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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, no offense shit.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know listen, of course, you know what's exciting. Before
we talked about last Friday, you got some past players
listening in, much to your chagrin. Perhaps is more than
just the bathy Any family listens to the coaches. It
sounds out.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah. I had a former player from Dennison actually text
me last night and say you can add me to
the list of people who listen to your show that
don't have the same last name as you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So Ryan McEwan from Chicago played for me at Dennison.
One of my all time favorites. Just a tough tough kid,
and just how much.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You love hearing from your former players.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Love it, like that's that's why you do it, you know.
Like I'm still relatively young in my coaching career, but
I've had a few players get married and you go
back and you get to reminisce with all the guys.
And what's funny is all the things they remember that
you don't, Yeah, for good or for bad or whatever
it is, but like they always have a million stories
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and they're always itching to kind of have those adult
conversations with you later on in life. But those those
relationships last forever.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
There's a quote that I love when you talk about
coaches or educators. You know, we're often planning seeds for
which trees shade we may never sit under. So to
have guys reach back, those are the benefits of saying,
seeing how they've grown, not just on the football field,
but beyond it is very gratifying for a coach. I mentioned,
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yeah without question.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I mean those are you spend so much time with
each other during that time, and then all of a
sudden it's done, you know, so you have four years
of seeing them every day, sure, yeah, and then all
of a sudden it's over, and you know, that's the
beauty and that's the struggle. I think of being a teacher,
being a coach, right, especially at the high school and
college level, where you know, four years and they're done
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and then you only get to see him very sparingly
from there on out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Very cool, very cool coach. I want to talk about
Saint X, But before I do, I was I was
sharing with my dad, just walking pregame onto that field
on Friday night, and I intentionally stopped and I just
looked around, did a three sixty spin. I don't you
probably can't, are not afforded that opportunity in the moment,
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but just to take it all in, and I mean,
it's not Michigan, Ohio State, it's not Notre Dame USC,
but it's.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's pretty special. There's not a life. I mean, I
think I said that the coach Gray beforehand. I said, man,
look around, like, how much would you love to play
in this game? You know, because he grew up in
New York. I grew up in Kentucky. I mean, you
have your your local rivals, but it's nothing like that,
for sure, nothing like a GCL game. Nonetheless, nothing like
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an Ohio playoff game. It's nothing like ex Moller or
playing at the pit. It's just nothing like.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That, you knowing, I tell the guys too, and you
can probably attest to this. Is that for a lot
of guys, unless they go play at an Ohio State,
Michigan Notre Dame, this experience, this is the elite experience
that they're playing career. It won't get any better than this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was hard to recruit kids out of schools like
this when you're well, it really is because when you
recruit them that they want, they're used to this special experience.
They're used to being in those kind of games, and
they have these nice facilities, they have like all these amenities,
and they go to some other colleges and it's not
quite as nice as our high school. And it's hard
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to recruit some of those kids. Like that's that's every
thought about that. Yeah, never huge shot because you you you,
I mean, it's Division three. You'll have those games where
you have, you know, a really good crowd, but for
the most part, like it's not that much. And even
if you look at you know, some Division one schools
that play throughout the week, right like a late game
in October November.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Even though it's on TV.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You look at the sands and they're empty, and it
still doesn't equate to those games that they play in
high school. So that is a challenge.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And they have the lights Friday night lights in the
band and everything. It's awesome. Coach. We're gonna take step out,
take a break, and then come back talk about that.
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Speaker 3 (04:58):
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Speaker 1 (05:02):
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Speaker 1 (05:21):
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Speaker 1 (05:27):
Go big mo, get ready Moller Niche you got a
right right up the middle. He's crashing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's trying to take people and he doesn't do the
end zone Crusader touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They are gonna fake it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They are going to try to throw to the end
zone a two under pressure and the balls loose on
the term Crusader touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Buller Crusader football.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Takes it around the right side.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He wreaks through.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He is going at the forty fifty forty.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He's a foot race.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He is going to take it to the episode touchdown Crusaders.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Get all the covered right. He on wm OE and
the mullet run Kissing Network coach b I think if
you had your script for Friday night written down, which
obviously you do. You want to play what I hear
every coaching head says all these years, you want to
play complimentary football, offense, defense, special teams. Could you have
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scripted out the way Friday? Your coach, You're gonna probably
drill down and say, I wish we would have done
this is it? But overall, overarching you had be pretty impressed.
But by the way things worked.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Out, I thought that was about as complete game as
we could we could play. Obviously, there's still things you
want up sure fix and correct and stuff like that.
You can go on and on about that, but like
you started fast, like you scored on the first possession, right,
I thought our special teams was really really good. We
had a turnover that led to a touchdown right out
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of halftime. I mean, just when you go into a
game and there's certain plays that you need to make
to be a to be successful, and our guys were
able to make them and able to execute at a
high level. So when you talk about complimentary football, which
I know as coach talk, I thought we That was
my message to our guys after the game and then
even the next day. I thought we complimented each other
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when we needed it most. When offense threw a pick
and we need to stop from the defense, they got
a big fourth down stop. And then after that stop,
offense was able to move quickly into two minute dro
to put ourselves in field goal range, and then that
you know, was able to get a field goal to
go up four and totally change the momentum of the game.
I thought heading in the halftime because they were getting
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the ball back at half. If they got that ball
and scored to take the lead and then you're getting
the ball back after halftime, that's just a completely different mindset.
So when you talk about complimentary football, I thought there
was a great example at.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The end of the half A couple guys I want
to talk about in Matt Potatowski. Not because Matt Potatowski
threw for four hundred yards. What I saw on the
sideline with Matt, what I saw sixteen for twenty six,
one hundred and thirty six yards. Mister Ohio football didn't
have to be mister Ohio football. He played the game
that was presented to him, your ground game. That's what
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makes in my opinion, this smoler football team so dangerous
because we can get you in the air, but we
can also get you on the ground. To the tune
of I had Hey right in front of me rushing
yards on the day, you had a five point two
average one hundred and eighty two yards in the ground.
