Football - October 1, 2025

Coach Ryan Carty talks FIU, Bye Week and Western Kentucky with "Voice of the Blue Hens" Scott Klatzkin. Plus, he shares his thoughts on winning in CUSA, designing plays, night games and more. Defensive Lineman, Keyshawn Hunter and Wide Receiver, Nick Laboy join the broadcast, as well. All from Klondike Kate's Restaurant on Main Street in Newark.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Klondike Cats Blue Hens Football Coaches Show,
presented my First State Orthopedics featuring head coach Ryan Carney
on ninety four to seven w DSD and iHeartRadio with
your host voice of the Delaware Blue Hens, Scott klass Candidate,
live from the heart of Main Street, Newark, Klondike Cats

(00:21):
Restaurant in Saloon and.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good evening, everyone.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome in to Klondike Kates Restaurant and Saloon on a
main street in Newark. It is good to be back
for a live edition of the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show.
Said by First State Orthopoedix, I'm Scott Klapskin and you're
listening to ninety four to seven w DSDFM and iHeartRadio, the.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Home for Blue Hens football.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Tonight, we'll find out what the Hens have been up
to on their bye week and we'll get you prepared
for a Friday night matchup in Newark. Plus, a fan
favorite guest of the show is back for the third time.
He's got six sacks in his last eleven games for
the Hens. Keyshaw Hunter is here. Go up for Keyshaw
and a new cover to the show. He found the

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end zone twice last game at FIU.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Nick Leboy is in the building and give it up
for Nick.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
But first please give a big welcome to the guy
that has our hens at one to zero in Conference
USA competition. Ryan Card is here everybody, and welcome to
you fans. Thanks for turning out.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Its always good to be back at cage. How's everybody
doing tonight?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
We're good?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, all right, fantastic. Well, I know it is a
good time to be a Blue hen a great momentum
after two a big win jibby Yukon at home, you
go on the road to Miami and take care of
business at FIU, and I know team's riding high some momentum.
But then now a bye week before we go on

(01:44):
the month of October, which is a bunch of nationally
televised games, which is exciting. How do you go about
attacking the bye week coming off of us some pretty
big wins.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah, I think we needed it. You know, I think
you know the thing that kind of goes unnoticed. We
all can understand how we might need it physically after
you know, four games in a row, and I think
the the thing that kind of goes unnoticed is the
emotional toll. It kind of takes annie to prepare that
that hard and that well, and the mental toll that
it takes, you know, just to be in that rhythm.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And so I think we used it well.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
I think we saw each other every day almost as
far as the players and coaches, we did a good
job with having touch points and making sure that, you know,
the guys were taking care of their studies, getting a
little bit ahead in academics and and got their running
in and got their GPS numbers that they needed in
order to stay healthy throughout the next week. But we
also gave them some time to not practice as much,

(02:36):
you know, I mean, our practices were a lot crisp,
were a lot shorter, and then we got into a
little bit longer game week so that we could get
a little bit ahead of Western Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, mentioned maybe needed physically, maybe needed emotionally too. After
I'm sure a lot went into that exciting game at
Yukon and then down on the road at FIU. Why
did you feel that that maybe this was a good
time for.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
That first by Yeah, just the third of the way through,
you know, I mean, there's always that you know, you
were we were kind of rolling hot there too, So
it's always nice to kind of stay in rhythm as well.
But I think whenever you get a chance to have
a break, like, there's only so many built in throughout
a season, and we'll end up having, you know, a
couple of times where we have a little bit of
an extended from here on out, not a full bye week,
and we'll try to do our best to use that

(03:20):
wisely and give ourselves some time away from the program,
but also some less stressful time in the program. I
think it's just as important when you're you still want
to be around the guys, You still want to be
around each other and in the locker room and not
get out of rhythm, but you also don't want to
be wearing yourself out. It's a long season. Twelve games
is a long time, and so this kind of the
third of the way through is kind of perfect timing

(03:42):
for us to kind of settle down for a second, regroup,
and then kind of set our focus back with intention
towards the Hilltoppers.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
And then, as a coach ever said, like, this is
the worst time for a bye week. I really this
is man that this stinks. I think you kind of
you get but that's part of football, and that's part
of being a coach, and that's part of you kind
of just you play the hand.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's delt to you.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yeah, No, I And honestly, I feel like bye weeks
are always fairly necessary again for the same reasons, right,
I mean, I yes, it certainly. You know, when you're hot,
you want to stay hot. But you know, we weren't
hot because of momentum. We were hot because we played
really well, and we prepared well, and we focused in
on the things that we needed to focus in on,
and we did our fundamental things correctly, and we played

(04:23):
together really well and hard like those are the things
that made us win a couple of games we won,
and so hopefully we can just regroup and do the
same thing this game week and then go out there
on Friday and get it done.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it was several days ago. At this point.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's not going to dive into great detail as we
typically do after a game, But that FIU performance thirty
eight to sixteen final score in that one, you must
have been just thrilled with your team's performance, not just
because they won and they executed, but I think a
statement was made in Florida that Delaware is going to
bring the fight. They are going to fight and you

(04:57):
are going to be in a battle when you play
Delaware and French Usay.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, It's been something that we've talked about, you know,
since I got here, is like, what is what is
the identity of our program? And what do people feel
when they play against us? And after the game? What
just happened? You know that that question, what just happened
when we played Delaware? What does that feel like? Is
something that we really talk about a lot and try

(05:21):
to get, you know, what we want our program to
be like and look like and feel like we can
say it all we want, but can we go put
it out there on the field.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Can we go prove that that's who we are?

