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 and Alex presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports [Music] Zone happy Friday everybody welcome on in it's j Alex 975 the KSL Sport Zone Alex Ki Jeremiah Jensen he's JJ I'm Alex and of course our football Fridays are absolutely jam-packed with all the football talk you want and uh we just pick up where coach Mack and Lemma and Jay catch today filling in for H and Scotty who are both uh what are they doing on a vacation situation is that what's going on they're on a cruise no oh that's not it's summer Fridays Fridays that's the the I can't think of a better uh September destination in Dallas you know what's funny is yeah right you know what uh the speaking of the cruise cuz by is trying to do that the cruise they're trying to do like the full-on gymer will be there and Hance is one of the the featured guests you guys can go there all you can eat and then all you can get a h dude like uh my goodness Jimmer and h Huh Jimmer and H and hey now's a good time to catch him I saw H at his son's game I said last last week I last week as well yeah and he's like down 60 lbs and he's talking this revolution so go get you talk about all you can eat challenge him to an all you can eat cuz probably last 20 yeah last 20 years probably couldn't get him but now you can catch you might you might be able to get him just cuz he's trying to watch your window off opportunity is now uh Stevenson Sylvester Utah Legend and Riley Nelson BYU Legend that's uh that's who of course always joins us on our Fridays we had our first one of the books last week do you guys feel like uh cam Rising you knocked the rust off everything's good you're back to back to back to fighting shape now for football season oh yeah man I mean he took a couple blows but uh you know n man last week was awesome uh honestly the show went by fast I felt like we besides the heat it was hot we could uh I but listen Sly you don't help you don't help yourself every week every time I see you like it's slimming Give me the give me the full they're like what do you have they're like uh I'm going to need everything in Black well where are you going to be outside next to a high school track and so I'm going to I'm going to try to keep it I'm trying to get this appearance game listen it's uh it's going to be a fun day of course as usual we've got a lot going on we've got tons to uh to jump into here our program is always is brought to you by G2G bars all natural ingredients and no preservatives make the G2G bar perfect for anybody who needs a quick tasty nutritious boost uh let's kick off the program as we always do let's just get right into the we we got to talk a lot of stuff today so let's just get in and start going it's the cut right here at the top of the hour okay I added it's time for the biggest story of the day this is what made the cut with JJ and Alex on 975 the KSL Sports Z like to see us run the ball better you know we didn't run the ball badly against Southern Utah but not up to our standards I would say that on defense we tackled pretty well we played the run pretty decently we need to create more takeaways and with the uh the new clock rules where you don't stop the clock on first downs the possessions have become even less which magnifies the importance of taking care of the football and taking the ball away shocker take care of the football out of wit's mouth immediately right run the ball and out of the gate it's number one on the big playboard of of what you got to do is is take care of the football that he preaches that he'll say it at least eight times a day even in practice so now it's a different test this week obviously for Utah we got a couple things going on with BYU going down to SMU you're going to get a very different Beast with SMU you're going to get a very different Beast with Baylor coming to town although I think everybody kind of looks at this one and goes yeah Baylor and Dave Randa I mean look at the very least this is a guy who knows defense very well calls defense very well and that Baylor team has just been all over the place between winning a big 12 Championship what was it JJ three years ago 2021 2021 that team was the Champs it's just it's wild to see where they've gone there and then of course last week we haven't been able to chat about it last week we had the benefit of being able to talk about the Utah game that happened on a Thursday but now the by uh the BYU game on Saturday did not turn out like the like Mitch Harper's uh simul ation of 42 to39 BYU eing out a win over uh s Illinois although the points were about right Riley your first impressions of uh that Jake redl start and offense first week of uh of the Season albe it against an FCS opponent yeah I mean BYU is probably tops in the country at uh at optimism and hope and finding every reason that they that they need's going with this is there a category for that where's the I'm trying to find the NCAA uh trophy at the end of the uh record book I mean last week we were on here Utah played on a Thursday and I was like I don't know what do you know them beating up on suu who to me looked like and we talked about the dynamic that every FCS school is even been more pillaged for talent than they have in the past I felt kind of a similar thing for Southern Illinois um funny enough I actually went back and and looked so you know 202 passer rating and they were doing a stat line I was like okay what is like jiren and Zach and tames and even going back to like me and Max like what do we do against rfcs and like honestly 200 passive rating is about what you should be so like uh that that's kind of in the neighborhood of of where he should so good he he he kind of met the standard against an FCS opponent and let's see if he can carry it over against division one which I know we're going to get in talk more BYU but I one of the worst things one of my biggest critiques about college football as us as fans and even us as media that