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2026 | Ep. 6 | Bears Showed No Quit in 73-66 Overtime Thriller Against Central-Carrollton · Houston County Football Coach's Show Jeremy Edwards

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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, welcome in to another week of talking
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  Speaker 1: Hoco Bears football. Of course, I am sporting my colors
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  Speaker 1: as usual, supporting the Bears, always will. Win, lose, or draw.
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  Speaker 1: I want to welcome in the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Houston County Bears. Very grateful to have him back for
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  Speaker 1: another year of talking Bears football, Houston County Bears football.
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  Speaker 2: It's Jeremy Edwards, the head coach. Coach, good morning, brother.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Phil.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. It's fantastic, man.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was a tough loss against Central Carrollton.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of points were scored. But as you said,
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  Speaker 1: you get up, the sun come up this morning. You
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  Speaker 1: guys have had a good practice already before we even
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  Speaker 1: get started today.
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  Speaker 2: But tell us about the game and we'll kind of
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  Speaker 2: go through it.
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  Speaker 1: Let you take us through it from start to finish,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't mind. Oh, by the way, our show
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  Speaker 1: before we get started. I want to give a big
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  Speaker 1: thanks to our sponsor, State Farm agent Ryan Lyons. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A big thanks to him.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll give a shout-out to downtown Ronnie Brown, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be there with you no matter.
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  Speaker 2: What, thick and thin. So, with that being said.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot to cover in this game, you know.
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  Speaker 4: If you bought a ticket and you were in attendance,
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  Speaker 4: I'd say you got your money's worth.
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  Speaker 3: If you were looking for, you know, to watch– a
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  Speaker 3: lot of scoring.
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  Speaker 4: Um, but you know, to be honest with you, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you learn, you learn more from your losses, whether it
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  Speaker 4: be in football or in life more than you can
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  Speaker 4: from winning. And, uh, and that's been the message, you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously after the game, you talk to a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: kids that are a hundred plus kids and coaches that are, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, played their hearts out to the very end,
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  Speaker 4: 48 minutes. And we knew it was going to be
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  Speaker 4: a 48 minute ball game. Um, you know, the week before, uh,
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  Speaker 4: with East Paulding, they played them all the way to
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  Speaker 4: the end. Um, and this week they were at home
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  Speaker 4: and they were on fire. And I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 4: five minutes into the game, we're down 21 to nothing.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't looking very good for the Hoko bears, but
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  Speaker 4: credit our, our coaches credit, our, uh, our kids, our,
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  Speaker 4: our entire program to be able to get back into
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  Speaker 4: that game. And at one point, and I'll lose track
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  Speaker 4: of the back and forth, but at one point we
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  Speaker 4: took the lead, you know, and so to, to never flinch,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that that's the thing. And, you know, so again,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that we can take from
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  Speaker 4: Friday night. Obviously we'd have loved to have came out
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  Speaker 4: of that game on the road with a victory, but man,
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  Speaker 4: so many teachable moments, um, and lessons learned through that
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  Speaker 4: experience that, uh, we all in a shared experience that
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  Speaker 4: we all, you know, uh, we're able to go through together.
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  Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, I know that
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  Speaker 4: our team, we got each other's back. Our coaches got
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  Speaker 4: each other's back. There's no blaming, complaining, nobody getting defensive.
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  Speaker 4: And so as a culture, I feel really good about it.
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  Speaker 4: And I really watched a bunch of kids, um, when
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  Speaker 4: they could have folded and started pointing the finger and,
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  Speaker 4: and I didn't see any of that, man. So like
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  Speaker 4: as disappointed as I was to lose and our coaches
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  Speaker 4: and our kids, like I woke up Saturday morning and
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  Speaker 4: I felt like, you know, we're, we're, we're really winning
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  Speaker 4: in a lot of ways. And I know that sounds
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  Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, not the coach speak, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: but like, there's a lot of places where that's not happening,
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  Speaker 4: you know? And so for us to be able to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: to battle back when we dug ourselves a big old
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  Speaker 4: hole and then have an opportunity to win it.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest, we could have won the game.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and depending on who you ask, we should
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  Speaker 4: have won the game. And, but we didn't. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's one game and we'll learn from it. And we
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  Speaker 4: certainly have already began that process as a staff Sunday
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  Speaker 4: when we met. And then obviously we put it behind us,
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  Speaker 4: but we're still going to teach off of those, Those
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  Speaker 4: things that we can learn from it for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, this is where you know you've got your program
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  Speaker 1: in the right place. You know, look, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coaches. The majority of the coaches would have come
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  Speaker 1: on hanging their head, you know, pointing out the negatives.
