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welcome in Super Bowl champion former b YU. Great, we
got Brady Papinga on the line. Be pop, how you
living man?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What's always fun to jump on, especially after a big
victory and an impressive performance bat Coobs.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, indeed it was a great victory for the Cougs
versus Stanford. I want to get into that, but before
we do that, any any highlights from the weekend that
you want to maybe comment on. BYU has a lot
of play in the pros right now and many of
them are making an impact.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Let's start off with the Dolphins situation.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Indianapolis Cults completely demolished the colt Or completely demolished the Dolphins,
and Zach Wilson was finally given the opportunity at the
end look pretty efficient.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Wasn't able to you know? You know, I guess start
a comeback?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Might?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It means they were so far down?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But is Zack Wilson gonna get a chance to start
in the next few weeks for the Dolphins?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well? I mean they've paid to a lot of money, okay,
so they are going to ride him until the Wills
fall off and Jerry speak, I mean we're talking probably
until they're out of playoffs contention mathematically, so we're a
ways away unless they feel like they need to inject
some kind of energy. Did they feel like Zach Wilson
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could give them versus two up, which again is going
to be something I would say wouldn't happen for at
least another couple of months because you're gonna let two recover.
I mean, this happens a lot, you know, I think,
I don't know if you guys remember when the Chiefs
destroyed and this was Andy Reid was with the Chiefs
destroyed the Patriots, and I think it's week four actually,
so it wasn't even week one, you know, and everybody
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was saying the Patriots are done, tom Brady's done, blah
blah blah blah. And then they go on to win
the Super Bowl that year, and then Tom Brady goes
on to a couple more Super Bowls and they laughed,
you know, that whole kind of narrative. And I don't
really remember. I think it's either my rookie note was
it was my rookie year in the NFL. It was
this really crazy cut that the Patriots did. They cut
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their top safety name was Lawyer Malloy and then the
Bills immediately signed him. And then lo and Behold the
Patriots and the Bills were playing in the first week
of the season and guess what the score was. The
Bills beat the Patriots thirty one or something to zero.
Killed them. It's because LAURYA. Milloy basically came in and say, hey,
this is what you can do to beat these guys.
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You know, here's these strategies, is what they think, you know,
and they did, and Lobe behold that same Patriot team.
Guess what the long story and short of them, they
went on to win the Super Bowl a year or
at least content for Super Bowl. Oh maybe it's the
I think it's a steardsn't win it. But they were,
you know, playoff team. So this thing is is you
can't overreact in these week one games, Week two games,
actually the first six weeks the season. People don't realize
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most teams. Obviously you don't want to go in six.
You don't want to go too and four, you know,
but if you're three and three, you're good. Because a
lot of times these coaches look at this as the
new preseason. They look at it like, Okay, this is
where we get a feel for how our team's going
to be. It's a probe, and then they really build
strategies around who their team is week five to six
on the way to the rest of the season. So
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there's gonna be a lot of movements still and I'm
not saying that's the Dolphins, but it should be. And
in theory, they're very stacked talent wise, they have solid coaching.
Two is a good player. I wouldn't say this is
going to continue if I had a bet on it,
which I don't, but if I have bet, I would
say that the pay I'm sorry that the Dolphins are
gonna figure out and they're gonna they're gonna be in
the mix. I'm not going to say they're gonna win
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the A see, but hey, they're gonna be I'm not
even saying they get a playoff spot. I think they're
gonna be a detention for a playoff spot. They're gonna
be around five hundred this year, which again is gonna,
you know, lend for other organizational decisions. But don't think
that this is like who they are. They're not a
team that's this bad, you know. And then again they
got caught too. I think also when you play a
team like Indianapolis, you don't really know what they're about
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because they've got Daniel Jones coming in. Yeah, so there's
a lot of then knowns and all of a sudden,
now everybody knows. You know, you got film on the Colts,
so can over acts off a week one. But Zach Wilson, Yeah,
he's the one thing that I would say it gives
him the best chance to play is to his susceptibility
to you getting concussions, and we may because he's had
so many of the last reyears. See Zach Wilson, before
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you even.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Know Kyle Van noyce pt last night in the Baltimore
ravings Game one that took the the NFL world by storm.
What a crazy comeback that was for the Buffalo Bills.
But he did have three tackles. kV and had three
tackles once solo to assist it, and he had one
stuff that I think the line of scrimmage. Let's comment
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on this game and then anything that you saw from
KVN's performance.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Unbelievable game. I mean I literally turned it off when
they were down. The Bills were down forty one to
twenty five, twenty six or something, and it was like
they couldn't stop the run. I mean, it was a disaster,
you know for the Bills, and it looked like an
oppressive victory health something you know, on talk and hang
out with my wife. I'm like, I'm nea go turn
off the you know, the TV and all the Bills
are driving down to put themself in the position down
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thirty eight forty and I'm like, oh my gosh or
whatever the score was that I was literally win the
game if they getting figgled, you know, and it's it's uh,
you know, man, it's just crazy to see some of
these guys, you know, like you know, the quarterback for
the Bills, just to growth, you know, and to see
him just take off, because I remember watching him against
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you know, you know, Josh Allen against the Mangum and
I think it was like the points she had a
San Diego Bowl or something in the downpour. And I
was not impressed with Josh Allen at all. You know,
I was not a fan of his. I was, I was.
