Football - October 9, 2024

Guests: Marcus Yarns, Nate Reed

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of the Delaware Blue Hens, Scott.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm Scott Claskin.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Tonight we'll review the thrilling forty two thirty five victory
on Saturday over mom with what a game that was,
and we'll look ahead to the contest against Maine this weekend. Plus,
we've gotten All American running back Marcus Yarns is here
and a kicker then knocked through the first six points
of the game on Saturday. Nate Reed is here as well.
But first, there are five undefeated teams in FCS and

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our first guest is the head coach of one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Ryan Carty is here.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Coach, welcome on in. Thank you for being here. I
hope you are rested up. I believe you called at
the end of the Monmouth game it was exhausting, just
how back and forth that went. It was a fun
game to watch them, certainly, it was thrilling to be
on the sideline. But you also said you were proud
of how well your team finished, and that's one of
the pillars up your teams. Just kind of tell us

(01:24):
a little bit about how your team came together and
was able to get the victory over Momoth.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
Yeah, I think you know, as you know, we've talked
about it a lot on this show. We talk about
you know, it's one of our core values is finish.
It's it's you know a lot of times we consider
it the most important one because you know, you know,
it's a lot it's pretty easy to fit to start things,
and we all do it. You know, we've all started diets.
We'll raise our hands on that one that we haven't finished,
and you know we all can. Anybody can start something.
It really takes some character and some toughness to finish things.

(01:51):
And you know, it's something that our team has really
bought into and done really well. We finished practices, we
finished game weeks, we finished preparation, and then we go
out there and we finish, uh, you know, on Saturdays
so far, and so I'm really proud of that. It
was exhausting. It was a little bit more exhausting, it
seemed for the players. We had a bunch of people
cramping out there, and I'm complaining about how exhausted I

(02:12):
was walking.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
But we're, uh, we're glad that we came out with
the w Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I think if you go around my house, you see
that I'm more of a starter than I am a
finished there when it comes to some projects though. But
I'm with you, I don't want to go too far
in the show without acknowledging the fact that we had
one of our star athletes so back in the fold
on Saturdays.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Here today, we're going to talk about him.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
But Marcus Yarns what a game he had against Mammoth
on Saturday. I've gotten the end zone a couple of times.
Absolutely give it up for Marcus. And again we'll talk
to him, but just his presence, just him being out there,
How does it expand what this offense is able to
do when when obviously he's a big focal point of
the team, you're playing defense.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah, well, Marcus's versatility kind of allows you to have
a few more you know, things in the in the
game plan and feel confident in calling them. You know,
even when you call a bad play, Marcus usually makes
it okay. You know that that's kind of a hallmark
of making somebody feel comfortable as a play caller is
that you know, as long as twenty one is gonna
get the touch, it'll probably be okay. And then sometimes

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it'll be exceptional. And then if you call a good one,
it's gonna go for a lot. And that's where you
know players like him, And luckily we have more than
just Marcus that that can make you feel that way
and and create with the ball in their hands. And
you know, it's it's what as you've noticed as the
way we recruit also, you know, and the guys that
we've been bringing into the program, it's what we try

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to find is those people that you know, are versatile
and explosive and can really, you know, go change a
game in one touch.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
And and Marcus is.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
Kind of the the quintessential person that does that on
our team right now.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Well, you call it a good one, a great one.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
When he went eighty six yards for a score, you
motioned out a couple of tight ends and then Marcus said,
it's split like the Red Sea, and tell us about
that play, the design, and it looked like it was
obviously executed to perfection.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, Marcus is always making Moses references.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
The uh, you know, the all it was was a
situation where you know, we got the ability to take
some numbers on one side, some one on one matchups
on the other, and then obviously a quarterback type of
run option in the middle. And you know, we have
many plays that are like that. When it comes to
our offenses, is you know, hopefully versatile enough to have

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situations where we can you know, kind of put people
in spots where as a defensive play caller they may
be out manned some way on this play that we
can't just get got because they made one call and
we were lucky enough on that play to have them
check to a zero blitz, uh meaning a zero man blitz.
They brought six people and empty, which means they didn't

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have somebody uh to cover him by accident, uh, And
so it was it was a little bit more of
a you know, like you said, it did end up
being a good call, but it was really just well
executed that Zach found the numbers. Those two guys outside
made unreal blocks, you know, didn't I mean he was untouched,
and then they also missed their check by getting out there,

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and so one of those things that kind of just
puts stress on the defense. And then when you put
stress on the defense and you get the ball to
somebody in open space that's good with it, and there's
a lot of open space you know, that can go
for eighty and that's pretty special.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
And it is what happened there.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
It was a great to see Marcus in a big
way and a great return for him. You were putting
pressure on the defense in the beginning of the game
as well. We talked about finish, but a couple of
goal line stops in the beginning of the game by
mon Myth, and you had said that the coaches and
the players could have done a better job in execution
talking about both ends. So maybe there could have been
some provements. Obviously, it's something you figured out in the

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second half of where did you feel like there could.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Have been improvement in that first half in the goal line.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, we just there were a couple of things that
they did to us defensively that they hadn't shown ball
inside the ten, and so our game plan going into
it was just a little bit, you know, I would say,
not flawed. It just there wasn't perfect like it has
been in the first couple I think we've schemed some
people up down there, and then we also didn't execute

