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2026 | Ep. 2 | Bears Ready for a Season-Opening Test Against West Forsyth · Houston County Football Coach's Show Jeremy Edwards

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Speaker 1: Welcome he guys to another week.
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Speaker 2: This is week two of our weekly Houston County Coaches
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Speaker 2: Show with the one the only Bears head coach, Jeremy Edward.
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Speaker 2: So glad that we're back for another season with the
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Speaker 2: Bears head coach, and of course also glad that we
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Speaker 2: are returning our sponsor once again. That would be none
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Speaker 2: other than say from Asia, Ryan Lyones there in warn
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Speaker 2: of Robbins, big shout out to him, and of course
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Speaker 2: a big shout out to downtown Ronnie Brown, Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Coach, Good morning Phil. How you doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm going I'm doing great. Brother.
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Speaker 2: Listen, man, I really appreciate you doing this with us
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Speaker 2: under the fans really responded well to week one and
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Speaker 2: just reminding everybody we're gonna be doing this every week.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to Yeah, me too, me too. Well, let's
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Speaker 2: go ahead and get started, brother. So, I guess this
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Speaker 2: is the last time we spoke. You guys had a
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Speaker 2: scrimmage down in Cockwood County or no, I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 2: know it's not called Cokwick County.
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Speaker 1: It was at Veterans. What's the name of the stadium exactly.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's this It's a stadium we share with Veterans.
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Speaker 3: It's a Freedom Field.
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Speaker 2: Okay, for some reason, I'm thinking it was like Veterans Memorial,
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Speaker 2: so Freedom Field.
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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: It is just a scrimmage, So I don't want fans
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Speaker 2: to get a little bit you know, didn't get carried
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Speaker 2: away or anything like that. In fact, I preached that
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Speaker 2: all the time about these preseason scrimmages.
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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, talk a little bit about that for us
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Speaker 1: if you will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was, uh, it was a good
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Speaker 3: opportunity for us to go against a really good, well
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Speaker 3: coached team in Cockwood County. And you know, we touched
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Speaker 3: on it last week. You know, the relationship I have
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Speaker 3: with coach Calhoun, and so you know we were able
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Speaker 3: to kind of we were able to get together some
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Speaker 3: this summer as well. And you know it was an
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Speaker 3: iron sharpens iron type type matchup right there. You know,
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Speaker 3: we uh, we saw some things we need to fix,
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Speaker 3: and you know that that's what you're looking for in
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Speaker 3: the scrimmage. You know, it was uh controlled scrimmage, you know,
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Speaker 3: as far asquarterbacks, not live things like that. But for
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Speaker 3: the most part, we tried to play everything live special
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Speaker 3: teams for three quarters. It was a live game minus
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Speaker 3: the quarterback, So fourth quarter we didn't have any special
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Speaker 3: teams and running clock. We got our young guys in.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was a positive night and something that
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Speaker 3: we were able to take some things and get better
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Speaker 3: last week.
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Speaker 1: Fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I guess some coaches approached these scrimmages differently. Some of
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Speaker 2: them like to see what goes up on the scoreboard.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know if you guys kept the scoreboard,
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Speaker 2: and some don't really care. I mean, what was the
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Speaker 2: main goal of this scrimmage coming out with Kulkolak County
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Speaker 2: coming out of the game with Coulka County.
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Speaker 3: Well, for us, it was a it was a true
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Speaker 3: you know dress rehearsal. So we did everything from you know,
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Speaker 3: the way that we do our pregame meal to our
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Speaker 3: bare walk, to our warm ups, you know, halftime everything
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Speaker 3: just so we can work out any kinks going into game.
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Speaker 3: Won So we truly utilize it from you know, from
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Speaker 3: from the football team to the PA announcer to you know,
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Speaker 3: the cheer. Our band wasn't able to be there. They
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Speaker 3: had some other things going on, but besides the band,
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Speaker 3: it was treated as much like a game as you
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Speaker 3: could and then if we have anything we need to adjust.
