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such channels of eight nine twenty eight and twenty nine course you can you can if you have any comments you can send those to and of course questions were going to be encouraging q s for q and we had a couple of questions we do we got some of this we're going to bring those up a little later on the show v game on saturday he plays up it was to state and heidi came and chatted us up a little bit and it was great to see him and so i made sure to tell me through and into the end of the podcast you see your question yeah there you go so anyway let's we'll get things started of course week one stone oh yeah we talked about it last week coach and what a big emotional game it was for you in a lot of ways and i know you know you know this is year three of you course coaching here at belmont and each year the game with stone has got a little bit more competitive  last year you lose by two touchdowns this year unfortunately same result now you hold them to fewer points but the often struggles let's summarize the game force here coach where did you know the good and the bad from from the game again ye i mean you know all we're obviously disappointed you know where we're better team then then a twenty one to seven loss against on my all credit due to them you know as i said to the kids that we we can open the door for them to win the game and that's a well coached and physical team so you know when you open the door for them to take the game they're not a team that's going to going to pass it up you know i didn't feel as though stone them dominated the course of the game despite a twenty one seven victory you know they had a a short field score in the first  is never you know positive to have to have special teams touchdowns so you know although we lost we definitely felt as though it was and i think bob coach almeida would agree that it was a little more of a war than it had been in previous years which obviously we're we're happy about but that's something that we kind of expect so you know we were we were disappointed were we know that we're better football team than the football team we put on the field on friday night and that's something that you know i have to take on the chin at the front end of the program you know we spent a lot of time this weekend as a coaching staff kind of looking at why we lost emotional control of ourselves as a program and failed to execute on fancifully especially against on yeah well in for what you're saying here coach though when you look at this game it really you know was fairly even to some extent your defense played well sure that you know they had one you know scoring drive shall we say that came in the first quarter when you would we mentioned you were telling me before we we started the podcast tonight that that was a short field about thirty five yard drive so you did a great job there and then the other two plays but don't in the you know in the third quarter you know the seventy four yard run in a sixty three hundred yeah so that's more crime in were there talk about yeah you know i mean there's you know really we're really hyped about our defense you know and we think we've got a really good physical defense and coach coach pereira put together a great scheme for those guys this week and we did a lot of work together in the room to try and figure out how we were going to stop stone aimes fear option you know that's what they want to run is quarterback vir this year with with trey treys a really talented vocal player he's a he's a great kid and he's a talented athlete you know he's fast and he's shifty and he's tough and we knew that going in you know so we were really geared towards towards stopping trey on the veer which we did most of the way through the game minus one play which wasn't even an assignment buss there was an execution bust you know we had our guys in the right pla linebacker on a c gap let's who's supposed to be quarterback responsible looked inside and chase the dive chin and that free stray up on the edge and once he gets out there and into open space he's a kid you're not going to catch so never it i'm sorry just to cut you off here for a bit of  i'm a football novice some of the folks watching right now i just want to understand of eruption versus like a read option or a or you know a run option like here's your option involves usually a quarterback under center and he's he's extending the ball to the fullback in the inside gap the a gap or the b gap and he's usually reading what we call a five tac which is an off tackle defensive and sometimes a seven tackle which is an outside tight end defensive end and he's reading him so that player crashes down towards the fullback he pulls the ball from the handoff and takes it himself around the edge usually with a pitch man running with him that he then has the option to pitch to and so you have to be a really sound assignment based fundamental defense to stop any kind of option but veer option especially if a player who is quarterback responsible chases the dive inside the quarterback is free if a player is quarterback responsible bites on the pitch and flies to the pitch the quarterback is free if the guy who's pitch responsible doesn't get off of his blocking get to the pitch man the pitch man is open and that's why they are so dangerous you know and we did a lot of work getting ready for we were ready to go against the fear we were excited about the package that we had in there and  unfortunately you know we had one big moment where we just didn't do our job and it hurt us all the way you're describing it it sounds a little bit like reid options who was there was there a difference between the two or is it just a case of terminology you know i mean i would i would define read option usually as as less of a three back option the viewers as a triple option you have the option to give you have the option to keep and you have the option to pitch and i always see