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Back on The Football Show, North Jersey, sports.com's original
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multimedia series talking all things football across North
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Jersey. This is Season 13 Episode 8.
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The playoffs are just about upon us.
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I am Corey Dobiak, being joined by my illustrious panel of North
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Jersey football insiders, starting with the venerable 1.
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He is Jimmy Abacabo. What's going on, Jimmy?
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What's up, Corey? We're at my favorite time of the
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year. NJIC finals coming up Friday
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night down a try on field and I think we've gone to everyone.
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I know Brian's gone to everyone. I'm I went to this one.
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So yeah, Brian's been there. He's got all the pennants, all
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the yearbooks from the game. So we'll, we'll, we'll look for
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a good game on Friday night. Yes, and the weather is starting
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to turn. It's starting to feel like fall
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finally, definitely feeling like playoff football.
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And a guy who has just been all over the map, literally.
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When it comes to North Jersey football, Brian has been in high
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gear. He is the former head Husky, the
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former Pope of the Cardinal of the Westwood, the current lead
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dog, alpha male in the bulldog pack.
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He is Brian Car. What's going on, Brian?
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Hey Corey, like Jimmy said, his favorite time of year and
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favorite time NCIC final coming up this week and what we'll have
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this week down and try on field. You'll have the last four
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winners of the title last year, Butler and the previous 3
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Rutherford had a three O streak going on.
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They missed the playoffs last year.
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So you'll have a, you know, it should be a good game and we'll
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talk about that and getting hot and heavy with PowerPoints.
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Games are meaningful games and it's if you win, it helps your
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PowerPoints and helps your seedings.
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So we'll talk about some of that as well, Corey.
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I'm not letting you get off the hook that easy, Jimmy.
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He doesn't even sound excited like the NJIC final is that try
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on field this Friday night, right?
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You know, we just take it, take it from the top and start all
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over again. I mean.
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You once he once he gets that 75U on and and starts partaking
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in the in the pregame offense and defensive line drills, he'll
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get into it. Right, do it now.
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Put put out on the Twitter, the 75 jersey again.
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Come on, start all over again. How excited are you the NJIC
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final at Tryon Field? I mean, I'm, I'm sure Steve
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Doug, you've been in contact with Steve Doug already, right?
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I mean, yeah, it's a new world. Sure, we, we, Steve and I stay
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in touch. And you know, they had a
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thriller the other night. Corey showed, you know, it's
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it's this year. It's one of those years where
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the dogs aren't the favorite. In the past, probably a number
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of times you thought they were the favorite, but this time
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they're not. So it's going to be a little
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uphill battle for the dogs. But hey, we got to go there and
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hopefully they put on a good show.
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And Butler's a very good team, really good team.
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And the stats don't lie. And a lot of seniors you don't.
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You don't like Butler, do you? I mean, you hate Butler.
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You know, you know, we like, you got to be nice to everybody for,
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you know, you know. Yeah, you're not.
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You're you're you are a partisan.
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You're a bulldog. Well, that's Butler's a bulldog,
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too. So that's absolutely.
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Way it goes. I.
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Win. It'll work.
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It'll work out for him. That's.
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Right. No, I, I really, I really, you
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know, I was planning on, I was trying to and I was hoping to
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get down to Rutherford on Friday night.
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But you know, like I live the world headquarters of North
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Jersey. Sports.com is up in the upper
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right hand corner of Bergen County and Rutherford is in the
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bottom left. And I was at the world
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headquarters 50 minutes before tip off and I was just about,
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you know, thinking I got to get in the car and I got to get down
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there. There was no way I was getting
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there in 50 minutes on a Friday night from with all of the
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things in the all of the things between me and them.
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It would have taken me an hour and a half to get there and I
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would have had to, I'd probably put should have parked in
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Northville anyway and walk. So I wasn't able to make the
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game. But when I saw, I was following
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along when I saw Bry, a 1413 final.
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I mean, first of all, congratulations to Rutherford
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for once again finding a way to win.
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But you got a second that when it comes to Woodridge, too,
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because, you know, they, they, they put up a heck of a fight.
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Yeah, Corey, it's should have been, it could have been, should
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have been. Woodridge had their chances one
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extra point away from the tie. But Woodridge put on a good, you
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know, good battle and did the best they could.
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You know, a couple turnovers, they had a a penalty that they
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were driving a score, another score and they had a penalty and
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it pushed them back and they weren't able to convert credits
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in Rutherford. You know, there's you know, in
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the past years we've seen where a lot of times they haven't
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played competitive games and this year they've been a couple
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dog fights. So hey, no, not a not to mention
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dogs here, no pun intended here, but they did play Glen Rock 3.
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Nothing. You talked with coach last week
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and here you go to another game. So you know, if you get to the
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playoffs, you're going to be in these kind of games.
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So hopefully they can keep the game close and then they can,
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you know, take sneak out a win out of here.
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I mean, when you've been there before, both teams have been
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there before. So it's not like Butler hasn't
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been there. They won it last year.
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And when I quote, when I look at Pierre roster, 14 seniors, 14 at
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Butler and we know you heard from coach, they're the young
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puppies. They've only got 2 seniors over
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there in Rutherford, 14 juniors. Butler's got 9 juniors.
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So heavily heavy upperclassmen down over at Butler coming off
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of the, you know, a NGIC final win last year and a quarter,
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half of their game against New Milford a couple weeks ago.
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You know, David Smith, the quarterback back who this kid
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can throw, he run, he ran for four touchdowns against
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Woodridge in the first half alone.
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So and he ran it for about 250 yards in the game.
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So they're going to have their hands full, but that's their
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guy. They got to stop, you know, and
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it should be the game, You know, we'll we'll go down and let the
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best team win. And I look at the stats too, not
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to keep going here too much, but stat wise, very even different.
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Butler has had more plays, but they're roughly the average
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total about 8 yards of play each team combined.
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So very evenly matched. But like I said, you know, you
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have the advantage. A lot more seniors and they've
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been there before. They won the championship last
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year and some of the kids here too.
