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Speaker 3 (01:20):
Give me a hot take about bya football Now, you
know these young men better than anybody. You've been mentoring
and supporting them in all manners, in all fashions, in
all ways. But what are you most hyped about this
season twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Regarding this Boa football.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Team, I would say our linebacker room. Okay, Jack Kelly
and Glasger specifically, why Jack Kelly looks like a defensive
end but moves like the same Jack Kelly linebacker that
we know. I don't know how much weight he put
on this offseason, but he looks great. What's our what's
like the over under threshold of sacks? That we're expecting
(01:57):
from Sack Kelly this year. I think he told us
what he said up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Ten and a half is what he wants. Ten and
a half is what he does.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He wants ten and a half. So we'll put it
at ten and a half. That you're going over or under.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ten and a half. Bro over or under.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
The goggles want to say over, but that's a lot.
I think I'm gonna give it to him. It's his
last year. He's healthy, like I said, he's put on at
least ten maybe fifteen pounds. He's one of the strongest
guys on the team, and he's the linebacker. He is
so strong and he moves like a linebacker, but he
looks like a defensive end in some of these defenses
(02:35):
that we'll play against.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'll put honestly, I'm taking the over. Take the over.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So obviously we knew Jack was going to be great
this season. He was great last year. They tried. They
tried to put him in more pass rushing situations last year.
Couldn't do it as maybe as well as they wanted to,
So he wasn't able to tallly as many sacks as
he probably wanted to. You wonder if That's one of
(03:02):
the reasons why he came back to elevate his draft stock.
He could have been a late round maybe possibly a
mid rounder, but more than likely a late rounder. So
he's got to elevate his draft stock. The only you
can do that is through what getting after quarterbacks. Make
him some hay and drop in some quarterbacks in the backfield.
(03:23):
So that's what I'm getting at here. So where do
you think they're going to utilize Jack Kelly this year?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
In order to third down?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We're gonna give him the backfield and third down on
the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He's going to be the featured pass rusher between Harry.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I mean you look at last year. I think they
had more sacks than both of our starting devens. Events fine,
and I think they'll continue to do that with Jay's
you know, set up and getting him in the right
situations on third downs and even not on third downs,
He's going to do surprise splitz packages against other teams,
you know. And so I think those two linebackers and
we'll see what see all. I say it does as well, right,
(03:59):
But I think I was saying earlier, I think those
two Jack Keilly and Glasger for sure, are the best
linebacker corp in the MiG twelve and could be in
the top five cores in the country one of the years.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
All said and done.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Pretty pretty impressive group, Shaalia Sera. Even guys behind them,
Mikah Kafusi, Aceh Kafusie, Shape, Bryant Strawther, you go down
that list, they're deep at linebacker, very deep.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So an athletic like Glasger and Jack Killy, Especially Glasger.
We all know this. He is a specimen, right. Jack
Killy maybe be huge, but Glasker is just so athletic
and could.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Do so many things. And he's so long. We saw
in the color.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Out of game. We did should have had three picks
in the color out of game.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, he's so long, he's so quick. So I just
another year. In Jay's defense of dialing it down, I
think it's going to be huge for him.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I want to turn I want to turn back to something.
Remember when Justin and I said he was the best.
He potentially has to be the best athlete the ever coached.
That might be true by the end of the season
if it works out that way, and he took a
lot of heat from Utah. I remember because I did
the interview right posted on x Ben and that got
a lot of heat and it was a hot take.
But if he goes off this season, that might come
(05:18):
to fruition, honestly, and I think Justina knew what he
was talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Another linebacker that Jay Hill mentioned that we're all still
getting to know is Utah State transfer Max Alford, who
apparently balled out over the last few days of fall camp.
Camp killani when Jay Hill calls you out and says, hey,
Max Alford looking good. And I heard some rumblings on
Friday from sources stating that Max is going to seept
(05:48):
this year. And that's that's impressive. That's insane. Considering how
deep this linebacking room is now, it begs the question
we are as to Cougar. As Cougar faithful, we are
infatuated with forty fronts right now. We like four down linemen,
(06:09):
three linebackers. But I would say that your skill sets,
your most talented individuals are in the linebacking room and
you must showcase the linebackers to your Cougar inside report here.
So you gotta have four dudes out there that have
the capabilities of being first level defenders and second level
defenders that can pass rush, but it can also run
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sideline to sideline, and you have that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Across like probably eight guys.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You're probably eight guys that can probably do that pretty well,
some better than others, but they can all do it,
and that is an impressive group.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Jade dropped a little nugget and a postgame interview on
Saturday after the scrimmage talking about the safety room, similar
thing Ben saying that we've got so many safeties that
we may have to or may have may have some
packages where we have more than two safeties on the field,
we bring one of those safeties maybe as a nickel
or as And maybe the same thing happens with some
(07:06):
of our backers where we have some big boys in
that defensive tackle Tanawasa and Justin there's some big dogs,
so you may say maybe sometimes you'll see just three
defensive line you bring in four linebackers as well to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Get them on the field. So there was a gem
that was dropped.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Jay stated that there is packages and opportunities for three
safeties to be on the field at the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who are those three safeties? Do you think.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
There's five guys that Hener. There's five guys that he likes,
he says, and then two knocking on the door. We'll
see if you know he's sorry about Jared Kalama and
Matthias Leech as the as the six and seven guys
knocking on the door. But the five guys are Tanner
Wall Okay, Tommy Prashus Raider to Mooney, followed Southawalla and
Tallon Alfree. All five of those guys have proven that
(07:58):
they can ball out, they can play, and Jake trust them.