read options as more versatile in a little bit of a way because you're usually reading off of a handoff and then you have something happening outside in the spread set but viraj in a read option i mean it's fear read so it's kind of an interchangeable term six and one and half dozen in the other ok all right fair enough again just again for the novices out there miller definitely for sure i forgot my  really impressed away the defense played because you know there was really just one scoring drive the whole game what in particular do you think really was working defensively against for you guys i mean i think they were good physical fast flow defense that likes to hit and i think that was one of the major differences that that stoneham recognized in us early they saren at waltham and then i think they saw it on friday night to and from talking with their coaches and their kids after the game and stuff like that and then the next day you know all of them said man you guys you guys come to play and i think that's really encouraging you know we when we look at coaches we're never satisfied with a loss but the big question that we ask ourselves is are we talking about fixable mistakes you know are we talking about things that we can fix and in this case absolutely because things that you i want to say can't fix but are harder to fix effort willingness to be physical willingness to play fast these things are harder to fix you know a kid biting down on a veer option instead of keeping his eyes on his assignment we can fix that as coaches in rep you know kids a young linebacker that was his first varsity start at linebacker and played any linebacker last year so you know and we have a lot of guys all over our defense who are young and playing for the first time so they're fast and they're physical but they're a little raw and you know so we see a lot of mistakes on our defense that were fixable mistakes and we're really encouraged by our desire to be physical and come downhill and flow fast which short all right so the ben jones finally gets in after you're down twenty one nothing but just talk about you know what was it was it stopped his defense just reacted well to what you guys were calling and you know talk about caldicott yeah i just well i mean first off you know coach coach rafferty over there who runs the defense is a tremendous football coach i mean he's i got nothing but respect for raf he does a great job against us every year you know they did a good job in taking away one of our primary fence of weapons and jake pawlik you know and  i don't want to say stumbled our game plan but it definitely took away something that we really wanted to do the biggest issue for us hands down was execution you know consistency and execution and doing the things that we're taught to do in practice and excuse me our guys are that in film on saturday we're sitting there watching cotton we're watching a lineman do something and coach a saying is that what we teach and the line has no and he says we've got to wrap the techniques that we were taught and that's something that happens with young players sometimes as as you teach these techniques and then they get into game mode and they're so hyped up like they're just excited you know it's their first time out they're starting a varsity game the crowds go and people are yelling everybody's amped up it goes to times a million and you kind of forget to just do the things that you're taught to do and that you do every day in practice so there was a lot of that going on there were some mental errors taught some mental errors young guys making mental errors you know we tried to run a three level pass play soft more receiver heard something and decided to run a slant instead of a go and that slant collided with the fullback trying to clear out and it held a linebacker there and then count throws the ball in the linebacker set right there and that's a pick you know we had a great drive going in the second quarter got to their side the feeling about the forty we had in fourth and three we know play them try to get the jump offsides they jump but our center who is a great center forgets to snap the ball you know he has to snap the ball to get that penalty and that's a first down now we're looking at like the twenty five we're probably scoring from there were you know we're at least putting three on the board because we've got a great kicker but we're probably going downhill the rest of the way and getting in the end zone and there were just a lot of moments like that i mean we dropped three balls kallas a wheel wide open for a big play goes to throw a ball ball slips out of his hand you know it was just one of those nights that guys were making mental mistakes because they were keyed up we weren't executing the techniques that they were taught and then when we did there was kind of something that happened that took us out of the play you know we had a great trap that hooked up and it was it was open the seam was there and ben tripped on the guard's feet you know got pick your feet up running through the hole you know like so it was kind of one of those one of those days where it was just one thing you know happening after another i said to my line coach like the third quarter i go prizes one of those days man you know this is just not it's not clinton the way that it's supposed to so you know we took it back to the drawing board and kind of work and they get better at the things that we think we can be good at and get back on course one like you said you don't good news if you're you took a lot of positives out of the game despite the setback on the scoreboard so now we're going to head to week two and you know some positive momentum here because now you're playing a medford team that you've defeated each of the last two years their program has been a bit down the last couple of years as well and you've been able to put up some points against them so maybe this is a chance to help you know get