Football - October 2, 2024

Guests: Jake Thaw, Ethan Saunders

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you are listening to the Blue Hens Football Coaches
Show presented by First Date or the PDX featuring head
coach Ryan Cardy on ninety four seven WDSD and iHeartRadio
with your host voice of the Delaware Blue Hens, Scott Klasskin,
and now welcome to La Casa Pasta Restaurant.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
In New Arc.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
And'll welcome into the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show from
the Kasa Pasta Restaurant right here on your home for
ud football ninety four to seven WDSD presented by First
Date ORTHOPEDICX. I'm Scott klask and the Blue Hens have
cleared the first month of the season with a record
of four and oh, ending September with a bang in
a forty nine to nothing victory over Sacred.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Heart that was a whole lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
A lot of people here we're at that game and
those tuned in as well. We'll talk about that one
and a game that is sure to involve some fireworks
on Saturday at Mommouth plus joining us tonight. A man
that found the end zone first the Pioneers on Saturday,
Ethan Saunders this year everybody, and a wide receiver that
is no strange to a winged helmet. Jake Thall is

(01:01):
here as well, but first please welcome in at Delaware's
football head coach, Ryan Cardy. Ryan, thanks so much for
being here, coach. Largest margin of victory since two thousand.
It's been twenty four years since the hen Zone won
by that amount of points. That leads to a fun
day of football. I asked you last week what you

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wanted to see from your team, and you said, to
play hard. Outside of a statistic, it's effort. Gotta see
effort and feel like you can check that box off
for four quarters.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
We really talked about, you know, having focused energy for
four quarters. You know, I don't think we had put
it together for a full game yet in the first
three games and still came out on top, which is great,
but you know, we want to make sure that we,
you know, can can play to the wire from wire,
you know, from from start to finish. And I thought

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we really did that, you know, played really hard, played
with energy. I thought the end of the game, you know,
we got a chance to get some young guys in
and and guys with a little less experience, and and
they played with energy, and the guys on the Sideline
had energy for them and through them, and so was
really pleased with how hard we played, how tough we played.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
And and how we finished the game.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I want to talk about all the aspects of the game,
tell some stories tonight because a lot went on within
that forty nine and nothing game. But before I do,
I just want to get an update for our fans.
I'm sure in everyone's thoughts there was a scary moment
in the game when Chris Colott went down with an
injury and had to get a rushed to the hospitals.
Just wanted to update everybody on his status. We're all
thinking of them.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah, Chris is doing great right now. He's been at
practice the last two days. He hasn't been practicing with
us yet, but he's been. He's been completely completely fine
and cleared through you know, the the injuries that he
would have sustained on on game day. You know, when
we were out there, it was mainly precautionary. He you know,
he was uh, you know, you know, had some scares

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out there. But once we carted him off the field,
he was he had feeling and in all of his limbs,
he was moved, he was he was lucid and then
once he got to the hospital, he was sitting around,
you know, laughing with.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
The guys and we had a they had a million visitors.
I think they had to.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Kick some of them out of the room at one point.
So you know, we're we're excited, uh that he's feeling
much better.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
And uh it was. It was great to see him
at practice yesterday.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Good, good, great to I know everybody wanted an update
on Chris and great great to hear because the scary
moment in the game. But glad he is back. Let's
talk about the game. Let's start with your your quarterback
and quarterbacks. So there were so many quarterbacks that played
in that game. But it starts off obviously Ryan O'Connor
unable to go in the game. When I got to
the field, saw him warming up and then noticed, you know,
he had shorts on, so we knew something was going on.

(03:40):
You had known earlier, right, so you put in a
game plan for Nick Menacucci, and then so much for
that game plan because one play into the game, you know,
down he goes, and then Zach Marker has to come in.
I want to talk about Marker, but just tell me
a little bit about, uh, what it's like to have
a game plan, have an emergency quarterback ready to go
as a pack up when your starter's out and then

(04:02):
the backup needs a backup. It's a lot going on.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, it sure was, Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
There were a lot of moving parts there, no doubt,
you know, we we had you know, we did know
early that Ryan wasn't gonna be able to go, So
that's at least fortunate. It's always a tricky subject when
all of a sudden late scratches or first play of
the games people go out for the uh that you
have a game plan built around that gets tough. You know,
when you have a full week to prepare somebody, it's

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a little bit easier. Similar to last year when you
saw you know, it was tough for Nick to go
in and Villanova when he had to go in, he
wasn't ready, he didn't have those reps. Then built game
plan wasn't built for him. And then you have a
full week to get him prepared for a playoff game,
and he goes and wins it because you have that
time to build something around him.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
And so we built the game plan around Nick.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
We did, and then on play one he got injured
for the game, and so you know, obviously, you know,
we had to go to the next man, and now
luckily that was somebody we didn't plan on playing. But
Zach has you know, has has the experience of being
able to go in there and uh and perform very well.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
What you did for him to come in though and
get cleared, I believe he said, or someone posts as
describing it was very recently, maybe the week prior. You know,
he had a cl surgery in December and was making
his way back. That was his first game against live
contact and absorbing a hit. For him to to play
the way he did first game back was pretty impressive.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, extremely impressive. I mean that the job that he
did can't be you know, stated enough. It was a
special game. And you know, I think it's really hard,
and I've been lucky enough to never have that those long,
you know, season ending surgeries or whatever. But you know
from my experience in coaching quarterbacks and coaching other players
that first whether you're cleared doesn't necessarily mean you're ready yet.