we do is puts way too much weight on what happened last year I watched SMU in week zero against Nevada and I got some thoughts thoughts that give me even more C again we're the best in the country at ca for hope they give me cause for Hope despite being 11 and a half Point dog it is look there are very few teams in the country that are able to have the type of consistency that Utah does and that's one of the things where you go well all we have to go off is last year and they played phenomenally well except for the fact that they didn't have good quarterback play and then the quarterback comes back and cam Rising look you know through five touchdowns uh in the first half and then you're going okay then they're then they're fully back but you're right and this is why we have a hard time handicapping the the NFL we talked about this yesterday so was like you can't you what that's why we came up with the weirdest picks of our AFC and NFC champ yours are weird mine are fine oh you had the commanders almost in the Super Bowl basically no did not I said they're going to be a lot better there's a lot of people on the command oh my gosh it's because look everyone here's the here's the problem people are going well Jaden Daniels is just going to be this year CJ Stout like they just AO like make the make the equation over to the oh yeah it's going to work out now of course the Brian Johnson part of the equation too that makes you go he's got a hold of a guy that he feels like he could probably take places and he's taken a lot of quarterbacks who plac right right there's a ton to to break into here so let's let's first jump in here with the University of Utah and I don't know I I I that game last year we made the mistake of of play of replaying it on on uh from the DVR in the studio or something like we were watching it and and we're like hey yeah get the Baylor and Utah game up let's you know kind of see what're what we're looking at here and we I mean by the end we were drooling and we were just like thousand yards St it was an awful awful game by both teams on the offensive side of things I think it was like it was like 10 to three or 9 to3 or something like that right before the half and then I think Utah had three points even through three quarters four quarter it wasn't until the 8 minute drive in the fourth quar had to make some big plays in the fourth quarter to save them and then Nate Johnson had to come Utah offense was putrid you literally had one offensive drive in that game and we ended up coming up with the w so in the end you were on the field for that one Sly was that a that was a nice cool day for you is that one of the days you wore all black no it was all red but what didn't make a difference no I think it was like 140 150 on the turf on the tur crazy well and this one's going to be a Mata kind of a midday deal and I know it's only going to be 90° versus the 110 that it can be in Texas but that still means turf's going to be triple digits yes it's going to be a hot one and the middle of the day games are weird for Utah I'm not going to buy fully into the day games they do poorly in but I I do think that they they benefit from playing in the evenings but the MAA type of game middle of the day sun right out your thoughts on Baylor coming to town and and and what they have to prove because they're trying to keep their coach and he's trying to keep his job and Utah obviously just wants to keep rolling Well everybody's on the hot seat right like everybody's got something to prove each and every year I think coach Winningham is probably uh one of the only coaches that are just like oh I'm good you know you're not going to get rid of me I'm good but um one everybody likes to win um and so but Baylor I think they got a lot to proof one from the performance last year they didn't feel like they played great you know we were down cam Rising had a terrible offensive performance and they couldn't come with through with the w so they feel like they got something to prove um but I think they're much improved this year than they were uh a year before as well you know they got quick more athletic people which Utah's got to be that much more focused and so um that's what I'm going to be paying attention to tomorrow is Utah's focus and uh you know a deeper opponent it gets harder and harder every week um and so you know just seeing how Utah handles that you can't even look at last year's game you really can't and both teams are so different personel different quarterbacks different Personnel play calling will be different different circumstances there's been so much change it's crazy how much change Utah's had since that game and Baylor as well and so you see you have Baylor bringing in dequon Finn who's a completely different quarterback than the ones they ran back last year to Alex's Point earlier in in the show when we started like you you don't have anything else to go on except what you've already seen and what you've witnessed but you you can't base anything off of what happened last year I mean Cole Bishop was a hero of that game he's not going to save Utah this time around right so you know you have you have different uh degrees in variances there but ultimately it's a new season it's new teams it's really hard to gauge which is why I think it's so exciting sly because you get to find new Heroes who who who is Utah we didn't find out last week that was about them getting their feet wet and figuring some things out and getting some rust off we we're going to learn who Utah is on Saturday and and I absolutely love it and I've seen the energy uh this week from the team uh defensively they got to lock in you know CU I think that you know coach Whittingham hit it when we when we played his little statement in the beginning is like we got less and less possessions so everything is that much more magnified you know this is more of a NFLs type of flow of the game and so your defensive uh possessions are going to be important just as much