the off and so on track a little bit as well yeah i mean hopefully i think that you know medvedev the home opener i mean  at harrah's you know we're excited about that we're excited to be on our home field in front of our town but at the same time we have to stack can be another moment where our guys are getting a little bit outside of themselves because they're excited and they're at home in their school is out and all that stuff so we get in we've got to work to try and stay emotionally level in medford coming off a thirty four thirty two win against revere you know they've got a kid a quarterback who's an athlete they the transfer and it running back who is a great athlete so often civilly the e there clip it up now as coach nascimento has done a great job over there you know he's really worked hard trying to build this program in what was a tough league which is now kind of collapsed yet what is it now like right now i think it's medford some medford everitt and maybe i think some of those out medford everett malden i think are the only three teams remaining in the g p l this year and the legal disband probably next year something is going on on fence of lee you know defensively yeah we see some things that we think we can take advantage of but we did against on him too so you know for us our issue is we've got a great coaching staff we've got guys who are willing to work and break down film and create scheme and create structure and we did that this week we worked really hard over this weekend getting packaged together and watching film and we got to execute you know we have to execute as a team on off and even  medford i mean they're not they're not a team to be taken lightly you know that we don't take anybody lightly and we hate it when people take us lightly and we're not going to do the same thing that anybody else so if we want to beat medford at home we're going to have to come out and play our game and execute our game and play good defense and stop this quarterback stop this running back and then we've got a great shot to win so that's kind of what we're focusing on doing is saying you are a great we beat in the last two years who cares honestly who cares because it's not last year and it's not the year before last this is this is now so let's focus on doing it now sure sure but of course you know you don't you're looking and i don't want you to give away your office of game plan or anything but you mentioned jake pollock shut out a bit last week you know do a good job taking him out of the game are you going to try to make some conscious effort to get him a little more involved or do you just want to like you know start with the ground game have bad and you know kind of get things a step i mean i think that we just want to have a diverse and functional often so you know not to get here but i think we want to have a diverse and functional law fence you know we want to be a little bit more prepared for when defenses take away something that we want to do and i take that upon myself you know i think that for myself against stone and i was i was so confident in our ability to execute that i didn't have my contingencies as well as i usually do normally i think i have a binder full of ways to go in case we don't get what it is that we want and this game i think i just didn't have enough in place whereas for medford this week we're on fence of where we structurally were ready you know we got there on a bunch of different kind of defensive approaches we've got what we think are answers to all of those defensive approaches they do a bunch of things on off and you know coach he is has work to kind of create what he sees as as answers for that we had a great practice today we had a great practice yesterday so you know we're just really trying to be a diverse and functional off ants and do what we do well play with confidence and execute yeah i mean one of the things course mentioned in the glow capsule with regards to bedford it says you know it's a good young defense but there may be lacking a little bit the skill positions and that's you know we who are some of the guys though on that medford team that you think you know that you're going to you know guys some of the key players that you're going to try i'm in you know right now we're looking at their quarterback is a tremendous athlete i mean this kid can be he can break a big play at any moment in time he's just one of those guys he was there running back last year i think they moved him to quarterback they got a transfer in that rb what's his name i have no idea i don't know ok i don't i don't do the store up the corner from my house because i live in medford so you know i see gamo in there i'd be like her gum oh i know you know but one of those guys i don't know but they've got a great quarterback and he's an athlete they've got great running back he's an athlete too and they've got two big interior linemen who one of see these two big linemen inside and this quarterback in this running back and you know we're gearing up to deal with those guys all right well and as we mentioned of course you can send your questions to q q s for q and something going to be doing all randy i'm not sure though you are right well and so while one of the questions and again these were sent it feels like these were sent last week so i don't know if we might have answered some of these last week but first of all besides macaulay johnson who was your biggest loss for and created a sense of reliability as seniors that we were really lucky to have you know now we've got kevin martin as a captain out there who's doing he's he's a senior he's played some but it's his first year really getting going on oh and he's doing a great job out there manning kevo is additionally the captain of our defense i mean if you come and watch a defensive practice you hear all the stuff they were yelling i mean that's kev get in the guys in front of them lined up and you know he was kind of he was kind