August 9, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stats.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Let's talk about stats. Ben Credal and his team of
former players in eight signers give you the latest stats,
data and analytics that are trending in the world of
Cougar Sports.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Stats.
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
I got Ronald the three man, we were by my side.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We're going to talk about stats in this segment brought
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Speaker 1 (00:45):
We've discussed a number of stats today.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
We'll Delvin do some football maybe some basketball stats in
the segment. I thought this was a really interesting football
stat of the day.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Check this out.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Many of those outside of the football program think they
BYU has a bunch of twenty six, twenty seven, twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Eight year olds. This is false. Okay, this is not true. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The average age of a BYU football player is twenty
one and a half years of age. It's not bad,
that's not like, it's not overly old, okay. And I
don't think that's significantly above the college football average. And
by the way, we are seeing some older guys come
into the football, you know, college football realm of things
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due to a number of issues, number of things, you know,
and it's not just missionary service for the church's Christ
letter Saints. But average age of BYU football players is
twenty one and a half.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Love that, okay, twenty one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let's welcome in our tax bart wealth advisor. Let's hop
on the Blaine trade, baby banderwealth. Let's build wealth together.
Blaine Anderson is in the studio, Blaine. How the heck
are you, buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's Friday, it's Friday afternoon. Looking forward to the weekend.
Than happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Twenty one and a half? Was that an that surprised
you all? Did you think it'd be older?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I did, I did. I thought it'd be a little
bit higher.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Yeah, we twenty one and a half seems to be
can't be much different than many college programs throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I mean, I mean how many, I mean how many
freshmen are on any roster. Now, like you look at
the COVID year, you look at the transfer portal Revschaer
nil uh, the Diego PAVIA exemption players are wanting to
stick around college football a lot longer too. And like
I imagine you're gonna see this number on average go up
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around the country. You're gonna get older, get older and older.
There's gonna be there's there's a story. Uh, we may
have to play this Ron Weaver. Do you remember this story?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No, I don't. You're gonna have to tell me. I'm
trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Did you not see that the instagram the guy that
they yes, yes, must Bingham sent that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Pull it up, all right,
I'll pull it up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You're gonna see some of this action.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
People like this is crazy, actually changing their names to
get eligibility. Well, yes, there was a man by the
name of Ron Weaver. Not Ron's dad.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, he was junior by the way, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That, like changed his he had already played college football
changed his name to somebody else, took an identity, and
ended up playing. I believe that in formerly a Big eight,
you know, Big twelve now SEC school. I think it
was Texas, A and M. So we're gonna find that
that sound for you. But so, twenty one and a
half years is the average age for BYU football right now,
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players by state.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Check this out. Number one state.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right that produces BYU talent is uh the state of Utah.
Sixty players on the roster from the state of Utah.
Which state do you think is number two? Blame at
producing or creating? I guess you know the composition of
our our b YU football roster. You know Arizona, Texas, California.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Definitely those that you said.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Cal's at fourteen, that's number two, Okay, Arizona's at nine,
Hawaii's at eight, Texas is at six and so and
then we have two Colorado ands three Georgia, one Louisiana,
one Michigan to Missouri, two Virginia, three Washington, one Wisconsin,
and then two Australia. We have two Australians on our team.
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You bet you didn't know that international international?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We are? We are international, all right? I want to
play this sound bite for you guys. Do you have it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I'm ready, all right, let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're gonna you're gonna want to hear this cougnation.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
This is crazy, Okay.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Big fan and at The player he had been calling
Ron mckelvy all season long was actually Ron Weaver. The
thirty year old in Pontard been playing for the Longhorns
all season under the assumed name. His hometown newspaper reported
the fake.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
A former Division two player in California, Weaver used an
acquaintance's social Security number and identity to extend his college
playing days.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
In nineteen ninety five, the Texas Longhorns had a defensive
back named Ron McKelvey, or at least that's what everyone thought.
His actual name was Ron Weaver, and he was thirty
years old and nearly a decade passes eligibility here. He
played college football Sacramento State in the mid eighties, and
he used up all of his elgibility by nineteen eighty nine,
but he wasn't ready to stop playing, so Weaver took
the identity of a former junior college teammate named Ron mckelvy.
Then he enrolled at Texas using fake documents and joined
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the football team as a walk on. He played the
entire nineteen ninety five season going unnoticed. Then just one
day before the Sugar Bowl, a reporter uncovered the truth.
The university was shocked, the NCAA launched an investigation, and
Weaver disappeared before the ball game was even played. But
despite the fraud, he was never charged with the crime.
It's one of the wildest cases of identity theft in
college sports history, and somehow he almost got away with it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's insane, bro, he didn't believe that.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I just have to close. Who's the creator that dropped that?
