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Back on the Football show North Jersey sports.com Original all
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these series talking all things football across North Jersey.
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This is season 13 episode 4 and we are playing a man down
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tonight. I am Corey Doviak, being joined
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by just one of my illustrious panel of North Jersey football
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inside, while Jimmy Avatable is off on other business, we have
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the head Husky himself, a man who made the grand return back
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to the home palace over there on New Milford Ave.
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He is the great Brian Carl. What's going on, Brian?
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Hey, Core, yeah, we're late. We're almost late in the season
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already, Corey, what is 4 games in roughly?
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And we're starting to see who's who.
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Great game up at Old Japan. We'll talk about that and a lot
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of information. We have interviews there.
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What else? Huskies win 4 and O got some
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work to do this week so there's some good football.
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Big game Friday night at the Bosco Bergen.
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So lot of lot of excitement right now coming, of course.
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Yeah, we're right in the in the thick of it and it is a good
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time. But I want to start off with not
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just that the Huskies won to improve the four and, oh, in the
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season. But what was the reception like
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when you walked in there? You know, I saw you on the twit
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and you, you know, I'm sure you saw a lot of old friends around
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there. You know, people who used to
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give you a parking pass, took your parking pass away.
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I mean, you know, how did they treat Bryant Carr there?
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Yeah, it was, it was a rough welcome.
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You know what I mean, Corey? They haven't seen me.
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They haven't seen me this year. So I mean they, I, I was very
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low key under the radar the other day when I went walking
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down to the Milford game and I didn't do anything but walk
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through and I saw them practicing and I continued my
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trek down in the Milford. So yeah, Joseph Terra was there.
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It's nice. I got a shout out, shout out to
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Matt Butler. Matt came over and said hello,
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which is nice to him. Thank you, Matt.
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He was mentioned by Coach Farrington last week of being a,
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you know, the basketball head basketball coach and how they
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work together very well. Yeah.
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And Coach Farrington was there. We saw him.
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And then obviously Joe Sottera, the AD shout out to the ADS.
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They do a lot of work. And this weekend it's not just
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they, you know, DuMont AD, but the other ADS out there.
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So Lorenzo as well. And Mike up at Northern
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Highlands, Joe over in New Milford.
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Those guys do a lot of work. And it's not just one game, high
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school football, it's also soccer, volleyball.
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There's a lot of other sports, so those guys stay real busy.
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So when I come down, I understand they're busy and I
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don't bother them. I'm here to support the team and
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put out some tweets and coordinate with Joe on the
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tweets and and congratulations to the Huskies, You know, four
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and OA great, you know, great start to the year and you know,
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it's they won a lot of games that they had a chance to.
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They came back early. They, you know, pretty much
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handled the Bergenfield as well as Blake Morrow and looking
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forward to big game this week. I wish I could go there.
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I can't be more than one place at a time, but they're going to
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go visiting the Westwood Cardinals.
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We talk about programs and that's a very good program.
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And the Cardinals had a a tough game on Friday night.
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They went out to Caldwell, a very competitive Caldwell team,
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and lost in overtime on a 42 yard field goal in overtime.
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So the Cardinals are going to be very hungry for some Huskies and
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I hope everybody in the Husky land is ready to play because
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Westwood I'm sure is going to be ready to play on Friday night
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and Larry Laferi and the crew will be doing the game up there
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in Westwood. So so look forward to watching
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that game and hearing more about it then court.
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So you're not going to go see Fordo Duma play their biggest
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game, regular seating game in the last, I don't know, 22 years
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ago? Just just want.
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To so you will you. Will not be there.
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Is that correct? Corey, yes, that's correct.
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And also you forgot to announce my introduction.
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Usually I'm also the the top dog at Rutherford and got a shout
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out down there. We'll talk about them.
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Rutherford has a big game, both undefeated at Glen Rock.
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So I think our colleague, Mr. Alvatabale, the venerable one,
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may be in Rutherford to check out that game.
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So, yeah, Corey cannot make all every game.
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That's a very tough schedule. Yeah, but wait, you are the head
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Husky, and you're also the Pope of the Cardinal of the Westwood,
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and they're playing each other. Well, you know my, my memory, I
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have a memory of that game two years ago when I was up there.
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I won't mention the score. Westwood won the game W I'll
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tell you this, we were sitting there, Westwood wanted and we
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will mention the score, but Westwood took care of business
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and won that game. So I've got bad visions at
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Westwood of and and DuPont hasn't won very often up there.
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You probably two or three times in the last 20 years that
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they've played Westwood that they beating them.
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So it's going to be a tough game and we talk about programs.
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Corey Westwood's the program. Westwood's a tough beat, tough
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out for anybody. They've been there for the last
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five years. The Huskies a big game.
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If they could win it, I hope they can.
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But you know what I mean, looking at past, looking at
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right now Westwood, you know, with Stevie Klein out there and
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Bruno Vega, the quarterback and a lot of they seem to be
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stepping up. There are a program that there's
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new kids coming up now this year, Charles Charlo, Charlie
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Sarlo is there. He's been on there for three
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years now. He's playing linebacker.
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Here's a guard. So you know, Corey, I don't know
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what to tell you, but I, you know, I don't know how to get to
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more than one game. I did the dance right.
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You did the. Dance.
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I did my dance. To tell everybody you know, you
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you put it you you know what is that abbreviation on Reddit?
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Too long did not read too long did not listen.
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Bryan Carr not going to Westwood DuMont.
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Bryan Carr going to Don Bosco prep Burton Catholic.
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That's all you need to know. That's it.
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Well precise and and to the point.
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All right. I should mention should mention
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that top show we are going to have a guest on here tonight and
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it's a good story coming out of Southern Bergen County with
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Andrew Carbone, who took over this year as the first year head
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coach at Woodridge and all he has done since is tied the all
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time record for best start at a new program with a 1000% winning
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percentage through four games. The Blue Devils are four and O
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spanked Weehawken this past week and, you know, have a chance to
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run the table in the regular season.
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And that's probably not something that anybody had on
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their bingo card at the start of the season, right?
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Yeah, probably not. You know, you new coach coming
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in, you never know what's going to happen.
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And you know, you can look around the league.
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So there's been some good success.
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Go to three and one, start the season with a new coach.
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Joey. You know, Joey Katrona having a
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tough time over at Saddlebrook. He former coach there at
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Woodridge, Woodridge. And then he's up there and
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they're challenged at Shadowbrook right now.
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It'll take him another year or so to really get that program
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going. But hey, I guess Joe left
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behind, you know, a pretty good program and they've been
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successful. Remember a few years ago, I
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think it was 22 that they went to the NJIC file under approach
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Katrona. So you know, program.
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Yeah, it was. The other night they won a state
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playoff game against Shabazz at home.
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I mean, that was a crazy night. That was fun.
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Yeah, You know, so you need this successful success and, you
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know, credit to Coach Carbone coming in new coach out of the
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year. He doesn't know the kids and
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we'll get to talk to coach tonight.
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And as coach, you know what? What's the keys to your success
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this year so far, Corey? Yes, we will talk to him, but
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first let's get to where you were at on Friday night.
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The biggest game in North Jersey so far this year and just about
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the entire North Jersey sports.com contingent was there
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with yourself, with Jimmy Avatable.
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The great JC Balmuller wrote the story for North Jersey
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sports.com. I was on other business and it
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was not as fun. I saw Wayne Valley beat Paramus
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34 to nothing, like maybe touch on a little bit of that later.
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But you got us some audio back like the old days, Brian,
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hanging out till the end of the games to talk to coaches and
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kids. That's great.
