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 John C. Sailor Attorney at Law, The Courier Journal, Miller's Place, North Alabama Boney Joint Clinic, Southern Pride Pest Control and Bank Independent. Now live from the North Alabama Boney Joint Clinic, here's your host, Kevin Johnson.

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 Top of the morning to you here on this Saturday morning. Beautiful day in Florence, Alabama and hoping you're getting your day off to a great start listening in the shows area in North Alabama. We have listeners all the way out to Athens and Huntsville. Thank you for listening in today.

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 as well. Hope you're enjoying your early morning. And thank you for listening on the 93.9 The Score app. You can listen to this broadcast anytime on the 93.9 The Score app and actually download it if you want to go back and listen to it again throughout the week. We keep those recorded in podcast for you as well. Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you here. Wow. Week four already. I mean, can you believe that folks? High school football, we wait, we anticipate, we can't wait for it to get here. Oh, I just can't wait for football in the summer. It starts in late August.

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 And you look up and you're almost halfway through the season. It's the fastest of time of the year, but it's also the best time of the year. And last night, the lights of Friday night lights were bright everywhere and tremendous games played everywhere.

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 And really, the region just kicking off week two, but you're starting to see some jockeying having the way things fell. A lot of teams that are maybe at the top of the regions in several places played each other last night. Great games played throughout. So it was just a fabulous night of high school football. Had some weather delays. I know in different places, a little bit of rain here and there, some lightning delays, but not as much as we thought. Got everything in. That was good to see.

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 And last night, 194 games were played. And as I said, uh, yesterday on the Boomo Bugg show, uh, 194 games were played yesterday on nine 11. I'm in 194 national anthems. And I'll be honest with you when, uh, I was at the Florence Russellville game. And when the Russell golden tigers, uh, March at a hundred played the national anthem, it just hit a little different last night on the 25th anniversary of nine 11. It's good to be an American and a great night to be out to see high school football as well.

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 Well, let's talk about three things that KJ saw last night. And I could probably go a list of eight to 10 of things from top of the state to the bottom of the state.

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 But, uh, I want to start by saying this is not one of the top three, but I just want to say very thankful that the AHS FHS, it's a, it's a, uh, internet, um, place that we can go to, to find all the information we need.

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 And it does all kinds of information for us, uh, for, for broadcasters and for fans.

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 And, uh, David Parker does a tremendous job.

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 They had been hacked last week.

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 It looked like their system was going to be down for good.

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 They were really upset.

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 And man, the state of Alabama, the love sports said, no, no, no, we're going to help you out.

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 And some people that know way more than I do how to get him back online, fixed everything.

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 And he's up and running.

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 He is one of the great historians of high school football.

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 If you have advice, AHS, uh, FHS.org, I think it might be.com or.org, but the Alabama high school, uh, is where it starts with.

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 And it's, it's, it's amazing what he's done history all the way back to schools, to the forties, the fifties, the thirties, the twenties.

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 You can go back and say, Hey, I wonder what that school was in 1975.

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 And he's got it.

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 I mean, it's unbelievable.

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 They do as good a job as anything.

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 And it's free.

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 It's free for you to go and to look up and see.

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 So thankful they got all that worked out.

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 And we appreciate David Parker, AHS, FHS for what they do for high school sports.

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 Three things KJ saw last night.

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 I'm going to go in six, eight, which used to be seven.

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 I still hard for me to say, but class six, a, and, uh, I think there's a changing of guard happening pretty quickly.

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 And I see it happening last night.

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 How about for the first time in a while, those practical lines come up with a huge win.

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 Man, they were the team that for many years in the nineties and eighties were that team that battled out with Hoover high school.

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 They were the two top teams.

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 And then Prattville sort of had a slump a little bit.

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 They weren't the same Prattville and just weren't the same team, but man, they have turned it around this year.

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 A new coach come in a veteran coach and last night they knock off Hoover late 30 to 29.

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 They had to, it took them seven tries inside the 10 yard line, a penalty kept them another first down seven tries.

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 But on seven tried, they threw it from two yards out to their wide receiver to score late.

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 And they knock off Hoover 30 to 29, which says also for Hoover, I believe if I'm not mistaken, that's their second region loss already of the season.

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 They are in deep, deep trouble in that region.

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 They're going to have to really circle the wagons.

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 If they even want to make the playoffs in that tough region, they're in down there.

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 And then by the way, the team that everybody's looking up to in class six, say maybe more so than I've seen in a long time.

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 Anybody can anybody touch the Thompson warriors.

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 They are just absolutely rolling over everybody.

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 It may be, we're starting to say amongst broadcasters around.

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 It may be one of the great high school teams.

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 This state has ever seen this year's 2026 Thompson warriors.

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 What else did KJC last night?

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 How about this?

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 Those hat and Hornets are for real.

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 I don't talk about them enough.

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 They're just down the road there.

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 I'm telling you, they have absolutely put together a tremendous team this year.

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 The Hornets are stinging everyone.

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 They're playing early on.

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 They win last night, 45-7 over Winfield.

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 And just the buzz around the Alabama high school sports writers and broadcasters is,

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 hey, this Hatton team could make some noise.

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 Keep an eye on a local team.

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 The Hatton Hornets are really, really good.

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 What else did KJC last night?

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 This one, I think, would be very simple.

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 Down to the wire.

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 You love those down to the wire games, unless you're a part of them sometimes.

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 Really, three.

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 I know Central gets a late win over Lauderdale County.

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 That was big for them, the Wildcats.

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 Belgrin had it inside the five.

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 But tip of the hat to both Belgrin and Red Bay for an incredible game last night.

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 At the beginning of the year, against Russellville, Russellville knocked away a two-point conversion

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 to knock off Deschler last night.

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 Hamilton made a great comeback.

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 They are a really incredible offensive team.

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 They cut it to 35-33.

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 But the Deschler Tigers make a big play in the end zone and knock away the pass and win it 35-33.

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 Hope that you're enjoying reading and finding out all about high school football.

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 And we've got a lot of coaches on hand.

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 Addison knocked off Phillips 52-0 last night.

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 Brooks over Ardmore 55-31.

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 As I said, Central and Lauderdale County, they were back and forth at Seesaw Fair.

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 I haven't got to do my research on that one, how it all played out.

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 Carbett County on homecoming 55-20 over Sheffield.

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 Big win for the Indians there.

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 As I said earlier, Deschler with a two-point conversion.

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 Defensive play to knock it away.

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 Hold on to knock off the Aggies of Hamilton 35-33.

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 In a game heard right here on 93-9.

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 The score, a battle of undefeated.

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 It's 3-0 teams going at it.

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 Two really good high school football teams.

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 And Florence pulls away from Russellville in the second half and win it 35-21.

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 Schoenberg all over Waterloo last night, 57-7.

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 Haleville with a shutout of Danville 55-0.

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 As I said, those Hatton Hornets 45-7 over Winfield.

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 Lexington knocks off Falk for last night 59-8.

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 I think a school record as well.

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 Marce Hill with a big shutout of her shows.

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 Christian 44-0.

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 Cherokee falls to Meek 62-14.

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 Muscle Shoals, first win for Coach Darden.

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 That's a really good coach right there for Muscle Shoals.

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 That's a huge win for the Trojans.

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 Knocking off Austin 26-7.

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 Phil Campbell gets a huge win over J.B. Pennington, 41-28.

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 Those Rogers Pirates sneaking around, getting that offense clicking.

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 Knock off Clements last night, 48-7.

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 Tharptown was better than Vina last night, 46-8.

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 West Limestone shuts out.

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 I know last night some big games played around the state of Alabama.

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 And it was one of those where if you look, you see some of these teams that you expect to win starting to step up.

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 But there's a few teams sneaking around the chicken coop to say, I've got a pretty good team.

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 So throughout the day, I may throw some other scores at you, let you know about some of the people coming up

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 and some of the teams that are coming up in high school football.

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 Joined now by the head coach of the Dashler Tigers.

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 Take a deep breath.

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 Coach Patrick Malone, you get that win last night, 35-33.

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 That was one of those that was right down to the wire.

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 It was a tremendous atmosphere for a high school game.

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 Hamilton brought a ton of folks.

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 Our people showed out like they always do.

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 Had a big tailgate set up.

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 So it was just a great, great night for Tuscumbia.

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 It was an incredible night.

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 It was one of those that you just, you got out to the big lead early and then here comes

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 That was the frustrating point part of last night.

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 And anytime you got a team like Hamilton, a really good team, an explosive offense, when you've got to capitalize on your opportunities to put them away.

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 You know, we go into half 28-13 and I'm just furious because I'm thinking it's 42-7.

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 We were playing at a pretty good clip offensively, really proud of our offensive guys early on.

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 And it's just so frustrating right there.

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 Defense got some critical stops in the first part.

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 But, you know, Hamilton's got a senior heavy team and they've got an all-world quarterback.

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 Everything that I can gather from him.

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 He's just a phenomenal kid as well.

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 Much rather be talking about this at 3-1 as opposed to 2-2.

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 Yes, that's a great point.

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 This is Patrick Maloney.

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 I love your statement about you get 10 chances.

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 I used to say all the time to players, how many Friday nights do you get this week?

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 You only get one and make the most of it.

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 And you made the most of it last night.

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 And, Coach, you had to face off against Mason Holloway, one of the best quarterbacks in North Alabama.

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 He is phenomenal.

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 But when it came down to it, you have to make a play.

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 And there was a kid named Warner Johnson who comes up and makes a play, forces the interception there.

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 I think for one of your teammates to come up and make the interception there.

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 Just a big play by Warner right there.

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 It was.

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 Warner's been making plays for us his whole career.

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 He's a senior now.

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 Been playing since he was a freshman.

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 Brought him up as an eighth grader.

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 Kind of get his feet wet, so to speak.

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 And he was on that 22 team that was so talented.

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 And he saw firsthand what it was like to be a leader, and he stepped into that role.

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 But Warner will be the first to tell you it was a complete team effort last night.

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 And defensively, just really proud of our coaches, Jeffrey Woods, Michael Statham, John L. Jones,

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 Hal Mills on the defensive side.

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 All week were, I mean, they worked tirelessly to get these guys ready to play.

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 And the play that you're referring to is the two-point play.

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 And Coach Woods called a blitz right there, inside interior blitz right there.

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 The Hamilton calls timeout.

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 So, Coach Wood causes a simulated pressure from the other side.

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 And so, Warner disguises the brilliance, comes off the edge where they didn't have the protection.

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 Great call by Coach Woods, a gutsy call in that situation.

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 Warner forces pressure on Holloway.

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 Holloway was cramping, so he knew he couldn't roll.

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 That was huge in the scheme of things.

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 Warner forces the pressure.

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 Tristan Welch comes down.

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 With the interception, and honestly, I didn't even see the interception there.

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 I saw the pressure.

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 Felt good about where we were.

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 And really was getting ready for our hands team to go out on the field.

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 Sure.

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 Talking with Coach Flanagan, who was getting our hands team ready to go.

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 So, Tristan Welch is one of those names that I think you're going to start hearing more and more about.

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 He had two interceptions last night.

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 Tremendous player on the back end for us.

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 Again, total team effort.

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 But, you know, you come in and they've got a receiver named Houston Tibbs.

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 And I was stressing him all week.

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 28 targets in three games that we got.

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 And I believe he had maybe two or three opportunities last night.

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 And I came down with one of them.

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 And, you know, we looked at our defense and we said, okay, let's get a guy on him that, you know, it means something to.

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 And you got another senior, George Youngblood, did a phenomenal, phenomenal job.

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 That's really big.

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 I love what you said, Coach Patrick Malone, the Destro Tigers on that two-point conversion play.

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 You talked about you had to take a chance.

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 And sometimes you have to do that.

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 You say, you know, and I think noticing even the kid was cramping up with someone was a big thing.

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 You're watching.

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 You have to have all kinds of eyes on the game.

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 Sometimes a head coach may not see it.

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 The defense coordinator might see it.

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 It might be that 17th coach that comes down there and says, hey, coach, he's cramping up.

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 Those things matter, don't they?

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 Absolutely.

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 And it's part of that communication that you have.

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 And it's why you meet throughout the week to make sure everybody's on the same page.

283
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 But, yes, you're correct.

284
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 We saw early on that I thought we were in better shape.

285
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 And I think when it came down to it, it made a huge difference.

286
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 Class 4A, Region 7, Destro goes to 2-0 on the region, 3-1 in season.

287
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 And Coach Armani Jones, again, just, wow, what a game.

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 I mean, what a game for that young man.

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 A 70-yard kickoff return.

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 He carried the ball 20 times, 166 yards, two touchdowns.

291
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 And I think he went and got water for his teammates, too.

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 He's pretty good.

293
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 He's doing a really good job.

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 And I think, you know, you tip your hat to our offensive coaches because they're figuring out.

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 We've got one ball.

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 And we've got – we do.

297
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 We're blessed to have a ton of playmakers.

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 And so we're figuring out how to spread the football around and getting the ball in the hands of playmakers.

299
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 And Armani's coming into his own.

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 He's a guy that when he touches it, he can go at any point.

301
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 He can take one to the house.

302
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 But Armani's also going to be the first one to tell you he couldn't do anything without that offensive line.

303
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 And I think we're just getting better and better.

304
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 And, again, our offensive coaches do a fantastic job of spreading the ball around, putting guys in position to make plays.

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 And, you know, I think, you know, hopefully we're trending in the right direction.

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 Was that a playoff-type atmosphere last night?

307
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 It was.

308
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 It was.

309
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 You know, we come off the second-round game down there last year.

310
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 And it was just – it was electric last year.

311
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 And one of the loudest environments I've ever been in.

312
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 And then our people all week, they said, oh, wait until they come to Tuscum.

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 Wait until they come to the child.

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 And I'm telling you, it was unbelievable.

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 Just our people.

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 If you've ever been to a Dasher game, you know how Dasher football is and how our people treat it.

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 And if you've never been to a Dasher football game, you need to.

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 You need to come home and watch.

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 It's a different animal, folks.

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 I guarantee you that as we speak with Patrick Malone, head coach of the Dasher Tigers.

321
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 And a great win last night.

322
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 I really was amazed at the game when I heard the score and heard how it ended up.

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 I thought they just did that in the playoffs.

324
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 I couldn't believe that it was the same type of game again.

325
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 But these two teams, man, they are putting on shows.

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 And so now you've got to turn the page.

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 Who do you have next week and where?

328
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 Oh, my gosh.

329
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 We're into another region battle.

330
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 We've got undefeated Priceville coming in.

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 They're sitting at 4-0.

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 And on top of that, it's homecoming for Fat Dasher.

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 It's the fair in town.

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 We've got just tons of distractions.

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 So we've got to do our best job of coaching this week, get our team ready to go.

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 A huge battle in Tuscumbia.

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 Fair, homecoming.

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 There are probably bazaars going on.

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 They're probably selling things.

340
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 Everything happens in one week.

341
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 You ever notice how that all hits at one time sometimes?

342
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 How do you handle that as a coach?

343
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 What's your main thing to say to your team this week?

344
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 It's improved focus, limit distractions.

345
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 And you've got to preach on it so much so that they get tired of hearing it.

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 But I will say this.

347
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 I've been at a lot of places.

348
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 Dasher understands what football means.

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 And our players understand that.

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 And they feel the responsibility that every time they are honored to put that jersey on, they represent all those that came for them.

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 So I think our players will do a really good job.

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 Again, we're looking at 25 seniors in that locker room.

353
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 And it's a lot easier to send a message when they've had guys before them send the same message.

354
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 All right, Tuscumbia fans, put on your Sunday best for a Friday night.

355
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 It's homecoming at Howard Chappell.

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 It should be a great one.

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 Priceful coming to town.

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 Undefeated priceful at that.

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 What a game it's going to be for homecoming.

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 It will be a knockdown dragout.

361
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 And wow, what a region this is.

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 And Class 4A, Region 7, every Friday night, strap on.

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 Because it's going to be a good one.

364
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 But a huge win for the Tigers last night.

365
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 They knock off Hamilton 35-33.

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 Coach, go home and get a little bit of rest, okay?

367
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 We'll do it.

368
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 All right, Coach Patrick Malone of the Destro Tigers.

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 We'll come back more from the coach's breakfast.

