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Episode 3- Recap of Big Win over Western · Friday Night's At The Creek

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to Friday Nights at the
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Speaker 1: Creek with Coach Gooden. Coach, first of all, congratulations to
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Speaker 1: week one with your big win over Western fifty two
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Speaker 1: to seven. Again, congratulations on that big.
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Speaker 2: Win, appreciate it. We started about as fast and as hot.
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Speaker 3: As you could have.
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Speaker 2: It's very difficult to start a Week one game as
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Speaker 2: hot as we did. Crown very proud of the way
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Speaker 2: that we played. Just I don't know that I've ever
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Speaker 2: been a part of.
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Speaker 3: A Week one game where we started as fast as
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Speaker 3: we did.
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Speaker 2: But you know, you think your kids are ready for
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Speaker 2: a game, You feel like they're ready for a game,
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Speaker 2: and then you go out and execute the way that
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Speaker 2: we did. Like, that's a a very good feeling. So
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Speaker 2: it's a good night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You know, coach, when you start off that hot, do
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Speaker 1: you have any concerns like second half is going to
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Speaker 1: be trouble that you have to keep the kids motivated
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Speaker 1: because obviously week one you assume both teams are going
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Speaker 1: to come out fighting and hard, and like you said,
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Speaker 1: you took off with such a quick start. Any concerns
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Speaker 1: when when you start off that hot during the game.
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Speaker 2: So the first thing we talked about at halftime or
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Speaker 2: as soon as you know, the first half was winding
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Speaker 2: down with the coordinators, was we need to play in
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Speaker 2: a third quarter because we need to get in shape
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Speaker 2: to play a full four quarters, right, regardless of.
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Speaker 3: Whether we're at thirty eight zero.
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Speaker 2: Conditioning is the biggest piece here because you can run,
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Speaker 2: you can do all the things that you need to do,
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Speaker 2: but football conditioning is very different and you just can't
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Speaker 2: simulate it until you're out there, right, So we made
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Speaker 2: that decision that we were going to play the third
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Speaker 2: quorder with our starters no matter what, no intention of
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Speaker 2: you know, trying to run up the score, but like,
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Speaker 2: we got to play football.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, they've got.
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Speaker 2: To stop us, and you know, we're not going to
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Speaker 2: watch it down the field anymore. But we've got to
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Speaker 2: play another quarter of football and we're going to get
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Speaker 2: into shade. So even though we're at thirty eight zero,
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Speaker 2: that was there. The other challenge that we were disgusting
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Speaker 2: was you know, hey, we are at thirty eight points,
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Speaker 2: but we need to go out and score and execute
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Speaker 2: basically pretend to score. Moward is not there, right, go
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Speaker 2: out and perform, you know, whether that's offense where that's defense,
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Speaker 2: you name it. But the job is still at hand
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Speaker 2: and we need to be a perform well and we
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Speaker 2: didn't come out and score two more times and they
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Speaker 2: did not score in the third quarter, And just just proud,
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Speaker 2: very very proud of our effort, our execution, our focus,
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Speaker 2: all those things. So you know there's times that you
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Speaker 2: played teams and you feel like you don't play very
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Speaker 2: well and still blow a team out. We absolutely blew
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Speaker 2: them out.
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Speaker 3: So it was good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, coach, I know last week we talked you you
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Speaker 1: were talking about the legacy of the coaches there at
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Speaker 1: Western and then we kind of talked off air that
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Speaker 1: this was not the score that you were predicting. You
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Speaker 1: thought it would be a little tighter in terms of that,
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Speaker 1: how do you then focus on a team that you're
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Speaker 1: probably going to have some ease And those are my words,
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Speaker 1: not yours, And I totally get that. Next week with
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Speaker 1: Heritage Christian you're going to be on the road. They
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Speaker 1: just got beat by Speedway forty seven to nineteen. So
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Speaker 1: what are you doing this week in practice to focus
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Speaker 1: on that, on that team that statistically you should have
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Speaker 1: a chance, very good chance of winning that game On Friday.
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Speaker 2: Night, So the biggest thing with Western and me saying
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Speaker 2: like I thought it would be.
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Speaker 3: A little tighter, is their full control offense.
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Speaker 4: Right. You know, remember you said they.
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Speaker 2: Got opportunities there and you know they go on a
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Speaker 2: ten play drive and that.
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Speaker 3: Could eat a path of quarters.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely the way opportunities to score, and our defense just
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Speaker 2: completely shut them down from the very gig go. They
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Speaker 2: had to get into different books that they're all hawk
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Speaker 2: stopped and it's just special teams was outstanding. We recovered
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Speaker 2: multiple fumbles and Jacob Gummerson put a skykick in the
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Speaker 2: air that the kid lost in the sun and we
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Speaker 2: recovered it. You know, just a lot of things went right.