Speaker 5 (05:33):
And I feel like those were the kind of games,
even in the last two kinds of games we really did.
We prove that that we will fight you, that we're
going to play it to the end, that we're going
to be really together and everything that we do, and
we're going to be able to ride the ebbs and
flows of a game highs and lows because we're going
to play smart and hard and tough and physical, and
so I think, you know, it was a nice statement

(05:54):
that we made. I don't think it was something you
know that was just about the score. I think, like
you said, it was a little bit about the way
that it happened, how we did it, and how we
did it together.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, and in that ball game, you know, we talk
a lot, and deservedly so, about one Nick, Nick Minicucci,
who's really having a great season, second in Conference USA
and passing second in total offense and really excelling. But
we got another Nick here today, and that's Nick little boy.
I mean, he was a little banged up at Camp
I believe and working his way back through that, and

(06:25):
then against FIU two for two, found the end zone
twice on two catches. I know you were really happy
for Nick and the way he played down in floor.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's a great production race.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
As good as you can get pretty much. I guess
three for three would be better.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean it's one of those things when it
comes to in you know, skill positions. You know, you
don't always get all the opportunities, and a lot of
it has to do with timing and flow of the game,
and you know, when it's your series, maybe we don't
throw the ball as much, and all of a sudden,
you're in for a lot of reps. You don't always
get the ball, and then sometimes the ball just find you.
And you know, we've talked about it on here. You know,

(07:02):
the ball finds energy, right, And I think that's something
that I said it to you preseason. I thought Nick
had one of the best springs out of all of
our skill guys, and then in fall, until he got hurt,
had had one of the best falls. We were looking
forward to to really seeing him go grow out there
and grow and I think wasn't really cleared to go
until about game week of the first week of the season,

(07:24):
so still kind of getting back into playing shape and
getting back into the rotation. And so it's been great
to see him continue that that progress toward being one
of the best players on our team. And so just
exciting to see that, to have him get those opportunities
and have the ball find him and so and then
obviously when you do well with it, that usually means
you're going to get more opportunities. And so, you know,

(07:45):
it's been proven in this offense that a lot of
guys are needed to go move the ball down the field.
We're going to be able to find different people throughout
the game, and whoever that that read takes us to
is the one. It's not always like this ball is
going to this person. It's very rare on the call
sheet where it's like, hey, this one needs to be
this one guy. It's gonna be whoever's out there at
that time. And sometimes it works out well for you
and sometimes it doesn't. But your opportunities come, you better

(08:07):
go make the most of them.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
And that's what Nick did on side absolutely Saturday, you
absolutely did. And one of his catches came at the
end of a long drive. And the last two drives
of the game when you're trying to put things away,
twelve plays and fifteen plays for the last two times
your offense was on the field, you took up fourteen
minutes total. On there's two drives, and just touch on

(08:29):
kind of the importance of being able to score multiple ways.
You need to have the X plays, you need to
have Joe Silver get seventy every now and again, but
you also need to be able to give the ball
to Iron Ellison eight times during a drive and grind
one and just kind of the importance of having an
offense that can do both.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
Yeah, I think it's something that I've gotten better at
in my old age as a play caller. I think
it's also something that I probably you know, as a
head coach and play caller, treat differently than as a
just a play caller, you know, as opposed to just
about scoring points. Obviously winning was always number one, but
there was obviously that my job is to score points,

(09:07):
however we need to do it, where.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now my job is to win.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
And so I think the thing that we were joking
as a staff the other day because we talked about
how we beat them in time and possession, and I
always talk about how time and possession doesn't matter and
correlation to winning.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
But I did say, and I do believe this.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
I said, I do care about time and possession when
you're up by three scores because then it's about possessions, right,
There's only so many possessions left in the game when
you're up by three scores in the second in the
second half, and so you know that if you can
stay on the field at that point, it does matter.
That's when time and possession matters. And that's why that
we you know, we kind of dictated the tempo with

(09:42):
those last couple drives, because if we limit the amount
of times that they get the ball, as long as
they don't score on all three of them were good,
we win the game.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
And so those were the situations. And then that does
take a lot though.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
It takes an offensive line playing together, and it takes
an offense to not be able to, you know, to
make sure we really care about our home and we're
now fumbling the football to understand that if we don't
get those first downs on those third and fourth downs
throughout that drive, we're kicking it back and we might
have been able to do something else to score more points.
And so we have to really have faith that we
can drive it because driving the football means that you're

(10:14):
doing everything really cleanly, and that's not easy to do
in those fifteen play drives.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
You better play really clean. Your teams have been able
to do that.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I want to as we end this this first segment,
we're looking forward to talking to some of your guys
talking with coach Cardi right now on the Coaches Show.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just more of a perspective. Question.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You know you've been coaching for this is eighteen seasons,
I believe is the math of either an assistant or
our positions coach or now the head coach. You've never
had a losing record on any of those teams eighteen seasons.
Only three times in your career have you had less
than eight wins in a season. So there's been a
lot of success and because of that, and I say

(10:52):
this just kind of set up the point that, like,
you've been expected to win every game pretty much your
whole career. If you win, it's great, you were supposed
to win, and if you lose, it's, oh, oh hey,
what's going on with whatever team you're coaching. And now
you know you do go INTOTO games as a newcomer
FBS where you are not necessarily favored to win. So

(11:15):
does that bring to you maybe a different perspective, a
new enjoyment after a game, or how have you been
able to what's your perspective on maybe going into a
game and the way you're winning these games?

