever crap.
I think the same thing happens in Rice Echels on
Saturday night too.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It just so happens this was in Provo.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Now, we did beat them in Saturday night in Rock
Cycles in twenty twenty four, so I guess maybe that
blows that out of the water. But something happens in
Provo on Saturday nights, typically in the fall, and to
the detriment of the opposing team. So to me, man,
you talk about a home field advantage, there is a
(08:21):
home field advantage there, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't know. I think I sat down for in
between the first.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And second quarter and half of them, and in between
the third and fourth that was it. I stood up
the rest of the game, you know, because it's it's
Utah like, you're not sitting down unless you know there's
a change of possession and you got to wait five
minutes for a commercial break for the game to come back,
and so yeah, I would put because of because of
(08:53):
everything that they these got invested into Utah and leaving
eggs out of the basket. Absolutely, I think Iowa State
it shows the maturity of everybody in that program and
including you know, the coaching staff and everybody in their
(09:17):
support staff.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Is that, Okay, this is not the end all be all.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We can't just we can't exhale, right, we've inhaled for
eight games or at that point, six games.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To game eight. We can't exhale because Iowa.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
States good, They're on the road, their conference foe, and
we're looking this is not about Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Big, big twelve championship. That's you know, it's our goal.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
But now we're we're talking about being nationally ranked, getting
in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
So it's not good enough to just beat our rival.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's not even right now, it's not good enough to
beat I will state. It's not good enough to be
undefeated after eight games where you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I understand that.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
But it's axel a little bit because obviously we have
a bye week and it's it's good probably a great,
great timing for us to UH to have this break
right now. But yeah, it's it's it's a great time
to be a Cougar fan because we're we're in good hands.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No doubt about it. Uh, good hands in coaching. Good
hands is a Cougar play caller. Bear Bachmeyer, you stated
prior to the season, okay, that you went down there.
You got eyes on Bear Bachmeyer, the Bear, Tar Bear,
Force one air Bear.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Big Bear, whatever we want to call him.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And you said, you came onto our show and you're like, look,
he reminds me of a better throwing Tim Tebow, and
you took.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A lot of heat.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Steve people declared that this former All American high school
football player, college football player that played at Texas laid
at BYU had some injury issues. Yes, then coach high
school football for years, that he did not know ball.
And I think you're being vindicated. I think you're being
validated now that you are a ball noer.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I appreciate that, but yeah, I mean that's it was a.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It wasn't a snap judgment.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It was based on a lot of experience in watching
different quarterbacks throughout the years, maybe emulate some myself personally
growing up, But.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, that's what I saw. That's who you're reminding me of.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
At the time, and still does and probably well throughout
his collegiate career, will continue to do so. Now is
is the Heisman Trophy winner. No, that's not what I
was talking about. I was talking about the style of
play in which they both performed and have been very
successful doing so. Yeah, Tim Teeber went on and he's
(12:21):
He's known for a lot of different things now, namely
his faith. And that's not bad either then, you know, comparing.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
To someone who who really is adamant about.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
His faith as well and talks about it quite frequently,
even when he was at Florida. But on the field,
in between the lines, absolutely, I think he throws a
little bit better ball than Tvo does. Style of player
very very similar, if not the same as far as
(12:55):
the running ability.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I don't know in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
What he's like, if he's that type of leader, you know,
in the locker room, as Tim was, obviously he was
quite vocal.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I don't I don't know if bears like that.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I don't know the kids from Adam, but I do
know what I see with my own eyes, both in
practice and on the TV or in person at Lavell
Edwards Stadium is absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He's a better throwing Tim Tebow. And that's my story
and I'll stick to it.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Love it, Steve Clevitz.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We also asked the question, you know, I know you
watch college football, like, what is the true ranking of
this BYU football team? Like we look at the polls,
we look at the analytics. I'll give you you know
where BYU ranks in some of these poles and analytics. Right,
so ap poles obviously number ten the coaches polls at nine.
