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Back on the Football Show North Jersey Sports dot coms original
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multimedia series talking all things football.
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Across North Jersey Jersey Season 13 Episode 11 the
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playoffs are in full swing. I am Corey Dobiak being joined
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by my illustrious, pustrious panel of North Jersey football
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insiders starting with the venerable 1.
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He is Jimmy Abattoble. What's going on, Jim?
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What's up Core? Guess some sectional finals come
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in this Friday. So exciting week.
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It really is. And a guy who's about as
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excitable as anybody about high school sports, high school
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football in particular. In North Jersey, he is the
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former head Husky, the former Pope of the Cardinal of the
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Westwood, the former Alpha dog in the puppy pack at Rutherford,
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now a card carrying member of Ram Nation, He is Bryan Carr.
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What's going on, Brat? Hey, Core, you know, getting
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into some really good games two weeks in a row, Corey, we saw a
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game-winning field goal, last play of the game.
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So I guess it's playoff time and, you know, love seeing that
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close competition and looking forward to this big sectional
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finals. And we'll talk a little bit more
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about that with Ramsey. And so we'll talk more about all
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those coming up. Well, I mean, we have a great
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interview that you did. Why don't you tell us a little
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bit about it? We'll get to it when we get to
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talking about Group 2, but set up what is come here a little
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bit later in the show. Yeah.
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Hey, Corey. Big game coming up this Friday.
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You know, you've got the North one, Group 2, kind of.
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We follow both teams, Westwood and Ramsey kind of excited about
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the game and I don't know, you know, just kind of hit me that
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haven't gotten Ramsey on the show.
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We've gotten Stevie Klein over the years and number of Westwood
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guys, but we haven't gotten we've had coach Adam Beer on
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this on a show. So I thought of, you know, hey.
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And by the way, the quarterback Justice Favada, his grandfather
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takes pictures of the game. So I've gotten to meet him over
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the last year or so. So he was the one who helped
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coordinate this. I went through an adult.
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I didn't just go right through the kids, you know, because
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anyway, so disclaimer, disclaimer out there.
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No, but I I made sure I covered my bases and touched base with
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some authority people who, you know, knew what was going on
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through. And you know, I don't ask any
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hard hitting questions. I don't, you know, want to know
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their girlfriends and those kind of things.
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But, you know, it's you know, I kind of had I made a little of
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agenda and, you know, try to just make it kind of a little
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bit of fun and, you know, the kids talk about it, you know,
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Hey, and and he's a senior quarterback and also plays
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defensive back. And the other man is Judd or his
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first name is really Jonathan and he's there Jonathan Davis.
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He's the wide receiver junior. He had a record setting game
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last week, 171 yards rushing. So it's these are the two and
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justice almost has 5000 yards total in his career that he
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mostly throwing about 1000 throwing and no, I'm sorry about
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4000 throwing and about 1000 rushing.
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So these are the two young man, he's a three-year start or a
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quarterback. And so it just happened to be,
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you know, I thought there would be good guys to grab and have
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them, you know, talk about, you know, what the career is like.
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I don't do a lot of those kind of things.
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So I just kind of, you know, remember we did our Steven
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Capone here from DuMont and Mike Eliano from DuMont cabinet.
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I have to get out of that DuMont niche, you know what I mean?
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A little bit of you've. Been out of that DuMont niche
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for quite a while now. But yeah, but I did, you know, I
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did. I did see Mike Eliano last week
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as well. So kind of, you know, your
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memories come back of these several stories.
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But anyway. I saw your Hoboken Red Wings
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shared on Twitter. Come on, I wore I wore that on
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Saturday. But also, by the way, on a
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serious note, I did ask him obviously if those who don't
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know, Coach Adam Vieira Bear had his 40th win as a head coach.
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He's been at Ramsey since 2020. And I happen to have been also
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at his first game. And so I had a connection into
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with Coach Mark. He's feeding the information.
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They told me they gave him another game ball, a second game
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ball he's gotten from Ramsey. So he got a game ball after his
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40th win. So yeah, we talked about a
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little this game. I will.
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We'll we'll yeah, we'll get we'll.
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Get into it. We we'll set it up with.
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Let's start with the small, you know, let's work our way.
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Up go Group 1. Yeah, we'll work our way up to
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your Ramsey anyway, that all of what Brian was to say is that we
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have an interview from Ramsey's win coming up a little bit later
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on the show. But why don't we?
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And you know it it it's crazy when you start to think about
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north one and N 11 and N to Group 1.
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I mean, this used to be the Providence of all of Bergen
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County and North Jersey, You know, the old North Jersey as we
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used to know it. This is where all the small
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schools played. And how many times did we go to
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the old Giant Stadium? This was usually the 10:00 game
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to see the, you know, one group, one state sectional final, the
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little guys going at it, it was great.
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Well, those days are officially over because when you look at
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the North one, which used to contain just teams from Bergen,
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Hudson and Passaic, the those there, there are none left.
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Top seeded Butler and #2 Kinnelon will be playing in that
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spot this year. That's the north one Group One,
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state sectional final. And Jimmy, you know, for all,
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for all, I scream about local, local, local, even though it is
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not the local we are accustomed to.
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Those two towns are next to each other.
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They're on Route 23. Butler Kinnelon is actually an
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interesting match up in the North One Group One final.
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Yeah, you know, obviously the top 2 seeds, which is, you know,
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obviously they, they breeze. Pat Rice, our friend Pat was at
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the game and he said, you know, after the game the kennelon
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people were very, very excited to play Butler.
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So as you said, it's it's local, as local as you can get to those
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two teams and I do, I do believe it's, you know, the two best
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teams in the bracket are playing.
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So we we got a lot of chalk in this, but.
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No doubt all chalk no good games.
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I mean, the semi finals were Butler 4913 Kinnelon 37 to 7
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over Kinatini and when you really when you go through the
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entire bracket, there was only 111 score game in the entire
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section. That was Kitty's first round 12
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seven quote UN quote upset over Wallkill Valley.
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But that's N one, Group 1 and then N two.
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Group 1 is a little bit different too, simply because
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you know, Shabazz is in it and Oh no, I'm sorry, but I'm in.
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I'm in north to Group 2, N to Group 1, where Cedar Grove and
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New Providence, the four and the three seed Hasbrouck Isis in the
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semi finals. But Bry, it's Cedar Grove with
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their tremendous tradition of small school football against
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New Providence, a team that is also pretty well stocked in
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tradition too. But a four and a three.
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So no chalk in this bracket. Yeah, yeah, you know, no, it's,
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it's, you know, Heights was there, we we saw them, they,
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they had a rivalry game at the beginning.
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Their first round game was rivalry then.
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Now they have, they had New Providence to play and just
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couldn't keep up. I heard New Providence was big
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and fast and athletic, you know, Heights very fast, but a little
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bit more size on that New Providence size.
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So but you know, Cedar Grove on the other side there, you know,
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they've taken their lump store in a year.
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You know, they came like that. They lost to, I think if I
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recall, W Essex. What am I thinking?
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They played Shabazz as well, But I'm just throwing out some
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names. But I know they have had a tough
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schedule. Cedar Grove and a traditional
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power and you know, mountain lakes.
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I was kind of surprised by that. They went in and beat mountain
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lakes at home. Mountain lakes, the herd is a
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you know, traditional power and Bennett MetLife, you know,
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recently and or Rutgers to say, you know, going after a
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championship. I think they did win one a
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couple years ago. So, you know, but what we're
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seeing here, Corey, you're seeing programs, we've talked
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about that earlier. Cedar Grove is a strong program.