Speaker 5 (11:28):
It's intuitive, Yeah, it actually has. This has been probably
I think even preseason. I think just being around the
team that we've created right now, in the culture that
we've created, has made this the most enjoyable offseason, preseason
and first four games that I've had in a long time.

(11:49):
I'm really just I love going to practice, I love
going to games. I like the feeling of being a
little bit of an underdog too. I think it's fun.
I think going to different places and be able to
travel to places that haven't traveled in a while. You know,
I love FCS football, and I love the CIA and
and uh and but I was in it for so
long that you know, I don't think I needed another

(12:11):
trip to Richmond.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
You know, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
And so this is, uh, this is fun to go,
you know, go to Miami and go have fun there
and see what happens, see what it's like, and see
what we how we stack up. And I think the
coolest thing is being in a lum of the program,
understanding that like we get to take this show on
the road and it's our show, Like this is us,
this is who we are, This is the people in
this room that care so much and deeply about this place.
And the community comes with us to Miami and to

(12:36):
Colorado and wherever else we're gonna play. And I think
that's so cool that we get a chance to be
the on the forefront of that.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
We get a chance to kind of be the outward.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Facing you know, programmatic stuff that we see that you know,
what the Hen looks like. And that's why I care
so much about what we play like, because it's what's
on TV on Friday night. We're gonna be a national
TV in the tub. What does it feel like?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
What does it look like? You know, what can we
show the world that we look like? This is what
Delaware is.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
I talk to the guys today, I said, this is
the hotel game.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
So what you guys don't know is every Friday night
we're staying in a hotel before a game home or away,
and we're all every time I bet check, I do
the bad checks myself. Every room I walk into, somebody's
got the TV on it, and it's always the ESPN
Game of the Week. It's always the CBS forts in
that Game of the week. Every college football team in
the country that plays on Saturday is going to have
Delaware Blue Hens on in their hotel room.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
What are they going to see? Well, we're excited to.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Find out on Saturday, and we know the way that
Delaware has been playing. We are are stoked that everyone's
got their eyes on the Hens. We're gonna take a
time out and we come back though, we're going to
talk with somebody that I know has enjoyment for every
single game, and that's Keyshawn Hunter. So we're going to
take a time out, we come back, we'll talk to
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(17:50):
Off the field, Kishawn Hunter is here, everybody, Kisha, how
you doing good play? Hey, we can't complain about the
way that you've been playing, the way the team has
been playing, it's been it's been fantastic. You guys are
on a roll right now. Tell us about that trip
down to Miami. You know, Keewan Jenkins preseason Conference USA

(18:10):
Offensive Player of the Year, didn't quite look like the
preseason Offensive Player of the year. That's because you guys
just such a good job defensively. You had a sack
against the Panthers. Just your takeaways from that trip to Miami.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Oh, the sainery was amazing Miami.

Speaker 12 (18:26):
It is just like coach Cotty said, it's good to
just step outside of SCS and experience new things in
the world. Like I never thought that I ever go
to Like Color's actually venturing though, experiencing new things like
pre game one, but when he's hitting the gold post,
I've seen a little like two little baby goanas run
outside of the So stuff like that is always a

(18:48):
great experience.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's a It was certainly a neat experience. The rain
held off, and you know how I know there's there's
a lot to do down in Miami. Is because I
think the the fans they were out doing whatever there
was to do in Miami for five here there were
they had to.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Bring your own energy that game. It was not very
well attended.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
It certainly was well attended by some some Blue and
Gold though.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Absolutely Uh you see that support.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Uh, But you are are now three and one as
a member of us. As we talked about with Coach Carty,
some people none in this room, Uh didn't think you know,
it might be or thought it would be more difficult,
more challenging to start the year for the University of Delaware.
How do you deal with the expectations? Do you pay
attention to any of that or how does that go

(19:32):
into your mindset each week?

Speaker 12 (19:34):
We just use this motivation really every day every week out.
Long as we play our football, we don't worry about nothing,
nothing else really matters. Long as we believe we gonna
win the game. In the locker room, everything else to
take care of it. So I got to tell everybody
time and time out. Football doesn't change. We've been playing
it since we were kids. Kids still play it. Nothing

(19:55):
change but side size in the year, not even a
factor just to the jersey's just.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
What well did you did it?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Did it help you and maybe some other guys that
came from FBS teams yourself? You know, look at that
defense Nate Evans, Jason Scott, Clear, lo Leal No, Matthews
coming over from from Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Having played a little bit at that level.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
That helped kind of know not only do we have
what it takes, but you can kind of tell the
other guy, Hey, there's there's not much to worry about.
You know, did did you help your teammates with the
transition as well?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well?

Speaker 12 (20:29):
Far as far as like transitioning wise, everybody has played
some type of high level football. Either it was when
I first got here when we played against Penn State,
or either those are before I even came. They beat
Navy before I even came, right, So all of us
have those big game quote unquote big game experiences performed

(20:50):
in front of large crowds. So I personally felt that
we had no problem transitioning over to this level and
of just a treat to do it my last go absolutely.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I want to I want to try that again.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
He said, they beat Navy before he got Harry, let's
try it against there.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
It is there, it is, which I heard my coach went,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's we'll see see if they allow him a postgame
interview on Friday, We'll see what happens. Oh hey, uh,
I talked to Jack Hall a couple of shows back
when your buddy's on the defensive line, he's just got
a love for the game. When when I'm watching you,
you can tell you've got a love for the game
as well. Is there is there a distinct quality that

(21:30):
defensive linemen need to have, kind of a mix of
passion and swagger and personality. And what is about that
that makes defensive linemen go?

