HOUR 2 | Who Will BE Starting For BYU Cougars At Quarterback?

it's a Friday and we're talking football nonstop stop all football all the time this is another edition of football Friday with JJ and Alex presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone I mean obviously we're just keeping it down low up until game time but we've been able to I guess kind of figure out over practices and stuff who the guy's going to be you know who we can meet with to prepare for the game when it comes game one who to watch film with a little bit more so we know as receivers but we're going to keep it down low up until game time all right welcome back JJ and Alex 975 KSL Sport Zone Alex cury Jeremiah Jensen Riley Nelson and Stevenson Sylvester our very first fo uh football Friday of the Season where at Lehigh where the leers are going to be hosting the Bingham miners how does this one hand cap tonight you guys are going to have the call on Game Night Live on how how's this one I mean is it do we have hey Jeremy do they have lines for high school games buddy not going to get get into that what are you headed to wind over here shortly to go put some some Skittles better hurry game started seven uh Lehi is the favorite clearly I think Lehi is the team in 6A who has the best chance to challenge Corner Canyon this year uh jet new is their returning quarterback this is a second year starting uh they got Devon EK at running back they're they're really good in the trenches Rock Olson who's going to go to Utah state is Mama is yeah they're really good so they got a lot of talent uh Bingham is still good in the trenches uh they're not what they once were as a program um they don't have the D1 FBS even you know there's no power forward you know that I know of so there's a little bit of a talent discrepancy but bingham's really tough in the trenches and they're really good offensively the the charger doie the safety for bham is really really good and can play the next level uh but they're going to have a hard time keeping up with Lehi offensively uh that's 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for BYU it's not just a a rust knocked off situation uh for the cougs versus the Salukis uh this is this is one that everybody is going to have their eyeballs on I'm fascinated by this whole the quarterback controversy back in it's not a controversy it's just the the quarterback battle obviously A-Rod and and BYU keeping it close to the vest I don't remember I mean there have been times where we we you know colani will go so and so's getting the start and this 20 minutes before the game time right Riley really so and so's going to be get the start today so and so it can go whatever uh there's part of me that goes come on just like tell us who it's going to be and then there's part of me that goes keep a black sheet around the person all the way up until the snap like there's I love the idea of keeping it like just absolutely under wrapped because you don't want to give an advantage to the other team fine but it's it's also kind of brings a little bit of more of that uh Hollywood script I love all that yeah but there's no advantage to the other team there's no advantage or disadvantage to the other team go tell me conference game yeah not even a confence yeah not only that you have we now have let's see Rodrick took over in 2021 so 21 22 23 we're going into our fourth season of Aaron Rodrick heavily and then we also have another season with him at Utah and with Jeff Grimes you're studying the office oh my gosh give me a break and also here's what you've seen like Zach Wilson slightly different uh skill set than jiren hall jiren Hall different than Baylor Romney like all the guy but guess what whoever Aaron rodri trots out they run the same plays it's like you're going to get you're going to get wide Zone you're going to get play action shots off the wide Zone you're going to get drop you're going to get your drop back passing game mostly in the gun and like that's it they're going to be they're going to try and get the majority of their passing game off the boot they're going to try and get their quarterback out in space so that's not so here's the but here's you say black sheet it is because if they say who it is then you have a flurry of opinions going into that game that as much as you try and buffer or inoculate your players yeah to not and not just the quarterback himself but also the rest of the roster around against those opinions they see into the program so that's what it's doing it has nothing to do with preparation or any Competitive Edge the what it's doing is keeping everyone's opinions out and then you put a product on the field and people can actually Give opinions about the game which players can players are far less affected by that because players are in the film room they watch the tape by themselves they watch the tape with their position coach and they have some like objectivity some objective evaluation against which they can um they can compare all of our or contrast all of our uh media and fan opinion so to me that's the biggest Advantage let's not make it about what it's not it has nothing to do with actual game preparation it has everything to do with the psyche and all of the you know static around the program uh there have been people who go I mean obviously we have some some guys that go to the media observations you don't really get much and you know it gets down to like oh how many reps did they take well they got they got 58% of the Reps during uh during the media observation desperate to cover something we got a month of I know I know it was everyone's excited and the fans want to know right the back and forth and how much does that does that affect the locker room like it does you're in there and you're going okay we're doing this thing where everybody all they want to talk about is is qb1 and qb2 it's the only thing people want to try to figure out but the reality is is there's a lot more that has to get figured out we had our conversation