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  Speaker 1: But instead, and this shows a growth in you as
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  Speaker 1: a person, because I've known you for a while, shows
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  Speaker 1: a growth with your football program. that, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the positives and moving forward. And, Jeremy,
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  Speaker 1: I commend you for that. I really do because I
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  Speaker 1: know it's not easy.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you're saying is not easy, but it's
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  Speaker 1: the right way to take a look at things, the
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  Speaker 1: right perspective.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm really glad to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Not surprised to see it because, like I said, I've
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  Speaker 1: been following your growth as a coach and a person.
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  Speaker 1: I consider you a friend. So, look, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: it the right way. That being said, it was a
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  Speaker 1: crazy game. You mentioned coming back from the 21-0 deficit.
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  Speaker 1: As a coach, take us inside the mindset of that,
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  Speaker 1: how you keep your coaching staff, the players, on task.
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  Speaker 2: Because there is a– I'm sure there is this.
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  Speaker 1: Impulse to push the panic button.
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  Speaker 2: 21-0, we've got to start throwing it down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about just that mindset of what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: get back in a game because you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get– there's no 21-point play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's no real way to handle that in
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  Speaker 4: the moment. You've got to train for it, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what we do. We train our kids for it, being comfortable,
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  Speaker 4: being uncomfortable. It's one of our core values, being mentally tough.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's something that you can just do
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  Speaker 4: in the moment. Most teams, if you don't train for
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  Speaker 4: that mentally with your culture and your core values and
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  Speaker 4: things you stand by, I don't think that's easy to
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  Speaker 4: do with 15 to 18 year old kids, you know, 14,
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  Speaker 4: 18 year old kids, you know? So, um, you know, we, we're,
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  Speaker 4: we're ready for that. We, the same thing happened to
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  Speaker 4: us at Rome last year. We came back, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so there's no quit in our team and
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  Speaker 4: I knew that, that they wouldn't. And I prepared them
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  Speaker 4: for the fact that this is going to be a
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  Speaker 4: 48 minute game. I mean, however you, this team's not
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  Speaker 4: going to lay down and they're, they're so good offensively
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  Speaker 4: with what they do and, They put you in conflict
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  Speaker 4: and they got good players and they got good coaches, man.
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  Speaker 4: Credit to Coach Brown. I mean, man, how cool is
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  Speaker 4: that for him? You know, he's an alum of Central Carrollton.
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  Speaker 4: He goes back home. He's done a heck of a
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  Speaker 4: job there, man. Like, and that's in a town with
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  Speaker 4: the Carrollton Trojans.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And Bowdoin.
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  Speaker 3: And Bowdoin.
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  Speaker 4: It's a really, I've never been there before. It's a
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  Speaker 4: cool atmosphere. They had a great fan base. The athletic
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  Speaker 4: director does a great job, man.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Like it was, and the officials we had were awesome,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like they, they did a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's a hard job that they got. And, uh, you know, they, they, they, they, they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, officiate a lot of really big games and, um,
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  Speaker 4: I never had them before, but I'd recognize the face
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  Speaker 4: on TV and stuff, the white hat and Greg Norton,
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  Speaker 4: I think his name, what a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: And he did a heck of a job, man.
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  Speaker 4: Like, and he was very complimentary of both programs and, Again,
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  Speaker 4: this sounds like a cop-out, but.
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  Speaker 3: We're fine here, man. We're fine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't want to lose, but at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, we're not going to allow a loss
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  Speaker 4: to tear our program apart. We're not going to let
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  Speaker 4: a loss just chip away at what we're building. It's
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  Speaker 4: a setback, sure, but it's also something that we're going
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  Speaker 4: to take and we're going to get better for it.
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  Speaker 4: Cause we ain't got a whole lot of time to
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  Speaker 4: sit around and feel sorry for ourselves. Cause we got
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  Speaker 4: another big one this week, you know, and in the
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  Speaker 4: next week and the next week. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I work with a lot of great guys
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  Speaker 4: and you know, games like this can, can maybe try
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  Speaker 4: to try to tear you apart. And you know, I think,
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  Speaker 4: I think God puts things on you that to try
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  Speaker 4: to test you as a man.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we're, we're just going to keep battling, man.