I thought the Bills really overreached and picking him, you know,
and I'm happy he proved me wrong. But man, he's
you know, obviously the MVP caliber player one of the
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last year, is probably going to be in the talks
again this year. But Kyle play good. You know, I
think he he had some moments there where he was
close to getting some sacks, has some pressures. The Dckins
left tackle that he was going against quite frequently was
one of the top left tackles in the NFL, so
he had his work cut out for him. But he
had the heads up play there on that two point
conversion tone if you sorry you got that that lateral
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in the end zone and ran it out, which I
had never heard of the situation so I guess in
the two point perversion, if as a defender, the ball
goes out of the end zone in your possession and
then it goes back in, you could actually have a
safety in that safety with count not as two points
but one point. Interesting. So I don't know if you
guys caught that, but were Kyle literally got the ball
ladder up to him in the end zone, I probably
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would have just downed it in the end zone count
at one point, which had been stupid obviously, but who knew,
you know, who knew? And so I guess to you
tomorrow every NFL team and and and especially team is
gonna go over got playing and say, okay, guys, because
I think it's the first time that plays ever even
potentially happened, you know, in the game. But it was
a heads up move by him to get out of
the end zone and put the kned down out of
the end zone, you know, and then it's just unfortunately,
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you know, you got control of the game. The running
you know, running game had been what had basically gotten
to the to the point where you're in control and
your your top to your running back fumbles. You know,
that's that's frustrated but you know play well, you know,
I just you know, he's he's he's always kind of
like in the mix, one step away from me. And
so I generally speaking, when you're that close to making
the averages are in your favor, that those are gonna
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eventually happen, no doubt about.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It, Brady.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Butpinga here talking to Cougars in the pros on your
UTI ESPN Radio network. Uh. One guy that I've been
impressed by as he's navigated his post b YU career
Kiris Satona. He's currently with the New England Patriots. He
had three tackles and a loss versus the Raiders. But man,
it's six two sixty three. We're in a thirty five pounds.
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This New England coaching staff trying to extract the most
out of his potential. He was with the Cardinals last
season and just a strong run stuff or he was
a seventh round pick, two d and fiftieth overall, he's
still in the league and doing some great work. What
did you make of Kyrostonian what his career has been
thus far.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, I mean it's about, you know what, these big guys,
it was just so hard to find and so if
you can get a big guy that can clog up
the middle, take up blockers, play that nose guard position.
They're so valuable because it sets your whole defense, you know,
makes it to where your linebackers off the ball can
run sidelight the sideline without having to deal with a
lot of off you know, off the ball blocking. It
helps your pass rush to where your edge guys now
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can get home. If because if you don't have a
middle push you know, which I think you know transitioned
to do what you Last year we struggled with that.
We didn't really have a middle presence. So when you
got guys like Bay lying around the edge, these quarterbacks
are able to step up and avoid that rush. But
when you have that presence in the middle and they
don't even have to like pressure the quarterback, just make
it where there's really nowhere to step up to. Now
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your edge dressers can get home. And that's just it's
stuff that does not show up on the stat sheet,
but that turns out to be crazy, crazy viable for
the success of your defense. And that's where Kiris fits.
He's one of those guys and I would say, like,
you know, he's a guy that if he could settle
into a role it's where he vibes well with the
coaching staff, he stays healthy, then he can continue to
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be that middle presence. I mean, those guys they just
stay around for so long because and the reason why
he continues to get signed, and it's because there's so
many are sorry, there's so few of them, you know,
and and it's just so hard to find a guy
like that. And when they're effective, they can change the whole,
the whole identity of the defense. So yeah, he's he's
kind of I think show him flashes of that. And
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now at his point in his career he's a bridge guy,
but at any point, with some consistency, he could become
a mainstay in the defense for years to come, especially
like the Patriots, where a guy like Rabel that's what
they that's what they want. Vince Wilfork, if you remember him,
that's where he was at. He was that guy in
the midll that basically set the whole defense, and the
curious could do that. He's he's going to be playing
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with the Patriots a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Let's talk about linebackers. Fred Warner had a nice game
eight total tackles. I know, he got a little bit
deemed up. I don't know if he came back into
the game.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But Freddie highest paid linebacker in the league right now,
showcasing well to start the NFL season.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean, it's he's a guy that is constantly
making game changing plays, you know, and it's whether it's
a big hit. And again we talk about linebackers being
able to playing sideline to sideline. That defense does that
for him as well as any defense that you can imagine,
where he can just flow and fly to the ball.
Use his speed. His diagnostic ability is one of the
best I've ever seen, you know, because he's not over like.
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He plays a lot faster than he is and he's
still a fast guy.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I think he ran maybe four to five, four to
six in the combine, but he plays even faster than that.
And then obviously his his coverage skills, which to me
were always impressive. Even in college. You know, they played
him in a position before they really had a nickel
you know, they played him as kind of that nickel
cornerback cat be right. I don't know if people realize that.
And he flourished because he has this instinct of reading routes,
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filling the routes, and then also at the same time
understanding where the quarterbacks looking to go and and making
plays on the balls, picking it, you know, interceptions or
even just body positioning, positioning and just dissuading the quarterback
for making throws. And so he did that all the
game wrong and he continues to do that. I mean,
he plays at a high, high level, you know, and
that's why he's the highest paid because he's so valuable
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when it comes to coverage, run stopping. And then the
one thing that nobody ever talks about is he'll be
involved in their rush packages and the guy creates havoca
there too. So you know, FET's an All Pro future
Hall of Famer for a reason. You know, he's that
guy every single day, every single week, and he has
a leadership presence about him, you know. So hopefully he's
healthy and stays healthy. But yeah, he basically just played
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how you would exp the play, which is as a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Brady Lbus what I've been calling BYU for a while.
They continue to produce high level linebackers and they got
a few guys that I think could play in the
National Football League Jack Kelly Isaiah Glasger the next two
guys I think coming out of Brigham to get drafted
and to make an impact at the National Football League level.
What did you see from Jack and Isaiah that would
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maybe validate that? And do you agree with my assessment?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah? I mean, well, when you hook at linebacker,
you got to look at there's three ways you can
play a linebacker off the ball and as a run
stopper off the ball, coverage and then blitzing in line
and then blitzing off the edge. And you look at
both those guys, they play very well off the edge.
They played very well off the ball the physical So
to give you an idea of war, I see Glasger.
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If you've ever heard of Brian Hlacker, Glaska is the
closest I've ever seen a player mash up to the
skill set of Ryan Rlacker, where he is six y
five long range is out of his world. I mean
this guy in terms of when you drop him into coverage,
he shuts down so many routes that you don't really
hear about it because quarterbacks love throw it his way.
