HOUR 1 | Cam Rising, Brant Kuithe Have Big Game In Return | Utah Utes Shutout Southern Utah

hey this is JJ and Alex won't be denied 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 Zone listen as this crowd grows in volume as number seven comes onto the field for the first time CCR in the background Bad Moon Rising cam Rising 62 220 just shy of 5600 career yards all right everybody welcome on in it is your football Friday continuing right here on 975 the KSL Sport Zone yes it was a glorious return for cam rising to rise cycle Stadium last night the man has never thrown for more than four touchdowns in an entire game in his career did it the first half last night against the southern Utah Thunderbirds no problem it's exactly what we thought was going to happen JJ he was going to come out there everything would just be fine just cancel all the things I said 24 hours ago like is this head okay is he going to be all right oh my goodness it is a beautiful day down here in Lehigh we are uh broadcasting live right outside the right outside the field actually we're inside the stadium right uh just outside of the track of Lehigh High School home of the pioneers and home tonight of the Pioneers hosting the B of miners in Game Night Live Action awesome High School uh stuff of course that we're going to be able to talk about all day but on top of it we're out here for our very first football Friday of the Year Hans and Scotty kicked it off with Coach Mack and Alma this afternoon and then of course we're going to keep going this year with uh two awesome guests the people we love having on the program every year any capacity we can get them and we're lucky enough to get them every Friday Riley Nelson former BYU and Utah State quarterback and then of course Stevenson Sylvester former Utah and NFL linebacker what's going on fellas welcome to your football season this year man um I'm so happy that you guys invited us we're glad to have you man we were just talking about how how awesome our Fridays are going to be for the next 13 weeks man man I didn't even know it right we were at lunch and um they started talking about I'm like what are you guys talking about apparently you're going to be there right I'm I'm going to be there I'm like oh well all right I'll be there but like soon as they told me I'm just like oh yeah here's part here's the thing you got invited to that lunch what's going on what's up it's special it was a it was a TV lunch T sorry Alex I got you guys have a different budget for lunches it's fine we're we're kicking things off SL you know you got to talk to your agent Sly he still has everybody you mean my wife she was working at the time so she was distracted that's how I I appreciate you coming here not holding out while your contract's under negotiation $50,000 a day by the way when you hold out sorry uh I thought he was negotiating crypto now no hey future baby uh listen you guys it's going to be an awesome football season we've got tons going on our program as always is brought to you by G2G bar is all natural ingredients and no preservatives make the G2G bar perfect for anybody who needs a quick taste of nutritious boost let's kick it off we got tons to talk about let's just get it right out of the gates and see what everybody thought about this Utah Southern Utah game last night we'll preview for you of course the games that are going on this weekend across the entire State we'll also jump in at the national level uh oh my goodness I was this close to being absolutely dead on with Coach Prime and what was going to happen last night with the Colorado buffal anytime I can sneak sneak coach Prime into the program you believe no I do not coach but we knew North Dakota state was going to be a problem and it kind of was uh a miraculous catch by Travis Hunter and then a a miraculous no call on the targeting also helped the cause so let's kick off the show officially with the cut we'll jump in right here 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 Zone they've already got one of those big plays the 64 yd touchdown pass have they got another one yes they do welcome back brt keithy touchdown Utes I mean we've been practicing just for those type of catches just got to make sure to catch it you know cuz it's so wide open but no it's just football at the end of the day we practices so much and just pitch and catch that's exactly what we talked about after the I was talking with somebody about it I go it looks like they're actually just at practice like just running routes kind of before everything 49 nothing I don't know what you expected to happen uh I did not have on the bingo card that dejon Stanley was going to have three catches for 150 yards you didn't I did I didn't I did not I did not they said they had a special package kind of dialed up for djon you're going to see him and he was going to be out there making plays but man Riley knows when you got a guy that just as talented as he is with that speed you have special plays all over the place for him like literally special packages this is designed as soon as he's in the game you know it's definitely for him it's crazy deson Stanley speed in like real time is like insane he's the fastest running back right I mean he's got to be the fastest hands down his explosion was just awesome last night you said RB I think possibly on the roster yeah exactly yeah it's uh it's kind of a crazy thing because we were we were watching this thing unfold and I know that look 49 to nothing you had cam risings five touchdowns in the first half uh were three of them to brt keithy yes JJ three to Brant keithy two to djon two to djon Stanley uh not a bad start for him there were a couple scrambles right at the beginning that you're kind of going he's the whole building went quiet when he ran and and you know uh I I don't know when you when you see a guy coming back from an injury Riley and you've done the quarterback thing and so you watch him and you go all right here's here's the hard part of trying to hold yourself back from going to two nuts but at the same time like you don't want to hold yourself back because that will also get into your head and then you don't play your game at all so how do you handle a situation like last night it seems like they did it perfectly there is no holding back whether he was coming back from an injury or not a guy that means as much to his unit the offensive unit as cam Rising does you don't play Reckless so whether he's coming back off a injury free