November 18, 2025 • 13 mins
UND Head Football Coach Eric Schmidt discussed the team’s 35–17 win over Murray State, noting that they started the game without much “mojo” but were able to regain it as the game progressed. He emphasized that success comes from preparation built on daily discipline and consistent behaviors. By approaching each game with this mindset, he believes the team will continue to improve over time.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And we continue tonight on Honk Talk Live inside the
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Come on in, warm up, grab a beverage, grab something
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(00:23):
of you tonight inside the five oh six pub. He
goes Pure Market and join now by head football coach
Eric Schmidt and Schmiddy. First off, thanks for giving us
a few hours on again, another busy work week for
you here on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, thanks for having me. Man, good to be back.
Hard to believe it's last week of the regular season already. Man,
it's flown by.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Game twelve coming up, and it just goes like that.
So let's back up first. We've got you for tonight,
so let's kind of go through. Let's go through last
week first, and we were talking on the break. We'll
get to the football game. But part of the experience
when you go to Murray State is kind of the
experience of Murray Kentucky. Some unique accommodations for the boys
and all that good stuff that leads into an eleven
(01:05):
o'clock football game. So there's almost a game within the
game before even going the field.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Huh. Yeah, it's a little different deal. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We meet with our guys on Friday morning really try
to you know, wrap up the week, give them the
message going into the game and things like that, and
try to do as much stuff as we can in
Grand Forks. Just really feel like, hey, the later we
can get to a place we you know, you don't
have very many meetings. You meet, you eat, you go
to bed, and you get up and you play, you know,
and that's I think our guys like that. We kind
(01:31):
of refer to it as a swat team mentality. You
get in and you get out and get a win
and get back home. And we were really there for
you know, less than less than twenty hours. I think
we got in at seven o'clock on Friday night and
you know, obviously played at eleven. We're back home around
seven thirty on.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
On Saturday night. So that part was good to wake up.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, you know, any coach will tell you, like, hey,
we are huge fans of being able to play early
in the morning. I was, you know, on the West
Coast the last six years, and we were in the
you know, the nine thirty, ten thirty, you know time
slot a lot, so you're you know, you're getting done
at two o'clock Central time, you know, twelve o'clock Pacific
time out there. So just a little different as far
(02:08):
as being in a rural area, you know, trying to
find accommodations for an entire team for our travel party and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Being able to eat at one spot.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I thought, you know, we stayed at a lodge kind
of on a lake, and guys had to you know,
walk to their cottages and stuff like that in order
to in order to sleep. And you're kind of you know,
I don't want to say roughing it, but you're you're
in a it's not a you know, it's not a Marriotte.
It's you know, I mean, it's not a Hampton End
or anything like that. So it's just a little different deal.
You're out in the out in the woods a little bit.
And yeah, I just think, you know, there's a lot
(02:36):
of external factors and things like that, but obviously we
have to do a better job in the first half
of being able to get off to a better start.
But but yeah, I think it's just a little different,
you know, animal when you're traveling to some of those
spots in our league, especially you know, probably Carbondale and
Murray are are two of the tougher trips.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So you get through all of that, Like you said,
eleven o'clock kick on on Saturday, you score first, but
take us through that first half.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, I thought, you know, defensively, got off the field,
they got thirty yards on their first possession, punted, and
then you know, we went ninety yards and ten plays
bj Flanming. We had a couple of big plays to him.
He scored on a fifteen yard touchdown, and you know,
it was kind of what we had done for the
most part all year, is is starting fast. And then
I just thought, you know, we we threw a pick
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on the next possession. Defensively, we were off the field
twice on third downs and got defensive holding calls, which
were you know, probably right calls, but they led the
field goals and just kind of couldn't get our mojo going.
I just felt like, you know, just lethargic on the sidelines.