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Speaker 2: So that is more of like why you know it
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Speaker 2: can be difficult. It gets an offense and Harris Christian
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Speaker 2: is similar. You know they're going to be a run
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Speaker 2: heavy offense this year. They want to try to sustain
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Speaker 2: a drive short in the game a little bit for us,
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Speaker 2: and it's a week by week deal, you know.
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Speaker 3: Obviously there's the.
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Speaker 2: Opponent piece of it where it's like, hey, we got
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Speaker 2: to get ready to beat this team, but as a coach,
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Speaker 2: it's how do we make this team our team better
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Speaker 2: with those components, So especially early in the season, like
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Speaker 2: there's I've seen it before. I've been a part of
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Speaker 2: it before, where maybe you didn't play very well week
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Speaker 2: one and then you show up and they've got pride
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Speaker 2: over there. They're a good program, were trying to get better,
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Speaker 2: so I don't expect them to roll over and die
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Speaker 2: and we got to get ready play football.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's the message.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but also making sure that those seventeen eighteen year
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Speaker 1: olds listen to that. I mean, we both know seventeen
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Speaker 1: and eighteen year olds. Sometimes you could do your best
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Speaker 1: to try to focus them or dampen expectation, whatever word
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Speaker 1: you want to throw out there, but then you have
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Speaker 1: to throw in that youth factor that who knows what
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Speaker 1: you're going to get?
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Oh, sometimes that's when the message gets a little louder.
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Speaker 4: I love it. Maybe a little bit more direct too, right, coach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, reinforced with some reminders.
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Speaker 4: So I love it.
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Speaker 1: Before we you know, talk about next week again, just
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Speaker 1: kind of going back to this weeks. What are some
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Speaker 1: things that obviously I'm assuming that as a coach, even
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Speaker 1: at fifty two and seven, there are some things that
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Speaker 1: you probably still need to work on what was some
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Speaker 1: things that you your thought needed to to be addressed.
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Speaker 5: Son, we're nitpicking here because our when our varsity offense
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Speaker 5: was in we scored on every possession defense like if
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Speaker 5: they did get a first down.
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Speaker 2: You know, they had a couple where they did move
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Speaker 2: the chains, but most of the time it was a penalty.
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Speaker 2: Special teams you know, horse takeaways or took advantage of
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Speaker 2: the opportunities. So when we're circling on these things, like
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Speaker 2: it was a small list, and that's genuine like a
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Speaker 2: big kudos to our kids, Like I really felt like
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Speaker 2: we executed really well, played well, like did what they
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Speaker 2: were coached to do, Like it was great areas of improvement.
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Speaker 2: You know, we missed a pat you know, you try
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Speaker 2: to get all those points, especially you know if you're.
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Speaker 4: In a tight ballgame there points.
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Speaker 3: Can add up quickly offensively. You know.
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Speaker 2: I think there's some small things schematically that you know,
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Speaker 2: areas of improvement, you know that we'll look at and
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Speaker 2: hone in.
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Speaker 3: On here and there.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's spacing on a certain play, maybe it's
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Speaker 2: you know, just those things that you need to see
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Speaker 2: on film week one and then go hey, like we
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Speaker 2: we really need to focus on that defensively, and it
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Speaker 2: was an egregious amount, but we could.
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Speaker 3: Limit some penalties.
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Speaker 2: Sure, you know, we had we had a late hit
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Speaker 2: that I thought was not a late hit, but the
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Speaker 2: official did and he's a charge and that's what he
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Speaker 2: threw and that's.
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Speaker 3: What he decided.
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Speaker 2: Sure, we had a couple of lost sides penalties, So
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Speaker 2: a couple of things here and there. Obviously, I don't
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Speaker 2: expect our kids to be perfect. You can start with
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Speaker 2: the aggressive penalties, but you don't want the ones that
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Speaker 2: are going to move the chain. So you know, a
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Speaker 2: past interference. But once again, you know it's week one
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Speaker 2: and you're going to get acclimated and adjusted and we'll
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Speaker 2: get better. So we'll circle those things and highlight them.
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Speaker 2: But all in all, just super proud of our kids.
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Speaker 1: You know, coach, you use the word nick pick there,
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Speaker 1: and I think, and this is my opinion, Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you think of good teams, teams that maybe have
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Speaker 1: a shot to do something later in the year. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've seen this a lot of times where coaches do
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Speaker 1: have to nitpick because there's nothing. I mean, the kids
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Speaker 1: are playing really great, but isn't that also a way
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Speaker 1: to kind of motivate the kids a little bit and
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Speaker 1: let them know that, hey, there's still a lot of
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Speaker 1: work we need to get done and not to get
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Speaker 1: to I want to say, ahead of themselves in the process.
