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2023: We Must Move Past This One · Houston County Football Coach's Show Jeremy Edwards

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  Speaker 1: Our guys, welcome into another week of the Houston County
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. This is our opportunity and yours to hear
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  Speaker 1: from the headman of the Houston County Bears, Jeremy Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: as we talked to him about the previous week's game
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  Speaker 1: as well as look ahead to who's up next on
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  Speaker 1: the schedule for the Bears, and so, without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: let's welcome in Houston County head football coach Jeremy Edwards.
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  Speaker 2: Coach. As always, thanks so much for doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Yees, sir Phil, I appreciate you having me on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir coach. Always a tough you know, to to
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  Speaker 1: talk after you know a loss, and thankfully for Houston
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  Speaker 1: County you don't have many of them. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a tough one Saturday after noon, a rarety, a little
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  Speaker 1: matinee affair of there in middle of Georgia. There was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of anticipation for this game between your Hoko
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  Speaker 1: Bears and the Thomas County Central Yellowjackets. Coach, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people know by now, you guys lose twenty was
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven or nothing. A lot of people are shot
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  Speaker 1: though that to hear that you guys got shut out.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the game, coach is as painful as it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I apologize for having to ask you to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to to relive that. But for the sake of the show,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't mind take us kind of through what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, man, you know you don't have to apologize
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  Speaker 4: to me, Phil It it comes with the territory.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I signed up for this, and uh, I guess you
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  Speaker 4: they always say you're in it long enough.
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  Speaker 3: And you know you're gonna have things happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I don't like.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, shoot, we talk to our kids
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  Speaker 4: all the time about being resilient and responding, and so
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  Speaker 4: we got to live that as well as adults.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, I mean, shoot, it wasn't It wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 3: One whole lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, you know.
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  Speaker 3: One of two things can happen.
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  Speaker 4: You can sit around and you can you can uh
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  Speaker 4: sulk and think about it. And usually we give ourselves
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  Speaker 4: about twenty four hours to uh win or loss, to
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  Speaker 4: either enjoy it or you know, drown in our own
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  Speaker 4: misery whatever. But uh, in this case, we ain't got
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  Speaker 4: a whole lot of time, you know, we got to
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  Speaker 4: get back to work on We got back to work
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  Speaker 4: yesterday on Tiff County and you know, full steam ahead
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  Speaker 4: for our next reagion game against Tiff County. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just to kind of elaborate on the game. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was the first half. You know we're going to
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  Speaker 4: halftime down seven and nothing, and you know we'd cause
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  Speaker 4: some takeaways, which was good.
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  Speaker 3: Uh for our defense played lights out. I think they
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  Speaker 3: did a great job.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't help them a whole lot offensively, too many
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  Speaker 4: three and outs, just not execute and not able to
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  Speaker 4: control the line of scrimmage. And whenever that happens, I
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  Speaker 4: don't care what offense you run, you you can't get
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  Speaker 4: the ground game going, it's gonna make for.
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  Speaker 3: A long night. They can plush you out all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. And so it's just uh unfortunate. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the atmosphere or Saturday, excuse me, it was
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  Speaker 4: really cool, you know, and uh, unfortunately for for our
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  Speaker 4: guys and for our fans, we just.
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  Speaker 3: Uh weren't able to pull it off.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, second half, came out, got the kickoff,
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  Speaker 4: had an opportunity to go down and and try to
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  Speaker 4: get it tied.
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  Speaker 2: Up and by the way halftime, what seven and nothing?
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  Speaker 3: Seven and nothing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was thirteen to nothing going into
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  Speaker 4: the fourth quarter and just uh, they got two fourth
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  Speaker 4: quarter scores, and so we've got to learn how to finish,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But you know, I want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that everybody knows, take nothing away from from Thomas County Central.
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  Speaker 4: They're a really really good football team. Yeah, really really
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  Speaker 4: good defensive team. They do a great job. Their defensive
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  Speaker 4: coordinator does a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like they were one step ahead the entire day,
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  Speaker 4: and so kudos of them.
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  Speaker 3: They did a great job.
