cumin certainly is beginning your number five as matters head coach feeling optimistic the team can improve on last season's to win one finish with a lot of new faces and a very positive energy jet yet tight in its air is exciting you know the first game of the yeah the optimist optimism brains and over the place everybody's on everybody's excited when you look at these two teams and they're actually two veteran teams milton has eighteen seniors batman is bringing back twenty two seen is this yeah so if anything's going to happen on the belmont side i don't improve on that i'm season from last year i think this is going to be the year for them and this is a year five of the coach q regime the first four seasons under coach cumin a record of thirteen and thirty one the two and nine was the lead point hopefully will remain the low point in his coaching tenure as the  elected to receive and the cello is just about ready to hit the latter le fuel looked at the coverage if that one found that nothing had a great chance or recovering the ball instead the writers have excellent field position to get things started here in twenty eighteen rotters a with their third different starting quarterback in as many years  same issues with belmont as far as size goes and his team is built on speed and there are a number sixteen i believe is a defensive back and an off fences and the running back is the fastest kid in the state who runs a four for forty and i would be one of their captains that joseph played freshman footbath of the matters i guess kind of left the program for bad but he's back for his senior year and coach you happy about that it's going to be a sneak from the quarterback avery are now and it looks like he should have enough for and some other a lot of other positive qualities from our know that to coach you gushed about we'll get to those in a moment but first o'connell gets stood up at the line for for no gain yeah when we i was talking to coach he last week or a season preview  cast he mentioned the out of the adjectives used to describe our no he said he was talented versatile tremendously calm and has kind of a very quiet confidence and almost a cockiness he comes off as maybe aloof if you didn't know he brought to his the eye and back to throw for the first time he sure is aren't always looking deep and it is the tackle pinning milton back somewhere deep to start this first drive and again special teams is another area of emphasis when i was talking with coach q last week i used trial going about so you want to improve on the special and it's the fifth one we didn't get to yet so there you go see and we got in and catch at five singer captains have been mentioned and i would assume we're going to be prominent parts of this team and contributing heavily throughout the season there's a first intended flag jumped off side and a threat would be incomplete let's see if they were ciaran offside deficit neutral zone infraction but whether it might have drawn belmont offside remains to be seen let's see if the officials as important strength he just missed on that pass the receiver had some separation at the end and he just missed on that long ball seven fourteen to go here in the opening order and on a first down in a big number sixteen or a rock or you haven't really looked at that but he's awfully quick and picks up ten yards on that first nearly how quick he got around that corner if you don't get if you back down if that defense is bad bad stout and fast for the fade he's going to get around that with them are rotters and i believe i think that might happen might be on either twenty two or twenty seven down on the field couldn't quite make up a number and you know top i'm going to be giving a field hasn't been able to get on the field because of the stress fracture but she's getting much better where the player who got it looks like it's number twenty seven mitchell pereira and he's going to head over to the sideline holding his le was a pile up down the inside of the ten yard line and it's going to remain milton ballard believe a spot at the belmont nine yard line will be should be right up the first  it is very it is very close to a first down what's u is the deep back and it's just one back and there is no fullback in this formation the trip's laughed and it's going to be a handoff to a connell up the middle and he'll get a couple yards down about the forty two yard  and that's what happened with bad ones as they what they were driving a battle they're actually driving the bad but then they got to turn over turn over and lexington just because on the film score on the side of you know it's like you lose control of the game and that's the same thing that shouldn't happen against a high powered fast team like milton they're going to come back to hunt concha and hurts even more that they were able to score on the very next play after the turnover it looks bad to have to be some kind of mix up and coverage has acted  mil winkler's point after is good two minutes forty seconds to go here in the first quarter sam harris field then it is now milton fourteen belmont seven pracon remember the stats on that draft just in case you want to know you gotta see how they come back now how are they going to handle the adversity restart what happened last year a couple of china lives and they lose control of the game what are they doing now i like the way they stat of the game where they're ran the ball ran the ball around the ball soften up the secondary and then added this game at the beginning of the first quarter the stands at that fair the fair and up now we've got a pretty good crowd going on here right now you know it it's interesting i'll just make this a footnote a lot of games across easter says last year he put a lot of onus on other teams shortcomings on himself and his fellow players right because they didn't really you know there was a lot of ownership and there were i guess sometimes egos in play and he says this year's team he feels rejuvenated because there's right away and he was able to you know put up a big first down on first and ten i'm start trying to figure out that penalty at inter thought i'm not quite sure what happened on that one well you know now that that means the people in for unsolved mysteries that i don't t penetration rebel around by bill caudel that's been the biggest problem i think on both sides when it when the facts get in the space the defensive players haven't been able to wrap up and get them down before they get their momentum going get going down the field if you don't know too much about milton's football program that we forgive you know they play in the bay state conference to says a question i'm game for the modest start off the season nelson just a little bit south of a only touchdown yeah that pass kind of came out a little wobbly it didn't look like it had much of a chance so we're coming up now with another big third down play third and twelve from the wall with a thirty five yard line thirty six line of milton and i want to see what happens i don't know maybe my opinion maybe they might be in toronto and that's what i was about to say i mean given where the but this is that area particularly in high school where you you kind of you don't come up you know looking for necessarily a twelve close to the first down comes up maybe about a yard short but a nice piece of running again from a rock i joe said coach to i think very nice he's pleased to have that the two headed monster back in his run game kind of back a gain of six there now with the mets a nineteen with under eight and a half minutes to go here in order number two brodeur trying to take the lead battling the turnover on the kickoff return by the wildcats beautiful night here here is bill by the way i just fell out of the humidity broke just in the nick of time it felt like it was tropical seek for like three months time i love that one i think i'm