season or the you know the the tough injury riddled you know past couple years that he's had that you play the same way you play aggressive you play assertive you just don't play Reckless so there is no you you use the term holding back there cannot be any of that cuz that in my opinion and in my observation that actually tends to lead itself towards additional injuries yep yep yeah yeah that's the whole uh statement that you make when we play if you're not playing 100% you actually get injured more and so that's why like some of these rule changes like after the collective bargaining agreement in 2011 uh guys had to you know guess they had to start thinking more and so they were hesitating we had so many injuries in 2012 and 13 because of that extra thought process on the defensive side of the ball of not hitting anybody getting targeted and getting fined uh the injuries went way up in 2012 and 13 so Sly did is any concerns that you saw last night we we knew what the outcome was going to be it's exactly what we expected we talked about it yesterday Cam's going to have a good first half get him out of the game get the second teamers in get Isaac Wilson out there but from what you saw from your Vantage Point your eyes was that exactly what he want to see out of them or or they still some concerns that you might have with what this team's going to do when they're playing Power for competition oh yeah I mean it's Southern Utah no disrespect to them but we uh it it's not that look but it's exactly what you wanted at the beginning of the season I said like uh there's there's teams that have been together like our 08 team we have been together so getting a tough opponent on that first game is fine because we had that chemistry with all the new assets and new people in place and guys who haven't played in a couple years you need that warm-up game they have so many Caleb loner Landon King who didn't even really get a touch yesterday Makai Bernard you have so many weapons across the board Dorian singer that you got to get those guys some touches some Rhythm so they can get that in-game experience which I think they did you know literally I thought it was like five touchdowns just in the second quarter alone they literally only had one possession in the in in the first um in the first quarter so like that really hindered them but soon as they got the ball the defense started getting off the field quicker cam Rising was back at it and it was amazing to see uh we laughed yesterday about well it was we were trying to make a couple predictions and I go JJ does Isaac Wilson throw his first Collegiate touchdown uh in this game and you said yes and then we kind of had a chuckle and said what about Caleb loner he going to catch first ha well he might not see the field yet it's a little early and he got six guys in front of him probably still and sure enough he goes out there and gets his first touchdown was that more I thought I was more shocked by that than maybe well there are two things I and again 49 to zero was what it was all of these guys and I think that I think that the Run game I don't I didn't see what the the final rushing numbers were but that's one part where you're looking at it and if you're a coach you're they're they're definitely I bet Quinton ganther is going oh he's pissed multiple fumbles by the running back oh look M Mike Mitchell when he put it on the turf and then picked it right back up again you could see his you could see the fear in this poor young man's eyes and he he's walking back to the Huddle and the ball is high and tight while he's walking back to the Huddle and he looked and he knew he was coming out of the game and so he kind of hands the back to the ref sheepishly but the running back situation you have the you have these wide receivers that you didn't even get to see a ton of last night either because a lot of most of your work was done with a running back out of the back it wasn't enough place you you had possessions but they were so the quick strikes a lot of plays to run to give a lot of guys touches spreading it out was going to be an issue uh but the running back spot for me I looked at and went they still don't love how they're and they don't really know necessarily exactly how they're going to work this room I don't think that's what I got out of it I mean uh you know interviewing coach with after the game he was talking about how he wasn't impressed by his running game you know they had almost 200 yards rushing you know collectively of course how many rushes they had to have at towards the the fourth quarter to run out the clock but um he wasn't impressed with the running game so that's going to be a focus here going forward cuz you know traditionally I I remember we were down I think we were playing Arizona State when jadden Daniels was at Arizona State we were down 21 to7 or something like that at halftime we're panicking we're like oh this doesn't look good I talk coach at halftime he's just like we got to run the football like coach you're down 14 points and they get the ball have like what are you talking about next you know we come out in the third quarter that's all they do that whole Drive draw Place run the run the football we go down and score in like literally a two minute everybody starts to look at each other like all right he knows exactly what the heck he's talking about so coach winingham football team has to have an Implement of running the football whether that's the QB Run game or the running backs but I don't think our offensive line and which I've said you know has been my biggest question you know coming into the season uh is can the offensive line do what they need to but the running game is not where it needs to be yeah you don't love seeing I mean there so djon Stanley six carries Makai Bernard five uh Mikey Mitchell with six uh Jaylen Glover with four Charlie Vincent had four like it's just you know we were wondering if I mean I wasn't asking to see 23 carries by you know this first game they basically said hey we're going to try to figure out what this run game is going to look like and so if there was if there was again we're getting nitpicky because that's what you do after the first game yeah well and I just want to throw in there that it was tough that so many of the touchdowns came on big plays that eats up opportunities to get reps and get get uh you know chops at the tree and so that was my biggest I I caution anybody out there that's going to be worried about the Run