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386
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 Getting your day off to a good start.

387
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 Hey, best of luck to the UNA Lions.

388
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 They're on the road getting ready to take on Southeastern Louisiana tonight.

389
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 Best of luck to Coach Brent Dierman and his team.

390
00:21:21,060 --> 00:21:21,960
 They look pretty good.

391
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 They took Arkansas down to the wire a little bit.

392
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 Played them pretty well.

393
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 Pretty exciting.

394
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 Joined now by the head coach of the Russell Golden Tigers, Coach Daryl Higgins, whose team had a big battle with Florence last night.

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 Before I get to that, Coach, you're headed down to see your son play today.

396
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 Who do they play at UAB this today?

397
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 They play ULM.

398
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 ULM, so Louisiana Monroe.

399
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 So you get to go see your son.

400
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 Is that an afternoon game today?

401
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 They play at 2.30.

402
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 2.30.

403
00:21:47,020 --> 00:21:52,920
 Well, we appreciate you coming in this morning, but I told our crew last night, I said, Coach Higgins will come.

404
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 I've seen him many times come to our show and literally drive four or five hours to see his kids play.

405
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 And that's pretty special to see your kids play at the next level.

406
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 I know it means a lot to you.

407
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 It's a blessing that they're getting to play, and we're going to do everything we can to support them every game we make.

408
00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:09,440
 Let's talk about support.

409
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 I've been to a lot of high schools in a long time.

410
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 It's been a while since I've been to Russell High School.

411
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 There's something special there.

412
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 They support high school athletics.

413
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 We have never been treated so nicely before and after the game as a radio crew by Russell.

414
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 I can't say enough about how nice they were, but it's really an impressive all-around program.

415
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 And I know now why you're there because it is an impressive place.

416
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 They love football.

417
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 They love their school.

418
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 They support these kids.

419
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 It's been an amazing experience.

420
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 Let's talk about the game last night.

421
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 You knew going into 3-0 Florence versus 3-0 Russell.

422
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 You knew what it was coming to be, and your good friend across the way, Kenny Morrison.

423
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 I think I went to school together at coffee and played together at coffee.

424
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 By the way, I found some footage of that the other day I'll have to send to you.

425
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 I saw you returning punts, by the way.

426
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 Okay.

427
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,140
 Yeah, I saw that there.

428
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 Let's talk about your game last night.

429
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 Just first of all, let's talk about the atmosphere.

430
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 Was that not a playoff atmosphere last night?

431
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 Oh, it was so exciting, and both sides, the fans from both sides were just really into the game.

432
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 You could just feel it when one team would make a play and the other team make a play.

433
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 Well, let's talk about making plays, because you came out early, and your team throws the

434
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 first punch.

435
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 Really impressed by your offense.

436
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 You know, everybody talks about the wing tee, the running, and you're the master of it.

437
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,220
 You know more about it than I could even talk about it, but your passing game is pretty

438
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 good off that wing tee, and a big touchdown early on.

439
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 Got to be balanced, especially when you play a team like Florence, so you can't just line

440
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 up and run the ball.

441
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 And so, Tripp Cleveland, a great quarterback, really excited of what he's doing, and he was able

442
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 to find Carter Clement up the same, get an early score.

443
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 And Cleveland's a senior, correct?

444
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 Yeah.

445
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 But he did not play football last year, did he not?

446
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 So you walk the hallways and find Cleveland.

447
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 I sat there and I thought, my goodness, this kid looks like he's been playing for five years.

448
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 It's impressive to see him play that hadn't played in a year or two.

449
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 It's really high level, the way he throws the football.

450
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 My son, Peyton, that played at Troy the last five years, he said he looks like the quarterbacks

451
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 at Troy the way they spin the football.

452
00:24:05,060 --> 00:24:05,420
 Yes.

453
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 He has incredible throw marks.

454
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 He's a big kid, big size, and threw it really well.

455
00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:13,500
 And man, Coach, I cannot say enough about Taurus Davis.

456
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,200
 My goodness, what a running back.

457
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,440
 He impressed me more than anybody last night.

458
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,440
 Unbelievable how hard he runs.

459
00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:22,220
 Unbelievable how he breaks tackles.

460
00:24:22,540 --> 00:24:24,580
 But he has great vision as a running back, too.

461
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,580
 He is special.

462
00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:27,880
 He's just continued to amaze us.

463
00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:31,080
 And he's not very big, but he has the heart and the toughness.

464
00:24:31,140 --> 00:24:31,940
 He breaks tackles.

465
00:24:32,380 --> 00:24:33,120
 He's special.

466
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,660
 The game is tight.

467
00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,720
 It's a back and forth seesaw fair.

468
00:24:36,820 --> 00:24:38,500
 The first half, 14 to 14.

469
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,540
 Slugfest there going about.

470
00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:43,820
 At halftime, obviously, you say, hey, somebody's going to blink.

471
00:24:43,860 --> 00:24:44,420
 It's going to happen.

472
00:24:44,580 --> 00:24:47,580
 But you've got to look at this team through the first two quarters.

473
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,960
 It felt like, hey, we had it right where we wanted it a little bit.

474
00:24:50,180 --> 00:24:52,380
 That's all we want to do is want to try to keep it close.

475
00:24:52,540 --> 00:24:55,300
 And hopefully, at the end, be able to come up with something, block a punt,

476
00:24:55,380 --> 00:24:57,220
 do something to give us a chance to win.

477
00:24:57,340 --> 00:24:59,300
 But we just couldn't make the plays when we needed to.

478
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,420
 And you did block a punt.

479
00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:01,280
 And you had a big block.

480
00:25:01,460 --> 00:25:03,860
 And you said, I thought, when I saw that, I said, well, here they come.

481
00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:05,480
 Here, the Tigers are getting ready to roll.

482
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,560
 Block, punt, an incredible job.

483
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,860
 That's the thing that stood out to me is the never quit attitude of this team.

484
00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,800
 Have you really felt like this team buying in completely now?

485
00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,860
 That's been a big talk since we got there is we're not going to quit.

486
00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:21,260
 We're going to play all the way through.

487
00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:25,080
 We're going to stay together, really proud of the way they competed last night.

488
00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:28,600
 It was the first time we had that much adversity, and we just kept on fighting.

489
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,520
 In a game like that, I know it's not the outcome you wanted,

490
00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:36,180
 but is this one of those great teaching moments for you coming up in the next few weeks?

491
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,940
 It showed a lot about our team and what it takes to be able to play with a Florence,

492
00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:42,840
 somebody with that kind of size and talent.

493
00:25:42,940 --> 00:25:43,840
 They're well coached.

494
00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:47,480
 You can't mess up when you get an opportunity to make plays.

495
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,000
 You've got to make plays, and they've made more plays than us.

496
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,900
 After the game, the team showed great sportsmanship, and the coaches, too.

497
00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:57,180
 I watch a lot of times after the game.

498
00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:02,380
 I can't remember seeing two coaching staffs just embrace each other.

499
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,960
 There's a real respect for both of them.

500
00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:07,140
 That's pretty good to see in high school football, too.

501
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,040
 Definitely.

502
00:26:08,420 --> 00:26:10,260
 A lot of our guys know their coaches.

503
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:10,780
 Oh, yeah.

504
00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:12,080
 Coach Morrison and myself.

505
00:26:12,460 --> 00:26:14,580
 I love playing ball with him at coffee.

506
00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:15,880
 He was a leader back then.

507
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,940
 He's one of the guys that really brought it to practice every day.

508
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,420
 Him and Diamond Don Bales, they would come out every day.

509
00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:22,100
 Oh, that name.

510
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:22,700
 That's a good one.

511
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,400
 They'd come out every day and get fired up and really showed me.

512
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,040
 I was a couple years behind them, showed me how to lead

513
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,280
 and how to build a football team.

514
00:26:30,660 --> 00:26:32,580
 We talked about your quarterback and your running back.

515
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,900
 Who else played well for you felt like last night at times?

516
00:26:35,380 --> 00:26:36,840
 Both our middle linebackers.

517
00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:41,160
 Braxton Duncan, number 31, he flies around to the ball.

518
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,700
 And Western Whitaker plays offense and defense.

519
00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:45,100
 Kiefer Hallmark plays both.

520
00:26:45,220 --> 00:26:47,300
 I mean, we've got some guys that don't come off the field,

521
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,340
 and they were giving everything they got,

522
00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:52,920
 and they just could not keep up the pace with those guys from Florida.

523
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,880
 I saw at the end of the game even, I mean, this is after the game,

524
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,140
 after shaking hands, two guys, I think, cramped up.

525
00:26:58,420 --> 00:26:59,860
 And it wasn't because they're out of shape.

526
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:01,600
 It's just because they left it all out on the field.

527
00:27:01,940 --> 00:27:02,900
 That's quite impressive.

528
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,520
 I want to go back to your linebackers, though.

529
00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,200
 Coach, those guys, as you said, fly around the ball.

530
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,920
 They bring it, too, though.

531
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,220
 They will knock you into next week.

532
00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:12,800
 Those guys are hitters.

533
00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:16,180
 I mean, I was highly impressed by how aggressively

534
00:27:16,180 --> 00:27:18,100
 your defense comes after the ball.

535
00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:20,020
 They really swarm to the football.

536
00:27:20,220 --> 00:27:22,360
 Coach Kilpatrick does a tremendous job.

537
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,640
 Chris Ballantyne works with us.

538
00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:26,540
 We have some great defensive coaches,

539
00:27:26,820 --> 00:27:29,580
 and those kids have really bought into playing hard,

540
00:27:29,740 --> 00:27:32,360
 being physical, and flying around to the football.

541
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,060
 But Florence was just too much.

542
00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:34,900
 Well, I got tickled.

543
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:35,800
 I looked down last night.

544
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,040
 I said, it looks like a Hall of Fame down there on the sideline

545
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,720
 for Coach Higgins, all these coaches around him.

546
00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:42,000
 There's two or three that are Hall of Famers with him.

547
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,060
 It's an impressive staff, an impressive team.

548
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,980
 Who do you have next week and where?

549
00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:48,680
 East Limestone on the road back into region play.

550
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:49,500
 Yeah, region play.

551
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,040
 Go on the road to East Limestone.

552
00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:53,960
 These first three, these first four games,

553
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,340
 I looked at your schedule.

554
00:27:55,460 --> 00:27:57,340
 I thought, my goodness, I don't know who made the schedule

555
00:27:57,340 --> 00:27:58,280
 before you got there.

556
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,980
 But that is four tough games to come out with.

557
00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:03,980
 Now that you step back, what are you impressed by?

558
00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,040
 What do you like about this team right now for Russell?

559
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,520
 I just love the kids.

560
00:28:07,740 --> 00:28:09,800
 They were crying last night after the game.

561
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:11,660
 They want to win.

562
00:28:11,860 --> 00:28:13,380
 They want to be good.

563
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,800
 They want to do things the right way.

564
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,020
 And just the heart of the program.

565
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:19,760
 Coach, I want to take a personal moment.

566
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,580
 Last night after the game, I got to see and meet for the first time

567
00:28:23,580 --> 00:28:25,180
 your parents who were there.

568
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,380
 And such great people.

569
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,560
 And it was great to see them there to support you.

570
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,100
 And they're impressive people.

571
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:36,640
 I know about them from a distance and being around your sister

572
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:37,660
 for many years and stuff.

573
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:40,120
 And, man, it was great to meet them.

574
00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:44,060
 But I see why you get where you are because you've got quality parents.

575
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:44,980
 And it was good to see them.

576
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,440
 I know it means a lot that they're still there coming to the games

577
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,860
 and being able to support you as well.

578
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,560
 Very blessed to have the mom and dad that I have talk to them every day.

579
00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:57,100
 Just keep having them in my life.

580
00:28:57,180 --> 00:28:58,100
 It's been a real blessing.

581
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,780
 I got a feeling dad might give you a few pointers every once in a while.

582
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:01,960
 Does he still do that every once in a while?

583
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,360
 Dad can see some good stuff.

584
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,280
 He really likes running to the short side of the field.

585
00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:07,160
 I love it.

586
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,920
 Hey, and it works sometimes, that's for sure.

587
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,340
 Well, next Friday night, Russell on the road at East Limestone.

588
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,100
 And, Coach, I know the Falcons and the Tigers met up last night.

589
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,120
 I would not be shocked if they meet up again this season.

590
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,020
 That's how two teams I thought were that quality last night.

591
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,600
 Thank you again for the great, great hospitality last night

592
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,620
 to the Russell Tigers.

593
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,900
 And, man, impressive, impressive game.

594
00:29:27,980 --> 00:29:29,040
 And, Coach, best of luck next week.

595
00:29:29,140 --> 00:29:29,500
 Thank you.

596
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:32,260
 One of the great guys in high school coaching, Coach Daryl Higgins.

597
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,500
 When we come back, more from the Coach's Breakfast after this one-minute timeout.

598
00:29:36,980 --> 00:29:37,560
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599
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600
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601
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604
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614
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,200
 Welcome back to Coach's Breakfast here on 93.9 The Store.

615
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,000
 Kevin Johnson with you.

616
00:30:48,140 --> 00:30:49,880
 Again, big kudos to Daryl Higgins.

617
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,560
 It just shows the class act that he is.

618
00:30:51,620 --> 00:30:55,860
 He comes by today and just, man, he's got that Russell team going the right direction

619
00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:58,800
 and just, again, just quality, man.

620
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,740
 And I didn't expect anything to last as well.

621
00:31:01,060 --> 00:31:02,320
 Just really appreciate him dearly.

622
00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:06,820
 Now we're joined now by the quarterback coach of the Carver County Indians, Lucas Kraft,

623
00:31:07,140 --> 00:31:09,100
 whose team wins last night 55-20.

624
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:10,720
 Coach, homecoming.

625
00:31:11,060 --> 00:31:11,540
 Yes, sir.

626
00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:12,680
 Man, what a week was that?

627
00:31:12,740 --> 00:31:14,240
 Was that a little different week this week?

628
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:14,940
 I'm sure it is.

629
00:31:14,980 --> 00:31:18,240
 A lot of things going on, but, you know, your team came out and handled business.

630
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,220
 Yeah, it was definitely a different week for sure, and just to throw on top of their Labor

631
00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:27,520
 Day being on Monday so the kids are already out of school, and then all the homecoming

632
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,400
 festivities, pep rallies, things like that.

633
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:31,600
 It was a different week for sure.

634
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,140
 You know, what do y'all do with the team, like at the parade?

635
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,260
 Do you say you can't go to the parade, you let your team be in the parade, you let them

636
00:31:38,260 --> 00:31:38,640
 watch the parade?

637
00:31:39,140 --> 00:31:40,140
 Every team does it different.

638
00:31:40,220 --> 00:31:40,820
 How do y'all have that?

639
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,920
 So when I was in school, we were not in the parade there.

640
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,320
 Right.

641
00:31:44,380 --> 00:31:49,780
 We were walked after it was started to a specific spot, and as soon as it was over, we were all

642
00:31:49,780 --> 00:31:50,400
 walked back.

643
00:31:50,460 --> 00:31:50,700
 Yep.

644
00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:56,040
 But the kids' last two years, they've been in the parade.

645
00:31:56,220 --> 00:31:58,900
 Coach Bonds just says, he's like, man, you got to let kids be kids.

646
00:31:59,420 --> 00:32:00,780
 And so they enjoy it.

647
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,460
 They rode the fire truck yesterday, and it was all good.

648
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,680
 You know, I think it's great from a head coach, Coach Bonds there, who says, hey, got to let

649
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,560
 kids be kids.

650
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:16,980
 And your team in Class 2A Region 7 goes to 2-0 in region play, 3-1 overall as you get the

651
00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:18,680
 55-20 win over the Bulldogs.

652
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,000
 And, you know, you have to know the DNA of your team.

653
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,360
 What's the DNA you're starting to see in this team right now?

654
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:25,980
 They don't quit.

655
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,340
 They do not quit.

656
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,660
 You know, there was times, excuse me, last game against Tanner, you know, Tanner came out

657
00:32:32,660 --> 00:32:35,980
 and punched us in the mouth pretty early, and then they showed resilience and fight through

658
00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:37,780
 the whole game, came back and won.

659
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,400
 I think that was like 24-16 or something like that.

