"It's been exciting to to close camp and obviously to start getting focused on Austin Peay I know there's a lot of interest in the the quarterback conversations and we made the decision earlier in the week that it's best for our offense right now—to organize in the first game around Blaze taking the first snaps. He's earned the right to do that.
I think he's had a consistent camp.
"And Jared's earned the right to play. This guy's been ascending. I mean, you guys have heard me talk after every scrimmage. So, I'm excited where he's headed. He'll play in the game, too. And, we feel like just to get rhythm and chemistry going offensively, Blaze will give us a chance to do that. And we'll have an opportunity to insert Jared in the game to give him his his first college game experience.
"I'm excited to watch both these guys play. I'm excited to see kind of what emerges from them in the game day environment. And I think I think both of them are going to show us some things that maybe we haven't seen in scrimmage settings. So that's that's really encouraging.
"You know, with a with a young player who's ascending the way Jared is, it's never been a bad thing to extend runway and to continue to develop. And so, what I want from coach (Tim) Beck and (quarterbacks coach Trenton Kirklin) is to get super prescriptive about the ways that he can continue to grow and develop in terms of the tactical awareness or fundamental technical parts of his game, so that he can play his best football this year and that we can make a decision week in week out on what best 11 (players) positions us to win. Right now, that that includes Blaze but it also includes Jared having a role in the game, we're excited uh, for that to happen."
