August 27, 2025 • 51 mins
Delaware Football Head Coach Ryan Carty sits down with Scott Klatzkin to preview the upcoming historic season for the Blue Hens. Coach speaks about training camp and breaks down each position group before detailing the first matchup against Delaware State and opposing Head Coach, DeSean Jackson.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well as you are listening to the Klondike Kates Blue
Hens Football Coaches Show presented my First State ORTHOPEDICX featuring
the head coach of Delaware Football Ryan Cardy and Voice
of the Blue Hens Scott Klatskin, and welcome in to
your home for u D Sports ninety four to seven
w DSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome into another season of the Klondike Kates Blue Hens
Football Coaches Show on ninety four to seven WDSDFM and iHeartRadio,
presented by First State Orthopedics. I'm Scott Klatskin, excited to
begin another year as the voice of the Blue Hens
and host of this coaches show, and I'm very lucky
to get to hang out each week once again with
the head coach of the Dellar Blue Hens, Ryan Cardi Coach,
(00:44):
Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's nice to be back, Scott, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And you're having me. I guess because we flipped it
up a little bit. We're gonna be at Klondike Kates
this year. We love our partnership with Kate, so glad
that we can continue that. It's gonna be more like
special occasions at case you can. We're gonna be on
more specific dates. So right now we are in your office,
so I'm getting a little bit behind the curtain. You're
you're welcoming me in, but I always appreciate getting to
(01:10):
hang out with you, even though you are contractually obligated
to do so.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But we are we're kind of leaning in. It will
sound more of a podcast. Sometimes there's no roar of
the crowd as we usually do when we intro Coach Carty. Really,
any anywhere you go there's there's some type of fan noise.
It feels feels kind of similar to that that spring
season right with there weren't fans in the crowd. We
have to bring our own energy here. But for our
listeners you can catch us. It might sound like a podcast.
(01:38):
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(02:00):
let's jump into it. This is gonna be a fun episode.
We're going to kind of just preview the team. We
don't always get a chance to have this preview show
because the Wednesday nights are typically right prior to the game,
as it is this season, but we're here recording it,
so we'll be able to kind of go through personnel
and want to start with just just camp in general.
How is camping and how do you even gauge how
(02:21):
well a camp is going?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I think camp was outstanding. You know. I think
there's a couple of ways that you can probably put
some some markers down and try to quantify how good
it was. I think one of them is how close
you feel like you've become as a team, and how
you know, how you've worked through adversity during practices, how
you've fought to finish practices. You know, when you had
a bad day, did you fight back the next day?
(02:45):
Did you let it linger? You know? Are we doing
the right things? Are we coming like we practice in
the mornings? Are there people strolling and late every once
in a while because we obviously check them in at
a certain time every day. I think this has been
one of the best camps we've had as far as
detail oriented nature of our team and and the focus
and intention at each practice. You know, there were many
(03:07):
there were a few times where the coaches had to
intervene and say this isn't good enough. Most of the
time it was handled by the leaders in our program
and the upper classmen in our program. I think there's
been a really great u indoctrination of the young players
in our program and the newcomers in our program. I
think we fit well together. And you know, I think
the the question becomes, you know, can is that good
(03:30):
enough to go win football games? Yet? You know that
probably won't be seen until we're out there and felt
until we're out there. But we certainly, I think did
what we could in this camp and use this. You know, however,
many nineteen practices that we've had so far really to
our advantage. Well, you mentioned something I think is brought
up in the offseason. I get a lot of and
people are just making conversation. I understand that, but hey,
(03:52):
how's the team gonna gonna fair this year moving up
to the FBS, And it's it's kind of well, we
get to find out that's the good thing. The games
are going to be played to find out. But there
is a little bit more unknown this year because you know,
you know what you know about a Towson or will
Eaven marry or some of your your old conference mates
or okay, these guys we recognize from film last year.
There is a little bit more of an unknown of
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where are we going to stack up once we play
these games. There's no doubt Matt's h it is something
that obviously keeps me up at night, you know, knowing
that you know, the unknown is always a struggle. And
I think the beauty of football in sports really though,
is even when we it's a false sense of the
of the known. Also, I mean we always think that
going into the season and though we know who these
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teams are, we know who we're going to be, and
based off camp, we're going to feel this way. And
I do think that's probably something that we just tell
ourselves and then until we get out there and until
we see how how our preparation, you know, got us
to the point where we were ready to make those plays,
and how are our student athletes perform in those pressure situations.
It's it's tough to know until you see it, and
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then in this sense this year it is probably a
little bit more questionable, just based on you know, not
having played against any of these teams and so not
understanding these environments as much the coaches that you're going against.
I think there is some comfort in knowing exactly the
type of place you're going, how it feels to travel there,
where you're you know, you know what kind of scheme
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you're going against week to week. Usually doesn't change a
ton from year to year when you do have that
common common ground or common geography. So I didn't want
to wait too long to jump into training camp and
ask about the team. But I do want to go
backwards a little bit and ask you about, like your summer,
how you bit, like how the off season go for you?
Is there an off season like does that exist for
(05:39):
a coach? Do you get any downtime? Is there any
time where coach Cardi is in relaxing? Absolutely there is.
It's it's it's becoming less and less as as college
football has changed a little bit, and and as we've
moved up, I think you know, there there was the
this was certainly not your grandfather's June. I've said, and
(06:01):
you know, I think June has become as we've sped
up the recruiting process. I think the summer has kind
of gotten by the wayside a little bit for college
football in recruiting, and for the high school student athletes
as well. It's gone away for the student athletes on
our team. But where you know, even when I was
playing not crazy long ago with twenty years ago or so,
(06:22):
we were playing, uh, you know, we were doing maybe
one of the two summer sessions here and the other
one we were home, and so there there's not a
ton of time off. These are year round jobs, if
you will, and you know, I mean we're getting paid
for it now, so that's good. But the uh, the
fact that when we do have some time off, it
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still kind of consumes us. And when we when we
don't get time off, we're obviously consumed by it. And
so I think that's just kind of the nature of
what we do and and we love it and it's
why we do it because it would consume us regardless
of you know, whether we're on a beach or whether
we're you know, on on uh you know, the practice fields.
And so got a little bit of time off's got
(07:04):
a chance to spend some time with my family and
and uh and travel with my wife and and you know,
hopefully we can continue to uh, you know, just grind
out some some w's here and make it all worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I picture your relaxation as like feed up on the couchs.
There's like an NFL films marathon going on, Like that's
that's that's what you're binge watching or something like that.
It's always football all the time. But that's that's great.
That's what we love about you. And you're getting us
ready for this season. There is an increased amount of
attention on Delaware this year, obviously the spotlight and nationally
(07:36):
and uh going up to FBS. Does anything change operationally
now like we're in the FBS, We we can do
this now, or we won't do this anymore because now
we're an FBS team, Or is it kind of like
this is our program, we're this is how we we
run things, and it's not it's less affected by level
of play if you.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Want, yeah, I'd say operationally, no, there's a couple of
things NCAA rules wise that change, you know, little little
small things and or in the recruiting calendar is a
little bit different, you know, hence the June and July thing.
Uh you know the fact that actually July is when
you can take some downtime because it's a dead period
in in FBS football and it's not in uh in
FCS football, So that that helps. And so there are
(08:16):
some some differences and nuances, but I think operationally, you know,
it's really more about, you know, what your schedule looks like,
more than the fact that you're playing an FBS or
an FCS schedule, and so like the things that would
change would obviously be where you're going and what that
looks like to travel in those places, and that would
change week year to year based on you know, what
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your schedule looks like, more than the level of football
you're playing. And you know, as far as what happens
on the field, I mean that that's that's going to
be still about you know, who scores more points. And
so you know, we tried not to make it too
much different because I don't think that football is going
to be different from level to level other than you know,
hopefully the talent level will increase on both sides of
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the sideline.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And one major thing did change in the offseason, and
as you are now a video game character. You were
in NC double A twenty twenty six. How and the
marketing team here did such a fantastic job of drawing
attention to that and getting players or people gamers to
play as Delaware across the country. I thought that was
really cool. How did the kids enjoy? How do they react?
(09:20):
How did you react to seeing that for the first time. Yeah,
it's so cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I mean, it's obviously something that I played a lot,
and I shouldn't say obviously I played it a lot
growing up, and you know, something that we kind of
you know, fed into, and then when I was here
as a player, we the FCS teams finally got into it.
And so I was, you know, QB ten, very slow,
very below average grade, and and we used to play
(09:45):
with ourselves and have a dynasty and with with Delaware,
and you know, I just remember those days, and I
was part of the beginning of that. I actually got
money from me A Sports in the first Quarters action lawsuit.
I think I got like five hundred bucks or something
one day in the mail because I part of that
that first nil lawsuit that kind of changed college football
as we know and I remember that, and uh, you know,
(10:06):
at some point it was just like do you want
to do this? Check yes or now? And I checked yes,
And now look where we are. You know, Wow, there's
there's actual names on the back of our jerseys in
a video game, and and likenesses of ourselves and video games.
And it's so cool to see where we've come, see
how popular college football still is. I think that's kind
of the thesis of it, all right, is the generation
(10:30):
that kind of you know, we were in thinking, you know,
is this going to continue? And it's only skyrocketed and
it's become something really cool. Yeah, that is that's pretty neat.
I didn't realize you got one of the first checks
that they're they're a little bigger now. Yes, and I'm
sure some of the FBS guys had a little bit
bigger check than I got too, But.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That that's really neat. We've got a big show coming
up for you. We're gonna go through all the position groups,
all the players, get you ready for kickoff against Delaware States.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
We're gonna take our first time out and we come back.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We'll talk about something that coach Cardy knows a whole
lot about the offense when we return on ninety four
seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You're listening to the xan Dyke Cats Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State Orthopedix, featuring head coach
Ryan Carty. Welcome back into your home for Delaware Football
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Speaker 2 (11:21):
Welcome back into the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show, said
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Scott Laskin here with our head coach Ryan Carty and
coach let's get into some personnel grouping some players on
offense and if we learn anything about the quarterback position.
Last year it said you can never have enough depth
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at that position. And wow, I mean the recruiting that
your staff has done to bring in quality quarterbacks. Five
guys maybe all six that could probably make a case
for being the guy. Obviously Zach Marker and Nick Minacuci
our fans are familiar with from playing last year Riley Truio,
big recruit at a UCF. We saw Brandon Streeter have
(12:05):
an amazing debut last season e j Archfield a dynamic athlete.
So as you go through all those talented players, how
do you kind of divvy up reps and who has
taken the reins as as the front runner right now?
And I will preface as we go through the position groups,
we are recording prior to when this will air, So
(12:26):
if anything does happen between now and the time that
you spoke, you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. Well, I mean it's not easy to divvy up reps.
