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on both sides of the ball the often see how the defense really controlled the line of scrimmage from the get go the grid i mean i think that we were very pleased with what we got from both sides the football you know we were really focused on kind of trying to right the ship a little bit after you know underperforming as we talked about the week before against stoneham and we were really happy top to bottom i mean we were happy with our game planning and our scheme and we were happy with how the guys executed on office and we were happy with how the guys executed on defense and we were happy with how we executed on special teams we got a bunch of stuff to work on to get better going in arlington but this was definitely felt like a complete team effort sure and again let's get back it starts with you and your senior captain ben jones yeah really took over there early i mean you have i believe the office only had three plays in that first quarter two of them were fifty nine fifty four yard touchdown runs four for ben know just boy he gets through that initial line and the way he just puts on that second third fourth gear is yeah credible i mean he couldn't be caught i mean he had he had himself a great day and our offensive line had themselves a great day you know and battle be the first to say it you know we actually talked about it in practice today with one of our guys and saying you know you guys are the guys who do this and then goes i don't need to do anything you know we ran first series we got a first down maybe two and then we stopped them up and they punted and they got one first down and then they punted and then we ran a short speed out i pass and joviality caught it and got a first down out of it one about twelve yards and then we ran a power to ben and you know and so we came back in the second series after three and out and said let's call that power again see if it goes and i was just about to ask you so that literally because i went back and first of all i had the manager of getting to see it in garson but also thanks wanted to see how big the holes were and also i wanted to give credit you know you brought up the line i'm going to give credit to the line we did mention their names quite a bit you know during the broadcast we'll oh god i already forgot it was on oh we got well oh no like you ran the same play where you sent all the line over to the right and then you had a crowley from the right guard seattle to keep pulled over and picked up the blocker on the left side that i mean dollar is one of the powers one of the the great plays in football and i think everybody runs a version of power in one way or another there are lots of different ways to run it all ball are pretty much trying to do on that play is blocked down with the front side of the play so for running to the left the left tackle the guard and the center are blocking the gap down and the backside guard is pulling around for the front side linebacker and the fullback or the power back with depending on what set we're in is responsible for kicking out who we call the force who's the last man on the line of scrimmage and so what you should get is a fullback kick out going to your left and a pole or coming up for that front guy and everybody else block down this way and that goes right there and that's what he did and it was exactly the same play out the same four mission first and second touchdowns right so it means also the law deserves well you know ben jones want to give credit to the line that's great because they deserve all the know he's a state meets a printer in the two hundred so he's got great vertical speed and medford plays a very aggressive kind of attacking defense so you know there's a lot of benefit to that but the downside is if you don't make the play at the l o or one yard on the cross of it there's really nobody there and that's what we were experiencing is that linebackers were flowing up we were blocking guys we knew they were coming and we worked hard to teach our linemen ok that's going to adjust our blocking scheme a little bit made those adjustments practice it all week and then they gave it to us and we executed it and what ended up happening on all of his long touchdown runs is that those linebackers are flying up we're executing the blocks at the l o s at the line of scrimmage and then ben gets into the second level there's nobody there and then you have corner safety corner where corner safety safety corner last for guys and are wide receivers did a great job of blocking downfield turn and twenty five yard runs into sixty yard runs if those guys are thrown blocks fifteen twenty yards downfield a corner makes a little chip tackle and that's a thirty yard run instead of a seventy year runs those guys did a great job to yeah really you know like he said it was really all eleven guys working together to make was a place work for jones i mean at the fifty nine and fifty four yard runs in the first quarter and one thousand yard t d run in the second quarter and then there was a power by the way yeah it was yeah and i was i look back at that to the shorter version and then a fifty six yarder in the third quarter is fourth touchdown now on this one he goes down at the end of the play with with a cramp and it looks like a cramp in his what right the night before and really it starts two days before and making sure guys are getting enough potassium which is a big a big piece of staying cramp free got easier as coach bond says you got teacher nonna got your bananas and get your potassium in there but you know i think he just had a huge workload i mean he ran for