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And so like there's a confidence thing that really has
to get brought up to speed with the rest of
your body and I think, you know, there's also that
aspect of you know, you could even see him practice
as he was getting to that point where he was
getting cleared. Still, you have to feel comfortable in the pocket,
you have to be able to push off of that leg,
and you have to feel confident in it. And I
think he really needed to go out there. I think

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it was good for him. I think he needed to
go out there and you know, take a hit and
get pushed around and see that he could really stand
up still, you know, and be strong in the pocket
and and still move fast enough. And I don't think
he's as fast as he was because of that brace,
but you know, I think he still was able to
move around, and so you know, it was good for him.
I think to to kind of knock the rust off
a little bit. And I think, you know, you know,

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if he has to play again this season, I think
you'll see a cleaner version of Zach.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I think you described it as a cement, like a brace.
He's wonderful with the interviews. You know, you say that
he was an emergency quarterback and he didn't think he
was going to play. However, there was a fully choreographed
dance after a saint floor touchdown, So I mean he
had some maybe inkling enough to put that together. Minicucci
goes out just going back to him unfortunately on the

(07:02):
first play on a run for you, though, wildly enough
and for another member of your staff. Not the first
time a quarterback has gone out on a QB power
on the first play of the game. Can you can
you tell that story?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you, This story is
gonna be a little different because I actually wasn't at
the game, and this is a tricky one.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
It was the only game I've ever missed in my life.
Right sore subject to bring up it is, I had
no idea.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Happened to be hospitalized for a week and it was
a long story. So I game planned the whole week
forty three can.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
We do right?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
I game planned the whole week for the game UH.
And I wasn't allowed to make the trip for some
medical reasons, and and so it was my would have
been my first game calling against an FBS opponent. It
was Minnesota was excited about it. I personally was not
going to call quarterback power on the first play of
the game with UH with Sean because I didn't want
to run that again.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
So this is this is Sean Goldrigs, our quarterback coach.
It is who who it's injured on the first play
of a game against Minnesota when you were coaching.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yes, it would have been his second start or first start.
We went and beat Holy Cross and it was my
first game call plays. It was his first start. We
rolled and then we go in the second week, We're
ready to, you know, go take on an FBS opponent
and they had a darn good defense, and uh, you know,
I remember watching it while I was in the hospital
and being a little upset that it was called and
on the first play of the game and he separated
his throwing shoulder on and.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Was out for the next three or four weeks.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
And so you know, Sean had some flashbacks. I'm sure,
I'm sure, and you know it is what it is.
It's it and and you can't I've run quarterback power
since you just you know, it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
But I thought that was interesting and bring full So
I talked about it that Sean had a similar injury
when he was play.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
The question was asked in the in the press conference,
hasn't have you ever had a quarterback at the first play,
I was like.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Well, ironically, yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Our quarterback coach did the same thing for.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Four quarterbacks for Saturday. This is intentionally a yes or
no question. Do you feel like you know who your
quarterback is going to be on Saturday?

Speaker 5 (09:05):
At this point in the week you're starting quarterback? I
think there's there's still a little bit of question there.
And those are the things that sometimes throughout the week
and kind of, you know, hurt your game planning. You know,
I think there's some there's a couple, there's about three
people that all have some things that they're dealing with,
and so we have to figure out who's going to
be the best to go out there on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well, let's talk defense, and let's let's switch it up. First,
shut out for u D since twenty twenty one. I
want to talk about when when the team is shutting
a team out and how it is addressed on the sideline.
Give me some insight to that. Is it like a
no hitter does no does everybody kind of not talk
about it? When do people start noticing, like, hey, there's
a zero on the scoreboard. We got like, when when

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do you start feeling it on the sideline.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
You might have to ask the defensive guys. No one,
I've never actually thought of it that way.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
That's how that makes sense that somebody might, though very superstitiously,
have some concern about it.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
No.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I you know, we don't talk much about statistics at
all during the game, so I wouldn't. It wouldn't be
something that I would, you know, say one way or
another about a shutout, you know, and so but I'm
sure it is something that I mean, i know it's
something that's cool, and so I'm excited when it happens,
and I know our defensive guys are as well.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Well.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
They played so very well as shutting out a Sacred
Heart team. And we'll talk to Ethan Soners a little
bit later in the program. We have a great conversation
about quarterbacks and in this first segment, so I'll have
some more about some individual players that I definitely want
to get to because there were some great individual performances
in that game. But we talked offense, we talked defense,
and I've got to bring up special teams because I

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brought it in the past when it wasn't going well.
But seven of seven on pats and especial teams in
every aspect I thought did really well on Saturday. That
must have felt good to get those up and through
and get everything corrected.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Absolutely, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
I mean, and Nate is obviously very capable of kicking
extra points. He's got a hell of a leg, and
you know had another five touchback game, and you know
he's been booming the ball and kick off and making
some deep field goals too, and so there's no doubt
that that's something that I think he needed to get
that monkey off his back too, because you know how
that goes. That's we just moved the change from his

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right pocket.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
To his left pocket.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's all we needed to That's all little tweaks. It's
the small tweaks that do it. Hey, I got a
lot more to talk to you about in this show,
but I want to talk to a guy that a
big return on special teams when we take our first
break and come back. Jake Thaw is here, so we'll
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thank you so much for being.

Speaker 12 (14:59):
Here, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Absolutely yeah, thank you so much. Has been a pleasure
watching you play this season and a forty nine nothing win.
The receivers were out there making plays. What was it
like being out there on Saturday and having so much
success on tubber Raymond Field.

Speaker 13 (15:15):
Yeah, I think kind of like what you just said
there receivers plural, it's a room that really rallies around
each other, one that loves each other. So when we
see everyone making plays, that's the best kind of game
that we can have, you know, seeing young guys like
Sean Wilson come in first play. I was on the
field for that first play touchdown, like we all go nuts.
That's a guy that we all root for. So it's
cool to have that kind of environment where everyone's happy

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for the other man's success.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Absolutely, and and Zach Marker said in the game, you know,
we talked about how he had to come back and
get used to things, but he said the guys in
the huddle gave him such confidence. How does the team
rally around him?