And then when they do throw it his way, things
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happened like in that Arizona game last year, he goes
and picks it off for six. I mean, this guy
is a specialist or even in the Colorado again and
had a phenomenal pick, that diving pick, you know. I
mean he's a wide receiver, you know. So Gloster is
really I think when you just look at raw, raw
ability and combo ability, he's the most unique linebacker to
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ever come through be wiping ever size rains, fall skills,
and then just playing well in all three phases as
a linebacker. So I'm not saying he's going to be
the highest drafted, but he could. I mean, there's no
reason to think that he couldn't be a Franklin. I'm
not trying to like promote him in a way that's
unfair and put extra stress and pressure on him, but
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that's how rare his abilities are, and that's how highly
valued they a are, and any especially the defenses where
it's just like Buy's defense, where they're multiple. You know,
everybody wants to be multiple to some degree or another,
and we have guys like last year, Jack, that's what
you're able to do. And then Jack, I almost think
the guy is a better edge guy in some ways.
The hosketball, which he's a phenomenal off the ball, got
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his speed, you know, his his diagnostic abilities. He also
fits very well in the coverage. But what I love
about him, and he showed it against Stanford, is his
edge rushing ability. But he does a nice job though
because his ability to be also multiple allows for you
to then use him in a lot of different ways
that will constantly keep an offense just guessing as to
what's coming. And if you saw against Stanford, I mean
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that pick that last I think it was the last
drive of the game that b Yu had number eleven.
What's his name again, Man, he's got a cool name,
number eleven from yeah folots out baby, so yeah dude,
So yeah, he's an some kid by the way, I
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love them. But that was all set up from deception
from scheme because all throughout the game, Uyu had been
sending five six man pressure and on that particular play
they ran the term out they use my term is
called they perceived blitz. The term that's now become popular
is called a what do they call those? Just I
just kind of like my mind went blake. There's another
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name to have for him. It's a It's a what
they all think about later, but it's but what it
what it's trying to do is it's trying to pretend
like you're bringing more than your regular four or five rushers,
which would didn't mean you have less than your regular
seven cover guys, meaning there's holes in your coverage. So
what you're trying to do is trick the quarterback into
thinking that he could throw a hot run.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Liked to Simulatord.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's where I just want to I was like, I
was trying to get into your mind, Brady.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's what you did. A good job. I could I couldn't.
We're just slip my head. But anyway, so so that
that was what he got that pickoff of. So here
you have you. And it's because of the multiplicity like
having guys like Glaster and Jack out there, and then
you got e from who, by the way, would be
a starter on every other college football team in the
country except maybe five or Stix, you know behind Glasger
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that makes store. You can run these simulated blitzes and
people just don't They just don't know is this the
legit blitz or is this still because because what happened
on that pit was they blitzed the corner, and from
the right side it looked like an overload blitz, when
in fact the right end, the right tackle he looped
around and contained on the left side of the defense,
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the right side, left side of offense, excuse me, right
side of the defense, and then the other tackle looped
around to the even up the rush edge guy he
long stick, which basically means he goes down to the
A gap which he becomes like a d tackle corners
coming off the brit the edge. There's only four guys,
only four guys rushing. And then the best part is
number eleven. He draws into the flat like a seen
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corner and a cover two and he still has seven deep.
And so what most quarterbacks are taught is to always
throw the ball to where the pressure's coming from because
that's generally where the void is in the defense, because
that's where everything's shifting. And that's what he didn't even look.
You didn't even see him out there. And so the
point is is their versatility has set up Yu's defense
to be an absolute nightmare for a lot of these quarterbacks.
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Whereas you just can't get a read on what the
heck they're going to do next. And Jay Man, he
knows so well how to mix it like he like
what I love about Jay when you hear his mind.
He knows how to in every situation based off of
down distance and offensive tendencies. He's got three or four
different options of what he wants to give them in
terms of pressures, coverages, and stunts, and he's got variations.
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And then the guys we have are you know, they're
smart enough and there's enough retention that they can do
all these different nuances and tweaks. It's fun. I mean
it like that game was a fun game to watch
from a defensive perspective. I though it wasn't overall a
five game and watch Ragon Gentleen because it got a
little staggered there at times. But wow, I mean, Jay
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had those guys going. But again, going back to you know,
Jack and Idiah, those are the kind of guys that
make this whole thing world good. And I mean they're
they're going to be NFL guys. There were lucky to
have them, and you know, Justin's doe a phenomenal job
by the way of developing these guys. Isaiah, when I
first showed up a couple of years ago, to just
kind of be with the team. He was an afterthought,
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Like you don't realize that he had a lot of
questions about his ability to play as a linebacker, and
Justin worked with him so well to just help him
get confident, you know, just to help him believe in
himself to the point where and that's what the job
of a coach is, right, is to take you where
you can't take yourself. Justin has done that, and he's
done it with Jakes r. Jack, Jack and Isaiah at
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the levels where these guys are for sure they're gonna
be you know, they're going to be NFL guys. And
like I said, I think Isaiah is the most unique
skill set linebacker we've ever had to.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Be with you crazy times at Brigham. What stood out
to you in this BYU Stanford game? Who would you
like to highlight? Obviously went into Ig and Jack Kelly,
But what did you make of this victory over the
Stanford Cardinal?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, man, it was it was a game. It was
fun in the one sense. It was like I was
saying on the air to you and YU Sports Nation
about how Stanford was physical, so I knew it was
gonna be one of those kind of like just real physical,
violent games. And it was I mean, if you just
watching our offensive line, our defensive line from the beginning
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until the end, just absolutely just go out and get
after Stanford. I mean, I mean it was fun. I
mean offense, like there was plays where our defense man
that just we have you know, Jack Kelly's tossing due
to the ground. J T number fifty five, Dude is
on the ground. You got Tonna boss split in the
double team, and then you got and I think it's
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either the logan on the other side also just blasting
their guy and there is I'm talking Ben nowhere to
go nowhere. I mean, if you're a running back, it
is a wall of blue that's coming at you. And
their whole offensive line just got cut up and sliced
into fifty different pieces. And I'm just like, I'm like,
that is something. And they did that over and over
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and then you add onto that the nuances of the
stunts and the blitzer and then the physicality and the competitiveness.