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We've seen him a couple years ago, very solid and they they
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haven't swept up. And we saw him play Shabazz a
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couple years ago, but Shabazz was in Group 1 and had a, you
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know, challenge with that. So they used to playing very
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good teams and that I think that set him up well here to, you
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know, to fight through this bracket as a four seed and take
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on the 1 and go on and win it. And I don't know new province
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that well, but you guys know is that Chet Parkley?
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How do you say Paul Avecchio's out there formerly, right?
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He was at Passaic Valley. He's now out there and heard
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doing very well. Jimmy may know more about that
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than I do, but I heard he's doing very.
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Well, it's the son, right, Jimmy?
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Isn't it? The son?
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Chet's son. Yes, it's it's Chet's son.
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Yeah, so anyway, it's a it's a good coach that he comes from
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because Chet Parla Vecchio was was a a great high school
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football coach and a fun high school football coach to cover
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back in the day. Actually, Lenny Cusimano, former
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Pascack Valley head coach, played for Chet and I covered
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that team many years ago. So crazy.
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All right, so let's we're going to move on to North two group 2
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because we'll get into we have a whole bunch of stuff coming up
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on North one group 2. So let's just Jimmy, I'll go to
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you first because we'll let Brian do some of the other stuff
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in, you know, in in the Ramsey racket that he loves so much.
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I mean, Ramsey now it's the modern day East Orange campus.
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Where where else has he, you know, fallen in love?
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And he's had his head, his head turned by so many over the
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years. But this year it's Ramsey.
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So but let's do N two group 2, where Rutherford's season came
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to an end. I mean, Rutherford with the the
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great win over Hoboken in the first round in a fun local game
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of interest. And then, you know, Shabazz is
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just a juggernaut. So 47 nothing shabazz over
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Rutherford and then the bottom of the bracket is where the, you
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know, the upsets were in round one.
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But Jimmy, you talk about it. Becton run was great.
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Madison is playing as well as anybody.
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Yeah, Matt, you know, looking at, you know, a lot of people
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told me, you know, when brackets came out, hey, keep an eye on
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Maddox and they're not a seven seed.
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And obviously they got to the final.
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You know, the score wound up 35 nothing, but it was only 6
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nothing. Madison, great, great story down
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at back then. You know, as we've mentioned,
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coach Mchar and his is coaches do a great job year in and year
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out. They found themselves in a in a
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semi final, maybe the year ahead of schedule, Corey.
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So you know, back then great numbers.
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You know, their junior program has been merged with with
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Maywood. So now they're starting to
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infuse those Maywood kids into the program.
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So I expect a lot of big things out of them.
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And I did have the I did watch the part of that Shabazz
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Rutherford game. And you know, let's be honest
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guys, Shabazz is a parochial school.
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Yeah. Playing, you know, public
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schools. I mean they have small school,
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public school playing. Yeah, playing small schools.
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It's like the old Saint Mary's that he's when they would, you
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know, play with it, you know, be a parochial school that
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recruited and let's be honest, Shabazz recruits Newark.
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Newark is is an open enrollment district.
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So, you know, whatever the flavor of the month is down
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there, the kids seem to line up there.
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They were bigger, they were faster.
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They were stronger than Rutherford.
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You know Another great season for Rutherford comes.
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To an end you. Know an 8, an 8 win team and as
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we've heard from Ryan, I think maybe just one or two times.
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They're young, they're. Young, the puppies, they return
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a tremendous amount of kids next year.
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So, you know, that game, I think will only make them better,
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better down the line when you play that competition.
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If Pal Park Leon Leonia ever makes the state playoffs,
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they'll be in Group 4. Shabazz.
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Group 2. Craziness.
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All right, bro, here we go. North one.
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Group 2 is where? I mean, look who's in this
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bracket. Top seed Westwood #5 DuMont
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number 3, rapidly. I mean, right.
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Could you be any more excited about North One Group 2?
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I'll hand it over to you and I'll see everybody else in about
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1/2 hour. Go ahead.
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No, no, of course, you know, like we, I think Jimmy would say
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the same thing. This is for our favorite bracket
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group 2, you know, small school, you know, W would obviously, you
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know, having won A state championship and a perennial,
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you know, in a sectional final. So you can't help but have seen
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them, you know, and local, you know, it's in our backyard,
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Corey. It's like you at the world
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headquarters. It's like local for us.
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Coach mains. Coach Mains, by the way, who we
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go to games with was on the Westwood football team back in
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the 70s, was on their state championship team.
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So we have to, you know, support our teammate.
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He's one of our guys that we go to games with.
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So Westwood's on that radar, Corey.
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But you know what, looking at it, you know, first of all,
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before you get too far into it, Westwood going into the game
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against Caldwell, the only loss they had this year, they were
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out at Caldwell lost 1714 and overtime on a 40 some yard field
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goal. So, you know, it's they had
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something that, you know, paid up here, little payback to get
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that, you know, defeat behind them.
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And you know, it was a solid game.
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You know, Westwood got the ball, was able to move and score.
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It just you felt like it was their game.
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I mean, they were up by three scorers.
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So they just continue to build, you know, touchdown, 2 point
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conversion, you get three of them.
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It's basically one a quarter, you up 24 nothing.
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And you know, it got a little close in the late third quarter.
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Cole was able to put on a drive there and and you know, make it
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a little interesting. But you know, Westwood, you
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know, you're seeing those guys. I like the way, you know, the
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quarterbacks running real well. They put their foot in the
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ground, they get up the field. Stevie Klein, we all know about
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Stevie Klein. We don't need to mention Stevie
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Klein too much, but you know, Stevie Klein just went over 3000
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yards. Steven Klein, the senior just he
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went over 3000 1000 yards in his career.
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Congratulations to Steve 3000 yards and and he's a good kid.
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You know, come on. That's the number one thing.
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Good kid. He's a student family and his
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his younger brother's coming along.
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He's a junior. He'll be there next year.
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You know there Westwood. We've seen him obviously a lot
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now. Very well-rounded team you're
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seeing it's kind of like you have new guys every week.
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Hey, Tyler Hanson, for those who haven't seen him, you got to
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check out his touchdown in the end zone.
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He had a one he handed catch on a touchdown to his second
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touchdown of the game and he had an early touchdown too.
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He got open. He kind of just faked the guy
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out and was wide open by 10-5 yards on the first score.
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So it's these kids we talked about the stars, Bruno Vega, the
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quarterback, young guy, sophomore doing well, Stevie
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Klein. You hear Nick Klein a little bit
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Ed Rasmussen. So they're they're coming
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together right now. And so let's move on and and get
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on and talk about Ramsey on their side.
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Ramsey went over to Glen Rock NGIC team and you know, Ramsey
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had to go to Glen Rock the two seed.
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So they were the way team and I I think really I did ask the
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boys this on the interview that's coming up is they did
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start off a little slow. Glen Rock got up by a score.
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Ramsey, I think the three and out two series.
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And then they woke up got that first touchdown.
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And once they were able to do that, they got a late touchdown
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to go up by 1 score into halftime.
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And then in the second-half, one of our our guests on the street,
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you know, coming on here, upcoming Judd Judge, just they
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couldn't stop with Judd Davis. He ran for 170 yards, 2
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touchdowns. By the way, before we leave,
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Justin had two touchdowns passing as well as two
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touchdowns running. So they're very strong
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offensively. And so this should be a good
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match if we see it. They've played each other on a
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regular season 34, seven game won by Westwood.
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So Ramsey and I asked the boys what do they have to do?