Speaker 12 (15:49):
Yeah, Zac's a great leader.

Speaker 13 (15:50):
He's a guy who steps in the field and he
kind of exudes confidence the second he's on the field.
I know you mentioned earlier, like just that dance that
he had, just that sacks personal and he's a guy
who's a true field general, so didn't really feel like
anything was dropped off when he had to enter the game.
Obviously bumper Nick, But as soon as that comes on
the field, everyone knows he's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Ready to go, and everybody was ready to back him up.
For those that don't know, Jake Thaw a transfer from
Michigan where you were not only a member but a
contributing member of Michigan's national championship team a last season
and you played on special teams at Michigan and coming
over to UD, were you just kind of more so
looking for an opportunity to to showcase your talents at

(16:31):
the wide receiver position.

Speaker 13 (16:32):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean that was kind of like you
just said, showcase my receiver abilities. That was really one
of the main focuses when I was trying to decide
where I wanted to go after my four years at Michigan,
and you know, coming on this visit, being here, seeing
what the campus is, seeing what were football is all about,
speaking to the coaches, I think it just kind of
was a home run in terms of fit.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
The helmet wasn't influence at all. It was all program based.

Speaker 13 (16:56):
I think Delaware was my first offer and a lot
of people were saying, when the switch your helmet, So
it was a little bit of influence, but maybe like
one percent.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean to win an FBS national championship, I would assume,
and I don't know. I did in fact check myself
this one, but I don't know if we've ever had
a player transferred to Delaware after winning a national championship
at the higher level. What is that experience like? Tell
us what that was like for you.

Speaker 12 (17:18):
Yeah, it's a tremendous experience.

Speaker 13 (17:20):
I remember my freshman year be on the couch at
home watching Justin Fields go against Trevor Lawrence in that
COVID playoff and thinking, you know, man, I would love
to get there. And that was coming off of a
two and four season for us, So I don't know
if the playoff was really in our cards at that time.
Next three years we go to the playoff three years
in a row, we end up winning a national championship.
So that was kind of a culmination of a lot

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of work that that team put in and pretty something
that's obviously pretty special to kind of see complete in
my senior year.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Absolutely, and now you're here catching passes as a blue
hen Jake Thall eighteen catches lead to a team in
receiving a big touchdown against Penn put Delaware on top
for the first time in that game, your first collegiate
touchdown exception. Walk us through that play and what was
going on in your mind?

Speaker 13 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean I knew there was a decent opportunity
that I would be getting the ball to play that
we kind of had wrapped a lot pretty much since
Week one one that we really liked down in that
low rat area, and you know, just being able to
contribute to the team like that in a big moment
where it's a tight game, that touchdown is going to
mean something. It obviously meant a lot to me and
it had been a while since I scored, been since
November of twenty nineteen, So it was pretty It's pretty

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cool to get in the end zone, but really just
cool to make sure that you know, we're helping.

Speaker 12 (18:29):
Out the team.

Speaker 13 (18:29):
We're putting the team on top and putting ourselves in
good position to win a close game.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Now that you were counting or anything right exactly, But
it was great to get into the end zone. And
it's been fantastic watching you playing being a part of
this offense, lead the team in targets as well this
year from the wide receiving group. A multi sport athlete,
though you played some basketball in high school, do you
miss playing that competively, because as I understand you were
a pretty good point guard.

Speaker 13 (18:52):
Yeah, I do miss playing basketball, honestly. I mean, I
think football is probably my first love and that's why
I'm still playing football here today.

Speaker 12 (18:58):
But you know this, this.

Speaker 13 (18:59):
Past spring, probably much the chagrin of my father, I
was playing a lot of basketball in the spring while
I was using this a little bit of cardio to
get ready because I wasn't training with the team in
Michigan anymore, so I have my own lift program, and
then kind of a lot of the cardio I was
doing was playing basketball.

Speaker 12 (19:13):
It's pretty fun to get into some competitive pickup good good.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, it's good to be able to use that to
work out.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Speaking of other sports though, Uh, Michigan, I think in
twenty twenty two they got a visit from an alum,
Derek Jeter, a baseball player. When you when you think
about Aura, I mean, that guy's gotta be top of
the list. And there's a photo that Michigan posted of
Derek Jeter looking right at you and smiling, Like, what's
that feel like for Derek Jeter the captain to come

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and get to meet him?

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Yeah, it's actually that was a really cool experience.

Speaker 13 (19:45):
I grew up a huge Yankees fan, still am a
big Yankees fan, and uh, you know, I used to
ask my dad to go in the backyard and can
we do jeets throws like the jump th jump through
and so in that moment that picture you're described me.

Speaker 12 (19:57):
So that was twenty twenty two. I met him.

Speaker 13 (19:59):
I pretty much blin out and completely freaked out and like,
I'm like so embarrassed to this day thinking about that.

Speaker 12 (20:04):
But he was such a good sport about it. He
was so nice to me.

Speaker 13 (20:06):
And then got to meet him the following year again
he was I was a little more calm that time,
got to apologize for.

Speaker 12 (20:12):
My outburst from the year before.

Speaker 13 (20:13):
Sure he remembered it, like you said, just true true exactly, uh,
just true true aura, Like yeah, it's just the cool
effortlessly cool.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
It would be, as some people describe it, like meeting Prince.
I feel like he's up there in terms of aura.
But sports also a family affair for for the Thall family.
Your brother Ben is a linebackers coach at Lehigh. How
would how would he game plan against you?

Speaker 12 (20:37):
That's a good question.

Speaker 13 (20:37):
I think he would probably just assume the worst out
of pretty much all my abilities, and he would attack those.
He'd probably tell his defense he's slow, he can't catch
h not chrispin his routes, he's soft, just pretty much
all that stuff, and see if they can prove him right.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, you would prove them wrong. I know that for sure.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Jake.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
It has been fantastic talk. When you get you the
final five questions here put together a three on three
basketball team out of Delaware player We talked about how
you play basketball. It's you and two others. Who would
you want to hoop again?

