The BYU Cougars improved to 2-0 on the season with their gritty 18-15 win over the SMU Mustangs Friday evening in Gerald J. Ford Stadium and while it was a slog, BYU football saw Jay Hill's defense put on a heroic performance that helped the Cougars secure their fifth victory all-time over SMU and the defensive prowess appears to be Kalani Sitake's program's strength.
Jake Hatch then took the BYU offense to task as starting quarterback Jake Retzlaff reverted back to what he was in 2023 compared to the poise he displayed in the season-opener against Southern Illinois a week ago and the issues on the offense go deeper than just him with LJ Martin on cruthes and the play-calling by offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick being questioned.
Finally, fans of the podcast and the team had their say via the Locked On Cougars insider group and social media as they talked about the defense shining for BYU and the ineptitude of the offense that seemed to do just barely enough to keep the Cougars undefeated on the young season with Brigham Young University (BYU) headed to face the Wyoming Cowboys next Saturday.
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Thank you for making Lockdown Cougars your first view and/or listen to the day, and they get to all of you once again, who are everydayers with us right here on your original daily podcast focused on the BYU Cougars. This is a special edition. We're doing that after BYU games, we call them postcast. We look back on the wins, losses, and everything in between for BYU football and BYU basketball, and as it stands, the BYU Cougars. Our 2-0 on the season by virtue of an 18-15 victory over the SMU Mustangs. Did I envision that score line going into this game? Absolutely not. Did I envision it being a close game? Sure, but it came about in the most crazy of ways. So, we're going to start off by talking about the positives that take away from this game. I just named one of them. Your BYU Cougars are 2-0. Do not lose sight of that fact, everybody. I know there's frustration around this team, especially after that game, but might I remind you, BYU's 2-0, they're undefeated. They're one-third of the way to bull eligibility. Yes, that is indeed the case. They're one-third of the way there. The other situation I liked in this game is how legit is BYU's defense. The J-Hill effect on BYU is in full effect to use that play on words. He has got this team, maybe not the team, he's got the defense believing. That they can do anything. This is an explosive SMU team that they limited to 200, count them 261 yards total in this game. Some of the top weapons that I was concerned with going into this game are J. Maryland, the explosive tied in for SMU. What did he have? One reception, two yards. For Shard Smith, their speedster explosive running back that I was concerned could gash BYU. He ended up at 74 yards, 75 yards on 14 carries, 5.4 yards per carry. Healthy average, but 75 yards, you'll live with that. J-Hill's defense absolutely bailed, and I mean bailed BYU's offense out in this game. They limited SMU to 5 field goals, they limited SMU to just 6 points of amount mistaken on their red zone possessions. They did everything within their power outside of one thing. Boring a touchdown on their own to get BYU this victory. What an impressive display it was from this BYU defense. Everybody across the board from Tanner Wall at Free Safety all the way to John Nelson and Blake Mangleson, a defensive tackle, and everybody else out there on the field in between that. All of them had a role to play in this. I was extremely impressed with the way they went about things. Kevin Jennings, a fleet-footed quarterback, remember, just last week, DJ Williams from Southern Illinois, carved up this BYU defense for 121 rushing yards. While BYU learned from that, Kevin Jennings' extra-smirly success ends up getting bottled up 9 carries 38 yards overall. BYU holds into a 47% completion percentage as it appears that he has taken the reins of that QB battle there at SMU. J-Hill is proving yet again that he is worth, as I like to say, every dime, nickel, and penny that you're paying him as BYU's defensive coordinator, and as I understand, he's a very healthily paid coordinator at BYU as I understand it's north of a million dollars that BYU's paying him, and like I said, it's worth every single bit of that. What other things did we take away from this? Positives, I think that BYU can now rely on their defense to get them through these games. BYU's now 2-0, remember, we talked all the time that BYU and the non-conference slave they went 3-0, it's probably a best-case scenario, 2-1 would have been acceptable. I would have thought, going in to this 3-game non-conference series, that the 1-game BYU was most likely to lose was this road game at SMU. The FBI we talked about earlier this week, the football percentages index put this as a smaller chance of BYU getting this win than winning at Utah later this season against the vaunted University of Utah. It's incredible to consider what BYU did in this game. They were a double-digit underdog, depending on which sports book you looked at, our friends obviously, a fan-dual sponsor of this podcast and the network had BYU's last ice up as a 10-1/2-point underdog, but I saw some lines out there that had BYU as much as a 2 touchdown, 14-point underdog. You went on the road as a double-digit underdog and got a win. That is supremely, supremely impressive that BYU pulled that off in spite of all the circumstances around this game. I think that BYU deserves to pat themselves on the back, particularly J. Hill and BYU defense. 