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  Speaker 4: They earned it, they deserve it, and we got to
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  Speaker 4: move past it and this. You know, there's still two
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  Speaker 4: more games and then take care of business, get into
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and you know, you got to get hot
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  Speaker 4: at the right time. So we're you know, again, we
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  Speaker 4: can't sit around and worry too much about what happened.
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  Speaker 4: As as bad as it sucked, you know, we just
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  Speaker 4: got to keep moving on.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, there you go, And that's the way
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  Speaker 2: you got to approach it.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Edward's talking about the game twenty seven and nothing
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  Speaker 1: shut out to the hand at the hands of the
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  Speaker 1: Thomas cunning Center, Yellow Jaggins. So obviously the the zero,
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  Speaker 1: the shutout is really what's got everybody talking. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just trying to cender scratch my head, coach,
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  Speaker 1: you know again, because you guys, as far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: have never been shut out, not since we've been covering
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  Speaker 1: you like we have.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what what you know just from that regard,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a matter of I know there was some
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  Speaker 1: talk about, you know, Aj being distracted. He made his
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  Speaker 1: decision to commit the Colorado the day before the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's some people wondering about that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of talk about just you know, the lack of
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  Speaker 1: being able to score.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I don't I don't think that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, AJ's a great player, he's a great kid,
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  Speaker 4: and but he's a kid. He's sixteen years old, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, there is a lot of He's gotten a
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  Speaker 4: lot of attention, regardless if he committed or he didn't commit.
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  Speaker 4: He's gotten a lot of attention since he was in
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  Speaker 4: eighth grade before. So he's had to deal with that
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  Speaker 4: kind of stuff pretty much his whole you know, of
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  Speaker 4: teenage life. And so I don't I'm not gonna put
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  Speaker 4: much into that being uh any reason. I think they
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  Speaker 4: just played a heck of a game and we didn't play.
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  Speaker 3: A very good game offensively. There's no other way around it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't you know, we we we.
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  Speaker 4: Went three and out uh several times, and uh, you know, they,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, they.
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  Speaker 3: Just seemed to be one step ahead on us.
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  Speaker 4: And when you don't execute and you can't control the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, it makes for a long day or
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  Speaker 4: in that case, long day a long night, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's no other.
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  Speaker 3: Way to spind it. I mean you, uh, you got
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  Speaker 3: to try.
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  Speaker 4: To figure out how to fix fix the problems going forward.
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  Speaker 4: But again that they're the number one defense I believe
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  Speaker 4: in six A and shoot, they really proved it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So where did you know when when you when
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  Speaker 1: you start out, of course, your boat teams kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel each other out, and you know, you got figured
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  Speaker 1: that there's some early game jitters going on, and so
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  Speaker 1: you chalk up a lot of things, you know, to that.
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  Speaker 1: But at what point did you did you finally you know,
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  Speaker 1: start to realize that you know, hey, we we I.
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  Speaker 2: Think we got a little problem here.
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  Speaker 1: When did that? I guess you know, maybe the sound
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  Speaker 1: the alarm moment? When was it for you?
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  Speaker 4: Uh well, I mean, like I said, going into halftime,
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  Speaker 4: we we had had some opportunities and we just didn't capitalize.
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  Speaker 3: So we went in and you know, made some adjustments,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it just again. We we got down
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  Speaker 3: there in the.
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  Speaker 4: Red zone a couple of times, and then we would
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  Speaker 4: uh sort of self implode, you know, we'd have a
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  Speaker 4: false start or something and go backwards, and so at
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  Speaker 4: crucial times we were making crucial mistakes, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: even when it was thirteen to nothing, we were driving
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  Speaker 4: down you know, we were at about midfield and uh
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  Speaker 4: we were doing some good stuff, moving the ball on them,
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  Speaker 4: kind of had them on the ropes a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: and then uh we throw a screen pass and we
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  Speaker 4: we throw it to their their their player, right to them,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know kind of killed that drive. And
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  Speaker 4: so I don't know, we just didn't have the mojo
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  Speaker 4: for whatever reason. You know, I can't really put my
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  Speaker 4: finger on it. It's it definitely stings, and you wish
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  Speaker 4: that it was just a bad dream, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I just we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 4: move past it. We gotta we gotta learn from it.
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  Speaker 4: We know we're a.
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  Speaker 3: Good football team.