one of the few people the line so they couldn't have a touchdown that's what happened i mean you get a turnover like that is killing it's a kill and that happens now you give me the ball back at the thirty thirty three thirty four yard line with plenty of time to go over the half so you know they could come right out and make that you know turn that around into another touchdown yeah the matters are getting you know points off that turnover is really it's kind of disappointing to say the least it could be a turning point in the game let's see mcmenamin going deep on first down down the field in his in and out of you know good let's see what the defense does not because the belmont defense has to make a play where they have to stop on here and get the ball back and see if they can make up for what happened on the end there where they had the opportunity deep in milton territory and now the wanting to like spell him from time to time you know change of pace and you know the other thing you have it your play is kill you know connelly is one of the senior captain right right i was a captain versus now joseph the senior but he wasn't here last year and you know so you've got you responsibilities and really wants to be more i guess just more hands on you know you've also got some other coaches that are still kind of learning as they are when they're in a coaching developments in this game with two forty five to go in the forest as you can see a difference  outstanding producer of b h a sports t v coverage and to night doing what directing and a camera work and graphics everything now you see that's part of the broadcast year again rod is trying to improve back here it is  know when you know coach q when he came here is for season three goals finished with a winning record make the playoffs beat out of town in turkey day now one of those in so far you know in the first four years sadly you know he's all for yes he hasn't done any of those things yet but maybe this will be the team that you know even with a lot of new faces and maybe the expectations are you know maybe you know some folks might not necessarily think on paper that this might be the team to do it but maybe they will because like you said there best player the battle and the use this time of the game and something like this is on the line him on the sidelines but you ran by a couple of guys going up towards midfield and you saw how quick he can be if you don't contain something tells me in the spring with charles probably runs a lot of tra that because i don't think the coaching staff right now has run a confidence in his defense to stop the bad want to fence well he knows his team strength comes from his offense and so he wants to soften south they're making plays and right now they're five looks like he's got to get inside the belmont eighteen to get a first so it's third in a short five or a long for about the twenty chew and mcmanaman in the shotgun syracuse university and he yes he is going i write as i have my model and he's out taking classes at the new house communications he wants to become a broadcaster full time we got to work to color a couple times when we're doing play by play a couple seasons ago and i and here is mike macsween koran to attempt to point the left foot is our little bit of a line drive at the prettiest looking chick in the world but it got the job done as the kick is good and the teams come back at field with four twenty seven to the start of their own thirty three for twenty one to go here in the third quarter that's a twenty one belmont twenty opening night of the twenty eighteen high school football season here in eastern massachusetts and the weather conditions again there the humidity broke just in time  exactly what happened to hopefully that's also we've got a clock stoppage with three fifty one to go here in the third quarter is turning out to be a very entertaining game todd belmont is not they're not scared of big bad milton who's one of the you know one of the top programs in the state that consistently in the top fifteen the top ten lies you said last year there were a number two team in the state in the division that conference and i saw one for belmont to hang in there liked as with three fifty one to go and only be down by a a matter of an extra point being blocked which i hope doesn't come back to haunt them but i saw and for them to come back after milton scored they keep answering the call which they didn't do that  were also great leaves for that team last year but it was just frustrating and it seemed like at a point when the game got away from home i'm not going to say they quit because i don't think i have a saw them quick but they just didn't know they just weren't good enough  now this is a completely different team from what we saw last elect i said a lot has to do with twenty two seen his honest new energy definitely coach he was talking about that in our preseason conversation  you're on the air so even though i was you know the pass was incomplete you saw that a b i don't know what to do he was right he didn't panic the rush was on he was outside the pocket he didn't try to force anything and a chance on a turnover he just threw the bat out of bounds where no one else could catch it and that's the confidence of a kid with his first class in stock at this level and and you look at these great teams like milton like brockton like ever have feet of programs every i don't now belmont with opposite my guys that has a feeder program and in the middle school not so that he's getting kids who were in the game before they get to this point and if i'm not mistaken played for his father as a freshman and you could see obviously that he took his coaching well because this kid is playing at a very high level for someone who is playing as far as possibly football and the best part with regards to it's a coach  anything go going downhill you know again talking with coach q before the season he said i wanted things he was saying says we want to be disciplined we want to work our butts off but most of all we want to have fun trying to make everything fun again you were talking about it you know earlier last year at times particularly when you finished with nine hasn't much fun and i get frustrated after a while you get five because football is a commitment it's a seven day a week commitment track you know for months out of the year and if you're not totally committed the results are going to be the about pressure on himself as as anybody you know i know he brought to it to get his first winning season as a head coach and well you know it starts with the first game you want get up to a good start to the season and not being able to pin someone down and everybody getting great field position great static position at parama forty to the forty you know right in that matter you look at a play like that you had a fumble by that guy back there receiving the ball he picks it up files down but forced to part with the baddest deep in their own territory didn't get a single yard and so hunter trout will be back doing the punting although i have to say that rick i you kind of inspired me joe i kind of like the recovery like you know if he starts taking players to school would make him move stuff we could say you  if we had seen him tonight i would've said we wait for two suns but we do that was his first carry of the night so both joseph and o'connell getting that playoff is now second down economy back in the game with six forty at the same time you've got to trash go for what got you to spoil right now the biggest concern is there is a broader player injured on the field and things have gotten very quiet here at harris field the  timeout is going to be called i did not see what happened on that play and of course i'm just saying gee if the size of the player on the field my fears this might be senior captain jake parsons number it's it's out of control