Speaker 12 (21:39):
I mean, you gotta be a little mentally, oh just
a little mentally, especially to run this type of defense.
But yes, it's a lot of passion goes in day
in day out.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Just the dedication to the will.

Speaker 12 (21:54):
I would say, it's a lot of will power when
you're going against one or maybe two in my situation,
even three for grown other men, and it's the best
man to come out. So it's a lot of will,
passion and just under being undeniable?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Is there how much how much talk is there between
those defensive linemen and the offensive Lineman throughout throughout Again,
there's there. What's the level of chirp that do you
guys have out there?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
It depends on the character, Yeah, it depends.

Speaker 12 (22:18):
So you got some people that just won't shut up,
won't it's like won't they just go at it all games?
But you got some people to where it's back and
forth like oh, good play. And you got some people
that's extremely nice, like extremely that I don't even want
to play you right now, but I know we got to.
Like that's my that's my my my thought process. Like

(22:39):
if I was ever, I always imagine Will would be
like me playing us, and I just think Dembo would
just be so nice.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Don't want to go after a Well, luckily you don't
have that problem. It's only three of you. You mentioned
some of the double teams and you know one, two,
maybe three guys. Only three of you guys up front?
Is there a pride in that and being a part
of a defensive line that that is unique playing the three, three, five, It's.

Speaker 12 (23:04):
A lot of pride that goes in it when, like
I said earlier, when three three people can stop five
six people and then you can hold them to show
y'all just show game, and it just it just shows
as much faith that the coaching staff have in us
to be able to just throw us out there and say, yeah,
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(23:24):
We're going to show it.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
And you've been able to do that for sure.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
As I mentioned, six sacks in your in your last
eleven games with the Blue Hens, really impressive stuff. And
you know, I always enjoy you coming on the show.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Now everybody gets a hat trick of show visits.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
You've been here three times over the last three seasons,
so we love your personality and being a part of
the show.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I do learn something new about you each visit.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Though we have a mutual friend, my buddy Mike Corey
was a professor of yours.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Is that right, my god?

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Right?

Speaker 13 (23:53):
Guy?

Speaker 12 (23:54):
I would say, out of my whole entire colleagues experience,
I've learned and take away so much from Mike Corey.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
That that's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
He's not currently your your professor, So you're not just
saying that for a great Oh no no. But for
those who don't know Mike Corey held you know, hosts
of shows in the seat that I'm sitting in right now.
He was a broadcaster for Delaware for twelve seasons. Now
does ESPN games, but he also teaches a class at
the University of Delaware, and fantastic.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
He does.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
He's a busy guy, but he's one of the very best.
So that's fantastic that you know him as well. And
great news. The way you are playing a great news,
the way that Delaware is going about things. We're excited
to see you on Friday night. There was some other
information that I know you wanted to share because it's
the best news. It goes beyond football, it goes beyond
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(24:43):
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Speaker 2 (24:44):
It is the best news that.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Anyone can have. And you're gonna be fantastic. You are
expecting a baby boy?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Congratulations?

Speaker 3 (24:52):
How about that is that is just It is such
a blessing. And Wow, you are going to be just
a fantastic dad. I know that's for sure. And you
timed it pretty darn well. It's the do date is
just after football season.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, I want to have really town due. It has
worked out of our.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Favorite key Sean, you are just one of my favorites
of all time. Thank you so much, keep up the
great work and Ben we look forward to seeing you
on Friday night. Thanks you all right, Keith Sean, We'll
take a time out. Will you come back more with
head coach Brian Carter.

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Welcome back in to Clinda Kate's Restaurant and saloon here
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(28:55):
as Bryce Leslie from the Feathers and Field Goals podcast,
who know break a story while while he's there, so
you never know. He does a great job with that.
Dan Stean Kamer who is here as well. He's filming
us for some odd reason in the front row here,
but Dan does a great job with that podcast as well,
So coach, welcome back in. Always great to talk to

(29:15):
Key Shod, Always great to speak with you as well.
You know I mentioned Bryce and Dan and they're doing
podcasts and a conference USA our weekly, our week day
at CUSA Games. And with all of the extra attention,
you've got some extra media assignments, maybe obligations I don't
know what term you would use, but you know, before

(29:37):
Colorado you're talking with RG three, who was covering the game,
and I'm sure we'll talk with John Sadak this week,
who's calling the game for CBS. How has that adjustment
been for you some of the you know, with more
attention becomes more more things to do, I guess in
your week.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yeah, my, as you can imagine, I think you guys
have kind of gleaned what kind of human being I
am as far as how regiment am and uh so,
I have my routines and my things, and we're throwing
a few wrenches into them. There's no doubt it's right,
but we it's it's all great things, you know what
I mean. Again, anytime we can get a chance to
continue to grow the brand and the the understanding of

(30:16):
who we are as a program, I think those are
just outstanding opportunities for us as as a university, as
a community, as a new art community, and and obviously
as a football program to kind of see, you know,
what kind of brand we're playing. And I think that
goes along with being able to you know, communicate with
the people that that that are gonna again broadcast us
out there to the world.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
And so it's been fun too.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Like again, like I said, it's been a nice experience
to to be able to kind of, you know, feel
a little bit bigger time, yeah than we have.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
And uh, you know, you're always very gracious with your time.
I will say a head coaches week is is very busy,
and uh, you're always very gracious with your time. I
read a tweet one from someone really hurt my feelings,
but I read it anyway. It says all Scott does
is ask these guys what their favorite ice cream flavor is. Anyway,
He's not so no hard hitting stuff. Right there, you go.