(06:13):
one hundred percent either. We had a couple of missed
assignments down there, which is very unlike us for the
first four games, and so we just had to kind
of settle in, as you know, as coaches and as
players down there, and then once we did, we were fine.
But I also think that they bowed up a little
bit down there. I thought that's probably what they did
the best on defense was have a decent plan for
us and some short yardage stuff and in some goal
line stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
And then when you look at our defense coming in statistically,
we were told how good the Monmouth offense was. I
think our offense looked a little bit better on Saturday.
But Momoth's second drive of the game was a thirteen
play drive. I went seventy five yards outside of that.
In their first six possessions, they only ran fifteen plays.
They but the score was twenty one to twenty one
and the third quarter at that point in the ball game,

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because they had.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Some big ones.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
What did you and and coach Roja see in terms
of the breakdowns where they were able to get those
large chunk plays, I actoually made the game closer than
it should have been statistically at that point.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Well, you know, a couple of different ones, two of them,
I mean, there were two huge ones.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know. The one was on the speed sweep.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
We you know, we didn't make the adjustment fast enough
to the motion and you know, got out of position
to make a tackle and missed the tackle, and then
you know, that was it. They're fast enough to make
them pay, just like you know we were talking about Marcus.
If you have somebody like that and you get them
the ball enough, those things can happen when.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
You're not sound, and we weren't on that one.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
And then on the deep pass, unfortunately our defensive back
tripped and fell down.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
So I thought down.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean that again, it's football.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Yeah, it's unfortunate and it can't happen, and we're gonna
continue to work on those things. But it was just
an unfortunate situation that happened, and they happened to find them.
Sometimes it happens and their quarterbacks looking the other way
and it works out okay. And and that one they
got us, and they're again explosive enough to make it
happen when it uh when it doesn't get in the

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end zone, get to pay dirt.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, other than those two big chunks, really, the defense
I thought was really good against a really good offensive
football team.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Our offense was.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Really good as well as Zach Marker. Another game where
you can just see he's out there battling for this team.
I mean, he's doing a great job. He doesn't seem
like he's one hundred percent, but he's out there just
absolutely battling. He's been remarkable in his three starts for
an injured Ryan O'Connor when he's come in and started.
He started three times now in his career at Delaware,

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he has eight hundred and forty four yards passing, six touchdowns,
zero interceptions, two rushing touchdowns. The team in these three
games have put up one hundred and forty points seventeen
hundred yards of offense. That does not count the Sacred
Heart game where they scored forty nine and he didn't start.
I say all that to just say, like, what a
luxury it is to have a backup And I don't

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necessarily want to call him a backup quarterback, but he
is number two coming in the year on the depth chart.
What a luxury it is for you to have a
quarterback go down and then to have Zach Biot to
step up and do the things he's doing.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, it's uh, it's always great. We
talk about it a lot here. You know, when that
next man up is somebody who is a starter as well,
it obviously makesh especially at that position. It makes the
offense continue to roll, and it does you don't have
to take a step back. You can change some things
in a game plan just because some people are better

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at other things. But for the most part, the guys
around him are gonna have belief and trust. And I
think that's a big part when especially when it comes
to quarterback. You know, you really have to feel that
that that guy's going to take you down the field
and uh and get the ball to the people when
he's supposed to, and make sure he holds onto the
football and be cognizant of of our our main goal
on every drive, which is to uh to hold onto

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the football and make sure we don't turn it over.
And and Zach's done a really nice job of that
uh this season and last and so we're just you know,
we're lucky that we you know, we got him, and
that he's you know, he's one of ours, and that
he's bought in and and and really done a great
job developing here.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
And I think this guy's the limit for Zach.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Zach is still, you know, someone who hasn't played a
ton of quarterback in his life, and you know he's
fairly new to the position in the grand scheme of things,
and so you know, really excited about, you know, how
well he's been doing and that he's gotten this chance
to go prove how good he can be and he
hopefully he can continue to do that.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Another guy that has gotten a chance now here at
Delaware that we haven't talked about. We've talked about Jake
Thall and phill Ups in terms of the wide receiver group,
but really got off to a great start in that
first half was Max Patterson two catches for over thirty yards.
He had three catches for eighty six in the game,
and he really got himself going.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Had a possible touchdown.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
I know the fans here watched and we all thought
he should have had six as well. It didn't get
reversed on the call, although it might have been an
actual catch. But beyond that, even talking about that one play,
he had a really good first half of football.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
And kind of introduce us to Max.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
What you liked about him when you brought him in
and what you continue to like about him, and how
he's grown as a blue Head.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, I think you know, the same things I said
about Zach are not too different than Maxim. MAXI one
of those guys who hasn't had a ton of collegiate reps.
You know, he needed to get on the field somewhere
and had a situation where I think we really liked
his skill set, had great reports from high school coaches,
college coaches, one of those kids that you know was
gonna be great in the room regardless of how well

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he played on the field. And then we loved his
skill set and thought that he could really fit in
what we do offensively, and he's proven that. He's proven
to be a very good person in the receiver room,
loves putting in work, loves getting extra work in, brings
other guys along with them, and uh, really intelligent player.
You know, knows all the positions, can play inside and out,

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and you know, has really that versatility has really helped him.
You know, early in the season we kind of had
him inside and then bounced them back outside.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
And now he's been able to do both and been
and been really versatile.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
And then, uh, you've seen a couple explosive plays like
in the first game and in uh in this game
both you know, some deep ball that we threw up
to him and he went up.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
And got him.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
You know, when when you have guys that can create
those fifty to fifty balls not being fifty to fifty,
you know, you have a somebody that is gonna keep
you know, our offense, We're gonna keep giving him those
opportunities if he's proving that he can go make those plays.
And then obviously you know, had another touchdown in the
game that that wasn't called one, but that's unfortunate for him.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
But he'll get plenty more opportunities after sure, if he
keeps doing what he's doing out there on the field,
just another playmaker in your offense. We're gonna talk to
a playmaker. After we take our first time out. We'll
take a break, and when we come back, we'll talk
to Marcus Charns.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Thanks so much, coach.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
We'll talk to you a little bit, but we'll take
a time out now and when we come back, Marcus
Jarns on the.