But I'm intrigued to see, like how they utilize three safeties.
That would mean one of them is going to be
a nickel Tommy, and it's probably Tommy Prass's. He's the best,
i think, my opinion, best cover safety. Which is interesting
(08:20):
because then you're looking at the nickel depth and you're like, Okay,
well who's who's the nickel right, because like you can
make an argument that Isaiah Glasker you put him on
the strong side, white side of the field, is like
a nickel linebacker safety and you're like, I mean, come on,
(08:40):
I mean, like you can make an argument that he's
pretty nice too, especially if it's zone.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But he could probably run with we saw the puppet
turn on Kansas State.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He can run with any tight end and Isaiah Glas
can run with any tight end in the country. Now
slot receivers, that's a different. You go ten, you go
ten personnel, and you may want to put Tommy out
there and make sure you're matching personnel to personnel. So
Jonathan Cabeya has looked good. Jay Hill gave him some love.
(09:11):
He's been a little deemed up though. You have Cannon
Devrees and then you have Tavian Beasley and maybe you
could rotate Peyton von Steinski also at Nickel. So those
are your three Nichols. The question is is Tommy a
better cover one on one player than Cannon, Tavian and Peyton.
(09:36):
That's the question, And the only people that know are
on the team unless the coaches tell us. But I
would I would put money on it that that Tommy's
better than those three guys right now. Yes, Yeah, I
would put money on it that he's better. He's a
better cover one on one guy. Now, Canon is going
(09:57):
to be good. Don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Tavian.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't know much about Tavy and other than you
know that he was at Colorado. I think Jackson stayed
with Dion liked him and then he was recently. But
so talent is good. Peyton is young, Cannon is young.
So is Tommy though, but he's worked with Rob Daniel
(10:20):
a ton this offseason. There's like a group of five
or six guys that worked like a tremendous amount of
hours with Rob Daniel and I think it paid off.
Peyton did too, which helps so intriguing. Three safeties on
the field in certain occasions packages.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Interesting. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Good sign or a bad sign? I mean it would
have to say a good thing.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean if your defensive coordinator's raving about that these
guys are too talented and he's forcing your hand to
put them on the field, I mean you're talking about
the best eleven guys, right, so we've talked. I mean
this goes back to what three years ago when Michael
Harp and Malik Moore before like, hey, they gotta be
on the field. It don't matter like they're the best players, right,
even if guys are maybe not at a position but
(11:13):
a learning and cross training.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Ben and I'm gonna take a shot here and I'll
take it on the chin, and y'all don't know where
I'm going, maybe you will. It's not like it's Utah
where you're atting, you know, a linebacker and a corner
back to the wide receiver insid endroom. It's not like
you're flipping those positions. You're just taking your best players
who are already in that room and adding a package.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I think it's great because, I mean last year in
the bowl game, we see the famous clip where Trador
is watching the film.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know where they're coming.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
From, and they Jade drawing up a scheme where you
have another safety. The quarterback is not gonna know what
what coverage it is. He's gonna be who haven't seen this?
And another thing that oppits coordinator has to prep for
when they play against us.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, it's not my favorite move, like to have to
move time me to nickel selfishly, you know. Like, but
I told him, I'm like, look like your skills set.
I told him a year ago. I was like, as
you develop your footwork a little bit more because of
your body type. He's got long torso, shorter legs. He's
(12:16):
fantastic in multidirectional drills.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
For his size, his weight.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Eventually you're going to get You're gonna be one of
the better, if not the best cover safeties, which could
allow you to move in to the box at Nickel
and it could happen this year, So something to keep
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history have signed professional contracts for various teams across the globe.
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We are thrilled to see five of our players from
last year's squads start their professional playing careers all across
the world. Yegor, Trey Foos, Trevin and what all embody
everything we are about. Each one of them embraced our
player development program and style of play and put the
necessary work into be in position to play professionally. I'm
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so proud of each one of them and look forward
to faro their careers. Yegor, Devin Fustreri but what mag
Trevin Nell and Trey Stewart joined former Cougar Zach Selias
and France, Brandon Davies in Japan, Jolie Childs in Japan,
Alex Barcelo in Spain, Spencer Johnson in England, Elijah Bryant
in Israel, Matt Harms in Japan, Rudy Williams in Canada,
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and Brandon Averett in Luxembourg.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
In the pro Ranks.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yegor became the fifth NBA lottery pick in program history
earlier this summer, when the six foot nine guard was
selected with the eighth overall pick in the twenty twenty
five NBA Draft by the Brooklyn Nets. In three summer
league games in Vegas to Yeoman excuse me howki.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Jemen Yeomen.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeg Org Yeomen averaged eleven point three points per game,
was shooting forty one percent from the field in forty
three percent from the three point range. His best game
came against Orlando, where he scored fourteen points, including knocking
down three to three pointers in the final minutes to
lift the Nets to a ninety four to ninety victory.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Foostreiore.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
After scoring more than thirteen hundred points during his four
year career in Provo, he'll begin his professional career in
France's Pro A with sig Strasburg, the two thousand and
three to two thousand and four French League champion, finished
twelfth last season while advancing to the quarterfinals at the
of the Leaders Cup. But what mag returns to Australia
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to play for the Carns of Type Carnes Type Hands
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collegiate career this.
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Past spring, we wish him luck.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Tray Stewart becomes the fifth Cougar in recent history to
sign with a professional team in Germany, joining the likes
of Alex Barcelo, Matt Harms, Jolie Childs and Zach Selias.