It was beautiful. It was. And then offensive line they
did the same thing to Stanford's front. They were tossing
his around Bruce those in two or three guys are
tackles scrappy and the thing that you always like to
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see from offensive linemen that I enjoyed outside. I'll give one.
There was one play that was an exception. There was
the sack on Bear in the deep red zone where
I think it was third down after the penalty, where
there was an unbought player off the edge. Other than
that play, they always had their target. They always were
straight up with the targets, which to me is like, Okay,
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that's like a good sign, right because at least you're
trying to block and get somebody's way. That gives you
a chance, whereas you just let guys go, you don't
have a chance. You know, it's minimal, right, Well, actually
know there's two and the other one was that fourth
down play. So there's two plays where their their front
got a little confused. And by the way, Stanford has
a very kind of complex scheme like we do. And
again it would make sense, right because you've got guys
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that are academic and can retain information. Not all, not
all guys can do that at college. Okay, I mean
I couldn't. I'm one of them. I could just put
my hand in the dirt and say, dude, when that
ball moves, just go and you know, run over the
tackle or run around him. Figure it out. You know
I could do that, but you got all these things
and there it gets a little complicated. The point is,
is there the offensive line and the defensive line where
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the funnest thing to watch and our backs around hard.
You know. But but that to me is like, if
I'm looking at where we're at right now, we're as
good in our fronts as we've ever been, and that
is a good sign. Now it's a matter of let's
let's clean up the intricacies of offensive timing, you know,
receiver quarterback. I think you know, Chase Roberts in his
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postgame interview hit it hit this on the head. Was
like what they're asking, what are you gonna do with
the Biwick? Get with bear? You know? And I think
that's probably I think the biggest residual of Jake leaving
when he left is the lack of chemistry between the
quarterback position and the receiving court. Right now, they can
get that cleaned up, because I mean, dude, Stampers defense
is just selling out against the running in which every
team is going to do that, and you know that
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Chase is looking at that going, man, I got guys
one on one constantly that I can beat. And by
the way, if they ended up having some success at
the end of the game of the long four yard
past the Chase, but they they're licking their chops as
a receiving court like this is exactly what you hope for,
is a running game that is so threatening to a
defense that they have to abandon two high safeties, a
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lot of those softis own coverages, and now there's just
a manned man. And if you're Chase, you know you
can beat almost any corner man the man at any time,
or at least you'll know that that Roderick will successfully
set you up scheme wise, which a lot of times
he does as good as anybody. So there's a lot
to do improve on. But man, those offensive and defensive
line competitive spirit, physicality was to me the most impressive thing.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Of that game.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Love that breakdown from Brady papinga b why he's going
to be able to run the ball Aaron Roderick's been
adamant about it, and LJ is a big part of that.
It will she only look nice if you have to
go to RB three RB four Joe vesa look good
good I think versus Portland State. Preston Rex has received
some good reviews from the coaching staff throughout Fall camp
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as well.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
How do you feel about the depth of the running
back room right now?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I like it. You know, Domani, that dude number twenty
eight we'll talk about right, Yep, he is. He's a
stunt dude. That dude was hitting the holes like a
freaking missile. And even when he got in there against
stafford ly in the game. So I think there are
at least three d And you're right about Rex. He's
looked really surprised that people were surprised because it was
a safety. How many times I see safety here to
running back?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You know, when he made the conversion his like final year,
he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's right, that's right. And so yeah, I like that
death of running back, you know. But it's it's special
to have a guy like Elgier back there who is
your bell cow and then is saying kind of player
where it's like you bet, like even when they get
a two yard game, it is a bludgering, it's a
it's a it's still like your your hit. Those like
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body blows and comparing it to boxing. In the boxing
match where it's still a gag. It took all of
us to do that, you know, and all it takes
is for one guy to be out of a position
Boom it's out, you know, which happened in his long run.
You know, it's very very similar. Defend the way they
defended it. But all it took was for a right
tackle to drive. He basically drove the number eleven four
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of Stafford all the way across the formation, which created
too big of a gap for all the other defenders
to really fill up, and then boom, LJ was out,
you know. And that's why every like I said, even
like those two n two are excuse me, like the
two yard runs or the no guinn runs, they still
have an effect on the defense because it just takes
everything to make that happen. And you just know, as
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the defense, dude, if we don't do that every single time,
we're gonna give up something. And it's hard for us
to do that. And so that that still leads to
the success of your running game, even though you're you know,
you might be geting stuffed here and there, and that's
where the patients come in and that's where you have
to believe that you're gonna wear them out. Which that's
what that's what I think. You know, we're hopeful for
b YU. So yeah, I mean I think their their
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their depth there is really good, you know. And uh
and and the thing that I love most because I
love this style, is the physicality even you know, I
think Bears showed the physical run there and the touchdown
running over the linebacker. I thought it was a safety.
Had to go back to the film and yeah, it
was thirty five under my linebacker. He trucked them, buckled
his leg and I don't know if you know Bears
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should be doing that every single play. But yeah, I
mean that's it's fun. I mean, this is the most
physical I would say this is the most physical BAU
team that I can remember. So let's let's see if
we can get some also some balance here, you know,
get some get some plays downfield, which they, like I said,
they're starting to get later in the game, be more
consistent in the red zone. And and man, it's it's
going to be very very exciting to see where they
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can peek at as a team because I think there's
just a lot of us ad, especially with a true
freshman quarterback, built around these physical fronts that you have
both offensively and defensively.