sometimes as far as hitting and it doesn't matter what level you're on these injuries can happen it can be sometimes it can be just be so tough to watch kids the shot and with a lineman you have to one college football career there are d one coaches that are looking at him especially given that size i mean he's got he's got big time college football size for sure and then he moves well  bat mounts among you know in many as recently retired and i shall use i work in the clock tonight he was told to add some some time for six is now the time remaining here it is going to be a third down and fourteen a big play it is a big shady was going with tyler reynolds i was trying to make a joke that when he went down a flight was probably less humid down there than it has up here which you can't say very often although i don't know if they do in the current climate maybe this is a fourth happened here where he thought he was going to be a no one had a chance to catch no sound that goes back to his confidence and his his marriage of the game and how to play that position we've got three minutes and forty eight seconds left here in the and then we'll go from there three thirty nine remaining it will be first and ten for the milton wildcats at their own thirty seven yard line following the snap adds the game the fact we are down simultaneous for the camera yeah that's for the camera exactly i am todd loney us from the award winning out time out for sports talk monthly t v show and i'm very glad to be starting our third season of conversations with the elmont high head coach young human  and when we get questions we will love they'll be part of the show the show as i said it's an interactive she'll be doing it throughout the upcoming twenty eight hundred high football season so you've got questions for the coach a good hash tag q s for q on twitter you can also so coach again welcome back can't believe here we are season season three of the cast with coach hugh man time flies season season five at belmont yeah i was going to say yeah times definitely fine for you i season on the marauders bench want to kind of do a quick recap here looking back a little bit at the the first four seasons and you know i know when each of the first three seasons it was you know at least record wise one watching it kind of see a steady improvement you know going from three in eight to four and seven a couple back to back seasons last year a little bit of a a step downward course sometimes they say you know it's going to have to take a couple steps back before you can take the big step forward so now here you are year five  well actually before we get to your five let's let's again look back to a year here for a little bit i know you probably don't want to harp on it too much but you know we didn't really gets to wrap up show so i guess my question were you know kind of you know now that you've looked back at that season you know talk a little bit about what happened because you know one stat that i pulled out is that in the first four losses the average margin of those losses was only about eleven points and then the last five losses you were losing by about twenty points it seemed like a mid season game against winchester going up there losing by twenty kind of set the tone for the second half of the season as far as some big blowout losses i know i know you had some very tough opponents and some great individual standout performances by other players you know on those teams so what talk a little bit about that yeah i mean i think anybody who was who was in the house last year would agree that it was a it was a disappointing year we had we had high expectations going in for ourselves and definitely didn't didn't fulfill those expectations you know i think  the close losses on the front end of the season kind of fed into a little bit what our attitude and approach was going into the end of the season and i mean first and foremost you know when you have a season like  that the first place that you've got to look is is in the mirror we preach to our guys on a constant basis about self accountability being paramount you know so i'm not one to to sit here in this chair and look at a two and nine season and say it was the fault of my my kids you know it wasn't that those results as far as i'm concerned were a byproduct of a lot of things ninety eight percent of which i think start start here and  my staff you know we just didn't seem to have the ability as a staff to do what we needed to do to get our kids as ready as we needed to get them both emotionally culturally  and on the football field and that played out you know that that definitely played out so it was a disappointing year we had we had some great athletes on our team last year we had some guys that we were really expecting to have fantastic years on the gridiron and to be to be tremendous contributors some of them or and then a couple of them underperformed a little bit and that that you know led to a result it's it was really a snowball season you know because we went that was a game where the defense actually played pretty well they'd only scored one off ends of touchdown they scored another one on a fumble recovery on the short field turnovers were an issue for us all year last year you know and that then kind of compounded as we went into just unable to get that reading off fans with jack geiger off the field in their final drive that was a game i really think that if we had won it which we absolutely had the potential to might have been a swing game in our season you know and then we went into winchester which you know for us was a game we really expected to win and didn't get off the bus and good winchester team you know beat us up and then we had it into lexington and that game was one that i think really was a demoralizing game for coaches and players alike you know we talk a lot about trying to stay in the moment and stay in the rap and you know keep your blinders on and stay focused and i think that's something we didn't do a great job of instilling in our guys last year i think that there were a lot of the locker room and coaches who were really kind of thinking their thought process was to big picture we got away from some of our monitors a little bit and it's good to return to them this year so yeah all right well a lot of seniors on last year's team nineteen and all and you won't have any it was going to ask if you have any updates maybe on some of them i mean we're going to get to how you're trying to going to replace all of them the secure but but any updates on any of them  is they they start some of their post high school for yeah arrears yes we're for seniors who are playing football at the next level adam these are fullback who we lost in the reading game that was a big loss for us his when he came in we were really excited that he got that opportunity on the coach whipple up at u mass was willing to give him that opportunity and he's gone into camp and had a great successful july with them and is in the two slot you know for and fighting to get into that one slot got a great phone call from adam a maybe two or three weeks into camp that was the call you always want to get which is you know all the stuff that you were harping on for three years four years coach like coach getting on me about so you know it's always i thought was nice to hear somebody say you know we were we were teaching them right and he came down with a couple of his you mouse buddies when they had a break from camp a couple of the guys on the team to watch practice so it's always nice to see those guys come back he came back with a couple of other alumni jake pollock is it bowden doing really really well jake was a lead all star receiver two years in a row really a fantastic receiver one of the best wide receivers i've coached  time that and it's always really nice is high school coaches when you know our guys go to the next level and you