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And one of the things they said we got to finish.
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I think that's the most important thing.
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They got to finish because last time, last game they were in
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Westwood territory about four or five times and came across with
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no points. So that's what they know they
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need to do. So hopefully the boys can do
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that. And so here's the two guys.
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Here's Judd and Justice. Well, here is Brian Carr.
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I usually say after the game, but a well after the game.
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Passed through all the proper channels.
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Interview with two Ramsey standouts with Brian Carr.
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Brian Carr here in Newark Jersey Sports.
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I'm here with two Ramsey football players, 2025.
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I'm here with the quarterback, Justice Favada and one of his
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favorites, running backs, wide receivers, Judd and Judd's there
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to, you know, he's his main man, Judd Davis, Jonathan Davis, by
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the way, Judd Middle. That's your nickname.
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Thanks for coming on, guys. Any initial thoughts about
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coming here? I want to go ahead and let you
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talk for a second. No.
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Thanks for having us. Appreciate.
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Appreciate the time to talk. Great, great, great.
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Hey, let me before we get too far, we got to talk about coach
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Adam Vieira, head coach since 2020, head coach won his 40th
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game. He's now 71% winning percentage
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is 40 and 16. So doing pretty good.
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And this year, you guys your first time getting into the
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finals, a sectional final. Talk about what that means to
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you guys in the program to get to a sectional final.
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It's been quite a while for you guys.
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Yeah, it means a lot to be able to to get to where we want to be
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for the town, for the coaches and for ourselves.
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We take a lot of pride in representing Ramsey and we we're
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excited to have a chance to keep it going.
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Yeah. I did fall short last year as
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well. You know, it wasn't a head of
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parking not making it. I mean, I think this year it's
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just means a lot to get there. Yeah, yeah, it's fun.
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It's this is where it's at and getting down the road, by the
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way, in the game last week here, you played a close game with
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Glen Rock early, right? They got up by a score.
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You guys had to kind of, I guess good.
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Why don't you tell me about what you guys had to do to kind of
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get things going, really turning on the second-half?
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Yeah, it was really this guy. They couldn't they they couldn't
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really stop him up the middle. Our line did a great job
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blocking for him and they needed everything does.
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They need a few guys to be able to bring this guy down.
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So he ran the ball really well for us.
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Yeah, there's there's really is in the lines, they're doing well
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blocking and there's he was outside, everyone's blocking.
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Great. So I mean it was really just an
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easy, easy way to run. I mean, I mean going down early
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in the first quarter, I think there's a little bit of a wake
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up call and it kind of just got us to like realize that, you
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know, we got to keep playing. That's trying to be an easy
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game. But you know, I think that was
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important for us in the first quarter beginning of the game.
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Right. You kind of closed out the first
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half, got a second score, so you up by a score. second-half you
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really turned it on. Would you guys talk about the
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locker room to kind of, you know, kind of discuss what are
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we going to do something different or just kind of stay
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the course? Yeah.
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I mean, the conversation on defense was keep it off, we're
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doing a good job. Let's keep let's look to keep
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slowing down second-half. And on offense, our coach made a
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few adjustments that really went well for us coming out of the
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coming out of the locker room at halftime.
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Yeah, Judd, I guess like a record for you. 170 something
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yards, 2 touchdowns, pretty big game.
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Talk about yourself. I mean I looked at some of the
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stats. It goes back and forth.
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Some games you have a lot of receiving yards here in this
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game you had a lot of rushing yards.
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What is it that makes you, you know, dual threat like that?
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I feel like it really just depends on the team, like you
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know what, like our game plan is, you know, for throwing more,
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for running more. But I mean really depends on
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obviously the game. But I mean, this year is, you
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know, it's pretty just for blocking great, the lines doing
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great. So it's just easy to run on
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them. But you know, it really depends
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on the game. Just last week, high point, you
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know, we're throwing a lot and we're doing really well and you
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know, most games just just makes plays and there's a ball great
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and obviously every game so but right.
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So yeah, it really it really just depends defensive on the.
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Depends on the situation, right? Yeah, yeah.
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Hey, last week, guys, I, I looked at that.
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You guys had to score late, right?
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Talk about that a little bit. You were down right late going
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in the fourth quarter and you had to score late.
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You justice, you let him on a drive.
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Yeah, yeah. We were down one with about 6:00
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to go. We were able to take off a good
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a good chunk of the clock and punch them in late and then the
22:01
defense closed it out. Nice.
22:04
Hey, talk about Mason Gonzalez. Mason's your leading tackler on
22:07
the team. Talk about him, what he does on
22:09
defense to really solidify that side of the ball.
22:13
Yeah, I mean, he's a great player, but I think even more so
22:16
for us. He's a great leader, especially
22:17
on the defense. You know, he's he's playing as
22:20
hard as he had every play and he he does a really great job
22:22
getting off blocks, making plays on the outside, chasing people
22:25
down. He's all, he's all over the
22:27
place for us. Cool, cool.
22:30
So tell me this, let's say, tell me about some of the younger
22:33
kids, kids coming up that maybe we don't know about the
22:37
sophomores or some juniors that are under the radar.
22:40
Talk about some of those guys. Start off like we got a great
22:47
lineman, Christian stars that are right tackle.
22:50
He's a he's a sophomore. He's doing really well this
22:51
year. He's making great blocks.
22:54
So he's one of our guys and he's been, you know, doing well, get
22:56
better every game. So he's, he's one of our guys
22:59
coming up and he's a younger guy, but he's really stepped up
23:01
this year. And we got, you know, 2
23:05
receivers Brady and, and try to salvo Brady Wienstra and try to
23:09
salvo. And they're, you know, they're
23:10
doing really well as well, just making plays for us.
23:12
And Brady also plays, he plays defense as well.
23:15
So he's like, he's a great safety and he's also made a lot
23:18
of good plays this year. So we got a lot of guys she's
23:20
software stepping up for. Us.
23:21
Yeah, That's Brady Wienstra, right?
23:23
Yeah, His brother played on the team a couple years ago.
23:26
Was the quarterback, right? Yeah, very good quarterback.
23:29
Yeah, he's he's very good. Right, he ran well.
23:32
He was a runner, big runner. You know, more really like to
23:35
run a lot. He threw some, but he was big
23:37
runner. Yeah, yeah, very good.
23:39
Tell me you're talking about quarterbacks, Justice.
23:42
Why don't you tell me a little bit about how you became a
23:44
quarterback? What was your influence?
23:46
Was your maybe your dad coaches? Yeah, I mean, my dad played
23:52
quarterback in high school. So I mean I've always grew up on
23:56
the ball around with them, got a feel for it that way.
23:58
And I've been playing for a while.
24:01
They have been quarterbacks in second grade.
24:03
So just as it is gone, just, you know, building on that blown
24:08
last year and just trying to get better.
24:10
Yeah, I saw this year so far talking about that more
24:13
completions this year, about the same number of throws, more
24:16
completions, more touchdowns. What do you have?
24:20
What do you think's giving you that success this year to be,
24:22
you know, having a better result?
24:25
Yeah, I mean, the experience definitely helps be learning the
24:29
system over the course of four years.
24:31
Once you get into their senior year, it's it's really, it's
24:35
almost it becomes much easier to be able to know know where
24:39
you're going with every play. That just comes from experience.
24:41
Then I got a great cast of guys around me who the reason those
24:45
completion interrupt is because I'm able to get them the ball
24:48
and they're they, they catch everything so.
24:49
Right. Yeah, I saw Roberto.