Speaker 13 (21:05):
With Max Patterson, seemed like he's a pretty good player.
And then I'll take Caleb Fourier in this one corner.
He doesn't miss. We put some shooting games sometimes liked out.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
All right, that's a good squad.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
You once tweeted that you were a better typer than
Pam Beasley of the office, and that's pretty impressive. What's
your words per minute?

Speaker 12 (21:24):
Looking like? I don't know.

Speaker 13 (21:25):
I haven't done that since probably a fifth grade. We
used to have like those little typing games. But I
don't know if that's true. That seems like it was
maybe a little overconfidence.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
That the tweet might have been from fifth grade. I went,
I went pretty pretty far back.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Where do you keep.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Your National Championship.

Speaker 13 (21:38):
Ring safe at home? Safe at home back in Connecticut.
I think they're in my dad's closet.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Speaking of Connecticut, you are from Westport, Connecticut, Connecticut, about
a forty minute drive from New Haven. Which I want
to ask, is that the best pizza in the United
States of America?

Speaker 13 (21:54):
I would say, in my opinion, I know if you
ask Coach gold Rich'll say absolutely in his opinion. That's
one of his most like cemented things that he says
to me all the time.

Speaker 12 (22:02):
Pizza Capital of the World. He loves it.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
That is a portant noise spot. I went to Sally's.
Are you familiar with sally I have? I asked for
it was on my way to Rhode Island. I was like,
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(22:27):
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Speaker 12 (22:31):
Yeah, I think so. I think.

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You know, Mom, that's a good opponent. They've had a
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The Blue Hens Football Coaches Show with Delaware head coach
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Speaker 3 (26:10):
And Welcome back in a Lacasapasta for the Blue Hens
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Doors open at eleven, Lunch is served at eleven fifteen,
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(26:31):
on Special Teams. You'll hear from Wide Receivers coach Terrence Archer,
as well as the co founder of the three o
two Collective, Chris Dole. A fun fact that was told
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(26:53):
about the three oh two Collective Coach Carty. It is
seven twenty seven. I have this segment scheduled to end
around seven thirty seven, which to get you sidelined at
the bar or in front of a phone for your
Mets first pitch of seven thirty eight.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Big night, Big night.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Congratulations. We did talk about the Mets last week, so, uh,
you tell you what it might be predicted hot right now? Yeah,
so we have playoff baseball coming up? Do you allow
yourself like I know, probably as a fan for the Mets,
you you you probably clap your hands and pump your
fists and get excited about Mets wins? Do you allow yourself?
I know a lot of coaches are just like on
the next one to like enjoy your own wins.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, a little.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Uh, it is more difficult than you'd think. I mean,
there's such a heightened feeling that the adrenaline during a game,
and you get, you know, almost relieved when it's when
it's one not as much excited. Now eventually it hits you,
you know, but it's almost like you're just uh, you know,
thankful more than you.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Are excited that you want.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Now, there's certain games like that that end in a
crazy fashion that you know, you stay that way for
the next five hours. You don't go to sleep that night.
It's just the way your body. You can't calm down.
But like that game the.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Other night, it's just okay, great, we got it and
we got a prep for mom.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Let's talk about that game. A couple of great individual
performances won by a guy that stepped foot on the field,
I think for the first time. Certainly got a pass
thrown to him for the first time. Sean Wilson. All
he does is catch touchdowns quite literally, number eighteen. He
caught a fade on his first reception, first pass thrown
his way, and I'm he's number eighteen, and he catches

(28:34):
the ball, and I'm thinking, does my son Pollard play
two ways? Possibly? I'm not sure who this is. I'm
not familiar with him, but no, only does he catch one,
he catches a second. Sean Wilson certainly a name that
will know moving forward. But a great story of hard work,
a dedication on the practice field to even be a
part of the offense on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yeah, if we're being honest, there has been some thoughts
of putting my sign out there to catch from.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Fade balls too. I'll keep him up so they could,
they won't be both out there at the same time.
That's illegal, that's right.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
But yeah, the something about the number eighteen, I guess, yeah, Sean,
you know, he's just been since he's gotten here as
a true freshman.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
He works really hard.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
He's got a lot of talent, great person, and he's
just been working his butt off. And every time we
give him a chance to go in a one on
one situation, he seems to go ahead and make the catch.
And so those things, you know, they get memory banked
and over the course of time.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
But you know, when you go around the room, and.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
I coach the quarterbacks as well, and so we go
around the room and we talk about matchups and we
talk about we get I try to get a feel
for who the guys trust the most, and we you know,
we talk a lot about that because that's what football
is about. It's about one on one matchups and winning those.
And so his name kept coming up every once in
a while. So the quarterbacks thread and then literally the

(29:55):
day before we do we do developmental practice on Fridays,
and so we go we have our run throughs our
fast Fridays and while the players go in the travel
squad goes in and they go do their lift on Fridays.
I know it sounds crazy, we lift, but it's not
a real it's a pliometric type of thing, the fire neurons,
and there's some science behind it, I'm sure. But are

(30:17):
our guys that aren't on the travel squad. We we
put them through a practice for about a half hour
out there. We put pads back on them, helmets back
on them, and we go out there and we do
some stuff to get them better as the year goes on,
so that you know, when they're they're numbers called, they haven't.
You know, they've been getting better and not just sitting
on the sidelines being backups, right, And that's not that's
not something that we believe in here.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
We were a developmental program.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
And so that day he actually you know, one on
ones and seven on seven caught like three balls over
top of people. And I was like, you know what,
we got to give this kid a shot in a
game and see if he can pull it off. And shoot,
we got in that position, and you know, we had
a situation where we kind of knew what they were
going to be in on defense, and you know, I
kind of just asked the quarterbacks politely to throw it