Because that was Dan Patrick. I think that was the
initial sound by that reported Untold Sports.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It looks like that's the Untold Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So let's follow that today.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Really, you know, ron Weaver, his namesake, getting drunk through
the mud for coming back, you.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Know, guys, just let's just clarify. I got to put
my name out of the guys. Is not me no relationship,
I'm no relation. I'm twenty eight years old. I'm Ronald
the three rammever, which comes from Ronald Lee we we
the third. That's the full government Popsle's junior. Grandpa's senior.
So it ain't me anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, I just had to clarify, all right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So that's our status of the day, brought to you
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into a few things with you. You know, these are
football stats. Let's get into some financial status here real quick.
So what does the communication between you and your clients
look like?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What? How does this occur?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You know what, what do you guys discuss? What are
these consultative appointments all about.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
One thing that we find within the industry is that
this is something that clients value. They want to have
an open line of communication with their professionals, with their advisors,
and things are happening regularly throughout the year. So a
few things that we emphasize is Number one, anytime you
call our office, you're going to get a live person
and it's going to be a familiar voice, somebody that
you likely know.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
And then if we can't.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Resolve your question or take care of things immediately, you'll
get a response back within twenty four hours, an update
of some sort.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
This is something that we emphasize.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
And then, most importantly, when it comes to our strategic
financial planning sessions or the portfolio updates. Each of our
clients knows which quarter we will meet with them, whether
it's Q three, Q four, So if we have some
things that are building up, but it's nice to know
when your next appointment's going to be so that we
can do some planning, some preparation, and so communication is key.
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We emphasize that we want to have an open line
of communication where email friendly, text friendly. But these are
a few things that are important. And then when you
come into the office, we go through the five pillars
of financial planning, estate planning, tax planning, insurance risk mitigation planning,
income planning, and then lastly investment planning. And we want
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to knock out things each time we meet to help
put together a comprehensive financial plan. So we're very intentional
and communication is at the top of our priority list.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I think that's an imperative because when you get into
these traditional firms, and look, they're big firms, they do
great work, but you don't always necessarily get kind of
that personable twenty four to seven almost access and at
least communication. It may be delayed, it may not be
as consultative, it may not be as interpersonal.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Absolutely, and that's been my experience.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And so even when it comes to the banks, for example,
I like working with the regional banks or the credit unions,
whether it be Zions Bank or Mount in America. And
I want the same thing for my investment firm, where
it's people that know me, that I know and these
are what add to a long lasting relationship.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And that's what this is.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
This is a journey, and so it's important that we
be familiar with our clients, they be familiar with us.
We take notes after each of our appointments, we update
the files, and I know those things may sound like
small things, but they add up and they make a
big difference.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You've been a CFP for over sixteen years. I became
familiar with you probably I want to say, five years ago,
as you've you've given back to BYU, the student athletes, etc.
So I've seen you, know, you even grow in the
last five years and how you operate. What have you
learned about you know, band orwealth and you know this
consultative approach that you take with financial planning and investment planning.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah, Well, with these years of experience, has come a
lot of perspective, and I've worked with clients in a
variety of different scenarios. I understand there are multiple family dynamics,
there are different fears, there are different concerns and worries,
and so it's very rare to come into a situation
that I haven't seen before. And that's part of what
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we bring to the table as professionals, is that we've
worked with other clients that are maybe a little further
down the path or are the journey that you're on,
and so we can bring to you additional perspective or
experience that we've seen in other client situations. And that's
important not to mention, of course, just years of learning, studying,
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trying to familiarize myself with the industry, with the different
options that are available. And then our expectation is to
help clients avoid some of the pitfalls, the land mines,
we know, the blind spots, and that just comes with
time and experience.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
As we all know well very much love what you've
done for our clients, our listeners, as they've reached out
to you and had great experiences and some of the
things I think they ask you correct me if I'm
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They're looking for ways in which they can save on
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Well, investments are certainly part of it, and then also
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We bring tax advantaged vehicles to the table. And then
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Speaker 1 (12:45):
I mentioned, you know, the the.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Average age right now of the bau Cougar football team
twenty one and a half years. The number sixty sixty
players from the state of Utah. That's where the mature
plor of your talent is coming from. Now the fun
stat of the day. How about this though, recruiting stat
of the The ESPN just dropped this article today. Their twenty
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twenty six class is ranked per ESPN Recruiting Insiders nineteenth
in the country. Wow, so things are on the rise
down there at Brigham For this twenty twenty sixth class.
Can't wait to see what the future is like for
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Always a pleasure. Same here.
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into some of the minutia. Let's start with some football news.
Always got to start with some football news. We mentioned
this earlier, but the team photo day was yesterday. The
average breakdown you know of the BYU football team before kickoff.
When you think about it, the average billion football players
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six point twenty five two hundred and thirty seven pounds.
The combined way to players on the team is more
than twenty seven thousand pounds or thirteen point five tons.