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  Speaker 3: That's all we, that's all we know to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you can do. Boy, so well said. So
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  Speaker 2: well said. You know, I just admire you so much
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  Speaker 2: for taking that attitude.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure the fans that are watching this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: certainly will appreciate that as well. Talking to Jeremy Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Houston County Bears, it was a
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  Speaker 1: tough one in Carrollton, 73-66. Obviously, I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fans are wanting to know about the play. It
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  Speaker 1: was the play there. at the end, a bang, bang play.
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  Speaker 1: We do a scoreboard show every Friday night. I encourage
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  Speaker 1: people to watch it. And so we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun with it. And there were people coming on.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little bit confusing because we were keeping
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  Speaker 1: up with the game, you know, and I was giving updates.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was sharing updates and it's like, well, there's another
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  Speaker 1: touchdown by Austin County. There's another one by Central Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: So we were all, everybody that was on the show
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  Speaker 1: was focused on that game. It seemed like, and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some, we had a Hoco fan said we
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  Speaker 1: scored the winning touchdown, but they fumbled.
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  Speaker 2: Now, anyway, It was confusing.
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  Speaker 1: Try to clarify what happened for the folks out there
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  Speaker 1: watching this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we, you know, we made a stop and
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  Speaker 4: we got the ball back with about a minute, a
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  Speaker 4: little over a minute left. And, you know, we did
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  Speaker 4: a couple, you know, really, really dumb things to set
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  Speaker 4: ourselves behind the sticks. But we ended up converting a
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  Speaker 4: big third down. Passed a Messiah Holiday. And then two
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  Speaker 4: runs in a row by Austin Stinson were just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: And we broke a run. an explosive run. And then
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  Speaker 4: we went back to it on the next play. Now
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  Speaker 4: the kid, you know, ran 27 times for 411 yards,
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  Speaker 4: six touchdowns. He also returned to kickoff for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: So the effort by that kid, was unbelievable. And, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who there's a better running back in
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  Speaker 4: the state of Georgia. Like it's doing what he's doing
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: He's, he's played great.
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  Speaker 4: And, uh, you know, so needless to say, the kid
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  Speaker 4: was running low on gas, you know, I mean, shoot,
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  Speaker 4: he had ran it most in his career, 27 times.
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  Speaker 4: We usually don't run our guys that much, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's the hot hand. So we're, we're running him and
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  Speaker 4: he breaks off, uh, I think it was a 30-something-yard run. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he gets down to about the one-yard line,
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  Speaker 4: and you could just see his body just shut down. Like,
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  Speaker 4: he just lost the gas, and he was trying to
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  Speaker 4: fall into the end zone. And I guess the kid
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  Speaker 4: came up behind and knocked the ball loose. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like he got in with momentum. I felt
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  Speaker 4: like he crossed the plane. But that official claims, you know,
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  Speaker 4: said that– and he's got a hard job. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: second-guessing the official– those guys were awesome. And I want
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that's known. I'm not blaming anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 3: I got to fight for my guy.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: And man, it was just, that's, you know, with 28 seconds,
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  Speaker 4: I think on the clock. So if he falls down
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  Speaker 4: right there, we kick a field goal. We win, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if he falls in and scores, we got to hold
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  Speaker 4: those guys for 20 more seconds, which is not an
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  Speaker 4: easy task.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm telling you, right.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Team's legit. Um, offensively.
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  Speaker 4: And so, yeah, they said he fumbled and then we
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  Speaker 4: go into overtime and, um, you know, they score, they
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  Speaker 4: get the ball first, they score.
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  Speaker 3: And, uh, we, uh, we, uh, you know, try to.
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  Speaker 4: Do too much on first down, you know, instead of
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  Speaker 4: trusting our, our, our, our track on the run. And
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  Speaker 4: we had a good, I felt like we had a good,
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  Speaker 4: some schemed up good and we try to do too much.
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  Speaker 4: So we take a loss, a second play, You know,
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  Speaker 4: we try to throw a play action. Somehow the ball
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  Speaker 4: hits our guard on the snap. And so we, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we felt like we had a good one on that.
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  Speaker 4: And then third down, we make a youthful error at
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  Speaker 4: quarterback where we try to get it all back in
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  Speaker 4: one play. And, you know, at the end of the day, Phil,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've talked about this. We track two things.
