November 10, 2025 • 7 mins
Marty Bowman talks with Coach Jeff Weachter before the Mechanicsburg playoff game!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Party Bown coach chef wafter bish McDavid High School coach,
haven't talked to you football for a couple weeks a year,
always talking football, but haven't talked to you for a
couple weeks with the bye week and everything. But before
we get into the two weeks off and tonight, there's
some real sad news here with the bish mc david
(00:23):
High school football program here in with one of the
students in particular.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, unfortunately, Monday morning, I got in at six thirty
and right after I got into school, I had a
call from one of our cornerbacks, Shihi Clement, number thirteen,
and he said.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Coach, I ever hate some really bad news.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
My dad died in a car accident early this morning
on the Turnpike coming back from Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So it was rough telling the players.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
A lot of our guys took it hard because a
lot of guys on the team do him and friends
with Shahid Uh. It was a rough Monday and Tuesday,
you know, Wednesday, on short notice. We only knew about
at two o'clock on Tuesday that when the funeral Rangers
was gonna be, which was gonna be Wednesday at noon.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So Kennie Martscot did a great job.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Got the uh got we could only get one bus,
so we only took the varsity and we took thirty
to six kids down. Four coaches went down Wednesday to
the funeral in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So, uh, it was a tough week.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm sure, sure it has been.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Uh, let's suck a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know, we need to talk about State College two
weeks ago. Uh, how'd you feel coming out of that game?
Had a couple we've had some injuries here. Maybe you
can fill us in two one add on who's looking
good this week? You're going to have a full roster.
But first a little bit about the State college game.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You know, we've been a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Real good football team. I mean they came in i
think ranked fifth and sixth a til Harrisburg the double overtime.
They were big running back going to Syracuse. The young quarterback,
he's gonna be a real good one here. You know,
he did a good job. They have good receivers. Defensively,
they're very good in the secondary. They're big upfront. So
(02:16):
I felt other than the turnovers, we dominated all three
phases of the game. We dominated obviously with two kickoff
returns for touchdowns. Defense against a very good offense, did
a great job shutting them down and hold them to
twenty points. And really, I mean it was really fourteen
because you know, the one unfortunate fumble where I was
just going to take a knee, run the clock out,
(02:38):
they got one, you know, one from our twenty yard
line with like what three seconds left, you know, So
I thought we dominated and I was very pleased, and
you know, it was a good, good way to jump
start going into the bye week.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You mentioned the running back going to Syracuse, Cheffy. I
didn't think they ran him a lot, which I think
is to your run run defense.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, we did a great job and shutting him down. Again,
their big offensive line and they do a lot of
good things on offense, and again I think they didn't
run it as much because you know, we were, you know,
we were.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Stopping the run.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So the off week, did you go late last week?
And of course you can't anticipate what happened this week,
so it really changes the practices up a little bit
this week.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So we gave them Monday off because it was a
physical game. We practiced Tuesday. You know, they gave the
coaches having Monday off, you had the weekend and Monday
to self scout see what we you know, what our
tendencies are, office and the defensively, what we need to
work on. You know, I looked at some maybe some
(03:50):
wrinkles we want to throw in. So we worked on
the We did a lot of individual and group work
on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We brought them back in Whennesday for.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
About a half hour short of them what we did Tuesday, Uh,
you know, started working on some things and kind of
at a sneaking suspicion that Mechanicsburg was probably going to
be the team we play. So we did work on
some things from adjustments from what we saw.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Against them last year.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And then it gave them Thursday off with all that rain,
and then Friday we just had what we you know,
our practice where we worked on Tuesday and Wednesday we
worked special teams, but on we worked a little bit
of red zone offense, defense. But then we just kind
of did a game situate stimulate some where simulation where
(04:43):
you know, we'll go our fense and I'll say I'll
turn over, get the defense out in the field. You know, worky,
we got pun or there's a punt return so those
are things we worked on.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, so this week and of course, as you said,
it was a little different this week. Practice is being
different every day. Let's talk about tonight. You know a
lot about mechanics, fort no secrets, They know a lot
about you. What have you been working on in particular?
