Intro by far the most interesting quarterback in the 2024 college football season is the University of Utah's cam Rising bar nun the most interesting Today's Show I will delve into what makes him so fascinating to me and on top of him being such a um different type of dude with a different story and a different bio uh on top top of all that he's a damn good quarterback so this is QB unfiltered my take today Utah quarterback cam Rising I don't have a slow up no I don't take I got no love for the F if you want to play tough and okay Cam Rising really is a Cam Rising different guy and uh just real briefly I mean we can start with the flowing locks that he's sporting and then we go to the fact that as you can see in this picture right here that um he's in Pre pregame warm-ups pre pregame warm-ups is when you go out as a quarterback you know you may have your game pants on you may not you don't have of course any shoulder pads or your jersey on whatever and you just go out on the field and throw the ball around a little bit get a little loose get the feel of what the winds doing all that kind of stuff before you go into the locker room put your stuff on and come out for pregame warmups anyway cam is on the field here sporting an apple Smartwatch which in the annals of QB uh fashion rules that is a faux paw but um he did it he does it and that's his deal so we've got the hair we got the watch and then we've got the fact that going into this season 2024 cam Rising is 26 years old 26 years old and the most amazing stat on Rising is this season will be his seventh in college football seven now I'm going to try to break down his timeline hopefully I'll it right uh seven years and to throw a little nugget on top of that the NCAA just came out recently and granted him an eighth year eight years uh and cam thought about it briefly and said nah you know I think Eight's enough uh I'm going to move on with my life so that sets the table for today's show uh I'm going to give you his history briefly as brief as I can for a 7year career and then we're going to jump into why he's a damn good History quarterback okay Cam Rising 6'2 220 lb 7th year senior out of Newberry Park California which is in Ventura County down there on the coastline between LA and Santa Barbara um a California guy there's no doubt about it now before we jump into Cam Rising I've got a question for anybody to help me out in the comments down below what is a ute okay it's the Utah UT what's a ute no Joe pesy references or smartass remarks but uh if you know let me know what is a Utah ute okay let's move on to cam so he played his high school ball uh for new Perry Park High School in Southern California and in 2018 he signed with the Texas Longhorns now you know he follows the track and the path and the uh the way it is now where uh most of the quarterbacks going into the 2024 season are playing for schools that they did not not originally signed with coming out of high school and rising's no different so he signed with the Longhorns went out to Austin and he red shirted this is his first red shirt year okay now I don't know what went down in Texas but after that first year he jumped in the portal and went to Salt Lake City Utah to play for the Utah UTS and um at that point in time he went through what is called a red shirt transfer year so he's been in college now for two years and hasn't played and he's used two red shirts uh you following me so far on this okay so that's 200 uh 19 which jumps Us in now to 2020 that goofy uh asteris season covid-19 and um Rising was beat out for the starting job that year okay if they would have played uh the regularly scheduled games for the 2020 season going into game one he was a backup but that's covid-19 their first game of the year that year was in week eight so the first seven games were wiped out and by the time you got to week eight which was game number one against USC he was starting and in that game he hurt his shoulder and missed the rest of the year okay that's 2020 then we go to 2021 and again he's beat out by another quarterback to start the season and after two games he's put into the lineup and never looked back okay he led uh the Utes to the Rose Bowl against Ohio State that's 2021 and then we go to 2022 he's the man from uh jump street from the get-go he's the guy plays the whole year they got a really good season they they end up playing in the rosebowl again against Penn State and this is the game where Cam Rising blow blows his knee out so bad that he missed the entire 2023 season which was this last year now as I'm going to talk about when I discuss his game and the things that I like about him they use him a lot on um Zone Injury Reed where he's pulling the ball and running he's a pretty good weapon uh running the football but the knee injury in the Rose Bowl came on a non non contct it was a non- contct injury in other words he didn't get hit it was just one of those freak things that happens in football where you plant to make a cut and your foot hits wrong your weight distribution's wrong you're leaning slightly one way or the other outside of your frame and the torque um of hitting the ground at that wrong ankle and boom that knee blew up now I'm not a sports med guy but I've been around the game long enough to know that when you tear your knee up you're usually ACL or sometimes MCL you got meniscus in there and you got cartilage he screwed his up so bad that he tore a ligament that I've never heard of before so it's the mpfl the mpfl so he tore his ACL is MCL meniscus and the mpfl his knee shattered blew up devastating injury and one of the storylines now for this upcoming season with Cam Rising is how much is that injury going to affect his style of play in my opinion I don't think you're going to see him running the Zone read this year you know I could be wrong um with technology and sports M and rehabs and you know what they do with knees now um I mean I was amazed with uh Aaron roders and the stuff they did with his Achilles uh tendon when he snapped that and so you you don't know but my guess is they're going to keep him back in the gun this year and just let him operate the offense and do his thing throwing the ball and he's not going to be running it too much it's also going to be interesting to see uh