as your offensive possessions and getting cam Rising the ball and his ability to uh get um all these Playmakers we have on offense the ball is great but I think we are we're going to find out who truly is going to be that playmaker throughout the season that we can rely on Riley brought up this point last week too with BYU where it was you know or with Utah rather when they played against Southern Utah and I was like yeah you win all these you win these games and you you put up 49 points basically in the first you know two quarters and and then the rest of the game and those all happen on big plays so you have massive plays so so the touches don't look all the total plays aren very much and so there are some games where you look at and Baylor had a little bit of that situation last week where they score they're up 28 nothing at the half and then they score on their first possession the second half and so it's 35 to zero Charlton puts a a field goal up and and then but you don't have a lot because dayquan Finn did not have a phenomenal day the guy threw for 192 yards two touchdowns two picks that's that's always one that you go why are you throwing interceptions against Tarlton State and again your defense bails you out because Tarlton can't move the football against the Bor team down there Waco but I I don't know like from week to week we wonder about what these are going to look like but certainly from an FCS standpoint you you don't know what you're going to get because they're going to bust out totally different things right like on from an offensive perspective it's not going to be as as it was in week one they've said as much in every uh with every team this week who played a lesser opponent they said we're going to we're going to bust a a few more things out and so you don't show very much of what your offense is I'm assuming and then week two I don't know how how long does it take to roll out exactly what you want to do as an offense we saw a lot of A-Rod last week he was running trick plays against uh Southern Illinois so yeah which I thought was an interesting choice honestly it's it's three weeks four weeks uh Personnel groupings you're trying to figure out um and I didn't uh I maybe have to rely on slyer I I don't know where if there were any big U position battles on the offensive line you're still trying to figure out who your best five are there and where they fit sometimes you got a guy who's sitting there as a backup tackle and you're like you know what we're going to throw him in a guard because our guard's not getting it done so you're figuring that stuff I know I know their skill is pretty um pretty set on offense but uh it's that and we did see a lot of keithy and um and ryzen kind of get the Gang back together but he needs to find second and third options which uh who's the speeder yeah Stanley like showed some flash there but haven't seen it under the bright light so all those still things like can that relationship or that connection between uh rising and Stanley be has that hasn't been pressure tested yet so it's getting its first test here in week two uh for me by by four weeks like you're rolling you kind of know who you are you know who your guys are going to be you know who you can count on third downs and in the red zone and in key situations but until then you're still just feeling it out it honestly it's like it's a 12 round season just like a 12 round heavyweight fight those first three or four are used to you know find your distance and find your timing and so that'll still be going on tomorrow here's what Andy lwig said about his offense uh going into the second game of the year obviously they start to open up the Playbook a little bit more and here's what he said about that and where Baylor is I think we need Improvement in every area I think I stated at the conclusion of fall Camp I'm confident in the direction of the offense and the Improvement that we've shown but in no way means are we comfortable with where we are and good work today and look forward to another day of work tomorrow uh lots of work work work work from Andy lwig that's what they got to do Kyle Whittingham talked about cam rising and and I know that that was something that was nerve-wracking a little bit because there were a couple plays and I think they told he said on film afterward it didn't look nearly as bad but there were some moments where they got a little bit nervous about him running the football and and taking a couple of shots here is what he said about that well I will say this after watching the film it wasn't as bad as I thought thought it was I shouldn't say as bad but he was fairly smart most of the time his competitive mentality comes out you know during those situations often times and he wants to get that extra yard but he's a guy that when he's in the lineup we're obviously a much better football team and so we don't want to beat it to death and make him not they ever be afraid of anything but so concerned about it that it affects his play in other areas and so I thought that after watching the film yeah I wish maybe once or twice he could have you know got a little more out of Harm's Way but he is one of the most competitive guys that you'll ever come across and so it's going to be tough to completely say that hey you're you're never going to do that cuz it's going to happen once in a while I'd love to be described by coach Whittingham fairly smart yeah fairly smart most of some of the time he pretty he got a fairly there's there's a there's a little more to that fairly in there so I I want to know when you see on film a guy like dcoin Finn who was it somebody at the beginning of the year said dcoin Finn's going to be like a was it a preseason or was somebody put him in like the as like the the best somebody had him WR at ahead of Cam RIS yeah it was so weird I couldn't believe it but B Homer they talk about the Dual threat thing and uh when you're trying to prepare for a guy like him who hopes that