know coaches at the next level kind of recognize that these guys are coming from good high school programs and coaches who really know what they're teaching and  know what they're talking about caleb henman was a guard in the linebackers in his freshman season it st lawrence really excited for caleb he was always a kind of a lax bro when he first came to us and i think he kind of fell in love something like that and i walked up and i said top gun laksamana well you can be a maverick so you must be good and we called him goose the rest of the way for years that you know a really cerebral player really smart kid  recruitment so we're really excited excited for him so those are the four guys who are going on to the next level but a lot of our other guys are you know doing other things and a will is on zero or tackles playing college rugby  reynolds are down and college together in florida i talked to that kevin shea who's a detective on the beaumont police force and he and the family took with the reynolds as took the took the two boys down to college together so that was a great experience to go down to florida for them we've got a bunch of guys you know george fitzgerald our quarterback we played called rugby at fordham we've got just a bunch of guys who are going on to the next level in sport but also who are going to some great schools and are going to get really quality educations and that's really what is most important you know football for all of us is impermanent your education your brain that's something that sticks around for hopefully for a long time and we're really proud of our guys doing great work at the next level  no well i was i was doing all that is a set up for a really lame joke not even a joke just to make more of a comment those guys are going to florida was probably cooler when they are right then it is up here but we'll get to the eleven we'll get to the weather conditions and how they've been affecting practice and i did also once you were kind of as we now look forward you know you've had four seasons you had your freshman class they've graduated that first freshman class that you that you had they've graduated so kind of fifth year now  starting a new and i guess first place to start i mean as i was going to a lot of changes on the field with those one thousand seniors having graduated but talk about some some big changes on the on the coaching staff this year being first and foremost you're going to be taking on some more responsibilities  i think we've got a we did a lot of work in terms of our coaching philosophy this year because we had to take a look at again what led to two and nine you know and as i said at the top of the show a lot of that had to do with us it would be disingenuous to say anything else so what i really wanted were guys who were in our returning guys who were guys who were able to take a look in the mirror you know and say what is it that i did that contributed to to a not not in a judge mental way right we have good years and bad years in our careers i think that's true for everybody and every career the only difference with football coaches is that a lot of other people get to talk about it and that was the first concern was to make sure that i had guys sitting around the table who were willing to do that and you know every day we come in from practice now and we say aren't i one good thing you did today and i want one bad thing you did today everybody has to go around the room myself included and say this is this is something i think we did really well or i did really well and this is something i you know i need to get better at tomorrow and have a better down this tomorrow that's not something that we were doing a lot of last year you know there wasn't a lot of introspection and as a result we compounded on some of the problems that existed in our program instead of repairing it which is the exact opposite of what it is that we're supposed to be doing one big changes is dave pereira who is with me when i came over from stoneham is gone he had some some things you want to do for school   he had to do what he felt was right for him and for his future and we're you know really supportive of him and excited for him and sam ince who was an assistant with us last year is not  back and in their places i think we've got some really great guys our new office of wine coaches aronsen model aaron played at malden high was a three year starter malden high and played his college ball at the university of new haven he's originally from the san diego area so we get a little west coast influence hits the patriots hits tom brady loves the lakers so it makes for an interesting fan base in our in our coaches office i had actually approached arrant last year to see if he would coach with us i saw him at the starbucks in medford one morning and he had already accepted a position at mystic valley last year as their line coach and i was really impressed by the fact i think a lot of guys would have jumped ship because we're a bigger program and well bit more high profile i was really impressed by the fact that he didn't and he said to coach i made a commitment i've already committed to them i don't want to i don't want to backtrack on that commitment so arran has been driving our offensive line and man is he a guy who loves to be an office of one you know and and we had that when we had coach shea here he's another guy was really proud to be proud to be a hog and arran his coach so mine is just he loves the office of one and you need that you need a guy who's passionate about coaching the office of wine understanding that it's a technique rooted in emotion rooted position and he brings that fire but he also brings that focus and that corrective approach and we've started to see the results of that already in this young season i'm super fired up about about coach mano we did we were we were bored around the table the other day so we made a list of what everybody spirit animal is coach them on it was the war dog he's so we're we're excited about him here excited about a his wife maria are just a really great addition to our to our belmont football coaches family and we're really happy to have him our defensive line coach which was a position that was neglected last year we were hoping that one of our new hires would be able to kind of learn the position that never really materialized so we had to finagle a big goal to get those guys coaching last year and at the end of the year i actually went down and coached a defensive line for about three weeks towards the end of the year we've got chris now i was coach i was actually on the sideline he coasted framingham last year played his college football at bryant and and framingham state finally kind of have this loving antagonism between our often seven defensive line coaches they love each other and they assist on the opposite side of the ball because we've got a lot of kids who play that position but there's a little bit of juice in practice now you know coach size over on scout d and coach tomatoes over on scout zero so you know when the one teams are going those guys are there they're fiery and already again in the early start of the season i see some just tremendous developments  adjustments in terms of technique teaching attitude on the defensive line and what our guys are are are learning to do everybody else is back in a little bit different roles coach every has my wide receivers coach  to be the office coordinator in title this year we're going to work together he's a young guy so he's going to be learning coordinating a little bit this year it always takes a little bit of time to learn that the thing that i'm really excited about with alex is his willingness to to understand that that learning process exists right he's not a guy who i see this a lot of young coaches today that they want to go right away and they want to be at the top right away and i say all the