(30:59):
to that part, and I wanted to see if he
could go do it. And those are the things sometimes
you get a chance to do when you're in games
like that.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
What a great lesson though, for everybody like you see
that the hard work and practice it can pay off
on a big stage. That was his first touchdown. He
wasn't done yet. He caught a twenty seven yard pass
later in the game. It was the first career pass
for Braiden Streeter, quarterback, first time on the field, and
you call a shot to the end zone. I mean,

(31:26):
if he goes on and I know we're excited about
Braiden Streeter for sure, one fan in particular here likes
him more than others. But we are excited about Streeter.
And if he goes on and is the guy maybe
at the FBS level or at some point becomes our
starting quarterback. Like what a story that is of when

(31:48):
he started his career. What made you dial that one
up on throw number one of his young career.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
I you know, you just got to give people some
chances every once in a while. Home to the fire,
you know, I think that's you know, you know, I
don't know sometimes that I call plays thinking like I
did when I was a kid, Like.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
You know, that's what I would have wanted if I was.

Speaker 12 (32:09):
The first time going out there and throw let me
chuck it.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
You know, I'm in here for a reason.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
How fun is that to play for a coach that
thinks that way? Though, I mean, the offenses is gotta
love that.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
But I thought that was pretty neat. I thought it
was fun. You know, it was not as much thought
went into it as you think. It was one of
those you know, I thought it would be open. I
kind of wanted to give Sean another chance, and I
wanted to see, you know, if you'd go make that.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Throw and lo and behold heck of a throw and catch.
My goodness, it was a great play.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
And again like a what a neat story that that'll be?
Uh for ages for brain Street or first to throw
is a touchdown? So we know we could throw the
long ball, but can he work a drive? And the
answer is yes, you have your third fourth. I don't
know who. I don't know who was in at the
end of the ball game. A lot of players that
work hard in practice, but certainly not the starters, a
seventeen play drive in the fourth quarter, the longest drive

(32:59):
of the Seas in terms of plays, second longest in
terms of time off the clock, nine minutes and thirty
four seconds off the clock in the fourth quarter with
your backups in. How thrilled were you at that your
offense being able to just work that clock and get
to close to zero.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yeah, that's exactly what you're looking for at the end
of that game. You know, you want to limit the
time that people can get injured. You want to make
sure that it doesn't look sloppy at the end of
the game. You know, I'm certainly not going to tell
you that our our our offense did everything right on
that drive, because there were a few missed assignments here
and there, but we made the plays when we needed

(33:35):
to to move the chains, you know. And I think
that it gives some confidence in those young guys so
that when they're they're forced into situations to play, you know,
throughout this year, maybe when their time comes in another
season that they've been they've been there, they've done it,
And I think that's really important, and it's it's fun
to see as coaches that you know that hard work
start to pay off for some of the young guys

(33:56):
and getting their chances out there.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
You made note after the game of a stat and
I wanted to dig in a little bit. Four tight
ends made a catch in that game for the Blue Hens,
which is pretty impressive, and rarely do four tight ends
make a catch in a season for the Blue and Goal.
I went back as far as twenty thirteen and it
had not happened in any games where four tight ends

(34:21):
made a catch in a ball game. Foury A systems
Withthoff and Carlino all with catches in the game. Pretty
impressive stuff. You guys are spreading it out in the contest.
Everybody's getting in the action. I don't feel like I
asked a whole lot about that tight end groups of us.
A little bit about those tight ends and how that
group is.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Coming along surprises me because when I got here, I
think there were like thirteen on scholarship too were surprised
that there were never any passes thrown to them. But
the I think, you know, it's been a fun. Like
I said before, I don't we don't pay attention to
statistics much and I really don't, but that happened to
be something that. Of course, Coach Smith, who coaches the

(34:57):
tight Ends, was screaming about it on the heads that
just being fun and energetic. When the third person caught
that's three.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
That's three, he say, hey, coach, what's the last time
that's happened in your offense?

Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know, And then we threw the ball at Carlino
later and I was like, well, that's four. I don't
think that's ever happened before.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
And so, you know, Coach Smith has done such a
nice job with that group, making them you know, they
really they hang out together, they buy in to each other,
they root for each other, they play well off each other.
You know, we had and in that game we used
packages with three tight ends, you know, and and Connor
kind of became that full back body at that point.
And so we have a lot of fun in that room.

(35:35):
And and those guys, it's great to get him rewarded
with with catches too. And and they've proven to be
those guys, you know, Calebin and Elijah have proven to
be those guys that can go down field, create matchup
problems and go up and get balls. And so we'll
keep doing it again. Have some meritocracy out there, and.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
The first touchdown for foury eight of his young career
with Delawarefore, I let you go eat the Saunders is
coming up next. He found the end zone on Saturday.
Off to a great start this season. It's gotta be
great for you to have a lot of guys on
the team, but he's probably towards the top of the
list in terms of what you look for in a
guy on and off the field.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Outstanding.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
I mean, this table over here with him and Jake,
it's two of the best human beings on our team too,
And so you know, can't thank them enough for being
great leaders, great people, great citizens, and just great, great
ambassadors for our program. And you know, can we please
shout out the outstanding ball security that Ethan had on
the way into the end zone too. I Mean he
was up here, high and tight, wrist above elbow, palm

(36:33):
de heart at all times, didn't change it, tossed the
ball of the refs, celebrated with his teammates. Everything that
we talk about trying to do when we score a touchdown,
that's what that man did.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
And he it was first time in college, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Two perfection. I'm looking forward to to talk with him
next it's a shame you're gonna miss the interview because
the Mets game's on, but you can catch it on
the podcast. We'll take a time out. When we come back,
we'll talk about Ethan Saunders here in ninety four to
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(40:38):
to this show. It is your third time on the show.
The last two times though it was the Battle of
Blue Week, it was the last show of the season,
so I get to talk to you a little earlier
in this season. So thank you for coming on. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (40:50):
Thank you for having me, Scott.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Always great to have you, and especially coming off the
game that you had on Saturday, A scoop and score touchdown.
Walk us through that play, what's going on in your
mind and as you race the end zone, hold on
that football.

