hi the following podcast is produced or sponsored by a community member the content views and opinions expressed are those of the participants who do not reflect those of b s e or the town of belmont b m c welcomes your comments call us at six one seven four eight four two four four three or email us at access at belmont media dot org framingham flyers i actually remembered that before i got the roster that said they were the flyers i i do remember that so anyway i just want to remind all of our our listeners and viewers because we are here on the old on the  at least for the home games that's going to be the goal is to these games be broadcast on b m c sports and on the b m c channels and the serves as a pretty good show to that which is why we simulcast but these are interactive shows want to remind you we're going to be doing these every week with coach and they are that yes that was when for our guy hollywood you know he came in with a couple questions of why season and he's been he's been awfully quiet so far so hollywood if you're out there we could do some cues for you yes we definitely would again the that school to a state championship and a very excellent record over the years now in three years and milton has kind of turned that program around twenty eight seven win over the marauders in the opener and just sort of your initial thoughts about about how the game went how it played out if it was the score indicative of the way the game yeah i mean you know mehlman is a really good football team and coach dumbos doing a great job over there they have they have great team speed i think that you know three guys who run sub for sixes you know and that's really fast at the high school level you don't you don't see a ton of teams like that and so you focused on trying to control their team speed and i actually think that you know we did a pretty good job of that defensively you know we kind of went back and forth for a little bit in the first quarter you know they are had a little pooch kick in the to start the game you know we we were receiving the ball start the first half and they ran a little pooch kick and you know week one going in some guys have installed that stuff and they're ready to go and you know we obviously i think didn't have as much attention as as we might have otherwise had on that and so they were able to recover that in our defense stopped them and got us the ball back which was you know in the first series which is great you know it was a fourteen nothing game a half and we were in the red zone at the end of the second quarter and weren't able to convert so you know we're looking at that saying we left points on the board and we're in the red zone twice that game and didn't score so that's obviously not a recipe for success they were really able to establish a run game against us which is really positive we were really excited to see that they broke one big play with a tremendously fast running back but outside of that they weren't they weren't really able to establish a run game chip away we were really stout against the run and they scored twice on fourth down you know so that's that's also obviously you know where we are right there about to get there off and off the field and we aren't able to finish so a lot of it for us we just look at it and say that's a good football team there pre season pick pick to be the  south seven fourteen last year we wanted to go up against good competition and we wanted to you know we didn't want to play cupcakes we wanted to go out there and compete against good teams and milne is definitely that and so i think it was great for us and a lot of our first year guys to to get that game experience you know and and as we would say and you know feel that with the bullets flying a game speed of varsity game speed there's no real way to replicate that you work to replicate in practice but it's always going to be different on game day adrenal going you know first varsity start for a bunch of these guys so you know we want that as an opportunity to kinks out we're not we're not happy or satisfied with the result but we know we've got a good football team and we're excited you know get back to work this week and get ready for framing it you mentioned i believe your bench and it i was also reading a little something about it milton runs a bit of a kind of a no huddle style hurry up on the ends so talk about how difficult that is you know from a defensive standpoint how you guys can game plan against him defensively because you're you know you have to keep kind of a base unit out there not really a lot of time to substitute yeah i mean you know not a lot of fences generally limit your ability to roll personnel and that's something that our defense definitely likes to do we've got a lot of guys who can do a lot of different things and we want to be able to roll guys in and out and you know when you're running the no urn no hurry up spread type deal we can't do that i mean in terms of how it affects us you know we were ready for that i mean we know that they're spread team we know the coach dumbos a big spread know how to guy and you know we are prepared for kind of that fast pace of play and you know without giving away too much one of our our approaches to that is is to kind of keep scheme simple you know and worry more about execution and not try to do eighteen different things you know let's pick three or four things that we think we can do well that's going to limit this team's success and let's work on those things in practice and then execute them in game and to be honest you know we were really excited with some of our guys who we felt did a really great job  impressed man coverage and got some great pressure as a result of that and they had a young quarterback too he he missed a couple of throws you know over the course of that game as a result of pressure and that was kind of our defensive attitude against the against the hurry up you know we're going to keep it simple we're going to try to get pressure to the quarterback and we're going to try to deny free release on on routes up the field and try to neutralize some of that speed you know because our guys aren't as fast as their guys that