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living man?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What's always fun to jump on, especially after a big
victory and an impressive performance bat Coobs.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, indeed it was a great victory for the Cougs
versus Stanford. I want to get into that, but before
we do that, any any highlights from the weekend that
you want to maybe comment on. BYU has a lot
of play in the pros right now and many of
them are making an impact.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Let's start off with the Dolphins situation.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Indianapolis Cults completely demolished the colt Or completely demolished the Dolphins,
and Zach Wilson was finally given the opportunity at the
end look pretty efficient.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Wasn't able to you know? You know, I guess start
a comeback?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Might?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It means they were so far down?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But is Zack Wilson gonna get a chance to start
in the next few weeks for the Dolphins?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well? I mean they've paid to a lot of money, okay,
so they are going to ride him until the Wills
fall off and Jerry speak, I mean we're talking probably
until they're out of playoffs contention mathematically, so we're a
ways away unless they feel like they need to inject
some kind of energy. Did they feel like Zach Wilson
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could give them versus two up, which again is going
to be something I would say wouldn't happen for at
least another couple of months because you're gonna let two recover.
I mean, this happens a lot, you know, I think,
I don't know if you guys remember when the Chiefs
destroyed and this was Andy Reid was with the Chiefs
destroyed the Patriots, and I think it's week four actually,
so it wasn't even week one, you know, and everybody
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was saying the Patriots are done, tom Brady's done, blah
blah blah blah. And then they go on to win
the Super Bowl that year, and then Tom Brady goes
on to a couple more Super Bowls and they laughed,
you know, that whole kind of narrative. And I don't
really remember. I think it's either my rookie note was
it was my rookie year in the NFL. It was
this really crazy cut that the Patriots did. They cut
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their top safety name was Lawyer Malloy and then the
Bills immediately signed him. And then lo and Behold the
Patriots and the Bills were playing in the first week
of the season and guess what the score was. The
Bills beat the Patriots thirty one or something to zero.
Killed them. It's because LAURYA. Milloy basically came in and say, hey,
this is what you can do to beat these guys.
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You know, here's these strategies, is what they think, you know,
and they did, and Lobe behold that same Patriot team.
Guess what the long story and short of them, they
went on to win the Super Bowl a year or
at least content for Super Bowl. Oh maybe it's the
I think it's a steardsn't win it. But they were,
you know, playoff team. So this thing is is you
can't overreact in these week one games, Week two games,
actually the first six weeks the season. People don't realize
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most teams. Obviously you don't want to go in six.
You don't want to go too and four, you know,
but if you're three and three, you're good. Because a
lot of times these coaches look at this as the
new preseason. They look at it like, Okay, this is
where we get a feel for how our team's going
to be. It's a probe, and then they really build
strategies around who their team is week five to six
on the way to the rest of the season. So
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there's gonna be a lot of movements still and I'm
not saying that's the Dolphins, but it should be. And
in theory, they're very stacked talent wise, they have solid coaching.
Two is a good player. I wouldn't say this is
going to continue if I had a bet on it,
which I don't, but if I have bet, I would
say that the pay I'm sorry that the Dolphins are
gonna figure out and they're gonna they're gonna be in
the mix. I'm not going to say they're gonna win
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the A see, but hey, they're gonna be I'm not
even saying they get a playoff spot. I think they're
gonna be a detention for a playoff spot. They're gonna
be around five hundred this year, which again is gonna,
you know, lend for other organizational decisions. But don't think
that this is like who they are. They're not a
team that's this bad, you know. And then again they
got caught too. I think also when you play a
team like Indianapolis, you don't really know what they're about
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because they've got Daniel Jones coming in. Yeah, so there's
a lot of then knowns and all of a sudden,
now everybody knows. You know, you got film on the Colts,
so can over acts off a week one. But Zach Wilson, Yeah,
he's the one thing that I would say it gives
him the best chance to play is to his susceptibility
to you getting concussions, and we may because he's had
so many of the last reyears. See Zach Wilson, before
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you even.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Know Kyle Van noyce pt last night in the Baltimore
ravings Game one that took the the NFL world by storm.
What a crazy comeback that was for the Buffalo Bills.
But he did have three tackles. kV and had three
tackles once solo to assist it, and he had one
stuff that I think the line of scrimmage. Let's comment
(06:03):
on this game and then anything that you saw from
KVN's performance.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Unbelievable game. I mean I literally turned it off when
they were down. The Bills were down forty one to
twenty five, twenty six or something, and it was like
they couldn't stop the run. I mean, it was a disaster,
you know for the Bills, and it looked like an
oppressive victory health something you know, on talk and hang
out with my wife. I'm like, I'm nea go turn
off the you know, the TV and all the Bills
are driving down to put themself in the position down
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thirty eight forty and I'm like, oh my gosh or
whatever the score was that I was literally win the
game if they getting figgled, you know, and it's it's uh,
you know, man, it's just crazy to see some of
these guys, you know, like you know, the quarterback for
the Bills, just to growth, you know, and to see
him just take off, because I remember watching him against
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you know, you know, Josh Allen against the Mangum and
I think it was like the points she had a
San Diego Bowl or something in the downpour. And I
was not impressed with Josh Allen at all. You know,
I was not a fan of his. I was, I was.