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I'm Scott Clownskin It now joined on the show by
Marcus Yarns Marcus, thank you so much for being here.
You were a veteran of the show, so we appreciate
you coming back, and we appreciate you coming back in
many ways.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
We'll get to that in this segment.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
You had a big play that we already talked about
in the first segment, an eighty six yard touchdown. You
are a fan favorite at the University of Delaware. You
are a household name.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
My son asks about you, so that's how I know
you're a star.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
He's a seven year old and he only knows certain players,
but he's excited about Marcus Yarns, the only player in
Delaware history. There's been a lot of football players that
have played here that has an eighty yard touchdown catch
and eighty yard touchdown run.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Pretty impressive stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
That is I think all the electric players that have
played here. How did it feel to be back in
the fold and back in the mix, playing again on
Saturday after missing a couple of weeks.

Speaker 15 (17:00):
It was a joy, you know, after missing two weeks.
I was just anxious to get back on the field
to make plays for the team, and not only for
the team, but for you guys that's in here right now.
Everybody that believe in me. I was just anxious to
get back out there and make plays for you guys.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Man, how do you balance that anxiousness of wanting to
play and wanting to be out there and want to
help the team with knowing that you need to give
yourself enough time to heal.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I'm sure there is a balance that needs to be
had in that.

Speaker 15 (17:26):
Oh yeah, for sure, it's a balance. But that also
goes with my coaches and my family. Everybody is keeping
me and making sure that I'm putting my body first,
you know, just making sure that I stay healthy and
make it throughout the season instead of rushing it and
trying to go out with a bang, which I will.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
But you know you're off to a heck of a start.
As you come back, I will say, strange.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
I believe I got this right.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
You got injured as a senior in high school, correct,
against North Carolina first game September sixth. You got injured
your senior year of college against North Carolina A and
T on September fourteenth. So very very odd the way
that that worked out. So we're glad that you are healthy.

Speaker 15 (18:06):
Though that's the wrong luck that Irish.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
You're Irish obviously, right, you come back and now idea,
do you come back in a big way and have
a huge game. You had the most carries on Saturday
of any game in your career. You had twenty two
carries on Saturday. Did you know you're going to be
such a large part of the offense on your first
game back?

Speaker 15 (18:29):
When we go through the game plan in the script
and things like that, I see that it's certain places
that's drawn up for me. So I'll be lying if
I said no. But I knew I was going my
number was going to be called a good amount, and
I was just ready and not how to be prepared
to go out there and make them please happen.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
And you did it just that.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Let's make it twenty five carries next game because you
are excited exciting to watch. Let's talk about that screen
pass that went for eighty six execute the perfection.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
What are you seeing?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Tell us we got it from a coach Carti's perspective,
but from your perspective, tells chapping on that play.

Speaker 15 (19:01):
Like coach said, when we motioned out, I seen that
we had the numbers on my side. It was only
two versus three because the linebacker went back into the box.
When I seen that, I know it was likely for
me to get a big play. And then, like coach said,
Connor and Elijah, they went out there and made two
of Maclin blocks, you know, and it made my job easy.
I just had to run straight.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
At what point, or do you know, like when you
were running down the sideline, do you know just how
far away from everybody you are during the run, or
like when do you realize, like there is nobody close to.

Speaker 15 (19:32):
Me right now when I was running, You're gonna if
you watch the play, you will see me look back
and just look and see my surroundings at that point.
It's just I know they weren't gonna catch me. So
it was just about getting into the end zone at
that point.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Do we know we clocked on the GPS this time around?

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, it was nothing impressive.

Speaker 15 (19:50):
She's our coach. Coach, rast she said, I only went
at eighty five percent of my max.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Well do you come back from ndur what are you
a hundred?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I know last year twenty one point eight you got
and that was a top ten in all of college football.
A season ago, you have twenty four career explosive plays.
We talked about how explosive a ball player you are.
That's twenty yards or more. You had four of them
on Saturday. It's the most you've ever had in a game.
It came against Mammoth. Do you have a favorite of
your runs in your career so far?

Speaker 5 (20:21):
There's so many.

Speaker 15 (20:22):
I know favor it probably had to be the first
X play, like the eighty two yard against Doll State,
because I got your started. Yeah, it was like just
the start of everything.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
I will say, I think the fan favorite or one
that I get a lot is the one at Penn State. Obviously,
that's the one that a lot of people noticed. I
think a lot of I can't tell you the final
score of that game. I know we didn't win the game,
but I don't remember the final score. I don't remember
a whole lot of details of that game. I don't think
a lot of fans necessarily remember much from that game,

(20:52):
except for you know, whos cooler playing Penn State?

Speaker 5 (20:54):
And they always ask like, oh, that's the game where
you know, if.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
They don't follow Dellar football, I was watching, that's the
game that run back took it to the house, like
that was a big one.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
That must have felt good in front all of those fans.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, that's tip two for sure. That's time too.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Well, we're talking with Marcus Yarns twenty rushing touchdowns in
his career. In the last twenty years. Only three others
have rushed for twenty touchdowns. Omar Cuff, Jalen Randolph and
your coach Andrew Pierce have done it. That's an elite
company for Marcus Yarns. Your commitment to Delaware football, I
need to talk about it because it should not be
understated in this day and age. There is no doubt

(21:30):
that you had some other shooters at other levels and
at other schools. You decided to recommit to this program
and be committed to the University of Delaware finish your
career here in the Blue and Gold. I think that
it's fantastics. Tell us about the decision.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
You made to be a Blue Hen and only a
Blue Hen.