doesn't mean that they can't play with those guys just means they're not as fast in a vertical straight line as those guys are so we saw some success there and that definitely feeds into you know future game planning and finding out the things that we're good at in game situation talk a little bit about george fitzgerald making his first career start what quarterback what  your thoughts what do you take away from his and yeah i mean i'm the i'm so proud of fitz man i mean i can't i can't say enough about this kid and and the amount of work that he's done you know i think that there were definitely times when being in his first varsity start at the home of an off and kind of hit him you know and i had to kind of remind some of my coaches too you know i said all you need to think back to your first varsity start the very first time that you went out there on the varsity field how do you feel you know and and none of us were quarterbacks you know so there were definitely moments where you could see that you know throws a couple throw sometimes you know little speed out throws or bubble throws that you know he makes regularly in practice you know nine times out of ten situation and adrenaline is pumping in his mechanics kind of deteriorate a little bit and there were those moments there were also moments where he made great decisions with the football and through great footballs you know he threw a great thirty eight yard fade ball up the sideline to jake pollock probably had about sixty yards he threw an eighty yard touchdown the joviality in the fourth quarter against against their one defense you know so that was joe's first varsity touchdown fitz's first varsity touchdown so you know we were really excited to to see that i mean he threw for about a probably about i haven't done the total stat up yet but he threw for about one hundred sixty yards probably hundred seventy yards kind of close to two hundred yards you know threw a couple good hitches to will at some good slant patterns and you know we just have to be a little bit better with you know ball security and controlling our cadence and little execution things that a lot of the new guys were were kind of hurting us with and a big piece for us going into next week to as we get captain caleb hannan back on the on  kill was a plan a week one you know and so we have sophomore in their guard a lot of the pressure came up to fits his face this is not a knock on on the kid who is doing that job but a lot of that pressure that's where it came from came from a young kid who didn't have any vices experience got thrown out there a week one you know against varsity guys and he was a freshman last year and he's playing on the freshman team last year and so you know getting kayla back in there is you know we already see in practice is something that execution wise and up setting up in front of our quarterback just really makes a big difference so  was really proud of fitz he's you know he's he's a really level kid he just keeps keeps plugging along you know it doesn't really matter what the result is he's just going to go out there and throw the ball and work his mechanics and try to get better and you have to have that attitude as a quarterback you know you have to have short memories you know the guys who get caught up in what they did wrong the play before if they threw a pick or got sacked or some way that you know those guys very rarely make good quarterbacks you know you have to live in the rap and worry about it later you know and george has a pretty good job of that so i was really proud of him and it sounds like you got a lot of receivers we got away from the run a little bit because you know our we didn't feel like our our front was executing the way that we needed to execute for the run game to be successful and we didn't feel that our backs were were doing exactly what it was that we needed to do in that run game at times you know so seeing that going through first and second quarter you know noticing that you know there were a couple of player paths again mostly with the young software a couple pulled paths that were off a couple times that he missed executed in and blocked reed guys when he's got to release those guys that kind of led us to say you know what let's let's let's go you know seventy thirty pass going you know into the second quarter and the third quarter and fourth quarter and that really was what enabled us to move the ball we like our running game is the thing you know anybody who knows me as a coach has watched us for three years knows i'm not shy to run the ball i mean there are a couple of forty forty carry games in those in those three years but it helps when you have ben jones you have a different you have a different i sense you know we have we have guys who do different things and are good at doing different things and so part of that process is kind of finding out what the roles are for these guys you know and you can do that in scrimmage and you can do that in camp but it's really not until you get out there and you're going live that you start to see kind of what your guys a strengths are and how we can adjust personnel packages to maximize guys abilit know it wasn't where we wanted it to be at all and again we think we have a good run game so you know that's definitely been a focus on the first two days of practice this week and getting the run game going again getting getting caleb out there and getting him back settled it's not like he didn't wrap but you know now he's back in the ones and he's he's getting that good repetition and so you know we're excited about the running game moving forward we think we got some good stuff in against this framingham team a good package that we're wrapping a lot  know you're used to running the ball lot more and you when you had a belt belt ben jones it's easy to hand off to him forty times or whatever but now it means you kind of envision something more where maybe tyler reynolds that adam d's maybe you know it could be more of a split like maybe you know twenty carries a piece or  i don't think we're going to run the ball as much as we did last year we're going to be much more balanced off and then then we've been in the past and