September 23, 2025 • 9 mins
The junior O-lineman from Pennsylvannia talks lineman progress 4 games in with Mike Crispino
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. Mike chris
Pino joined by Ben Morowski, the left tackle of the Husky,
number seventy seven. He's a big boy. Okay, you can't
see him. It's the radio show, I know, but when
you go to the stadium, take a look at him
six seven. It says three thirty five. I'm gonna start there.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are you officially three thirty five and carrying around three
thirty five? What's that like? I'll never know, so I
want to ask you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
My weight kind of fluctuates. It's like a ten pound
range of like three twenty five to three thirty five
carrying it around. I mean, I've been big my whole life.
Started like getting bigger when I was eight or nine
years old, turned into a freshman tight end, and then
(00:47):
turned into an offensive lineman as the years got on.
But I mean it's not bad. I mean, I don't
mind carrying it around.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You have to. We were talking to Malachi McLain a
moment ago, and Ben Smiley actually was talking to us
about how much you guys have to eat and how
much you know, the food consumption is important to you know,
keeping up your strength and your your overall power and
all that stuff. Tell me about that, because is it
something that you have to control each and every day
and decide what I'm doing to keep what my weight
(01:20):
has to be for playing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, the food. The food here is great in house dinings,
so it's always awesome. But I think the biggest thing
for like us O Lineman trying to like maintain is
like we have a calorie goal like other day, so
like every day we have a certain calorie goal that
we should get to to maintain our weight. Then if
(01:43):
you're on weight loss, there's a different calorie. If you're
on weight gain, it's a different calorie. But nutrition staff
and the strength stuff does a great job with that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Carbo's carbol hydrates more important or protein more important.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To you, mixer both. It'll be like a fifty five
to twenty five kind of protein, twenty five percent carbs,
twenty five percent vegetables.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, all right, So but it helps obviously to have
someone putting out the food for you and then giving
you choices. That's the thing I think the average human
being doesn't have that advantage. You guys have an advantage there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, yep, for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You're on the left side of the line. That left
tackle always important obviously to protect the right handed quarterback.
And Joe Finiano and you guys have done a tremendous
job of keeping him clean and keeping him up right.
Is that a point of pride with the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm going to assume that yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And does that give Joe more confidence or is just
the time that he has to throw to make the
offense function better? What are the most the most important
part of keeping him upright? U?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It helps his for him, it helps his confidence because
he trusts us in doing his and doing our job,
and we trust him to do his job. So it's
a big trust game with us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And the difference obviously pass blocking run blocking. I've talked
to a lot of offensive linemen over the years. You
would prefer knocking the guy across from you backwards? I'm
guessing yeah, for sure, because offensive pass blocking is that
the hardest thing to do on a football field.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I would say, so, there's definitely a few that are
up there. But I mean, pass blocking, run blocking, it's
all a game of angles. So figure out your angle
and you got it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah. So when you say that, tell me about that
because I'd never played the offensive line. I was one
of the back defensive backs types and wide receiver types.
So getting an angle, where does that start with your
footwork or your shoulder angles? Where does that start?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Footwork first and foremost feet and then eyes and then
hands a contact.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, and hands. Obviously you're using your hands, but you're
not You're trying not to hold people. Is it true
that offensive linemen hold every time there's a play.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, I would say no.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I know you're gonna say no, but be honest with me.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, No, I'm being completely honest. Yeah, I'm going to
say no because if it's if I'm gripped in, I'm
not holding them. But if I'm not, I'm still not
holding him. I'm not a big I'm not a big holder.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, got you Ben Morosky with us, the left tackle
of the Huskies, number seventy seven. But you were talking
about your hands. So you've got to have strong hands obviously,
and you got to you've got to extend and keep
the pass rushers off you, et cetera, et cetera. What
kind of exercise and weightlifting can you use to get
your hands, you know, as strong as they can be.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I mean there's a lot we're doing a lot in
the weight room with like holding like literally just holding
a bar like power cleans, hand cleans, hank snatches, things
like that. RDL is just hanging onto the bar like
improve like improve my grip strength at least.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, that's interesting. You got to have strong hands, no
doubt about it. The running attack. Last week, you broke
a couple with Cam Edwards. Tell me about that. As
an offensive lineman, now he ran I think off the
left side once, Yeah, well off your side for touchdowns.
So when you see him blow by you, what's that feeling?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Like? The feeling is that the trust is mutual. He
trusts me to do my job and I trust him
to score. So it's a mutual trust between me and him.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, he's and he's a guy that can break it,
isn't he. I mean that's that's a.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Great quality to have for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Buffalo coming up. Now you're two and two. It's been
a kind of an up and down. You could be
four and Oh we've been saying this, but I want
to know what the team thinks because two and two
is two and two, and really you can't do much
about Syracuse and Delaware at this point. So what's your
thought going into Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Our thought it was an offense is to lock our
shields one for one, all for all, and then just
more physicality, emergency, coming out, starting fast, being ready to go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Okay, all right. The final thing I want to ask
you about is growing up in high school Pennsylvania. You
did letter in basketball for two years. What was that like?
