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2026 | Ep. 10 | TCC Lessons, Hard Hats Ready for Coffee · 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 football. Always great to get caught up with my
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  Speaker 1: buddy and the head coach of the Houston County Bears,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Jeremy Edwards.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Phil. It's going good. It's going good.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, ran into a buzzsaw is one of the cliches
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  Speaker 1: that we use when you run into a really good
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  Speaker 1: team and That was like what happened last week in
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  Speaker 1: a game that was played, moved up a night because
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  Speaker 1: of the weather. But you guys ran into Thomas County Central,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just a tough night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sure was.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had to move the game up a night.
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  Speaker 4: Found out Wednesday when we were out on the practice
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  Speaker 4: field getting ready for the game, and going through our
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  Speaker 4: normal process to, uh, prepare for a Friday night game and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: found out at almost four o'clock that, uh, we were
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  Speaker 4: going to play Thursday night. And, um, and so we
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  Speaker 4: went ahead and finished off practice, um, normal process that
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  Speaker 4: we go through on a Wednesday practice and, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, told the kids after practice, we're going to play, uh,
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: We just found out.
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  Speaker 4: And, uh, We made all the necessary adjustments we needed
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  Speaker 4: to from that point to put a product on the
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  Speaker 4: field on Thursday. And, you know, we ran into a
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  Speaker 4: really good team. We knew they were good coming in,
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  Speaker 4: maybe the best in the state.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's for other people to debate.
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  Speaker 4: But they're certainly a very good football team, and they
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  Speaker 4: showed it Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: So coach, uh, kind of take us through, where did
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  Speaker 1: you feel like, uh, you know, uh, I know Austin
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  Speaker 1: Stinson had a really good game, so there were some
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  Speaker 1: positives to take out of this game, but kind of
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  Speaker 1: take us from the beginning where, you know, you feel
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  Speaker 1: like some things maybe started going south on you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I really thought our defense came out and played
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  Speaker 4: well on the first drive. You know, they did some
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  Speaker 4: really good things. They're running to the ball and tackling and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: all this, all the fundamentals that you need to be successful.
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  Speaker 4: And we, we had them behind the chains and they
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  Speaker 4: were just able to convert. Um, we've got to get
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  Speaker 4: off the field on third downs. Um, and they were
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  Speaker 4: able to convert some, some, uh, you know, it ended
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  Speaker 4: up getting a touchdown on a drive that I felt
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  Speaker 4: like we, uh, they, they, they took six minutes off
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  Speaker 4: the clock to start the game.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, uh, we had them in a third and
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  Speaker 3: forever and.
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  Speaker 4: They just, uh, they, they made a play and, um,
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  Speaker 4: good teams make plays and, Um, they got good players and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: the receiver made a good play and, um, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're able to score a touchdown on their first drive.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, you know, we, uh, we did some good things.
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  Speaker 3: We were able to kind of run the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Um, like I said, Austin, you know, I think had
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  Speaker 4: 16 carries for 120 something yards or something like that. And, um,
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  Speaker 4: broke off a couple of explosive plays, but, uh, we
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  Speaker 4: just couldn't sustain drives. Um, we really want to try
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  Speaker 4: to keep their offense off the field cause they were
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  Speaker 4: just so explosive with the quarterback. And, um, you know, we, we, uh,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of things happened, you know, we punted and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we punt, they returned a punt on us,
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  Speaker 4: which we've been lights out on special teams and, and
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  Speaker 4: we knew all three phases for them were tough and
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  Speaker 4: their special teams well coached.
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  Speaker 3: And, um, you know, we kicked it right.
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  Speaker 4: To the, to the returner and he, he returned it, uh,
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  Speaker 4: something we hadn't done all year. We've kind of played
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  Speaker 4: keep away and covered well, and we just didn't cover
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  Speaker 4: it well. And, uh, they returned it, uh, to go
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  Speaker 4: up 14 to nothing. Um, and then, uh, on the
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  Speaker 4: next drive, we were starting to move. It got, it
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  Speaker 4: got past, uh, midfield and, um, uh, threw a ball
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  Speaker 4: on RPO. A kid tipped it in the air and
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  Speaker 4: fell into another kid's arms, you know, and, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just football.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes those, those things happen.