of sore i didn't shout him out i g over in the last podcast when you asked about him and i feel really bad about it on a sleeve because kevo such a big part of what we do but i think that he becomes this kid that kind of just always does his job that you can sort of forget that you know i mean which is a good thing to defensively you know grant gilbert was a tremendous safety robbie aiello was a was a great corner you know those are the two big losses that we have we've got ben jones and kmart is stepping in at the safety spot doing a great job  and we've got tyler reynolds in joviality as juniors hopping out there excuse me for that corner for their first you know full varsity season we had jared edwards out there he got a little doing dump against stone on soft more so you know it's right now it's rainy and and the alley going in there and wrapped in a corner and trying to fill the shoes of you know a tray butler and bing aiello so i'd say those are our biggest ones you line i love these guys and i think we have a great linebacking corps so i'm excited about them too and i think probably just as a little overlap you probably covered this but hollywood asks another question who can we expect to make an impact issue that maybe didn't play last year  good question i mean it was though some of those names you brought up yeah i did i would say one kid to be on the watch for is now that's a great question dylan ferdinand number seven  dylan didn't play his junior year he played his sophomore year he's an outside linebacker and a tight end i mean he had a he had a sack against on him off the edges but really fitting into the defense and kind of trying to catch up the year that he messed and doing a great job i mean he's a big boys fast he's aggressive to the football i'm excited about we call him bowl for an end the ball i'm excited about about bill and adam dece number forty five you know he played a little bit at the end of the season  outside linebacker and full back but he put his work in in the offseason he is a big boy he's a load he's your prototypical fullback linebacker i mean he's just a big physical downhill kid we're excited about that and you know outside of that there's i'd have to list like a bunch of young guys and we've got so many young guys who are who have the potential to contribute but you know we just got to see what it is that they they bring to the table yet it's a young season so there's plenty of time lot of time for them to to make an impact for other thoughts heading into into this week so you know that it's a very we're just we're just excited to and i mean you know i think that there is yeah i mean i think we just we just know what we have and we know that what we put on the field on friday wasn't indicative of who we are as a team you know and i just reminded the guys i go look like i'm what i'm i wanted that game you know that everybody knows that i wanted that game my kids wanted that game it didn't happen but it's a non league game for us i mean they're out of conference we've got ten weeks left you know we think that we have a great opportunity to accomplish all the goals that we talked about earlier so it's just talk news guys i mean like look it's not the end of the world you know the sky it's not chicken little the sky is not falling just because we didn't do our job week week one you know where we're excited about week too right and so again de courcelles gave this week's game as well as a majority of the games this year especially all the whole games will be featured on b h s sports t v jeremy mazarin the entire sports cruel yeah helping out i'm looking forward to at some point the season  behind the my column in a couple of games as well awesome so you know you keep mentioning the do your job so that's a perfect segue good patriots talk here thoughts on week want to and just amazing i call it a gravy win because literally i went into this game w very little expectations given all the people that were out yeah you're going to arizona on a sunday night to play a card team that a lot of people think might go to the super bowl run when the whole thing so i mean lots of thoughts of it i mean i think any time you can go in arizona and play got to be happy you know but i think i think two things i think one you know it's bill is the greatest coach in the n f l and honestly coach belichick is you know probably he's not the nicest man in the world but  he's got to be in the conversation for the greatest football coach of all time i mean you got to talk about him in the same breath as long barty and brian and house and all of these old school guys man because i mean he just consistently puts a product out onto the field that is capable of winning the game pretty much every week and he's been doing it for the last fifteen years you know and for those of us who work in football though i get that it's the pros and they are they football so much better than everybody else but to do that fifteen years in a row is such an amazing feat just as a head coach though i should point out he's really been doing this in the way his mind works yet with this for four years earlier in the n f l and no doubt that he was doing that you know no doubt i mean as a positional coach as a coordinator you know here's he was amazing the second thing is that you know everybody was also all skittish about jimmy jimmy you know i mean i was not i was i was you know this is a guy who's been in the system for a while and i'm sort of a guy that has so much faith and tell a check that i say look if he has somebody for four years that guy's going to be all right you know you look a guy like matt cassel same thing you know talent wise n some cross plug here for the time out t v show we're going to be back on t v on wednesday night september twenty fifth eight to nine o'clock a live show you can call it our special guest is going to be eric friends who has written a book making the argument that bill belichick is the greatest