Speaker 15 (21:47):
The decision was more so about comfortability and just knowing
that these guys here had my back one hundred percent
and for me being on the field, but for my
best interest. You know, I got Coach Pears. No matter
what I'm doing, He's always trying to see me do
the best in everything. I'm saying the best at eating,

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the best at being in the chaining room, the best
at going to class, the best at doing my own work,
and things like that. I can't take it for granted,
and I'm not sure I could get that any place.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Old.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Well, we are very well said, and I know I
hope when you think legacy and we're gonna talk about
all those big plays and think about what you've brought
to this school, will continue to do so this season.
I hope that your loyalty is part of the legacy
that you have at the University of Della where we
appreciate you coming back to this school.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
It really is something else. Let's go down memory lane.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Before we finished off this segment, you played against our
quarterback Ryan O'Connor in high school.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
It was up fourteen nothing at the half. Do you
remember what happened in the second half?

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Uh, Mark made a loud place. It's got dominated the
second half. You got to win right to win.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
That's finished.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
You were finishing before coach you even met Coach CARDI
if you.

Speaker 15 (22:59):
Ask, if you ass Ryan we lost that game, though, well.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
I will give him credit.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
I do understand you play a little bit defensive back
and he gotcha as a dB.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Yeah, he definitely blurred me.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Is that is it any truth that? Like that was
the day you decided, you know, I'm only gonna be
an offensive guy after this?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
No, no, it wasn't that.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
All right, let's finish with our final five for Marcus Jarnge.
October thirtieth is your birthday.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
You got a birthday.

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Coming up, and it's around Halloween. What's your best Halloween
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Speaker 15 (23:28):
My best Halloween costume growing up its cry, it's gonna
be too set football player?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
There you go? Do you remember which one?

Speaker 11 (23:35):
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Speaker 4 (23:35):
A specific guy?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
You have a jersey now, but I know I'm gonna
be this year.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Paris and yeah, oh my god, the legend play a
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Speaker 4 (23:52):
AI?

Speaker 5 (23:53):
I love it, I love it.

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be the northernmost cookout. This is the very southern cookout restaurant.
What is your favorite milkshake. You would order it cookout.

Speaker 15 (24:08):
Uh, I'm a I say this is kind of original
or classic.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
I go oreo the.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Great cookies in cream one.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Lots of scouts at UNI football practice this season, and
I'm sure you're one of the players that are looking
at what would an NFL team be getting in Marcus.

Speaker 15 (24:23):
Sharks versatility, a dog, high work ethic, and just a
good guy.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Absolutely, I check all of the boxes and they're coming
up on Saturday. Only your second game this season playing
in a Delaware stadium since August twenty ninth.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
You haven't been back. What you look forward too much
coming back to Delaware Stadium.

Speaker 15 (24:42):
With back just everyone in the stands and just going
out there and playing, giving it all with my teammates.
You know, I hope that everyone in the stands could
get loud for us this time, you know, the entire game. Uh,
we need we need some we need some we need
some energy on third down, get the defense going, you know,
getting them off the field, things like that.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
You know, just excited to be back in the until.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
Well, You're always giving us something to cheer for.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Marcus.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
I appreciate you so much. You're fun to watch. Thanks
so much. Yes, appreciation, all right, that's Marcus Yarns.

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(28:55):
you'll hear from quarterback coach Sean Goldrich and two thousand
and three champion quarterback Andy Hall will be there as well,
and that brings me into this segment, good Seguay into
welcoming coach.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Cardi back to the show.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
But also Friday will be a Hall of Fame induction
at the University of Delaware and the former teammate of yours,
former roommate of yours, which we'll get into. Andy Hall
will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He and
coach K. C. Keeler will both be Delaware Hall of Famer,
so we'll talk about both them. I thought we'd use
this time to maybe tell some stories and ask about
those guys who I'm sure meant a lot to you,

(29:31):
starting with with Andy Hall quarterback room, was you, Dave Shinsky,
Terry Kelly, Brad Michael and Andy Hall two thousand and
three Atlantic ten Player of the Year. Tell us about
Andy and kind of what he meant and what was
like playing being a teammate of his.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Yeah, Andy, he was. He was one of my favorites.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
He and I became really good friends, even though we
had a pretty big age gap. He was just great
to me, you know, one of those guys that mentored me.
I really looked up to him and had a chance that.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
We actually lived together that that two thousand and three year.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know, we obviously were in the room together when
I was a true freshman as well in two thousand
and two and I learned so much from I learned,
you know, a lot about He was very good at
pre snap recognition of stuff and then you know, going
through and processing. He really did that at an elite level.
And you know, I really still think of him sometimes

(30:27):
when I when I coach a couple of different concepts,
the way that he went through them and the way
that he would kind of process, and I still think
of that, you know that there's I think the thing
that it made me realize as a young player was
that not everybody was the same in the quarterback room
and not everybody's brains work the same. And it's really
helped me as a coach to kind of see that
from the quarterback perspective, then see it when I was
a quarterback coach, and then see it when it as

