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Episode 5- Starting The Season Strong and Still Looking Upward! · Friday Night's At The Creek

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Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome back to another edition of
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Speaker 1: Friday Night at the Creek with Coach Gooden. Coach, 3-0,
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Speaker 1: what a heck of a way to start the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said at the beginning, talking to you
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Speaker 2: before the show started, can't ask for much more. Ultimately,
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Speaker 2: whether you're winning by a lot or winning by a little,
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Speaker 2: like outcome-based profession three and oh man there's not much
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Speaker 2: more you can ask for so um continuing to try
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Speaker 2: to get better we were not perfect by any stretch
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Speaker 2: of the imagination lots of things to improve on lots
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Speaker 2: of get betters but uh you know that's not a
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Speaker 2: game that we've won frequently it was the first time
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Speaker 2: we've ever beaten them in back-to-back seasons um can't like
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Speaker 2: i said We set out to do that and proud
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Speaker 2: of our kids. You know, we didn't act like it
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Speaker 2: was our Super Bowl. We expected to do it. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, we're trying to create a new standard around
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Speaker 2: here and make it an expectation to beat that team.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Coach, you beat them 35 to 14 this past Friday.
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Speaker 1: Not only did you beat Greenwood, but you also beat
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Speaker 1: the Heat as well. That was a it was a
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Speaker 1: rough night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was top to bottom. The whole week was rough. Um,
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Speaker 2: just trying to get up to practice. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: we talked about getting out of your routine, all those
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Speaker 2: different things. Um, And, you know, we had to move
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Speaker 2: the game back to eight o'clock and I thought we
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Speaker 2: handled it well. We didn't have guys, you know, all
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Speaker 2: over the field cramping, um, take a lot of pride
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Speaker 2: in that in our program, the hydration piece, the preparation piece. Um,
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Speaker 2: and I think, uh, especially this year, I've seen our kids,
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Speaker 2: you know, not having to battle with them on energy
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Speaker 2: drinks and different things. Um, you know they they're still
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Speaker 2: kids and they're going to have sodas and energy drinks
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Speaker 2: and different things but you can tell that it's important
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Speaker 2: to the kids to you know take that seriously i
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Speaker 2: tell them you know if you want to have a
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Speaker 2: soda or you want to have an energy drink have
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Speaker 2: one but man if if you can't put that aside
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Speaker 2: to win like we don't care enough so um it's
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Speaker 2: a it's it's been good it's been really cool to
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Speaker 2: see that the kids take the initiative with hydration all
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Speaker 2: those things.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, and winning helps that, right? To stay
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Speaker 1: focused and keep buying into that. You know, if you're 3-0, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and coach says, you know, stay away from the soda
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Speaker 1: and energy or the energy drinks. 3-0, it works, and
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Speaker 1: you're less likely to do that. Obviously, being a coach,
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Speaker 1: you're going to do some crazy things. That's just part
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Speaker 1: of life. Right.
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Speaker 2: Well, and, you know, Winning helps your message. Hey, this works.
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Speaker 2: Let's not kid ourselves. But on the same token, every
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Speaker 2: year has a unique life of its own. Every day
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Speaker 2: has a unique life of its own in this profession.
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Speaker 2: But I think that our kids are doing a really
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Speaker 2: good job of taking a daily process approach and doing
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Speaker 2: things the right way. Like I said, we've got lots
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Speaker 2: to improve on, but our intent and the way we're
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Speaker 2: going about this season so far has been really good
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Speaker 2: to see.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, Coach, again, congratulations on the win, 35-14 over Greenwood.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that game and kind of
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Speaker 1: break it down here in just a minute, but I
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Speaker 1: also want to let everybody know this coming Friday night,
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Speaker 1: you're playing a pretty talented Monrovia team, even though they're 1-2.
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Speaker 1: I think that they've, over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 1: have been moving in the right direction as well. That's
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Speaker 1: an away game at 7 o'clock. Is that correct?
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Speaker 2: That is accurate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but before we get into Monrovia, let's jump back
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Speaker 1: into Greenwood and talk about your thoughts of this past
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Speaker 1: Friday night and how the game went.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it started really fast. Second play of the game,
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Speaker 2: scored on a long touchdown throw from Evan Clark to
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Speaker 2: Mason Woodchie. Really good protection up front by the offensive line.