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  Speaker 4: We have two goals. We want to win the turnover
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  Speaker 4: battle and we want to win the explosive play battle.
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  Speaker 4: where we tied them in explosive plays 15 to 15,
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  Speaker 4: but we lost the turnover battle four to one. All right.
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  Speaker 4: We turned the ball over four times. You can't win
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  Speaker 4: football games, turning the ball over four times. We had
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  Speaker 4: two fumbles. We threw two pigs. One of them, they
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  Speaker 4: returned for a, for a touchdown. So for us to
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  Speaker 4: win these games against teams like this, we got to
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  Speaker 4: clean up the errors. And so, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: About the only thing we played really, really lights out,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll give him props again, is our special teams
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  Speaker 4: and our kicker, Harrison Ludwig, is phenomenal. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 4: playing on a different level. He's kicking the ball to
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  Speaker 4: the end zone.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: He had eight-plus kickoffs to the end zone, something like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I felt confident if we needed to kick
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  Speaker 4: a game winner, he'd make it. That's good as a
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  Speaker 4: head coach to feel confident about your kicker, let me
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  Speaker 4: tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's a different kid this year. He's always been talented mentally.
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  Speaker 4: He's all dialed in. So proud of that kid. And
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  Speaker 4: so proud of how we played all together on special teams.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, return to kickoff for a touchdown, um,
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  Speaker 4: return to for a touchdown actually.
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  Speaker 3: And one of them got called back. Who is this?
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  Speaker 3: Austin Stinson returned to kickoffs for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: One of them got called back.
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  Speaker 4: We had a, we had a block in the back and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: or a hole, excuse me, is what they called it.
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  Speaker 3: But, um, Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 2: How many total touchdowns did he have on the night?
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  Speaker 4: So he had 27 carries for 4-11 with six touchdowns,
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  Speaker 4: and he returned a kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: He had seven touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Unbelievable. Yeah, and you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, he was our top performer
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  Speaker 1: last week. He'll be another top performer. And that list
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  Speaker 1: is very small. It only goes to the top ten guys.
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  Speaker 1: So he's made it. I can guarantee you that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Coach– uh, as you said at the start of the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those games. You want to have those games,
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  Speaker 1: at least one of them in a season. This was
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  Speaker 1: that game. You've certainly been on the other end of
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  Speaker 1: games like this, but you got to turn the page, man.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, talk about who's next.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got Westlake, um, coming to town.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll be home. We'll be home for the next
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  Speaker 3: two weeks, but, uh, we'll have Westlake. We'll have a buy.
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  Speaker 4: Then we play, we start region with TIFT. Um, But Westlake,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think they're ranked in the top ten.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're 4-0. Coach Whitley, Kevin Whitley, is there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everybody knows him. He's an old Stockbridge coach
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  Speaker 4: and went on to Georgia Southern, and he's been successful
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  Speaker 4: wherever he's been, and he's doing a great job turning
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  Speaker 4: them around. I think they were 4-7 last year. So
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  Speaker 4: they've already matched the win total. You know, and they're
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  Speaker 4: playing really well. They've got an explosive offense. You know,
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  Speaker 4: and they got a lot of stars on both sides
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  Speaker 4: of the ball, specifically on defense. You know, they got
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  Speaker 4: some powerful guys, and they always do. They're always very
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  Speaker 4: talented in that area of Westlake, Creekside, Langston Hughes, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talent right there in that part of the state.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, man, we got our hands full. That's why
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  Speaker 4: we can't sit around and feel sorry for ourselves. Shoot,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we got it. We got to play them.
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  Speaker 4: And the good thing, we don't have to make that travel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that was a long, long trip for us
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  Speaker 4: up to Carrollton, you know, and thought we handled it well,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: but it'll be nice.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: To be at home. Yeah, 100%.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So that's your first loss of the season. You guys
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: fought a two and one.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, and again, I don't know where this comes
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: into play. And look, I know it's early, but, you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. You're playing good teams. And that's going
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: to help that, uh, that, that PSR number, uh, which
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: is your, your power ranking.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: That is something you got to consider because obviously that's
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: going to decide, uh, how.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: You guys, you know, where you land as far as
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: your seating goes in the playoffs. But, you know, I've
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: always been taught. I know you have been too, that
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you don't let a team beat you twice. So, uh,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you know, got to get back up on the, uh,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: on the horse, so to speak.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: And I know you guys will do that. It's like
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you already have.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I, I, I need to use that in
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: my team meeting today.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Um, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When we talk to the kids again.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Be sure to give it, be sure to give me
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: credit for that.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: They probably watch this anyway. You know, they want their
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: kids or kids, man. They like to hear their name.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, sure.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, I mean, we spoke this morning like that.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I really felt like that, uh, as a staff, as a, uh, team,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: you know, they attacked this morning, like, you know, like
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: nothing had ever happened, you know?