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  Speaker 4: They were able to turn those, that turnover into points
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  Speaker 4: to go up 21 to nothing. And, you know, again, we,
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  Speaker 4: we drove down, got a field goal to cut it
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  Speaker 4: to 21 to three. And, you know, we just couldn't
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  Speaker 4: sustain drives and do the things that we've been able
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  Speaker 4: to do to this point in the season. We just
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  Speaker 4: couldn't get, we just couldn't produce that on, on Thursday. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Credit goes out to Thomas County Central. They're
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  Speaker 4: very well coached, and they've got a lot of really
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  Speaker 4: good players. And, you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: we just didn't make enough plays. And, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: we've got to– you know, it's a bit humbling, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to get beat like that and you're at home. We're
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  Speaker 4: not into moral victories or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: We just got to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well– You're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Thomas County Central has taken it to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven teams this year. They're 7-0. And, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to last year.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is, you know, you still got to move
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  Speaker 1: forward because there's plenty of football left to play.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. So talk about who's next and who you got to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, turn the page and get ready for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we, uh, we got coffee on the road. So
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  Speaker 4: we go down to coffee. I think they're a fourth
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  Speaker 4: or fifth ranked in the state. Um, coach co what
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  Speaker 4: a great guy, friend, good friend. Um, got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of respect for the program that he runs away. Does it,
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  Speaker 4: they got tough kids. Um, you know, they play a
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  Speaker 4: tough brand of football, which I think is, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: goes well with, you know, the community that they've gotten and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's just done a heck of a job. You know, it's,
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  Speaker 4: I've heard him say it before, you know, it's just a,
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  Speaker 4: it was a perfect fit for him when he got
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  Speaker 4: that job going in. Um, so they're playing at a
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  Speaker 4: high level, you know, they came off of last year,
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  Speaker 4: they were four and seven. Um, you know, this year they've,
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  Speaker 4: they've made, I know they've made some changes on their,
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  Speaker 4: on their coaching staff and it seems to have, uh,
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  Speaker 4: paid dividends for them. They're playing really well and, um,
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  Speaker 4: played a few school out schools out of Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Um, that I don't know much about.
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  Speaker 4: Um, you know, we don't play anybody in Florida, so
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  Speaker 4: I don't, we don't dabble in that much, but, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, within the region, you know, they played Lee
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  Speaker 4: really tough in a, in a pouring down rain game. Um,
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  Speaker 4: we went and saw him play Tift cause we were
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  Speaker 4: scouting Tift at the time. So, um, yeah, they're a
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  Speaker 4: good football team. Uh, you know, they're going to try
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  Speaker 4: to bloody your nose and, uh, you know, we gotta,
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  Speaker 4: we gotta show up and, uh, bring.
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  Speaker 3: Our hard hats and be ready to roll.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Talking to Jeremy Edwards, head coach of the Houston
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  Speaker 2: County Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Our weekly conversation, of course, as always, brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by State Farm agent Ryan Lyons.
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  Speaker 2: You can check him out online at www.protectedbyryan.com.
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  Speaker 1: And, of course, also I want to give a big
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  Speaker 1: shout out to super fan downtown Ronnie Brown.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't mind me using the downtown.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he loves it. I think I'd love it.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I would think so. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: got that interesting connotation to it. So anyway, we appreciate
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  Speaker 1: both those guys, of course, for all their support. And
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know you do as, as well. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: or let me ask you this. Are you keeping up
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  Speaker 1: at all with the, the, the new PSR formula? Have
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  Speaker 1: you taken a moment to take a look at that?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you've mentioned it a lot. And so I
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  Speaker 3: got curious and looked at it. Um, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think last week we were.