We kind of flatlined a little bit, you know, just
substitutions were slower, motions were slower.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Defensively, we weren't.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tackling, tackling at the level that I felt like we
need to tackle. And that's a great sign to know
if you're emotionally ready to play and they're just there
wasn't a lot of energy in the stadium, and then,
you know, I think that bled into us, you know,
just not not playing with the right with the right effort,
with the uh you know, with the right energy, with
the right focus. So we needed to get into halftime
and obviously challenge the guys a little bit understand like, hey,
(04:01):
this is important deal, guys like we need to obviously
be able to go on the road and win this
football game for you know, for what our goals are here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I thought they did a decent job of responding.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And obviously, coaches, you never want to think about it,
but is it could you attribute a little bit of
it maybe? I mean, you come off the weekend before
such a huge weekend, or to go to state weekend
before such a big game at South Dakota. I mean,
at some point it kind of catches up to you,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know, you'd like to think that all those
eternal external factors, Like we talk a lot about our
internal process, about our internal standards that are the most
important thing. And in football it's such a you know,
a different deal as far as you only get twelve
of these and you work all year long to be
able to, uh, you know, to be able to play
twelve games, and every single one is important. You know,
you stub your toe and all of a sudden you're
(04:43):
on the outside looking in for playoffs and conference championship
and postseason and all those types of things. So you
really try to take each week and you know, we
talk about going one and oh all the time, like
every day is important, like today's the most important day,
and then tomorrow, you know, what we have scheduled and
plan for our guys becomes most important days. So I
think that's a big part of the mantra, you know
(05:03):
what I mean, And the attitude and how we attack
and approach every single day. So I think, yeah, there's
gonna be days, you know, I do think you know,
when those things happened, good football teams you're gonna you're.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not necessarily gonna rise to the.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Level of you know, of of the occasion you're gonna
fall to the level of your training and for us
to be able to regroup and you know, come out
in the third quarter. We we had eight first downs,
they didn't have any first downs. We we we had
about one hundred and forty yards of offense. They had
twenty yards of offense. And then we outscored them fourteen
to nothing in the fourth court or in the third quarter,
and really had a chance to make it seventeen nothing.
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We missed a field goal on the last player of
the of the third quarter, and then started the fourth
really well too as well, got another strip sack. Johnny
will Shire had a huge game for us, you know,
pick six, two sacks, stripped the quarterback on one of
his sacks, and then you know, threw the ball down
in the one yard line. Dang Day made a great
made a great catch and then you know, so we're
back in the end zone. So really in about a
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eighteen minute stretch, they're starting coming out of halftime, and
it started with offensive line and started with Jerry. They
you know, Jerry had a big run right away at
the start. Our offensive line really started taking control. But
you know, we outscored them. You know in that eighteen
minutes twenty one to nothing and I'll gain them like
two hundred to forty yards.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So I think to be able to create that separation.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Then and make it twenty eight to nine, our guys
felt like, hey, you know, obviously there was some excitement
on the sideline and we just created it. We made
guys get off the bench and hey when they always up,
the d was up. You know what I mean, you
can you can get caught these days just you know,
looking at an iPad on the sideline for a long
time instead of you know, seeing what's going on with
the game. So just kind of put the iPads down
and said, hey, the most important thing is that, you know,
(06:35):
we're bringing some energy and some life to the game here.