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The quarterback won an NGIC championship as a freshman 2
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years ago. So you know, he's battle tested
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and what you've seen with them now, last game they were, you
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know, Woodridge, credit to them, shut down their running game.
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But the quarterback had to step up Miles Balkan and he was able
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to step up and carry the team and got that final touchdown at
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the end. So it's they've been back and
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forth. Some games you see Rutherford,
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you see him throwing, some games you see him running.
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So I think they need to be well balanced because Butler is going
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to be well balanced. Butler runs heavy, heavy, a lot
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of running plays and very little bit of passing.
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But when they pass, they're very efficient, so should be a very
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competitive game and looking forward to a Corey on Friday
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night, I'll get excited. Come Friday, I'll be more
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excited. Corey, just as we get, you know,
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the week progresses, I'll get more excited.
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I'll get my 75 jersey out and I'll wear that.
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Jimmy, he, he said that was better right than that first
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aid. Let's all play well.
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But I mean, now, now he sounds like he's pumped up.
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You would have thought the game was being kicked off in 5
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minutes. That's how excited he is.
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I know. Jimmy.
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He'll be at practice. He'll be at practice tomorrow.
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Coach Dunnell be asking him for some adjustments since right.
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So play some plays, Don't, don't put me in, don't be on the
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sideline far away from the play goal.
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I know that Woodridge still has the state playoffs to look
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forward to. So, you know, I'm not asking for
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a post mortem, but really a a great run by Woodridge here.
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And I know you're close to that program.
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What? What a great job by the Blue
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Devils. Oh, absolutely.
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I mean, it's been a fantastic year.
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They go to Rutherford, you know, and I, I think Woodridge would
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have admitted if, if you asked the athletic director, Mr.
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Sinclair, you know, their first five or six games, maybe the
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strength of schedule wasn't real strong.
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They did what they had to do. I think a lot of people were
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kind of looking back and saying, OK, now you have one of the the
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upper echelon teams in the division.
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Let's see what you did. And you know, Brian mentioned
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it. They had multiple opportunities.
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They actually had a touchdown, I believe called back on a lineman
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downfield and that was the lineman downfield, which you
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know, could have cost him A2 touchdown lead.
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But in defense, you know, a Rutherford found the way and
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that's what good teams do. You find a way where maybe
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things aren't going your way. It is in your night.
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And you know, one thing about Rutherford, they do have a
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kicking game as as we noticed in the Glen Rock game when he 3
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nothing. And unfortunately for Woodridge,
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it came down to an extra point. But you know, they have backed
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in this week, which is a which is a long time rivalry right
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now. Well, if the season ended, they
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would be scheduled to play Hasbro tights in the first round
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of the playoffs. Obviously a Thanksgiving rivalry
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for a long time. So, you know, good effort by
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Woodridge and and they certainly have a lot to play for the rest
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of the year. Yeah, no doubt about it.
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I mean, and Butler made short work of Becton on the other side
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of the bracket. So, you know, a good job by
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Becton too. I I don't know what the
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preseason prognostications were, but for them to get there and,
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you know, have their presence felt this season was a good job.
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By by Becton as well. I mean, some other good teams in
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the NJIC didn't get there. So yeah, kudos, kudos, Becton.
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Becton Becton's done a great job.
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Their coaching staff has been together now for a while.
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They do a good job coaching those kids up.
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They're in position to make plays.
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You know, you get to a semi final, you know, Becton now is
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in Group 2, I believe because of the addition, the addition of
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the Maywood students coming in. So you know, that's certainly a
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step up for them to go from Group 1 to Group 2.
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You saw it last year. They had to take the long ride
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up the high point and ran into, you know, very physical high
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point team, but no strain for back then.
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You know, they'll be in the playoffs.
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They're they're very consistent program.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah, I mean that that is true.
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And Becton, you know, try to pass the referendum to make more
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space at the school because of the Maywood kids and you're
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moving up in athletics because of the Maywood kids.
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You know, some unintended consequences there.
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But you know, all part of the game here and all right, so that
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was the Friday night specials in the NJIC.
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Couple more things I want to mention from the NJIC.
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And wow, the most impressive winning streak in North Jersey
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came to an end this week. Still proud of the Powell Park
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slash Leonia Tiger slash Lions 2821, a loss against Cresskill
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slash Emerson and Jimmy and I were talking before the show.
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All kidding aside, this is probably as close as Powell Park
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has been to Cresskill in a high school football game.
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Probably since Powell Park won it's only state sectional
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championship in its history back in 1991, which Jason Maletic at
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the controls. I would I would venture a guess
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that Powell Park has not been within seven points of Cresskill
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in the last 35 years. Jimmy.
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Yeah. I mean I.
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It's possible. I know they had the one run
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where they did get to a sectional final at Giants
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Stadium. Yeah.
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I'm just trying to remember that year, what year that?
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Was with Adeyami Da Silva was the quarterback.
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Yeah. Dave Schuman was the club and
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then just kind of ducked it into the Powell Park High School
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Athletic Hall of Fame recently. Or or is going in, I think in
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the next class. But yeah, so they've only been
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to the connectional finals twice and I don't know if they played.
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We could probably look that one up.
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Yeah, we. Could look that up.
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I'll look it up. I'll go through.
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I'll go through the the Bible, Pat Rice's OK Bergen Passaic
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football as we're doing the show, and let me see if I can
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find it. Yes, and then the other one I
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want to mention is how about Saddlebrook picking up its first
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win of the season, 2625, over Wallington in the crazy game?
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Joe Catrona, former head coach, moved over to take over to
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Saddlebrook this year. You know, steady improvement.
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And then I think the best thing you can say about Saddlebrook
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is, you know, through a winless campaign, they're still fighting
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hard and came down to the last minute against Wallington and
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picked up their first W Brad. That's that's got to be a good
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feeling for the old Falcons over there.
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Sure, sure. That's why we stopped over
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there. Corey, Jimmy there.
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Vinnie was there. Bobby Maines were there, you
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know, go down and, you know, support the coach.
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You know, we saw him at, you know, Woodridge being very
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successful at Woodridge for a number of years.