They go through a breakthrough of what each The average
quarterback is six one point twenty five two hundred and
five pounds. Running back five eleven point twenty five two
hundred thirteen pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Excuse me, that's height.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
I'm talking about six to two one hundred eighty nine
pounds at the wide receiver position. Tight end is six
to four point five to two hundred forty five pounds.
Offensive lineman six six to five three hundred eight pounds
defensive end is six three and a half two hundred
and forty five pounds. Defensive tackle six four three hundred
two pounds. I want to stop there defensive tackle. In
the past, you didn't have the boys up front, the
big boys that needed to gain the weight.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You have it now.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The average defensive tackle is over three hundred pounds. You
need to to stop the run this season, you love
to see it. Tallest player Kayden Chitister, Ethan Tomlinson and
then Andrew Gentry, they all stand excuse me, and Andrew
Williams all standard six to eight. Shortest player johnash Debat
five to ten, Taveon Beasley five to ten. Those are
gonna be your Nickels and the Sioni moa aka Isaiah
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Pacheco five to ten at running back along with Enignow
he weigh Logan Pain and then of course McKay hill
said all at five ten guys the average age this
was the Saturday what we mentioned twenty one point five.
They're not old. I know Bill self, they got strollers
and the trunk is get.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
All stay old.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
But twenty one point five might not have been in
the past, but BYU has a lot of youth players
by state. Nine come from the state of Arizona, fourteen
from California, two from Colorado, three from Georgia, eight from Hawaii,
three from Idahoa, one from Louisiana, one from Michigan, two
from Missouri, six from Texas. Gotta left Texas, gotta recruit
in Texas. Sixty of course from the state of Utah,
two from Westernreia, the DMV Washington, three Wisconsin and then Australia.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Two. There you go.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
H Cooper's around the world making up the BYU football roster.
BYU is aiming to strengthens defense are On Brandessey Gurney, Well,
I guess not own but contributor here at esp and
the fan caught up, you know with Sioni Pua. He
talked with him in regards to Keanu town of Vasta
says BA is working to bolsher It's defensive tackles for
the upcoming season with Utah transfer Keyanta town of Vasa,
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who is leading charge to six foot four, three hundred
pounds junior, a stand out from Utah, brings leadership experience
and often stays late after practice to coach younger teammates.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This was said, I just try and let up. My guys,
said ton of Vasa.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Once they know I'm bought into them, it's easy to
bring that best version out of them. Got to love
that leadership on and off the field. That's how you
got to get it done is lead by example. You
don't ask anything of someone else that you're not doing yourself.
Love that from Keanu Tonavasa gonna be a big factor
in this year.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Need to keep them healthy, need to keep him healthy.
You need to get JK back as well, justin Kirkland.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
But once both of those guys get back along with
John doa my FEI I need to pronounce every you
know syllable. I was told every letter because I messed up.
Hopefully I'm not gonna get reprimanded. I apologize and trying
to get it right. If not, please teach me the
properly it said anyway him A Nissi Purcell. I think
you're gonna have a lot of people in that two
and three deep in the defensive tack roum.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I think they will be okay. Check this out.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Twenty twenty five college football preseason rankings by tiers. ESPN
decided to rank all one hundred and thirty six teams
in their tiers. Check this out, b Yu, where do
they fall? A lot of people want to know. It's
always interesting of how when you lose a quarterback, whether
they do to graduation, transfer, portal, or other circumstances, where
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you fall. Now last year's playoff surprises where Arizona State,
Boy State, and E and SMU they fall Intier four,
right and b why you beat SMU early in this season?
Last year Tier eight the bad kind as they mentioned,
you know, regression to the mean BYU, Duke, Missouri, Syracuse, Vanderbilt.
I believe by you can be Duke this year. I
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believe b A you can be Vanderbilt. I believe bo
you could beat Syracuse Missouri. That'd be interesting to see.
But I would love to give me Vandy. Like Ben
said earlier, show give me Bandy. Bau's defense can can
compete with Dukes, with the Missouri, with Syracuse and Vanderbilts,
though Jossing went over to Vanderbilt. But it's always interesting
to me of how, Yeah, these teams haven't played, but
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we're gonna rank them when you look at the return
in production that they have coming back on the defense
and the offense.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
For that matter. They did lose some key pieces. I'm
not denying that.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
When you look at who they get back, the experience
that they had, guys that played last year young or
had to come and step step up due to injury.
When you look at who they've added that have experience,
I'm very surprised that they're in Tier eight.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Really I am.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I'm not saying that you should be ranked in Tier
four with the peer Arizona State.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm not saying that. Nope, that's not coming from I
mentioned that.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
But when you almost compete with the likes of Oklahoma
the year before and you almost beat them in the
twenty twenty three season and Texas Tech, you know who
had a worse year than BYU and Utah like so
hot right now?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Is Utah?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Like?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
What is so hot about Utah? That's gonna make people mad?
