August 28, 2025 - The Bulldogs Football Hour With Head Coach Matt Entz & DB Camryn Bracha, Hosted by Paul Loeffler

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
On the Bulldog Sports Network from Learfield. This is the
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live from the Point Pattio barring Bistro. Here's your host,
the Voice of the Bulldogs, Paul Leffler.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, here we are at the Point Patio bar and pistro.
Nice and comfortable. The misters are on, got some Bulldog
fans in the house.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
But room for a few more.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're here till six thirty and we're gonna be giving
away a pair of red seats to the home opener
against Georgia Southern Saturday night, six thirty.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Kick the Athletic Director.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Garrett Classi even sent out a rechweet said he'd add
a blue lot parking pass to that for you, So
you're going to be set if you're the big tonight.
We're also giving away some snazzy bulldog hats, but you
must be present to win. If you've got questions for
the coach, you can join us here or you can
send them our way on the XAP with the hashtag
ask fs. Cam Broca Senior Safety is going to be
showing up later as well to talk some bulldog football.

(01:16):
But I realize last week I messed up. I did
not give the new head coach, Matt Enz a proper introduction,
because when he comes down the ramp of Valley Children's Stadium,
the voice that everyone's gonna hear is the voice of
Valley Children's Stadium, Matt Leeavers. So let's see if we
can give the coach a better introduction this time the.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
He will be folding the steps of Jim Sweeney, Pat Hill,
Jeff Tedford walking his bulldogs down that ramp on Saturday night.
He's the head coach of your bulldogs, Ladies and gentlemen,
Matt ends.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Is that better coach? That was pretty good? I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thanks Matt Hey, warmy, come back real quick, just for
old time sake. Since he made the Chiefs fifty three
man roster, can you give us one more?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Nico Ramihio Oh, I'm very excited for my guy to
return punts.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nico Raight, I think you should get royalties every time
his name is said somewhere because I think you introduced
a new way to sank you. Well, now we can
get going with the Bulldog Football Hour again. Cam Broca
will be here later. Garrett Classy, the athletic director, said
he's coming to so if you haven't met him yet,

(02:23):
you can meet all these Bulldogs. And Garrett had some
news that came out today too about a better fan
experience at the stadium and some great opportunities for Bulldog fans.
So we got a lot to talk about in the
next hour. But coach, I'm sure your team's been pretty
focused on the task at hand this week. Can you
help before we even talk about the Kansas game, can
you help the fans here at the point and those
listening understand how significant a challenge you're up against with

(02:46):
Clay Hilton and Georgia Southern this week.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Really good football team on both sides of the football.
They have some they have some depth, they have some
returning players. They have a young man who's been their
starting quarterback who's returning through for twenty eight hundred ran
for three hundred. Play us two excellent receivers that can
you know, can take it the distance, explosive Defensively, they

(03:08):
got a huge noseguard that's gonna cost some issues. That
is probably six three three fifty five. Gonna be a
long day for Jacobs pomer and so we have we've
we've let them know that all week long. And then
you know they have two returning linebackers, both corners are
coming back, and so uh they have some intriguing pieces,

(03:29):
well coached football team, a ton of speed coming out
of South Georgia.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
I don't think the heat's gonna affect them any because
they're coming from a spot that'll be much more drier
than probably what they're used to. So we're gonna have
to be ready to go from the get go. We
got to start fast. I told our guys today as
we were walking off the field, we got to cut
it loose. We can't get caught up in the lights,
are concerned about making mistakes. We just got to go
attack the game plan and get after Georgia Southern.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And I know earlier this week when you addressed all
the media, you said it a few times. Learn burn
and return and that I think people understand what you're
talking about with that, but maybe you can walk us
through how that works to the course of the week
and how far along that continuum you guys are now
is we're less than forty eight hours away from that
kick Well.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
You know, I just I think sometimes, unfortunately, with the
advent of the phone, social media, everyone gets caught up
on comparison. And so my thing is, let's let's let's
learn from our mistakes. Either your winning or you're learning
on Saturday. Let's let's make sure on Monday that we're
doing a great job. We're doing a diligent job of
talking about some of the issues. How do we correct them?

(04:37):
But then we got to get back to our process.
We can't sit around and feel sorry for ourselves. I
said it before. We can't let one turn into two.
We need to go into it with a clear mind, aggressive.
We got to be ready to learn. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
we got thrown a little bit of adversity this week.
I don't know where this, this thunderstorm came from. On Tuesday,

(04:58):
but we were we were shoot off the practice field
a little bit before we were done. We didn't get
a full practice in but we brought them back that
evening for a little walkthrough, and our kids handled it,
you know, And I think as our coaches continue to
create continuity, our players see our coaches handle things appropriately.
I hopefully I handle things appropriately, and they don't overreact.

(05:19):
They don't see panic, They see, hey, we have the answers,
we have the solutions internally, and we just needed to
get back to work. You know, the last thing you
want to do after a loss is go in there
and start changing everything or think you got to reinvent
the world. Let's get back to work and let's do
what we're Let's do what we said we were going
to do, and let's focus on the little things and
the details.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, I think everybody was wondering where that thunderstorm came from.
Maybe I followed you home from Kansas Kansas said, hey,
the weather was two nice Saturday. We need to give
you a little bit of this. What's maybe the biggest
thing you learned about your players results aside by taking
that trip with them, seeing the way they handled the
ups and downs of a couple days away from home

(06:00):
and being together.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, they they handled themselves outstanding.