so i think that's that's number one i mean one of our goals was to create more balance in our offense because we felt that we had kind of the football i q to be able to start doing that a little more we also have this tremendously talented receiving corps losing jarrad edwards for the season in practice on a tear on a fade just jumped up for a fade and came down and just landed did that just happen this week having gone in a moment he wasn't on the field we didn't talk we were not publicizing our injuries but at this point now he's out he's out for the season we got the results back today you know that's that's a big loss for receiving corps but you know we have a ton of talented receivers so you know we really want to be able to distribute the ball you know you're going to see decent runnels on the field together a lot you know and also showing o'connell and joe hurley who's who's again in the mix at running back also you know so  think that really is just kind of finding our way in this new attitude towards running the football and we took a step forward despite not having great success against milton and we've taken another step forward in the first two days of practice this week and we got we got two more days before friday night yes and let's let's start talking a little bit about your i had a night of course it's the home opener and you know the first friday night lights at harris field here at two thousand and seventeen and of course that also means the debut of the the new harris field press box i'm looking forward to christening i'm recalling to the old press box so talk a little bit about i was just reading some stuff like behind the scenes how you know this is been like you know fifteen sixteen seventeen years in the making and we mentioned ben jones and i you know earlier and i guess his dad was heavily involved yeah max and ben's dad getting involved so talk about the long overdue completion of the press but yeah i mean you  know it's it's funny that sort of stuff kind of just swirls around us you know we're you know we're we're working on the field and we're trying to get these guys ready to go and all of these improvements that have happened and hatteras and rick was a big part of that  when we first got here field around zero in the white field house renovation rick was a huge part of that dontcha fano was a big part of the press box rebuild it looks great you know i mean i was just kind of sitting there watching it load in over the spring and then you know have them fork fork it up to the to where it sits at the fifty and then get the elevator lift in there so where a da compliant and all of that stuff it really does a lot to make harris look a little bit more like it should look you know for middlesex league team and i'm just so so grateful really you know and so blessed that there are so many people working throughout belmont to give our program things that we need and not just our program but i mean all of the sports are going to have access to the sparks all of the coaches are going to have access to this box all the press and media people are going to have access to this box you scoreboards plugged in there it's just there's just so many people who do work behind the scenes and a lot of them are just giving that time so i'm just really lucky i had nothing to do with it outside of watching it get installed  i you know i was just seeing it in stages because i happened to be out and about it looks great i gently look at forward to setting foot in it it's funny that you said like all this stuff goes around it goes on around you you're not really heavily involved and i was just thinking for a moment as you were saying that response i'm thinking you know i don't think anyone ever asked bill belichick if he put a new press but actually let stadium he built tell us what you think about the press i mean those forget the luxury of having other people do those things but i mean i think that just you know the more i do this job you kind of learn to just try to track as hard as you can to really keep your blinders on for both the positive in the negative stuff that goes on you know i mean i think that like part of being a football coach you know some people are going to like you and some people aren't and some people are going to support your call and some people aren't some people are going to talk and some people aren't and so you know i again i've been really lucky to have supportive parents and community and boosters and everything like that but you know we still execute the practice of just you know our job is to get this team ready to play on friday night you know and i just i have an obligation to my guys first and foremost you know these guys deserve success they deserve the opportunity and the very least to be successful my job is to give them that opportunity where they do that opportunity is the team decisions individual decision as players but you know our job is to create the framework and structures and if we get caught up both positively and negatively i think with kind of the emotional stuff that swirls around football program town football especially you know we're going to get distracted from that mission you know and that's my first obligation and the obligation of my staff is is to these guys well if i could say something a practical use of the press box how it will actually be helping benefit your team certainly when the weather is cooperating you know your plan will be to probably have one of your system coaches up on the roof of the press box and that's certainly  be a much higher perspective they have normally had we think comes as a benefit it's huge we're going to get a better angle for film that's huge benefit we get a better bird's eye view you know we've been in the top level of the stans the last three years and that's low so you know it's hard even on our film home it's hard you know we got the end zone cam couple years ago the boosters picked up for us and that the sky hawk has been has been great you know but that's you know we take that at home and that's an end zone angle which is great for our linemen and our running backs it's not as good for our receivers and skill guys so you know we're going to get a