HOUR 1 | Utah Jazz Schedule Released | What Utah Football Player Cracks ESPN's Top 100 List?

hey this is JJ and Alex as you wrap up your day it's time to get your fix of the teams you live for and the sports you love this is JJ analex presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone what's going on everybody thanks for being with us it is the KSL Sport Zone 975 the KSL Sport Zone Alex cury Jeremiah Jensen JJ and Alex with you right here JJ what's up man everything good in your world one day closer to football doesn't it feel all care it feels like we're getting further away to be honest because what happens is so close sh so far away is that what you're saying well let me give you let me give people a little Peak behind the curtain of uh Sports media these days coaches go I'll do this much and then after that nothing else and so they've been really good about giving us people during camp and getting as many folks as we can get on as we can handle I love it but at some point what they do is as they get closer to the game prep they shut it down even more becomes it becomes more and more that uh what's your what is that what what's the old offensive line uh Broncos offensive line group they used to do the kangaroo court or whatever it was yeah it's like we're our own people we're in here this is us inside this little space and no one can get in here okay I'm fine with it keep all your secrets we're gonna find out about them eventually we're gonna find out about all the things exposed it's fine I Love It Go from you can't watch any practices don't you ever know I mean like we'll have some availability but you can't you can't sniff video anywhere close to any of this stuff and then in the end we get yeah we get the team provide a video which is like slow motion catches in the corner of the endzone that like you know how the edits are too on those highlights oh yeah it's like a lot of Smash cut stuff it's like a lot of quick moving it's like when you watch cutting out the formation it's like when you yes and it's like when you watch fights in movies they're like oh they film it right here and it looks like it's more there's more action going on than there actually is yes that's there's there's there's some art to it and and so I get a little bit grumpy because this time of year all we're doing is just speculating on everything but you know what that's what Sports Talk Radio is just a massive amount of speculation and we're going to be doing a lot of speculating over lots of speculating over the next three hours so join us along this uh along this journey here that we're going to call today's what is it Thursday already gosh dang man time flies two weeks from tonight oh thank what's gonna happen thank heavans yeah Utah's got to be on video then kickoff at R cycle Stadium ah yes fired up yes man see some slow motion shots you know what starts tonight I'm not going to I'm not going to dig in it too much cuz I know not everyone's interested but the Utah high school football season officially kicks off tonight Sky ridet timu bro we're going to be I forgot we're going to be at American Fork tomorrow tomorrow we will be doing the show from American Fork High School you want me to PA for you if you'd like I I mean I just want to get I just want to get some free food usually there's some TV food over there you can stick around oh yeah weater no I was going to say no they do you know you're getting you know you're getting fed right yes that's what I'm saying you're on the team oh I get to be yes cuz I'm down there you can have some pizza it's okay sometimes it's burritos oh last year I went it was like a it was like a Mediterranean salad situation I was all I was all about it absolutely yes High School Football starting tonight and then tomorrow we're going to be down at American Fork full schedule tomorrow everybody across the state's playing AF and CC tomorrow night Corner Canyon can you believe it top 25 team in the country I believe how do they do that how can you rank a a high school football because I love when it's all number 21 out of 7,497 it's typically win streaks who you beat who's coming back all that stuff factors into it how many fourar kids do you have on your team Corner Canyon has a fstar wide receiver who is it jome miles oh that's right yeah where's he going to school well he was committed to Old Miss and then he decommitted so now we don't know but youahs firmly in the mix there of course his high school quarterback last year was Isaac Wilson I was gonna say that would be a nice pairing up at the you and I think that Kyle Whittingham and Company Be Love would love to have that pairing next year give me some tampering give me that you you you got that wide receiver give me that I'm just joking you committed give me that I'm joking oh my goodness all right hard to tell anybody are you I'm going to it's early we already got a uh I think you should leave reference early in the program 306 and it's already done in the bag all right we're going to uh jump into the program right now we've got tons going on in the show today we're going to be