(31:08):
Good now, cross it off the list of questions. Now
we're down one. But no, we appreciate all your media
stuff that you do. And let's get into some other
national attention. Talking about attention on the program. Great news
this week in terms of another watch list candidate, the
Jason Witten Award watch list for Jake Though was announced
this week. The Jason went and Collegiate Man of the

(31:30):
Year Award is presented annually to the FBS college football
player who has demonstrated leadership by exhibiting exceptional courage, integrity
and sportsmanship. So Jake Thaw is on that list of finalists.
Why has Jake Thaw embodied that award and what it
stands for?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
It doesn't surprise us. There's no doubt.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I mean he you know, you had a Best Human
Being award, he'd be in the running for sure, as
would denbo As as coach Hunter over here said a
second ago, There's no doubt.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
You know, we have a We do have just a
great group of kids.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Like I said, I've been so happy to be able
to get to work with the guys that we have
on our team, and Jake's just an embodiment of that,
you know, just one of those guys that whenever he can,
he's gonna go out of his way to make somebody
around him feel comfortable and and uh, make somebody around
him grow as much as he can and ask one
thousand questions about how he can get better and make
sure that everything he's doing is at the top of

(32:23):
his his potential. And I think that's something that you
can see from Jake. I think every ounce of ability
that he has he's being, he's doing his best to
use it.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
And it's been fun to be around him for a
couple of years.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
I'm so glad we got a chance to get him
to come back for one more year and and kind
of just be the leader that he is. It's been
fun to watch his progression here and and how he's
changed and helped the program change.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
I do have one more question pertaining to Jake Thal,
and it's it's what's his favorite ice cream flavor? That's
that's what I want to That's what all that's what
we want to know right about when in questions pretending
to Jake Thal, We'll get you the injury report on
don't worry about We'll check the depth chart. Just check yeah,
turn it page seven. All right, No, I'm joking about Jake.

(33:06):
Well we'll get when we get Jake back, it'll be
a fantastic addition, uh to to our our roster. Hey,
let me uh talking about Jake. He gave you and look,
we don't have uh, we're gonna have a game. We're
come off of bye, so we get to talk maybe
a little bit more about you and and how you
coach and all that this episode. But uh, Jake gave
you full credit for his touchdown against Delaware State when

(33:28):
he was wide open and It made me thinking, like,
you're a you're a prolific play designer. You've had some
great designs through the years. So I wanted to maybe
learn more about where you draw your inspiration from or
or take us through the process of like you know, somebody,
you hear songwriters, they get an idea and they write
down a lyric here or there, or on a.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Napkin or something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
How does an idea turn into a play on the
field when you're when you're making them up there?

Speaker 5 (33:56):
What's the pot I mean unless you trace it back
to like Newt Rockney, none of us are invent than anything,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
And I think that's kind of the key to.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
How you you know, in the offensive world in particular,
I think it's a lot about you know, what can
fit in your offense, because there's a lot of good
plays out there, you know, and we run probably more
than most teams do. We do have a very large
breadth to our offense. But there's also things that don't
necessarily fit. And so how do you if you see
something that you like, or you see something that you

(34:25):
think you can exploit, what are the ways that it
can fit into your offense. And I think that's probably
the biggest key to being an offensive coordinator is the
actual coordination of it. Not just what is a good
play and when to call it, it's how does it
fit in what you do? How do you put it
into the buckets of teaching, right, Like, how does it
fit into the teaching progression that you already have built

(34:45):
in the foundation of your offense in each position room?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
And is this too much?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Right?

Speaker 5 (34:50):
And I think that's the question we ask on the
front end of every game week, all right, like all right,
we like all these plays?

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Is this too much?

Speaker 5 (34:57):
And I think you know, there's very rare times where
it's like I'm inventing something crazy new, like somebody's done
everything that we've done. I've probably done it ten years
ago and forgot about it, you know what I mean.
And you get into the point where it's like this
would be great and it also fits in what we do.
Let's make sure that we can exploit them this way
this week. And so I think there's that And I
think the biggest thing that on the other side of that,

(35:19):
after you implement it, is how you practice it. I
think when we do certain things the way that we
practice them might be a little unique, and so you
know how often we do it in what ways we
do it in the progression of teaching that we do
it from you know, on air to versus you know,
this scout team in this period, then versus the scout
team in this full period, and making sure that we

(35:41):
get a chance to kind of if we're going to
do something new, we're gonna do it right.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
So has it has it gotten to the point where
you're running it in practice and you're like, you know what,
maybe this this isn't a great idea, Let's pull this one?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Has that absolutely? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Yeah, there's there's things that get crossed off the li Again,
if you have that many plays, you're allowed to cross
a couple off if it's not going to work. And
I think that's the thing is having that feeling. It
doesn't mean it won't be good the next week too.
You can keep practicing some things that you're like, well,
this might be good against this other team in a
couple of weeks. We know what they do in advanced
scouting and we can figure out this will work. And
I think that you know, there's certain things you know

(36:14):
and nic will tell you that we've practice every week
and we don't run them until we need them, and
we're gonna run them and we're gonna be the best
at that play because we've practiced it since camp started,
you know. And those are the things that we know
are things that we're gonna use in this situation when
we get it, when we need it. And it's worked
over the years in that way, and it's been great.