In particular at that position. It's probably the one that
is most difficult to kind of make sure you're trying
to put everybody in the same situation. You know, there's
so's such a dependent position. You know, when you're a quarterback,
you're relying on you know, how the offensive line might
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pick something up, how how the receivers might get open
on that play. And then your read is obvious the
most paramount part of it. But there are a lot
of variables in there for a play to be successful
or not, or to prove that you would have made
it successful had it gone right. And I think that's
the hardest thing in practice is it's hard to say
everything is equal. And this is what happened a lot
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of times, and so especially when there's more people that
need reps, you know, when there's only a couple, usually
it evens itself out over the course of time, they
balance out, and so it's certainly not easy. We you know,
Coach Golbriz has done a great job at repping these
guys as much as we can with the ones and
the twos and making sure that everybody's had a fair
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shot to go out there and prove what they can
and cannot do. And then the other side of it
that makes it difficult at that position is it's the
only one that never gets in a situation that is
fully live tackling to the ground in scrimmage situations, in
practice at all. And so we'll do a decent chunk
of times where we will tackle during fall camp, and
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these guys are obviously still going to be in their
red jerseys, and just the nature of that that that position,
we can't lose one in one of those situations, and
so we just have to stay away from them. But
it also doesn't allow them to be one hundred percent
who they are or who they would be in a game,
and so it's there are some things that still need
to be figured out when a game, when the lights
come on and when the game day pressure comes on
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for that position in particular, do you feel we're a
week out sitting here recording that you know what you
want to share with the class or not that you
know who your guy is going to be coming into
Delaware State. Yeah, I think we have a pretty solid
idea of who the top couple are going to be
and and you know, and kind of where it lands
right now. No, I'm not going to share with the
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classes as you can suspect, but I do think that,
you know, we are in a position, like you said
on the on the front of this UH segment, where
we do have a bunch of guys who have the
capability to go in there and win football games at
our level, and so we're excited about, you know, where
we're depth wise there. You know, it's it's been impressive
(15:04):
to watch the guys grow from practice one all the
way through. It's really been fun to be in the
meeting rooms with them and understand that they care about
each other and they try to push each other and
and compete with each other, but they also are certainly
trying to help each other grow as well, which is
is not always the case in particular at that that
singular type of position that one only one is playing.
(15:25):
Because there is a competitiveness too. That's why they're all
in here too. They're all really talented competitors and they
want to make sure that they're the guy that gets
a chance to go uh, you know, bring this team
uh to where it wants to go. And so I
think some of those things aren't easy, and it does
take a really mature and confident person to you know,
also be a great teammate while you're competing. Well, I
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did think that if I got you in a closed
room situation, you'd forget that that you were sharing information
for others to hear. But you you are sharp and
no matter what the setting for the for the show,
no matter who's back there getting snaps to protect them.
I remember, you know, prior to the Penn State game,
we kind of talked about that's the biggest difference when
you bump up fbs, and it might have been more
Penn State directed at the times they had some pretty
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big guys, but that's usually the biggest difference is upfront
on the O line, the defensive line those guys up front,
but you have players that have been here that are returning,
Bros And war Shupp are returning. What gives you confidence
in that offensive line to be able to protect your quarterbacks,
especially as you do move up a level. Yeah, I
think that would be the biggest thing that would give
us confidence, right is the experience. I do think the experience,
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the ability that they've worked with each other too. And
I think such a huge portion of being successful on
the offensive line is communication. And I would say, you know,
the relationship between the people that work next to each
other and feeling those those combination blocks and maybe some
of the things that aren't said in the past game
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when you're passing off a twist from a defensive lineman
and those things that you know kind of just our
our repetition based and are harder to kind of, you know,
throw somebody in there and and see how they do
with the guy next to Moven if they're talented. And
so I think that does give us a little bit
of comfort going into a season. I don't know if
it's an advantage, but it's certainly something that would make
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us more comfortable than the other than the other way
than the uh, you know, having a piecemeal offensive line.
I also think that you know, we've come a little
bit since you know, we did talk about that, and
I think we've we do have some uh you know,
as far as size goes, I don't know that we're
going to be a small offensive line in in Conference USA.
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I think we would probably be on on the bigger side,
to be honest, And so you know, I'm hoping that
we can be, you know, somebody who relies on on
our ability to move people and realize on our ability
to you know, communicate well with each other and play
well together upfront. I think, you know right now, I'm hoping,
you know that that that's the the strongest part of
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our our offense and and be our team. And so
you know, that's what we're we're hoping for us what
we're relying on. And and you know, I think for
sure and a lot of times this is the way
it goes. But for sure, our offense is going to
be as good as as we are upfront. And that's
just kind of you need him on every play. They're
similar to a quarterback. You know, you're gonna whether it's
a run or pass, they're gonna be involved in it,
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and we need to make sure that that that'll we dominate.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And got some size to be able to dominate. Three
hundreds across the line of some big guys, as you
mentioned up front there, whether they're blocking for the quarterback
or getting some holes for your running backs. Last season
you had a guy in by the name of Marcus
Yarns who's wearing the throwback Ricky Williams jersey now for
the New Orleans Saints and makes it to the NFL.
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You know, he he could dominate a game, He could
explode and every time he touched the ball it was
potentially a score. So he's gone, and now you have
an opportunity for Joe Silver to step up and be
the main featured back. He is the answer to a
tribute question from now until Forever. The first UD player
to be nominated for an FBS Award. He was on
(19:02):
the Adope Walker Watch list. Ashan Gent won that award
last season. In an interview earlier this season, he said,
I need to be able to make people miss. Is
that the area you feel like he's been trying to
work on or needs the most improvement in, And why
do you think Joe is is it ready to be
the guy this year?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know, I think the the reason he's ready to
be the guy is probably because he's He's the person
who's going to tell you what his weaknesses are. First.
He's he's that kind of teammate worker person to be
honest with. He's very thoughtful, very diligent. There's nothing that
he's not. He's not going to leave a stone unturned.
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He's going to make sure that he can do everything
he can to become the best version of himself and
really proud of his progress that he's made. Yeah, he's
he's talented, his heck, and he's going to be somebody
that we rely on to break the big one for sure.
And I think we can all work on on those
little things things. And you know, that is something probably
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as you brought up Marcus, that he did really well,
was that, you know, if there was one guy to
be he usually didn't get tackled by that guy. And
I think that's probably what Joe's alluding to, is that
that's probably something that he wants to make sure that
that he carries on, is that, you know, when when
a play gets them to that point, when an offensive
line does all their jobs. When the quarterback did his
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job by you know, making the right RPO read, making
the right attachment read, and when the receivers block their
their butts off, and there's one guy, you know, make
sure that we make the most of that because we
understand how those explosive plays are the game changers in
our offense. And I think that's just something that you know,
whether whether Joe needs to work on it or not,
it's something that he feels is his job and and
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you know, understanding his role in this team is to
be that guy that could possibly break one. And I
think all those guys in that room and all the
guys in our skill room feel that pressure to understand that.
You know, when we get you a situation where it's
one on one, you better win it. And we are
excited for Joe Silver. I'm gonna have to he dropped
the Nathan so I used to just Joe. It'll be
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quicker off the tongue this year for me, and I'm
sure he'll be quick into the end zone a couple
of times out of forty five yard run. A season
ago rush for four hundred and sixty two yards, also
brought over Byron Ellison from Tulsa who played a lot
as a freshman a season ago. Was second on the
team at Tulsa in yards and fifth on the team
and carries a season goal. So have some some skills,
some players, and some depth at that running back position.
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I do want to move forward to wide receiver. Some
great news this week at the wide receiver position for
a former Blue hen Phil Lutz was signed to the
New England Patriots this week. Really exciting stuff. He had
a breakout year a season ago, who may be due
for a breakout season this year in that wide receiver corps. Well,
I hope a bunch of guys, you know, be nice.
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That'd be great. You know, I think that you know,
sometimes when you you know, when you lose somebody as
prolific as maybe Marcus or Phil, when it comes to statistics,
you know, you try to say, who's the guy that's
going to take him over? And I don't think that's
necessarily how it has to work, right, It's not how
it always works in this offense. We have a lot
of times where it's just, uh, you know, we spread
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the ball around in this offense, and I think there's
times when we can design things for somebody specific, and
I think Marcus was a person that we did a
lot for. But there's also times where you know, it
makes it easier to not have to and and when
you can just say, any of these guys can go
out and make this play when we need them to.
And I think going into the season at Receiver, I
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think that's where we are. I don't know that there's
a person that's the guy right now until they prove
it in a game, you know. I mean, I think
that's there's so many people on that on that list,
you know, that have done a decent chunk of great
things in games, and in practice, none of them I
don't think have proven that they are you know, capable
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I should say capable, that they have proven that they're
the person that we need to go design plays for yet.
And I think that's pretty all. I think that's a
cool thing about where we're at right now. I feel
good about the you know, the the the breadth of
that list, you know, and I think hopefully we get
a chance to see it early. You know, Okay, this, Okay,
that guy made this play. That's good to know, you know,
(23:15):
we can we can be we can have that in
our back pocket when we need it and still also
give other guys chances to do that as well. Yeah,
I don't think we had the season preview show.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't know if Phil Lutz will if that would
have been a name that popped them. He had the potential, obviously,
but not he went and he went and did it.
And that's what's great about playing the games. Did you
get to see he's going to step up lastly for
the offense before we take a time out and move
on to learn a little bit about the defense. Uh,
tight end position is a last group and after day
one of camp you lose Caleb Fourier. After training camp starts,
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and obviously want what's best for that young man who
decided he's not gonna play football anymore. But the timing
is tough because you can't then just go get another
tight end in the portal. Right, it's a little late
in the game. So who has made the most of
those additional reps at the tight end spot.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It's just old school football. When somebody hangs them up,
you don't just replace him, you know. It's this this
this portal thing has made us greedy. I think there's
a good group of of tight ends. I think that
might be the the group. I'd say that's probably the
most improved out of the offense during this one training camp,
I think, you know, and maybe it was a little
(24:20):
bit of a I don't want to say chasm, just
a you know, more repetitions that were earned just by
Caleb leaving. And you know, I think Elijah and Connor
have really, you know, stepped up into some roles that
you know, they can be counted on to go make
some big plays. And I think that's pretty awesome. And
you know, I think some of the young guys have
(24:42):
have done a nice job at kind of earning some
some trust and earning some repetitions as well. And you know,
really excited about true freshman Scott More as well. I
think he's going to be somebody who might have to
help us this year and it probably could excellently. Well.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
We look forward through only a day for the time
that this airs to see in the Hens against Delaware State,
we talked about the offense. We'll take a time out,
we come back, we'll learn about this year's defense. We're
talking Blue Hens football in ninety four to seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
As you're listening to the Klondike Kates Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State or The Pedix, featuring
head coach Ryan Carty. Welcome back, get into your home
for Delaware Football ninety four to seven WDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And welcome back into the Klonde Kates Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show. We'll be back at Klan A Kates next
week Wednesday, September third, will be live.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Join us.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
There only four shows in person this season, so make
sure you are in attendance. We have great fans, great atmosphere,
great food, always a fun time. We can't wait to
see you at the first live show next week at
Klon de Kates. For now, though, I'm in the football office,
Scott Klatskin here with our head coach Ryan Carty and coach.