time the one of the best things i ever did was work ten years before i even thought about courtney right for even thought about head coaching and alex is one of those guys so he's got a lot to learn but he also has a great oftens of mind he's a great wide receivers coach  so alex is back coach barge is back on the defensive backs position another guy who is just really grown in leaps and bounds in terms of his  in terms of his ability to understand his emotional power you know we joked at the end of practice yesterday i said we were talking about accountability and growth a little bit at the end of practice i said you know me and coach bard had a quiet disagreement today the i didn't even know that we had a disagreement we had a quiet disagreement was the last time you saw me coach bard have a quiet disagreement right because normally that he and i are very similar personalities when we disagree oh everybody knows everybody sees that that was on the problems last year we were preaching emotional emotional control we weren't showing it we were telling our kids to be emotionally level we weren't living it any of us this year man is is is like night and day in that regard it is just really special to see so i'm super proud bargee and his ability to again to look in the mirror and see things that he needed to work on to be better it is that his craft and to work on those things it's not all going to be perfect we're not always going to be exactly what we want to be all the time but if we can say you know i wasn't what i wanted to be in that moment well that's the first step to becoming what we do want to be so that's i'm really i'm excited the kimi is back and he's doing a great job with our d backs and our whole freshman staff is back better to work with the youth in our program they are just so loving and yet expectant it's really really a privilege to have guys who understand what their role is in terms of introducing thirteen year olds right to not just the sport of football but to the marauder way of doing things i say to juice and so and back all the time you guys are the first face that these guys see when they walk in the door they're not going to really know me until take that to heart and they've been contributing a lot on the varsity level helping us out in camp and coach juice is actually our special teams coordinator this year because man does he was special to us he loves special teams so he's making special teams fun again and that not to not to ramble on but that's a big piece of what we're trying to do this year all encompassing in the program is look we want to be disciplined we want to work our butts off we want to get better but more importantly than anything else we want to fun football is fun you know coaching football is fun playing football is fun and we distance ourselves from that notion last year and it got to the point for players and coaches alike that it got away from being fun and it started to become about work you know and it is work but it's fun work so it's work that we choose for ourselves and i don't know todd has just been it's hard to explain you know i go home at the end of the day and i'm physically exhausted man but my heart is so full so full and i'm just so proud of these coaches because they're the guys who are willing to sit down and have the difficult conversation about a two and nine season a competitive one ok but a two nine season and own it for themselves and that is something that not as many people as we might like in the world are willing to do we live in a society where there's a lot of outward pointing and  responsibilities with regards to the coaching staff and i just i guess i just want to know maybe what was the decision process that you went through because you mentioned you did a little bit of a deal line coaching at the during a parts of last season so was it was that part of what was the bug i know you come from a fence right you're taking over the defense and it's a big added responsibility i just want to know kind of what was your decision process when you decided to replace coach pereira what why not just bring in another new or promote someone from within instead you're taking over the reins there yeah i mean i joke with my guys all the time my coaches because they like to joke that you know i forget who coach bawn when he was here brennan used to say all time you're an office  you know and i'm a defensive dude man i started my coaching career as a deal line coach my first coordinating job scuse me was as deal defensive coordinator i love defense and i had to step away from it a little bit just because from a management perspective and a head coaching perspective it's it's it's hard to let go of the reins of your offense you know we put an application we put a job posting out for d c i didn't get anything that knocked my socks off and i needed somebody to knock my socks off for that job because that's all you had originally thought about you're bringing in another i mean we talked about it we talked about it with we talked about it in house so we talked a talk with coach barge a little bit about whether or not he wanted that and he's got some other things going on in his life you know and that's a job that requires a ton of outside work you know you got to break film down you've got create tendency you've got to do game planning work you've got to get scout cards together every week all that stuff and he just you know again looking inward saying i want to do it but i know that i'm not going to have the time to do all of that stuff you know and i don't want to sell the team short and so then you know we posted and i just i didn't i didn't get anything that i walked out of an interview saying man this is the dude you know to do this job and i was sitting over a burger in a you know a glass of milk at connelly's and with coach avery and he just looked at me and said you know over this over the probably spring or something and said why don't you just do it just do it you know and i said you know what when did it was really that simple i want our defense to have an attitude i want our defense to have a personality i felt that that you know no disrespect at all to dave he worked his butt off for me and i love the kid to death but i felt that our defense lacked personality it lacked an identity it lacked you know ferocity and even in our first scrimmage you know coach smith who is resigned from the head coaching position among catholic because of his principal duties there walked over to me when our our three s were running and goes man your defense fine of the football i go yeah it's my defense and i look at he goes that makes sense you know and so that's the start of building that  identity of saying you know we're going to draw a line in the sand every play i can't promise that we're going to win games i can't promise that we're going to lose games i've been in this business long enough to know that it's not a good idea to promise those things what i can promise is that when you come across the line of scrimmage plan belmore football defense then you're in for a fight you know that this is this is a family that is going to stand up and say you're not you're not gaining ground on us without some blood some sweat you know and some tears and  i'm really excited for that opportunity and part of the reason i feel personally rejuvenated in what i'm doing is is that to because i love the fans man i love the fans all right well that's so it is a rejuvenation in your me and that's probably a good thing you brought up the molten catholic scrimmage that you had earlier this week so i guess we'll use that as kind of a jumping off point to talk about all the new faces with with the team this year so maybe talk a little bit about how the scrimmage  went i know it's been an unbearably hot week so you know and then talk about who maybe impressed you in it and then they just mention who all the new faces