bringing some awesome guests get an update uh Camp down at BYU uh I think Utah's final availability with their assistances today so we'll we'll uh as soon as we get sound we'll we'll bring it to you and we'll uh we'll download it for you we'll get you going we have all those things plus much much more but like I said three plus hours of speculating right now tomorrow what 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. oh that's tomorrow so we can promise you tomorrow we will hear tomorrow we're gonna have sound Utah's assistant coach and by the way that's their last availability the rest of camp no final availability that is it is it mut from then until they're like no we're game prep mode you're like for the next 17 days or the next 14 days they're like yeah man we got lots of prepping to do you got speculating to do we got prepping to do our program brought to you by G2G bars all natural ingredients and no preservatives make the G2G bar perfect for anybody who 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games Okay so the team so the so the times are up on the schedule the games are out everything's Set uh networks everything do the Jazz have Network games this year uh do you can do you count NBA TV oh no okay then two okay ESPN and there's a possibility with the NBA cup that those games could be on but as of right now they have two nationally broadcast games I guess we'll start there Thursday January 30th against Rudy goar Mike connley and the Minnesota Timberwolves that game is on TNT at8 o'clock those the T it is a home game those are the guys on the team you mentioned Mike connley and Rudy go oh Anthony Edwards is on that team too I get listen I get why it's of Interest like can we get a little bit more creative about I guess if you're I guess if we're the Jazz look you know how it is with us we're going to get shorted here in this market right and then they go well let's get the Jazz I guess their obligatory two games on on TNT or ESPN let's give them the two obligatory games and then well which ones should we pick I don't know who used to be on the team is there something interesting there well Timberwolves they got Rudy goar and uh wait didn't the t-wolves where's Joe Engles now he just signed with the t- Wolves that's what I'm saying yes so now you got the three-headed monster that's actually what they're calling it in Minnesota I heard too right Mike Connelly Rudy goar and Joe Engles and everyone's like Joe Engles do you know ray gun do you know the break dancer of Australia I gotta get to Joe Engles I gotta see what he knows about ray gun so the the schedule rolls out here is what it looks like we got preseason matchups uh I think yeah what do we have here so the preseason home games preseason so you got preseason games are going to be knocked out yeah nobody cares Portland's the final one what do they play oh they play new newand is that what's going on so you got New Zealand the breakers yeah it's the is it the uh is it the All Blacks let's go uh yeah the basketball team are they well I don't know either way New Zealand to start things off then they have a a five-game preseason slate but we start off in Earnest the first home game of the season is against Memphis on the 23rd and it is the season opener that's awesome home season opener and season opener on the 23rd of October so that's where we are by the way need I remind you the 8th of October air two weeks before that hockey will have started in Earnest as well so I what I want is somebody to do a mashup of the two schedules on top of each other of right there that's going to be intense okay between the startup of the hockey season the startup of the basketball season so you go Memphis Golden State those are your first two home games then you go to Dallas and then you come back again for SA Sacramento and San Antonio so four out of the first five games are at home not a bad start I don't like nothing jumps out here to me of course you have the the NBA Cup playoffs that are early December earlyish December right that that uh you know the second week of December through the third week of of of December uh other than that it's look this is uh this is a it's a pretty straightforward schedule they got a lot going on here and this Jazz team has got to figure some things out this season not the least of which is how are they going to lose some games I'm not I'm not saying it as a joke though you know that they're not PL they're not game planning to lose games but at the same time you know that that's going to be what happens this year well here's how you lose a lot of games from November 2nd to November 21st you have eight Road games out of 10 boy jeez that that'll help not even one of those you know what I was looking at it's not even one of those crazy East Coast swings either it's like it's a massive mix of being all over the board they go Chicago Milwaukee San Antonio and a West Coast trip Phoenix Dallas I don't like any of that so bottom line is you've got yourself a uh you've got yourself a Full Slate it's right in front of you that month of March by the way is Hefty okay look