(30:48):
a coordinator. And there's you know, you see the evolution
of different things as you teach, you know how to
you know, it's the one thing about coaching. It's really
a lot about teaching and how you you know, kind
of feel everybody's brains out when you're in that room.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
And so.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
I long story short, Uh, he did help me a
lot growing up in the in the game, and then
we uh, we also became good friends outside of of football,
and we still talk a lot, and he'll he'll call
with some similar to you guys. He'll he'll give me
some some thoughts on how we did things well or poorly, uh,
mainly poorly, and and and try to get us better

(31:24):
because he cares so much about this place still, he
really does. I mean, Delaware is his place, and it's
the place that they took a shot on him when uh,
when he felt like he needed a new a new chance.
And then obviously he paid it back with dividends and
it was obviously an unbelievable finish to his career. What
a player, Mike watching him play that he was so

(31:44):
tough and so hard to tackle and then so accurate.
It just made play after play after play, especially that
two thousand three, two thousand and three years, every time
something needed to happen that was big.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
He just did it. He really did.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
I mean it was special to watch and so, you know,
just so much fun to be in that room. And
then Kirk Sharroka was our our offensive coordinator and quarterback
coach and he and he's still doing it at such
an elite level.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
And it was so good at uh at.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Dealing and teaching us and and dealing with our personalities
and and Andy was definitely.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
A personality in that room. And uh, it was fun.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
To to have you guys bonded, though I learned earlier
today that not only did you bond on.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
The field, but off the field as well.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
You guys went through a little bit of trauma with
the with your house. Is that right you want to share?
I feel like we have time to elaborate a little
bit to share with everyone. Uh, he had some house damage.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
We did.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Andy and I had had an apartment. We were living
down I don't know its root for somewhere.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Sound like IVY.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
It sounds like it was not an IVY. No, no, no,
this place was was. Uh.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
I don't want to say anything bad about IVY. It
was it was certainly it wasn't even as nice as IVY.
And we lived down the road. And and uh, one
day I came home and our out is on fire,
and I go over there and I'm I gotta ask
Andy for the I don't think we've talked about this
since it happened either. Like I'm like, I call him
up on his cell phone. I'm like Hey, man, I

(33:10):
want to get over here. I think our house is
on fire. He's like, it's on what I was like,
it's on fire, And all of a sudden, everybody else
is coming out of there, just staring at our Our
one apartment building out of all the apartment buildings that
are connected, is just in flames coming out at the
top of it. And like I was saying today, I,
as you can imagine, two college students did not have

(33:30):
runners insurance, so that did not go great either.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
All our stuff had a lot of smoke and fire damage.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
It turns out there was an arsonist apparently that was
running around setting things on fire. I don't know what
I again, this is so long ago now that the
details are escaping me, but I do remember. Luckily we
were not in it, and luckily nobody was hurt. It
went but the but the place did go up and flames.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
They find that they got into Villanova. Sounds like somebody
maybe went to Villanova.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
We'll blame it on that.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Also getting inducted in the Hall of Fame on Friday,
Casey Keeler led the team as the head coach. The
two thousand and three national champion team won a championship
with you at Sam Houston State obviously as someone that
you played for and then coached alongside of. But what
did he mean to you in terms of your career
and then your time as a player as well.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, pretty pretty awesome, uh situation. I had a chance
to call coach Keeler and uh, you know, I found
out that he was getting inducted, and I actually had like,
can I get to call him right and him? And
so I got a chance to call him and tell
him and ask him to come come back and hang
with us, and and that he was getting inducted, And
it was just a special moment for me because of

(34:38):
the uh, the relationship that we have and and the
things that he's passed on to me obviously, and the
things that I got to learn from him, and the
opportunities that he's given me, and you know, obviously as
a coach and then as a player.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
You know, I I, you know, I can't.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Say enough good things about the time that that I
spent with him as his offensive coordinator for four years.
We had a blast, you know, did a lot of
good things and and had a lot of great memories
and the fact that you know, he gets a chance
to come back to his alma mater in a place
that he won a national championship as a coach as well,
And it is pretty awesome and I'm proud of him,
and I'm proud of the university for UH for inducting him.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
And now Andy Hall will be honorary captain at the
game on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
And a little bit a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
For Casey Keeler as he will be playing against Delaware
next season, so I don't think he's allowed on the
sideline necessarily, be like a Connor Stallion's type of thing
if he was on the sideline. So will he be
able to stay on Saturday?

Speaker 6 (35:40):
So they're in the they're in between like they played
on Thursday. Then they have another MIDWEK game or maybe
they have a buye so he's actually got to go back.
He's coming for Friday, He's not staying for Saturday. But
we would let coach Keeler on.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
The sideline Saturday.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
That is UH. That is completely fine. If coach k
wants to come sit on the sidelines, he can. You know,
he can put the headset on if he wants to.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I do want to give some behind the scenes here
and a. Should we get through this segment, We're gonna
talk about Maine. We're gonna talk to to Nate Reid
as well. You have done an outstanding job tonight in
front of Coach Carty. For those listening on the radio,
the Mets game has been on the entire time, and
the bases have been loaded this entire segment, and you
have answered every question. It is one of your most

(36:19):
impressive performances that I have been a part of.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
So I I want to give you credit for that.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I can barely get my sentences out because I'm watching
the game, and for you to be able to answer
questions while watching your your beloved Mets, very impressive.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Well, I appreciate the compliment.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
And if we're talking about impressive performances, Saturday will be
Scott's five hundredth game as voice of the Blue Hens.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Thank you very much? Yes, yes, oh. And as we're
talking about, we had a grand Slam.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Here go on, guys, it's gonna be on your screen
in a couple seconds.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
We got as sorry Phil.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
As we are watching and talking about the segment, it
hasn't happened here yet.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Now it's on this screen. A grand slam.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Take us to break with that Lindor a grand slam,
mets up four to one, ghosts best. Thank you so
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hundred and looking forward to the rest of this one.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
What good time here? Huh? All right, let's go to break.