Speaker 8 (06:04):
You know.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
The travel. Part of the of the trip was tremendous.
They have been very professional, you know, handled themselves on
the plane, in the hotel. I couldn't ask for more
than that. We got some great young men on our
football roster. The thing that that that I think caught
up to us is and again, we need to be
able to let things roll off our back. We can't that.

(06:26):
There was a there was a sequence of plays late
in the second quarter. We were playing pretty well twenty
one seven offensively, We had played okay up to that point.
We were moving the ball, had the ball past midfield
plus forty five forty yard line, and it's third and
two manageable.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
A short third down.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
What we talk about, we're ahead of the chains and
we have one of those administrative penalties.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's the only one of the day. And then all
of a.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Sudden we throw a pick the next one and you
just see the body language just you know, I like,
here it goes again. It's all, you know, same old story.
And we have to be able to work through our
problems at times. We got to be able to let's
let's we'll talk about those things later. We have a
football game. Do you only have x number. Let's make
sure we take advantage of it. But you know that's

(07:13):
something that I think I can now that I have
seen our players in competition, have seen them in the moment.
I think, just by how maybe I handle myself in
those moments, maybe they'll become you know, they'll do seey
head coaches at paniccing why are we right now? And
you know we I need to do a great job
of leading our team. We need our veterans to do
a great job of leading our team. Because we knew

(07:34):
ups and downs are going to happen in this game.
You got to be willing to, you know, play through
the problems at times, and we didn't. Right then we
all of a sudden we were on our heels and
it was woe was us? And we got to be
better than that.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
And Saturday night brings that opportunity. Six thirty five will
be the kickoff at Valley Children Stadium. Get in the
stadium early and you can get your beverages a little cheaper.
Our pregame coverage we'll start at four thirty Saturday from
Bulldog Bull of and Isaiah Green will be out there
starting the tailgate show. I have some special guests on hand.
In six thirty five is when it all kicks off,

(08:08):
the home opener, first time Matt Enz gets to coach
in Valley Children's Stadium. I don't know, maybe that's not
as big a deal as it sounds to us because
football is football and it's you never make it about yourself.
But if you thought about what that's going to be
like to walk into that stadium with all the history
for the first time, with a chance to give the

(08:29):
stadium it's two hundredth Bulldog win on sitia.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, I'm super excited.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
I'm super excited to along with the players and the
coaches we have in our program to.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Get a big w in front.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Of the Red Wave, make sure that we're putting a
product on the field that everyone here in the Central
Valley can be excited about and see the improvement from
week one to week two, but also see a product
that hey, this is a this is a program that's
building to be sustainable, one that's going to have years
of success in the PAC twelve in the Mountain West

(09:02):
this year. But yeah, people have bragged up the experience
now and so I am ready to see what it's like.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Uh, you know, from you know, JD.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Williams and Delvon Hardaway, John Baxter, some of the guys
that we've kept from your former Bulldogs that have been.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Here for years. You know, I hear the stories of
the energy, the.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Excitement, uh that red wave brings on game day and
so uh there's a big piece of me that I
can't wait for the first third down that Georgia Southern
has and let's see how this fan, how this, how
this stadium and how this this fan?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Uh, the fans react to that moment. It's gotta be fun.
A lot of new things.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
New turf got the Green V section making its debut
an F fifteen flyover before the ball game and hopefully
it sold out crowd. If Reresno State's trying to lead
the nation in attendance outside the Power Conferences for a
third straight year, you need to get off to a
good start.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
And that's Saturday night, six thirty.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
If you don't have tickets, go Bulldogs dot com or
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We're giving away a pair of red seats tonight if
you join us at the Point Patio Bar and Bistro.
We're gonna be here till six thirty and before I
catch the break, Coach, maybe I need to ask you
that really really important question. Last week we were here
at the Point, what'd you have for dinner?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
And how was it? Patti Melt?

Speaker 6 (10:16):
And I've had it a couple of times, but Paul,
you're gonna find this out. I'm kind of a superstitious person.

Speaker 9 (10:23):
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Speaker 6 (10:23):
Oh, so odds are I will not be having the
Patti Melt again tonight. Get the big they have a
diverse menu. Not because it was great. It was great,
and I hope the people here took that positively. But
I'm gonna find what is right for me to be eating.
And uh, We're gonna get this thing going and I'll
probably have it again next week.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, we'll explore more of the superstitions as the season
goes on. And if I ever do something that violates
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Speaker 2 (14:08):
You'll hear that voice of Pat Hill Saturday Presno State's
home opener six thirty kick against Georgia's Southern four thirties.
When our pregame coverage starts, Cam Morell will be there too,
and the head coach of the Bulldogs, Matt Enttz, will
be there. He'll be making his Valley Children's Stadium debut.
He's here tonight at the Point Patti Obar and Bistro
till six thirty. Cam brocasing your safety on his way

(14:29):
as well. We're giving away tickets to that game. We're
giving away some Bulldog hats and you can meet the coach.
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from Georgia to see you, coach, and she's rooting for
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in Georgia.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
I love it all the way from I'm excited to
have you here.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
So let's talk about that presno State defense because he
talked about wanting to be physical. Yep, and your background
is defense. What's the good, the bad, and the ugly
that you saw Saturday and how different is it gonna
look this Saturday in your mind?