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Speaker 3: You know, sponsors. We made sure we got our sponsors
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Speaker 3: out there. That's big in our community. So you know,
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Speaker 3: we were able to get all those things accomplished and
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Speaker 3: then go back and do an after action plan and
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Speaker 3: figure out, you know, what we need to fix, if anything,
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Speaker 3: and then we'll be ready by the next home game
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Speaker 3: as far as that goes, as far as football goes,
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Speaker 3: you know, we play our first game at Center Park
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Speaker 3: at Georgia State this Friday, so we're not at home,
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Speaker 3: but we were able to kind of figure some things
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Speaker 3: out from a schematic standpoint and what guys can do
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Speaker 3: and what guys maybe you know, need to work on
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Speaker 3: and adjust from there.
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Speaker 2: All right, so let's go ahead and move forward and
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Speaker 2: talk about the game coming up.
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Speaker 1: This is not a scrimmage. This is lie.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be the official first game of
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six regular season. It's going to be
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Speaker 2: against West for Sight. Now, they're a pretty good team.
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Speaker 2: I think they were a semi finalist last year, and
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Speaker 2: you're going to be playing them on a pretty big
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Speaker 2: stage up there at Center Park, part of the Corky
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Speaker 2: Gil Dave hun Or Classic now talk about first of all,
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Speaker 2: before we get into the x's and o's, talk about
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Speaker 2: what it means to be a part of this big
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Speaker 2: which really the ultimate showcase event to kick off the
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Speaker 2: Georgia high school football season, and it continues to grow
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Speaker 2: every year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, obviously they've been doing this dating back
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Speaker 3: to the Georgia Dome, you know, days when it was
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Speaker 3: just Brookwood and mckeecheron played in it. Yeah, I can't
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Speaker 3: remember the first four teams that played in it. They
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Speaker 3: mentioned it the other night when they interviewed Dave Hunter,
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Speaker 3: and you know, he was a big part of getting
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Speaker 3: it started and it's now named after him, the legendary
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Speaker 3: Brookwood head coach. And uh yeah, I mean for us,
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Speaker 3: it's this will be our our fourth year doing it,
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Speaker 3: you know, and our third year doing excuse me. We
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Speaker 3: played first two years in the Mercedes Benz and then
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Speaker 3: we shifted to uh, you know, the skyline of Atlanta
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Speaker 3: and to play outside and uh we'll get a chance
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Speaker 3: to play at Center Park. But it is a true honor.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it gives us a chance to
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Speaker 3: travel early, which I think you need to be able
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Speaker 3: to do that, you know, and figure that piece out
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Speaker 3: and then it also gives us, you know, an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to have some great exposure for our program. Obviously it's
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Speaker 3: on TV, which excites the kids, so you know, it's just, uh,
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Speaker 3: it's a big deal, you know. I think it's it
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Speaker 3: started last week at the Mercedes Benz Wednesday and Thursday,
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Speaker 3: and I think that was the very first game of
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Speaker 3: high school football, not in just the state, but in
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Speaker 3: the country, you know. So it's it's been a big
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Speaker 3: event that, uh, we're truly honored to be a part of.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Kid.
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Speaker 2: Well, is there anything that you tell the kids about
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Speaker 2: not looking at the big jumbotra on the video board?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I've heard about that this year, but last year.
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Speaker 3: Uh and actually two years ago when we played Alpharetta,
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Speaker 3: we told them exactly that. Phil We said, when you
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Speaker 3: go out and warm ups, because you don't get you know,
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Speaker 3: you get a twenty five minute warm up and then
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Speaker 3: it's kickoff, you know, because you always got a game before. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: unless you're the first game of the of the day,
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Speaker 3: which we were. And I said, hey, man, just go
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Speaker 3: ahead and look up there and get that out of
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Speaker 3: the way, because you're gonna want to look at that
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Speaker 3: thing the entire game. But they handled it well and
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Speaker 3: we enjoyed those two years playing in the Mercedes Benz
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, obviously we don't get to play
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Speaker 3: there this year, and that was sort of my choice.
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Speaker 3: You know, we got a good relationship with those guys,
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Speaker 3: and uh, we decided to play and the outdoor venue
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Speaker 3: and and we'll hope to get to the Mercedes Benz
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Speaker 3: at the end.
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Speaker 1: Of the year. Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, you're playing in the big city. You're
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Speaker 2: you're still playing in the big park. You know this
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Speaker 2: it's just a home with Georgia State now former home
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Speaker 2: of the Atlanta Braves for years. But anyway, certainly an honor.