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You want to talk a little bit about the game first and then
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when you're ready, set up some of the audio that you.
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Yeah. We'll set it up.
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Yeah. Hey, Corey.
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You know, my memory always goes back at Old Japan to 2010.
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I think you were probably at that game with us.
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The Paramus no doubt played at Old Japan.
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You had John Robbinson, for those who don't know, a little
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history lesson here, John Robertson, the quarterback from
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Paramus, the coach at Paramus, the legendary coach, Dan
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Sabella, currently the Don Bosco coach.
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But we had such a tremendous game that night.
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It was a 63 to 56 game. Devin Fuller from old Japan was
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able to pull it up. Two tremendous quarterbacks, a
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lot of talent on the field. I think it was Keith Rodman,
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right? Keith, That's Brandon Gregory's
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son, right? Brandon's son, I think Keith,
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right? Yeah, Yeah.
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And. Keith Robin lived about four
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houses South of me on near the world headquarters of North
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Jersey sports.com. That was a lot of buzz with that
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team in that year, but yes, well, you know.
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Right. And the thing I the reason I
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mentioned that because I think Keith came in and had a big
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series and mostly it was a lot of running and you know, a lot
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of Devin Fuller running around, passing the ball.
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And then they decided to start running it and Keith had some
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really good runs. And I I don't know if he scored
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a touchdown or not, but I thought that was a key series in
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the game when they started moving the ball to the running
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back. But anyway, so to my point.
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So we we used to go to classics at Old Japan and you know, with
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these two teams, you had Ramapo traveling over, you know, Ramapo
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being competing at high level, been at the state final and not
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coming out at the winning end, but being very successful last
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year, very successful, you know, going out and playing.
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We saw them together, remember, at Morris Knowles the.
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Best game we ever last year and for my money that was the best,
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that was the most fun. I added a football game last
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year for sure. And for those who don't know,
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competing too, the only public school in North Jersey would two
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state championships in the last, it's only been what, four years
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now the state championship and they have two and they have two.
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And there's only one other school in North Jersey that has
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one public school and that being in Westwood Cardinals.
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So, you know, I kind of set it up there expecting a really big
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game and and they didn't disappoint, neither team.
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You know, as we were saying, I forget who we were talking on
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the sideline, it's just tough that somebody's got to lose.
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And I think that you heard that around that everybody was
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saying, you know what, two really good teams.
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And honestly, and everybody would probably say this to you
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when they look at the game, Gravopo looked like probably the
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better team, you know, more skill.
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Just just seemed to look like they had the the opportunity and
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they did go up. It was a back and forth game.
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They just alternated scoring all game, all game.
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Look where that's football. That's the great football that I
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like is when both teams score and it's not a bunch of, you
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know, lopsided one way or another.
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Sloppy. It really wasn't a sloppy game.
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It was a very competitive game. You got stars.
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We mentioned the stars before. I still would come back to old.
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The panel just mentioned a couple people, Casey Grosser
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from from Ramapo. Unbelievable.
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He's like the old time Ramapo guys.
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There's always been quarterbacks up there.
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The de Primos, the you had AJ Winkfield, you.
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You had a quarterback for about. Chris, go Wheeler.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, go Wheeler. You know, I'm usually.
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You know, but yeah, Yep, Yep. I mean, you know, go back to the
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the Chris Hogan years. I'm trying to think of the
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quarterbacks those times. I mean, Garrison Ward's younger
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brother, what was his name? Oh, I can't remember now.
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Garrison Ward is the head baseball coach at Ram Poe, and
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his younger brother was a quarterback during some.
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Good for some, for a good football team, too.
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But actually go back to our guys and pull out some names.
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That'd be fun to go down memory lane.
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But continue yourself, yeah? But tremendous though, you know,
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he did everything, everything in his power just came up a little
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bit short. Well, I mean, so why don't we
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get into some interviews and maybe on the backside we could
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just close it out. Bottom line, what happened?
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For those who haven't heard what happened, the bottom line is
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Ramapo was stopped inside the Old Japan 5 yard line and the
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last play of the game and we got to mention, you call them Corey,
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who is Leo Etter? Who is Leo Etter, Right?
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You know, I think everybody knows now.
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Or if you don't know, you got to know who Leo Etter is because
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Leo Etter is the man who made the final stop on the touchdown,
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potential touchdown for Ramapo. Leo.
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And by the way, Coyle mentioned this on the way into the game.
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I'm parking right across the street from Ray Donnelly.
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Old Japan guy coach. His son played at Old Japan
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parking in front of his house. Who comes up behind me?
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Mr. Eder. I don't know who.
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I've never met a Mr. here to do some self.
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Hey. Hey.
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Then we go inside, go to the snack bar, get a I think I'm
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just getting a water and a pretzel.
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Who's up there? Oh, I'm Mrs. Eder.
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Oh, you're Leos mom. Yeah.
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So it's like the whole family doesn't meet before the game.
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You know, it's it's it's great, but inward bottom back to the
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game, a very challenging game and you'll hear the only
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interviews we've got screen small the receiver we've got
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quarterback Zach. Let's start.
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You want to be able to start with Shane Small.
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Yeah, let's let's bring Shane and Shane, I don't know why he's
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the biggest guy. So that's why maybe I pick the
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big guy first. But Shane is a a big kid, very
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competitive kid, tough kid, plays offense.
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But his defense, he had four touchdown catches from his
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favorite quarterback Zach Masella.
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He talks about the injuries they went through the next guy up
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team effort. Unbelievable.
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One of the things I like he said too, he said this game was about
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boys becoming men. Boy, we got Shane all.
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Right here we go. Here's Shane Small after the
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game. I'm here with Shane Small,
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junior wide receiver, does everything. 4 touchdowns today.
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The big one that was the last one was really big.
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Talk about the game was pretty exciting.
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You know, we had a lot of injuries, a lot of guys had to
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step up. As ever, it's a team effort.
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There's only 11 guys in the field at a time, but it takes
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everyone you know. Hey, talk about halftime.
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You guys gave up score late. You're now down 14, seven coming
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out in the third at the third quarter.
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What happened, What happened different, what you guys talk
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about and. Just, you know, you know, it's
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just where, it's where boys become men, you know, he coach
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told us. Everyone has to step up.
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You know, a lot of guys getting their chance.
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Just everyone has to be ready, step up, make a play.
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Pretty thrilling all the way down to the very end.
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What what was in your mind area? I mean he stopped in the like
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the five yard line. I know I got a little nervous
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for a second, but I had faith in the guys I knew.
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I knew we had it in this. So what are you looking forward
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to next? You know, we take it day by day,
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you know, film tomorrow morning and then we're back at it on
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Monday. Congratulation.
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Talk about your quarterback a little bit, Zach.
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I love him. He's he's just, he's the best.
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All right, Bry, good stuff there with Shane Small and somebody
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had a throw on the ball. Who was that?
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Something to throw. And that would be, by the way,
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before I get over there, so Shane's older brothers, Jack.
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Jack was a tackle for the old Japan a couple of years ago.
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He's now a Duke. So the quarterback is Zach
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Micelli, a junior. I mean, Zach, this kid is a
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really tough kid. He runs well in a very
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competitive game, but he scrambles.
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I mean, unbelievable. The final touchdown, the 4th
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one, he's zigzagging across and you know, trying to avoid a sack
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and then Shane opens up and was able, he was able to fight him
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and but we have Zach, a great kid, so we get some Zach time
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here. Here we go, Zach Micelli after
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the game. Started off shaky, but everyone
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knew what this game is about and it's going to come to four
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quarters Online Stepped in, you know, we had a bunch of Subs,
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offense and defense credited defense.
