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WEEK 7 PREVIEW: Top 15 Games and Predictions · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Gateway Sports Media Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you all for joining us on Spotify, Apple, and
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  Speaker 2: speaker wherever you may be. This is John and Roman
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  Speaker 2: coming at you preview the week seven top fifteen games
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  Speaker 2: of the week in the Saint Louis area. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: start off with a six one eight matchup in southern
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  Speaker 2: Illinois between Dupo and Chester.
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  Speaker 3: This is gonna be a great one.
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  Speaker 4: Dupo six and zero right now, Chester five and one,
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  Speaker 4: I believe, yep, huge, huge game for the Cohokia Illinois
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  Speaker 4: conference standings. These two teams are currently pretty comfortably at
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  Speaker 4: one and two right now, both of three no in conference.
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  Speaker 4: Chester is fear by seven and a half points. The
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  Speaker 4: over is at forty three and a half. Chester they're
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  Speaker 4: kind of on the barely outside of our coverage area.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't put their stats in the Nastal High School.
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  Speaker 4: Sports but Dupo, I mean they're right across the river
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  Speaker 4: from Oakville in South County, so they're they're absolutely in
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  Speaker 4: our coverage area. And Deagan Frader has been an amazing
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  Speaker 4: QB forum so far this year. He's thrown for almost
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  Speaker 4: one thousand yards, thirteen touchdowns, only three interceptions. Luke Ellis
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  Speaker 4: is lost Luke Ellison and Praterer himself also been there
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  Speaker 4: leading rushers as well. So the Dupa offense has been
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  Speaker 4: really really productive so far, putting up fifty six last
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  Speaker 4: last week. It's the Red Bud forty six two weeks
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  Speaker 4: ago against Carlisle. So we'll see if the Schester defense
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  Speaker 4: can figure it out, and they should be able to.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they've they've held their teams to twenty one
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  Speaker 4: twenty zero. They're one loss.
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  Speaker 3: They held West Frankfurt to thirty three points.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, West Frankfurt they're four and too, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: with two competitive loss, like Nashville is a really good
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  Speaker 2: team and then forgot who else they lost to, but
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  Speaker 2: it was a thirty three twenty nine games, so they
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  Speaker 2: have the West Frankfurt's a good team. It's close loss,
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  Speaker 2: and Chester has been a pretty good, pretty consistent playoff
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  Speaker 2: team these last several years as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Dupo to cover here, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go with the over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this should be a high scoring game.
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  Speaker 2: Dupo his you know, all year put up points. This
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  Speaker 2: is this should be their toughest opponent as well, and
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine Chester is a little bit more battle tested,
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  Speaker 2: just slightly. I mean they've played wes Frankfurt they did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Dupo had a close twenty to thirteen wins
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  Speaker 2: and then they beat Bayless thirty one twenty eight at
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  Speaker 2: the start of the season. But yeah, their often they
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  Speaker 2: run a They're one of those real kind of rare
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  Speaker 2: one A schools in Illinois where they they they run
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  Speaker 2: a spread offense and it's it's a pretty legit one
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  Speaker 2: and they put up some really good stats this season.
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  Speaker 1: Praider has also been a good runner. He's uh, he scored.
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  Speaker 2: He leads a team in rushing touchdowns, and he's behind
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  Speaker 2: Luke Ellis with two hundred and forty three rushing yards.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they got a they got a dynamic spread
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  Speaker 2: offense there, and I do agree. I I do think
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  Speaker 2: they'll cover. I'm not so sure who wins, but you
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  Speaker 2: know it's in Chester. They got a great high school
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  Speaker 2: football stadium there, so I guess I will I will
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  Speaker 2: lean towards Chester, but I do think Dupo covers and
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking that over.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, guess we agree on that one. Next up, we
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  Speaker 3: got Webster Groves at Rittner.
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  Speaker 4: Writtener is hered by nine and a half points here,
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  Speaker 4: the over under is at fifty three.
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  Speaker 3: And a half.
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  Speaker 4: Webster Groves coming off the bye week, they are currently
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  Speaker 4: at three and two, and looking back on it, the
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  Speaker 4: one score lost in Northwest is actually looking pretty good. Northwest,
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  Speaker 4: at least offensively, has been rolling as of late. Webster
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  Speaker 4: the unsold team so far against it at three and
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  Speaker 4: two will travers over a thousand yards passing already this season.
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  Speaker 4: They love giving, they love trusting him to make a decisions,
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  Speaker 4: which he is pretty it out. I mean, Kiren Brumley
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  Speaker 4: and Jonas is it faith. I don't know how to
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  Speaker 4: pronounce his last name, but Fagan, it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Yes mea Webster grow it's gonna sell it passing off there.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like and Writtener. We talked about him last week.
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  Speaker 3: Writtner is a good team, man. They're a good team.
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  Speaker 4: But for whatever reason, when crunch time comes, they just
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  Speaker 4: they can't figure it out. And it's just it's so
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  Speaker 4: tough to watch because it's it's so heartbreaking for Writtener
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  Speaker 4: fans because I mean, as you said, they're there are
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  Speaker 4: three plays away of being undefeated. They're three and three
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  Speaker 4: right now. And it's just they are a legitimately good team.
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  Speaker 4: And kind of what I said about Pattonville is that
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  Speaker 4: you know the Pattonvilleriddner. They're in the same district and
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  Speaker 4: it's really just those two that have the highest chance
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  Speaker 4: to win that district.
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  Speaker 3: So who can tighten up.
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  Speaker 4: The most, can who could improve the most by the
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  Speaker 4: time they play each other. And this is a good
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  Speaker 4: test for writtener. I think this should be a good game.
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  Speaker 4: I am gonna pick right here to cover here. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go with I mean, I am gonna go with
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  Speaker 4: the over. I think this is gonna be a good
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  Speaker 4: Q battle. But I do think Anthony Odom has the has.
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  Speaker 3: The ed Schieerman. Odam has been really really good so
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  Speaker 3: far this year.
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen hundred passing yards, fourteen touchdowns, zero interceptions. I believe
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  Speaker 4: he did throw an interception last week against Oakville.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but I don't think but he doesn't. He hardly
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  Speaker 3: turns the ball over.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he threw one interceptionist Oakville, but they just don't
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  Speaker 4: have their offensive stats since it doesn't say that interesting.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, but he has been great so far for
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  Speaker 4: the Huskies, so I expect big things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean if he was seriously, I mean, but he's
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  Speaker 2: also a big reason why they have won three games
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  Speaker 2: instead of you know, they they really the only game
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  Speaker 2: that they really should have won at this point, like
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  Speaker 2: is river View Gardens. And then you know, if I
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  Speaker 2: think if Odam's just kind of how he was last year,
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  Speaker 2: if this was a sophomore Anthony Odom, like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they beat if they beat Lindbergh and and
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  Speaker 2: if they beat Fox. So but yeah, he's he's stepped
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  Speaker 2: up and gotten.