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Speaker 2: And thought we had something there, and we did. It's
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Speaker 2: great to see when a plan comes together. Green was
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Speaker 2: sustained a long drive on the opening drive. Came away
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Speaker 2: with zero points, though. Then we don't break by the defense.
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Speaker 2: You know, they dropped a snap on a PAT and
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Speaker 2: then we went down and scored again. So really good
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Speaker 2: start when you score in your first two possessions and
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Speaker 2: they're down 14-0. We had them at 28-7 at one
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Speaker 2: point and they scored right before the half, kind of
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Speaker 2: challenged our kids up on responding, challenged our defense up
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Speaker 2: a little bit as well. And they pitched a shutout
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Speaker 2: in the second half. I felt like we left a
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Speaker 2: couple opportunities on offense out on the field. I feel
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Speaker 2: like we could have maybe scored 49 points, had a,
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Speaker 2: had a fumble on the one yard line and we
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Speaker 2: finished the game on an eight minute drive, had the
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Speaker 2: ball on the three when clock ran out. So kind of,
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Speaker 2: Could have punched that one in if we wanted to,
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Speaker 2: but just went ahead and let the clock run out
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Speaker 2: and get out of there with a victory. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: Mason Woodkey had a heck of a game for us
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Speaker 2: at receiver. Hunter Worley had another nice touchdown run. Drew
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Speaker 2: Pingleton scored twice. And Evan Clark had another good night
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Speaker 2: throwing the ball. Offensive line, we only had one sack,
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Speaker 2: I believe, on the evening. And Greenwood likes to pressure,
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Speaker 2: and I thought our offensive line did a great job
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Speaker 2: with that. Over 100 yards receiving. And then on the
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Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, really good night. Greenwood was
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Speaker 2: really good on offense this year. Thought we saw some
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Speaker 2: things on them from film that was pretty good. We
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Speaker 2: threw some different looks on the back end at them.
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Speaker 2: Felt like we attacked in the box and did a
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Speaker 2: nice job. But as a group, I think just seeing
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Speaker 2: those guys respond in the second half, get the ball
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Speaker 2: out a couple of times. Braden Moffitt had two sacks.
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Speaker 2: We had a couple of fumble recoveries. Eli West had
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Speaker 2: a big hit on the QB. Very, very physical game
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Speaker 2: in all facets. I thought we were the more physical team.
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Speaker 2: I thought we were very excited to play. And that's
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Speaker 2: all you can ask for. So I felt like in
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Speaker 2: the second half, our defense really kind of hit their stride.
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Speaker 2: And it was good, man. We had a good night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach, you're 3-0 and you kind of alluded to
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Speaker 1: this a little bit. There's things to fix. But I
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Speaker 1: know even though you're 3-0, even if you played a
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Speaker 1: perfect game, I'm sure you're going to find something to
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Speaker 1: kind of talk to the players and constantly challenge them
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Speaker 1: on and try to get better. What are a couple
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Speaker 1: of takeaways now you're in getting ready to enter week four?
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Speaker 1: What are you seeing with this team?
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Speaker 2: Are we referring to just get betters on us? Like,
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Speaker 2: how do we get better?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So one thing that I talked to the kids about was,
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Speaker 2: you know, when there's blood in the water. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've been in situations where we're up. I felt like
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Speaker 2: we were up 28 to 7 and we had about.
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Speaker 2: two minutes left in the first half and we allowed
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Speaker 2: a score. Okay. They can do that. That happens before
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Speaker 2: the half up tempo, whatever, whatever. It just can happen.
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Speaker 2: And it was 28 to 14. Come out in the
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Speaker 2: second half, get a stop. And stalled on offense, like
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Speaker 2: went backwards on the first play. And one thing that
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Speaker 2: I kind of talked to the kids about on Monday
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Speaker 2: is like, listen, like if you've got a team on
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Speaker 2: their heels, you know, if we're in a situation where
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Speaker 2: it's 28 to 14 and we don't take it, you know,
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Speaker 2: we go stop on defense. And then they stop us
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Speaker 2: when we're on offense. And then all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: we have a missed assignment on defense. We're in a
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Speaker 2: seven point game. Right. Did we, did we eventually get
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Speaker 2: it to 35 to 14? Yeah, we did. But we
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Speaker 2: want to take advantage of good field position. We want
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Speaker 2: to take advantage of those things and put a team
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Speaker 2: away because man, if we can get them to four
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Speaker 2: scores or, or even better yet the running clock, like, Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: We had that opportunity, in my opinion. And we just
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Speaker 2: got to be able to kind of bury that team
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Speaker 2: when we have the opportunity to. So those are those
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Speaker 2: one thing that I kind of challenged them on this week.