660
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:49,160
 And then this week, it was 0-0, I want to say, right until the end of the first quarter.

661
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:50,980
 And Sheffield just brought it to us.

662
00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:53,140
 We weren't expecting it.

663
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:58,660
 You know, Coach Parker over there at Sheffield, he does a good job with those guys, but I don't

664
00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:02,560
 really think we were expecting it, you know, homecoming on top of it, things like that.

665
00:33:02,660 --> 00:33:05,060
 But they brought it to us pretty early.

666
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,540
 What was the adjustments in second quarter?

667
00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:09,140
 What sort of broke it open for you, you think?

668
00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:13,040
 Just kind of, the kids just kind of settled in, really.

669
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:15,800
 Like I said, it's homecoming.

670
00:33:15,940 --> 00:33:18,460
 Their minds are all over the place and everything.

671
00:33:18,980 --> 00:33:23,800
 They're not really thinking about football until, oh, dang, we just kicked off.

672
00:33:23,940 --> 00:33:24,720
 We're playing a football game.

673
00:33:25,780 --> 00:33:29,920
 That is one of the most honest statements I've heard in this breakfast for years.

674
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,240
 I said, oh, dang, we were playing a football game.

675
00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,040
 You're working with 15-, 16-, 17-year-old kids.

676
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,280
 You have to remind yourself of that.

677
00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:38,220
 Who played well for you last night?

678
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,280
 Yeah, Dayton Hood last night, he had to move the tailback.

679
00:33:42,380 --> 00:33:45,900
 One of our starting tailbacks was a little banged up, so he went to receive.

680
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,360
 They basically just switched roles.

681
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,420
 He carried it well last night for his first time actually doing it.

682
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,660
 Then, of course, Sir Miller, he's been one of our feature tailbacks all year.

683
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:56,840
 He plays hard.

684
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,040
 He runs the ball hard.

685
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,840
 By the way, I've got to interrupt you.

686
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,440
 As a broadcaster, I'm just so jealous that Sir Miller plays for the Indians.

687
00:34:05,740 --> 00:34:09,060
 How much I would love to have Sir Miller on a broadcast cover.

688
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,400
 Yes, sir, there goes Sir.

689
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:11,540
 Because I can see him dead.

690
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,900
 He gets the respect, though, of his opponents.

691
00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:15,240
 What makes him such a special back?

692
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,360
 Man, he's just hard to tackle.

693
00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:19,260
 He is extremely hard to tackle.

694
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:22,580
 The first person is never going to tackle him, ever.

695
00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:26,380
 He's real low to the ground, low center of gravity.

696
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,640
 Of course, we have some pretty big linemen up front,

697
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,380
 so whenever we're running counters and powers and everything,

698
00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:35,820
 he gets behind them and he's hard to find.

699
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,600
 What formation are y'all mainly in?

700
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,260
 Pretty much just a – yeah, we're multiple.

701
00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:45,220
 We'll get in a heavy set, and then we'll get in a two-back twin set.

702
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:46,840
 So you'll throw different things that way.

703
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:47,660
 Yeah, that's okay.

704
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:50,800
 So we speak with Lucas Kraft, the quarterback coach at Florence High School,

705
00:34:50,860 --> 00:34:53,340
 whose team wins last night 55-20 over Sheffield.

706
00:34:53,780 --> 00:34:56,540
 And, Coach, when you get in a game like that, you get to play some younger guys, too.

707
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,340
 That's big to get them in on homecoming as well.

708
00:34:58,580 --> 00:34:59,180
 Yeah, absolutely.

709
00:35:00,220 --> 00:35:04,260
 It's really nice to see those guys that are on the scout team

710
00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:07,220
 and get kind of pounded on during the week at practice to go out there

711
00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:09,640
 and do good and score and things like that.

712
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,420
 It's really encouraging.

713
00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:13,020
 Now, I know that you are all about the team.

714
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:13,840
 You're coaching up.

715
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:14,720
 You've got your mind everywhere.

716
00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:17,480
 So if you missed this answer, I'm not mad at you.

717
00:35:17,540 --> 00:35:18,460
 I'm not trying to embarrass you.

718
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,880
 Would you happen to know who the homecoming queen was for Carver County High School last night?

719
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,260
 Did you find out who the queen was for any chance?

720
00:35:24,460 --> 00:35:24,680
 I have no idea.

721
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:25,440
 You have no idea.

722
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,020
 I have no clue.

723
00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:27,040
 He said, are you kidding?

724
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,500
 Hey, believe it or not, I would guarantee I ask that often,

725
00:35:29,660 --> 00:35:31,620
 and it's about a 50-50 chance.

726
00:35:32,140 --> 00:35:35,640
 But whoever the queen is at Carver County High School, congratulations, homecoming.

727
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:36,440
 Very special.

728
00:35:36,580 --> 00:35:38,360
 And, you know, you get to look up in the stands,

729
00:35:38,420 --> 00:35:41,200
 and you see a lot of alumni back, a lot of people back.

730
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,740
 They had things beforehand, honoring classes of the past.

731
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,660
 I know my brother's class was honored there.

732
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,440
 It's really special to have them guys come back and honor a state championship team as well.

733
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:52,140
 Yeah, absolutely.

734
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,180
 So the state championship team, you know, 30 years ago, 1996,

735
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,340
 that was the last time Carver County's won it.

736
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,760
 They've been there, I think, maybe four or five more times since then.

737
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,380
 But, yeah, it was really nice to go out there and pregame and things like that

738
00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:10,000
 and see all the people that have came back home.

739
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,740
 And then it was actually funny.

740
00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:15,280
 I got out there, and I started seeing people that I graduated with there.

741
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,160
 So I thought to myself, I was like,

742
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,060
 thank God, man, it's been almost – it's been eight years since I've graduated.

743
00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:21,620
 You're getting old, Coach.

744
00:36:21,820 --> 00:36:23,360
 Coach, you don't realize it flies by.

745
00:36:23,740 --> 00:36:25,660
 Trust me, it gets faster as you get older.

746
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:26,460
 I promise you that.

747
00:36:26,860 --> 00:36:29,020
 Well, let's talk about last night you went at 55-20.

748
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:31,780
 Any big plays from one of your guys that made a big play for a touchdown

749
00:36:31,780 --> 00:36:34,160
 or anything like that or a big defensive play maybe even?

750
00:36:37,340 --> 00:36:40,920
 Off the top of my head, there's nothing that just jumps out at me.

751
00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:41,420
 Like I said –

752
00:36:41,420 --> 00:36:43,160
 Just a consistent moving up and down the field then.

753
00:36:43,580 --> 00:36:47,360
 Dayton Hood, like I said, he switched from receiver to tailback this week.

754
00:36:47,420 --> 00:36:48,300
 He carried it hard.

755
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,300
 He had a few big run plays.

756
00:36:50,740 --> 00:36:52,140
 Got us down into the red zone.

757
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,240
 Sean Blevins, he –

758
00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,800
 I think he had one or two touchdown passes that were pretty big early in the game.

759
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:04,820
 I believe that.

760
00:37:04,820 --> 00:37:07,240
 Do you go multiple – I'm the quarterback coach.

761
00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:09,380
 Do you have multiple quarterbacks get to play last night as well?

762
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:12,200
 Depends.

763
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,280
 I mean, I get – we have multiple quarterbacks.

764
00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:17,040
 It just depends on what set and what formation we're in.

765
00:37:18,460 --> 00:37:21,660
 But typically our quarterback is number three, Sean Blevins.

766
00:37:21,660 --> 00:37:27,400
 But we can jump into more of like a wildcat situation set, things like that.

767
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,700
 Do you get to work with a wildcat quarterback sometimes though as a quarterback coach and talk to them?

768
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,880
 That's important to do because now you have to approach them a little different than you do, say, your starting quarterback a little bit.

769
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,060
 And that's important as well.

770
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:43,120
 As we speak with Lucas Crafter, the Carver County Indians, who wins it last night by a score of 55-20.

771
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:44,820
 Coach, who do you have coming up next week in the morning?

772
00:37:44,820 --> 00:37:47,500
 We've got Phil Campbell at Phil Campbell.

773
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,160
 Okay.

774
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,860
 The Bobcats are pretty doggone good.

775
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,220
 And they went and knocked off J.B. Pennington last night.

776
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,020
 That should get your attention right there.

777
00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:56,480
 They took Lexington to the wire.

778
00:37:56,580 --> 00:37:57,620
 They knocked off J.B. Pennington.

779
00:37:58,060 --> 00:37:59,640
 That's a pretty good ball club you're about to face.

780
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:00,400
 Yeah, absolutely.

781
00:38:00,580 --> 00:38:02,280
 Don't let the record fool you.

782
00:38:02,460 --> 00:38:04,300
 I believe they're one and three right now.

783
00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:06,140
 Sorry.

784
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,220
 I believe they're one and three.

785
00:38:08,220 --> 00:38:12,120
 But, you know, Coach Jacob Hamilton over there, he's got them playing physical.

786
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:13,120
 He's got them playing fast.

787
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:14,500
 They're a really good ball team.

788
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,760
 And, you know, I mean, I will say the same thing all week to our kids.

789
00:38:18,860 --> 00:38:20,360
 Do not let the record fool you.

790
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,040
 They are a good football team.

791
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,280
 I think that's well said.

792
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,300
 And it's always tough to go on the road to Phil Campbell.

793
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,500
 Tough place to play.

794
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,560
 So that'll be a tremendous matchup between the black and gold and the black and gold.

795
00:38:30,660 --> 00:38:35,200
 We'll see which one gets the victory next week as Carver County goes on the road to Phil Campbell.

796
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,040
 The Indians go to 3-1 on the season, 2-0 in region play,

797
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:41,340
 and try to go to 3-0 in region play next week against the Bobcats.

798
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,640
 And Coach Lucas Craft, thank you for being our guest.

799
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,220
 And best of luck next week, okay?

800
00:38:45,220 --> 00:38:45,560
 Yes, sir.

801
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:45,980
 Thank you.

802
00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:46,380
 Go Indians.

803
00:38:46,980 --> 00:38:50,640
 When we come back, more from the Coach's Breakfast after this one-minute timeout.

804
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821
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:04,980
 Welcome back to the Coach's Breakfast here from the North Alabama Bone and Joint Clinic.

822
00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:06,780
 Kevin Johnson with you on this Saturday morning.

823
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,500
 Get that second cup of coffee going as you listen to coaches from around the Shoals area

824
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:12,760
 talk about Friday night's games on Saturday morning.

825
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,960
 And not too long after our broadcast, we'll be sending it up to Lexington, Kentucky,

826
00:40:18,340 --> 00:40:22,840
 up there in the far north as the Crimson Tide and the Cats will go at it today.

827
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,240
 Kickoff at 2.30, pregame around 12.30.

828
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,900
 You'll hear it right here on 93.9 The Score.

829
00:40:29,020 --> 00:40:31,820
 We're joined now by the head coach of the Lexington Golden Bears

830
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:33,720
 who continue to roll with Coach Brett Mass.

831
00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:36,500
 Big win last night over Falwell 59-8.

832
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,420
 Coach, congratulations on the big win.

833
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,240
 Had to feel good the way your team played last night.

834
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:40,760
 It was.

835
00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:42,100
 It was a complete game.

836
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,760
 You know, we kind of challenged our kids to start fast and they answered.

837
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,460
 And good game for the Golden Bears.

838
00:40:49,260 --> 00:40:50,600
 It was a good game for the Golden Bears.

839
00:40:50,780 --> 00:40:52,020
 And was it a home game or a away game?

840
00:40:52,060 --> 00:40:52,500
 It was home.

841
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:53,180
 A home game.

842
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,760
 So, you get the home game and play at home.

843
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:57,380
 Play comfortable at home a little bit.

844
00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:58,720
 Feel at home there.

845
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,580
 You and you going in and probably looking at them and say, we should win this game.

846
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:03,460
 Could win this game.

847
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,840
 But it's one thing to know that to get your kids to say, hey, I'm not looking above them.

848
00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:08,840
 I'm wanting us to get better.

849
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,180
 Seem like your kids play to their standard and not to the opponents.

850
00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:14,160
 You took the words right out of my mouth.

851
00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:16,380
 And that's kind of what we talked about all week.

852
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:20,580
 You know, the first three games, we kind of came out not sluggish, but just kind of slow.

853
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,900
 And we kind of all week were just, let's just play to our standard and start fast.

854
00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:25,720
 And it was a good night.

855
00:41:25,820 --> 00:41:27,460
 We were celebrating our 400th win.

856
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,340
 Had Coach Toner back.

857
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,520
 Had Coach Putman back.

858
00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:32,020
 Coach Ratliff.

859
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,300
 A bunch of old assistants that were there.

860
00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:36,620
 So, big night for our community.

861
00:41:36,620 --> 00:41:41,980
 And, you know, we kind of challenged our kids this week that, you know, this is one of those games that's a little bit bigger than you.

862
00:41:42,460 --> 00:41:43,500
 It's about all of us.

863
00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:48,860
 And so, proud of our kids for how they came out and started and played a pretty complete game.

864
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,440
 That's impressive right there.

865
00:41:50,580 --> 00:41:57,380
 By the way, I don't have all the stats, but your quarterback last night, I think, I can't believe this, set another school record or some type of record last night.

866
00:41:57,460 --> 00:41:58,460
 Seven touchdown passes.

867
00:41:58,700 --> 00:41:59,840
 Talk about him last night.

868
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:00,600
 He's special.

869
00:42:01,020 --> 00:42:02,160
 He's just a 10th grader.

870
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,700
 And I'm going to tell you, like, people need to start looking at this kid.

871
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:06,320
 Oh, yes.

872
00:42:06,540 --> 00:42:11,620
 I mean, he's, you know, he's right at about 5'11", 6'0", and I think he's going to get a little bit taller.

873
00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:13,580
 But I'm telling you, Zane Gilbert is special.

874
00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:16,320
 And he's just a competitor.

875
00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:19,160
 And just he understands the game.

876
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:21,740
 And him and Coach Davis have a great relationship, our OC.

877
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:24,860
 I mean, you could say they're out there talking in between plays.

878
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:25,520
 They run this.

879
00:42:25,620 --> 00:42:26,420
 This is what they're in.

880
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,080
 I mean, he's just got a knowledge of the game.

881
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,060
 And just he understands it.

882
00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:31,860
 Is he a film junkie?

883
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:32,780
 He is.

884
00:42:33,060 --> 00:42:33,220
 Yeah.

885
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:36,220
 You know, when you're around, who does he remind you of maybe?

886
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,240
 I'm not talking about famous quarterbacks.

887
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,220
 I'm talking about just as a student of the game.

888
00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:43,420
 Does he remind you of a former player maybe you had back in your past?

889
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,140
 Or you make you think of somebody who said, he has a little bit of this.

890
00:42:46,180 --> 00:42:47,360
 Or maybe it's just a mixture of people.

891
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,400
 I'll just be honest with you.

892
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,080
 I've been doing it for 20 years.

893
00:42:50,140 --> 00:42:52,860
 He may be the best one I've coached and the best one I've seen.

894
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:53,240
 Wow.

895
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,200
 I mean, he just has it.

896
00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:59,600
 You know, and to start as a ninth grader, you'd never know last year that he was a ninth grader.

897
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,040
 Just the way he just doesn't let the game get too big.

898
00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:05,240
 And he wants the ball in his hands.

899
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:11,400
 And that's what I think makes him a little bit different is, you know, you've got quarterbacks out there that, you know, okay, I'll throw this.

900
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:14,140
 He's like, no, this is give me the ball.

901
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,560
 And he's a pretty humble kid too.

902
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,620
 Now, he's – he don't like for confidence at times.

903
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:20,840
 No.

904
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:21,720
 Which is, you know.

905
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,340
 That's what you want.

906
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,360
 That's what you want in a quarterback.

907
00:43:23,660 --> 00:43:27,880
 But he's, you know, he's kind of quiet, you know, when you talk to him.

908
00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:34,840
 But he's also, you know, like I said, he's probably our best basketball player at times and probably could be one of our best baseball players at times.

909
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,980
 So, I mean, he's just a natural athlete and he's fun to coach.

910
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:39,560
 Forgive me.

911
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:40,620
 I haven't seen him play.

