8-12-25 - Hour 4 - Who is the guy that moves the team best down the field and makes explosive plays?
August 12, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 3 (01:22):
Great.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We got John Beck on the line, the quarterback scientists.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I like to call him John. How thatck are you
buddy doing?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Good man? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Excellent?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Football season is here.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Uh. You know, off season probably is the busiest time
for you. What do you do in this kind of
this transitory uh phase of the football season. I mean
it's August, fall camp is going on, so you're not
working out as many quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What are you up to?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You know, there's a lot of communication that happens this
TIMI year, just because guys sometimes are in quarterback battles. Guys,
if it's a collegiate player, maybe he's at a new
school battling for the job.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Or transitioning to a new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So I'm not on the field with the quarterbacks, but
there's a lot of communication that happens throughout the day
with different guys.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Also, as preseason games start, I'm back watching football games.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm back analyzing tape, getting them feedback on kind of
what I'm seeing.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's kind of the main thing that's going on this
time of the year in regards to the quarterbacks that
I spend time with in the offseason, and then obviously
I spend a lot of time on the football field
with my own kids their Pop Warner football teams, and
also helping out at San Clementi High.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
School and spending a lot of time with Dennis Pitt
on that field.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Love that man, and something else that I bring up
to people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
They've asked me and I've conversed with them about it,
especially these dads and quarterbacks around the state and outside
of the state.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You guys provide a.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Service there at three DQB Training three DQB dot Com
for in season film evalue, practice evaluation. You want to
get on a tella you know tella you know tell us,
I guess call like over the phone, zoom, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You can break that stuff down with them.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, a lot of the guys that we train right like,
they get it. Quarterbacking is not just the ability to
throw football accurately or to have a better arm that
you've improved your arm in the offseason, like kicking a
kid and helping him improve his accuracy, efficiency, spin rate,
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ball velocity, timing, and footwork, like, yes, that should help
him be a better quarterback. But if he doesn't understand
the game, if he's not understanding what he's seeing where
to go with the football being decisive like the progressions,
like it's not going to translate into more first downs.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Better football player. Like I tell people all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
There are inefficient throwers that can still go out and
move the football because they understand the game. Now, are
there things that they need to improve on?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Are their throws that they miss that because of their
inefficiency their lack of whatever you want to call it
or need for improvement, Like does that create a time
where they out like the offense may sputter or they
have a ball that's intercepted, or they have a ball
down and field the floats on them, Like yes, it's
not going to be they're not at their best, but
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they can move the football, you know, spin rate, efficient, spiral.
That can help you improve as a quarterback. But that
is not the end all be all. You can throw
wobbly accurate footballs or ones to have a little tail
to them and still move the football down the field.
So yes, going and watching tape and talking through like, hey,
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your footwork is not syncd up right here with the concept,
or you're hanging on number one way too long. You
need to get off number one. Look at this identification
here of this key player. He he's telling you what's
going to happen with the shell behind it. You can
get to this area of the field and now have
a broader perspective with your eyes.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
And then now look at this cook player. Like all
of that is football play, quarterback to play.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And that's why you know you'll see some kid with
some monster arm and he's not the starting quarterback, and
some kid that maybe can barely throw the ball forty
seven yards fifty two yards in high school is the
starting quarterback because he understands the game and he gets
the ball out on time. You know, if that kid
can now improve his arm talent and ability and arm strength.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And all of that and increase that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Now he becomes a quarterback that can be recruited and
looked at because he understands the game and how he's
adding those other tools. And so in season, yeah, we
sit down with guys and we go via zoom or
phone calls.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And even the mental emotional side of the game.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I have a number of quarterbacks that they want to
talk post game the following day and go through everything
that they went through from mental emotional standpoint, can and
I improve of myself in playing in big games or
playing in pressure moments with the mental emotional site so
I can handle all of those things better, or pre
performance anxiety, all of those things can be worked on
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and that all can help you improve as a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Head on over to train three DQB dot com and
get a consultation scheduled today if you're a quarterback or
you got a quarterback in your home, John, quarterback competition
is cooking with the Cougars right now. McKay, Hillstead, Bear Bachmeier,
Tracon Borgabe. I get a sense that this is now
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a two quarterback race. After Saturday scrimmage, I feel like
it's McKay versus Bear Bear versus McKay.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's the sense I get.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What do you think a competition like this looks like
with an individual like McKay undersize can spin it, transfer
from an FBS program, has a little bit more experience
in the system, and you have a highly talent, big, strong, fast,
almost this Tim Tebow like athlete that has some good
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throw ability in Bear Bachmeyer that whose only experience was
a spring session with with Stanford.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What do you think this is looking like?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well, I know both guys well, and I know both
guys are working hard and wanting to compete, you know,
I know that Trason was in that and if they've
whittled it down to two, both guys are going to
use the weapons that they got, the things.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
That they have confidence in, like McKay can spin it.
I know that his size is always brought up.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
He does have college experience, you know, he got to
play in games. I know he's a very detailed person.
So my guess is as he kind of attacks the
playbook in terms of understanding it, knowing the reads, knowing
what he's supposed to be doing, he's probably on top
of all of that he's going to try to make
up for you know, whatever he you know, maybe lacking
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in terms of a physical ability because of size. He's
going to try to make that up with understanding of
what's the purpose of this play, what's the progression? How
can I get through that progression efficiently? Do I know
every key?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Read all of those things?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
And then when he gets an opportunity to take off,
I know he's a very quick.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And athletic kid. He'll be able to make plays on
the move as well getting out of the pocket.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Has a very strong arm from the pocket and on
the run. So those are things that McKay is going
to play confidently. Bear he's going to gain his confidence
not just because he's like that in terms of having
a desire to understand everything and to be detailed, but
because he played so much football. And I said this
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before on the show, like he played so much football
in high school and he threw the ball so much,
and there was so much on his shoulders. So he's
made a ton of decisions within an offense. Sometimes you
can have a quarterback that within an offense. He plays
in a situation where where he has a lot of
talent around him, and so he's not asked to do
everything to help his team win.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
He doesn't have to make all of the key decisions.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
He's not having faced every single third down is all right,
here we go. Here's another third down on you and
your decision making and your ability to create a play.
But we played against Bear all through high school. I
watched a bunch of them in high school. Like so
much got put on his plate in high school that
he's playing that same game now and so having an
opportunity to go to a college and for people that
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don't know, Bear was given first team reps at Stanford.
Bear was in the mix to potentially be the starting
quarterback there.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
They weren't probably in the same way that he's getting
him now, because they were I believe, leaning towards another guy.