three hundred thirty nine yards and five touchdowns and on top of that he played on the ball had a bunch of great tackles and was a great role defender for us and helped to shut down anton who is a talented kid so i think his body was just he was just gassed he was just tired cramped up sarkis astore r a t did a great job got out there with him i went sprint down out there with him because i was my heart was in my throat for a quick second there but he turned out to be ok he did turn out to be ok but at this point will finlay and i in the broadcast booth the doing what of course what broadcasters do yes here is a little bit of second guessing you're up twenty seven to six of the when you want to run balances dominating the game like that for showing no signs of coming back in this game even if you're off stood zip the rest down night and you know ben jones can be better served to be used to another day you know when you're when you're going to need him again ultimately so like i do we kind of joked about it did he come up to you and like begged to get back in the game at all or what was like what was the story or were you just going to put him back you know the heads up from my from circus circle i mean you know the twenty seven first of the twenty seven six game isn't you know as the end of third quarter i think that big long run so that's not out of reach you know i mean that's that's a to score game  things things can change you know and i've been in enough games where i you know i thought we had a thirty to six lead against reading on thanksgiving day when i was at stoneham and ended up losing a triple overtime so you know with six minutes left in the fourth quarter that's what our lead was and we ended up losing the game a triple a t so you know i've definitely been schooled that anything could happen at any moment that being said i mean we definitely felt like we had the game pretty well in hand at that point ben said four five simple words to me that got him back in the game which  was my brother got five yeah you know it's going to be something like that you know and he wanted he wanted to tie max max got five against salem in our first year then really badly wanted that fifth one  wasn't a guarantee we were going to get it but you know we figured if we were able to get him in for one more series we had a good shot to get him in the end zone and getting that for him and he deserved you want to know something coach i was at that salem you and i said you know ben wedeman probably shut you down today and he just goes my brother got five and i said ok and that's true he did and he did let's get you does try to get you back out and sarkis did a great job getting him back out for one more right but i guess my point would be this i mean if he was unable to come back hearing those words from ben you would have over i mean if there is a structural injury or natural injury and it wasn't just cramping up i mean he'd be done but for the day and if it was something like hammy is really tight and it feels like it might pole or i got a little twinge in my hip flexor records be dang the you know you know that's that's it that's our marquee back we need him but it wasn't he was healthy you know he just needed to hydrate and  get his legs back and he wanted in and who am i to i've never run for five touchdowns in my life so who is to tell somebody that they don't get a shot you know at that fifty one so we're really proud of ben he deserves it he's a hardworking kid he's going to keep working hard for us all season long he got a lot of kudos this week from the globe in the herald and all that and he deserved it and it was a great game yesterday i was trying to get the word i was trying to tweet out the word after the game i know a few other folks did as well to make sure i was one of the  but he also takes the unofficial yardage record with that because mcconnell said it i think against some of the last year at about two eighty six so this this gives ben the unofficial yardage record because we don't know for sure what the official yardage record twitter is hard enough but yeah it was about to say well anyway again this is the time out for sports talk to us todd cast with coach acumen we're talking about belmont's thirty four six win over medford in week two to even the other team's record at one in one you know we talked about jones we talked about the office of wine talk a little bit about i know you said this in the post game interview walk out christopher he wasn't asked to do a whole lot only he had to tempt five passes for five fifty four yards didn't do much but as you said you know even in doing a little he did a lot of yeah we had a bunch of stuff in there for cal this week you know cal and i talked earlier in the week going into medford you know he wanted to be after so on and especially and rightfully so kind of want to be more of a focal point of our offense and i agreed you know sort of sitting there saying you know we've got a great quarterback here we need to find better ways and better structures in our down structures to utilize him you know we felt and cal felt and we agreed you know we came into medford with a with a really great air attack plan for cal that we never really were forced to use i mean first play the game was a pass we had joviality for three we hit jay pollock on a great back shoulder fade for one but we never really felt that we had the need to put the ball in the air because we were chalk it up yards on the ground and killing clock and scoring touchdowns you know but cal we did a lot of things this week that gave room in our call structure and to adjust things on the off chance a lot