8 days ago, 8 days ago, J. Hill was in the hospital having a procedure to put a stent in his chest, or 2 stents, excuse me, in his chest, to bypass blockages in his arteries that caused a heart attack. That is a man, that is a myth, that is a legend that will be hard, hard to surpass for BYU. Any of his players that ever want to complain about having it tough, or hard, or they are not hap- doesn't matter, he has a trump card over every single one of those guys and he called it absolutely a masterful, and I mean a masterful performance on the defensive side of the football. Well, in stark contrast to that was the BYU offense wasn't great. Can they build off this? Is there still hope for Jake Redslough? Well, let's try and make heads and tells of that as you roll on, right here on Lockdawn Cougars. Today shows about you by our friends over at FanDool, now we talked about FanDool all the time, but the best part about FanDool right now is we got a special offer for you, our listeners. 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Now a week ago BYU ran the ball 47 times for 179 yards, averaging 3.8 yards per carry. In this game against SMU, BYU ran the ball 35 times for 134 yards and that average comes out to, you guessed it, 3.8 yards per carry. I am going to venture a guess that when Connor Page joins the podcast next week, he is going to be very perturbed about the rushing attack for BYU and actually took a 37-yard dash down the sideline from Miles Davis to raise that average because that was the big run on the night of 37-yard scamper for him on that option play that set up what was eventually the game winning field goal for BYU. This BYU offense has flaws to it and I think it starts at the quarterback. Now I will admit, I have been a champion of Jake Retsloff's. I thought he was going to be the quarterback for BYU and well, based on how everything went against SMU, it feels like he still gave me the guy going against Wyoming. Trust me, we are going to get to your comments here momentarily. I would say 60+% of them deal with Jake Retsloff and the vast majority, at least 90% of those if not 100% of them want to see Jake Retsloff bench, see Gary Bohannon. They want something different. I find that as a problematic idea. Let me explain. Here's the deal. Jake Retsloff has got you to 2-0. He's had one really, really good performance against Southern Illinois. He's had one subpar performance. His three turnovers against SMU are completely inexcusable, but BYU won the game. If you were to go and bench him now and insert Gary Bohannon into the lineup against Wyoming, I feel like you would risk splitting the locker room. I'm not saying anything that I don't believe because the situation is that this guy is getting results and we talk about it all the time on this podcast if you're a long time every day. I talk about the fact that what do you want most of all from your team? You want your team to have more points than the other team at the end of the game. Simply put, you want your team to win. Everything else the way it comes, it's extra, but beyond that, it really is superfluous. It's something that it's beyond what you really care about, and that's your team winning more often than not. BYU's 2-0, and I expect that the Gary Bohannon cries for him to be BYU's QB1 are going to be very loud. They're going to be very, very vocal in this coming week and weeks to come if Jake Retsloff continues to operate the way he is. I think the best scenario, this is just me speculating, is that Jake Retsloff starts against Wyoming, but you see at least a series or two for Gary to get a feel for what he can do in this BYU offense. I feel like this coaching staff needs to get a feel for what Gary could offer to BYU in a game like situation. Yes, he is a proven guy who's got a lot of starts under his belt. He's won a big 12 title, he's played in a sugar ball. He's got all those accolades on his resume, but you do not know how he's going to operate after more than a year, actually almost two years, not playing football. You need to insert him into this game against Wyoming, where you have to manufacture an entire series for him, or you find ways to insert him, just to use him in various packages. You need to get a look at Gary Bohannon and the quarterback in 2024, and you've got to get away from the fact that he's got to be the guy that was there at Baylor and is at 21 or 22 when they went to that sugar ball. He could be a fundamentally different player, and that could affect things if he were to essentially say BYU says, "You know what, Jake, thanks, but we're going in a different direction." And they insert Gary in there. If for whatever reason, Gary were to fail, and you had to pivot back to Jake Redslough, be a really, really tough sale, I think, to keep the locker room intact and keep everybody on the same page at that point. So BYU is still winning, and I expect that Jake Redslough will continue to start. It does not mean that it's okay for what BYU's offense looked like in this game. They need to go to the BYU defense and say, "Guys, that's our bad. Thank you for bailing our you know what's out in that game. You guys absolutely balled out, and we failed to hold up our end of the bargain." Did they do enough? Sure, if you want to count it as that, they did enough. The situation is, it's not enough against better teams. SMU to me are frauds, and I don't mean that to be mean. I'm not trying to stick a needle into SMU, but they are fraudulent. Here's the deal. Anybody who thought that SMU was going to show up year one and win the ACC because there were more than