Speaker 15 (41:03):
First and foremost. Got to give a lot of credit
to Jason Scott. He caused the sack, caused the fumble,
so you know, play doesn't happen without him. Great call
by coach Rojas there, you know, get you off my back.
What we're in the air and my head is gonna
hit the ground, It's gonna sit there. I gotta go
get it, you know. Luckily hits the ground, bounces up

(41:24):
almost like cinematically perfectly to me and I'm able to,
you know, kind of catch it right here, heart like
coach Cardi said, And luckily I was able to beat
everyone in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
That's the dream for a defensive line, for a big
guy like you, like, that's the dream, right to have
everybody behind you and you're just racing the end zone.
Ball on hand.

Speaker 15 (41:40):
Yeah, you know, going through my mind really thinking, you know,
number one, don't drop this ball. Number two score don't
get caught, you know, don't look slow. You know, my
GPS numbers all summers look pretty good. So I was
hoping it was gonna pay off there. What it get
up to what we were talking, I don't know. Actually
need to talk to coach Riz and see what it was.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
We gotta we gotta check that out.

Speaker 15 (41:56):
Twenty yard twenty yard run. So it might not have
been too fast, but.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Well it got the job done. You were saying, last
time you scored a touchdown, was that way Waynesboro or
where were you?

Speaker 15 (42:06):
Funny enough, So my senior year at Waynesboro, I catch
a pick or probably like the thirty yard line, get
hawked at the five, you know, no touchdown. That was
my first ever touch on my entire football career.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
Yeah, how about that?

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Well you took it back, and not only are you're
scoring touchdowns, but you're doing a lot of other things
great as well. There are only three players in all
of FCS football this year that have two fumble recoveries
and two sacks on the season, and you are one
of those three. So fantastic start to the season. We
know we just talked about one of your fumble recoveries.
Your other one was down at North Carolina A and T.

(42:43):
And as we talked about on the show, but just
to remind our listeners, your father coached at North Carolina
A and T. And you spent some time in Greensboro.
So what was that like for you to make a
big play and certainly get a team win in an
area that you're very familiar with.

Speaker 15 (42:56):
Yeah, you know, for his number one priority in that trip,
you know, getting the win, coming away with the win
a great opportunity, you know, big week for me, my family.
You know, get bugging everybody for tickets all week, you know,
trying to make sure everyone got a chance to come
see me play. You know, meant a lot. And you
know on the broadcast they were talking about how I
had such strong ties and a kind of antie and
how you know they didn't recruit me or anything like that.

(43:16):
But you know, I'm glad I found the Blue Hens.
You know, was glad that I got that opportunity to
go back down there and play.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
We are glad you found us as well, And we've
talked about on this show. But still want to become
a coach as as your your career ends when it
does come to it, and I'm sure you got a
lot of football left in you, but that's something that
your your mom and dad do. What intrigues you about
being a coach?

Speaker 15 (43:40):
Ah, I mean, it's really just what I was raised on,
you know, just the analysis of the game, you know,
thinking about really the chess matching football specifically, you know,
just different matchups, different things, different schemes. You know, just
all that kind of playing in your head analytically really
just speaks to me, and this is who I am
as a person. Really.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
You got to to spend some time in the box
in the spring game, is that right.

Speaker 15 (44:00):
Yes, sir, Yeah, really cool opportunity right there. You know,
I didn't get a whole lot of chances in the spring,
but that was a cool opportunity kind of see the football,
see football and football here at Delawa in a different lens,
something I wasn't really used to. But so, you know,
that really kind of reaffirmed. We know that in my future,
I'm going to be a coach, you know, and that's
really what I want to do.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
I knew that because I watched the game from our
our radio booth, and I remember seeing you on the
way out and and my honest thought was like, oh,
that's great. Ethan's on on the staff now. Not even
realize because you've been here, I feel like you've been
here forever. Yeah, that not only did she have this year,
but you got more eligibility left to go. But that
was my thought, and it would have been a great
hire and it'll be a great higre for somebody when

(44:36):
that happens. Let's talk more about Saturday A forty nine
to nothing, a shutout and sometimes you know, you were
part of the team for the last shutout in the
spring of thirty seven nothing shut out over may Sometimes
a shutout victory is not on your group, right, It's
on the guys that are in there at the end
of the ball game. But how much pressure are those
starters putting on the backups to maintain that that goose?

Speaker 15 (44:59):
You know, it's really not a pressure thing. It's really
just the standard we believe in here.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
You know.

Speaker 15 (45:03):
Defensively, uh, you know, it doesn't matter who's on the field,
who the opponent is, what the time, because of score,
possession of any of that. You know, you know we
talked about earlier tonight. You know, do you talk about shutouts?
We talk about them, but not in a way that like,
you know, we're gonna jinx it or anything like that.
It's just a standard we believe and we want to
hold everyone we play the least amount points, the least
amount of yards they can get. And in this game,
and it so happened to be a zero point game,

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got it game up some yards, but you know, we
care about points at the end of the day, and
we were lucky enough to give up a goose egg.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Not pressure. It's a standard. I love that. I love
that out of you. And a great quote there from
Ethan Saunders, who is a six time c AA Academic
hon a Roll selection, which is just absolutely fantastic. What's
been the key for you for balancing football and academics
throughout the years?