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  Speaker 4: We know we're we're good on on.
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  Speaker 3: Offense, we're good on defense.
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  Speaker 4: We have the ability to be good, I should say,
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  Speaker 4: we just got to uh put a four quarter game
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  Speaker 4: together against really good opponents and uh and who knows
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  Speaker 4: what will happened from here on out, you know it
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  Speaker 4: get into the playoffs as anybody, anybody's shot at that point.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see talking.
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  Speaker 1: To Jeremy Edwards, head coach of the Houston County Bears,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately having kind of really of the twenty seven and
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  Speaker 1: nothing shut out at the hands of Thomas County Central
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  Speaker 1: Yellowjackets that took place on the Saturday afternoon there in
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  Speaker 1: middle of Georgia. Was that game played a Freedom Field?
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  Speaker 4: It was, it was, it was at Freedom Field. It
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  Speaker 4: was We had a great crowd. They brought a great crowd.
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  Speaker 4: It was good, you know, a good atmosphere for for
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  Speaker 4: high school football.
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  Speaker 3: Very unique at two o'clock on a Saturday, but right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was it was cool. Uh, it was
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  Speaker 3: a cool experience.
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  Speaker 4: It's just I'm sure their experience was ended up being
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  Speaker 4: a little bit better than hours unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like you said, you got to
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  Speaker 1: get back to the drawing board and anything that you
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  Speaker 1: can point out early on. And I know it's only
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  Speaker 1: been you're only a couple of days removed from the game.
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  Speaker 2: But what is it that.
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  Speaker 1: Jumps out at you? I guess it all stars with
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You know, when that's where games
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  Speaker 1: are won, whether you throw the ball a lot, run
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  Speaker 1: the ball a lot, whatever, But sure would you agree
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of where it.
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  Speaker 2: It pretty much starts and stops there one.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred percent on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: And like I said, are defensively in the box, we
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  Speaker 4: held up really good. You know, we had a couple
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  Speaker 4: of bus in the in coverage. In fact, they dropped
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  Speaker 4: a couple of wide open passes that could have been
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  Speaker 4: could have gotten really out of hand, to be quite honest,
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  Speaker 4: but they We've got to.
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  Speaker 3: Be disciplined in what we're coached to do, you know, in.
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  Speaker 4: The secondary for sure, But offensively, yeah, I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: know what we do schematically is you know, we're well,
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  Speaker 4: I guess you would call us a spread offense and
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  Speaker 4: so but everything's dictated on numbers. And when they give
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  Speaker 4: you numbers in the box. You know, they give you
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  Speaker 4: six in the box and you've got six hats.
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  Speaker 3: To block six.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to be able to win those battles, and
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  Speaker 4: you're not gonna win them all.
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  Speaker 3: But you've got to be able to win, uh, in
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  Speaker 3: the box.
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  Speaker 4: And they were really honestly able to control that. And
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  Speaker 4: so when they do that, they've got enough guys out
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  Speaker 4: there on the on the perimeter and in the secondary
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  Speaker 4: to kind of match your guys there, and so they
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  Speaker 4: really kind of take away a lot of what you
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  Speaker 4: want to do, you know, and then three and outs
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  Speaker 4: kill a tempo team. So again, we've got we know
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  Speaker 4: what we got to fix, we know what the issue was.
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  Speaker 3: It's just, uh, we just happened to.
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  Speaker 4: Play one of our worst games, uh, in one of
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  Speaker 4: our biggest games.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Well, coach, as painful as that one is, you said
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  Speaker 1: it earlier. You got to turn the page and get ready.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly a Jiff County football team who is coming off
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  Speaker 1: a huge victory. Uh, they're not gonna feel sorry for you.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they want to add to the misery.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about your next opponent in shift.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so tiffed, you know, they they came in on
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  Speaker 4: Friday night to Freedom Field played Veterans and uh and
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  Speaker 4: beat Veterans.
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  Speaker 3: So they're they're riding high right now, feeling good. They
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  Speaker 3: got a region win.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they've they've they're still they got it just
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  Speaker 4: as good a chance as anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Of getting into the to the playoffs. And so I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure that you know, they plan on.