But it was like they had to give the other
guys behind the person that they anticipated as a starter
some reps just in case. So it was more like,
you know, in practice, when you have the starter that's
playing and he's getting the majority of the reps, she say, hey,
we got to give the backup some ones reps just
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in case. It was like they at times he was
getting opportunities to get that, but either way, he was
in a mix to be the surefire backup there and
potentially playing some games for Stanford if things weren't going
well for the perceived starter.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's a lot on somebody that's just out of high school.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know, he's an early graduate, so all of his
people that he was in high school with were still
going to classes in high school and he's out there
competing at Stanford, which obviously probably prepared him.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well for what he's been given. Now at the quarterback
battle of YU, what are.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The pros and cons of maybe trotting out a true freshman,
albeit talented true freshman to this first you know, half
of the season, Like, yeah, it starts off a little
bit easier, but Portland State Stanford, Stanford's out recruited BYU
for the last ten years. Like he goes side by side,
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it's Stanford has perceived more talent.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
From a recruiting ranking standpoint.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Then East Carolina on the road, Colorado on the road,
Coach Prime is still dangerous West Virginia. You of a,
these are still P four programs with talent and resources
and good coaching. In those first six games, pros and
cons of starting and trotten out a true freshman there.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, when you put out a freshman, you're giving him experience.
So the pro is, we are going to take somebody
that we have confidence in and we are going to
give them experiences.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
They're going to help them improve as a player.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So you're going to get a better player because of
the experience you're giving him down the road.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The other pro I would say is a lot of
times freshmen are just out there playing ball. They don't
have the scars yet in the beginning. Now, are they
probably going to receive some of them? Yes, But if
you have a good football team around a freshman, if
you're not requiring too much of them, if you can
protect them a little bit with the run game, if
you can keep them in situations where decision making is
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a little bit easier on them, you can help bring
them along. Like I always tell people, quarterbacks that are
fortunate are the ones where there's a defense in a
run game around them. So as they gain their playing experience,
there isn't too much being asked of them. They just manage,
they make the right decisions, they play the game safely,
and then they grow and they learn and they develop,
and then they can grow into being a more aggressive
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quarterback and grow into knowing when to try to capitalize
or take risks.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Sometimes if it's.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Not as good of a team around that player, that
player at times can try to do too much, can
try to try to make too many plays, and then
they can force balls, they can take unnecessary hits, they.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Can have some bad things happen.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I think in Uiu's case, they would be in the
position of having a really good team, having a good
run game, having a good defense.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know. Also, freshmen they.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Just get out there and like they're playing a little
bit freer because they don't know what they don't know,
and they're just trying to make plays. And so sometimes
the most creative, most athletic, and the most fun to
watch kind of unscripted plays times happen with the younger
players because I mean sometimes they don't always see the
picture clearly, and so they're just out there backyard, in't it.
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And I know a bear, for example, would have that
ability to go out there and create with his feed
and have some of those creative plays happen. I would say,
the cons are you're gonna have mistakes, like you're gonna
have airs and at times, you can put them in
a position where, depending on the outcome of the game,
if they start feeling overly responsible for whatever isn't going well,
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sometimes that can I don't want to say injure because
it's not a physical injury, but I'm going to use
the word injured. Sometimes I can injury a young player,
and like any injury, now, there has.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
To be a recovery process after it. They have to
work through whatever they're experiencing.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You know, you put a young player in a position
where everybody's saying, oh, this is a really good position.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You should be able to go out there and win
these games, no problem.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, what happens if some misfortune happens and some random
tipped balls get ran back for touchdowns, or there's some
special teams airs, and all of a sudden, at the
end of the game, they're trotting him out, you know,
on the field, and it's what needed is a game
tying drive, and that kid goes back there and drops
back and.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Goes to ow the football and gets his arm hit and.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
It's a fumble and then the other team gets it
and oh my gosh, we just lost the game that
we weren't supposed to sometimes that young player he can
internalize that and feel very responsible. It's not easy for
young players to be like, hey, look I'm going through
this growing experience. Yes I need to improve. You know,
there were things that were on me, but not you know,
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not this entire thing is not on me.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That is tough.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
And so the con is depending on the you know,
the where that player is at from a perspective and
maturity standpoint, they may shoulder too much. And sometimes when
they shoulder too much, they can then in turn try
to go out and do too much the next week.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
And that's that's a little bit of the risk of
running a young player out there.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
And you know, I think though, if we're talking about
this BIU football team, I think there a much better
situation where I don't think that they would be as
much needed on the shoulders of a young quarterback.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think they would be able to manage.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
The play calls, how many positions they put that player
in to have to shoulder a ton of third down
you know, past progressions. I think that it just wouldn't
be that. And so if they rolled bear out, I
think it would be a good situation in terms of
schedule and ability of the team around him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
John Beck here on ESPN the Fan talking to BYU Football,
and I do want to get into some cougars in
the pros as well with you, John, But let's discuss,
you know, a little bit of a little bit more
about what you guys do over at three d QB
elite biomechanics training combined with motion analysis. And so when
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you look at McKay and bear right, what do you
see in their throwing ability as a spinner of the
football of a you know, when you're evaluating their mechanics,
is one a better quotation mark thrower than the other?
And just as a qualifier, I loved Reggie Miller, one
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of the greatest shooters ever. Didn't have the greatest mechanics, right,
he wasn't Ray Allen, but he got the job done, right.
So mechanics, you know, balancing mechanics, and and you know
that that throwing motion and just getting it to the
to the foot football player that you're you're intending it for,
those are two different things.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Right, yeah, I mean, and without getting into too much
detail because obviously the other thing I don't want to
do is I don't want to sit there exposed to like, hey,
these are the things we're working on with these guys.
This is the you know, like I don't want to
turn information out to you know, everybody, and then they're like, well, hey, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'm gonna now bring it up every time that there's a.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You know, an incomplete pass or a wabbly ball or
something like that, Like, look, there are some things that
both do really well. There are some things that both
are working on and can improve on. And that's that's
every player. That's players that I work with that are
at the pros. That's guys that are you know, all
pro cornerbacks. They all have things that are working on.
Like the one thing I'll say is I will drop
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some positives. McKay has a sneaky good arm, like he
can let that thing rip, and I'm sure for some
people that have been at practices or fans that have
watched him, it's had to have been on display at times,
like his ability for the ball to jump out of
his hand. He can let it rip sometimes and it's
going to be a big positive for him. And when
he has to function from small space, he still has
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the ability to drive footballs and you know, he spins
the ball really well, I would say like as a
guy in terms of you know, spin rate and efficiency,
like that ball is spinning well the majority of the time.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
He's throwing it. Bear.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Bear is a kid that has the ability to get
the ball out at times extremely quick and from areas
where his weight and balance where they're at. You're going
to see he may be climbing the pocket and all
of a sudden, that ball's going to come out.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You know, that little bit of that three quarter angle.
