PROVO, Utah — Merril Hoge carved out a fine career in the NFL as a running back before moving on to the television studio as a longtime analyst for ESPN.

But the Pocatello native and eight-year NFL veteran with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears is not happy that his son, Beau, has been moved from quarterback to running back by the BYU football staff.

In an interview with BYUtv’s BYU SportsNation television show Wednesday, Hoge used words such as stupid, weird, bizarre, smelly and dumb to describe the switch, which was made last spring but only came to light when preseason training camp opened on Aug. 2.

The NFL analyst, who was laid off by ESPN in April 2017, saved his biggest criticism for BYU assistant head coach Ed Lamb, who apparently first approached Beau Hoge about moving to running back.

Hoge refers to Lamb as the “linebackers coach” in the interview, which Lamb is, but did not mention that he also serves as the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator.

Hoge played football at Idaho State University and was a keynote speaker at the Idaho State Journal's Sports Stars banquet in 2016.

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