24:51
Roberto. Roberto Coats is one of your
24:53
other receivers you like to throw to talk about him a little
24:57
bit. He's a senior.
24:58
What has he been like for you as a teammate?
25:02
Yeah, he's been awesome. He's a great athlete.
25:03
We try to get him the ball on the inside, the outside.
25:06
I think he's broken 2 Rams records.
25:08
I think he's got total reception and total yards down in the
25:12
career. He's he's a he's he's a really
25:14
dynamic guy for us that he's able to stop Bob.
25:17
That'll be the pass game at the run game as well.
25:19
Makes big blocks for us when we need him to and just an all
25:22
around team guy. Nicely, talking about players,
25:25
let's talk about back in June, you guys won that Bergen 7 on 7
25:29
and then that night there were four guys going home and they're
25:32
on the Parkway and they helped out when there was an accident.
25:35
You guys know a little bit about that.
25:37
I guess Mason was in that, right?
25:38
Mason Gonzales were there and a couple other guys.
25:41
Talk about your you know what you've heard and your thoughts
25:44
on that, John. Oh yeah, yeah.
25:50
I mean, obviously it's just like a crazy like experience for
25:54
them, but it kind of just goes to show like the type of people
25:56
they were. You know, Mason, I know Trevor
26:00
Burke who was there. He's our tight end and kind of
26:03
he's our DN two. There are a few more guys like
26:06
who fell phone, but you know, it just kind of shows the people
26:08
they are, you know, they're they're you know, for other
26:10
people and for the team, and those are all team players,
26:13
Mason and Trevor Mason's player with a broken hand right now.
26:16
So it kind of shows you know who he is and you know what he does
26:18
and Trevor as well as just doing for the team.
26:20
But you know they're you know they're good, good people, and
26:23
you know it's a good. Yeah, yeah, I think I saw Coach
26:27
Biera mentioned, you know, that's what teach them.
26:29
That's part of football, you know, that's what they, you
26:31
know, teacher be a about a team, a leader.
26:34
And it's not just on the football field, obviously it's
26:36
in in the society. You know, whatever you do in
26:39
life, you're part of the team and you think about those things
26:42
you've learned as a team and bring them to your future jobs
26:45
or driving down the highway and you see somebody who needs help
26:48
and you go out and help them. Hey, we talked a little bit.
26:51
Let's hey, let's talk about Ramsey a little bit.
26:53
I mentioned earlier before we got started here, success in the
26:57
building. Right now, soccer teams, the
27:01
girls and the boys are both in the sexual final.
27:03
You also have girls volleyball in the sexual final coming this
27:05
week. Talk about what the success of
27:08
the other programs. Also I didn't I'll mention this
27:11
too Basketball, baseball have been successful last few years
27:14
too. Talk about what that means and
27:17
does that help drive overall sports because every all the
27:22
sports are doing well. Yeah, it's definitely,
27:25
definitely part of the culture at Ramsey that the town's done a
27:27
great job building through the youth levels and then the high
27:30
school level as well. I mean, I think the girls soccer
27:34
team, they're ranks, they're one of the best teams in the whole
27:36
country. They're awesome.
27:38
Boys are doing a great job this year, and volleyball as well.
27:41
A lot of it's just because the students show support at the
27:44
other people's games, so we'll get big crowds at our games and
27:47
we do our best to go support the the girls, the boys when we can
27:51
as well. So you will, will you be going
27:54
volleyball or soccer games? The girls, I guess are, are they
27:57
home? The girls are home.
27:59
Yeah, yeah, the girls are always home because they're they're
28:02
the. Ones they're #1.
28:03
They, yeah, they, they deserve that.
28:07
They're awesome to watch. They're a really good team.
28:09
We'll see. You'll be.
28:10
Will you be going? I think they're playing Tuesday
28:12
or Wednesday. I don't know if you'll go to the
28:13
game. Yeah, depends what how long
28:17
Coach Barehouse is practicing for.
28:19
We were all at the game gas strip that they had, so they got
28:22
a big one. Great stuff.
28:23
I was at one of your Ramsey, one of the state championships in
28:27
soccer, and I think it was one of the Weir brothers, the
28:29
younger one, not Maddie, his younger brother.
28:32
They're playing. I think they won the game too
28:34
down at Keene a few years ago. It's kind of a warm up to going
28:39
to a football game down at Keene.
28:40
I stopped over there and going to another game after that.
28:43
So yeah, Hey, another thing guys moving forward, you guys after
28:49
Ramsey High School will be moving forward and justice.
28:53
I know you've made a decision on your college and talk.
28:56
You're going looking to go to Claremont and coach a local
28:58
coach there from here in New Jersey.
29:00
That's out in LA, right there in LA.
29:02
So you're going to be going out there.
29:04
Tim Sternfeld, for those who don't know, his father was a
29:07
scout. I think he's a scout for the
29:09
Giants, for football. So, yeah, talk about it, about
29:12
what it means to go out there, a good school academically.
29:15
Talk about what it means to go out there.
29:18
Yeah, throughout the whole like football process, I've always
29:22
wanted to try to get used football as a way to get into a
29:25
great school, and that's what I was able to find over at
29:28
Claremont. Really great football program
29:30
and really nice coaches and I'm excited to get to work over
29:33
there. And you've been more excited to
29:36
go out to California, especially fun.
29:39
Right. Nice weather out there usually.
29:41
Get to the beaches. You like going to the beaches?
29:43
You like beaches. Oh yeah.
29:46
Good, they got some nice beaches out there.
29:48
I've talked to some guys in the team.
29:50
Yeah, that's what the guys in the team said.
29:51
They said they go out there almost every weekend.
29:53
So yeah, having fun. Yeah, good.
29:55
Yeah. You go to from Malibu or there's
29:58
Manhattan Beach, there's a lot, or Santa Monica, there's really
30:01
a lot, or Santa Barbara is really nice.
30:04
To learn my way. Yeah, there's a lot of nice
30:06
places I used to go. Out.
30:07
Yeah, yeah, I used to go out there every year for a trade
30:10
show and out in LA and so explore while you're there.
30:14
Hey, check it out Judd, what do you, why don't you tell us what
30:18
your thoughts are and moving forward college wise?
30:21
Yeah, I mean, I definitely want to play football in college
30:23
somewhere around here. I'm interested in like a lot of
30:26
D threes. You know, there's a lot of
30:28
options like here in, you know, the Northeast, some of the D
30:31
threes around, you know, Nazcak and like some of the Patriots
30:34
leagues. So, you know, I got some, some
30:37
time, you know, a lot of Kansas all season.
30:40
But definitely excited to get into the process and, you know,
30:42
keep the process going. How are your grades?
30:45
Good grades. Pretty solid, yeah.
30:48
Yeah, that always helps. That always helps a lot.
30:51
You know, they, I think most schools, number one, they want
30:54
grades. They wanted to see good kids
30:57
that are going to stay in the program.
30:59
Hey, let's kind of move forward to this week.
31:01
So we're going into the North one group 2 state sectional
31:06
final. It'll be in all Bergen County.
31:09
It will be in all was. You guys are in the American Red
31:12
Right Super Football division. I think so.
31:17
Yeah, I think it's it's American Red.
31:19
I I could be wrong on that one, but you'll be meeting your
31:23
rivals. You've played them, you had a
31:24
regular season game, initial thoughts on going into that
31:28
game. And obviously you want to try
31:30
to, you know, kind of get that W because she didn't get the W
31:36
during the regular season. So let the seniors start first.
31:40
Go ahead, Justice. Yeah, yeah.