They'll get you in the air, they'll get you on
the ground. You got mal Levard doing what he's doing
with this three for three is fit forty seven yard
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field goal. This is a dangerous football team. Win you're
executing at all levels like you did on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I thought Matt played his best game from a
managing sam shirt right, like taking what the defense gives you,
and they got a lot of talent on that defense,
so they don't give you a lot. But what I
was proud of the most is there was three plays
where he throw it away and didn't take a negative play,
which for a kid like that who has it success
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and has examples of trying to be Superman and then
making that big play, I was really probably those most
because it kept us on schedule to then be able
to make plays later on.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Those are the hidden plays that coaches like you notice.
You won't see it in a WT Fox nineteen highlight,
but those are the plays that make a difference for
this offense.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Whichause then allows you to then be successful on the
next play. And then within our offense, Matt has a
lot of freedom, and he has a lot of ability
to make decisions out there and say next does a
good job of taking away those things that we like
to do. But the three times they gave it to us,
Matt took it. And and those are big plays, right,
like two screens to Reggie Watson that ended up being
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first downs, and then that the fade to Reggie in
the red zone, like.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That was you enjoy stick yep, that was a room play.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That was a run play, but Matt knows it's second
and one and inside the red zone. We treat that
like first down, and he has three downs to work with.
So his thought process is going through like, hey, it's
second and one, Like, I know, coach wants me to
get this first down, but they're pressing Reggie inside leverage.
I got this and then they just connect and go.
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So that's been built in for years now where Matt
has decision making ability and it's based upon the situation,
right like. It's based upon and people don't see that,
right like, based on the field position, based upon the
down and distance, based upon who is out there, the leverage,
There's all these different factors that go in that he
has to calculate to then make the best decision possible
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and get us in the right play. And that's what
he did.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And that's an experienced quarterback that has trusted you. You
have trusted him to make those plays when it dictates it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And then he has trusted Reggie correct, which I think
is the most important thing because everyone always wants to say, Coach,
I just need my shot in the game, I need
my shot. Well, no, you developed that throughout the week,
and Reggie has developed trust very very fast throughout the summer,
throughout the season. I mean, I think the number now
he's at thirty four catches in three games. That's great.
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They at the high school level, I mean that's insane.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So human, joystick kind. I wouldn't want to try to
catch him. No, just Matt, Like I think it's really
the yards after catches are impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, he just he's a phenomenal player. I mean, he
really is. I joke around and say every night I
think got him the head coach at Moler and then
I thank God for Reggie Watson. But he's been a
shining light of this team, right because we've had a
couple of injuries, right, Like Landon Adams is a really
good player, Carson ko is a really good player. So
Reggie kind of stepped in and took advantage of that
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opportunity very much the way Tyler Jocelyn did, I think
last year. So having that trust in that relationship between
a pass catcher and a quarterback is critical, and I
think every lethal passing attack has that right. So Matt
has a lot of options on our offense. But it
looks like Reggie's really taking advantage of it more than
any one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Tyler jo Jocelyn ninety three yards on the ground, Dante
where seventy two. We talked about one hundred and eighty
two yards on the ground. But let's not forget about
the elephant in the room, and that's the offensive line,
Michael in the tight ends and then the tight and
the tight ends, Sam and Cooper. Let's not mistake Michael
Blum doing what Michael Blum does, and that's just groom
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this offensive line which was as big, physical, but inexperience
in spots. I think only one senior coming back this year.
You're seeing what Michael Blum does best, and that's get
these kids to start every week getting a little bit better.
It'll run for one hundred and eighty two yards if
you don't have those big kneed heads up front blocking
like they did.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, they're improving every week, and that is our mindset
throughout the season. That's why we play such a tough
schedule and we schedule those games is to develop throughout
the year because our mindset is always to be peaking
by Game ten heading into the playoffs where it matters most. So,
even though like we have Game one we expect to
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be a completely different unit by game five, and then
we expect to be a completely different unit by game ten.
And I think if you looked at the film, you
would definitely see that across the over every individual player,
and they're all getting better and they're rotating and that
group like classical line, they enjoy being around each other. Right,
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they jab each other, they're weirdos, but they they come home.
It's not a weirdo when they get in the right group, man,
Like the weirdness just spreads out like a disease, bet wildfire.
But that that that they like each other and they're
doing a really good job. And we have three really
good aligned coaches, like coach Plumb does an awesome job,
but Arman Tatum and Mitch Grant help us out as well.
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So they're getting coached at a high level. And the
amount of reps that they get in practice, I bet
is second to none. Because we literally have three aligned
coaches taking units of guys and coaching them up to
help develop them throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Talked about offense defenses was all over the place and
about I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really glad, I'm glad you brought them up because there's
been a lot of shade casting on our defense. And
you look at the numbers, those numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I said, little concerned about this defense.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The numbers don't tell the story whatsoever. They kick our
butt in the summer every year, they kick our tail
and they make it so stinking hard to move the football.
They compete like crazy, they have fun doing it. I
know what we have on the other side. I see
it every single day. And this is going to sound
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like excuses what We've had a handful of guys that
went down, and you got to move guys in the
different spots, and you're trying to figure out like the
pieces of the puzzle of what guys fit best where,
which is a big deal, and then they get that
opportunity to showcase it against their rival and you see
a lot of guys stepping up. Connor Cuzzo is playing
his best football right now. Christian Harris. I can't say
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enough good things about him. He's playing some different spots.
Like last year he was in a position to probably
make more havoc plays, but we need him in a
different spot where maybe he's not getting the same statistical
recognition that he used to get. But he's playing his
tail off. And everyone on this team knows how valuable
you were.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Watching before the game, you know, you you see some
guys like Warren Sappho, they're all animated before a game. Christian,
he looks like he's just getting coming out of the pool.