912
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:41,940
 I've seen some highlights, but I can't remember.

913
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,620
 But I assume just thinking from our – see, we're number two.

914
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:45,180
 He does.

915
00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:46,300
 Of course, that Johnny Manziel.

916
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:47,840
 And he does it.

917
00:43:47,980 --> 00:43:48,800
 He's got it all there.

918
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:49,860
 Let's talk about this.

919
00:43:49,980 --> 00:43:52,000
 He broke a record last night, seven touchdown passes.

920
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,740
 You know whose record he broke?

921
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:54,540
 He broke his own record.

922
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:54,880
 His own.

923
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,180
 His own record last night.

924
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:58,140
 And that was the big – how about this for stats?

925
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,380
 15 or 20, 262 passing.

926
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,400
 Oh, by the way, we even talked about this.

927
00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:03,660
 He ran for 91 yards.

928
00:44:04,060 --> 00:44:05,020
 His legs can do it, too.

929
00:44:05,060 --> 00:44:05,960
 It's not just his passing.

930
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:06,960
 His legs can do it, too.

931
00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:09,560
 You know, that's an impressive night for him.

932
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,300
 Obviously, we've talked enough about him.

933
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:12,860
 He'll get his flowers.

934
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,420
 Let's go to that wide receiver.

935
00:44:14,860 --> 00:44:20,100
 100 yards receiving, two touchdowns, and his name is Buck Shook.

936
00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:24,860
 Is there a better name for a wide receiver in the state of Alabama than Buck Shook?

937
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,420
 I don't know.

938
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:26,580
 How about this young man?

939
00:44:26,820 --> 00:44:30,380
 Listen, I'm going to tell you, my dad came up when I first got hired,

940
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:31,260
 and he's looking around.

941
00:44:31,340 --> 00:44:33,840
 We have the name plates, and he's just kind of looking around at names,

942
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,360
 and he stopped at that one.

943
00:44:35,420 --> 00:44:36,480
 He went, Buck Shook.

944
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,060
 He goes, name like that, he's got to be a player.

945
00:44:39,180 --> 00:44:40,540
 He's got to be a player, yes.

946
00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:44,200
 You know, he actually – he's kind of a do-it-all.

947
00:44:44,380 --> 00:44:48,360
 He plays H a little bit in our heavy set, but then he can split out wide

948
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,440
 and really just kind of came into his own this spring.

949
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:54,900
 And, you know, and this is how much we trust Zane.

950
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,040
 You know, he would take the receivers up there on his own in the spring

951
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,600
 and get up there.

952
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:00,740
 I'm like, well, who do you like throwing?

953
00:45:00,820 --> 00:45:02,040
 He said, well, obviously, Sawyer, Howard.

954
00:45:02,100 --> 00:45:03,220
 He said, I'm going to tell you.

955
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:04,440
 He said, Buck Shook's the slot.

956
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,780
 That's who my vote is for the slot.

957
00:45:06,780 --> 00:45:09,680
 And he kind of came in, and he's just such a match-up nightmare

958
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,260
 because he's pretty quick, but he's physical, he's strong,

959
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,380
 and he knows how to find the hole and get in the window.

960
00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:17,100
 And he's just so hard to tackle.

961
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:22,240
 I mean, he's about 5'9", 5'8", but, God, he's so thick,

962
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:23,940
 and you just get tired of tackling him.

963
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:26,560
 And so he's become a weapon for us.

964
00:45:26,820 --> 00:45:29,700
 Get tired of tackling him, that's a great compliment to a player.

965
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,320
 As Lexington wins it last night over Faultville, 59-8.

966
00:45:33,460 --> 00:45:36,080
 Coach Brett Mass, the head coach of the Lexington Golden Bears,

967
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,520
 whose team now 4-0 on the season, 2-0 in regional play.

968
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,580
 Coach, has it been a while since you've been 4-0 at Lexington?

969
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:43,020
 Do you know?

970
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,100
 Have you looked at that by any chance?

971
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:47,000
 I think it was 2016 since we were 3-0.

972
00:45:47,580 --> 00:45:51,040
 I want to say maybe 2010, somewhere around there.

973
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:51,880
 Yeah, so it's been a few years.

974
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:52,420
 It's been a minute.

975
00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:54,040
 So now, who do you have next week?

976
00:45:54,180 --> 00:45:55,420
 We've got J.B. Pennington for homecoming.

977
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:56,800
 At homecoming, okay.

978
00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:58,540
 Well, we don't want to get into homecoming

979
00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:02,340
 because we know the quick market in is going to get another shout-out on this,

980
00:46:02,620 --> 00:46:03,640
 but it's going to be a big week.

981
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,660
 And this J.B. Pennington team has been a notorious team

982
00:46:06,660 --> 00:46:08,540
 of a great playoff team every year.

983
00:46:08,620 --> 00:46:09,300
 They're really good.

984
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,380
 They are, and, you know, Coach Cantrell does a good job down there.

985
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:13,480
 They're good in the weight room.

986
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,820
 They're a team that's used to winning, and, you know, we haven't played them.

987
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,740
 You know, they've been 3A, and they're new to the region,

988
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,040
 so new opponent and kind of unfamiliar opponent.

989
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,040
 But we say it every week.

990
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,260
 Let's handle us, and let's go 1-0 every week.

991
00:46:27,780 --> 00:46:30,260
 2A Region 7, it's new schools.

992
00:46:30,380 --> 00:46:30,960
 It's new faces.

993
00:46:31,260 --> 00:46:33,060
 Now that you've had two games under your belt

994
00:46:33,060 --> 00:46:35,220
 and you sort of look around, it's a tough region.

995
00:46:35,540 --> 00:46:35,760
 It is.

996
00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:37,640
 I mean, it's a lot of good football team there.

997
00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:40,080
 It's not just like, hey, we've got two or three we've got to get through.

998
00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:41,840
 I mean, it's deep.

999
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,100
 It's all playoff teams from last year, most of them.

1000
00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:46,380
 I mean, and I'm going to tell you, Tanner's better.

1001
00:46:47,260 --> 00:46:50,140
 Coach Smith over there has done a really good job kind of bringing that back.

1002
00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:54,580
 And, of course, you know, with Calvert County and Winston County, you know,

1003
00:46:54,620 --> 00:46:56,780
 some of those teams in there, I mean, it's a tough region.

1004
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,720
 And we taught our kids, you know, even in the offseason, you know, it just got tougher.

1005
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,160
 And so we've got to up our standard and up what we're doing.

1006
00:47:03,380 --> 00:47:07,140
 And so far, our kids have bought in, and, you know, they're fun to coach.

1007
00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:10,100
 I would dare say it's the toughest region in 2A from top to bottom, no doubt,

1008
00:47:10,180 --> 00:47:11,380
 Region 7, Class 2A.

1009
00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:15,660
 And, Coach, 4-0, what have you learned about your team so far through four games?

1010
00:47:16,060 --> 00:47:16,780
 They're even keel.

1011
00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:18,480
 They're just even keel.

1012
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,200
 They don't get too high, they don't get too low.

1013
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,360
 And, you know, we get excited about some things.

1014
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,960
 And, you know, I threw a fit the first couple weeks.

1015
00:47:25,060 --> 00:47:28,260
 I'm like, you know, you've got to play this game with emotion.

1016
00:47:28,620 --> 00:47:29,980
 But theirs is a controlled emotion.

1017
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,780
 So I've quit fighting it, you know.

1018
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:34,380
 And they're just – they're not really hooping and hollering team.

1019
00:47:34,540 --> 00:47:36,740
 They're not – but they don't get down at the same point in time.

1020
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,440
 You know, we were down 12-6 last week.

1021
00:47:38,540 --> 00:47:41,900
 And, you know, a lot of teams that I've coached in the past and, you know,

1022
00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:44,980
 been a part of that would have – you know, you'd seen some kind of drop their head.

1023
00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:46,740
 They're just kind of like, okay, let's go score.

1024
00:47:46,740 --> 00:47:50,040
 And so we've just kind of embraced it as a coaching staff.

1025
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,800
 And just that's who they are.

1026
00:47:52,020 --> 00:47:56,800
 And I think it's important as a coach to not try to make a team something they're not

1027
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,720
 and embrace their strengths.

1028
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,500
 And I think our strength is just that we are just even keel

1029
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:03,880
 and they just come to work every day.

1030
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,680
 So they're fun to coach in that aspect.

1031
00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:11,560
 But frustrating early just because you're trying to figure out what makes them tick.

1032
00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:12,860
 And just let them go.

1033
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:13,420
 Let them play.

1034
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,100
 And so we've just – y'all go be you, you know.

1035
00:48:17,260 --> 00:48:20,140
 And I think that's important because, like I said, we never get too high,

1036
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:23,160
 but we also don't get too low and just punch a clock and go to work.

1037
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:24,660
 So that's what makes them fun to coach.

1038
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,480
 Tremendous insight from Coach Brett Mass, my good friend at Lexington High School.

1039
00:48:28,940 --> 00:48:30,020
 Coach, homecoming next week.

1040
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,120
 Yeah, parades, bonfires, things like that coming up.

1041
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,640
 You name it, we've probably got it.

1042
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,440
 And you don't know it yet, do you?

1043
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:36,900
 No, no.

1044
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,460
 I just – I look at that schedule and it's something from 830 to every day.

1045
00:48:40,540 --> 00:48:43,040
 But I'm going to tell you, that's what makes our place special.

1046
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:46,200
 And I know I'm an educator at the end of the day.

1047
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:48,800
 And, you know, they pay me a whole lot more to teach than they do to coach.

1048
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:54,900
 But at the end of the day, I mean, it is a true small school hometown atmosphere.

1049
00:48:54,900 --> 00:49:00,840
 I mean, with parades and powder puffs and dodgeball tournaments and class competitions.

1050
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:01,860
 Dress-up days.

1051
00:49:01,940 --> 00:49:03,500
 Dress-up days and all that.

1052
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,040
 And so, you know, you don't fight that.

1053
00:49:05,140 --> 00:49:05,860
 You embrace it.

1054
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,080
 And, you know, we want our kids to be a part.

1055
00:49:08,220 --> 00:49:10,680
 I've kind of changed my stance on homecoming on some of that.

1056
00:49:10,820 --> 00:49:13,360
 You know, early on, everybody's a homecoming for the fans.

1057
00:49:13,540 --> 00:49:17,180
 You know, you could fight that all you want, but let them be kids.

1058
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:18,460
 You know, we don't want to do nothing stupid.

1059
00:49:18,660 --> 00:49:21,800
 You know, don't be out 1230 rolling yards at night.

1060
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,040
 But at the same point in time, you know, I want them to enjoy it.

1061
00:49:25,140 --> 00:49:29,460
 And I think our team is better, too, when we just kind of let them be.

1062
00:49:29,660 --> 00:49:31,380
 And they're a very mature team.

1063
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,160
 They understand what to do, what not to do.

1064
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,820
 And, you know, it's homecoming.

1065
00:49:37,940 --> 00:49:39,260
 Yes, it is for the fans and everything.

1066
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,600
 But at the same point in time, we're going to let our kids enjoy it.

1067
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,760
 Sometimes when you make too many rules, they break them.

1068
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,520
 And sometimes when you don't make many rules, they police themselves.

1069
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:48,560
 And then it seems like your team has done that.

1070
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,360
 They're even killed.

1071
00:49:49,540 --> 00:49:50,520
 They know who they are.

1072
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,180
 And now they get ready for homecoming.

1073
00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:54,060
 And, Coach, it's going to be a lot of fun this week.

1074
00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:54,940
 Best of luck, man.

1075
00:49:54,980 --> 00:49:55,920
 It's going to be a great game.

1076
00:49:56,020 --> 00:49:57,300
 Great crowd will come to this one.

1077
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:57,720
 Oh, absolutely.

1078
00:49:57,860 --> 00:49:58,480
 It'll be huge.

1079
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,800
 J.B. Pennington will bring a crowd.

1080
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:00,420
 They travel.

1081
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:01,940
 They're a big supporter of their school.

1082
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:03,300
 So that's going to be a fun game.

1083
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,140
 It'll be Lexington at home for homecoming against J.B. Pennington.

1084
00:50:06,540 --> 00:50:07,820
 Congrats on the 4-0 starter, okay?

1085
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:08,420
 Appreciate you.

1086
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:09,680
 Tell your dad I said hi, too, by the way.

1087
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:10,060
 Will do.

1088
00:50:10,180 --> 00:50:13,100
 All right, Coach Brett Mask of the Lexington Golden Bears.

1089
00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:16,000
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1090
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1103
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,120
 Welcome back to the Coaches Breakfast here.

1104
00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:26,700
 High atop the North Alabama Medical Center at the North Alabama Bone and Joint Clinic.

1105
00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:28,200
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you.

1106
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:30,880
 Overlooking the city of Florence, out the windows here.

1107
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,160
 And, man, again, best of luck to all the teams playing this tonight.

1108
00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:37,660
 UNA playing on the road at Southeast Louisiana.

1109
00:51:37,660 --> 00:51:42,020
 And, by the way, that Alabama-Kentucky game pregame starts at 11.30.

1110
00:51:42,060 --> 00:51:42,940
 I cheated us an hour.

1111
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:46,480
 It starts at 11.30, a three-hour pregame before that 2.30 kick.

1112
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,760
 And you'll hear that right here on 93.9 to score.

1113
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,860
 If I don't get that right, Chris Stewart may be calling me up and getting on to me.

1114
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,140
 So, I don't want him to be calling me and getting on to me about cheating him an hour on his pregame.

1115
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:56,740
 That's for sure.

1116
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:02,820
 Joined now by the head coach of the Rogers Pirates, Coach Daniel Garrett, whose team last night took on the Colts.

1117
00:52:02,820 --> 00:52:05,640
 And the Colts fell to the Pirates, 48-7.

1118
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,580
 Coach, first of all, congratulations, a big win last night.

1119
00:52:09,660 --> 00:52:11,640
 Any Friday night can bring anything.

1120
00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:15,000
 Your team handled business last night, and you had to feel really good about it.

1121
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,480
 Yeah, I thought we came in with the right mindset, and I thought that we had a good week of preparation.

1122
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:26,060
 You know, we didn't let any distractions kind of get in our way, and we just went over there and did what we were supposed to do.

1123
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:32,720
 On the road, the white jerseys, but it's a turf field now that Clements used to be, didn't have the turf field.

1124
00:52:32,780 --> 00:52:34,020
 It's nice to play on that turf field.

1125
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:35,420
 Did you have weather last night?

1126
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,200
 Did you have rain or lightning delay or anything like that?

1127
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,180
 Yeah, so it rained.

1128
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:46,120
 I mean, we didn't have any delays, but it rained, you know, all during warm-ups in probably the first 15, 20 minutes of the game.

1129
00:52:47,020 --> 00:52:48,280
 That excites our kids.

1130
00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:50,040
 Our kids really like playing in the rain.

1131
00:52:50,260 --> 00:52:51,040
 Okay, that's good.

1132
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,480
 I was going to say, do you change things up because of the rain?

1133
00:52:53,540 --> 00:52:56,200
 Does it change how you do as a coach, or do you say just to embrace it?

1134
00:52:56,700 --> 00:53:01,720
 Yeah, we just kind of, as long as it's not raining just super hard, which it wasn't, we just kind of went with it.

1135
00:53:01,820 --> 00:53:11,240
 And we have our own little, you know, procedures for the rain as far as, you know, we kind of got like four garbage bags with two footballs and two towels in each,

1136
00:53:11,300 --> 00:53:13,240
 and each quarter you break out two new ones.

1137
00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:13,760
 There you go.

1138
00:53:13,860 --> 00:53:16,060
 Leave a couple in the locker room for the second half.

1139
00:53:16,060 --> 00:53:18,980
 Yeah, so you just kind of got to make sure you got all that taken care of.

1140
00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:22,520
 And, you know, our coaches do a good job getting all that prepared.

1141
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:27,260
 So, you know, whatever happens, we'll be prepared.

1142
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:35,020
 Well, you go to 3-0 in the season, 2-0 in Class 3A Region 7, knocking off Clements last night, 48-7.

1143
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:37,160
 Did you get off to a fast start last night?