I thought the Bills really overreached and picking him, you know,
and I'm happy he proved me wrong. But man, he's
you know, obviously the MVP caliber player one of the
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last year, is probably going to be in the talks
again this year. But Kyle play good. You know, I
think he he had some moments there where he was
close to getting some sacks, has some pressures. The Dckins
left tackle that he was going against quite frequently was
one of the top left tackles in the NFL, so
he had his work cut out for him. But he
had the heads up play there on that two point
conversion tone if you sorry you got that that lateral
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in the end zone and ran it out, which I
had never heard of the situation so I guess in
the two point perversion, if as a defender, the ball
goes out of the end zone in your possession and
then it goes back in, you could actually have a
safety in that safety with count not as two points
but one point. Interesting. So I don't know if you
guys caught that, but were Kyle literally got the ball
ladder up to him in the end zone, I probably
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would have just downed it in the end zone count
at one point, which had been stupid obviously, but who knew,
you know, who knew? And so I guess to you
tomorrow every NFL team and and and especially team is
gonna go over got playing and say, okay, guys, because
I think it's the first time that plays ever even
potentially happened, you know, in the game. But it was
a heads up move by him to get out of
the end zone and put the kned down out of
the end zone, you know, and then it's just unfortunately,
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you know, you got control of the game. The running
you know, running game had been what had basically gotten
to the to the point where you're in control and
your your top to your running back fumbles. You know,
that's that's frustrated but you know play well, you know,
I just you know, he's he's he's always kind of
like in the mix, one step away from me. And
so I generally speaking, when you're that close to making
the averages are in your favor, that those are gonna
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eventually happen, no doubt about.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It, Brady.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Butpinga here talking to Cougars in the pros on your
UTI ESPN Radio network. Uh. One guy that I've been
impressed by as he's navigated his post b YU career
Kiris Satona. He's currently with the New England Patriots. He
had three tackles and a loss versus the Raiders. But man,
it's six two sixty three. We're in a thirty five pounds.
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This New England coaching staff trying to extract the most
out of his potential. He was with the Cardinals last
season and just a strong run stuff or he was
a seventh round pick, two d and fiftieth overall, he's
still in the league and doing some great work. What
did you make of Kyrostonian what his career has been
thus far.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, I mean it's about, you know what, these big guys,
it was just so hard to find and so if
you can get a big guy that can clog up
the middle, take up blockers, play that nose guard position.
They're so valuable because it sets your whole defense, you know,
makes it to where your linebackers off the ball can
run sidelight the sideline without having to deal with a
lot of off you know, off the ball blocking. It
helps your pass rush to where your edge guys now
(09:42):
can get home. If because if you don't have a
middle push you know, which I think you know transitioned
to do what you Last year we struggled with that.
We didn't really have a middle presence. So when you
got guys like Bay lying around the edge, these quarterbacks
are able to step up and avoid that rush. But
when you have that presence in the middle and they
don't even have to like pressure the quarterback, just make
it where there's really nowhere to step up to. Now
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your edge dressers can get home. And that's just it's
stuff that does not show up on the stat sheet,
but that turns out to be crazy, crazy viable for
the success of your defense. And that's where Kiris fits.
He's one of those guys and I would say, like,
you know, he's a guy that if he could settle
into a role it's where he vibes well with the
coaching staff, he stays healthy, then he can continue to
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be that middle presence. I mean, those guys they just
stay around for so long because and the reason why
he continues to get signed, and it's because there's so
many are sorry, there's so few of them, you know,
and and it's just so hard to find a guy
like that. And when they're effective, they can change the whole,
the whole identity of the defense. So yeah, he's he's
kind of I think show him flashes of that. And
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now at his point in his career he's a bridge guy,
but at any point, with some consistency, he could become
a mainstay in the defense for years to come, especially
like the Patriots, where a guy like Rabel that's what
they that's what they want. Vince Wilfork, if you remember him,
that's where he was at. He was that guy in
the midll that basically set the whole defense, and the
curious could do that. He's he's going to be playing
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with the Patriots a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Let's talk about linebackers. Fred Warner had a nice game
eight total tackles. I know, he got a little bit
deemed up. I don't know if he came back into
the game.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But Freddie highest paid linebacker in the league right now,
showcasing well to start the NFL season.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean, it's he's a guy that is constantly
making game changing plays, you know, and it's whether it's
a big hit. And again we talk about linebackers being
able to playing sideline to sideline. That defense does that
for him as well as any defense that you can imagine,
where he can just flow and fly to the ball.
Use his speed. His diagnostic ability is one of the
best I've ever seen, you know, because he's not over like.
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He plays a lot faster than he is and he's
still a fast guy.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I think he ran maybe four to five, four to
six in the combine, but he plays even faster than that.
And then obviously his his coverage skills, which to me
were always impressive. Even in college. You know, they played
him in a position before they really had a nickel
you know, they played him as kind of that nickel
cornerback cat be right. I don't know if people realize that.
And he flourished because he has this instinct of reading routes,
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filling the routes, and then also at the same time
understanding where the quarterbacks looking to go and and making
plays on the balls, picking it, you know, interceptions or
even just body positioning, positioning and just dissuading the quarterback
for making throws. And so he did that all the
game wrong and he continues to do that. I mean,
he plays at a high, high level, you know, and
that's why he's the highest paid because he's so valuable
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when it comes to coverage, run stopping. And then the
one thing that nobody ever talks about is he'll be
involved in their rush packages and the guy creates havoca
there too. So you know, FET's an All Pro future
Hall of Famer for a reason. You know, he's that
guy every single day, every single week, and he has
a leadership presence about him, you know. So hopefully he's
healthy and stays healthy. But yeah, he basically just played
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how you would exp the play, which is as a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Brady Lbus what I've been calling BYU for a while.
They continue to produce high level linebackers and they got
a few guys that I think could play in the
National Football League Jack Kelly Isaiah Glasger the next two
guys I think coming out of Brigham to get drafted
and to make an impact at the National Football League level.
What did you see from Jack and Isaiah that would
(13:24):
maybe validate that? And do you agree with my assessment?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah? I mean, well, when you hook at linebacker,
you got to look at there's three ways you can
play a linebacker off the ball and as a run
stopper off the ball, coverage and then blitzing in line
and then blitzing off the edge. And you look at
both those guys, they play very well off the edge.
They played very well off the ball the physical So
to give you an idea of war, I see Glasger.
(13:53):
If you've ever heard of Brian Hlacker, Glaska is the
closest I've ever seen a player mash up to the
skill set of Ryan Rlacker, where he is six y
five long range is out of his world. I mean
this guy in terms of when you drop him into coverage,
he shuts down so many routes that you don't really
hear about it because quarterbacks love throw it his way.