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We had playmakers just making plays like they do, and that's
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what won us this game. Talk about, talk about the last
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touchdown. Last touchdown, you had to
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scramble a lot. You were going way left, then
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you had to come back right and you found Shane here.
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Talk about that. Any thoughts on what you had to
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do? You know, I was just playing in
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the moment. Coaches trust me to throw on
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that play, you know, and I saw, you know, it was covered up well
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and I just had to go make a play, find my guy in the end
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zone and he caught the ball of restless history.
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Talk about besides the passing, a lot of passing and touchdowns,
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yeah, you also had to run the ball too.
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Talk about some of the line guys and what they need to help.
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You know, we get a lot of yards on the ground as well.
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Humble some of those guys and what they do to help.
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Move the ball down the field. You know, we, we had great guys
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up front. You know, kids got hurt, but we
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stepped in and they opened up great holes.
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They fought, they fought all four quarters.
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They never let down. And they opened up holes for me
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in the backs and we got through. We made our plays and they
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relied on us and we relied on them.
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I guess Shane, before Shane Small about what you guys talk
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about halftime, you were triomed by a score.
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What you guys talked about, you know, halftime and then about
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the second-half. Yes, Sir.
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Turn it on. There was adjustments.
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Obviously. I knew we had to get in the ball
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the way he was playing and and you know, everything in the
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locker room. No, everything in the locker
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room was calm. We're all calm.
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We knew even though we were down, it's not over yet.
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We still have so much time left and we just went out and made
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please. What's anything special you guys
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did to prepare for this game? Told him.
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You know we grab a really good team.
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Anything the coaches did during the week to get you ready for
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this game. Not really.
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I mean, we knew we wanted this game, you know, everything.
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Same as usual. Same.
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And we just got out, got out there and we got it.
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I'll. Let you go celebrate with you
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guys. Thank you.
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It's good to meet you. Congratulations about the good
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work. OK.
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Brad, good stuff there with Zach Micelli.
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And you got one more for us. Who else?
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One more special guest we have may or May.
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Not have appeared on this show 100 times in.
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The past 13, right, right, right.
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That would be coach Brian Dunn, the legendary coach up there and
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400 wins for the girls basketball.
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And he's I think he's about 69% winning percentage here.
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He has almost 180 wins in a football.
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Coach tells the like. It is one of the things you hear
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from a lot of the kids. They talk about they had to
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bring in a sophomore to play center.
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They lost pretty much the whole line during either before the
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game or during the game. And he mentions a name too.
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You're here, William Fuckingstern, Corey.
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You may know some more Fuckingstern.
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They've been, you know, coach talks about too.
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He coached his father as a kid. So full circle, full circle.
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But here's Coach Stun. Here's Coach Stun.
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With Brian Carr after the game. Coach, I asked some of the kids,
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I asked some of the boys, Shane and I asked Zach.
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What you guys talk about halftime.
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I know he finally make a lot of adjustments, but you were down
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by a score. Half time we spent trying to
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patch together an offensive line.
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I mean we had, we were already, we're already down 3 kids and
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then two more got hurt in the first half and we had to switch
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a full back to guard and take a sophomore who's never played
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before and put him out centre, move the centre to guard, move
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the guard to tackle. So it's just code Pete done did
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a great job with that, like just trying to get him calm and you
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know, we'll play within themselves and we stick to the
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things that they'd be able to handle in the second hand.
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So that's what I'm proud of. Like we just stuck the basic
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stuff that they can know from day one here and and and go out
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and execute it and against good players.
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Like it wasn't like kids coming in against like a a chump team
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where you have a chance to catch your breath.
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I mean, it was prime time lights on and our centers sophomore
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center going to snap the ball perfect every time.
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And he struggled with it during the week and play like you did.
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I mean, I'm just super proud of the coaches.
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William Falkenster. There was a focus start on the
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team a few years ago. It's a.
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Program, it's a program you you get players and continue to
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rebuild. I coach his dad.
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His dad was the first player I ever coached here.
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Congratulations. You know you got the.
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Quarterback down. What was?
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Yeah, what were you thinking when you saw?
20:42
Him at the very end, yeah, I thought he was getting in 100%.
20:46
I thought there's no way we get that kid.
20:47
He's phenomenal out in space. And I thought and our kid made a
20:50
phenomenal tackle, like just boxed him in, didn't fight,
20:53
didn't didn't give him a two way go and close him in, took the
20:56
outside away and the next kid came in and cleaned it up.
20:58
Great stuff there, Bry. That's a great wrap on what has
21:03
been the best public school football game in North Jersey,
21:07
bar none through the 1st 4 weeks of the season.
21:09
I'm glad to see that it lived up to the hype.
21:12
So many times they don't. But when you're talking ultra
21:15
Pan Ramapo, most of the time they do.
21:17
So that was awesome. And, you know, while while we
21:19
were listening to the interviews and talking about, you know, old
21:23
quarterbacks, I went out back through the North Jersey
21:26
sports.com icon archives and I found a story from 2010, the
21:33
same year we were talking about the Paramus old the Pan Game.
21:36
And how about this how how things have changed over the
21:39
last 15 years. Ramapo earns respect the hard
21:43
way with a win at Saint Joseph Regional on Saturday, October
21:48
9th, 2010, Ramapo went into Montvale and 1:30 5/28 with
21:53
Tyler Ward. There's his first name as the
21:56
quarterback for Ramapo and who's the other guy?
22:00
Scott Kunzel had a 30 yard touchdown with a minute and 46
22:04
left in the fourth quarter and that was the winning scores.
22:06
Rand PO beat Saint Joseph Regional 3528, so going into
22:11
Montvale public school teams ain't winning there anymore,
22:13
even if they're named Rand Paul. So cool trip down memory lane.
22:18
Well, let's shift our attention now to southern Bergen County
22:22
and the great story coming out of the great town of Woodridge,
22:25
New Jersey, as we welcome in the head coach of the four and O
22:29
Woodridge Fighting Blue Devils. He is Andrew Carbone and he
22:33
joins us from his car. Coach, thanks for hopping on the
22:37
Football SHOW. Thanks for having me guys, I
22:40
really appreciate it. Well, you know, we are, Brian
22:43
and I are definitely Woodridge fans.
22:46
We know a lot of people from there.
22:48
We've attended many events over the years.
22:50
And you know, we had a lot of fun watching what Joe Catrona
22:54
built in the last few years at Woodridge.
22:57
And then, you know, when Coach Catrona left for Saddlebrook,
22:59
people think maybe, you know, might be taking a step back,
23:03
blah, blah, blah. Next thing you know, incomes
23:06
Andrew Carbone and the Blue Devils are four and O.
23:09
So I guess you couldn't ask for a better start to your career
23:13
coaching down there in Woodridge.
23:15
Yeah, You know what, A lot of people have actually said that
23:17
to me, and it is true. I mean, when you envision taking
23:21
over a program, obviously you want to do well, you want to
23:23
have success, but to be to be for an O out of the gate, I
23:27
mean, that's a credit to our our kids and the coaching staff.
23:31
They've done such a good job of, you know, just just getting a
23:34
new staff together, whole new offense, whole new defense, and
23:38
then our kids is buying into that and like the belief they
23:42
all deserve so much credit. And, you know, I'm just happy to
23:46
be kind of leading the ship and steering in the right direction
23:49
right now, so. Yeah, I mean, it's tough for all
23:53
the reasons you said and also because, you know, numbers and
23:57
not only just football playing numbers, but just numbers in
23:59
general at a Group One school makes it tough.