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  Speaker 3: A lot better.
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  Speaker 2: And you can see that kind of potential last year
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  Speaker 2: and he's really lived up to that and improved a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So and then, for what it's worth written or they've beaten,
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  Speaker 2: They've scored a lot of points against Webster Groves these
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  Speaker 2: last three seasons, and uh, their offense has been pretty
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  Speaker 2: good this season, so I don't think that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: much of a problem. So yeah, I do have Writtener
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  Speaker 2: covering and I will actually I think I'll take the
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  Speaker 2: under in this one. I mean, the Reutner's defense was
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  Speaker 2: pretty good last week against Oakville.
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  Speaker 3: It was, and.
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  Speaker 1: So unless Webster has gotten a little bit better, and
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: They have overall, but I just I think Rittner's defense,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're they're aggressive. I mean they'll they'll press
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  Speaker 2: you it you know that they're they're safeties and their
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  Speaker 2: cornerbacks are going to press the receivers at the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage and they'll they're they're gonna test you and
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  Speaker 2: force you to run good routes. I mean, they will
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  Speaker 2: obviously give up some ground, but they're willing to take
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  Speaker 2: those risks, and the overall they're pretty decent with that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, take them righter and covering the over there.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Next step number thirteen game the week, we've got Francis
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  Speaker 4: Howe at Timberland. Francis Hali favored by sixteen and a
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  Speaker 4: half points, and the over runs at forty two.
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  Speaker 3: And a half.
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  Speaker 4: Hal is the more talented team, and I would trust
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  Speaker 4: how to cover here. But the keys for Timberland are
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  Speaker 4: can they prevent the massive Jalen Ballot runs. Ballot's gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a good game, he's gonna he's gonna get the rock.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna make some good runs. But seemingly every game
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  Speaker 4: that Holi wins, he finds a way to get an
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  Speaker 4: eighty yard touchdown, a sixty five yard touchdown, a ninety
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  Speaker 4: yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Can timberlind find a way to prevent that? And also, if.
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  Speaker 4: Timberland wants to give themselves a chance here, they had
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  Speaker 4: to cut down on the turnovers. Absolutely have to. Can't
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  Speaker 4: cannot be giving the ball away given how possessions, because
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  Speaker 4: Howell's definitely gonna play a slower and more gritty game
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  Speaker 4: because they know they have the advantage of the front seven.
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  Speaker 4: So I am going to go with Howell to cover here,
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  Speaker 4: but I would not be surprised if Timberlin keeps it
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  Speaker 4: close and keeps it interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll go with the under.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with Howe in this one.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think their defense is gonna step up
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  Speaker 2: and play better than they did last week against Troy.
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  Speaker 1: And Demmerland has been just oh, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of been average offensively this year and defensively that's been.
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  Speaker 3: Great, although they have been better the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they played how North and how Central.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, giving all that was only fourteen points to
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  Speaker 2: how Central is not definitely not bad, but yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: did struggle offensively in that game, so you know, How's
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  Speaker 2: more battle tested, and yeah, I'm just ballards. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna break off a few runs at some point.
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  Speaker 3: So all needs to get it.
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  Speaker 2: They need to improve off, you know, just passing wise,
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  Speaker 2: because they have they have some decent receivers there. So
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think overall, I think they're in a
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  Speaker 2: good spot here, and yeah, I'll pick them to cover.
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  Speaker 2: And oh, I might have to agree with you on
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  Speaker 2: this one. Yeah, that that under is looking good, so
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I guess we agree again. Next up Borgia
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  Speaker 3: at Holt.
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  Speaker 4: Borgia faired by six and a half the Overns at
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  Speaker 4: fifty and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Borgia quietly sitting at a pretty good foreign too.
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  Speaker 4: They're coming off a close loss to tolten Catholic twenty
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  Speaker 4: four to twenty one, the only other loss being to
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  Speaker 4: a really good Saint Dominic team back in Big Three.
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  Speaker 4: Have some decent wins or Pacific, Owensville, Holden and then
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  Speaker 4: the forfeit winning against Roosevelt. So far, Land Balencraft's been
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  Speaker 4: a great QB for him. He's he's over the thousand
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  Speaker 4: yard mark, eleven touchdowns, is just one interception. So the
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  Speaker 4: Borgia offense I feel like has been pretty reliable this
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  Speaker 4: season and then for for Holds, we talked in last
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  Speaker 4: episode about how second year is starting QB Ivan Dean's
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  Speaker 4: and putting together a really good year obviously the really
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  Speaker 4: good passer form, and he leaves the team in rushing
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  Speaker 4: as well. So I think the QB matchup is gonna
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  Speaker 4: be very interesting here, and you know, kind of like
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  Speaker 4: the my mind, my tip for Timberland is for Holds,
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  Speaker 4: just keep down the turarnovers because Boria Borgia will take
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  Speaker 4: advantage if you give them the chance.
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  Speaker 3: And I think this is.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna be a really close game, but one of the
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  Speaker 4: many close games we should have this week because we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna we're gonna we're gonna get to some really exciting
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  Speaker 4: ones coming up here in a second. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: go with Hold to cover here and win the game.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna go with the over. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: go with Hold as well, but I will take the under.
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  Speaker 2: They had a really nice game against Warrington and they
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  Speaker 2: just they just played a tougher schedule than Borgia at
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  Speaker 2: this point. I mean Borgia, they're playing against a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, class three and four teams and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: lower than that. Although Saint Dominic they're Class six, but
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  Speaker 2: Saint Dominic also kind of they play.
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  Speaker 1: A relatively like.
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  Speaker 2: Like they really can't play like a Class four schedule.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you're right. Avandean's had a really solid season
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  Speaker 2: so far, and he's tough to he's tough to limit,
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  Speaker 2: and they got a few other weapons besides him, and
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  Speaker 2: their defense really stepped up against Warrington in this game,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, like I think if Tolton can do
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  Speaker 2: that against Borgia, i think Holt can do that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my logic and I'm going I'm going with
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  Speaker 2: the Indians in that one.
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  Speaker 4: Next game, we got Zimault North at Zumalt South, big
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  Speaker 4: Smalt rivalry here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's an interesting line.
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  Speaker 4: Mult North feared by twelve and a half points over
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  Speaker 4: is at fifty three and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Really, this is this is.