We talked about the offense, Let's move on to the defense.
Hashtag three high life. Right, we're talking to Manny Rojas's
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three three five defense. What is it about that defense
that that would that gives other offense coordinators trouble or
that would give you offense you trouble if you had
to go up against Manny's defense.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, I think you know. I had my shirt on
the other day, by the way, my three high live shirt.
So we're all part of it around here. This isn't
just a defense.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
This also for anyone that sees it on Twitter or
sees the hashtag, an explanation of what it all means.
Absolutely well, you know what it does mean is that
you know, most offense, most defenses, sorry, play with two
high safeties and and here we kind of primarily start
our defensive structure and our shell with three. And it's
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something that kind of came about, you know, a few
years back, I want to say, maybe you know my
last one or two years before I got here, we
started seeing a couple people pop out and do it.
Iowa State became pretty famous to do it doing it first.
And it allows you to kind of get into a
bunch of different base coverages and then also add a
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bunch of abnormal coverages at the same time because you
have more flexibility in the back end, and you know,
I think from the offensive perspective, it gives you different
looks that you're not used to on a daily basis.
So if your defense doesn't primarily work out of that
throughout spring ball and throughout fall camp, and you see
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it It's almost like when the defense has to go
against the triple option team all of a sudden, it's
you only get a chance to work on it for
a couple of days. You know, that game week prep
is when you're seeing a different shell than you've ever seen,
and so it can really mess with the quarterback's eyes
at times and maybe have them. I think the disguises
that you can have in the back end of a
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defense change because you have more people that can get
to those deep halves and deep thirds, and so you
can do a few more things that can pre snap
look like something that might not end like that pro
post snap, and so I do think that allows us
to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And then the way that we've kind of evolved here
in being a fairly aggressive version of that too, I
think really does add a lot of you know, concern
for an offensive coordinator as well. The fact that you're
gonna get a decent chunk of blitz out of it
and move those pieces around a lot. You know, while
we're still playing fairly sound is going to be you know,
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difficult to prepare for.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, let's talk about some of those moving pieces in
the defensive back groups. A lot of players returning like
kat Sa Manning, who's got to start a couple of
years back in a playoff game. Cox lied Evans was
a part of the All CAAA team a season ago.
Your team in this day and age, it's hard to
have guys come back to retain players, and there is
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something to be said about being in a system for
multiple years. You're going to get better in that system
without having to learn a new system every year in
the transfer portal. So how is that a benefit for
your defense to have guys returning and especially Noah system
like that to execute in maybe year.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Two or three. An extreme difference between you know, a
good team and a bad team sometimes is just a
depth of knowledge of the system, right, And you see
it at the quarterback position a lot. I mean it,
it doesn't not happen. It does happen that people come
in and they you know, come in the fall and
they do really well as a quarterback, or they do
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really well as a safety, they do really well. But
it doesn't happen as often as the opposite as somebody
who's been in the program for a couple of years,
who has has a deeper knowledge of all those ins
and outs and the nuances and then they all of
a sudden take that next step and get a chance
to kind of put all those things into fruition on
the football field. And I think that's where we're at
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right now. I think there's a lot of people with
a lot of repetitions banked at the defensive spot, especially
in the back end.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And let's move up a level to a linebacker position.
Because I want to talk about Dylan Trainer because he
everyone knows Dylan because he was on that poster all
season or all off season. He's an intense guy. He's
I was looking for in the room just changed. We
went to the schedule posters. I said, I didn't put
that post up in my son's room because I didn't
want him to have like a nightmare Dylan Trainer in
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the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean it was he was ready to play. It
was just a great picture.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But on the flip side, he looked so sharp immedia day,
So did you, so did Joe Silver.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You guys look great down there in Texas. Apreciate media Day.
What is it?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
What does it do for the team to have a
veteran And we talked about guys coming back, but a
guy that can bring the intensity, you'd probably never have
to question what he's going to bring to the football
field each day. And just to have a guy back
that is a leader like Dylan Train.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yes, Scot, I mean, it's it's home. It's immeasurable for sure.
It's one of those things that you know, it's hard
to describe the comfort level you have and players like that.
As a coach, you know that it's not just on
the field. You know it's going to be off the field,
it's going to be in a locker room, it's going
to be down campus and you know, and on a
on a Friday night, off night, you know, all those
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things that you worry about, you know from a day
to day basis. You know, with a lot of young
players on your roster, you don't worry about it from
certain guys. And he's one of the guys who you
think is going to also help guide people in the
right direction and be a great leader. He's he's an
unquestioned leader on this team and just exciting to watch
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him progress get better. I think this will be his
best football playing season. Also, I think he's probably healthiest
he's felt. I think his body is in the in
the best spot that it's been. You can feel it
in the way he's preparing, you can feel it in
the way that he's been practicing. I think, you know
you're gonna see some great things out of him. And
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I think it helps to just have him at the
core of it all. You know, maybe maybe our best
you know, our best three players. You know, in particular,
our our best leader is right in the middle. And
then you know you got with k T, Gavin and
him in the middle of our defense. Those It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
To be able to work its way out and Gavin
Mole led the team in tackles last season with seventy one.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
He is back.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
As we move up front, a six time Super Bowl champion.
Happened to pluck one of your guys up front earlier
in the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But a lot remains.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Keyshawn Hunter, Jack Hall, Dominic Pragua, amongst others at are returned.
Ethan Saunders. I thought Ethan Saunders. I saw him in
the spring game in twenty twenty four and he was
in the booth and I thought when I saw him there,
oh that's great, he's a GA graduated. I thought I
thought he was done two years ago. He's still plugging
along and just fantastic lead. Talk about leadership. He does
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all the right things as well. But the defensive line,
for you guys, got some good things going and some
experience upfront as well.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes, for sure. Yeah, Ethan another basically, you know, copy
and paste what I said about Dylan. You have it
at the defensive line, and Ethan, you know, I think
that that group, you know, like I said about the
the tight end position, I would say that, you know,
the defense sensive line I think got the best during
camp as far as improvement. I thought they took a
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bunch of strides. You know, I think they have the
talent in that room to be really good. And I
think you needed to see it though, you know, you
needed to get those repetitions and continue to bank those
reps and get better from rep to rep. And I
think that was one of the groups that really did.
I think they're fairly deep right now, you know, for
a team that only plays three of the most downs,
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I feel like we're we're we're very we feel very
good about two to almost three deep at those positions,
and you know, feel like that's a great thing for us.
We can be able to rotate guys in keep them
fresh and and and use people you know, to the
best of their skill sets as well, and so excited
to see, you know, how much havoc they can create,
and uh, you know how many times we can get
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those guys in the backfield on past plays and in
the run in the run game as well.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And then you know, didn't get to name everybody on
the defense. A lot of guys coming in and out
and rotating. Who are some guys maybe we didn't get
to that you could give our fans. Maybe here's a
name that that transferred in and maybe you're not familiar
with yet or didn't play as much last year, but
it is gonna make a difference on the defensive end.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I think there's a good chunk, to be honest, you know.
I think up front, you know, I think Noah Matthews
is somebody who will probably get a decent chunk of burn.
I think caryier Price played some last year, but I
think he's really come along this this uh this fall
camp and stayed healthy. I think that was a big
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key for him. You know. I think you'll see Tray
Scott play a little bit as a as a younger
player who you didn't really get a chance to see
last year. I think Blake Matthews is somebody who will
open a lot of eyes. Uh just doing a great
job at that banded spot. I think really coming to
his own as as somebody who can play in space
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and is going to be pretty explosive in in those situations.
And you know, I think Kayshawn Cox has really taken
a step to to kind of solidify his his spot
out wide as a corner as well. And so I'm
excited about all those guys. I mean, there's a there's
a bunch more that I could I could kind of
list off that are that had really good camps and
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I think, you know, hopefully we'll let the play for
speak for itself. We'll be talking about him on the
next two radio shows or something. You mentioned.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Noah Matthews, Blake Matthews, same last name, not related, but
you do have brothers and I think a pair of
cousins on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Side as well. Family affairs all in.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The family here at the Delaway. I want more group
of positions players to go through. It's gonna talk special teams.
I don't forget special teams. So when we come back,
we'll talk a little bit on the kicking and return
game and also we'll get some camp superlatives. We'll have
some fun with Coach Carty on other side of this
break listening to ninety four seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You're listening to the Xande Cats Blue Hens Football Coaches
Show presented by First Date or The Beatix featuring head
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Football ninety FOURDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Welcome back here to the Cloni Kates Blue Hens Football
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office for now though, getting ready for this season. We're
previewing offense defense. Let's talk special teams. This is more
like the Nate Reid section of the show because he
does a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Things, kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
What a weapon he is school record for touchbacks this
season to go forty seven, I will say, I'll give
him credit for kicking it out of the end zone.
You gotta score a lot to have forty seven touchbacks.
So I've been here long enough where I don't know
if there were forty kickoffs in this season at way
back in time so read blasted them, but you guys
were scoring as well. What a weapon that is though,
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to have a leg like that that can boot it
out of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
If we have forty seven touchdowns this year, I'll be happy.
I agree, absolutely, Yeah, he's he's been such a weapon
and honestly also a great leader, uh and and such
a good athlete. And he's one of those guys that
is uh, you know, and it's probably a bad thing
to say, but you know, there's in coach speak we
kind of talk about kickers as are they kickers or
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are they you know, football players, And he's one of
those guys that's a football player, you know, and and uh,
you know, has that kind of mentality that he wants
to be challenged, He wants the tough one, he wants
the high pressure kicks. Those are the ones that he
craves and asks for, which is outstanding because you know that,
you know, you just feel more confident putting those guys
in there when you know when you say, hey, can
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you hit the one from sixty and they're like, yeah,
I can hit it from sixty two, you know what
I mean? And those are the guys that that you
that you want out there and you want I know,
those are the guys that the guys rally around too,
because they're doing everything that they're doing. They're not just
over there on their own field. They're gonna be doing
all the runs, they're gonna be doing all the lifts,
they're gonna be working just as hard. And he the
you know, we're gonna rely on all those guys just
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as much as we do on an offensive lineman or
a defensive back, and so it's great to have him
be able to do a couple things and also a
punt when we need him too as well.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you if you need to
dust off his his all. He was all pea sack
before transferred over here. He got his put his punting
boots on Josh Kupid unfortunately, and we talked about him
last season a bunch because he had some some pretty
big games for this team. Unfortunately he is going to
be out for this season. So we know Nate Reid
is capable of punting. You did that in a past life.
But Brendan Locke comes over from Michigan Tech where he
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was an All American averaging forty five and a half
yards per punt. So maybe introduce us to Brendan a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, really excited about Brendan. You know, his his camp
as we as we kept going on and he kept
getting more comfortable in our punt system, you know, I
think he just started to blossom and toward the last
week of camp was certainly his best week of camp.