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What about four years? And we wanted to go down here
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and support those guys. And I hadn't seen the new field.
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You know, credit to those kids. We talked about this in other
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games. They got back down to
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touchdowns. second-half, credit to the kids.
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They hung in there and came back, scored two touchdowns,
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took the lead and one of those back and forth kind of games and
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came down to a final play. They lined up to go for a field
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goal and I think Jimmy has it down better than I do.
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But they brought in the quarterback and they lined him
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up right over the center and he was able to get through the line
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and able to block the field goal attempt by Wallington that would
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have given them the win. And then, you know, it turned
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out the Falcons of Saddlebrook were able to win that game and
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Joey Catrona had his first win of the year.
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But hey, the kids play really tough.
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Quarterback Nick Vidiello touchdown, block field goal
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running back Dylan, I forgot how to say his last name,
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Cervicella, 2 touchdowns, Sertiella.
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And then they had the other guy that I think he had been out
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number six. Jaden Gatis, I think is his
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name. Pretty powerful runner came in.
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I'm not sure he's great. I think he's senior.
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Senior, yeah. But he came in and, and did a
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good job out there and he, I think he had at least one
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touchdown, maybe a 2 point conversion.
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So they, they seem to step up and when they need to, you know,
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not a lot of kids in the program, but you know, you have
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to win, I think in order to get the program off the ground and
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to get more success. And I think everybody was happy
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down at Saddlebrook. So one of our good friends,
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Johnny Way was down there. His son plays on the team.
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Anthony Way also heard that another coach, she's down there,
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Anthony Angelo Desalvo was down there.
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His nephew is TJTJ is a Gwynn was one of the players on the
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team. So other people like us were
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down there to support Saddlebrook even though they
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were winless going in. So they do have a couple more
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games to play. They're going to play this week.
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They're going to go to North Arlington, play them in the
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crossover and then they'll play Tenafly the following week.
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So chance to be two and O3 and O, so chance to build on that.
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Go ahead. I don't know if Jimmy's got
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anything about Saddlebrook and Joey control.
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you mentioned, you
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mentioned yeah, Oh yeah, absolutely.
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You mentioned O and seven coming in the last two games of 1413
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loss to a pretty good New Milford team.
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And then they had a late lead against Hawthorne, 20 to 17,
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gave up a last minute touchdown. So you know, they've been around
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that win the last couple of a couple of weeks.
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They just couldn't get over the hump.
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And as Brian mentioned, you know, when when Wallington took
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the two score lead, it kind of said to yourself on the
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sideline, you know, here we go again.
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But give credit to those kids. Only 7 not easy would have been
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very easy to put their head down.
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They, they fought to the end as, as Brian mentioned, their
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quarterback, they sent the quarterback in Nick Vidiello to
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hopefully, you know, 6263, hopefully to get his hands up
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and block it. He was able to block it.
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And The funny thing is, as the celebration went on, Corey, the
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football was laying about 3 yards deep in the backfield.
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You know, it it is a live ball if it's behind the line of
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scrimmage. And I'm kinda it, it felt like
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10 minutes. But on film it literally
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literally was about four seconds.
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And people were yelling they jump on the ball.
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It's a live ball, which they did.
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And you know, to them it was their Super Bowl.
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You know, the seniors, they had played hard all, all year.
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It just didn't work out their way.
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And as Brian mentioned, you know, they have two games, which
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you know, they have an opportunity.
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So if they can, you know, if they can win out and win three
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games, I think the it'll lead them into the offseason.
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The underclassmen, you know, you'll you'll want to get in the
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weight room. I know coach Catrona is spending
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a lot of time down at the the junior program.
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I think combined they the three levels have one loss.
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So, you know, hope Rome wasn't built in a day and you got to
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put the foundation down. And I think that's what's
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happening right now. Yes, so good on ya Saddlebrook.
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Have you gotten any information about my beloved Tiger Lions or
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we already moved? No, no, I got it. 1998 was their
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last win against Cresco. That's crazy.
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So I wasn't that far off here. Seven years off.
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Yeah, I mean, but you know, back for some years they didn't play
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Cresco, but 1998 they opened the season OO and five and they
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they're only the two weeks, two wins of the year were Dwight
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Anglewood in a forfeit when Dwight Anglewood dropped to get
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the program that year and Cresskill 3528, so 1998.
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When Dwight Anglewood, I mean, it's been forever since Dwight
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Anglewood has had a football program.
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So you just think about it that way.
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It's like they haven't won since Dwight Anglewood had a team.
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Yeah, I mean, Dwight Angle would try for, you know, to go
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independent and and for a couple of years and would start the
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season off and then have to give it up at the end.
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And you know, again, it's just, you know, it's tough when you
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see those types of things happening with programs, so.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. No doubt about it.
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All right, so that's the NJIC. Let's move on here.
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I know you guys were present in the Super Football Conference on
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Friday night, which was, you know, the game of the week
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quote, UN quote was Westwood and Ramsey in Ramsey and Jimmy.
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I mean Westwood, you know, we all figured at the beginning of
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the season that Westwood was going to take a step back.
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And it wasn't about really Westwood.
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It was just about all of the great players that have come
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through the program in the last couple years and they graduate
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and you're like, it's got to be got to move back a little bit.
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And all they've done is win all of their games except for one
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this year and the last one in pretty impressive fashion.
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Yeah, I mean, you mentioned, you know that rivalry Westwood comes
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out with the win their 4th consecutive division
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championships. And again it you know, when we
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when people perceive Westwood to be down, it's not what the
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players they have now. It's just how how can you
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sustain the type of losses and and quality players they have
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the last year. But you know, let's remember
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they have the difference maker on that program.
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Every time he steps on the field, he is the best player on
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the field. And he certainly again was the
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other night ran for about 150 yards on what I take 11 carries.
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You know, Ramsey, you know, first drive they scored and from
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then on they had some opportunities and Westwood held
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them and you know, rest Westwood got got the ground game going.
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They certainly did their other running back slot wide receiver
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Rasmussen is a is another kid who's come out of nowhere.