weekly with Connor pay this week and it was like Hey the reality is is yeah the quarterback situation has to get figured out if the offensive line stinks then what does it matter like like if they can't figure it out if they have a year like they did last year it's going to be a two and seven Conference record kind of regardless of the quarterback if they can't hit 100 yards rushing in a game then there's just too much pressure on any quarterback unless you're just exceptional I I don't know I don't know what what these players you know I I mean Conor pay is a No Nonsense kid and and uh he's been in the program a long time too and he's just like look uh and but they feel so much better about that change over from coach Funk to to TJ wood WS uh because they they just felt like they needed more accountability uh they needed a little bit more of of this fire that they didn't have and frankly some discipline that they didn't have last year that starts to seep out of like kind of guys missing meetings people showing up late to stuff which is not really the BYU way it sounds insane to even think that that could be a possibility that stuff happens behind the doors and most of the time it doesn't really uh if you're winning no one cares but like when you have a year like last year and it was a first year I don't know year two Riley your thoughts on starting this thing off with Southern Illinois and and the quarterback question aside because we don't have the answer to it uh what what is the thing that's going to equal success for BYU this year I didn't uh want to dilute the Utah talk with some BYU talk but wit's like I think we had like three or four sacks and JJ's like it was five and we were like yeah it was five that was half ofu season production last year and I know it's an FCS opponent but like to me offense like whatever hly like it's the same dudes I I worry about the same thing I saw last year like here's one thing you can get maybe a little bit better at separation point and this and that but like ultimately a lot of what threatens defenses in the passing game is coated into a dude's DNA it's the way that he came out of his mother's womb and like the way he starts walking and running since he's been 8 years old and none of that's changed and this it's the same RBS and it's the same o line so like I'm far less interested in the offense to me I think the offense is going to be whatever the offense is going to be I want to see if the change from Elisa tuiaki and Jay Hill in year two it just doesn't need to take a step forward it needs to take a leap forward and they got ciona Pua and they got Kpop back and they got Jay Hill back and like Anderson yeah they yeah Gary coach Anderson's helping out down there he's not a position coach but he's um a strategic uh what do they call him now yeah an analyst yeah like that is what that's what's going to equal success like I want I don't know if they'll shut him out but like I'm far more interested in a shut out than I am you know 45 points that'll be far more meaningful to me as far as the direction that BYU is heading and their prospects for the next two to three years in the Big 12 than whatever the offense is going to be the offense is they got like they need a different caliber of athlete out there in my opinion at the skill position to really if they want to compete at the upper eal end of the conference but in order to do that first things first in the Big 12 you got to be physical and stout and able to stop teams otherwise it's going to be tough sleding uh if if you if you're watching this whole thing and and it's not just I love the questions too that we and look these are our colleagues right that are asking these questions they're the ones who have to sit in front of the uh at the media scrum you know and we're back hosting the show and we're like what' you guys get out of him it's like nothing because they're telling us nothing and here's what colani said about it's not just about whether or not who's going to start it's like yeah but are you going to see uh a bunch of packages out there if if if redl gets a start then is Gary banana going to take some snaps from Wildcat I don't know what they're think so Kanani was asked about here's what he said about whether or not they're going to play a couple quarterbacks versus SIU we're planning to do a lot of different things we have a lot of options and the goal is to get the win can't tell you how that's going to go yet right now on Monday but we we know we have an opportunity we can win with with more than just one person at quarterback uh we have a number of them that can play and that we can get victories with and so that goes with all the positions we feel really good about the depth there and quarterback just happens to be a deep one for us as well I was really proud with how the the quarterbacks handled all the camp and feel confident going into the season with with the our our group of quarterbacks that we have all together especially the top two that's that's my favorite thing right when they do this thing JJ where they go oh well look uh me ass signed about qb1 qb2 we got four guys that could go out there and play like quit it no that's what I heard I heard everything is nothing and nothing is everything I'm just like okay so what did I get out of that I have a question for Riley because you're you can answer this how important is it to be named the starter for them to know that they're putting all their confidence in you for the coach to talk about how they can't wait for you to go out there and Lead this team as opposed to what's going on right now where the coach is a week earlier and I know he maybe's playing the media but he's saying a we go four or five guys are can do the job like don't you need to go tell your starter your guy to make him feel like he's the man so I know that clip went viral two weeks ago about Tua talking about that going from Brian Flores to Daniel yeah you saw that I think that I think that varies from player to player personally