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WEEK 7 REVIEW: Lafayette wins Battle of 109, Ladue holds off Summit, Parkway North hands Parkway West first loss, North Point walk-off INT · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the gave Way Sports Dingy Show.
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  Speaker 1: I am John Huff joined by Roman Bishop here on
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  Speaker 1: and Speaker. Thankful to be talking to you guys. After
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  Speaker 1: a really entertaining week seven of football games in the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis area. Roman and I were both out and
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  Speaker 1: about in the area. You were at the Battle of
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  Speaker 1: one oh nine where Lafayette took Dan Eureka, and I
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  Speaker 1: was at Ladu yet again see LaDue hold off a
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  Speaker 1: feisty Rockwood Summit team that came down to the last
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  Speaker 1: play of the game. Roman, it was a great week
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  Speaker 1: of football last week. And what was your takeaways?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, at being week seven, we
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  Speaker 2: hit a lot of teams either clinch outriding conference titles
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  Speaker 2: or clinch's share, which is a big selling point and
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  Speaker 2: a big goal for a lot of these teams going
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  Speaker 2: into the year because you know, and at least in Missouri,
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  Speaker 2: with every team making the playoffs, one of the main
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  Speaker 2: goals for every team is to win a district title.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes, you know, with the historical rivalries still intact,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the conference title is still pretty important to some programs,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's pretty cool to see some teams reclaim that,
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  Speaker 2: like I know, I don't know who was I think
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  Speaker 2: it was the LaDue football account. They tweeted out that
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  Speaker 2: lad has now won a conference title in more years
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  Speaker 2: than they have not I.
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  Speaker 1: Think that's correct. I mean, I would know. I'll admit
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  Speaker 1: that I gave them that stat. I mean I have
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  Speaker 1: all the year by year records and results. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty insane stat. And I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Lafy at first, but I will we will talk
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  Speaker 1: more about that.
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  Speaker 3: About about LaDou.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, and then speaking of conference parables, Lafayette, they
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  Speaker 1: they with their win over Eureka thirty five to six,
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  Speaker 1: they have Clint's share of the Suburban Yellow and they.
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  Speaker 2: Should lock that up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and they got Marquette last week nine and
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  Speaker 1: that that's and they really should go un thefeed of two.
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  Speaker 1: They should.
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  Speaker 2: But to start with this game final score with the
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  Speaker 2: battle of one on nine Lafayette thirty five Eureka six.
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  Speaker 2: The first half was a lot of fun, A lot
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It was fourteen to six Lafayette
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  Speaker 2: at halftime. I had a typo on my tweet Iver
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  Speaker 2: forgot that it was. I forgot Brady me Sex scored
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the half, and I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was seven to six, but it was not. But it
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  Speaker 2: was still a very Even though Eureka only put up
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  Speaker 2: six points in the first half of their offense still
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  Speaker 2: was able to drive down the field and get some opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: They just had a couple of time untimely turnovers that
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  Speaker 2: really hurt their cause. But just a lot of big
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  Speaker 2: plays for both sides, some some weird ref ball going on,
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  Speaker 2: some great defensive plays. But we'll just start out talking
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  Speaker 2: about Lafayette. Their offense really is not that complicated, but
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  Speaker 2: it's so hard to stop. They will find a way
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  Speaker 2: to just find the zones in your defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: even though they're not the biggest threat running the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and Brady Mesek isn't you know, some crazy scrambler. Mesk
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  Speaker 2: is deceptively deceptively hard to tackle.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really good he's got really good vision and
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  Speaker 1: and yeah he's he's well put together. He's not the
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  Speaker 1: tallest kid, but he's just he's a really smart and
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  Speaker 1: just savvy football player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's a he's just he's a physically
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  Speaker 2: strong kid. And he's hard to take down, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Eureka was you know, it seemed like they were just
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  Speaker 2: playing pass first, as they should have because Lafayette, at
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  Speaker 2: least in the first first drive, Lafayette was trying to
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  Speaker 2: establish the run and really was only able to get
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  Speaker 2: down the field because of a busted coverage where Mesik
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  Speaker 2: escaped the pocket roll to his left.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was Carson Ross who leaked out to
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  Speaker 2: the outside who was originally checked down back Misek scrambles
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  Speaker 2: out and both the outside back are in the corner
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  Speaker 2: freer he could come and try to get him, which
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  Speaker 2: you know, when both guys on the outside comes to
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  Speaker 2: hack the QB at least check down wide open. So
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  Speaker 2: Ross did look at the ball and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was good about like a forty five yard game on
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  Speaker 2: that play. But then Rika's defense tightened up and only
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  Speaker 2: allowed fourteen points to Lafiert in the first half, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is pretty good. But the name of the
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  Speaker 2: game for Lafayette was just capitalizing off turnovers. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it takes a good team to take advantage of other
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  Speaker 2: good team's mistakes, because we've seen plenty of cases where
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  Speaker 2: I've seen cases like.
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  Speaker 1: That all season where teams don't take advantage of opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And they exactly and they just play with their food
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  Speaker 2: and the other team screws it up and they just
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  Speaker 2: keep them in the game. And we kind of saw that,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm thinking earlier in the year with Summitt Lindberg,
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  Speaker 2: where some should have won that game easily but kind
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  Speaker 2: of just let Lindberg hang around. Lafayette did not let
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  Speaker 2: Eureka hang around, especially in the second half. And if
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  Speaker 2: you include the blocked fuel goal, I believe Lafayette won
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  Speaker 2: the turnover battle five to one through one interception, and
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  Speaker 2: they forced two fumbles and they got too interceptions of
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  Speaker 2: their own. The blocked field goal and then the blocked
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  Speaker 2: field goal was very controversial. So what happened was the
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  Speaker 2: score was seven to zero at this point. I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was about six minutes left in the Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: got six minutes left in the first Halfrica gets a
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  Speaker 2: good drive going on the field, They get to lafi
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  Speaker 2: Get's one yard line, so it's second and goal from
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  Speaker 2: the one. They trying to half back dive of the middle,
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  Speaker 2: don't get it. They go into the wildcat, don't don't
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  Speaker 2: get it, and then so he was on third and
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  Speaker 2: goal from the one. They're in the wildcat and then
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  Speaker 2: it was a bad snap and it goes fifteen ish
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  Speaker 2: twenty yards back, Rika jumps on and leaving them at
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  Speaker 2: the fourth and goal from the twenty. You know, send
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  Speaker 2: the field goal team out for not a guaranteed field goal,
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  Speaker 2: but which should be an easy field goal from middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field. And Terance Mills. From my point of view,
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  Speaker 2: I was right on the sideline on the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't see exactly where he lined up, but he
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  Speaker 2: was at least very close to the long snapper and
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  Speaker 2: he was able to get into the backfield almost instantly.
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  Speaker 2: So it seems like he was lined up over the
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  Speaker 2: long snapper and went over him, which is illegal. You
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  Speaker 2: were not allowed to jump over the long snapper. You're
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  Speaker 2: allowed to go in the gap, but you can't go
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  Speaker 2: over the long snapper. It's just for player safety, and
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  Speaker 2: it's also given how long snapping works, it's very difficult
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  Speaker 2: to get a good block off after snapping it, and
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  Speaker 2: so because of that, Bills was able to get a
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  Speaker 2: completely free block on the field goal. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: blocked it super easily. I mean he was he almost
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  Speaker 2: made it back there as fast as the ball did,
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  Speaker 2: given how fast Bills is, and so he blocks it
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  Speaker 2: easily and Lafia gets it, returns it to about the
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  Speaker 2: Eureka I think fifteen yard line, and the Eureka fans
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  Speaker 2: and coaches were absolutely incensed and they had a legitimate gripe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't line up over the long snapper
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  Speaker 2: and jump over it. And again, I have not seen
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  Speaker 2: the end zone camera angle of this play, so I
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  Speaker 2: need to I need to find my way and look
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  Speaker 2: at that.
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  Speaker 1: We actually did get that on camera, but fortunately we
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  Speaker 1: filmed the game, but we did not get that particularly
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  Speaker 1: play on camera.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, given how well versed in the sport
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  Speaker 2: of football coach Suminar is for Rika, I would assume
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  Speaker 2: that he knew what he saw and that he was correct,
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  Speaker 2: and that he and that he was upset and when
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  Speaker 2: he saw. But it ended up being a big ball
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  Speaker 2: don't lie moment where Eureka's defense actually held strong, and
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  Speaker 2: Eureka's defense I think, I mean, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of three or five points, but I think Eureka's defense
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  Speaker 2: was good all game. And I'll expand on that more.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, they he held strong. They pushed Lafytte
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit to force I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a thirty eight yard froogal try and it was wide left,
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  Speaker 2: so Lafayette was given him free opportunity that they probably
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have gotten because of an illegal play, and Eureka
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  Speaker 2: was able to force him back and not score. And
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  Speaker 2: then Ureka did end up driving down and got a
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Harris touchdown, which ended up being the only score
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  Speaker 2: of the game. And then the next drive where Lafia
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  Speaker 2: was kind of in their two minutes drill, was really
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  Speaker 2: Lafayette's best drive of the game. Or they just drove
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  Speaker 2: right down the field and then when they got near
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  Speaker 2: the goal line just ran QB league with Misak and
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  Speaker 2: got him a touchdown. Because other than that, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like Eureka's defense was pretty good. They forced several punts,
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  Speaker 2: they picked off me Sick once. But because the Yuka
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  Speaker 2: just especially in the second half, just kept turning the
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  Speaker 2: ball over, they could not keep their defense off the field.