And I think that really made a difference.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Does that start in the locker room in halftime?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Then?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
What was the messaging there? Obviously there's some frustration, but
I'm sure the guys were just as eager to get
back up for that second half too.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, they got the message.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They understood like, you know how important that game was,
and you know, if you work so hard and so
long in your season to be able to, you know,
to have meaningful games at the end of the season
that they mean something for you and for your tea
to be able to you know, advance and like I said,
you know, playoff implications and stuff like that. So they
got it, they got the message and knew, you know,
(07:07):
what they needed to do, and they understood like, hey,
it's time to reset here and and you know, it's
it is what it is. You know, you can call
it hard, but you know all of our goals are
on the other side of hard, you know, so you
gotta have to put in the work and and uh
and really do a good job of being intentional. I
just thought, you know, like I said, we needed to reset,
We needed to get in the locker room, we needed
to talk.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And then it was about going out and executing. And
that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like, hey, you can talk about it, but then you
got to go be about it in the second half,
and our guys did a good job of that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Was there a moment early in that second half where
you kind of went, Okay, now we're we've reset, Now
we're eyes forward, now we're coming back down hill.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I thought the whole you know sequence there of
you know, really running the football moving the ball down
the field. I thought our offensive line did a really
good job of you know, getting after their defensive front
and really creating some holes for Sawyer. And then Jerry
made a play you know on third and two where
they had a good play and actually had him dead
to right and he made a guy miss and then
and then fell forward for the first down. And so
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we go in and score there, which was big. And
then coming out three plays later off of our next possession,
being able to get to pick six, I think really
changed the momentum. I thought, you know, they probably started
to lose some belief after that that hey, that this
could be their day. And then once again, you know,
taking the ball and marching it right down. So I
don't know if there was necessarily one play. I just
think it was you know, us being able to grab momentum,
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get it on our sideline and then you know, just
bleed it out for as much as we could there
to try to create as much separation. Our guys did
a good job of keeping the momentum on our sideline.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Can you benefit as a group coming out of that? Obviously,
you get to win, You get the result, especially when
you can bank on that second half, but just having
to go through it right. It didn't just fall into
your lap Saturday morning. You guys had to kind of
fight through some stuff and he came out ahead of
it by doing things the right way.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, it wasn't our best day.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know, we played one really good half and was
the second half of football. And I think, you know,
there's something to be said that you're gonna have to
win ugly at times, and that's when I think you
fall back on your culture, You fall back on your training,
you fall back on all the things that you know
that you've worked on throughout the entire process. And you know,
when you can win some of those games when you know, hey,
the ball's not bouncing your way, you got some penalties
(09:07):
and some crucial moments, you know, you don't you know,
maybe have you know, the the energy, you know, the focus,
the effort and those types of things. I think you
know kind of wait a little bit there in the
second quarter. But to go out and still be able
to win and and maybe not have your a game,
I think you're gonna have to do that maybe once
or twice a season. You know'll find a way, you know,
(09:28):
just maybe when you're not feeling the best, and our
guys did a good job of, like I said, regrouping
and refocusing and then going out and really doing it
in the third quarter and creates not wait until the
end of the game where Elvis sudden becomes hey man,
like one possession, you're putting yourself at risk. We were
able to get separation and get that thing to you know,
thirty five to seventeen in the fourth and really feel,
you know, like we had we had things under control.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And sometimes it can come back down the road when
you get into a grind that is a playoff type game,
when you know both teams could be in the same situation.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For sure, like you got to you know, I think
you know, I'm always talking about with our guys all
the time, like, hey man, Smart people learn from their mistakes.
Wise people learn from other people's mistakes. And you're going
to get in those situations and you've got to do
a good job of being able to not just draw
and uh and learn from your successes, but learn from
your failures too as well, you know. And I think
that's a big part of our culture is learning from mistakes,
(10:18):
you know, and doing a good job of making sure
that Hey, even if you win, there's still a lot
of learns in those games, you know that you can
get better at, and we tried as a staff to
great them the same, no matter if we win or lose,
you know, no matter if it's November or August, like,
we want to be consistent in what the standard is
and what they need to do, you know, every single
day in order to be successful.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And obviously coming off of a couple of tough results,
go down there and go through what you have to
go through. Do you feel like the group's kind of
maybe back, you get a little bit of that swinger back,
that group back coming into the final week?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, I don't know if there was really And you've
said that a lot of that was really the question.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think it's different if you you know, when when
the game's coming down and you know, the NBSU game
came down to you know, we're throwing it in the
end zone to win the game and the guy makes
a hell of a pick, Like, you know, it's different.
I think if you're just leaving the field, you know,
and lose by forty, you're like, hey, we're not close here.
With when you leave the field and feel like, you know,
they had ten first downs, you had twenty two first downs,
you had the ball you know longer, and you still,
(11:12):
you know, lost the game. It's like, you know, you
put yourself in those situations enough, you're going to be
able to win those games more times than then you're not.
So I don't know if our guys really have ever
felt like, you know, hey man, there's something wrong here,
Like I don't believe in the call. I don't think
that you know something's good is going to happen. I
think that's how you you know, that's how you gain confidence.