how look how look how ridiculous that schedule is and by the way they have more Sunday home games than they've had in probably their history right four four Sunday home games which is part of the game you you have to play now with with the NBA especially with having a hockey team in your building you're going have to play Sunday games yeah you can't go you can't be as picky as they were before and I know that the the Millers were like hey if if they if they've got Sunday games we don't and I think that that's shifted too you have a lot of they they put 18,000 butts in the seats in Salt Lake for those home games on Sunday all right relax so uh I don't know in terms of what it is 15 backto backs three holiday games Allstar Weekend beginning uh on Valentine's Day those are kind of the uh the highlights there I don't know is there a strength of schedule situation already it's out is 15 back to backs the the typical thing of what you got I mean is that is that what we're looking at crazy I don't think anyone's published yet um and gone through all the schedules to see who has the most but I mean do we care I mean that's kind of good right not good for the players but we all know what the goal is this season so so you you like the rack up the rack up the backto backs make it more difficult on this team at the very least you're crank up the degree of difficulty at the very least you're I mean I don't know do they have is Larry Markin in on like a pitch count you know where it's like I don't do the I don't do the back Tob backs man and I don't think he's got to that point now if he's got if he's if he's banged up a little bit then you might take it that way but Low's a young dude you know so I think that you know these 15 back-to-backs that the Jazz have that's good especially you know how it is too those back-to-backs a lot of times are uh an immediate trip back home or an immediate trip from home back to somewhere else or maybe they do a a golden state and Sacramento back-to-back type situation and so most of the time those back-to-backs are it's a I mean they've got a seven game Road Trip between December 3rd and December 26 that's also a tough one and well the whole month of December they're on the road it's it's wild and you just revealed too that in November they're going to be November 2nd through the 21st they've got eight out of 10 on the road so it's going to be a hefty schedule so at least the back end of it they're going to be playing a lot more yeah you go back more home games to March and they're playing eight straight home games yeah so go figure it's a weird schedule obviously having to mix hockey in for the first time is is challenging the NBA is going to has had to adjust to that so I'm sure they'll figure it out but this first year I think this is why the way they had to do it and you know it's not one of those years where if the Jabs were a contender you're looking at imagine if the Jazz were a contender with this schedule we'd be having a much different conversation like my goodness you are you trying to put what are you trying to do this team in November and December with that many road games do they just do they say hey we don't really do anything with this we punch it into the computer and then that's it because a you have to have some help from you know from from some AI is this an AI generated schedule JJ is that where we're at in 2024 if it is that would explain why it's weird it is a weird schedule it's not what we're used to maybe that's what I should say right it's just not what we're used to uh that many road games and that many home games I mean when's the last time you remember the Jazz having an eight game home standand that's wild well it's a weird thing too because it's like that I think that eight game home stand starts prior to yeah it does it starts the 12th of February and then Allstar the Allstar Weekend happens they come back from the All-Star break and they play but that makes it even more seven straight home games yeah so they go from February 12th yeah a home game against the Lakers their next Road game isn't until March 5th that's crazy that's awesome and then they go on a five game East Coast road trip but still and they have a lot of uh you go to March they got another big chunk of home games so weird imbalanced schedule for the Utah Jazz not that it matters that much we know what this team is we know what's going to how how this season's going to play out in some sense as far as you know this is not a team that's going to be hurt trying to contend and having to deal with this tough schedule we know who the Jazz are but it is different than what we're used to seeing is my my observation so yeah you're not going to see this team at home a lot early in the season you're going to have a lot of chances to go see them lateer in the season seon mostly after the allar or after the trade deadline which is kind of interesting right so I was actually looking at last year strength of schedule rankings I I'm sure somebody has probably come out with it already or at least they're working on it right so the strength of of opponents