He's going to be able to tighten up and have
a much quicker.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Shorter motion, and that ball's going to jump out into
the flat, and that ball is going to get out
to that player in the flat that has them out leveraged,
and he's going to be able to pick up a
few extra yards because of where the defenders are at and.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
How quickly the ball got out there. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
The other thing about Bear is he's very savvy in
terms of creating plays like where he can take his
eyes and then get the ball to There's going to
be some throws that if he's out scrambling around that
they may be surprised, like I didn't even realize that
he took his eyes there that fast, saw the space
and the ball out there. He has the ability to
in motion in movements eyes, ball happens fast, and you know,
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those are things that both those guys it's all going
to help him get, you know, in their situations when
they're playing. And if it's you know it, if that
competition continues on into you know, who knows what's going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I think the coaches probably want to make a decision
before it.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
But if you see both quarterbacks playing against Portland State,
you'll probably see both of those things on display. And
if both of those things that they've been you know,
can excel at are going to help.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's a good point Portland State.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You want to see both of these quarterbacks, and you
should see both of these quarterbacks right Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think definitely both should be playing in the game.
I mean, even if you've made a decision of this
is who our starting quarterback is going to be, you
would hope that somewhere in the third quarter of the game's.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Out of hand and you're able to play more players.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I think if I was on that staff, I would
want to establish something right telling me, you know, all
of the players, like we want to go out there
and we want to, you know, take it to these
guys and we want to make it not even a
game when we come out for the second half.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And given that scenario, we need to evaluate more.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
We want this to feel like what NFL teams can
half of preseason football games.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's a giant evaluation period for.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Teams to look at their rosters and see what they're
capable of, and especially to be able to identify the
guys that are going to.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Help the football team.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Given the way football seas go, you're going to have injuries,
You're going to have people get deemed, and you need
to know who can make plays and the better. The
best place to figure out is when the lights are
on on game night.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Let's talk some cougars and pros.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
What do you make of Zach Wilson's situation in Miami
right now?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Three quarterbacks on the roster.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I thought he looked good at times in his preseason debut.
What do you make of his current situation?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Healthy?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you think they're going to maybe maintain a three
quarterback roster there in Miami with coach McDaniel?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, I mean, here's the funny thing about the NFL,
like they've gone through so many changes. When I first
got to the NFL, everybody kept three quarterbacks and then
a practice squad guy. So ninety percent of the teams
had four quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
On the roster.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And then all of a sudden in twenty twelve, there
was this shift and teams, and part of it due
to the fact that they just started paying the starters
more and more and more, and so they became this
thing of why are we having a third quarterback?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Where they changed the rule.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
You used to be able to dress a third emergency
quarterback and it did not count against your game day roster,
So everybody had three quarterbacks dressed well. Then the NFL
made a rule change and said, look, everybody's dressing forty
six people, and the forty six is a quarterback. Let's
just put forty six people. You can dress them well.
When they started making it not the emergency quarterback, everybody
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started saying like, well, that's not worth it then for.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Us to just dress the third quarterback.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
If they're not giving it to us for free, and
they give us forty six, let's go dress an extra
defensive player we can use on special teams. And then
so what started happening is teams were paying a veteran
quarterback and he's standing there in shorts and a T
shirt and on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And then so they said, well, this is dumb.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Instead of us paying him, let's go and let's put
him on the street. Let's put the practice squad quarterback
in the shorts and the T shirt. Let's dress the
special teams guy. So then you had this stretch of
time where everybody started only eating two quarterbacks, and it.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Put a lot of quarterbacks on the street.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
There was a period of time where between two thousand
and twelve and probably two thousand and sixteen where tons
of quarterbacks that would have been on rosters were floating
on the street hoping an injury happened to get picked up.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And so NFL.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Quarterback roster numbers went down by a third. Well now
it's back and.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Teams now because they went through this thing of like,
holy crap.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
But what happens is when that guy isn't in our
building and all we have is a starter, a backup
on a practice squad guy. There were situations where the
backup was playing in the game, he got hurt and
that former practice squad play was being asked to go
in and play, and teams realized, well that doesn't benefit us.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So now it's back to a lot of teams keeping
three quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So Zach's situation, I wouldn't be surprised for Miami to
keep three quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You know. I know that Queen Ewers didn't have a good.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Outing his last time out, but given the situation where
to has had some years where he hasn't been able
to finish the season, I think Zach is in a
safe space.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Even though Zach had some plays that I know he wants.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Back, some balls that you know, bounce at the feet
of the guy that he was throwing it to. I
still have heard good things about camp. You know, Zach Fils,
he's done a good job in camp. They're paying him
a good amount of money to be the backup there.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I think it's safe to say he's the backup and
they'll probably keep a third guy.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And I don't think Queen Yours is somebody that they
want to release and potentially let somebody else take, especially
because they use the draft pick on him. So my
guess is they keep three quarterbacks. I don't know if
they'll be able to you know, put Quinn in a
spot where they release him to then try to bring
him back on pea squad. My guess is somebody would
pick him up, so they got to protect him by
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keeping him active. But that's you know, probably what will
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I think is pretty safety to backup.
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We're gonna play those tomorrow.
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news and notes. BAU Offensive Cordiner Aaron Roddock on the
quarterback Decision. We played this sound earlier and interview with
Spencer Linton on BA TV. He gave his thoughts on
each QB McKay, Hillstead, Trason Boardgay and Bear Bachmeyer. Sounds
like from everything that we played how McKay operated spring tracing,
saying traycon knows the offense the best. McKay that he's
learning how to manage the game comfort level. He's more
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decisive with the football. Bear being very talented, very smart,
as he mentioned, and that there's not a lot of
guys who can come into a practice eight, nine or
ten days and be that impressive with knowing the offense.
It's a two horse race. Sounds like it's between Bear
Bachmeyer and McHale's dead. We saw Bear make impressive throws
one of Carsonaronas out of tight window, another Churches side
Phillips looks like Trayson Boorga gonna be quarterback three, even
(29:07):
saw some Emerson Gobman. I've been declared if I think
Bear Bachmeyer will be your QB one come August thirty,
if I'm one hundred percent declared of Brandescy Gurney was
seventy five percent. Ben Krittle was eighty five percent declarative
on that. But yeah, it's been narrowed down. It's narrowed down,
and we'll see what happens. Bear took majority of the
reps that we played that sound earlier in the Band
(29:28):
of the Day, Aaron Roders saying that Bear took majority
of the one reps.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Obviously he said he needed more. But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
You're gonna see. You're gonna see Bear MKA battle out.
We'll see what happens. We'll be back at practice on Friday,
August fifteenth. We will see if McKay takes majority of
the one reps. Have no idea what we will see.
But Bear looked impressive today and from what I saw
him like, that's why he is gonna be your QB.