Is one, it's your preparation, Like, hey man, I feel like,
(11:33):
you know, I'm prepared here, that I've done, you know,
the work necessary in order to be successful. I feel capable,
you know, of being able to do it two as well,
and then I feel like, hey, if I do it
and do it to the best of my ability, that.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
We're going to be successful.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And that's not to say that hey, one hundred percent
of the time, like things happen in sports, but hey,
ninety percent of the time, like I feel like, hey,
I'm trained and I'm I'm ready to go, and if
I get in those situations, I'm going to be successful.
And if it doesn't happen, like I can handle that
too as well, knowing that, hey, more times than not,
because of you know, my work and and and and
because of my preparation, I'm going to be uh, you know,
I'm gonna be successful here.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's going to make you feel pretty proud as a
head coach. If that's the default, right, guys are going
to come fall back on that when they need to.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I mean that that is what you know, everything
is built upon in my in my opinion, it's it's
everything that we've done, and it's our process, you know,
it's your We talk a lot about that about hey,
your daily disciplines, you know, your daily behaviors, and how
that's how you're going to get to where you want
to get to.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's not about the outcome.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You know a lot of people will will talk about, hey,
I want to play in the NFL, I want to
start in college, I want to you know, be all
these things. Well, you're not in control of that. You're
in control of what you do every single day, and
it's your daily disciplines, it's your you know your daily
behaviors and you keep doing things the right way, and
you keep stacking those one and o's and win a
meeting and win a game and win a practice. And
that's how you're going to be able to improve, you know,
(12:50):
steadily off of this and and kind of climb that
ladder and get yourself to, uh to where you want
to get to. And that's that that I think is
you know, really embedded in our guys. Like you know,
they'll they'll talk about that all the time that hey man,
real work equals real confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like, you know, we made it hard on them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think you got to be able to you know,
embrace some productive discomfort you know, in your life. Like
I mean, that's when we talk about our culture and
being a junkyard dog, like we're really talking about that,
you know this week like hey man, like they're gonna
have to choke us out in order to beat us
like a true competitor. Man, They're gonna be able to
play one more play than their opponent, you know, to
be able to win a football game.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And that's what it's gonna take this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure focus is shift, you go down. You get your
seventh win by doing what you needed to do since
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us very cozy inside in the cool mid November weather outside.
Come on in, warm up, grab a beverage, grab something
to eat if you'd like, grab your groceries. If you
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(00:23):
of you tonight inside the five oh six pub. He
goes Pure Market and join now by head football coach
Eric Schmidt and Schmiddy. First off, thanks for giving us
a few hours on again, another busy work week for
you here on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, thanks for having me. Man, good to be back.
Hard to believe it's last week of the regular season already. Man,
it's flown by.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Game twelve coming up, and it just goes like that.
So let's back up first. We've got you for tonight,
so let's kind of go through. Let's go through last
week first, and we were talking on the break. We'll
get to the football game. But part of the experience
when you go to Murray State is kind of the
experience of Murray Kentucky. Some unique accommodations for the boys
and all that good stuff that leads into an eleven
(01:05):
o'clock football game. So there's almost a game within the
game before even going the field.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Huh. Yeah, it's a little different deal. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We meet with our guys on Friday morning really try
to you know, wrap up the week, give them the
message going into the game and things like that, and
try to do as much stuff as we can in
Grand Forks. Just really feel like, hey, the later we
can get to a place we you know, you don't
have very many meetings. You meet, you eat, you go
to bed, and you get up and you play, you know,
and that's I think our guys like that. We kind
(01:31):
of refer to it as a swat team mentality. You
get in and you get out and get a win
and get back home. And we were really there for
you know, less than less than twenty hours. I think
we got in at seven o'clock on Friday night and
you know, obviously played at eleven. We're back home around
seven thirty on.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
On Saturday night. So that part was good to wake up.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, you know, any coach will tell you, like, hey,
we are huge fans of being able to play early
in the morning. I was, you know, on the West
Coast the last six years, and we were in the
you know, the nine thirty, ten thirty, you know time
slot a lot, so you're you know, you're getting done
at two o'clock Central time, you know, twelve o'clock Pacific
time out there. So just a little different as far
(02:08):
as being in a rural area, you know, trying to
find accommodations for an entire team for our travel party and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Being able to eat at one spot.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I thought, you know, we stayed at a lodge kind
of on a lake, and guys had to you know,
walk to their cottages and stuff like that in order
to in order to sleep. And you're kind of you know,
I don't want to say roughing it, but you're you're
in a it's not a you know, it's not a Marriotte.