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Speaker 2: And then on like offense, we need to work on,
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Speaker 2: you know, ball security as always. something as simple as
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Speaker 2: having the ball in the correct arm. We had a
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Speaker 2: drive in the second half where we fumbled tight twice.
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Speaker 2: We recovered one and gave it away the second time.
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Speaker 2: Can't do that and be successful. And then defensively, you know,
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Speaker 2: we talked about at halftime, just trying to get that
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Speaker 2: consistent pressure, but we made some adjustments and, and we
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Speaker 2: struggled in the first half on getting pressure on the quarterback.
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Speaker 2: And in the second half, we kind of made those
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Speaker 2: adjustments that we, saw fit to be able to work
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Speaker 2: around that and it helped us so there's an element
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Speaker 2: of hey they watch film too like they have good
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Speaker 2: coaches and you know we as coaches have to be
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Speaker 2: able to make those changes and those those tweaks so
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Speaker 2: our kids can be successful because it's one thing to
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Speaker 2: look at a kid and say okay like you need
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Speaker 2: to be better but what can we do as coaches
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Speaker 2: to help them be more successful tweak those things and
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Speaker 2: help them achieve their goal because it's not like they're
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Speaker 2: not trying to get to the quarterback. How do we
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Speaker 2: help them get there?
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Speaker 1: I thought you were exactly right. Being able to put
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Speaker 1: a team away early, you don't want to give them
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Speaker 1: any opportunities to get back into the game. I understand
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Speaker 1: why you would want to challenge the team in terms
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Speaker 1: of that. Like you said, with a couple of fumbles,
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Speaker 1: just cleaning up some some of that because again you
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Speaker 1: don't want to give opportunities for your opponent uh to
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Speaker 1: take advantage and get right back into a game that
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Speaker 1: you should have locked away yeah.
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Speaker 2: And we never let the game slip from our grasp
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Speaker 2: so that's good to see but as a coach it's
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Speaker 2: like okay if we are in a game and it's
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Speaker 2: Greenwood was a solid team that we saw. We had
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Speaker 2: a jump on them. If we get in that situation
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Speaker 2: against a better team, we've got to be full tilt.
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Speaker 2: You can't relax. You can't let your guard down. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that we relax. I don't know that we
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Speaker 2: let our guard down. They're going to make plays too.
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Speaker 2: It's a high school football game. You want to challenge
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Speaker 2: your kids on stay locked in, stay focused, and let's
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Speaker 2: bury this team when we get the chance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's a difference. There's a
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Speaker 1: difference of relaxing and making minimal mistakes. And there's also just,
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Speaker 1: that's just how the game goes. And then you have
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Speaker 1: to capitalize and, and move on from those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And, and are we nitpicking a 21 point win? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we are, but we've got to be able to do
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Speaker 2: that when, when we've got aspirations for later in the year.
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Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. And I think as a coach,
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Speaker 1: And I also think players expect that as well. They
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Speaker 1: know coach is going to have a nitpick on you.
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Speaker 1: It's not because you want to be a nitpick. It's
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Speaker 1: because you want to get them better. You want to
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Speaker 1: be better as a team. And the only way you're
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Speaker 1: going to do that is start fine tuning the little things.
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Speaker 2: And the good thing about our team is, is when
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Speaker 2: we came in on Monday or Monday during Labor Day,
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Speaker 2: we had later, you know, I didn't feel like the
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Speaker 2: vibe in the room was like, we just won the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl because we won a rivalry game. It felt like, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's get some feedback. Let's get better. Now it's my
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Speaker 2: job to set the thermostat on that. But it also
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Speaker 2: wasn't like, hey, like, we've, we've made it. And that's good,
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Speaker 2: you know, from our kids. And I expect that, but
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Speaker 2: you know, when you come into the room, each time
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Speaker 2: is that football coach, you're trying to get a gauge
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Speaker 2: on how people are feeling. And that's a good one to,
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Speaker 2: that's a good feeling to have where it's not, Hey,
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Speaker 2: you know, we're at the, we're at the finish line,
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Speaker 2: you know, Hey, how do we get better? Even though we,
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Speaker 2: we had a convincing win, like how do we make
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Speaker 2: it more convincing or if it's not broke, how do
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Speaker 2: we make it better?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think that's a good thing. To me,
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Speaker 1: that shows maturity in the team as well, acting like
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Speaker 1: we haven't won the Super Bowl. It's like, yeah, we
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Speaker 1: won a game. We've got to get better. But we
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Speaker 1: still have seven or eight more games on the schedule.