One of coach guys that remind you. People get mad
at me when I say this. I played rugby. I
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know a coach tells me more but what he does
than what he says. Yes, I'm not saying what they
say is invalidated, it's not true. But what they do
and what they what they do on the field and
what I see tells me a lot more than necessarily
what comes down sometimes than what they may tell.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You face to face.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Always in those things, the coach is never going to
reveal their hands, so hopefully it doesn't make too many
people mad. But again, what you see on the field
often reflects more sometimes than always what could be said
to a degree. That's not hyperbole, that's not doctrine. Fully,
that's just a piece of it. So obviously we know
this from yesterday. By you missed the AP top twenty
five ranking. They finished the season eleven and two and
(30:35):
they were ranked thirteen in the APE Pole, including a
blowout victory and Ali Moo Bowl against Colorado.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
They come to the season now unranked.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
In a peopole that was released yesterday morning, they received
one hundred and fifty six votes. That was the first
team left out, so they're technically number twenty six, right
before Jake Leffer Tulane. As we know, ESPN had BYU
way in their top twenty five and number thirteen earlier
in the year. I think at one point they're even
top nine. But with Jake Gonne to say, okay, no
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veteran quarterback, senior quarterback, you will fall down.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
So we will see the other big top schools.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Arizona State's eleven, Kansas State is seventeen, Iowa State is
twenty two, and and last but not least, Texas Tech.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Is twenty three as well.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Let's get some love to ig BYU linebacker Asaiah Glasker
was named to the preseason watch list for the Chuck
Beneric Award, presented Ennerley to the outstanding defensive Player in
college football by the Maxwell Football Club. Glaskar is a
six to five, two hundred and thirty five pounds junior
from South Jordan, Utah, and was preleasing the name to
the preseason watch list for the Bupkus Award, honoring the
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nation's top linebacker. Following the twenty twenty four season, he
received All America Honorable Mentioned by Sports Illustrated and was
the Defensive MVP of the Valeria Alamobole, leading BYU to
that thirty six to fourteen victory. IGS polls for a
big year, he led the Big Twelve and tackles for
lost with thirteen point five for BYU. He was second
on the team with sixty two tackles, three point five sacks,
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eight quarterback Curry's two interceptions. Last season, Glascow's named the
mid season All America by The Athletic and mid season
All Big Twelve by College Football Network. The reason why
IG and Jack Kelly are back. You see the tackles.
You see the tackles for loss, the QB hurries. Are
there interceptions? I think are there? To a degree. You
don't see the sacks three point five sizes. You heard
Jack Kelly wants double digit sacks. I think IG wants
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the same thing. They want to implement and say, hey,
we can get to the quarterback. Because when you get
to the next level, when you get to the NFL,
how do you need to be disrupting the quarterback? Look
at the Super Bowl winning teams. What have their linebackers
done disruptive? They got in the backfield, they get sacks.
You have to be able to get to the quarterback.
Look at all the champs in the last five years.
Look at the Chiefs, the Eagles to Tom Bradiery, even
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the Rams. The linebacker corps has to be able to
disrupt the quarterback. So I think that's one of the
big reasons why they're back. Bryan Eldgers, who we had
on the show yesterday, says that they are the two
best linebackers in the Big twelve, can be top five
of the nation. What say you, Cougar Nation, what do
you think Isaiah Glasker and Jack Kelly will finish? There
was a fall camp preview that b why you put
out of the corners, backs and the safeties. J Hill,
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We know, we caught up with him on Saturday after
the scrimmage, had very high praise for guys in the
cornerback room, Maury Bomba, Trey Alexander, Evan, Johnson, Schmith who
I caught up with were here that interviewed tomorrow. He said,
those guys and he had said Jonathan Cabea had a
good spring. I think he's dinged up. So Tommy Prass
has been taking reps and nickel. You know, we haven't
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seen Jonathan. We've seen Tommy obviously, and TP had a
tackle for loss and if you're going full pads, you're
going full out, full blow up.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
He's smacking that dude that's coming off the edge.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
So you saw Tommy and Jay Hill said we got
to find a way to get Raider, Tommy prasss and
follow Tasaula all on the field at the same time.
Saw Raider, Dumoni and Tanner Wall both taking reps back
there at free safety for Tanner, strong for Raider, and
then Tommy was in a nickel. All those guys got
to be on the field, so they're gonna create packages.
And to me, you know, I'm not trying to predict anything,
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but until you know JK is back or whatever will
happen with that, and even if he is back, Tommy
playing that nickel position is gonna be vedy vetty nice.
Ben has already mentioned that he is the best cover
safety that you probably have in that room. So having him,
Tanner and Raider on the field, good luck throwing the
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football and running the football. I will just tell you
that as well. So they got a good cornerback room,
they got good depth. Jaden Dunlapple's taking reps out there.
We've seen flashes of Marca m Marcus McKenzie as well.
So you got a lot of people. We'll see what
happens as well. But talon, Alfred, don't sleep on talent.
So this safety and cornerback room, you got a lot
of nice pieces out there. This is Perfield still, and
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I hope that to not Perfield still.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
I apologize.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
This is per Stuart Mandel of the Athletic. We know
who the quarterback will be for Stanford has been outs.
Former Oregon State quarterback Ben go Branson has won the
Stanford starting job, sources tell the Athletic. The six year
senior went eight and four US to start Oregon State
and initially appeared he was done with football before entering
the portal in April. Stanford, we know, opens up week
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zero against Hawaii at Hawaii, so that's who BYU will play,
so you can get taped on him.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Now we'll see what happens. J Hill not has been announced.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Will be very ready for Week two when Stanford Cardinals
come to l Es, no doubt about. Let's finish up
with some basketball news, guys, before we close out the
show here for you on your Insider radio network BYU Basketball.
You mentioned this in our Insider report, but we'll mention
it one more time. The game against Miami has been
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announced for the twenty twenty five season on Thanksgiving Day,
the opener November twenty seventh, to five pm in Orlando.
You have Dayton and Georgetown playing each other, and then
you have BYU and Miami. That will be game one,
tip opposite five pm Eastern time, so that's three pm Mountain.
So if you and the family want to have a
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late dinner on Thanksgiving Day or you are more of
a mid afternoon family may.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Be like mine.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Depending on it, you're gonna be able to catch some
BAU basketball whether you eat Thanksgiving dinner for breakfast in
the morning or whether you eat it in the afternoon
or at night, you'll be able to catch edge of
the Boonster. Richie Sanders, Rob Right, Dominique, Diamande Canard, David
you not. I cannot name everybody. I'm gonna miss everybody.
I know everybody on the team, but just for sake
of time, can't say that. But anyway, the Cougars the
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boys will be going to work. The game has officially
been announced. I think this is a good opportunity with
Miami brand and you build it up, which what I
would think. The final will be BYU versus Dayton. And
we know what happened last time bou met Dayton in
a MTE event.
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That's right, we played this earlier.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But Kaylen Clark said that, you know, she revealed that
former bo you player Jimmer for that inspired her with
the signature step back. She was on super Birds podcast
called Birds I View with Sue Bird you know, teaching
me how to Gimmer video, saying that she said she
had the shirt lost the shirt, So there you go,
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Great.
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We got John Beck on the line, the quarterback scientists.