When did you figure out I'm not going to do this,
I'm going to do football.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think basketball really stopped when I hit like that
three hundred pound range as a junior. It was kind
of just like, I can't do it anymore. I'm not
running up and down to basketball court. I'm not going
to college for basketball.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And you did have a good experience. I'm going to
assume this because I know a lot of people in
the prep school ranks in Connecticut. We have all these
great prep schools here I Eve and Old Farms where
Jackson Harper's from. You went to Saint Thomas Moore. How
did you get there and what was that experience?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like? I got there my technically my senior year spring,
so I early enrolled there and then did a post
grade year after that coach Anderson found me. Coach Andres
Anderson found me on Twitter like liked my highlights, texted
me and was like have you ever thought about post grading?
(07:31):
And I was like no, And so my parents considered
it because it was like an all for one, like
all for one deal. So we went up and visited
and then two weeks later I was like committed to
go and then I went there. I mean it was great,
the people there were great. The class I was with
(07:53):
was awesome. A bunch of guys that are high motor,
like high end telligent guys like Brian Allen and Iowa
Logan Forbes at University of Michigan, people along those lines.
Just playing like with them was a great experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So and finally that ACCLAM made it you to Connecticut too, right,
although Pennsylvania is sort of an Eastern state, but being
in Connecticut for a couple of years that did that
open your eyes a little bit towards perhaps coming to Yukon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, for sure. And then when coach Samus or Well,
Coach Charlton and coach More and coach John Mary and
Ellie came to my high school to Saint Thomas Moore
it was like an instant connection. And then I came
to my official visit and it was great. That's when
(08:45):
I committed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, I got a good crew there for sure in
the coaching staff. So Saint Thomas More Oakdal Connecticut to
Yukon Stores, Connecticut. Ben Morosky, we appreciated good luck with
Buffalo this week. Let's get to three and two. How
about that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Thank you guys for your time, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Ben Morowsky with us, and thanks to Malachai Maclain as well,
and of course Jim Moore. As we wrap up the
Yukon Football Coaches Show, I'm Mike Crispino. We'll talk to
you again on the weekend Buffalo three point thirty kick
and we'll have the pregame ninety minutes before that. So
thanks for joining us. I'm Mike Crispino.
Welcome back to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. Mike chris
Pino joined by Ben Morowski, the left tackle of the Husky,
number seventy seven. He's a big boy. Okay, you can't
see him. It's the radio show, I know, but when
you go to the stadium, take a look at him
six seven. It says three thirty five. I'm gonna start there.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are you officially three thirty five and carrying around three
thirty five? What's that like? I'll never know, so I
want to ask you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
My weight kind of fluctuates. It's like a ten pound
range of like three twenty five to three thirty five
carrying it around. I mean, I've been big my whole life.
Started like getting bigger when I was eight or nine
years old, turned into a freshman tight end, and then
(00:47):
turned into an offensive lineman as the years got on.
But I mean it's not bad. I mean, I don't
mind carrying it around.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You have to. We were talking to Malachi McLain a
moment ago, and Ben Smiley actually was talking to us
about how much you guys have to eat and how
much you know, the food consumption is important to you know,
keeping up your strength and your your overall power and
all that stuff. Tell me about that, because is it
something that you have to control each and every day
and decide what I'm doing to keep what my weight
(01:20):
has to be for playing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, the food. The food here is great in house dinings,
so it's always awesome. But I think the biggest thing
for like us O Lineman trying to like maintain is
like we have a calorie goal like other day, so
like every day we have a certain calorie goal that
we should get to to maintain our weight. Then if
(01:43):
you're on weight loss, there's a different calorie. If you're
on weight gain, it's a different calorie. But nutrition staff
and the strength stuff does a great job with that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Carbo's carbol hydrates more important or protein more important.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To you, mixer both. It'll be like a fifty five
to twenty five kind of protein, twenty five percent carbs,
twenty five percent vegetables.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay, all right, So but it helps obviously to have
someone putting out the food for you and then giving
you choices. That's the thing I think the average human
being doesn't have that advantage. You guys have an advantage there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, yep, for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You're on the left side of the line. That left
tackle always important obviously to protect the right handed quarterback.
And Joe Finiano and you guys have done a tremendous
job of keeping him clean and keeping him up right.