24:01
You know, it's, you know, just talk about that, that aspect of
24:05
it, you know, coming from Sparta and some other places that
24:08
you've coached at, you know, I, I don't know, Sussex Tech maybe
24:12
had smaller numbers, but you know, it, it's, it's tough to
24:15
find the right mix and, and find the right amount of guys to, you
24:19
know, go to battle with week in and week out.
24:21
Oh yeah, there's no listen, there's no question.
24:24
Small Group 1 football. You're, you know, obviously I've
24:27
been saying it since I took over.
24:29
You know, I like our pieces. I like everybody in the, the
24:31
mix. We just got to stay healthy.
24:33
And I think, you know, when you're out of Sparta, a Group 3
24:36
school, you kind of, you know, you have the numbers to kind of
24:41
pick from. And so how are you, you have the
24:43
numbers to kind of pick from. And I think being in like a
24:46
Sparta, you know, you, you kind of can go best on best sometimes
24:51
in practice, small Group One schools, you, you don't have the
24:54
opportunity to really kind of to do that.
24:57
So, you know, you just got to be smart about it.
25:00
And I think one of the biggest things I think our kids are a
25:04
little shocked about, we don't, we don't do, I'm an old school
25:08
guy, but we don't do a whole lot of, we don't do a whole lot of
25:11
thinking down to the ground in practice.
25:14
We do more, you know, we're more operative than we kind of go
25:17
about doing it that way. I just think I think it's
25:20
better, you know, a lot of times you take guys to the ground and
25:22
things like that, kind of get yourself in the jam.
25:24
And that's how kids get kind of tied up.
25:27
So I've been on both ends. I've been on both ends where
25:30
we've had, you know, 50-60 in a program in 30.
25:34
So I, I've dealt, I've dealt with both.
25:36
I think that's helped me. Yeah, no doubt about it.
25:38
Go ahead bro. Hey, coach, let's talk about
25:41
some of the players. I I see some familiar names.
25:44
There's been some older brothers have gone through the program.
25:46
There's chance. I I've, I've.
25:49
How do you say his last name? Yeah, you know, Yeah, I know.
25:56
His brother's been there before, you know, his older brother
26:00
played there. You've got Chris Rios.
26:02
Nino started as a actually started as A at quarterback as a
26:05
freshman if I remember correctly.
26:07
I heard that. I did hear that story.
26:10
Yeah. And Chris Rios, he's like all
26:13
everything right now for you. So just talk about some of your
26:16
players, some of these kids, they're tough kids.
26:18
We've seen him in the past. They're not giant sized kids,
26:22
but they're very tough, physical players.
26:25
Are you seeing that today, now? Coach yeah, I, I think, you
26:28
know, one of the things like, obviously you take over, you're
26:32
kind of looking for who are your leaders and, you know, kind of
26:35
like you, like you just said, kind of who's going to be the,
26:38
who's going to be tough? Who's going to kind of figure
26:41
about it. You know, I didn't again, I
26:43
think we kind of sparked up in that set again, I'm not as a
26:48
defensive guy, I'm not a huge fan of seven on seven, but I, I
26:52
understand the purpose of it. You want your kids to compete.
26:54
Like we went in the house for kites 1 and ended up losing them
26:57
in the finals. We did really well.
26:58
And I thought that was kind of like a jump start.
27:01
And you know, Rios, the big thing with him leading up into
27:05
the season was he's a great runner, but he doesn't, can't
27:09
press the ball down the field. And I watched a lot of the tape
27:12
prior to and I, I just, I thought, you know, not that
27:15
Catrona was doing something different.
27:17
I just thought that, you know, he maybe the reads weren't as
27:20
simple for him. And I thought, you know, the
27:23
offense we ran as far, I thought being a great fit for him, being
27:27
that he could run and throw and take those quick reads and
27:30
things like that. So, you know, coach Larkin was
27:32
on staff last year and I kind of brought it.
27:35
I kind of asked him if he wanted to take over the offensive
27:38
duties. Believe me, I have no desire to
27:40
ever do that. I have to, I will, I can, I just
27:44
I'm a defensive guy through and through.
27:45
So the kids like Chris, I mean he's really excelled this year.
27:49
He's throwing the ball really well and he's running it just as
27:52
good as he's ever. And you know, Chances really
27:55
excelled in this kind of offense because he's real dynamic.
27:58
We can split him out, we can use it in the backfield, do a lot of
28:01
different things. You got kids like Nick Scalera,
28:03
who's just our possession kid who's really reliable, going to
28:07
do the right thing. And then Melvin's Athleta big
28:10
body, huge athletic body and just kind of really just excel
28:15
in and then our two tailbacks great too.
28:17
So Miles Simmons and Aiden Cilienzo.
28:20
And I think, you know, when you have such a good mix on offense,
28:24
you know, I I think about it all the time, like some game plan
28:27
for somebody. If they have such a a variety of
28:29
a mix, that's that's tough to tough the game plan for.
28:32
It's tough to stop. So, and I think a credit to our,
28:35
you know, our kids and like I said, Coach Lark doing a great
28:37
job. Yeah, it looks like you.
28:40
You mentioned that coach. I see your stats and you're
28:42
rushing and your passing is almost equal, you know, right
28:46
around three, 850 yards each. So you're, you know, you seem to
28:50
be balancing it out. You are rushing a little bit
28:52
more, more actual rushing than passing, but still you're
28:56
balancing your, you know, your offense out there very well.
29:00
Yeah, I think honestly, you know, and I'll mention some of
29:03
the guys on our staff, Coach Black, he's a, he's a Richfield
29:08
Park kid. He took over as our old line
29:11
coach and he's, he's young, he's enthusiastic.
29:13
He does a freaking great job with our guys.
29:15
Like he gets it fired up and like he's tough on them.
29:18
You know, you get a young coach, sometimes you're worried if
29:20
they're going to be a little too friendly with the kids and
29:22
stuff. But he's been nothing but great
29:25
and a lot of credit to him up front.
29:27
And then Coach Jalen Tucker, he's from the Jersey City kid
29:31
played at Lincoln, ended up playing at Monmouth.
29:34
He's really kind of helped our backs XLS far as like setting up
29:39
cuts and, you know, making the right reads and all that.
29:41
And then we have Michael Negron is our quarterbacks coach.
29:45
He's been in OCA little bit in Bergen County.
29:48
He's been a couple different places.
29:49
He's helped out time with Rios's Gross.
29:51
And then one of my buddies from college, coach Lua Bromo, he's
29:55
played with me. He's just like a guy comes
29:57
around kind of getting the team like, oh, he works in the city.
30:00
So he's only there a couple days a week, but the kids won't.
30:02
So you know, when you have a balanced staff like that, I get
30:05
to do my part is called the defense and I get to kind of
30:10
this call is now being recorded. My bad, hit the wrong button,
30:15
but we can continue. Go ahead.
30:16
I said no, I just let these guys coach and I let them, I think,
30:20
you know, I, I told them I hired you to do a job and I'm never
30:24
going to micromanage them. I let them coach.
30:26
I may give them a suggestion here and there, but I think
30:28
they're all doing such a really good job so.
30:31
Yeah, no doubt. I just.
30:33
Want to follow up? No.
30:35
You go. Up on that, No, you mentioned
30:38
Richfield Park. I mean, we got to give a shout
30:40
out here on the show to Richfield Park Zone.
30:43
Mark Sinclair, your AD right out of.