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And I, and I think Corey, the success of Westwood is their
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ability to develop kids year in, year out, out from the JV on up.
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And, and one of the reasons, and you could see Brian Wright with
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about 6 or 7 minutes left in the game, Westwood pulled their
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players and their JV offense went to went to work and they
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look pretty good. So you know, they give their
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when they can, they give their their young kids opportunities
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to get varsity experiences. Very rarely will you see a
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Westwood be the team 50 to nothing when they could.
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You know, they'll call the dogs off when it's 28, nothing, 35,
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nothing and let their younger kids play to get that experience
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and it and it certainly shows. No doubt, Brian, your thoughts?
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Westwood 34, Ramsey 7. Yeah, you know, we, we talk
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about programs. You've got a program, you know,
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like Jimmy said, two young kids. I was impressed #42 Matt
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Terwillaker, only a sophomore. The kid looks like a senior, but
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the kids play well. I mean, the other guy really
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stood out. Jimmy.
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I saw him too. Tyler Hansen.
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Jimmy mentioned a few kids. Tyler Hansen.
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It was a fourth down play early. Second quarter game was still
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close. Westwood dropped one score.
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Ramsey's inside the 20 of Westwood.
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Tyler Hanson comes flying over, just stops the quarterback in
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his tracks. Steve Klein was right behind
22:57
him. And that, that's the kind of
23:00
thing. And then they had another series
23:01
like that too, where they stopped them in their own
23:03
territory. So they and they tackle well,
23:07
they don't not, you know, miss tackles.
23:09
They tackle and they wrap them up and they keep them there.
23:12
So I think it's well coached. And the kids, like I said, too,
23:16
must be in the weight room. That's Williker, man.
23:18
The kid looks solid. He's only a young sophomore, but
23:22
he's a big time player quarterback, only a sophomore.
23:26
Bruno Vega. The kid sits back in the pocket.
23:29
Jim seeing them too, sits back there comfortable looking
23:32
around. I mean, he had a 2 touchdown
23:35
passes. He found Stevie Klein open once
23:37
in the end zone. He found Ed Rasmussen open once.
23:40
And then his last touchdown he ran for like they couldn't
23:44
tackle him. It must have been 5 minutes,
23:47
tackles on the run, about 10 yards.
23:49
The kid was all over the field. But anyway, Jimmy mentioned
23:52
Stevie Klein too. Steve Klein, 2 touchdowns, 1
23:55
catch, one run. They just couldn't stop him.
23:58
Just, you know, in the end of the game, he was still fresh in
24:01
the third quarter, iced it, ran it down to the two and I forget
24:06
who scored. I think Rasmussen scored another
24:08
touchdown there, but very impressive.
24:10
Westwood, Ramsey, you know, we talked about it.
24:13
Jimmy and I talked defense coaches, we talked about it.
24:17
You know, defenses wins championship and you know,
24:20
Westwood is just out tough them and and played better defense
24:25
and didn't let any big plays up. You know, Stevie Klein, he
24:28
opened the game up with a 47 yard touchdown.
24:31
He he had some big chunk plays that really set the tone for
24:34
Westwood. And the other thing to mention
24:36
too, PowerPoints, these are big games.
24:39
Ramsey is up pretty high in the group.
24:41
They're #12 right now, Westwood's number one, they win
24:45
these kind of games. That helps them maintain that
24:48
top seed in the group of Group 2.
24:52
Ramsey's got another game to play this week.
24:54
Ramsey got a game against our hometown Huskies.
24:57
Huskies won their game up at Pascack Hills, as expected
25:01
against a two and four Pascack Hills team.
25:04
But Ramsey will have to come down, you know when they're
25:07
going to want to win that because I don't want to say they
25:09
don't make the playoffs, but I don't, not an expert at the
25:12
numbers, but they really want to win that game and to help their
25:16
playoff positioning. I don't know if they fall out at
25:18
5:00 and 3:00, but you got to be careful.
25:21
There's guys below them. And the other thing I got to
25:24
mention, some of the guys below them are in the NGIC and the
25:27
NGIC with their tournament. I was going to mention this on
25:30
the Group One side as well, that these games that they're playing
25:34
with crossovers, they're playing like opponents.
25:37
So the NGIC teams are helping their PowerPoint because they're
25:40
playing teams that are of equal, you know, good records.
25:45
They're not playing unless the lower teams are playing weaker
25:47
teams, but the upper teams are playing crossovers against like
25:50
teams. So like Hasbrook Heights, we saw
25:52
on Friday, on Saturday night, Hasbrook Heights after their win
25:56
picked up almost the points and PowerPoints and they're able to
26:00
go up 1 speed 11-UP. I think they're #4 now.
26:05
So that's something that's really big and we talked about
26:07
that over the years with the NGIC, with these playoffs, with
26:10
helps the teams. So I kind of wandered around.
26:13
But again, again, Ramsey's got a big game coming with DuMont for
26:16
PowerPoints. Ramsey probably really needs
26:19
that more than DuMont. But yeah, Westwood, watch out.
26:22
They got the verbal. DuMont is is fighting for, you
26:26
know, home field advantage straight up to the sectional
26:29
final, I mean. Sure.
26:31
Sure they could. They could position themselves
26:33
to be the number two seed in that bracket and that would be
26:36
crazy. Here's a couple things that of
26:38
note next week. Westwood, you know, coming off
26:42
this win and now they they go play River.
26:46
Is it Riverdale? Yeah, they play Bird Bowl.
26:49
Bird Bowl. Yeah, the Bird Bowl, a good
26:50
rivalry game. And the crazy thing about it is,
26:53
like Riverdale, we saw them when they played Old Japan, you know,
26:58
Ultipan has proven itself to be miles above the competition.
27:01
And then you're like, oh, Riverdale is struggling.
27:03
Not, not so, not so fast, my friend.
27:07
As you know, Riverdale had got off to a tough start with Owen
27:11
2. They had a tough loss in the
27:14
opener against Nutley and a couple people that I was talking
27:17
to around the Riverdale program said that that was definitely a
27:21
winnable game. Now whatever they they could
27:23
have beaten Nutley, but Nutley deserved to win whatever.