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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the game itself. The opponent.
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Speaker 1: It's West forsythe I talked about. Is that the team
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Speaker 1: you guys opened up with last year?
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Speaker 3: No, No, we played Brookwood last year.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, I can't remember.
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Speaker 3: But still yeah, we played. So we played well last year.
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Speaker 3: It was a six A team. You know, we went
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Speaker 3: to seven classes this year, so the largess classification we played.
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Speaker 3: You know, we played Alpharetta year one, so Alpharetta, Brookwood
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Speaker 3: and now West forscythe and they're a seven A football
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Speaker 3: team and had a ton of success in their school's history,
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Speaker 3: dating back when Frank Hepler was the head coach and
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Speaker 3: Adam Klack was the head coach.
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Speaker 1: That's right, they really we have a.
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Speaker 3: Good, solid program that they make deep runs every year
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Speaker 3: in the playoffs. They got out last year by North Guinnette,
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Speaker 3: who you know, just beat Grayson yep, So that's right.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a good it's a good squad and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, we're certainly got our work cut out for us,
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Speaker 3: and they're going to be coached up and be exactly
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Speaker 3: where they're supposed to be. You know that shows up
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Speaker 3: on film. So uh yeah, we're excited.
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Speaker 1: Yeah they were.
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Speaker 2: They're coming off a ten and three season last year,
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Speaker 2: as I'm mentioned, and of course you mentioned semi are
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Speaker 2: quarter finalists rather and it was a loss to North
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Speaker 2: Guinnette that put them out, and of course we know
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Speaker 2: how good Northquinette is now, so uh let's talk about
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Speaker 2: you know, what are the problems do you think that
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Speaker 2: they present as far as the matchups that you guys
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Speaker 2: are going to have, and kind of give us a
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Speaker 2: little bit of insight into the x's and o's. Uh,
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Speaker 2: as far as your team against their team, your offense
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Speaker 2: against their defense, and vice versa.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I I you know, know a little
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Speaker 3: bit about them because we've had a lot of the
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Speaker 3: offseason to kind of track them. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: know coach Nichols there, you know, he's a good guy
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Speaker 3: and he's had great success even when he was the
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Speaker 3: head coach at Alfaretta, and you know, so he's he's
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Speaker 3: known to be an offensive guy. I think he's still
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Speaker 3: calling it. He was elevated from offensive coordinator to head coach,
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Speaker 3: and so you know, I think they're gonna be very
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Speaker 3: similar to what they've done in the past. Offensively. You know,
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Speaker 3: they you know, they want to establish to run. They've
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Speaker 3: got a good you know, play action game off their run,
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Speaker 3: which you got to have answers, and so it's you know,
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Speaker 3: when you watch them offensively, you know, you know they've
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Speaker 3: got a system. And sometimes when you watch teams, you
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Speaker 3: know they don't really have an identity. It just kind
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Speaker 3: of grab bag pick a lot of plays, but you
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Speaker 3: can tell they've got a system and what they're trying
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Speaker 3: to do, you know, and so you got to play sound.
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Speaker 3: You got to play you know, discipline football. You got
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Speaker 3: to be in the right place. You know, they're they're
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Speaker 3: gonna try to get you, you know, to enamor you
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Speaker 3: with things, try to get your eyes where they're not
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Speaker 3: supposed to be. And so we've got to do a
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Speaker 3: great job defensively and then offensively, you know, for us
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Speaker 3: facing their defense, same staff, same coordinator, pretty much same
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Speaker 3: similarities to what they've done in the past, you know,
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Speaker 3: from what we've seen in their scrimmage game compared to
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Speaker 3: last year, in years past. I think he's been there
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Speaker 3: for quite a few years. So you know, they're they're
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Speaker 3: gonna continue to do what they do. They like to
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Speaker 3: present different looks defensively and so to try to confuse you,
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Speaker 3: and you just got to be ready for it. You
10:38
Speaker 3: got to be ready for that. You got to be
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Speaker 3: ready for you know, pressure downs and things that they
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Speaker 3: like to do and their pressure packages, and so you know,
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Speaker 3: we prepare like anybody else. You know that we've got
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Speaker 3: to try to try to put our best on what
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Speaker 3: we feel like is their weaknesses. And you know, got
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Speaker 3: to make plays, got to make plays, got to make
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Speaker 3: explosive plays and not turn the ball over.