I mean, he's just cool, calm and collected, and then
that light switch goes off and it's game on.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He has a lot of fun. Man, He don't. He's
got a smile on his face all the time, like
he doesn't let the moment.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Get That's what it appears from the outside looking at.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No at all. He doesn't. It's not too big for him.
But they're playing. They played their tails off.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Extremely excited for Paxing Dodgeworth a sophomore, a young kid who,
as all most sophomores are going to make mistakes as
they grow and learn and grow into the position. But
they have a big play again like that against a
rival in a big game. Talk about the confidence that
that kid had a feed off that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I want to talk about his toughness more than anything.
Between him and Jake Schuckman are two corners, two first
year starters. Here's how they started off their career. They
go against a power for kid at Princeton and guess what,
like their other players on their team are really fast
as well. They go against two powerful wide receivers that
are the best in the country week two, and then
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they go week three, they play Trinity, the state champ
out of Kentucky that's got some really good wide outs
that are gonna play in college. Then they go to
week four and they play a commit to Alabama. I mean,
they just keep finding ways to fight, right and like, yeah,
you're gonna take your lumps, and but they keep coming
back and swinging, man, and that's gonna pay more dividends
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off later on down the season. They are they are
improving exponentially more than other high school players and stuff
like that. That gains a ton of confidence for packs.
And he was one of our players of the game,
So insanely proud of him, insanely proud of our whole
secondary because there's been guys moving around. They got to
play different spots, right, like Marina Middleton was back, thank god.
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Like he is, he is a just a stud for
us on defense. Connor Mappin's playing really really well. Caleb
Willis is stepping up and playing really really well as well.
So I could just go on and on about those
guys on that side. Really proud of them, and they're
they're getting better, get better, really are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Forty seven or forty seven yard field goal three for
three of the thirty points. He was responsible for twelve
of them. I mean, how important is it to have
a weapon like a Jack Malibar Adam Reebush by the way,
forty one a yard average on three punchs. I mean,
you can flip a field. I mean, your special teams
guys were really impressive.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
On Friday, and we needed that for some confidence because
I know how much talent we have there and we've
we've had some slip ups right the last couple of weeks.
I think that that's no surprise to anyone, but we
know the talent that we have on that side of
the ball, and we just had to play better. But
Adam really good job like, and that's a kid that
has worked his tail off and last year like, the
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improvement he had from last year to this year has
been exponential, maybe one of the most improved kids on
our team, and that's all due to hard work and dedication.
So I want to give him some love as well,
and and then Jack Malabard, like you said it, man,
I mean, you're able to get inside the red zone
and score points like you want to score touchdowns, no doubt,
but you're able to get some field goals. Then even
outside the red zone, you can still kick those field goals.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I think field goal at the end of the first
half was so demoralizing to that Sane x sideline. I
mean they felt like they were in a game. They were,
they were hanging tight, even though it was just a
three point spread. I just felt like that was a huge,
huge field goal at the end of the day. I
think it was a.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Huge day and maybe if they want to argue that
it wasn't, I thought it was a big, uplifting play
for sure, you know what I mean. So however you
want to slice, I think it was a huge momentum changer.
It gave Jack a lot of confidence too, right, Like
you just banged to forty sevens. But that's a second
field goal he's made as time expired at the end
to half, right, So we did that against Trinity as well,
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So that's too. That's I'm trying to think now, like
I think our guys have, They've been pretty good at
the end of the half. Like I think in all
five games, my memory slipp from.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You guys practice field goal, but time is running. Is
that something you guys intentionally.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We call it hurricane field goal. That situation hasn't come
up where like you're running the offense off and running
the ball and we'll do that. But yeah, we put
pressure and we practice field goal every single day and
we try to get that rhythm and timing down. But
the unsung hero of that is Tyler Jocelyn, right, So
people forget that, you know, I mean, I know he's
our running back, but he was not our original holder.
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That was Grant Emory So Grant so our two former quarterbacks,
two captains, right, Like if you look back at just
the last couple of years, we only put guys that
we absolutely trust in that position to be able to
hold the football. And then that was Ethan Page, I
think the year before it. Last year was Roman Mason,
who was a captain Forrest, and then this year it
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was Grant and Tyler who's been doing a really good
job of getting that ball down and keep came that
rhythm for Jacksonie's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very cool big shout out to the Mollar family. You responded,
and my challenge to the Molar fans, it's a little
easier to show up for the sane X game. I
challenge the Molar fans out there listening now to show
up for the rest of the season. Keep backing these boys,
because coach, there's no doubt that twelfth Man can really
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feed this football team. And we have homecoming this weekend.
Let's pack the stands. But I don't think I'm overshooting
here that they're a big deal in back in these
guys in your coaching staff.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, there's nothing I love more than here in our
student section get rowdy in the stands and start doing
their chance like that gets me going, That gets our
team going. It is high school football at its best.
Our student section does an awesome job with that. But
just I mean, everyone does well off positive affirmation, right,
So the more people we get there to then support
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our guys. And I know it's tough to get out
to Mount Saint Joe, I get that, but I think
our guys would be really appreciative of it, and they
love it. And this is a wee thing, not a
me or an I think. But when our fans and
the Molar faith will come out like they should share
in those victories as well, because they're a part of
it and they have a direct impact on the game
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based upon how they create that energy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Goodbye Saint X Hello LaSalle will preview the lanswers on
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Speaker 3 (21:37):
Moler fans, this is Jeff Snedle class of nineteen eighty four.
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Speaker 1 (22:05):
Go big mo. All right, Pardner, keep rolling, baby, you
know what time it is. Forward Crusader football is rolling, rolling, rolling.
He's got a guy opener.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He eludes his defender. He's off to the racist slam
pattern and is intercepted by number two Lincoln Murphy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And he's gonna throw it across it on he gets
no receiver. Matt Fugler All of the action here on
w m OE in the Molding Broadcasting Network. Welcome back
to the Coach bath Any Show, presented by Kobe Shepherd
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and our guy Jeff Sneedle. He's on sabbatical in Chicago,
but he promised me, promises me he will be back
on Friday. In the booth that bound Saint Joe. Coach.