The six foot four guard joins SBB Basketball. I don't
know how to pronounce that last name. Don't look at me,
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Wolmer of Germany pro a period of ninety three games
for the Cougars. Trevin Nell, after playing in the second
most games in Billiam men's basketball history, takes his talents
to the World of three on three to represent USA
Basketball in its tournaments across the world. He got his
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first taste of international hoofs in July, helping USA Basketball
win the Three on three Open Air in Germany. He's
also a member of USA Basketball's Team DC that competes
on the FOBA Three on three World Tour.
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Those are your.
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Aaron Roderick after the scrimmage on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Okay, today, I thought we were a little bit sloppy.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
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 uh
playing in a game like situation with a with a real,
big twelve officiating crew. You learn quickly that some of
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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 real officiating crew.
And I thought we learned some good lessons today. I'm
not not not down or freaked out by it. We
(21:38):
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 got to be locked in, and you got to execute,
and you got to be able to perform at a
high level when the lights are on and all the
eyes are on you.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
And you're on TV and the refs are watching every
little thing. You can't get.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Away with a little somebody moving their feet while somebody's
in motion.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
You know, some of those things that I think are
great lessons for us. And that's why you have to scrimmage.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
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 scrimmaged, hopefully next week sometime, hopefully we'll be better
and keep taking steps towards being ready to play a game.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
All right, thank you, Eron. We'll go ahead and start
with questions with Jay Drew with the Desert News, followed
by Jake Hatch with kiss Yeah, Eron, you probably know
the questions coming with quarterbacks stood out, how were the
reps divided? And and who caught your eye today?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
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 is a true statement. I
need to watch the tape, But what I will say is, uh,
it's not gonna be keeping equal reps. You know, forever
we're there's gonna be a point pretty soon. I'm not
(23:17):
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 with the ones and and two's, and maybe
somebody's gonna get a little bit less. If we keep
going the way we're going, uh forever, then nobody will
(23:37):
be ready to play in our first game.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
So that that that that move.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Will be happening soon. I would need to watch the
tape and I need to discuss this with my staff
and with Koloney before we decide how and when we're
gonna do that go ahead.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
With with no turnovers today, no interceptions. Is that a
function of the guys being really conservative with the ball
and not willing to take chances because of the competition,
or was it just they played pretty cleanly in that regard.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I think they took good care of the ball today. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I don't recall anybody really putting the ball in jeopardy today.
Part of it was we had, you know, we had
some tough, tough yardage situations today where.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Sometimes you know, if you get.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
You get a like I mentioned, you know, you get
you get penalized by the officials for holding or a
false start or something, and it sets you back when
you're in long yardage situations.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Then there were times.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
They where we just had to place play the situation
where you play it smart and you know, give yourself
a chance to point and flip the field, or you
play it smart and kick a field goal instead of
trying to throw into uh, you know, a drop eight
coverage on third and fifteen or something like that. So
there was a little bit of that as well. I
would say that was really their fault. That was just
(25:02):
us playing the game like a real game. But yeah,
I think those guys took good care of the ball
and overall, you know, we had a few turnovers in
the first couple of practices, and I think in the
last week or so, all three quarterbacks have done a
good job, you know, not giving.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
It to the other team.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
All right, Jake go ahead, next, followed by Casey Lundquist
and Jakeage.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Cassel Sports just wanted to ask you about you.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You said that the second day of fall camp you
felt like you easy to be able to run the football.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
How do you feel you guys did in the ground
game today?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Not as well as I had hoped today.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Again, we had some procedural things today that kept popping up.
And again that's I can't emphasize enough when you get
a full Big twelve officiating crew out there, how how
perfect your execution.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Has to be.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
And and I think our our players today was a
great lesson, especially our younger players, at how how well
you have to execute in Big twelve football games to
have a chance to win. And so, but our run
game is gonna be good, Okay, I'm telling you we can.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
We're gonna be able to run the football. I like
our offensive line a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Our tight ends are tough and physical, and LJ. Martin
and are really good players, and both are very good
football players.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
We have some other backs too that I think we're
gonna be able to count on.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
And then our quarterbacks are good runners, you know, when
you guys know, we will sprinkle in enough quarterback run
game to keep people honest.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And I think we're gonna have a have a very
solid run game this year.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Follow up, bro Qui, I just want to ask have
you heard anything on Hea clear Potti stats?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
As n C ruled on that.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Still waiting, still waiting, and we're hopeful though, and I
want to I'll keep saying it.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
What a huge player he was for us last year.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I mean, he played so well and was so clutch
in big games. You know, fourth quarter he's in the
game at Utah on the two minute offense and pass
protection and speed option to get a first down, and
the Central Florida game. I mean, he he had some
big moments for us last year and we would love
(27:11):
to have him back.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
All right, go ahead, Casey, followed by Sam Foster.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
Yeah, coach, do you feel like you've started to establish
a pecking order at wide receiver behind Chase Roberts.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, I think the way I would say it is,
you know, Chase, Jojo and Parker, those three guys all
played a lot of snaps for US last season. We
know we can count on those guys, and I think
that that they're going to be very, very good for
us this year. And then I don't want to leave
anybody out, but so don't hold me to the order
(27:46):
of the names I mentioned right now. But I'm seeing
really good things out of Tiger Bachmeyer. You can tell
he's played in Power four games. You can tell he's
he's super smart, he's operating at a really high level.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Doesn't make mistakes, very reliable guy. I think he's gonna,
you know, he'll play for us this year.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
You see Cody Hagen's doing a lot of good things
out there. I think you're gonna see him help us
this year.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I don't want to whom I forget.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
I'm probably forgetting, so oh uh uh. Reggie Frishneck is
doing a lot of good things, and he's he can
really run. And then I see Tay Nicola coming along,
tons of ability with Titan Nikoua just you know, he's
a red shirt freshman and I see him do lots
of good things. And so that group, you know, those
top three guys that I mentioned, we just they're already
(28:33):
proven and we know they're gonna play a lot. And
then I think you're gonna see Tiger and Cody and
Reggie and Tay, you know, uh coming in certain roles
and then having their chance to uh step in if
anything happens to one of those other guys.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
And I might have just forgot someone. I hope I didn't.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
But those are the ones that are that I can't
popped into my head right now.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Go ahead, Sam, how do you feel like the offensive
line is performing right now? With Fall Camp? It's kind
of a relatively new group in terms of playing next
to each other. So how would you say they're performing
so far? And how do you compare it to Lasser's
group at this time.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That's a great observation, and I would say the ability
of that group is definitely there, and it's a matter
of playing playing together. You're right, there's there's some new
guys and they have to be in sync.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Man.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
The offensive line is it's it's there's so much to it.