It's you know, I mean, it's not a Hampton End
or anything like that. So it's just a little different deal.
You're out in the out in the woods a little bit.
And yeah, I just think, you know, there's a lot
(02:36):
of external factors and things like that, but obviously we
have to do a better job in the first half
of being able to get off to a better start.
But but yeah, I think it's just a little different,
you know, animal when you're traveling to some of those
spots in our league, especially you know, probably Carbondale and
Murray are are two of the tougher trips.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So you get through all of that, Like you said,
eleven o'clock kick on on Saturday, you score first, but
take us through that first half.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, I thought, you know, defensively, got off the field,
they got thirty yards on their first possession, punted, and
then you know, we went ninety yards and ten plays
bj Flanming. We had a couple of big plays to him.
He scored on a fifteen yard touchdown, and you know,
it was kind of what we had done for the
most part all year, is is starting fast. And then
I just thought, you know, we we threw a pick
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on the next possession. Defensively, we were off the field
twice on third downs and got defensive holding calls, which
were you know, probably right calls, but they led the
field goals and just kind of couldn't get our mojo going.
I just felt like, you know, just lethargic on the sidelines.
We kind of flatlined a little bit, you know, just
substitutions were slower, motions were slower.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Defensively, we weren't.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tackling, tackling at the level that I felt like we
need to tackle. And that's a great sign to know
if you're emotionally ready to play and they're just there
wasn't a lot of energy in the stadium, and then,
you know, I think that bled into us, you know,
just not not playing with the right with the right effort,
with the uh you know, with the right energy, with
the right focus. So we needed to get into halftime
and obviously challenge the guys a little bit understand like, hey,
(04:01):
this is important deal, guys like we need to obviously
be able to go on the road and win this
football game for you know, for what our goals are here.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And I thought they did a decent job of responding.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And obviously, coaches, you never want to think about it,
but is it could you attribute a little bit of
it maybe? I mean, you come off the weekend before
such a huge weekend, or to go to state weekend
before such a big game at South Dakota. I mean,
at some point it kind of catches up to you,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know, you'd like to think that all those
eternal external factors, Like we talk a lot about our
internal process, about our internal standards that are the most
important thing. And in football it's such a you know,
a different deal as far as you only get twelve
of these and you work all year long to be
able to, uh, you know, to be able to play
twelve games, and every single one is important. You know,
you stub your toe and all of a sudden you're
(04:43):
on the outside looking in for playoffs and conference championship
and postseason and all those types of things. So you
really try to take each week and you know, we
talk about going one and oh all the time, like
every day is important, like today's the most important day,
and then tomorrow, you know, what we have scheduled and
plan for our guys becomes most important days. So I
think that's a big part of the mantra, you know
(05:03):
what I mean, And the attitude and how we attack
and approach every single day. So I think, yeah, there's
gonna be days, you know, I do think you know,
when those things happened, good football teams you're gonna you're.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not necessarily gonna rise to the.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Level of you know, of of the occasion you're gonna
fall to the level of your training and for us
to be able to regroup and you know, come out
in the third quarter. We we had eight first downs,
they didn't have any first downs. We we we had
about one hundred and forty yards of offense. They had
twenty yards of offense. And then we outscored them fourteen
to nothing in the fourth court or in the third quarter,
and really had a chance to make it seventeen nothing.