what he's going to have on his knee when he shows up and again you know we're talking 2024 uh back in the olden days when I played with leather helmets and no face masks if you blew your knee out like that to where you missed an entire season when you did come back if you came back you were wearing a knee brace that weighed about 10 to 12 lbs and was nothing but velcro and Big Slab of metal okay that was about this wide and they had to cut your game pants up the back so that your the pants would fit over that uh brace and guys were noticeably noticeably slower and restricted in what they could do uh versus what they did pre-injury so that's one of the the big story lines this year for cam Rising but anyway 2023 was wiped out he spent the entire year with um rehab and you know getting his knee Baller back in order so that he could have another chance to play his seventh year of college football coming up okay so that's a a brief history on Rising let's get into his game and this is what I like about cam Rising number one he's a baller now in another show I talked about Noah faita the quarterback for Arizona being a scrapper uh rising's a baller and a baller versus a scrapper in my opinion a baller because they're really both the same kind of guy but a baller has uh better skill now for F I really like his game he gets it done cam rising's more polished so when I say baller and higher skill level I'm talking about his mechanics are a lot better than faitas as I said they both win games they both move the offense they both score touchdowns they both get it done and they both compete their ass off but um Rising uh with that baller tag I mean he's a warrior he's a guy that looks like he is having a kick-ass time playing the game of Style football uh he reminds me and I'm going to show you this picture right here I think that cam Rising is has patterned his game after gardam muu from the hair to the stash to the headband to the playing style kind of a swash buck get after it make plays and play with joy I mean he really looks like he's having fun out there and um he's the kind of guy with his uh playing style and his leadership skills where his teammates would run through a brick wall for him and that's pretty evident you know he's a uh a get it done kind of guy okay secondly Rhythm Tempo he throws with great Rhythm and Tempo and this is a subject that is big with me with quarterbacks you know um he's a guy that when you watch him on film his feet don't get him in trouble okay he's not throwing balls late consistently what Utah does in their offensive scheme with his drop is they do a lot of three and hitch and and he does it so that it's Rhythm and Tempo one to three hitch throw one to three hitch throw and uh he consistently does this and I think that that really adds to his game um there are times where he'll flatfoot it okay and flat footing it means he gets to the end of his drop and instead of striding and throwing he just plants both feet has that ball and great ball Carriage ready to throw but he pauses Waits Waits Waits now a lot of the times that's a result of you know their receivers that maybe didn't run as clean a route as they should or a defensive guy is starting to slide in front of the receiver and rising's got to wait until he starts to clear before he can get the ball out so you see him flat foot at times that leads me to this little side note here Utah's pass protection is nice it's nice they do a great job with not only their scheme but they give him a clean clean pocket most of the time you rarely see cam Rising uh throwing the ball with dudes in his face you rarely see him having to go off platform now it does happen yes but not as often as it does with some of these other guys I mean when we talk about shador Sanders and talk about Caleb Williams last year it was like uh 75% of the time they snapped the ball those guys were having to run get out of there you know not be able to throw on platform uh rising's able to do that Utah's offensive line does a great job and with that and what a lot of people don't talk about with pass protection their running backs pass block okay uh this drives me nuts watching the NFL in the NFL you see this all the time they bring an inside linebacker that the running back's responsible for the running back drops his head dives into the ground to make it look like he's attempting to block the guy but he wants nothing to do with it okay or he instead of squaring up on a guy to pass block him he picks a side so that the guy deflects and runs right by him well in both cases the quarterback's getting lit up in the chest after he throws the ball and the announcers say nothing about it nothing about it running backs uh it doesn't matter what level you're playing at they have to be able to run the ball catch the ball and pass block and pass blocking is huge Utah's running backs do a really good job with that okay rising's got really solid mechanics he's got the great feet and he's got great ball Carriage there's no wasted motion with him so he's really really close to uh what I want to see in a quarterback where everything is working in unison and Rhythm and the ball is coming out on time uh he does a great job with his mechanics okay now here's a mechanical thing and a technique thing that I have never talked about in my shows we're going to discuss now this is something that I taught my quarterbacks I taught my clients in my private QB training and that is getting on top of your throws okay I equate and did a lot of analogies with the baseball pitchers and quarterbacks it's the same principle okay hips and shoulders facing your target transferring that weight to the front foot taking the weight off that back foot and getting on top of your throw I always talk to my QBs about throwing off the mound getting on top of your throw and throwing downhill well what am I talking about here when you watch Rising throw and he doesn't do this 100% of the time but he does it a lot when he throws the ball Throwing Mechanics and he strides as that ball is at the top of his release he is picking that back foot up off the ground not dragging that toe not keeping that back back foot back there you know like some guys will do he's picking that sucker up in the air like a baseball pitcher so that all