Football - September 18, 2024

Guests: Jo'Nathan Silver, Gavin Moul

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Carol.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Caral.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
You are listening to the Blue Hens Football Coaches Show,
presented by First Aid Orthopedix featuring head coach Ryan Cardy
on ninety four seven w DSD and iHeartRadio, with your
host voice of the Delaware Blue Hens, Scott Klanskin. And
now welcome to La Cosa Pasta Restaurant in.

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Speaker 1 (00:57):
The Hens are too and oh and we're here at
the Blue Hens a football Coaches Show from the Costa
Pasta Restaurant to talk about it. Tonight show is n
by First Date Orthopedics on ninety four to seven w
DSDFM and iHeartRadio. I'm Scott Klatskin. In tonight we'll view
Delawares forty two to thirteen victory over North Carolina A
and T with a ballgame down south that was. We'll

(01:19):
also preview the home game on Saturday against Penn. Plus
we joined by two newcomers to the program. A running
back that has found the end zone in each game
this season, Joe Nathan Silver is here, and a linebacker
that had five tackles and a force fumble on Saturday.
Gavin Mole is in the building. Give it up for Gavin.

(01:39):
But first please welcome in Delaware's football head coach Ryan Carty, coach,
Welcome to Lakasa Pasta, your first Pasta visit of the year.
We are back here and had a great Legends night
a week ago. We missed you, but you were obviously
whatever you were doing that Wednesday at prep for North
Carolina and t worked a forty two to thirteen victory.

(01:59):
Again the Aggies. A lot of high points in the game.
I think if you if you just look at the
box where hey, how the Hens do and you looked
at kind of what it was at halftime, an eight
point lead at the half, and then someone would say, oh,
they cleaned it up in the second half. Got But
I don't know if I agree with that narrative. So
I wanted to get to get your I thought there
was there was one big kind of turnover in the

(02:21):
first half, one miss queue that kind of skewed things
to look a little different. Never really felt from my
perspective that you didn't have complete control of that game.
What was your take on the contest against the Aggies.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I mean I think that for sure, there is that,
you know, the blueprint for an upset was kind of
set in the first half though, so I understand the
fans perspective because it was certainly, you know, what we had,
you know, talked about at halftime making sure that we
you know, we continue to put our foot on the
gas and make sure that we clean some things up,
because we did have to clean some things up. I

(02:52):
think we were in control, whether you know, statistically and
all that stuff. We were certainly in control. But the
score was one score, you know, and so you know,
we're at that point now where we have to you know,
continue to clean those things up. From game one to
game two, it seemed like we kind of played a
Game one again, and you know, I think maybe it

(03:12):
was that sixteen days off. Maybe it was that situation
of not having you know, a clear uh you know,
game one to game two progression, and so hopefully we
can kind of really clean up, clean up our act
and go into game three. You know, probably fired on
a little bit more cylinders than than we were in
the first two weeks there.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well in terms of offense, and we'll talk about the defense,
who did a heck of a job as well, holding
them without a score. Their offense didn't score, Uh, didn't
you make the red zone. We'll talk about that. But
in terms of firing all cylinders, let me brag on
you guys for a little bit. This is only the
sixth time in school history ud have scored forty points
in each of the first two weeks of the season.
That's a long football history and it's only been done

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six times. You might remember two of the last three
teams that did it before your team this year, two
thousand and three, in two thousand and seven, those were
pretty good years that the Hens made some runs that season.
To ninth time ever that an offense or a team
has scored ninety points or more in the first two games.
So in terms of firing on all cylinders, you guys
are are pretty close. You score touchdowns on eight consecutive

(04:17):
first half possessions minus that one play. I took that
out of the book against Bryant. But you gotta be
pleased with your offense. I would think, in what ways
are you please when you look at what you've done
so far? In what ways do you like what you see?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well? I think that you know, we've proven to be
fairly versatile and a little bit deep at the skill positions.
I think that's a good sign for us. I think
we need to continue to build up the experience level
of some of the guys that we have in there,
you know. I think, you know, Ryan's done a really
nice job at you know, obviously his preparation getting to
the point where he's making the right checks calls at

(04:53):
the line and then obviously reads post snap. And I
think that's the thing is getting the ball out of
our hands quickly when we're supposed to hang in onto
it when we need to, uh for some of those
bigger plays, and then being able to be explosive in
multiple different ways I think really helps you when you're
balanced in your explosion. I think that's really gonna be
tough for a defense to really you know, key on
what to you know, if you said we have to

(05:15):
stop the Blue Hens and this is how to do it,
it's going to be a little bit harder when you
have that that flexibility. And so I think that's that's
really good for us, and it's going to keep you know,
hopefully keep us going, you know, in the right direction
in an offense as the year goes on, because you
don't want to get to you know, specific in who
you are because then that's easier to stop as the
year gets later.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, it certainly has been difficult to scout maybe the
personnel of who you are so far, because unfortunately you're
you're pretty banged up already in week two when we
go into the season and talk about maybe projected starters
or who's supposed to be on the field, looking at
about fifty five percent, six of eleven of your guys
we're out at we're not playing at some point in
that NCA and T team in terms of a game,

(05:57):
in terms of Marcus Yarns was out, Jojo Vermi just
did not play, nor did Brock Gingric and at some
point Blaze Sparks, Bradley and Yahoo and Finn and bros.
Did not play in the game either. So at this
point I've been doing this a long time. No one
in this room and no one listening is tuning in
to get the latest injury update that they know that
that isn't necessarily what we're gonna update John in terms.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Of status of everybody.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
But what I do want to know, maybe what could
be informative for our listeners is who are some guys
that we maybe need to get to know that are
getting more reps now because of some other guys that
are banged up.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I think some of the
guys you saw play in the game the other day
that have been doing a really nice job in preparation
throughout camp and throughout the offseason and making sure that
they're when their number was called, they were ready, you know,
as you saw Cole Schnyder go in there, who's played
and started football games for us upfront. And that's again
when you talk about the depth that we have upfront
and how that excites you. You know, it's getting thinner

(06:53):
right now, that depth is. But you have a guy
like him, who's a proven player at this level who
went in there and did a really nice job. You know,
Anthony Kaches did a really nice job in there in
some of his first you know, legitimate time in a
in a football game, you know, and obviously Steven Denboski
who filled in for Brock last week. You know, it

(07:13):
was seamless. And you know, I know that a lot
of that has to do with Brock being such a
great leader and a great teacher and making sure that
you know that that never stopped, that the background preparation
never stopped for for Dembo. You know, you saw the
running backs just kind of step up like nothing had
changed because we had been rotating those guys in and there.