We said goodbye to say Nat. It's now on those
sound answers. A young football team that experience much like
more and they're danked up in a lot of spots.
But this is one of those games that you will
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not allow these guys to take their focus off the
job at hand. On Friday night at Mount Saint Joe Homecoming.
It's still answers on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's so a GCL game, it's so a rivalry game.
I mean, coach McLaughlin has done you know, he's the
all time wins leader at that school and he's done
an awesome job. He'll have him ready to play and
he'll give us fits on offense, and then they play
extremely hard on defense and they're gonna give us fits
there too, So you just can't predict anything in a
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gCO game. I have every every single week we step
foot on the field, our mindset is always about us
and it's not about the other opponent. Right, so then
then we're not worried about like all the other external factors.
If we can just focus on us and block out
the scoreboard, block out the time, block out the our opponent,
and just focus on the task in hand and focus
on our execution. I think that's what allows us to
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be successful. Start thinking about external factors, we lose our focus,
then we don't play as well.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Avi or Carter A his first year in the system
at Lasal a mobile quarterback. You're gonna see mobile quarterbacks
the next two weeks. Yep with Kaden Ee step to
follow with Elder. Do you change your schematics at all
or is it just we're going to do what we
always do, keep trying to keep them inside the tackle
box and roll the dice.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean you have to adjust a little bit, like
when you play a pocket style quarterback and then you
play a scramble like your your strategy and your focus
has to change in some way shape or form right like,
so he whenever you can play eleven on eleven football,
that makes it tougher because now it's more about one
on one matchups. But he's a really athletic kid, and
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he can make people miss and if you give him
a crease, he's gonna take it. And just when you
think you might have him in the backfield and then
a dB loses his eyes off as man he can
get he can deliver the ball to receiver for a
big play. So those those scrambling quarterbacks provide so much,
so much distress, I think to a defense because they're
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just their unpredictability.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Three things you guys have to be to do be
to be successful on Friday night at Mount.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Saint Joe, it's always the same thing. We got to
liminate explosive plays for them, right. We got to create
explosive plays on offense for us, right, So the explosive
play battle is always huge. We got to protect the
football and we've been pretty good at that in the
last couple of weeks. And we had a turnover last week,
but then our defense responded with a takeaway. So the
big difference last week is when we got to take away,
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we scored when they got to take away our defense
got off the field, So we got to make sure
we take advantage of those turnovers and then playing well
in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Colin Woolridge and Rodney Portos two Lancers that lead the
GCL South and tackles, Woolridge with fifty seven tackles Portas
with forty two. Two guys that can fly to the football.
I might add a fourth to that though. Don't get
behind fourteen nothing like the last time we played it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, let's not do that. Yeah, let's not do that.
I mean anytime, I think that's always a key point.
Don't get behind fourteen nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
How does homecoming play into this from a football perspective? It?
Do you guys do anything fun to kind of recognize
imagine that probably get locked in, right.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm usually pretty locked in on it. I think our
guys are locked in. The cool thing is I know
George Pavlof is on homecoming court, right, so he's gonna
be out there.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
George. How special was he to the football program?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I love him? He is just so special. I love
I love it when they're there's players on our team
that that find their role within the team and then
they they accept it and then they excel at it.
So with George, you haven't like he's not going to
score a touchdown for us, probably right, Like that's probably
not gonna happen. But he is so critical to our
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our entire football team, from how he helps out with
our faith formation, when he prays for our team, he's
our go to guy for prayer. He helps lead our
benediction service on Thursdays along with Josh McCarthy and Aden Sharp,
but George has always kind of been the leader of
that thing. And then his shows on Thursday. The thing
I love the most is how much his showmanship has improved.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, for sure over the last three years.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
He's always been really good at it, So I don't
want to make it sound like he wasn't good and
then he away think got better. He's always been great.
But you can just see his growth and development over
the last three years as he commands the room, as
he controls the audience and like just kind of lets
people know what he wants done and how done it.
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It's it's just a ton of funny.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I posted the first time I've ever posted a video
of it. Know if you saw it on Facebook I
know your mom saw it. I saw it. But the
reaction he got from the guys in that locker room
the magic trick was awesome. But to see how much
he is just beloved plus by his by his fellow players, teammates,
that's so special. Man. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And so I don't know he filmed it and then
he asked me if he could post it, and I'm like, yeah,
of course. So that's why he was able to get
it out there. But like the more the people who
can see his skill set and see how special he
is is awesome. He's a phenomenal singer too. Man, He's
a renaissance man. He just has so many positive things
going on in his life. So even when I talk
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to the campers at Moeller basketball, baseball, whatever the camp is, uh,
they always ask me who my favorite Moler player is,
and it's always easy to say George Pavlock. He just
does yeah, and he, like I said, he found his
role and he's excelling at his role. And I think
when you have a player that does that, or even
when you have your own child that does that, and
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they're excelling and they're happy, they're providing, they're providing a
benefit to whatever it is. As a parrot, that makes
you extremely happy, and as a coach you're you're happy
as well.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
But do you have any questions for me? None?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I want to know what you think the first place
should be?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Friday night? Can I call it? I'd never called a
first play before. Maybe we can talk about that when
we get off the air. Yeah, the firs play act
or something like that. Maybe go over the top.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think you're Yeah, I gotta, I gotta make fun
of that. That suggestion is way better than President n
The houses suggesting was his. It was an illegal play.
I couldn't even right. So we got to coach him
up on that.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
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Yeah, no offense shit.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know listen, of course, you know what's exciting. Before
we talked about last Friday, you got some past players
listening in, much to your chagrin. Perhaps is more than
just the bathy Any family listens to the coaches. It
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah. I had a former player from Dennison actually text
me last night and say you can add me to
the list of people who listen to your show that
don't have the same last name as you.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So Ryan McEwan from Chicago played for me at Dennison.