And that's what you want, right as opposed to the
opposite and the regression. So I'm really excited about watching
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what he does in a game. You know, those guys,
it's funny. You know some people are you know they're
gamers too, and you know when you're an All American,
it means you're a gamer. You know you've done it
in those situations, You've done it. When the game's on
the line, you've done it.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I would think I mentioned he was an All American
at a lower level at Michigan Tech. If there's anything
that translates, I would think kicking a ball would easily
translate to any level, correct.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I would hope. So, I mean punting's punting right. Kicking
the field goal the uprightce didn't change the length of
the field, didn't change the operation time. Probably only gets
easier when you have you know, maybe an FBS snapper,
an FBS protection as opposed to it. So I would
say that's the hope, is that we only get better
from here.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
And then he got some dangerous return men coming back.
My Son Pollard, we talked last year about him how
electric he can be. Jakari Kelly returned from some kicks
last year, and then Jake though he's been doing it
for a long time back there on the punt return game.
We talked about his punt returns in the college football
playoffs at Michigan was secure for Delaware a season ago.
Good to see those guys back. Anybody else, but in
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the rotation for return men possibilities.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I think that's pretty much who it is right now.
I mean, you know, a lot of our skill guys
go ahead and take those reps too. You know, and
and give us up that opportunity for depth, and and
we'll probably get their chances throughout the course of the season.
You know, in particular at the kickoff return spot, you
always get some some opportunities to throw some guys in
there and see what they can do with the ball
in their hands. And young guys in particular, i'd say
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the you know, in the back end of punt return.
I mean, it's it's so much about catching the ball
and experience there that you know, you probably want to
keep the guy back there who's good at it, and
that's about that. So if he's healthy, we're going to
keep that. Don't want to mess with that too much. Right,
If you can catch it, then let's throw them out there.
Speaking of punt returning, I learned this offseason that you
were a punt returner yourself. Oh god, that's not I
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wouldn't call myself a punt returner. I was back there
and I caught the punts, you know, when I was
a sophomore in high school. Yeah, I could catch them,
and it was about it. That's not an easy thing
to do. So so that's impressive stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I want to put that out there, so let's end
this segment. We talked about camp. That's everybody in training camp,
all the positions, talk to offense, defense special teams. Uh,
let's let's do some camp superlatives. Have a little fun
to close out. I never went Did you go to
summer camp? I ever went to summer camp? Would you
do a sleep away camp.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Or anything like that? Never?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Unless she counted like Penn State and BC Camp. You know,
I think I went to Mike Braids, Delaware. That's where
I was, so I had to I had to google
some some summer camp superlatives. But happy camper, who would
win happy camp? Who always had a smile on their face?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
That's a great question. I tell you what, for someone
who was hurt, which is always not easy to be happy.
You know I always have. Every time I looked over
at Waquim Roman, he was smiling. Uh he's a happy kid.
Trying to think of some other guys that are that
are bubbly, and uh, that's good. He gets this certificate.
He's gonna get it. There we go. How about Early
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Riser who was the first out of his bunk. That's
a good one, you know. Jerry o' rabbitz certainly Jerry
is here first always, and you guys are are early.
He beats me in and there's not a lot to do,
but he does.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
And talent shows not usually there's a talent show at
summer camp. Who showed the most talent this summer or
maybe who do you think has a special talent?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
So we don't do talent shows here. However, I have
heard and I haven't heard him yet, but I have
heard from multiple sources and I think he did perform
in front of the old line room that Bentley Allen,
our freshman offensive lineman, has the voice of an angel.
So we're trying to coax him into to go in
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front of the team one day, but it's not going
to be forced. Going to be on his accord.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
A long time ago, Vince Hollerman was a defensive lineman
at Delaware and he sang during a coaches show. So
that that'll be a golden to get this guy on
on the show to to sing sing a song for us.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
How about at camp you're in the woods, a lot
gotta start a fire. Best fire starter who came to
camp fired up, ready to compete and had the best energy,
I would say, yeah, there's certainly some guys with you,
you know, and there's certainly some guys with some intensity.
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And I think those are two different words. You know.
I would say uh, hooting and hollering. Uh. You're gonna
hear my son Pollard a lot. I would say intensity.
Uh A man. We already talked about in uh uh
in Dylan Trainer. But I would say, honestly, as far
as just going to work, that's Finn bros. All right.
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There you go. There, there's your so Turloge.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
You made it through the camps of preladent segment and
you're good with my reaches there to to get some
content on the show, we are going to.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Take our last time out. We come back.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
We're going to talk about the game that will be
tomorrow night when you're listening to this on ninety four
to seven WDSD Delaware versus Delaware State to start off
the season.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Let's talk hornets when we return. We back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
As you're listening to the Klondyke Cats, Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State or the BTX featuring
head coach Ryan Carty, welcome backet into your home for
Delaware Football ninety four to seven WDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Welcome back in at ninety four to seven w DSDFM.
Big game coming up to start the season, Delaware versus
Delaware State. That game is spreaded by d E five
two nine. The right play for your child's future. We
talked to Delaware. Now let's go down route one a
bit and talk about a Delaware State. I'm Scot Lasky
with Ryan Carty and coach talk about more attention this
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offseason for a team Delaware State. DeShawn To Jackson, a
three time Pro bowler, a Super Bowl champion. He's beloved
right up the road by Eagles fans, pumping some life
into that football program. What can a name like that
do for a school like Delaware State?
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Well, yeah, I mean I think it's obviously something that's
going to give notoriety right away. Right you have a
little bit of of UH power and backing behind behind
your name. When when there's a little bit of a
name recognition nationally, right, it's it's like what we're trying
to do right now and continue to bring our national
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name UH into into different households, and when you already
have that name recognition to kind of help so you know,
you can see it in in recruiting, you can see
it in in juice and energy already. Uh you know,
you can feel a little bit and over from here
and a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I'm not an Eagles fan myself, but he's very popular
in these parts because a lot of it Eagles fans obviously.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Uh what were you?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
I know you're Mets. Were you Mets and Jets? Is
was that your team growing up? Or what was your
football team?
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Yeah? I was a Mets Jets Nets guy growing up,
Mets Jets. Now there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Uh So that would be like if like al Toon
or or Keshawn Johnson was coaching a team, right, absolutely,
I probably.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
Went a little far back. I know him, but I
know but because.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
He you know, he's a big name obviously, but uh,
not a whole lot of coaching experience, certainly not at
the college football level. One year at the high school level.
So what does that mean in terms of of scouting?
Because you got Woodrow Wilson High school, he was the
offensive coordinator last year. That that's all you you know,
So what do you do in terms of kind of
having an idea of what they're they're gonna roll?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Out there with yeah, well, you know, I think you're
you're certainly, you know, not certain of anything. And I
think similar to most first games of the season, there's
a lot of turnover in college football, and so there's
you know, a lot of times where a coordinator may
be you know, different, or or a head coach may
be different, and so I don't know that we can
treat it any different. You know, the history is the history,
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but the fact that everybody's new is something that you know,
they're going to go into a staff room and and
decide who they want to be, regardless of where these
other people have been in the past. And so you know,
this is who Dell State's gonna be now, and offense,
on defense, on special teams, in aggression, and how we
how we do things, whether it's analytical or old school,
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all those things that have to be made in a
staff room. Those decisions, I think are the things that
leave you most up in the air, more than you
know where somebody was or how long they were there.
And so you know, I think, you know, similar to
most first games of new coaches, you're going to go
into this one, you know, having you know, more of
a focus on who you are more than who they
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are because you know you're just going to have to
be able to adjust and improvise when when you feel
out what the plan against you is. Well, I knew
this show was going to have to be more about
us than them because we're about a week out as
we record, I don't have a depth I barely know
any players on their team right now.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
I'm searching for a depth chart. I do know their quarterback,
Cayden Bennett is in his seventh season. Committed to Boise
State in twenty two nineteen, they went to Nevada, had
a really good season in twenty twenty three for Sacramento State,
leading them to playoffs and through for two thousand yards,
rushed for almost six hundred as well. So he'll be
a weapon for Delaware State, that is for sure. But
more so talking about us, talking about Delaware getting ready
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for that first game, I mean you, you are a graduate,
a player, a captain at the University of Delaware, and
you will be the coach that leads Delaware into this
new era.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
We talk about first state, first season.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
And it's a it's a major time for Delaware athletics.
I know for you, it's business and as usual and
you've got to get ready for game one. But does
that process that that you are the guy tasks with
with bringing Delaware to the FBS level, it's a great
time for the Blue Pens.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah. I think that there's a couple of different perspectives
on that. One is that you know, there's always been
pressure to be the you know, the best team in
the area around here. That the fact that you know,
our community support is so good and that our history
has been so good as it's something that you know,
you always feel as the head coach here is the
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person leading a program at this school, you know, probably
any of the programs at this school, and so that's
there and that's always been there, and uh, you know
that's obviously felt a little bit more right now. But
you know, I don't I don't know that I've been
more excited to coach a football season than than this one.
And you know, I think that is probably because we
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get an opportunity to do something different and special and
you know, so I can't can't wait to get out
there and see how we stack up against people and
and then make those adjustments, you know, one way or another,
and see you know, where we go from here, you know,
the the faith that uh, this administration you know, from
from President Carlson down have had them, you know, to
put us in this situation to see, you know, what
(49:47):
we can do and how we stack up and how
we get our name out there, and you know, the
fan base is only going to obviously grow, and uh,
I can't wait to be the person that gets a
chance to kind of feel that process out with the
with the team that we've built. And I know that
our student athletes are so excited to go out there
and you know, perform in the first season for the
(50:08):
first State. I know that's something that you know is exciting, prideful,
and we can't wait to kind of get it rolling.
It's it's a long time coming. We've been talking about
it for a little bit now, and we're excited to
kind of see where we stack up.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Well, we are excited to have you lead this team
into the next era of football. We are very proud
of that you are the head coach of this Delaware
football team. And the weight will finally be over in
just a day from when this airs August twenty eighth,
first State first season, a new era will begin. Well,
have coverage on ninety four seven WDSD FM and iHeartRadio
(50:43):
beginning at six as Delaware takes on Delaware State, a
monumental occasion as Delaware starts off their journey as an
FBS football program. Coach, thank you for inviting me in
your office. It's a lovely space and I look forward
to doing it, doing it again. Can't wait to have
you back. All right, well, please join us at Klini
Kate's Live next week on September third. Big thanks once
again to our head coach Ryan Carty for previewing this
(51:05):
season with us. Can't wait to get things started against
Delaware State. But for now, I'll say goodnight. This is
Scott Klatz good saying goodbye. Thanks for listening and as always,
go hands.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
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Speaker 3 (51:43):
Thanks for listening, go Hens
Well as you are listening to the Klondike Kates Blue
Hens Football Coaches Show presented my First State ORTHOPEDICX featuring
the head coach of Delaware Football Ryan Cardy and Voice
of the Blue Hens Scott Klatskin, and welcome in to
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome into another season of the Klondike Kates Blue Hens
Football Coaches Show on ninety four to seven WDSDFM and iHeartRadio,
presented by First State Orthopedics. I'm Scott Klatskin, excited to
begin another year as the voice of the Blue Hens
and host of this coaches show, and I'm very lucky
to get to hang out each week once again with
the head coach of the Dellar Blue Hens, Ryan Cardi Coach,
(00:44):
Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's nice to be back, Scott, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And you're having me. I guess because we flipped it
up a little bit. We're gonna be at Klondike Kates
this year. We love our partnership with Kate, so glad
that we can continue that. It's gonna be more like
special occasions at case you can. We're gonna be on
more specific dates. So right now we are in your office,
so I'm getting a little bit behind the curtain. You're
you're welcoming me in, but I always appreciate getting to
(01:10):
hang out with you, even though you are contractually obligated
to do so.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But we are we're kind of leaning in. It will
sound more of a podcast. Sometimes there's no roar of
the crowd as we usually do when we intro Coach Carty. Really,
any anywhere you go there's there's some type of fan noise.