are there's obviously a lot of new faces when it comes to the a lot of the skill position as well there was a good scrimmage scuse me it was a good scrimmage oh it's a scrimmage like clint eastwood movie there's some good there's some bad in there some ugly and there was that but we were very satisfied on both sides of the ball for our for our first performance as a team in live  it was it was really really fantastic good starting point lot to work on a lot to clean up but a good starting point but not even to cut you off i know you're going to pressure get into this but you know obviously there's going to be a big  change obviously big changes with the defense you're taking it out over but big changes on the office of yeah because one you quarterback and two you're totally revamping the kind of often you're going to run with this new quarterback yeah we have a new kid is at the backup back george up our know is you know without giving too much away he's a talented kid he can do a lot of different things very versatile kid tremendously calm there's a sort of calm to him that you want in a quarterback you know there i always say in sports there there are two kinds of athletes i use baseball as a metaphor here there's the kid and you know there's a kid in left field  bly talented athlete a very versatile athlete you'll see some elements of our office from last year that are still there that are consistent we also have done a lot of work to simplify and to do things that suit our nose strengths and to run the authentic through a quarterback a little bit more than we've been able to do in the past and i'm just really excited about avery now he's you know this is his first year starting in virus city competition so i'm sure he will have his his hiccups but he's just a very level kid he's respected and liked in the locker room and in the huddle if you if you if you didn't know him you wouldn't you might even think he was a little aloof right because he you know i can hear him talk a lot outside of the call and adjustments and maybe like a hey quiet down he's not allowed guy and he's not a me guy you know he's not a guy who says i have to you know i have to throw three hundred yards or i want the ball every time every arno wants to win football games and that's a guy i love having at the front of my aman's sure well you know so moving on with that you know kind as you know he gets ready to play varsity the first time he fast he's fast he's a fast kid's got he's got a good hand actions we're working to develop his footwork a little bit and a lot of times you get young quarterback coming up that's the one area that needs a little bit of work but it's pretty good we like we've done in our read structures for him he's got a bunch of throws you know he can make a lot of throws you know when you're kind of checking down the checklist of of quarterback at least  like you know in terms of pure quarterbacking throwing ability guys like aaron rogers and peyton manning are like the best quarterbacks of all time because they have the throws right like brady has brady doesn't have all throws he just wins but he doesn't have all the throws right and you know our nose got a bunch of throws and he's just got a great hand action he's got to and he's got a really intuitive football i q that allows for his talents to shine because quarterbacking is about making the right decision more than it is about anything else so you can have all the talent in the world but if you make the wrong decision you know use the talent to throw the ball sixty yards into double coverage well that's still a bad throw so it's really been great to kind of see it see him have these kind of intuitions that lead to you know his feet and his arm to be able to do good things but he's fast he's got good feet he's got a good short motion i'm really excited about the kid all right now with regards to the  running back so we're going to see killian o'connor who was kind of worn a secondary role last year i guess will be more of a primary back this year talk about about some of the running back yeah we're there where i mean we've always kind of prided ourselves a little bit on being  know and we've got two primary backs this year we're going back to kind of the ben jones makai johnson days where we're trading backs all the way through killian is one he's a boy with a tough kid he's lo to the ground he's downhill runner he's super fast and a member that i mean killings one of those guys who can you know we have two guys who can do this to be perfectly honest who can break at any moment he's not going to truck stick you right he's not killian is this kind of bullet runner and we also have joseph who played as a freshman and didn't play as a sophomore in the junior and retires back for a senior year and he's a he's a tremendously talented back i remember freshman year he had such a successful freshman year that guys were kind of asking me about him when he was a freshman running back he got he just you know ran for five touchdowns in the freshman game i saw him when he was over at our house you know and he's come in a senior year with just kind of a more adult maturity to himself and the more adult work ethic these two guys are i think they're just great backs man i think they're great young men and i think they're great that again has allowed us to even in our simplification think more about ok what do we have in terms of the specific towns that these guys have and what can we create that allows these individual guys to flex their specific talents and they've been able to do that so it's great well you brought up we were just talking about killing and so i'm going to use this is a segue to talk about your team captains for twenty eight sure you've got five of them i think most of them have a bit of an office of component to it so maybe we can kind of talk about them visa v working season last year due to a lower body injury that kept him out for the year and that was that was a big you know a lot of people are talking about that loss in our office last year that was a big loss you know jarrett is a he's a he's going to be a colleg e football player his dad played at mizzou what a great kid we call him daddy longlegs because he's super long and he's just a hardworking kid with high expectations for himself  runs great routes great hands great highpoint fade guy and he's another kind of quiet leader so we're really excited to have jack back working on the off chance of side  let you know if your effort levels lower if you need to pick it up or you know your kind be a little lazy in a drill set sam's guy's going to get your face in and say let's go that's not how we do things here you know let's get it up and let's go just a pipe and really quick on sam i know he was also a key part of the rugby team success in the spring he was you having seen him play in the championship yeah he's a rugger he had a he had a good rugby season really tough kid i expect ations from self kind of kid to you know we  from hands down yeah there you know i mean that's like the first question i ask if i'm if i'm like meeting a new friend is like do you like nickelback and if the answer is yes then we can't we can't hang out all course the beauty if you do like and they only have one they have one song one song playing it way over and over  n you know and mike is a vocal leader too tough kid versatile kid we see him more as a defensive player he's been charming and contributing on the often side of the ball as well so we're really excited and last but certainly not least is a big seventy five man jake bama parsons bama bam bam is is i love that kid it's no secret you know jake is the guy who protects the quarterback yeah he's our blindside tackle he's about six six you know didn't have as much run last year due to an injury head injury in the middle of season last year so his recruitment is going to be picking up as the fall takes