One of my all time favorites. Just a tough tough kid,
and just how much.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You love hearing from your former players.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Love it, like that's that's why you do it, you know.
Like I'm still relatively young in my coaching career, but
I've had a few players get married and you go
back and you get to reminisce with all the guys.
And what's funny is all the things they remember that
you don't, Yeah, for good or for bad or whatever
it is, but like they always have a million stories
(01:39):
and they're always itching to kind of have those adult
conversations with you later on in life. But those those
relationships last forever.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
There's a quote that I love when you talk about
coaches or educators. You know, we're often planning seeds for
which trees shade we may never sit under. So to
have guys reach back, those are the benefits of saying,
seeing how they've grown, not just on the football field,
but beyond it is very gratifying for a coach. I mentioned,
(02:07):
yeah without question.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I mean those are you spend so much time with
each other during that time, and then all of a
sudden it's done, you know, so you have four years
of seeing them every day, sure, yeah, and then all
of a sudden it's over, and you know, that's the
beauty and that's the struggle. I think of being a teacher,
being a coach, right, especially at the high school and
college level, where you know, four years and they're done
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and then you only get to see him very sparingly
from there on out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Very cool, very cool coach. I want to talk about
Saint X, But before I do, I was I was
sharing with my dad, just walking pregame onto that field
on Friday night, and I intentionally stopped and I just
looked around, did a three sixty spin. I don't you
probably can't, are not afforded that opportunity in the moment,
(02:52):
but just to take it all in, and I mean,
it's not Michigan, Ohio State, it's not Notre Dame USC,
but it's.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's pretty special. There's not a life. I mean, I
think I said that the coach Gray beforehand. I said, man,
look around, like, how much would you love to play
in this game? You know, because he grew up in
New York. I grew up in Kentucky. I mean, you
have your your local rivals, but it's nothing like that,
for sure, nothing like a GCL game. Nonetheless, nothing like
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an Ohio playoff game. It's nothing like ex Moller or
playing at the pit. It's just nothing like.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That, you knowing, I tell the guys too, and you
can probably attest to this. Is that for a lot
of guys, unless they go play at an Ohio State,
Michigan Notre Dame, this experience, this is the elite experience
that they're playing career. It won't get any better than this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was hard to recruit kids out of schools like
this when you're well, it really is because when you
recruit them that they want, they're used to this special experience.
They're used to being in those kind of games, and
they have these nice facilities, they have like all these amenities,
and they go to some other colleges and it's not
quite as nice as our high school. And it's hard
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to recruit some of those kids. Like that's that's every
thought about that. Yeah, never huge shot because you you you,
I mean, it's Division three. You'll have those games where
you have, you know, a really good crowd, but for
the most part, like it's not that much. And even
if you look at you know, some Division one schools
that play throughout the week, right like a late game
in October November.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Even though it's on TV.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You look at the sands and they're empty, and it
still doesn't equate to those games that they play in
high school. So that is a challenge.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And they have the lights Friday night lights in the
band and everything. It's awesome. Coach. We're gonna take step out,
take a break, and then come back talk about that.
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Speaker 1 (05:27):
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right right up the middle. He's crashing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's trying to take people and he doesn't do the
end zone Crusader touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They are gonna fake it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They are going to try to throw to the end
zone a two under pressure and the balls loose on
the term Crusader touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Buller Crusader football.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Takes it around the right side.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He wreaks through.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He is going at the forty fifty forty.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He's a foot race.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He is going to take it to the episode touchdown Crusaders.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Get all the covered right. He on wm OE and
the mullet run Kissing Network coach b I think if
you had your script for Friday night written down, which
obviously you do. You want to play what I hear
every coaching head says all these years, you want to
play complimentary football, offense, defense, special teams. Could you have
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scripted out the way Friday? Your coach, You're gonna probably
drill down and say, I wish we would have done
this is it? But overall, overarching you had be pretty impressed.
But by the way things worked.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Out, I thought that was about as complete game as
we could we could play. Obviously, there's still things you
want up sure fix and correct and stuff like that.
You can go on and on about that, but like
you started fast, like you scored on the first possession, right,
I thought our special teams was really really good. We
had a turnover that led to a touchdown right out
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of halftime. I mean, just when you go into a
game and there's certain plays that you need to make
to be a to be successful, and our guys were
able to make them and able to execute at a
high level. So when you talk about complimentary football, which
I know as coach talk, I thought we That was
my message to our guys after the game and then
even the next day. I thought we complimented each other
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when we needed it most. When offense threw a pick
and we need to stop from the defense, they got
a big fourth down stop. And then after that stop,
offense was able to move quickly into two minute dro
to put ourselves in field goal range, and then that
you know, was able to get a field goal to
go up four and totally change the momentum of the game.
I thought heading in the halftime because they were getting
(07:36):
the ball back at half. If they got that ball
and scored to take the lead and then you're getting
the ball back after halftime, that's just a completely different mindset.
So when you talk about complimentary football, I thought there
was a great example at.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The end of the half A couple guys I want
to talk about in Matt Potatowski. Not because Matt Potatowski
threw for four hundred yards. What I saw on the
sideline with Matt, what I saw sixteen for twenty six,
one hundred and thirty six yards. Mister Ohio football didn't
have to be mister Ohio football. He played the game
that was presented to him, your ground game. That's what
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makes in my opinion, this smoler football team so dangerous
because we can get you in the air, but we
can also get you on the ground. To the tune
of I had Hey right in front of me rushing
yards on the day, you had a five point two
average one hundred and eighty two yards in the ground.