(36:36):
I love learning some of the inside information there. We
talked about scheduling to start this segment, and this is
your typical like Thursday now because on a game we
everything moved to back or up or I don't know
what's up or down.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
We'll figure it out in October. But obviously this is
starting the month where you need to rearrange your brain
in a way to say, all right, this is actually
my Wednesday, this is my Monday. What is the process
of that for you and your student athletes as we
come now to a Friday game of bye weekend, then
a couple of Wednesdays.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Yeah, And I think I think the way that our
program is set up as a as a you know,
as the Delaware Football Blue hens the way that we
kind of teach and we go about. Our business is
very day to day and so I do think it's
actually something that hopefully we can use as a as
an advantage for us. You know, since right as soon
as camp ended, you know, on every TV in the facility,

(37:31):
it's said today is a we call them, we have
names for the toughest Tuesday mindset, Monday workday, Wednesday, perfect Thursday,
fast Friday. But it says that on every TV in
the office. So today it's said, today is a perfect Thursday.
I don't care what day of the week is in
the calendar, Honestly, sometimes I don't know anymore. People are
like putting things on my outlook calendar as you know,

(37:53):
my head coach duties, and I don't know what day
it is. I had had tricked me today, told me
it was you know, somebody was coming on Thursday. He meant,
actually Thursday. To me, this is Thursday. And so, you know,
we talk in our facility in terms of what day
of the week is it game week wise, and that's
how we have to really frame our minds that day.
It's got to be for those couple of hours that
we're here, we're in that framework. And then obviously they

(38:16):
got to go to their class on the day that
it's supposed to be right after that, and that's yeah,
sure it could get confusing, but in our facility, it's
not something that's going to be confusing. It's going to
be something that we have ingrained in who we are
and our DNA is like, this is what we do
on a Wednesday. This is what we work on our Thurdays,
we work on our red zone. This is what we
do on a Thursday, you know. And so you know

(38:38):
we're excited for Fast Friday.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Tomorrow, well there and then yeah, whatever day, whatever Saturday is,
it's Friday, Saturday's game day. And we have confused every
single listener just even trying to figure it out. That's
why you know, you guys are all better than I
was figure this all out. But you guys will have
it down and I know on Friday it'll be a
fan on the actual Friday. On the Cat, we're looking

(39:01):
forward to West Kentucky. I'm going to talk to you
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to take a time out first. When we come back,
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Yeah, it's been a great week.

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Speaker 2 (42:58):
Nick. Thanks so much for being here.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Thanks for having me absolutely and Nick or Nicholas. I've
seen both. Nick is fine, all right, like we're old friends,
all right, Thanks Nick. Well, uh, just I've been calling
your name. I certainly did twice on last couple of
Saturdays ago at FIU. Two catches, two touchdowns. All he
does is catch touchdowns. You know, the second one you dive,

(43:21):
you get your feet in.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
The first one was fantastic as well.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
In a little bit of traffic, take me through those
grabs and what you were feeling when you when you
got six.

Speaker 25 (43:30):
I mean yeah, I mean coach does a really good
job of, you know, giving everybody opportunities to make a play.
I mean the offense when we get down to the
red zone. He really stresses finish the drivet, you know,
and the drive and to have my name be called
in that situation, I mean, I love to have the ball,
and I love to have the ball in the end
zone even more so. It was just it was a

(43:53):
surreal feeling. I mean, I'm happy enough to have one touchdown,
but two is amazing.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
It was amazing to see and you know, Coach Carty
did talk about you so positively about the great spring
you had, the great fall, and just you banged up
a little bit, so you know, you're working your way back,
and it was just great to see you get going.
I know this is going to spring you to even
bigger and better things this season. Not the first time
you've had success. So you were all Ivy League at Cornell,

(44:19):
plenty of FBS offers came your way. But I read
that you said I wanted to play on the national
stage at a school that also values academics.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Well, check and check. Obviously for Delaware those boxes were.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Checked for you. Oh yeah, for sure. This school is
definitely the best of both worlds.

Speaker 25 (44:36):
I really liked during my meeting and my visit here
Coach CARTI really I felt like he was building something
special here and I'm great to be a part of that.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
And I'm glad to be able.

Speaker 25 (44:48):
To compete on the big stage, especially moving up to
the FBS level.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
I mean it's really great.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
And now you have the brightest of lights on a
Friday coming up against Western Kentucky. You've played in some
neat games, though, and part of that is by having
success in the IVY League. You played in the Dream
Japan Bowl. Is that correct? And you know, tell us
about that experience. It's a special bowl game for kind

(45:13):
of the best of the best in the IVY League.
How did that come about? Tell us about your journey
out there in the game itself.

Speaker 25 (45:18):
Yeah, I mean it was extremely special on me to
be able to go. I mean, first of all, the
flight was extremely long. What are we talking about, it's
about fourteen hours? Oh yeah, I mean you got you
gotta wear Colorado, Sam Houston and Jacksonville will be fine
for you after this. Yeah, but I was told you
had to wear socks because your your legs would swell

(45:39):
up on the plane. It was insane, but it was
a surreal experience. We got to visit all different cities
and they got to meet some of the other Ivy
League players from the other schools, and I mean it
was great to come together and you know, represent the
United States and have a great game.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
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was awesome.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Yeah, very cool stuff. Well, you know, I think Denbo's
and there it was. That's where I remember maybe Cardi
was there on a fruity trip to No. Denbo's got
a lot of love to that. We've got to see that.
The captain back in the mix.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
So you know, you talk about Delaware and all you're
doing for the Blue Hens right now, and we'll get
into more of that. But you know, you have before
coming to Delaware. You have a top ten degree in
the country. You have a biology degree at Cornell. So
when that is when football and your playing days are
are are said and done, what do you want to

(46:32):
do with that fantastic degree?