And then when they do throw it his way, things
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happened like in that Arizona game last year, he goes
and picks it off for six. I mean, this guy
is a specialist or even in the Colorado again and
had a phenomenal pick, that diving pick, you know. I
mean he's a wide receiver, you know. So Gloster is
really I think when you just look at raw, raw
ability and combo ability, he's the most unique linebacker to
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ever come through be wiping ever size rains, fall skills,
and then just playing well in all three phases as
a linebacker. So I'm not saying he's going to be
the highest drafted, but he could. I mean, there's no
reason to think that he couldn't be a Franklin. I'm
not trying to like promote him in a way that's
unfair and put extra stress and pressure on him, but
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that's how rare his abilities are, and that's how highly
valued they a are, and any especially the defenses where
it's just like Buy's defense, where they're multiple. You know,
everybody wants to be multiple to some degree or another,
and we have guys like last year, Jack, that's what
you're able to do. And then Jack, I almost think
the guy is a better edge guy in some ways.
The hosketball, which he's a phenomenal off the ball, got
(15:17):
his speed, you know, his his diagnostic abilities. He also
fits very well in the coverage. But what I love
about him, and he showed it against Stanford, is his
edge rushing ability. But he does a nice job though
because his ability to be also multiple allows for you
to then use him in a lot of different ways
that will constantly keep an offense just guessing as to
what's coming. And if you saw against Stanford, I mean
(15:40):
that pick that last I think it was the last
drive of the game that b Yu had number eleven.
What's his name again, Man, he's got a cool name,
number eleven from yeah folots out baby, so yeah dude,
So yeah, he's an some kid by the way, I
(16:00):
love them. But that was all set up from deception
from scheme because all throughout the game, Uyu had been
sending five six man pressure and on that particular play
they ran the term out they use my term is
called they perceived blitz. The term that's now become popular
is called a what do they call those? Just I
just kind of like my mind went blake. There's another
(16:22):
name to have for him. It's a It's a what
they all think about later, but it's but what it
what it's trying to do is it's trying to pretend
like you're bringing more than your regular four or five rushers,
which would didn't mean you have less than your regular
seven cover guys, meaning there's holes in your coverage. So
what you're trying to do is trick the quarterback into
thinking that he could throw a hot run.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Liked to Simulatord.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's where I just want to I was like, I
was trying to get into your mind, Brady.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That's what you did. A good job. I could I couldn't.
We're just slip my head. But anyway, so so that
that was what he got that pickoff of. So here
you have you. And it's because of the multiplicity like
having guys like Glaster and Jack out there, and then
you got e from who, by the way, would be
a starter on every other college football team in the
country except maybe five or Stix, you know behind Glasger
(17:19):
that makes store. You can run these simulated blitzes and
people just don't They just don't know is this the
legit blitz or is this still because because what happened
on that pit was they blitzed the corner, and from
the right side it looked like an overload blitz, when
in fact the right end, the right tackle he looped
around and contained on the left side of the defense,
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the right side, left side of offense, excuse me, right
side of the defense, and then the other tackle looped
around to the even up the rush edge guy he
long stick, which basically means he goes down to the
A gap which he becomes like a d tackle corners
coming off the brit the edge. There's only four guys,
only four guys rushing. And then the best part is
number eleven. He draws into the flat like a seen
(18:01):
corner and a cover two and he still has seven deep.
And so what most quarterbacks are taught is to always
throw the ball to where the pressure's coming from because
that's generally where the void is in the defense, because
that's where everything's shifting. And that's what he didn't even look.
You didn't even see him out there. And so the
point is is their versatility has set up Yu's defense
to be an absolute nightmare for a lot of these quarterbacks.
(18:24):
Whereas you just can't get a read on what the
heck they're going to do next. And Jay Man, he
knows so well how to mix it like he like
what I love about Jay when you hear his mind.
He knows how to in every situation based off of
down distance and offensive tendencies. He's got three or four
different options of what he wants to give them in
terms of pressures, coverages, and stunts, and he's got variations.
(18:48):
And then the guys we have are you know, they're
smart enough and there's enough retention that they can do
all these different nuances and tweaks. It's fun. I mean
it like that game was a fun game to watch
from a defensive perspective. I though it wasn't overall a
five game and watch Ragon Gentleen because it got a
little staggered there at times. But wow, I mean, Jay
(19:09):
had those guys going. But again, going back to you know,
Jack and Idiah, those are the kind of guys that
make this whole thing world good. And I mean they're
they're going to be NFL guys. There were lucky to
have them, and you know, Justin's doe a phenomenal job
by the way of developing these guys. Isaiah, when I
first showed up a couple of years ago, to just
kind of be with the team. He was an afterthought,
(19:30):
Like you don't realize that he had a lot of
questions about his ability to play as a linebacker, and
Justin worked with him so well to just help him
get confident, you know, just to help him believe in
himself to the point where and that's what the job
of a coach is, right, is to take you where
you can't take yourself. Justin has done that, and he's
done it with Jakes r. Jack, Jack and Isaiah at
(19:52):
the levels where these guys are for sure they're gonna
be you know, they're going to be NFL guys. And
like I said, I think Isaiah is the most unique
skill set linebacker we've ever had to.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Be with you crazy times at Brigham. What stood out
to you in this BYU Stanford game? Who would you
like to highlight? Obviously went into Ig and Jack Kelly,
But what did you make of this victory over the
Stanford Cardinal?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, man, it was it was a game. It was
fun in the one sense. It was like I was
saying on the air to you and YU Sports Nation
about how Stanford was physical, so I knew it was
gonna be one of those kind of like just real physical,
violent games. And it was I mean, if you just
watching our offensive line, our defensive line from the beginning
(20:38):
until the end, just absolutely just go out and get
after Stanford. I mean, I mean it was fun. I
mean offense, like there was plays where our defense man
that just we have you know, Jack Kelly's tossing due
to the ground. J T number fifty five, Dude is
on the ground. You got Tonna boss split in the
double team, and then you got and I think it's
(21:00):
either the logan on the other side also just blasting
their guy and there is I'm talking Ben nowhere to
go nowhere. I mean, if you're a running back, it
is a wall of blue that's coming at you. And
their whole offensive line just got cut up and sliced
into fifty different pieces. And I'm just like, I'm like,
that is something. And they did that over and over
(21:22):
and then you add onto that the nuances of the
stunts and the blitzer and then the physicality and the competitiveness.