31:43
We're excited for it. Big game.
31:45
We'll prepare just like another week, take it one day at a time,
31:48
and we're excited for the opportunity to play a good team
31:50
for the sectional final. Thoughts.
31:54
Yeah. Yeah.
31:54
I mean, they're obviously, you know, a good team, but you know,
31:57
we're gonna, you know, practice hard this week.
31:59
You know, we're gonna do what we need to do and and could have a
32:01
good game. We're excited for it.
32:04
Hey, on the the regular season game, we were up there, saw the
32:07
game. It really was closer than the
32:10
score indicated. You guys drove the ball very
32:14
well. I'm not sure how many times you
32:16
got, I don't want to remind you. I think it was about four times
32:18
you were in their territory, probably inside the 25 and
32:22
weren't able to convert. So what do you think you got in
32:26
mind that you know how we going to overcome that so you can
32:29
score more points? Yeah.
32:32
We'll just, we'll look to be efficient in the rest zone,
32:34
which we've done a good job at this year outside of that one
32:37
game. And we'll look to put up points
32:40
like we have, like we've been able to.
32:43
They're a good team, I'm sure love a great game plan going in.
32:46
But we're we're confident in our abilities and we think we're
32:48
going to be able to. Get a thought any any thoughts
32:52
Judd anything what been. Looking at last.
32:55
Time, yeah, just said best. I mean, yeah, 100%.
32:58
I mean, we got to be more efficient in the red zone.
33:01
But you know, I think, you know, this week, you know, having
33:04
played them already, it's, it's kind of like, you know, it's
33:06
kind of nice to have, you know, you've, you've been there, you
33:09
know what they're like. But you know, we're going to go
33:11
hard this week, put on what we need to do And and I think
33:15
should be, it should be good. Right, right.
33:17
I'm sure. I think you guys know Stevie
33:19
Klein very well. You know, you've played against
33:22
him. I remember a few years ago he
33:23
was like a sophomore up by you guys and made a nice
33:26
interception for the for the Cardinals up by you.
33:29
I think it's been about four years since you guys have beaten
33:32
them. I think it was 2021.
33:34
I think you guys beat them last, so you know it's going to be a
33:39
busy week. A lot of practice this week
33:41
getting ready. What's the schedule look like?
33:44
What's the schedule look like this week?
33:47
Yeah, we got, we got films and lifts tomorrow.
33:49
We'll get on the field tomorrow a little bit as well.
33:51
And then we got a full week of practice, Tuesday, Wednesday,
33:53
Thursday. Tuesday Thursday's a
33:56
walkthrough. Yeah, yeah, that's the most
33:59
part. Good place.
34:00
Yeah. So should be a big game.
34:02
Hopefully the weather is nice. That's always cooperative.
34:05
But hey, you guys are doing a great job, both teams, you know,
34:08
all you guys, you know, it's just to get here.
34:10
A lot of teams don't get here. A lot of kids don't get the
34:14
playoffs, you know, Hey, I'm a DuMont guy.
34:17
DuMont hasn't been by the first round and probably 25 years.
34:22
So you know, you've gone done very well, been very successful.
34:25
So you got a lot to be proud of, you know.
34:29
So I wish you guys well and thanks for coming on.
34:31
I won't keep you because I know you.
34:32
All right, Bry, all kidding aside, great job, well done.
34:36
That took some planning and some execution.
34:39
You did both very well. And let's see what happens this
34:43
week. Timmy, did you want to say did
34:45
we miss anything on, you know, in that bracket that you were
34:49
paying? As well.
34:51
I, I was watching a little bit of the game at the Westwood
34:54
game. And you know, the one thing I've
34:57
spoken to coach Bear about by era at the beginning of the
35:00
year, at the beginning of the week is I, I said, listen, I
35:03
think you have to you obviously you have to run the football.
35:07
You have to be the more physical team up front.
35:09
They certainly will. And, and I think the key to
35:12
victory this week is they're going to have to, you know,
35:16
control the line of scrimmage against Westwood, You know, was
35:19
a pretty even game midway through the second quarter.
35:22
And then Westwood took over at the line of scrimmage.
35:25
And, and again, I think whoever does that this week will come
35:29
out the champion. No doubt about it.
35:32
And I think that bracket also shows a little bit of the
35:34
difference between the Super Football Conference teams and
35:37
the NJIC teams. I mean, Glen Rock was the two
35:41
and it beat Waldwick, the number 7, which another NJ AC team that
35:46
was a 14, seven game in the first round.
35:48
And then Glen Rock even with the home field advantage, I mean
35:51
Ramsey kind of rolled it up a little bit there.
35:54
So Ramsey, Westwood, that's going to be one of the marquee
35:58
games on the schedule. I mean, Brian, is that a no
36:01
brainer? Is there even?
36:02
Is there even a white? No, I mean, there's good games
36:07
and we'll talk about, you know, a couple more corridors, you
36:09
know, another good game, but you know, you know this.
36:13
Is yeah, well I'll I will probably be at with for the two
36:16
other games. Yeah, there's.
36:18
Two other good games, yeah. So I mean there's.
36:22
Yeah, with of local. Right, right.
36:25
And one of them is in North One Group 3, where JC Balmuller has
36:29
been covering the old fan fight nights all year long.
36:32
And yeah, he wrote the story this week for North Jersey
36:34
sports.com. And it was a big story because
36:37
the Golden Knights were held scoreless for the first quarter.
36:41
It it really is crazy how just you know, every there's peaks
36:46
and valleys to every season and I I don't know, it just hasn't
36:51
happened at all for old Japan. I mean, they didn't score in the
36:54
first quarter. West Milford, you know, huge win
36:58
over Montville at home first, you know, state playoff win in a
37:02
long time for the Highlanders. They came in and old Japan 40 to
37:06
nothing. Jimmy, it's crazy.
37:10
I've been saying to Corey for the last three or four weeks,
37:13
they've been the most consistent team as far as the public
37:16
schools are from game one through their state semifinal.
37:22
And you know, again, when you when you don't score a point and
37:26
1/4 and people are saying, well, you know what's wrong, kind of
37:31
tell you all you know, But you know what, they were the better
37:35
team. Obviously they wound up they
37:37
they grounded out of 40. There's nothing win.
37:40
And you got to give you got to give Wes Milford all the credit
37:43
in the world. They certainly paid old Japan
37:46
work for it. But again, I, I just I said it
37:50
when the bracket came out, I say it again, you know, they they
37:53
are playing Wayne Hills. It was a a 42 to 6 winner over
37:58
Passaic Valley in dominant fashion.
38:00
But they played each other earlier in the year and Ultopan
38:04
put up 47 and A and a game that they, you know, they won by a
38:09
mile. So it's going to take a
38:11
tremendous effort for Wayne Hills to to pull this one out.
38:15
I just think Ultopan is is far the best.
38:19
I mean, I, I bet you if you look at the whole season, maybe the
38:23
Ramapo game is the only one where they were, you know,
38:26
actually in danger of losing. They made the great stop at the
38:29
end of regulation there to hold on for the win.
38:33
And I I don't know the box score.
38:35
I could probably go back and read it in the story.
38:36
But Ultra Pan has has won just about every quarter of football
38:42
this year by score except probably one or two in that
38:46
round pole game, which I can't remember which is is really
38:49
crazy. Brian.
38:51
Yeah. And then while the other game
38:52
for Ultra Pan, it was very close to that Jimmy and I were at,
38:56
they played at Northern Highlands.