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And then you have a guy like Quincy Watson going
there and three carries, two touchdowns, you know, all of
a sudden, you know, those those things that are veteran
experience in the backfield really helps you. And then you
got a guy, you know, like sitting to my right,
Joe Nathan, who just you know, still creates that explosion
in lieu of Marcus for you as well. And so
say you did a great job as well. So those
guys been in the back and then obviously are stir

(07:57):
Ryan O'Connor, it's right humbling down the field himself in rushing.
That's what I'm saying is it's obvious.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
So obviously your playbook change is a bit for pen.
You're gonna run more.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yes, all quarterback, triple.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Option team, all Tel pen.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
If you're listening to prepare for that triple option play.
Let's talk defense. Because the defense did not allow a
red zone visit in the entire game. No touchdowns were
scored by the Aggies offense. They forced three turnovers, They
were swarming to the ball. The defense that looked just
sensational in that game against Aggies. What are you liking
from your defense?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, you know, I think that the personnel is outstanding.
You know, we've gone to that point. I think we're
at all three levels. We have a little bit of depth,
and those guys were able to rotate in a little
bit more than than we have in the past, which
has really helped, you know, keep those guys fresh. It's
really helped be able to be really fast on the
back end of the day. And you know, all of
a sudden, it was it was a hot day. We

(08:55):
had guys cramping and stuff on offense because they had
to go a little bit more than on defense. We're
out there, we're rolling. You know. We had a couple
of guys drop here and there, but for the most part,
we had guys not taking too many more than like
forty snaps in a game, which is really good if
you're going to be able to be faster at the
end of a game than somebody else. And so I
think that's really helped us. And I think the you know,
the fact that we can again similar to offense, we

(09:17):
talk about balance, right the fact that we can, you know,
we can get to that point where we're rushing three people,
rushing four people, rushing five people, rushing six people. You know,
we can show you a bunch of different fronts. We
can show you a bunch of different looks in the
back end. You know, the uniqueness of our shell in
the back end really helps, you know, kind of confuse
opposing quarterbacks and and give us the ability to be multiple.

(09:37):
And so it's kind of what we believe in as
a foundation of our program is being aggressive and not predictable.
And so, you know, I think that plays hand in
hand with who we are as an offense. And I
do believe that, you know, you know, we we like
to talk about offense and defense and special teams has
three different entities and they're not this is this is
the twenty twenty four Delaware Blue Hens, and we have

(09:59):
to work together and we have to believe in each other,
and we're on the out there on offense, we have
to believe that this is what's gonna happen. We're gonna
go down and score, and when we don't, we have
to believe that the ball is just going to get
back to us. And so I think those are the
things that I think we're doing really well as as
a culture, is believing in each other and playing for
each other and playing with each other in concert.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
And I am going to ask about this twenty twenty
four Blue Hens football team. The third entity, though, is
his special teams. We talked about offense, We've talked about
defense a little bit. Some miscues on some pats early
in the game which made it a one score game
at halftime, but it was soon to be figured out
with a Radcliffe coming in he knocked in three in
the second half. Do you feel confident moving forward in

(10:42):
the in terms of special teams with the extra points
that with Brandon Radcliffe? Yeah, yeah, I guess I should.
That's on me, I answered. I asked you a yes
or no question, And you know I've been doing this
long enough.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
That that's a bad phrasing by me.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
How about how high is your confidence on the special
teams moving forward?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Oh? My finance is very high obviously. You know, kicking
extra points should be a little bit more automatic than
we've been making it, and we will continue to work
on that and get better at it, and Brandon Ratcliffe
will be doing that starting the game on Saturday, and
hopefully he stays one hundred percent the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
And hopefully he has a lot of chances to do so.
The way you guys are scoring the football, I'm sure
you'll have plenty of opportunities. I do want to wrap
up this segment. Want to ask is because you talk
about the versatility and the depth. Eight players have had
carries this year. Five heads scored rushing touchdowns. Fifteen players
have been thrown passes. Four have caught touchdowns. I say

(11:38):
fifteen players not receivers because Nwar O'Neill, the big fella,
got in on the action the other day. When you
have something like that, like how content there must be,
Like it's all even in the wide receiver running back room,
Like you must have the most content offensive rooms right now,
nobody's asking for the ball, Like it's got to be
a good, good feel right now for the all.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, I think that just kind of goes along with
who we are as a team. Again. I this is
a very unselfish football team. And that doesn't mean that
we don't have our individual goals, and it doesn't mean
that we want to ever call those things. You know,
I think individual goals are so important. They just have
to align with our team's goals. You know, we want
to win game after game after game. That's our job,
go one to know on Saturday. In order to do that,
we got to play together and we got to play

(12:17):
you know, the we got to play the call that's
made and however that ball comes out there, however gets
on the field to go cover and tackle. You know,
we have to make sure that that we're doing our
job when we're out there, and the players will come
to us if we prepare the right way and we
believe in what we're doing, you know, and I think that.
You know, it's great to be able to involve a
lot of people. It keeps people invested, it keeps people