They'll get you in the air, they'll get you on
the ground. You got mal Levard doing what he's doing
with this three for three is fit forty seven yard
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field goal. This is a dangerous football team. Win you're
executing at all levels like you did on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I thought Matt played his best game from a
managing sam shirt right, like taking what the defense gives you,
and they got a lot of talent on that defense,
so they don't give you a lot. But what I
was proud of the most is there was three plays
where he throw it away and didn't take a negative play,
which for a kid like that who has it success
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and has examples of trying to be Superman and then
making that big play, I was really probably those most
because it kept us on schedule to then be able
to make plays later on.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Those are the hidden plays that coaches like you notice.
You won't see it in a WT Fox nineteen highlight,
but those are the plays that make a difference for
this offense.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Whichause then allows you to then be successful on the
next play. And then within our offense, Matt has a
lot of freedom, and he has a lot of ability
to make decisions out there and say next does a
good job of taking away those things that we like
to do. But the three times they gave it to us,
Matt took it. And and those are big plays, right,
like two screens to Reggie Watson that ended up being
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first downs, and then that the fade to Reggie in
the red zone, like.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That was you enjoy stick yep, that was a room play.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That was a run play, but Matt knows it's second
and one and inside the red zone. We treat that
like first down, and he has three downs to work with.
So his thought process is going through like, hey, it's
second and one, Like, I know, coach wants me to
get this first down, but they're pressing Reggie inside leverage.
I got this and then they just connect and go.
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So that's been built in for years now where Matt
has decision making ability and it's based upon the situation,
right like. It's based upon and people don't see that,
right like, based on the field position, based upon the
down and distance, based upon who is out there, the leverage,
There's all these different factors that go in that he
has to calculate to then make the best decision possible
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and get us in the right play. And that's what
he did.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And that's an experienced quarterback that has trusted you. You
have trusted him to make those plays when it dictates it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And then he has trusted Reggie correct, which I think
is the most important thing because everyone always wants to say, Coach,
I just need my shot in the game, I need
my shot. Well, no, you developed that throughout the week,
and Reggie has developed trust very very fast throughout the summer,
throughout the season. I mean, I think the number now
he's at thirty four catches in three games. That's great.
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They at the high school level, I mean that's insane.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So human, joystick kind. I wouldn't want to try to
catch him. No, just Matt, Like I think it's really
the yards after catches are impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, he just he's a phenomenal player. I mean, he
really is. I joke around and say every night I
think got him the head coach at Moler and then
I thank God for Reggie Watson. But he's been a
shining light of this team, right because we've had a
couple of injuries, right, Like Landon Adams is a really
good player, Carson ko is a really good player. So
Reggie kind of stepped in and took advantage of that
(11:27):
opportunity very much the way Tyler Jocelyn did, I think
last year. So having that trust in that relationship between
a pass catcher and a quarterback is critical, and I
think every lethal passing attack has that right. So Matt
has a lot of options on our offense. But it
looks like Reggie's really taking advantage of it more than
any one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Tyler jo Jocelyn ninety three yards on the ground, Dante
where seventy two. We talked about one hundred and eighty
two yards on the ground. But let's not forget about
the elephant in the room, and that's the offensive line,
Michael in the tight ends and then the tight and
the tight ends, Sam and Cooper. Let's not mistake Michael
Blum doing what Michael Blum does, and that's just groom
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this offensive line which was as big, physical, but inexperience
in spots. I think only one senior coming back this year.
You're seeing what Michael Blum does best, and that's get
these kids to start every week getting a little bit better.
It'll run for one hundred and eighty two yards if
you don't have those big kneed heads up front blocking
like they did.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, they're improving every week, and that is our mindset
throughout the season. That's why we play such a tough
schedule and we schedule those games is to develop throughout
the year because our mindset is always to be peaking
by Game ten heading into the playoffs where it matters most. So,
even though like we have Game one we expect to
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be a completely different unit by game five, and then
we expect to be a completely different unit by game ten.
And I think if you looked at the film, you
would definitely see that across the over every individual player,
and they're all getting better and they're rotating and that
group like classical line, they enjoy being around each other. Right,
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they jab each other, they're weirdos, but they they come home.
It's not a weirdo when they get in the right group, man,
Like the weirdness just spreads out like a disease, bet wildfire.
But that that that they like each other and they're
doing a really good job. And we have three really
good aligned coaches, like coach Plumb does an awesome job,
but Arman Tatum and Mitch Grant help us out as well.
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So they're getting coached at a high level. And the
amount of reps that they get in practice, I bet
is second to none. Because we literally have three aligned
coaches taking units of guys and coaching them up to
help develop them throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Talked about offense defenses was all over the place and
about I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really glad, I'm glad you brought them up because there's
been a lot of shade casting on our defense. And
you look at the numbers, those numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I said, little concerned about this defense.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The numbers don't tell the story whatsoever. They kick our
butt in the summer every year, they kick our tail
and they make it so stinking hard to move the football.
They compete like crazy, they have fun doing it. I
know what we have on the other side. I see
it every single day. And this is going to sound
(14:22):
like excuses what We've had a handful of guys that
went down, and you got to move guys in the
different spots, and you're trying to figure out like the
pieces of the puzzle of what guys fit best where,
which is a big deal, and then they get that
opportunity to showcase it against their rival and you see
a lot of guys stepping up. Connor Cuzzo is playing
his best football right now. Christian Harris. I can't say
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enough good things about him. He's playing some different spots.
Like last year he was in a position to probably
make more havoc plays, but we need him in a
different spot where maybe he's not getting the same statistical
recognition that he used to get. But he's playing his
tail off. And everyone on this team knows how valuable
you were.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Watching before the game, you know, you you see some
guys like Warren Sappho, they're all animated before a game. Christian,
he looks like he's just getting coming out of the pool.
I mean, he's just cool, calm and collected, and then
that light switch goes off and it's game on.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He has a lot of fun. Man, He don't. He's
got a smile on his face all the time, like
he doesn't let the moment.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Get That's what it appears from the outside looking at.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No at all. He doesn't. It's not too big for him.