because medford defense is very unpredictable and they do a lot of different things so really what we are giving cal was kind of a package and then he was going out and seeing what it is that we were looking at in terms of one of the three defenses that we knew we were probably going to see and then he was essentially call on the play out of the package versus the defense that we saw so we had to match what we had been working in wrapping with what he was seeing in game rep and so that's what i kind of meant by you know this is cal's i know he only you know for completions fifty yards like this is a kid who can throw for two hundred yards a game you know that doesn't sound like a lot but he did a lot in terms of controlling our off and and making good decisions and putting ban and the line in positions to be successful and then we asked him to throw the ball he did so really successfully which is great we wanted to see that and we're encouraged about what we're able to do going forward into the future with cal and our receiving corps who've now had not just a good week going into medford but another good week this week they're really clipping up the practice which is great and talk about the defense now i mean defense just was smothering lemony again can you control the l o s as it were trying to block a coach  mean you guys are really controlled i mean you know their their quarterback in two thousand couldn't really you know he was kind of struggling to be able to try to run out find some some open space and he just couldn't find it you guys were putting a tremendous amount of pressure up front and then you really kind of shut down foremost to to dave i mean coach he worked and put we put together a great scheme for it but you know coach is the guy us to go out in defense of practice and put that scheme into play and he came up with a bunch of it you know and we really i like to think we have a really good working relationship you know and he listens to me and i listen to him and sometimes he is right and sometimes i'm right and we were able to kind of put our heads together and create a great plan so it started with a great scheme and not to cut you off coach but as you said this is the first game or something like yeah they have no dave's doing a great job you know he's we coach these guys up the way we know we can coach them up you know and that's starts with scheme creation then it starts to filter in that scheme down through the staff you know and teaching your positional coaches what it is that they're going to have to be doing going into the week and then it's getting out onto the field and executing practice and it's going out there and really you know making it real you know it's taking the schematic and making it something physical which whatever line of work you're in that's always a challenge to take what exists on paper and translated into reality is always something that's difficult to do and then you got a call and you know that was i'll say it david here watching that was always my concern with the young guy first year coming in his instincts are great i mean he's just got great instincts he called a great game we gave him the game ball in the locker room i was really special for me because my first  against medford two years ago dave presented me with the game ball so it was really cool to be able to turn around and hand him one because he allowed six points and like seven first downs maybe throughout the entire game something like that he did a great job the defense was physical and hard hitting we knew that if we could hit this kid antwan that he's not a big fan of that you know he likes to get out into space he likes to pull the loo out there and we knew that if we disallowed him from that and  really focused on our outside linebackers in decent ferdinand kind of crunching down on him played some games with our and controlled the interior then we would force them to do things that they didn't want to do and that's what we felt ended up happening that they got away from some stuff that they probably that they ran with success against revere came out and said these guys are ready for this set revere wasn't ready for it these guys are ready for it and you know they're schematically ready for it let's check out of it and they check into a bunch of other stuff and that's what we wanted we were more concerned about the first set that they were running and where they're just kind of running the quarterback up on the double tied off the line getting three or four yards a play you know we were david i was saying they're going man i can't wait for them to get out of this because i hate this set and i do it's a wash it's a muddy set and then we scored and they were out of it and they didn't go back to which work for us because we hate the fact that someone who's going to fill a hole and you know didn't play a lot last year but you have acted more things from and you got a little bit of that that night i also want to say that i love the symmetry and how you were able to complete the symmetry she said with coach prayer you gave him the ball against medford when he gave you the ball against liberty liberty large so that you're in the large the middlesex middlesex liberty is what was the middlesex large but instead of calling the middlesex large in the middlesex small they renamed them to liberty and freedom so ok you know i will i'm still getting used to those names i'm still getting used to the fact that arlington is in the middlesex league because the last time i was doing coach's interviews they were in the greater boston the g i bill but yes so anyway they have been in the league for a while now