yes we'll have to like get him get him going again but we should also get some other folks involved anybody can tweet us again the hash tag is q s four q on twitter get your questions and you must have questions for the coach he's been here all y book searching for time out for sports talk coach it is a good to see you once again and to be back as always here we are where is the season going week number six absolutely fly and it always does this you know camp kind of goes slow and then you know first week feels like it just drags out there and then all of a sudden you blink and you know we're in the last two weeks of the league schedule and it's just flying by right and right you talk about the league schedule of course now with the way the the eastern mass playoffs and everything working you've got the winners bracket in the losers bracket basically by the time he gets a hollow when you're in playoff mode which of course was never the case in the past so yes so the season's quickly going by we haven't seen you of course in harris field in a couple of weeks but we're looking forward to having you back this week we are excited to be home let me tell you we're excited to get back to harris no place like home and of course we'll have the broadcast for you on the b m c channels as well jeremy missouri in a loss at reading this past week i know you even have been saying all season coach there's no such thing as moral victories but this was a team that had scored you ninety eight nothing the last two years yes and this year you put up twenty one points against  end and you played a very competitive first half so why don't we let's start with the first half of the things that went well including the first play from scrimmage ben jones rips off a seventy yard todd yeah always a good way to start a great way to start the day you know we knew that we wanted to try to get our spread run package going a little bit and try and spread readings the offense a little bit and they definitely gave us what we wanted in that first first quad set and removed both their their route both their outside linebackers it was and then you know that to minutes later he's like yourself you know i don't mean to laugh i'm not you know two minutes late you know all the great to serve that first play you're up seven off and you got a lead gets reading then to play you know two minutes later you guys are are down and  for what second time in two weeks you gave a punt return as well for a time yeah well i mean you know right running is obviously is a team that has some office of weapons and they were a little banged up when they play us played us but you know they're still reading and we just kept kind of saying that you know they're still they're still reading they role defensively they kind of over rolled on emotion a little bit you know corey took the ball right up to see gap and ran it seventy yards for a touchdown so you know we get seventy yards from scrimmage from ben on the first off ends of play from scrimmage i think they got seventy seventy four from from corey on the their second office of play from scrimmage so you know obviously that's not the way that we want to start defensively we think they were a better defense than that they did some things kind of physicality wise i think for us that at the outside linebacker position we were we were getting pushed around a little bit and it's a bad position to get pushed around when you're when you stand on the line of scrimmage yeah now the other thing is i'm trying to follow a little bit of the the scoring so you know i notice you guys tend to score in seven point intervals but your opponent you're reading you like to score an eight point interval so i have to ask a question here coach i think in one of three things here either one reading doesn't have much of a kicking game or a kicker at all b again when we talk about all that stuff from last year and just all the stuff the swirling around and stuff that swirling around from other people it's not really swirling around from us i mean we're just trying to go out there and rap and practice and you know so we had a good handshake and good conversation and then we broke to our respect sides and you know went to work i saw the kicker warming up a little bit you know he's no in cadigan they've got a bunch of other things that they do really really well so they might not be confident their ability to consistently get one and they have an o yards with their big quarterback you know this guy's just he's forward lean all day every day you know so they like running them up inside run a little speed option out outside the box if they have to and i think they feel they can you know make make six point eight easily and so they're going to do that sure why being right i mean if they're scoring it you know it seemed like they weren't they were having a lot of success doing it so i guess you're right i mean that are better to get two points than one i suppose you know they were they they were really good executing tim two point conversion wise we knew that they were going to do that we knew they like to go for two and but they're a tough team to stop in short yardage and they showed that against us and executed us in that in that particular facet of the game now one of the things coach you must really enjoy  know after you give up those two scores you know three minutes into the game you're down sixteen to seven then you guys come back and you put together a strong you're moving the ball and you end up you know cal gets the touchdown pass to take pollock so you know by the end of that quarter you're only down by two points and you know you're right back in that yellow and you know it could have been after two big plays like that that the team could have you know you know maybe felt the