game simply because and it just loaded for me but touchdown play 64 yards 29 yards 79 yards and 20 yards like you scored on giant chunk plays and and that just eats out the series so it doesn't give you a chance to really get a Workman like sample uh from from the running back in the old line over 500 yards of offense though for the UTS game one uh you've got to love that if you're a Utah F you got to love the statistically it's going to yeah they're going to love the Boost more than half of it was passing that's 3 328 yards passing I mean that's a great that's a great start on in a year that we looked and we assumed they were probably going to be and they have the weapons to be able to pass a little bit more it's just whether or not that's what uh coach whittingham's going to want to do speaking of uh of quarterbacks let's listen to uh what cam Rising had to say about being out there his very first game back actual bullets flying in a real game since January 1st of 2023 here's what he said yeah you just look out to kind of the stands and and get kind of get a second to just take it in and breathe and usually kind of that feeling kind of goes out of the the way once the coin toss really happens and then you're just focused on winning the game awesome to have him back obviously JJ this is one of those things where we've been talking about it from the beginning what's that first game going to look like pass with flying colors and then obviously you get your your first uh go at your first crack at at at some power four Talent next week not the best of teams of course but I I think that at the very least what you're going to get from Baylor is some pretty darn good trench play and that's going to be a test it's going to be way different than facing off against you know a 287b uh you know defensive tackle who's 5 fo 10 from from Southern Utah you know what I mean so it it's going to be a different test next week although although uh we know that they're built for this and we know it's going to be at home that's a big deal it was a great way for cam to come back to you know there wasn't the pressure of having to go into the swamp and Come Away with the win I think that would have been a much different task for him so to be able to go out there against Southern Utah and with his with his buddies and his and his guys and go out there and just have a good time and do what they did and get five touchdowns was a perfect way for him to ease back in and Riley I want to ask you this because you played at that level you know what it takes to win at that level what does Cam Rising do for those of us if you can give us a deeper look into what he does as a quarterback that makes him so special that we can't see those of us that just the regular jills watching the game what is it that makes him special as a quarterback that allows him to be so successful do you any do any of y'all watch Caesar Milan no what is it he's the Dog Whisperer oh yeah is what's his name of his show you got time to watch TV so Caesar uh he always is about whenever you got a dog with problems he puts them in a pack and then with with a leader dog and literally it's crazy to watch it you these dogs they're nipping they're biting they're jumping they got all sorts of behavioral problems and then they get in a pack and most of the time it's just the presence of that Alpha Dog in the pack that will correct the behavior there and sometimes the alpha dog needs to go over and put the you know the erratic dog in its place the same thing happens to a degree I know I mean I know we're all humans I don't mean to reduce us all the same as like but alpha dog has been said a million times by coach Whit and that is so in answer your question I say that to say that like you just take an average player and you put him in that huddle with him or in that meeting room and it automatically like yeah calms that person down when when you have that kind of presence that kind of confidence and then the second thing is when a correction needs to be made the correction is made and it and it sticks like it's it should it's made it's made correctly and it should only need to be made once and that just when you have that like as opposed to looking at BYU that doesn't have that guy that the guys don't know who to look through or look to um it's just so much more uh difficult of a um of a situation the last thing I'll say is when it comes to actual gamep plays the last line of defense like no one with quarterbacks in his situation you'll notice pre- snap procedure and other penalties are almost non-existent because he's been through everything I I remember when I got to that level it was even like we'd get in a play and I'd notice the guy was lined up wrong and I was Play Clocks running down and so I would just like change the play or I'd move my H back over so that we could still do what we needed to do rather than having to move like my H from one side of the field to the other which I know was going to cause us to burn a timeout I knew another way within the offense to be like oh we can still run the play it can still be equally as effective we can still Target up the Run game or still get to the same passing concept just through a different way and we don't have to burn a timeout he brings that he bring that kind of stuff which those things over the course of a game and even more so over the course of a season just add up to keeping things positive in your favor so the Alpha Dog leadership and the little things and that makes such a big difference and you saw that yesterday's slide same old cam I mean that's what we were wondering is how what's he going to be like when he comes back he was he was exactly what I think Utah fans hoped he would be in that game and I know look again we know the opponent we'll learn more next week but you had to be happy with what you saw from him yesterday yeah and it's a it's very technical game right like there's a lot of things you can take from it yes it was suu as an opponent but what what fine things can you translate to the next week and the week after that and there was things in that game that I absolutely love cam Rising did an amazing job time and time again in that first half of moving the safety with his ey to set up his secondary look he went through multiple progressions in his routes and I absolutely love that that is going to translate to that so he'll know when what what he needs to look at his pre- snap reading we talk about it all the time J jjon was cuz