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Well, yeah, let's let's let's start with the things that
we got to continue to improve on. Uh, you know,
getting our cleats in the ground for some of the
tempo that Kansas gave us. You know, Georgia Southern's going
to try to do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I mean, we are. You know, this sport is a
copycat sport.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
And if you struggle with something, your next week's opponent
is going to try to check your oil to see
if you've worked on it. And so that's something that
and and tied with that is communication.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Those two things have to go together. Uh. And then
continuing just to it's it's a.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
It's a never ending process of becoming better at block
destruction and tackling is always critical. But you know, I
thought some of the things that that we did well
you look at I.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Thought we played with great energy and effort. I I.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Thought holding that fourth quarter, shutout one touchdown the second half,
we kind of finally kind of got our feet in
the ground and got comfortable the other one. You know,
Kansas was two to ten on third down. Yeah, and
if you people to twenty percent, you're probably ranked number
one in the country at the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
And last year they were number two in the nation
in third down conversion, right, So.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I wouldn't even know, ye, So yeah, So, I mean
there was some positives in there, you know, big fourth
down stop late in the game, you know, little things
like that. But just you know, how we start our approach.
We we got to come out faster, we got to
in finish strong. Then at the end, of course.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
And you still really haven't had all that much time
with this group of guys. You've been around football your
whole life, but you're still getting to know some of
these guys. With everything you and your coaching staff have invested,
I'm sure there were some revealing moments along the way,
and it sounded like even the locker room right after
the game was one of them just wondering how your
players were going to respond. It sounded like some of
them kind of stepped into a leadership role.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
You know sometimes as a as a head coach, you're
you're always trying to feel what the the.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Attitude, the mentality of your team is.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
And before I even got there, there was veterans and
seniors addressing that this isn't going to cut it. This
isn't the standard that we've come to come to, you know,
realize here at Fresno State, this isn't This was not
what Coachensen wants. I mean, I just stood there for
a couple of minutes and let them, you know, do
their thing. Because if we can be a player led team,

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we'll have the ability to be really good. If I
have to be the guy, and I sure will be
the be the leader, we'll be solid.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
But we won't we won't reach our potential.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
And I'm just guessing, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
guessing that approach or that philosophy is something you developed
over time, maybe learn from experience, and what works, what doesn't.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Well, and just having seen it, I mean that's what's
great about you know, every year you go into it.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
This is my thirty first year of coaching. It's all
about that year.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
And guess what this team right now, this twenty twenty
five Fresno State team will be completely different than the
twenty sixteen because there's different people, different faces, different characters,
different adversity, different issues that come up. Now two years
are over the same, so you better appreciate the one
that you're in. And but it is fun to see
young men willing to step out because you know, unfortunately

(18:09):
being a leader sometimes isn't the cool thing to do anymore.
But it's fun to see that we have some young
men that are willing to put themselves out there.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Hey man, we're talking to coach Matt Enz. We're here
at the Point Patti Obar and Bistro till six thirty
tonight the Bulldog Football Hour. Cambraca seeing your safety from
right here in Clovis is going to join us as well.
We're giving away tickets and hats and if you have
a question for the coach, you can ask it here
in person by using the old fashioned pen and paper,
or you can send it on Twitter or the x
app now with the hashtag ask fs. That's what an

(18:40):
account called sidelines Fresno State has done. They asked what
you're most excited about in your Valley Children's Stadium debut.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
You touched on that already.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Here's another one said, what is one area you expect
improvement in from last week and what would you like
to see from Warner this weekend? You talked about the
defensive improvement you're looking for, maybe Warner in the offense.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, offensively, we we got to stay ahead of the chains.
You know, we were in We were in twelve third
and fours pluses on Saturday and it's it's and we
were still fifty percent. Yeah, can you believe it? Fifty
percent success rate on third down get you in the
top five probably in the country. But we just can't.
We can't be in third and four plus the all

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night long. And so being better on early downs first down,
second down, way too many Coach Davis was handcuffed at times.
Just too many first and fifteen's, first or second and thirteens.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
We had a.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Negative play, you know, a TfL or whatever it might be.
You know, on an early down and all of a sudden,
now you know you don't have a lot of plays
for you know, second and fifteen. There's just not in
the in the in the arsenal, and you don't plan
on those things. And so if we can clean that up,
I think we can stay on the field longer, We'll
have more time of possession and it all affects everything

(19:56):
U and then EJ needs to just again going back
back to some moments of frustration that we had as
a as a program. He's got to let those things slide.
Let's let's talk about a Monday move on.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
We're talking to coach Matt Enz and you know, I'm
as you're talking about the offense, I'm flashing back to
some of those moments. Josiah Freeman's had some big games
before it was hurt most of last year.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Is good to see.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Him running well making some plays. And the other guy
that stood out to me as far as getting open
and then catching a couple of balls in those third
down situations was Zeke a vi yep yep chosopher who
really didn't play much last year at Maryland.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
No great addition got got outstanding speed, the ability to
take the top off him and along with Josiah on
the as the outside receivers, two tremendous receivers.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I think we're blessed to have them.