38:59
So you know, even though Ultra Pan Koi, you're right, I think
39:02
Koi other game, you know, every other game they've had large
39:06
leads, large wins that they play 2 close games again, two playoff
39:11
teams and that's the next bracket, you know what I mean?
39:14
Yeah, the two teams playing for a Section 8 idle in North One
39:17
Group 4. Right.
39:19
So you expect that. I mean, and you know what, it
39:22
shows that they're ready for the playoffs.
39:25
They've been playing playoff football.
39:27
The Ramapo game, we were there in September, right?
39:30
It comes down to one play at the end.
39:32
Same thing with Northern Irelands.
39:33
Northern Irelands had a chance at the very end.
39:35
So they're, you know, that's what you're going to have to do.
39:38
You know you're going to have to win at the end sometime in the
39:41
playoffs. So but you know, they know what
39:43
they're up against. They play Wayne Hills up there.
39:46
So now they get to play Wayne Hills at home.
39:49
So I think we all picked old Japan in this bracket.
39:53
So you know, I would expect them to take care of business here
39:57
with this. Of course.
39:58
Hey, on the other side of this bracket, let me just jump real
40:00
quick inside the bracket is not is not a lot of teams in all.
40:06
They're mostly teams from more Central Jersey, but I was able
40:10
to see Summit last week. Play West Essex happened to be
40:15
we. We were there two years ago and
40:17
saw the same game in the same bracket.
40:19
That one turned out to be a W Essex win this year, still very
40:25
close, very competitive 2828 going into the last couple
40:29
minutes, but someone was able to drive the ball and a couple
40:32
questionable calls. I don't like the question
40:35
officials. There were a couple that were
40:38
believe it. Look at the tape yourself, check
40:40
them out. That helped him get down the
40:43
field. There were two plays.
40:44
It's probably got about 25 yards roughly and it got him in play.
40:48
But hey, credit there guys. You know, credit the kicker
40:51
here. The kicker, Connor, his last
40:53
name, He's got a long last name, Sieminsky, but he, he's only a
40:57
sophomore #33 plays a little DB, he does a little running back.
41:02
He's a young little, you know, spark plug.
41:04
He's probably about 5 foot 8 and probably 180 lbs.
41:08
But he's full of energy. He kicks off, he kicks the extra
41:11
points, kicks, field goals, and he scored a touchdown early in
41:15
the game, but Connor came on ice in the veins.
41:18
He booted a 34 yard field goal. By the way, Corey, the
41:21
Rutherford score last week against Hoboken, same exacts
41:26
score, same yardage on the field goal.
41:29
You want to bet those numbers only a week later on a Saturday
41:34
afternoon, Corey, same score and it was the last play of the
41:37
game. So pretty good when you get 2
41:39
games in a week, but they're going to hey.
41:42
Their award? Summit, the Hilltoppers, great
41:45
venue, had a good time there, beautiful day out in the sun.
41:49
But they're going to get to go out to Long Valley and play
41:52
perennial power out there, the Wolfpack of West Morris.
41:55
Wolfpack, they just run, ground and pound, very efficient.
42:01
They take care of business and they're on the other side.
42:05
That's their opponent out at Westmore.
42:07
So it'll be a challenge for Summit, but I'm sure they're up
42:11
for it. But I think Westmore is a little
42:13
bit too much for them, too much girth upfront, running, running,
42:17
running, and congratulations to Summit.
42:21
I don't know. It's been a number of years for
42:22
them, too, having been in a, you know, having been in the final,
42:26
a sectional final. But here they are.
42:28
So like I said, two years ago they were here, but they lost in
42:31
the in the semis and didn't get there two years ago.
42:35
But they're right back at it. Willie Wilson's hometown where
42:39
he went to school. Jimmy's the expert.
42:41
He played for Kansas City Royals.
42:43
I think Jimmy, was that the right team?
42:45
Yeah. Willie Wilson hometown, right
42:48
there in Summit, NJ. Beautiful Summit.
42:51
It was a nice day, Corey. That's the other side of that
42:53
bracket. Yeah, and I'm just going over.
42:56
I found our picks. We should actually maybe update
42:59
this as we go into the section finals this week.
43:01
In North One Group 1, you 2 had Butler and I had Kinlon.
43:04
So that's pretty interesting. We're all closed out in North
43:08
One, Group N Two, Group 1. Brian, you had Hasbro kites.
43:13
Oh no, Jimmy, you're live with New Providence.
43:16
Yeah, I'm a lot. Yep I think mountain Lakes and
43:19
the vaunted Delaware wing T which didn't pan out.
43:23
We got 22 Westwoods and a DuMont in North One Group 2 which so
43:30
I'm out N to Group 2. Brian, you took Bernards a first
43:35
round upset loser in the first round there, Jimmy.
43:39
Did the smart. Thing I took Shabazz and I took
43:41
Hoboken, so I'm closed out there.
43:43
We all took Old Japan in North One Group 3 and we all took W
43:46
Morris in North Two Group 3. So moving on to North One Group
43:52
4, Jimmy, that's where the big boys play in North Jersey and
43:59
it's, you know, it's a rivalry in every sport round Pone
44:03
Northern Highlands going back to the old NBIL days. 22 school
44:09
districts, 2 programs that put a lot of resources into being good
44:15
at sports and they do it very well.
44:17
It's top seeded Ramapo, which took care of Wayne Valley 48 to
44:21
20 and 2nd seeded Northern Highlands, which you know, had a
44:25
tough draw with Mount Olive on the other side.
44:28
A lot of people take, you know, even thinking Mount Olive,
44:30
including my friend Brian Carr, who had Mount Olive to win.
44:35
You know, obviously that was a tough draw for the number three
44:40
seed there. But Jimmy, it's Islands, it's
44:42
Ramapo, it's Drew Gibbs Field on Friday night.
44:46
Yeah, it's almost become a tradition to see those two play
44:51
in the playoffs. You know, Ramapo played Wayne
44:54
Valley for the second time. They dominated in the first time
44:57
we were at the game and sure enough, they wound up pulling
45:00
away. Mr. Grusher at quarterback has
45:04
has LED that potent offense for Ramapo and for Northern Ireland.
45:09
You know, I, I was a little bit surprised how dominant they were
45:14
against Mount Olive. Mount Olive was a team that was
45:17
scoring a lot of points and, and they did not score till under,
45:21
you know, about a minute left in the game.
45:23
The game was all over Northern Irelands and Northern Irelands
45:25
can run the football quarry, as we, we've mentioned numerous
45:29
times, with a big offensive line.
45:31
And I think if if they, you know, they have to do that to
45:35
obviously beat Ramapo, but they're also going to have to
45:38
throw the ball a little bit. And if they can do that, you
45:41
know that's going to be a hell of a football game.
45:44
Yes, and seems like Northern Highlands back a little bit
45:46
healthy too, which certainly helps the 'cause as well, you
45:50
know right. Yeah, yeah, the two running
45:53
backs, Corey, that's the key I think for them.
45:55
You know, they got to be able to run the ball, keep the ball away
45:58
from Ramapo. I think that was, you know, a
46:01
little bit of their challenge when they played last time.
46:04
Ramapo was able to keep the ball away from them and and score.
46:07
But I, you know, if they, they got to be able to run it, you
46:10
know, we saw that against old man too.
46:14
You know, that they had a hard time running last week.
46:17
Mount Olive, the 2 running backs, Chase Clarko did very
46:20
well. Well, I think it was over 100
46:23
yards. And the other guy I think is
46:25
Tucker, the other running back. So they need to, that's the key
46:29
to the game is, you know, if they can control because they're
46:32
big. You know, we, we see that most
46:34
teams they play, they're bigger up front.