a few people out there that were speculating that the ACC could be the SMUs for the taking. That ain't happening. That SMU team, they don't got that type of caliber in them. Are they a good team? Yes. They've got weapons. They absolutely have weapons. BYU's defense held down those weapons, and BYU's offense felt like the bare minimum and scraped just by by just enough 18-15 to get the victory to push them into 2-0. Could this offense look a lot better next week against Wyoming, against the G5 opponent? Yeah, it absolutely could. It actually could revert back to being more of what it was against southern Illinois. But the concern is, the week after that, when Kansas State comes to town in Provo, Utah, Lavelle Edward Stadium, for the first big 12 game of the season, what are you going to say if this reverts back to what it was against SMU? And Kansas State, with what I think is a more complete team, a more bonafide powerful program that will absolutely make BYU pay more than SMU will? That's the concern you've got to have for this BYU offense right now, and of course it starts with Jake Retslop. The fumble, it gets stripped out. And I think from that point on in this game, and that was very early on in that game, and that ball got stripped out, I never saw Jake Retslop settle in the rest of this game. He looked jumpy, he looked skittish, he used the term you see in ghost. I think a lot of the stuff that's been circulating online and just in the overall community about him, how he's not going to quote unquote be the guy for BYU, and he's not good enough to be the guy for BYU, I think that all got in his head and he was unable to get past it, he was never able to really kind of lock in and settle into this game. Is that going to be a long-term issue? TBD, but you have to, you cannot accept what he did with the football. He is a turnover machine, that's just a simple fact of the matter. And I wanted to believe, Aaron Roderick said that he never threw an interception and didn't have a turnover in spring camp. He had one giveaway in fall camp, and the belief was, wow, maybe he's cured all of his woes when it comes to turning the ball over. Foolish us, foolish me for believing that to be the case, because the three turnovers he had, the two interceptions and the fumble, unacceptable, you cannot have that from your quarterback. So, what are you going to do about it? Well, in theory, you would turn and rely on your running game. Oh wait, L.J. Martin got injured in this game, was on crutches, a new way through, and had to hobble his way off the field after the game on those crutches. That doesn't indicate to me that L.J. Martin is going to be back next week, and quite frankly, a party in Miles Davis and even Enoch Nolahine with his late touchdown, none of them inspired that, hey, that guy is going to step up in the stead. You've got to go about, I think, fundamentally refocusing what this offense the philosophy is. I know that Aaron Roderick takes a lot of barbs from Cougar fans out there. I get all of it. I believe that his philosophy of running to set up the pass is fundamentally flawed, especially in this circumstance. You need to throw to set up the run for BYU right now. You've got to have Jake Redslough move the ball down the field. Remember, BYU's run game didn't really get going until they started hitting on deep balls over the top on Southern Illinois and forcing Southern Illinois to back off. You can guarantee that Wyoming, they're going to creep those safeties up next week and make Jake Redslough prove that he can make them pay with his arm. If they do that, they'll back off and BYU will have more success running the football. But until that happens, it's going to be tough sledding for BYU's offense. Once again, I'm a second guesser as my good friend and radio, Jake Scott likes to say, "We're second guessers in sports media." If we were first guessers, we'd be coaches, but the situation is that we're sitting here talking about what is ailing this BYU offense, and it's just the quarterback play, not good enough. Losing your top running back, who I believe is far and away your best running back because I don't think any of the other guys on the roster inspire any type of confidence right now and it's nothing against them. The production is just not there. You've got to find a way to generate some more offense and I believe it may be that, yeah, the guy that is loose with the ball, speaking of Jake Redslough, you rely on him slinging the ball a little bit more down the field. Maybe go more with that QB run game because, quite honestly, outside of the one drive that Jake had in that first half of the touchdown, when he went to that QB run game and I talked about it earlier this week on the podcast. I was told Jay Mayav of Peters was a one man wrecking crew against SMU in that New Mexico Bowl in December of 2022. Well, they went back to a lot of what worked in that game in 2022 in that second half. Remember, that was the most successful run, if you want to call it that, or most successful series or two, the BYU had in that second half. You've got to find new ways to manufacture your offense. If that is going to require you to run Jake Redslough, or maybe insert Gary Bohannon to run the ball as a QB option type guy, so be it. You've got to find a way to find more offense out there on the field because Kalani said it at halftime. I'm frustrated. We need to get some chunk plays. Well, he can complain into a microphone to the ESPN side of that reporter, but I've got to believe that he's complaining in his headset to his offensive coordinator saying, "Hey, where are those