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  Speaker 4: The easiest line I've ever seen in my life. I'm
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  Speaker 4: picking Zumalt North one hundred times. I have one hundred
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  Speaker 4: to cover here. I'm sorry, Zwald South. That was a
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  Speaker 4: really good win you had against north Point, really good win.
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  Speaker 4: And Zmalt South has taken a big step forward just from.
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  Speaker 3: A few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they really have.
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  Speaker 4: But North Point completely gave away that game. I mean
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  Speaker 4: they had six turnovers, they missed a pet to tie
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  Speaker 4: the game. Yeah, I mean that that was a disaster
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  Speaker 4: for North Point, a complete disaster. And fcn's all defense
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  Speaker 4: has been pretty incredible the past several weeks. Maybe one
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  Speaker 4: allowed twenty seven points the past four games combined. And really,
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  Speaker 4: if you just take away the two ninety yard rushing
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns by Jalen Ballard back in the Week two when
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  Speaker 4: they lost to Francis Howell, their defense has been really
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  Speaker 4: good pretty much the entire season. And they got Xavier
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  Speaker 4: Jackson back. I know he was heard a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 4: but he is back.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge.
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  Speaker 4: Flipbar Passy has been a great QB for him so far.
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  Speaker 4: Still some other guys that are playing for him. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, even even even if North's not a full
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  Speaker 4: strength and I still trust him to cover the spread
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  Speaker 4: pretty easily.
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  Speaker 3: That that's such a Why is that such a tight spread?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I don't know who made that line,
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  Speaker 4: but that's that's terrible. I'm sorry, I'm going North to
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  Speaker 4: cover easily. I'm gonna go with the under.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like Frank Thomas the twenty fifteenth, the Mets
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  Speaker 2: have nothing to be ashamed about that, but they gave
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  Speaker 2: away this World series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, jeez.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you still got to give credit to zoom on
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  Speaker 2: South for winning that game. But yeah, even from some
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  Speaker 2: people I've heard from, it was might have been more
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  Speaker 2: of North Point losing that than zoom All South winning.
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  Speaker 2: But regardless, it was actually an entertaining game last year
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  Speaker 2: between South and North for at least a half. It
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  Speaker 2: was kind of an interesting game. I think North won
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  Speaker 2: that game thirty five to fourteen, and it was actually
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  Speaker 2: a two score game until late in the game. But
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  Speaker 2: having said that, though, I'm still gonna yeah take North.
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  Speaker 2: That spread is a little low, and yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: take the under as well. All Right, this week, both
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  Speaker 2: teams are trying to run the balls. That was a
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  Speaker 2: run game for the most part, So yeah, going with.
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  Speaker 3: That all right.
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  Speaker 4: Next up, very interesting game here, we got Lutheran North
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  Speaker 4: at Mariaville. Lutheran North eight and a half points, the
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  Speaker 4: overruns in fifty three and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Lutheran North. They've had kind of a funky year so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bile week Week one, and they only have seven
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  Speaker 1: games this season too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know if they had
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  Speaker 4: a team scheduled for.
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  Speaker 2: Week eight and then they have a team just can't
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  Speaker 2: think I think it was the I think they just
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find one. I think that was the schedule from
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  Speaker 2: the get from Cheez whenever it was finalized.
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  Speaker 4: Well, funny enough, I believe both these teams only have
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  Speaker 4: one loss, and that's so far to Blair Oaks, that
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  Speaker 4: is correct. So both teams playing pretty similar years. So
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  Speaker 4: a season so far a Maryville, they're sitting at five
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  Speaker 4: and one. Their wins are against teams that I would
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  Speaker 4: assume a lot of us I never heard of on
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  Speaker 4: the level that listened.
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  Speaker 3: To this podcast.
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  Speaker 4: I love Benton Cameron, Lincoln College Prep, Chilicoth, and Pleasant Hill.
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  Speaker 2: I've looked at some of those teams and they're all right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but none of them I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: have winning records. But this is still a solid Mariygal team.
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  Speaker 2: And and actually until they beat Lutherman, until Lutherman North
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  Speaker 2: beat my CDs, who actually now is three and three,
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  Speaker 2: they haven't beaten anybody with a winning record too, at
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  Speaker 2: least Lutherman North.
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  Speaker 4: We had high expectations from Jonathan Moore going into the season,
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  Speaker 4: State championship winning QB had a great finished the year
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  Speaker 4: last year, he and he has continued to do in
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  Speaker 4: press thirteen passing touchdowns, over one thousand passing yards.
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  Speaker 3: He's been very good.
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  Speaker 4: And then through other athletes like Mike Clark, Kyron Evans,
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  Speaker 4: ozar Tate, they've been great. Ryman Accidental, oz our Tate,
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  Speaker 4: he's been great. But that one, yeah, I do like
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  Speaker 4: Luther North through I think Miraville is a good team.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna definitely gonna keep it close. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: go with Luther North to win and cover this spread,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go with the I'll go.
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  Speaker 3: With you over.
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  Speaker 2: I know two years ago Luther North lost to Maryville
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  Speaker 2: in a close game. I wonder I think the last
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  Speaker 2: few years they've played this game at Chilicothe High School.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's gonna be played, not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be there either way, but just interesting because that's a
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  Speaker 2: long drive. Maryville isn't the exact opposite end of the
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  Speaker 2: state in northwest Missouri, so that's a hall for Luther North.