It feels feels kind of similar to that that spring
season right with there weren't fans in the crowd. We
have to bring our own energy here. But for our
listeners you can catch us. It might sound like a podcast.
(01:38):
We are going to have it for podcast download. iHeartRadio
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(02:00):
let's jump into it. This is gonna be a fun episode.
We're going to kind of just preview the team. We
don't always get a chance to have this preview show
because the Wednesday nights are typically right prior to the game,
as it is this season, but we're here recording it,
so we'll be able to kind of go through personnel
and want to start with just just camp in general.
How is camping and how do you even gauge how
(02:21):
well a camp is going?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I think camp was outstanding. You know. I think
there's a couple of ways that you can probably put
some some markers down and try to quantify how good
it was. I think one of them is how close
you feel like you've become as a team, and how
you know, how you've worked through adversity during practices, how
you've fought to finish practices. You know, when you had
a bad day, did you fight back the next day?
(02:45):
Did you let it linger? You know? Are we doing
the right things? Are we coming like we practice in
the mornings? Are there people strolling and late every once
in a while because we obviously check them in at
a certain time every day. I think this has been
one of the best camps we've had as far as
detail oriented nature of our team and and the focus
and intention at each practice. You know, there were many
(03:07):
there were a few times where the coaches had to
intervene and say this isn't good enough. Most of the
time it was handled by the leaders in our program
and the upper classmen in our program. I think there's
been a really great u indoctrination of the young players
in our program and the newcomers in our program. I
think we fit well together. And you know, I think
the the question becomes, you know, can is that good
(03:30):
enough to go win football games? Yet? You know that
probably won't be seen until we're out there and felt
until we're out there. But we certainly, I think did
what we could in this camp and use this. You know, however,
many nineteen practices that we've had so far really to
our advantage. Well, you mentioned something I think is brought
up in the offseason. I get a lot of and
people are just making conversation. I understand that, but hey,
(03:52):
how's the team gonna gonna fair this year moving up
to the FBS, And it's it's kind of well, we
get to find out that's the good thing. The games
are going to be played to find out. But there
is a little bit more unknown this year because you know,
you know what you know about a Towson or will
Eaven marry or some of your your old conference mates
or okay, these guys we recognize from film last year.
There is a little bit more of an unknown of
(04:14):
where are we going to stack up once we play
these games. There's no doubt Matt's h it is something
that obviously keeps me up at night, you know, knowing
that you know, the unknown is always a struggle. And
I think the beauty of football in sports really though,
is even when we it's a false sense of the
of the known. Also, I mean we always think that
going into the season and though we know who these
(04:34):
teams are, we know who we're going to be, and
based off camp, we're going to feel this way. And
I do think that's probably something that we just tell
ourselves and then until we get out there and until
we see how how our preparation, you know, got us
to the point where we were ready to make those plays,
and how are our student athletes perform in those pressure situations.
It's it's tough to know until you see it, and
(04:56):
then in this sense this year it is probably a
little bit more questionable, just based on you know, not
having played against any of these teams and so not
understanding these environments as much the coaches that you're going against.
I think there is some comfort in knowing exactly the
type of place you're going, how it feels to travel there,
where you're you know, you know what kind of scheme
(05:17):
you're going against week to week. Usually doesn't change a
ton from year to year when you do have that
common common ground or common geography. So I didn't want
to wait too long to jump into training camp and
ask about the team. But I do want to go
backwards a little bit and ask you about, like your summer,
how you bit, like how the off season go for you?
Is there an off season like does that exist for
(05:39):
a coach? Do you get any downtime? Is there any
time where coach Cardi is in relaxing? Absolutely there is.
It's it's it's becoming less and less as as college
football has changed a little bit, and and as we've
moved up, I think you know, there there was the
this was certainly not your grandfather's June. I've said, and
(06:01):
you know, I think June has become as we've sped
up the recruiting process. I think the summer has kind
of gotten by the wayside a little bit for college
football in recruiting, and for the high school student athletes
as well. It's gone away for the student athletes on
our team. But where you know, even when I was
playing not crazy long ago with twenty years ago or so,
(06:22):
we were playing, uh, you know, we were doing maybe
one of the two summer sessions here and the other
one we were home, and so there there's not a
ton of time off. These are year round jobs, if
you will, and you know, I mean we're getting paid
for it now, so that's good. But the uh, the
fact that when we do have some time off, it
(06:43):
still kind of consumes us. And when we when we
don't get time off, we're obviously consumed by it. And
so I think that's just kind of the nature of
what we do and and we love it and it's
why we do it because it would consume us regardless
of you know, whether we're on a beach or whether
we're you know, on on uh you know, the practice fields.
And so got a little bit of time off's got
(07:04):
a chance to spend some time with my family and
and uh and travel with my wife and and you know,
hopefully we can continue to uh, you know, just grind
out some some w's here and make it all worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I picture your relaxation as like feed up on the couchs.
There's like an NFL films marathon going on, Like that's
that's that's what you're binge watching or something like that.
It's always football all the time. But that's that's great.
That's what we love about you. And you're getting us
ready for this season. There is an increased amount of
attention on Delaware this year, obviously the spotlight and nationally
(07:36):
and uh going up to FBS. Does anything change operationally
now like we're in the FBS, We we can do
this now, or we won't do this anymore because now
we're an FBS team, Or is it kind of like
this is our program, we're this is how we we
run things, and it's not it's less affected by level
of play if you.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Want, yeah, I'd say operationally, no, there's a couple of
things NCAA rules wise that change, you know, little little
small things and or in the recruiting calendar is a
little bit different, you know, hence the June and July thing.
Uh you know the fact that actually July is when
you can take some downtime because it's a dead period
in in FBS football and it's not in uh in
FCS football, So that that helps. And so there are
(08:16):
some some differences and nuances, but I think operationally, you know,
it's really more about, you know, what your schedule looks like,
more than the fact that you're playing an FBS or
an FCS schedule, and so like the things that would
change would obviously be where you're going and what that
looks like to travel in those places, and that would
change week year to year based on you know, what
(08:36):
your schedule looks like, more than the level of football
you're playing. And you know, as far as what happens
on the field, I mean that that's that's going to
be still about you know, who scores more points. And
so you know, we tried not to make it too
much different because I don't think that football is going
to be different from level to level other than you know,
hopefully the talent level will increase on both sides of
(08:57):
the sideline.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And one major thing did change in the offseason, and
as you are now a video game character. You were
in NC double A twenty twenty six. How and the
marketing team here did such a fantastic job of drawing
attention to that and getting players or people gamers to
play as Delaware across the country. I thought that was
really cool. How did the kids enjoy? How do they react?
(09:20):
How did you react to seeing that for the first time. Yeah,
it's so cool.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I mean, it's obviously something that I played a lot,
and I shouldn't say obviously I played it a lot
growing up, and you know, something that we kind of
you know, fed into, and then when I was here
as a player, we the FCS teams finally got into it.
And so I was, you know, QB ten, very slow,
very below average grade, and and we used to play
(09:45):
with ourselves and have a dynasty and with with Delaware,
and you know, I just remember those days, and I
was part of the beginning of that. I actually got
money from me A Sports in the first Quarters action lawsuit.
I think I got like five hundred bucks or something
one day in the mail because I part of that
that first nil lawsuit that kind of changed college football
as we know and I remember that, and uh, you know,
(10:06):
at some point it was just like do you want
to do this? Check yes or now? And I checked yes,
And now look where we are. You know, Wow, there's
there's actual names on the back of our jerseys in
a video game, and and likenesses of ourselves and video games.
And it's so cool to see where we've come, see
how popular college football still is. I think that's kind
of the thesis of it, all right, is the generation
(10:30):
that kind of you know, we were in thinking, you know,
is this going to continue? And it's only skyrocketed and
it's become something really cool. Yeah, that is that's pretty neat.
I didn't realize you got one of the first checks
that they're they're a little bigger now. Yes, and I'm
sure some of the FBS guys had a little bit
bigger check than I got too, But.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
That that's really neat. We've got a big show coming
up for you. We're gonna go through all the position groups,
all the players, get you ready for kickoff against Delaware States.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
We're gonna take our first time out and we come back.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We'll talk about something that coach Cardy knows a whole
lot about the offense when we return on ninety four
seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You're listening to the xan Dyke Cats Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State Orthopedix, featuring head coach
Ryan Carty. Welcome back into your home for Delaware Football
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Speaker 2 (11:21):
Welcome back into the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show, said
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Scott Laskin here with our head coach Ryan Carty and
coach let's get into some personnel grouping some players on
offense and if we learn anything about the quarterback position.
Last year it said you can never have enough depth
(11:44):
at that position. And wow, I mean the recruiting that
your staff has done to bring in quality quarterbacks. Five
guys maybe all six that could probably make a case
for being the guy. Obviously Zach Marker and Nick Minacuci
our fans are familiar with from playing last year Riley Truio,
big recruit at a UCF. We saw Brandon Streeter have
(12:05):
an amazing debut last season e j Archfield a dynamic athlete.
So as you go through all those talented players, how
do you kind of divvy up reps and who has
taken the reins as as the front runner right now?
And I will preface as we go through the position groups,
we are recording prior to when this will air, So
(12:26):
if anything does happen between now and the time that
you spoke, you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. Well, I mean it's not easy to divvy up reps.