deep shots? Where are we going down the field? Why are we not trying to release somebody down the field?" Aaron Roderick is a norm chow disciple. He played for Norm Chow, and I know that coach Chow, he believes this because he said it on my radio show that I work on for years. He believed in every quarter of every game he had to take at least one, maybe two shots. And even if they were low percentage type plays, it got in the head of the defense. Hey, they're willing to go down the field. I didn't see much of that until very late in this game for BYU, and when they did it, remember Keelan Marion was turning to the inside, that ball ended up going on the outside, and it was an absolute dime of a throw, and had Keelan marrying on his head around to the other side, maybe just a tad bit quicker. He might have hauled that pass in. But really beyond that, did you see many deep shots in this game? I didn't. I don't recall seeing them, and I will go back and re-watch this game as I always do and I'll have my film review for you guys on Monday. But this offense right now looks fundamentally flawed, and I don't think there's ready-made answers right now. Like I said, the quarterback play was less than stellar, and I was expecting to maybe see a series from Gary in this game just to get a feel for what he could do. So maybe that comes next week against Wyoming, maybe it doesn't come at all, maybe Jake bounces back in a big way and all of a sudden he's back in the good graces of Cougar fans with a big showing on the high plains against the Wyoming Cowboys, but right now, can you really bank on that? I don't think you can, another thing you could hopefully be able to bank on is a powerful running game, but without what appears to be far and away, you're best running back, he's currently shelved due to injury it appears. Whew, no ready-made answers for BYU and offense, and that is a concerning thing if you're a Cougar fan. 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It's like I can have one-on-one conversations with y'all, we're texting back and forth, it's literally what it is, it's a texting ability to have one-on-one conversations with me, get my insights on the game, you can weigh in with your thoughts, and we can kind of go back and forth and banter. It's a really, really fun way to do that, also passing along insider tidbits about BYU football and basketball, giving away tickets. We got it all for you guys, so check it out as locked-on Cougars Insider group, there's a link in the show notes whether you're watching and or listening to this, and join us there today. All right, before we go on today, show it's your guys' time to shine with your thoughts on the game. So, we'll first go over to our locked-on Cougars Insider groups and thoughts here. First comment here, I'm going to pull up, I'm just going to go randomly right here, Riker. The defense is legit. So, averaging 50 points at home to 15 is absolutely insane. I want to know what the average starting field position was for SMU, excuse me, so average field position for SMU was too. Super impressive defensive performance, offense needs some work. I think it's putting it lightly, I'll have to do some research on the average starting field positions, I'll check back with you on that Riker, but that is true. SMU had a nine-game win streak going at home when BYU came to SMU. They were averaging, it's not just 50, it was like 53 in change in that nine-game win home win streak. BYU limited them to 15 points and dominated, I mean dominated defensively. You can't take that away from J-Hills crew. They were absolutely lights out. All right, other questions here, Gary, the offense looked awful. Give some credit to SMU, but a lot of questions remain. I think I alluded to that just a minute ago. There are still a ton of questions about this BYU offense, and yeah, SMU does deserve some credit. They made plays, obviously, because when you have a defensive lineman literally fall down, he pops back up, and Jake Redself is just throwing a pass that's supposed to go to a screen, a tight end middle screen to Keanu Hill, and the defensive lineman just plucks it out of the air. Big, big, big time play by that young man to make that play, but man, just brutal, brutal stuff. Laramie, the defense balled out. Nick, oh man, is there any hope with a poop emoji offense? At the end of the day, A-Rod has seemed so overmatched for too long. I can't disagree with you, because it's the offense. It's fundamentally flawed right now, and it's not good, because it looked like a bit of a return. Like, people have mentioned, to the 2023 Jake Redself, and you can't have that. Let's see here. Tyson, I've never really had a problem with Aaron Roderick, but I feel like his play calling tonight was abysmal. Okay, so you're turning on him. Tyson, I can understand that. See, Spencer Gonzalez, incredible grit and discipline, which he said was Jake's word, won that game. He's going to be Jake Redslough. Hard to tell him, it's telling SME really has, and the coaching ability they posed, they posed based off of their games. The defense was inspiring and offensively they had willpower, hoping to see brighter and higher caliber of offensive output next game. I think that's a positive take, and I think all of us are hoping for that. Spencer, 'cause trust me, I think the only person that enjoyed that game is Kyle Whittingham. That sounds weird to say, but that was a very Kyle Whittingham like, yes, like a sicko's, like a Kyle Whittingham, sicko's type win. He absolutely loves that stuff. Jake, by the way, a W is a W. Great, that is a W. Celebrate wins, take