I know it is. It's gonna make Utah fans come
for me cerily. What is so hot about them? No?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I don't know about that. So that's that's interesting. And
then just how they title Colorado Potito's potential Sleepers, just
how they titled.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Dion is always hilarious to me.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Roley Nelson and joined the Desert News to talk about
the top five QB things that you must do in
order to prepare for Game Day five is defensive Scott
and report.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You gotta know the week spots of the defense. I agree.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
You gotta know where you can pick apart, where are
going to be your home run shots as well, know
who'd attacking the secondary at the linebacker spot. That is
pivotal when you want to know how to whether it's
go play action, run inside zone, outside zone, off tackle.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
All those things you gotta do.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
You gott align with the offensive coordinator, limit the downside
if you want to be able to have success.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
He says, My success rate.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
On plays that I got on the call sheet was
probably eighty five percent because you own it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You have ownership of that play. That's huge. So you
gotta have ownership.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
So a Rod needs to have ownership with the other guy,
whoever the quarterback is going to be for BAU three,
be the piper, be the pied piper you got to
be in order to do that, he says, find out
early from the assistance and starting priming the guys for
what coach is going to talk about in the team
meeting on Monday. Second bring energy, enthusiasm, and positivity. Your
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goal is not to get people to be energetic or
happy like you, but least by the end of practice
on Monday.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You got to do it. In order to do that.
I just think it's a very impactful thing.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
The quarterback is one of the most important people in
the room, as the captain is the voice, especially of
the offense, so you gotta go ahead and take that leadership.
Number two, get your body right. This is the airplane
safety video. You must put your oxygen mask on before
helping someone else with THEIRS.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
That's true. You gotta get your body right before you
can get someone else. Riley says this.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
I was in a position during my senior year where
I hurt my back and play through injuries and I
just diminished. I'm taking with talking with coaches excuse me,
and they're like, yeah, but your leadership and energy can
make up for it. Truth be told, looking back, it
didn't my diminished ability to perform physically hurt my teammates
chances for success. I had broken bones, but the majority
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of injuries are soft tissue injuries, which you can improve
by getting in early or treatment to get your body right.
Treatment is the best and the strength and conditioning staff
needs to be supported and they need to be given
a lot of credit because for the fact that you
were able to limit the injuries last season said a
lot about what you had along the offensive side and
defensive side of the ball and what the program says.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
So you really didn't see too many backups.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You saw moments Bruce Mitchell being one of those guys
that stepped in and stepped uph they're injury, but everybody
was pretty healthy. So you're knocking on wood as a
knocker right now that there are not too many injuries.
Soft tissue injuries are major season ending injuries when the
season starts, and then number one these sins is put
the previous week to bed. You can't allow your high
emotions to lead you to a level of complacency, and
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you can't let the poor performance bleed over bad losses.
If you let them weigh, they will weigh on you
until Wednesday. Extract the gyms, improve, build and move forward.
Your energy must be positive for the next opponent. I
agree you can't dwell on losses, and I like how
a lot of this team has flushed out.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Got to move on.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Twenty twenty four, Jack Kelly, I think said it was
in one of the videos, either the Big twelve did
or by You did. Twenty twenty four is over doesn't
mean anything. Twenty twenty five. We haven't done anything, We
haven't earned anything. You got to with that mindset of
Stan Humble and Stan Hungery checked us out. Does Pooka
Nakula come in way too early on the top one
hundred list at the NFL? Number forty one is what
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he comes in as. Pooka is definitely a top fifty player.
What does he have to do to move up? What
do you say, guys? He's a wide receiver out of quarterback,
so he can't obviously go out there and lead the
team to victory. Being a Robbers soonver, he can contribute
to that, but he doesn't throw the football camp poo
could be a top twenty five player by the end
of the twenty twenty five twenty six NFL season. We
mentioned this, but a bunch of Cougars and pros will
be action. There are currently eighteen former Cougar's on NFL
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rosters during training camp, including four rookies, with at least
thirteen of them likely to see the NIGAN action during
the next three weeks in the preseason exhibition, Blake Freeland
will be with any Asden Colts. They played yesterday on
the Bengals. You got Kayla Btn and Ryan Rico. Rico
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and Commanders and the New England Patriots. Cryors Tongo would
be for the Patriots. You got Keaton Slovas and the
Houston Texans taken on Tyler and the Minnesota Vikings. Thus
Pittsburgh Steelers will take on the Jacksonville Jaguars and Darius
Lasseter and then of course the New York Jets and
are at the Green Bay Packers saying Tran Anderson and Christopher.
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Brooks will be over there.