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When we come back, Nate Reid.

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joined by our kicker, Nate Reid is here. Everybody welcome,
Thanks for being here. That's a hard segment to follow
up on a grand Slam live on the show. I
don't know, Wip's probably gonna come for me. I don't
know if I'm allowed to play by play of the
Phillies Mets game. You're a Phillies fan, though, unfortunately for tonight,

(41:13):
unfortunately for right now, right, But what's going on with them?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (41:17):
I mean, I saw the Grand Slam as you guys
were talking, and I knew it on Cardi's phone that
came up first, so I was waiting for it to
come up on this screen.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
We're all at different screen timing with the streaming. That's
how it goes.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Let's talk about you, though, Let's not give any more
time to the Mets Phillies game. Six touchbacks on Saturday,
I mean, you are really kicking the ball well for
this team. You are first and second all time on
the Delaware's list for most touchbacks in a game. You
had seven against Bryant, which is time for the record
for most touchbacks in a game. It's gotta be fun
to be able to go out there and just kick

(41:49):
the ball as hard as you can.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Out of the end zone.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's awesome.

Speaker 23 (41:53):
Kicking off was kind of my strength out of high school,
so I'm really happy to be able to kind of
kick off to my full potential this year. Just got
a chance to kind of swing away as many many
times as possible, So it's been awesome.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, Well it's a great weapon to have, and Mama's
had you didn't get you didn't get to know it,
but Mama's had some really dangerous returnment that you kept
the ball out of their hands of. But I know
you say kickoffs are your strength, but kicking field goals
are doing a great.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Job with that as well.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
You made two against Mama T on Saturday from twenty
three and twenty four yards absolutely cheer for Nate. And
you're ten of eleven in field goals inside the forty
at Delaware. So where do you feel comfortable out there? Like,
and how do you gauge that on day to day
when you're going out there and preparing for a game,
Like do you go over to coaches and saying like, hey,
this is where I feel good talk to talk to

(42:39):
us about the pregame process.

Speaker 23 (42:40):
Yeah, so pregame I'm making, I'll make sure that I'll
kick on both sides of the field, I'll gauge the wind,
and then I'll tell coach Tomiko kind of like where
we should get the ball, see if we can take
a shot at the end of half or something. So
usually it's around fifty five one way. Sometimes I'll say, hey,
let's just go from six to you. Why not, it'll
get there. But into the wind, I'll tell them, hey,
let's let's go forty five to be safe.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
But yeah, just always being ready no matter what.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Yeah, you are a great weapon to have.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
But you've also made ten pats in a row, which
is something that we had talked about earlier on we
fixed what was going on with the pats. Did you
think that you'd ever get a chance to kick another pat?
Because at one point I swear we were gonna be
going for two every time.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (43:22):
I mean I kind of thought, like the pat has
been a problem of mine, but I kind of view
it as like the yips a little bit, just kind
of how you know basketball players struggle with free throws.
I was kind of struggling with the pat a little bit.
I was kind of overthinking it, putting too much power
into the kick. So I was able to reset with
my coach, or one of our coaches, Taylor Burla. He
helped me out kind of like bringing the power, bringing

(43:44):
power down, kind of reevaluating the kick. I'm refocusing so
and Coach Cardio actually exposed me to some pressure with
pats in practice and that helped a lot too.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
So nice, Yeah, you fix it. And it wasn't just
I wouldn't bring that up if it was on the whole.
Everybody was missing at one point. That's why I bring
it up jokingly, because you're doing a great job.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
You came over from East Stroudsburg where you were all
uh pi is a peasac peek?

Speaker 4 (44:09):
You say, like that pasack.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
All right, you're all pea sack, but not what you
would think, not as a kicker. You were all a
conference as a punter. So how is that transition to
how how was that transition and maybe why transition into
a full time kicker and not punter.

Speaker 23 (44:23):
Yeah, so at East Strausburg I wanted to be the kicker.
So part of the transfer process was I wanted to
go kick the ball. I love punting, but I really
wanted to kick field goals. Actually at Monmouth there special
teams Core was my cordnear at East Strausburg, so I
got to see him again. But yeah, part I just
really wanted to kick field goals. It's been it's been awesome.

(44:45):
I kicked the junior year of high school and then
senior year, I wasn't to, so we are.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
We're glad they didn't let you because you're doing a
great job with us here. They led to your transfer
and you came a Blue hen so we're happy to
have you. Talk with Nate Reid twenty eight points on
this season. How does one develop into a college level kicker?

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Is it other sports? Did you play soccer first?

Speaker 7 (45:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (45:03):
Soccer my whole life, and then I was approached by
our head coach in high school was saying, how do
you want to kick?

Speaker 7 (45:08):
And I was like, yeah, I stood. So that's kind
of how it all started.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Is that in season though, if it's a fall so
you got to do both? You go from one practice
to the other, or how does that scheduling work?

Speaker 23 (45:17):
So we would coordinate it with the soccer coach and
the football coach. I would either go to football first
and then go to soccer, or I'd go to soccer
first and then finish with all the special teams stuff
at the end of football.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
So it was perfect. They made it work.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Out really well. It all did work out. My analyst,
Bill Harmon, was the nicest man in the world. He
checks in on me throughout the week and hey, who
you got on the show tonight. He rarely chimes in
with any questions to ask, but he was very intrigued
by you being on the show, and he wants to
know how he got your leg so strong.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Was it natural?