off here i'm really excited for bama jake is is a quiet leader we've got like three quiet guys and two loud guys which is great mix he's a great off and to tackle i mean jake jake's really come along and he's just a fantastic young and give each other hugs and we go to practice you know and i know it sounds kind of weird but you know it's he's a kid that you know we ran i think eighty seven workouts over the course of this year he's a to support athlete plays rugby to  jake attended eighty four of them you know so that gives you kind of a sense of who he is you know he's a he's what we call lunchpail guy and i've always kind of a special affinity for those kinds of guys  i'm really excited for his senior year bam bam is a good dude all right well that kind of wraps up a lot of the the off and then to you mentioned some of these guys are on the line i mean  f soldiers you know she does so much work for our friends of group to make the season go karen and kevin both so he's back and derek brown played a little bit of guard for us last year played some nose tackle for us as a sophomore he is a big strong fast kid and his football i q is like white years from where it was last year you know which is been a really really great to see  put in has just been he's been fantastic at the center of the line we had to replace nooner we had to replace ryan replacing ballou is a hard thing to do he was our starting center for three years stepped right in there and  commanding a line which is great you can hear his voice on cut right we film practice and stuff you can hear his voice in combo calls and connect calls and pass protection adjustments and all that stuff i mean he's just settled right into the vocal probably get some time and we're excited about what the friends can do all right and you kind of alluded to it i don't know is a something you didn't want to bring up you said you talk about different office of wrinkles there are things that are right maybe i alluded to it because we did some talking element to your often this year or it just i guess my question is how much of an element would that be i mean that's a i don't you know you know opponent opposing coaches might be watching and maybe i mean i don't i don't i don't see myself as enough of a superstar i was a two and nine coach last year your first four seasons but between cal and georgia you weren't running a lot of those guys were more drop back passer guys so yeah there will be a their own you know without giving too much away they'll be they'll be an option component to our offense where  it about taking our time a little bit more you know and just really learning from our mistakes last year in terms of install and saying you know we thought we had this really senior heavy team last year it was calculated to say like we're install a bunch really fast you know we thought we had a senior every team these guys played a bunch of football is going to be easy it was not and we weren't from that and so we you know i'm more excited you know regardless of what we're running of taking the approach and saying you know we're really going to do some work to get good at something here and i think that's what we're doing which has been great so far i mean it's early it's the end of is the end of august so you know optimism breeds eternal and august this for that position yeah about that defensively were fired up again we got derek brown also on the often someone who's who's an interior lineman ryan hoffman a junior will find his way on to the interior line he's all across player cammi are nuri who came to belmont from iran last year and is a three sport athlete in football wrestling good wrestler and and rugby is is fighting for an interior line spot as well sam harris is back he played some linebacker for us last year next to adam dece also a rugby guy really good athlete and just a great kid  top on an option that was bounce and and they came together with sam on the inside hip and sam linebacker sam on the outside hip and i just got a chuckle to myself and i can't stop thinking like sam i am and sam and sam and all that are ham sandwich you know and start saying stuff like that  but sam's back there's a little bit of a competition on the interior for the other spot between two great football players who will probably both contribute ryan santoro right now is a little bit in the lead he's a junior  plays fullback as well he's also you know the same two guys who are competing at linebacker are also competing for the starting fullback job so they compete on both sides of the ball and mitch pereira who had a great game against cambridge a fullback for us last year  looking at the linebacker spots eric meant that corner defensive back as a senior at this is kind of you know we call men sea island he calls himself man seattle and we call him and see peninsula just to be funny  is more like a peninsula and eric's just a great kid man he's a he's a really really hard working kid he's got a really great way about him he's been patient in his growth and progression as a defensive player  he's a what do i need to do to help the team kind of guy and this is kind of eric's time you know and we're really pumped ferments he deserves this chance to go out there as a varsity player if you could corner in the backfield as well at free safety and he's as excited as i am about him a running back i'm really excited about him and free safety this kid runs the alley as good as anyone and he likes to hit  he'll be paired with killian o'connell the two running backs are actually the two started right now are the two starting safeties and justin rose who is a receiver for us now was a running back as a sophomore is now a junior receiver often silly slot receiver  is at the corner spot he's a really talented kid he's the guy kid who scored the game winning goal in the hockey playoffs against arlington last year is also a baseball player three sport athlete roaches a tremendous athlete and we're really excited about our defensive backfield del home is in that nickel spot and again they're starting to kind of develop this attitude of you know being aggressive to the football and i sail the time all i want for christmas is a football go get me a football you know and really pushing to try and create turnovers and attack the ball and be better tacklers and to set a physical tone for our defense which unfortunately was something that was really missing from our defense last year i always say that you know that's that's where you can make a team kind of second guess itself right is when they see that there are kind of like eleven rabid dogs who want to get to the football off and some guys don't like that you know it makes you think twice and makes you think about call it makes you think about execution it makes you just a little bit worried or maybe a little bit hesitant we really want to be a defense that creates that in often says we got a bunch of new guys on that defense and returning guys sammy sags is returning connor she is returning we go a long way to go but we've seen we've seen some promising stuff from those guys and they're a kicker slash punter in the full hampden trout man you know everybody in hamilton was hamilton was hampton was overshadowed by him that was overshadowed by aiden because aiden was a fantastic kicker and had a couple years on him a naturally came by practice the other day and i saw he guy and he'll be our punter as well he does a lot of work on his kicking he works really really hard and is kind of constantly coming up to me and and asking me if i can segment time just for him to kind of go off to the side a little bit and  is kicking work because you know collegiately we'd love to have a kicking coach but it's hard to you have to designate somebody who has another position to be the kicking coach and we don't you know we can't budget forty five minutes of practice just for the kicker to go work on