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  Speaker 2: And when you keep your defense on the field for
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  Speaker 2: seventy percent of the game against Lafayette, bad things are
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  Speaker 2: bound to happen. They were just bound to happen, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you're forced to sit back and cover four.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Misek and their offense, They're going to find
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  Speaker 2: the holes in your defense. It's gonna be almost a
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  Speaker 2: pot Even when Eureka would rush three and they have
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  Speaker 2: eight guys in coverage, they would find guys in the
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  Speaker 2: spots where the linebackers hoo curl zones just weren't and
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  Speaker 2: they would they would find the open receivers. And that
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  Speaker 2: that's why I that's why I like Lafayett's defense A
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  Speaker 2: lovees because that's they It's not greedy and they don't
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  Speaker 2: force anything. They just take what the defense gives them.
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  Speaker 2: And especially near the end of the game when they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to put the icing on the cake, that's where
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  Speaker 2: Cody Keane got most of his yards. I think he
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  Speaker 2: had a decent game blocking as well. For me said
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  Speaker 2: give him a decent pocket. And again, Lofia defense was great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, holding your kid of six points is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I think Patrick Hutchcraft played well. I mean the two
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  Speaker 2: interceptions are tough to see. One of them was really
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  Speaker 2: weird because he was forced out of the pocket because
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  Speaker 2: he would he he didn't get good pass protection, tried
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  Speaker 2: to fling it to a running back who was next
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  Speaker 2: to him, but it was a it was just it
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  Speaker 2: was a weird little toss and it got picked off.
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  Speaker 2: That was a really, really weird play. But there were
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  Speaker 2: plenty of great throws Mutchcraft. I know there was one
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  Speaker 2: I think of the third quarter that was a bomb
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  Speaker 2: down the field on fade pattern and it was dropped
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  Speaker 2: for White them touchdown. So that was really tough to see.
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  Speaker 2: And that would have gotten Eureka right back in the game.
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  Speaker 2: That would have got that would have made it a
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  Speaker 2: six point game, I believe. So that was tough to see.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, for Eureka, I mean, they're they're talented,
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  Speaker 2: but there's there's still there's still some questions they got
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  Speaker 2: to figure out, one of which is one of which
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  Speaker 2: is Trevor Kodak. I was told that he should be
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  Speaker 2: coming back within the next couple weeks from his injury.
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  Speaker 1: Really good because I heard I had heard he was out.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good that you got that and that's more
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  Speaker 1: recent news than what I have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he should be coming back soon. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Britdany Webb is a good running back. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: I think he runs more than.
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  Speaker 1: He has been more than serviceable for them this season.
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  Speaker 2: He's been good, but Eureka has yet to find a
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  Speaker 2: reliable center. I mean, it's Week seven and they're going
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  Speaker 2: they had to use I know at least two different
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  Speaker 2: centers that's game because they couldn't get relibel snaps off. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: which is shocking from Eureka.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, they usually really they always are locked down with that.
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  Speaker 2: They usually have They usually have one of the best
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  Speaker 2: all around offensive lines in the area, so it's tough
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  Speaker 2: to see them struggle in that position. But finally, one
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  Speaker 2: guy I do want to shout out for Lafayette. He
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  Speaker 2: probably doesn't get that much public attention, but given the
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  Speaker 2: position he plays, Christian Woodford, number ninety two, Lafayette's nose guard.
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  Speaker 2: That kid's a dog man. He is not the biggest dude.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably five to seven, maybe five to eight, probably
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  Speaker 2: two fifteen. That kid's got a freaking motor on him, man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he just he His statu sheet doesn't show
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  Speaker 2: anything crazy because he's an interior d lineman, but he
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  Speaker 2: just makes life very hard for offenses and one of
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  Speaker 2: Eureka's main blocking schemes. Like Eureka runs this interesting. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a split tea offense because they usually run out
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  Speaker 2: of the shotgun, but the Eureka will usually stack nine
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  Speaker 2: guys in the box almost every play with the way
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  Speaker 2: they arrange their h backs and tight up and fullbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing Eureka has to do to get effective
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  Speaker 2: runs off is double teaming the nose guard to the linebacker,
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  Speaker 2: and wood Fork was making that extremely difficult for Eureka.
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  Speaker 2: And Eureka's run game was okay, but they couldn't quite
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  Speaker 2: get off the ground. So hats off to guys like
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  Speaker 2: wood Fork and the rest of the Lafayette front seven.
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  Speaker 2: They played a great, great game and Lafia continues to
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  Speaker 2: continues to impress. They're seven and zero. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: got two very winnable games coming up. Should finish nine
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  Speaker 2: and zer, which would be huge for them. And as
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  Speaker 2: I was driving home up one O nine on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nice drive, but it can be hard at night.
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  Speaker 2: It can I had this idea they should for rivalries
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  Speaker 2: that you know, it's like a battle of a certain road.
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  Speaker 2: What they should do is they should have a road
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  Speaker 2: like at the intersection, like say outside Lafayette High School's
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  Speaker 2: at the corner of Clayton Road and one oh nine.
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  Speaker 2: Sure at that intersection. If Lafayette wins the Battle of
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  Speaker 2: one O nine, it should say one O nine and
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  Speaker 2: Lancer Lane. And it should also say Lancer Lane at
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  Speaker 2: Eureka where they're off. So every time you leave the
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  Speaker 2: school it says Lancer Lane.
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  Speaker 1: But if you like, but if the winners sign so
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  Speaker 1: if they.
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  Speaker 2: Want Wildcat Way, there you go. If Eureka won, you
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  Speaker 2: could put on the corner of one O nine and
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  Speaker 2: Clayton Wildcat Way. That maybe maybe at the midpoint at
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  Speaker 2: Highway one hundred around a couple of roundabouts, you could,
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  Speaker 2: you know, put Wildcat Way or Lancer Lane, depending on
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  Speaker 2: who won the game. But I was just thinking about
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  Speaker 2: that on the way home. There'll be be a fun
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  Speaker 2: way to kind of put that rivalry in the heads
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  Speaker 2: of the community. Is that would be awesome? I think
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  Speaker 2: that'd be that'd be a fun thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's really good.
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  Speaker 1: You would be a nice promoter of you should go
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  Speaker 1: into marketing maybe.
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  Speaker 2: But I was just trying to think of other matchups
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  Speaker 2: where we got rivalries of schools in the same street.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know there, I know, like because Clayton
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  Speaker 1: Clayton Road is big.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's very long and then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's it's not exactly like like we do.
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  Speaker 1: Is a little bit off Clayton Road, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: rivals with Parkway West. Yeah, so it's it'd be hard
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  Speaker 1: to find that.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, that.
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  Speaker 1: That's another topic for another day, because now you got
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  Speaker 1: me thinking, like, now that could be a useful, useful
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  Speaker 1: rivalry there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for laf Ya, they're looking great. It look like
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  Speaker 2: they look like one of the best teams in the state. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of confidence from them going to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. And then for Eureka, they fold the fight
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  Speaker 2: in two. They got McClure and Patible coming up the
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: clor should be an easy win, but Pattonville's a tough team.
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  Speaker 2: That should be a tough game. But I think Rika
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  Speaker 2: should win that game. And Rika's district looks tough. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they got kirkled in there, which is gonna be tough
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  Speaker 2: to manage around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's pretty tough.
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  Speaker 1: And then Summit, they've beaten Summit kind of convincingly actually,
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  Speaker 1: so I think I really think it's just it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come down to that Eureka game and it's tough, but
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  Speaker 1: they only lost to them by three. Yeah, that's and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a game game Eureka and Kirkwood. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a game where it has been so close last
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  Speaker 1: several years. So it's it's tough for both teams, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not it definitely neither neither should be overwhelmed by
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  Speaker 1: the other.
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  Speaker 2: So well, speaking of Summit, you're at they'll do some again.
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  Speaker 2: That almost pretty interesting, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty interesting Ladu was able to hang on
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  Speaker 1: and win.
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  Speaker 2: The score in Notional High School Sports is wrong. It
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  Speaker 2: claims they'll do one fourteen zero. That is not the
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  Speaker 2: final score.