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Speaker 4: Does that make sense what I'm trying to say to you?
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Speaker 3: Well, And that was something that I got on in
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Speaker 3: about a halftime. I felt, you know.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't bad, but I felt a little bits and
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Speaker 2: I just said, you know, our goal is not to
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Speaker 2: be western.
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Speaker 3: Our goals you know, we probably want to make a
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Speaker 3: deep playoff run.
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Speaker 2: Let's focus in for a second half of football here, right,
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that we're at thirty eight right now,
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Speaker 2: we need to have a really good third quarter. We
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Speaker 2: started with the ball in the second half. We want
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Speaker 2: to go score here right as the objective not not hey,
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Speaker 2: we're it's over. Like, let's let's know, like we need
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Speaker 2: to go score and play a third quarter of football
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Speaker 2: regardless of.
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Speaker 3: What the score is.
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Speaker 2: You know, we may not be driving it down the
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Speaker 2: field as much, but even better, like we're not trying
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Speaker 2: to throw a downfield.
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Speaker 3: Let's go score.
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Speaker 2: And we ripped off the fourty yard touchdown defense got
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Speaker 2: another I'm sorry we kicked the ball off, they fumbled
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Speaker 2: and then we had another opportunity right there, we're able
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Speaker 2: to score again, run and clock. At that point, defense
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Speaker 2: had like one more possession that quorder and that was
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Speaker 2: all she wrote. So you know, to just trying to
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Speaker 2: take advantage of those opportunities for for you do you
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Speaker 2: have to get creative in situations like that to get
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Speaker 2: them motivated, right, and you do.
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Speaker 3: But it's not super wet football.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's not.
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Speaker 3: You're not really hicking for much.
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Speaker 2: It's like, hey, like, I'm going to let you play
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Speaker 2: another quarter of football year because you need to get better.
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Speaker 3: And it's not like the kids are begging to come
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Speaker 3: out or anything.
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Speaker 2: Sure, sure, and we don't typically have that problem, but
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Speaker 2: it was a moment of like, hey, we need to
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Speaker 2: have another good quarter of football, even though we've already
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Speaker 2: had you agreement, it's like, let's do it again.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And again going back to that, you know there're
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Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen year old kids.
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Speaker 4: I get it.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I was like that at one point you know,
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Speaker 1: in my life as well, So I get it. And
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Speaker 1: that's really not to pick on the kids by anything.
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Speaker 1: It's just that you know, you're trying to develop them
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Speaker 1: and let them know that, hey, there's still another half
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Speaker 1: to play there and we got to get better each
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Speaker 1: and every week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and enjoy it like you've heard this moment, Like
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Speaker 3: we're gonna have fun. I'm sure, absolutely, guys. Absolutely, this
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Speaker 3: isn't this is not allowed to be the pinnacle of
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Speaker 3: the season, right.
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Speaker 4: You know, we got a lot of football to play.
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Speaker 3: It's a great start, right. We got to prepare for
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Speaker 3: some things down the road too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, which you know brings us up to this
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Speaker 1: coming Friday night. Like I said, you're going to be
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Speaker 1: on the road Heritage Christian. You know, we talked just
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Speaker 1: briefly a few minutes ago that they're going to start
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Speaker 1: the season oh one, and they lost to us way
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Speaker 1: like I said, forty seven nineteen. Just some some overall
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Speaker 1: thoughts going into this week of practice.
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Speaker 3: Harridge Christian's a young team. They graduated a lot of
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Speaker 3: seniors last year.
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Speaker 2: They lost a heartbreaker in the Sexual championship last year
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Speaker 2: to Lutheran, and they're just a young team that to
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Speaker 2: me is looking to find their identity. They've got a
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Speaker 2: different style of offense this year than what they had
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Speaker 2: last year. And then you can tell that They're trying
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Speaker 2: to fit their needs.
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Speaker 3: And different things.
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Speaker 2: And anytime you have a young team like you're trying
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Speaker 2: to piece those things together and figure out, you know,
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Speaker 2: what's best for your kids and everything.
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Speaker 3: But obviously, you know, they were seven and five last year.
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Speaker 2: Had a very successful season, made it all the way
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Speaker 2: in the Sexual Championship.
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Speaker 3: You they know what they're doing, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: Yes, now have they have?
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Speaker 2: They maybe pieced together the entire puzzle and we want
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Speaker 2: to we two know, but most of us.
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Speaker 4: Haven't either, you know what I meant?