In particular at that position. It's probably the one that
is most difficult to kind of make sure you're trying
to put everybody in the same situation. You know, there's
so's such a dependent position. You know, when you're a quarterback,
you're relying on you know, how the offensive line might
(12:53):
pick something up, how how the receivers might get open
on that play. And then your read is obvious the
most paramount part of it. But there are a lot
of variables in there for a play to be successful
or not, or to prove that you would have made
it successful had it gone right. And I think that's
the hardest thing in practice is it's hard to say
everything is equal. And this is what happened a lot
(13:15):
of times, and so especially when there's more people that
need reps, you know, when there's only a couple, usually
it evens itself out over the course of time, they
balance out, and so it's certainly not easy. We you know,
Coach Golbriz has done a great job at repping these
guys as much as we can with the ones and
the twos and making sure that everybody's had a fair
(13:36):
shot to go out there and prove what they can
and cannot do. And then the other side of it
that makes it difficult at that position is it's the
only one that never gets in a situation that is
fully live tackling to the ground in scrimmage situations, in
practice at all. And so we'll do a decent chunk
of times where we will tackle during fall camp, and
(13:58):
these guys are obviously still going to be in their
red jerseys, and just the nature of that that that position,
we can't lose one in one of those situations, and
so we just have to stay away from them. But
it also doesn't allow them to be one hundred percent
who they are or who they would be in a game,
and so it's there are some things that still need
to be figured out when a game, when the lights
come on and when the game day pressure comes on
(14:20):
for that position in particular, do you feel we're a
week out sitting here recording that you know what you
want to share with the class or not that you
know who your guy is going to be coming into
Delaware State. Yeah, I think we have a pretty solid
idea of who the top couple are going to be
and and you know, and kind of where it lands
right now. No, I'm not going to share with the
(14:43):
classes as you can suspect, but I do think that,
you know, we are in a position, like you said
on the on the front of this UH segment, where
we do have a bunch of guys who have the
capability to go in there and win football games at
our level, and so we're excited about, you know, where
we're depth wise there. You know, it's it's been impressive
(15:04):
to watch the guys grow from practice one all the
way through. It's really been fun to be in the
meeting rooms with them and understand that they care about
each other and they try to push each other and
and compete with each other, but they also are certainly
trying to help each other grow as well, which is
is not always the case in particular at that that
singular type of position that one only one is playing.
(15:25):
Because there is a competitiveness too. That's why they're all
in here too. They're all really talented competitors and they
want to make sure that they're the guy that gets
a chance to go uh, you know, bring this team
uh to where it wants to go. And so I
think some of those things aren't easy, and it does
take a really mature and confident person to you know,
also be a great teammate while you're competing. Well, I
(15:47):
did think that if I got you in a closed
room situation, you'd forget that that you were sharing information
for others to hear. But you you are sharp and
no matter what the setting for the for the show,
no matter who's back there getting snaps to protect them.
I remember, you know, prior to the Penn State game,
we kind of talked about that's the biggest difference when
you bump up fbs, and it might have been more
Penn State directed at the times they had some pretty
(16:10):
big guys, but that's usually the biggest difference is upfront
on the O line, the defensive line those guys up front,
but you have players that have been here that are returning,
Bros And war Shupp are returning. What gives you confidence
in that offensive line to be able to protect your quarterbacks,
especially as you do move up a level. Yeah, I
think that would be the biggest thing that would give
us confidence, right is the experience. I do think the experience,
(16:33):
the ability that they've worked with each other too. And
I think such a huge portion of being successful on
the offensive line is communication. And I would say, you know,
the relationship between the people that work next to each
other and feeling those those combination blocks and maybe some
of the things that aren't said in the past game
(16:55):
when you're passing off a twist from a defensive lineman
and those things that you know kind of just our
our repetition based and are harder to kind of, you know,
throw somebody in there and and see how they do
with the guy next to Moven if they're talented. And
so I think that does give us a little bit
of comfort going into a season. I don't know if
it's an advantage, but it's certainly something that would make
(17:16):
us more comfortable than the other than the other way
than the uh, you know, having a piecemeal offensive line.
I also think that you know, we've come a little
bit since you know, we did talk about that, and
I think we've we do have some uh you know,
as far as size goes, I don't know that we're
going to be a small offensive line in in Conference USA.
(17:37):
I think we would probably be on on the bigger side,
to be honest, And so you know, I'm hoping that
we can be, you know, somebody who relies on on
our ability to move people and realize on our ability
to you know, communicate well with each other and play
well together upfront. I think, you know right now, I'm hoping,
you know that that that's the the strongest part of
(17:58):
our our offense and and be our team. And so
you know, that's what we're we're hoping for us what
we're relying on. And and you know, I think for
sure and a lot of times this is the way
it goes. But for sure, our offense is going to
be as good as as we are upfront. And that's
just kind of you need him on every play. They're
similar to a quarterback. You know, you're gonna whether it's
a run or pass, they're gonna be involved in it,
(18:19):
and we need to make sure that that that'll we dominate.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And got some size to be able to dominate. Three
hundreds across the line of some big guys, as you
mentioned up front there, whether they're blocking for the quarterback
or getting some holes for your running backs. Last season
you had a guy in by the name of Marcus
Yarns who's wearing the throwback Ricky Williams jersey now for
the New Orleans Saints and makes it to the NFL.
(18:42):
You know, he he could dominate a game, He could
explode and every time he touched the ball it was
potentially a score. So he's gone, and now you have
an opportunity for Joe Silver to step up and be
the main featured back. He is the answer to a
tribute question from now until Forever. The first UD player
to be nominated for an FBS Award. He was on
(19:02):
the Adope Walker Watch list. Ashan Gent won that award
last season. In an interview earlier this season, he said,
I need to be able to make people miss. Is
that the area you feel like he's been trying to
work on or needs the most improvement in, And why
do you think Joe is is it ready to be
the guy this year?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know, I think the the reason he's ready to
be the guy is probably because he's He's the person
who's going to tell you what his weaknesses are. First.
He's he's that kind of teammate worker person to be
honest with. He's very thoughtful, very diligent. There's nothing that
he's not. He's not going to leave a stone unturned.
(19:41):
He's going to make sure that he can do everything
he can to become the best version of himself and
really proud of his progress that he's made. Yeah, he's
he's talented, his heck, and he's going to be somebody
that we rely on to break the big one for sure.
And I think we can all work on on those
little things things. And you know, that is something probably
(20:02):
as you brought up Marcus, that he did really well,
was that, you know, if there was one guy to
be he usually didn't get tackled by that guy. And
I think that's probably what Joe's alluding to, is that
that's probably something that he wants to make sure that
that he carries on, is that, you know, when when
a play gets them to that point, when an offensive
line does all their jobs. When the quarterback did his
(20:23):
job by you know, making the right RPO read, making
the right attachment read, and when the receivers block their
their butts off, and there's one guy, you know, make
sure that we make the most of that because we
understand how those explosive plays are the game changers in
our offense. And I think that's just something that you know,
whether whether Joe needs to work on it or not,
it's something that he feels is his job and and
(20:46):
you know, understanding his role in this team is to
be that guy that could possibly break one. And I
think all those guys in that room and all the
guys in our skill room feel that pressure to understand that.
You know, when we get you a situation where it's
one on one, you better win it. And we are
excited for Joe Silver. I'm gonna have to he dropped
the Nathan so I used to just Joe. It'll be
(21:06):
quicker off the tongue this year for me, and I'm
sure he'll be quick into the end zone a couple
of times out of forty five yard run. A season
ago rush for four hundred and sixty two yards, also
brought over Byron Ellison from Tulsa who played a lot
as a freshman a season ago. Was second on the
team at Tulsa in yards and fifth on the team
and carries a season goal. So have some some skills,
some players, and some depth at that running back position.
(21:29):
I do want to move forward to wide receiver. Some
great news this week at the wide receiver position for
a former Blue hen Phil Lutz was signed to the
New England Patriots this week. Really exciting stuff. He had
a breakout year a season ago, who may be due
for a breakout season this year in that wide receiver corps. Well,
I hope a bunch of guys, you know, be nice.
(21:50):
That'd be great. You know, I think that you know,
sometimes when you you know, when you lose somebody as
prolific as maybe Marcus or Phil, when it comes to statistics,
you know, you try to say, who's the guy that's
going to take him over? And I don't think that's
necessarily how it has to work, right, It's not how
it always works in this offense. We have a lot
of times where it's just, uh, you know, we spread
(22:10):
the ball around in this offense, and I think there's
times when we can design things for somebody specific, and
I think Marcus was a person that we did a
lot for. But there's also times where you know, it
makes it easier to not have to and and when
you can just say, any of these guys can go
out and make this play when we need them to.
And I think going into the season at Receiver, I
(22:31):
think that's where we are. I don't know that there's
a person that's the guy right now until they prove
it in a game, you know. I mean, I think
that's there's so many people on that on that list,
you know, that have done a decent chunk of great
things in games, and in practice, none of them I
don't think have proven that they are you know, capable
(22:54):
I should say capable, that they have proven that they're
the person that we need to go design plays for yet.
And I think that's pretty all. I think that's a
cool thing about where we're at right now. I feel
good about the you know, the the the breadth of
that list, you know, and I think hopefully we get
a chance to see it early. You know, Okay, this, Okay,
that guy made this play. That's good to know, you know,
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we can we can be we can have that in
our back pocket when we need it and still also
give other guys chances to do that as well. Yeah,
I don't think we had the season preview show.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't know if Phil Lutz will if that would
have been a name that popped them. He had the potential, obviously,
but not he went and he went and did it.
And that's what's great about playing the games. Did you
get to see he's going to step up lastly for
the offense before we take a time out and move
on to learn a little bit about the defense. Uh,
tight end position is a last group and after day
one of camp you lose Caleb Fourier. After training camp starts,
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and obviously want what's best for that young man who
decided he's not gonna play football anymore. But the timing
is tough because you can't then just go get another
tight end in the portal. Right, it's a little late
in the game. So who has made the most of
those additional reps at the tight end spot.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
It's just old school football. When somebody hangs them up,
you don't just replace him, you know. It's this this
this portal thing has made us greedy. I think there's
a good group of of tight ends. I think that
might be the the group. I'd say that's probably the
most improved out of the offense during this one training camp,
I think, you know, and maybe it was a little
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bit of a I don't want to say chasm, just
a you know, more repetitions that were earned just by
Caleb leaving. And you know, I think Elijah and Connor
have really, you know, stepped up into some roles that
you know, they can be counted on to go make
some big plays. And I think that's pretty awesome. And
you know, I think some of the young guys have
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have done a nice job at kind of earning some
some trust and earning some repetitions as well. And you know,
really excited about true freshman Scott More as well. I
think he's going to be somebody who might have to
help us this year and it probably could excellently. Well.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
We look forward through only a day for the time
that this airs to see in the Hens against Delaware State,
we talked about the offense. We'll take a time out,
we come back, we'll learn about this year's defense. We're
talking Blue Hens football in ninety four to seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
As you're listening to the Klondike Kates Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State or The Pedix, featuring
head coach Ryan Carty. Welcome back, get into your home
for Delaware Football ninety four to seven WDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And welcome back into the Klonde Kates Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show. We'll be back at Klan A Kates next
week Wednesday, September third, will be live.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Join us.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
There only four shows in person this season, so make
sure you are in attendance. We have great fans, great atmosphere,
great food, always a fun time. We can't wait to
see you at the first live show next week at
Klon de Kates. For now, though, I'm in the football office,
Scott Klatskin here with our head coach Ryan Carty and coach.