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  Speaker 3: It's now twenty one to sixteen. I'm looking at it
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, on the on the Summit side Summit's schedule,
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  Speaker 2: it says there was a fourteen zero loss.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but interesting. This is game where
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  Speaker 1: LaDue got out to a fourteen nothing lead and led
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to six at one point in this second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: So I really think that was probably the best first
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  Speaker 1: half by far the Doo has played all season, given
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  Speaker 1: the opponent, and probably I can't really I guess the
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  Speaker 1: biggest play of the game would have to be Jack
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Hensley's touchdown pass to Maddox Wolf, which ended up being
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the game winning touchdown way back in the second quarter.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: But this was a weird, sloppy, but well but hard
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: fought game by both teams. I say sloppy because there
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: were six combined turnovers Summit through three interceptions, including a
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: pick six to Mason Martin in this with actually ten
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: seconds ago in the first quarter, and then Lado had
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: a fumble, a pick six, and then a muff punt
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: which actually it just it was a wacky, weird line
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: drive punt that hit off of a of a lead
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: up man who was with his back facing facing the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: football because he was trying to get downfield. I don't
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: know if that was like an unintentionally awful punt or
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: a very accurate, intentional punt, but uh yeah, so it
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: was just kind of wacky and uh but I'm gonna
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna deliver this as objectively as I as I
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: possibly can right here. This was because I've heard people,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: because there was I've seen a few Summit people say
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: some should have won this game. I I disagree, because
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: someone nearly pulled off a diabolical football hacking scheme to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: win this game because they had they had a pick
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: six that made it a five score, a five point
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: game with less than six minutes to play in the game,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: or actually just over six minutes. I talked to you
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: about that punt that a line drive pump that hits
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: off of the new player, and then they recovered to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: fumble in LaDue territory. And then on the last drive
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of the game, on fourth and five on their own
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: nineteen yard line, they got Lou the jump off sides,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: which was that that's just LDU being sloppy right there,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Like that's just you know what they're trying to do
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: right there. It's football one oh one. You just can't
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: do that. And it was so that that's like four
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: things right there. And then and then I'm gonna give
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: full credit to Summit here. Some had allowed to do
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: one first down in the entire second half, and that's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: that's great defense by Summit. But when LaDou has all
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: these weapons, especially at receiver, and you only get one
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: first down at home, and you know, a conference essentially
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a conference championship game, like you just have to do
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a lot better than that. And quite frankly, had Ladu
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: loss this game, that would have been on their offensive
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: coordinator because that was a really bad, poorly executed second
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: half of football offensively for Ladu, and also says a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: lot about Ludu's defense because once again they were absolutely
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: dialed in and their offense for a lot of the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: for a lot of the game gave them no favors
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: because they had, like I said, a fumble, a pick six,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a fumble that was recovered in Ladue's own area, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: then they only got I think that's that's Summit scored
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: their only touchdown of the game offensively on a McCoy
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: brown QB lead, QB lead thirteen yard touchdown run, which
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: made it fourteen to six at the time, and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: they scored. Then they got their one field goal off
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of the muffed punt right there. So whenever Summit had
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to drive the field, they never scored, and whenever Ludu
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't turning the ball over some it wasn't scoring. So
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you got to give Ludiu's defense once again their praise
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because Roman, they not trying to pick on you here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: but you laughed at me when I said that LaDou
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: had a top ten defense in class five.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't laugh at you guys just said that that
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: was not true.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Well, statistically speaking, it is true, because they are Statistically
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: they have given.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Up Okay, if you're just looking at points per game,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about just look at points per game I'm
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: talking about I'm not saying we do is a bad defense,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: has a great defense.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I'm talking top ten.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Class five, I think is a pretty heavy statement.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about points per game along with the entire
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: body of work they've done as well. If you just
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: watch them on film and Andy and and who they've played.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Since they held something to sixteen, that's good. Yeah, they
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: held he's what east to six that's good. But Week
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: one happened. Week one was one happened. That was a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: long It's a different team now. They allowed written and
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: that was where the defense only gave up twenty. It's
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: just I can't ignore week one yet.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And we'll see this week they play Kirkwood, We'll see,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: we will see this week.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Aletely different team to do this week Week one against Troy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I'm just getting, by the way.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Is a good team again, this is nothing else we'll do.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I just think saying they have a top ten defensive
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Class five was a very very serious claim and we
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: will see this week when they played Kirkwood. This is
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the biggest test of the year.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And then and then on the last, the last drive
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of the game, I think like some got I think
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: was called for like a they had a few stupid
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: personal foul penalties, so did some It actually it actually
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: kind of bounced out between both of those as far
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: as personal fouls went for both teams. But yeah, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: then the game got down to some got down to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the sixteen yard line with under a minute to play,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and they threw three straight incomplete passes. But one of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: them was a really really timely play by Evan Vaiblado
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: where they put some put on put in Jayshawn Taylor,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: who had not played the entire game, but they put
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: him in called time out their last time out, they
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: threw a go pass to go route to him and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he catches it but in the end zone, which he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: might have actually been ruled out of bounds, because I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: think on myke camera he did step out of bounds,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: but VI just that the last second was able just
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to tip the ball out of his hands right there,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and so but it's not for sure if the referees
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: call him in bounds or not if he hangs onto that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So that was an absolutely perfect play by V right there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Last play of the game about ten seconds ago, on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a play that actually would have been called back for
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: holding summit, I think that VI actually deflected the pass
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: in the end zone for preserving the victory for Ludu
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: right there. So that was that was honestly a very
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: du escape escaped a game that literally would have been
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a huge choke job honestly had they lost it right there.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: But they were able to find a way to win.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, Ludus had a great season. They're six and one,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but they just have not made it easy on themselves
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: pretty much the entire season. And this is a LEADOO
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: team that has I'm telling you right now, they have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: not even reached like I think, probably their best game
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the season, maybe they played like an eighty percent
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: type of a good game, like they haven't even gotten
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that close to reaching their potential in my opinion. But
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier that they're forty two. They still haven't.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: They still gotta beat Fox to get the outright conference championship.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: But they will. They will, they will. They can't.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: They can now claim that they're gonna win a champ
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a conference championship because they have, yeah, at least a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: share if they lose the Fox, and then if it doesn't,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it actually doesn't matter because like Writtener or some of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: whoever wins that game is gonna have one loss in
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the conference. So, Yes, did clinch to share for the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: forty second time in program history.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Pretty incredible.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I I don't know, I know, I've I did those
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: graphics of like the most distant championships, most final fours
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in the offseason. But I'd love to say I'd love
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: to find out who has the most conference championships, but
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty hard to get all that data
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for that. But I just know, I know the News
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: got forty two out in seventy four years, which is
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: pretty ridiculous. So all right, those are two games we've
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: talked about in a little under twenty five minutes, right there,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Not bad, not Bad's let's stay in the suburban in
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the suburbs Zoe with Parkway North taking down Parkway West.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say this is an upset, because
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Now, this was we knew this is gonna be a
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: close game, the Vikings take control of the Parkway District
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: once again. Nineteen to fourteen is the final score in
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: this one.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Never doubt carl Odenwalden, Never doubt coach.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you have some respect on my man's name.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Parkway North's defense was just incredible this game. Unfortunately they
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: don't have their stats in, so thank you to Parkway
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: West for putting your stats in. But the biggest thing
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Here was just.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, they forced Parkway West to a lot of punts. Yeah,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and partly the whole Parkway West took thirty seven rushing
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: yards the entire game in less than two and a
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: half yards per rush. Parkway West has had some concerns
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: about not being you know, they won the ball this year,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and they played a good team and they got burned
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and Parkway North came through with.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: This is a game where they had to throw for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: over three hundred yards and they still couldn't do I mean,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: sorry to cut you off. I mean they ran sixty
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: plays and threw forty five passes and they didn't get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: over to up three hundred yards.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: So I think that kind of explains itself right there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean kenin Goolden had a great game. He
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: had two passion touchdowns and the defense did all they need,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and I mean just to hold a very a formally
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: undefeated Parkway West team who had scored three four more
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: points every game this year except for two.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And a largely untested Parkway West team as well.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: It beats secone.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: That was a good win.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah back in Week one, and yeah, it's just I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think Parkway North's schedule came into play in this one.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's a I don't know that you could.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Say their schedule came into play, like as far as
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: being battle tested and being in close games at the end.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Of the game, I would say that more applies when
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: you get to the postseason. Maybe not right now, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: at least for now, the Vikers come come away with
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: a huge win. They are now four and zero en Conference,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and you know they they assuming nothing catastrophic against McClure.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: They've already beaten Hazewood East and Parkway West.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: They should outright claim the Suburban Green Conference title, which
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: is great because we know Parker West was pretty hyped
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: up coming into the year and Parker West is still
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: a good team. You know, there's sixty one, and we
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: knew Hazwels would be a tough team. For Parkway North
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: to come away with both those wins and close games,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: it's so huge. And you know, week one, Parkway North
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: and Left and do very similar. Both got crushed week
