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That was a great pickup.

Well, the big rumor, and I talked about this with you today, and I can't confirm this, and I honestly think it's kind of irrelevant, is prior to 2025, there were a lot of people I respect who know things that LJ had offers, and he may have walked if BYU brought in another back.

It was a discussion.

He wanted to establish himself as the guy, an NFL quality guy, that could take it.

So anyway, he was Offensive Player of the Year, right? He did it.

That excuse does not carry over.

I cannot believe in any way, shape, or form that LJ, hey, guys, if you get another guy, I might go.

And by that, I mean, more often than not, when they're getting downhill, it's the quarterback that's getting downhill.

Yeah.

All right, let's go.

Let's go.

Ready to roll.

It's great.

Just straight to the airport, and, man, I waited at the gate for a long time.

I was too early because the atrium got me there.

Are you ready to take on this workload? See,

They're

going to be wandering out of their hotel rooms.

Man, what do I do in Provo? Well, let's go to one of the 14 soda shops I passed from Provo Airport.

Well, I don't know.

They'd probably come into Provo, I'd imagine.

Whatever.

They're going to be passing a lot of soda shops.

Another

... linear runner

... of horizontal movement in that entire run, and it was just very, [laughs] very quick and ...

See, but he knows what he is.

He knows what he can do.

And, and I don't think you can take that for granted.

There's a lot of quarterbacks that just don't understand that.

Bear understands what he is, and A-Rod understands what he is within the context.

Yep.

Mm.

The, the, they've dealt with injuries.

And, and, and to BYU's credit, they went through camps without any injuries.

So, so that's a good thing.

I mean, usually during, during the season leading up to it, you hear some, um, practice mishap and all that.

We didn't really get any of that.

I mean, we know some guys were nicked up, like Nusi Tamori Peau.

How are you seeing the BYU-TCU game, G Man?

Tell me how you're feeling about all this, G-Man.

Well, the definition of excessive is more than normal, right? And losing three significant parts through three games played, that's excessive.

I mean, I've covered a lot of football.

And I was reliably informed by the masses that injuries are part of football.

I guess I didn't know this.

But three injuries to three significant parts and four parts if you throw in Ciali, Yeah, that's excessive.

But, I mean, it's not catastrophic.

Is this the most injured BYU's been through four weeks of Big 12 play or Big 12 college football, I guess, conferential play?

I

think he's taller than 6'4".

Yeah, he's tall.

He's tall.

He might still be growing.

He's fun to watch.

Like, if he measured in again, I would not be surprised if he's 6'5".

Yeah.

I

think he's taller than 6'4".

Yeah, he's tall.

He's tall.

He can...

He might still be growing.

He's fun to watch.

Yeah.

They get to the Big 12 championship game, and they lose in the Big 12 championship game to Texas

Tech.

Oh, that's tough.

I don't think they're in.

They're borderline.

Yeah, I think they find a way – To stiff BYU.

A lot of it depends on if Notre Dame is what we think it is.

Yeah, just like hate speech directed towards Latter-day Saints that it gets to a point where if you're calling them demonic and you're saying after the Mormons, and there's enough people that are consuming this and see this and they're on board with it, that does lead to a lack of empathy, dehumanization, and it can lead to some bad decisions by biochemically challenged humans that are ultimately influenced by this type of rhetoric to do something stupid.

borderline.

Yeah, I think they find a way – To stiff BYU.

A lot of it depends on if Notre Dame is what we think it is.

And if Notre Dame just runs to the table after BYU, which it probably will, or something else.

I guess we're assuming that if Notre Dame does lose to BYU, that's going to be Notre Dame's only loss on the season.

which I think is likely.

But anyway, that's kind of the way I see it.

biochemically challenged humans that are ultimately influenced by this type of rhetoric to do something stupid.

But, yeah, you listened to it.

Yeah, it was really good.

What did he say? Well, he just...

He was very detailed about specific plays and what he saw.

And maybe, again, that's our fault that we're just not asking the right questions.

I think Kelly would be willing to go into that.

I don't think A-Rod would, but I think Kelly could be that guy.

So nothing of specificity here?

yeah yeah

nope science about kiana tarabasa talking about talcelia canna Pretty much everything.

I asked him about defending Colorado State's unique offense and about the adjustments, which he gave a good answer to.

And the adjustment thing is so interesting to me because it seems like every time they go, oh, we didn't change much.