pressure some of the players who were on the team the last couple of years might have remembered some of those games and said oh no here we go again but you guys showed some nice resilienc bouncing back and going down the field and getting a touchdown i mean i think one of the great positives of our team and one of the great growth areas of our team is again our kind of our ability to scuse me stay within ourselves and just continue to continue to rap you know and  whatever it is that happens you know you hear us on the sideline ask the question all the time what's the score and the answer is zero zero you know every time we want to play score zero zero you know we're not thinking about the broader context of what's going on and it's a lesson that we learned in year one you know there's a lot a lot of negatives that come from having to kind of try to keep going out there and slogging away and slogging away and slogging away like we did in year one for seven weeks before a win but one of the positives that comes from it is that those guys who are now seniors were software's that  even the kids from last year were they get really accustomed to just kind of working to control what they can control and just keep working keep working keep working keep working and that's what our guys did you know and  so for reading to come up and two scores and then we three and outed were unable to move the ball had to punt they take the punt for a touchdown another special teams touchdown which has been a running issue for us throughout the entire season and we're working week and week out to try and try and fix it and make it better you know so for us to get back on the field there and execute i think a seventy yard drive and take the ball the way down the field and chew up a bunch of the rest of the first quarter was was a really positive drive for us and we mixed it up a lot on that drive did a lot of different things and r ball and ran the ball out we've gone the jump on and offsides got a little bit help with a penalty i think on a pass interference and and then we ran a nice little goal line quick slant to pollock in the corner tried to jump it and couldn't bring jake down and he tried about twelve yards so for the end zone was great touchdown great ball i'll just get back to the punt return really quick as you brought it up i mean do you think it's you know especially the last two weeks having given up punt returns for touchdowns is that do you think it's a breakdown on your special teams or could it also be some credit to the opponent that they have that skill guy back there who just knows how to make the right moves they have a talented i mean well yeah they had that they have a talented guy back there i mean that was geiger to i'm pretty sure and he's a talented back and he's a talented runner but it has more to do with our effort level on ponte cover and that's what those guys heard they heard it in film i mean we slowed the film down and the plant land the seat for that particular print punt hit the deck started scooting back about ten or fifteen yards and i think our entire cover unit which this is a never do situation all thought that he was going to down it and he didn't it popped up on one of the bounces and it brought in the basket and he's talented athlete and so everybody kind of throttle down and checked out of the playing in all of that and that's a huge mental mistake special teams and you know we really tried to stress it to these guys until you got to do what you're taught to do on specials you gotta keep your lanes on specials you gotta keep your ending point on specials and you have to exert maximal effort on special teams or bad things will happen it's not if they will happen if you're not putting everything that you are into everything that you do on specials and that particular part return that's exactly what happened we clocked out they clocked in and they took it seventy yards for dutchman so all right  will go past that now you're down to at the end of the first quarter you guys trade touchdowns although of course there are eight for your seven yet so now they're up three you guys get a score with about a minute twenty to go in the in the half nice drive he couldn't come up with it and then we figured we'd try to run an option pitch and tried it out there and saw that coach blanchard rolled the safety over to the field side to the strong side which is where we were going and he probably was going to sit right there for the pitch so i came screaming down a called timeout and then decided we were going to run toss to the weak side and hope they give us the same set that they gave us when they came out before the timeout and they did so we got a nice weeks i tossed there and were able to get that in for the touchdown and i was a that was a tough call i was sitting in that hall and you know chatting with the guys on the headset and trying to come up with a decision and you know it's that's definitely one of those things that if you haven't done it yourself you don't you don't really know what it feels like to kind of be sitting there and you're on the you're on the four yard line and you've got you know you need this score at the end of the half it's third down two of your two of your go to red zone plays haven't come up with points and now you've got to say ok you really got to think this thing out and you have about twenty five seconds to do it so we're really happy with that call and i say me i really mean me and dave and coach avery up in the box and coach christophe in the box to a great job and called up a good one and got six right well isn't but isn't that like christmas eve for a coach really i mean those like you say those the you know that that short time frame that yeah have to kind of assess the situation really quick