There's so many calls being made every play. These guys
have just a few seconds to communicate a lot of
complex information to each other, and then they have to
work in tandems, you know, on double teams or different
things that they have to execute in pass protection, in
the run game, in the screen game.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
There's so much to it. And then they have to be.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Physical you know, when they when they do their job.
And so that combination of of of things, and then
you throw in a couple of new guys, it takes
time to get that that that execution down and we
are and the ability of those guys is uh is
definitely there.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Right, we need to uh mute, There we go.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We have time for just one last question.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Looks like it's Jake Hatch. Go ahead, Jake.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Yeah, Aaron, you've said that Carson Ryan I thinks to
be your lead guy at tight end. There's ten guys
on this roster that were listed as tight ends. How
is that shaping up?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Carson is definitely our starting tight end right now. And
what I like about him is, uh, he's an every
down player. You know, we've been kind of tighten tight
end by committee for a few years now, and.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
That's not necessarily what we wanted to be.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It's just, you know, we didn't have necessarily that guy
who could be the every down guy that can block
run routes, make.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Plays in the passing game, and do everything.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I think Isaac Rerex was the last guy we really
had that could do that, and after his injury, you know,
even with him, we had to do a little bit
by committee just to keep him healthy. But Carson gives
us the ability he can. He can play every down,
run or pass and do a lot of things for us,
and so we're excited about him and then behind him,
(31:17):
we have some other guys coming along, and it's a
you know, it's a battle amongst those guys to find roles.
You know. Well, we'll be in twelve personnel this year,
sometimes sometimes thirteen personnel if we can trust guys to
go in there and execute. And so that's right now.
We are sorting through that to see who else can
help our team. And I see some good things from
(31:39):
those guys, and I'm confident we'll have two or three
more step up and be ready to play.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
All right, thank you very much, a Rod, appreciate your
time today. That'll be all for now.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And all right, there you go, that say Rod. That
was after the scrimmage on Saturday. Some good gems, some
good nuggets there. One of the things I thought was interesting.
He is very confident that this b YU football team
is going to be able to run the football. He
likes the offensive line, he likes the tight ends, he
likes the wide receivers blocking, and then the running backs
(32:10):
l Jcione specifically, and he he said there's gonna be
other running backs that can contribute. The follow up was
and then he's gonna sprinkle in some QB run game.
Always keeping him on his but uh he the follow
up question was ininklely Rapati and he continues to like
keep a hugon iffusive praise on.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Hinckley, which to me, I get it.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I get a feeling of optimism coming from a Rod
that this is gonna happen. It's gonna and maybe it's
just this hopeful wish in his heart that Hinkley's gonna
come back and he's going to be a part.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Of the running back corps.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm over here like maybe glass at full thinking the
n C double A and it's corrupt leadership is going
to say no to b YU because they said no
to b YU and they've castigated, reprimanded b YU for
things you know, of lesser.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Severity in the past. You know they ain't gonna do
b YU no favors.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I don't care that asy the box is coming to
b Why they're mad the power brokers of college athletics.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
They don't like new money.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
How dare that the new money take an I know,
no mood, new body. He's not supposed to be here,
He's supposed to be at U n C.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
They like that old money, like that old those old phones.
I don't like the togain.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
You know they like it again, you.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Don't apsept the Apple card. Disrupt here. We got a
good thing going. B yu over here thinking they can
compete at our level. Disrupt the non parody that we've
had in football and basketball. You know, blue blood, no
matter how much blue you rep. So I thought that
was insue any takeaways you had from the a Rot conversation.
(33:54):
He said, equal reps for the quarterbacks. Not much to
go off of in that ticularly anybodys that pertains to
the quarterbacks, in my opinion, But he does want to
make a decision sooner rather than later and begin to
whittle it down to probably a two quarterback race, which
I imagine they're doing now this week.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yeah, to make it quick because we got in the show.
But he was a little disappointed. He wanted to see
a little bit more. And I think that's tough.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
When you're running your offense and you have procedural penalties,
whether they be holding false starts, whatever it is, the quarterback,
you know, not getting out of the huddles in time
and things like that. All that's fixable, right, All that's
fixable through practice through reps. But some quarterback has to
somebody has to merge, right as the starters still think
He'll stad is the favorite in regards to that, but
(34:39):
I think that's the biggest thing. They just need time.