We talked about the offense, Let's move on to the defense.
Hashtag three high life. Right, we're talking to Manny Rojas's
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three three five defense. What is it about that defense
that that would that gives other offense coordinators trouble or
that would give you offense you trouble if you had
to go up against Manny's defense.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, I think you know. I had my shirt on
the other day, by the way, my three high live shirt.
So we're all part of it around here. This isn't
just a defense.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
This also for anyone that sees it on Twitter or
sees the hashtag, an explanation of what it all means.
Absolutely well, you know what it does mean is that
you know, most offense, most defenses, sorry, play with two
high safeties and and here we kind of primarily start
our defensive structure and our shell with three. And it's
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something that kind of came about, you know, a few
years back, I want to say, maybe you know my
last one or two years before I got here, we
started seeing a couple people pop out and do it.
Iowa State became pretty famous to do it doing it first.
And it allows you to kind of get into a
bunch of different base coverages and then also add a
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bunch of abnormal coverages at the same time because you
have more flexibility in the back end, and you know,
I think from the offensive perspective, it gives you different
looks that you're not used to on a daily basis.
So if your defense doesn't primarily work out of that
throughout spring ball and throughout fall camp, and you see
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it It's almost like when the defense has to go
against the triple option team all of a sudden, it's
you only get a chance to work on it for
a couple of days. You know, that game week prep
is when you're seeing a different shell than you've ever seen,
and so it can really mess with the quarterback's eyes
at times and maybe have them. I think the disguises
that you can have in the back end of a
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defense change because you have more people that can get
to those deep halves and deep thirds, and so you
can do a few more things that can pre snap
look like something that might not end like that pro
post snap, and so I do think that allows us
to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And then the way that we've kind of evolved here
in being a fairly aggressive version of that too, I
think really does add a lot of you know, concern
for an offensive coordinator as well. The fact that you're
gonna get a decent chunk of blitz out of it
and move those pieces around a lot. You know, while
we're still playing fairly sound is going to be you know,
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difficult to prepare for.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, let's talk about some of those moving pieces in
the defensive back groups. A lot of players returning like
kat Sa Manning, who's got to start a couple of
years back in a playoff game. Cox lied Evans was
a part of the All CAAA team a season ago.
Your team in this day and age, it's hard to
have guys come back to retain players, and there is
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something to be said about being in a system for
multiple years. You're going to get better in that system
without having to learn a new system every year in
the transfer portal. So how is that a benefit for
your defense to have guys returning and especially Noah system
like that to execute in maybe year.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Two or three. An extreme difference between you know, a
good team and a bad team sometimes is just a
depth of knowledge of the system, right, And you see
it at the quarterback position a lot. I mean it,
it doesn't not happen. It does happen that people come
in and they you know, come in the fall and
they do really well as a quarterback, or they do
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really well as a safety, they do really well. But
it doesn't happen as often as the opposite as somebody
who's been in the program for a couple of years,
who has has a deeper knowledge of all those ins
and outs and the nuances and then they all of
a sudden take that next step and get a chance
to kind of put all those things into fruition on
the football field. And I think that's where we're at
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right now. I think there's a lot of people with
a lot of repetitions banked at the defensive spot, especially
in the back end.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And let's move up a level to a linebacker position.
Because I want to talk about Dylan Trainer because he
everyone knows Dylan because he was on that poster all
season or all off season. He's an intense guy. He's
I was looking for in the room just changed. We
went to the schedule posters. I said, I didn't put
that post up in my son's room because I didn't
want him to have like a nightmare Dylan Trainer in
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the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean it was he was ready to play. It
was just a great picture.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But on the flip side, he looked so sharp immedia day,
So did you, so did Joe Silver.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You guys look great down there in Texas. Apreciate media Day.
What is it?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
What does it do for the team to have a
veteran And we talked about guys coming back, but a
guy that can bring the intensity, you'd probably never have
to question what he's going to bring to the football
field each day. And just to have a guy back
that is a leader like Dylan Train.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yes, Scot, I mean, it's it's home. It's immeasurable for sure.
It's one of those things that you know, it's hard
to describe the comfort level you have and players like that.
As a coach, you know that it's not just on
the field. You know it's going to be off the field,
it's going to be in a locker room, it's going
to be down campus and you know, and on a
on a Friday night, off night, you know, all those
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things that you worry about, you know from a day
to day basis. You know, with a lot of young
players on your roster, you don't worry about it from
certain guys. And he's one of the guys who you
think is going to also help guide people in the
right direction and be a great leader. He's he's an
unquestioned leader on this team and just exciting to watch
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him progress get better. I think this will be his
best football playing season. Also, I think he's probably healthiest
he's felt. I think his body is in the in
the best spot that it's been. You can feel it
in the way he's preparing, you can feel it in
the way that he's been practicing. I think, you know
you're gonna see some great things out of him. And
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I think it helps to just have him at the
core of it all. You know, maybe maybe our best
you know, our best three players. You know, in particular,
our our best leader is right in the middle. And
then you know you got with k T, Gavin and
him in the middle of our defense. Those It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
To be able to work its way out and Gavin
Mole led the team in tackles last season with seventy one.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
He is back.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
As we move up front, a six time Super Bowl champion.
Happened to pluck one of your guys up front earlier
in the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But a lot remains.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Keyshawn Hunter, Jack Hall, Dominic Pragua, amongst others at are returned.
Ethan Saunders. I thought Ethan Saunders. I saw him in
the spring game in twenty twenty four and he was
in the booth and I thought when I saw him there,
oh that's great, he's a GA graduated. I thought I
thought he was done two years ago. He's still plugging
along and just fantastic lead. Talk about leadership. He does
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all the right things as well. But the defensive line,
for you guys, got some good things going and some
experience upfront as well.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes, for sure. Yeah, Ethan another basically, you know, copy
and paste what I said about Dylan. You have it
at the defensive line, and Ethan, you know, I think
that that group, you know, like I said about the
the tight end position, I would say that, you know,
the defense sensive line I think got the best during
camp as far as improvement. I thought they took a
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bunch of strides. You know, I think they have the
talent in that room to be really good. And I
think you needed to see it though, you know, you
needed to get those repetitions and continue to bank those
reps and get better from rep to rep. And I
think that was one of the groups that really did.
I think they're fairly deep right now, you know, for
a team that only plays three of the most downs,
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I feel like we're we're we're very we feel very
good about two to almost three deep at those positions,
and you know, feel like that's a great thing for us.
We can be able to rotate guys in keep them
fresh and and and use people you know, to the
best of their skill sets as well, and so excited
to see, you know, how much havoc they can create,
and uh, you know how many times we can get
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those guys in the backfield on past plays and in
the run in the run game as well.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And then you know, didn't get to name everybody on
the defense. A lot of guys coming in and out
and rotating. Who are some guys maybe we didn't get
to that you could give our fans. Maybe here's a
name that that transferred in and maybe you're not familiar
with yet or didn't play as much last year, but
it is gonna make a difference on the defensive end.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I think there's a good chunk, to be honest, you know.
I think up front, you know, I think Noah Matthews
is somebody who will probably get a decent chunk of burn.
I think caryier Price played some last year, but I
think he's really come along this this uh this fall
camp and stayed healthy. I think that was a big
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key for him. You know. I think you'll see Tray
Scott play a little bit as a as a younger
player who you didn't really get a chance to see
last year. I think Blake Matthews is somebody who will
open a lot of eyes. Uh just doing a great
job at that banded spot. I think really coming to
his own as as somebody who can play in space
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and is going to be pretty explosive in in those situations.
And you know, I think Kayshawn Cox has really taken
a step to to kind of solidify his his spot
out wide as a corner as well. And so I'm
excited about all those guys. I mean, there's a there's
a bunch more that I could I could kind of
list off that are that had really good camps and
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I think, you know, hopefully we'll let the play for
speak for itself. We'll be talking about him on the
next two radio shows or something. You mentioned.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Noah Matthews, Blake Matthews, same last name, not related, but
you do have brothers and I think a pair of
cousins on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Side as well. Family affairs all in.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The family here at the Delaway. I want more group
of positions players to go through. It's gonna talk special teams.
I don't forget special teams. So when we come back,
we'll talk a little bit on the kicking and return
game and also we'll get some camp superlatives. We'll have
some fun with Coach Carty on other side of this
break listening to ninety four seven w DSD.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You're listening to the Xande Cats Blue Hens Football Coaches
Show presented by First Date or The Beatix featuring head
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Football ninety FOURDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Welcome back here to the Cloni Kates Blue Hens Football
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office for now though, getting ready for this season. We're
previewing offense defense. Let's talk special teams. This is more
like the Nate Reid section of the show because he
does a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Things, kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
What a weapon he is school record for touchbacks this
season to go forty seven, I will say, I'll give
him credit for kicking it out of the end zone.
You gotta score a lot to have forty seven touchbacks.
So I've been here long enough where I don't know
if there were forty kickoffs in this season at way
back in time so read blasted them, but you guys
were scoring as well. What a weapon that is though,
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to have a leg like that that can boot it
out of the end zone.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
If we have forty seven touchdowns this year, I'll be happy.
I agree, absolutely, Yeah, he's he's been such a weapon
and honestly also a great leader, uh and and such
a good athlete. And he's one of those guys that
is uh, you know, and it's probably a bad thing
to say, but you know, there's in coach speak we
kind of talk about kickers as are they kickers or
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are they you know, football players, And he's one of
those guys that's a football player, you know, and and uh,
you know, has that kind of mentality that he wants
to be challenged, He wants the tough one, he wants
the high pressure kicks. Those are the ones that he
craves and asks for, which is outstanding because you know that,
you know, you just feel more confident putting those guys
in there when you know when you say, hey, can
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you hit the one from sixty and they're like, yeah,
I can hit it from sixty two, you know what
I mean? And those are the guys that that you
that you want out there and you want I know,
those are the guys that the guys rally around too,
because they're doing everything that they're doing. They're not just
over there on their own field. They're gonna be doing
all the runs, they're gonna be doing all the lifts,
they're gonna be working just as hard. And he the
you know, we're gonna rely on all those guys just
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as much as we do on an offensive lineman or
a defensive back, and so it's great to have him
be able to do a couple things and also a
punt when we need him too as well.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you if you need to
dust off his his all. He was all pea sack
before transferred over here. He got his put his punting
boots on Josh Kupid unfortunately, and we talked about him
last season a bunch because he had some some pretty
big games for this team. Unfortunately he is going to
be out for this season. So we know Nate Reid
is capable of punting. You did that in a past life.
But Brendan Locke comes over from Michigan Tech where he
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was an All American averaging forty five and a half
yards per punt. So maybe introduce us to Brendan a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, really excited about Brendan. You know, his his camp
as we as we kept going on and he kept
getting more comfortable in our punt system, you know, I
think he just started to blossom and toward the last
week of camp was certainly his best week of camp.