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I like to call him John. How thatck are you
buddy doing?
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Good man? How are you guys?
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Excellent?
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Man?
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Football season is here.
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Uh. You know, off season probably is the busiest time
for you. What do you do in this kind of
this transitory uh phase of the football season. I mean
it's August, fall camp is going on, so you're not
working out as many quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What are you up to?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You know, there's a lot of communication that happens this
TIMI year, just because guys sometimes are in quarterback battles. Guys,
if it's a collegiate player, maybe he's at a new
school battling for the job.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Or transitioning to a new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So I'm not on the field with the quarterbacks, but
there's a lot of communication that happens throughout the day
with different guys.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Also, as preseason games start, I'm back watching football games.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm back analyzing tape, getting them feedback on kind of
what I'm seeing.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's kind of the main thing that's going on this
time of the year in regards to the quarterbacks that
I spend time with in the offseason, and then obviously
I spend a lot of time on the football field
with my own kids their Pop Warner football teams, and
also helping out at San Clementi High.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
School and spending a lot of time with Dennis Pitt
on that field.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Love that man, and something else that I bring up
to people.
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They've asked me and I've conversed with them about it,
especially these dads and quarterbacks around the state and outside
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You can break that stuff down with them.
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Yeah, a lot of the guys that we train right like,
they get it. Quarterbacking is not just the ability to
throw football accurately or to have a better arm that
you've improved your arm in the offseason, like kicking a
kid and helping him improve his accuracy, efficiency, spin rate,
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ball velocity, timing, and footwork, like, yes, that should help
him be a better quarterback. But if he doesn't understand
the game, if he's not understanding what he's seeing where
to go with the football being decisive like the progressions,
like it's not going to translate into more first downs.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Better football player. Like I tell people all the time.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
There are inefficient throwers that can still go out and
move the football because they understand the game. Now, are
there things that they need to improve on?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Absolutely?
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Are their throws that they miss that because of their
inefficiency their lack of whatever you want to call it
or need for improvement, Like does that create a time
where they out like the offense may sputter or they
have a ball that's intercepted, or they have a ball
down and field the floats on them, Like yes, it's
not going to be they're not at their best, but
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they can move the football, you know, spin rate, efficient, spiral.
That can help you improve as a quarterback. But that
is not the end all be all. You can throw
wobbly accurate footballs or ones to have a little tail
to them and still move the football down the field.
So yes, going and watching tape and talking through like, hey,
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your footwork is not syncd up right here with the concept,
or you're hanging on number one way too long. You
need to get off number one. Look at this identification
here of this key player. He he's telling you what's
going to happen with the shell behind it. You can
get to this area of the field and now have
a broader perspective with your eyes.
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And then now look at this cook player. Like all
of that is football play, quarterback to play.
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And that's why you know you'll see some kid with
some monster arm and he's not the starting quarterback, and
some kid that maybe can barely throw the ball forty
seven yards fifty two yards in high school is the
starting quarterback because he understands the game and he gets
the ball out on time. You know, if that kid
can now improve his arm talent and ability and arm strength.
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And all of that and increase that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Now he becomes a quarterback that can be recruited and
looked at because he understands the game and how he's
adding those other tools. And so in season, yeah, we
sit down with guys and we go via zoom or
phone calls.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And even the mental emotional side of the game.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I have a number of quarterbacks that they want to
talk post game the following day and go through everything
that they went through from mental emotional standpoint, can and
I improve of myself in playing in big games or
playing in pressure moments with the mental emotional site so
I can handle all of those things better, or pre
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and that all can help you improve as a quarterback.
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you got a quarterback in your home, John, quarterback competition
is cooking with the Cougars right now. McKay, Hillstead, Bear Bachmeier,
Tracon Borgabe. I get a sense that this is now
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a two quarterback race. After Saturday scrimmage, I feel like
it's McKay versus Bear Bear versus McKay.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's the sense I get.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What do you think a competition like this looks like
with an individual like McKay undersize can spin it, transfer
from an FBS program, has a little bit more experience
in the system, and you have a highly talent, big, strong, fast,
almost this Tim Tebow like athlete that has some good
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throw ability in Bear Bachmeyer that whose only experience was
a spring session with with Stanford.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What do you think this is looking like?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well, I know both guys well, and I know both
guys are working hard and wanting to compete, you know,
I know that Trason was in that and if they've
whittled it down to two, both guys are going to
use the weapons that they got, the things.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
That they have confidence in, like McKay can spin it.
I know that his size is always brought up.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
He does have college experience, you know, he got to
play in games. I know he's a very detailed person.
So my guess is as he kind of attacks the
playbook in terms of understanding it, knowing the reads, knowing
what he's supposed to be doing, he's probably on top
of all of that he's going to try to make
up for you know, whatever he you know, maybe lacking
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in terms of a physical ability because of size. He's
going to try to make that up with understanding of
what's the purpose of this play, what's the progression? How
can I get through that progression efficiently? Do I know
every key?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Read all of those things?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
And then when he gets an opportunity to take off,
I know he's a very quick.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And athletic kid. He'll be able to make plays on
the move as well getting out of the pocket.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Has a very strong arm from the pocket and on
the run. So those are things that McKay is going
to play confidently. Bear he's going to gain his confidence
not just because he's like that in terms of having
a desire to understand everything and to be detailed, but
because he played so much football. And I said this
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before on the show, like he played so much football
in high school and he threw the ball so much,
and there was so much on his shoulders. So he's
made a ton of decisions within an offense. Sometimes you
can have a quarterback that within an offense. He plays
in a situation where where he has a lot of
talent around him, and so he's not asked to do
everything to help his team win.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
He doesn't have to make all of the key decisions.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
He's not having faced every single third down is all right,
here we go. Here's another third down on you and
your decision making and your ability to create a play.
But we played against Bear all through high school. I
watched a bunch of them in high school. Like so
much got put on his plate in high school that
he's playing that same game now and so having an
opportunity to go to a college and for people that
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don't know, Bear was given first team reps at Stanford.
Bear was in the mix to potentially be the starting
quarterback there.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
They weren't probably in the same way that he's getting
him now, because they were I believe, leaning towards another guy.
But it was like they had to give the other
guys behind the person that they anticipated as a starter
some reps just in case. So it was more like,
you know, in practice, when you have the starter that's
playing and he's getting the majority of the reps, she say, hey,
we got to give the backup some ones reps just
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in case. It was like they at times he was
getting opportunities to get that, but either way, he was
in a mix to be the surefire backup there and
potentially playing some games for Stanford if things weren't going
well for the perceived starter.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's a lot on somebody that's just out of high school.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know, he's an early graduate, so all of his
people that he was in high school with were still
going to classes in high school and he's out there
competing at Stanford, which obviously probably prepared him.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Well for what he's been given. Now at the quarterback
battle of YU, what are.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The pros and cons of maybe trotting out a true freshman,
albeit talented true freshman to this first you know, half
of the season, Like, yeah, it starts off a little
bit easier, but Portland State Stanford, Stanford's out recruited BYU
for the last ten years. Like he goes side by side,
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it's Stanford has perceived more talent.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
From a recruiting ranking standpoint.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Then East Carolina on the road, Colorado on the road,
Coach Prime is still dangerous West Virginia. You of a,
these are still P four programs with talent and resources
and good coaching. In those first six games, pros and
cons of starting and trotten out a true freshman there.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, when you put out a freshman, you're giving him experience.