and they've kind of in the previous two matchups again in your  coach they've only have you know forty nine thirteen two years ago here at harris field then at arlington lasted a beach of forty two to fourteen but this year they're coming into the game owing to a different look for their head coach ryan gendron who was in great team last year alec coleman at the quarterback position kid like steve les coast on the off chance a defensive line they had three phenomenal senior often seven defensive linemen who i think are all playing college football right now and they had a kid who he got hurt after playing us with about three chords the way through the year who probably would have been in the running for middlesex m v p if he had played a full season he was really good they don't have those guys this year that doesn't mean that they're not a dangerous team and own two doesn't mean that they're not a dangerous team either i mean we're looking at it and saying everybody is a dangerous team you know we have to be as driven as we were to be medford last week in order to beat arlington ryan's a good coach he's a young coach too i mean he's you know i'm in my third year he's in his second a little bit younger than me but we're both kind of scrapping and fighting to create our programs and to build something in our respective towns and it's made even more personal by the fact that their defensive coordinator is i was in his wedding is a good friend of mine john curley is their new d c this year so  it's always fun to go head to head with curls they have a couple of things going on they've got a good running back they've got a good wide receiver out there number four don't know his name and they got a good tight end and number thirteen don't know his name so they have a couple of things going on our fence alou there and they're not as big and strong and aggressive on the interior line as they were last year they got some young guys there some soft morrison juniors planned you know and so we think that if we go out there and execute a great game plan and execute and work there will be successful that being said we have got to do those things you know so not to again be kind of bella check in about it as he always says but you know we got to go out there got to do our jobs got got to work hard and if we do those things we will be successful all right well we are starting to wind down we're in the final minutes here and so obviously you know keys to the game just want to keep playing the way you did you know in the but when i start again on film it most definitely was a kid put his hat right on the football and just blocked out not much johns you can do there is just a good well placed to control turnovers move the ball effectively make good decisions and keep the defense rolling you know that's that's a big part of our successes is dave get in there and keep in this defense going and they're juiced up i mean they're they're fired up yeah and you're getting so you know great game last week good luck this week as we start to wind down here of course what's a credit to our success here on the it's a tough question on the clock i would i would say that that we live in a country that allows people to express their first amendment rights however it is that they see fit to express their first amendment rights to express themselves provided that the speech is not obscene or incite inside full of violence which i don't see kneeling during the national anthem is doing so while i understand that a lot of people see it as a mark of disrespect or a sign of disrespect towards our national self or our national identity  reserve my own personal opinions on that matter this is not necessarily in my capacity as a football coach the venue to express those but i will say that i hold the first amendment is pretty sacred so if a player  team informed me that he was planning on taking a knee that's his prerogative to do so and as an american i am in no position to tell him how he should express himself or his political views nor my you know i can't order somebody to take an either or if somebody wants to stand there and put their hand over their heart like i do and salute the flag before the game then they can do that so that hasn't come up yet is an issue since this capitol news which is again i sold now believe that players come up and ask you about this my answer was my answer was the same i said you can express your first amendment you can utilize your first amendment right however you choose to see fit i am not going to tell you you can't express yourself as an american because to me that is absolutely the most un american thing that you can do there is nothing more un american in my mind than telling somebody they can't utilize their voice but what i also said is be aware that that is going to draw a bunch of heat and it's to create a bunch of stuff around it that is going to take away from the opportunity of some of our guys to just go out there and play football so i think those kids obviously they didn't so they thought about it and decided that that wasn't in their best interest at that time whether or not that resurfaces i don't know i mean there's just so much that's going on and swirling around this controversy and again i say as a as a mixed man as a brown i say as a brown man in america it's it's a very complex issue and it's very difficult to express oneself on emotionally in that regard so that was a tough question hollywood yeah it was yeah we're on the two shot there coach good luck this weekend darlington as we play begins on the all important league schedule and we will see you next time next week here on the cast until then