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: one to pretty good teams, but have improved week by week.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Which is huge. Which is mostly important, especially in the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: current Missouri high school format, is because everyone gets in
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. The question on everyone's mind is how good
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: can we be by week ten?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: How can we improve week by week knowing that we
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: are at least getting to play one playoff game? How can
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: we get better each week? And I think LaDou and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Parkway North have especially gotten better week by week, you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: still making some mistakes, but getting getting tighter, getting better,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and for Parkway North to defensively hold on like this
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and a big because they were of I believe they
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: were of nineteen to seven going into the fourth quarter,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and the Parker West did get one back in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter with I believe five minutes left. There's no
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: time stamps on the statuet, so I'm trying to remember
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: what I saw on Twitter that night. But Parkway North
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: hold on, I mean again, to hold Parker West to
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: fourteen points, I think is very impressive, and you know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: this Viking defense has been coming to the clutch a lot.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a good game what East against.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I like them going into this game because their secondary
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: has been really good all season and they kind of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: prefer to play against pass heavy teams or past, yeah,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: predominantly passing teams, and Parkway West is a pass heavy team.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So I felt like that was a good a good
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: matchup for North. And obviously probably we'll see how West
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: does against Hazewo at East two in week nine, but
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that was going into this game by far, West's toughest
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: matchup too, because they finally got to come across a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: team that could, you know, kind of handle their passing attack,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: which is a good one too. They still get they
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: got good as far as a great quarterback and they
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: have good receivers, but I mean North gave him a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: really good challenge there too, and yeah, certainly had a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: lot of difficulties.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And that's a huge win, especially for the district standards
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: for Parkway North because's them and Orchard Farm out of
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the two front runners in class. I think They are
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: now in first place, which is huge. They can get home.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: If they can hold on and win their next two games,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: they should clinch home field for the district playoffs. And yeah,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: congrats to Coacho and the Vikings for a huge win.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: That's massive for them. They got Fox that's coming week.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: It should be a tough game. I mean Fox, you
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: know they're one and six, but they've been in a
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: ton of one score games against decent teams, so can't
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: can't just sleep walk your way through that game. Fox
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: can potentially burn you. But Parkley Worth has put themselves
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: in a really good spot, has respoted really well after
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: week one.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I thought another pretty intriguing game was Troy at Zumot West,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and that was would you say this is an upset
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit? Yes?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And no, I mean it's weird. It's weird how Roy
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: has been weird since the Hunter Humphrey injury, they've been
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: a weird team. Could mean losing to Hannibal wasn't really
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a surprise because really good Cannibal is a good team
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: and there Qub had just got hurt, so you're kind
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: of scrambling to figure out what to do at that point,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: So that's kind.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Of understanding here on the road doesn't help.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's tough. But then they came out handled Timberland,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: handled Howse Central handled Francis Howell really well. I mean
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: they put a four to three points on Francis how
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: They they had a great game. I mean they Carter
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Dowell and Chris Wenner have been the two and monster
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: for them in the backfield and then they come out
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: and score seven points on Remote West and West is
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a great defense, So this is not a knock on
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: West at all. I think West is a has had
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: one of the better defenses in the area all year.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a defense that has a lot
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: has a great pedigree so far. I mean they held
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Troy to seven points, they held Kirkwood to ten points,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: they held Bubbo West to fourteen. This this more West
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: defense has had a great year so far and they've
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: come to the clutch. So assuming West defeats Timberland, they
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: have they clinched to share the GC South title.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: So that's three way tie it should be.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, assuming Troy's got results hold in BK eight,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: it's a three way tie for g South title. Betweens them, well, West, Troy,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: and Francis Howell, because Howell defeated my West, who defeated Troy,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: who defeated how It's a little.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Bit of all these It's the top three teams are
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: all going up against the the the lesser teams this
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: coming week in Week eight.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and unfortunately neither team stats are in on this game.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: But you know, I know it. It was twenty one
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: nothing West going into the fourth quarter.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: It was and you know this, this this is what
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: West offense has. They've shown flashers this year and they
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: have talent, but they haven't really quite had a dominating
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: dominating They haven't really had a great game against a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: good team so far offensively.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: If you want to say, if you want to be
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: if you want to coach speak and be polite, you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: could say that, well, West is a good double West
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: is a good team, and they beat them thirty five
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to fourteen. They are and that that that was good.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I mean that that was that was I would say
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: that was their best offensive game, wasn't there. I mean
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: they had two hundred and fifty three yards that game.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: So that's I don't know if that's I know, a
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: great offensive.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Output when This is a that's a of a West
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that lose to a fallon two. So they're they're three,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and they're three and four and they're probably not gonna
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, I know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: So it's just.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I think West has the ability to upset a team
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: or two in the Class six playoffs, but they're gonna
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: have to offensive to figure it out pretty fast here.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: And they played Timberland, that's a game they should win.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And they host Hannibal to end the year. That one,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: that one should be very interesting to nine.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I think I don't think they beat Hammel Hannibal, but
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: then again, they do have a pretty good defense and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Hambleton has been really good though their only loss was
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a last second field goal the Hawaias, who's undefeated in
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Class six. So it's uh, they're really good. But West
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: is huge ing, I mean, definitely their biggest win of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the season, because.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's huge men. I think I'll do some quick research.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure the last time they had the GC
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: South title or at least a share.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, because it's been dominated by Francis
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Howe a lot, and then Troy won it last year.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then like twenty and then Holt in twenty
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: twenty one, was that correct? Holt stuck in then win
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the GC South twenty twenty one, because twenty nineteen's well,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: West got close, but I lost the Howl that year.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe twenty sixteen because how was it very good that year?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: And yep, seventeen twenty seven twenty.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Was the last time, and they won it outright that year.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So this is the first time West has gotten at
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: least's share of the conference title. They they see and.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: They won it for them. And in twenty sixteen, as
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I can see here, they also want it outright.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: So congrats to the Jaguars. That's a big win for Troy.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I have not watched the film in this game. Clearly
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I need to because I don't know what the heck happened.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know if guys are injured or that's just
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: very weird for Troy to seemingly get back on track
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: offensively and put up a great showing insprance as hell,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and then just just lay down against the more West.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, it is a good small West defense,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: but seven points is just nothing.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you got to have more than
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that to give you some chance. That is that's interesting
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: because they only scored seven. That's that's definitely their lowest
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that they've I know, that's their lowest since they lost
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to a rock Bridge thirty eight seven and two thousand
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and three, and that's going to be their lowest three. Yeah,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Yeah, sorry, kind.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Of Troy football Sico. Are you to know all the
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: results from twenty years?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: That? Right? But I think that, yeah, I think that
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: against a GAC opponent. It's the least amount of points
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they scored since they lost to Holt in twenty twenty
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: forty four to seven, and that was since their offense
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: has been modified to being a spread, a spread, run
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: heavy offense.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. I believe that the East St. Louis
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Biville East game is at least worth mentioning.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Only worth because it's just again, it's a blowout by
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: East Louis.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot to say.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: East Louis dominates fifty five to seven.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: There.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I was talking to one of my friends on that
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: last week. He was he was freaking out about East
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Lewis's point differential in conference games, and it was pretty
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: crazy last week, and it got even crazier this week,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: because now eastt. Louis has outscored their first four conference
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: opponents by a combined score of two hundred and thirty
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: six to thirteen. So definitely a East St. Louis and
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the s tier of Metro East teams. Even the next
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: in the next I guess the next best team they
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: played in their conference, Edwardsville is in the Cetier. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: mean yeah, it's just a totally dominant performance with the Flyers,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: which is nothing surprising, great game of ice on Johnson
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Cook per usual. Looks like Jayden and Wilsons are keeping
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: this game, which is interesting.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I think he's a sophomore.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I guess they were just I don't know if.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I know I know who you're talking about.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: How I forgetting his name right now?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know me too, I'm forgetting into Shanklin.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Shanklin's hurt. I don't know if
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they're just given Jaydean Wilson a chance, which you know
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: you might as well. I mean, I don't it's always nice.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Think teams just do that.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Though, Let's just say, like, hey, like there must be
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: an injury or something, because like I don't think they
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: just go say, hey, yeah, you're you've been our starter.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: And this is I mean, it's a it's a big
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: game on.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Paper, it's a big game.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: They're a decent football that was.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Essentially the conference championship well one of them, one of
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: because they they mean they beat Edwardsville a few weeks ago,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: which probably would have been the conference championship game had
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: edwards won that.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: But the biggest thing here was EA St. Louis's defense. Man,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I mean they forced they forced five punts and they
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: were able to get great returns off all of them.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, Ronnie gomiller Is is a great returner. He
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: had three returns for one hundred and fifty yards, averaging
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: fifty yards for return. Is crazy.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Explains why they only had three hundred and forty yards. Yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: only three forty.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yards, and they also had six sacts. I mean, this,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: this Easting Lewis defense is just completely swarming. And I
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people who listen to this podcast
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: haven't had the chance to go see Easting Lewis play
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in person any anytime in the recent past. I suggest