So the pro is, we are going to take somebody
that we have confidence in and we are going to
give them experiences.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
They're going to help them improve as a player.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So you're going to get a better player because of
the experience you're giving him down the road.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The other pro I would say is a lot of
times freshmen are just out there playing ball. They don't
have the scars yet in the beginning. Now, are they
probably going to receive some of them? Yes, But if
you have a good football team around a freshman, if
you're not requiring too much of them, if you can
protect them a little bit with the run game, if
you can keep them in situations where decision making is
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a little bit easier on them, you can help bring
them along. Like I always tell people, quarterbacks that are
fortunate are the ones where there's a defense in a
run game around them. So as they gain their playing experience,
there isn't too much being asked of them. They just manage,
they make the right decisions, they play the game safely,
and then they grow and they learn and they develop,
and then they can grow into being a more aggressive
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quarterback and grow into knowing when to try to capitalize
or take risks.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Sometimes if it's.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Not as good of a team around that player, that
player at times can try to do too much, can
try to try to make too many plays, and then
they can force balls, they can take unnecessary hits, they.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Can have some bad things happen.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I think in Uiu's case, they would be in the
position of having a really good team, having a good
run game, having a good defense.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You know. Also, freshmen they.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Just get out there and like they're playing a little
bit freer because they don't know what they don't know,
and they're just trying to make plays. And so sometimes
the most creative, most athletic, and the most fun to
watch kind of unscripted plays times happen with the younger
players because I mean sometimes they don't always see the
picture clearly, and so they're just out there backyard, in't it.
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And I know a bear, for example, would have that
ability to go out there and create with his feed
and have some of those creative plays happen. I would say,
the cons are you're gonna have mistakes, like you're gonna
have airs and at times, you can put them in
a position where, depending on the outcome of the game,
if they start feeling overly responsible for whatever isn't going well,
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sometimes that can I don't want to say injure because
it's not a physical injury, but I'm going to use
the word injured. Sometimes I can injury a young player,
and like any injury, now, there has.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
To be a recovery process after it. They have to
work through whatever they're experiencing.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You know, you put a young player in a position
where everybody's saying, oh, this is a really good position.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You should be able to go out there and win
these games, no problem.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, what happens if some misfortune happens and some random
tipped balls get ran back for touchdowns, or there's some
special teams airs, and all of a sudden, at the
end of the game, they're trotting him out, you know,
on the field, and it's what needed is a game
tying drive, and that kid goes back there and drops
back and.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Goes to ow the football and gets his arm hit and.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
It's a fumble and then the other team gets it
and oh my gosh, we just lost the game that
we weren't supposed to sometimes that young player he can
internalize that and feel very responsible. It's not easy for
young players to be like, hey, look I'm going through
this growing experience. Yes I need to improve. You know,
there were things that were on me, but not you know,
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not this entire thing is not on me.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That is tough.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
And so the con is depending on the you know,
the where that player is at from a perspective and
maturity standpoint, they may shoulder too much. And sometimes when
they shoulder too much, they can then in turn try
to go out and do too much the next week.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
And that's that's a little bit of the risk of
running a young player out there.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
And you know, I think though, if we're talking about
this BIU football team, I think there a much better
situation where I don't think that they would be as
much needed on the shoulders of a young quarterback.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think they would be able to manage.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
The play calls, how many positions they put that player
in to have to shoulder a ton of third down
you know, past progressions. I think that it just wouldn't
be that. And so if they rolled bear out, I
think it would be a good situation in terms of
schedule and ability of the team around him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
John Beck here on ESPN the Fan talking to BYU Football,
and I do want to get into some cougars in
the pros as well with you, John, But let's discuss,
you know, a little bit of a little bit more
about what you guys do over at three d QB
elite biomechanics training combined with motion analysis. And so when
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you look at McKay and bear right, what do you
see in their throwing ability as a spinner of the
football of a you know, when you're evaluating their mechanics,
is one a better quotation mark thrower than the other?
And just as a qualifier, I loved Reggie Miller, one
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of the greatest shooters ever. Didn't have the greatest mechanics, right,
he wasn't Ray Allen, but he got the job done, right.
So mechanics, you know, balancing mechanics, and and you know
that that throwing motion and just getting it to the
to the foot football player that you're you're intending it for,
those are two different things.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Right, yeah, I mean, and without getting into too much
detail because obviously the other thing I don't want to
do is I don't want to sit there exposed to like, hey,
these are the things we're working on with these guys.
This is the you know, like I don't want to
turn information out to you know, everybody, and then they're like, well, hey, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'm gonna now bring it up every time that there's a.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You know, an incomplete pass or a wabbly ball or
something like that, Like, look, there are some things that
both do really well. There are some things that both
are working on and can improve on. And that's that's
every player. That's players that I work with that are
at the pros. That's guys that are you know, all
pro cornerbacks. They all have things that are working on.
Like the one thing I'll say is I will drop
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some positives. McKay has a sneaky good arm, like he
can let that thing rip, and I'm sure for some
people that have been at practices or fans that have
watched him, it's had to have been on display at times,
like his ability for the ball to jump out of
his hand. He can let it rip sometimes and it's
going to be a big positive for him. And when
he has to function from small space, he still has
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the ability to drive footballs and you know, he spins
the ball really well, I would say like as a
guy in terms of you know, spin rate and efficiency,
like that ball is spinning well the majority of the time.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
He's throwing it. Bear.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Bear is a kid that has the ability to get
the ball out at times extremely quick and from areas
where his weight and balance where they're at. You're going
to see he may be climbing the pocket and all
of a sudden, that ball's going to come out.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You know, that little bit of that three quarter angle.
He's going to be able to tighten up and have
a much quicker.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Shorter motion, and that ball's going to jump out into
the flat, and that ball is going to get out
to that player in the flat that has them out leveraged,
and he's going to be able to pick up a
few extra yards because of where the defenders are at and.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
How quickly the ball got out there. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
The other thing about Bear is he's very savvy in
terms of creating plays like where he can take his
eyes and then get the ball to There's going to
be some throws that if he's out scrambling around that
they may be surprised, like I didn't even realize that
he took his eyes there that fast, saw the space
and the ball out there. He has the ability to
in motion in movements eyes, ball happens fast, and you know,
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those are things that both those guys it's all going
to help him get, you know, in their situations when
they're playing. And if it's you know it, if that
competition continues on into you know, who knows what's going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I think the coaches probably want to make a decision
before it.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
But if you see both quarterbacks playing against Portland State,
you'll probably see both of those things on display. And
if both of those things that they've been you know,
can excel at are going to help.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
That's a good point Portland State.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You want to see both of these quarterbacks, and you
should see both of these quarterbacks right Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think definitely both should be playing in the game.