he's jjon got one job I was like I got to be my guy right but but Kam is looking at the matchups and that's what I love about this team right now is we can go through the weapons we talked about it from the monar unit to the speed unit whatever they got they did 14 Personnel that's going to be big Personnel this year I'm telling you the way they run it it's going to be a big Personnel but with all that being said they got so many weapons somebody's going to be open and so all it is is Cam's got to see like who has the best one-on-one matchups right now and you have so many good athletes that can win their one-on-one matchups you're going to have success more time and time again so yes we scored 49 points on suu but don't think we can score 49 points on Arizona on on um Baylor on some of these other teams down the road we're going to be a highly functioning highly productive high scoring offense this year it's going to be awesome BYU fan was so glad you didn't say BYU in that everybody knows we're we're going to R we're going to rain 60 on him at home baby after that Kim's already mad because of the last loss so already mentioned it we got two months simmer down oh no no I'm sorry I started three months ago baby I'm going to go full Brandt keithy and just be like I mean that's a kind of a it's an important game I guess but not like Oklahoma State guess I guess the Cowboys still water that one gets my blood going all right uh well he's from Texas so that just means different I guess but he's doing this whole thing too where he's like I you know I didn't grow up with this it's like that old Saturday Night Live he's been here for half his life so my primitive mind can't grasp these your world frightens me with this you well to your point Sly he's going to come in he's like y'all remember in 2010 when we kick their butt 59 to 10 and everyone's going to be like hey I was eight he like oh yeah I just I just transferred him from Texas 38-year-old Brent I'm telling you really quick you mentioned that one of the things that uh just my observation I'm interested I was just looking at the scores and it'd be an interesting to note to see if the uh you know the FBS and the FCS if the Gap is widening cuz I like on Keith's I think it was his last touchdown was the one he caught on the sideline then four Dudes it literally looked like you know me playing with my niece yeah man versus the boys are you talking about when he pushed through to the end zone yeah and I guess what I'm saying and obviously North Dakota State gave on the game they gave Colorado all they could handle but for the most part don't tell Bronco the Gap is is very wide well there there you go I so I'd be interested to see what the data played out but do you guys get the sense and I'm interested to see at BYU which BYU can't rest on any Laurels but I'm interested I'm wondering if that with the transfer I I don't know I guess you used to have a couple you know maybe a couple NFL a couple undrafted free agents that that were left there that were Juniors and seniors on these FCS teams that you know they'd show out or they'd make some plays or make it a little bit difficult on these P4 teams but now they get just per as soon as you as soon as they're good enough to be at that level they're gone look BYU's turned Weber State into Rick's College yeah right I guess that's what I'm saying so the second they have a great player BYU's like okay let's go let's go get 100,000 then money and go get him they have some money to throw so it used to be it used to be like you could maybe get a little bit because you were getting I you could place a place a little bit of weight in your evaluation of a of a team like Utah against a team like suu but I my my inclination is to think that that's diminished that these FCS FBS match especially P4 FCS are even more cuz I know you mentioned New Mexico but talking about P4 to FCS I think are even less relevant than they have been in theast it felt like it right and there were times during the game you watched it and you were like yeah okay let's get through this thing they never got in the Red Zone I me I they the other thing is you used to have maybe a little bit more disparity or a little bit more equality of size but now even just the size was so dispar like I was like who are these five eight dudes trying to tackle Keith on and can't even push him out of bounds I know that's a little bit extreme but uh that now that could go both ways it could be Utah was that good and will prove to be that good but my my inclination is wondering that because of the the talent being pillaged out of FCF if if that's going to be a continued sh we said bran kei's 38 those kids are 19 even just it's a grown man out there it's true it is become the new junior college right I mean that's the way and frankly like you know that if there's a guy who's got some good tape out there at the FCS level you'd rather have that guy than a high school kid I mean it's just is it's a no-brainer and that's all trickled down and we see high school there's less scholarship for High School Kids uh I want to hear what coach Whit did say though before we get out to the break here because Whit did talk about cam rising and Brant keithy being back on the field together uh it's almost fortuitous that they both get this last year with one another here's what he said about it for Cam and Brandt it was a confidence thing you just get back in the flow and get back on the playing field and into live action everybody else will watch the film like I said there's plenty to correct but I don't want to call it a tuneup game but it was a good game to get get the season started off with it's a tuneup game so that's what and that's what you wanted like honestly you didn't want to start with Florida you didn't want to you wanted to get Cam rising out there you wanted to run all the stuff you wanted to you basically ran everything like it was a scrimmage I again I don't want to be disrespectful of delaye Fitz JS program because it is but what's crazy Riley is it's not a bottom of the it's not a bottom feeder FCS program it's pretty middle of the road they're picked to finish third in their conference this year they have a shot at the FCS playoffs it's a pretty middle of the road pretty decent FCS team and it and and it was it was it was hard to watch uh at some points where you're like and then when their second quarterback went in and just you know was like when uh Tommy cutlets went in last year for the Giants they