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  Speaker 4: Sitting at, um, I think we were at 12 or 13, maybe,
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  Speaker 4: something like that. I know we were in the top 16,
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  Speaker 4: but I haven't looked at it recently to know where
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  Speaker 4: we stand on that. We're just, you know, we're trying
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  Speaker 4: to get better every day. We're trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: attack our process every day and do things right.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, all that stuff will sort itself out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We got a big game this week. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully we can go down and put a good product
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  Speaker 4: on the field. We're in fall break right now, so
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  Speaker 4: it gives us a little bit of time to do
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  Speaker 4: some things, but also allow these kids to enjoy the
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  Speaker 4: fairs in town, those type of things.
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  Speaker 3: We're not used to playing.
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  Speaker 4: During fall break, but we added TIFF to our region,
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  Speaker 4: so it made it where there was an odd number
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  Speaker 4: of teams, so we couldn't all be off this week,
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  Speaker 4: so That's different, but it does give you a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of time to work on some things and reflect
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  Speaker 4: and then turn the page and move on. We'll bring
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  Speaker 4: the kids in later on this afternoon, and we'll get
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  Speaker 4: going with the process towards coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: You're right about the PSR thing. Most coaches, to a man,
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  Speaker 1: really aren't paying a whole lot of attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the only one that's bringing it up. And you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It will all sort out, you know, Hey, if you're
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  Speaker 2: meant to be, it's meant to be.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, certainly going to keep a track on that
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  Speaker 1: as that's, that's part of my job responsibilities, but not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily as coaches.
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  Speaker 2: But so what's the, how's the mentality of the kids
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you coming off that win, you got to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for, you know, as you said, get ready
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  Speaker 1: for another.
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  Speaker 2: Tough team, which I guess that's kind of the, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's gotta be the mindset, right.
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  Speaker 1: In this region, you know, You can play one tough game,
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  Speaker 1: but it ain't like it's going to be a vacation
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  Speaker 1: the next week, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: And the way our schedule shakes out, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: got six region games in a row.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, you know, it's, uh, it's tough, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you got three teams in our region.
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  Speaker 4: They're in the top 10 right now playing at a
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  Speaker 4: high level, uh, two of which we haven't played yet. So, um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've got four big games to, uh, to
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  Speaker 4: finish out the year, uh, coming up and, uh, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: no one's bigger than the other, you know, we've got,
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  Speaker 4: a really, really good, uh, you know, matchup with, um,
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  Speaker 4: with coffee on Friday, but, uh, the kids are good,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, shoot, they're disappointed. Coaches are disappointed
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  Speaker 4: when you, uh, when you don't come out, uh, victorious, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, we, we've got to, uh, we've got,
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  Speaker 4: we got to continue to try to get better. I mean, that's,
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  Speaker 4: that's the thing, you know, it's, uh, it's a one
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  Speaker 4: to no mentality around here, you know, and, and we
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  Speaker 4: say that it's, you know, whether it be a game
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  Speaker 4: or an individual play, we're trying to get better. Um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're trying to win plays, you know, right
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  Speaker 4: now we're just not winning enough plays to, uh, to
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  Speaker 4: beat a team like Thomas County central last week. But, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I like the mentality of our kids, you know, sure. It's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're three and three and that's not something
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  Speaker 4: that we're, um, you know, used to, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess we've been a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit spoiled in that regard, but, um, At the same time,
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  Speaker 4: we've got a lot of football left to be played.
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  Speaker 4: We feel like we're certainly one of the top 32
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  Speaker 4: teams in the state in 6A. No doubt. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like we can make some noise, but we've got to
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  Speaker 4: take care of business. We can't look over anybody. We've
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  Speaker 4: got respect for all of our opponents in our region.
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  Speaker 4: They're all very competitive teams, and we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: their best shot.
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  Speaker 3: We know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%. And like I said, it's one team after
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  Speaker 2: another after another. I think, you know, Veterans is getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Northside Warner Robins is getting better.