Speaker 15 (45:48):
Uh? Time management? You know, if you've talked to any
like high school freshman, that's the one thing that they
got to get used to or a college freshman, excuse me,
you know, just juggling it all. You know, football, school,
you know, social life, you know, being away from home,
all the things that your experience for the first time.
Time management has really been something that's helped me.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Well. We also and because you're such a great student.
I know we always shout out coaches and other players.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
How about we give.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
A holler for doctor Liz Bailey.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
How about that right?

Speaker 3 (46:15):
She's made a big impact on your life outside of
the football field.

Speaker 15 (46:19):
My econ advisor. Yeah, you know, doctor Bailey's been great
for me. You know, always anytime I had a meeting
with her to schedule class, is there anything I needed?
You know, always asked about football, really cared about the
program and how I was doing within the program, how
we were doing each season. You know, so huge shout
out to her. You know, I hope she's doing well.
I haven't seen her in a while, hope to see
her soon. But you shout out to doctor Bailly.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
You had a great academic career here as well as
a great career on the football team. Let's get you
to the final five. You were a former class president
at your high school. If you could debate any player
on the team about any subject, who would you want
to go to toe to toe with?

Speaker 15 (46:51):
Keishawan Hunter? One of the most debated argumentative guys. You know,
no malice in his heart, but you know he'll get
in an argument with you real quick.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
That was no hesitation. What are you listening to before
a game to get you fired up.

Speaker 15 (47:03):
I listened to a lot of rap music. You know.
I don't know if anyone knows who it is, but
I listened to g Herbo a lot. So if you
ever need some new songs, you know, you can go
look him up.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
I feel like I'm on top of things, and even
that one's over over my head there. Last time you
wore and you started your career as ninety six, we
learned that. But last time you wore number eight, you
played it upward church flag football in Greensboro, North Carolina?
Were you the biggest player on the team even back then?

Speaker 15 (47:26):
I was not, you know, I wasn't the big kid
really early on. You know, I was probably above average size,
but you know I was not, you know, a monster
out there anything like that. So you know, but that's
part of the reason I changed number eight, you know,
just kind of knowing it was with me in our
last number that I wore. I wanted to throw it
back to it, kind of an og.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Moment and then shout out, mom wore number eight.

Speaker 15 (47:42):
Yeah, and my mom, you know, always playing for Mom Dukes.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
She played volleyball at Trexel and Morgan State. Quite the
athletic family that the Saunders. What we talked about you
being a coach. What makes Ethan Saunders a guy that
you'd want to recruit.

Speaker 15 (47:56):
Just a guy who's gonna bring passion every single day.
You know, great football accus and be able to know
instill different things and other players you know, help them come,
bring them along. And just a guy that loves the
game of football.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
And then lastly, you are going up against the number
one offense in the FCS on Saturday. Have these guys
ready to.

Speaker 15 (48:11):
Go, sir? Always ready next opportunity?

Speaker 3 (48:14):
All right, We're excited for Saturday against mommoth. Always excited
to talk with you. Ethan Soners saying so much?

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Please got all.

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Right, Ethan Sauners. Everybody will take a time out, we
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Speaker 1 (51:30):
The Blue Hens Football Coaches Show with Delaware head coach
Ryan Carty is presented by First State or the BNX.
You are listening to ninety four seven WDSD and iHeartRadio
live from La Casa Pasta Restaurant in New York.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
And welcome back into Lacasa papsa restaurant and a new Ark.
It's the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show, fed Scott Klana,
joined once again by our head coach Ryan Carty and
a coach. Oh what a game we've got coming up
on Saturday at Monmouth c AA contest. And you are
going up against, statistically the number one passing offense, the

(52:06):
number one total offense, number one scoring offense in a
Monmouth just a great offensive mine like yourself. You've got
to be impressed with what they're able to do so
far this season.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Yeah, they're rolling right now. Just really talented, very balanced.
You know, they have they have good skill position players,
they have a great quarterback, they have a good offensive line,
and really well coached. You know, I know their their
offensive staff very well from over the years. They're great people,
they're great coaches. They do a really detailed job. And
you know, I can't say enough good things about them

(52:38):
as a staff and and and as a unit on offense,
they're they're talented for what it's worth.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
The Delaware number four scoring offense and number four scoring defense.
If I'm throwing statistics around here, here's another number. Fourth
down attempts. They lead the nation with eighteen attempts thirteen
conversions at seventy seven percent rates. And I don't know,
are they trying a lot of four downs, but they
are converting at a high.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Level as well.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Does that change the approach as an offensive play caller
knowing that, you know, I might have four downs to
get this done instead of three? And then also does
it affect the defensive play calling and the approach knowing
that this is a team that is more likely to
go for it on a on a fourth and shorter medium.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Yes to both of those questions.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
You know, it's obviously they are the number one team
in the country and amount of fourth down convert or
attempts unsurprising probably to the people in this room. We're
like number five in the country and you have nine
and you've converted eight of them hive percent. So you know,
it does It's something that goes into it a lot.
I know coach cal is uh an analytical head coach

(53:47):
as well, and so it does go into kind of
you know, how you prepare each each set of downs,
and we want to make sure that we'll put ourselves
in a position to convert those downs, whether it's third
or fourth down, and and how do we make those
things You know a little bit more convertible, and so
you know, we know the importance of possessions. We've talked
about it on this a lot, and so those are

(54:07):
the ones that are huge. Then, as a defensive play caller,
you have to be under the assumption that you know,
kind of anything's available to the offensive.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Coordinator at all times.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
Right, so it could be a third and long that
you can't necessarily call it like a third and long
in certain downs and distances because if it gets to
a fourth and three, it's probably gonna be a go,
So they might change their play call. It doesn't have
to be get ten yards on this play if you
know you're going four and on fourth down. Just so
we're all clear, those decisions are not made when it's
fourth down. Those decisions are made when it's first down,