just run it around the edge just don't fumble please sneak at the two please let's go uh all right let's take a break we'll take our first break stay right here Riley Nelson Stevenson Sylvester JJ myself we're back next 975 the KSL Sports Zone it's a Friday and we're talking football nonstop 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 so now a third-year sophomore into the game for Utah it is Brandon rose rose takes a shot toward The End Zone that ball is caught for a touchdown Caleb loner all right I got to admit I completely screwed that up it looked like they were going to bring Brandon Rose into the game based on warming up on the sideline that was a touchdown pass for Isaac Wilson that was a great throw by Wilson what an awkward night for the for the Freshman come in you talking about the broadcaster well for him too no but you know it it was a it was a wild thing because it's like the kid couldn't get a break he comes in he throws a pick he he uh on one of the scrambles he gets his foot stepped on and his cleat comes off and cam rising's over there tying his shoe and Brandon Rose comes in for a play and and then uh and then this whole thing went down and the announcer calls you very first touchdown that somebody else threw it so you're like all right I guess we're just have to get the radio call and match it up to the video because the first game a little bit messy but you know that's that's the way it goes welcome back we are uh outside of course for Game Night Live today uh JJ and Sly already in the house because they're going to call uh Lehigh versus Bingham tonight here in Lehigh Riley Nelson of course alongside as well all season long we're going to bring you football Fridays and have these discussions it is it is uh it is so much fun to actually be talking about football but we knew this was going to happen too we're like yeah it was great it was great but it was one of those games by midc quarter we were all kind of going all right what's up here there was it was like Hey nor Dakota state car I'll tell you what happened too I'll tell you what happened too is I'm I'm watching this game and I was I was seriously looking at this and I'm going okay uh there are there are so many moments when you're when you're when you're playing a game like this and you're watching the scene go down and and I was just thinking to myself my goodness all the injuries and and again uh I think it was uh was it Keenan was it Keenan Johnson who ended up going down and that one's a bad one and I don't know if uh viahi is if is if his is going to beo I look at both of those and you go you went all camp and what did we say all Camp knock on wood they've had so few injuries that were season ending they've had they've had they've had a beautiful Camp first quarter Keenan Johnson goes down uh viahi goes down I think in the second half right before halftime or right before halftime right before and and it's hard because you don't tell these kids to turn it off they're playing it a th% I mean and and and you see that kind of stuff go down I don't think we've heard anything yet from Utah If It season ending obviously Kyle's going to come out and say something that's awful to see first game though that's one the worst for these well that's why we talk about depth and when you're a power four and this is the BYU's we're going to hope that BYU's taking another step in that direction but when you have injuries like that like Wht says like everybody says it's next man up and you've got to have depth this is why you recruit this is why you develop and we'll find out how much depth Utah has at both of those positions and it's you know I don't think defensive tackle is as much of a concern as quarterback SL but that quarterback position going in on the other side was a big question mark they thought Kenan Johnson was going to lock it down but now he's gone so who's next man up that's important yeah I mean and and Elijah Davis came in without a hitch did an amazing job right we actually didn't know who that who that second guy was everybody was talking about Cameron koun and he wasn't even dressed and so like uh we there there's just guys you just don't know who's going to be up but you can trust in Morgan's G Shar Shaw these guys that put the right guys out on the field and Elijah Davis he went off without a hit I know we talked to Coach Whit after the game he was talking about how they're going to have to make an adjustment for Kenan Johnson uh being gone T Johnson might have to come down and play that cornerback position keeps Smith Snowden in that nickel position because he's so familiar with it right now but ta Johnson's your wild card he can play multiple positions in the secondary and then he could keep you safe it's not going to be a Rose Bowl scenario for us again in that defensive back field but um I I it's a it's a crappy cuz Kennan was way away from the play yeah he was on the other side the field like what happened and the turf monster I think not contact right I didn't see yeah I got to I got to see the film but it it was bad and and uh viam Mahi was a friendly fire like it's just a crappy as you said make it all the way through training camp you do everything right and then the first game first half this bummer did you uh this is the other thing that happened first of all the second quarter when they're I mean they're up uh four scores five scores you know in that in that second quarter and and you're going all right let's get this thing going and it was the longest quarter in the history of of football I thought literally I went back to high school football I was like we're going to have a running clock sure sure could use one not only that I think if you get to 70 to nothing and the like they eventually there is there is actually a trigger there is but well we found out last night off topic Stephen F Austin was up 70 to nothing and they started running clock in the second half you know what I want the second half like as soon they're up 70 to nothing in the first half well here's what I was here's what I thought though while it was happening was oh my goodness Kyle is just stopping the clock like they were stopping the clock there they got is steadily he's always working that's what I'm saying clock management and no problem with it of course not because next week it's gonna be against a big it's going to be a big opponent you do the things that you were going to do the rest of the season anyway the stuff that you just you have to get