you that you're going to kind of get maybe maybe he actually looks to run a little bit more in those situations uh how do you prepare for that and this this one of those deals where they go okay look we're just going to have a spy all day on this guy well no I mean cuz everybody can have their day right you know there could be a day where daquan's arm is just actually hitting and his accuracy and all of that but the key thing is for guys like him you got to keep him under duress right so having a spy isn't always great but getting him out of the pocket seeing if he can uh make those accurate throws on the run as we said we got uh two interceptions last week against Tarlton State and that's just something that you know you shouldn't have to do in those games you should emphasize taking care of the football and uh and he wasn't maybe he was trying to take risk open things up it's so hard to really gauge where your team is at against those FCS opponents um so there's not a lot you can take from that but yes he is extremely athletic you want to have a spy each and every play CU you don't want to have a guy beat you with his legs as I.E Anthony Richardson you know two years ago down in the swamp um we win that game you know he doesn't do those things with his legs and so you want to make him pass you know we are talented on the back end we have athletic corners and safeties and if we can uh have enough pressure up front uh we should be able to sack him you know and uh you know Riley can speak to this from the quarterback back perspective um you're not great if you're one-dimensional you make it easy on the defense at being onedimensional honestly that is exactly what we want to do as Defenders we want to make them onedimensional make them half to pass so that we can pin our ears back we can Blitz the crap out of them we could play uh safe tough on the back end eyes on the ball and and and create more turnovers that way so uh making dcoin Finn onedimensional by passing the ball and knowing that his legs isn't going to get it done he's not Lamar Jackson um is is what we'd want to do on the defensive side of the ball uh is it uh is the offensive coordinator is it spavital is that how you say it yeah I've heard his name before so gr's not there anymore yeah so um so three years ago in 2016 which by the way that's what it feels like not eight years ago right three years ago in 2016 no but he was the LC coach I I cuz I I knew Grimes had left I didn't know who had replaced him and so anyway this guy was at Cal when an unranked Cal came in and and uh kind of snake bit spal was the OC QB coach granted they had Davis Webb and Cy had a good set of wide receivers that year but like he dialed up some touchdowns his touchdown throws that this is an unreal stat line and that was a that was a decent defense for Utah back in 2016 and they were ranked 18th in this game but he dialed up touchdown passes of 42 39 48 and then 21 yards so Davis and and Cal was able to win that game 20 28 24 so was that that wasn't that wasn't that was in ber I was that was in bery Z Moss the goal line I believe bet I bet all dozen people were shocked right the 500 fans there went crazy there more people on the dirt hill behind the stadium than they on 50 fans rush the field my point to that is it it's uh you know spout it's it's the players on the field but also do the coaches have Mojo and do they have any kind of familiarity or confidence coming to this in their ability to to dial up so I you know I'm not saying that that gives him the edge but if Utah's got to be resilient because they're going to face an OC you talked about rodri dialing up against Southern Illinois going to yeah going to come in and dial up some stuff and they may get a cheap one or two against Utah and then in the midday you know if you're bayor you're like hey you know it's the old Bane quote they're they were they've adopted the heat but we were born in it sort of thing you know being on the you've only adopted the dog I was born in it you pretty good that's great good great so so you got that plus a r you know Aranda's Utah state has said many times how much he admires coach Whit I think uh you know Baylor could could pose a a unique situation uh we got to take a break we'll come back we've got tons to talk about today across the board Utah BYU Utah State we've got tons to jump into we uh obviously are going to get you ready also for BYU versus SMU that's actually going to be a 5:00 kickoff so we'll get more into that next hour we've got tons to go on the program Stevenson Sylvester Riley Nelson jeremi Denson myself Alex Kiri thanks for joining us it's a football Friday we'll come back more to go around the corner 975 KSL Sports Zone 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 Z Smith Snowden is is one of our top two corners right now so he will be on the field pretty much every snap Scooby Davis has done a nice job and we'll figure in uh John Randall has made a lot of progress in the last 3 weeks since we made that switch three or 4 weeks so he'll be in the mix as well and cam Calhoun that's the guy that we missed for gosh about a month uh during fall camp and and sum of the summer that is back now full speed he's in the mix as well all right everybody Welcome Back JJ and Alex 975 ekl Sports Zone oh my goodness I didn't even say where we were today probably better so that the uh the fans stay off a Sly just like oh where is he where is he and I'm like always in all black all black he's wearing all black gosh I don't know like what are we going to do we're at we're we're at West Jordan High School this is my first time uh out at the Jaguar Stadium here it is West Jordan versus Orum that is your Game Night Live game of the week and Jeremiah and Sly going to be on the call of course tonight I have no idea what to anticipate in this game I know orm is undefeated but it's like they've kind of eak out a couple of week what do you guys uh they had to come from behind the last two weeks