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  Speaker 2: I'll still take them to cover uh this game, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the under. Actually, Luther North has been weird.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: They've had two games where they've scored twenty one, like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: they've scored three touchdowns in the first half and then
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: don't do much of the rest of the game. I
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: mean they had they scored twenty two against Westminster, then
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: didn't do anything the rest of the game, literally did
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: not score. And then against my CDs they only had
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: one touchdown in the second half and were able to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: win twenty seven to twenty one. So I'm gonna take
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: the under because of that and outside of the Blair Oaks,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Lucan North defense has been pretty good.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: It is about a five hour drive home loof And
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: High School North to Maryville.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna beat on what I'm gonna I'm gonna.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I think I'll have Maryville cover. I still think Lutheran
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Northern will win, but that's a lot, that's a long way.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: We'll see how they attacked that away game.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Next up Pree Central at Rock Sanna. The Cougars are
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: favored by a sixteen and a half. The over is
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: at forty eight and a half. Bre Central continues to
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: roll their conference schedule. They're undefeated in the conference slate
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: currently a five to one comfortably beat Salem last week.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: They really have yet to have a close game in
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: the in the Kochi, Mississippi, but.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Roxanna is be that way for a few years.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Actually it has, but they'd gotten I mean, there's been
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: other teams in the Cooke, Mississippi like rox Sanna that
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: have been threatening that I had put together some really
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: good seasons so far, and you know, rox Hen's coming
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: off a close loss to Freeburg and rox He has
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: had a solid year, heavy, heavy rushing attack. Guys like
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Makai Schorteren, Mason Krepp lead to wait for them. But
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I think Breece Central is just is just too good.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I think I think Owen Owen care has been a
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: really good QB for him. Cole Davis also really good
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: running back. And I think especially Breece Central's defense, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: think it's gonna be too much of Roxanne. I'm gonna
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: go with bre Central to cover here, and am I'm
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: gonna go with the over.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Central is currently riding a nine game winning streak and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: their last loss was to none other than the Roxanna
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Shells in twenty twenty three.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Pre Central was a nine game winning streak in the conference.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: In Sorry, sorry, I wasn't clear at first. Yeah, so
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: they're doing it. Just shows the success they've had in conference.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And it took a really good, one of the all
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: time great Rockshanna teams to beat them that year. They
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: ended up going to the Final four first time since
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven twenty twenty three that year. Yeah, I
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: expect Central to cover that spread. They've been absolutely rolling.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I mean their only loss was to a very good
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Mountain Zion team by ten points on the road. The
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Cougars offense has been really good all season. They've put
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: up at least they've scored at least four touchdowns in
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: every game this season. So it's just just the one
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: game against Mountain Zion has been their.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Own kind of their one problem.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And you talked about Davis and Career, and Career is
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: only a sophomorean at the quarterback, so he's gonna be
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: really good. I mean, two hundred and thirty three yards
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: on the ground for him with six hundred yards is
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: pretty promising, honestly. And three receivers over one hundred yards
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: receiving as it is nice. And their defense has been
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: again outside of Mountside the even it's.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Been pretty nasty this season.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go with the Cougars to cover
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and and I'll take the hmmm, I'll take the under
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: in this.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: One, all right, Shifting gears over to the mcc got
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: shamanad at slew High. Sleuugh High favored by fourteen and
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a half through the openers at forty six and a half.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: We didn't really mention him too much last week because
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: they did kind of pull away from Meanni. But slew
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: High continues their match full season. They are six and zero.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: They have been. They've just been able to find a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: way to get it done. I mean, nothing crazy stat
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: wise from Karen Elby, but he's putting together a good season.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: He's only completed sixty six passes, but he already has
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: almost one thousand passing yards, ten touchdowns to two interceptions.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: But their rushing attack is really what's been great.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: And Jordan Taylor has got over seven yards for carry
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: only two touchdowns, but Keenan Harris has nine touchdowns and
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: four hundred less yard So.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They put him in those wildcap packages when they were
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: inside the ten yard line.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, kind of a yeah, interesting, kind of like
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the Detroit Lions there. Now they'll have a Jamior Gibbs
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: get a majority of the yards, ones get close to
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: the goal, one they'll put in day of Montgomery and
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: they'll poach touchdowns for him. But but no, this Stile
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: High has been a really good team, and especially defensively
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: as well. I mean guys like Quincy Jones, Kevin McNutt,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Anthony Busby, Keenan Harris on defense, they've.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: All been really really good and.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I mean shoot, the most points they've allowed into game
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: so far this year has been sixteen.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Against Beyond Me and one of those was a pick six.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think Seanan H's offense is decent. But
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I mean Sam Deane has been a great QB. If
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: they if they can hold him to that few points,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I really trust High's defense here. So I'm gonna go
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: with flu High to cover and I'm gonna go with
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the under. Yeah, I have Slough covering as well.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Their defense have been absolutely nasty this season, one one
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of the best, and really the state I think their
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: offense is. I mean, they're gonna try to run the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: ball for the most part to set up the run
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: forty six and a half. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: agree with you I'm gonna have Slough covering and I'll
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: take the under. I mean, they're not gonna try to,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: you know, roll up that many points. Actually, you know what,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I change her mind. I will have them covering. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: think they will put up a good amount of points
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: this game. I mean, sem Knuds doesn't have the greatest defense,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: as at least against against the really good teams they've played,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: They've their defense has not been great.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with that logic there.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: The defense has actually been okay this season, but just
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: against like the CP season, this mess Yeah, not so
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: good there, which is understandable. So that's my logic right there,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: have SLEWT covering and winning and once up closer to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: a potential undefeated matchup with CBC in week eight.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: That matchup would feed families.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: There's there's already some good matchups in week eight that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Would feed families.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: So it's pretty nice.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But next up him back over the six one eight,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: we got Waterloo at Highland Highland.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Fair by three and a half points. Here the overruns
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: at fifty eight and a half. Both teams coming off
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: nice wins. Highland coming off a big win four to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: seventeen against CM and then Waterloo coming off a nice
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: forty eight fourteen wins Jerseyville.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I believe both teams are four and two so far
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: in the year.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: And the name of the game for Waterloo has been
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: feed the rest, Sales the ball, and then trust your
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: other athletes to make plays in the ground as well,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: like Owen Kniebroogee, kielb astro Age, Jackson Athenia, because you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Know, Sales is the guy.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, Sales already has over ere and fifty yards
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: thirteen touchdowns, but Kneberggy, ostro Age and Athenia are all
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: at pretty much at or above two hundred and fifty yards,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: so they they've they've got a good collection of guys
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: that can be threatening on the ground. And then for
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Highland offensively, they've been really they've been pretty good too.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I mean they've Blake. It's Jilly, right, I always freaking Jelly,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: that's right. I thought it was Jelly Blake Jelly twelve
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: pass touchdowns, only two interceptions. His brother's name is Boston.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: That's amazing, Boston Jelly, that's an amazing name. Nice, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: then they got a Napoleon Nixon as well on their team.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Highland has an awesome football names. Holy cow, this is great. No,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: but no, I think this should be a fun game.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Both teams have already lost a conference game. Highland lost
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: to Triad and then Waterloo lost to Mascuda, so it
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: would take some shooting in agains for either team to
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: get I'm sure the conference titles so far, but this