1144
00:53:37,740 --> 00:53:42,280
 Well, you know, they got the ball first and drove down and scored.

1145
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:43,400
 There we go again.

1146
00:53:43,460 --> 00:53:45,700
 I went the wrong direction on that, so they go down and score.

1147
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:48,780
 Well, you know, we had a penalty, you know, they did a good job.

1148
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:53,880
 And then after that, we started to, you know, kind of take control of the game.

1149
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,980
 You know, we drove down and scored, then we got to stop, and we scored again and so on and so forth.

1150
00:53:59,140 --> 00:54:03,220
 So I really thought that our guys, you know, handled themselves very well.

1151
00:54:04,060 --> 00:54:06,480
 Thought we played very well in defense, you know.

1152
00:54:08,020 --> 00:54:15,780
 And then offensively, I felt like we had a lot of just pretty, you know, especially offensive line-wise, we just dominated the game, I felt like.

1153
00:54:15,780 --> 00:54:21,320
 I felt like they really did a good job of, you know, just kind of establishing the line of scrimmage.

1154
00:54:21,540 --> 00:54:25,420
 You know, they've got some really big kids up on the defensive line, you know.

1155
00:54:25,420 --> 00:54:30,060
 And if you stand up with them, when your pad level's high, that's a bad deal.

1156
00:54:30,340 --> 00:54:33,240
 But I felt like we did a decent job of what we were supposed to do.

1157
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,520
 And the results, you know, took care of themselves.

1158
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:44,040
 In a game like that, when you see your offense line take control, does it go in your mind, the weight room of the offseason and where you work?

1159
00:54:44,060 --> 00:54:48,420
 Because I know you're all about weights in the weight room and getting your team in shape and really building that strength.

1160
00:54:48,740 --> 00:54:50,780
 Yeah, I think that's a big part of it, I think.

1161
00:54:50,780 --> 00:54:57,720
 I really feel like what we do in the offseason and with our strength and conditioning program is top-notch.

1162
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,920
 You know, we – what's the word?

1163
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:11,900
 We, you know, kind of mark it out to – you know, we have an analyst that we work with that's in Missouri that was a former Missouri, you know, Tiger strength coach.

1164
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:14,240
 And he helps us with, you know, that.

1165
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,360
 And he's got like three schools that he works with.

1166
00:55:16,500 --> 00:55:18,980
 And so he's kind of a consultant for us.

1167
00:55:18,980 --> 00:55:24,240
 And so we feel like we're at the, you know, kind of the cutting edge on some of the stuff that we do.

1168
00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:29,520
 And then we're also on some of the stuff as far as getting prepared for the game in terms of, you know, hydration

1169
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:34,400
 and making sure the guys have enough, you know, electrolytes and all that stuff throughout the week, you know,

1170
00:55:34,420 --> 00:55:38,460
 our protein intake and all that, all the stuff that we try to really invest in.

1171
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,340
 We spend a lot of money on things like that to, you know,

1172
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:47,060
 hopefully have our guys in the physical condition to be the best that they can be on Friday night.

1173
00:55:47,060 --> 00:55:51,560
 So we feel like all of that kind of pays dividends on it.

1174
00:55:51,740 --> 00:55:54,200
 And, you know, hopefully it will keep working.

1175
00:55:54,660 --> 00:55:55,360
 Great insight.

1176
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:00,180
 And I guarantee if there's anybody that's going to be on the cutting edge, it's Daniel Garrett as head coach.

1177
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:01,360
 You're very much that.

1178
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,880
 As a young coach, you've done this for a couple of years now and you get it.

1179
00:56:04,940 --> 00:56:08,620
 And I think one of the things that stands out to me is how hard your team plays.

1180
00:56:08,700 --> 00:56:10,280
 Your team plays hard as a team.

1181
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:13,480
 I hear so many people say, man, when you play Rodgers, you know what you're going to get.

1182
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:17,880
 But you're also starting to develop where a lot of these kids now can develop their own talent.

1183
00:56:17,980 --> 00:56:20,420
 And you're spreading it out a few times here and there.

1184
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,380
 Who played well for you last night?

1185
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:27,020
 Well, I thought that Cain and Easter, these are tied in.

1186
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,020
 I mean, he had some absolutely just killer blocks.

1187
00:56:30,260 --> 00:56:31,800
 I mean, just did a really good job.

1188
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:37,500
 Once again, Hunter Bacon played very well on defense, like Cooper Ballantyne played well on defense.

1189
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:43,540
 You know, Mason Tardo, you know, played well on defense and offense, I felt like.

1190
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,140
 Carson Springer is a really good offensive lineman for us.

1191
00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:50,780
 You know, had a kid come back from injury, he played with a cast, boom, broadfoot.

1192
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,560
 He had some good – he did some good things.

1193
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:59,500
 Braden Reed, you know, he kind of – just a fanat – just awesome one-handed touchdown catch.

1194
00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:01,780
 It was really good on a two-minute drive.

1195
00:57:02,860 --> 00:57:05,120
 And then, of course, our quarterback, CJ, he played really well as well.

1196
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:06,500
 CJ is just a really good player.

1197
00:57:06,540 --> 00:57:07,420
 He's a really good player.

1198
00:57:07,740 --> 00:57:11,240
 And, you know, I thought we just had – you know, had a lot of guys do a lot of good things.

1199
00:57:11,540 --> 00:57:14,600
 And, you know, one thing I was really proud of, I felt like we were physical.

1200
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,940
 I feel like that's the most physical game we've played in a while.

1201
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:25,680
 And I hope that, you know, within the – and the thing is, to me, there's a difference in being physical and being cheap and dirty.

1202
00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:26,240
 That's right.

1203
00:57:26,460 --> 00:57:31,480
 And, you know, it's been very important to me that we're not that way.

1204
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:32,980
 We don't want to cross that line.

1205
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,420
 We don't want to get unsportsmanlike penalties, you know, and stuff like that.

1206
00:57:36,420 --> 00:57:41,720
 And we got one on the sideline over there that, you know, just can kind of run in our mouth a little bit.

1207
00:57:41,780 --> 00:57:42,580
 And I didn't like that.

1208
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,800
 But I felt like, you know, we played the right way but we're super physical.

1209
00:57:47,180 --> 00:57:48,660
 And that's what I like to see.

1210
00:57:48,780 --> 00:57:50,860
 And that's what I want our reputation to be.

1211
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:55,000
 And I'm glad our reputation is that we play hard because that's very important to me.

1212
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,980
 And, you know, you talk about, you know, everybody kind of creating their identity.

1213
00:57:58,980 --> 00:58:04,240
 And we want our kids to be the best that they can be and create value for themselves.

1214
00:58:04,700 --> 00:58:04,820
 Yes.

1215
00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:07,660
 And if they do that, then that creates value for the team.

1216
00:58:08,460 --> 00:58:11,060
 So, you know, all that kind of comes together.

1217
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:18,120
 And, you know, the kind of thing is, hey, look, be your best version of yourself.

1218
00:58:18,340 --> 00:58:20,800
 And if you can do that, then we're going to have a good football team.

1219
00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:24,680
 Every Saturday morning, I just feel like I learn more and more about coaching.

1220
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:25,640
 I mean, I really do.

1221
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:26,180
 I've done this for years.

1222
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,140
 And I just – every time I'm – you know, you learn more about the value of yourself.

1223
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,260
 And the value of yourself means that then you have more value for your team.

1224
00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:36,800
 I think that's a great line there as we speak with Daniel Garrett of the Rogers Pirates,

1225
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,240
 whose team last night wins it 48-7.

1226
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,160
 Hey, any defensive touchdowns last night?

1227
00:58:41,260 --> 00:58:42,860
 Sometimes that defense comes up big for you.

1228
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:43,540
 I'm just making sure.

1229
00:58:43,620 --> 00:58:45,560
 No, we had a couple opportunities at some interceptions.

1230
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:46,380
 But, no, we didn't have any.

1231
00:58:46,380 --> 00:58:46,640
 Okay.

1232
00:58:46,940 --> 00:58:48,080
 Who do you have this next week and where?

1233
00:58:48,260 --> 00:58:50,060
 We've got Calver Heights at Calver Heights.

1234
00:58:50,260 --> 00:58:51,540
 On the road, again.

1235
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,620
 So, early on, you're traveling a good bit.

1236
00:58:53,700 --> 00:58:54,360
 The white jerseys.

1237
00:58:54,860 --> 00:58:58,080
 Has your team responded to playing well on the road so far?

1238
00:58:58,180 --> 00:59:02,000
 I feel like we've taken, you know, what we're supposed to do.

1239
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,760
 I feel like the routine and everything's been good.

1240
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,780
 I feel like we've, you know, started pretty well and been, you know,

1241
00:59:08,780 --> 00:59:10,480
 just had the right mindset going into it.

1242
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,880
 So, hopefully it'll be another good night.

1243
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,760
 What's the DNA of this team so far?

1244
00:59:15,180 --> 00:59:15,720
 Of us?

1245
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:16,160
 Yeah.

1246
00:59:17,460 --> 00:59:19,920
 You know, I think that's a tough question.

1247
00:59:20,260 --> 00:59:23,620
 But, you know, I just think we've got a bunch of kids that, you know,

1248
00:59:23,620 --> 00:59:24,620
 care about each other.

1249
00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:28,600
 And they don't mind being pushed because I'm super hard on them.

1250
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,040
 And they don't mind to be pushed and they want to be pushed.

1251
00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:34,120
 I felt like last week I really pushed.

1252
00:59:34,340 --> 00:59:35,520
 I mean, I got onto them pretty hard.

1253
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,100
 I didn't feel like we played to our potential.

1254
00:59:37,500 --> 00:59:38,540
 And they responded.

1255
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:44,060
 And to me, that's a sign of your team is when they respond to you, you know,

1256
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:45,840
 and how you are trying to push them.

1257
00:59:46,220 --> 00:59:48,040
 Because some people say, well, you're being hard on them.

1258
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:48,980
 You mean this, you mean that.

1259
00:59:49,060 --> 00:59:50,240
 Well, there's a reason.

1260
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:50,760
 Yeah.

1261
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,620
 It's not because, you know, I get off on that type of stuff.

1262
00:59:54,620 --> 00:59:56,940
 It's because I see where we can go.

1263
00:59:57,300 --> 00:59:59,140
 And I want us to reach our potential.

1264
00:59:59,460 --> 01:00:01,040
 And I think they see that, too.

1265
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,980
 And they see the potential of the team collectively.

1266
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,320
 But, like, we just got a good group of kids that, you know,

1267
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:09,520
 they care about each other.

1268
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,660
 And we all want the same thing.

1269
01:00:11,980 --> 01:00:15,200
 And if we can just keep that identity, then, you know,

1270
01:00:15,260 --> 01:00:17,060
 things are going to work out really well for us.

1271
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,300
 Rogers Pirates 3-0 on the season.

1272
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,860
 But the ceiling has not been touched yet, that is for sure.

1273
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,660
 Coach Daniel Garrett, best of luck next week at Carbert Heights.

1274
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,640
 Congratulations on the great start, okay?

1275
01:00:26,860 --> 01:00:27,220
 Thank you.

1276
01:00:27,220 --> 01:00:29,200
 The head coach of the Pirates.

1277
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,820
 We're back with more after this one-minute timeout.

1278
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1279
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1280
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1281
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1282
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:52,040
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1286
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1287
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1288
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1289
01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:07,660
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1290
01:01:07,980 --> 01:01:11,400
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1291
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,480
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1292
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,440
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1293
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1294
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1295
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1296
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1297
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1298
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:53,040
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1299
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:54,980
 Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you today.

1300
01:01:55,580 --> 01:01:58,560
 As we get to the top of the hour, 9 a.m., some of you getting up,

1301
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:00,900
 some of you getting that third cup of coffee going, that's all right.

1302
01:02:01,180 --> 01:02:04,920
 Getting ready for college football today, doing a little yard work, got the headsets on.

1303
01:02:05,220 --> 01:02:08,820
 Listening to our broadcast, we appreciate you listening in to The Coach's Breakfast

1304
01:02:08,820 --> 01:02:10,680
 each and every Saturday morning.

1305
01:02:11,180 --> 01:02:13,240
 Man, did they have a good one last night.

1306
01:02:13,380 --> 01:02:14,720
 Central and Lauderdale County.

1307
01:02:14,860 --> 01:02:16,120
 Two county teams went at it.

1308
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:22,440
 The Wildcats win a wild one by 21-20 score over Lauderdale County to go 3-0 this season.

1309
01:02:22,980 --> 01:02:25,320
 And we're joined now by the head coach, Coach Heathwood of the Wildcats.

1310
01:02:26,060 --> 01:02:27,160
 Breathe, Coach, breathe.

1311
01:02:27,420 --> 01:02:28,180
 That was one of those.

1312
01:02:28,260 --> 01:02:29,900
 That was a great high school game.

1313
01:02:30,140 --> 01:02:31,240
 Definitely, definitely was.

1314
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,600
 You know, four quarters of football for sure.

1315
01:02:33,740 --> 01:02:35,240
 You know, we talked about that all week.

1316
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,060
 And any time you play Lauderdale County, look at, you know, last few years we've played them.

1317
01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:42,300
 It's been four quarters and really close games.

1318
01:02:42,300 --> 01:02:45,060
 And, you know, we knew that going into the game last night.

1319
01:02:45,140 --> 01:02:50,440
 And those guys really played hard on that side from up there, Lauderdale County.

1320
01:02:50,780 --> 01:02:53,420
 So, you know, hats off to those guys with the effort they played with.

1321
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,080
 Definitely proud of our guys and how hard we played.

1322
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:57,840
 Was that your home opener last night?

1323
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:58,360
 It was.

1324
01:02:58,540 --> 01:02:59,100
 Home opener?

1325
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:01,080
 Hey, listen, I'm going to tell you a little secret.

1326
01:03:01,740 --> 01:03:03,360
 Drove out there to see that new scoreboard.

1327
01:03:03,420 --> 01:03:04,240
 I just wanted to see it.

1328
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,100
 Man, that big jumbotron scoreboard.

1329
01:03:06,340 --> 01:03:07,600
 That was pretty nice, isn't it?

1330
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,800
 Yeah, it was something for sure, yeah.

1331
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,060
 I mean, that's pretty good to say.

1332
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:13,940
 I know the kids are excited about things like that.

1333
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:14,220
 Oh, yeah.

1334
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:16,380
 And it brings a lot of things to the community.

1335
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,440
 But also, your team is starting to really gel.

1336
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:20,560
 You're 3-0 in the season.

1337
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,740
 And last night, you had a tough opponent.

1338
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,120
 But, again, you showed a lot of character.

1339
01:03:26,260 --> 01:03:28,040
 I think that was one of the things that come out for this game.

1340
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:28,480
 Yeah.

1341
01:03:28,740 --> 01:03:32,840
 You know, looking, you know, trying to figure out, you know, building, you know,

1342
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,580
 trying to get the team to grow from week to week and different things.

1343
01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:38,480
 We talked about being the experience to begin the season.

1344
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,840
 You know, we're gaining experience each and every week.

1345
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:44,280
 But I felt like last night, you know, we made some real strides

1346
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:47,060
 because we were behind at halftime.

1347
01:03:47,140 --> 01:03:49,180
 And that's the first time that we've had to play from behind.

1348
01:03:49,300 --> 01:03:49,540
 Right.

1349
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:50,280
 At half.

1350
01:03:50,420 --> 01:03:53,900
 And I thought the players really handled that well.

1351
01:03:54,100 --> 01:03:57,160
 You know, not panicking and going back out the second half

1352
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,400
 and sticking with the game plan and doing what we asked them to do.

1353
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:04,380
 So, to me, you know, I felt like we grew as a team being able to do that

1354
01:04:04,380 --> 01:04:07,420
 because, you know, we do have – you know, we're getting experience each and every week.

1355
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:08,980
 You know, we've got three games under us now.

1356
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,120
 But that's, again, the first time we've had to play from behind.

1357
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:13,960
 And I was really pleased with the effort.

1358
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,980
 And the adversity they paid off, they responded to it well.

1359
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:17,260
 Exactly.

1360
01:04:17,260 --> 01:04:19,660
 At halftime, do you go in and draw things on the whiteboard

1361
01:04:19,660 --> 01:04:21,160
 or is it more just talk to the kids?