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  Speaker 2: Tiff's still getting better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, my point in saying all that
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  Speaker 1: is that, hey, again, there is really no weak links,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, in the reach.
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  Speaker 2: And so you get through one game, you've got another
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  Speaker 2: tough one waiting.
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  Speaker 1: So the point being, I just got to put that
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  Speaker 1: chin strap, just got to buckle it up. Pull it
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit tighter and get ready for the
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  Speaker 1: next one, right?
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  Speaker 3: You got that right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but as a competitor, we've talked about
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  Speaker 4: this before. I mean, that's what you love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously the strength of schedule helps with the
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  Speaker 4: PSR and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: It does. And so, you know, I think I read somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: because I do read some, Phil. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I read two things I want to mention. One, I
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  Speaker 4: think they said we had the sixth hardest schedule in
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  Speaker 4: the state. And then another thing I read was that
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  Speaker 4: the PSR had some things wrong on the last time
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  Speaker 4: they published it and they were having to go back
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  Speaker 4: and fix it. So I guess that's why I don't
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  Speaker 4: look at it because who knows if it's right or wrong.
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  Speaker 2: So to your point, I had the Todd Holcomb on
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  Speaker 2: my show. I don't know if you saw that or not.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I know Todd. Todd's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Todd is a great guy, and he really is kind
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  Speaker 2: of the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he's the guy for the– he doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: have the title of sports editor, but that's what he is.
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  Speaker 3: He is Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia High School Football for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: He is the one that created the Georgia High School
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  Speaker 1: Football Daily, which we all get every morning when.
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  Speaker 2: We wake up. It's in our email inbox. So Todd
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  Speaker 2: Holcomb came on.
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  Speaker 1: We did a special edition of my show.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was Thursday morning at 11 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about the PSR and all the problems.
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  Speaker 1: He's actually the one who wrote the article. And so
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  Speaker 1: I had him on a day later and we talked
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  Speaker 1: about the– so the problem is you had about 300
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  Speaker 1: teams who had an incorrect PSR standing. Now, as he
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  Speaker 1: put it, the problem is either scores were not reported
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  Speaker 1: correctly incorrect scores had been reported. I've got to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, that blows my mind. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know how calling.
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  Speaker 2: In a final score can be that hard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is mind-blowing.
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  Speaker 2: But, hey, it didn't happen just once. It happened 300 times.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But, anyway, point being, Todd said it's pretty easy to fix.
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  Speaker 1: You just correct the score. But, yeah, it is kind
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  Speaker 1: of incredulous when you think that there's 300, uh, teams that, that, that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of got it wrong. I was trying to look
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  Speaker 2: real quick before we got off to see, uh, where
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  Speaker 2: you guys were, uh, in the, in the PSR standing.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they are actually, you know, they are actually reporting
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  Speaker 1: that now is, uh, is the Georgia high school football daily.
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  Speaker 4: I do. I do enjoy, um, you know, they do
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  Speaker 4: have some good stuff in that Georgia high school daily email. Um,
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  Speaker 4: I think that that's everybody's first thing they look at
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  Speaker 4: in the mornings, you know, to kind of keep track
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  Speaker 4: of what's going on around the state kind of keeps
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  Speaker 4: me in, in, in tune with what's going on since I, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not on, uh, not on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Um, so it, yeah, it's a, it's a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are in good shape. You guys are, uh,
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  Speaker 2: like 12th right now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, yeah, if you're, if you're, I mean, that's,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, percentage wise, but, um, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: interesting though.