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: you do, because especially their defense, I mean their offense too,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: but especially the defensive previous year just plays at a
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: totally different speed for most other teams. I mean, every
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: single player on that defense has elite to speed, even
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: the D lineman. And the way they pursue the ball
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: is incredible. And it's a combination of good coaching and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: great football instinct from some of these players. And to
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: even have a chance offensively against Easting Liz you have
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: you got to have an airtight scheme and some great
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: talent and that's not That's not something East Lewis is
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: gonna see for about twelve days when they go to Brington,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Florida to play the img Senders. Yeah, and that should
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: be an interesting game for sure. But congrats to East Lewis.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Another conference title. I mean, I'm gonna assume if they well,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: you know, unless so foul and upset something like they
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: did in twenty twenty or twenty one.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. They have it.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: They have a share of the conference title.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the millionth year in a row.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: The Smets comfortably beat Festus this week. I think that
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: was a big kind of get back game for the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Cemet you know, they had.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: They already had a few get back games they won.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, at least this was against an opponent that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: was that's pretty good.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Like Festus is undefeat. I know they're in Class.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Four, a previously undefeated Festest team.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then again Vianni wasn't They're in Class four
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: and they had a they had trouble stopping Vianni. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: this is I think their their defense is starting to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: settle in a little bit because and they were able
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to get a big early lead on Festus. They led,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: they led twenty eight nothing or sorry, they led fourteen
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: nothing at one point in twenty one to seven.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: And if you're a fan of football symmetry, this is
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: your game.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: This smet.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: The this smet won the first and third quarters fourteen
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to zero. The score was twenty eight to fourteen in
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: each half. De Smett had the exact same number of
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: passing and rushing yards the two and fifty three. It's
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of interesting mathematical anomalies here in this game,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: but great offensive shown for de Smett five hundred total yards.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Gate Rodriguez another good game thirteen to eighteen, two and
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: fifty three yard and three touchdowns non receptions. Cam Sharp
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: he had again the great game out of the backfield,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: fourteen carries, eighty nine yards. The Met's offense has been
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: pretty good so far. I mean, it really was only
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: against CBC and Slough High where they struggled, which you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: that's two of the best defenses in the state right there.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: So they got carn Ruder this week. That's gonna be tough.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: But you know, to be four and three, I think
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: at this point of the year it's not ideal for
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: the Cemet, But after week four when they're one and
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: three and they got boat raced by CBC, you know
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Vianni and Seana. You know, Vanni is not the state
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the state title team that we saw five years ago,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: but they're still a decent team. They're they're definitely better
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: than they were in previous years.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, seven years ago.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: So it's it's good to see the de Smet kind
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: of get back on track.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: And their offense has been pretty solid all season. Defensively,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: besides SLEW and CBC, this Smet's offense been pretty good.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they're their defense is going to have a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: huge challenge against well, really their entire team has got
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: to have a big challenge against carn Rider this week
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and that'll be it ridder too.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: We got some huge games coming up the same this week. Yeah,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: so good win, good win for de smet right there,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: and Festus can't really knock him much.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: They're they're a good team. I mean they're six and
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: one right now. I mean they they already won their
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: conference title. They've already won the the Mississippi Area Blue
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Conference title. And you know they get Farmington coming up,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: which again that's a big game. That that's Frunkin's a
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: tough team. They're six and one. I believe you have
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: their six and one. That should be an interesting one.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: And they got Jackson in the year. So three very
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: tough games and the year for Festus to hopefully compare
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: them all for the playoffs and we'll see how they respond.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Let's go over to Illinois Highland. Sorry, I'll I like
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to lead with the winning team here. Waterloo takes down
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Highland convincingly forty three to fourteen. The Bulldog boy but
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: it was kind of it was a second half surge
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: by the uh, well the bulldogs beat the Bulldogs.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: They're both bulldogs.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we got to resort to the school titles.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: It was a close.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Waterloo actually got out to a ten thing lead.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Then Carter Harris received a thirty thirty nine yard touchdown
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: pass from Blake Jelly in the second quarter to make
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: it a ten to seven game. Then Waterloo took off,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and specifically took off he had. He finished the game
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: with three rushing touchdowns and ran for ninety one yards
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and eighteen carries. Oh and Nieberghi had one hundred yards
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: on twelve carries and waterloos and.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Neburgy had one catch for seventy nine yards. He had
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: in a receiving touchdown as well. He had a great
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: all around game for Waterloo.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Souded Conrad and Lynn horsset their quarterback six to ten
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: one hundred and four three yards and two touchdown passes.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: And Waterloo is going to be a tough out forber
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: has to play them in the playoffs. Man. The guy
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Lynn to Horris is a great athlete.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: A QB.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Sales is one of the leading he I think he's
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: like fourth in the area and points scored this year.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's had another great season running back and.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: He broke He's a great athlete. Waterloo's got some dudes, man,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and they they only allow fourteen.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I know Highland's not that great this year, but they
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: were still putting up. They had I think their averaging
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: over forty points a game on offense, and they limited
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: them the fourteen.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah at Highland, which is there, which is hard to
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: win at.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: And you know they got tried coming up, so it's
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: gonna be a tough one, tried to solid team. But
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I think to finish second in one of the best
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Missippi Valley years we've seen in recent history, I think
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I think Waterloo would be happy with that. I mean,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: the lost to Moscooita earlier was tough.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say this is one of the best MVC.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll have playoffs teams probably right.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I mean it's harder because, yeah, a little bit more
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: battle tested. But I've definitely there's been years like twenty
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: twenty two, for example, was one of the better MVC
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: years because you had you know, you had a would
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: probably I mean, if Higland didn't lose the Moscuita in
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the second round, that would have been one of the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: all time great Highland teams right there, who run defeated.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: But then yeah, them Moscuita who beat them. Waterloo made
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: it to the playoffs. I think they went seven and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: two or six and three, and they almost beat s
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: HG who ended up winning state. And then and then
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and then Tryad, who's always good for you know that
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: they are always winning like six or seven games a year.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: So sorry to go off a little topic right there.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, big for Waterloo. They clinched, It spawned the playoffs.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: The five and two right now tried and Michelle coming up.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: We'll see how they responded that.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: I think Rochelle is pretty good though, So that's.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Roman in Illinois.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Five does not guarantee you.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: It doesn't punch your ticket.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. It six does. They should probably
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: get in because they got Columbia, Centralia, moscuita Highland schedule,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and they should probably get in. But that Tryad game
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: or for Waterloo that that's a must win for both teams.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Shifting back over to the Missouri side. We got do
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: you want to say something? Sorry?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Sorry, now go ahead.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Slew High extends are winning streak there now seven to zero.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: They defeat Shamana twenty seven to ten. Kind of a
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: weird one here. I mean the Sleu High defense, per usual,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: has a fantastic game. I mean this is the seventh
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: game in a row where they hold their opponent to
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: sixteen points or less. I mean last week against Vianni,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: where Yanni scored sixteen was the most points and one's
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: put up against U High this year, and it was,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: you know, enough to do the job for Sue High.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Sue High's rushing attack is is good,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: but it's weird. I mean they had was a seven
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: different guys carry of the ball for him in this game.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't I did not see that when they played
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: when they played Lift for Life.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Two or eighty five rushing yards. I mean it's weird
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: because they put up over five hundred yards offense only
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: twenty seven points. So I don't know if it was
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: just which it doesn't look at that. I mean, assuming
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: they're being honest on their statue, they had no interceptions thrown,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: so I'm not sure if it was just a bunch
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: of fumbles or they missed it on fourth down a lot.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what happened there for SU High,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: but you know they got they got to win somewhat comfortably.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll take that. Karen Lby had a really
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: good game fourteen to twenty.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Blue did have too. They lost to fumbles.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, but they also did recover a fumble, so turnover
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: margin was close enough, I guess. But I mean shoot,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: to hold Shamana to seventy four plus fifty five, that's
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty nine yards total offense. That is
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: really really good. I mean, Shamanatt as a team was
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: eating juarian bonds and Winston Wiler had been a decent
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: two QB combo for the Red Devils and to hold
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: them to combine eight of twenty three for fifty five
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: yards and no passing touchdowns, that is really really good.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, this Slue High second deer has been flying
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: around all years.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: One of the best. They got, one of the best
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the defenses in the state. Yeah, and this is what's
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: gonna happen.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, They've been great all year. And man, I am
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: so excited for the CBC's Through High game this week
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: will be so much fun. We're gonna talk about it
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: more next episode. But this is gonna be the biggest
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: game at Slough High and since.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Decades, since twenty eleven when they played CBC and lost
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: in the final four in twenty eleven. Yep, and they
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: got killed by CBC that year. Yeah, that's brutal. It
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: was yeah, that they could not stop their offense.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, I guess we finished talk
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: about su high m as well briefly touched on CBC.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Speaking of not stopping CBC's offense.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: CBC would be to be honestly, fifty five to zero.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: CBC is the best offense in the state. CBC's offense
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: is unbelievable. This is one of the best offenses we've
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: seen in the Missouri side of any team quite a while.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: It really is.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, they had yet again another amazing rushing game,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: twenty seven rushing yards as a team, averaging over sixteen
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: yards per carry. Good lord, I mean they had let's
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: see one, two, three, four guys with fifty or more
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: rushing yards. They had four different qbs attempt to pass
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: this game. This is I guess that they got so