I mean, even if you've made a decision of this
is who our starting quarterback is going to be, you
would hope that somewhere in the third quarter of the game's.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Out of hand and you're able to play more players.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I think if I was on that staff, I would
want to establish something right telling me, you know, all
of the players, like we want to go out there
and we want to, you know, take it to these
guys and we want to make it not even a
game when we come out for the second half.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And given that scenario, we need to evaluate more.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
We want this to feel like what NFL teams can
half of preseason football games.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's a giant evaluation period for.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Teams to look at their rosters and see what they're
capable of, and especially to be able to identify the
guys that are going to.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Help the football team.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Given the way football seas go, you're going to have injuries,
You're going to have people get deemed, and you need
to know who can make plays and the better. The
best place to figure out is when the lights are
on on game night.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Let's talk some cougars and pros.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
What do you make of Zach Wilson's situation in Miami
right now?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Three quarterbacks on the roster.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I thought he looked good at times in his preseason debut.
What do you make of his current situation?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Healthy?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you think they're going to maybe maintain a three
quarterback roster there in Miami with coach McDaniel?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, I mean, here's the funny thing about the NFL,
like they've gone through so many changes. When I first
got to the NFL, everybody kept three quarterbacks and then
a practice squad guy. So ninety percent of the teams
had four quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
On the roster.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And then all of a sudden in twenty twelve, there
was this shift and teams, and part of it due
to the fact that they just started paying the starters
more and more and more, and so they became this
thing of why are we having a third quarterback?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Where they changed the rule.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
You used to be able to dress a third emergency
quarterback and it did not count against your game day roster,
So everybody had three quarterbacks dressed well. Then the NFL
made a rule change and said, look, everybody's dressing forty
six people, and the forty six is a quarterback. Let's
just put forty six people. You can dress them well.
When they started making it not the emergency quarterback, everybody
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started saying like, well, that's not worth it then for.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Us to just dress the third quarterback.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
If they're not giving it to us for free, and
they give us forty six, let's go dress an extra
defensive player we can use on special teams. And then
so what started happening is teams were paying a veteran
quarterback and he's standing there in shorts and a T
shirt and on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And then so they said, well, this is dumb.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Instead of us paying him, let's go and let's put
him on the street. Let's put the practice squad quarterback
in the shorts and the T shirt. Let's dress the
special teams guy. So then you had this stretch of
time where everybody started only eating two quarterbacks, and it.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Put a lot of quarterbacks on the street.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
There was a period of time where between two thousand
and twelve and probably two thousand and sixteen where tons
of quarterbacks that would have been on rosters were floating
on the street hoping an injury happened to get picked up.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And so NFL.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Quarterback roster numbers went down by a third. Well now
it's back and.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Teams now because they went through this thing of like,
holy crap.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
But what happens is when that guy isn't in our
building and all we have is a starter, a backup
on a practice squad guy. There were situations where the
backup was playing in the game, he got hurt and
that former practice squad play was being asked to go
in and play, and teams realized, well that doesn't benefit us.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So now it's back to a lot of teams keeping
three quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So Zach's situation, I wouldn't be surprised for Miami to
keep three quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You know. I know that Queen Ewers didn't have a good.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Outing his last time out, but given the situation where
to has had some years where he hasn't been able
to finish the season, I think Zach is in a
safe space.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Even though Zach had some plays that I know he wants.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Back, some balls that you know, bounce at the feet
of the guy that he was throwing it to. I
still have heard good things about camp. You know, Zach Fils,
he's done a good job in camp. They're paying him
a good amount of money to be the backup there.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I think it's safe to say he's the backup and
they'll probably keep a third guy.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And I don't think Queen Yours is somebody that they
want to release and potentially let somebody else take, especially
because they use the draft pick on him. So my
guess is they keep three quarterbacks. I don't know if
they'll be able to you know, put Quinn in a
spot where they release him to then try to bring
him back on pea squad. My guess is somebody would
pick him up, so they got to protect him by
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keeping him active. But that's you know, probably what will
happen there. They'll probably have three active quarterbacks and Zach
I think is pretty safety to backup.
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Speaker 3 (24:20):
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Speaker 4 (24:23):
Well, thanks man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
One of the things is is the NFL guys, Like
when I first started doing this as a player, it
was going into my seventh season and it was through
Drew Brees and I got connected to Tom Howise. That's
kind of how it all started. That's what the NFL
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just one area that's gonna you know, hey, I'll just
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Speaker 4 (25:19):
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Speaker 3 (25:55):
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Speaker 4 (25:57):
Okay, sounds great, We'll see it.
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news and notes. BAU Offensive Cordiner Aaron Roddock on the
quarterback Decision. We played this sound earlier and interview with
Spencer Linton on BA TV. He gave his thoughts on
each QB McKay, Hillstead, Trason Boardgay and Bear Bachmeyer. Sounds
like from everything that we played how McKay operated spring tracing,
saying traycon knows the offense the best. McKay that he's
learning how to manage the game comfort level. He's more
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decisive with the football. Bear being very talented, very smart,
as he mentioned, and that there's not a lot of
guys who can come into a practice eight, nine or
ten days and be that impressive with knowing the offense.
It's a two horse race. Sounds like it's between Bear
Bachmeyer and McHale's dead. We saw Bear make impressive throws
one of Carsonaronas out of tight window, another Churches side
Phillips looks like Trayson Boorga gonna be quarterback three, even
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saw some Emerson Gobman. I've been declared if I think
Bear Bachmeyer will be your QB one come August thirty,
if I'm one hundred percent declared of Brandescy Gurney was
seventy five percent. Ben Krittle was eighty five percent declarative
on that. But yeah, it's been narrowed down. It's narrowed down,
and we'll see what happens. Bear took majority of the
reps that we played that sound earlier in the Band
(29:28):
of the Day, Aaron Roders saying that Bear took majority
of the one reps.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Obviously he said he needed more. But yeah, that's what.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
You're gonna see. You're gonna see Bear MKA battle out.
We'll see what happens. We'll be back at practice on Friday,
August fifteenth. We will see if McKay takes majority of
the one reps. Have no idea what we will see.
But Bear looked impressive today and from what I saw
him like, that's why he is gonna be your QB.