Massy rating, which is an analytic that I like, It's
(13:57):
at eight. Espn FP is sixteenth, FEI is eighteenth. Sp
plus is more of an efficiency rating that's nineteenth in
the country. And then Sagarin is another efficiency met trick
and they're at twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like how good is this BLEA football team?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What do you think the ceiling is at floor is
for this team this year? From like maybe a final
ranking standpoint.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I think right now, writer, I think eight, maybe seven,
but I would I'd lean to more eight right now
as a true ranking in my opinion, I think a
ceiling would be I don't know if Ronnie said it
or somebody said it earlier, but.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I like the six thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I like the ceiling at six and the floor at
more like a thirteen.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And again, I really do think.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I'm man, I'm telling you three days ago was big,
at least for me, just because having played before and
really coached.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, it was just a high school level, but.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Man, to you know, you've been in rivalry games, you
played against them, and coach gets them, and the ability
for these guys, I would say not to.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Excel and go, Okay, yeah, we beat our rival.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
At home and that's a heck of a win, and
Cougar Nations is going nuts and it was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Okay, guess what.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We still got another game and we got to go
travel across the US to play a really good, traditionally.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Good Iowa State team and we saw that.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, we're probably on a little bit more of a
hangover through.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
That first half. And then it clicked, and then the
coaching clicked.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
And whether you believe in halftime adjustments, I don't know.
I think a lot of times that can be overdone.
But uh, because offensively, I think halftime adjustments really are
just running the plays in the second half. The running
the first half, but then you have to actually do
(16:20):
that right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
And so.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
A Rod is becoming or has been, in my opinion,
has become one of the better offensive coordinators because of
I think really just this year and Klonie as a
head coach as well. You go, you start out with
Portland State, and the mark of a good team is
(16:47):
beating beating people you're supposed to beat, and in that case,
beating them like a drum like we were supposed to
but then beating your rival.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And I keep going back to this, I'm sorry, but
that's a big deal to me.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Beating your rival and then turning around and beating a
really good Iowa State team where you start to I mean,
you're down seven to nothing and you hadn't even you know,
cracked open the back of doritos as you're about to
eat to watch the game, you know, because they've already
scored on a double move corner blitz and the safety
(17:22):
has to cover and bless his heart, I think, you know,
sometimes the offense beats the defense. The defense beats the offense.
They saw something on film or first play. They were
gonna motion, they were gonna double move boom, and there
was you know, we're down seven and nothing already. But
again we came back there, We came back the second
(17:44):
half and that and it were beating the teams that
were supposed to beat. They were beating the teams that
are on the schedule. And uh so yeah, I would
put a six ceiling thirteenth floor.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Love that my guys, Steve Klement's ladies and gentlemen. Uh
former b y U quarterback Dark and Ball were going
to keeping up with the cougar segment. We got to
get you a new suit from Odeon. Odeon Men's where
have you head in? Have you ever gone into an
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Speaker 4 (18:13):
By the way, I'm funny you said that right now?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
All my dress my white dress shirts church and at
my wedding, uh came from Odeon.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh my god, right before we got you up.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yep.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I haven't got a suit from there yet, but all
my white dress shirts are from there.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
How good? How's that tempo shirt? Bro?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh dude, there's noug. I love them. It fits me perfect.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Love that that That athletic build you got, that athletic build.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's got nice you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Former athletic build he's still got nice shoulders, good broad
shoulders that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You gotta get.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I gotta I gotta pose honeymoon bodies.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
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Appreciate you, Steve. We'll catch up at the end again soon.
Thanks so much for hopping on.
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Speaker 1 (20:32):
We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm gonna be taking a couple of days off during
the bye week, so we're talking that Ronald the Three
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and the crew gonna be giving you all the Cougar
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getting your prep getting you're ready for a fantastic college
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Speaker 1 (20:55):
Weekend and then on into Texas.
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