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: many dudes in CBC. Man, it's their depth is unbelievable.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: And you know, Vianni, they're a good team. They never
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: really had a chance in this one. I mean, Sam
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Dean was totally contained. I mean, this was just a
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: totally dominating performance, which is not really a surprise. And
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: you know, CBC is gonna be a favorite against sue
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: High for sure. I mean CBC would be a favorite
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: against any team in the state, which is I mean.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: How it should be.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: But this is gonna be CBC's against su High.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be one.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: This is gonna be their toughest game for I in
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: a perfect world, it would be their toughest game for
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: several weeks. But in a few weeks is bound to
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: play a tough playoff game, be against Lafayette or slu High.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: We'll see. So we'll see how Leanni can step up defensively.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know against I know a while ago
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: we talked about when sluugh High played the Smet we
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: would need Kyen LB to be more efficient with his
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: throws for Sleu High to win, and that didn't really
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: need to be the case because Slue High's defense was
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: so good against the Cemet. But CBC's offense is so
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: good that I think LB is gonna and the LB
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: has been getting better week by weeks. I think Slue
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: High is in good shape. But I don't want to
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: say too much because we do need to cover in
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: the next episode.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I wouldn't boat.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: But we we but we did say back in Week
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: three after slu High beat the smet there's a good
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: chance that both teams are seven to zero going into
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Week eight for the MCC title game. We got it.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: It's at Slew High, which I think is perfect.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Yea, so it's nice to give.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: It's nice that it's it's slew and it's not like so,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Know, I just this is this is the biggest football
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: game played in the city of Saint Louis, probably since
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: the Rams are in town.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm not joking even more than the Yeah, you're right,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say maybe a Missoo game, a
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: battle Hawks game.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: I know, but it's not the same.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: It's not the same.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I don't know.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: No, I think you're right, though. I think this is
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the biggest game in the city of Saint Louis since
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: like the what was a meaningful game the Rams played
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: in like post two thousand, posts twenty ten.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: That is a great question because there were just about zero.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and if in two thousand and nine
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: it was Sam Bradford's rookie season, the last game of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the season literally came down for the NFC it was
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a really bad NFC West that year. But they had
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: to play the Seahawks in Seattle. They lost when Charlie
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Whitehurst was Seattle's quarterback.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: To six and nineteen's going into the game, and I
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: think the Rams eight seven was six and nine. Yeah,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Seattle the game to go set of nine make the playoffs.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, that was tough. That was the only
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: reason they Pete Carroll was their head coach, probably why
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: they won that game. It was ugh, it was awful.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: A few games that think we should go Awa.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Wait, okay, I want to I want to do this
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: real quick, so I want to talk about a few
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: games in the on the Missouri side, and then we'll
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: spend the rest of the talking about the Illinois games,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: because we got some pretty good Illinois games that I
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: want to save for last. But let's talk about Lutheran
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: North Maryville where Maryville the spoof Hounds. They really took
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: it to luther North in this one, thirty seven to fifteen.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Maryville is not playing around man. They I mean, they
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: don't have their stats in obviously, but they're a heck
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: of a team up there in Northeast.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Missouri, Northwest Missouri West Missouri.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Sorry, yes, in the same town as Northwest Missouri State,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I should say, right, and I need to go. Hopefully
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: they have their stats.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: In or hopefully there's a game story somewhere and it's
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: not on a website where that doesn't require a paywall.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I do love to talk about Maryville because
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I love their mascot. I think the spoof Hounds is
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: a a dog freaking awesome mascot. I love the uniqueness
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Come on hyperstats and please, so we.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Should have had this ready earlier. But you know, okay,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: so no stats in on max preps for this game. Oh,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: just individual plays. So Jackson Dredge, the Q from Maryville,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: he had a good game.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It's a good name, Dredge name. I mean it was Lutheran.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Norris was winning seven to six at halftime. Yah, Maryville
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: outscores him thirty one to eight in the second half. Man,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Maryville just comes out and.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: This even happened when they're running wait.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Brody Shepherd.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: They didn't even have separate game. They didn't have like
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: their best returning running back in this game, Maryville, and
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: they still won. And Lucas Uh.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I think the play of the game was that Lucas
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: say they're a pick six in the fourth quarter. It
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: was twenty nine to fifteen with about seven minutes left,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: so two score game. Luther North has the ball still
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: kind of in reach and they throw a pick six
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: and that really sealed the deal from Maryville. So great
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: game from Maryville. I mean, that's just a huge win
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: from them.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: They are now.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Six and one, the other's six and one.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Well, the big the biggest play of the game was
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: a safety in the in the second half, and there
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: was a great punt that put them at the one
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: yard line and they got a safety and then a
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: score on the ensuing after on the ensuing possession after
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the safety, which really kind of put yeah, put them
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: over the edge there and not over the edge at
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the time, but gave them a twenty one late seven lead,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I just kind of created that separation.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: This is this is why you can't really trust Max
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: prehaps when it comes to Missouri rankings.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Oh it's all it's it's so bad, it's all over
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: the place. They're pretty good at determining teams who have
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: like good or bad schedules, but that's it.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Max Preps has Maryville ranked of the ninety third best
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: team in Missouri. And that is grossly wrong.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I mean that is and people willow that is wrong.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: People will still take it as gospel because it's, oh
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: it's preps.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I know, like like look at that, Like they're they're
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: national rankings at the top twenty five teams. Those are
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: generally good because usually the teams that are like, you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Bosco is always insane, Modern day is always insane. Eas St.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Louis is always insane.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: When they have actual people who like check on.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, they have journals.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Everything else is computers.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Marieville. You know, I haven't made a Missouri
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Top forty, but I would. It's been shoot to beat
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Lutheran North the way they just did. You know this
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: isn't the lu SAT. Luther North team is last year,
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: but luther and North is still a solid football team.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: You gotta have Mariville in your top forty, at least
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: of Missouri. I mean, they're they're a great team. I
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: believe they are Class four this year, maybe class three,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: class three, Class three, class three, class three, I.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Think I like a double check.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they are well that's adult shack.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I think they are they were in Class three last year.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: I thought Marville is a Class three. Yeah, those class
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: three District eight.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Of course they're a district yep, so there I think. No,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Lutheran North is not the same team as last year.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: They're not. They're four and two, so four they gotta
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: buy we coming up and they played cardn order at
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: the end of the year.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: That one should be tough.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be luther North's gonna be a
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: tough team to playoffs. They're in Class four still, but
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're a runaway favorite they were
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. I would like I
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: would say I would say the two big favorites are
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Savannah and Carney at this point in Class four and
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: then Hannibal I saw. I think. I think that's two
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: legit Class three teams and just Class fours is not
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: as deep as it used to be, like it was,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: you know, seven years ago, when you had Webb City,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Platte County Camdenen when they were pretty good lad when
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: they were at like almost like the peak of their
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: powers of their program at the time. And so that's
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: four schools that are all in Class five now. So Yeah,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: it's not got. It's they're not it's Class fours, not deep.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: But it's still fun though. Yeah, I was at I'll
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: talk about it since I was there and I was
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: giving you updates as it was happening. It was Zumalt
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: North dominating Ford Zumalt South I believe the final forty
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: two to six, and it was it was over pretty quickly, folks,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: because it was twenty one nothing North midway through the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: first quarter and they scored I think there are three
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: touchdowns in a span of one and twenty five seconds.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: And for the seventeenth consecutive season. I think no, no, no, no,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: I think yes, that was the last seventeenth game in
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: a row.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was the seventeenth game in row. The
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: last time.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: South one was in twenty twelve in a playoff game.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: So the last time twelve it was I'm not even
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: sure the last time. I think the last time them
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: all South beat Well North in the regular season was
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: back in two thousand and one.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: I could be wrong, though, I need to double check
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: that because that was he this is.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: That was like long before, like Joe Bacon was at
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: North and they were just kind of open he.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Was at North in two thousand and one.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Oh really, I wasn't the head coach.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was back to the head coach. He
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: was there, He's been I think this is twenty sixty
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: years North.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: That's on the stats a lot of service time. He's
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: the goat. He is. Yeah, he's the goat. And when
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: he retires, they should name the field after him. Seriously,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's it's been Joe Baconfield, that Robert L.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Fisher Stadium, the two coaches that have brought North to
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: the Final four.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but honestly, but what Bacon's done is a lot
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: better than the guy who did. What's the Robert L. Fisher.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Robert Fisher brought North on four in the seventies. Yeah,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: but that was one time at what Bacon's done is
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: just a lot better, honestly, not trying to diminish Fisher,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: but just no, Yeah, what Bacon has done is just
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: he has elevated this program to just heights they've never been.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: That had been unprecedent they have had. I mean.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Saying that, well, North has had a stranglehold on the
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: g C Central for the past decade, plus would been understatements.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: I believe the only year they did not win the
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: conference was twenty twenty two, and that was because yes
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: and yeah, Holtz came in and was a very good
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: team that year, so they won the conference that year.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: So Small North has won the conference, I believe every year.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: I know they they tied with Timberland in twenty or not. Yeah,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: they tied with Timberland back in twenty eighteen. But they've
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: had at least a share for what.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: Is that since twenty twelve years now?