What do you see here for tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You know, they're you know, they got a very athletic quarterback.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
They don't throw as much as they did last year,
you know, but they put their big tight end in
the backfield and then they tick. You know, their Division
one defensi attack is really good back in the backfield
and they'll go some power hide to try to run
the ball, you know, and Redlaning got caught keying on
the tailback and the quarterback just kind of booted off
(05:39):
the backside and went for a seventy three yard touchdown
to kind of sealed the deal last week. So and
then defensively they were very good. Defense. Haven't given up
a lot of points. They you know, again they they
have three returning starters and and two of them, one
committed the Western Michigan, the other one has an offer
for one from Michigan, and the other one, uh committed
(06:00):
the sacred art. So essentially they got three Division one
guys up front. So you know we've been talking all week. Hey,
you know they played this stuff last year, gave us
a really good game. And and you know, we can't
just sit there and say, all right, we beat Stay College.
Where'd you come to go am in and do the
same thing to Mechanicsburg. We have to come out and
play a quarterback that can run. So you know, so
(06:21):
like which would you rather have? But a quarterback that
can run?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Do you have to slow your rush down so that
you don't overrun and he gets outside or you got
to beat him to his drop?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What you do is you mix it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But you know the biggest thing is guys have to
stand in their pass rush lanes. So and you know
the same thing with the blistening, and you always have
to go for the quarterback's back shoulders. Sometimes a guy
coming off the edge kind of get excited and go
and go the front shoulder and they'll spin out and
then then there's nobody there. That's the biggest concern is
(06:55):
is if somebody gets caught inside and and you know
he gets out on the edge because you know, besides
being on a run. He did a nice he throws
a ball nice uh on the run through for a
long touchdown pass against red Land last week.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay, coach, well, Lord William will get a w tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We'll see you next week. Sounds good to me, all right,
thanks
Party Bown coach chef wafter bish McDavid High School coach,
haven't talked to you football for a couple weeks a year,
always talking football, but haven't talked to you for a
couple weeks with the bye week and everything. But before
we get into the two weeks off and tonight, there's
some real sad news here with the bish mc david
(00:23):
High school football program here in with one of the
students in particular.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, unfortunately, Monday morning, I got in at six thirty
and right after I got into school, I had a
call from one of our cornerbacks, Shihi Clement, number thirteen,
and he said.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Coach, I ever hate some really bad news.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
My dad died in a car accident early this morning
on the Turnpike coming back from Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So it was rough telling the players.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
A lot of our guys took it hard because a
lot of guys on the team do him and friends
with Shahid Uh. It was a rough Monday and Tuesday,
you know, Wednesday, on short notice. We only knew about
at two o'clock on Tuesday that when the funeral Rangers
was gonna be, which was gonna be Wednesday at noon.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So Kennie Martscot did a great job.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Got the uh got we could only get one bus,
so we only took the varsity and we took thirty
to six kids down. Four coaches went down Wednesday to
the funeral in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So, uh, it was a tough week.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm sure, sure it has been.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Uh, let's suck a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know, we need to talk about State College two
weeks ago. Uh, how'd you feel coming out of that game?
Had a couple we've had some injuries here. Maybe you
can fill us in two one add on who's looking
good this week? You're going to have a full roster.
But first a little bit about the State college game.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
You know, we've been a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Real good football team. I mean they came in i
think ranked fifth and sixth a til Harrisburg the double overtime.