and their so the NBA has in their Advanced stats they've got the composite NBA Power Rankings okay and then with that they're able to determine your strength of schedule based off of that the Jazz last year according to this this uh the these this strength of schedule and this index that they have the average opponent rank versus what they're you know where they're at the Jazz had the second hardest go they played the no no they tied they actually tied with the Trailblazers on opponent they had the highest rated opponent rank that they faced all season long them and the Trailblazers and then guess so you have a 21 win team a 31- win team the Spurs were third most difficult at 22 wins and then you got to the king the should have felt slided because they're like hey the bad teams in front of us in the west had had a hard schedule but we had of all the teams that were you know playoff contenders they they had a beef there they had the hardest schedule after everything was kind of looked at now the the type of thing where I I like this way of doing the rankings on the composite like strength of schedule because it was after the season it was like hey by the way looking at your schedule now after the season was over because we can guess the strength of schedule but the reality is is how good are the Lakers going to be how good are the Grizzlies this year uh how good are the the Rockets were an improved team last year so after the after the season was over the Jazz were determined to have the second most difficult schedule in the entire NBA that's that's pretty crazy right it is is it just because the team wasn't that good compared to where they've been probably does the it's kind of like what we do with college football right we talking about oh man they got a difficult schedule well because yeah because your perception of that team is they're not as good as the other teams are playing and then you look at the team with the what is perceived as easy schedule well yeah because they're so good you think they're going to win all these games so sometimes you have to take that into consideration The Challenge and the difficulty comes in how many backto backs uh how many days in between like in college football do they have a bye-week in between you know in the NBA you're looking okay they have that long stretch of home games but it's over the uh St break so it's really different so you you have to take everything into consideration you want to oh my goodness how do the jazs not have a rivalry week game is there oh yeah they're trying to do the Rivalry week they weren't included in rivalry week how dare they well last year last year no last year I thought they had the Nuggets they weren't in it either last year oh okay do the Jazz have a who are the Jazz Rivals right now don't say the Lakers because everybody will say the Lakers it's not it's not they don't have Lakers suck yesterday and they suck again today yeah we'll see how their schedule shakes out by the way I'm looking at the same Advanced stats uh toughest schedules in the NBA you want to hear the weirdest thing about this whole list basically the only teams so the entire West had more difficult schedules than the entire East okay the toughest schedules all 16 teams in the west had tough schedules on this metric I'm going to show you the the screen here all of the teams in the west had the mo had and then guess what it starts with the Pistons from 17 all the way to 30 wow every Eastern team had a what does that tell you uh it tells you that if you're going to lose games and I think it's even more I think it's even more this season than it was last year the West is good man the West has gotten better the West is so competitive that that's there's a reason why those strength of schedules after they looked at it there's not one there's not one I thought maybe they'd split it up between completely split 100% it goes up to the 16 teams in the west there's no there's no Western team in the bottom 16 all Eastern teams and here are the here are the easiest schedules according to this metric 15 I should say here here are the here are the easiest schedules per the these rankings the Knicks at 25 the magic at 26 the Cavs at 27 the Celtics at 28 your world champions had the third easiest schedule of the entire NBA last year wasn't that the criticism the playoffs their playoff path was too easy and look look they won 64 games with the easiest with the third easiest schedule in the entire league and this is after the season where they go well look we broke it all down and here's what your schedule was it was this difficult compared to the rest and the heat had the easiest schedule in the entire NBA last season so it shows you just much of an imbalance there is a competitive imbalance in the league still even though we thought maybe that was going to go away because the West has been the PowerHouse for a long time wouldn't this be the argument for being able to have like uh an actual mixed seating in the in the playoffs 100% 100% I think we should they should absolutely do that isn't that better TV too 100% should be