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  Speaker 2: You see some of these teams, you know, that are
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  Speaker 2: ahead of y'all, you kind of scratch your head.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that's kind of what, what this whole PSR
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  Speaker 1: deal was intended. It's just, it's not, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: cut and dry. That was another thing we talked about.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that we talked about how a lot of
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  Speaker 1: coaches don't have our fans to, um, don't have a
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  Speaker 1: clear understanding of exactly how it works.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would be lying to you if I told
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  Speaker 4: you I knew exactly how it worked. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: know there's a lot of formulas and things that go
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  Speaker 4: into it and strength of schedule. And I notice there
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  Speaker 4: are some teams, at least even locally here to us,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: that based on their strength of schedule– even though they
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: have a winning record, have an opportunity, a chance of
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: not making the playoffs. So, I mean, I think, you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: when you go in, and Todd highlighted that last week,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I believe. So, you know, when you put your schedule together,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: those type of things are important. I don't think you
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: get points for out-of-state games. And, yeah, it definitely makes
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: the scheduling even more important. And that's why you see
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: some teams playing– um, some tougher teams, you know, obviously
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: we had some tough teams, uh, to start off non-region
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: and some of the teams we played non-region have had, um,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of success. Jones County has, has, you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I know they got beat this past week against Perry,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: but they've had, you know, we, we were able to
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: fortunate enough to beat them, but then they, they've, they've
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: strung together some good wins.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And so, um, you know, all that thing plays into it. And, uh, Yeah.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I just like to compete and I just like, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: like to play against the best. I think it makes
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you better. Um, as a coach, I think it makes
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: your kids better, um, prepared for the, you know, hopefully the,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: what we call the second season.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You know, when you hit the playoffs.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: And so, um, yeah, I mean, it's, uh, it, it,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: it's a gauntlet, but you know, I don't think I would,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to be playing teams that, you know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: you can beat every week and, um, We've talked about
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: this a lot, but it's a lot of fun.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun, but it can be stressful.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: If you let it be stressful, it can be stressful.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: But we're attacking one day at a time and one
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: play at a time, and we're going to have fun
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: in the process.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I know you will, brother. You do a great job.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Absolutely, brother. You really do. And you
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: do a great job of communicating. everything that's going on
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: with your team, the practices, the good, the bad, the ugly.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I know we get a lot of great feedback from
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the fans who watch this show. I know they appreciate
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you as well.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Again, the fans are great.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: They came out a night earlier.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: They had a good showing. Thomas County brought some fans.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: They always do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: They've got a good backing right now, rightfully so. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: think they've won uh, 22 in a row. Um, so
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: that's a, it's a great accomplishment. I know that for
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: their program. And, uh, like I said, hats off to
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: those guys. They're well coached. Uh, coach Rogers does a
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: good job. Um, you know, and, uh, you know, they're,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: they're a tough, they're a tough team. So, um, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I think that, uh, right now they, you know, argument
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: can be there may be the best team in the
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: entire state. Um, You know, certainly it's the best team
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: we've played to this point. Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And probably the best team we'll see all year.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And that's going to help you in the PSR, of course.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Should help us. You know, if we get.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Fortunate enough to see him again down the road, then
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: we'll have to change some things up.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: That's for sure.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about it, and we'll close with this.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So just for the fans that may not be familiar–
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: are the top four in the region making the playoffs.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: In fact, Todd, talked about in our show and on
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the show when he joined me Thursday. Right now he's got,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I believe he said, four or five teams that would
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: have made the playoffs. In other words, they are either
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a 1, 2, 3, or 4 team in their region
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: projected to finish there, and they're going to miss the playoffs.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So, you know, and I think they were all fourth-placed teams. So,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: before finishing number four in your region would have got
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you in the playoffs. Under this new system, there's going
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to be some teams on the outside that are.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Left out in the cold.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that, and I think he mentioned, or at least
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: maybe it was he and I talking, you know, six,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: potentially all teams in our region could make it. At
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: one point in the PSR, I think all seven teams
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: were– were listed in there for, for, for the playoffs. So,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: or maybe it was one of them was like at 33.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: So again, that, that goes to show the level of play.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: And I, and I think, you know, coach Fabrizio and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I have talked about this before, you know, I don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: think people understand, you know, the, the level of ball