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: And so that's the best way to approach it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, um, they know that we've got
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: another big one this week and they're hungry for it
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: to get back at it. I mean, it's a, that
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: leaves a bad taste in your mouth, the way that
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: that went down, you know, and we felt like we, we,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: we could have done better and we had an.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Opportunity and we got to seize the moment.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And, you know, our theme of the week is grit,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: you know, and so we try to come up with
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: a theme every week. And, and so grit is our,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: our theme of the week, which I'll, you know, introduce
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: to the team when we have our team meeting this
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: afternoon and, Yeah, I mean, we're just going to keep
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: putting one foot in front of the other and keep
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: trying to have each other's back and doing things the
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: right way and giving kids an experience they can't live without.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Now, folks, that right there is going to be the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: most positive approach after a team has lost from a
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: head football coach. We need to take this and just, like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: frame it. because I'm telling you, you know, I'm serious.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: This is how you react after a loss. This is, again,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the growth of you as a head football coach, the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: football team, you know, the growth.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You can tell.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You said you guys had to come out and have
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a fantastic practice on a Monday, of all things, after
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: one of the toughest losses.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So kudos to you guys and the.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Houston County Bear program for reacting, for bouncing back, because
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like you said, you've got another tough team.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That's going to come in, but, but I commend you for,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: for the approach, Jeremy. Absolutely.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: You know, I thought about wearing a mask or something,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: you know, like Sean Calhoun wears the helmet, you know, we,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: he and I talked about that and I got a
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: couple like Ray Mysterio looking mask, you know, like do it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I should have put that on, but I'm not, man,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: it all starts, the buck stops with me.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: And, and, uh, you know, at the end of the day,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I gotta, I gotta do a better job.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, it's, uh, It falls on me
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: and we got things we need to fix.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: We know that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we're working diligently to try to get
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: those things corrected.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I think it's what makes it fun.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, obviously, it's a lot more fun
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: to win. But the challenge that we have and and,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: and coaching these kids up and, and putting them in
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: the right positions and things like that. I mean, that,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: that's what makes it fun. I mean, look, man, I'm,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I'm blessed. I get, I do this for a living. Like,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: this is my job.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah. I mean, you can look at it one
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: of two ways.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: You can be, you know, let the pressure and all
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: those things get to you, or you can just, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: come into work and, uh, give your best and know
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: that you give your best and love on kids and
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: try to, try to make sure that they feel supported.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it's all about, you know, at
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the end.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Of the day.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And you're right.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have had this approach.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Four years ago, you know, like honestly, but at the
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: end of the day, you know, it's just, um, it, it,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: it's a game.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: It's a game we want to win. It's important. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: at the end of the, you know, I'm not going to.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Let it tear apart what we've built our program, our staff, um,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: anything like that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: That's just not what we're about.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Well said coach really is. And listen, we're going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: cut it. We'll cut it right there, my friend and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: end on a positive. And listen, I hope you guys
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: have a great, continue to have a great week. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: know you will, because I can see the attitude that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you've got moving forward. And again, your players are going
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to feed off of that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Like they always do, of course, from their head coach.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So, Uh, anyway, tough loss, good Carrollton, central Carrollton team,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: but you guys will bounce back.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Best of luck against Westlake. Cause they're a tough.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Cookie coming in and we'll talk about it next week
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: right here on the housing County coaches show. Again, big
• 21:15
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• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, he sponsors our, our, our football show, our baseball
• 21:23
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• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And, uh, we appreciate his support so much as well
• 21:27
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• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I appreciate those guys. It's, it's, uh, It's good to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: have support.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Coach, talk to you next week, brother.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Phil. Have a good one, man.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You too, buddy. Bye-bye. All right, there he is. That's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Edwards, head coach of the Hoco Bears. So we
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: appreciate his candor. And, again, good man. Good man, good coach.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And Houston County is fortunate to have him. We'll come
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: back and.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Talk more Hoco Bears football right here next week at
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: ITG Next.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Be sure to join us then.