1362
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,300
 You know, I went in and talked to them.

1363
01:04:23,460 --> 01:04:25,660
 I've got – you know, Coach Gene does that offense

1364
01:04:25,660 --> 01:04:27,220
 and Coach Manson does that defense.

1365
01:04:27,340 --> 01:04:29,920
 Those guys are in there with the other assistants getting things –

1366
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,340
 getting the game plans together, you know.

1367
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,740
 So, I'm going in there and just trying to get everything under control, you know,

1368
01:04:34,780 --> 01:04:37,780
 so we can get off the panic button a little bit because we were behind, you know.

1369
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,580
 I felt like we played like that a little bit during that second quarter.

1370
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:45,040
 But, again, the kids responded well and went out, stuck to the game plan

1371
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,920
 and was able to get it in the end.

1372
01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:49,580
 I make sure I get these right.

1373
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,560
 I think Lucas Price, if I'm not mistaken, had a big game for you last night.

1374
01:04:52,700 --> 01:04:52,820
 Yeah.

1375
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:57,240
 170 yards, 19 carries, including a big 40-yard touchdown.

1376
01:04:57,340 --> 01:04:58,780
 What makes him a special back?

1377
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,220
 Yeah, you know, Lucas has got good vision, great speed, you know,

1378
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:03,660
 and trust those linemen.

1379
01:05:03,820 --> 01:05:05,940
 You know, I think we talked about him a couple weeks ago.

1380
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,040
 You start talking about Lucas.

1381
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:11,340
 He would give that credit to the offensive line first and foremost

1382
01:05:11,340 --> 01:05:13,680
 because you can't do anything by yourself.

1383
01:05:13,820 --> 01:05:15,000
 But he does have that game.

1384
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:16,140
 Very talented.

1385
01:05:16,420 --> 01:05:17,980
 Let's talk about some of those offensive linemen.

1386
01:05:18,060 --> 01:05:19,520
 Those big boys need a little credit.

1387
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:21,500
 I've met a couple of them before from out there.

1388
01:05:21,580 --> 01:05:22,640
 There's some big kids you've got out there.

1389
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:23,560
 Let's talk about that offensive line.

1390
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:26,160
 Who are some of the guys that are leaders on that big front line?

1391
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:27,660
 Yeah, they all are.

1392
01:05:27,660 --> 01:05:31,840
 You know, when you start talking about returning starters on that offensive line,

1393
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,320
 you know, very few, if that makes sense.

1394
01:05:34,460 --> 01:05:36,760
 So those guys have grown throughout the year.

1395
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,320
 If you were to say it's the first day or so of practice, you'd be like, wow.

1396
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,420
 So, you know, they're out there working and trying to get better every day,

1397
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,620
 and hopefully from week to week we're continuing to grow as a team.

1398
01:05:48,820 --> 01:05:53,340
 Well, it sounds like it because your team responded to the adversity being down at the half.

1399
01:05:53,740 --> 01:05:57,380
 What do you think was the key maybe turning point in the third or fourth quarter there for your team?

1400
01:05:57,420 --> 01:05:59,080
 Was it the big touchdown to take the lead back?

1401
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,380
 You know, we ended up getting a turnover there shortly after halftime,

1402
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:04,480
 and we were able to go down there and score with that ball.

1403
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,480
 So I think that was probably a momentum change there.

1404
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:09,860
 I may put you on the spot, but tell us a little bit about the turnover.

1405
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:11,440
 You remember, was it an interception, fumble return?

1406
01:06:11,860 --> 01:06:12,300
 It was a fumble.

1407
01:06:12,300 --> 01:06:12,860
 Fumble recovery?

1408
01:06:12,980 --> 01:06:14,880
 Yeah, around midfield there.

1409
01:06:15,020 --> 01:06:20,920
 Is it a process still with defenses to have, I call it, times of practice

1410
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,160
 where they learn how to strip the ball and taking the ball away?

1411
01:06:23,220 --> 01:06:24,880
 Is that something that's still taught a whole lot?

1412
01:06:24,940 --> 01:06:25,520
 Yeah, yeah.

1413
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:29,560
 We run the low drills every day, you know, at least once or twice a week.

1414
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,100
 Well, it must have paid off, whatever it was, because he got the ball.

1415
01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:34,500
 And then, hey, it's one thing to get the turnover,

1416
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,040
 but then that offense has to take care of it from there.

1417
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:40,180
 That was a big thing to turn the momentum into something big.

1418
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:43,700
 Talk about how your team sort of embraced momentum.

1419
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,900
 Yeah, you know, the first thing is go back out there,

1420
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:48,860
 because, you know, we were back on defense again.

1421
01:06:48,940 --> 01:06:51,160
 We were behind and made some adjustments at halftime.

1422
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,620
 I thought the assistant coach did a great job making adjustments

1423
01:06:54,620 --> 01:06:55,780
 on both sides of the ball.

1424
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,500
 But, you know, being able to get that turnover

1425
01:06:59,500 --> 01:07:02,160
 and then do what we needed to do with it was, you know,

1426
01:07:02,260 --> 01:07:04,100
 that kind of changed a lot of things.

1427
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,000
 Well, it was right down to the wire.

1428
01:07:06,140 --> 01:07:09,540
 Lauderdale County comes back and has a chance to win it.

1429
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:10,720
 The extra point is no good.

1430
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:12,180
 You know, it could have been.

1431
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:13,860
 I don't know what happened on the extra point, but no good.

1432
01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:14,900
 But you had to put it away.

1433
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:15,820
 What did you do?

1434
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,060
 Did you have to have a hands team to recover it?

1435
01:07:18,540 --> 01:07:19,220
 No, no, no.

1436
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,960
 We were kind of back and forth there a little bit.

1437
01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:24,460
 There was still quite a bit of time on the clock on the scores.

1438
01:07:24,780 --> 01:07:26,520
 So you had to just take care of the football.

1439
01:07:26,740 --> 01:07:29,260
 Do you then manage time a little bit in the fourth quarter

1440
01:07:29,260 --> 01:07:29,920
 in a game like that?

1441
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:30,360
 You're up one.

1442
01:07:30,420 --> 01:07:31,800
 Has that become a thing that you watch?

1443
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:32,500
 Yes, yes.

1444
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:34,640
 Coach Gene did a great job doing that last night,

1445
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:35,940
 him and the quarterback.

1446
01:07:36,460 --> 01:07:38,980
 So, yeah, definitely proud of the coaching staff.

1447
01:07:38,980 --> 01:07:40,120
 on both sides.

1448
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:41,680
 The special teams played well last night.

1449
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:43,920
 Coach Seth, those guys did a great job with that, too.

1450
01:07:44,300 --> 01:07:47,400
 Well, any time you beat Lauderdale County, it's a big game.

1451
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:48,760
 You know what I'm talking about.

1452
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:49,120
 Yes.

1453
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,760
 Anybody that's played Lauderdale County knows the history of Lauderdale County football.

1454
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:55,620
 I mean, it's still there.

1455
01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:55,900
 Yeah.

1456
01:07:55,980 --> 01:08:01,000
 Those guys are always a tough competition and, you know, physical, big team.

1457
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:02,600
 And, you know, that's what it was last night.

1458
01:08:02,660 --> 01:08:05,620
 And, you know, if you're going to beat them, it's going to take four quarters to beat them

1459
01:08:05,620 --> 01:08:06,060
 for sure.

1460
01:08:06,180 --> 01:08:11,000
 And we were able to do that last night and super proud of the players and what they put

1461
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,860
 in last week in practice and prep and the assistant coaches getting on the game plan together

1462
01:08:14,860 --> 01:08:17,840
 last Sunday and, you know, going out and executing it last night.

1463
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,920
 Can't say enough about my assistant coaches and how proud I am of the players for playing

1464
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:22,280
 hard.

1465
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:25,860
 And we're talking about that adversity last night, being able to overcome that.

1466
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:27,740
 So, well, I'm proud of everybody.

1467
01:08:27,940 --> 01:08:29,440
 It's just an amazing game last night.

1468
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,020
 It's Central Wednesday, 21-20.

1469
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:35,540
 You go to 3-0 on the season, 2-0 in Class 3A, Region 7 play.

1470
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:36,920
 Who do you have next week and where?

1471
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:38,280
 We got Elkmont at home.

1472
01:08:38,500 --> 01:08:38,940
 Elkmont at home.

1473
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:39,800
 Not homecoming, is it?

1474
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:40,140
 It is.

1475
01:08:40,300 --> 01:08:41,820
 See, I just had that feeling, Coach.

1476
01:08:41,820 --> 01:08:43,440
 I could see in your eyes it's homecoming.

1477
01:08:43,780 --> 01:08:44,800
 Do y'all do the parade?

1478
01:08:44,980 --> 01:08:45,740
 Do y'all do bonfires?

1479
01:08:45,820 --> 01:08:46,760
 Do y'all do everything like that, too?

1480
01:08:46,900 --> 01:08:49,500
 Yeah, we typically do, you know, depending on the weather.

1481
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:51,140
 You know, that is the thing.

1482
01:08:51,220 --> 01:08:52,560
 You start looking four or five days.

1483
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:53,860
 Are you one of those, too, like me?

1484
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,140
 I look four or five days and say, what's the weather going to be on Friday night?

1485
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:57,180
 Yeah, I try to look 10.

1486
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:58,320
 The way that heat's been.

1487
01:08:58,460 --> 01:08:59,000
 You look 10.

1488
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,120
 Yeah, I'll be looking 10, 14 days.

1489
01:09:01,260 --> 01:09:02,880
 But, again, when's this thing going to cool off?

1490
01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:04,160
 I love it.

1491
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:05,900
 That is the most honest answer ever.

1492
01:09:06,300 --> 01:09:07,360
 It'll look two months ahead.

1493
01:09:07,440 --> 01:09:08,780
 Find some cool weather to come down here.

1494
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:09,740
 When's that snow coming?

1495
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:10,620
 I like that.

1496
01:09:10,620 --> 01:09:12,740
 You get ready to take out my own homecoming.

1497
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:16,640
 But that's special for Central High School to have all these people come back, the alumni.

1498
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:17,960
 It'll be a huge crowd around.

1499
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:18,940
 Oh, yeah, for sure.

1500
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,420
 You know, in our community, it was out last night.

1501
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:28,680
 You know, couldn't, you know, the support we get from our community and our school is just, it's like no other place, I think.

1502
01:09:28,980 --> 01:09:30,780
 So, you got to be next week's homecoming.

1503
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:34,220
 I look for, you know, we look for big support again next week.

1504
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:35,760
 Well, I think it'll be a huge game.

1505
01:09:36,140 --> 01:09:38,180
 Homecoming next week, the Cats will be at home.

1506
01:09:38,260 --> 01:09:40,020
 And, boy, the Wildcats are rolling right now.

1507
01:09:40,540 --> 01:09:44,200
 Coach, congratulations on the thrilling win last night over Lauderdale County.

1508
01:09:44,380 --> 01:09:47,120
 And let's get it to 4-0 next week with a homecoming victory, okay?

1509
01:09:47,300 --> 01:09:49,100
 Yeah, thank you guys for having us on.

1510
01:09:49,220 --> 01:09:52,020
 Coach Heathwood, one of the good guys in coaching from the Central Wildcats.

1511
01:09:52,100 --> 01:09:55,180
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1512
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1522
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1523
01:11:01,620 --> 01:11:17,260
 A little old-school music to bring us in to the next guest here on the Coach's Breakfast from the North Alabama Bone and Joint Clinic, Kevin Johnson.

1524
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:18,100
 Glad to be with you.

1525
01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:25,440
 And speaking of old-school, how about my good friend, assistant coach of Marcel's, Coach Stephen Cohen, whose team last night, the Panthers, win it over Solskristian.

1526
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:29,500
 And a big win last night, they knocked off the flame by a score of 44-0.

1527
01:11:29,900 --> 01:11:31,520
 Coach Cohen, big win for you last night.

1528
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,940
 I know your team and everybody's excited about getting the victory.

1529
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:34,680
 Oh, yeah.

1530
01:11:34,820 --> 01:11:38,980
 A big kind of cross-town rival there last night.

1531
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:43,440
 Shoals, Christian, Morris Hill got together again after a few years' absence, I'm sure.

1532
01:11:43,980 --> 01:11:50,640
 Hadn't played in a while, and Coach Hill and Coach Ryan, Derek, had this really good spirit all week.

1533
01:11:51,140 --> 01:11:57,000
 And we knew Coach Hill was stressed all week after we got back from Westbrook.

1534
01:11:57,080 --> 01:12:00,380
 You know, we got to find our identity again and keep working hard.

1535
01:12:00,500 --> 01:12:02,060
 And they had a good week of practice.

1536
01:12:02,620 --> 01:12:05,720
 And Westbrook was a long trip, and we played real well the second half.

1537
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:10,280
 And left a lot of things on the table last week, so we had a lot to come back on.

1538
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,020
 So I think we had a really good week of practice.

1539
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:13,240
 Everybody kind of buckled down.

1540
01:12:13,460 --> 01:12:16,360
 And we got back on a good track last night.

1541
01:12:16,620 --> 01:12:17,020
 Absolutely.

1542
01:12:17,220 --> 01:12:25,100
 As you win it last night, 44-0 to go to 2-2 on the season and 1-1 in region play in private school 1A, region 4.

1543
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,100
 And Coach, the Strickland boys were pretty good last night.

1544
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:29,620
 Those Strickland boys came up big.

1545
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:36,420
 Gus had 149 yards passing, and Jack had 89 yards receiving, and an interception.

1546
01:12:36,980 --> 01:12:41,100
 And I was going to ask you, is that a couple of brothers there?

1547
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:42,400
 Yeah.

1548
01:12:43,380 --> 01:12:43,780
 Yeah.

1549
01:12:46,780 --> 01:12:52,760
 They're bringing a lot of energy for us, and they're really good.

1550
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:54,740
 Let's talk about your team.

1551
01:12:54,860 --> 01:12:56,060
 Who played well for you last night?

1552
01:12:56,660 --> 01:12:58,540
 Oh, I mean, we played a lot of young kids.

1553
01:12:59,940 --> 01:13:05,980
 The starters didn't play a whole lot this first half, and then we played a lot of Titus.

1554
01:13:05,980 --> 01:13:09,320
 Titus Cosby's getting better at the quarterback position every week.

1555
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:15,180
 And our running back, you know, Christian O'Rear's had a great season so far.

1556
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:16,180
 He's really running hard.

1557
01:13:16,860 --> 01:13:19,800
 And the defense kind of has been the mainstay.

1558
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:25,660
 You know, Samuel Spiller and just, you know, Jesse Parker's just going to lead off.

1559
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,660
 Jesse Parker's a big senior for us.

1560
01:13:27,660 --> 01:13:29,640
 He leads, big leader for us.

1561
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,720
 And, you know, can't forget Matthew McIntyre.

1562
01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:37,860
 So, I mean, Matthew McIntyre, he's been, you know, he's committed to Jacksonville State.

1563
01:13:38,260 --> 01:13:40,200
 Big tight end, defensive end for us.

1564
01:13:40,540 --> 01:13:47,040
 And Harrison Chandler, he's didn't, you know, Harrison Chandler's had a big on defense.

1565
01:13:47,300 --> 01:13:48,220
 So, he's done real well.

1566
01:13:48,700 --> 01:13:54,420
 That is a big part of that as well is we speak with Stephen Cohen of Mars Hill, who wins it last night 44-0.

1567
01:13:54,700 --> 01:13:57,620
 And, Coach, you know, you played a lot of players.

1568
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,200
 That was a big thing to you.

1569
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:03,400
 And, you know, really probably had – shows Christian outmanned a little bit.

1570
01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:04,800
 So, you got to play a lot of your guys.

1571
01:14:04,900 --> 01:14:06,880
 That's important in games like this for you, though, isn't it?

1572
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:12,540
 Oh, yeah, Coach Hill and Coach Derrick's got – you know, we kind of get built in depth with the junior high team.

1573
01:14:12,700 --> 01:14:18,040
 And we all – what Coach Hill brings, we practice the junior high and the varsity together.

1574
01:14:18,140 --> 01:14:20,020
 So, we're having 22 periods all day.