(12:39):
practicing hard. You know. I've also been on teams where
you've bounced it around too many times, and there are
people that are still mad because they're not the one
that's getting all the all the catches, are all the carries,
and that's not who we are as a team. And
so it's pretty fun to watch. It's great to be around.
And you know, I love coaching these guys because that's
they're not who they're not that people they're the people
who are going to go out there and just cheer

(12:59):
for the other guys as he's getting those reps.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Well, one of the guys that they've been cheering for
when he's running the football is Joe Nathan Silver. Two
touchdowns on the season and first time at the coaches Show.
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Three and welcome back in to Lakasha Pasta for the
Blue Hens Football Coaches Show. The Blue Hen's Touchdown Club
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hear from special teams coordinator and tight ends coach Garrett

(16:23):
Smith as well as softball coach Jen Steele MVPs. This week,
we're Steven Demboski on offense, Blake Matthews on defense, and
Josh Cupit on special teams. We are now joined by
a guy that has gotten into the end zone in
both games this season. He's running the ball very well.
Joe Nathan Silver.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Welcome to the program. I am ju to be here.
I'm so glad that you are here.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
If I'll describe for our radio listeners, great big smile
on her face. We appreciate you coming on and thank
you so much for talking to us. Touchdowns of both
games this season. I mentioned it one yard run for
a score this week.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Will take me.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Through as a guy that no one would ever give
a carry to a big guy like yourself. You know,
you got the ball in the one yard line, you
know it's going to you. What's going through your mind
knowing you're three feet away from score.

Speaker 12 (17:09):
I mean usually it just starts with looking at the
spot that I got to get to, and then it's
just locking in on that spot and then getting to it.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
That's just the thing there.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, and you're you're trying to power through as as
your absorbent kind of like everybody knows you're having the ball,
You're just kind of reaching for that.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
That's kind of a fun part about it.

Speaker 12 (17:24):
I say, like everybody knows that I'm trying to get
to that spot and I got to get to it.
And when you get to it, it's pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
And you did that against North Carolina A and C.
What a running back room that you have. I talked
about kind of the room and how everybody's getting involved.
But you got Andrew Pearce, one of the best running
backs ever in Delaware history. Then Marcus Yarns and all
American is there. You got Quincy Watson, who played with
Andrew Peers back in twenty ten. I think he's been
there a while, so he'd say, Saint Flour is doing

(17:52):
a great job. So what are you learning from the
other guys. How do you guys all work together and
play off one another.

Speaker 12 (17:58):
I'd say, first off, we're like a really close group.
Our meetings are really fun, and I mean we get
a lot of work done, but like we're always lighthearted
and everything.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
But we really like to feed off of each other.

Speaker 12 (18:10):
Like one person goes in there makes a big play,
like next person is ready to go make another big play,
or like just learning each other's running styles and being
able to take pieces from other people's games and things
like that. But I love that we have like our
coaching cooked Pierce, Yeah, like just having that mentor and honestly,

(18:31):
he just makes it easy like back there, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's well he was.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
He made it lucky easier on the field, that's for
sure when he played here. So it is it is nice.
I would think to have a coach that did it,
that was in your spot at the same spot literally
on the field, as you previously talking with Joe Nathan Silver,
A big effort from you in the twenty twenty three playoffs.
Since we're in trouble in the first round, and you
had a career high seventy six yards against Lafayette. You

(18:58):
had a forty one yard run in that game. Yet
eighty nine yards rushing in the playoffs last year. That
was more than you had in the entire regular season.
So like kind of a coming out party for you,
if you will, in the playoffs that Lafayette game was.
How did you feel? Was that like an I'm here,
I belong. That kind of sprung you into the confidence
I'm sure you have now coming into this season.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (19:16):
I'd say before that, I was still like kind of
getting my feet way. I definitely didn't have my confidence there.
But once I broke I think it was like a
forty yard runner. So once I broke that run, like
it just felt like I was back to being me. Yeah,
and like I was really confident after that, and I
just felt like more comfortable in the field. And that's
really everything when you're out there, Like if you're playing
out there nervous like you're not going to play well,
and if you're confident in your abilities, it's really easy

(19:38):
to go out there and perform.

Speaker 13 (19:39):
Well.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, you broke one there and then you haven't looked
back since off to a great start this year. The
hens or two and zero third season on the team.
A red shirt sophomore, played in two games in twenty
twenty two. How have you grown? How do you feel
like individually you've grown from when you got here three
seasons ago.

Speaker 12 (19:54):
I feel like I've grown completely athletically, emotionally, mentally everything.
I really feel like a new person almost like being
here for three years now. Yeah, yeah, I really just
love the community at ud I really love like how
I've been brought in and just the love that I've
been shown. Because like getting recruited out of high school,

(20:16):
like I kind of would like running out of options,
and then Delaware came and suit me out, suit me up,
And I'm just like forever grateful for that, I'd say.
And it just makes you want to like give everything
back to the program and like I'm having fun doing it.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
You talk about your recruiting process, So we play Sacred
Heart in a couple of weeks. There is a fixture
that exists of you in a Sacred Heart uniform.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I think they were out there so.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
They were recruiting you. You know, you got to kiss
a few frogs, right, just to find the right spot.
So but in terms of the recruiting process, obviously there
were some some other schools and that you didn't necessarily
feel was the right fit. Take me back to when
you recruited to come to a University of Delaware and
why you felt like that was the right place for you.
Obviously it is because we're happy that we have it.

Speaker 12 (20:57):
I mean, just from the conversations I had with all
coaches and the players that we're here and stuff, I
kind of just felt it felt more, it felt more
personal here than other places I've visited, and I'm just
really glad that I ended up going through with the
decision to come here.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
We certainly are as well. I do want to talk
about what you do off the field as well, because
you were a three time CIA academic on a roll,
which is a fantastic to be able to get it
done both on the field and academically. How much of
a challenge is that and how do you balance the
athletics and the practice and the games and the travel

(21:35):
with the academic side of things.