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Speaker 2: So last year last year's Quirky Kill, which was the
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Speaker 2: season opener for you guys. It really, in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: was the coming out party for Ryan Maxwell.
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Speaker 1: That's when he really and I know you had a
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Speaker 1: lot of good guys.
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Speaker 2: That had good performances, but that was the I guess
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Speaker 2: that that was the official see you later, j Hill,
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Speaker 2: best of luck to you. But there's a new guy
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Speaker 2: in town to say, and so I think that was
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Speaker 2: his coming out party. Talk about the importance of of
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Speaker 2: of his game, what it means to y'all's game offensively,
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Speaker 2: because he really went on to have a great season, coach,
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Speaker 2: and I know I'm preaching to the choir on that one.
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Speaker 3: Well you know, it's like anything I feel like and
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Speaker 3: a lot of people would obviously probably agree. It's probably
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Speaker 3: the most important position in sports. I mean, no doubt
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Speaker 3: about it. You don't have a trigger man, and then
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Speaker 3: you know you're you're you're kind of in a bind.
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Speaker 1: You guys, everybody that knows me knows that is my
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Speaker 1: favorite thing to say. What you just see it? You
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Speaker 1: are as your quarterback takes you.
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Speaker 3: That's right, And if you don't have one, you better
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Speaker 3: be really really creative. And so you know, Ryan did
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Speaker 3: a nice job last year.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: You know, I would say managing the offense. What we
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Speaker 3: asked for him to do. We give him a lot
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Speaker 3: of freedom and what we do from a schematic standpoint,
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Speaker 3: you know, he can he has the opportunity to throw
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Speaker 3: a ball on just about every down, you know, with
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Speaker 3: what we do schematically for us. So he did a
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Speaker 3: really good job. He grew up a lot. You know,
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Speaker 3: I've talked about it before. You know, you wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: you probably wouldn't have guessed that he was a sophomore
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Speaker 3: and played his previous year on the freshman team, you know,
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Speaker 3: as polished as he came out, and he just kept
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Speaker 3: getting better and better. And you know, I know there
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Speaker 3: are some things that he wishes that he could get
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Speaker 3: back from last year, but you know, we talk about
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Speaker 3: failing forward in our program, and so for him, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's an opportunity to get better and you know, clean
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Speaker 3: up some of those things. And he's he's really done
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Speaker 3: a nice job this offseason. You know, he does a
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Speaker 3: great job of managing playing two sports at our school
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Speaker 3: at a high level. Obviously, he plays on our baseball team,
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Speaker 3: and we know, you know how successful they are year
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Speaker 3: in and year out, and so being able to do
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Speaker 3: that is not easy. It's it's doable, but it's not easy,
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Speaker 3: especially at the quarterback position. So you know, hats off
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Speaker 3: to him for doing that and setting a great example.
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Speaker 3: And he's a great leader on our football team.
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Speaker 2: And I think that also goes with that position. You know,
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Speaker 2: it is a natural leader position. You know, this is
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Speaker 2: the guy that's coming into the huddle offensively, getting everybody together.
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Speaker 1: You know, you got to listen to him. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: call the play.
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Speaker 2: And so yeah, natural leader position, leadership position, and I
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Speaker 2: think it sounds like what you're telling me, coach, he's
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Speaker 2: done a really good job of doing that and handling that. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the defensive side of things. Isn't that
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Speaker 2: didn't you have some pretty heavy losses your graduation on
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Speaker 2: the defensive side.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we obviously graduated West and Ard he went on
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Speaker 3: to play it well. Linebacker Jase Jordan, Jordan Smith. You
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Speaker 3: know who's at U g A. Jase Jordan's at Mercer.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean we we but we we returned.
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Speaker 3: You know a lot of guys we got, you know,
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Speaker 3: Zion Paul has committed to Pittsburgh he's a great player.
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Speaker 3: He's and he plays what he's an outside linebacker for US,
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Speaker 3: does a great job. And you know, we got some
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Speaker 3: guys returning in the secondary, so you know, we feel
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Speaker 3: good about you know, Kawan Jones is a linebacker that's back.