But they're playing. They played their tails off.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Extremely excited for Paxing Dodgeworth a sophomore, a young kid who,
as all most sophomores are going to make mistakes as
they grow and learn and grow into the position. But
they have a big play again like that against a
rival in a big game. Talk about the confidence that
that kid had a feed off that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I want to talk about his toughness more than anything.
Between him and Jake Schuckman are two corners, two first
year starters. Here's how they started off their career. They
go against a power for kid at Princeton and guess what,
like their other players on their team are really fast
as well. They go against two powerful wide receivers that
are the best in the country week two, and then
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they go week three, they play Trinity, the state champ
out of Kentucky that's got some really good wide outs
that are gonna play in college. Then they go to
week four and they play a commit to Alabama. I mean,
they just keep finding ways to fight, right and like, yeah,
you're gonna take your lumps, and but they keep coming
back and swinging, man, and that's gonna pay more dividends
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off later on down the season. They are they are
improving exponentially more than other high school players and stuff
like that. That gains a ton of confidence for packs.
And he was one of our players of the game,
So insanely proud of him, insanely proud of our whole
secondary because there's been guys moving around. They got to
play different spots, right, like Marina Middleton was back, thank god.
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Like he is, he is a just a stud for
us on defense. Connor Mappin's playing really really well. Caleb
Willis is stepping up and playing really really well as well.
So I could just go on and on about those
guys on that side. Really proud of them, and they're
they're getting better, get better, really are unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Forty seven or forty seven yard field goal three for
three of the thirty points. He was responsible for twelve
of them. I mean, how important is it to have
a weapon like a Jack Malibar Adam Reebush by the way,
forty one a yard average on three punchs. I mean,
you can flip a field. I mean, your special teams
guys were really impressive.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
On Friday, and we needed that for some confidence because
I know how much talent we have there and we've
we've had some slip ups right the last couple of weeks.
I think that that's no surprise to anyone, but we
know the talent that we have on that side of
the ball, and we just had to play better. But
Adam really good job like, and that's a kid that
has worked his tail off and last year like, the
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improvement he had from last year to this year has
been exponential, maybe one of the most improved kids on
our team, and that's all due to hard work and dedication.
So I want to give him some love as well,
and and then Jack Malabard, like you said it, man,
I mean, you're able to get inside the red zone
and score points like you want to score touchdowns, no doubt,
but you're able to get some field goals. Then even
outside the red zone, you can still kick those field goals.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I think field goal at the end of the first
half was so demoralizing to that Sane x sideline. I
mean they felt like they were in a game. They were,
they were hanging tight, even though it was just a
three point spread. I just felt like that was a huge,
huge field goal at the end of the day. I
think it was a.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Huge day and maybe if they want to argue that
it wasn't, I thought it was a big, uplifting play
for sure, you know what I mean. So however you
want to slice, I think it was a huge momentum changer.
It gave Jack a lot of confidence too, right, Like
you just banged to forty sevens. But that's a second
field goal he's made as time expired at the end
to half, right, So we did that against Trinity as well,
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So that's too. That's I'm trying to think now, like
I think our guys have, They've been pretty good at
the end of the half. Like I think in all
five games, my memory slipp from.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You guys practice field goal, but time is running. Is
that something you guys intentionally.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We call it hurricane field goal. That situation hasn't come
up where like you're running the offense off and running
the ball and we'll do that. But yeah, we put
pressure and we practice field goal every single day and
we try to get that rhythm and timing down. But
the unsung hero of that is Tyler Jocelyn, right, So
people forget that, you know, I mean, I know he's
our running back, but he was not our original holder.
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That was Grant Emory So Grant so our two former quarterbacks,
two captains, right, Like if you look back at just
the last couple of years, we only put guys that
we absolutely trust in that position to be able to
hold the football. And then that was Ethan Page, I
think the year before it. Last year was Roman Mason,
who was a captain Forrest, and then this year it
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was Grant and Tyler who's been doing a really good
job of getting that ball down and keep came that
rhythm for Jacksonie's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very cool big shout out to the Mollar family. You responded,
and my challenge to the Molar fans, it's a little
easier to show up for the sane X game. I
challenge the Molar fans out there listening now to show
up for the rest of the season. Keep backing these boys,
because coach, there's no doubt that twelfth Man can really
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feed this football team. And we have homecoming this weekend.
Let's pack the stands. But I don't think I'm overshooting
here that they're a big deal in back in these
guys in your coaching staff.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, there's nothing I love more than here in our
student section get rowdy in the stands and start doing
their chance like that gets me going, That gets our
team going. It is high school football at its best.
Our student section does an awesome job with that. But
just I mean, everyone does well off positive affirmation, right,
So the more people we get there to then support
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our guys. And I know it's tough to get out
to Mount Saint Joe, I get that, but I think
our guys would be really appreciative of it, and they
love it. And this is a wee thing, not a
me or an I think. But when our fans and
the Molar faith will come out like they should share
in those victories as well, because they're a part of
it and they have a direct impact on the game
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based upon how they create that energy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
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the other side of a break. It's a Coach Matty
Any show. I'm the best coverage coverage, wall to wall
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Speaker 3 (21:37):
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Speaker 1 (22:05):
Go big mo. All right, Pardner, keep rolling, baby, you
know what time it is. Forward Crusader football is rolling, rolling, rolling.
He's got a guy opener.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He eludes his defender. He's off to the racist slam
pattern and is intercepted by number two Lincoln Murphy.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And he's gonna throw it across it on he gets
no receiver. Matt Fugler All of the action here on
w m OE in the Molding Broadcasting Network. Welcome back
to the Coach bath Any Show, presented by Kobe Shepherd
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and our guy Jeff Sneedle. He's on sabbatical in Chicago,
but he promised me, promises me he will be back
on Friday. In the booth that bound Saint Joe. Coach.
We said goodbye to say Nat. It's now on those
sound answers. A young football team that experience much like
more and they're danked up in a lot of spots.