And then Sam Foster shot out to him for asking
a question. You know, he says, guys are gonna be
able to run the football, like you mentioned, very confident
in this run game of what l Jim Barton and
Sionimo would be able to do. And I just get
flashbacks to been to that twenty twenty three season at
the end of it when Aiden Robbins was running you know,
inside zone, outside on, breaking tackles for ten plus converting
(35:03):
first down out the first down. I think when they
put it together, you're gonna see l Jim Martin, si
Ony Moa do the same thing. They run angry, they
run hard. So I'm excited to see the running game
as well this season.
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Speaker 3 (01:20):
Give me a hot take about bya football Now, you
know these young men better than anybody. You've been mentoring
and supporting them in all manners, in all fashions, in
all ways. But what are you most hyped about this
season twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Regarding this Boa football.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Team, I would say our linebacker room. Okay, Jack Kelly
and Glasger specifically, why Jack Kelly looks like a defensive
end but moves like the same Jack Kelly linebacker that
we know. I don't know how much weight he put
on this offseason, but he looks great. What's our what's
like the over under threshold of sacks? That we're expecting
(01:57):
from Sack Kelly this year. I think he told us
what he said up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Ten and a half is what he wants. Ten and
a half is what he does.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He wants ten and a half. So we'll put it
at ten and a half. That you're going over or under.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ten and a half. Bro over or under.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
The goggles want to say over, but that's a lot.
I think I'm gonna give it to him. It's his
last year. He's healthy, like I said, he's put on at
least ten maybe fifteen pounds. He's one of the strongest
guys on the team, and he's the linebacker. He is
so strong and he moves like a linebacker, but he
looks like a defensive end in some of these defenses
(02:35):
that we'll play against.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'll put honestly, I'm taking the over. Take the over.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So obviously we knew Jack was going to be great
this season. He was great last year. They tried. They
tried to put him in more pass rushing situations last year.
Couldn't do it as maybe as well as they wanted to,
So he wasn't able to tallly as many sacks as
he probably wanted to. You wonder if That's one of
(03:02):
the reasons why he came back to elevate his draft stock.
He could have been a late round maybe possibly a
mid rounder, but more than likely a late rounder. So
he's got to elevate his draft stock. The only you
can do that is through what getting after quarterbacks. Make
him some hay and drop in some quarterbacks in the backfield.
(03:23):
So that's what I'm getting at here. So where do
you think they're going to utilize Jack Kelly this year?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
In order to third down?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We're gonna give him the backfield and third down on
the outside.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He's going to be the featured pass rusher between Harry.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I mean you look at last year. I think they
had more sacks than both of our starting devens. Events fine,
and I think they'll continue to do that with Jay's
you know, set up and getting him in the right
situations on third downs and even not on third downs,
He's going to do surprise splitz packages against other teams,
you know. And so I think those two linebackers and
we'll see what see all. I say it does as well, right,
(03:59):
But I think I was saying earlier, I think those
two Jack Keilly and Glasger for sure, are the best
linebacker corp in the MiG twelve and could be in
the top five cores in the country one of the years.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
All said and done.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Pretty pretty impressive group, Shaalia Sera. Even guys behind them,
Mikah Kafusi, Aceh Kafusie, Shape, Bryant Strawther, you go down
that list, they're deep at linebacker, very deep.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So an athletic like Glasger and Jack Killy, Especially Glasger.
We all know this. He is a specimen, right. Jack
Killy maybe be huge, but Glasker is just so athletic
and could.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Do so many things. And he's so long. We saw
in the color.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Out of game. We did should have had three picks
in the color out of game.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, he's so long, he's so quick. So I just
another year. In Jay's defense of dialing it down, I
think it's going to be huge for him.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I want to turn I want to turn back to something.
Remember when Justin and I said he was the best.
He potentially has to be the best athlete the ever coached.
That might be true by the end of the season
if it works out that way, and he took a
lot of heat from Utah. I remember because I did
the interview right posted on x Ben and that got
a lot of heat and it was a hot take.
But if he goes off this season, that might come
(05:18):
to fruition, honestly, and I think Justina knew what he
was talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Another linebacker that Jay Hill mentioned that we're all still
getting to know is Utah State transfer Max Alford, who
apparently balled out over the last few days of fall camp.
Camp killani when Jay Hill calls you out and says, hey,
Max Alford looking good. And I heard some rumblings on
Friday from sources stating that Max is going to seept
(05:48):
this year. And that's that's impressive. That's insane. Considering how
deep this linebacking room is now, it begs the question
we are as to Cougar. As Cougar faithful, we are
infatuated with forty fronts right now. We like four down linemen,
(06:09):
three linebackers. But I would say that your skill sets,
your most talented individuals are in the linebacking room and
you must showcase the linebackers to your Cougar inside report here.
So you gotta have four dudes out there that have
the capabilities of being first level defenders and second level
defenders that can pass rush, but it can also run
(06:30):
sideline to sideline, and you have that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Across like probably eight guys.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You're probably eight guys that can probably do that pretty well,
some better than others, but they can all do it,
and that is an impressive group.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Jade dropped a little nugget and a postgame interview on
Saturday after the scrimmage talking about the safety room, similar
thing Ben saying that we've got so many safeties that
we may have to or may have may have some
packages where we have more than two safeties on the field,
we bring one of those safeties maybe as a nickel
or as And maybe the same thing happens with some
(07:06):
of our backers where we have some big boys in
that defensive tackle Tanawasa and Justin there's some big dogs,
so you may say maybe sometimes you'll see just three
defensive line you bring in four linebackers as well to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Get them on the field. So there was a gem
that was dropped.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Jay stated that there is packages and opportunities for three
safeties to be on the field at the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who are those three safeties? Do you think.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
There's five guys that Hener. There's five guys that he likes,
he says, and then two knocking on the door. We'll
see if you know he's sorry about Jared Kalama and
Matthias Leech as the as the six and seven guys
knocking on the door. But the five guys are Tanner
Wall Okay, Tommy Prashus Raider to Mooney, followed Southawalla and
Tallon Alfree. All five of those guys have proven that
(07:58):
they can ball out, they can play, and Jake trust them.