you guys did some uh you guys have had to do some homework on this thing so give me an idea on how uh how this one's going to go tonight I just think we got two of the best teams in 5A this year uh West Jordan has picked to win their region this year region uh uh four and uh they've got a lot of talent here and they had a really nice game last week I come from behind win I think they're trying to figure themselves out a little bit they H had some heartbreaking losses week one and two but uh they have the talent to win in this region and to be a factor in the playoffs and Orum I mean if you followed High School football in this state for the last decade you know the or tigers tigers you know what they've accomplished uh they won four straight state titles uh they're they're trying to get back to that level they got a lot of Talent on that team uh player to watch tonight is uh Kai Wesley he's he's been a baseball and aot basketball star his uncles played one Uncle played at BYU and then one Uncle played at State and they were they played professional basketall nephew yes yeah um he's just a junior he's new to football but he's already got offers from by you know what I mean like you'll see him tonight he's a freak so orm has some freaks and you'll you'll see them on theplay tonight some guys that are on the recruiting radar so if you're into that sort of thing and some potential future cougars so uh both teams are really talented should be a great game tonight Alex permission to take a Utah preps where are they now D or should I say that later in the show did it last week you can do whatever you want it was more off air it actually is the thing that people ask for the most yeah I saw I saw I saw my two burner accounts asking the r account about that on the show no so I found out seei foko right formerly of the bright Mangal he's still in the league still in the in the Chargers and I started looking and my brother reminded me he would he put up like he had one of the best combines uh for for white outs a few years ago when he was coming out of Stanford I mean that was kind of the problem he went to Stanford fell off you get sort of Lost in yeah you get lost and then he came back when hard Kno was back with the Cowboys but since we're talking about Oram MH and it was interesting cuz like puka was the opposite puka was not a combined guy but then obviously was right there with CJ strad to be that but probably the two best receiving products that have probably ever come out of Utah definitely in the last 10 years I'd say so yes but uh but they were both a problem in high school obviously seia at Brighton and puka at orm but where would you go I mean I don't know both miss her football they both yeah but my point part that prestigious class it was like but I just feel like puka was like strike fear to that next I don't know they're both players and maybe it's because seei went off to college somewhere else maybe I don't have as much feel for him there is a there is a part where I think it happens mostly just because we don't follow like who follows Stanford and especially well and especially when they're not good right like when they're winning three and four games yeah and and so simy had like a real that that was the thing is like we watch him because we're like we know how good he was we knew he committed and I think and he was a mission kid too right so so those those are all the things that add up to like you sort of being like out of side out of mind but you know that they that they have uh that you know simy went to be while you were Utah he'd beeh name we'd have similar conversation but what puka did in his first year in the NFL I think has really taken you know how it works right yeah but at the same time I he was not to say he wasn't a star at BYU or orm or anything but you become an NFL superstar and it's like oh puka you know what I mean like it just blows you up and people start thinking that I mean they ele you become elevated in the minds of everybody because of what you do on that stage the greatest stage they both a problem yeah when they were here both incredible you I agree Riley two best receivers in State history it's it's not even close Scooby Davis by the way Scooby Davis by the way did not make all name team in the NCAA because you have they left out his middle name if they would have given the full name they just saw Elijah on the roster I was like no that's not good enough his middle name do hi middle name do uh no it's because there are guys like General booty still in the game oh God these are still names okay how is General booty still on a roster I know it's like the kid from uh it's like the kid from Miami is in his ninth year of Eligibility and what's funny is he's not he's still not as old as taes was when he got out because I'm I'm not kidding he he's ta didn't rec class but he was about as old as you could be for your grade without having to reclassify and then the mission yeah oh it's so en booty Rowdy beers these are real players by the way these are the all this is the all offense dois Crawford dois Deus uh fat Watts it is it is latch fat Watts out of tane Jaden muskrat now this is Yo the last names can't be nicknames or made up some of these like I don't know if his his actual birth certificate name is fat but muskrat you're not making up it's fat with a p no no no you're not fat with a pH by the way so Jaden muskrat King large again large is your last name right but you can't be king and large hey man you got a good last name you gotta play with you gotta have a good first name to go with hold on the center of the team is Parker titsworth uh Dodge saer hands Hammer now that's a pretty darn good one hand Hammer but this your all defense I can't even say the first one it's a cuss word okay demon Clowney is he related is he related he has to be right let's assume he is demon Clowny blazing Lola Wong memorable Factor that's a name that's a name what memorable fact he plays for Duke he's a he's an