I mean, is that just speak? No, we changed a little bit.

I wonder what's a little bit in his mind.

And I wish I would have asked the follow-up.

All right, takeaways, and then I'll chime in.

And so our next question will come from Brandon Gurney, after which we'll go to Jake Hatch, and then we'll probably finish up with Nate Church.

Kalani, you mentioned in your comments that the identity of this team is being rebuilt.

Can you maybe expound on that and what you're finding about this team this year?

And so our next question will come from Brandon Gurney, after which we'll go to Jake Hatch, and then we'll probably finish up with Nate Church.

Hey Kalani, you mentioned in your comments that the identity of this team is being rebuilt.

Can you maybe expound on that and what you're finding about this team this year?

Yeah, well, should it be? Should it be?

Well, privately, yeah, we're not going

said something

like that.

Like he kind of bristled, right? He goes, no, I can.

I love that.

I really, really like that.

So anyway, you fast forward to this next game and, you kind of factor in his potential.

And I've said this for years.

And I think Fessy probably is enjoying that coachability.

Yeah

... that connection's there, so yeah, there's a lot to be positive about, uh, coming off this Arizona game.

I, I buy the narrative that Arizona's a good team and BYU beat a, a good football team.

And the adjustments were just outstanding.

It, it's, it's weird to me.

I wish I understood football better to where the difference can be that stark between one half and the second, but you just take it as like, "All right.

[laughs] Take it just like this." But you wanna hang in there, and you've got to start better against, uh, better competition, which is coming, the most notably against Notre Dame.

Yeah

G-Man, how you living, man? How you seeing this BYU U of A game? Brian kind of stole my thunder

because I'll tell you my process when I go through these games is I start out with a hypothesis, and then you look into the numbers, you look at the personnel and all that, and usually I become more pessimistic about BYU's chances.

The opposite has happened this week, and let me tell you why.

I think one of the more underrated aspects that people, I think, have just forgotten is the personnel BYU had on defense last year.

Jack Kelly didn't play.

Keanu Tanavasa was ejected midway through the second quarter.

Look at that defensive alignment.

Yeah.

Yep.

Heck of a nice kid.

Which in and of itself is no excuse to pull this garbage with my man Sione Moa.

I mean, that he's back in that first game, gone.

Gone.

It's done.

It's really, really cruel.

But I expect him to be a really good player for us for

Okay, so then are you of the opinion that you would like to either start the season mid-August and those are your FCS exhibition games that don't count against you? It's an exhibition, right?

I'm fascinated with Journey Tongan.

I want to see him get at least five carries.

That's what I want to see.

I don't want to see any tomfoolery.

Like just the false starts.

It's got to be smooth, right? I love tomfoolery.

When you have that combination of great talent with a great leader, then that typically develops into something pretty special right there.

There

has to be some standard.

There has to be something that comes together.

And just figuring out, I'm not smart enough to do it.

I don't know.

And people ask me, so is it going to happen? But this can't happen.

You can't have NFL guys that go through training camp, all right, I'll go back to college.

What was the catalyst? GMA, give me your 30,000-foot view.

right?

And I think he's a great...

And he's going to be a big part of this offense.

But I'm going to go really outside the box for my offensive MVP.

And this is a guy that you take for granted and you don't really give it to an established guy.

I'm going to give it to Andrew Gentry.

He's flown under the radar, baby.

I like that.

Can I just

rant? Like about a year and a half ago, I was looking trim and good.

You

I was very camera

ready.

And only now you get this multi-million dollar camera apparatus going.

Yeah, yeah.

When I'm back on the Mountain Dew and Frito's diet.

Great ball

...

in this class on this roster, Ben, that can make an impact, not just Terrence Sirian.

Um, in the Pula twins, there's a bunch, Devon Eke.

And he only threw it where Terrence could get it, and it was a bullet, it was a dart, it was nice, and he, he, he, he was on the money, and the entire offense was celebrating.

It was a celebratory moment for them.

And then they added as well, Preston Rex, great block by Joe Brown on the edge.

What was the thinking behind that? This was his response.

Yeah, Montemaglia.

But let me just add to the defensive line hype.

You had two four-star recruits in Hunter Clegg and Telsi Liakana.

People don't even talk about these guys.

I'm telling you, in every year prior to this year, I would be asked about guys of that recruiting profile every single day.

How do they look? You're just lynching onto them.

They have to be good.

I was like,