and try to come up with the right call yeah i mean that's definitely one of the things that i've had to do a lot of work as a head coach you know that guys are doing and sometimes i do a good job and sometimes i'm still a youngster and i screwed up so you know i don't know if christmas is the i mean i guess you could call it christmas eve if there's a you know certain percentage chance you're going to get coal in your stocking when you wake up in the morning because it's a great call i got six in the end zone a weak side toss but if they you know if they spark out to tackle it for a three hour loss i'm a go so it's you know what i'm thinking of your coach more of the you like the excitement know kind of that rush there or whatever you know just you know in the pit in the pressure of the moment yeah and you're just as happy as you might be like you know christmas eve or christmas yeah i think i mean you know after the after you're really psyched up i think that you know in the moment again coaches we try to do the same thing that we're teaching our players to do and just stay calm and stay within the moment you know i sing the myself a lot when i'm on the field random songs you know i think blue moon was the song a choice that i really had blue moon yeah standing oh yeah having that to myself and then the guys in the booth were talking to me and i was talking back to them and we were able to get a good call and so you know in that moment you're trying to stay calm and analytical and process it doesn't do anybody a whole lot of good to get worked up  but after you know make a good call and you score you're you're excited you feel like you did your job and i think anytime you you know on a football field you do your job it feels good well and you know plus what else do you get an opportunity to kind of you can't really simulate that opportunity  has to happen in the game so it's really it's an opportunity for you to kind of really hone your focus and and you know what you do because you can't there's no other place you can get like i'm like the players you can get back to saw week you can really practice that mean we practice it we practice that situation to a little bit i mean like in our in our team structures you know we we very rarely let our team structure go against our scout team to the point that like ok this guy broke off a forty five yard run and he's in for the touchdown you know we always want to try to take our guys inside the red zone so that we can get used to when our packages are in the red zone some teams do a full goal line period we don't devote a separate period just to do and goal line what we will do is make sure that every possession or at least two out of three full team possessions that we try to get every day in the team section a practice live team section a practice that at least two or three possessions involved playing inside the ten and coach a does a great job you know we split our team into what we call a managed team which is all scripted so we have our script of what we're calling a coach pereira's running the defense scout defense for me and then we have what we call live and that's kind of coach pete trying to channel their defensive structures a little bit and you know we don't i don't know what he's calling he doesn't know when i'm calling and we go against each other a little bit and we get competitive about it and try to replicate a little bit of that competitive atmosphere for our guys but for us too you know so that so that i can get used to saying hey i called something and it didn't work or i got a penalty it's thirteen fourteen i got  something up where am i going well ok so here you are you guys are down twenty four twenty one with a look what little under ninety seconds left in the first half yeah you know again you've gotten some momentum back with the touchdown but you know i guess the analogy in baseball would be you score and you're what you need to do is you've got to shut the other team out in the next half yeah now you know you scored first at the beginning of the game they get sixteen quick points within a couple minutes yet here you score to get back in the game talk about what happened in the last ninety seconds  they ran a wheel and we were in great coverage ben ben was in good coverage and corey threw a beautiful ball it was just a great it was a great throw and catch you know i can't ask ben to be in better man coverage and that we had a little bit of a safety assistance over the top and corey just dropped it in there so definitely a little bit of a deflate for us you know we were excited to get the chance to go into the locker room with a three point game  we felt that obviously that would put us in a better position for the second half but i think the you know we were still pretty fired up you know i mean yeah they scored and it's a ten point game or an eleven point game but i think for us we're sitting there saying we've got a football game here and you know this time last year was forty two to nothing it was thirty eight to nothing or whatever it was and it wasn't a game and that was our goal you know it was like let's let's get a game here let's give these guys a game and if we can create a game then anything is possible that's always been our motto you know what's be competitive and when you're competitive anything can happen and we're competitive for twenty two minutes you know we weren't competitive for forty four you know and that obviously was the bigger deal and so know what basically happened in the second half you think they just made the necessary adjustments because obviously you're often struggled you couldn't score in the second half and then they get a couple more touchdowns to but the game away yeah i mean authentically we had a really we had a really nice drive down