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The Kingsley Suwamatia will be with the Chiefs taking on
the Cardinals. All these games are on Saturday, by the way,
Kingsley moving inside that guard position. And then the Denver
Broncos taken on San Francisco forty nine ers. Jacob Robinson
Jay rob I expect him to have a starting spot
to make that fifty three band rotation by the time
preseasons over.
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I think Jay Robb's got a good shot.
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I've been really pleased with this group.
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To run from one half of.
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We've discussed a number of stats today.
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We'll Delvin do some football maybe some basketball stats in
the segment. I thought this was a really interesting football
stat of the day.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Check this out.
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Many of those outside of the football program think they
BYU has a bunch of twenty six, twenty seven, twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Eight year olds. This is false. Okay, this is not true. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The average age of a BYU football player is twenty
one and a half years of age. It's not bad,
that's not like, it's not overly old, okay. And I
don't think that's significantly above the college football average. And
by the way, we are seeing some older guys come
into the football, you know, college football realm of things
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due to a number of issues, number of things, you know,
and it's not just missionary service for the church's Christ
letter Saints. But average age of BYU football players is
twenty one and a half.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Love that, okay, twenty one and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let's welcome in our tax bart wealth advisor. Let's hop
on the Blaine trade, baby banderwealth. Let's build wealth together.
Blaine Anderson is in the studio, Blaine. How the heck
are you, buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's Friday, it's Friday afternoon. Looking forward to the weekend.
Than happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Twenty one and a half? Was that an that surprised
you all? Did you think it'd be older?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I did, I did. I thought it'd be a little
bit higher.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Yeah, we twenty one and a half seems to be
can't be much different than many college programs throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I mean, I mean how many, I mean how many
freshmen are on any roster. Now, like you look at
the COVID year, you look at the transfer portal Revschaer
nil uh, the Diego PAVIA exemption players are wanting to
stick around college football a lot longer too. And like
I imagine you're gonna see this number on average go up
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around the country. You're gonna get older, get older and older.
There's gonna be there's there's a story. Uh, we may
have to play this Ron Weaver. Do you remember this story?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No, I don't. You're gonna have to tell me. I'm
trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Did you not see that the instagram the guy that
they yes, yes, must Bingham sent that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Pull it up, all right,
I'll pull it up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You're gonna see some of this action.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
People like this is crazy, actually changing their names to
get eligibility. Well, yes, there was a man by the
name of Ron Weaver. Not Ron's dad.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, he was junior by the way, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That, like changed his he had already played college football
changed his name to somebody else, took an identity, and
ended up playing. I believe that in formerly a Big eight,
you know, Big twelve now SEC school. I think it
was Texas, A and M. So we're gonna find that
that sound for you. But so, twenty one and a
half years is the average age for BYU football right now,
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players by state.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Check this out. Number one state.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right that produces BYU talent is uh the state of Utah.
Sixty players on the roster from the state of Utah.
Which state do you think is number two? Blame at
producing or creating? I guess you know the composition of
our our b YU football roster. You know Arizona, Texas, California.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Definitely those that you said.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Cal's at fourteen, that's number two, Okay, Arizona's at nine,
Hawaii's at eight, Texas is at six and so and
then we have two Colorado ands three Georgia, one Louisiana,
one Michigan to Missouri, two Virginia, three Washington, one Wisconsin,
and then two Australia. We have two Australians on our team.
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You bet you didn't know that international international?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We are? We are international, all right? I want to
play this sound bite for you guys. Do you have it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I'm ready, all right, let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're gonna you're gonna want to hear this cougnation.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
This is crazy, Okay.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Big fan and at The player he had been calling
Ron mckelvy all season long was actually Ron Weaver. The
thirty year old in Pontard been playing for the Longhorns
all season under the assumed name. His hometown newspaper reported
the fake.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
A former Division two player in California, Weaver used an
acquaintance's social Security number and identity to extend his college
playing days.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
In nineteen ninety five, the Texas Longhorns had a defensive
back named Ron McKelvey, or at least that's what everyone thought.
His actual name was Ron Weaver, and he was thirty
years old and nearly a decade passes eligibility here. He
played college football Sacramento State in the mid eighties, and
he used up all of his elgibility by nineteen eighty nine,
but he wasn't ready to stop playing, so Weaver took
the identity of a former junior college teammate named Ron mckelvy.
Then he enrolled at Texas using fake documents and joined
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the football team as a walk on. He played the
entire nineteen ninety five season going unnoticed. Then just one
day before the Sugar Bowl, a reporter uncovered the truth.
The university was shocked, the NCAA launched an investigation, and
Weaver disappeared before the ball game was even played. But
despite the fraud, he was never charged with the crime.
It's one of the wildest cases of identity theft in
college sports history, and somehow he almost got away with it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's insane, bro, he didn't believe that.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I just have to close. Who's the creator that dropped that?