One of coach guys that remind you. People get mad
at me when I say this. I played rugby. I
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know a coach tells me more but what he does
than what he says. Yes, I'm not saying what they
say is invalidated, it's not true. But what they do
and what they what they do on the field and
what I see tells me a lot more than necessarily
what comes down sometimes than what they may tell.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You face to face.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Always in those things, the coach is never going to
reveal their hands, so hopefully it doesn't make too many
people mad. But again, what you see on the field
often reflects more sometimes than always what could be said
to a degree. That's not hyperbole, that's not doctrine. Fully,
that's just a piece of it. So obviously we know
this from yesterday. By you missed the AP top twenty
five ranking. They finished the season eleven and two and
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they were ranked thirteen in the APE Pole, including a
blowout victory and Ali Moo Bowl against Colorado.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
They come to the season now unranked.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
In a peopole that was released yesterday morning, they received
one hundred and fifty six votes. That was the first
team left out, so they're technically number twenty six, right
before Jake Leffer Tulane. As we know, ESPN had BYU
way in their top twenty five and number thirteen earlier
in the year. I think at one point they're even
top nine. But with Jake Gonne to say, okay, no
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veteran quarterback, senior quarterback, you will fall down.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
So we will see the other big top schools.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Arizona State's eleven, Kansas State is seventeen, Iowa State is
twenty two, and and last but not least, Texas Tech.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Is twenty three as well.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Let's get some love to ig BYU linebacker Asaiah Glasker
was named to the preseason watch list for the Chuck
Beneric Award, presented Ennerley to the outstanding defensive Player in
college football by the Maxwell Football Club. Glaskar is a
six to five, two hundred and thirty five pounds junior
from South Jordan, Utah, and was preleasing the name to
the preseason watch list for the Bupkus Award, honoring the
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nation's top linebacker. Following the twenty twenty four season, he
received All America Honorable Mentioned by Sports Illustrated and was
the Defensive MVP of the Valeria Alamobole, leading BYU to
that thirty six to fourteen victory. IGS polls for a
big year, he led the Big Twelve and tackles for
lost with thirteen point five for BYU. He was second
on the team with sixty two tackles, three point five sacks,
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eight quarterback Curry's two interceptions. Last season, Glascow's named the
mid season All America by The Athletic and mid season
All Big Twelve by College Football Network. The reason why
IG and Jack Kelly are back. You see the tackles.
You see the tackles for loss, the QB hurries. Are
there interceptions? I think are there? To a degree. You
don't see the sacks three point five sizes. You heard
Jack Kelly wants double digit sacks. I think IG wants
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the same thing. They want to implement and say, hey,
we can get to the quarterback. Because when you get
to the next level, when you get to the NFL,
how do you need to be disrupting the quarterback? Look
at the Super Bowl winning teams. What have their linebackers
done disruptive? They got in the backfield, they get sacks.
You have to be able to get to the quarterback.
Look at all the champs in the last five years.
Look at the Chiefs, the Eagles to Tom Bradiery, even
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the Rams. The linebacker corps has to be able to
disrupt the quarterback. So I think that's one of the
big reasons why they're back. Bryan Eldgers, who we had
on the show yesterday, says that they are the two
best linebackers in the Big twelve, can be top five
of the nation. What say you, Cougar Nation, what do
you think Isaiah Glasker and Jack Kelly will finish? There
was a fall camp preview that b why you put
out of the corners, backs and the safeties. J Hill,
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We know, we caught up with him on Saturday after
the scrimmage, had very high praise for guys in the
cornerback room, Maury Bomba, Trey Alexander, Evan, Johnson, Schmith who
I caught up with were here that interviewed tomorrow. He said,
those guys and he had said Jonathan Cabea had a
good spring. I think he's dinged up. So Tommy Prass
has been taking reps and nickel. You know, we haven't
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seen Jonathan. We've seen Tommy obviously, and TP had a
tackle for loss and if you're going full pads, you're
going full out, full blow up.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
He's smacking that dude that's coming off the edge.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
So you saw Tommy and Jay Hill said we got
to find a way to get Raider, Tommy prasss and
follow Tasaula all on the field at the same time.
Saw Raider, Dumoni and Tanner Wall both taking reps back
there at free safety for Tanner, strong for Raider, and
then Tommy was in a nickel. All those guys got
to be on the field, so they're gonna create packages.
And to me, you know, I'm not trying to predict anything,
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but until you know JK is back or whatever will
happen with that, and even if he is back, Tommy
playing that nickel position is gonna be vedy vetty nice.
Ben has already mentioned that he is the best cover
safety that you probably have in that room. So having him,
Tanner and Raider on the field, good luck throwing the
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football and running the football. I will just tell you
that as well. So they got a good cornerback room,
they got good depth. Jaden Dunlapple's taking reps out there.
We've seen flashes of Marca m Marcus McKenzie as well.
So you got a lot of people. We'll see what
happens as well. But talon, Alfred, don't sleep on talent.
So this safety and cornerback room, you got a lot
of nice pieces out there. This is Perfield still, and
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I hope that to not Perfield still.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
I apologize.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
This is per Stuart Mandel of the Athletic. We know
who the quarterback will be for Stanford has been outs.
Former Oregon State quarterback Ben go Branson has won the
Stanford starting job, sources tell the Athletic. The six year
senior went eight and four US to start Oregon State
and initially appeared he was done with football before entering
the portal in April. Stanford, we know, opens up week
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zero against Hawaii at Hawaii, so that's who BYU will play,
so you can get taped on him.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Now we'll see what happens. J Hill not has been announced.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Will be very ready for Week two when Stanford Cardinals
come to l Es, no doubt about. Let's finish up
with some basketball news, guys, before we close out the
show here for you on your Insider radio network BYU Basketball.
You mentioned this in our Insider report, but we'll mention
it one more time. The game against Miami has been
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announced for the twenty twenty five season on Thanksgiving Day,
the opener November twenty seventh, to five pm in Orlando.
You have Dayton and Georgetown playing each other, and then
you have BYU and Miami. That will be game one,
tip opposite five pm Eastern time, so that's three pm Mountain.
So if you and the family want to have a
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late dinner on Thanksgiving Day or you are more of
a mid afternoon family may.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Be like mine.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Depending on it, you're gonna be able to catch some
BAU basketball whether you eat Thanksgiving dinner for breakfast in
the morning or whether you eat it in the afternoon
or at night, you'll be able to catch edge of
the Boonster. Richie Sanders, Rob Right, Dominique, Diamande Canard, David
you not. I cannot name everybody. I'm gonna miss everybody.
I know everybody on the team, but just for sake
of time, can't say that. But anyway, the Cougars the
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boys will be going to work. The game has officially
been announced. I think this is a good opportunity with
Miami brand and you build it up, which what I
would think. The final will be BYU versus Dayton. And
we know what happened last time bou met Dayton in
a MTE event.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
That's right, we played this earlier.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But Kaylen Clark said that, you know, she revealed that
former bo you player Jimmer for that inspired her with
the signature step back. She was on super Birds podcast
called Birds I View with Sue Bird you know, teaching
me how to Gimmer video, saying that she said she
had the shirt lost the shirt, So there you go,
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