the wins. You never throw those wins back. Let's see, defense, just unbelievably elite. The offense, dot, dot, dot, need some work, but a win is a win that comes from Brandon. All, yeah, absolutely. Let's see other things. I agree with what the commentators say, excuse me, Carter says this. I agree with the commentators when they said this team will go as far as Jake takes them. Can't make bone-headed mistakes, and yeah, bone-headed is a good term for it. If Jake can get out of his own way, BYU can play pretty good football. The problem is right now, he's kind of in his own head, and that's, like, I have no inside knowledge. That's me speaking from the outside, but watching in that game, it just felt like he was in his own head, and I think some of those bad memories from last year probably crept up. Bryce says this, "Be well, you may go into conference play 3-0, but the offense and special teams have a lot of work to do." That's a good point. Special teams? The punter situation still is very much unsettled. Sam Vanderhaar, as well as Landon Rico, I want to say Ryan Rico, but it's Landon. Neither one of them really said, "Hey, I'm the guy at punter." Returned decisions from Kielen Marion still remain curious on kick returns, so, yeah. What teams does need work, I agree with that. Jensen says this, "Defence is legit, but the offense is going to be a limiting factor." Well, for the time being, it absolutely is a limiting factor, it's just crazy to think about that. Robert asked this, "How many sacks in TFL so far in 2024 versus 2023?" I know sacks off the top of my head. BYU with the three they had against SMU is now up to five on the season. All of last year, BYU had wait for it, 11 sacks. They're nearly halfway to that total through two games. That was 11 sacks in 12 games last year. They're going to blow right by that, it feels like, so BYU got the win. Obviously, you celebrate that, you never throwback losses, you never throwback wins when it comes to winning in college football, but like I mentioned, is really anybody content and happy with how things look right now if you're not a BYU defensive player? No, I still believe that BYU offense was just a big thank you. They got to go say thank you, thank you, thank you to BYU defense for bailing them out in that game. All right, a couple more thoughts here before we go. I just look at this and it was a crazy, crazy circumstance in this game. All right, let's see, Scuttle says this, Scuttlebutt won. It's Gary, time and Laramie. We need to end our conference play with a solidified QB. If it's Red Sloth, this offense is screwed. He's shown who he is and today was a regression to the mean last week was the outlier. I'm going to say this, Scuttle, prepare to be disappointed. I just don't see them making the switch to Gary full time this week. Could I be wrong about that? Sure, I absolutely could be wrong, but I just don't see it happen. Peyton Butcher says this, "How is Red Sloth better than a QB that won a big 12 championship two years ago?" Once again, I think you need to divorce yourself from the Gary Bohann and that won that big 12 championship and led them to the Sugar Bowl and the Gary Bohann enough today. We don't know what the Gary Bohann enough today looks like truthfully under the lights right now. I think you need to divorce those two things from one another. Mark Dalton Dunn, Jake Redsloth, take care of that ball exclamation point. It's true. Anybody who talks to him, I'm sure is saying the exact same thing. He's got to take care of that football. It's really, really tough. I don't know. It feels like, and I'm just crawling through some of these comments and a lot of me redundant at this point because it's a lot of just the same stuff being thrown at us, but you've got to figure out, and you've got to find a new way to go about things on offense. Do I have the perfect answer? No, because if I did, I'd be making a lot more money than I'm doing in podcasting and radio right now, but we'll see what happens. Laramy, trip to the high plains. Be why you going back to a place that let's just put it this way, the fan base. They loathe the Cougars. Yeah. Oh, I did have a question asked about that. By the way, it was one of our things sent in on the lockdown Cougars inside our group. Let's see if I can find this here. Oh, yeah. Byron. How many BYU fans did the BYU have at the game, and what was the total attendance? I have not seen a total attendance number, so I don't have that. But Spencer Linton, who was there on site in Dallas, said he estimated 10,000 BYU fans. I had a friend who was in the stands there, and I said, "Hey, what's the, give me a percentage." He said 35 at worst, 35% BYU fans at worst. He thought it was more 40, 45% of the fans in attendance were BYU fans. So you know what? Let's finish on a positive note. Cougar Nation, yet again, y'all showed up, you were loud, you were proud. And the Cougars, for all their faults, delivered a W for you in the air, 2 and 0. Once again, I'm going to go back and re-watch this tape. Hopefully, I have some notes for you guys on what maybe can be improved coming up on a Monday on a film review, Monday of the podcast, so stay tuned for that. But in the meantime, thank you for all of your support. Thank you for being, every day I was here on the podcast, thank you for making your first listen, excuse me, it's late, wow, excuse me. First listen and first view of the day. And of course, until next time, this has been the Lockdown Cougars podcast. A Prime Member, you can listen to this Lockdown podcast ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. (upbeat music)