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 25 (46:34):
Sometimes I forget graduated school, but the players definitely remind
me every day. But I graduated biological sciences. Looks like
I'd like to go to the pro level, you know,
you know, after the seasons, seeing how this season goes
but if that doesn't work out, I would love to
go to med school and that's where I would go,

(46:55):
and I would do an undergraduate not an undergraduate, but
a postback program before that, and then it'll be like
a gap year and that's where I would go. And
then I would do a med school program somewhere, find
a great spot for me, and then I'll just look
to get into a radiology program. Radiologist. That's where I
want to be an eventual radiologist. And that's just kind

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of where my mind's at. But I've got a lot
of things going on right now. I think this is
definitely Football is definitely where I want to put my
focus at right now.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
So there's a lot going.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
On and you've got a lot of football left.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I was just doing we kind of want to brag
on your degree a little bit for everybody that didn't know.
But fantastic that you have a plan of action, a
lot of football left for you. I spoke with Kyrie
Duplaci a couple of weeks ago on the show just
kind of about the dynamic in the wide receiver room.
You have eight maybe nine guys that can be different
makers out there, but what's it like you know, watching

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film and going out and practice and how's everybody getting
along out there?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
You got a large list of wide receivers on it.

Speaker 25 (47:53):
Yeah, we got a lot of guys that can catch
football on and make plays downfield.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
It's really special.

Speaker 25 (47:58):
I mean, we're probably the closest on the team.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
I'm sorry, but Shaw is making a face on the
side there. I mean, we spent a lot there's only
three of you guys, there's eighteen wide receivers.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
Not goodness.

Speaker 25 (48:12):
We definitely spend a lot of time together. I mean
we go to dinner, we have food, we joke around.
I mean, it's it's a really special group. And the
fact that you know we could, you know, Coach Cardi
can trust each and every one of us to go
out there and make a play.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
It's it's amazing for a wide receiver to, you know,
in camp, I'm sure Marker and Minnicucci we're both splitting
reps that we've talked about about that how it all
worked out in the summertime. But now that Minnicucci is
getting more and more reps, how does that work for
a wide receiver to to really just get more and
more I'm sure each week, yet more and more in
sync with Nick.

Speaker 25 (48:46):
Oh. Yeah, I mean there's definitely a lot of work
that goes behind it, you know, during practice, you know,
trying to work on timing. But I think he's done
a really great job so far. And he's he's been
really special in his decision making and getting to getting
the ball to the players to you know, make a
play when they need to.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
And I mean he's he's great.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Yeah, he's doing well.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
I found you twice against FIU, and that was on
a Saturday. Now we got a couple of Friday or
we got a couple of weekday games. This one on
a Friday night, the Friday night game of the week.
Did were you a Saturday high school team? Or do
you play Friday Night lights when you were at avalon
definitely Friday night Frida night lights sor right, So it
brings back some some good memories. I'm sure you and
and Trayvon Diggs went to the same high school. You

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play a little defensive back in high school.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Crowd, I did a little bit seven seven.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Okay, all right, Well we certainly excelled at wide receiver.
What does the offense have to do on Friday to
keep up the great work?

Speaker 25 (49:41):
Just you know, make plays. Definitely get as many X
plays as we can. Coach cart is always stressing that,
you know, try to make the big plays when they
come your way, and you know, just move the ball.
We can and I think we have a real shot
at you know, competing in this game.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
It'll be exciting. Coach Carty has talked about you so
much and said such pot of things about you. It's
a pleasure to meet you in person. Nick, keep up
the great work.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Thank you, Rack.

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tonight on Main Street and that was a QB sneak
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break before Keyshan came on, so we had to we're
short on time. I wanted to get us back in
so I can talk Western Kentucky and Delaware football and
coach CARTI thank us much for rejoining some great guys
you always bring on to the show. Thank you for
that great talk to Keishawan and get to know Nick
a little bit. Let's talk Western Kentucky two and zero
in Conference USA, they are four and one overall, we're

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looking at the number one and two scoring offenses in
Conference USA, number one and two total offenses in Conference USA,
number one and two passing offenses in Conference USA. So
Tyson helped the head coach. He was Sam Darnold's QB
coach at USC at one point in time.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Similar to you.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
He has a dad and a brother that are coaching football.
What impresses you about coach Helton's offense?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Yeah, I mean, consistent is really the thing.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
You know.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
I've been you know, watching them from Afar for a
while and and his other stops as well, and they've
you know, you can always tell when somebody is a
good offensive mind, no matter where they are and in
what role they're in. The offenses are pretty good around them,
and so you know, obviously something that you know now
getting to see at firsthand, you see, you know, the

(52:36):
just a system built around the playmakers. It's not too
different than when you watch you know, our games. It's
it's about, you know, taking what the defense gives you,
putting your people in advantageous situations, and then being able
to coach them throughout the week to to you know,
develop those players and those skills as well. And I
think that's something you see. And then a lot of
it has to do with being able to recruit the
right people for what you do. And I think that's