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: one should be very close and very exciting.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I am going to go with this is tough, this
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: is actually tough. I will go with Triad try tryad Waterloo.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I was I was looking at the wrong line and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I saw Troy. I was like, oh no, that's not no.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I'll go with Waterloo to cover here and I will
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: go with you over.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: This is Highland's second home game this season, as it
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: has turned out. What so, they had a game with
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Gateway Stem and I guess they were and then Highland
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was awarded i think officially a one nothing win or
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: thirteen nothing win over Gateway, because that's according to the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I actually say website, So I'm assuming that was supposed
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to be a home game. They had a Week four
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: home game against Jewsville and their last two games have
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: been on the road to try it in the Civic.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Memorial, so therefore Highland OI is.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: One home game there, and.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at their schedule from the last few seasons
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: and Highland is actually they've actually won seven consecutive home games.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And then okay, sorry, I'm doing this on the fly
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: right here, I'm alright, set nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: There you go. So they've lost.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: They've They've won thirteen consecutive home games since twenty twenty two,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: and that was their loss to Mosquito when they got upset,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: and if you want to go in the regular season,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: it's even longer. So but thirteen consecutive home games, I'm
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: going to go off of that, so I'm gonna go.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: And I already like both teams, but Hiland obviously plays
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: pretty well, So I got Highland covering and.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I will the over.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: They see Highland seems to be in high scoring games,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: so I'll take the over as well.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Next up, heading over to the GC South, we got
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Troy Adzimo West. Troy's faired by thirteen and a half.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: The over runs out forty two and a half. Troy
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: at Missouri not Triad. I'm not gonna mix it up again.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: We talked a lot of a lot about the last episode.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Of how Troy's offense has been not super radically different
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: from what it started as the beginning of the year.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: But when you're a cute when you start a QB
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: goes down, you're gonna have to change some things.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And I think the change that they've made have been
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: very wise.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, we saw last game both Carter Dowell and
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Chris Weinger both had over two hundred yards rushing, and
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I think they're doing a good job of putting Carter
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Schaeffer in kind of just game managing situations to where
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: they're not gonna make him make hard decisions on second
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: or third and longs.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: They're gonna set themselves out for success really well.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: The dall is gonna break the thousand year and mark
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: again pretty easily. Chris Winger should get there as well
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: off he keeps up this pace, Dollas averaging nine yards
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: per carry, Wingers averaging eleven.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yards per carrie.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: So the Troy rushing offense has been kind of reached
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: a second win because when the Hunter Humphrey injury happened
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and they lost a handibal, they were just kind of
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out what's going on, How how can
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: we change how can we shift our really our entire
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: offensive not the entire offensive offensive scheme, but a lot
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: a lot of it and smote West offensively. I mean
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: they they boat raised France all in North last week,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: but that's not that hard to do. But I feel
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: like them West offense has been somewhat disappointing at times.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I just had a high bar form going into the year.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I mean they haven't been, you know, on an emake offense.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, Klayton O'Brian's been a decent QUB. He's been
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: a pretty good QB. He's had nine to five passing yards,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: thirteen touchdowns, six interceptions.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: But they just can't run the ball.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I mean they're their leading rush of the year is
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Don Lawrence was one and nine to nine yards and
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: two touchdowns. So West has really yet to establish the
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: run against a good team. I think that's what's been
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: holding them back. It has been against the better teams
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: they've been playing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: And their three losses against Frances how all close games.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: All close games.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I mean that the Kirk would and Want North games
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: were one score games. It's Want North game being a
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: literal walk off touchdown by the Panthers and then Kirkwood.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: That was a really weird game and there was just
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: so many three and outs by both teams. So I
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: don't know if this is an issue that Wes can
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: solve in the middle of the season.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I hope it is, because if it's moont.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: West can find a good rushing attack, then they could
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: be a dangerous team.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: But until they can do that, I.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Don't know how much I trust them. So I'm gonna
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: go with Troy to cover here, and I'm gonna go.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: With the over. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna have
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: to go with Troy. I mean, Don Lawrence.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: He had a decent game, nice camp, nice game against
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Hall North last week. One hundred ten yards on eight
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: rushes last week against them. It is all in orthope,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: so you got to take it a little bit of
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a grain of salt. But that's something they're trying out
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: right there, and obviously they had a very good game
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: against them. But yeah, Troy, fortunately for West's home game.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Troy looks like it has really figured out their offense.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, put up fifty four against Timberland,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: fifty four against House Central and then forty three against
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Francis Hall.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Against a good a fairly good Hall team.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you mentioned it with Doll and Winder, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I think Troy can do a good job against I mean,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: this is probably gonna be there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Well, they did play.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Against Hell Central and they liked to they like to
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: throw the ball, and they did throw the ball against
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: them a lot. So they've been able to kind of
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: do good against you know, passing teams.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: So to speak.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So because they run that they have that three.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Man front, sometimes the five man front with what they
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: want to do, but typically a three.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Man front right there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go with the Trojans in this
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: one and I will take the over as well.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: All right, next up, this is a very very intriguing
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: out of conference Matterup. We got Festus at De Smet
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: De Smit by two and a half. The over one
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: is at fifty one and a half. Dismit's I like
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: this one. This is gonna be fun.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Dismiss. Someone got back on track.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I mean they finished the conference schedule two and two
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: with wins against Bianni and Shamanad. When De Smett plays
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: a team that they're more talented, then their offense is
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: going to do good. I mean their offense really couldn't
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: do anything at Sue High and CBC. But to be fair,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: you could argue Su High and CBC's defenses are to
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: the best in the state. So if we're trying to
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: give it a fair a fair little here, I mean
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: this smet put up thirty one points against the solid
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: and my CDs team. And I mean Gabe Rodriguez has
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: been a very good QB. I mean he's got almost
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: four two hundred passing yards twice so many touchdowns interceptions.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: And then Cam Sharp has been a very underrated running back.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: It's it's it's gotta be tough to be running back
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: and just met because you're you're you're following the in
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: the footsteps of some some pretty.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Good previous players.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: I mean he he didn't graduate, but Jadecaster, Yeah, but
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Jade mccaster, that's yeah, it doesn't play for anymore, but
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Jade mccastre amazing year for him last year.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: The three hundred state three hundred snake yea three three
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: headed snake combo.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: There are snyderge Butts and then Nico bond Rico, bond Rico,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Rico Barfield really good.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot about it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the all three of those guys were unbelievable. So
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: the the running back room at de Smet has been
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: really really good and I think they found their next
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: elite back and Cam Sharp so offensively, I like Kvi
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: of Smet's been getting better and better. And then for Festus,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: they're undefeated right now, they're playing some really good football.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: They're coming off of forty six wins North County. They
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: really have not had a super close game yet this year.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I mean their closest game was a Week one win