46:37
So they got to use that strength.
46:38
They think and looks like coach Gordon and stay up and coach
46:43
Angelo Desalvo in there of the OC.
46:46
They're going to try to find get them in the right places.
46:48
Quarterback can make some plays, but they they really more of a
46:51
heavy run game. That will be the key for them.
46:54
And you know, we know Ramapo, they love to throw the ball, run
46:57
the ball. Mr. Grusher will be a handful
47:00
for anybody to stop. So, you know, Corey, you asked
47:03
about where we going to go. Yeah, we're looking at going to
47:06
Westwood. This would be another game if
47:08
you're up in that area. And you know, any connection to
47:10
those schools, people should. I would go to the game.
47:13
I mean, like you said earlier, Corey, this week, years ago, we
47:17
used to be able to see all these games and we get to see them.
47:20
So right now it's only one. It's a one game, you know,
47:24
Friday night for us so. It really is terrible.
47:26
It really is terrible that they do that.
47:28
I mean, then don't call it a sectional final.
47:32
Don't play for a trophy. Don't you know, it's just an,
47:35
it's just an, it really is just another game on the road to the
47:39
state final, You know, like what, what, why are we playing?
47:42
Why are we, you know, pretending that there's something that
47:44
comes before that last trophy now, you know, because it, it's
47:48
not geographically based, it's PowerPoint based.
47:50
There's northern numbers, there's all this stuff.
47:52
It's, there's no tradition left. So just call it what it is.
47:55
It's just another round of the playoffs.
47:57
It's the what? It's the quarterfinals of the
48:00
Group 3 state tournament. That's or Group 4 state
48:03
tournament. That's where we're at now.
48:04
And you know, what's the sense of playing them all at the same
48:09
time at 40 different locations across the state?
48:13
You know, we like we were talking about earlier, you'd be
48:16
at the Meadowlands at 10:00 in the morning.
48:18
You watch every game straight across.
48:20
And it was great. And that tradition has now given
48:23
way to this with where Old Japan is playing Way Hills, Ramapo is
48:28
playing Northern Highlands, and Ramsey is playing Westwood.
48:31
And you can only watch one. Terrible.
48:34
Really terrible. Yeah, all your Bergen County
48:36
schools. Yeah, all your Bergen County
48:37
schools. You have to make one choice to
48:40
go and a by the way too. We'll talk about it later,
48:42
right? You also have the non publics
48:45
playing Friday night as well. You know, nobody wants to play.
48:50
Like. Bobby goes playing.
48:52
You know, nobody's really very few Saturday games.
48:55
You know, we saw Saturday last week at Summit or for Saturday
48:58
played on Saturday or you get it.
49:00
You can go to Bergen or Joe's and see a Saturday game.
49:03
Not this week for Bergen, but or no, this week.
49:06
He can get Bergen this week, right?
49:09
No, we can see this week. Yeah, yeah, this week.
49:11
But next week and they get through Saint Joe.
49:14
'S been touching. They're going to win by 100
49:15
points. So right here, this is I don't
49:18
think you're going to get that many people to go to that game
49:21
because, you know, and you wouldn't expect the score to be
49:24
very close here. You know, they don't they don't
49:28
play the schools, those schools down South.
49:30
Same thing. Like we'll get into that next.
49:32
We'll get into that Texas, but we'll talk about Jimmy can talk
49:36
about the pro girls later. Yeah.
49:38
Well, I mean. Yeah, let's, let's move on.
49:40
I mean, let's just finish out the Publix, but we don't have to
49:42
go so deep in it because there's really nothing of local
49:44
interest. I mean, N 24 is, is Phillipsburg
49:47
at home against Montgomery? Montgomery.
49:52
I don't even know where Montgomery is. 20 to 50.
49:55
Like Hillsboro. Like Hillsboro.
49:57
In Montgomery, Montgomery had never won a playoff game until
50:02
this year. They've won two.
50:04
They've never been in a sectional final.
50:06
But you know, Phillipsburg right now is is rolling as a program
50:12
and they still have that big Thanksgiving game game coming
50:16
up, right? So against easier.
50:18
Thanksgiving rival? I don't even know.
50:21
Easton from Pennsylvania. Oh, oh, oh, I thought you.
50:24
I thought we were saying Montgomery.
50:25
No, yeah, yeah. And for Easton, I mean, if you
50:30
ask Phillipsburg which game would rather win, it's it's it's
50:33
Easton. I mean, it's like the last game
50:35
that really means something on Thanksgiving.
50:37
One of the few, certainly above Route 78 you know.
50:44
Yeah, Hey, Hey, Corey. One other thing on Philsburg for
50:47
a second. We'll talk about it next week if
50:50
it gets there. If Northern Highlands can get
50:53
through and Philsburg likely to get through, you will have a
50:57
rematch of last year's that same game, the North final.
51:04
And in that game, Highlands lost, but I think it was on a
51:07
field goal late. Yeah, I think it hit the cross
51:10
bar. I think it hit the cross bar and
51:13
went over. So I'm sure, you know, Highlands
51:17
is not thinking that fall yet. They got to play around a fall,
51:19
but that'll be next week. But I'm just giving you a
51:22
highlight. That's a preview to next week if
51:24
that falls into place. So But yeah, Peiberg, people
51:28
watch Peiberg. If you haven't seen them, they
51:30
run, they run, they run. I forget the running backs name,
51:33
but he just non-stop just all they do is run.
51:37
I can't remember the kids name right now, but that that's what
51:40
traditionally been doing anyway. They're going to do it again and
51:43
somebody better stop them. That's the only way they're
51:44
going to beat them if they can stop their right again North
51:48
Point. Five the North Point group 5 top
51:50
seeded West Orange second seeded the state county tech right
51:54
state county tech a good job to get through and we bracket here.
51:58
But you know, certainly they've they've they're on a roll.
52:02
They've won five straight games. They've won them all in
52:05
comfortable fashion. The latest being a 35 nothing
52:08
beat down of East Orange in the state sectional semi finals and
52:13
a big task for the Bulldogs going up to West Orange this
52:16
weekend. Yeah, but you can't count them
52:19
out. I think APCTI to say Tech, you
52:23
know, those guys, we talked about how big the school is, the
52:26
enrollment, they've got a lot of kids there.
52:29
So it's I don't think they're scared about going to West
52:33
Orange. You know, they took care of a a
52:36
very good East Orange team. East Orange lost to West Orange
52:40
by a field goal. It was a very close game.
52:43
One point, yeah. One point, yeah, very close.
52:47
But now you see PCTI all of a sudden now they just totally
52:51
manhandled a good East Orange team and they're heading.
52:56
So don't count PCTI out. We've seen him was it 2 years in
53:00
a row? We saw him at Rutgers in the
53:02
final in the group 5 here. So you never count them out a
53:07
little under the radar this year.
53:09
They they did, I think they lost about 3 games early.
53:12
And so they're, you know, they're, they're getting it
53:14
together, I think at the right or.
53:18
Yep. Yeah, Jimmy, anything or you?
53:22
No, you know, all year we looked, all year we looked at
53:26
that, you know, group 5 and said, you know, who do we like?
53:30
You know, and the safe tech is, is always there.
53:34
And West Orange is a talented team with a lot of numbers.
53:37
Should be an interesting game. Should be an interesting game
53:42
and just if you're scoring at home, we are out of the
53:45
conversation. Brian and Jimmy both took East
53:48
Orange campus to win that bracket.