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Was it lifting, specialty skill development? He's very impressed by
the leg and wants to know how you got that developed.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
So a lot of it for me is leg speed.

Speaker 23 (45:56):
I'm not the biggest guy on the field, not the
biggest kicker ever, but I have a really fast leg
and I got that from track. I think also just
playing soccer my whole life, I was always the guy
that would hit the deep ball, so keeping my legs
beat up, running sprinting here and there. But I'm also
just being explosive, so I'll do a lot of band
work to make sure I'm like explosive wirey I like
to call it.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
So yeah, it's impressive stuff.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
And I gotta ask you about growing up if perhaps
you you rooted for the Blue Hens, because, as I
learned when we were down at North Carolina A and T,
your mom was a teacher of U D legend Pat Devlin,
So he had your mom as a teacher. So did
you know about pack growing up that she mentioned, Hey,
this guy in the NFL was one of my students.

Speaker 23 (46:38):
Yes, so when I was coming to UD she mentioned it,
But you know, I didn't know much about him. And
then at one of our I think it was a
career day, I met him. He's a finance guy and
I'm also financed guy.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
I saw.

Speaker 23 (46:48):
I was I put a face to a name. I
got to meet him and I was like, you're yeah,
it just put too ing. My mom told you.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
So it was the funniest.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
He's a good guy to know it in many ways,
and he'll be on the call on FLO Sports.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
She does a great job as an analyst.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
I got the pleasure working with him down on the
road this year and hope to do more.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Talking about your mom.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Not only was the teacher, she played lacrosse at Towson
and then you had a heck of a game last
year at Towson scored thirteen points at Townsend.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
Was that cool to have such a good performance at.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Her alma mater. Yeah.

Speaker 23 (47:17):
So she was actually up in the alumni little pregame
celebration in a Delaware shirt.

Speaker 7 (47:23):
So she was good.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Good for her.

Speaker 7 (47:24):
Yeah, she was really.

Speaker 23 (47:25):
Really committed to the Delaware wearing that at Towson. So
but yeah, that was awesome being able to play where
she was and heard so many stories about her lacrosse
career there.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
So absolutely and not only not the only athlete. In
terms of your parents, your dad played a college golf
at Westchester.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
So do you do you play some golf?

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Did you get any in the jeans?

Speaker 23 (47:47):
I kind of took over his backup clubs and I
go out with him here and there. But I'm not
as good as he is.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
I wish I'll get into it one he was at
the collegiate level.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Let's get you the final five here with the Nate Red.
You need just ten touchbacks to tie Jake Ross record
for most touchbacks in a season. They started keeping stats
in two thousand and three with touchbacks. So I want
to ask about touchbacks. What do you make of the
new NFL touchback rules? Yeah, I mean or not touchbacks,
but kickoff rule. Excuse me, it's we're seeing touchbacks still.

(48:15):
The balls just gonna come out to the thirty. But
I think we might see the kickoff go away in
the game based on kind of just how it's working out.
Everybody's just gonna keep blasting touchbacks and they might just
take the kickoff out of the game.

Speaker 23 (48:25):
But I think it's a funny. It's a funny little
scheme that got going on dropping it inside the twenty
and the goal line. But I mean, most guys are
just firing away and.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
It just blasting out of there because you guys make
it look so easy. I talked to you, was gonna
ask about you playing golf, and you mentioned that one.
So you start as a soccer player. Who's your favorite
soccer player?

Speaker 7 (48:46):
I grew up loving Wayne Rooney. I'm not sure if
anybody knows.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I knew I know three soccer players. You didn't name
one of the three, and so I cannot continue the conversation.
I will go on to talk about who's Wayne Rooney?

Speaker 23 (48:59):
He played for Manchester United. He's a England England national
team players.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Man, if you would have said in Bape, we would
have just talked for days.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Two most famous East Strousburg alum were in the building
when we played Penn State, you and James Franklin. So
that's pretty neat. He also went there. What was I
like playing it and kicking things off at Penn State?

Speaker 23 (49:19):
Yeah, so when I was going to Strasburg. I actually
met him at the spring game, so they brought up
all the incoming freshmen in the spring and got to
shake his hand.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Say hi.

Speaker 23 (49:27):
And if you would have told me I would be
playing against him two years later, I would have said,
you're crazy. But yeah, I was gonna try and say
I do him against if you remember after the game.
But there's just too much going on.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
And stuff, well, pretty cool stuff.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
And then lastly, you are a heck of a kicker,
but there are a lot of people involved. We don't
get to mention the snapper and the holder as much.
Give a shout out.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
To your crew.

Speaker 23 (49:46):
Yeah, Ethan and Josh two of my best friends here,
they're awesome.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
Being so close to.

Speaker 23 (49:51):
Them makes it easy if you know we need to
fix something, so there's no problem going to Ethan or
going to Josh, say hey, let's let's work this, let's
work that, let's work a Baz Luca field goal, let's
work end of the game. Two great guys. They make
it easy for me. So laces are always out and
now you've got to pick it through the up.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
There you go, Well, you're doing a fantastic job. Thanks
so much for coming on and best luckt thereast of away.
All right, that's they read everybody.

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us now and let's talk Maine as the Main comes
in to Delaware winners of three in a row. They
are three and two on the season and a one
to one in conference play, so things are going well

(54:06):
for remain right now, coming off of a win against Albany,
a ranked team. Before we get into Maine, I gotta
address something that the Main is doing that I'm not
a big fan of. Jordan Stevens is the head coach now.
He was hired at age thirty four. Before that, Nick
Charlton was hired at the age of thirty one. Joe
Harris Simeak was hired at the age of thirty. This
is all after Jack Cosgrove, coach there for twenty two seasons.