Speaker 15 (20:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then we have a I think we have a
we have a.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
Very inexperienced receiver room, but very talented receiving.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
They just need more reps. Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
You know, jam Ferrar, Julio McClain, a young man right
from right here in town, Harold Duvall, Jordan Brown. You know,
there's a couple others that guys just just help us,
you know, And so you know, I think that room's
going to continue to elevate. You know, delbon Hardaway does
a tremendous job coach in that group.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
And you mentioned little things and then you just said,
Jordan Brown, it reminded me of the play right before
halftime that a lot of teams, if you mess up
just a little bit, you cost the team, and a
lot of guys when they touch the ball, they just
want to run forever. And he knew to get down,
you got the time out, you at least set up
a field goal attempt, and that, to me, that was
one of those little things said, Okay, these guys are
on the same page.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
We are.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
Two minute drill is something that we do, you know,
multiple times a week. The offense, he can't do it enough.
And we anticipate this year being in some nail whiders,
and so we need to be the best prepared team
that is out there on Saturday. And you're exactly right
for him to catch it, surrender himself to allow us
to have one more play.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
You're exactly right.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
It had been easy for him try to get north
and south and make something happen, and all of a
sudden be half's over.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
But we had a shot.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
We had the ability to score points right there at
the end of the end of the first half, knowing
that we'd get the ball coming out in the second half.
I thought that could be a momentum builder if we
could have hit that field goal.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
The other thing I noticed, and maybe it's because so
many fans over the years, you know, regardless of who
the head coaches or the coordinator, one of the questions
I've gotten the most over the years is why don't
they use the tight end more? And you use the
tight end a lot the other day and it wasn't
one guy. I mean, you've got some depth at that position.
That showed itself that early in the season.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
We do.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Coach Farrence does a tremendous job of getting those guys ready.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
That is a that's.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
A workman's like room, very blue collar, tough, a little
bit unique at the same time. You know, I joked
with them today, why you know, why do we have
two tight ends on the field? I said, because you're
just o linement with wings and so they kind of
looked at me sideways. But you know, you talk about

(22:54):
Jake Tarwater, Richie Anderson, you know, can't beat them. You
know this that that was a young man who last
year wanted to I didn't know if he wanted to
be a receiver, wanted to be a tight end. I
don't know if he was really committed to blocking anyone.
You know, went in the portal, I had a conversation
with him, talked about our vision and how we're going
to use the tight end, and he has bought into

(23:16):
his experience. We're going to make sure that this is
an unbelievable experience for everyone, and I think Cam is
living that right now. You know, he he bought into
the weight room and putting weight on and being better
at the point of attack and now he's seeing the
benefits of it.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
He looks a.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Click faster too. I mean, he's in really good shape.
And every time I hear his name, I think about
last year when he came out. You know, his dad
was in the Marine Corps for twenty years. That he
came out to the airport and welcomed home every veteran
on that honor flight.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
He shook each one of their hands.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
That's tremendous. That's Cam. Yeah, he's a tremendous young man.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
By the way, you can do that September eighth, the
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here at the point. There's Cam Brocka right there. We'll
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Speaker 21 (27:09):
Go dogs, Welcome back to the Bulldog Football Hour.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
We are here at the Point Patio Bar and Bistro
as usual. If you miss us tonight, you can catch
us here next Thursday night from five thirty to six thirty.
Six thirty is when we're gonna give away a pair
of red seats to the home opener Saturday night against
Georgia Southern and the athletic director Garrett Classy just came
in and handed me a much coveted Blue Lot Fresno

(27:40):
a Lexis Reserve Parking Pass, the best parking lot there is,
the closest to the stadium, so we'll let you have
that with your tickets if you're the big winner today.
Are giving away some bulldog hats as well. And we've
been talking to coach Matt Enttz, who gets to coach
in the stadium for the first time. Here comes another
question on the x app about what you want to
see from the Red Wave. Do you want people standing

(28:03):
up for kickoffs, standing up for third downs, be in
the seats before kickoffs. Have you stayed up at night
thinking of all the things you need from the Red Wave.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
I want them to be there on time, yes, sir.
Otherwise I don't want to see them. I want to
hear them. Yeah, I want to. I want to make
sure I'm focused on what's going on on the field,
but I want to know that they're there and so
they can continually all night long and hopefully we give
them reasons, numerous reasons to make plenty of noise on
Saturday night well.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I know that everybody in the stadium is going
to feel it in their toes when the f fifteen
is from the one forty fourth Fighter Wing come roaring over.
So maybe if forty thousand Bulldog fans can recreate that
kind of decibel level that would do.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
The truck, I'd be good. You know what.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
We we have the fortunate every day at practice we
see those those jets fly over practice. I tell you what,
there's about five minutes where nobody can hear anything, and
it's probably good for us, but it is. It's a
spectacle every day to see those and we've had some
of the pilots out to practice and so it's been
it's been fun to create a little bit of a

(29:02):
relationship with that group with the Griffins.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
The Griffins exactly, and they love the privilege of flying
over Valley children Stadium and they'll be doing that Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
We're here with Coach Matt Ens at the point.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
In a few minutes we're gonna hear from Cambroca, the
Senior Safety. But we have another special guest we want
to get just a couple of minutes from and I'm
gonna have Matt Lee Aber, the Voice of Valley Children's Stadium,
come back up to introduce him. If the Pride of
new Glaris Wisconsin can head this way too. We'll ask
him a quick question because we're talking about getting in
the seats early, and I think he has some improvements

(29:34):
to tell us about in a minute, so Matt go ahead.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, introducing a very special person
at Fresno STADIU is none other than the Athletic Director.
Please welcome, mister Carrott.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
Come lessie.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Man.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't know what you do on non Thursday nights,
but the Point could probably use you around here to
introduce special guests. So you want them to follow you
around now?

Speaker 22 (30:02):
Gay, No, I don't need that hype man to little
boys screaming me at home.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's a funny. Hey.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
I just wanted to put you on real quick, because
there are a couple of things that I heard today
that are kind of new. One has to do with
this Bulldog pass that can get you in. It's like
the magic ticket at Disneyland or something. And the other
one is people are going to be able to get
in their seats earlier because there are some improvements to
the entry points.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yes, absolutely. Number one, the Bulldog Pass.

Speaker 22 (30:29):
You can get the individual pass for seventy four dollars
or the Family Pass, which is four tickets for like
one hundred and forty dollars on I'm not sure the
exact but somewhere in that range. And what it does
it gives you access to different seats for every football game,
every basketball game, any ticket event, softball, volleyball, and listen.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I know the valley.