that weight's on the front foot and he's getting on top of that throw and he is pushing that balls his energy of his body the torque his hips The Stride everything that energy is being pushed out into the throw uh you watch some quarterbacks where when they throw the ball they keep their weight back and that back foot only moves just a little bit uh Aaron Rogers does this a ton Aron Rogers can do it because Aaron roders is a freak you know he's like momes you don't tell any quarterback to emulate Aaron roders or Patrick mahomes's style and the way that they throw they're unique Aaron Rogers can keep his weight back and just flick the ball and throw it 40 yards on a Attitude rope uh Rising really gets on top of that throw and he gets a lot of juice behind those throws because of doing that I like that okay he plays with an attitude and it's very obvious when he's running the football all right he uh when he's running the ball he's got it locked away with one hand one arm high and tight he uses the off hand to swat Defenders away he takes his hand and puts it on helmets of DBS and pushes them away from him uh he runs with an attitude and he doesn't slide okay Rising does not slide uh when they've got the ball inside the 5 yard line you know down in the goal line area and he runs it and they'll run runs with him down there he is getting in the end zone it's not one of these things where he tippytoes into the line of scrimmage or he tippy toes into a tackle where he's standing straight up and he's allowing the defensive guy to kick his ass and flatback him Rising lowers his Pad level and he initiates the contact and says hey I'm scoring there's nothing you guys can do about it and then the last thing with cam rising and his leadership uh if you want to determine the leadership skills of your starting quarterback listen to what his teammates say about him and listen to what his coaches say about him and these Leadership guys all say the same thing that he's the man he's the glue he's the alpha um you know he bought he has bought into the system he believes in Ute football uh there's a lot of reports that say you know he's using his Elder Statesman uh Persona to assist the younger players coming into the program this is what it means to be a Utah Ute this is the level at which we play these are the expectation levels we have for you young man in order for us to play at the level that we need to play at so he's being a mentor to these guys he's a uh role model and not only what he says but what he does through his actions uh he's got it going on in this field okay now let's talk about what I don't like about cam rising's game and there's really only one thing he has a penchant for forcing the ball downfield on seam verticals and Benders now Utah you know in their four vertical uh game and if you get one safety High you've got your slot receivers going down the hash okay seam verticals if you've got two safeties High one of your slot guys is running a bender which is a quick post as soon as he beats that slot Defender over the top he's snapping it off now you've also got your running back that is running a checkdown route of some form Utah runs the running back on a check angle route which means he's got pass protection check inside outside or just outside depending on what the front is and then he'll release outside the tackle and angle back into the box about four to five yards deep and that's the check down well Rising Drops as he drops he's pretty much asking himself mentally and seeing with his eyes do I have grass to throw that seam vertical do I have grass to throw that Bender if I don't because the coverage has gotten depth underneath it my running back should be standing all by all by himself and if you watch these clips that I'm going to show you he is completing the balls and I'm telling you he's making 10 point beautiful perfect passes and he's got a really small window to put it in and he's doing it these are highlight clips of Cam Rising how many times in the course of an entire full game is he trying to force that ball down field to those seam verticals and Benders and because the coverage is uh dropped way back and got in all kinds of depth those balls are being knocked down batted down or picked look at his running back his running back is 15 to 20 yards from any Defender okay and I've said this before in other shows your offense is so much more efficient if you just play catch as a quarterback with your receivers and take what the defense gives you I always told my quarterbacks this and I always told young offensive coordinators and quarterback coaches if you ever get bored completing passes go do something else because if your quarterback falls in love with what I call the UA throw where he's going to try to stick it in down field you know 20 yards down field so that the crowd goes ooh a on the beauty of that ball instead of throwing a little four or five yard boring check down route to that check angle route where your back catches the ball 100% of the time and runs for 20 yards you know you're you need to think about doing something else because your offense is going to sputter now cam rising's sticking the ball in there he's throwing completions but the odds of him doing that at a high rate and the efficiency of Utah's passing game on that route drops if he continues to try to force it in okay that's the only thing that I have a problem problem with with his game everything else I really like so I started this show with a couple of reasons why he's such an interesting dude we talked about the hair which good one we talked about the watch don't do that uh we talked about 26 years old and listen I I coached a guy at Wayne State College in Nebraska that was that age one of the best quarterbacks that I've ever worked with it is really a big Advantage when you've got such a mature uh experienced wise guy playing QB for you so that's good for Utah okay and um and then I also said this besides all of those things that make him fascinating and interesting he's a damn good quarterback he's really good I'm really impressed with Cam Rising okay if you like Today's Show please hit the like button subscribe to the channel let me know in the comments what you think of Cam's 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