But this is one of those games that you will
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not allow these guys to take their focus off the
job at hand. On Friday night at Mount Saint Joe Homecoming.
It's still answers on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's so a GCL game, it's so a rivalry game.
I mean, coach McLaughlin has done you know, he's the
all time wins leader at that school and he's done
an awesome job. He'll have him ready to play and
he'll give us fits on offense, and then they play
extremely hard on defense and they're gonna give us fits
there too, So you just can't predict anything in a
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gCO game. I have every every single week we step
foot on the field, our mindset is always about us
and it's not about the other opponent. Right, so then
then we're not worried about like all the other external factors.
If we can just focus on us and block out
the scoreboard, block out the time, block out the our opponent,
and just focus on the task in hand and focus
on our execution. I think that's what allows us to
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be successful. Start thinking about external factors, we lose our focus,
then we don't play as well.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Avi or Carter A his first year in the system
at Lasal a mobile quarterback. You're gonna see mobile quarterbacks
the next two weeks. Yep with Kaden Ee step to
follow with Elder. Do you change your schematics at all
or is it just we're going to do what we
always do, keep trying to keep them inside the tackle
box and roll the dice.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean you have to adjust a little bit, like
when you play a pocket style quarterback and then you
play a scramble like your your strategy and your focus
has to change in some way shape or form right like,
so he whenever you can play eleven on eleven football,
that makes it tougher because now it's more about one
on one matchups. But he's a really athletic kid, and
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he can make people miss and if you give him
a crease, he's gonna take it. And just when you
think you might have him in the backfield and then
a dB loses his eyes off as man he can
get he can deliver the ball to receiver for a
big play. So those those scrambling quarterbacks provide so much,
so much distress, I think to a defense because they're
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just their unpredictability.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Three things you guys have to be to do be
to be successful on Friday night at Mount.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Saint Joe, it's always the same thing. We got to
liminate explosive plays for them, right. We got to create
explosive plays on offense for us, right, So the explosive
play battle is always huge. We got to protect the
football and we've been pretty good at that in the
last couple of weeks. And we had a turnover last week,
but then our defense responded with a takeaway. So the
big difference last week is when we got to take away,
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we scored when they got to take away our defense
got off the field, So we got to make sure
we take advantage of those turnovers and then playing well
in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Colin Woolridge and Rodney Portos two Lancers that lead the
GCL South and tackles, Woolridge with fifty seven tackles Portas
with forty two. Two guys that can fly to the football.
I might add a fourth to that though. Don't get
behind fourteen nothing like the last time we played it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, let's not do that. Yeah, let's not do that.
I mean anytime, I think that's always a key point.
Don't get behind fourteen nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
How does homecoming play into this from a football perspective? It?
Do you guys do anything fun to kind of recognize
imagine that probably get locked in, right.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm usually pretty locked in on it. I think our
guys are locked in. The cool thing is I know
George Pavlof is on homecoming court, right, so he's gonna
be out there.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
George. How special was he to the football program?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I love him? He is just so special. I love
I love it when they're there's players on our team
that that find their role within the team and then
they they accept it and then they excel at it.
So with George, you haven't like he's not going to
score a touchdown for us, probably right, Like that's probably
not gonna happen. But he is so critical to our
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our entire football team, from how he helps out with
our faith formation, when he prays for our team, he's
our go to guy for prayer. He helps lead our
benediction service on Thursdays along with Josh McCarthy and Aden Sharp,
but George has always kind of been the leader of
that thing. And then his shows on Thursday. The thing
I love the most is how much his showmanship has improved.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, for sure over the last three years.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
He's always been really good at it, So I don't
want to make it sound like he wasn't good and
then he away think got better. He's always been great.
But you can just see his growth and development over
the last three years as he commands the room, as
he controls the audience and like just kind of lets
people know what he wants done and how done it.
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It's it's just a ton of funny.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I posted the first time I've ever posted a video
of it. Know if you saw it on Facebook I
know your mom saw it. I saw it. But the
reaction he got from the guys in that locker room
the magic trick was awesome. But to see how much
he is just beloved plus by his by his fellow players, teammates,
that's so special. Man. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And so I don't know he filmed it and then
he asked me if he could post it, and I'm like, yeah,
of course. So that's why he was able to get
it out there. But like the more the people who
can see his skill set and see how special he
is is awesome. He's a phenomenal singer too. Man, He's
a renaissance man. He just has so many positive things
going on in his life. So even when I talk
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to the campers at Moeller basketball, baseball, whatever the camp is, uh,
they always ask me who my favorite Moler player is,
and it's always easy to say George Pavlock. He just
does yeah, and he, like I said, he found his
role and he's excelling at his role. And I think
when you have a player that does that, or even
when you have your own child that does that, and
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they're excelling and they're happy, they're providing, they're providing a
benefit to whatever it is. As a parrot, that makes
you extremely happy, and as a coach you're you're happy
as well.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
But do you have any questions for me? None?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I want to know what you think the first place
should be?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Friday night? Can I call it? I'd never called a
first play before. Maybe we can talk about that when
we get off the air. Yeah, the firs play act
or something like that. Maybe go over the top.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think you're Yeah, I gotta, I gotta make fun
of that. That suggestion is way better than President n
The houses suggesting was his. It was an illegal play.
I couldn't even right. So we got to coach him
up on that.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He's got he's got an opportunity for improvement. Right. Yeah,
that's Coach Bathy. And on the Coach Bathy any show
about that, presented by our good friend Jeff Steedle and
Kobe and Shepherd. It's the Moller Crusaders and the La
Salle Answers. It's homecoming week at Mount Saint Joe. Thank
you for listening. Well, I'm sure Steeds will be back
next week. Hillard to post filling you in on everything
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Coach b he has to in part with his business.
I'm Big mo Barrett on the best coverage of Moeller football,
The Coach Bathy Andy Show at w m OE, and
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