30:46
My mouth. You know, Mark Sinclair, the AD,
30:49
you know, and, and, and also we can't forget to mention also the
30:52
mayor of town, Paul Sarlo, who is a big, big sports fan and
30:57
also Senator Sarlo. So and also with these people.
31:00
Baseball coach Sarlo, who you know, the guy does it all.
31:03
He. He wears he wears many hats and
31:05
yeah, and and touch on your question.
31:07
You know, when you have, I think the biggest thing, like
31:10
obviously leaving Sparta, people were like, they're crazy.
31:13
You're going to leave Sparta. Yeah.
31:14
You know, and and I've always wanted to be a head coach.
31:17
I just, it had to be the right fit.
31:19
And, you know, when you deal with people like Sarlo and Mr.
31:25
Sinclair, I think those, you know, top to bottom, I think the
31:29
support that they're giving and the, the investment they show in
31:33
the program, it really, you know, it's intriguing as a coach
31:36
and it helps you kind of understand like, hey,
31:39
everybody's in this together. And that's kind of what I've
31:41
preached to kids all the time. It's never going to, you know,
31:45
one person. It's going to be about all of us
31:48
and how we do this together. And again, that the support of
31:51
the community and the town at Woodridge is a it's a really
31:55
special, special spot, a small school.
31:58
Really enjoyed my time there, not only because we're winning,
32:01
obviously that helps, but just the way that the atmosphere has
32:04
been at our games and now we being in the building, I get to
32:07
kind of see the kids and they're excited now and it's just it's
32:10
just really good. It's been really good.
32:12
Yeah, they put a lot of, you know, time, effort and resources
32:15
into the facilities. I mean, you have the rack over
32:18
there, which is great. You have, you know, Woodridge
32:21
High School is a great venue for a Friday night high school
32:24
football game. And you know, you got town
32:26
support and Paul Sarlo wears many hats, but they all say WR
32:30
on them for sure. It's crazy, you know, coach,
32:34
when I'm looking at your schedule and you know, I don't
32:36
want to speak I'll of Lodi or Elmwood Park, but probably games
32:39
you were maybe expected to win. But how huge?
32:42
You know, Saint Mary is the parochial school in the NJIC and
32:48
they've been on an upswing in recent years.
32:50
I mean, you know, I haven't seen them so I this year.
32:52
So I can't say you know, they're where they're at this year,
32:55
talent OR however else, but it doesn't matter because you know,
32:59
that's the team on the schedule. Like if if you're a public
33:02
school team and you can beat Saint Mary in a regular season
33:05
NJIC game, you're good. And how much did that do for
33:10
your the confidence of, you know, your staff, your kids,
33:14
because you know you you can beat Lodi, you can beat Elmwood
33:17
Park, shut them both out. That's great.
33:19
But when you see 2616 Woodridge over Saint Mary, that's a
33:23
different beast. Do you do you feel that way?
33:26
Yeah. And again, I don't want to.
33:28
I don't want to take away from those other. 2.
33:30
Programs, I think like you said, I, you know, like both teams
33:35
that we played at the game were, were a lot younger than us and I
33:38
thought we did a good job of handling our business and do
33:40
what we were kind of like. Maybe I don't want to say
33:43
expected because every game is, it's still a football game.
33:45
It's tough to win. So I think just us getting into
33:49
those games, like it definitely helped the confidence a little
33:51
bit. But then like I, I would be
33:53
lying and I think everybody would be lying if we didn't have
33:57
the game. Saint Mary's circles.
33:58
I know I watched the prior tape from the year before and you
34:02
know, and it's not a knock any like, like anything Saint Mary
34:06
did, their kids are excited. They, they kind of took do
34:09
Woodridge and they, they were celebrating.
34:12
There's a lot of like hoopla kind of stuff on the sideline.
34:15
And believe me, as a coach, you got to use all types of ambition
34:19
as far as what you need. So I mean, I took stuff from
34:24
things their kids posted and just stuff like that just to get
34:27
our kids kind of in a mental state of mind, you know, like,
34:30
hey, this game is not going to be the same as last year.
34:34
And the biggest thing I'm proud of of our kids was I think in
34:38
the pregame and all that stuff. I think Saint Mary's was kind
34:42
of, you know, that there's like you just said, they're they're
34:44
kind of the the top mark. They're they're kind of the
34:47
tipping, tipping point of where you want to be.
34:50
And like, I think the pregame they were trying to get the
34:53
mental warfare on us and psych our kids out.
34:55
And I was super proud because I told them all week just be just
35:00
I kind of used the reference of like a lion at the jungle as far
35:03
as like being quiet and never announcing yourself and waiting
35:07
for the right moment to kind of strike.
35:09
And that's what our kids did in the warm up.
35:11
They were great. And we do, I think, I think you
35:14
know you, you always have that thought of it.
35:17
Are we going to be what we think we are?
35:18
And then I think from that first defensive series, we kind of
35:21
knew like, and I think Saint Mary's also knew like, Hey, it's
35:24
going to be a dog fight. And our kids grinded that game
35:27
out and the whole game there was a dog fight.
35:30
And, and believe me, they are, they're nothing short of
35:33
talented. They, they have so many good
35:35
athletes on that roster. And you know, they, they really,
35:38
they really present a lot of challenges.
35:40
But I just thought, you know, we, we really figured out ways
35:44
to kind of to kind of just compete, do what we've been
35:47
talking about. Brio threw a pick early And you
35:50
know, a lot of people had said like in the past that would have
35:53
been different as he would have kind of him and the the rest of
35:57
the team kind of would have folded.
35:58
And that's not, again, it's not a knock at what they did in the
36:01
past, just they had a different mentality this time around and
36:04
it was special. So yeah, I, I think that game
36:07
definitely boosts your confidence and gives you a
36:09
little more going in. But listen, I I said this due to
36:12
our kids, our last three games here, I know, you know, we, we
36:17
got our work cut out for us. So we got to you guys still got
36:19
to take care of business and nothing is solidified or set in
36:23
stone. We still got a long way to go.
36:25
So. Yeah, no doubt.
36:26
And also just you know, while you're talking there, I was
36:28
looking at the Saint Mary's schedule and credit to them.
36:30
They bounced back with a 20 to 14 win over Pagoda team that was
36:33
off to a three and O start too. So, you know, they I I feel like
36:37
that's maybe you you woke them up a little bit and they've
36:40
played four close games to start the season, even though they're
36:43
one and three. And I think it's credit to their
36:44
coaching staff. They were able to rally the kids
36:47
after that tough loss for you and then to come back and HAMP a
36:50
go to its first loss of the season.
36:52
All right, bro, you got one more for the coach before we let him
36:54
get out of here. They talk about game, games
36:56
upcoming. I mean, coach will be playing
36:59
against two teams with new coaches on their staff.
37:03
Now this week, I'm not sure about Wallington, but I know
37:06
Wallington this week, next week, Park Ridge, Kurt Holman for
37:09
those who don't know, Kurt, long time, long time baseball coach
37:13
at Ridgewood, also long time football coach, head football
37:17
coach at Tenafly has taken over the reins of Park Ridge.
37:20
That'll be your next opponent after this week and then you
37:23
will go and play Pagoda with their new coach James Case.
37:28
Have you looked forward? I mean, right now Wallington's
37:30
this week. So what are you seeing moving
37:32
forward here with these next three games?
37:35
I just, I think again, I think each week presents its own
37:38
challenge. Obviously Wallington, you know,
37:41
Sinclair and some other people have talked about how like, you
37:45
know, it used to be this big rival and things like that.
