Former Cougar and Super Bowl champ @BradyPoppinga 

On the NFL on Christmas: "I don't remember the last time the NFL played on a Wednesday. A lot of players were very hesitant about adding another game. I always felt more fresh because the majority of the wear and tear comes in practice at least in the old days. Coaches can tend to out-think themselves when they have a full week. I didn't feel like there was any drop off in the product."

How can BYU reel in transfers? "You have to pay guys. You have to run it like a for profit business now. You have to stockpile cash. If you don't have cash [to pay transfers] you're out of the running. You want to be able to get these guys. You don't have to buy a whole new team. Get a couple of them."

On Kyle Van Noy and hitting your peak in the NFL: "You ask somebody to do something for five years and they stay healthy... they're only going to get better.

On parity in college football and the NFL: "We're so close. You're seeing these teams reload every year. The teams that develop the best are not only going to have the most talent but they're going to be attractive to transfers who want to come there. Talent is only getting more and more equal."

"BYU has a good organization. The whole operation is really geared toward player development. That creates a greater margin of error of who you recruit."

On Colorado: "Shadeur Sanders has a phenomenal arm. You're going to want to run a lot of split safeties type defenses. Make him be patient. When you make them dink and dump and they're looking at the scoreboard [at their stats] saying, 'I've gotta get going.' They'll start throwing it into double coverage."

"Make them run the ball. They don't want to run the ball. Make them be patient. Keep them one-dimensional."

One time somebody asked Brett Farve. 'What did you see in this game?' He said, 'I threw it to the guy who was covered by their third best cornerback.' You have to be able to win man-to-man receiver matchups."

Would losing to Colorado tarnish BYU's season? "It doesn't tarnish anything. They won ten games. They completely outdid anybody's expectations. It's only going to get better. I talked to Kalani and he said, 'I think we're really going to peak not this year but the next year.'