27:27
But the bottom line is that Riverdale is now on a six
27:29
game-winning streak. They're six and two.
27:32
They beat Pascag Valley 1413 last week and now will host
27:36
Westwood this week in what could be a PowerPoint bonanza for both
27:40
teams. And it says a lot about
27:42
Riverdale that I've gotten off the deck to win six straight.
27:45
And Jimmy. It also says a lot about Pascag
27:48
Valley, which is suffering through maybe one of the most
27:52
disappointing seasons in recent memory in North Jersey.
27:55
High expectations, you know, obviously injuries have played a
28:00
part, but Pascack Valley kind of playing like their shoes are
28:04
tied together. Yeah, and you know, you
28:06
mentioned Coach Crusamano stepping down.
28:09
They win the sectional last year.
28:11
They return a lot led by Shore, their their outstanding
28:15
quarterback and linebacker. And you know, obviously he gets
28:20
hurt, a couple of their other players get hurt and all of a
28:24
sudden they've, they seem to drop the drop a couple levels.
28:30
You know, they lost the Riverdale.
28:32
You know, did you expect anything else from a Riverdale
28:34
team with a coach? No.
28:38
Now, listen, I must add, and they did play a couple of teams
28:42
that, you know, we're struggling.
28:44
So it it allowed them to get straightened out.
28:48
They took care of business. And again, great win.
28:51
And and you know, I was talking to Coach Vervino, the athletic
28:55
director at Westwood and we were talking about that game.
28:58
And he said, Jimmy, no matter what the records are, no matter
29:02
who you're assume is better or not, that day is going to come
29:07
down to the last possession of the game.
29:10
Riverdale will be ready. As you mentioned, they're
29:12
playing for the bowl, the bird cage, the hawk and the and the
29:17
Westwood Cardinals. So, you know, if you're what if
29:20
you're Westwood, you certainly can't go into that game
29:24
expecting the West because you'll come out with the loss.
29:28
Yes, yeah. And when you say, though, you
29:31
know that they have played teams that are struggling.
29:34
There's just so many teams out there that are struggling that
29:37
every team is having it. You know what I mean?
29:40
Like the gap, the gap, you know, we saw it when the parochials
29:44
pulled away from the big public, from the public's in general.
29:48
And now we're seeing with the good public's pulling away from
29:50
the other public's and then the other public's pulling away from
29:53
the Ivy. I mean, there is a distinct and
29:56
traceable pecking order in North Jersey football this year that
30:00
is only solidifying itself. And it's, you know, what level
30:04
are you at? And when the 2 levels meet up,
30:07
it's usually not not really close.
30:09
So, you know, that's just the way it it's gone.
30:13
I mean, those are deeper issues that have to do with a lot of
30:15
things. And maybe we'll do it in our
30:18
yearly wrap up with our featured guests that we close seasons out
30:22
with every year. But this week he's got bigger
30:25
fish to fry with the Golden Hawks on tap.
30:29
But what else in the in the Super Football Conference?
30:33
I thought that was interesting. There just a couple other things
30:36
that stand out. I mean, Brian, you mentioned
30:39
that DuMont 30 to 24 win over Pascal kills and you know,
30:43
Pascal kills still fighting. I'm a I say it all the time, a
30:46
big Evan Lampert fan. And you know, so they they have
30:51
they started on four. They won two in a row and then
30:53
they lost the DuMont but put up a good fight.
30:55
You had old Japan. JC Baumauer covered the story
30:59
for North Jersey sports.com. He can read his story up there
31:02
now, 4728 over Wayne Hills. And I don't know where do you
31:06
want to go with either one of those, right?
31:07
Old Japan just they're good. Yeah, yeah, Ulta Pan solid as we
31:14
know, Corey, you know, we, for those who haven't heard us
31:17
before, we talked about they, they beat Ramapo at home and
31:20
then they go to Northern Highlands, beat Northern
31:22
Highlands and we'll talk about those two teams.
31:24
The only loss is for both of those guys and they're both
31:26
group four teams. So they're big teams that
31:29
they're up against. Yeah, Ulta Pan is just on a
31:33
roll. You mentioned Riverdale right
31:35
now as it goes, if it stays the way it is, Riverdale would have
31:39
to go to Ulta Pan and play them. So it'll be an interesting match
31:41
up, some local flavor in there keep you interested.
31:46
Corey, you want to go to those kind of games, you know, when
31:48
you want to. Play it around the corner from
31:50
my house with two teams within shouting distance.
31:53
That are local yeah so that's so that you know all the pan is
31:57
just continues to you know stay out the course.
32:01
You know, they're they're cruising towards the playoffs
32:03
and you know, that's you know, we don't doubt anything that
32:07
happens at old Japan with those kids and the coaching staff they
32:11
have, as we've talked about the program they have.
32:14
But moving right on court. If you don't mind, I can head
32:17
over to the big feature game for this week in Bergen County.
32:21
And that would be the size of the one on Saturday.
32:24
We have one on Friday night where you have Ramapo will have
32:28
to go to Northern Highlands, one of their big arch rivals.
32:32
And I'm sure you'd like to go to that game, Corey, since they are
32:35
neighbors in a big game. You've got those two schools.
32:40
Both teams are only one loss. It's again, I looked at their
32:45
stats. The difference I see here,
32:47
Ramapo, they both, they both run and pass about equal in terms of
32:52
number of plays, pretty equal. The one thing that really stands
32:56
out on the Ramapo side, they score a lot of points.
32:59
So in Northern Highlands typically is a low scoring team.
33:04
They score only about 21, but they only give up 11.
33:07
So they're a + 10. But Ramapo scores 40 on average
33:12
and gives up only 7. And that's a 33 point spread
33:16
there. So you know, based on scoring
33:19
alone, but that you could take, you could probably throw all
33:22
that stuff out. Doesn't probably need a whole
33:24
lot because these two teams they know each other very well and
33:28
very competitive and a round of post since your loss to Old
33:32
Japan has only gone out every game gave up only gave up seven
33:38
points and three of the games out of four and they've scored
33:41
41 or more points SO414247 points in their four games since
33:48
their loss all the time. So you know when they played
33:50
Montclair PCT Wayne Valley good Wayne Valley.