But I'm intrigued to see, like how they utilize three safeties.
That would mean one of them is going to be
a nickel Tommy, and it's probably Tommy Prass's. He's the best,
i think, my opinion, best cover safety. Which is interesting
(08:20):
because then you're looking at the nickel depth and you're like, Okay,
well who's who's the nickel right, because like you can
make an argument that Isaiah Glasker you put him on
the strong side, white side of the field, is like
a nickel linebacker safety and you're like, I mean, come on,
(08:40):
I mean, like you can make an argument that he's
pretty nice too, especially if it's zone.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But he could probably run with we saw the puppet
turn on Kansas State.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He can run with any tight end and Isaiah Glas
can run with any tight end in the country. Now
slot receivers, that's a different. You go ten, you go
ten personnel, and you may want to put Tommy out
there and make sure you're matching personnel to personnel. So
Jonathan Cabeya has looked good. Jay Hill gave him some love.
(09:11):
He's been a little deemed up though. You have Cannon
Devrees and then you have Tavian Beasley and maybe you
could rotate Peyton von Steinski also at Nickel. So those
are your three Nichols. The question is is Tommy a
better cover one on one player than Cannon, Tavian and Peyton.
(09:36):
That's the question, And the only people that know are
on the team unless the coaches tell us. But I
would I would put money on it that that Tommy's
better than those three guys right now. Yes, Yeah, I
would put money on it that he's better. He's a
better cover one on one guy. Now, Canon is going
(09:57):
to be good. Don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Tavian.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't know much about Tavy and other than you
know that he was at Colorado. I think Jackson stayed
with Dion liked him and then he was recently. But
so talent is good. Peyton is young, Cannon is young.
So is Tommy though, but he's worked with Rob Daniel
(10:20):
a ton this offseason. There's like a group of five
or six guys that worked like a tremendous amount of
hours with Rob Daniel and I think it paid off.
Peyton did too, which helps so intriguing. Three safeties on
the field in certain occasions packages.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Interesting. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Good sign or a bad sign? I mean it would
have to say a good thing.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean if your defensive coordinator's raving about that these
guys are too talented and he's forcing your hand to
put them on the field, I mean you're talking about
the best eleven guys, right, so we've talked. I mean
this goes back to what three years ago when Michael
Harp and Malik Moore before like, hey, they gotta be
on the field. It don't matter like they're the best players, right,
even if guys are maybe not at a position but
(11:13):
a learning and cross training.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Ben and I'm gonna take a shot here and I'll
take it on the chin, and y'all don't know where
I'm going, maybe you will. It's not like it's Utah
where you're atting, you know, a linebacker and a corner
back to the wide receiver insid endroom. It's not like
you're flipping those positions. You're just taking your best players
who are already in that room and adding a package.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I think it's great because, I mean last year in
the bowl game, we see the famous clip where Trador
is watching the film.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know where they're coming.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
From, and they Jade drawing up a scheme where you
have another safety. The quarterback is not gonna know what
what coverage it is. He's gonna be who haven't seen this?
And another thing that oppits coordinator has to prep for
when they play against us.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, it's not my favorite move, like to have to
move time me to nickel selfishly, you know. Like, but
I told him, I'm like, look like your skills set.
I told him a year ago. I was like, as
you develop your footwork a little bit more because of
your body type. He's got long torso, shorter legs. He's
(12:16):
fantastic in multidirectional drills.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
For his size, his weight.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Eventually you're going to get You're gonna be one of
the better, if not the best cover safeties, which could
allow you to move in to the box at Nickel
and it could happen this year, So something to keep
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We are thrilled to see five of our players from
last year's squads start their professional playing careers all across
the world. Yegor, Trey Foos, Trevin and what all embody
everything we are about. Each one of them embraced our
player development program and style of play and put the
necessary work into be in position to play professionally. I'm
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so proud of each one of them and look forward
to faro their careers. Yegor, Devin Fustreri but what mag
Trevin Nell and Trey Stewart joined former Cougar Zach Selias
and France, Brandon Davies in Japan, Jolie Childs in Japan,
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(16:20):
and Brandon Averett in Luxembourg.
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Yegor became the fifth NBA lottery pick in program history
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Speaker 2 (16:42):
Jemen Yeomen.
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Foostreiore.
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After scoring more than thirteen hundred points during his four
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Speaker 3 (17:38):
Tray Stewart becomes the fifth Cougar in recent history to
sign with a professional team in Germany, joining the likes
of Alex Barcelo, Matt Harms, Jolie Childs and Zach Selias.
The six foot four guard joins SBB Basketball. I don't
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(17:58):
Wolmer of Germany pro a period of ninety three games
for the Cougars. Trevin Nell, after playing in the second
most games in Billiam men's basketball history, takes his talents
to the World of three on three to represent USA
Basketball in its tournaments across the world. He got his
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win the Three on three Open Air in Germany. He's
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on the FOBA Three on three World Tour.
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Speaker 1 (19:29):
Wonder what coaches are really saying during their press conferences?
Well Ben Crittle is here. They'll break it all down.