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Speaker 1: It's not over yet.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And we're going to earn our keep from here
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Speaker 2: on out. It's one of the best small school conferences
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Speaker 2: in the state. Everyone's going to have good players. Everyone's
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Speaker 2: going to be well coached. And it's fun. That's the
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Speaker 2: way football should be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you want to be challenged a
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Speaker 1: little bit. The players want to be challenged a little bit.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's the only way they're going to get
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Speaker 1: better because if it was easy, probably wouldn't be excited
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Speaker 1: to do it.
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Speaker 2: No, and, you know, we talk about having aspirations for
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Speaker 2: later in the year. You've got to play good teams
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Speaker 2: so they can expose your flaws and you can fix them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And that's going to be an emphasis, you know, from
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Speaker 2: here on out and how do we get better or,
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Speaker 2: or all those things along those lines. So, um, that's
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Speaker 2: the fun part about being in the conference and playing
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Speaker 2: against communities that also love football.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Nothing like Friday nights. Uh, coach, were you able
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Speaker 1: to get a, uh, JV game in this week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were, uh, we unfortunately were not able to win. Uh,
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Speaker 2: we played Greenwood, uh, ended up losing, I believe, uh,
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Speaker 2: 24 to 16, I believe, was the final, maybe a
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Speaker 2: 10 point loss, but had some good had some good
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Speaker 2: performances out there. Jayden Smith and Tegan Thompson both did
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Speaker 2: a nice job on the offensive end. And then Eli Rusher,
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Speaker 2: Zane Wilkerson had a good game as well. And those
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Speaker 2: guys are doing a nice job for us. Yeah. So
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Speaker 2: first first loss for the JV this year, but still
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Speaker 2: felt like we played hard, still felt like we competed.
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Speaker 2: And it was a good day overall.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, eight, 10 point loss is not terrible
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Speaker 1: in terms of that. But and I'm a big believer
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Speaker 1: with JV. It's not about the win or loss. It's
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Speaker 1: about getting better because you want to see those results
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Speaker 1: on Friday nights.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was the first time this season that
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Speaker 2: we didn't have a freshman game the same week, so
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Speaker 2: some of those freshmen got to experience JV football, but
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Speaker 2: I also think we got to see how many guys
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Speaker 2: we have on the sideline when we don't have a
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Speaker 2: freshman game that week. Sure. Those guys got to go
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Speaker 2: over and play against a bigger school and compete and
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Speaker 2: got some good reps. So obviously you want to win
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Speaker 2: those games, but ultimately, like you said, with JV, it's
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Speaker 2: about the reps, but it's also about, you know, seeing
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Speaker 2: how hard we compete when our backs up against the wall.
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Speaker 2: And I think we continue to do that. So as
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Speaker 2: long as we're continuing to play hard and not back
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Speaker 2: it down from anybody, like I'm going to be happy
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Speaker 2: with that group and they're competing their butt off and
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Speaker 2: doing everything they can right now. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Well, Coach, this coming Friday night, September 11th, 7 o'clock,
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Speaker 1: you're on the road. You're going to be playing Monrovia,
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Speaker 1: another conference game. Thoughts about that game on Friday night,
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Speaker 1: this coming Friday night?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, big thing with Monrovia that I will– tell you
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Speaker 2: as long as coach Olson is the coach over there,
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Speaker 2: like they're going to play hard, like as hard as
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Speaker 2: they can, like you're going to get their best effort,
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Speaker 2: no matter who's on the field. Um, they're not going
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Speaker 2: to complain. Like they're not going to, they, they're just
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Speaker 2: going to freaking get into a run heavy offense and
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Speaker 2: play smash drop football. Um, it's, it's a grass field.