that and and and when he's going it's not two minutes left in the fourth quarter and and you're trying to run up the score they're just running sit run the kicker running into the kicker they did they they uh how was that not roughing they decline I don't know cuz it looked like it was pretty it was pretty big contact but he it was a big dude who hit him too so you're kind of like I don't know what happened what the definition I I'm not sure I think it was just the refs being like we don't want to give him a free first down let's give this going but then my favorite was is that then they get back they get backed up and then they get then they get those yards back and he puts cam back out on the field again and and they keep going and they go oh uh on the on the when the quarterback on that same following series ended up with the uh with the intentional grounding Kyle's like uh no we're not running 10 seconds off nope not doing it we're going to take all situational football you can't you can't turn it off and and it's I mean it it's just like being at camp and you're like we're going live here we have to treat it the way that we do every other every other game and so uh here's what Kyle said about the defense obviously this is a big one they uh just got over that 150 yard Mark for the night JJ put some disrespect on the youth defense yesterday said they were going to give up 10 points in a blowout and I thought well that's double digits come on I'm crazy I don't know what how stupid was that uh here's what wit said about the defense playing uh in the uh in in this game against Southern Utah game one it's always nice to shut someone out I mean that's the ultimate goal for a defense you know we we made some plays over there we had one interception but of two or three sacks maybe four sacks so we made some plays we really controlled the game with our defense really never you know they got a couple runs out out on us but never really gave up any sustained drive and of course didn't give up a score so five sacks last night yeah van fillinger had two and uh Logan Foo and Conor tool shared one and then there was some guys late that got a couple oh the dreaded half sack yeah nobody wants the half sack hey man I learned in the league oh my gosh the half sacks and the the the half tackles oh they they mean a lot you know especially James Harrison he like I always put my hand down just make sure I get my I I touched Vince Young [Music] I all right I think we're back now welcome back it is Friday 975 BSL Sport Zone Alex cury Jeremiah Jensen of course Riley Nelson Stevenson Sylvester every Friday right here football Friday all right I wanted to get to Brent keithy and some sound here before we went uh before we we turned into robots I want to know what the uh what he said about uh his first game back it's just finally nice to be able to actually get out and actually be playing a game yeah it feels good but uh I've been doing this for preparing for two years and just feels good to know I can still do it and we still got a lot of games to go and just can't wait for next week speak speak of robots a guy who just is the same in his preparation a guy who doesn't show a lot of emotion on the media side of things but might be as prepared as anybody I love that that I love that he had a three touchdown game to come back and to be back into you know on the three touchdown quarter three touchdown quarter and with Cam too right I mean that's that's what we wanted I think we put that on the bingo card yesterday I don't think it could have gone better for bran keithy in his return that was pretty that was that was pretty impressive uh one of the things that was interesting though and this is what we were when we were wondering was going to happen how was it going to play out Isaac Wilson uh comes in the corner Canyon product they showed Zack up in the stands on the TV broadcast with his dad Mike and uh that's an awesome moment I guess Riley maybe describe some of the uh the feelings of going out there and you know when when you come in in that situation when you're Isaac Wilson and and one you knew that the possibility was there everybody was talking about it like hey they're asking cam about it so you know how long you going to play with the thing going like hey you guys you can't give us 50 points yet we got to actually score those points but they did did it and Isaac Wilson got in the circumstance wasn't perfect but uh certainly a memorable start to his to his uh his campaign as a youth absolutely I mean we focus on the interception like whatever the fact how lucky is he to be able to throw a touchdown pass in his first garbage time appearance like to the fact that lwi even opened it up and let him throw it as much many as he did what do he have nine I think he was five for nine anyway like that's that's pretty good work uh for a garbage time I different OC's have different philosophies now when I was in his position and a true freshman and kind of a different scale like Hometown kid right Logan at Utah State and all that I got a lot of garbage time and a lot of passes cuz we were down 40 and you know before they made me the starter you know so so like you know I I think I threw for like I I got the fourth quart my first snaps were against Idaho I got the fourth quarter we were down 30 something I think I threw for like 160 in a touch but I was down 30 something against Idaho can you believe itand oo the dark days 2006 Aggies um no but like uh no light him up 160 and a quarter through a touch and all that a lot different than what Isaac was dealing with being you know obviously it's P4 and but I I'm super excited for him well I mean selfishly I'm excited for him because I'm a fan of of the product of football in the state of Utah and and our prep uh and how much that's come up and and all that and then ultimately my relationship and friendship with Zach and Josh who have come through BYU I've met Isaac once I wouldn't say I know him that much but wish him well and I thought that was a that was a tremendous debut I I don't know how much it'll help him preparing if you know he gets thrown in against Oklahoma State or what you know one of these bigger games or even like a BYU I think at that point he's going to have to continue to learn some lessons there but uh I was excited to I was glad he got as much for me selfishly not so much T tuning in I mean I had to do it for my job tune in for the youths but not tuning in for the youths out of pleasure I gained