1575
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,660
 So, we have a long practice.

1576
01:14:22,780 --> 01:14:24,940
 We do the junior high and the varsity together.

1577
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:27,240
 So, it kind of feeds each other together.

1578
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:32,180
 They get to – well, the young guys get to watch the old guys work, and they get their work habits from them.

1579
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:32,900
 So, it's really good.

1580
01:14:33,140 --> 01:14:36,580
 Getting the work habits from them is a great example of what it is in coaching.

1581
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,440
 Coach, who do you have next week?

1582
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:39,040
 Nor do you all play.

1583
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:40,540
 We've got to go back to Gadsden.

1584
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:41,720
 We've got Coosa Christian.

1585
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:43,340
 So, we've got a long trip.

1586
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:44,920
 So, we've got to see how it goes.

1587
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,760
 And, I know Coosa, they won the state championship last year.

1588
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:51,920
 So, I know we're looking at them, and I know they'll be a good team.

1589
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:53,820
 So, we'll have to be ready.

1590
01:14:53,940 --> 01:14:55,060
 The region's pretty tough.

1591
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:58,980
 So, we've got several good trips on there.

1592
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:00,660
 Is that a region game again?

1593
01:15:00,700 --> 01:15:01,420
 Yeah, it does.

1594
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:02,180
 Yes, sir.

1595
01:15:02,180 --> 01:15:02,460
 Wow.

1596
01:15:02,580 --> 01:15:05,160
 So, in this private region, boy, you go a lot.

1597
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:07,800
 The travel's a big part of that for private schools now.

1598
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:08,220
 Yeah.

1599
01:15:08,220 --> 01:15:11,380
 But, you know, you're also looking at teams that are very competitive.

1600
01:15:11,580 --> 01:15:12,560
 You're a competitive team.

1601
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:15,740
 You've already faced Warren down there in Gadsden, about to face Coosa Christian.

1602
01:15:16,340 --> 01:15:18,440
 And – but what are you learning about your team?

1603
01:15:18,860 --> 01:15:20,940
 Yeah, this – they're getting the identity now.

1604
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:24,260
 Coach Hill's – you know, this is – he's getting the system in.

1605
01:15:24,380 --> 01:15:25,940
 He wants to do it offensively.

1606
01:15:25,940 --> 01:15:30,740
 And defense is – you know, we've always played real hard defense.

1607
01:15:31,300 --> 01:15:36,100
 And Ryan's – Coach Derrick's come in and did a good job with simplifying it and playing, you know,

1608
01:15:36,480 --> 01:15:42,120
 you know, kind of – our motto is kind of, you know, clear mind, fast legs, you know.

1609
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:42,260
 Yeah.

1610
01:15:42,260 --> 01:15:47,140
 So, he's got that – bring that mentality to us and running the football and playing good defense.

1611
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:49,200
 So, it's kind of – it's getting better.

1612
01:15:49,380 --> 01:15:52,220
 I think we think – we think we're on the right track.

1613
01:15:52,300 --> 01:15:53,220
 We're getting better every week.

1614
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:55,380
 And we still think we've got a lot to play for, you know.

1615
01:15:55,420 --> 01:15:56,460
 We've got a big season ahead.

1616
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:59,300
 Did you get some turnovers last night or any defensive touchdowns?

1617
01:15:59,300 --> 01:16:06,620
 We – we didn't get a scoop and score, but we got a – we did get an interception late.

1618
01:16:06,860 --> 01:16:07,160
 Okay.

1619
01:16:07,180 --> 01:16:08,240
 That's always good to have that.

1620
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:10,240
 Well, you get to play a lot of players last night.

1621
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,000
 You get the win.

1622
01:16:11,480 --> 01:16:13,880
 And, you know, you're starting to find out your identity.

1623
01:16:14,340 --> 01:16:17,180
 But now you're about to play a really, really excellent team.

1624
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:22,600
 In practice, is it – it's not too difficult to keep these kids focused when they know the opponents they're about to play

1625
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:23,960
 are some of the top teams in the state.

1626
01:16:24,020 --> 01:16:24,360
 Oh, yeah.

1627
01:16:24,620 --> 01:16:27,460
 It's definitely – it's definitely – it's an adjustment.

1628
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:29,880
 The private skill thing is an adjustment.

1629
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:36,060
 And the thing is, each week is – get different challenges, you know.

1630
01:16:36,060 --> 01:16:38,900
 We've got different formations, different things to look at each week.

1631
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:40,640
 So, it's different.

1632
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:42,360
 It's kind of a learning curve this year.

1633
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,460
 Has the game changed a lot since you started coaching?

1634
01:16:44,980 --> 01:16:45,300
 Yeah.

1635
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,960
 I mean, back in the old days when I was at Cortland all those years, we were running the football.

1636
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:50,240
 I was under center a lot.

1637
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,700
 So, now it's – you know, it's spread and throwing it around.

1638
01:16:53,980 --> 01:16:55,720
 And defense still carries, though.

1639
01:16:55,820 --> 01:16:58,240
 I mean, even back in our old Cortland teams, we had good defense.

1640
01:16:58,500 --> 01:17:00,320
 So, I think defense still carries.

1641
01:17:00,460 --> 01:17:01,660
 It's still about blocking and tackling.

1642
01:17:01,660 --> 01:17:02,240
 Blocking and tackling.

1643
01:17:02,660 --> 01:17:03,220
 Yes, Kevin.

1644
01:17:03,620 --> 01:17:05,740
 Coach Steven Cohen, the assistant coach at Morris Hill.

1645
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,480
 They win it last night over Scholes Christian to go 2-2 on the season.

1646
01:17:08,860 --> 01:17:13,820
 They go on the road to Coosa Christian all the way down to the east side of Alabama and Gadsden next Friday night.

1647
01:17:13,900 --> 01:17:15,660
 Safe travels to the Panthers and best of luck.

1648
01:17:15,980 --> 01:17:17,740
 And, Coach, congratulations on the big win, okay?

1649
01:17:18,180 --> 01:17:18,640
 Thank you, Kevin.

1650
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,240
 Assistant coach of the Morris Hill Panthers, Coach Steven Cohen.

1651
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1671
01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:29,560
 Welcome back to the Coaches Breakfast here on 93.9 The Score.

1672
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,600
 Hope you're getting ready for a big day of college football, Alabama, Kentucky.

1673
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,380
 Pre-game starting at 11.30, kickoff at 2.30.

1674
01:18:35,420 --> 01:18:37,260
 You'll hear it right here on 93.9 The Score.

1675
01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:41,320
 You know, I think you've got a couple other big games coming up today as well.

1676
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,440
 I believe it's Auburn, of course, getting ready to host Southern Miss tonight.

1677
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:46,480
 That will be a good one.

1678
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,100
 So, you know, just some big games going around.

1679
01:18:49,420 --> 01:18:50,820
 Texas and Arizona State.

1680
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:53,680
 Texas A&M, Arizona State, and then Texas, Ohio State.

1681
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,940
 So, some big college games to enjoy the day of college football.

1682
01:18:57,140 --> 01:18:59,300
 Last night was a night to enjoy high school football.

1683
01:18:59,740 --> 01:19:01,560
 And you heard this game on 93.9 The Score.

1684
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:06,740
 The Florence Falcons traveled to Russellville for the first time in about 15 years

1685
01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:09,480
 on the Golden Tigers before a packed house.

1686
01:19:09,980 --> 01:19:12,800
 And Florence comes away with a 35-21 victory.

1687
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,320
 We're joined now by the head coach of the Falcons, Coach Kenny Marson.

1688
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:17,220
 Coach, breathe a little bit.

1689
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:18,480
 Man, what a game last night.

1690
01:19:19,100 --> 01:19:20,660
 Yeah, we're still trying to catch our breath.

1691
01:19:20,820 --> 01:19:22,600
 It was an awesome atmosphere.

1692
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:26,840
 Just a great, great game to play in front of that crowd.

1693
01:19:28,060 --> 01:19:30,180
 We didn't have a lot of excitement on our end.

1694
01:19:30,540 --> 01:19:32,860
 We were still riddling a little bit from us' shows.

1695
01:19:32,860 --> 01:19:37,820
 But it was one that turned out well for us.

1696
01:19:38,380 --> 01:19:40,280
 Well, I do want to say the atmosphere was great.

1697
01:19:40,420 --> 01:19:41,700
 It's a beautiful stadium.

1698
01:19:42,260 --> 01:19:46,740
 And just, it was really, you could tell, friends on both sides of the ball.

1699
01:19:47,180 --> 01:19:51,160
 Afterwards, the sportsmanship was outstanding from coaches and players.

1700
01:19:51,620 --> 01:19:52,420
 Respect was there.

1701
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,400
 And I think the respect was from the players after playing each other.

1702
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,140
 Both teams, like, man, we're playing pretty good teams here.

1703
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:00,680
 And it was a lot of respect both ways.

1704
01:20:00,740 --> 01:20:01,920
 That's important in high school football.

1705
01:20:02,020 --> 01:20:02,980
 Very much so.

1706
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:04,200
 And glad to see it.

1707
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:12,700
 I know there's a black eye from the Russellville-Florence game years and years ago over the brawlet, brawly, they call it.

1708
01:20:13,100 --> 01:20:14,860
 That was about, I was not in there.

1709
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:15,940
 I was there, but I wasn't in it.

1710
01:20:16,020 --> 01:20:16,440
 I'll put it that way.

1711
01:20:16,440 --> 01:20:22,180
 But, yeah, it was two coaching staffs that really thank a lot of each other.

1712
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:28,880
 I thank a lot of Coach Higgins and Coach Bial and Will Kilpatrick was on our staff at one time at Florence.

1713
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:31,640
 And those guys do a phenomenal job over there.

1714
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:36,180
 And they've got their guys believing, got their guys playing really hard.

1715
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:37,940
 And what a class act they were.

1716
01:20:38,020 --> 01:20:40,160
 There was not a lot of mess throughout the game.

1717
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:46,860
 None of the chirping mess and talking and all that kind of stuff, which is good to see in high school football.

1718
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:50,400
 Because I know we preach it, and I know Coach Higgins does, too.

1719
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,120
 There's no place for it in the game.

1720
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:55,800
 And last night, it was just a hard-nosed football game.

1721
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:57,580
 Tied at 14 at the half.

1722
01:20:57,680 --> 01:20:58,380
 They hit you early.

1723
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:02,720
 The Tigers early on over the top, go up 7-0 after about three or four plays.

1724
01:21:03,140 --> 01:21:04,900
 And your team responded after adversity.

1725
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:08,300
 Early on, they held it together and responded in adversity.

1726
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:10,860
 Boy, he threw some wrinkles at us.

1727
01:21:10,860 --> 01:21:15,440
 We really felt like we were super prepared for the wing tee.

1728
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:19,980
 And, again, at the end of the day, Coach Wisdom did a great job getting our guys prepared.

1729
01:21:20,440 --> 01:21:21,580
 We gave up 14 points.

1730
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:22,860
 One of them was a really big play.

1731
01:21:23,860 --> 01:21:30,260
 And the other one, you know, it was some miscues along the way, and they capitalized on it.

1732
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:33,680
 It was a great drive for them to go up 14-7 on us.

1733
01:21:33,820 --> 01:21:36,380
 And they definitely had some wrinkles, for sure.

1734
01:21:36,540 --> 01:21:40,060
 And we adjusted at halftime and settled in.

1735
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:40,640
 All right.

1736
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:41,640
 Let's talk about two things.

1737
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:44,180
 One is, one, that drive for Russell aided by penalties.

1738
01:21:44,300 --> 01:21:46,060
 I know that's something you're going to talk about to your team.

1739
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,540
 Penalties is something that's been raising its head a little bit.

1740
01:21:49,620 --> 01:21:52,240
 You've got to just – how do you even get that under control a little bit?

1741
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,760
 Well, they weren't unsportsmanlike.

1742
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:57,180
 They weren't personal fouls.

1743
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,080
 It's just stupid penalties.

1744
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,560
 I mean, we're lining up offsides on defense.

1745
01:22:01,780 --> 01:22:03,060
 We're not checking the football.

1746
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:08,980
 When we line up, you know, we're off the ball on offense.

1747
01:22:08,980 --> 01:22:11,020
 We didn't have enough men on the line of scrimmage.

1748
01:22:11,140 --> 01:22:17,260
 Cost us a timeout one time early in the game, which is aggravating when you have to waste a timeout for that.

1749
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:23,780
 And, you know, the pass interference, Tim Olinger was the back judge,

1750
01:22:24,020 --> 01:22:29,760
 and that was a Decatur crew that I had coached while they were officiating a lot of years,

1751
01:22:29,820 --> 01:22:30,940
 and it was good to see those guys.

1752
01:22:31,020 --> 01:22:32,100
 They did a phenomenal job.

1753
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:33,800
 Five-man crew, too.

1754
01:22:33,980 --> 01:22:34,640
 Five-man crew.

1755
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:36,000
 What a great job they did.

1756
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:38,500
 They let the kids play, and they called what was there.

1757
01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:45,600
 And I was clapping at Tim as the back judge over there, and he looked at me kind of funny.

1758
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:50,840
 I said, no, that was a good call on the pass interference, the three of them that we had.

1759
01:22:50,940 --> 01:22:52,220
 We did every one of them.

1760
01:22:52,860 --> 01:22:58,600
 And I told him, I said, before this is over with you, you may have to ice your shoulder from throwing that yellow flag.

1761
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:04,280
 But we were holding on offense the times that we missed.

1762
01:23:04,580 --> 01:23:05,220
 It was obvious.

1763
01:23:05,620 --> 01:23:08,820
 There was not a bad call that I saw the whole night.

1764
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:10,000
 They did a phenomenal job.

1765
01:23:10,140 --> 01:23:11,660
 Pretty impressive for our five-man crew.

1766
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:14,860
 Florence wins at 35-21, but it's tied at 14 at the half.

1767
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:18,800
 Coach, if you can, what did you say at halftime?

1768
01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:26,880
 Well, you know, everybody's asked me that, and everybody thinks, I guess, when you have a turnaround like that,

1769
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:32,080
 and you come back out and you score 21 points, that you did a lot of hollering and fussing and screaming at halftime.

1770
01:23:32,500 --> 01:23:33,220
 And it wasn't that.

1771
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:37,040
 It was just we walked in, we said, guys, we've got to tackle better.

1772
01:23:37,740 --> 01:23:42,720
 We've got to play cover three like we're supposed to play cover three and stay in your third.

1773
01:23:43,480 --> 01:23:45,500
 And it was all eye discipline.

1774
01:23:45,500 --> 01:23:51,720
 You know, with the wing tee, the ball's moving, and we did some no-ball wing tee stuff during the week

1775
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:56,440
 and trying to teach eye discipline to those guys and not look in the backfield, and we couldn't do it.

1776
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:03,720
 And we were not very disciplined in that area, and we just said, you know, settle in, tackle them, make them keep snapping it.

1777
01:24:04,440 --> 01:24:07,380
 And, you know, offensively, we said, keep doing what you're doing.

1778
01:24:07,500 --> 01:24:08,500
 We're moving the ball.

1779
01:24:09,460 --> 01:24:12,440
 You know, no stupid penalties that keep backing us up.

1780
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:14,080
 Let's just keep playing.

1781
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:22,060
 And we just talked and said, get with your coaches and hats off to our staff and really to our kids, too.

1782
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,900
 I said this on the TV last night after the game.

1783
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:30,540
 Our coaches did a phenomenal job of getting those guys together, getting them on the board.

1784
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:36,660
 They spent a good bit of time when I was trying to talk to them and give our coaches time to meet outside

1785
01:24:36,660 --> 01:24:41,300
 and discuss the adjustments, and they got in there, went straight at it.

1786
01:24:41,300 --> 01:24:49,280
 Our kids were quiet, they listened, and they paid attention, and they went out and executed the halftime adjustments.

1787
01:24:49,480 --> 01:24:54,120
 And what a phenomenal job for our coaches and the kids, too, take coaching at halftime.

1788
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:57,920
 We want to hear more from Coach Kenny Marson, but let's take a 30-second timeout.

1789
01:24:58,240 --> 01:24:59,700
 You're listening to The Coach's Breakfast.