53:50
My favorite team of the playoffs was Morristown.
53:54
They didn't make it past the first round.
53:56
So we move on to now, N to Group 5, where Brian, your beloved
54:01
Panthers, Bridgewater, Raritan, the top seed, will be hosting
54:05
Bayonne, which pulled one of the shockers of the weekend.
54:08
The number six seeded Bayonne Bees went on the road to
54:11
Piscataway and won by two scores.
54:14
Pretty impressive for Bayonne. Good for them.
54:17
One Hudson County team fell at the top of the bracket.
54:20
The other one is through. So it's Bridgewater rare.
54:21
It's in the one Bayonne, the six for the North Two Group 5 state
54:26
sectional championship, right? Big quarter, I think I picked
54:29
Bridgewater, right? I think that's in the pick.
54:31
We all did, we all, we are. Panthers.
54:35
You guys are all Panthers now, yeah?
54:37
You've converted us. But they're, yeah, they, they've
54:41
had a few losses taking their lumps at Bridgewater and
54:45
they're, you know, we looked at it thinking Piscataway would get
54:49
through to the final. But you know, credit to the bees
54:53
shutting down Piscataway here now Piscataway going back.
54:56
I remember I read a story recently because during COVID
54:59
they had some issues there and some players left things like
55:03
that. And Coach Huggins mentioned
55:05
about how now this is the first year that they've got in the
55:08
group together because of that loss of kids back during COVID.
55:13
So but they weren't able to get through here against the good
55:16
Bayonne team. So that should be good, you
55:18
know, challenge for Bridgewater. But Bridgewater I've seen are
55:20
big. I haven't seen them live, but
55:22
very big offensive lines and their running backs are pretty
55:26
solid. They got a couple running backs.
55:29
So it should be an, you know, interesting game there.
55:32
Hey, love to get to Bridgewater but I won't be going to
55:35
Bridgewater on Friday night to see my beloved Panthers.
55:39
I will be up in Bergen County staying home so it's a short
55:43
ride to my home after the game. Corey, what time do you what
55:46
time does Bobby Mays? What time does the the caravan
55:49
pull out for? The caravan departs Hickory,
55:54
Hickory Ave. or Hickory St. Washington Township, probably
55:57
about 4:30, about 4:30 to arrive no later than 435 at the
56:04
driveway at the Westwood High School in Washington Township.
56:09
We will be there hopefully in the very first spot we get to
56:13
watch the entertainment and the maybe Jimmy will probably beat
56:16
us there. I bet you Jimmy gets there, can
56:18
beat us there and he sneaks around and goes have a
56:21
conversation with a coach, you know, in his office.
56:25
So. I mean top filet and pavino.
56:27
There's definitely. Some meatball parm being served
56:30
out some. Italian guys talking over.
56:33
There, over there. But a Super Football Conference
56:35
banner at the entrance, right, Jimmy?
56:37
Yeah, you know, we talk about the sausage, the meatball
56:41
parmesan, but what about the chicken parmesan, Brian, that
56:48
you guys seem to hang out by the snack bar in Westwood waiting
56:52
for the the door to be rolled up.
56:55
Missus Klein won't give you this after.
57:01
After Remember I interviewed your son, 14.
57:06
After the after the Ramsey love before.
57:10
I wonder how much those chicken farm sandwiches cost the.
57:15
Cost has doubled. Double sweet Missus Klein be
57:19
nice to us. Missus Klein is very nice.
57:23
Missus. Missus Klein.
57:25
Did you notice that Brian was wearing a Hoboken shirt the same
57:29
week he was interviewing Ramsey kids from DuMont?
57:36
Oh, my God. Anyway, all right, Jimmy, let's
57:38
move on. What do we got left?
57:40
Yeah. Go ahead.
57:41
We got they, they have some of the best food by the way.
57:43
We we get the sample food around the area.
57:46
And I'd have to say we may, if we do an award this year,
57:50
probably be the food Hut of the year right there in Washington
57:55
at Westwood High School court. I don't know, Jimmy.
57:58
Did he do enough to dig himself out of the hole?
58:00
No, no. All right, let's talk some big
58:05
boy football as it gets underway.
58:07
You know the the playoffs get underway this week, but the the
58:11
nitty gritty won't start till next week.
58:12
But Jimmy, maybe a quick rundown of non public Group A?
58:15
Yeah, non public Group A, you have the quarterfinal rounds.
58:19
You have Seton Hall Prep at Don Bosco Senior Prep I believe lost
58:25
to them forty to seven in the first game.
58:28
So I expect little trouble there.
58:30
Saint Joe's Metuchen at Bergen Catholic.
58:33
The five, four-game. Saint Joe's Metuchen was
58:36
undefeated going into their previous game against Donovan
58:42
Catholic. They got beat.
58:44
That dropped them down to the five seed.
58:46
I expect Bergen Catholic big in their first game defense of
58:51
their title. Yeah, Del Barton traveling to
58:54
Saint Joe's on Saturday the 6th versus 3 game.
58:58
I expect Del Barton to hanging around for a little while, but
59:01
St. Joe's just has too much and
59:04
Saint Augustine. The Hermits travel up to
59:07
different point to take Saint Peters.
59:10
I expect Saint Peters to advance.
59:12
I think all four teams advance and that'll set up a Bosco
59:16
Bergen semifinal the following Friday night and Joe's and Saint
59:22
Peters. I don't know if that'll be a
59:24
Friday game or a Saturday game, but it should be 123 and 4
59:28
advances. Totally crap.
59:31
Just looking at Saint Joe's metuch and they're going to
59:33
travel to Bergen Catholic this year having played exactly 2 non
59:37
public school teams all year. Like get ready boys.
59:43
Bergen Catholic and then in yeah, I mean they their schedule
59:49
is from hunger and it's crazy that there's still such a thing
59:53
as a parochial school team with all just about all public school
59:56
teams on it's on it's docket. Then we have non public A which
1:00:01
is the full field. You got some buys along there
1:00:06
from week 1, but Jimmy you want to run down non public B where
1:00:11
the beloved paladins resign. Yeah and since Paul and Paramus
1:00:16
Catholic had one and two seats had by the one seed DePaul will
1:00:21
take on Saint John Vianney. The five seed Holy Spirit will
1:00:27
take on #4 Donovan Catholic from Toms River.
1:00:31
St. Mary's of Rutherford decided
1:00:34
they were going to go in the tournament again this year, not
1:00:37
to get did the last two years. They give them credit, they
1:00:41
join. They had the 2 1/2 three hour
1:00:44
ride down to outside of Atlantic City did not work out the way
1:00:48
they wanted. You have Red Bank Catholic and
1:00:51
Paul was 6th at Red Bank Catholic and Paramus Catholic
1:00:55
will host Immaculata who beat Saint Thomas Aquinas.
1:00:59
So, you know, we're at the round of eight there also.
1:01:03
I think we're we're a week away from having anything to really
1:01:05
talk about in non public. Pete too, you know, still
1:01:09
separate the week from the chat a little bit there.
1:01:11
All right, so one more. That's it, Bry.
1:01:14
Any last words to try to get back in the good graces of the
1:01:18
Westwood staff at the snack bar before you show up on Friday
1:01:22
night? No, no thank.
1:01:25
I always thank them. They're very nice.
1:01:27
I, you know, we, we're very friendly and gracious and they
1:01:32
know where my heart is. My heart is always.
1:01:34
With their boys so. Is that we will we will see if.
1:01:42
That is true. Next week on the Football shelf,
1:01:46
follow the leader.