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Eleven twelve years now, I'm not sure. It's been a
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: long time. It's been a very long time.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: At least at least in twenty ten, I think, because
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I think that was when Zoomal East was pretty good
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: for like a few years. Zumal East went undefeated in
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: twenty ten in the regular season. Yeah, yeah, so let's
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: say twenty ten.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, I mean, Sweldeworth continues to impress nothing
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: crazy offensively because they just didn't win. You need then
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: craze offensively. I know they put some of their subs
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: in the second half.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they they got North point to kind of
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: the main takeaway from this game is that Daane Burlson's back.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: That is big. He was out for the first five games,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: in the first six games of the year.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna say why, but that's a big
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: that's a big get for them. He's a heck of
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: an athlete and.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Played a lot on defense too as an outside linebacker.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: If he can good, if he can stay healthy, and
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: then is gonna be a problem with Class five. I
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: mean that they're a good team. Yeah, as long as
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: they don't have a crazy turnover game like they did
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: last year, gets some more less than the playoffs there,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be a tough out and it's too bad that.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, north Point, they're six to one. They're a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: good team, but they have not played well the past
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: few weeks. And I was looking forward to this game.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: North Point ouds them all north to be the GC
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Central title game, and we got about if north Point wins,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: then it could be.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: But we got to talk about the north Point Washington
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: game just because of the ending. Did you see did
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: you see that I I did? This is this is
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: this is the craziest walk off touchdown I think I've
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: i've I maybe have ever seen on camera or just
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: in in in the area. In recent memory, Tyron Williams
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: with a one yard picks six at the buzzer I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: to win it for the Grizzlies. This game made no sense. No,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: it doesn't.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: Every game North Points in makes no sense.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I was I was tracking, you know, I was at
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: the I was at the Battle Alone nine and I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: was tracking the.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: The score as the.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Game was going on.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: And then I was.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: I just didn't I didn't know how to respond.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: I just didn't.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was I didn't know what to do.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: I mean because it was a tie game and Washington
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: has the ball and they throw it like a hail
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Mary pretty much it was I think they were around
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: they were around midfield, Okay, they were it was Washington.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I think it was like the north Point forty eight
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: yard liners, which is a long throw. That's a long
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: throw to get to get to the end zone. And
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I got to pull up on Twitter right now. And
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: that's just because it was thrown. Okay, they weren't add midfield.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Think they were at there. They're at the north Point forty.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: It looks like play right here.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll get I'll give a quick play by play.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: This is the This is from Jeremy Pritchett's Twitter account.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: Grizzlies win an unbelievable fashion. So Washington, it's that back
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: you know, there was one second on the clock. Rolls
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: it back to the corner of the end zone. It's
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: picked off right by the sideline. Tyron Williams escapes the block,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: runs downfield, he's got a convoy going, dodges a tackle.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: He is at the thirty to twenty the ten dodges
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: another diving tackle, and North Point wins. No flag in
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: the play. You've gotta be kidding me. Oh, there's a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: flag at the very end after he scores, probably for
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: an excessive celebration. Yeah, that's the play by a play
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: for you. I mean, what the heck? I mean, that's
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: just such a brutal loss for Washington, but a much
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: needed win for north Point.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: It's peak GAC Central football. It's like such a Star
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Wars Canina essentially.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Na. This was just I mean, it was a great
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: offensive game for a North Point. They had what was
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: weird because they had twenty one points on offense, but
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: they had four hundred and sixty nine totally yards of offense.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: How do you only get twenty one points.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if they're I don't know if
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Tavern Williams got hurt, but they're given Alex Graham plenty
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: of snaps. He had a good game with QB, So
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is of that. I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: don't know if one of them is hurt. I don't
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: know if they're just spitting time. I mean, Tyron Williams
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: had a great game.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: That does not happen all season.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. Need to figure that out.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: I'm my text coach to Girl's to see what's going on.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: But what a way to win it.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: I mean it's obviously you'd want to beat Washington by
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: a little more, but any wins, any win is a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: good win for North Point and to respond at least
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: two because they really choked it against them All South
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: last week, like really really choked it.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So for them to.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Not totally break and come away with the win, I think.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: It's nearly broke.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: But yes, and they're gonna have to be air tight
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: this week against them All that one's gonna be tough.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have to play like a nearly perfect game.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: But I mean you almost never see the defense, the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: defensive team winning on a hail Mary attempt as time
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: expires like that. That that's almost impossible. And it's just
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: it's a lot like the kick six Auburn versus Alabama
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: and the Iron Bowls that twenty thirteen, given how you
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: have the ball pretty much in your opponents and pretty
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: much in your own end zone and there's no time
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: on the clock and either either you're scoring in the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: game or it's going overtime. Nothing in between is happening.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is it right here.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: So just an insane, insane way to end it. So
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: congrats to the Grizzlies. They're six and one. That's huge,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: And yeah, that was just a crazy one, just a crazy,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: crazy game.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Borgia with a nice victory Overholt.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: I think both of us picked Holt to win.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: But Borgser is a good team and coach Man is
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: doing a good job.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna really good Umber five and two now,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, by far their best one of the season.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Thirty four to seven, Yeah, by far their best one,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: and a whole whole to seven points is pretty good.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, especially for how they were kind of rolling.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: Because their two losses are a really good undefeated Sat
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Dominic team and then a pretty solid Father Toulton team
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: m HM, So Borger is in a booking spot right.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Now, right. Rittner got off to a slow start against
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Webster Grows, only led fourteen to seven at halftime, but
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: then they ended up rattling off a lot of points
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: and winning forty three to seven at the end.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Writtener, I think this is a good showing for them
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: because we've seen them get themselves into close games and
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: kind of freak out and make bad decisions. But they
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: were able to collect themselves and take advantage of their
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: talent edge and really come through and defensively just shut
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: down Webster Grows in the second half.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: So good stuff from now forty eight seven actually yeah,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: and another good game from Anthony Odom not really a
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: surprise there, big pick six for Troy Jackson the second half.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: So congrats to the Huskies.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: On a good win there. Yeah. Now they go to
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: four and three, and yeah, they should win next week
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: over over McClair North there.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: So nine, it's gonna be interesting.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: They got something that should be fun, that would be
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: a fun one. Yeah, absolutely all right. I think that's
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: going to do it. For our Missouri side of the game,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Francis Hallet to forty four to twenty four win over Timberland.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Expected there Dupo against Chester, this is.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: An awesome game, awesome, awesome game.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, it lived up. I know it's not a big
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: game for most of you guys listening to this, but
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: this was it ended up. I mean, for it's basically
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: a conference championship game, and this really lived up to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: a conference championship caliber game with the Chester Yellow Jackets
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: winning thirty eight to thirty seven on a with one
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: second to go and defy a Dupo two point conversion
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: that would have won the game for them on a
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: do or die play. So it was like great win
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: by Chester who are now six and one and punched
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: their ticket for another playoff Berth in Class two. And
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: for Dupo they should be all right, I mean they
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: they got Sparta and woold River coming up and they
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: should win both of those games and they should be
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: eight and one.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: Is there and get and get a and get a
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: home game.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Coach Cluster, Yeah, Zach Klostermer, he is an amazing job
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: at Dupo.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: And they were they were, they were so they they
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: were they were.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Pretty awful, man. I think in twenty twenty one they
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: were winless. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure they had.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: They was still like maybe even like not I don't
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: know about losing the program, maybe going to eight man
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: or something because their numbers were down. But uh, you know,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: he's done. So he's four years now for him, and
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: he's been doing a fantastic job. Like just like forty
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: players on their roster, and it was.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Like, that's insane for a town that size, having forty
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: players in your roster is incredible.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Forty players.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: It's not the smallest school in Class one by any
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: means because they got over.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Two hundred kids, but.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Their numbers have been increasing every year.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the point of it.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. They had twenty six players and he started
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: out there in twenty twenty two and now they're up
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: to forty, which is huge plus fourteen.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: I love seeing small town schools improve like that. You know,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: tough loss, and congrats to Chester for the wind. Neither
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: the team has our stats in but I love seeing
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: these small schools get better and just bring the town together,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: and it really does. That's it's good to see their
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: community come together and build that program up.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: And it's cool to see because they have a nice
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: history going back to the seventies at least, I mean
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: they might. I don't know how long they've been playing
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: football in Dupo, but probably longer than before the seventies
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: So and then Bree Central.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: They continue the role with a thirty one pretty competit game,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty victory for the Cougars.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: As they are one went away.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: From back to back conference championships in the Kochie, Mississippi
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: and Ah. These teams don't have their stats in so
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: come on, guys. I don't really know much else about
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the game, but it was a big It was an
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: important game. It was a good road win for the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Cougars because Rock Sanna is not an easy place to
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: go win football games. So the fact that Central was
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: able to do that and do it by two scores
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: is pretty good. Columbia continues the role. They had a wow,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: a really close seven to six win over Salem. I
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: did not see that coming, but they were able to win.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: In Colombia, they're six and one and they also punched
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: their ticket to the Class four playoffs, So congrats. To
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: the Eagles. They have a huge game against Bres Central
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: this coming week. ALTAF had a pretty fun game against
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: Modern Day, winning fifty six fifty eight to thirty five.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: That that's really big for their offense, who they have
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: been struggling ever since Week two against their against Hiland,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: where I mean they scored seventeen against Beverly's, twenty four