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Speaker 2: You know, And there's evan flow in high school football
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Speaker 2: in the sense of, you know, when you graduate that
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Speaker 2: many kids, you try to figure out, hey, what is
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Speaker 2: this game capable of?
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Speaker 3: What can he do best?
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Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, they're trying to figure those things
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Speaker 2: out right now and trying to get better each week
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Speaker 2: and they will continue to get better yourself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, some headaches for a coach, you know, with a
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Speaker 1: young team. But does that also kind of and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to use the word scare you a little bit
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Speaker 1: because they're young, which means that they're not maybe afraid
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Speaker 1: to take chances and do things that they wouldn't necessarily do.
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Speaker 1: And you got young kids flying around the field that's
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Speaker 1: going to do maybe feel like they have a chip
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder something to prove. Does that factor into
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Speaker 1: it as well?
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Speaker 2: It's something we think about, you know where you know,
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Speaker 2: could they change their offense, could they change their defense?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? You know, anyone can do that at any time.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, most likely not like the.
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Speaker 3: Fear side of it. Yeah, you know, we're an older team.
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Speaker 2: So I don't think our kids are going to go,
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what do we do? But those are
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Speaker 2: the benefits of having that veteran team, like I said,
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Speaker 2: of yeah, we've got a big group of seniors and
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Speaker 2: guys that have been here before. You've also got the
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Speaker 2: other side of that where it's like they're trying to
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Speaker 2: figure it out.
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Speaker 3: They've got to be able to deal with it.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a chance we can see some things
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Speaker 2: that maybe we didn't see on film yet.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: But on the same note, like scared no but aware yes, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't as something scared as in scared scared,
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Speaker 1: but like you said, yeah, you know, more of aware,
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Speaker 1: like in the back of my mind going to go,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are they up to? You know, because
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Speaker 1: they're they're, like you said, trying to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes, as you know, as a coach, you got
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Speaker 1: to throw out your playbook and start from scratch sometimes,
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Speaker 1: not that you would do that in the week two,
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Speaker 1: don't misunderstand me, but uh, you know, being young, you
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Speaker 1: never know what a team's gonna do.
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Speaker 3: It's definitely something to think about.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Once again, like coach breaks a good coach and it
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Speaker 2: was his first year last year, and I think that
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Speaker 2: you know, for him to go to a run heavy
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Speaker 2: offense like they're in this year after being very spread based,
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Speaker 2: like you can see it right there, and it's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: this is what we have and this is what we
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Speaker 2: need to do. So if that's what fits their personnel,
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Speaker 2: Like there's not a lot of people that would just say, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're going to go full sale and change here right
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Speaker 2: and do it. But clearly like they're trying to figure
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Speaker 2: that out in order to do what they need to do.
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Speaker 2: And you know they put nineteen points on the board
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Speaker 2: last week. Obviously Speedway had a lot of success on offense,
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Speaker 2: and you know they're going to make adjustments and get better.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely absolutely, kind of going back to this
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Speaker 1: past Friday night. Do you have the stats that you
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Speaker 1: can share with this or thoughts on some of the
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Speaker 1: players that Obviously, it sounds like everybody made a huge
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Speaker 1: impact on Friday Night, But.
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Speaker 4: Anything stand out to you in particularly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously they said it started the game.
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Speaker 3: Hot defense was spectacular all night. You know. They came
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Speaker 3: in and Western scored in the fourth quarter with some.
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Speaker 2: Of our young guys that were in the game and
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Speaker 2: got some of their first arcity reps, so that was
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Speaker 2: good for them to experience that. But the defense was
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Speaker 2: phenomenal all night. Alec Burris is for any star player
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Speaker 2: in the week. He had any start, had eight tackles,
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Speaker 2: an interception, a funnel recovery, and he had a twenty
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Speaker 2: eight yard.
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Speaker 3: Catch on offense as well.
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Speaker 2: Evan Clark was loven of thirteen passing one hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty yards, four passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. First
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Speaker 2: offense play the game, he took a QB ISO play
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Speaker 2: sixty five yards to the.
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Speaker 3: House, so that was a good momentum to get it going.
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Speaker 2: Hunter Worthy for US had three receiving touchdowns as well,
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Speaker 2: and Drew Pingleton had just shy of one hundred yards
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Speaker 2: rushing in a touchdown, so those guys were all standing. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: when you play an offense where everyone's foot to.
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Speaker 3: Foot, you know, I think everyone's gonna end up with
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Speaker 3: a lot of assists tackles because there's a lot of guys.
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Speaker 4: On the pile in there, right.
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Speaker 2: But as far as that's concerned, like we were not
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Speaker 2: on the field very much.
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Speaker 3: On teamfense like that's that could either be really good
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Speaker 3: or really bad. It's really good.