to about the twenty and then it stalled out you know we had a play call where we pulled ben out for a second to give him a blow and this was on me i'm still kicking myself about this and we pulled ben out and then i went to run a toss which is ben's play i mean he's a good toss back but i left my spell back in there and i didn't make the personnel switch you know and it's no knock against my spell guy he's a good back it's just you know we have depth charts for a reason and we didn't have the guy that we want to get the ball in that toss that put us in third down and they were able to dial up a couple of good pressure situations we weren't able to complete the third down throw and then we had a great opportunity on fourth down and paula came down with it he was about this this far out of bounds on the on the catch and that would have put us on like the four so that you know that drive gets in maybe we're talking about a little bit of a different game defensively they kicked our butt in the second half they out physical to us you know they definitely are physical to us a little bit and they are they a bigger team it was at the crease so they've got some they've got some big guys in some places and i mean i we're not scared i don't i don't say that to say that we're heard of anybody that we're not a physical team or we're not bigger stronger and they like that we're good physical football  team they out physical doesn't their power game a little bit they're just beating us up especially at the defensive end position the fuse what we call our fuse and was getting beat up a little bit our outside linebackers were getting beat up a little bit and they found speed option which they found in the first half and we made an adjustment to it but they were running it off a motion and they came out in the second half and they were in speed option to the weak side again without the motion so that the correction that we had made in the locker room didn't apply to what they were doing we had to make another correction on the fly but that's a play that if you don't have mocked up real well can go for big yards and it did and that was to me that was really the the the play that cost us the competitiveness of the game was weakside speed  they got us pretty good on that one so i guess in conclusion then what would what do you take most out of out of that game just the fact i mean the fact you guys were able to compete for half with them where you hadn't done that before so again you know again we talked about well what do you take what are the positives you take i mean i think every game that we play whether it's a win or loss you know we've got we've got positives and we've got negatives you know there we could win sixty seven to nothing i mean we came out of medford a great game thirty four six and saying these are the things that we have to fix we've got a lot to clean up scuse me again so you know we're not it's not kind of an automatic that we got beat up a little bit in the second half or saying there's nothing good that comes out of that and everything's bad in the same time we saw a bunch of stuff that we had to to fix the positives are then i think it gives our guys confidence our coaches confidence our program confident we can ball with anybody i mean that's the twentieth ranked team in the state you know and we didn't back down from him we didn't run away from him we came out there and we gave him a good football game and i think coach fury would probably agree with that you know and he'd say they played a better game and they did it you know but we came out there were game a good football game and we hit him hard and we played good you know generally physical defense  i thought our offensive line was much improved from the week before and we had thrown the gauntlet down for those guys that they really needed to to step up as a unit we weren't satisfied with their performance against wilburn they gave us a much better day against reading if we play if we play woburn on the off chance of line like we played reading and i think we're having a much we're very different conversational spot that we're in right now but my mom you say if somebody were candid nuts we'd all have a merry christmas and that's to christmas references but do it well it's coming up man it's almost allo in and that means thanksgiving is right around the corner and then it's christmas and i love christmas because my that's my that's my time so i mean we had some we had some positives coming out of that you know the negatives of course where we really got to shore up our outside linebacker play we got to we got to shore up our defensive end play and that's been a focus this week moving a couple of guys around see and seeing if somebody will take there and just focusing on being more physical on the edge because we have some guys who can do that in adam and dillon and decent on ferdinand who've been great all year and they just kind of had a had an off night well again with so let's look now ahead to this game i mean and it's there's a lot of interesting angles here you guys are to win three  league play winchester to win for their one to win league play as well when you look at some of the common opponents you guys have played them both rather similarly last year you beat these guys at their place for your very first middlesex league win and the first league win for them rogers in like about three years and also an interesting position now this year because you have a chance to win your second league game which is something you haven't done yet you know we you know you didn't win any  one last year that kind of build upon that this looks like a golden opportunity and it looks like just based on records and everything i mean it looks like a pretty even match up although why they sure