37:47
And, you know, I think you got to kind of when it's any type of
37:50
rival or any kind of crosstown where people live kind of close
37:54
records, kind of go out the window and the emotions can go
37:56
up and, you know, so you got to keep your kids in check and make
37:59
sure they're doing the right thing.
38:01
Listen, anytime you go on the road, it's going to be it's
38:04
challenging. So like we went to Weehawken
38:06
last week and credit to those kids.
38:08
They played their butts off and they, they, they gave us the
38:10
game for a little bit and then obviously 60 nothing at the
38:14
half. And, you know, our kids kind of
38:15
walk through the first half and they figured it out, but they
38:18
credit to them. And like, we got to go into Park
38:21
Ridge and that's not an easy, from what everybody told me, not
38:24
an easy place to play. And obviously coach took over.
38:28
He's one at a high level, whether it's baseball or
38:30
football. So, you know, they're going to
38:32
be prepared. You know, they're going to be
38:33
well coached and disciplined. So that's going to be a tough
38:36
game. And then obviously we get
38:37
through them. Then Pagoda, like you just said,
38:40
is having a really good season. They have a lot of athletes that
38:43
present a lot of a lot of, you know, potential problems as far
38:48
as from a defensive standpoint. But you know, we got to we got
38:51
to just look at one game at a time.
38:53
And I think, you know, it would believe me, it would be a really
38:56
good setting to set up the last game of the season to play with
39:01
the play for the conference on the line.
39:02
You know, like I told the kids today at the end of practice,
39:06
the upside is that you're going into potential, the playoffs and
39:09
the NDIC, you're playing meaningful football games.
39:13
And I think when you're doing that and you're getting that
39:16
push into the playoffs, that becomes, you know, very, very
39:21
beneficial moving forward. When you got to, you know, got,
39:24
you know, we get in the playoffs, we see one of those
39:27
teams like the Glen Rocks, yeah, the Rutherfords or the Butlers
39:31
of the World winner. You know, those teams have been
39:34
doing it, had success. So it's nice to have a little
39:37
stretch here. We're going to play a difficult
39:39
schedule. So I'm I'm excited about that
39:41
for sure. Yeah, no doubt about it.
39:43
Yeah. So I mean it, it's got to be
39:45
crazy. You know, the places you've
39:47
coached and we've talked about Sparta, Sussex Community
39:51
College, Sussex Tech, Lenapee Valley, and then you find
39:54
yourself on the roof of the Lincoln Tunnel on a Friday night
39:59
game. I mean, how was that experience?
40:00
It's always AI, always get a kick out of going there too.
40:03
And, you know, I've been going there since I was in high
40:05
school, but that's a crazy place to to be, right?
40:08
I would agree, yes. It's honestly very I would say
40:11
not a not an easy place to play. No, there's no question.
40:15
Yeah, I just think like, you know, we got there, obviously
40:19
you don't want to leave 2 Lakes and when in that traffic maybe a
40:22
little earlier than we should have, so kind of threw off the
40:25
routine we were doing. But again, those are things you
40:28
got to adapt to. But I mean, yeah, like, like in
40:32
all the years of coaching and all those other places, never
40:35
did I think we'd be playing a game, you know, on top of the
40:37
William Powell. So that was kind of a kind of a
40:39
cool experience for myself. And I think the kids too, I
40:43
think they they enjoyed it for sure.
40:45
Yeah, crazy. I mean, and plus you got to take
40:47
a bus and you don't have to worry about parking.
40:49
You just got off the bus and then it was somebody else's
40:51
problem. That place is incredibly
40:54
difficult to find a place to rescue your vehicle.
40:58
All right, another place to play last one.
41:00
Another place to play one day is you get up on the roof in Union
41:03
City. Yeah, well, I.
41:04
Don't know if you've ever been up there.
41:06
That's above the school on the roof and the field.
41:08
You can feel it moving when the players go up and down the
41:11
field. That's an amazing place.
41:12
I don't think Mark Sinclair is going to accept the invitation.
41:17
I don't I don't know that listen, small, smaller school.
41:20
I I love our kids in any fight, but I think, you know,
41:24
obviously. Not that good place there.
41:26
But no, no, but yeah, Hey, listen, I'll be honest with you
41:28
guys. And like you guys have said,
41:30
Woodridge is a Woodridge is a pretty special place to to be
41:34
out on a Friday night too. I I've enjoyed it a lot.
41:36
So. Yeah, it's awesome.
41:38
Well, coach, thank you. It was nice to get to talk to
41:40
you here for the first time, but we will see you as the season
41:43
progresses. As we said, we are Woodridge
41:46
fans and I've found myself many a nights talking to many of the
41:51
head muckety muffs over there in the Woodridge school system and
41:54
I always enjoy myself. So we're going to get down
41:56
there. We'll catch you live and in
41:58
action, and congratulations on what the four and oh start, and
42:02
good luck with what comes next. Thank you guys, I really
42:05
appreciate you having me and you know I got to get you some
42:08
Woodridge gear when you come out for a game so.
42:10
Gear us up, right? Nobody, Nobody likes to
42:13
appreciate gear more than Bryan Carr.
42:15
He will wear it and he will post pictures of himself wearing it
42:19
on the heavily traveled Bryan Carr Twitter account as per as.
42:23
Per as per now. We'll hold you to it.
42:27
Awesome. Thank you.
42:29
I have a Woodridge State Championship baseball shirt that
42:32
I got through Mr. Sinclair so. Yeah, yeah.
42:35
Which I don't have one. And Mike Carson is one of my
42:38
favorite people on the planet. I still don't have one.
42:40
I'll have to. I'll have to talk to Coach
42:42
Carson about that. I'll figure that out for.
42:44
You tell him Corey's looking for his T-shirt.
42:47
I will. For.
42:49
Sure. Good night and continued
42:51
success. Thank you very much.
42:53
Guys, I appreciate it. All right, Brian.
42:55
Well, that was great stuff with Andrew Carbone.
42:57
That was my first opportunity to speak to him and that was fun.
43:01
Yeah, it was nice. It was good to have him on.
43:03
Congratulations to coach. And you know, we're, as you
43:06
mentioned on the talking to him as we're, you know, we're
43:09
supporters of Woodridge. We know good people down here
43:11
and we've been following the football and baseball and other
43:15
sports for a long time. Basketball too, right, Corey?
43:17
I've been down here for. Basketball.
43:18
Oh yeah. I mean, old school, old school.
43:20
I mean, they've had a little bit of a struggle the last couple
43:23
years, but, you know, I, I've been at some great Woodridge
43:26
basketball games over the years and hopefully they can get back
43:28
to that there too, because the basketball coach, Jimmy Moore,
43:31
is also one of my favorite people too.
43:33
So I would love to get back on the Woodridge bandwagon if you'd
43:36
have me. Yeah, start.
43:38
The other thing I was talking, thinking about when we were
43:39
talking to Coach Carbone on the Woodridge is you know that the
43:42
NGIC for those who don't know, with their playoff program where
43:46
the top teams play each other, it really helps those teams
43:50
looking forward to the state playoffs and getting their
43:52
position so that they get a home game or two.
43:55
So right now Woodridge is at #9 seed in Group 1.
43:59
They're going to be playing Pagoda 11 seed coming up.
44:02
So these are meaningful games as Coach Head as well.
44:06
That'll help them towards the playoffs.
44:09
Right now they're also fighting just to get into the NJI seed
44:11
playoffs, but then eventually they'll go into the state
44:14
playoffs. So some really good games.
44:16
The other one I'll mention NJI Seeds before we leave there.
44:19
NJI seed got a big game this week.