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Speaker 2: So there was just so many three and outs, and
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Speaker 2: special teams was very good as well. We hit a
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Speaker 2: field goal that was our one drive that we did
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Speaker 2: score a touchdown on. Jacob Gummerson knocked that in and
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Speaker 2: then we were six and seven on pat So good
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Speaker 2: night on special teams, like I said, forced a couple
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Speaker 2: of takeaways on the kickoff and our kickoff return team
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Speaker 2: the one kickoff return that they I'm sorry, the first
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Speaker 2: kickoff return that they had, they took it to the fifty.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a good night man.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, absolutely, anytime that you can get some
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Speaker 1: of those younger kids in on the four quarter, especially
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Speaker 1: because you're up fifty two to seven, that that's going
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Speaker 1: to be a good night and let them kind of
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Speaker 1: get some of the jitters out of their out of
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Speaker 1: their way, playing in their first maybe some their first
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Speaker 1: RSITY games.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 4: And what a wonderful way to start the season.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, anytime you get the whole crew in,
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Speaker 2: you know, those kids that are helping you out all
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Speaker 2: week and so it's a really good feeling. So happy,
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Speaker 2: you know for those guys and they've earned it. You know,
17:28
Speaker 2: I said it last week how important the scout team
17:31
Speaker 2: look is, right, Yeah, great one had a great one,
17:33
Speaker 2: you know, and our kids were ready and felt like
17:35
Speaker 2: they were prepared and I felt like it showed. So
17:38
Speaker 2: that's kind of one of those hidden margins that you
17:41
Speaker 2: talk about, is if you have a great scout look that.
17:45
Speaker 3: It just makes a difference and people don't think about it.
17:48
Speaker 2: You know, the only people that truly know it are
17:50
Speaker 2: the people that are on grounds there are witnessing it.
17:52
Speaker 2: But when you get a great scout look like that,
17:54
Speaker 2: like you get products like we had on Friday.
17:56
Speaker 3: So the cap to those kids that helped us.
17:59
Speaker 1: Out with that, yeah, absolutely, And that's not going to
18:02
Speaker 1: show up in any stats or any highlight films like
18:05
Speaker 1: you said that, the Scout team, but it does.
18:08
Speaker 4: But it doesn't if you know what I mean.
18:11
Speaker 3: Correct. And you know, we talk about having the biggest
18:15
Speaker 3: roster that we've ever.
18:16
Speaker 2: Had in any Greek with having any one kids, and
18:19
Speaker 2: people immediately go to, you know, well we have the
18:21
Speaker 2: freshman team this year. You know they're where are we
18:24
Speaker 2: going to be successful? But like as the head football coach,
18:27
Speaker 2: that's where my brain goes of, like we can a
18:31
Speaker 2: couple of people go down, like our scout team doesn't
18:33
Speaker 2: necessarily go in the tank, or you don't necessarily have
18:37
Speaker 2: to use your starters all the time on the other
18:40
Speaker 2: side of the ball or whatever. It just people think
18:43
Speaker 2: depth when it comes to the varsity too deep. They
18:46
Speaker 2: don't necessarily think about the depth of the scout team
18:49
Speaker 2: where you know things are going to happen throughout a season,
18:53
Speaker 2: but when you have those kids that can fill in
18:56
Speaker 2: and still give you a good look like that, to
18:58
Speaker 2: me is what depth truly looks like.
19:00
Speaker 3: Where it's a scout team.
19:02
Speaker 2: Look, it's the having a backup on special teams, it's whatever,
19:07
Speaker 2: and you don't fall off.
19:09
Speaker 3: Some of those different things that that's that to me
19:12
Speaker 3: is true.
19:14
Speaker 1: Absolutely no, I totally agree with that. And like you said,
19:18
Speaker 1: you're bringing something to the spotlight that I think a
19:20
Speaker 1: lot of people overlook and and they forget about it
19:23
Speaker 1: because it's like anything else, out of side, out of mind,
19:27
Speaker 1: and people just forget about that.
19:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you're your coaches talk about the
19:34
Speaker 2: full week of work or the process, or write whatever
19:37
Speaker 2: cliche you want to hear. But there's a reason it's cliche,
19:41
Speaker 2: because it matters.
19:42
Speaker 3: But if you don't have.
19:44
Speaker 2: Those things, it's it's it's a struggle, man, because you
19:49
Speaker 2: and the game speed is like if you've been practicing
19:52
Speaker 2: at second here and all of a sudden you're in third,
19:54
Speaker 2: Like that's trouble.
19:56
Speaker 4: You can be in trouble really really quick. Brancast Absolutely.
20:00
Speaker 4: You know.