It was beautiful. It was. And then offensive line they
did the same thing to Stanford's front. They were tossing
his around Bruce those in two or three guys are
tackles scrappy and the thing that you always like to
(21:42):
see from offensive linemen that I enjoyed outside. I'll give one.
There was one play that was an exception. There was
the sack on Bear in the deep red zone where
I think it was third down after the penalty, where
there was an unbought player off the edge. Other than
that play, they always had their target. They always were
straight up with the targets, which to me is like, Okay,
(22:03):
that's like a good sign, right because at least you're
trying to block and get somebody's way. That gives you
a chance, whereas you just let guys go, you don't
have a chance. You know, it's minimal, right, Well, actually
know there's two and the other one was that fourth
down play. So there's two plays where their their front
got a little confused. And by the way, Stanford has
a very kind of complex scheme like we do. And
again it would make sense, right because you've got guys
(22:25):
that are academic and can retain information. Not all, not
all guys can do that at college. Okay, I mean
I couldn't. I'm one of them. I could just put
my hand in the dirt and say, dude, when that
ball moves, just go and you know, run over the
tackle or run around him. Figure it out. You know
I could do that, but you got all these things
and there it gets a little complicated. The point is,
is there the offensive line and the defensive line where
(22:46):
the funnest thing to watch and our backs around hard.
You know. But but that to me is like, if
I'm looking at where we're at right now, we're as
good in our fronts as we've ever been, and that
is a good sign. Now it's a matter of let's
let's clean up the intricacies of offensive timing, you know,
receiver quarterback. I think you know, Chase Roberts in his
(23:08):
postgame interview hit it hit this on the head. Was
like what they're asking, what are you gonna do with
the Biwick? Get with bear? You know? And I think
that's probably I think the biggest residual of Jake leaving
when he left is the lack of chemistry between the
quarterback position and the receiving court. Right now, they can
get that cleaned up, because I mean, dude, Stampers defense
is just selling out against the running in which every
team is going to do that, and you know that
(23:30):
Chase is looking at that going, man, I got guys
one on one constantly that I can beat. And by
the way, if they ended up having some success at
the end of the game of the long four yard
past the Chase, but they they're licking their chops as
a receiving court like this is exactly what you hope for,
is a running game that is so threatening to a
defense that they have to abandon two high safeties, a
(23:52):
lot of those softis own coverages, and now there's just
a manned man. And if you're Chase, you know you
can beat almost any corner man the man at any time,
or at least you'll know that that Roderick will successfully
set you up scheme wise, which a lot of times
he does as good as anybody. So there's a lot
to do improve on. But man, those offensive and defensive
line competitive spirit, physicality was to me the most impressive thing.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Of that game.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Love that breakdown from Brady papinga b why he's going
to be able to run the ball Aaron Roderick's been
adamant about it, and LJ is a big part of that.
It will she only look nice if you have to
go to RB three RB four Joe vesa look good
good I think versus Portland State. Preston Rex has received
some good reviews from the coaching staff throughout Fall camp
(24:40):
as well.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
How do you feel about the depth of the running
back room right now?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I like it. You know, Domani, that dude number twenty
eight we'll talk about right, Yep, he is. He's a
stunt dude. That dude was hitting the holes like a
freaking missile. And even when he got in there against
stafford ly in the game. So I think there are
at least three d And you're right about Rex. He's
looked really surprised that people were surprised because it was
a safety. How many times I see safety here to
running back?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
You know, when he made the conversion his like final year,
he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's right, that's right. And so yeah, I like that
death of running back, you know. But it's it's special
to have a guy like Elgier back there who is
your bell cow and then is saying kind of player
where it's like you bet, like even when they get
a two yard game, it is a bludgering, it's a
it's a it's still like your your hit. Those like
(25:36):
body blows and comparing it to boxing. In the boxing
match where it's still a gag. It took all of
us to do that, you know, and all it takes
is for one guy to be out of a position
Boom it's out, you know, which happened in his long run.
You know, it's very very similar. Defend the way they
defended it. But all it took was for a right
tackle to drive. He basically drove the number eleven four
(25:56):
of Stafford all the way across the formation, which created
too big of a gap for all the other defenders
to really fill up, and then boom, LJ was out,
you know. And that's why every like I said, even
like those two n two are excuse me, like the
two yard runs or the no guinn runs, they still
have an effect on the defense because it just takes
everything to make that happen. And you just know, as
(26:17):
the defense, dude, if we don't do that every single time,
we're gonna give up something. And it's hard for us
to do that. And so that that still leads to
the success of your running game, even though you're you know,
you might be geting stuffed here and there, and that's
where the patients come in and that's where you have
to believe that you're gonna wear them out. Which that's
what that's what I think. You know, we're hopeful for
b YU. So yeah, I mean I think their their
(26:38):
their depth there is really good, you know. And uh
and and the thing that I love most because I
love this style, is the physicality even you know, I
think Bears showed the physical run there and the touchdown
running over the linebacker. I thought it was a safety.
Had to go back to the film and yeah, it
was thirty five under my linebacker. He trucked them, buckled
his leg and I don't know if you know Bears
(26:58):
should be doing that every single play. But yeah, I
mean that's it's fun. I mean, this is the most
physical I would say this is the most physical BAU
team that I can remember. So let's let's see if
we can get some also some balance here, you know,
get some get some plays downfield, which they, like I said,
they're starting to get later in the game, be more
consistent in the red zone. And and man, it's it's
going to be very very exciting to see where they
(27:20):
can peek at as a team because I think there's
just a lot of us ad, especially with a true
freshman quarterback, built around these physical fronts that you have
both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Rady. Last thing before we let you go.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
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Speaker 4 (29:07):
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Always a pleasure and go too.
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