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Speaker 2: Like it's, it's an old school place. Um, and I
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Speaker 2: love it. Like I really do because, uh, they stress
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Speaker 2: you physically, they stress you mentally. Like it's a hard one. Um,
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Speaker 2: and I know we played Western. I know we played heritage. Um,
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Speaker 2: these guys fire off the ball differently. Uh, and I
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Speaker 2: just enjoy that matchup because it's a little bit of
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Speaker 2: contrasting styles. Like we're still going to be in some
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Speaker 2: run heavy sets around the ball. Um, that's kind of
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Speaker 2: who we are. Uh, anyone that sees us on film
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Speaker 2: will know that, um, But I just really enjoy that
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Speaker 2: matchup for us and our kids just because it's unique
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Speaker 2: in the fact of just, hey, it's a grass field.
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Speaker 2: Like it's an old school stadium and you're going to
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Speaker 2: go play smash around football for four quarters and you're
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Speaker 2: going to be out in a cornfield. And it's just
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Speaker 2: it's like stepping into a time machine. So it's a
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Speaker 2: cool place, man. And I love that for our kids.
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Speaker 2: And I love that we get to go experience something different.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's kind of like where football is meant to
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Speaker 1: be played, right? You know, on a Friday night, rural Indiana,
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Speaker 1: it just kind of gets got that film or that feel,
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Speaker 1: you know, as you said, coach does a really good
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Speaker 1: job over there. I know he's probably not excited to
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Speaker 1: be one and two this year, but over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, I thought he's got that program moving
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. Like you said, they're going to
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Speaker 1: be tough. They're going to be ready to play.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And prime example, I think it was 2022 that
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Speaker 2: they won three games in the regular season and then
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Speaker 2: wound up in the semi-state. We played them week nine
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Speaker 2: last year, and I think they were– they would want
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Speaker 2: three games. I think there were three and five and
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Speaker 2: they just played so hard, man. Like it was, and
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Speaker 2: we pulled on the way at the end, we ended
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Speaker 2: up winning like 40 to 18 or 42 to 18. Um,
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Speaker 2: but like they do bowl in the ring, like before
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Speaker 2: the game starts. You know, they're out there hitting, and
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Speaker 2: they're ready to go. And, like, you can just tell
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Speaker 2: it's a team, but, like, no matter what the record is,
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Speaker 2: they're going to try to play hard and give you
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Speaker 2: their all. And, like, you made reference to, like, they're 1-2,
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Speaker 2: but their two losses are Cascade and Tri-West, who are
17:51
Speaker 2: both top 10 teams in their respective classes. Right. So,
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Speaker 2: to take that, you know, and they also went down
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Speaker 2: to Linton and won 40-0. I think Linton's probably struggling
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Speaker 2: a little bit this year, being 0-3. Yeah. But you
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Speaker 2: still had to drive down to Linton and score 40 points. Like,
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Speaker 2: that's not– That's not a short trip. So they're a
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Speaker 2: good team, man. They got a quarterback that can throw
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Speaker 2: the ball a little bit more than they typically do.
18:15
Speaker 2: So they'll spread you out a little bit. And then
18:18
Speaker 2: on defense, they're well coached. They get to good spots.
18:22
Speaker 2: I know their defense coordinator, Jason Roth. I feel like
18:27
Speaker 2: the biggest compliment that you can give a coach is
18:29
Speaker 2: that their team plays hard. And I think on film,
18:32
Speaker 2: you can tell, hey, they're doing everything they can to
18:34
Speaker 2: put their athletes in the best position possible. Now they're
18:38
Speaker 2: going to have a lot of two-way players. They're going
18:42
Speaker 2: to have a lot of guys that go both ways.
18:45
Speaker 2: But like I told you, like they don't care. Right.
18:48
Speaker 2: It's not it's not going to be an excuse.
18:50
Speaker 1: Right.
18:51
Speaker 2: Still going to have to be ready for a battle.
18:54
Speaker 2: So it's going to be a good challenge for us
18:58
Speaker 2: this week. It's going to be a different kind of challenge.
19:01
Speaker 2: And like I said, two very different styles.
19:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, coach, and you're exactly right. You know,
19:06
Speaker 1: the one and two. Don't misread that. That's the record.