Because that was Dan Patrick. I think that was the
initial sound by that reported Untold Sports.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It looks like that's the Untold Sports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So let's follow that today.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Really, you know, ron Weaver, his namesake, getting drunk through
the mud for coming back, you.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Know, guys, just let's just clarify. I got to put
my name out of the guys. Is not me no relationship,
I'm no relation. I'm twenty eight years old. I'm Ronald
the three rammever, which comes from Ronald Lee we we
the third. That's the full government Popsle's junior. Grandpa's senior.
So it ain't me anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, I just had to clarify, all right.
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football stats. Let's get into some financial status here real quick.
So what does the communication between you and your clients
look like?
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What? How does this occur?
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Uh?
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You know what, what do you guys discuss? What are
these consultative appointments all about.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
One thing that we find within the industry is that
this is something that clients value. They want to have
an open line of communication with their professionals, with their advisors,
and things are happening regularly throughout the year. So a
few things that we emphasize is Number one, anytime you
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And then if we can't.
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Resolve your question or take care of things immediately, you'll
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This is something that we emphasize.
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And then, most importantly, when it comes to our strategic
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clients knows which quarter we will meet with them, whether
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We emphasize that we want to have an open line
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income planning, and then lastly investment planning. And we want
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to knock out things each time we meet to help
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and communication is at the top of our priority list.
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I love that.
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I think that's an imperative because when you get into
these traditional firms, and look, they're big firms, they do
great work, but you don't always necessarily get kind of
that personable twenty four to seven almost access and at
least communication. It may be delayed, it may not be
as consultative, it may not be as interpersonal.
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Absolutely, and that's been my experience.
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And so even when it comes to the banks, for example,
I like working with the regional banks or the credit unions,
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I want the same thing for my investment firm, where
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And that's what this is.
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This is a journey, and so it's important that we
be familiar with our clients, they be familiar with us.
We take notes after each of our appointments, we update
the files, and I know those things may sound like
small things, but they add up and they make a
big difference.
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You've been a CFP for over sixteen years. I became
familiar with you probably I want to say, five years ago,
as you've you've given back to BYU, the student athletes, etc.
So I've seen you, know, you even grow in the
last five years and how you operate. What have you
learned about you know, band orwealth and you know this
consultative approach that you take with financial planning and investment planning.
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Yeah, Well, with these years of experience, has come a
lot of perspective, and I've worked with clients in a
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and so it's very rare to come into a situation
that I haven't seen before. And that's part of what
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we bring to the table as professionals, is that we've
worked with other clients that are maybe a little further
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and so we can bring to you additional perspective or
experience that we've seen in other client situations. And that's
important not to mention, of course, just years of learning, studying,
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trying to familiarize myself with the industry, with the different
options that are available. And then our expectation is to
help clients avoid some of the pitfalls, the land mines,
we know, the blind spots, and that just comes with
time and experience.
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As we all know well very much love what you've
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They're looking for ways in which they can save on
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I mentioned, you know, the the.
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Average age right now of the bau Cougar football team
twenty one and a half years. The number sixty sixty
players from the state of Utah. That's where the mature
plor of your talent is coming from. Now the fun
stat of the day. How about this though, recruiting stat
of the The ESPN just dropped this article today. Their twenty
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twenty six class is ranked per ESPN Recruiting Insiders nineteenth
in the country. Wow, so things are on the rise
down there at Brigham For this twenty twenty sixth class.
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Always a pleasure. Same here.
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Always got to start with some football news. We mentioned
this earlier, but the team photo day was yesterday. The
average breakdown you know of the BYU football team before kickoff.
When you think about it, the average billion football players
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six point twenty five two hundred and thirty seven pounds.
The combined way to players on the team is more
than twenty seven thousand pounds or thirteen point five tons.
They go through a breakthrough of what each The average
quarterback is six one point twenty five two hundred and
five pounds. Running back five eleven point twenty five two
hundred thirteen pounds.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Excuse me, that's height.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
I'm talking about six to two one hundred eighty nine
pounds at the wide receiver position. Tight end is six
to four point five to two hundred forty five pounds.
Offensive lineman six six to five three hundred eight pounds
defensive end is six three and a half two hundred
and forty five pounds. Defensive tackle six four three hundred
two pounds. I want to stop there defensive tackle. In
the past, you didn't have the boys up front, the
big boys that needed to gain the weight.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You have it now.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The average defensive tackle is over three hundred pounds. You
need to to stop the run this season, you love
to see it. Tallest player Kayden Chitister, Ethan Tomlinson and
then Andrew Gentry, they all stand excuse me, and Andrew
Williams all standard six to eight. Shortest player johnash Debat
five to ten, Taveon Beasley five to ten. Those are
gonna be your Nickels and the Sioni moa aka Isaiah
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Pacheco five to ten at running back along with Enignow
he weigh Logan Pain and then of course McKay hill
said all at five ten guys the average age this
was the Saturday what we mentioned twenty one point five.