better parody Le on paper yeah you're going to get better first round matchups and imagine a first imagine a first round match up between you know the the you think about like the Warriors and the and the Pacers what was the most memorable Playoff Series last year uh see I have a I have a really that's not good but I've got a bad memory too that's not good Pac Pacers Knicks did they play each other there wasn't one yeah Pacers Knicks was Pacers Knicks was fun because they kept showing it was a good theyt they kept showing uh uh Reggie Miller in the crowd and they kept showing uh Spike Lee in the crowd was like a throwback to the old school one so this is like this this this list and looking at the schedule now for the Jazz it's a difficult go for him and it is going to be like this every year you're going to have teams that play way way better you're going to have teams that play way better because their schedule is a lot easier and then we Wonder too you're like well I mean yeah this this this kind of makes me grumpy this kind of makes me mad about the NBA just because the East I don't know I don't know if they set it up like this it's right and I know the Celtics won the the world title I know they beat the Western Conference Champs they didn't have to go through the gauntlet right the Mavericks the Mavericks did the Mavericks were Wasted by the time they got there one more point I'll make about that with the schedule imbalance is people say well how are the Jazz going to be in position to be in great Lottery position sorry for the red see there if they resign Larry Market well look at their schedule and look who have to play in the west like they they they're going to take a lot of else right just because the West is so good and so can the Jazz be in a good position even with Lowry absolutely they can um could you tank a lot harder than they without him of course you could but you don't want to let somebody who's 7even feet and shoots 40% from three walk just cuz you're you're you you're you want to put yourself in the in in in line for a wish I guarantee that if they were to do this next year the Jazz will probably be in that top five of most difficult schedules when everything shakes out and you know what that is good for business yeah good for Danny a good for Justin zanic trying to figure out how they're gonna it's a lot easier to lose games I know that sounds stupid because they're not planning on losing games but they are they're built to lose games how about that make the T-shirt up hey t-shir built to lose 2024 how dare you that's so rude sorry built to lose uh built to lose and then they put and then it's like comma built to last there you go so it's like they're built look there's a there's a point to it there's a beginning and an end there they're gonna stink right now uh short-term pain long-term gain it's it's a tough thing to go through Jazz are getting in the gym all right we'll take a break here we'll come back we got more to go right around the corner stay with us 975 the KSL Sport Zone ladies and gentlemen you're locked in to JJ and Alex with the insight and analysis on the teams you can't live without presented by G2G bars this is 975 the KSL Sports Zone [Music] all right everybody Welcome Back JJ and Alex 975 the KSL Sports Zone Alex KY Jeremiah Jensen thanks for being with us on the program today hey uh [Music] did you see that uh RG3 just lost his gig with ESPN man wow ESPN dropping the axe yeah uh Sam Ponder and RG3 I really enjoyed Sam Ponder does the uh NFL Countdown show on Sunday mornings I think right she worked one day a week probably pulled down a nice little salary for it uhhuh uh of course the wife of Christian Ponder how long is his career in the NFL played for the Vikings for a hot minute yeah he's a guy who blew up BYU from uh remember will never forget Christian p i was that I was there that day I was too BYU was ranked nationally that was the year they beat wash they beat Washington the week before that so they beat so they beat uh Oklahoma in that first week and then they beat udub the week after did they I'm pretty sure what year was 2008 I remember they beat Oklahoma they vaulted up into like the top 15 top 10 everybody was talking about them they they whipped two lane down at the at the super doome oh that's what it was and then they came home they hung 70 on uh I think it was an unranked Florida State team it was one of Bobby Bowen's last year I told you this is like one of my favorite stories cuz he would cuz he got he got the a Shucks thing going on with everybody man this team's so good because I used to DOA state was an underdog Provo and they came in and I want to say it was like 56 to 28 or something bun kicking oh he and then like and he winked at us after the game he's like what' I tell yall watch out watch out for Florida State CHR p played Four Seasons in the NFL all with the fight wow yeah BYU was seventh in that game by the way yeah Max Hall Max Hall was nothing to sneeze at either there was a good football team and that was a BYU football team that finished ranked in the top 15 if I remember right