19:11
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. Linton's probably down a little bit this year,
19:15
Speaker 1: but they have a great program, a great tradition. And
19:19
Speaker 1: they've had a pretty tough schedule too this year. I
19:21
Speaker 1: know they played River to Park 1A school this year.
19:25
Speaker 1: So anyways, the point is don't read too much into
19:30
Speaker 1: the record. I think if somebody does that, they're going
19:33
Speaker 1: to be in trouble against some of these teams.
19:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, and our– we've got to focus on the task
19:40
Speaker 2: at hand this week. And it's, and I don't want
19:46
Speaker 2: to say it's a simple game and like oversimplify it,
19:48
Speaker 2: but it, they're going to do what they do they're
19:52
Speaker 2: going to run about what I call six different plays.
19:56
Speaker 2: You know, they're going to get to dress it up,
19:57
Speaker 2: but it's, if, if you let coach Olson run dive
20:01
Speaker 2: a hundred times a game, he's going to run dive
20:04
Speaker 2: a hundred times. So it's just going to be one
20:07
Speaker 2: of those games where we've got to be able to,
20:10
Speaker 2: you know, find ways to stop them. And they're just
20:13
Speaker 2: going to try to fall forward for three yards and
20:16
Speaker 2: eat up the whole quarter and limit our opportunities to
20:18
Speaker 2: score the ball on offense. So we've got to be
20:21
Speaker 2: able to make plays that either get them behind the
20:24
Speaker 2: chains or get the ball away from them or whatever, because,
20:28
Speaker 2: you know, as well as I do, when you're a
20:29
Speaker 2: run heavy team, like we're able to, If we're able
20:32
Speaker 2: to take the ball away from them, then that's devastating
20:35
Speaker 2: for them. If we're able to get them in a
20:38
Speaker 2: three and out and you get them down a couple scores,
20:41
Speaker 2: that's hard for them. Now, like I told you, they've
20:45
Speaker 2: got a quarterback that I believe has an Indiana Wesleyan offer.
20:49
Speaker 1: So.
20:52
Speaker 2: That's an option, too, now. Like I said, historically, maybe
20:55
Speaker 2: they haven't always had that quarterback, but this year they do,
20:58
Speaker 2: and they're able to distribute the ball a little bit more.
21:01
Speaker 2: We've just got to be dialed in. We've got to
21:02
Speaker 2: take advantage of our opportunities and play smashing off football.
21:06
Speaker 2: We've got to try to be the most physical team.
21:08
Speaker 2: Or if no team's going to back down, then you know,
21:12
Speaker 2: we've got to match the physicality. So, um, our goal
21:15
Speaker 2: every week is to be the most physical team and
21:17
Speaker 2: we've got to try to, um, meet them in the
21:19
Speaker 2: a gap and get into a fist fight in a
21:21
Speaker 2: phone booth. Like we tell our kids every week when
21:23
Speaker 2: the weeks that we play run heavy teams.
21:25
Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah. You know, and you know, to me, it's basically,
21:29
Speaker 1: it's just play your game, come in and play your game.
21:32
Speaker 1: Try not to outsmart yourself because some of these teams, uh,
21:36
Speaker 1: can catch you sleeping. Just, just play your game. That's
21:39
Speaker 1: one of the things that I think is important to, uh,
21:42
Speaker 1: don't try to be somebody you're not or a team
21:43
Speaker 1: that you're not just going to play your game and
21:46
Speaker 1: good things happen. Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 2: But you've also got to be ready to adjust the
21:51
Speaker 2: most physical, like, you know, And and I think you've
21:55
Speaker 2: got to tell your kids like, hey, you've got to
21:57
Speaker 2: get mentally ready for for what they're going to do
21:59
Speaker 2: to you, because like they do this every day in practice. And,
22:02
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about a couple of weeks ago,
22:03
Speaker 2: the execution piece, like you got to come out ready
22:06
Speaker 2: to freaking smoke somebody when you play an offense like this,
22:08
Speaker 2: because they're they're going to try to freaking shove you
22:12
Speaker 2: backwards and you got to get them moving the other way.
22:14
Speaker 2: So we got to be prepared for that and attack
22:17
Speaker 2: them the way that we know how.
22:18
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful,
22:22
Speaker 1: more realistic Friday night this week, and you're not going
22:26
Speaker 1: to have to worry about the heat, which I think
22:28
Speaker 1: is going to be great for football fans across the state.