1790
01:24:59,880 --> 01:25:02,540
 More from Coach Kenny Marson after this 30-second break.

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1799
01:25:40,900 --> 01:25:46,320
 We're here now with Coach Kenny Marson recapping last night's win over Russell 35-21.

1800
01:25:46,580 --> 01:25:48,380
 And, Coach, you tied at 14.

1801
01:25:48,540 --> 01:25:49,260
 You make adjustments.

1802
01:25:49,380 --> 01:25:51,960
 You come out, and you won the toss at the beginning of the game.

1803
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:52,920
 Deferred.

1804
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,980
 You get to the second half, and your offense does what you want your offense to do,

1805
01:25:56,020 --> 01:25:57,440
 set the tone to start the third quarter.

1806
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:01,700
 Yeah, we actually got a very fortunate call there.

1807
01:26:01,780 --> 01:26:05,900
 We had a screen pass called, and they covered it perfectly.

1808
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,920
 We couldn't dump it to the back, and we ended up scrambling.

1809
01:26:09,180 --> 01:26:14,240
 And, oh, my goodness, we're back about the 10 or 5, somewhere way back there.

1810
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:18,480
 And somehow Mahan kept his feet and just chunked one downfield.

1811
01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:21,660
 And Nelson Elliott made a great catch and extra yards there.

1812
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:26,760
 We might have had five offensive linemen downfield on that play.

1813
01:26:27,260 --> 01:26:30,700
 I bragged on the officials, but they might have just missed that one.

1814
01:26:30,860 --> 01:26:32,860
 It went in our favor, and I won't complain.

1815
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:34,720
 I went back and watched it last night.

1816
01:26:34,900 --> 01:26:39,580
 And I was like, first of all, on my call from the broadcaster, I couldn't see where he was.

1817
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:40,520
 So I said he was sacked.

1818
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:44,460
 And all of a sudden, the ball goes flying through the air, and there's Elliott catching down the field.

1819
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:46,340
 And I was like, how did he do that with two men on?

1820
01:26:46,580 --> 01:26:48,020
 It was an incredible play by Mahan.

1821
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,540
 But I went back and watched it on film, and it was so strange.

1822
01:26:50,940 --> 01:26:54,760
 Believe it or not, your linemen actually sort of stayed within that two- to three-yard range.

1823
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,400
 They didn't go down the field, and I don't know why they didn't, but they really didn't.

1824
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:00,080
 So hats off to them.

1825
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,040
 But it was an incredible play by Mahan.

1826
01:27:02,140 --> 01:27:07,700
 And maybe the play-changing game of the game right there was to make that play that could have been the momentum for Russell,

1827
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:11,100
 and then flip the field, and then the drive continues, and you go down and score.

1828
01:27:11,300 --> 01:27:12,180
 Yeah, that was a big score.

1829
01:27:12,340 --> 01:27:18,300
 We needed that one, and we told our defensive guys, look, we get this first score coming out here.

1830
01:27:18,860 --> 01:27:19,700
 Get one stop.

1831
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:24,120
 All we need is one stop and give it back to us, and that put it on a two-score deal

1832
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:30,500
 and kept it at a two-score separation there, which was big, really big for us.

1833
01:27:30,820 --> 01:27:35,000
 And we got that other one in later to go up three scores.

1834
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:39,980
 But the two-score deal to keep it like that was really big, especially with that block punt we had.

1835
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:45,080
 Or they had, and we didn't handle very well.

1836
01:27:45,480 --> 01:27:47,860
 But our defense shut it down after that as well.

1837
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:51,260
 Kayon Williams, we talk about every week, the sophomore is amazing.

1838
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:56,760
 But Mr. DeCarson Johnson said to Kayon, hey, man, you're great, but let me have a little time last night.

1839
01:27:57,060 --> 01:27:58,120
 And that was number zero.

1840
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:00,000
 I call him the goose because he wears zero.

1841
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:01,040
 He's like a goose egg.

1842
01:28:01,260 --> 01:28:04,440
 So the goose was loose last night, and he was running up and down the field.

1843
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:06,120
 He made some outstanding plays.

1844
01:28:06,220 --> 01:28:12,360
 And really, when it was a 21-14 game, he took the ball down the field on his own, two plays,

1845
01:28:12,700 --> 01:28:13,720
 and put it in the end zone.

1846
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:15,700
 Fabulous senior run right there.

1847
01:28:16,260 --> 01:28:17,140
 He really did.

1848
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:19,640
 He did for us last night.

1849
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:24,600
 And that, you know, we were down to a two-headed monster last night instead of three.

1850
01:28:25,340 --> 01:28:27,980
 Elijah Hines is still healing up from Muscle Shoals game.

1851
01:28:28,780 --> 01:28:33,680
 And then, you know, we were still banged up back there.

1852
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:36,600
 And DeCarson just said, hey, let me have it.

1853
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:39,000
 And those guys did a phenomenal job for us.

1854
01:28:39,260 --> 01:28:40,120
 O-line did too.

1855
01:28:40,420 --> 01:28:42,300
 But I'm going to go to Cade McGuire.

1856
01:28:43,100 --> 01:28:50,100
 You know, he took a little bit of a playbook from me from the old days of our gap scheme, power counter.

1857
01:28:50,420 --> 01:28:55,740
 We were running zone, and Russell really prepared well for our wide zone stuff.

1858
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,440
 And we hit it a few times on some back cuts and stuff.

1859
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:04,740
 But the power counter game was the difference in the gap scheme for our guys.

1860
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,340
 And I don't think they expected us to run that much at it.

1861
01:29:07,660 --> 01:29:09,920
 And Coach McGuire recognized that early.

1862
01:29:10,020 --> 01:29:11,020
 We got to go right at them.

1863
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:20,780
 Costa Mahan, your sophomore quarterback, his best game of the year, really outstanding, threw it for 100 yards, made the big play we talked about, had at least one touchdown pass.

1864
01:29:20,860 --> 01:29:26,680
 I know to Justin Kirkman, who also had a coming-out game tonight as a sophomore, two or three catches.

1865
01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:30,280
 He had a couple of sophomores step up there, actually, too, with Tripp Morris.

1866
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:35,760
 Your passing game all of a sudden comes out, and everybody goes, uh-oh, they can throw the ball down the field.

1867
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:37,100
 That's pretty good right there.

1868
01:29:37,100 --> 01:29:47,340
 Well, we, next man up mentality, Kevontae Green went out early with an injury, and then Kirkman just stepped right in.

1869
01:29:47,500 --> 01:29:48,520
 We never missed a beat.

1870
01:29:49,300 --> 01:29:55,480
 He did a great job, caught a beautiful fade ball on their sideline over there going the other direction.

1871
01:29:55,840 --> 01:30:03,180
 And then he caught the touchdown pass that we worked on all week, and Coach McGuire hit it at the right time.

1872
01:30:03,180 --> 01:30:08,720
 He said all week long, if we get it to this spot, I'm calling it, it's going to be six, and it was.

1873
01:30:09,140 --> 01:30:11,620
 Great job by him, and calling it.

1874
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:15,040
 Tripp Morris, yes, got to get that guy on the field more.

1875
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:16,780
 What a phenomenal job.

1876
01:30:16,980 --> 01:30:25,000
 Big, big comeback route over there for a first down to keep the chains moving to get us to another touchdown late there.

1877
01:30:25,300 --> 01:30:26,580
 It was a huge possession.

1878
01:30:26,580 --> 01:30:30,860
 And it was bracket coverage, and Mahan laid that over the top, and Morris went up and got it.

1879
01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:33,060
 So, sophomore standing out last night.

1880
01:30:33,440 --> 01:30:37,940
 And Coach, one of the things that really stood out to me, too, is as your team was playing last night,

1881
01:30:38,220 --> 01:30:42,080
 the confidence was growing, because when you started to be able to throw the ball and run the ball like that,

1882
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:46,420
 it was a confidence growing, but it was also realizing, okay, we've got the lead.

1883
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:48,100
 Let's milk that clock a little bit.

1884
01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:52,320
 You started doing a really good job in, as you say, managing the game as a team.

1885
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:54,320
 Yes, yes, got to manage the clock.

1886
01:30:54,580 --> 01:31:01,720
 And Scott Harper was a former O-line coach at UNA and offense coordinator over there.

1887
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:03,380
 His son, Jacob Harper, is our center.

1888
01:31:04,180 --> 01:31:07,580
 And Scott's in the box with us, and he's on the headsets.

1889
01:31:07,740 --> 01:31:12,060
 And I heard him three or four times say, hey, we'll just raise up and hit this guy out here and throw this ball.

1890
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,200
 And I won't say what I said about run the ball.

1891
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:16,320
 But run the ball.

1892
01:31:16,480 --> 01:31:19,160
 And I looked at Coach McGuire and said, don't you dare.

1893
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:22,620
 I said, keep running it, move this clock, and let's get it in the end zone.

1894
01:31:22,700 --> 01:31:23,800
 We don't need to put it in the air.

1895
01:31:23,820 --> 01:31:24,340
 And we didn't.

1896
01:31:24,500 --> 01:31:25,840
 And we ended up scoring.

1897
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:30,180
 But I'm going to go back to something that just hit me.

1898
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:34,040
 Carl Prather at Channel 48, we were game of the week,

1899
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:37,260
 and he's become one of my close friends through the years.

1900
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:42,060
 He's always shown me a lot of love in my coaching career and love him to death.

1901
01:31:42,260 --> 01:31:45,780
 And he sent me a text on the ride home last night,

1902
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:49,640
 and it said one word in bold print with an exclamation point.

1903
01:31:49,740 --> 01:31:50,580
 It said guts.

1904
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,000
 And that was what our guys did last night.

1905
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:55,260
 They just gutted it out.

1906
01:31:55,380 --> 01:31:59,160
 It was we were not at our best coming from the Muscle Shows game.

1907
01:31:59,300 --> 01:32:01,880
 We did not prepare worth a flip all week.

1908
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:06,800
 But they went out there, and they played hard, and they gutted it out for us.

1909
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:08,080
 And I'm proud of those young men.

1910
01:32:08,340 --> 01:32:12,380
 Florence wins it 35-21 over Russell with seven wide receivers making catches.

1911
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:14,140
 Great game offensively.

1912
01:32:14,140 --> 01:32:17,600
 Great game defensively, forcing the Tigers to have to drive the field late.

1913
01:32:17,740 --> 01:32:22,380
 Eight-minute drive, by the way, for them to drive just to get the points on the board with a minute to go.

1914
01:32:22,700 --> 01:32:23,500
 Let's turn the page.

1915
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:27,700
 Next week, now, you go with a 4-0 record back home at Brawley Stadium.

1916
01:32:27,860 --> 01:32:28,680
 It's homecoming.

1917
01:32:30,420 --> 01:32:32,680
 That's all I had to say, and you heard that right there, homecoming.

1918
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,060
 But let's even add to it.

1919
01:32:34,460 --> 01:32:36,800
 It's your good friends, the Decatur Red Raiders coming to town.

1920
01:32:36,900 --> 01:32:38,120
 How much fun is that going to be?

1921
01:32:38,860 --> 01:32:39,840
 It's going to be different.

1922
01:32:40,820 --> 01:32:44,900
 It's going to be the first time I've lined up on the other sideline from them.

1923
01:32:45,540 --> 01:32:47,320
 How many years were you at Decatur?

1924
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:48,060
 22 years.

1925
01:32:48,320 --> 01:32:49,320
 22 years.

1926
01:32:50,140 --> 01:32:52,260
 I retired there the first time.

1927
01:32:52,340 --> 01:32:54,640
 My boys graduated from there in 19.

1928
01:32:55,020 --> 01:32:58,260
 And so we spent a lot of years there raising our boys there.

1929
01:32:58,500 --> 01:33:02,600
 And it was a fun time, special time there.

1930
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:07,580
 Coach Adcock was really good to me to prepare me for the seat I'm in right now.

1931
01:33:07,580 --> 01:33:14,820
 And the guys on staff with us, Rod Lovett, Lee Cagle, Stevie Netherton, those guys, Kevin Lockhart.

1932
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:16,840
 Just what a staff we had over there.

1933
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:17,660
 Richard Armstrong.

1934
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:19,220
 I could just go on and on.

1935
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,200
 There's some legend coaches over there.

1936
01:33:22,380 --> 01:33:24,200
 I was very fortunate to be around those guys.

1937
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:25,900
 Bob Gotts was there at one time.

1938
01:33:25,980 --> 01:33:26,580
 Alan Creasy.

1939
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:29,720
 I mean, what a line of coaches that came out of there.

1940
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:33,220
 And I was very fortunate to be a part of a really good tradition there.

1941
01:33:33,700 --> 01:33:37,960
 But, hey, on the other side of it, I love what we got going here.

1942
01:33:39,480 --> 01:33:41,900
 Florence has got something special going on right now.

1943
01:33:42,060 --> 01:33:44,120
 And you can feel it in the locker room.

1944
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:46,300
 You can feel it around the school.

1945
01:33:46,420 --> 01:33:47,820
 You can feel it in the community.

1946
01:33:47,820 --> 01:33:51,360
 And, you know, we just got to keep our guys grounded, humble.

1947
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:54,060
 And next game up.

1948
01:33:54,180 --> 01:34:01,420
 And I heard Coach Saban on college game day earlier, before I left the house, he said, don't listen to the rat poison.

1949
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:09,440
 And our guys are getting a lot of rat poison, telling them how good they are and talking about these other teams are not that good, this and that.

1950
01:34:09,540 --> 01:34:10,580
 We got to worry about us.

1951
01:34:10,820 --> 01:34:12,960
 And that's what Coach Saban said on the show.

1952
01:34:13,480 --> 01:34:16,360
 It's all about us and who we're playing.

1953
01:34:16,460 --> 01:34:17,700
 That's what I'd be telling my team.

1954
01:34:17,780 --> 01:34:19,340
 So, I'm with him.

1955
01:34:19,660 --> 01:34:21,200
 Well, congratulations on the win.

1956
01:34:21,300 --> 01:34:25,100
 And best of luck this coming week against the Decatur Red Raiders and homecoming as well.

1957
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:25,460
 Okay, Coach?

1958
01:34:25,460 --> 01:34:26,200
 Thank you so much.

1959
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:27,960
 We're going to end it right here today.

1960
01:34:28,140 --> 01:34:30,140
 It's Florence that wins that one last night against Russell.

1961
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:34,980
 You'll hear that Florence-Decatur game this coming Friday night here on 93.9 The Score.

1962
01:34:35,140 --> 01:34:40,080
 Great coaches breakfast, incredible coaches from all over the northwest Alabama area.

1963
01:34:40,460 --> 01:34:42,600
 Thank you so much for the coaches being a part of it today.

1964
01:34:42,900 --> 01:34:44,620
 And we look forward to being with them next Friday night.

1965
01:34:44,700 --> 01:34:47,320
 Make sure you get out and support high school football.

1966
01:34:47,500 --> 01:34:48,300
 Great games today.

1967
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:51,700
 Alabama-Kentucky pregame at 11.30, kickoff at 2.30.

1968
01:34:51,940 --> 01:34:52,800
 Should be a good one.

1969
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:54,540
 Can Texas knock off Ohio State?

1970
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:57,620
 I think Ohio State is going to sneak in there and knock off Texas.

1971
01:34:57,760 --> 01:34:58,500
 That's my prediction.

1972
01:34:58,840 --> 01:34:59,980
 But, hey, I'm unusually wrong.

1973
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:01,440
 Should be a lot of fun games, though.

1974
01:35:01,660 --> 01:35:03,280
 Hope you enjoy the day of college football.

1975
01:35:03,660 --> 01:35:06,180
 That's going to do it for us, for our station manager, Greg Thornton,

1976
01:35:06,300 --> 01:35:08,320
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1977
01:35:08,660 --> 01:35:11,600
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1978
01:35:11,740 --> 01:35:13,060
 including my friend Wes Richardson.

1979
01:35:13,440 --> 01:35:15,340
 I'm Kevin Johnson saying have a great day.

1980
01:35:15,660 --> 01:35:16,820
 Enjoy the day of college football.

1981
01:35:16,820 --> 01:35:18,960
 And as always, I'll see you in church on Sunday.

1982
01:35:19,060 --> 01:35:19,580
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1983
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