(52:58):
the one thing that maybe goes unnoticed sometimes in offenses
and you just you can't just necessarily like we're going
to hire this guy because he's good at coordinating, well,
is the offense around him? The right people are the
personnel pieces in place, And I think that's something that
you see. Coach Helton's done really well to be consistent
year in a year out offensively he's had He understands

(53:20):
exactly what he's looking for personnel wise, and has the
ability to recruit those guys too, And so that's that's
what you see on film.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Well, he brought in a recruit in Maverick McIver, who
is another FCS to FBS success story. McIvor and Minnoicucci
top statistical quarterbacks in Conference USA through four or five games,
depending on the team. What does he do well that
has made him have success this year for the Hilltoppers.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Yeah, he's so experienced, you know, it's you know, I
want to say he's a six year guy, right, keep
going seven.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yea seven year year.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Seven.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
It makes sense because he was on a list of
mine when I was at Sam Houston, you know, recruiting
Texas quarterbacks at some point.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
So that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
Just a really good football player as well. So you
can tell he just has a knack for being able
to anticipate windows, find the open people can have a
huge command of the offense, and then when they decide
to take shots, he's accurate and he's going to make
those plays and he's going to rely on the guys
to go get the ball. And so you know, certainly

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got our work cut out for us on both sides
of the ball. Uh and in particular with a guy
like him and some of the whiteouts they got running around,
for sure, it's going to be a challenge for us
with with a three high life, he's.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Got five wide receivers with thirteen or more catches this season,
Doctor MacIver. Perhaps he's on the same program, Oh really, maybe,
I don't know. Seven years you would think, Oh, yeah,
they're called a lot of people go to school that
fall all right.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Defensively though, coach.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Tommy Boy, well, in this room, you can tell you
can tell it. There's three minutes left in the show
when we start referencing move quotes. Defensively, coach, they are
allowing over two hundred rush yards per game, solid against
the pass, but there they have been teams to be
able to run the football against them. You know, statistics

(55:10):
don't always tell the exact story. But is that is
that something that when you're watching film you be like,
all right, well we might have the possibility, uh for
for Joe or else and to get gone.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, I would hope.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
So you know, obviously we're gonna be you know, good
at if we can move the ball. However they want
us to write however, they are going to say we're
gonna take this away. Hopefully we can go ahead and
and and do that the other way. And so you know,
that's the hope, is that, uh, you know, we can
establish the run game as always and and and do
our best to do that and then obviously make the
big plays when we need to, and both of the

(55:39):
both the facets on offense. And you know, I do
think they run around, uh and they they're they're violent
in the back end. They run around, they're they're very skilled,
they're long, They're fast and uh and and certainly run
the ball very well, so you can tell how well
coached they are and how how tough they are. So

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it's going to be a challenge on both sides of
the ball. We're excited about that challenge. It's something that
you know, we really appreciate about this season, being able
to go in week in and week out and play
against great football teams and have the ability to play
in an FBS conferences. It's exactly what we expected, right,
It's like, well, you know, you better get up every
week ready to go. You better prepare your butt off

(56:20):
every week, ready to go, because we're going to get
a fight and hopefully teams feel that from us too.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Absolutely, this is a team that comes in with a
four and one record overall. As I mentioned, they're looking
to stay on defeating Conference USA Delaware trying to do
the same you as a head coach here at Delaware
are are nine to one during night games, so those
are games that are on it at night. You'd kind
of reference earlier in the week that some coaches really
do not like night games.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
You are not amongst that group.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Why do you think maybe some coaches don't like it,
And why do you enjoy night games?

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
I can't speak to why people don't like them, but
I like that extra few hours that I get to prepare.
I just I feel like sometimes I don't have enough
hours in the week, and I just know that now.
I guess, especially a home night game, the reason they
don't like night games. For away games, it makes complete sense.
You get home at like five am, which is not great,
especially in a weekday game. Guys, but boys got to

(57:16):
go to class the next morning, you know. But for
a home game, we get a chance to obviously take
our time, have an opportunity to get maybe a couple
extra hours of sleep on Saturday morning. Sleep's great for us,
we know that, and then obviously have a little bit
more time to prepare. Look at your call sheet a
little bit longer, make sure you make any last minute changes,
you got to print something out again, you're still in

(57:37):
the office. You got all kinds of time. So to me,
it's just a little bit more relaxing. And I think
a lot of people the anticipation gets to them. I just,
you know, I don't like to feel rushed.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
That's a good way to look into it, because I'm
just paid. I can't wait to get to the stadium
on a night game. But Friday night lights. You've had
success Friday night lights and not just night games, but
Frida night lights. Last time you probably had a Friday
night game. Perhaps you set the state record with forty
three touchdown passes as a senior in high school.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
See some good Friday night memories. Correct? Amen?

Speaker 3 (58:08):
All right, well, we're gonna add to it on Friday
against Western Kentucky. Coach always fun, Thanks for coming, appreciate you.
All right, we'll check them out on a Friday. It's
weekday see USA and you can see it on the field.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
They've got to print it out as well.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Catch us on a Friday night inside of Delaware Stadium
coverage on ninety four to seven WDSD and iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
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Speaker 3 (58:27):
A little break from the coaches show with conference to
USA Wednesday schedule coming up, but mark your calendars. Will
be back at clown A Kates on October twenty ninth,
so be here on October twenty ninth as well. Great
crowd tonight, Thank you so much for coming out. A
big thanks once again to our guests. Keyshawn Hunter and
Nick Laboy, as well as head coach Ryan Accardi. For
our producers Jay Hollahan and Benny Pela. Back in the studio,

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