it was was one of the highest end of season rankings in that's the year they uh that they went to the Vegas Bowl and crushed uh oreg State yeah yeah in a windy C game that was miserable yeah ugly game for the cougs that day man uh by the way a little piece of history that was B Bobby Bow's last top 10 win of his career win against the top 10 team that was a random trip down memory lane I know what was it was 2009 yeah that was 2009 now I'm now I'm I'm really wanting to see what BYU's football schedule was in 2009 because I I they went 11 and two by way they were really good yeah you're right yeah it was it was Oklahoma they hung 54 on Tane it was 543 down at the super doome remember that kick their butt they lost 5428 to Florida State and then they rattled off gosh remember these days of offense Colorado State they beat him they they they beat him 4223 they beat the agies 3517 they beat the UNLV Rebels 5921 they put 38 on the San Diego Aztecs and a win they lost to TCU that might have been a a was that a an ESPN College Game Day game they got their butts handed but TCU was eighth ranked in the country at the time they were really good they scored they they shut out W it was in Fort Worth do you remember they shut out no that was no that was in Provo that was at lville Edwards Stadium oh you're right it was they got beat they got beat by four touchdowns at home they came to Provo and whipped them but then they went to laramy and won 52 to zero you think do you think Wyoming fans remember that one uh gosh they remember every be they won the bowl game 44 to 20 the days of scoring 40 points like at the drop of a half that BYU offense had Max Hall yes Harvey young at running back and Dennis Pitt at tight end oh my goodness I mean they were loaded they had tons of great players McKay Jacobson was Ashworth kid on that team remember JJ du Luigi oh du Luigi yes the old uh how many times Dida oh do you remember how many times did uh JJ deluigi get pulled after fumbling for games oh man I hate these memories are you kidding me that BYU team was great it was you think BYU fans wouldn't take Max Hall Harvey and Dennis P right now yeah the end of the season we'd have a completely different conversation the end of the season ranked 13th and they yeah 119 team was really really good yeah uh here's what we have speaking of local teams here I want to get to this list that ESPN put out which is their top 100 players in college football and it is if you're a BYU fan no BYU players in the top 100 in college football okay at least according to this list how many how many Utah players would you guess or would you feel should be on it I already know the answer which is unfortunate because I think if we would have gone through and said hey don't look just guess at which Utah players made this list because you top players made this list I'd go okay I'd go well cam Rising yeah brt keithy yeah uh second team All-American preseason I would say maybe Junior tauna um maybe Dorian singer uh after that maybe you start maybe you look at like a like a Lander Barton could be there I mean obviously he's uh he's he's young still and he was injured last year but so maybe he would be left off because they forget about him so how many Utah players are on this list one brt keithy no cam Rising made the list what number was cam was it 53 let me scroll down here that's yes it is it's 53 let me let me just read to you what they said on the write up of uh of Cam Rising senior uh not ranked last year because he was uh obviously injured major knee injury sideline Rising for all 2023 did you know that news to me okay before that he uh took the UTS to back to pack backto back pack 12 titles obviously and First Team all Pack 12 selection uh before getting an honorable mention nod the next year but for reference Noah ffid at at Arizona is 51 and I think it's just a 100% based off of what that there's some recency bias there's there's going to be some recency bias if you haven't played in a year and maybe that's the reason that that uh that Brandt keithy is is not on this list right who actually I mean be be very truthful about this who deserves to be on this list cam Rising uh this is do the top 100 players in the country there's 130 teams so obviously you're not going to have I don't have a problem with this I don't I think by the end of the season we could have a different conversation okay but right now based on everything you think about it we talk a lot about cam Rising coming back and Brant keithy coming back if we're honest there's a lot of new faces on the Utah team oh yeah like Dorian singer transfer uh we we see Mike Mitchells who's a freshman running back who could have impact right there's different guys in different positions that are new are coming back from injury McKai Bernard coming back from injury missed a lot of last season right we didn't see them play last year so there's it's been a minute for some of these guys uh even Junior tuna dealt with some injuries last year um Conor OU Etc my point being is there's a lot of guys on this Utah roster that um let's say for instance um a Cole