33:54
We were there for that game, Jimmy and I and then they played
33:57
Hackensack most recently. So roundup seems to be blowing.
34:02
You know, Northern Highlands on the other hand, you know they're
34:06
more they have a more recent loss to old Japan only a couple
34:09
of weeks ago round pull lost back in September to old Japan.
34:14
So, you know, but I that I mentioned too, their defense is
34:18
really stout. They've only given up about 11
34:20
points a game at Northern Highlands.
34:22
They score about 21 points. So they're, you know, they're
34:27
and they're only giving up the last they give up maximum.
34:30
This is Northern Highlands maximum 13 points a game is Max
34:34
and their average is 11. So play tough defense.
34:38
They both teams run heavy and you know, but who knows who's
34:42
going to win? You know, it could be anybody's
34:44
game. But again, back to our old
34:46
favorite line here, PowerPoints, PowerPoints, PowerPoints, you
34:50
know, both of them. You've got Ramapo right now
34:52
sitting at #4 and you've got Northern Highlands #1 so if
34:59
Ramapo could ever get it really helps their playoff position get
35:03
possibly home field advantage all the way through the
35:05
playoffs. So, so it should be a great
35:08
game. If anybody's around northern
35:09
Bergen County, I think that's the place to go on Friday night.
35:13
The. Only thing is they're both
35:14
grouped for and it's probably. Or it could just be round one
35:18
of. What might be?
35:21
Slob or not? That will take place, you know,
35:24
round two, beating the playoffs. So yeah, it would.
35:27
I mean, that's something that we're talking about here is what
35:29
do you do you go NJIC final or do you go to round 4 Highlands?
35:31
And I think because they're playing for a trophy this time
35:34
around in the NJIC final, that's where you go.
35:38
But, you know, certainly a case could be made for Highlands Rand
35:41
Paul, which has had so many memorable moments of wouldn't it
35:44
be a great Thanksgiving Day game?
35:45
That would be a a fun one. Yeah.
35:47
But, you know, they had the blackout a couple years ago that
35:51
didn't have anything to do with the changing of the the clocks
35:55
and playing by candlelight or trying to play by candlelight.
35:58
And then you know, so many chap great chapters to that rivalry
36:03
since Northern Highlands has regrouped and made itself good
36:06
again over about the past the last decade or so.
36:10
So yeah, that's definitely a game of interest.
36:12
Couple things that just the last ones that come to my bride.
36:16
You gave our boy Joe Borkowski the old Okie doke this week.
36:20
He had AT shirt ready for you and probably a slice from Benny
36:24
Tudino's down there in the locker room for you and Hoboken
36:26
and you you didn't show up. But even without you there 28 to
36:31
6 over Newark Collegiate. Hoboken is 8 and O on the season
36:36
and you can comment on that quickly.
36:38
But I also, I want to mention our friend Ron Anello and
36:41
Montclair, the once mighty Montclair program.
36:44
He's trying to, you know, recalibrate.
36:47
And the way to do it is to win some ball games.
36:50
He got win #1 in this stint as the Montclair head coach.
36:53
Montclair 20, Barringer 12. So, you know, just a couple
36:58
things to point out. Brian Yeah.
37:00
Hey, Hoboken. Yeah, you're right.
37:01
Hoboken, You know, we saw the game and as I mentioned earlier,
37:05
we went over to Saddlebrook to support, you know, Coach Catrona
37:08
in his first trying to get his first win.
37:10
Hoboken kind of looked at the numbers.
37:12
We put it up on the board. Like Jimmy said, we put it up on
37:14
the board and looked at it. Hoboken seemed to be just a
37:18
little bit of a favorite. And plus, as you mentioned, too,
37:21
the long road down to Hoboken. I don't know what that would be
37:24
like on a Friday night. Can you imagine getting down?
37:28
No, no, I mean, I don't know, maybe, maybe I'm getting older
37:31
and crankier and, and it's just like, you know, 'cause but I've
37:34
been sitting in traffic my whole life.
37:35
It really doesn't bother me that much.
37:37
It's, it's just the, the fact is you just can't get there in
37:41
time, you know, especially if you guys ride a game first and
37:43
then you, you know, you take off and you're trying to battle
37:46
Friday night. I I don't know, maybe I, I think
37:49
in the old days traffic was bad, but it was not choke point
37:52
traffic. I mean, now I could have taken
37:55
off from Rutherford night. I, I might, might not have made
37:57
it until halftime. So, Corey?
37:59
Over by me, the other traffic around here in New Milford,
38:01
DuMont, I don't notice so much in other towns around the area,
38:05
Waukee towns here, Paramus, but we got all kinds of paving going
38:10
on. They're repaving Madison Ave.
38:11
which is the main road through town and Madison Ave. is bad
38:15
enough because the trains go through and the kids come out of
38:17
school that Can you imagine now you now you're going to pave the
38:22
roads and nobody knows how you get around town.
38:25
Everywhere is an obstacle. You know, it's just.
38:29
They do it up, up, you know, up this way too.
38:31
And they'll close Knickerbocker and Piermont, the only two
38:34
north-south roads getting out of the northern valley.
38:37
They'll pave them both on the same day.
38:39
Or somebody's doing electrical work.
38:40
So it's like, oh, OK, I'll cut across.
38:42
Then you get there. There's another There's another
38:45
detour that goes nowhere. Exactly what you're doing,
38:48
DuMont, you'd think there's a, they're paving.
38:50
There's a road by the elementary school New Milford that runs
38:52
parallel to Madison. There's a as you go into New
38:55
Milford, it's up the next block in off of Madison.
38:58
So you're paving Madison from the circle, you know, up in
39:02
Knickerbocker all the way down to River Rd. in New Milford is
39:05
being paved, I think. I don't know if it goes past the
39:07
Boulevard, but it's quite a ways down the road, right?