20:01
Speaker 1: The other thing, coach, it was, it's good to hear
20:03
Speaker 1: that you talk a little bit about your defense because
20:05
Speaker 1: I think so many times when we're looking at the
20:08
Speaker 1: paper in stats, we're always looking at the offense, which
20:11
Speaker 1: obviously you need the offense to win. But yeah, fifty
20:18
Speaker 1: two to seven, that really shines a lot on like
20:21
Speaker 1: you said, on your defense, and you even said they
20:24
Speaker 1: wasn't even out there that long. Really in the scheme
20:27
Speaker 1: of things, Well.
20:29
Speaker 2: When you played an offense, that's a double wing or
20:32
Speaker 2: wing te or there's no receivers.
20:33
Speaker 3: On the field.
20:34
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, like we've got to be the more
20:37
Speaker 2: physical team, yes, or you can't back down me. You know,
20:41
Speaker 2: maybe they match your physicality. I don't know, but we
20:45
Speaker 2: were melting dudes out there and it was just it
20:48
Speaker 2: was awesome to see me and it was you know, hey,
20:52
Speaker 2: they do run a pass play in our inside linebacker
20:54
Speaker 2: Greedy Walker is knocking reround the dude into the ground.
20:59
Speaker 3: Our outside back.
21:00
Speaker 2: You know, we had Brex Edwards and Eli West out there,
21:02
Speaker 2: and Patrick Dowdy and Pauly Hayes played some as well.
21:06
Speaker 2: And you know, they may not be the biggest dudes
21:08
Speaker 2: in the world, but when they were attacking, like they
21:11
Speaker 2: were folding dudes down and hitting them as hard as
21:13
Speaker 2: they could.
21:15
Speaker 3: D line was physical, knocking guys back.
21:18
Speaker 2: You know, Brandon Moffen had a head of the game,
21:20
Speaker 2: Bradley Amberton and Jonathan brother Smith on the d line
21:23
Speaker 2: firing out just felt like our you know, our our
21:28
Speaker 2: box was very, very physical. We had an inside backer
21:32
Speaker 2: Lee byvy Fan first game back from ACL.
21:34
Speaker 3: Surgery last year. He had he had a good day.
21:38
Speaker 3: And then our dvs, you know, did a nice job
21:40
Speaker 3: as well. I mentioned last week.
21:42
Speaker 2: You know, the play action pass can be lethal when
21:43
Speaker 2: you're going against an offense like this, and we don't
21:46
Speaker 2: have an issue with that so one pass interference, but
21:50
Speaker 2: it was egregious. It's going to have been manson aggressive
21:53
Speaker 2: play and if the option is fifteen yards or six points,
21:57
Speaker 2: were intake fifteen yards every time?
21:58
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely?
22:00
Speaker 1: And it is football after all, and there's going to
22:02
Speaker 1: be uh plays like that that just happened, you know,
22:06
Speaker 1: somebody being a little bit too aggressive or or where.
22:10
Speaker 2: Alec Burst's interception was like he made a decision he
22:14
Speaker 2: was going to get the ball these guys wasn't you know,
22:15
Speaker 2: it wasn't hey, they made a bad pass and he
22:18
Speaker 2: just caught it like he'd freaking nights in front of
22:20
Speaker 2: the guy and said they took it. And those are
22:22
Speaker 2: things that we appreciate our kids. It's like, you've got
22:24
Speaker 2: to want the football more than them, doesn't. They wanted
22:27
Speaker 2: to have on Friday And we're just going to run
22:30
Speaker 2: to the ball. You know, we're gonna be physical. Those
22:33
Speaker 2: are just no negotiables for us though at this point
22:35
Speaker 2: where we're going to spread to the ball and we're
22:39
Speaker 2: going to be physical.
22:40
Speaker 3: And on top of that, we're gonna try to take
22:41
Speaker 3: it from you.
22:42
Speaker 2: So it's just you know, year three and having these guys,
22:47
Speaker 2: you know, we want to be a team that defense,
22:53
Speaker 2: you know, is going to be an expectation to be
22:55
Speaker 2: a leade And that doesn't mean that we don't expect
22:58
Speaker 2: that in other phases, sure, but you know, I was
23:01
Speaker 2: a defense coordinator for a long time. It's important to me.
23:06
Speaker 2: I've been kind of assisting more on the offensive side
23:08
Speaker 2: of the balls, even in the last couple of years,
23:10
Speaker 2: just because that's where the fit, my fit has been.