bishop or a caky decided to come back for one more year they would be top 100 you get my point yeah they lost their best players from last season that played last season to the NFL They're bringing back some of their best players from 2022 but it's tough to judge those players because we haven't seen them for so long so I'm okay with this cam rising in the 50s yes his his resume is awesome but he has not been on the field for quite a while so I get it I get why youd put him behind Noah FF because Noah faid also didn't play all of last season because he was the number two quarterback and once he started he went nuts so there's this expectation that he's going to be as productive at the same rate as he was in the games that he actually played so I see why Noah fed is ahead of him he's also got an All-American receiver he's throwing to in fact McMillan is top 10 in this list I think or close to it well I start if you if you really start to tedar Roan McMillan is number 13 on this list of the top 100 players in the country highest rated Big 12 player yeah I think oh no sorry olly Gordon is number one in the Big 12 but number two okay impr but see here's the other reason that uh sorry number three Hun's number three sorry to talk over you no no no here's the other reason uh you should be a little bit pissed when you see this stuff Miller Moss you know who that is yes I do that's USC's quarterback he threw for 640 yards last year and seven touchdowns he's on the list had a nice bowl game that nobody cared about no one cared about yeah he threw for six of those seven touchdowns in one game why why is he hyped freaking USC well it's USC right he must be good oh his head coach is look he's he's produced all these Heisman Trophy winners he must be good oh my God uh I think there's going to be some disappointment there so will Howard he's not a Heisman Trophy quarterback will Howard uh Kansas State transfer to Ohio State who won the job by the way congrats sure he beat out uh Corner Canyon own Devin Brown for that for that starting job at he's so good I keep calling him Will Rogers so will Howard not on this list guess who is the guy who replaced him at Kansas State Avery Johnson and for good reason because Avery johnon has star potential you think he's too low Jeremy 90 was he 93 Avery Johnson 91 but he only he had like he had like 650 yards passing last year in like four touchdowns I think he'll be an all Big 12 QB potential I'm sure but if we're going off of recency bias the guessing game of I mean there's a freaking Old Dominion linebacker who's on this list like come on don't disrespect I'm just I look Riley Leonard Riley Leonard because he's at Notre Dame this year was it because he was at Duke right and then he transferred to Notre Dame and then he got an ankle injury and guess what he's he's he's the quarterback at Notre Dame he had kind of a me season before he got injured and then he stats don't mean yeah of course not but they do when you want to make the argument that the guy should be on the list anyway let me have some fun here okay so there's some cornerbacks at the end of this list Diario Davis Arizona Jr had uh 15 pass breakups 16 pass deflections one interception okay that's good uh he was uh honorable mention all Pack 12 so he's top 100 on this list he was just honorable mention Pack 12 last year uh let me keep going up Aiden white number 98 cornerback NC State two interceptions 23 tackles 10 pass deflections um and then number 100 is also a quarterback AAR Thomas quarterback Florida State no interceptions I can make a case that zamaya Von at Utah and Jacob Robinson at BYU are just as good as those guys so let me throw that bone Utah and BYU fans way like I think Jacob Robinson has top 100 potential I think zamaya vaugh has top 100 potential I think I Larson up at Utah State has top 100 potential there's also one glaring um Omission from this top 100 list that is not you or cougar and it's Jaylen Royals and that is probably my biggest problem with this list Jaylen Royals is one of the best receivers in the country yeah how does he not make the top 100 in this list when he's an All-American candidate I don't understand that by the way that's my problem with this list is they're really really this is this list that ESPN put out is extremely power for heavy and specifically power too heavy right uh although I will say it took you one six there's not a quarterback it took you to get to number seven where Carson Beck was listed as the number seven player in the top 100 the quarterback for Georgia is he the top quarterback in the country I there's no way right I I've never thought to myself I guess he threw for 4,000 yards last year but he only but I mean like yeah who's there running back ATN he's he's as big of a deal look and olly Gordon is number eight on the list welld deserved won the do Walker last year ran for almost 1,00 yards but man we got to take is Dylan Gabriel better is shadur Sanders better is Quinn ERS better is Jaylen milro better uh Noah fa no fa better yeah is Jackson Dart better see where's Jackson dart on this that's a good question