Speaker 12 (21:36):
I'd say it's really just a matter of figuring out
your priorities. I definitely had a huge issue with that,
Like my freshman year and even kind of dribbling into
my sophomore year. But I'd say like spring of sophomore
years when I really started like hone in on what's
really important to me and the school and football are
really important to me. Like school wise, I kind of
I don't know where I want to go, but in

(21:58):
terms of like helping people just rehability their body, like
I really started to understand it, like I really need
to like kind of I guess lock in on like
going to class and really understanding the material that I'm
being taught. I mean, school has always come i'd say
fairly easily to me, But it's just the in terms
of like doing your work and stuff like that, and

(22:20):
once you figure out your priorities, it's easy to be
able to do what you need to do well.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
You've made the adjustment, doing a great job getting on
that on a roll. You're a man of many towns.
We know you're a great running back. You get it
done in the classroom, and you have a musical background
as well. What are your musical inspirations?

Speaker 12 (22:34):
How'd you get But I really loved Tyler Creator. Recently,
I'm beginning into a lot of Miles Davis trumpeter from
the ninth and sixties, and I really.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Just love you.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Don't have to tell this crowd who Miles Davis is.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Maybe some listeners, but we were all thumbs up around here,
all right, go ahead.

Speaker 12 (22:52):
Oh yeah, I really just love I really love their
love of music, and it kind of like those through
me and just listening to the little details that they
add to like their music. It really like inspires me
to make music similar to their.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Boy you're you're very talented. I was able to listen
to some and really enjoyed it. Let's let's have our
final five questions here kind of rapid fire. I'm taking
this off of the great social team at University of
dell Or put some fun stuff online. Sometimes they ask
the questions of players coming off the field where you
see a signer or something and you have to answer
it quickly. It's a lot of fun stuff. Check out
the Delaware football on Twitter and Instagram. But one of

(23:31):
the questions they asked was funniest player on the team.
Who did you say was the funniest player on the team.

Speaker 12 (23:35):
I said, Marcus Jarnson, the running back meanings you haven't
Marcus get one vote for him from Joe Nathan Silver.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Another one was and we're just on a flight, Window
or Ile, what's your preference.

Speaker 12 (23:47):
It's got to be Isle so I can stretch out
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I'm a window guy, but I'm not quite as big
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Speaker 12 (24:11):
It's a good one, Call Me Out by Kendrick Lamar.
I really love Kendrick Lamar.

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Super Bowl coming up for him right yeah? Football connection.
There you are from Washington Township, New Jersey. It's about
an hour from Ocean City, New Jersey. Is it called
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Definitely the short, It's called the Short?

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All right?

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And then lastly a music question for you. Who would
you trust with the bluetooth speaker? Who has some good
taste in music. If you had to hand over the speaker,
that's a good one. Who would you trust on the team?

Speaker 12 (24:40):
I like Quincy Watson. Quincy's pretty good. He knows how
to he knows how to read the room well.

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Speaker 1 (27:56):
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(28:17):
by the way, but I'm very appreciative of being able
to travel with you guys to these longer road games.
And so while it's relevant to me, I wanted to
start this segment and just give a huge shout out.
You know, we could spend hours talking about Jerry Oh
and he's fantastic and I think he gets a lot
of credit well deserved and he's just the man. We

(28:37):
do know Jerry, but maybe some people that we don't
know that I'm always so impressed with Michael Armstrong and
Haley Aliota are are just so impressive to organize the
travel and the hotels and the bags and the buses
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
I'd love to say it's a team effort, but it's
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ton of outstanding interns that work with them on a
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it's it's behind the scenes and they make it seamless
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(29:16):
to know that no matter what's going on, and no
matter what we throw on their on their plate, and
no matter what gets thrown in our faces as a program,
that those guys are going to be able to figure
it out. You know, from from Jerry down to Michael
to Haley and and those guys are just outstanding. We
can't say and I appreciate you bringing it up, because
we can't say enough good things about that ops crew.

(29:38):
Our operations team is the best in the business.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
They do a heck of a job and so nice
job everybody down there in North Carolina a and t
a winning effort all around. I want to get back
to football and talk to maybe about some individual performances
on the game on Saturday let's talk turnovers. Gavin Mole
who's here, and Anthony Crenshaw ripped away from fumbles in
this game and on the Gavins was on the far

(30:01):
side of the field, so I'm sure he did a
fantastic job, but to where I was closer to you.
But Anthony Crenshaw, I mean that's turnover circuit one on one, right,
I mean that is that how you practice it? And
tell us a little bit about and you know he
ripped it. He ripped it right out of that guy's hand.
Is that kind of how you practice it? And do
you practice those type of things?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
We certainly practice turnovers.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Pretty much, Gavin shaking his head.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Literally literally every practice there is turnover circuits on both
sides of the ball, and it is the most important
thing in our in the game of football, but certainly
in our program, the ball of the program, and it's
the foundation of who we are. It is our heart,
and so we want to make sure that no matter
what we were doing on defense, we're trying to get
it and on offense, we're trying to keep it because
our possessions are exactly what we're gonna cause touchdowns for

(30:47):
us and cause wins.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well, so we talked about you being seven and oh
when you're plus two in the turnover margin, you're now
eight to oh because you were a plus two in
that game. Three turnovers for us.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Really good stuff. Yeah, absolutely, and you exactly. You know,
Crenshawn does have a knack for it. It's not the
first time that he's knocked the ball out. He is,
he's got a knack for the ball. It's it's kind
of one of those things that similar to you know,
people who kind of find balls on offense and you know,
we talk a lot about it on offense and we're
talking about scrambled drills and say, the ball finds energy