are gave lexington a run for their money that had weak undefeated lexington the team that's going to win the middlesex league liberty division and they if it hadn't been for a failed two point conversion and they might have pulled off a huge upset would have been a big one i'm in winchester is a good football team and they got a great quarterback kidd leon fitzpatrick back there you played for them last year is a year older you're better he's he's a very south frail a key quarterback like the lexington quarterback he likes to boogie around they'll run their own fence threw him a little bit a lot of zone law to draw some option he'll get out of there and throw the ball i scramble he's got a pretty good arm ill throw the ball downfield you know on i think we're two pretty evenly matched programs you know just based on what we've seen on film and what we've seen throughout the season and records you know minuscule football they don't really you know they don't really mean anything just in terms of who can win on a friday night you know winchester is going to going to come out ready to play they want the playoffs they want to win to win the league and we want the playoffs and we want to into in the league so i don't know much but i know that this is this is going to be something of a dog fight and that these are two teams that both want this game very very badly and they're both well coached football teams that have had some success and some disappointments over the course of this year our stories are kind of similar a little bit going in this game so it's going to be a good one if you're if you're not doing anything friday night coming down to harris at  few weeks so i mean to be nice to get the big crowd down there and you know you guys are doing something you have you know this being your third season as the coach i mean you know you said one of the goals of the beginning of the year was to be competitive and yeah be in every game and you guys have so far you guys are  knock on wood so far and i mean one of the big things that you know i don't think i took this from from bob used to say you know we want to play meaningful games in november we're taking it one step at a time so one of the things we said was we want to play meaningful games in october you know we don't want to get to the end of our league schedule and have our future already be decided and one of the things i'm really proud of in terms of our ability to be competitive our ability to get a league win against you know some teams who've won some games at least in medford who's getting us points is is to say this game matters here we are in week six and this game matters win lose or draw a week seven matters too so you know now we've got the opportunity to close our league schedule with two games that matter beyond just pride in the league you know one of our team goals was to make the playoffs this year so we control our destiny in that regard we have an opportunity to make that happen for ourselves our kids are very acutely aware of that our coaches are aware of that and we're also working at the same time to try and not not to let it you know disrupt our routine and our day to day approach to doing our jobs because we've got to stay level and within ourselves and execute our game plan so i'm jacked up i'm excited i do you  is wants to hang out with his buds night you know he's ok and i get in i can understand he wants to he wants to live the atmosphere a little bit i think and i mean again if you haven't been down to harrah's for a home game this year is there something different in the water down there and todd you've been there for a couple of of a for both i think at home games and that miss here is just great i mean you know we talk about the band obviously they're phenomenal but the town is out you know and the kids are out in the student section is out and the place is just rock and and i know it's going to be rock n again and for me man does that get me excited just because where we were when we began it when we began this thing i remember looking up and seeing you know fifteen people up there in year one and where we're  so far beyond that right now that it's just great to see and i can't thank our community and our student body enough for making that happen yeah well it's a look at looking forward to it really quick question i'll throw out a q s for q here   we sometimes get to see him and hang out with them a little bit after games him in our he in our to us a dorian who's also the director i think of the music program and the assistant director of the band you know the thing i'll say about i don't know what's about paul and about argo and it goes for so many of the other educators over a poem on high that i've just been really blessed to get to interact with is a they're so good at their job they're just so good at it you know how they how they work their kids and teach their kids and just the amount of fun that that band has there and they're and they're educators for the for the right reason you know they're there to expose their students and performers to music but also to expose them to life and they're just you know so positive and so fun loving and so knowledgeable you know i have so much respect for those guys and i draw a lot of you know kind of wh we try to do on the football field you know there's a lot of parallels between athletics and music so you know i try to draw some of their take take a couple of pages out of their playbook out of their out of their scores would be more a pleasurable analogy and and execute that season right now so and we're going to have the game broadcast for you on the b m c channels as well coach good luck to spank you thank you very much we will be back to win this again next week and hopefully talking about a win hope so i hope