Speaker 22 (30:47):
They like the biggest part in the valley, but they
also like the best value in the valley. And so
what we want to do is come see Matt's great product,
but also we have another a bunch of great teams,
So come out and support everything. You know, I come
out support Ryan McCarthy's going to have a heck of
a basketball team. Vance Wahlberg's gonna have a heck of
a basketball team. We've got a brand new softball coach.
So it's really special to be of our fans. We

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want them to come to everything because.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
They know we have a lot of Bulldog football fans,
but more importantly.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
You're Bulldog fans.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
One quick follow up, and I don't know if you
know the answer yet, so you can take as much
time as you need, you know, weeks to report back
to me on this. But is there going to be
a contest for who ends up going to the most
bulldog home sporting events.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
We're keeping track of it.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Apps, Yeah, it'll be, it'll be.

Speaker 22 (31:29):
Okay, we should listen the passion this valley we want
to get and listen. We're very cognizant of the socioeconomic
value of some of the families we have here. We
want to make sure that everyone can experience a bulldog
sporting event, and that's why we went out with Red
Wave Reach this year too, where thus fortunate children can
come to the games. And Maya Felder are Chief of
staffs doing a heck of a job with that. And
we're going to have about four hundred kids that come

(31:51):
out sponsored by Port of Subs this weekend. And I
can say that because I know they're a BSP sponsor
and so it's it's really it's it's going to be.
We have to find ways to connect with the community,
and that's exactly what we're going to do.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
I'm glad you brought that up, because when I saw that,
I was like, yes, you know, coach Q does the
basketball with us. He's been kind of doing that on
his own for years, saying hey, Mendo, do you want
to bring some kids. I'll buy some tickets, and I
know some other folks have done that too, but to
have it institutionalized like that, and hey, we're gonna do
this because it's important to us from an institutional side.
Well done, my friend. And while you're here, how about

(32:23):
this guy. What's impressed you so far about the gentleman
that you hired to lead this football program.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
He's the one that deserves a hype man over here.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
So you know, Remarm introduced him to He don't worry.

Speaker 22 (32:33):
You know, first and foremost, we knew what we were
getting in the football coach mad ass like that was
a given, given his history in North Dakota State, what
he did at USC last year, his attention to detail,
the toughness like that resonates with the valley.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
But we didn't fully.

Speaker 22 (32:46):
Understand the person we were getting and how he's really
integrated himself and his family into the valley. I mean
that's important. We can't have people here that are football coaches.
We have people that we need to immerse in the
valley because it's such an important role here and it's
not just being a football coach.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Although I know this guy would love to just coach football.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
That's how he's wired.

Speaker 22 (33:04):
But you know him and his beautiful wife Brenda's here
and the boys have been out and the coaching staff,
I mean, we have a lot of new members of
this coaching staff. They're not just Bulldogs, They're part of
the valley. They're part of this family.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
And I think that's been really the most impressive thing
I've seen.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, thanks for jumping on with us, Garrett.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Thanks for this parking pass that a Bulldog fan will
enjoy Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
And I hope you have a great time, sat.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Absolutely have time talking about the gates quick or are
we going to break.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Oh we didn't do that, yeah, tell us. So we
learned our lesson.

Speaker 22 (33:31):
We learned our lesson from the Shakira concert and my
first year here last year that we are expanding gate
entry in the northwest and the southwest side. We're also
going to have customer service reps on those sides if
the lines get gone to direct you the gates where
there aren't.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Very many lines.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Good.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
And we're getting rid of those scanners.

Speaker 22 (33:47):
Where you have to dump your change in person everything
on the table.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
They're going to be all walked through.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Biggest chair of the night right there.

Speaker 22 (33:53):
So you guys can have your last beer at the
biggest party in the valley. But your butt's better bean
your seats seeing the fifteen flyover, and you better be
cheering on these football players because they have been working
their tails off to put on a great product on
the field.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
For you guys.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm glad we got that in there, and I did
not expect that lout of a cheer. That shows you
what kind of issue that's been and well done to
come up with a solution for it.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Absolutely well, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
You bet you Garrett Classy, your athletic director. How about
a hen Well coach. I know you don't have to
approach this like the fans do and worry about getting
into the stadium. Hopefully that's taken care of for you.
We could have Matt follow you around and just announce
that you're coming through and the.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Red Seas would part as you've prepared this week.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Is there something that you keep coming back to that
maybe motivates you and keeps you focused on all the things,
because it's easy you can.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Get distracted here.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
You've got this fire playing up and that one what
keeps you dialed into what matters.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Most our players and get an opportunity to be with
them every day in the morning, making sure that you
know we have a practice plan that's put together that
that is going to allow us to continue to improve.
I challenged him this week that you know, there's a
lot of things that we want to continue to get
better at, but let's just narrow it down. Let's find
two or three things on both sides of the ball,

(35:14):
and let's go get those things done. If you try
to get better at everything, you get better at nothing.
And so let's let's let's focus on the things we
can handle and and and if we do that, it
will be extremely competitive and then we'll be right in
the ball game and right where we want to be.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
And that's an approach and a principle that we can
probably all benefit from no matter what we do, whether
it's a football or otherwise. I'm thinking about that myself.
Now it's time for a break. But when we come back,
seeing your safety, Cam Broca will join us.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Coach. Before we take the headsets off.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
How about telling our listeners why Cam means so much
to you and why he's one of your team captains.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Well, I think and you know is his veteran presence.
You know, he is an unbelievably well connected young man
to every single person on our on our roster.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
If when you know the old E. F.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Hutton commercials, you know when Cam talks, people listen, and
that includes Coachentz. You know, every Sunday, I have a
meeting with all of our seniors. I have not created
a leadership council yet. Year one, I just said I'm
gonna take the veterans, and we have twenty plus young know,
great young men that come in and have ideas and thoughts,
and we're adjusting our Sunday schedule because they presented a plan.