(31:20):
and energy is a talent and he's one of those guys.
He is kind of around the ball a lot, and
he somehow is involved in a lot of turnovers. And
so you know, it's one of those things that becomes
a valuable skill. That's you know, that's job that's job
security right there. You're gonna you keep getting turnovers, you're
gonna keep staying on the field.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
So he did a great job of doing that, a
younger guy in the secondary there and doing a good
job of getting the turnovers for Delaware defensively. On offense,
I kind of mentioned it. The one discrepancy in the
scoring column in the first half was the interception thrown
by by Ryan O'Connor, And I think it stands out
a little bit more because of what the guy did
after he picked it off. He ran seventy yards for

(31:58):
a touchdown. Intersect happened, but you know, they're less of
a big deal. I think because it was a pick sick,
it stands out what's the coachable what's the teachable moment
there for Ryan o'connok, Like maybe he had somebody in
the flat was trying to make a play. But you know,
as a as a quarterback and as his coach, you
know what he talked to Ryan about there?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Well yeah, I mean he'll be the first to tell
you that he probably forced something he needed to force.
You know, we talk a lot about first and second
down calls, in particular when we're running play action passes,
anything on a rundown, when we're throwing the football, whether
it be an RPO or a play action, we want
to make sure that we're you know, the the last
case scenario, The worst thing that could happen would be

(32:35):
a turnover, and so we know that throwing the ball
out of bounds is fine, right, that's where we need
to I think, you know, and he knows that, you know,
to be honest with you, the throw he made was
just a bad throw to it. He did have an
open person he was trying to throw to. It wasn't
like he was throwing into traffic. He missed the throw too,
so it was one of those you know, snowballing effects
of just a bad play turn and worse. And that's

(32:57):
not what he normally does, and so he'll he'll beat
him up about it a little bit more than I
have to. So you know, for the most part, it's just,
you know, taking what the defense gives you and making
sure that you're in the right frame of mind to
you know, on the move, be able to go out
there and take what they give us towards the sideline
in particular, and then try to not do too much
with the ball.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
There was another play in the first half they got
negated and made the score a little bit closer, and
that was a return for a touchdown by Myson Pollard,
and the holding penalty brought it back. I don't know
necessarily how much that the hold had if that was
the reason why or if it was wasn't close to
it or not, but either way. More so, what I
want to talk about is did we get a little
sneak peak of how how good Mason Pollar could be?

(33:39):
If you look at his stats last season, he returned
five punts last year, four of them went to the house.
So he is a special teams guy that can be
pretty dangerous a newcomer to the team. Tell us a
little about Pollard.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah, my son is he's certainly explosive. He's the next
play in a bottle for a defensive guy that's a
little different. And you know, he's one of those guys that, uh,
you know, you saw that on tape coming out of
junior college at Monroe. He was an All American punt
returner in the junior college ranks, and like you said,
it wasn't a lot of opportunities. He just caught the
ball and when he caught it, he usually scored a touchdown.

(34:14):
And uh, you know, you could see that he had
that capability. And we put him in some of those
situations during fall camp, some open field tackle drills and
one on one situations to see what what it would
translate to at this level. And you know, he got
enough confidence for me that I wanted to be the
guy who took the first kick return, even though he
hadn't done that in uh in junior college, he was

(34:35):
just a punt returner. And so you know, I think
he obviously probably kind was hoping that the first one
he took to the house would count and uh, and
he'd kind of jump on the scene that way. Now
he's not a secret anymore and uh, and so we
got to get points out of him some other way.
But I think it's something that he can do on
a consistent basis. He's, uh, he's a really talented football

(34:57):
player who has a lot of potential in this program.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well, there was a touchdown and the counter there were
plenty of touchdowns accounted, but one went for forty seven
yards and that was a pass from Ryan O'Connor to
a Phil Lutz that was let's I remember which catch.
It wasn't in the game, but he was target a
bunch before that, and he had eight targets in the game.
Three of them were in the end zone, four of
them were over twenty yards. Do you see him kind

(35:22):
of establishing himself a merging with Ryan O'Connor as the
maybe the deep threat, the deep man, and they see
to have a good rapport building they do.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
And you know, it's funny a lot of those things,
you know, sometimes we do. Really, hey, this is personnel wise,
this is the guy we're doing this thing too. To
be honest with you, the way we're running the offense
right now, it isn't that. It just happens to be.
He's the one who was running those routes and or,
like you said about rapport, now, the quarterback does have options.
When there are a bunch of vertical routes on a play,

(35:51):
he can choose who he thinks is going to have
the best matchup, whether it be the defensive back that
told him to do that, the secondary look where they
rolled the coverage, or his personnel not offense that he
wanted to throw to. And so some of those situations
might be that as well. And you know, he certainly
is capable of being a d threat. He's long, he's tall,
and he's fast. So you know, he's one of those
guys that he has hit twenty two miles an hour

(36:13):
on the catapult, you know, on the GPS at monitoring systems.
He's a fast kid, and he's proven to go make
some plays like that. And the more you make, you know,
we're a meritocracy at UD offense, and so the more
you make, the more you're gonna get. Well.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
As of now, he leads the nation in yards per reception.
He's doing a good job so far. A couple of
big ones this year already talk about at the top
just to some things that are relevant this week that
maybe I don't want to always get a chance to
talk about. One of them is there was a guy
that got six carries for twenty six yards at the
end of the game against North Carolina A and T.
And he's one of my favorites just from afar. I

(36:49):
don't know the guy, but Calen Costello. He is five
to ten, one hundred and eighty five pounds. He seems
to be so hard working. He is the first one
down there and on special teams every time they're a punt.
He's been doing it for years. Is he as likable
in person as he seems to be from the book?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
He is one percent that likable. Uh. He's an outstanding teammate,
outstanding player, outstanding kid. He's I mean, you know, Joe
will tell you, you know, one of those guys that you know,
everybody loves, everybody roots for because of the effort that
he puts in, and you know, he's, uh, he's our
you know, one of our best special teams player, if
not the one that that's on the most teams. And