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: against Mary Mary and twenty eight against Mount Vernon and
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: a really tough loss and barely squeaked by Comsvill sixteen
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: to fourteen. But their offense kind of looked like I
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people thought their offense would look
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: like this season, scoring fifty eight points in the game.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of a big day offensively for both quarterbacks. Jade
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Nelton had two hundred twenty four yards and three touchdowns.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Steven brown Legacy game right here. Eighteen carries for two
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one yards on the ground. How many
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: touchdowns did he have one two and three, one of
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: them being actually one of them being a seventy five
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: yarder and then another one being a fifty three yarder.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Another good in a pretty good game from running back
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Jay Crumble. He had an eighty two yard rushing touchdown
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: and a fifty four yard run as well, and he
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: had over one hundred yards on the game too. But
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Modern Day's quarterback Hunter hawk bomb Man. They really they
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: had fifty three pass attempts for two hundred seventy one
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns one interception, So.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: I think he's hock Bomb.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: He's one of the younger quarterbacks to look at just
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: for the future because I believe he's only a sophomore,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: and if the Wi Fi would load here, I can
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: maybe I can be able to confirm that. But that
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: was that's a huge win for all to off because
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: they're now four and three and now they got a
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: they got two pretty tough I don't know pretty toughest
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: right word, but fairly tough games coming up through the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: end their season. And by the way, hawk Bomb he
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: is a he is only a sophomore. So that's good
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: news I think for moder Day because they really need
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: someone to kind of to build around their team with
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: and he might be able to be that guy for them.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Modern Day they are they're two and five, so they
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: will That loss means they do miss out on the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: playoffs for the second consecutive season, but yeah, alls off
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: they have Saint Mary's and then Maple Park Cainlin coming up,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: both road games as well. We got a few more
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: games in Illinois. I think actually that actually know that
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: that kind of does it well. Edwardsville with the important
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: victory over.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: The Edwardsville has been playing for their lives ever since
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: weak four. And to hold o'found a three points I
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: think is so huge with this defense. I mean, no
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: o'found doesn't have some crazy offense, but this is this
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: has been a struggling Edwardsville defense, and I think just
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: to have a game where you hold your opponent to
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: three points is a big, big moral victory.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: I know they're not looking for more victories and edwards
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: but but they've got the real victory here. And to
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: keep you to keep your oponent out of the end zone,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: I think so huge and that gives them a lot
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: of momentum. Hopefully they can take it into the Alton
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: game and do the same thing as the Redbirds, which
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: they should probably do.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not confident with Evansville going up against the smeth.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: I know that that's that's there, that's their season and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: they're probably gonna be four and four. We're going into
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: the Met game, and they're playing for their season and
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: they have to win that game to give themselves a
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: chance in the playoffs and giving their strength of schedule,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: if they beat the Smet.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: They should, I guarantee you they will get into the playoffs.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: If they beat the st Yes, yes, but that that's
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: a that's a huge game.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying. I'm not saying I guarantee Everyonzil's gonna
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But if they get five wins, they
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you they will. If they do that, I
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: think the last game here, we have barely talked about
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: Kokia all season.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: They are six and one.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Coman cheese. I'm sorry. You guys are really good and
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: we kind of just I've lost.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, unfortunately, you're really good. I know.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Well it's tough.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, like.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: The South seven is just so year because like.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like how weird it is though
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's an entertaining.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Weird wh I know, because the geographic area of it
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: is so massive, because you got Carbondale all the way
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: up to Kohoki and you.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: Know about it because you've driven through it many.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Many, many times, many times. But Koki had defeats in
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Trellia forty to eight to clinch the South seven Conference title,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: So big win for the Comanches. Their lone loss in
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: the year is still a eight point loss to a
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: really good Lift for Life team. They got Collinsville this week. Collinsville,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: you know, they're okay, they're three and four, but that's
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: a game that Kokia should definitely win.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: And their defense is really good in this game.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, Centralia came in, they have a pretty good offense,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: and they limited them under one hundred and fifty total yards.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: Kokia just they just like all around looked pretty good.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Nigel Gooden is a really good quarterback.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: Well, and they got they got three guys.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: That have Kay Henderson had a good game.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Mkaie Henderson, Donald Colliers Junior and Gooden are great. Hardle's
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Holtman as well. That's a great football name, Hartles Holman.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: That's a very cool name. Yeah.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: The Kahoki just has a bunch of great athletes out
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: there that are very difficult to deal with, where you
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: can't just you know, sell out drop in a before
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: we play and trust yourself to keep everything in front
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: of you because they're gonna picking poppy down the field,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: but against Collinsville and then Sycamore also them before.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: But it also helps that they have Bernard Chapman, who
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: is the leading passer for Beva West last year. I
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: just figure that out. Yeah, so that's that's He's not
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: even their main quarterback, but it helps. Yeah.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cahokia there's six and one. They're going to comfortably
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: rule into the playoffs. A couple of other teams that
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: I do want to mention.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: You mentioned Lift for Life.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, they had a huge game against Weald,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: wacky game against Holton, but they were able.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: To win that.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Yep, oh come on, that's sports load. Yeah.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Lift for Life. They come out of the win twenty
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: twenty one against the decent Father Tolton team. They're not
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: five and two. I leave the team has their stats.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: I believe that they were losing I think twenty one
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: to seven, came back to winn and scored a late touchdown. Yeah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna assume Phoenix Isaiah had another good game. He's
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: he's He's played a great game almost every game so
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: far this year. And you know they got Cape. They're
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: at Cape Central this week. That one should be a
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: tough one. Cape Central is a decent team and at
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Halaias to end the year, So a couple of big
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: tests before they go into the playoffs. But I mean
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: you talked about Class fool, we're being kind of open.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Class three is pretty open as well. I mean Blair
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: Oaks is obviously going to be the favorite.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: There last two they're in Class two. That's right.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I forgot blar Oaks in class So now it's weirdos
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: is it not as open now? Because Seneca is Seneca
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: is the machine Michi is an absolute machine. They I'm
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: not I forgot exactly how the districts would match up,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: but hopefully.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: I think Seneca has got a pretty favorable district.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can see. Well Maryville is also in Class three,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: so you got to got Maryville, Seneca and Lift for
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Life that are going to be dangerous in class three.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: I wish then you got Valley Catholic, Valley Catholic Saint
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: Genevieve in the front of the same district.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: It's a loaded Class three district too. That is a loaded,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: loaded district that should be interesting to watch. What I
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: was gonna say earlier, a couple of teams I do
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: want to mention. We talked about this team being a
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: potential surprising undefeated team and they're living up to it that.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Jennings Warriors are seven now. They crushed Bret mcclayon this
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: past week sixty nine to zero. Nice seven so far.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: They've got Riverview in week eight, the game they should win,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: and then they got u City of Nek nine. You city,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: They're all seven. A great year. There's six and one
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: and their one loss was a close loss to a
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: really good Saint Genevieve team. So these are a couple
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: of North County schools that have been somewhat disappointing and
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: previous years. But the combination of good coaching and a
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: buy in from some of the players that have.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Been that's been really awesome to see those two teams
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: get pretty good fast. No, it is, I mean and
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: just for.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: I mean for the for Darryl Green is his first
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: year Jennings to come in and do this in his
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: first year is incredible.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: That's so awesome to see.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I like to think I think they had a decent
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: amount coming back to so which which is which really
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: helps him because they got you know, I mean, obviously
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: it's Jennings, so they don't.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: They were okay last I think they were five and
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: six last year.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and well clearly they got a guy who
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: like who's a good coach.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Darryl Green is a heck of a coach
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: for Jennings and then U City Will Franklin is the
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: coach there. He's doing a great job.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's done a good job wherever he's been at.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has. We Will Franklin's been a great coach.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: And you City has always had.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: They have great talent every year, like kids who live
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: in that school district.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: But who just don't go to the U City And
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: it's just about how they can harness it and can
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: they get those boys in the weight room. And they've
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: been doing that a lot better recently as what I've heard.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: That's great to see.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: So I like, I want to see both those teams
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: beat their schedule up next year because the yea, yeah,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: if possible.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: That's really they're they're really going to grow that way.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: And yes, yeah, you're you're you're beating the You're gonna
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: get a lot you're bad teams pretty easily.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: I think it's ready for it's time for you to
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: graduate up to the next level.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they can, Like I don't know if that's gonna
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: happen or not, but I mean because it's probably are
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: been agreed upon, even maybe a year ago, but I
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: would love it if both teams went to the suburban
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: Orange and just just to.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: Take that little next step. It's not it's not a
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: big step yet, but it's a step.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: And just see what you can do there. And for
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: people who have been complaining about us not putting them
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: in our rankings, that's gonna help you guys get into
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: the small school rankings if you can play those teams.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Then again, I don't know why why they have suburbs.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: They have like seven teams in the Orange and Blue
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: and then five in the Blue, when it could all
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: just be you could have six teams in each conference.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, because that's when you're in the
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  Speaker 1: suburb and Orange. I mean, then you play you only
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  Speaker 1: have three you know, non conference opponents in there. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they do that, but it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. So Roman, that's all I got. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have anything else?
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  Speaker 2: No, We're approaching eighty minutes here on this first episode,
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  Speaker 2: So with lots to go over, so if we apologize,
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  Speaker 2: we're running a bit long, but a lot happened content
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  Speaker 2: bomb for y'all. Sorry, not sorry, We love it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys as always for listening, and we'll hit
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  Speaker 1: you back this Thursday with the Pitch of the Week
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  Speaker 1: for Week eight, which is also very promising piece