for me my confidence was all built on what I put on tape I didn't like and maybe that went from the standpoint of like I you know Jake and I swapping time and I get hurt and then I get benched and at that point it was like it was me and my dad were the only two that thought I could much better would you have been able to play in perform if that crap didn't have to happen JJ that all crumbles if you go out and you throw three picks and you can't get a first down so to me what what actually matters is whoever they put out there can they actually produce that's where real confid that's where real tried andrue like forged in the fire confidence comes from is from going out on the field on Saturday and putting it the coach can name you in fact to speak from my own experience they did all that with Jake heaps he's the guy and he's turned everything that they wanted us to be and there and then we'd go out there on Saturday that to me is actually the bottom that would fall out we'd go out there on Saturday and then we'd watch the film on Monday and it was like wait he's the guy he's the future I'm not quite seeing it there and then you get this disconnect and then that's how you erode trust within the program you don't all the endorsement and all the stuff to the media it might matter to an individual player but I'm telling you it's a house of cards because it it will fall down so so quickly if it's not backed up by actual production between the lines on Saturday yeah man it's a it's a crazy mind game with all of this and and what decision you have to do I think Riley's completely right but it is subjective but for me I'm looking at it as uh football is so mental especially at the quarterback position if you're not instilling confidence in them soon as they make a mistake they're literally thinking about that and can they have the competence to push forward and forget about the last play cuz that's the most important thing but if being so mental for me I'd want my offensive line I'd want my receivers to know who's throwing me the ball because the way Riley throws the ball the Riley throws the the out route is different than the way that Gary Bohan is going to throw the out route right so as a receiver I need that chemistry I need that Rhythm and and and the longer somebody knows he said that they know I hope I hope that they've relayed that to the team because all that really matters is the team that knows then all the stuff I'm talking about doesn't matter cuz it only really matters what's going on but that's fake right when they go we don't even cuz like think they're covering their own butt too we don't even know who it is so me cuz Chase Roberts is like well we kind we know who the guy is cuz then that's all that matters like we know who way rodri said that is like they've related to the team they're just not telling the media but see okay that's a part Riley too that bugs me when they go they're so they're both so good we don't even know how to make a decision how much of that is true versus like what the reality like well cuz here's the thing is as an athlete you got to instill confidence in the quarterback too even if even if the quarterback's not doing it he's the only one that's going to get you the ball he's all we got yeah yeah so like yeah it's it's a mind game with all that as well but like man I Echo what Riley said man it's it's crazy and uh you have to get these quarterbacks ready to go but for me I I got to instill confidence in the quarterback position I think it was Mother Teresa or maybe Albert Einstein but it wasn't the dog whisper said no they said like they said talk is cheap and something else no I'm kidding that wasn't better but that Sam Jackson I know cuz I was going to say there there was a word long word started yeah with the m after it and anyway no but uh that's it's all it's all it all just EV you kick the ball off on Saturday and all that evaporates and then it's all left s was talking earlier about like half sacks matter and that you got to put it on tape like I I am raising my sons who I hope love football and play football no matter how far they make it whether they make it to just Friday Night Lights or they get a chance to play Beyond whatever I'm going to tell them that none of it matters except what you do between those lines and what between 60 minutes and zero on the clock all the rest of it is let the fans have it that is that those are the table scraps off the table the players the guys competing those are the ones eating the Feast of the beautiful sport of football all the rest of us are down there under the table like dogs hoping for a bone or a scrap yeah but can we get it is it going to fall off the table on Saturday I hope so man we're we're anything we can get like we are we're hoping for so Stevenson Sylvester JJ myself we're back next 975d KSL Sports Z stubborn with my Hearing Centers it's a Friday and we're talking football 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mean look at the very least look against a a a big 12 opponent I get it it's not going to it's not going to be on the conference uh table when it comes down to uh you know who's going to get into the Big 12 championship game but you know the way that Baylor's been playing the last couple years maybe it would have been nice you know like keep that as like a real conference it's one thing to be like because who is is it Kansas State plane Arizona and that one doesn't count same problem yeah same deal see that one is a matchup that you go oh if that one counted that's one of the best Premier matchups in conference play this year but it's not confence conference game yeah it doesn't count which is is weird it's a it's a strange world to live in but uh anyway we'll come back we' got more to go and we'll chat about it next hour we'll bring in all the national stuff and we'll also get some uh predictions on Utah State who we also need to talk about we need to talk about what that world looks 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