22:32
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And, man, you know, it's nice that it's going
22:36
Speaker 2: to cool off just a little bit, like it just is.
22:39
Speaker 2: So we'll be ready for it, you know, regardless. Obviously,
22:44
Speaker 2: we had 88 today, 90 tomorrow, but At this point,
22:47
Speaker 2: if you're not, if you're not acclimated yet, like, I
22:50
Speaker 2: don't know what to do for you.
22:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your problem at that point, right? It's week four.
22:54
Speaker 2: It's week four. If you're not ready, like, I don't
22:58
Speaker 2: know what.
22:58
Speaker 1: Else to do. So yeah, now that's great. And then
23:02
Speaker 1: there'll be a JV game on Saturday as well.
23:06
Speaker 2: So we will have a JV game and a freshman
23:08
Speaker 2: game on Saturday, both at 10 a.m. JV will be
23:12
Speaker 2: home against Monrovia, and our freshman will be on the
23:15
Speaker 2: road at Bloomington South.
23:17
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
23:19
Speaker 2: Yep. So it's going to be a little bit of
23:22
Speaker 2: a divide and conquer going on there. But lucky to
23:25
Speaker 2: be playing two games. And, you know, we'll have coaches,
23:28
Speaker 2: some in Bloomington, some in Monrovia. And we'll figure it out, man.
23:31
Speaker 2: We're just on the we're trying to get reps.
23:34
Speaker 1: Exactly right. And there's nothing better than that on a
23:37
Speaker 1: Saturday is getting those reps in there. Coach, I know
23:40
Speaker 1: we're getting close here on time, but any. Any thoughts,
23:45
Speaker 1: parting words regarding Monrovia this coming Friday night?
23:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, biggest thing for us is just focusing on the
23:54
Speaker 2: task at hand. Obviously, you know, getting into week four
23:58
Speaker 2: of the season, everyone's kind of catching their routine. Everyone's
24:01
Speaker 2: kind of got their identity figured out to a degree. Obviously,
24:04
Speaker 2: you know, everyone's everyone's going through their process every single
24:08
Speaker 2: week of like we talked about, you know, all those
24:11
Speaker 2: finer details. But we're going to have to be on
24:14
Speaker 2: point this week. You know, there's no more layups. There's
24:16
Speaker 2: no more. You know, once we enter Hoosier Legends Conference season, man,
24:21
Speaker 2: the layups are over. Uh, and, and I love it
24:24
Speaker 2: because it's like a small school, uh, mid-stage or HCC
24:30
Speaker 2: or Mick or whatever you want to call it. Like,
24:32
Speaker 2: it's just, you got to come to play every single week. Um,
24:35
Speaker 2: and it's exciting. You know, I love it for our, our,
24:39
Speaker 2: our kids, our community, uh, It's good to see that
24:43
Speaker 2: level of competition each and every week. We're looking forward
24:47
Speaker 2: to doing it another week against Monrovia. We've seen a
24:51
Speaker 2: very different style of offense, but we've had some good
24:54
Speaker 2: reps at it the first couple weeks. Obviously, we saw
24:58
Speaker 2: a little bit more of a spread look this past week,
25:00
Speaker 2: but we're getting back to what we've seen the first
25:02
Speaker 2: couple weeks, and that's some run-heavy looks, man. We've got
25:06
Speaker 2: to be ready for that. We know they're going to
25:09
Speaker 2: have some some different looks for us and we'll be prepared.
25:13
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, this coming Friday night, September the 11th, seven
25:17
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff, Monrovia on the road, uh, and then turn
25:22
Speaker 1: around on Saturday morning, Monrovia JV will be traveling to
25:26
Speaker 1: Indian Creek, 10 a.m. kickoff, but the freshmen are going
25:30
Speaker 1: to Bloomington South at 10 o'clock on Saturday as well.
25:35
Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of, uh, Indian Creek
25:39
Speaker 1: football to capture over Friday and Saturday and coach we
25:42
Speaker 1: wish you nothing but the very best this week bring
25:46
Speaker 1: home the W but more importantly stay healthy out there
25:51
Speaker 1: for the varsity JV and freshmen and we wish you
25:55
Speaker 1: guys all nothing but the very best.
25:58
Speaker 2: Thanks Doug go Braves
33:54
Speaker 1: Thank you.