a little bit fans out of everybody I got some I got some I got some pleasure out of watching you know local product Isaac Wilson show up to the hype and the other thing by the way when was the last time in all of which what's he going on 20 years now yeah in all of his 20 Seasons when have there ever been like an announcement and a media cycle done about who was named back never so I I love that they've embra Isaac has embraced them as a university he's lived up to the hype uh before and and then they've embraced him in turn and the fact that he's a I mean who's the last Utah product to be to take snaps under there was it Lance rice you mean no no I mean just over for Utah my goodness you what is it Lance rice I think it might be yeah I mean come on now we're talking 25 years oh no no no so the kid from Jordan High School oh and sorry the P Farmer and the P farmer brys Barnes I'm so sorry Bryson Barnes you're thinking Metro Milford Z the prince of pigs you can't forget about Bryson bares my fault there's been some but to your to your point recruit that we know is going to be a future of a program no no no no no no Bry bar had to work his way up as a as a walk-on and the circumstances allowed him to do that we've not I can't think of anybody that's been in the position that Isaac Wilson is in and that leaves to my next question I had for you is you watched Isaac in high school and you saw his development you saw how good he was his senior year and then you saw what you saw last night what gives you what did you what stands out to you about him that makes you think that he's going to be what they think he's going to be which is their Guy moving forward the Wilsons love football man like we were talking off break well a little bit of prep we were just looking at a clip of diesel Dart Jackson Dart another Utah product out of old miss you know wishing the best for him but his younger brother was was uh I was asking Sly about some of his technique and stuff when he was lowering the boom on some of the IMG guys last week right um but like the dart family the Wilson family like these are families that love football and it shows meaning that Isaac was not trying to ride the coattails of his brother and all the hype cycle and all that he has put in his own work and like he's come there without any sense of entitlement earn the respect of uh his teammates and I think his head coach like wit is not profus of with and he has been praising I he he doesn't do it uh disingenuously he only gives it if it's really earned and he's given that to Isaac and so I I uh can't wait to watch him uh diesel Dart by the way you talk about guys who want to blaze their own path he's from the very get goes like I'm not a quarterback like I'm a I'm a wide receiver I'm recognizing he's a different kind of player and embracing that and being the best he can be and and not like look your older brother was awesome but I'm me like I'm My Own player every and every by the way was like you sure you don't want to play qu trying to force something quarterback with a name diesel I got I got to hit people baby I got to truck some people man like credit to Mike Wilson and Brandon Dart and I'm sure they're mothers by the way for creating cultures in that household of like we do not we don't uh buy off on entitlement here like every person is going to be their own individual and have to blaze their own path and earn their own way and I just love seeing that on display with local products at the next level but you're all going to do it at Corner Canyon and that's the final work right that's it all right uh go out there and be somebody but you got to be a charger while you do it all right we'll come back we got more around the corner we have our would you rather our first one of the of the Friday uh football Friday season we'll come back we're at leehigh high school Lehigh and Bingham tonight on Game Night Live more to go right around the corner 975 the KL Sports Zone listen everybody real life hypotheticals to get your brain churning as JJ and Alex ask would you rather all right everybody Welcome Back JJ and Alex 975 the KSL Sport Zone thanks for being with us on the program nominate your Youth Sports volunteer that you know in your neck of the woods for the Hercules hero of the week how do you do it you submit that nomination KSL sports.com contest you listen every Thursday JG and I read those winners off and uh we just love honoring those local volunteers if it's that team mom if it's the assistant coach who just is been the assistant coach forever and just keeps loving on those kids and makes sure that they are getting the attention that they need to be uh good Sportsman have the good sportsmanship and just you know there are people that just take the extra time like we said every year uh JJ we have kids that are in a system that we have to trust and Trust our kids to you know uh some adults that actually have time in their lives to coach and we appreciate that they do it and we got to honor those people we'll do it with the Hercules here of the week they win a $50 gift card and $200 to beehive meals when you nominate them and they get that nod and we'll read that off every week it's a Hercules here of the of the week brought to you by Hercules Credit Union and beehive meals would you rather well let's go back to this question and I'll ask you first uh sly because I think it's an interesting thought of would you rather open up against the Florida or would you rather open up against a team like Southern Utah where you had the result like you had last night but you're able to ease into this into of the season a little bit more is there a version of that is there a version of easing into the end of the season I mean like you just had to you had to play Florida because it was on the schedule and you also love the getting having a game like that at the front end of the of the schedule it's easy to promote it's awesome to have a big opponent like that but do you would you rather have the uh you know the the smaller opponent that you know you can kind of tune up on am I the fan or the player the player the player oh that goes into different two different things it depends on the type of team that you have right if I have that experienced team um I definitely want to shock the world get everybody on notice right at the jump Jo W right at the get-go that we're that we're for real so you know I have that chemistry but like if I got new moving pieces and and I'm trying to build that