Jackson Dart 41 that is low dude right by the way guess who's in front of him at 40 Jaylen Daniels if we're talking recency bias then what the hell man how was Jaylen Daniels ahead of C I know all that that I have a problem that is that's just that's f D Daniels hasn't accomplished anything cam has well you know what the accomplishment is that they wrote down he was last year's Big 12 preseason offensive player of the year sideline with back problems you're like what when he's healthy he's one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the country what about an actual Dynamic quarterback who threw for 3500 yards and 24 touchdowns last year Jackson Dart come on all right we'll take a break we'll uh come back when we do we've got uh are would you rather rting around the corner nominate your Youth Sports volunteer that you know for the Hercules hero of the week MIT that nomination Kel sports.com contest we want to make sure that you get those people nominated on the list let's get it going uh Kos sports.com contest and we'll uh we'll read those off and you can just what do they get they get themselves a nice uh gift card from Hercules Credit Union and a $200 toward beehive meals so nominate that person who does an amazing job in the Youth Sports in your area KSL sports.com contest okay would you rather next right around the corner Mitch Harper by the way our BYU Insider going to join us at 4:00 so stay over with us 975d KL Sport Zone to get your brain churning as JJ and Alex asked would you [Music] rather all right welcome back JJ and Alex 975 KSL Sports Zone Mitch Harper our BYU Insider for KSL sports.com is going to give us an update on Camp things going on down at BYU and their preparations for the season we got you know what we have to do we got to find uh we got to get that Nick Sav quote quit asking that's what we need just so just so we 10c internet I'm GNA because I'm gonna we've not done our job if we're if we're not playing that because it's like hey coach uh who's the starting quarterback this week quit asking all right I'm not going to answer it so quit asking I think we're one week away from colani saying that exact line to the BYU media it's not a week away it's basically next Monday again like when week four fires up and everybody goes hey colani um how are you how's practice today uh quick question how's the quarterback battle going just a little question for you quit asking I don't know I think at some point now there's stuff that Utah doesn't want to talk about either is there any separation in the running back room quit asking like stop asking about separation in the freaking doesn't respect one of them I'm not going to so quit asking all right there we go are you gonna can you answer me this question coach that's what it needs to be I'm not g I'm not gonna answer it so quit asking it's unfortunate that there uh that the stadium was jamming to uh to the half show already when Nick sa was asked that question but there you go uh all right would you rather let's roll it out here would you rather have game worn memorabilia from an NBA Finals win or game-winning apparel from an Olympic gold medal game like such as the a Steph Curry hitting all the three-pointers game War jersey in the gold medal game versus an NBA Finals game now I think the thing is is that like a Dream Team game worn piece of memorability we had the chance to buy a bunch from Carl Malone last year remember that whole do you remember that we could never get budget approval know Nate didn't want to buy didn't want us Wast money $4,000 Jersey I know gear I come on and it was like short shorts short running shorts from the Olympics uh I don't know now if you threw a wrinkle in here I I probably go Olympic gold medal game but how about we throw a wrinkle in here how about Ray gun's oh uh the Hat the suit or the Hat the hat that she spun on did she spin on it she certainly she certainly dragged it across the ground that would be tough you have the whole the hat and and the Adidas jumpsuit hanging on your wall who who wouldn't bid on that who wouldn't bid on that first of all never I'd be wearing it you'd be wearing it absolutely I'll never wash this I would wear r guns uh dance outfit I would get it well you know I'd have to have it taken out a little bit some adjustments made they're all what happened you're like can you make this in seem like a 33 they're like she's like 5'8 I'm all yeah just had a few inches on the pants give me some midsection to work with here come on I want to look like ray gun when I go to my next by the way Halloween by Halloween Dred up like Ray Gun we better have some ray guns out there come on doing the crane I know the crane my favorite was when people uh Photoshopped it in against Johnny in the in the All Valley karate tournament amazing all right people are so funny man joining us on the show right now Haley I'm sorry we we're just jamming over here about the about Olympic I know I just like listen big ray gun fan big everybody the break dancing routine scen around the world right all right 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