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: that we face every single week. And then I talked
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: about it with our, with our coaching staff, you know, the, um,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: the coaching in our region alone is, is really, really good.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, you're facing some, some good head
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: coaches and coordinators that they know what they're doing. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I think it makes you better as a coach, um,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: as well as it's good competition.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: For the kids. Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I was, uh, I was just trying to look and see, um, Uh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: there's a, uh, there's actually projections right now as to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: who's going to be playing who in the first round.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I was going to try to find that for you, uh,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: before we got off here.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Don't do that, Phil.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. We got, we got to take care
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: of business to get there. You know, we got, we
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: got a long way to go.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Um, you know, this week's going to be big towards, uh,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: You know, that's all we're really focused on right now.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, all that stuff, I'll leave that up for
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: you and your show and all that stuff. I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: it's a good conversation for the fans for sure.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I got you. Yeah, I forgot. You're the wrong guy
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to be doing this with, man. You're all about one
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: step at a time. And, listen, that's the right way
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, shoot, you can't– you get humbled real
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: fast in this game, you know. And, you know, certainly–
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I'd say we got humbled this past week for sure.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: But, you know, it's part of the game, you know.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: It's part of the game, you know.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: You have good games. You have games that you wish
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: you could go and make. As long as you learn,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: that's what it's all about.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Every coach and every team is going to go through this. Sure.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yep. Everybody's going to go through it. Every coach. Yes,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: every coach. Yep, they've had one of these. So, again–
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: flush it, let it go. I know you will. And, uh,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you guys are good. You got a good staff, got
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a good team. Y'all bounce back.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And, uh, but you got another good team coming up.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yep. And that, and you know, you say the word
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: flush it. That's exactly what we told the kids, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Friday night. I mean, you find it hard to, to
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: find words, you know, when you say, but I will
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: say this, I do want to say this, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and then again, we're not into like moral victories or,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: you know, um, but, Our kids, we challenged them at
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: half to come out and play as hard as you
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: possibly can play until the final whistle. And I will
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: say that they did that. Kids never quit. They played
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: to the very end. You know, I think that goes
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: a long way to talk about the culture of our program.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: You know, because it could have been easy. I mean,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I think it was 36-3 at half. Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we limit them to one more score
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: in the second half.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Obviously, we don't do any scoring, but our kids played hard,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: And, you know, they took the quarterback out, put their
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: backup in, and sometime in the third quarter. But, you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: at the same time, they left most of the other
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: guys in. They subbed some, and that's smart. I mean,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: they don't need to get anybody hurt.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, but– Yeah, yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I was proud of our kids and the way they
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: finished the game. I was proud of them the entire
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: game because they played really hard. Their attitudes were good.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: They played the next play. We just didn't win enough plays.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: We didn't win the explosive play battle, and we did
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: not win the turnover battle. We turned it over twice.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: They turned it over once, and they beat us in
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: explosive plays. And, you know, we've got a goal board
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: here in the facility. Those are the two things that
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: we gauge. And we've lost three games. And in those
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: three games, we've lost the turnover battle and we lost
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: the explosive play battle. So those goals are 100% tied
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to the end result that you're looking for, I would say,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: more than 95% of the time.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: So that's why we gauge those things.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: And we'll continue to and we'll continue to work to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: get better to make our community and our fan base proud.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: but also to build great young men in our program
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: and continue to do things the right way.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: And do it with class.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And you do, Coach.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: You do all those things. You do all those things.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: And you'll continue to do those things. All this too
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: shall pass, and it has. And so, Coach, good luck
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: this week. Can't wait to come back next week and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: talk about another Hoco Bears win.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Me too. Thanks, Bill.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I look forward to it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Same here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I've got a question for you as soon as we
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: sign off, but I do appreciate you. Appreciate, again, Ryan Lyons,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: State Farm Agents, for all of his support of this show.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Ryan does a lot with us and the HoCo Athletics.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: We appreciate that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And don't forget, love you downtown, Ronnie Brown. See you
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: next week, Coach.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: See you then.