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We missed a field goal on the last player of
the of the third quarter, and then started the fourth
really well too as well, got another strip sack. Johnny
will Shire had a huge game for us, you know,
pick six, two sacks, stripped the quarterback on one of
his sacks, and then you know, threw the ball down
in the one yard line. Dang Day made a great
made a great catch and then you know, so we're
back in the end zone. So really in about a
(05:56):
eighteen minute stretch, they're starting coming out of halftime, and
it started with offensive line and started with Jerry. They
you know, Jerry had a big run right away at
the start. Our offensive line really started taking control. But
you know, we outscored them. You know in that eighteen
minutes twenty one to nothing and I'll gain them like
two hundred to forty yards.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So I think to be able to create that separation.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Then and make it twenty eight to nine, our guys
felt like, hey, you know, obviously there was some excitement
on the sideline and we just created it. We made
guys get off the bench and hey when they always up,
the d was up. You know what I mean, you
can you can get caught these days just you know,
looking at an iPad on the sideline for a long
time instead of you know, seeing what's going on with
the game. So just kind of put the iPads down
and said, hey, the most important thing is that, you know,
(06:35):
we're bringing some energy and some life to the game here.
And I think that really made a difference.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Does that start in the locker room in halftime?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Then?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
What was the messaging there? Obviously there's some frustration, but
I'm sure the guys were just as eager to get
back up for that second half too.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, they got the message.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They understood like, you know how important that game was,
and you know, if you work so hard and so
long in your season to be able to, you know,
to have meaningful games at the end of the season
that they mean something for you and for your tea
to be able to you know, advance and like I said,
you know, playoff implications and stuff like that. So they
got it, they got the message and knew, you know,
(07:07):
what they needed to do, and they understood like, hey,
it's time to reset here and and you know, it's
it is what it is. You know, you can call
it hard, but you know all of our goals are
on the other side of hard, you know, so you
gotta have to put in the work and and uh
and really do a good job of being intentional. I
just thought, you know, like I said, we needed to reset,
We needed to get in the locker room, we needed
to talk.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And then it was about going out and executing. And
that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like, hey, you can talk about it, but then you
got to go be about it in the second half,
and our guys did a good job of that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Was there a moment early in that second half where
you kind of went, Okay, now we're we've reset, Now
we're eyes forward, now we're coming back down hill.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I thought the whole you know sequence there of
you know, really running the football moving the ball down
the field. I thought our offensive line did a really
good job of you know, getting after their defensive front
and really creating some holes for Sawyer. And then Jerry
made a play you know on third and two where
they had a good play and actually had him dead
to right and he made a guy miss and then
and then fell forward for the first down. And so
(08:00):
we go in and score there, which was big. And
then coming out three plays later off of our next possession,
being able to get to pick six, I think really
changed the momentum. I thought, you know, they probably started
to lose some belief after that that hey, that this
could be their day. And then once again, you know,
taking the ball and marching it right down. So I
don't know if there was necessarily one play. I just
think it was you know, us being able to grab momentum,
(08:21):
get it on our sideline and then you know, just
bleed it out for as much as we could there
to try to create as much separation. Our guys did
a good job of keeping the momentum on our sideline.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Can you benefit as a group coming out of that? Obviously,
you get to win, You get the result, especially when
you can bank on that second half, but just having
to go through it right. It didn't just fall into
your lap Saturday morning. You guys had to kind of
fight through some stuff and he came out ahead of
it by doing things the right way.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, it wasn't our best day.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know, we played one really good half and was
the second half of football. And I think, you know,
there's something to be said that you're gonna have to
win ugly at times, and that's when I think you
fall back on your culture, You fall back on your training,
you fall back on all the things that you know
that you've worked on throughout the entire process. And you know,
when you can win some of those games when you know, hey,
the ball's not bouncing your way, you got some penalties
(09:07):
and some crucial moments, you know, you don't you know,
maybe have you know, the the energy, you know, the focus,
the effort and those types of things. I think you
know kind of wait a little bit there in the
second quarter. But to go out and still be able
to win and and maybe not have your a game,
I think you're gonna have to do that maybe once
or twice a season. You know'll find a way, you know,
(09:28):
just maybe when you're not feeling the best, and our
guys did a good job of, like I said, regrouping
and refocusing and then going out and really doing it
in the third quarter and creates not wait until the
end of the game where Elvis sudden becomes hey man,
like one possession, you're putting yourself at risk. We were
able to get separation and get that thing to you know,
thirty five to seventeen in the fourth and really feel,
you know, like we had we had things under control.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And sometimes it can come back down the road when
you get into a grind that is a playoff type game,
when you know both teams could be in the same situation.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
For sure, like you got to you know, I think
you know, I'm always talking about with our guys all
the time, like, hey man, Smart people learn from their mistakes.