(36:23):
And again, I want it to be a player led program.
And he's as good as leader as we have. And
it's fun to know that he's from just right here
in our backyard too.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
He sure is, and he's here.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
We're gonna hear from him, and we come back to
Bulldog Football hour till six thirty at the point on
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Welcome back to the Bulldog Football Hour. We're here at
the Point Patio Bar and Bistro, northwest corner of Willow
and these are we having a good time yet, I thought,
so somebody's going to be a big winter tonight. Get
two red seats to the home opener Saturday night at
six thirty. If you don't have your tickets yet, go
bulldogs dot com or hurry here, write your name down
and stick it in the Bulldog helmet that's on the
table right up front, and you may win those tickets tonight.

(40:17):
We also have some hats to give away. We've been
hearing from Matt Enz. I've got another question from a
big bulldog supporter that just came in. You heard from
the athletic director, Garrett Classy. He talked about that Bulldog
pass seventy four dollars. You can go to as many
bulldog home events as you want, and he told you
that the entry process is going to be a lot
faster at Bulldog Stadium or Valley Children's Stadium Saturday night,

(40:38):
with new scanners and more people to help get you
in the stadium. But we haven't heard from a bulldog
player yet. We're going to and let's give him a
proper introduction like he'll hear at Valley Children's Stadium Saturday night.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please welcome the Captain.
A senior anchor of the Defense Safety Number twenty two.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Can Bock, I didn't see the rolling of the ours
coming that time. Wow, impressive, I'm good So Cam Brocka.
It's not his first rodeo. He's been here at the
point before for the Bulldog Football Hour.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
What's your go to on the menu here? Cam? I
know we were just talking about it.

Speaker 15 (41:19):
My family's big into the pad tie, so that's probably well, Yeah,
who wants it the spiciest out of the whole crew?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Mom does? She said, Dad does? Definitely. Dad.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
They make it pretty spicy here. I'm a spicy guy.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
It's pretty good, very good, excellent menu item. Maybe you
should have that tonight, Coach, since you're going away from
the Patty Melt.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
Again, I'm gonna find something that works, right, Cam, And
then next week I'm gonna have the same thing absolute
week after that.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
I might well make sure they stay stocked up for
whatever that happens to be, uh.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Cam.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
When Matt Lee ab was introducing there, he said, the Captain.
I thought he was going to say Captain America for
a second. You ever been called that?

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (41:57):
Some of the guys give me that nickname. I take
it as a good compliment.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
I mean, who doesn't want to be Captain America exact.

Speaker 15 (42:04):
Yeah, I let them come up with the nicknames and
I'll just follow it. I'll just answer any other memorable
nicknames they've thrown your way. They call me Cam, Captain America.
President's a good one. I like that one.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
But that's about it.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
President. Is that an aspiration to your so now?

Speaker 3 (42:21):
No, no, no. If I was to be a mayor anything,
my only.

Speaker 15 (42:24):
Goal would be to get a coach JD's name in
that stadium one day. That's that's the number one thing
on my list. So that could very well happen.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Abs.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yes, absolutely, So I asked coach Hence what he's appreciated
about you, and he talked about that leadership and he
wants this to be a player led program for you. You've
played for a lot of coaches, because I was just
reminded that, I mean, you've had just about every hometown
team you could. I understood you were a Cub was
that Garfield and a bruin at all to Sierra and
a bear up you can and and Cam the Ram
and Fresno City for coach c and now you're a Bulldog.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
So you played for a lot of coaches.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
With this new coaching staff, not just a head coach
who's sitting right next to you, but the assistants and
everybody you've dealt with. What's made the biggest impression on
you so far as you compete as your final year
at a Bulldog uniform.

Speaker 15 (43:10):
Yeah, I've been lucky to play for a lot of
great coaches, and obviously Coach Ense is right up there
at the top of the list. And I mean since
day one, you know, we were just honest with each other,
since our first meeting. We were just gonna break guys,
because we knew how fast we had to get this
train rolling. And we were just honest and had the
respect from day one and we haven't looked back since that.
And you know, we knew since they one coach Coach

(43:33):
Ense was the guy for the job, you know, and
I was going to back him and whoever was going
to be in that role. You know, at the end
of the day, you're playing for the Bulldogs, you're playing
for that red helmet, and that's having Coach ENCE's back.
You know, I'm right there, and so he's brought in
a great team. Coach Benedetto has been great in our room.
But you talk about just guys that want to develop
men off the football field as well. You know, that's

(43:54):
what's very special to me, especially for our guys who
you know, one day they're not gonna be able to
strap up the helmet anymore, and you know, where do
we go from there? And this staff's done a great job,
and that's that's one of the biggest things for me,
is getting our guys ready and them getting them ready
for what's after football.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
You know, when I heard you mentioned that red helmet,
I'm thinking back to Saturday in Kansas because last week
Coachens and I were talking about the forepaw coming back.
So you were probably like elementary school. No, I mean
you were maybe in kindergarten the last time the Bulldogs
wore that forepaw. Was there some sentimental value for you
to actually put it on your own head?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah, it had been a while.