They're not old. I know Bill self, they got strollers
and the trunk is get.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
All stay old.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
But twenty one point five might not have been in
the past, but BYU has a lot of youth players
by state. Nine come from the state of Arizona, fourteen
from California, two from Colorado, three from Georgia, eight from Hawaii,
three from Idahoa, one from Louisiana, one from Michigan, two
from Missouri, six from Texas. Gotta left Texas, gotta recruit
in Texas. Sixty of course from the state of Utah,
two from Westernreia, the DMV Washington, three Wisconsin and then Australia.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Two. There you go.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
H Cooper's around the world making up the BYU football roster.
BYU is aiming to strengthens defense are On Brandessey Gurney, Well,
I guess not own but contributor here at esp and
the fan caught up, you know with Sioni Pua. He
talked with him in regards to Keanu town of Vasta
says BA is working to bolsher It's defensive tackles for
the upcoming season with Utah transfer Keyanta town of Vasa,
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who is leading charge to six foot four, three hundred
pounds junior, a stand out from Utah, brings leadership experience
and often stays late after practice to coach younger teammates.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This was said, I just try and let up. My guys,
said ton of Vasa.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Once they know I'm bought into them, it's easy to
bring that best version out of them. Got to love
that leadership on and off the field. That's how you
got to get it done is lead by example. You
don't ask anything of someone else that you're not doing yourself.
Love that from Keanu Tonavasa gonna be a big factor
in this year.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Need to keep them healthy, need to keep him healthy.
You need to get JK back as well, justin Kirkland.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
But once both of those guys get back along with
John doa my FEI I need to pronounce every you
know syllable. I was told every letter because I messed up.
Hopefully I'm not gonna get reprimanded. I apologize and trying
to get it right. If not, please teach me the
properly it said anyway him A Nissi Purcell. I think
you're gonna have a lot of people in that two
and three deep in the defensive tack roum.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I think they will be okay. Check this out.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Twenty twenty five college football preseason rankings by tiers. ESPN
decided to rank all one hundred and thirty six teams
in their tiers. Check this out, b Yu, where do
they fall? A lot of people want to know. It's
always interesting of how when you lose a quarterback, whether
they do to graduation, transfer, portal, or other circumstances, where
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you fall. Now last year's playoff surprises where Arizona State,
Boy State, and E and SMU they fall Intier four,
right and b why you beat SMU early in this season?
Last year Tier eight the bad kind as they mentioned,
you know, regression to the mean BYU, Duke, Missouri, Syracuse, Vanderbilt.
I believe by you can be Duke this year. I
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believe b A you can be Vanderbilt. I believe bo
you could beat Syracuse Missouri. That'd be interesting to see.
But I would love to give me Vandy. Like Ben
said earlier, show give me Bandy. Bau's defense can can
compete with Dukes, with the Missouri, with Syracuse and Vanderbilts,
though Jossing went over to Vanderbilt. But it's always interesting
to me of how, Yeah, these teams haven't played, but
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we're gonna rank them when you look at the return
in production that they have coming back on the defense
and the offense.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
For that matter. They did lose some key pieces. I'm
not denying that.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
When you look at who they get back, the experience
that they had, guys that played last year young or
had to come and step step up due to injury.
When you look at who they've added that have experience,
I'm very surprised that they're in Tier eight.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Really I am.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I'm not saying that you should be ranked in Tier
four with the peer Arizona State.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm not saying that. Nope, that's not coming from I
mentioned that.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
But when you almost compete with the likes of Oklahoma
the year before and you almost beat them in the
twenty twenty three season and Texas Tech, you know who
had a worse year than BYU and Utah like so
hot right now?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Is Utah?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Like?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
What is so hot about Utah? That's gonna make people mad?
I know it is. It's gonna make Utah fans come
for me cerily. What is so hot about them? No?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
I don't know about that. So that's that's interesting. And
then just how they title Colorado Potito's potential Sleepers, just
how they titled.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Dion is always hilarious to me.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Roley Nelson and joined the Desert News to talk about
the top five QB things that you must do in
order to prepare for Game Day five is defensive Scott
and report.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You gotta know the week spots of the defense. I agree.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
You gotta know where you can pick apart, where are
going to be your home run shots as well, know
who'd attacking the secondary at the linebacker spot. That is
pivotal when you want to know how to whether it's
go play action, run inside zone, outside zone, off tackle.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
All those things you gotta do.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
You gott align with the offensive coordinator, limit the downside
if you want to be able to have success.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
He says, My success rate.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
On plays that I got on the call sheet was
probably eighty five percent because you own it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You have ownership of that play. That's huge. So you
gotta have ownership.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
So a Rod needs to have ownership with the other guy,
whoever the quarterback is going to be for BAU three,
be the piper, be the pied piper you got to
be in order to do that, he says, find out
early from the assistance and starting priming the guys for
what coach is going to talk about in the team
meeting on Monday. Second bring energy, enthusiasm, and positivity. Your
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goal is not to get people to be energetic or
happy like you, but least by the end of practice
on Monday.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You got to do it. In order to do that.