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Speaker 3: He's got a lot of playing time last year. Wasn't
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Speaker 3: probably gonna play as much as we thought last year,
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Speaker 3: but due to injury, was able to come in and
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Speaker 3: make plays. And uh Ja, Coryan McCoy, who was a
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Speaker 3: safety for US, is gonna be a three year starter.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's committed to Charleston Southern. He's he's a
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Speaker 3: great player and kind of the quarterback of our secondary,
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Speaker 3: if you will. And so yeah, I mean we feel
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Speaker 3: good about the guys that we got coming back. We
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Speaker 3: play a lot of guys on defense, so you'll see
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys rotating in and try to keep
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Speaker 3: them fresh, and you know it, see what we got.
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Speaker 1: So it's becoming more and more important every year. That's
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Speaker 1: special teams, your kicker, your punter, they're they're they've always
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Speaker 1: made a difference, but I think more and more of
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Speaker 1: the public guy is starting to and maybe it's because
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Speaker 1: of guys like me, who really you know, promote those positions,
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Speaker 1: that position, that area of special teams, right, I mean, gosh,
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Speaker 1: how many games coach you did we see last year
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Speaker 1: where kick was called on to nail a fifty yard
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Speaker 1: or you know Claude expired.
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Speaker 2: I can I can count right now, five at least
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Speaker 2: five games?
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Speaker 1: Talk about that area of your team.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that area of our team is strong. You know,
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Speaker 3: Harrison Ludwig will be a three year starter for us.
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Speaker 3: You know he's been He's gotten better and better every
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Speaker 3: single year. I say that as far as like leg strength,
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Speaker 3: he's gotten bigger, uh, stronger, and it shows, you know,
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Speaker 3: with his leg strength and so you know he's able
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Speaker 3: to put the ball in the end zone, which is
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Speaker 3: a weapon you know, you can't return in high school.
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Speaker 3: So that's big. He's had a great offseason. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's been to the camps and things like that and
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Speaker 3: then won some awards at camps and uh, and so
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Speaker 3: he's highly regarded as far as a kicker, and you
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Speaker 3: know he also doubles as our punter and he's our
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Speaker 3: kickoff guy. And so he'll be a senior. But he's
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Speaker 3: a he's a great player. He's he's a leader as
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Speaker 3: well on our team. You know, he and Ryan both
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Speaker 3: are on our leadership Council, which we you know have uh,
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Speaker 3: you know several individuals part of that on our team,
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Speaker 3: and Town is on that as well. And so when
16:49
Speaker 3: you got guys that are really really good players and
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Speaker 3: then they're also great leaders for your team, I think
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Speaker 3: you got a chance. And uh and that's what we
16:59
Speaker 3: got here. We got great kids. They buy into what
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Speaker 3: we're trying to do and it's just it's it's just
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Speaker 3: a positive place.
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Speaker 2: good insurance and it's affordable insurance, so you get the
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Speaker 2: best of both worlds with Ryan Lyons State farm Agent.
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Speaker 2: You can also stop by if you're in the One
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Speaker 2: of Robins Housing County area. His office located here on
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Speaker 2: Russell Parkway in One of Robins. We appreciate his support
17:57
Speaker 2: and again also appreciate the support I know that downtown
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Speaker 2: Ronnie Brown gives you guys, Coach.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, Phil, we practice right
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Speaker 3: now at five thirty in the morning over at Freedom
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Speaker 3: Field at our stadium, so we can utilize the lights.
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Speaker 3: And you know, there ain't a whole lot of people up,
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Speaker 3: but I can promise you him isn't a practice, So
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Speaker 3: he's in the fans watching every practice.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: We we start period one at five point thirty and
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Speaker 3: he's there. And uh, just so thankful to have guys
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Speaker 3: like like mister Ronnie that you know, pour into our
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Speaker 3: kids and uh, you know, give him a great experience
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Speaker 3: and have supported it for years and we'll continue to
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Speaker 3: support And it's just that's a really cool thing to
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Speaker 3: have when you got guys like that a part of
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Speaker 3: your program that are willing to serve and uh, they
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Speaker 3: don't ask for anything in return. But I do appreciate
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Speaker 3: you giving him a shout out every week.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, He's important to the team, and you stress
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Speaker 1: how important to Yes, we do want to make sure
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Speaker 1: to recognize him for sure, and we'll do that every week.