Speaker 15 (44:30):
I don't know if I had personally remembered him putting
that forepaw on. Tell me you weren't born yet. I'm
way too well now, I had to have been. But
it was cool, you know, any anytime you could put
on the helmet. It's it's a special opportunity, you know,
whatever logos, whatever they got, the script, the red bulldog,
white bulldog. As long as I'm putting on that helmet
for the dogs and soon up for the dogs, I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Good answer, oh coach, great answer. The President?

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, the President. Are you saying he always says the
right thing?

Speaker 6 (44:59):
No, He's is very intelligent and very calculated about how
he approach this thing, and he's exactly right his I
bet we met two or three times before the bowl game.
Cam would just stop in and check in and see
how things were going. I know he checked in with
my wife this week to make sure I was doing
okay after playing at Kansas, and so you know, we've

(45:21):
already created a little bit of a relationship. And he's
a tremendous young man. He's exactly right. Football is only
part of it, and so we're gonna give these young
men the tools to be successful. Everyone has an end
point playing football. I hope it's in the NFL, but
we all have an endpoint. We better have the tools
to be successful.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
No doubt.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
One question that came in here on the patio or
the Point patio bar and bistro. And by the way,
if you haven't written your name down on the slip
of paper yet, you're not gonna win the tickets or
the parking pass or the hats for Saturday nights home opener.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
But here's a question from Tom.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
He's part of the Quarterback Club, which does everything at
candas abort you coach, and his question is are we
going to open up the the passing game a little more?
He says, I realize it depends on the defensive scheme
and what they're giving you, but are you anticipating more
success throwing the football?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
I think we definitely have capabilities of doing that. Again,
I think there was some positive again success rate on
third down on Saturday. We just we can't be in
third and long all night long. We need to make
them third manageable and and be better on early downs.
But I definitely know that we have some talent in
that room. We have a quarterback that can make all

(46:31):
the throws. And so again, you're right, it depends a
little bit on how the flow of the game, but
I know there's that's a big piece of what we
want to accomplish, especially comment complimentary with our run game.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
We've got coach and Cam Brock a senior safety. After
the break, we'll let Cam finish the show and let
Coach hang out with his wife Brenda and enjoy whatever
the menu brings him from the point tonight. Anything but
the patty melt this week, even though it was fantastic
last week. The sweet potato fries, by the way, I
have not Okay, what do you think can sweet potato fries?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
I don't know if I've had him either?

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Oh yeah, that the dipping sauce is like some kind
of a regular Halapano creamy little thing.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Pretty good.

Speaker 28 (47:14):
I'm good with just normal French raph, you know, traditional
the president. Okay, so here's a question for Cam while
Coach is still here, and we'll get his review of
it as well. This came from Sidelines Fresno State on
the x app with the hashtag ask fs Cam what
is the mindset and expectation for Saturday's home opener?

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yeah? I think we just got to be who we are,
you know.

Speaker 15 (47:38):
I think we've done a great job all all spring,
summer and fall with implementing a mindset of who we
want to be, you know.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
All year and we just got to go out and
do that, and.

Speaker 15 (47:47):
We just got to play as to who the Bulldogs are,
you know, and just just go out do our job
and everything will take care of it from there.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
You know. When we're we're we're playing our best football.

Speaker 15 (47:56):
You know, we don't think there's anyone that's going to
beat us, and we have something to prove with that.
But this week, it's just going with the right mindset
of who we are, attacking the game, playing some with
emotion and excitement for our guys, you know, celebrating every
victory out on that field, but just being who we
are and have fun and playing for the dogs.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
And you said do your job. How do you see
your job specifically as part of the bigger picture.

Speaker 15 (48:22):
Yeah, I mean we all got it. We all got
our role in defense. You know, we've got a great
plan with what Coach Benedett's coming in and you know,
eliminating explosives, keeping the cup like coach talks about, tackling
block destruction, and yeah, just just emulating different pictures every
play and getting into long third downs and then being

(48:44):
able to pin our ears back and let those guys
upfront do what they're supposed to do. And so yeah,
it's just just playing for each other, playing having fun
and we'll be great.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Saturday night, six thirty is when it kicks off. One
more question for coach, it's before we take our final break.
This one came from Scott Henderson, who's here on the
patio of the Poins Patio Bar and Bistro. He wants
to know which players impressed you, maybe unexpectedly on Saturday,
maybe which which players exceeded what you could reasonably expect

(49:16):
out of their production.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
Yeah it was I thought Jaydon Pearson played a good game.
Are Mike linebacker again? You know, we we knew he
had a ton of reps under his belt, but uh
was all over the place. You know, I think twelve
plus tackles that played really well. I thought there was
some defensive linemen at times that played really well for us.
That that, I think we have more depth there than

(49:39):
what we anticipated. You know, Braden Walton, true freshman has
been with us eight months, you know, lined up on
national TV and and and probably graded out pretty well,
uh for a for an eighteen year old going against
you know, a big twelve team. And so, but what
I'm excited about is he came in Monday ready to
get better. And and you know that's how most of

(50:01):
the guys in our locker room right now are wired.
That nobody's satisfied. The minute you start thinking you made
it for something's gonna go wrong. And so these guys
have kept their head down and just kept listening and
kept believing in the process.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Well, that process.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
We look forward to seeing it equal a victory on
Saturday night, six thirty. Coach, thanks for the time as always.
Enjoy a great dinner here at the point with Brenda.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
I appreciate it. Thanks Paul.