And that's what you want, right as opposed to the
opposite and the regression. So I'm really excited about watching
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what he does in a game. You know, those guys,
it's funny. You know some people are you know they're
gamers too, and you know when you're an All American,
it means you're a gamer. You know you've done it
in those situations, You've done it. When the game's on
the line, you've done it.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I would think I mentioned he was an All American
at a lower level at Michigan Tech. If there's anything
that translates, I would think kicking a ball would easily
translate to any level, correct.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I would hope. So, I mean punting's punting right. Kicking
the field goal the uprightce didn't change the length of
the field, didn't change the operation time. Probably only gets
easier when you have you know, maybe an FBS snapper,
an FBS protection as opposed to it. So I would
say that's the hope, is that we only get better
from here.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
And then he got some dangerous return men coming back.
My Son Pollard, we talked last year about him how
electric he can be. Jakari Kelly returned from some kicks
last year, and then Jake though he's been doing it
for a long time back there on the punt return game.
We talked about his punt returns in the college football
playoffs at Michigan was secure for Delaware a season ago.
Good to see those guys back. Anybody else, but in
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the rotation for return men possibilities.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I think that's pretty much who it is right now.
I mean, you know, a lot of our skill guys
go ahead and take those reps too. You know, and
and give us up that opportunity for depth, and and
we'll probably get their chances throughout the course of the season.
You know, in particular at the kickoff return spot, you
always get some some opportunities to throw some guys in
there and see what they can do with the ball
in their hands. And young guys in particular, i'd say
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the you know, in the back end of punt return.
I mean, it's it's so much about catching the ball
and experience there that you know, you probably want to
keep the guy back there who's good at it, and
that's about that. So if he's healthy, we're going to
keep that. Don't want to mess with that too much. Right,
If you can catch it, then let's throw them out there.
Speaking of punt returning, I learned this offseason that you
were a punt returner yourself. Oh god, that's not I
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wouldn't call myself a punt returner. I was back there
and I caught the punts, you know, when I was
a sophomore in high school. Yeah, I could catch them,
and it was about it. That's not an easy thing
to do. So so that's impressive stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I want to put that out there, so let's end
this segment. We talked about camp. That's everybody in training camp,
all the positions, talk to offense, defense special teams. Uh,
let's let's do some camp superlatives. Have a little fun
to close out. I never went Did you go to
summer camp? I ever went to summer camp? Would you
do a sleep away camp.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Or anything like that? Never?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Unless she counted like Penn State and BC Camp. You know,
I think I went to Mike Braids, Delaware. That's where
I was, so I had to I had to google
some some summer camp superlatives. But happy camper, who would
win happy camp? Who always had a smile on their face?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
That's a great question. I tell you what, for someone
who was hurt, which is always not easy to be happy.
You know I always have. Every time I looked over
at Waquim Roman, he was smiling. Uh he's a happy kid.
Trying to think of some other guys that are that
are bubbly, and uh, that's good. He gets this certificate.
He's gonna get it. There we go. How about Early
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Riser who was the first out of his bunk. That's
a good one, you know. Jerry o' rabbitz certainly Jerry
is here first always, and you guys are are early.
He beats me in and there's not a lot to do,
but he does.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
And talent shows not usually there's a talent show at
summer camp. Who showed the most talent this summer or
maybe who do you think has a special talent?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
So we don't do talent shows here. However, I have
heard and I haven't heard him yet, but I have
heard from multiple sources and I think he did perform
in front of the old line room that Bentley Allen,
our freshman offensive lineman, has the voice of an angel.
So we're trying to coax him into to go in
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front of the team one day, but it's not going
to be forced. Going to be on his accord.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
A long time ago, Vince Hollerman was a defensive lineman
at Delaware and he sang during a coaches show. So
that that'll be a golden to get this guy on
on the show to to sing sing a song for us.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
How about at camp you're in the woods, a lot
gotta start a fire. Best fire starter who came to
camp fired up, ready to compete and had the best energy,
I would say, yeah, there's certainly some guys with you,
you know, and there's certainly some guys with some intensity.
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And I think those are two different words. You know.
I would say uh, hooting and hollering. Uh. You're gonna
hear my son Pollard a lot. I would say intensity.
Uh A man. We already talked about in uh uh
in Dylan Trainer. But I would say, honestly, as far
as just going to work, that's Finn bros. All right.
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There you go. There, there's your so Turloge.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
You made it through the camps of preladent segment and
you're good with my reaches there to to get some
content on the show, we are going to.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Take our last time out. We come back.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
We're going to talk about the game that will be
tomorrow night when you're listening to this on ninety four
to seven WDSD Delaware versus Delaware State to start off
the season.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Let's talk hornets when we return. We back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
As you're listening to the Klondyke Cats, Blue Hens Football
Coaches Show presented by First State or the BTX featuring
head coach Ryan Carty, welcome backet into your home for
Delaware Football ninety four to seven WDSD and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Welcome back in at ninety four to seven w DSDFM.
Big game coming up to start the season, Delaware versus
Delaware State. That game is spreaded by d E five
two nine. The right play for your child's future. We
talked to Delaware. Now let's go down route one a
bit and talk about a Delaware State. I'm Scot Lasky
with Ryan Carty and coach talk about more attention this
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offseason for a team Delaware State. DeShawn To Jackson, a
three time Pro bowler, a Super Bowl champion. He's beloved
right up the road by Eagles fans, pumping some life
into that football program. What can a name like that
do for a school like Delaware State?
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Well, yeah, I mean I think it's obviously something that's
going to give notoriety right away. Right you have a
little bit of of UH power and backing behind behind
your name. When when there's a little bit of a
name recognition nationally, right, it's it's like what we're trying
to do right now and continue to bring our national
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name UH into into different households, and when you already
have that name recognition to kind of help so you know,
you can see it in in recruiting, you can see
it in in juice and energy already. Uh you know,
you can feel a little bit and over from here
and a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I'm not an Eagles fan myself, but he's very popular
in these parts because a lot of it Eagles fans obviously.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Uh what were you?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
I know you're Mets. Were you Mets and Jets? Is
was that your team growing up? Or what was your
football team?
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Yeah? I was a Mets Jets Nets guy growing up,
Mets Jets. Now there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Uh So that would be like if like al Toon
or or Keshawn Johnson was coaching a team, right, absolutely,
I probably.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
Went a little far back. I know him, but I
know but because.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
He you know, he's a big name obviously, but uh,
not a whole lot of coaching experience, certainly not at
the college football level. One year at the high school level.
So what does that mean in terms of of scouting?
Because you got Woodrow Wilson High school, he was the
offensive coordinator last year. That that's all you you know,
So what do you do in terms of kind of
having an idea of what they're they're gonna roll?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Out there with yeah, well, you know, I think you're
you're certainly, you know, not certain of anything. And I
think similar to most first games of the season, there's
a lot of turnover in college football, and so there's
you know, a lot of times where a coordinator may
be you know, different, or or a head coach may
be different, and so I don't know that we can
treat it any different. You know, the history is the history,
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but the fact that everybody's new is something that you know,
they're going to go into a staff room and and
decide who they want to be, regardless of where these
other people have been in the past. And so you know,
this is who Dell State's gonna be now, and offense,
on defense, on special teams, in aggression, and how we
how we do things, whether it's analytical or old school,
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all those things that have to be made in a
staff room. Those decisions, I think are the things that
leave you most up in the air, more than you
know where somebody was or how long they were there.
And so you know, I think, you know, similar to
most first games of new coaches, you're going to go
into this one, you know, having you know, more of
a focus on who you are more than who they
(47:36):
are because you know you're just going to have to
be able to adjust and improvise when when you feel
out what the plan against you is. Well, I knew
this show was going to have to be more about
us than them because we're about a week out as
we record, I don't have a depth I barely know
any players on their team right now.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
I'm searching for a depth chart. I do know their quarterback,
Cayden Bennett is in his seventh season. Committed to Boise
State in twenty two nineteen, they went to Nevada, had
a really good season in twenty twenty three for Sacramento State,
leading them to playoffs and through for two thousand yards,
rushed for almost six hundred as well. So he'll be
a weapon for Delaware State, that is for sure. But
more so talking about us, talking about Delaware getting ready
(48:15):
for that first game, I mean you, you are a graduate,
a player, a captain at the University of Delaware, and
you will be the coach that leads Delaware into this
new era.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
We talk about first state, first season.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
And it's a it's a major time for Delaware athletics.
I know for you, it's business and as usual and
you've got to get ready for game one. But does
that process that that you are the guy tasks with
with bringing Delaware to the FBS level, it's a great
time for the Blue Pens.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah. I think that there's a couple of different perspectives
on that. One is that you know, there's always been
pressure to be the you know, the best team in
the area around here. That the fact that you know,
our community support is so good and that our history
has been so good as it's something that you know,
you always feel as the head coach here is the
(49:05):
person leading a program at this school, you know, probably
any of the programs at this school, and so that's
there and that's always been there, and uh, you know
that's obviously felt a little bit more right now. But
you know, I don't I don't know that I've been
more excited to coach a football season than than this one.
And you know, I think that is probably because we
(49:25):
get an opportunity to do something different and special and
you know, so I can't can't wait to get out
there and see how we stack up against people and
and then make those adjustments, you know, one way or another,
and see you know, where we go from here, you know,
the the faith that uh, this administration you know, from
from President Carlson down have had them, you know, to
put us in this situation to see, you know, what
(49:47):
we can do and how we stack up and how
we get our name out there, and you know, the
fan base is only going to obviously grow, and uh,
I can't wait to be the person that gets a
chance to kind of feel that process out with the
with the team that we've built. And I know that
our student athletes are so excited to go out there
and you know, perform in the first season for the
(50:08):
first State. I know that's something that you know is exciting, prideful,
and we can't wait to kind of get it rolling.
It's it's a long time coming. We've been talking about
it for a little bit now, and we're excited to
kind of see where we stack up.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Well, we are excited to have you lead this team
into the next era of football. We are very proud
of that you are the head coach of this Delaware
football team. And the weight will finally be over in
just a day from when this airs August twenty eighth,
first State first season, a new era will begin. Well,
have coverage on ninety four seven WDSD FM and iHeartRadio
(50:43):
beginning at six as Delaware takes on Delaware State, a
monumental occasion as Delaware starts off their journey as an
FBS football program. Coach, thank you for inviting me in
your office. It's a lovely space and I look forward
to doing it, doing it again. Can't wait to have
you back. All right, well, please join us at Klini
Kate's Live next week on September third. Big thanks once
again to our head coach Ryan Carty for previewing this
(51:05):
season with us. Can't wait to get things started against
Delaware State. But for now, I'll say goodnight. This is
Scott Klatz good saying goodbye. Thanks for listening and as always,
go hands.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
This has been a presentation of the Klondikates Blue Hens
Football Coaches Show, presented by First State or The Beat X.
For extended Blue Hens coverage, be sure to follow at
Blue Hens Radio on X and follow WDSD on Facebook
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(51:37):
now to find highlights, interviews, shows and all the play
by play action, wherever you are.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Thanks for listening, go Hens
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