(54:28):
We're supposed to be the young guys, coach, I'm supposed
to feel young.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
We went to school at the same time.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
We're supposed to be the young guys, and then maybe
keep rolling out these a very young quarterback or young coaches.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
Know, Jordan Stevens is doing a good job with the.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Propriate they are.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
They are, and I've known all of those guys you
just mentioned. I had a bunch of battles with the
first two that you mentioned when I was at the
University of New Hampshire, and in particular Joe Harris Simeak,
who's maybe the best defensive coordinator I've ever coached against,
just an unbelievable coach. He's now the defensive coordinator at
Rutgers doing an unbelievable job there. And so they have

(55:04):
they you know, Coach Cosgrove I think has had a
hand in that too, and I think a lot of
them were people that he had had as young coaches
on the staff, and he stayed in the administration and
continued to try to build that program, you know, through
the way that they've always done it, you know what
I mean. And it's not too different than coach McDonald
when he kind of moved out, it was still the
people that were in the program at New Hampshire as well,

(55:25):
and those New England schools kind of do it the
same and they've done a really nice job keeping the
consistency in the culture up there.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
I want to crack myself. I said they may won
three in a row. They are three and two.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
They've won two in a row, so I don't go
too far for I don't correct myself on this segment.
You talk about winning in a row though, when you
were at New Hampshire, big rivalry game New Hampshire and Maine,
so you know all about the culture at Maine, the
battle for the Bryce Cowle musket.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
It was.

Speaker 5 (55:51):
You were ten and one against.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Maine when you were at a New Hampshire, so you
had the right end of that rivalry. But because of that,
I'm sure you know a lot about Maine and is
the rivalry still kind of ingrained in you a little bit?

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Does this mean a little bit more today?

Speaker 3 (56:06):
I know it's not Delaware's rivalry, but it was certainly
a part of your rivalry for.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
A long time.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
Yeah, you know, I'd be lying if I said it
it meant a ton more. You know, it's not you know,
I mean, these guys know me. It's about it's a
week a or a week at a time. Man, it's
one to want to know it's a rivalry game every
week for me. Uh, you know, I don't care who
we're playing. It's it's the enemy and and that's the
people we're gonna go ahead and practice for on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and we're gonna make sure that we're ready to go.

(56:31):
Never too high, never too low. We're trying to take
it one game at a time. And you know, I
I really did enjoy that rivalry up at when I
was at New Hampshire. Is probably more as in a
position coach and then a coordinator, you do get a
chance to feel those things a little bit more. As
a head coach, it's really more about let's make sure
we remain focused and kind of make sure we we
mind are you know, the things that we know are
going to continue to help win those football games. But uh,

(56:54):
you know, I think when we put too much stock
in in in the games, I think sometimes you know,
we can get a little maybe a little bit you know, distracted.
But you know, we want to focus on, you know,
the things that have gotten us to this point, and
and I think that's something that obviously we've done really
well so far in five games.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Well, let's talk about what you should focus on with
this main team. Mentioned to their two losses, but against
Montana State, a very highly ranked FGS program, we saw
and the other loss to Mamuth we saw a good
of a team. A mom with would be is their
defense allowed thirty five points per game in the first
three weeks, but they've cut that in half of the
last of two wins. They'll be coming off of a
bye week, So what are some challenges that they might

(57:33):
present your team on Saturday.

Speaker 6 (57:35):
Yeah, really tough sound team, you know, on on offense,
they're they're good out wide, and their quarterbacks a good player,
and they're starting to hit stride a little bit. I
think they're getting some confidence right now, Like you said,
they're starting to you know, roll and then they just
had a big road win against a ranked opponent, and
so obviously they're they're certainly feeling capable. And I think
the biggest thing for them is that they're coming off

(57:58):
of bye week right now, and so you know, I
think a little farewell by the c a A for
us to back to back teams. Hear them and Richmond
both coming off buys and uh, and so I think
that you know that that always gives an advantage to that.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
That team, you know.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
And and then on defensive, the defensive side, I think
they're very They're very sound. I think they do really
good things with their scheme, putting people in positions to
kind of disrupt and uh, I think you'll you'll see,
you know, some penetration. You'll see some some big plays
that they really work in the the TfL SAC game.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
They're really trying to get.

Speaker 6 (58:34):
Around the quarterback and in the backfield, and we have
to just make sure that we're really dialed in our
assignments on offense and and make.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Sure that there's no free free runners. You know.

Speaker 6 (58:43):
I do think that you know, we have some of
the matchup uh, you know, advantages if we can make
sure that you know, we're blocking people when we're supposed
to block them, and uh, you know, hitting the right
holes and making.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
The right reads a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
And then I know, lastly Marcus talked about it in
his segment, but need loud, need everybody in there. You've
had great fan base so far this season, and I
know it means a lot when you have.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
A great crowds at the top.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
It's been amazing and we can't thank you guys enough
for the energy that you've brought, the effect that you've
had on the games that we've won. We can't wait
to continue to fill it and make this just one
of those places that people are scared to play because
of the fan base.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Well, we're excited to be there on Saturday and a
cheer your team on Coach. Thanks so much for joining
us as always, appreciate you guys. All right, best of
luck on as Saturday, as Delaware takes on a main
love pregame show covers Beating at noon, tune in as
your tailgate kickoff will come your way at one two pm.
Next week, we'll be back in the Costapasta in Newark
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Marcus Yarns and Nate Reed and everyone that came out
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