Wise people learn from other people's mistakes. And you're going
to get in those situations and you've got to do
a good job of being able to not just draw
and uh and learn from your successes, but learn from
your failures too as well, you know. And I think
that's a big part of our culture is learning from mistakes,
(10:18):
you know, and doing a good job of making sure
that Hey, even if you win, there's still a lot
of learns in those games, you know that you can
get better at, and we tried as a staff to
great them the same, no matter if we win or lose,
you know, no matter if it's November or August, like,
we want to be consistent in what the standard is
and what they need to do, you know, every single
day in order to be successful.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And obviously coming off of a couple of tough results,
go down there and go through what you have to
go through. Do you feel like the group's kind of
maybe back, you get a little bit of that swinger back,
that group back coming into the final week?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, I don't know if there was really And you've
said that a lot of that was really the question.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I think it's different if you you know, when when
the game's coming down and you know, the NBSU game
came down to you know, we're throwing it in the
end zone to win the game and the guy makes
a hell of a pick, Like, you know, it's different.
I think if you're just leaving the field, you know,
and lose by forty, you're like, hey, we're not close here.
With when you leave the field and feel like, you know,
they had ten first downs, you had twenty two first downs,
you had the ball you know longer, and you still,
(11:12):
you know, lost the game. It's like, you know, you
put yourself in those situations enough, you're going to be
able to win those games more times than then you're not.
So I don't know if our guys really have ever
felt like, you know, hey man, there's something wrong here,
Like I don't believe in the call. I don't think
that you know something's good is going to happen. I
think that's how you you know, that's how you gain confidence.
Is one, it's your preparation, Like, hey man, I feel like,
(11:33):
you know, I'm prepared here, that I've done, you know,
the work necessary in order to be successful. I feel capable,
you know, of being able to do it two as well,
and then I feel like, hey, if I do it
and do it to the best of my ability, that.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
We're going to be successful.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And that's not to say that hey, one hundred percent
of the time, like things happen in sports, but hey,
ninety percent of the time, like I feel like, hey,
I'm trained and I'm I'm ready to go, and if
I get in those situations, I'm going to be successful.
And if it doesn't happen, like I can handle that
too as well, knowing that, hey, more times than not,
because of you know, my work and and and and
because of my preparation, I'm going to be uh, you know,
I'm gonna be successful here.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's going to make you feel pretty proud as a
head coach. If that's the default, right, guys are going
to come fall back on that when they need to.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I mean that that is what you know, everything
is built upon in my in my opinion, it's it's
everything that we've done, and it's our process, you know,
it's your We talk a lot about that about hey,
your daily disciplines, you know, your daily behaviors, and how
that's how you're going to get to where you want
to get to.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's not about the outcome.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You know a lot of people will will talk about, hey,
I want to play in the NFL, I want to
start in college, I want to you know, be all
these things. Well, you're not in control of that. You're
in control of what you do every single day, and
it's your daily disciplines, it's your you know your daily
behaviors and you keep doing things the right way, and
you keep stacking those one and o's and win a
meeting and win a game and win a practice. And
that's how you're going to be able to improve, you know,
(12:50):
steadily off of this and and kind of climb that
ladder and get yourself to, uh to where you want
to get to. And that's that that I think is
you know, really embedded in our guys. Like you know,
they'll they'll talk about that all the time that hey man,
real work equals real confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like, you know, we made it hard on them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think you got to be able to you know,
embrace some productive discomfort you know, in your life. Like
I mean, that's when we talk about our culture and
being a junkyard dog, like we're really talking about that,
you know this week like hey man, like they're gonna
have to choke us out in order to beat us
like a true competitor. Man, They're gonna be able to
play one more play than their opponent, you know, to
be able to win a football game.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And that's what it's gonna take this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure focus is shift, you go down. You get your
seventh win by doing what you needed to do since
up a big week. Stay put, We're going to take
a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about
that week that's coming up south to go to State.
We'll preview the matchup with the jack Rabbits. Don't go away.
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