39:10
I know it goes past Prospect. It's quite a ways down.
39:12
And then they're they're working on Madison, but they're also
39:16
working on the next block. So when you detour you in there,
39:18
you can't get out of there. Like what do you guys think?
39:21
You got a backtrack, Turn around, go back to Prospect, go
39:24
South past Bergenfield High School to get out of the area.
39:27
It's like. And I, I love when the cops just
39:30
sit in the car and then they're like saying, hey, maybe you want
39:34
to make a right and a left here. Even where I live, occasionally
39:38
we get people in the neighborhood, they detour them.
39:40
You know, they've been doing construction on the road as
39:42
well, I guess They've been preparing for the bathing,
39:44
They've been working in the road, they've been doing
39:46
sidewalks with the. So they've already been doing
39:48
it. So it's going on for two months.
39:49
But anyway, anyway, yeah, traffic again through.
39:52
Virtue. And Lodive, we don't even
39:55
repave. We just got giant potholes so
39:59
you know where you can lose your car in but you know court.
40:03
Just just want to mention two of the big two of the big boy
40:07
games. Yes, last week, which were big,
40:11
the Paul defending non public B champions coming off a tough
40:17
loss for Don Bosco. They go down and all they do is
40:20
knock off Saint Peter's in Caven Point.
40:24
You know that's a big win for them, which will guarantee them
40:28
the number one seed in non public B It'll it also opens up
40:33
in the non public a bracket a transfer Bergen Catholic.
40:38
If Bergen Catholic can beat Saint Joseph this week, there
40:42
will probably be the two seed over Saint Peters prep and in
40:46
non public day a big win last week for Paramus Catholic.
40:51
They took on undefeated 7 and O Red Bank Catholic team that's
40:56
been I think in the last three or four non public finals.
41:00
They defeated him 30 to 16, which probably will guarantee
41:05
Paramus Catholic the number two seed in that bracket, which is
41:10
interesting. Which would we might see if
41:13
everything works out a rematch of the the Paul Paramus Catholic
41:17
game, which was a tie game after 3/4.
41:20
So that's some parochial things. And then obviously this week we
41:25
have the Saint Joe's coming into or they'll have to take on
41:30
Bergen Catholic. You know, Saint Joe's had a had
41:34
a forfeit win last week given to them by Pope John, who had some
41:40
medical issues in the program. And how weird is that?
41:43
That was the second forfeit that Saint Joe's had this year,
41:47
right? You know, you kind of you kind
41:49
of feel sorry for their seniors who were not able to play in two
41:53
extra games and going in the. Long run though it.
41:57
Might help. Yeah, yeah, maybe some injuries
42:00
had an opportunity to heal up, but they're going into where
42:04
they'll have, you know, last year in the state semifinal,
42:07
they had a 2 score lead over Bergie Catholic and really had
42:11
pushed Bergen to the end. Bergen found the way to get back
42:15
in the game and win an overtime. But I think this is a very, very
42:18
important game for coach Augie Hoffman.
42:21
And stay goes with two losses. They don't want to suffer that
42:25
third loss. You know, you get that third
42:27
loss that might put them as a five seed and that might send
42:32
them down to, excuse me, Saint Augustine down in outside of
42:38
Atlantic City. That's a far.
42:40
Out of nowhere. Yeah, I thought of nowhere, you
42:43
know, 2 1/2 hour ride so and for Bergen Catholic, you know, you
42:47
want to get that win and secure the two seed which would give
42:51
you, you know, home field all the way until the final which is
42:55
played at at MetLife. So very, very important game
42:59
that Ordell have this Saturday. All right, so that's the big
43:04
boys. I mean, while we're I, let's get
43:06
back off on the tangent. The one thing I got to say is,
43:10
you know, Rutgers, Rutgers, Rutgers.
43:11
What a week for New Jersey football this past week.
43:14
I mean, Rutgers got smoked by Oregon and then their backup
43:18
kicker somehow found his way on to the Giants.
43:20
He missed two extra points. Jimmy, what happened?
43:25
What, what is this? I know we're we're a high school
43:28
sports show, but you know, humor me.
43:33
You know, the disparity of talent between Oregon and
43:37
Rutgers was was so evident. I mean Oregon put up over over
43:42
750 yards of offense. And then we say less than. 3/4
43:48
yeah. I mean, just, you know, for
43:51
Rutgers that, you know, will he ever be a legitimate Big 10
43:55
team? No.
43:56
And a lot of a lot of people have questions about that.
43:59
But going to the Giants, you know, their kicker, Mr. Gadot,
44:03
who seems to get hurt in every bizarre way, you know, that that
44:08
really hurt them. The two missed extra points as
44:12
you mentioned. The kicker for that was the the
44:16
kicker in the game for the Giants was at Rutgers.
44:19
Apparently he was not the starter at Rutgers, which is
44:23
even even crazier. And I know the Giants.
44:26
I know the Giant. Giants did find the kicker from
44:29
Ridgewood and and apparently they decided to go with this
44:34
guy. So you know, another another
44:36
brilliant move by the Giants organization and again, you
44:41
know, I it it there's there's a problem with the organization
44:45
from the ground up to imagine I I think it was stat Corey 1600
44:52
and two games teams had 18 point leads with six minutes or less
45:00
and they all won the game and. They all did, and now?
45:06
Brian, you're you're also the other thing.
45:10
The other thing with the Giants, too.
45:12
Who is the last team to have lost with that kind of lead?
45:16
Take a guess. I have no idea.
45:18
I'm not, I didn't verify the fact, but it was supposedly the
45:21
Giants against the Eagles in 2010.
45:23
You'd have to go check it out. That's what I saw somebody
45:27
posted. Hey, on the good note, talking
45:29
about former former Rutgers alum Kyle Manungai, now with the
45:35
Chicago Bears, I happen to catch it.
45:36
I don't know where I happen to watch.
45:39
During the game, Kyle Manungai had a touchdown for the Bears.
45:42
The Bears went on to beat the Saints 26 to 14.