on  but he's got great kick control we're trying to be a more disciplined special teams unit this year and also to use specials to our advantage which i don't think we did as well as we could have with aiden in that regard  i said him when he left and i felt like we kind of want to say we shortchanged him but we probably could use him a little bit more than we did we don't want to make that mistake twice you know we definitely want to be able to go to our special teams and say this is a unit that can create advantage for us in the game by controlling punts controlling kicks there are some new kick game rules at the high school level this year that we can take advantage of and i think a great guy to do it and we've got some young guys we've got some young guys too john williams is a sophomore these guys will handle the j v kicking and punting he's got a boomer and nate fox foxy is a sophomore i finally got a lineman kicker i've wanted one yeah that i wanted i've wanted one i've wanted one for for fifteen years like that kicker from penn state you know i finally got i finally got a lineman kicker and foxy and so those two guys will have the kicking and punching duties on the j v level and so we kind got a nice little farm system going there for maiden to try out or and try to do these two guys in the new knows will come up with the freshman level i mean we go are great soccer players in this town so a lot of them who come out for football playing soccer for a long time and work to translate those skill sets well cited yeah it sounds like you know certainly you said trout kicked a fifty five yarder in practice which i would say it's very impressive especially given the extremely humid conditions we've had to face say i just saw weather report this week they were talking about we've got twice as many days this summer compared like the last three summers where the dew point has been over seventy yeah talk about that just try to like schedule you know practice is i know was kind of hard for us to juggle around the schedule in this podcast yeah because you know you were moving practices around due to heat advisories and whatnot yeah i mean i'd start by saying that i just i have such a great administrative staff starts with with our superintendent john fail and we have a new principal at the high school tom brow mr brough is just a he's a football guy he's a football official as well he's the guy who does all of our rules presentations at the league meeting he's absolutely fantastic mr o'brien  guy and of course my athletic director you know jimmy davis and we saw the heat come in and all of them kind of got together and made you know definitive the only thing i asked for is kind of definitive decisions in the best in of our players are student athletes and all of them got together and said you know this heat index is going to be yesterday was crazy you know i went on to my re i said earlier i went on the field with my radiant heat i go radiant heat up on my phone and it was like one hundred twenty degrees coming off the turf didn't like the hottest day of the whole summer with i mean it wasn't one hundred twenty in the air but off the rubber like so you know and with the humidity which you were talking about man that really creates some challenges in terms of like sweat and body temperature regulation especially in pads so those guys the administrative team created practice restrictions you could practice in the morning or you could practice in the evening but between eleven and six thirty no one was to be practicing outside  actually stopped into the office yesterday and we sat and talked a little bit and you know about what was in our best interests we ended up going out in shells yesterday for an abbreviated practice we were going to have an abbreviated practice  today as well but it's going to run a little bit longer because it's a little bit cooler today than it was yesterday so you know and then it's just making sure that these guys stay hydrated and keeping their body temperature down as best we can keeping your eyes on these guys you know our number one job is to is to protect our our players and that's what we're that's what we're looking to do so i just i'm really lucky to have a great team administrative support team that has done so much to really you know make sure that we're make sure that we're safe and also that we get the opportunity to go out and and and do the work that we need to do so it's really kudos to them and if we if you believe that we've pretty much filled a whole hour here on it we probably have about maybe sixty to ninety seconds left to kind of that about the the home opener yeah september seventh coming up awfully fast milton just in case you're wondering the same schedule as last year just everyone flips home and wro so just briefly not just a cup thirty seconds of that so you've got about sixty seconds left to talk about about milton and they were pretty tough on you know last season yeah i think they i think it was a back and forth game a little bit i mean they beat us i think by two touchdowns get all the way down the mill to watch them friday morning that kind of weird scrimmage time their fast spread team got to have you coverage packages in place got to make sure your defensive backs and your linebackers are really ready to go i think we're hoping to be able to stop them in the air this year because i think if we're capable of doing that you know we got a defense who's going to be pretty stout against the run and i think you know again it's ten days in here but i think that you know we've got an office that's going to be able to move t and score some points they've got to sit in traffic for an hour like we did last year to get here that's always a nice little advantage you you know sitton and we play at six so they got to sit in rush hour traffic coming up from milton we had to do that go in the other way last year it's a long bus ride well in framingham i remember the home opener last year they took the game start was yeah only by forty five minutes because of traffic we got to go out we've got to go out there this year so we're not we're not going there and we're excited to open it home  always always nice to get out there friday night under the lights at harrah's to start your season we've got you know the best fans the best marching band the best school support and we love our field we love being home you know we love being able to come out of our lousy and ready to rock and roll you know so it's i think it's going to be a great competition a great contest it's six o'clock start and i would really just encourage everybody you know to even if you're not a big football fan or whatever to just kind of tr out to harris and get a taste of what high school football is like and we don't want high school football is like in a it's kind of hard not to have a good time here's some brass bonanza get you down you know yes you know have some fun again that's friday september seventh six o'clock kick off that here is field  two thousand and eighteen football season will start quickly i don't want to put words in your mouth coach because we don't really have time to get into the long season but i think it's safe to say goals for twenty eighteen win more than last year yeah you know certainly we've got three we want to have a winning record to make the playoffs and want to be watertown on turkey there you go and there you go there he is so that's right beat watertown which of course game will be here this year at harris field so yes we will wrap up just as i thought we were go finish on time i can't get the sit in ten seconds so i'm going to go slightly just as we wrap up this on this show we want to remind you that all of our typecast with coach q can be found online at belmont media dot org slash podcast and also on sound cloud dot com by searching belmont media you can 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