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Well as usual, the hour goes by way too quickly
here at the Bulldog Football Hour, but we'll be back
next week for another hour from five thirty to six thirty.
Here at the point Patti Obarr and Bistro. I haven't
done any play by play of people's dinners tonight. I'm
just looking around now. There's pretty good stuff out there.
Those salads got pen there's the sweet potato fries I
was talking about. Pretty good, right, Tom? All right, Tom's

(54:15):
a Navy veteran, he's not in his head. Cam Broca
is here. We got a few more minutes with one
of the Bulldogs senior captains. And this is a question
from Raymond Solaia, who came out to the show tonight.
How hard or how easy is it? He wants to
know Cam to hit the ground running when you've got
a new season with a whole new organization, new leadership.
You touched on why you like these guys a little bit,

(54:36):
But was that a challenge for you at all?

Speaker 15 (54:39):
You know, it's it can be tough bringing in a
new staff, you know, But at the end of the day,
you know, when I committed to this place, I was
here to play for the Bulldogs, you know, And like
we talked about, it didn't matter too much who was
in that head coach spot.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
You know.

Speaker 15 (54:53):
I committed here my parents being the lums, you know,
to be to be a Bulldog through and through, and
I believe bulldog born, bulldog brand and gonna be a
Bulldog till the damn dead. But when you have a
that's right. But when you have a new staff come in,
you know, there can be some different pieces moving in.
But I think the maturity of players we brought in

(55:13):
this this offseason.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Coach talked about JP.

Speaker 15 (55:17):
You know, a guy who comes in first year and
as a captain. You know, I think that just speaks
volume of the character of the guys we're bringing in
the building, you know. And so when you have high
character guys like him, and the list goes on and
who they brought in, you know, it makes that mesh
a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
You know, JP is Jaden Pearson, Bulldog senior linebacker. Maybe
you saw the podcast with Cam and JP and Andrew
and Taylor on the pod Fresno State's new podcast. Also
going to hear from Jaden Saturday in our pregame show
about why he wears that number thirty nine and his
memories of his late fathers. You can look forward to
that on Game day six thirty kick on Saturday night

(55:54):
against Georgia Southern.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
In the home opener, you.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Talked about bulldog born, bulldog Bread gonna be a bulldog
till the day you'red and maybe you'll still have a
school record that's not in Savannah Stokel's official Bulldog Media
Guide here, but the record for running all the stairs
at Valley Children Stadium faster than anyone else.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Yeah, that's pretty special. Was that a goal of yours?
Is that that record?

Speaker 15 (56:16):
You know, going into it, that was that was the goal.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
You know.

Speaker 15 (56:19):
I knew Frank had had it prior to that, and
so I knew we could have some friendly competition and
taking it down. But I had worked hard all all
summer and I had eyed it. You know, I'd post
Coach's about letting us do it, you know, with just
him coming in knowing just the tradition, you know, I
had to remind him the tradition of what it means
around that stade for how long we've been doing it,

(56:40):
And of course, you know, he was on board with it.
And so from that moment in January or February, it
was marked on my calendar. And so there were a
lot of moments, you know, I even I even wrote
wrote in a notebook the night before, you know, just
kind of thinking of all the hard work.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
We'd put into it.

Speaker 15 (56:58):
But at the end of the day, with with any record,
you know, the only thing I really wanted on there
was the year twenty twenty five, and just so when
people look back at that, they don't see my name,
but they see the year, and it can just show
how special this team is in what we have.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Two quick questions about that.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
One, how many times did you skin your knees tripping
on a step practicing?

Speaker 3 (57:18):
None?

Speaker 21 (57:19):
None?

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Look at that. That's some nimble footwork right there.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
And number two, have any of the old timers, because
alumni are really engaged with the Bulldog football program and
coach Ands and coach Baxter are trying to get even
more of them engaged, have any of the old timers
come by and said, you know, I think I ran
it faster than you did.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
We just weren't timing it not yet. You know, maybe
they'll come around and we'll see what they got.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
I want to ask you about last year because unfortunately
injuries happened in football, and the timing of yours for
the team was really tough, right ahead of a game
where you would have been a real critical part of
that defense against a dual threat quarterback at UNLV and
the way they ran their offense, and you had to
watch the rest to the season from the sideline. But
you got your senior year back, so it's kind of
a mixed bag. But for you living that day by day,

(58:07):
what do you look back on now and see as
kind of the silver lining to that situation, and also
what was it that got you through that.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
And kept you focused on what you're doing now?

Speaker 15 (58:17):
Yeah, well I was having a lot of fun, so
I was trying to find any excuse to come back.
But glad you did. Yeah, no doubt. You know, things
that moved moved fast. And it's crazy how fast, you know,
an injury can just take you out of it so quick.
And you know, there were definitely some times where I
was down, but I had I had a great group
of guys around me, and you know, the biggest thing
for me in my faith, you know, and just knowing

(58:42):
the Lord's got a plan for whatever happens, and you
best believe guys are guys are watching for how I'm
gonna respond. And you know, I took a lot of
I took a lot of heart in knowing that some
guys are counting on me and they're just peeking in,
you know, House Cam gonna respond to this adversity, and
you know, how can I encourage them through the process
I'm going through. You know, there may be things they're

(59:02):
battling and if I can show up, you know, going
through this Injurgury with a smile on their face, with
my on my face. You know, it may be more
to them that I actually know and so, but just
just to be just like another voice in between the
players and the coaches to that time, I think I
got to learn a lot with coach JD and just
the past staff on how we were doing things and

(59:23):
just seeing kind of through their perspective of what we're
trying to achieve in certain things. And I think that's
helped me kind of elevate throughout this year.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Well done, so unfortunately we're out of time. Did you
guys enjoy Cam Brocket tonight? Thanks to coach A. It's
to Garrett, classy Cam. Good luck on Saturday. Absolutely, I
appreciate it. Seen your safety, Cam brock I join us
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