Is that a point of pride with the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm going to assume that yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And does that give Joe more confidence or is just
the time that he has to throw to make the
offense function better? What are the most the most important
part of keeping him upright? U?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It helps his for him, it helps his confidence because
he trusts us in doing his and doing our job,
and we trust him to do his job. So it's
a big trust game with us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And the difference obviously pass blocking run blocking. I've talked
to a lot of offensive linemen over the years. You
would prefer knocking the guy across from you backwards? I'm
guessing yeah, for sure, because offensive pass blocking is that
the hardest thing to do on a football field.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I would say, so, there's definitely a few that are
up there. But I mean, pass blocking, run blocking, it's
all a game of angles. So figure out your angle
and you got it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah. So when you say that, tell me about that
because I'd never played the offensive line. I was one
of the back defensive backs types and wide receiver types.
So getting an angle, where does that start with your
footwork or your shoulder angles? Where does that start?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Footwork first and foremost feet and then eyes and then
hands a contact.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, and hands. Obviously you're using your hands, but you're
not You're trying not to hold people. Is it true
that offensive linemen hold every time there's a play.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, I would say no.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I know you're gonna say no, but be honest with me.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, No, I'm being completely honest. Yeah, I'm going to
say no because if it's if I'm gripped in, I'm
not holding them. But if I'm not, I'm still not
holding him. I'm not a big I'm not a big holder.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, got you Ben Morosky with us, the left tackle
of the Huskies, number seventy seven. But you were talking
about your hands. So you've got to have strong hands obviously,
and you got to you've got to extend and keep
the pass rushers off you, et cetera, et cetera. What
kind of exercise and weightlifting can you use to get
your hands, you know, as strong as they can be.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I mean there's a lot we're doing a lot in
the weight room with like holding like literally just holding
a bar like power cleans, hand cleans, hank snatches, things
like that. RDL is just hanging onto the bar like
improve like improve my grip strength at least.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, that's interesting. You got to have strong hands, no
doubt about it. The running attack. Last week, you broke
a couple with Cam Edwards. Tell me about that. As
an offensive lineman, now he ran I think off the
left side once, Yeah, well off your side for touchdowns.
So when you see him blow by you, what's that feeling?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Like? The feeling is that the trust is mutual. He
trusts me to do my job and I trust him
to score. So it's a mutual trust between me and him.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, he's and he's a guy that can break it,
isn't he. I mean that's that's a.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Great quality to have for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Buffalo coming up. Now you're two and two. It's been
a kind of an up and down. You could be
four and Oh we've been saying this, but I want
to know what the team thinks because two and two
is two and two, and really you can't do much
about Syracuse and Delaware at this point. So what's your
thought going into Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Our thought it was an offense is to lock our
shields one for one, all for all, and then just
more physicality, emergency, coming out, starting fast, being ready to go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Okay, all right. The final thing I want to ask
you about is growing up in high school Pennsylvania. You
did letter in basketball for two years. What was that like?
When did you figure out I'm not going to do this,
I'm going to do football.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think basketball really stopped when I hit like that
three hundred pound range as a junior. It was kind
of just like, I can't do it anymore. I'm not
running up and down to basketball court. I'm not going
to college for basketball.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And you did have a good experience. I'm going to
assume this because I know a lot of people in
the prep school ranks in Connecticut. We have all these
great prep schools here I Eve and Old Farms where
Jackson Harper's from. You went to Saint Thomas Moore. How
did you get there and what was that experience?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like? I got there my technically my senior year spring,
so I early enrolled there and then did a post
grade year after that coach Anderson found me. Coach Andres
Anderson found me on Twitter like liked my highlights, texted
me and was like have you ever thought about post grading?
(07:31):
And I was like no, And so my parents considered
it because it was like an all for one, like
all for one deal. So we went up and visited
and then two weeks later I was like committed to
go and then I went there. I mean it was great,
the people there were great. The class I was with
(07:53):
was awesome. A bunch of guys that are high motor,
like high end telligent guys like Brian Allen and Iowa
Logan Forbes at University of Michigan, people along those lines.
Just playing like with them was a great experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So and finally that ACCLAM made it you to Connecticut too, right,
although Pennsylvania is sort of an Eastern state, but being
in Connecticut for a couple of years that did that
open your eyes a little bit towards perhaps coming to Yukon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, for sure. And then when coach Samus or Well,
Coach Charlton and coach More and coach John Mary and
Ellie came to my high school to Saint Thomas Moore
it was like an instant connection. And then I came
to my official visit and it was great. That's when
(08:45):
I committed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, I got a good crew there for sure in
the coaching staff. So Saint Thomas More Oakdal Connecticut to
Yukon Stores, Connecticut. Ben Morosky, we appreciated good luck with
Buffalo this week. Let's get to three and two. How
about that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Thank you guys for your time, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Ben Morowsky with us, and thanks to Malachai Maclain as well,
and of course Jim Moore. As we wrap up the
Yukon Football Coaches Show, I'm Mike Crispino. We'll talk to
you again on the weekend Buffalo three point thirty kick
and we'll have the pregame ninety minutes before that. So
thanks for joining us. I'm Mike Crispino.
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