edge wrer from duke uh chief chief borders now this one I hate okay m o so Mo and his last name's ability Mobility okay I don't these are not made up and I bet he's not even mobile he got tight hips got he's a corner he's a corner he's got to have it this Mobility kid like I like his drive but he got tight I don't know if we can get the Ben put on the o line rack Alex major Burns all right is that Simpsons guy that would have been so much better it's his brother it's his brother so you got you got Mr BS and you major grandon yeah okay this one I hate pig cage pig pig cage and then storm duck out of Louisville so those are your uh those are your all name teams that's so what you're saying is Key and Pill weren't far off no this I'm not I'm not kidding this is these are real names in college football right now d d CW see how Scooby didn't make list I know so now you now you kind of get the idea all right so you've got game two uh what happens and we'll get more into it with uh in the in the third hour with uh with Utah but I was just wondering what Keanan Johnson being out means for the Youth slly because I I'm I'm looking at this and I'm going okay uh Morgan scall got on and tal and he and he named off a 100 guys which is great because you know the depth at Utah is always going to be good but what what's the reality of what that does for that secondary first quarter of the first game of the year they had such a good camp of keeping guys healthy and then Keenan Johnson's out for the year well I mean yeah that's it's a huge blow because you invest so much especially in the transfer guys as far as time and understanding the defense you know there's guys who lack in that kind of uh coaching Mentor learning the defense aspect because you're trying to get this new guy so ready to go and he's out in the first game of the year so that sucks but you know what this just looks like is you just got to move guys around we had this with Pittsburgh where we had to play three Safety Systems we had to play um you know with Ryan Mundy Will Allen Troy pal Malo Ryan Clark we have four safeties in at a time when we when we had down corners or something like that so you got to do that and you know instantly right after the game you know coach wh talking about we'll just move TL Johnson back down to Nickel back down the corner and make that happen we got aliky Gilman Nate Richie we got some viable guys at the safety position to make that happen um but you you put guys in who know the defense right and and the problem is is like there's so many different nuances with defense because we're reaction right we're we're looking at the offense and we're reacting So within one defensive call could be eight to diff eight to 10 different variables of things that you have to do and the communication is huge right when Utah's defense is lacking when we were like a couple years ago we weren't playing that well you could see the communication wasn't there and so now uh I think they just understand that so with new guys coming in younger guys coming in you have to really make sure that communic ation is on point between the linebacker and Corner Nicholls safety everybody has to be on top of their PS and q's with communication but they do they got guys to rotate in here we got Cameron coun who's a he's a red shirt freshman from the University of Michigan he was on Michigan's team last year um Smith Snowden is one of those guys that they're like look now that he's in year two and the sky's limit he knows the defense now oh he's so smart I I mean well one we we noticed in in high school how smart Smith Snowden was and he plays that Nick of position which is even harder but him rotating out to a corner position is actually easy and that's what I would do I would rotate Smith Snowden out to the corner move Teo down to the uh safety position cuz how we played it um we played two years ago we uh when sonaki and Co Bishop were getting their first um playing times we played a three safety system with r RJ Hubert and the way we rotate down I I said it all the time we got a rock and roll the safeties to where the nickel can roll back to safety and play that like it was his position and with K Johnson moving down to the nickel we can do that we can have Nate Richie um and uh aliki Gilman in and then rotay that back there's different things you can do but we're definitely ready for it I uh it sucks because you don't want to lose talent but at the end of the day kenon Johnson was supposed to be a huge asset that you know next man up mentality which we got tons of experience with here's the truth of that situation okay if you're looking at the schedule right Sly M you're playing Baylor diquan Finn's not going to really challenge the secondary right I mean not to the level that you're like going to be really said that he could have a day he got us all nervous about it okay so he can have a day we'll see uh the next week after that um you know I don't know who the starting quarterback is going to be for Utah State obviously Jo Jaylen Royals is a problem but you know you I don't think that that's where you're like you're panicking that you don't have the Personnel to handle that experience the week after that is Alan Bowman at Oklahoma State you know what Oklahoma State's going to do they're going to give the ball to doly Gordon it's the week after that it's Arizona T Royal MCM so you've got three games here to figure out how you're going to solve this problem with kenon Johnson now who is who you you need to know who your guys are back there for that game because if you cannot figure out how to defend the pass in that game you're going to take an L against a really good Arizona offense with two the most dynamic Playmakers in the conference so you have three games they're they're not going to admit this but they have three games to get this figured out and get it right before there's a real threat to that backside yeah and what you're saying is experience right and as Riley said