In a reading between the line segment. Ben breaks down
the latest sound from BYU coaches and players right now
on Cougar Sports.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Welcome back, Cougar Sports. One O three nine ninety eight
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Aaron Roderick after the scrimmage on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Okay, today, I thought we were a little bit sloppy.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
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 uh
playing in a game like situation with a with a real,
big twelve officiating crew. You learn quickly that some of
(21:17):
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 real officiating crew.
And I thought we learned some good lessons today. I'm
not not not down or freaked out by it. We
(21:38):
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 got to be locked in, and you got to execute,
and you got to be able to perform at a
high level when the lights are on and all the
eyes are on you.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
And you're on TV and the refs are watching every
little thing. You can't get.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Away with a little somebody moving their feet while somebody's
in motion.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
You know, some of those things that I think are
great lessons for us. And that's why you have to scrimmage.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
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 scrimmaged, hopefully next week sometime, hopefully we'll be better
and keep taking steps towards being ready to play a game.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
All right, thank you, Eron. We'll go ahead and start
with questions with Jay Drew with the Desert News, followed
by Jake Hatch with kiss Yeah, Eron, you probably know
the questions coming with quarterbacks stood out, how were the
reps divided? And and who caught your eye today?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
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 is a true statement. I
need to watch the tape, But what I will say is, uh,
it's not gonna be keeping equal reps. You know, forever
we're there's gonna be a point pretty soon. I'm not
(23:17):
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 with the ones and and two's, and maybe
somebody's gonna get a little bit less. If we keep
going the way we're going, uh forever, then nobody will
(23:37):
be ready to play in our first game.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
So that that that that move.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Will be happening soon. I would need to watch the
tape and I need to discuss this with my staff
and with Koloney before we decide how and when we're
gonna do that go ahead.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
With with no turnovers today, no interceptions. Is that a
function of the guys being really conservative with the ball
and not willing to take chances because of the competition,
or was it just they played pretty cleanly in that regard.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I think they took good care of the ball today. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I don't recall anybody really putting the ball in jeopardy today.
Part of it was we had, you know, we had
some tough, tough yardage situations today where.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Sometimes you know, if you get.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
You get a like I mentioned, you know, you get
you get penalized by the officials for holding or a
false start or something, and it sets you back when
you're in long yardage situations.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Then there were times.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
They where we just had to place play the situation
where you play it smart and you know, give yourself
a chance to point and flip the field, or you
play it smart and kick a field goal instead of
trying to throw into uh, you know, a drop eight
coverage on third and fifteen or something like that. So
there was a little bit of that as well. I
would say that was really their fault. That was just
(25:02):
us playing the game like a real game. But yeah,
I think those guys took good care of the ball
and overall, you know, we had a few turnovers in
the first couple of practices, and I think in the
last week or so, all three quarterbacks have done a
good job, you know, not giving.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
It to the other team.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
All right, Jake go ahead, next, followed by Casey Lundquist
and Jakeage.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Cassel Sports just wanted to ask you about you.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You said that the second day of fall camp you
felt like you easy to be able to run the football.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
How do you feel you guys did in the ground
game today?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Not as well as I had hoped today.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Again, we had some procedural things today that kept popping up.
And again that's I can't emphasize enough when you get
a full Big twelve officiating crew out there, how how
perfect your execution.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Has to be.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
And and I think our our players today was a
great lesson, especially our younger players, at how how well
you have to execute in Big twelve football games to
have a chance to win. And so, but our run
game is gonna be good, Okay, I'm telling you we can.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
We're gonna be able to run the football. I like
our offensive line a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Our tight ends are tough and physical, and LJ. Martin
and are really good players, and both are very good
football players.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
We have some other backs too that I think we're
gonna be able to count on.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
And then our quarterbacks are good runners, you know, when
you guys know, we will sprinkle in enough quarterback run
game to keep people honest.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And I think we're gonna have a have a very
solid run game this year.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Follow up, bro Qui, I just want to ask have
you heard anything on Hea clear Potti stats?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
As n C ruled on that.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Still waiting, still waiting, and we're hopeful though, and I
want to I'll keep saying it.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
What a huge player he was for us last year.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I mean, he played so well and was so clutch
in big games. You know, fourth quarter he's in the
game at Utah on the two minute offense and pass
protection and speed option to get a first down, and
the Central Florida game. I mean, he he had some
big moments for us last year and we would love
(27:11):
to have him back.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
All right, go ahead, Casey, followed by Sam Foster.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
Yeah, coach, do you feel like you've started to establish
a pecking order at wide receiver behind Chase Roberts.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, I think the way I would say it is,
you know, Chase, Jojo and Parker, those three guys all
played a lot of snaps for US last season. We
know we can count on those guys, and I think
that that they're going to be very, very good for
us this year. And then I don't want to leave
anybody out, but so don't hold me to the order
(27:46):
of the names I mentioned right now. But I'm seeing
really good things out of Tiger Bachmeyer. You can tell
he's played in Power four games. You can tell he's
he's super smart, he's operating at a really high level.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Doesn't make mistakes, very reliable guy. I think he's gonna,
you know, he'll play for us this year.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
You see Cody Hagen's doing a lot of good things
out there. I think you're gonna see him help us
this year.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I don't want to whom I forget.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
I'm probably forgetting, so oh uh uh. Reggie Frishneck is
doing a lot of good things, and he's he can
really run. And then I see Tay Nicola coming along,
tons of ability with Titan Nikoua just you know, he's
a red shirt freshman and I see him do lots
of good things. And so that group, you know, those
top three guys that I mentioned, we just they're already
(28:33):
proven and we know they're gonna play a lot. And
then I think you're gonna see Tiger and Cody and
Reggie and Tay, you know, uh coming in certain roles
and then having their chance to uh step in if
anything happens to one of those other guys.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
And I might have just forgot someone. I hope I didn't.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
But those are the ones that are that I can't
popped into my head right now.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Go ahead, Sam, how do you feel like the offensive
line is performing right now? With Fall Camp? It's kind
of a relatively new group in terms of playing next
to each other. So how would you say they're performing
so far? And how do you compare it to Lasser's
group at this time.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That's a great observation, and I would say the ability
of that group is definitely there, and it's a matter
of playing playing together. You're right, there's there's some new
guys and they have to be in sync.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Man.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
The offensive line is it's it's there's so much to it.