23:13
Speaker 2: You know, you've got coach and Arden, Coach Rudolph and
23:16
Speaker 2: coach Butler and coach all Moore on that side, and
23:18
Speaker 2: three of those guys had experience as a defensive coordinator
23:21
Speaker 2: that you know for me on the other side, I
23:24
Speaker 2: can help them out where they see fit. But we
23:27
Speaker 2: want to be you know, fast and physical on that
23:30
Speaker 2: side and bonking after people.
23:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, and you know, like you said,
23:35
Speaker 1: some of that you can teach, but some of it
23:37
Speaker 1: you can't. Players just have that that will to want
23:40
Speaker 1: to go get the ball.
23:41
Speaker 4: You know.
23:42
Speaker 3: Well, that's as it's like a.
23:45
Speaker 2: It's a it's like a good marriage where it's just like, hey,
23:48
Speaker 2: there's some aspects of it where it's like, you know,
23:50
Speaker 2: they need to have natural insitues.
23:52
Speaker 3: To pop right naturally.
23:54
Speaker 2: Good football players. But there's other parts of it where
23:56
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, here's how you get better. We have
23:59
Speaker 2: a group of kids that want to like crave that, like,
24:01
Speaker 2: here's how we can get better, and we're gonna ask
24:02
Speaker 2: you questions that are what I call level three thinking
24:06
Speaker 2: of hey, how does this affect me?
24:09
Speaker 3: That can be really impactful.
24:12
Speaker 1: I had a football coach once tell me that, you know,
24:15
Speaker 1: he likes players on the line that obviously, when you
24:19
Speaker 1: draw up and play, they know where they're going to
24:22
Speaker 1: go here to hear, but he said, what he really
24:25
Speaker 1: loves is those special players. Every once in a while,
24:27
Speaker 1: you'll get somebody that will they know where they're supposed
24:30
Speaker 1: to go, but when they come up off the line
24:32
Speaker 1: for like a split second, they're kind of reading the
24:35
Speaker 1: field and making adjustments on their own and not just
24:38
Speaker 1: going to a spot on the on the field.
24:42
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know.
24:43
Speaker 2: And that's what I what level three thinking to me
24:46
Speaker 2: is is one is like I know my position right too,
24:50
Speaker 2: is like I mostly understand the concept and level three
24:54
Speaker 2: is like, I know what we're trying to accomplish here.
24:57
Speaker 4: And yeah, fix it. So yeah, and that special.
25:00
Speaker 1: Not everybody has that talent or that gift, if you will,
25:03
Speaker 1: to be able to kind of read the situation in
25:06
Speaker 1: really a split second correct.
25:09
Speaker 2: And that's something that you have to help them with
25:11
Speaker 2: over a period of time if you're fortunate enough to
25:13
Speaker 2: have those same kids for multiple years.
25:17
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and it's something that you can see on the field,
25:21
Speaker 1: but it's hard to see in the in the stands
25:24
Speaker 1: some of the you know, and.
25:25
Speaker 4: People say, well, why did they do this?
25:27
Speaker 1: And then it's like, well, they have a different view
25:29
Speaker 1: of the game than we do, and that's what makes
25:33
Speaker 1: it a little special.
25:35
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So yeah, I'm very proud of the defense man.
25:38
Speaker 2: They had a heck of a game.
25:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well to make sure we give a shout
25:41
Speaker 1: out to them, because, like I said, I don't think
25:43
Speaker 1: defense gets the love that they deserve. Everybody wants to
25:48
Speaker 1: read the stats and they see what the wide receiver
25:50
Speaker 1: in the quarterback does and the running back.
25:52
Speaker 4: But sometimes defense gets overlooked.
25:56
Speaker 3: It's funny. I joke with some of our staffs.
25:58
Speaker 2: Sometimes you know, you if you win a game, ten
26:01
Speaker 2: to seven, it's like the sky is falling. But if
26:04
Speaker 2: you win a game fifty six to forty nine, it's like,
26:06
Speaker 2: oh what agreeful?
26:10
Speaker 4: You got it backwards?
26:11
Speaker 3: Right, It's like wait a minute.
26:14
Speaker 2: So it's it's funny like you've been in those games
26:18
Speaker 2: as a defense coordinator. You're just like battling and it's
26:21
Speaker 2: like just a defensive slub best And then you know,
26:24
Speaker 2: it's like that.
26:25
Speaker 3: Was a horrible game.
26:26
Speaker 2: It's like, what, thanks, So, yeah, I appreciate you giving
26:31
Speaker 2: those guys some love, but uh, you know, it's helpful
26:35
Speaker 2: when the offense scores seven touchdowns.
26:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's kind of hard to overlook when you
26:41
Speaker 1: go up seven, right in terms of that coach, I know,
26:44
Speaker 1: we only have a couple more minutes here, but when
26:46
Speaker 1: it kind of give you a few minutes to get
26:49
Speaker 1: some final thoughts maybe on this past week and maybe
26:53
Speaker 1: some thoughts coming up for this coming Friday night.
26:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, first group that you know, maybe a group we
26:59
Speaker 2: didn't talk about a whole lot this week, but the
27:02
Speaker 2: offensive line is outstanding.
27:04
Speaker 3: Rush for a ton of yards.
27:07
Speaker 2: A couple of them went down his pass yards because
27:09
Speaker 2: we run toss sleep and you know it's technically a pass,
27:13
Speaker 2: but we ran for well over one hundred and fifty yards,
27:19
Speaker 2: probably closer.
27:19
Speaker 3: To two hundred. I don't have the stats right in
27:21
Speaker 3: front of me, but no sacks.
27:24
Speaker 2: Like just a great performance by that group to be
27:27
Speaker 2: able to run the balls effectively as we did and
27:29
Speaker 2: do the things that we did.
27:31
Speaker 3: Just super proud of that group, how they're coming along.
27:35
Speaker 2: Kind of a bounce back week on offense, you don't
27:37
Speaker 2: really struggle and scrimmage against Edgewood, and then just a
27:41
Speaker 2: whole team resiliency, the way they responded to being challenged
27:45
Speaker 2: and hey, let's play to our standard. Really felt like
27:47
Speaker 2: we played to our standard this week. Super proud of that.
27:51
Speaker 2: But now we've got to learn to see how do
27:53
Speaker 2: we respond to success? You know, I felt like that
27:56
Speaker 2: was the team that we saw all summer in week one,
28:00
Speaker 2: but you know, you're gonna shove school on Monday and
28:03
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna be talking about how great they played, and man,
28:06
Speaker 2: that was awesome, and now you need to go do
28:09
Speaker 2: it again, right, And like you said, how do you
28:11
Speaker 2: how do you manage that? And you know it's intensity
28:14
Speaker 2: versus consistency, right, you know, are you going to be
28:16
Speaker 2: the team that's flame shines the brightest week one. Are
28:18
Speaker 2: you gonna be the team that does it every single
28:20
Speaker 2: week and does it at a high level. So those
28:24
Speaker 2: are the things that we'll be focusing on this week
28:25
Speaker 2: as we get prepared for Hartetrition.
28:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:28
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you don't, coach, You're exactly right. The old line
28:31
Speaker 1: doesn't get the love that they deserve either, like kind
28:33
Speaker 1: of like the defense, because you know, if your quarterbacks
28:37
Speaker 1: throwing seven touchdowns or putting up seven touchdowns out there,
28:43
Speaker 1: he must be getting some pretty good protection out there
28:45
Speaker 1: to be able to do what he needs to do.
28:48
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of times people just take
28:50
Speaker 1: that for granted.
28:52
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
28:55
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of like the the snap exchange
29:00
Speaker 2: on the pat or the plant. Yeah, no one ever
29:02
Speaker 2: notices it until it flies over the pinter's head. No
29:06
Speaker 2: one notices the old line until the running back of
29:08
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks on the ground five yards in the backfield.
29:12
Speaker 2: But with that, man, like those guys they got challenge
29:16
Speaker 2: this week. They really did by coach Appleton, who's our
29:20
Speaker 2: one of our offensive coordinators, and they really just came
29:25
Speaker 2: back out of it, man and just played really, really well.
29:28
Speaker 2: So it was good to see them get challenge and
29:30
Speaker 2: respond one other person that I want to give some
29:33
Speaker 2: love to. Statue Wise you know isn't going to pop
29:38
Speaker 2: out to anybody, but Mason Woodkey has first March. He
29:41
Speaker 2: starts the receiver and I think he had about six
29:45
Speaker 2: pancakes blocking.
29:46
Speaker 4: Oh.
29:46
Speaker 2: It just made a decision that he was just going
29:48
Speaker 2: to freaking block his butt off all night. And just
29:52
Speaker 2: when you get that as a receiver, I was just like, man,
29:55
Speaker 2: this dude got after it. So I'm really proud of
29:58
Speaker 2: him for coming down and that the way that he
30:01
Speaker 2: did it was awesome to see and just you know,
30:05
Speaker 2: a culture piece that you were excited about. So a
30:09
Speaker 2: lot of positives, a lot of guys to talk about
30:10
Speaker 2: this week, but good things.
30:13
Speaker 4: Happening absolutely well. Coach.
30:15
Speaker 1: We wish you nothing but the very best this coming
30:18
Speaker 1: Friday night as you traveled to Heritage Christian seven o'clock kickoff,
30:24
Speaker 1: you'll be on the road and again, congratulations to that
30:28
Speaker 1: week one victory. Kind of get that out of your