mentioned before with game prep you really go back three games and so the last three games you also don't want to put anything out on tape that's going to alert your opponent right so one experience is getting these guys in the game confident to be able to line up against these guys I think when we play T-Mac at down at Arizona I think zamaya Von is a traveler um he's 63 uh Corner that can line up against that 65 body of of Tetro McMillan and and and and so that would be great and then you know you just lock down all the other people on that defense I mean we've done that plenty of different time Drake London down at USC uh when we had uh Clark Phillips um the guy who played at Oregon State I'm forgetting now um but yeah we we we've got tons and tons of of people that we can rely on to make that happen and three games is plenty enough time to get you the experience that you need to make that happen let's take a break we'll come back we've got some uh we've got all day obviously to still chat about what's going on with uh all these teams next hour we're going to go full deep dive into BYU as it's going to be walking the hour up to BYU versus SMU uh which is an exciting time for us because we we didn't tell him this before he showed up but Sly is basically going to be hosting a cougar pregame show oh no don't do that to me don't do that to me no I'm not it on the res I'm not I don't need Jeremy getting any more statements about me on this thing all right we're gonna clip it we'll come back we've got more to go on the program stay right here with us it is a football Friday where it West Jordan High School where of course uh West Jordan and uh and orm are going to be facing off tonight on Game Night Live nominate your us Sports volunteer that you know for the Hercules year of the week submit that nomination kssport outcom is where you do ITC contest listen every Thursday JJ and I read those winners off and we can celebrate the efforts of all those volunteers who do an awesome job in our neighborhoods and in our communities uh lifting up our kids and we'll do it with the Hercules hero of the week sponsored by Hercules First Federal Credit Union and beehive meals we'll come back more to go 975sl sports 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 what's up everybody welcome back it's JJ and Alex it's 975sl Sport Zone our football Fridays of course of course every Friday right here uh this week's setting is West Jordan High School and West Jordan Norm facing off tonight on game9 live you can take a listen on KSL Sports on the app uh KSL sports.com uh so many places to do it be able to hear Sly and JJ on the call uh let's talk a little bit of Utah State here by the way next week JJ and I are going to be at the Utah RV Super Show on Thursday don't want to miss it that's one of our favorite places to go you get it's a blast it is really cool you wander around these RVs you're like I'll never buy an RV and then you walk in there and you go how much did you say it was a month jeez told you that's my retirement go so the Utah RV Super Show September 12th through the 15th at M America Expo Center that's where we're going to be next week all right let's jump into a little bit of Utah state from last week they beat Robert Morris after Spencer petus goes down with the sprain ankle but it was it's enough or it's it's a it's a small enough injury according to to the reports that it's up in the airist to who the quarterback is going to be at the very least they're going to make it sound like that because you don't want to tell USC exactly who your quarterback is going to be we brought it up all week Bryson Barnes beat this team last week makes sense right it makes sense and why would you and then also for dang sure you got to make sure he's the starting quarterback against Utah right like if there's a guy who knows what's going on there at that uh he's gonna play any games this year make it those two make it those two make it those two now I don't know because at the same time the comparisons of well he went in and beat UFC last year I hate that because it's a way different team this is that's not fair to him it's not fair to him and on top of it like uh USC is also a very different team I yes they are yeah I I think as soon as you as soon as you saw that Alex Grinch was subtracted and added was deanton Lynn as the as the defensive coordinator like you saw they were the harder hitting team out of LSU and UFC last week which is shocking to me because they we knew they had the athletes but they did not have the coach to unlock these athletes in I don't think we've seen a USC team play that physical since the p carera good for them man good for them so yeah it is good for them uh so you saw last week Robert Morris I think were they leading at half yes was it they leading at the half uh Bryson Barnes comes in after Spencer Petri goes down the Aggies rack up 630 is yards of offense and uh 300 plus of it on the ground it's it was a good offensive day but I think people sort of went ah but it was a slow start you lose your quarterback the Highlight was the interception right the for the other team was was that Robert Morris uh pick um so what are your first impressions I guess Riley now you see kind of the at the very least it's complicated at quarterback because you know you got you got one who may be injured or maybe not or whatever it is but you're going on to USC and that that USC team is they have a buy next week too by the way which is not a great time for a buy week but it's not a good time for a bu week for U for Utah State either because they're going to put it out there against these guys so honestly it's kind of full circle moment and by the way I find a way in every segment to talk about local products and their impact on the game of football no I mean Sly I'm sure uh up at Utah you have guys on there that uh you uh you get out to camp and you're like and you got to go over to the coach and be like tell me did we did we offer this