(37:27):
he's gonna be on everything. He's gonna do it right,
and he's gonna give the best effort. And he is
fast and explosive and and fairly violent. And so he's
one of those kids that you know, it's not just
oh he's a hard worker. He's a good player. Yeah,
And and he proves it every time he goes out
there and changes games on special teams.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
And effort like that easy to root for watching him
Uber twenty five out there on special teams. And sometimes
he gets to carry before I give bring bring Gavin on,
I asked, I'm gonna ask Gavin as well. I asked
to Joe Nathan Silver, funniest player on the team, Funniest
coach on the team? Is it Rogers hands down? Or
who are going with? Funniest coach on it?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah? He and Coach Wright are probably neck and neck
Carico and he and they have no problem being funny
at each other as well. They're basically share office walls
and so you know, there's no doubt there's some comedy
competitions going back and forth with those two guys.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well, it's always a fun time and we'll get to
talk to him later on in the season, but for
an hour to take a time out, we come back.
Kevin Mole will be on the program for the first
time on ninety four seven WDSD.

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Give it up for Gavin. Gavin, thank you much so

(41:42):
much for being here. I appreciate it, no problem, thank you.
All right, Well, you played in twelve games last season,
but more so on special teams a bit. Right now
you are in the starting lineup as linebacker and just
your second year on campus. You played as a true freshman.
So what's that been like for you to come in
here and you know, not red shirt as a freshman

(42:02):
as many people do, and be able to contribute right away.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
It was awesome last year.

Speaker 21 (42:07):
You get just getting that experience on kickoff or whatever
I can get on a special team I could get
on at the time, but being behind guys like Jackson
Taylor doing trainer last year was huge in my development,
like as a player on defense, I would say, like
especially off the field too. They were huge role models
for me. Like if I need a rap Ford class.

(42:27):
If I needed to go here, they got.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Me and that's good.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
He always liked to hear that the veterans, especially a
captain like Dylan, taking care of the younger players. What
did you learn from maybe on the football field watching
guys like Jackson was fine around last season and Dylan trainer.
Now you're playing alongside him a lineup with the linebacker
and court. Did what a guy like Dylan and Jackson
teach you?

Speaker 21 (42:48):
Football wise? I mean football wise? Freshman year was pretty
much skiing picking up the playbook. It was huge, I
would say, but like right now, I would say, watching
film from last year, it's it's what.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
You do when you get to the ball. How pits cool?

Speaker 21 (43:00):
For Jackson deling Worre last year was huge and watching them.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
You talk about the playbook and learning and making that
jump from from high school to college. Dylan last season,
I think, or maybe this year, commented on your ability
to pick up the playbook so quickly. What do you
think is how do you think you're able to grasp
that so quickly? Any any study tips or how are
you able to you know, as a freshman come in

(43:23):
and be able to grasp a big playbook so quickly.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Absolutely.

Speaker 21 (43:27):
I mean just studying the playbook is huge, just putting
the time in, just looking over your responsibility. But when
you get on the field, it's all about alignment, assignment
of execution. That's what I like my mindset every play.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Well, you had execution on forcing a fumble against North
Carolina A and T. You spun the guy around, ball
popped out. Ethan Thunders was able to recover that football.
Take me through that play. What was going through your
mind and walk us through the fumble in your emotions? Yeah, sure,
a big gap responsibility.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
I saw an open gap. I took it and made
the tackle.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
I like you a great memory on yourself as well,
new new to play, and your responsibility reciting it back.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Hey, big for for Ethan and his parents. So he
coached at North Carolina ANDT. I thought that was cool.
He had he had a sack and a fund for
recovery from the fumble the U force. But were you
guys all happy for Ethan to Yeah, shine a little bit.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Absolutely, It's a great guy.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
He he certainly was a captain of last year. You
talk about, you know, being able to play right away.
Twelve games as a true freshman and now as a
sophomore here at the linebacking position. What was the biggest
transition for you from the high school level to playing
at Delaware.

Speaker 12 (44:27):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (44:27):
Yeah, I think it's just the speed of the game
is way quicker in between plays, speed of the plays
is way more accelerated than in his high school obviously.
But I mean, besides that, there's there's a lot of
there's a lot of differences between college and high school football.
But it's just about playing football.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yeah, Well, sometimes that it's all it is. You go
out there and you gotta play the game. You're gonna
be playing the game a whole lot more at the
University of Delaware. You got a many seasons left, and
I got a feeling you're gonna be a fan favorite.
We've always liked the linebackers that that are big and
strong and flying around on the field. You're gonna be
one of them. So tell our listeners that are being
introduced to you for the first time, what type of
player does University of Delaware have in Gavin Moll. How

(45:05):
would you describe yourself?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Physical kid that wants to learn. I would say that's
pretty much it. That's right, and there you go.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
And sometimes you just have to condense it down to
just a few things, and that's what you're getting. Physical
kid likes to hit. We've seen you hit, and you're
doing a great job with that. Talking with Gavin Mole,
third leading tackler this season after two games, doing a
great job. You were recruited out of Pittsburgh, near Pittsburgh.
Our former coach at Rocco was I think our entire
team was from Pittsburgh, so you would have fit in

(45:32):
a couple of seasons ago. I think everybody was from
Pittsburgh or rooted for the Steelers that we for a while,
but you're from that area. Why was Delaware the right
fit for you in terms of the recruitment process.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Well, obviously coming in here.

Speaker 21 (45:44):
When I was recruited, coach you, Honor Linebecker's coach back then,
was the guy who came to my practice and I
first met his connection to Pittsburgh was his wife actually
went to my high school, so I had that connection
right away. Coach Rojas is obviously a huge Pittsburgh guy,
so I kind of felt like the only connection through
the coaching staff. But once I got here, I would
say the huge, biggest thing was I went to a lyft.