chemistry got I got to knock the rust off of a lot of guys I definitely got to have my FCS opponent because there going to be more opportunities down the road you know Cam and Brandt back and maai Bernard there was some guys that are back but M Bernard didn't play all the last there was 20 plus new players that took the field last I mean there was a lot of newness with that team yeah this is not like they they're rolling at all back there's a lot of new guys new faces and we've said it you can't duplicate game time you know atmosphere game time uh repetition and so warming up against the FCS opponent like that I think was good because if you looked at that first quarter there was a lot of things that they had to to knock off there was a lot of nervousness right you don't want to knock off your nervousness against a Florida against a Virginia tank or something like that so you knock that off against the FCS opponent where you know you're pretty much guaranteed I think Vegas had him what 40 point is that what it was 40 Point sprad remember how they used to covered remember how they used to not put lines even on those games they wouldn't do FCS now they're like sure we'll take your we'll take your dumb money there's enough degenerates out there there's some degenerates out just sitting hey Jeremy how much money have you lost on FPS versus FCS games those are I got a system you just got to give me I need six more games the system I got a system I made a dollar on the that's why Riley wanted to know the stats earlier it wasn't for anything else except for I'd love to actually my prop know I I got a prop vet parlay going it's it's intense but it's all FCS versus FBS uh Riley uh real quickly your thoughts on whether or not you want to start with that that big opponent right out of the gate which happen some some years and then other years you're you're facing off against a Southern Illinois to start things off if you're I'm going to credit you for the strategy I think we get rid of f FBS FCS Al together and uh you just find some way to redistribute some of the wealth down to help buoy up because I know that's been a wealth transfer transfer mechanism that's why they play them as for running yeah exactly a wealth transfer mechanism so I say get rid of them all together and um so because I I'll be honest I didn't like FCS now I was a quarterback you know and and all that but I I didn't like FCS I felt like I already got so few with with no guaranteed opportunity to play Beyond College I felt like we had so many few opportunities it felt like a waste to go beat up on dudes who we knew top to bottom on the roster we were that much better than and like Pat ourselves on the back for you know a 35-point win against the team that you should have right you should have beat by 38 so now that said it it's got some good so Sly talked about the Utah perspective given the BYU perspective they're not trotting out 20 more guys I know there's been a lot of intrigue about like o the quarterback but like and if bohannan goes out there which it's looking like he's probably not it's not new like LJ Martin and hle party had the top two carries last year they're going to be your two RBS Chase Roberts Lasser and keano Hill were your top three receivers oh you're trotting those same guys out there four out of your five offensive linemen are the same guys same offense yeah same exactly same offensive coordinator same defensive coordinator now what you need there is like they believe at least defensively you know Jay Hill is's very reserved guy even he he said at one point at Camp was kind of when they were transitioning out of Camp into game prep he said I think we are further ahead and better than we were last year now that's all talk because you're trotting out seven of the same 11 guys like how can you say that how can you say that you're better so you need this to maybe get your team believing that from a psychological standpoint and look I still do believe in the age of transfers and the age of just like rip and replace everybody I do believe that from one year to the next players can get better and but you got to see it to believe it because if you come out and you get punched in the nose that doubt Creeps in and then you can backslide really really quick so I think for BYU if they can come out and they can start to see it and start to believe what they've been telling themselves all off season which is we're all one year better we're all one year bigger we're all one year wiser and that will mean that will equate to better performance throughout the course of the year then you know I think it's a meaningful exercise but as a fan and as a player I could I could leave them I could leave these matchups well and I mean I didn't want to part I didn't want to transition that into furthering my opinion which should matter the most here okay the FCS FBS games have to go especially now I think they will especially now that that that a loss or two doesn't freaking matter on your you know on your resume it's like having Corner Canyon play Milford week one what are we doing we don't do we don't do it at the high school level like you know I'm trying to use a local at high school analy isn't that is that if Corner Canyon what's the point if Corner Canyon was giving $50,000 to Milford I'd be okay with it but that's not but that's also not happening so in the end like it is it's like honestly and and and wouldn't the TV Partners be extremely sa that's where the money comes down from the extra profit I watched the entire game and I'm racking my brain who did New Mexico lose to though oh it was uh it was uh Montana State okay oh yeah Montana State okay good state it would have been it that's a lowlevel group of five versus an which is different I guess maybe it's the P4 FCS that's got GOC cuz I was going to say if you're if you're the coach or on that coaching staff of Montana State and you are young in your career and you're an upcomer you want those opportunities to punch above your weight and show what you can do against a bigger weight class what would the world be without appalation State beating Michigan and exactly so so you still need that to you need some mechanism of it I guess to allow for Upward Mobility more for the coaches than anything else but are you are you trying to introduce relegation to the game come on let's go I know I'm all for it but we're too we're too far down the line all right joining us on the program right now he's nice enough to hang out because