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  Speaker 4: Taking it to us uh down there in Tifton on Friday,
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  Speaker 4: and they're they're probably licking their chops after after well,
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  Speaker 4: we experienced, but we'll have our kids ready to go
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  Speaker 4: and started yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Uh we put this one behind us.
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  Speaker 4: We watched the film, we'll make the corrections game planned,
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  Speaker 4: and now uh we'll hit the practice field today this
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  Speaker 4: afternoon and uh get the installs in and be ready
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  Speaker 4: to roll by Friday night down in Tifton.
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  Speaker 1: How did your kids handle things going into the little
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  Speaker 1: uh organized team activity all had yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean after the game, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: that anybody I'd loved it. I'd love if anybody wants
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  Speaker 4: to call me and give me great advice on what
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  Speaker 4: you tell a team after a butt whipping like that.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, you know, basically, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: they know, you know that we didn't play our best.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you just emphasize the fact that you've got
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  Speaker 4: to finish games and sometimes it's just not your day.
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  Speaker 4: There's just no real magic thing to say to them.
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  Speaker 3: Man. Obviously, you know, I love these kids. I love
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  Speaker 3: this group. I love these group of seniors.
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  Speaker 4: We talk a lot about, you know, next year that
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  Speaker 4: this will not be the same group. It will never
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  Speaker 4: be this group again after the season is done. So
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  Speaker 4: we want to try to prolong our season as long
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  Speaker 4: as we can, uh, so that we can be together
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  Speaker 4: as a family, as a brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was really encouraged by the way they
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  Speaker 3: showed up.
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  Speaker 4: I talked about it on Saturday in the locker room
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  Speaker 4: that you know, we'll meet at two o'clock and uh,
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  Speaker 4: those of you who are all on board, you'll show
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  Speaker 4: up at two o'clock with a great attitude and we'll
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  Speaker 4: get we'll get back to work. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: they did. So I think that's a credit. You know,
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  Speaker 4: says a lot about what we're trying to do. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: we're trying to build a program that's just sustainable over.
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  Speaker 3: Time, and uh, you only do that by building a
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  Speaker 3: great culture.
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  Speaker 4: And so at the end of the day. It's all
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  Speaker 4: about family. It's all about uh letting people know that
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  Speaker 4: you love them, that you care about them, and regardless
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  Speaker 4: if they played great or not, it doesn't change, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't dictate the way we feel about and we love
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  Speaker 4: just as much as losses as we do it and wins.
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  Speaker 4: And so those kids know that, and uh, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to continue to try to build this thing the right
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  Speaker 4: way and uh do it with you know, do it,
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  Speaker 4: do it with class.
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  Speaker 1: I got you well, coach, you know again, it's it
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  Speaker 1: was a tough one, but uh, time to get past
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  Speaker 1: it because the Jiff County Blue level is a wait
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  Speaker 1: and like you said earlier, they would love nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than to pounce and get themselves another win.
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  Speaker 2: So got to get ready for shift. And I know
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  Speaker 2: you'll have them. You will indeed have them ready as
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like you already.
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  Speaker 3: Have, yes sir, Yes, sir. We're excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing better than you know, getting the loss out of
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  Speaker 4: your system then to show up and get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to compete again on the next Friday night. So we
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  Speaker 4: got that opportunity and we don't take it for granted,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll be ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: Coach.
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  Speaker 1: He thanks so much, Coach Jeremy Edwards for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: We do appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir Phil, thank you man.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh. We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sounds good, All right, bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: There he is, Jeremy Edwards checking in with us, head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Hoko Bears. A tough, tough loss, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what, he handles it like the pro that
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  Speaker 1: he is, and we thank him for doing that and
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  Speaker 1: again showing you though it's no surprise to me and
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  Speaker 1: those of you that know Coach Edwards. He is a
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  Speaker 1: professional through and through and he proves it. Their tough,
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  Speaker 1: tough loss to swallow, but he handled it with grace
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  Speaker 1: and we appreciate that. We'll come back next week and
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  Speaker 1: talk more with Coach Edward's about the Chiff County game
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  Speaker 1: and getting closer and closer to the playoffs. So be
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  Speaker 1: sure to join us next week for the Houston County
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show with Coach Jeremy Edwards and me Phil Jones,
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