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: thirty to fourteen is rala.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: That Hillsboro game was a little was It was competitive,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: but they kind of they got they.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Ran away from them in the second half.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Parker Perry has been amazing.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Over a thousand passing yard, sixteen passing touchdowns, zero interceptions.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: I hope they're not lying. I mean we've seen some
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: teams not put in certain stats, but sixteen touchdowns, zero
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: interceptions is amazing. Okay, and this I think this is
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: going to be a very very fun, fun game, a
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: lot of big plays coming.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I'm going to pick.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Festus is not gonna light this because they're undefeated and
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: to Meta's three losses. But I think they understand I'm
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: gonna pick this is gonna be a really close game. Yeah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: this is going to be a freaking fight.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: The fact that we're acknowledging that this should be a
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: close game and it says a lot about Festest of
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: how good they are.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, yeah, this is not shot on fests at
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: a lot. I think these are two very solid teams.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, Dispen's obviously not as dominant as
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: they were last year or a previous state championshiping seasons
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: they've had, but they're still a pretty solid team. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: am going to go with the Smet to cover, and
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go with the over. The key here
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: for Festus is do not turn them all over. Don't
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: turn it over. Yeah, don't. I mean, if you do
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: go forward on fourth down, be small with it because
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: you do not want to give to Smet free possessions
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: because they will take advantage.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you. I mean,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: that was like a seven and a half. I might
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: go Festut there, but two and a half I'm gonna
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: go with the spend. I think they're getting a little
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: bit better on defense too. I think they're gonna get
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a lot more challenge though. Defensively though Festus got they
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: throw a lot at you on on on defense, they
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: with what they do offensive league is Perry. He can
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: run the ball and there's some read options that they do.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: He's a good PA.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Last year they got you know, numerous receivers that can
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: hurt you, and they got a good running game. So
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: they got a dynamic offense and they're I would say
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: that their defense, their offensive ahead of their defense, which
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: is why I think the Smet's gonna put up plenty
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: of points as well. So I think we could have
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a shootout in this one. But I do favor I
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: do favor De Smeit at home in this one though,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: and I do think they're getting better as the season
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: goes on. So I agree with what your prediction there.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Head back over the Metro East and Southwest Conference, we've
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: got East St. Louis at Belleville. East East St. Louis
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: favored by thirty four and a half the over runers
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: at sixteen and a half.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Clearly, East St. Louis has no mercy for their Southwest
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Conference rivals.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Never we saw we heard some people picking against them
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: last week, which I think was pretty silly. And you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I think I think Reeese Janquin has stepped into the
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: QB spot really well for him. They try repping him
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: in last year a bit, and I think that was
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: in the long term, that was good of the East
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Louis do that last year. I mean, they won't stay.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: They took care of business last year, but it wasn't
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: like they were just they weren't just throwing away games
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: to get him snaps last year. So I think the
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: experience that Shanklin got last year really helps out this year.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: He's actually gotten a lot of experience in small ways
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: of the last two years because he was the backup
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: as a when Robert Battle was a senior and obviously
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: they're gonna they were able to get him in a
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: lot of games too, you know when they're blowing that
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: s WC teams out and even playoff games. So he's
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: he's seen the field a lot on on on VARs
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: City over the last two years.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: And now he's a starter.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: And I mean, when when you're when you're the quarterback
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: of East St. Louis, you're probably going to have success
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: even if and and we're not even saying he's just
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: average because he's pretty good.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: But even if you're just average, you're going to win
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of games.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Help will have elite D one athletes around you.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So yeah, I got easting Lewis covering and taking
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the over.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna agree.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, if East Louis can shreds the way they did,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: edwards will beat Bubble East.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well both Well here's the thing, I mean,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: evers well, they did beat Beble least, but you also
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: could argue Beverly should have beaten Edwardsil because they had
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: they had been beaten the last minute and both.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Teams put up a lot of points.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so the fact that was able to shut
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: out Edwardsville because I think they haven't said Everardsvilla. Yeah,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: they could put up some points a few, but they didn't.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not predicting your shutout, but I think
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: if East Saint Louis made it their live schoal.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yes they can do it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, So yeah, East Louis on all fronts of this one.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, shoot, they're the They're the Cobra Kai
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: of the Southwest Conference.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: No mercy, seriously, all gas, no breaks.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: That's the Cobra Kai.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: And all gas, no breaks.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: It's the first time I've ever heard those two things
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: in the same sentence.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Number Three game of the week, massive Parkway matchup here.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: This is awesome.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: We got our top three games are all Suburb League
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: conference games.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: You'd love to see it.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Parkway West at Parkway North, the Longhorns fed by three.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: And a half points here, the over runs at fifty
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: five and a half.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Parkway West coming into this one at six and oho,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Parkway North coming in at five and one. The Parkway
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: West offense has been great. I mean, we had we
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: had high expectations coming into the year.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Brett Allens meyrat QB. He's been great for thirteen hundred.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Pass touchdowns eighteen, not thirteen hundred passing touchdowns, passing eight
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: yards eighteen passing touchdowns to two interceptions.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: The rushing offense has been okay.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: I mean keeler bervings a good back, but that's not
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: really whatever.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: That's not what their offense is. They're gonna They're gonna
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: feed out in by the.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Whole game and dragging the ball at late Nursery and
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: maxicarly as much as they can.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: For Parkway North, after the rough week one gets Lafayette.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I feel like they've kind of regained form.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: I mean the last second field goal against pat against
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: He's what east was huge? That wasn't overtime, right, Yes,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: it's the huge overtime wing from a couple weeks ago.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: They've offensively nothing crazy for him. Anchewine Gunn has been
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: a good athlete for him for a couple of years now.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Kenyon Bolden has been a reliable QB. This is gonna
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: be This is gonna be a tight game. This is
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: gonna be a really a tight game. It's gonna be.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Alex Harvey has been a solid receiver, and Alex Harvey
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: and Jordan McDavid.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Have been two good receivers for them too.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: For North, this is going to be a war at
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: the Fortress on fee fee. I think this is gonna
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: be a very very close game. I think it's gonna
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: be a high scoring game. I'm gonna go with I'm
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: gonna go with the long horns, horns up, We're going,
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: horns up. I'm gonna go to Parkway West to cover here.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with the over. But it's gonna be
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: a very close game.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Mmmmmmmm interesting. So this is by far I think Parkway
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: West's toughest game of the season. When you consider the rivalry,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I think North is like.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Well, the the these three final games for Parko West
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: are a pretty big step up from the first part
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: of our schedule.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Second was a tough game. That's one point win back
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: in the first game that season. Two.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Didn't know what to expect, but to end to end
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: the season at Parkway North, at Pattonville and hosting Here's
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: what East.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: That's tough. Yeah, that's tough.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: So that they gotta they gotta get on track and
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: stay on track this next few weeks. So what's your
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: pick here? I'm gonna go and this this kind of.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: This is going against oh my gosh, this is going