45:45
So congratulations from Dom Bosco, Ironman alum and Rutgers
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and Rutgers let's. Not let's not give a lot of
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credit to the Rutgers coaches and Coach Ciano because we were
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screaming his whole junior and senior year that they should
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have offered the kid And they, they didn't offer him until, you
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know, they had an extra scholarship at the end.
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Then they just, they flew it to the kid, you know, as football
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club coaches and, and real big fans knew the kid had that type
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of talent. And you know, he kind of fell
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into your laugh at the last second.
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So let's not give Rutgers much, you know, credit for that.
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You know what it may have did, too.
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I remember Jimmy is, I remember up at Joe's when, when he was
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still in high school, he had an ankle issue.
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I think maybe that's another reason for him to stay away from
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him, so to speak. No, no, no, no, no, no, they
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were, they were recruiting the other running back at Don Bosco,
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Feely member who went on, I forget it, Burger Jalen Burger.
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Burger, yeah, that everybody was in love with because of his
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measurables and anybody that knew what was going on and knew
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who the better football player was.
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And you know, quite honestly, the proof's in the pudding
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because Mananga's in the NFLI think Bergen was on.
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Bergen was on his 14th. So you know, yeah, just like
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Ray, just like Ray Rice fell into their lap when, Yeah, Coach
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Pass Maloney got fired. He was a Syracuse commit.
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He fell into Rutgers lap. Same thing with Mr. Mananga.
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How about Ikuchi, the former Bosco quarterback now at
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Delaware? Delaware.
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Yeah, yeah. And the starter and playing
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well, I mean, I've happened. 2 Delaware games have popped up on
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my TV on Saturdays and I'm like, oh, I don't know, I know this
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guy. And you know, Delaware in its
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first full season as you know, football 1A or what is it now?
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Football Bowl FBS it pretty cool.
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He he's doing very well. I mean, I I think I'm just
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looking to see if I can see what their record is at this point.
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But they're at three and three overall.
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So you know, they've played Colorado, they've played UConn,
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they've played some good teams Liberty they got coming up or
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whatever. So that's a good local story
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too. And and just I just up here on
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the Delaware Ward website and he's from Midland Park.
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Can you imagine people was a starting quarter Midland Park
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Warbuck. He would have killed the.
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Yeah, I tell you what, in all my years around football court, you
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talk about a kid that made an incredible jump from his junior
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to his senior year. I know, I know.
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We work with Mr. Sims, Phil and his son, you know, with a lot of
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instruction. But yeah, really went a long way
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from his junior senior year. And you mentioned kids that are
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doing well The the Detroit Lions game is on and the starting left
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guard for the Detroit Lions is Christian Mahogany, a Paramus
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graduate. So you know.
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And I also saw Texas A&M. There you go.
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Yep. Go ahead, Chase.
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Yeah, he was. Yeah, yeah.
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He he was dominating. He he held his own.
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I was watching him during the game.
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He was. He's a big dude now.
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He's a big man, but he's even bigger today and starts.
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He's left guard and he's right in the action every minute.
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I was watching him closely during the game.
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Hey. Yeah, shout out to.
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Hey, another shout out, Aiden Corazano from Westwood now
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playing at Cortland with Robbie Carthage.
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Aiden was on the sideline for the Westwood game on Friday
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night against Ramsey, so shout out to him.
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He's caught a couple passes for the varsity program and and
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Robbie I hear is doing well throwing some football as well
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for Westward. Yep, Nico, Otto and Ellie, they
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kick her from the apple. No, I said, I said, I said
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Cortland. I meant Ithaca.
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My bad Cortland. My bad man.
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Cortland is where Joey Klein is. Joey Klein, last year's freshman
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of the year for for the the Red Dragons.
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Yeah, my mistake on that. They play each other in the the
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court, right? I'm going to.
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Have to go back and edit that one.
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Out. Edit that out.
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Yeah, no T-shirt for you. That was cool.
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For you, AJ Wingfield made. AJ Wingfield had a successful
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career up at it because, well, yeah.
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That's yeah, that's, I mean, real college football, you know,
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Division One is, is unattainable for most, but for kids who want
50:32
to keep playing, those are spots where you can go and have a
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great career, you know, and those games mean just as much as
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any anything else to the participants.
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Last thing on Rutgers is Jimmy, we, we got to get out of Big 10.
50:47
I mean New Jersey taxpayers are taking a bath on Rutgers
50:52
profile. You know, their their idea of
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high profile athletics. We don't have the infrastructure
50:59
for it. We're in the wrong league.
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I mean, we can't compete with Michigan, Ohio State.
51:03
You say, oh, you're getting Big 10 money, but guess who else
51:05
gets Big 10 money? You know, Ohio State especially.
51:11
Especially with Oregon and UCLA and those things coming in,
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we're in over our heads. I think a bigger, better fit
51:19
might have been the ACC. Yeah, the ACC or the AAC, You
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know, like somewhere where you can, I don't know.
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How about the how about the NJAC maybe?
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They dominate that. Aren't there a couple of Newerks
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in there? I mean, aren't there a couple of
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Rutgers in there already? Newerks and Camden's and
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everybody else anyway, Right, Right.
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I mean, I, it's, it's, it's tough to watch and it's, it's
51:48
almost embarrassing. My niece is a freshman at
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Rutgers. She was all excited.
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My my daughter was going back and forth, but in the game,
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Moore is at the Ruckers game or whatever.
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We were watching, actually we were watching my nephew who
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plays for Glen Ridge. He's in 6th grade.
52:02
They were playing Westwood on Saturday night in junior
52:06
football. So we're watching that game.
52:08
And I said to my daughter is Nora at the game?
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And she's like, yeah. And then I'm watching the score
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and it's whatever it is at halftime, they said, is Nora
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still there? She's like, no, dad, she left.
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That was halftime. So you know what, what are we
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doing? It's just, it's crazy.
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Anyway, when we get to the point where we're talking about my
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niece riding the bus at halftime in at Rutgers University, it is
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time to say we will see you next week on the football show.
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