They were big running back going to Syracuse. The young quarterback,
he's gonna be a real good one here. You know,
he did a good job. They have good receivers. Defensively,
they're very good in the secondary. They're big upfront. So
(02:16):
I felt other than the turnovers, we dominated all three
phases of the game. We dominated obviously with two kickoff
returns for touchdowns. Defense against a very good offense, did
a great job shutting them down and hold them to
twenty points. And really, I mean it was really fourteen
because you know, the one unfortunate fumble where I was
just going to take a knee, run the clock out,
(02:38):
they got one, you know, one from our twenty yard
line with like what three seconds left, you know, So
I thought we dominated and I was very pleased, and
you know, it was a good, good way to jump
start going into the bye week.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You mentioned the running back going to Syracuse, Cheffy. I
didn't think they ran him a lot, which I think
is to your run run defense.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, we did a great job and shutting him down. Again,
their big offensive line and they do a lot of
good things on offense, and again I think they didn't
run it as much because you know, we were, you know,
we were.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Stopping the run.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So the off week, did you go late last week?
And of course you can't anticipate what happened this week,
so it really changes the practices up a little bit
this week.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So we gave them Monday off because it was a
physical game. We practiced Tuesday. You know, they gave the
coaches having Monday off, you had the weekend and Monday
to self scout see what we you know, what our
tendencies are, office and the defensively, what we need to
work on. You know, I looked at some maybe some
(03:50):
wrinkles we want to throw in. So we worked on
the We did a lot of individual and group work
on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
We brought them back in Whennesday for.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
About a half hour short of them what we did Tuesday, Uh,
you know, started working on some things and kind of
at a sneaking suspicion that Mechanicsburg was probably going to
be the team we play. So we did work on
some things from adjustments from what we saw.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Against them last year.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And then it gave them Thursday off with all that rain,
and then Friday we just had what we you know,
our practice where we worked on Tuesday and Wednesday we
worked special teams, but on we worked a little bit
of red zone offense, defense. But then we just kind
of did a game situate stimulate some where simulation where
(04:43):
you know, we'll go our fense and I'll say I'll
turn over, get the defense out in the field. You know, worky,
we got pun or there's a punt return so those
are things we worked on.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, so this week and of course, as you said,
it was a little different this week. Practice is being
different every day. Let's talk about tonight. You know a
lot about mechanics, fort no secrets, They know a lot
about you. What have you been working on in particular?
What do you see here for tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You know, they're you know, they got a very athletic quarterback.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
They don't throw as much as they did last year,
you know, but they put their big tight end in
the backfield and then they tick. You know, their Division
one defensi attack is really good back in the backfield
and they'll go some power hide to try to run
the ball, you know, and Redlaning got caught keying on
the tailback and the quarterback just kind of booted off
(05:39):
the backside and went for a seventy three yard touchdown
to kind of sealed the deal last week. So and
then defensively they were very good. Defense. Haven't given up
a lot of points. They you know, again they they
have three returning starters and and two of them, one
committed the Western Michigan, the other one has an offer
for one from Michigan, and the other one, uh committed
(06:00):
the sacred art. So essentially they got three Division one
guys up front. So you know we've been talking all week. Hey,
you know they played this stuff last year, gave us
a really good game. And and you know, we can't
just sit there and say, all right, we beat Stay College.
Where'd you come to go am in and do the
same thing to Mechanicsburg. We have to come out and
play a quarterback that can run. So you know, so
(06:21):
like which would you rather have? But a quarterback that
can run?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Do you have to slow your rush down so that
you don't overrun and he gets outside or you got
to beat him to his drop?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What you do is you mix it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
But you know the biggest thing is guys have to
stand in their pass rush lanes. So and you know
the same thing with the blistening, and you always have
to go for the quarterback's back shoulders. Sometimes a guy
coming off the edge kind of get excited and go
and go the front shoulder and they'll spin out and
then then there's nobody there. That's the biggest concern is
(06:55):
is if somebody gets caught inside and and you know
he gets out on the edge because you know, besides
being on a run. He did a nice he throws
a ball nice uh on the run through for a
long touchdown pass against red Land last week.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Okay, coach, well, Lord William will get a w tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We'll see you next week. Sounds good to me, all right,
thanks
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Bobby Bones Show
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.