(46:06):
I could automatically feel a team chemistry was different than
any other place I want to And the guys were
playing playing for the guys next to them. They weren't
just had worried about their individual goals.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Not a bad weight room either. When you're walking around campus.
Some some good facilities here at the University of Dela where
you mentioned high school, Bethel Park High School. And I'm
trying to learn about you and do some research in
terms of where you've been and where you're going. But
I came across a video of you with a ball
in your hand, and there is somebody trying to tackle you,

(46:37):
and you don't just stiff farm. You grab the kids
chest and just like lower him onto the turf, step
over him and score a touchdown. It was remarkable seeing
that the strength of you.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Was that a pick six?

Speaker 13 (46:47):
Or?

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Did you play some offense too? I played running back
in high school. O Hey, can you imagine trying to
bring you down? Was it tough for for kids to
like where you start running back as well?

Speaker 21 (46:55):
I was like that guy was like the rotational guy
in high school. But or a running back was hurt
a lot whre s than year. So I got a
lot of carriers.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Maybe maybe some goal line stuff. Who knows. You seem
like a big, tough guy to bring down here at
the University of Dela or maybe as well. But you're
bringing down other teams running backs. They couldn't get the
ball moving On Saturday, North Carolina A and T struggled
in the run game. Let's talk our final five questions
with Gavin Mole. Appreciate you coming on. Talk to Joe
Nathan Silver about funniest player. Asked the coach Cardy about

(47:26):
funniest coach? Who did you vote for? Who got your
vote for funniest player on the team.

Speaker 21 (47:31):
It's either between Blake Matthews or now your Dominio would say.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Two two players that have played well and made an
impact couple of pass breakups from I here Domini and
Blake Matthews are player of the week defensively for the
touchdown club window or ile on a flight. This is
referencing an airplane ride.

Speaker 21 (47:48):
You no, I was ile, but after the flight you
have control the windows. I'm gonna go window you like
that where you were window on the A and T.
There you go, it's changed. Oh, it changes your life.
Sometimes you sit on the weekend. Get a little headress
too in the wall.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Not bad. You're from Pittsburgh. The Steelers are two and oh.
Defensive guy, they've only allowed sixteen total points this season.
Tell me what the Steelers are gonna end with. What's
their final record? They're two and oh? Now what's their
final undefeated, undefeated season? Justin Field's figuring it out. And
I love the confidence for your your Do you have

(48:20):
a terrible towel?

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah? Absolutely, you go big, big Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Fan there back in Pittsburgh at Bethelot Park High School.
You have a sister Avery. She's the captain of the
lacrosse team at the high school that you attended as well.
So are you a lacrosse guy? If you weren't playing football,
what other sport would you be playing?

Speaker 3 (48:38):
I would say lacrosse.

Speaker 21 (48:39):
If I focus on a sport throughout high school besides football,
would definitely be lacrosse. But uh, yeah, I mean she's
great lacrosse player. She's obviously she's at college right now
our freshman year.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah. She. I think she has a first game this weekend.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Next next weekend, we will root for her. And then lastly,
your favorite linebacker of all time? What's your inspiration at
the linebacker position or currently I think of an all
time I would.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Say either Brian Erlacker right now Fred Warner. I mean
he's pretty good. Choices.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Well, you are going to be one of our favorite
linebackers for sure for a long time to come. Only
a sophomore, Gavin, we appreciate you coming on the show.
Appreciate it all right, keep doing what you're doing at
the University of Delaware. Will take our last time out.

Speaker 12 (49:18):
We come back.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
We'll talk with our head coach Brian Carty about those
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Speaker 4 (51:57):
The Blue Hens Football Coaches Show with Delaware head coach
Ryan Carty is presented by First State or the bat X.
You are listening to ninety four to seven WDSD and
iHeartRadio live from La Casa Pasta Restaurant in New York.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
And welcome back in to Lacasa Pasta in new Ark.
It's a Blue Hens Football Coaches Show in ninety four
to seven w DSDFM Scott Klass been here with our
head coach Ryan Carty. Final segment of the night. Getting
ready for a Penn to come to town as Delaware
back home at this Delaware stadium for the first Saturday
of the season. Coach, you know, game one of the season,
that's obviously the first game of the season, and you

(52:37):
get ready for it, you get ready for Bryant. But
that one feels a little bit like, you know, more
about us, right we talk about what's going to be
more about the Blue Hens. Game two felt a little
bit like a Game one because he had sixteen days
off of between the games and now here we are
game three of the season. Maybe with that same feeling,
may we with that more about us in our execution
because it is Penn's first game of the year. Tell

(53:00):
us a little bit about you know, the feeling of
this team going into a team this late in the
season that you don't have film.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Yeah, it's really unique, to be honest, you know, it's
not something that I've dealt with a ton and you're
not wrong, And it kind of felt like that, you know,
I felt like Week two felt kind of like Week one,
kind of like when we went back to camp almost
and in that by week and then because we had
a Thursday into a next Saturday, and then you know,
similar to this one because we're you know, rolling into

(53:27):
a team that we don't really haven't seen them play
in twenty twenty four. You know, you know, they're they're similar,
and we would think to what they'll be, you know,
on tape because they have a lot of guys back
on offense and you know, those guys that have been
there for a long time in the coaching staff on
on the defensive side of the ball. So you know,
we're expecting similarities for sure, But just like we would

(53:48):
in any game, we're you know, we're preparing for everything
and making sure that we have answers for anything, and
then obviously worrying more about you know, who we are
on offense. Defense, especially teams, and making sure that we're
really shut up on the things that we need to
do right, the execution of our fundamentals and our base package.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
If you're wondering, why is this Penn's first game of
the season, Well, this is a longer season you can
there's thirteen weeks.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
This year.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
They played ten weeks straight in the Ivy League, so
they've taken the first three weeks essentially off, and they'll
go ten weeks in a row. Penn is a team
that comes in with great history. The most games played
by any program in any division are the Penn Quakers.
John Heisman went to Penn in all modern You might
know him from a trophy named after him. A recent history.