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: against kind of everything I was talking about the entire offseason.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I was popping up West all off season, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: for a good reason. I mean, they're good and they
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: have shown to be good. But uh, I'm gonna go
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: with the Vikings in this one. I'm gonna have them
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: covering and I like their athletes. They have good receivers.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: But you said Bolden has been a good quarterback. I mean,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: as long as they can just not turn the ball
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: over and just be and be discipline of the defense.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: They're really good. So so I'm I will take I'll
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: take the under. I'll be a little bold, and I
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: got North winning. I could I could be really wrong,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: but I think is a rivalry game. I think it's
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: gonna be close naturally, and you know, I think West
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: is probably more talented overall.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, they got let's just be honest.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, Brett as better quarterback in this game, better
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: probably overall passing attack. But I think North's got a
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: better defense, and they got a better run game, and
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: they might I think North plays is a little bit
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: more team speed, but it's pretty close between them. But
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: those two teams, so they both bring different things to
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the table, which is always fun. Yeah, being a Fifi,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: being the forcess of Fifi, I mean, I think that
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: helps North out a little bit right there. I mean,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: even though it's not a not the most intimidating environment ever,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I mean not not nothing really at any of the
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Parkway schools is very intimate dating about their own you know, stadiums.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: But they do have like an legit, legit away grand
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Stand now at Parkway North with their renovations they made,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: which is nice. Yeah, you don't have to just sit
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: on a just sit down on that hill in the
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: away side of the field.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: So that's good.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: And but yeah, I'm gonna go with the Vikings in
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: this one. Maybe a little bit of an upset pick.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people really underrated them, especially
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: after losing the Lafayette, which has turned out to be
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: like just a totally excusable with the way Lafayette's been
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: a wagon.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: They are well at to look at them in a
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: second but first number two game of the week Rol
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Summit at the dou Summit by five and.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: A half the overruns at forty and a half.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: After a really really rough first game, Ladu has gotten hot.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: They're five and one right now.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Last two games they have won by a combined score
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: of ninety to zero. I mean they beat Hayeswoo West
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: thirty nine zero to beat Parkway Central fifty one to zero.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Not the best teams, but it's good to see what
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: do take care of business because we've seen them, especially
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: in previous years, go up against worse teams and just
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: not be able to it out of their own way.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: And make it close for no reason.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good to see them use their talent edge
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: and take care of business. Jack Hensley has been getting better.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: He looked kind of lost against Troy and in other
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: parts of the season, but.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: He's been he's been up and down.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, he had an overall alright game against Rittner.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Came up big in those games, but yeah, Limberg wasn't
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: particularly great, and then Hazel East he had some good
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: throws and West had a tough game. But then Parkway
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Central he looked like I think with him, he's got
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: decent mechanics actually, like he's got a good arm and
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: his I mean he's not tall, but like it does
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: his size doesn't.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think totally living him. I just think he
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: just needs the.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Game to slow down mentally for him, and then once
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: it does, I think he's that much of an improved quarterback.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: It was only against Central, but he only had one
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: and complete pass, and I know Lady added some new
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: things offensively which helped. And there their offense, I mean
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: they're they're getting a little bit better as the season
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: goes on. And their defense they've only allowed one touchdown
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: in eighteen quarters in the last eighteen quarters they played,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: and that was a last.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Second one of the like one of them was like a.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Fourth down and four against Hazel Deast and that was
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the only touchdown they allowed. So yeah, they're I think
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: they're gonna they're definitely gonna get their biggest tests since
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: at least defensively against with someone coming up since Ritner.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Those guys led by Chase Berenger.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: And kendallly Young and jay Shan Tiller, they've been good
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: for this season. And I mean last year we got
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: a really we kind of got a shootout against Lindberg
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: and or Do and some of last year with seven
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: coming out on top thirty eight thirty five. And this
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: game is going to be able to do for what's
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: essentially a conference championship game in a way because whoever
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: wins it gets a share of the title. And then
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: for La Dou, I mean, their last game would be
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: against Fox, and you can't overlook Fox because of the
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: way they play and how physical. They're scrappy and even
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: though they they were you know, they just they just
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: lost by twenty eight the Northwest, but you still can't
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: overlook them. And then some of it, if they can
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: beat LaDou, then their their last game will be also
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Senior Night for them against Rittner, and that's that's gonna
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: be a not a.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Gimme you know this. This I think that is gonna
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: be a great game. I mean, someone's defense I think
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: has been great all year except for the weird second
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: half of the Limberg game. And they held Fox just
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: they held the Yurikas twenty one offensive points. They held
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Fox to fourteen points, McLure.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Eighteen and those are sixteen and McLure that was in
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: the second half too.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll go if you take away the then
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: you know, the JV team coming in and allowing some scoring.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: It wasn't all their JV I think it was. Some
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: of it was that, I think. I think the other
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: part of it was just letting their guard down. And
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: then Mollene they gave up twenty four to them. So yeah, no,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: their defense has been good. Their offensive struggled the last
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: two games. I think they were not they I mean
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: probably are not gonna be pleased with only scored twenty
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: against Fox and then obviously seven against Ka. I mean,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: they knew it was gonna be tough against Eureka, but
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: still doesn't make you feel any good that you still
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: only scored seven. So yeah, these are These are been
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: two fairly inconsistent offenses, although some I mean they they
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: put up They had a really good game against Limburg,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: and they had a good second half against Oakville, and
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: obviously against mc clure they did what they they just
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: did their jobs against McLure, you know, nothing flashy, nothing.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to get style points against you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: certain teams right there. So I'd say someone's got a
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: better win, like I mean beating Mollene Molina think has
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: lost a game this season. Then LDU's got and then
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Oakville that's a good win. And then Ladu's got two
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: uh decent wins against Hazelo East and then Rittner. I
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: think probably people will give the edge to Summon to
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: this one. I think this is gonna be a close game,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: but Leadou being at home, their defense playing the way
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: they are, and I think if their offense can turn
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: a tie, which I maybe they did last week, if
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: that's the thing that's really holding Le Dou's potential back
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: is their offense. Like once they can get a decent
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: offense there, they are a legit, legit top ten team
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: in the area. So I'm I'm gonna go with the
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: rams of this one, and I will take the over in.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: This one as well.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I think we might be a little surprised right here
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: with the amount of scoring. And then I know both
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: teams and I think what's also kind of cool is
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I think both teams are going to be fairly all
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: fairly healthy in this game as well.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I know both teams have been a little banged up.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Like Jayshawn Taylor, he didn't play in some it's.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Last game, but I think he's gonna be He's gonna
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: be ready for that one. And then I know the
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: dude had one or two starters not played last week,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: but they should be available this week too, So.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: That'd be great.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: That's what you want, especially this late in the season.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Next up, number one game of the week, the Battle
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: of one oh.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Nine Lafayette at Eureka.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: The Lancers are fevered by seven and a half, the