There's so many calls being made every play. These guys
have just a few seconds to communicate a lot of
complex information to each other, and then they have to
work in tandems, you know, on double teams or different
things that they have to execute in pass protection, in
the run game, in the screen game.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
There's so much to it. And then they have to be.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Physical you know, when they when they do their job.
And so that combination of of of things, and then
you throw in a couple of new guys, it takes
time to get that that that execution down and we
are and the ability of those guys is uh is
definitely there.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Right, we need to uh mute, There we go.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We have time for just one last question.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Looks like it's Jake Hatch. Go ahead, Jake.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Yeah, Aaron, you've said that Carson Ryan I thinks to
be your lead guy at tight end. There's ten guys
on this roster that were listed as tight ends. How
is that shaping up?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Carson is definitely our starting tight end right now. And
what I like about him is, uh, he's an every
down player. You know, we've been kind of tighten tight
end by committee for a few years now, and.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
That's not necessarily what we wanted to be.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It's just, you know, we didn't have necessarily that guy
who could be the every down guy that can block
run routes, make.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Plays in the passing game, and do everything.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I think Isaac Rerex was the last guy we really
had that could do that, and after his injury, you know,
even with him, we had to do a little bit
by committee just to keep him healthy. But Carson gives
us the ability he can. He can play every down,
run or pass and do a lot of things for us,
and so we're excited about him and then behind him,
(31:17):
we have some other guys coming along, and it's a
you know, it's a battle amongst those guys to find roles.
You know. Well, we'll be in twelve personnel this year,
sometimes sometimes thirteen personnel if we can trust guys to
go in there and execute. And so that's right now.
We are sorting through that to see who else can
help our team. And I see some good things from
(31:39):
those guys, and I'm confident we'll have two or three
more step up and be ready to play.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
All right, thank you very much, a Rod, appreciate your
time today. That'll be all for now.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And all right, there you go, that say Rod. That
was after the scrimmage on Saturday. Some good gems, some
good nuggets there. One of the things I thought was interesting.
He is very confident that this b YU football team
is going to be able to run the football. He
likes the offensive line, he likes the tight ends, he
likes the wide receivers blocking, and then the running backs
(32:10):
l Jcione specifically, and he he said there's gonna be
other running backs that can contribute. The follow up was
and then he's gonna sprinkle in some QB run game.
Always keeping him on his but uh he the follow
up question was ininklely Rapati and he continues to like
keep a hugon iffusive praise on.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Hinckley, which to me, I get it.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I get a feeling of optimism coming from a Rod
that this is gonna happen. It's gonna and maybe it's
just this hopeful wish in his heart that Hinkley's gonna
come back and he's going to be a part.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Of the running back corps.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm over here like maybe glass at full thinking the
n C double A and it's corrupt leadership is going
to say no to b YU because they said no
to b YU and they've castigated, reprimanded b YU for
things you know, of lesser.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Severity in the past. You know they ain't gonna do
b YU no favors.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I don't care that asy the box is coming to
b Why they're mad the power brokers of college athletics.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
They don't like new money.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
How dare that the new money take an I know,
no mood, new body. He's not supposed to be here,
He's supposed to be at U n C.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
They like that old money, like that old those old phones.
I don't like the togain.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
You know they like it again, you.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Don't apsept the Apple card. Disrupt here. We got a
good thing going. B yu over here thinking they can
compete at our level. Disrupt the non parody that we've
had in football and basketball. You know, blue blood, no
matter how much blue you rep. So I thought that
was insue any takeaways you had from the a Rot conversation.
(33:54):
He said, equal reps for the quarterbacks. Not much to
go off of in that ticularly anybodys that pertains to
the quarterbacks, in my opinion, But he does want to
make a decision sooner rather than later and begin to
whittle it down to probably a two quarterback race, which
I imagine they're doing now this week.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yeah, to make it quick because we got in the show.
But he was a little disappointed. He wanted to see
a little bit more. And I think that's tough.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
When you're running your offense and you have procedural penalties,
whether they be holding false starts, whatever it is, the quarterback,
you know, not getting out of the huddles in time
and things like that. All that's fixable, right, All that's
fixable through practice through reps. But some quarterback has to
somebody has to merge, right as the starters still think
He'll stad is the favorite in regards to that, but
(34:39):
I think that's the biggest thing. They just need time.
And then Sam Foster shot out to him for asking
a question. You know, he says, guys are gonna be
able to run the football, like you mentioned, very confident
in this run game of what l Jim Barton and
Sionimo would be able to do. And I just get
flashbacks to been to that twenty twenty three season at
the end of it when Aiden Robbins was running you know,
inside zone, outside on, breaking tackles for ten plus converting
(35:03):
first down out the first down. I think when they
put it together, you're gonna see l Jim Martin, si
Ony Moa do the same thing. They run angry, they
run hard. So I'm excited to see the running game
as well this season.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!