kid and they're like oh no his grandpa is X or his dad anyway kyrese white son of former Aggie great EMT white was who was at Utah for for I think three years uh just couldn't break the depth chart Roy High School grad but you talked about Jaylen Royals he is a legit slot threat up there in that offense they lost Briggs with the broken leg on on uh as their as the change of pace back with fison at running back that was that rushing attack was looking great but bottom line like the offense is is as good ever petus had a slow start Sly I don't know um did you play did you ever play against a college quarterback who could truly manipulate the game from the from the pocket I I you see that in the pros where they can really get to their checkdowns and the balls out but that's what petus was trying to do at the beginning of that game and it ended up in two picks and like 50% completion percentage do you ever remember playing against someone in college that had that level of ability yeah the only guy was uh was probably my senior year we played Andy Dalton who did a really good job and and I talk about this I say it so much is pre- snap you know your your pre- snap readability and and understanding what's going on the possibilities and being able to get from um your one to two progression quick um but no against our defense we did a great job with disguising that nobody was able to really understand what we were doing and so if that's going to be the case then a guy like Bryson Barnes who's willing to get out of the pocket go take I call it take green grass right procket breaks down and rather than like trying and squeezing a ball in a tight window or throwing it to a covered check down he just goes and gets four or in his case goes and get yeah 67 right when he broke out on that that was just man coverage and the safety carried the number two vertical to the right side of the field he's escaped out the pocket to the left and won the foot race so offens look great second thing I I'll just say is uh that the agie defense like played with a lot of emotion they're not they're not very big but they got guys who for the most part played assignment assignment sound and similar to what you were saying with us USC the most physical like that Aggie that that energy and the Buy in from that defense while they may not be as talented or have as much size as you'd like uh if they can stay healthy in these next two matchups with USC Utah I like their chances I mean I'm not saying they're the favorite in the Mountain West but I like their chances to at least make some noise think can build confidence too off of these two games you know hopefully get a win against USC and you know you know uh stay competitive against Utah not Utah that's a home game slide for the for the aies come on no I JJ we called the call up there last year I love that Stadium that's nice it is and hopefully they wear the the cow helmets oh I love those did you guys ever like Utah State are four touchdown dogs in this one did you ever play I don't I can't imagine you either of you ever playing in a first start ever won we were 28 and a half Point dogs to Fresno State my first start up at you that's crazy we won 14 uh did you guys that's probably you lose Idaho the next week SS crazy I got thrown in fourth quarter hey I threw a touch and ran for a touch being down 41 we were down 41 nothing to Idaho going in the fourth quarter like that's it get in there they literally just pulled my red shirt I didn't no reps no nothing that crazy that's probably one of my favorite accomplish pment is win and when we were 28 and a half Point dogs we deserve to be 28 and a half Point dogs probably but that's why you play the game that's why you play the game yeah play kind win the game no I mean the next two weeks they're going to be four touchdown dogs probably the next two the next two games which is a weird place to be in especially when you're at home but you know whether or not whether or not they could I made that dumb prediction I say that dumb one because you know everything changed for Utah State obviously in the offseason I this is not me dogging on on dring too we've talked about how much we love what his attitude has been approaching this whole thing and you said it too Riley their offense is is just as good as we've ever seen they have as they have as good a talent as you can probably get up there and they kept dudes when they could have definitely just blitzed right and so uh seeing this game on a you know down there at USC it's it's a tough one for them to take yeah well I didn't put my finger on it but now that you say it it that defense looks like there's Buy in there despite all the turmoil and despite Anderson even despite all that stuff like there's there's a Buy on that sideline I'm not saying that it's going to make the difference in this game but like w with the way that that offense can kind of get sneaky on you and if USC has a little bit of a lull after going you know they're going from playing National that like being the premier game on Sunday night replacing the NFL against LSU to like who the hell are the Aggies and what are these cow helmets I'm seeing on Mountain Time 800 pm. Pacific they're not even used to that yeah I so you know you catch them a little bit sleepy and it maybe at least get a cover or two and and maybe scare the uh Trojans for a half let's take a break we'll come back we've got more right around the corner we're going to get our BYU uh pregame show underway with with pregame show host yeah BYU pregame show co-host Stevenson now listen here's the thing here's the thing Sly it's on the resume now people can never take that away from you all right if there's ever anything you don't want on your resume all right we'll take the break back heard you do love the upside of the BYU K oh my goodness K there's uh there's a lot going on we've got tons it's a football Friday stay tuned more to go 975sl Sports Zone I actually love the promise of BYU basketball