44:21
Rutherford undefeated, will play.
44:23
Glen Rock will host Glen Rock. Both teams are undefeated.
44:27
Those two teams are battling out to win their division on the
44:31
chance for the, you know, one of the four seeds.
44:34
Are they in? Yeah, they're in the same
44:38
division right now. Glen Rock is just ahead because
44:41
of they just have more wins. They played four games,
44:44
Rutherford only played three, but they're both undefeated.
44:46
Rutherford 3 and O Glen Rock is 4 and O, so it's and they're
44:51
playing Friday night at Rutherford.
44:52
So that should be a good game down in Rutherford for anybody
44:55
down in southern Bergen County. If you're not going to
44:58
Wallington or to see Woodridge, you hop over and see a really
45:01
good, you know, 200 feet of teams.
45:03
That's that's what you know, we're always looking for the
45:05
best teams and seeing good action down there.
45:09
So yeah, that's it. And one other I, I mentioned
45:11
earlier, just over to Group 2, I mentioned earlier about
45:14
Westwood, DuMont. DuMont is #3 seed and Group 2,
45:18
Westwood is number 5. They were up on the top either
45:21
1:00 and 2:00, but they dropped to 5 now with their loss to
45:24
Coldwell last week. So that's meaningful football
45:27
for those two schools. They're also in the same
45:29
conference they're fighting for. I think it's American Red is
45:33
their conference. The American Red is they're in.
45:35
So you want to win a league title and then you want to go
45:39
and try to get your seating. So that's a big game there as
45:42
well in Group 2. And then Ramsey also, we
45:46
mentioned Ramsey, Ramsey, their quarterback.
45:50
We saw him last week, a couple weeks ago against Mahwah.
45:54
They went and they played Pequannock and they took care of
45:57
business. Justin Fatah, I can't even say
46:01
his last name, Justin, just Pavada.
46:04
Justin had a tremendous game, throwing, throwing, passing,
46:09
running, everything, doing it all.
46:11
So watch the Rams this week. They're playing on Thursday
46:14
night. Special for those around
46:15
Thursday night in Montvale. I think they're going to play
46:19
Pascack Hills up in Montvale on Thursday night.
46:22
So that's for those people like us who look for games that would
46:26
be an interesting game to catch up in Group 2.
46:30
Just let me jump over on a quick one.
46:32
On Saturday, we were able to catch a little action over
46:35
Pascack Valley. Pascack Valley solid program
46:38
near having some injuries. They lost the quarterback.
46:41
For those who don't know, Adam Shaw lost for the season
46:45
quarterback which is going to Michigan State.
46:48
Also on Saturday, they were playing Northern Highlands.
46:50
They're two brothers, Kai and Marley Smith, and we saw them
46:55
last year have a tremendous game against Westwood, which helped
46:59
them roll and have a really good year last year.
47:02
So they were down going the game, playing a tremendous
47:05
Northern Highlands team. We, I wanted to see them live.
47:08
Highlands as expected, you know, and plus Pascack Valley with the
47:12
injuries. Highlands was able to just once
47:15
they got going, they started rolling quarterback Jack
47:18
O'callon, O'Callaghan, Chase Calarco, They have a wide
47:22
receiver, Drew Vander Snow. He basically at the end of the
47:26
first half had a nice catch from Jack O Callahan over the head
47:31
right on. It was like a 60 yard pass and
47:34
just hit him in stride running to score.
47:37
Northern Highlands, we talked about Ramapo earlier.
47:40
Ramapo will be visiting Northern Highlands on October 3rd.
47:43
So that would be the game of the week October 3rd.
47:47
In the meantime, Highlands will be playing at we've mentioned
47:51
earlier with Coach Carbona, they're going to be going up to
47:54
Union City on the roof and playing a tough Union City
47:58
school that's a little down this year, but been right there the
48:00
last few years. They're only two and 2:00 and
48:03
2:00, but they played and they lost to a seat.
48:06
Saint Peter's Prep, who's undefeated 4 and O so you.
48:09
Fully helped Pascack Valley at the start of the season.
48:12
And then they played Pascack Rally early and lost to them.
48:14
So, you know, Highlands isn't going to go into that game.
48:18
They know they're up, you know, for a big game.
48:20
But you know, Highlands traveled the beginning of the year.
48:22
It'd be the Catholic school Holy Spirit down and the battle at
48:25
the beach. So the Highlanders seem to be
48:28
really, you know, hitting the gear and I'm sure the coaches
48:32
won't let them forget that. We can't not take any city
48:35
serious. But, you know, looking forward
48:37
to possibly round PO because those two round PO Northern
48:39
Highlands, we'll talk about that next week.
48:41
Those two are major rivals and I'm sure the coaches are going
48:45
to keep them focused. They.
48:46
Have Ulta Pan before that too. Here.
48:48
Here's a couple things. Couple things, no?
48:49
I'll try it's no it's the 24th. I was wrong.
48:52
Ulta Pan on the on the 3rd and 24th is.
48:56
You mentioned something before we came on the air when we were
48:59
just talking a little bit and you said that the publics are
49:03
starting to at least the top of the top echelon.
49:06
Public schools are starting to resemble the big boys a little
49:09
bit here because, you know, you have the Ivy League, which
49:12
separates the programs that are, you know, rebuilding.
49:15
And then you have an obvious tier, you know, it's, it's a
49:18
tiered system. So you have the big boys and
49:20
then you have these big boy publics, for lack of a better
49:24
term. And you know, probably when you
49:27
think about it, honestly, how many of them are there?
49:31
I saw Wayne Valley against Paramus last Friday night and
49:36
Wayne Valley did not even play well and 1:34 to nothing.
49:39
And they looked the part of a good public school team.
49:41
I mean, they came in off the bus.
49:43
They had some size, they had some numbers, they had some
49:46
skill. They have some really good
49:48
players, including Bryce Flowers.
49:49
I mean, just, you know, this game turned out to be a 34.
49:53
Nothing running clock in the late in the third quarter, but I
49:56
will just Paramus, I talked to Joe Sabella before the game a
49:59
little bit, just, you know, friendly conversation and he was
50:02
saying he's very young, 8-9 sophomores in the starting
50:05
lineup. So, you know, they're taking
50:09
their lumps as it were, as we go.
50:11
But I will say this, Wayne Valley was up 7, nothing late in
50:15
the second quarter. Paramus driving gets close to
50:19
kick a field goal. They could go, you know, in the
50:22
last play of the half, actually, it was the last play of the
50:24
half, right? So if they kick the field goal,
50:26
they go down, they go into the locker room down 7, three, it's
50:30
a different story. Field goal blocked.
50:33
Bryce Flowers picks it up, goes like 85 yards the other way,
50:37
scores with 000 on the clock. And not only that, Paramus
50:42
commits a personal foul on the touchdown return.
50:46
So that's going to be assessed on the opening kickoff, which
50:51
Wayne Valley receives and they score one minute into the third
50:55
quarter. So from potentially down 73
50:59
going into halftime to down 21, nothing one minute into the
51:02
third quarter and that changed everything.
51:03
But anyway, my point is Wayne Valley looks the part of a of a
51:07
big boy public. But let's honestly, Bry, we got
51:10
Ram PO, we have Northern Highlands, we have Ulta Pan, we
51:14
have what's it will include Wayne Valley there.