I just think it's a very impactful thing.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
The quarterback is one of the most important people in
the room, as the captain is the voice, especially of
the offense, so you gotta go ahead and take that leadership.
Number two, get your body right. This is the airplane
safety video. You must put your oxygen mask on before
helping someone else with THEIRS.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
That's true. You gotta get your body right before you
can get someone else. Riley says this.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
I was in a position during my senior year where
I hurt my back and play through injuries and I
just diminished. I'm taking with talking with coaches excuse me,
and they're like, yeah, but your leadership and energy can
make up for it. Truth be told, looking back, it
didn't my diminished ability to perform physically hurt my teammates
chances for success. I had broken bones, but the majority
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of injuries are soft tissue injuries, which you can improve
by getting in early or treatment to get your body right.
Treatment is the best and the strength and conditioning staff
needs to be supported and they need to be given
a lot of credit because for the fact that you
were able to limit the injuries last season said a
lot about what you had along the offensive side and
defensive side of the ball and what the program says.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
So you really didn't see too many backups.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You saw moments Bruce Mitchell being one of those guys
that stepped in and stepped uph they're injury, but everybody
was pretty healthy. So you're knocking on wood as a
knocker right now that there are not too many injuries.
Soft tissue injuries are major season ending injuries when the
season starts, and then number one these sins is put
the previous week to bed. You can't allow your high
emotions to lead you to a level of complacency, and
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you can't let the poor performance bleed over bad losses.
If you let them weigh, they will weigh on you
until Wednesday. Extract the gyms, improve, build and move forward.
Your energy must be positive for the next opponent. I
agree you can't dwell on losses, and I like how
a lot of this team has flushed out.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Got to move on.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Twenty twenty four, Jack Kelly, I think said it was
in one of the videos, either the Big twelve did
or by You did. Twenty twenty four is over doesn't
mean anything. Twenty twenty five. We haven't done anything, We
haven't earned anything. You got to with that mindset of
Stan Humble and Stan Hungery checked us out. Does Pooka
Nakula come in way too early on the top one
hundred list at the NFL? Number forty one is what
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he comes in as. Pooka is definitely a top fifty player.
What does he have to do to move up? What
do you say, guys? He's a wide receiver out of quarterback,
so he can't obviously go out there and lead the
team to victory. Being a Robbers soonver, he can contribute
to that, but he doesn't throw the football camp poo
could be a top twenty five player by the end
of the twenty twenty five twenty six NFL season. We
mentioned this, but a bunch of Cougars and pros will
be action. There are currently eighteen former Cougar's on NFL
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rosters during training camp, including four rookies, with at least
thirteen of them likely to see the NIGAN action during
the next three weeks in the preseason exhibition, Blake Freeland
will be with any Asden Colts. They played yesterday on
the Bengals. You got Kayla Btn and Ryan Rico. Rico
Suave had booming punts. Brady Christensen and the Carolina Patthers
have just kicked off. That are plans to night Washington
(24:53):
and Commanders and the New England Patriots. Cryors Tongo would
be for the Patriots. You got Keaton Slovas and the
Houston Texans taken on Tyler and the Minnesota Vikings. Thus
Pittsburgh Steelers will take on the Jacksonville Jaguars and Darius
Lasseter and then of course the New York Jets and
are at the Green Bay Packers saying Tran Anderson and Christopher.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Brooks will be over there.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
The Kingsley Suwamatia will be with the Chiefs taking on
the Cardinals. All these games are on Saturday, by the way,
Kingsley moving inside that guard position. And then the Denver
Broncos taken on San Francisco forty nine ers. Jacob Robinson
Jay rob I expect him to have a starting spot
to make that fifty three band rotation by the time
preseasons over.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I think Jay Robb's got a good shot.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Then on Sunday the Miami Dolphins and Zach Wilson will diminish.
Unfortunately my Chicago Bears at eleven am on the NFL Network. Guys, Guys,
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Wednesday night. Jennifer rock Which said this postgame, I think
what he is noticeable right now is our level of
experience and composure. That's something we struggled with last year.
Having all these girls return and having played a full
competitive season, you can tell the maturity of our team
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right now.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I've been really pleased with this group.
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The Cougars outshot the Cougar or the Thunderbirds by the way,
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on frame and for finding the back of the net.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
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the night. By the way, and the second half, the
Cougars came out of the locker room very strong, increasing
their lead five minutes into the half.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I always like second half.
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