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Speaker 1: So coach Will's close give us the keys to the game.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going to do this every game all season
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Speaker 2: long till the fans out there listening to this. Uh,
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Speaker 2: what are the keys to winning this game against West Rosie?
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Speaker 2: They're a good football team, but what are the keys
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Speaker 2: to winning this game?
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Speaker 3: Well, you're probably not going to get a different answer
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Speaker 3: from me from week to week. I can tell you
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Speaker 3: we got to protect the football on offense, you know,
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Speaker 3: so we can't turn the ball over. We can't give
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Speaker 3: them anything easy, you know, our offense, you know, it's
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Speaker 3: about taking what they give us. But we we put
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Speaker 3: a premium on explosive plays, so we want to get
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Speaker 3: some explosive plays. And then obviously for us defensively this week,
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Speaker 3: we got to do a great job of playing assignment football,
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Speaker 3: being where we're supposed to be, having great eyes and
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Speaker 3: you know, cause some takeaways. You know, we want we
19:48
Speaker 3: want to try to get the ball back to our
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Speaker 3: offense and give them more opportunities. We know that they're
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Speaker 3: not a fast tempo team. They're going to play very
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Speaker 3: methodical they're gonna huddle and you know, so it's it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be it's not gonna be your up timpo deal.
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Speaker 3: So we need to try to force some some three
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Speaker 3: and outs and try to get the ball back. And
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Speaker 3: then you know, special teams, we got to play assignment
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Speaker 3: ball as well. We got to do a great job
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Speaker 3: and know our assignments and uh, you know that don't
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Speaker 3: have any letdowns in a special teams game, and that
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Speaker 3: will be the key to victory.
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Speaker 1: There you go, and yeah, I get it. You know,
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Speaker 1: got to protect the football. That's number one. And so
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Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: Certain teams may dictate certain conditions. So we'll see what
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Speaker 2: happens as we move forward. But right now, there's only
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Speaker 2: one thing to worry about.
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Speaker 1: That's west. For sidthe coach, I'll give you the final word.
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Speaker 3: Kickoff time is win eight o'clock Friday night, Center Park.
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Speaker 3: If you need tickets, you can go to our social
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Speaker 3: media page. There's all kinds of information on that. A
20:47
Speaker 3: QR code brings you right to the link to get
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Speaker 3: tickets for Friday night. Get there early, be loud and proud,
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Speaker 3: bear down.
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Speaker 2: Bear down, And of course I do want to make
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Speaker 2: sure everybody sees that I am wearing the Hoko Bears colors,
21:03
Speaker 2: and I want to thank Coach Edwards and ho co
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Speaker 2: Football for sending me this beautiful care package that was
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Speaker 2: a waiting at my door when I came home. I
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Speaker 2: can't remember what day it was, Coach. I want to
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Speaker 2: tell you it means everything to me. I'm literally like
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Speaker 2: a a kid on Christmas morning opening this stuff up
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Speaker 2: and knowing that it.
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Speaker 1: Comes from you and your heart. Man, I really appreciate
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Speaker 1: it very much.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir Phil, I appreciate you man. Thanks for having
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Speaker 3: us on every week.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Coach, Well, good luck Friday night. We'll talk to
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Speaker 1: you next week about it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Yes, sir, I have a good one you too.
21:35
Speaker 2: There is this cheermy Edwards, head coach of the Houston
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Speaker 2: County Bears. Get out there and support these guys.
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Speaker 1: Friday night.
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Speaker 2: I saw that bad of drive. Make plans to have
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Speaker 2: some dinner, maybe do some shopping while you're in the
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Speaker 2: big A. But first and foremost, let's get that victory
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Speaker 2: for the Houston County Bears. It's Game one and right
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Speaker 2: now it's the most important game of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: sixth season. We'll come back next week right here on
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Speaker 2: the Houston County Coaching Ship, brought to you by Ryan
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Speaker 2: all about it with the coach, coach Jeremy Edwards.
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Speaker 1: Until then, you guys, have a great week