51:16
I mean, Pascag Valley seems to have dropped out a little bit
51:20
with, you know, their injuries, but where, you know, who are the
51:25
upper echelon public schools? I mean Ridgewood struggling, you
51:28
know, they're a traditional power, Montclair struggling
51:32
traditional power. And I'm talking across North
51:34
Jersey, not just Bergen County. Obviously the, you know, east
51:39
side and Kennedy and Passaic. I mean east side and Kennedy,
51:41
they had it rolling there for a little while, but you know, the
51:44
it's, it's gotten to be too much.
51:46
They they can't overcome the losses to every other town and
51:50
parochial coming in and and and recruiting Patterson players and
51:55
I I don't know who am I missing? Who, who's up there with, Yeah,
51:58
even Passaic tech is is off to, you know.
52:02
Two and two Wayne Hills is a a program that's been around oh 20
52:07
years you know one number of state championship Wayne Hills
52:11
seems to have gotten it together now and they're they're put them
52:14
up there if. If you know if Wayne.
52:17
'S Wayne Hills. Old Japan on a Friday night, do
52:20
you expect a good game? And, and again, like Coach
52:23
Carbone said anything, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not stupid.
52:25
I'm not saying that Wayne Hills couldn't beat Old Japan on any
52:27
given night, but I'm saying, do you go there saying, hey, that's
52:30
a game that we got to go see? You know the right now, because
52:35
how much going to see old Japan, right?
52:37
I mean, you've got we just saw him and then then they're going
52:40
to go and play. They play Ramapo first.
52:44
I'm sorry. So October 3rd is Ramapo old
52:45
Japan and then you've got Ramapo playing at Northern Highlands on
52:49
the 24th. So it's like, you know, there's
52:52
other schools, you know, like somebody would say, I won't name
52:55
any net like coach Dunn at Rutherford, Steve Dunn.
52:58
Hey, when are you going to come and watch us play?
53:00
You know, maybe like these other people, everybody wants to
53:03
DuMont right, We said so it's hard, but you know the Wayne
53:07
Hills we've been up there, We've seen old Japan, Wayne hills play
53:10
each other up there. So you know, I think Wayne hills
53:14
right now this year at this point, they're four and O right
53:17
now. So at this point, Wayne hills
53:19
having beaten really the big win.
53:22
They they they have this year. The game they did is I'm sorry,
53:27
I'm looking at Wayne Dolly right now.
53:29
Maybe West Sussex, right? That's the big game.
53:32
So you know, but they're going to play.
53:34
They're going to end up playing, I think, the Rama pose.
53:37
Wayne Valley. They got they got Caldwell this
53:40
week interesting. And and this is something else
53:42
we were talking about before the show started as well.
53:44
It's really hard to predict by, you know, the 6° of separation.
53:49
This team beat that team. Therefore this team should beat
53:51
that team because this year that seems to be all blown up.
53:54
You know the only. Guys, the only guys they have,
53:56
I'm sorry. So they got Wayne Valley where
53:57
they got Caldwell coming, Caldwell Group team, right and
54:01
then and no Wayne Hills right now.
54:04
So we know, so Coldwell, so Wayne Hills has Coldwell at
54:08
home. Then they got to go to their
54:10
Valley, Wayne Valley and play them.
54:12
That'll be a rivalry game. So every game, tough game and
54:16
then they're then they go and they play Passaic Valley, who's,
54:20
you know, they're about in the middle of the road.
54:21
I'm not saying they're the upper, not lower there.
54:23
And then they old Japan, then they have to go to old Japan.
54:27
So those there's about 5 or 6 teams.
54:31
Yeah, we didn't mention one of the team that's like a Group One
54:34
school. Cedar Grove is a very good
54:37
school at this point. They've been them and Verona
54:40
been, you know, hanging around. So yeah, those those are the
54:43
teams. I mean, we mentioned Ramsey,
54:45
Ramsey group, they're, you know, looking to try to become the
54:50
upper echelon. You know, they now need to be
54:52
the West Wizard world. That's that's what you know,
54:55
Ramsey needs to do is they need to play, you know, I won't
54:58
mention DuMont. They need to play DuMont, beat
55:00
DuMont as well. But I think Ramsey needs to play
55:04
and beat Westwood. That's their big game to show
55:07
where they are at. So, you know, it's early, you
55:10
know what I mean? And we'll see.
55:12
It's not early. It's not.
55:13
Early it's not what's going on game this week.
55:17
Well, then, well, they got most of these guys got five more
55:19
games, Corey. So they played four, they got 5
55:23
with this week, four more, four more, right?
55:25
Yeah. So they got this week plus four
55:27
more. So we're half, almost halfway in
55:30
right now. So we're seeing, we're kind of
55:33
seeing Corey, as you mentioned, who's who's who.
55:35
You're starting to see the who's who.
55:37
We're starting to see them shake out and the point?
55:39
Is it's a very small group. It's a very small group.
55:42
Of that's the thing and we don't, we don't have a lot of
55:45
big Group five schools that are really standing out at this
55:48
point. Granny Group 5.
55:50
Yeah, I mean. Yeah, all the group 5, there's,
55:54
there's what, the only guy and they're out of our area, the
55:56
only two that are really doing well is Bridgewater and East
56:00
Orange. Of those two are four and O and
56:02
three and O But up here you've got you city one and two.
56:06
We've got Bloomfield three and one.
56:08
We don't see much of them. Bridgewood 2 and 2.
56:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So not a lot of like you look
56:16
East side is 17 in that bracket, you know, in the in the
56:19
PowerPoints, Kennedy, I mean Passaic Clifton is at the bottom
56:24
24. You know, it's like it's, it's
56:27
really, it's, it's, it's a different landscape and, you
56:30
know, just kind of things. Things are changing and group,
56:32
you know, group four, Group 4 is pretty good around here with us.
56:36
Group 4, you've got Highlands up there, you've got Ramapo, Wayne
56:40
Valley, Hackensack, who's, you know, three and one right now.
56:46
You have 4. Maybe there's four.
56:47
Maybe I'm off here. You're right, you're right.
56:50
You're 3 and one. That's OK.
56:52
But you you're, there's schools in the Group 4 like we talked
56:55
about earlier, Marsh Knowles, really good program that we saw
56:58
last year. Remember up there with Ramapo
57:00
playing them. So there's, you know, there's
57:02
some teams, some of these other teams that maybe you know, like
57:06
a Westfield team. Westfield, perennial power down
57:10
in Union County area there. So they could, they're only two
57:13
and two now, but they could step up and you know, and make a run.
57:17
You know, you got to make a run. But you know, Northern Highlands
57:19
is up at the top of the bracket. Phillipsburg.
57:21
We haven't talked about Phillipsburg.
57:23
I've seen them. They run, they run and they run.
57:26
They run like 400 yards a game. Just bulldozer down a few.
57:29
We're coming to run. Just get out of our way.
57:32
We're coming. And if you don't stop us, we're
57:34
going to beat you. And so they really saw a Group
57:36
14 there. So that Mount Oliver's right
57:40
there for, you know, so there's a few teams in Group 4 and Group
57:44
3 with Old Japan is an interesting area too.
57:47
So it's a it's fun. It's fun, Corey.
57:50
You know, we're lucky, we're lucky, Corey, We go to, we
57:53
always go to some of the best games, so.
57:55
Well, I was going to say, you know, good games are hard to
57:58
come by, but Brian Carr doesn't care because he'll find.
58:00
He'll find one. Yeah, it's cool.
58:03
All good. All right, Brian.
58:04
Well next week we hope to be back in full strength and
58:07
wishing the best for our boy Jimmy Avatable and hopefully
58:10
he'll be back in his rightful spot next week.
58:13
That will be fun and until then we will see you next time on the
58:18
Football Show. Follow the leader.