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: over runs at forty eight and a half. We haven't
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: really talked much about Lafayette at all the past few
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: weeks because they do they've.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Just been mowing people over.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: I mean a few weeks to go to beat Parkway
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Central fifty five zero, and they beat a decent Pathville
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: team thirty five.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Zero and they just hammered McClure. The one close game was.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Back in Beek three Conscriptible where they won thirty five
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: to twenty eight. And then I know, we went over
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: the Eureka Summit game a good bit last episode and
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Eureka came on on top twenty eight to seven. This
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: it can on Lafayette's defense limit this Eureka rushing attack
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: because if Lafayette can force Oka, Patrick Hutchcraft is a
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: good QB. He is, can he be the one to
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: be Lafayette? I don't know, Like Brennan Webb's been a
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: good running back for him, but we'll I mean well,
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: because well we know how Eureka wants to win football games. Yeah,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: they don't want to force their QB. A lot of
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: the stat sheet do anything crazy. I mean against Kirkwood, mean,
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: they put out twenty one points. They almost got it done,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: and Huscraft had a good game.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: He did, but there's there's no way twenty one points
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: gets it done against Lafayette. There's no way.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: So that and at least offensively for I mean, okay,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: and on the other side, Rika's defense has been great.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I mean they hold kirk with twenty four points.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: There really hasn't except for a couple of big plays
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: against Kirkwood and Francis. How Eureka's defense has been really good.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: I saw something in the off season that made me
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: a little bit nervous. So some of the personnel they had,
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, they just weren't as big and fast as
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: they weren't previous years. But I guess I was watching.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: I guess maybe some guys were hurt or something in
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: the offense and tape that I was able to go watch.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: But their defense has really impressed me so far this year,
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: and this is their biggest test yet. I mean, Lafayette
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: has been amazing. Brady me Seck is a great QB.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Durance Bills is a great receiver. Tim Washington's a great receiver.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Zachary Tobin is a great receiver. A lot this means
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: the Brady Mesek and so the Lafayette QB and receivers.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: That's it's probably them in East Saint Louis, CBC with
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: the best QB and receivers group in the area.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: You could put kirk one up there. Kirklet's got a
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: really good.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: QB and receivers combo, which Eureka was able to defend
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: against pretty well. Yeah, so I think this is gonna
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: be a freaking war. I mean, whoever can give their
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: QB a better pocket to work from I think wins
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: this game. So, I mean, it all starts up front,
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: it all starts in the trenches. I think I trust
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Lafayete's offensive line a little bit more. I think I
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: like their pass pro a little bit better than Eureka's.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is tough because Eureka's old
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: line has surprised me in a good way so far
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: this year. But ultimately, I think I am going to
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: go with Lafayette and I am going to go with
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: the over.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Lafayette as well.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: You know, I think they're gonna do.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: They have a different offense than they had last year
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: and obviously in the last several years since Boyd Manny
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: was their offensive coordinator.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're Yeah.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: I just I just really like this Lafayette team of
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: how they're coached and you know, what they're able to
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: do all around. And I will this is so close.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I mean some of these Eureka Lafier games have been
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: really close. The last few years. But I'm gonna go
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: with Lafayette to cover, and I will go with I
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: think all with the under in this one. I think
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: it'll be a fairly defensive games. Both these teams are
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: really good defensively. I think the difference in this game
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: is Lafia.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: It's got a better.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Offense than Eureka's overall, So I'm gonna go with that.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Brady may six had a great season so far, and
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I just think it should be a really good game.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Eureka is they've been, They've had a really good home
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: record last several years.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: But go with the Lancers.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I think this is this is a special year for them.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: But if Rika were to win this game, I mean
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: they would I think tie or I think force the
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: three way tie.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: If you're Eco won, it would be a three way
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: tie between these two and Kirkwood. Because yeah, if Eureka wins,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: then it would mean that Eureka beat Lafayette beat Kirkwood
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: beat Eureka. So yeah, that would be a three way
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: share for the conference title.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really make my life difficult for for rankings as well.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but now that this is gonna be a freaking war,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen these two teams give us very
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: exciting games.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: In the past.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: Last year was well, last year Lafia definitely had the
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: upper hand, but they lost to Eureka them or Eureka did. Sorry,
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: that was that crazy. It was that crazy sequence at
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the well in the first quarter that
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: really swung in Eureka's favor.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: It was a safety to pass in the end zone,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: but then ran out and then went back in thinking
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: they didn't want like trying to like some players just
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: get brain farts at times, and that was one of those.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Instead of like trying to like not go out and
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: risk getting tackled, like within the ten yard line, they
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: went back in, but they went over the line into
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: safety and and then yeah, Ereka got the ball then
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: scored make it nine nothing. And then on that ensuing kickoff,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: I think they returned it like had a really good return.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Then they fumbled but were able to recover it. So
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: then they're up nine to nothing without you know, with
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: kind of two huge breaks right there.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: You know it has the last time Lafayette beat Eureka
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: by more than one score a.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: Long time ago, twenty twelve.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lafayet's got some win.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Eureka has definitely had the upper hand in the rivalry overall,
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: but Lafayette has got a good a fair amount of
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: wins over the past several years. But it's been a
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: while since Lafayette has really dominated, and I think LAFA
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: is the more talented team, but I still think Eureka
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: has been showing a lot of good stuff recently.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: We'll see which passing attack can be more consistent.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: So that's my take. It should be an amazing game,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: though hopefully we'll go to it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Eureka is going to be Have you ever
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: been ever been?
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: You ever been to an Eureka game? I have not.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: It's pretty good. I've not been to a Eureka home
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: game before a few times.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: But yes, that's what I'm I mean, that's it's gonna
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: be a pack crowd. I mean, the game's last several
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: well really the last three years, so open pretty big.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: I think last year, I want to say, both teams
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: were undefeated. Yeah, both teams were undefeated going into the
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: game last year, and that.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Was a big deal.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: And I just something about I mean no offense to
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: like all the other rock with schools, but I just
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: think a lot of Eureka is a little bit different.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just something about their field. It's there,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: there is a track, but the I just like their
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: grand sensetups and they're just loud over there. And then
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: they have a lot of Eureka's got a they have
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: one end zone where there's a lot of fans right
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: there they get to sit there, and so it's just
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: louder and it definitely they definitely do have like a
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: true true home environment there. So if you, if you
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: do happen to go to that game, Roman and anybody
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: else who wants to go as a new shral, then
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you definitely.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Gotta get a pretty cool experience there.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: So but I I think I'm picking. I'm picking the
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Lancers to win this game.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: Though. Should be an amazing weekend.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Got a lot of great games teed up, a lot
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: of a lot of one score spreads, I see, so
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: it should be should be a fantastic, fantastic weekend.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: I'm looking I'm definitely looking forward to it. Yeah, me too.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: As always, all right, guys, we will see you out
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: there this weekend.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Be safe, have fun, and thank you all for listening.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: As always, Peace,