(54:35):
They lost four games last year by combining sixteen points
four overtimes. They played a season ago and they were
eight and two and twenty twenty two beating Yale Conference champion.
So this is a team that comes up with recent
success and you talk about returning players, certainly on offense
and All Ivy quarterback that started twenty five straight games.
They've got a wide receiver that's an All American and

(54:56):
a running back that was IVY League rookie of the
year a season ago. So when you're looking at that film,
I know things might change for this year. When you're
looking at twenty twenty three film of Penn, what do
you see.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
What do they do well?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Offensively?

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Well, they're they're really sound. They make plays.

Speaker 9 (55:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
I think they do a nice job at at you know,
making sure they spread the ball around and keep it balanced.
You know, they're they're not easy to predict what they're
going to do next. They get the ball to the
quarterback's hands most of the time pretty quickly. Again not
knowing exactly what they'll be now, but understanding that, you know,
that's who they have, uh, personnel wise and talent wise.

(55:34):
I think they have nine starters back, so they're you know,
they're they're obviously going to be a team that's uh
that's going to be able to put up some points.
So hopefully we can continue to do what we've been
doing on defense, which is swarm to the ball, get
eleven hats there. Uh, you know, play do our job.
Just like Kevin said, he said, what what'd you do
on that play? I had the B gap responsibility? So
I playing the B gap And those are the things
that if we play. If we do that, we have

(55:55):
eleven guys that are doing that, the good things are
gonna happen because we're gonna believe in each other and
the guy next to us is gonna do the same thing.
And so I think that's what we need to go
out there and do.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
That was one of the more unique and best answers
I've gotten, by the way to a question. Some people
go the route of just describing what they did or
and he told us the assignment. So I love that
the depth that he was able to give us on
that and tell us a little bit about assignment football.
We took assignment football all the time. Their defense does
a good job as well. You're up against a team

(56:25):
that ranked eleventh in total defense in FCS last season,
was eleventh and rush defense as well a year ago.
So what have you seen on film that stands out
to you from a defensive point of view.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I'd say a couple of things. You know, very very
sound the football team. They're well coached and they are tough,
and then they tackle extremely well. You know, when they're
in open spaces. If you catch a four yard pass,
it's a four yard pass. If you you know, run
inside zone. You're getting under four, you know what I mean,
that's what you see on tape. Doesn't mean we're gonna
hope to do differently, of course, but that's what it

(56:58):
looks like on tape. Those guys are in the rite
gaps like when they're you know, when they're supposed to
you know, similar to what we were just talking about,
playing doing their job. When they're supposed to spill a
run right out to the linebacker who's sitting in the edge.
They're gonna do that like they're They're not gonna misplay
a gap, you know. I assume they have smart kids
as well, so it's problems. It does seem to be

(57:19):
a common theme there.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
You've got a couple of ivy leaguers that have transferred
over to your team as well. But yes, the very
intelligent kids at that Penn game. Are you gonna get
some good weather finally for a home game? I feel
like even when there was good weather, there wasn't because
we had lightning in the area, even though there was
no rain. To what are we looking like for Saturday.
I'm not a you seem to always know the four
I do.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I'm not a superstitious guy, but I think he just
changed then a broadcast.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Yeah, if I had control of the weather, the things
that I think.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
That I would do. Now we we It does look
like it's gonna be all right. You know, it said
breezy about four maybe four or five days ago. When
I was looking at the extended forecast, it did say,
calm back down, win gus. Up to fifteen will be fine.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
He knows, he's got to memorize it. You can ask
him probably some of the dates on October and he'll
be able to do.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Go out to the forty day forecast. Iaku eather every
once in a while just to make my you know,
if it says it's going to rain, I just say, yeah,
it's forty days away, we're good. If it says it's not,
I know it's not.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
There you go. It's just like that is that easy?
You should be on the news. We'd be ready to go. Lastly, coach,
great atmosphere Game number one against Brian a Thursday night.
Place was packed seventeen thousand plus in the building. Just
tell our listeners to tell a friend to bring a friend,
but describe kind of the atmosphere at Delaware Stateium when
when it's full like that.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a game changer, really. I
mean that's something you know, I think that really could
help us go ahead and win this game. I think
that you know, we have to play sound and clean
and make sure that we continue to do the things
we've been doing, like you know, create the turnovers on defense,
have one turnover and two games on offense, you know,
one hundred percent on fourth doowns, one hundred percent touchdown

(58:51):
percentage in the red zone. Those things are going to
continue to propel us to win. And those things are
really helped out by a home crowd. Those things like
creating turnovers on defense, getting defensive penalties, those things are
you know, rattling a quarterback who's somebody who's who's obviously
a very good football player for them. Those are the
things that we need help with and I think that's
something that you know, everybody in the community of Newark

(59:15):
could do for us.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Well, we look forward to it a rocket as it
always is at Delaware Stadium. Coach, thanks so much and
the best of luck. Gains Quakers appreciate you, Scott. All right,
that's our head coach, Ryan Cardi. We'll have coverage beginning
at five o'clock on WDSD and iHeartRadio. Will be back
at Klondike Kate's next week for the Coaches Show, and
then rotating here and there evenly the rest of the way.
If you want to listen to the show again or
other Delaware football interviews with coach Carty, coach Archer, and

(59:37):
some highlights, search Blue Hens on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcast. Thanks again to Ryan Cardy, Joe,
Nathan Silver and Gavin will and everyone that came out
tonight in person to watch it and to listen. For
our producer Jay Holland doing a great work back in
studio getting us on the air. I'm sacklats can say
good night, thanks for listening, and as always, go ahead.

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