(54:37):
second down. Yeah, those are the when we know what
we're when we're going for, we're going to go exactly.
And so that's why you can kind of coordinate your
offense that way. And so you have to think of
it in reverse if you're calling plays on defense.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
And then defensively for mom and this is a team
that's allowed some points, but they have really played some
good teams. They've challenged themselves this season. Start off at
Eastern Washington. We know that program and how good they
have been. Lafayette was a top twenty team in the
preseason in FCS. So then they go up and get
a win against a future foe for Delaware in Conference
USA f IU. So this team, I'm sure you watching film,

(55:14):
much better than it may look like on paper.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Oh yeah, you're saying on defense.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Yes, defensively on paper, it looks they can't get any better.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
For Yeah, no that they're pretty darn't good on both, No,
they are.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
They This is a talented group of defensive players and
their sound and they play really hard and you know
they can make the plays. You know, I think they're
a kind of a play away from a couple of
those wins, uh and in the losses that they did have,
and so you know, I think they've grown as the
season has gone on. I think that's the thing you've seen,
and it's the thing you see most of the time

(55:47):
with well coached teams, which is what they are. You know,
you see a team that's gotten better each week. You know,
they they did have a slow start and maybe a
loss that they they would tell you they, you know,
kind of gave up against Lafayette and then all of
a sudden they ran off, you know what, three three
wins and scoring fifty some points a game and all
three of them, you know, and so you know, I

(56:08):
think they're they're getting better and we're hitting them unfortunately
right at the climax of that, and so hopefully, you know,
may able to have an off day one of these days.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
It hasn't come in the last three weeks, that's for sure.
They are rolling as Delaware comes up the road to
take on a Mamma team on the road at Kessler Stadium.
When you do take on Mamath, there'll be a guy
on the far sideline from you that I know you
have a lot of respect and admiration for Kevin Callahan,
the first and only head coach in Mamath football history.
This is a thirty second season and you run into

(56:38):
them throughout your career, and I know you have high
praise I do.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
He's you know, I don't know how much he knows this,
because it's not like we're best buds, but I've always
respected him and he's one of the people that I
hold in in probably the highest regard and when it's
people that you know, when I look at people that
i'd like to try to emulate, he's one of those people.
And I've thought that since I became a young coach,
and just the way that he treats people, the way

(57:02):
that he's he runs a program, how consistent he's been,
but also how.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
He's evolved over the years.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
And we talk about you know, guys who have coached
that long, it's hard for them to change the way
that he's Like. I don't know that he was always
doing this, but I doubt it because this is very
analytical going for it. What eighteen times in five games
on fourth down is uh is pretty uh evolved. And
that's just an amazing thing. When you think about the

(57:27):
people that you know are in this profession. It's it's
not always something that happens. You kind of get set
in your ways and just to see that specific, that
one specific you know, aspect of a game, you know,
uh management situation, but just the way that he treats
people like you know, when I was a young coach,
you know, the way that he treated me when he'd
see me on the road recruiting, when we be at
clinics together.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Just somebody that always you know, led first with you know.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
It seemed compassion and uh and uh a sense of
professionalism that I always, uh, he's thought in my head,
you know, that's that's the kind of guy I'd like
to be as a coach. And you know, and so
I can't say enough good things about him because then
you get a chance to see how it how it
goes into a program. When you watch them play, you
see them play hard, play, tough, play, physical, play, fast,

(58:12):
play smart. You know, they're always in the right spots
and they never you never out, they're never out of
a game, They're always fighting. Those are the things that
you can see them on tape. You know that they're
being coached and that's something that's pretty special.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
Well, he'll be going up against the Blue Hens in
maybe not necessarily a home game, but it's not Delaware Stadium.
But for the Cardi family, you went to Somerville High School,
fifty two minute drive on the Garden State Parkway from
Kessler Stadium.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
What's your ticket?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
A lot meant looking like on Saturday against some extra Texas.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Week Yeah, I am, But you know what, I'm gonna
be honest with you. It's work close enough, only an
hour forty five minutes from Delaware. So I think I
had this twenty six ticket request, the other the other
two days ago or last week, so you know, I
think it'll probably be in that range. You know, our
ticket people are never happy with me, but you know,
it's good to fill the stands.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
You are not the only one that is a bit
of a homecoming as New Jersey native. There are twenty
nine kids on the roster that are from New Jersey,
is the most of any state in terms of where
kids are from. But Terrence Archer played linebacker at Monmouth
from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand, graduated Momoth in
two thousand and one. I have not been to this stadium.
What side of the field is his statue north end

(59:25):
zone or I just want to make sure I don't
miss it when I get there. He's got to be
looking forward to this though as well.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
Oh you got me on that one. Now, I'm assuming
he is.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
You know, we've kind of downplayed it throughout the week,
of course, but you know, I'm sure it's something special
for him. I know that when I used to, you know,
be able to be an assistant coach coming in, you know,
into Delaware Stadium. When I was at New Hampshire Calm Plays,
it was always just a little bit more special. He
kind of felt like you were at home and had
those nostalgic feelings. So I'm sure he'll have that feeling

(59:59):
as well. And you know, he also coached there and
so like it's a pretty big deal for him and
playing and coach for the same man that's at the Helm,
So that's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Pretty cool too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
You know, it is a lot of reasons this game
is gonna be very exciting on Saturday. We're looking forward
to it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Best of luck, coach, appreciate you, Thanks Scott, all.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Right that we'll do it for this edition of Blue
Hens Football Coaches Show. We'll have coverage beginning at noon
with the pregame show on WDSD and iHeartRadio from mo
Mith will tell you who the quarterback will be at
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(01:00:40):
and Ethan Saunders and everyone that came out tonight for
our producer Jay Holly hand back in the studio. I'm
Scott Clatskins saying good night, thanks for listening, and as always,
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