better vantage i'm really excited to get that better advantage and i'm excited for my guys who are in the box to be dry you know when it when it rains and you know we'll stand in whatever weather it doesn't really matter we're football guys but you know i've been a box coach before and let me tell you it can be pretty miserable out there on a cold october late in the thunderstorm or a wind storm or there in a swelling and you'd like you get that bone cold you know and you've got to be able to think and think on your feet and be keyed into the game so you know having those guys inside in a nice heated clean press box i think make a big difference well when it comes to the you know the weather conditions that you're will add something to the to the broadcast in general of course she talked a little bit about being out in the elements and maybe we're not going to get cold but based on the early forecasts for friday we could get a little bit of precipitation but you know there's storms in the forecast and we go you know we will again kind of this blinders mentality you know tuesday is over right now i'm worried about wednesday and when once there's overall worry about thursday when thursday's overall worry about about friday night we've got some storms in the forecast you know we'll see what the weather looks like as we get a little bit closer  and we'll start getting those guys ready to play to play what well let's talk about friday and talk about the framingham flyers at me at the first year comes over from westwood where he had pretty good success when forty five games over there now he's moved on  coaching in the bay state conference and you know they came off a very impressive opening night when last week against norway had a twenty to nothing there or a quarterback jack beverley threw a couple touchdowns to jonathan lanza who i guess i mean just probably those two names right there are the two names that are i'm sure well on your your radar is as far as guys to watch and you have to defend against you know i mean you know i think i don't really know their names but you know if we know they're not how you deal with i know i don't go the  western or westwood west which you know and he's doing a good job trying to get that program going no disrespect to norwood you know we're not norwood you know that's a young team in a rebuilding year you know watching it on film we and halston obviously is a game scrimmage so it doesn't so you know this is not a team that we're taken lightly they have weapons and talent and they can do some things we also know that we are we believe at least for ourselves that we're a we're more quality opponent the norwood is and so you know i think we're a little bit more disappointed offensively a little bit older guys with more experience and in a better position to you know give these guys a good tough physical football game and we're physical team you saw against milton i mean this team this team hits we like to hit so you know i think they were really well matched to programs and we got to you contract with them they've got to come to us this year and we've got to go down framingham next how to frame him next next year so we're really excited for the opportunity to play him and to be honest it's been kind of cool to play some teams that we wouldn't normally see you know that aren't in our like thirty mile radius of middlesex so insular you know we like to stick around our own people's you know in  get outside the legal bit and play milton you know and play framing him in and see some teams that we don't normally see is really cool well come november you know when you go into the playoffs or even the non playoff bracket you're still playing a lot of those those teams certainly for the record the we're you know again like i'm not trying to judge and i'm in no position to judge anybody you know we don't we don't we don't judge other programs any program the comes into our house to play football game is a dangerous program period and we've got to treat our opponents with the utmost respect in our preparation for them because if we don't you can have an opponent that's a less quality team than you could be and that's never something that sits well with coaches or with kids you know but yeah i mean they they've got a new coach this year they're installing some new systems obviously they're going to be some growing pains with that we see some of those growing pains on film doesn't mean that those kinks are going to get ironed out over the course of their practice this week and again we don't really think that we're a team with more weapons th it had been coming back next week so that's kind of a plus you're going to try to you know probably incorporate more of the run game into this so this is obviously going to be a bit of a different game plan this week if you're going to roll out or you know i mean you know looks against you know what different type of  game plans change week to week you know and i think that's kind of her big name for fans of all my football over the last three years where our game plan has been relatively consistent week to week that has a lot to do with kind of what we thought we could get in you know and execute well and we've got kind of more tools in our tool box going into this season in this game and so you know it's about finding the tools the specific tools that we think are going to work well against this defense we did a lot of work you know saturday and sunday getting kind of getting the skeleton of the game plan ready to go and then work again after you valen monday kind of improving and refining that skeleton into a more condensed game i'm sure they're going to throw some pick ups out us and some things that we didn't anticipate or didn't see on film but you know and also we got better we had we have better film this week which makes a huge difference you know we've got two full films our film we ha scrimmage films going in the middle and then the quality one of the films was was pretty bad we couldn't really get anything out of it you know so that that makes perpetration a little bit more difficult you know coach burke and the other dan just goes i'm so glad we had two weeks a go film just makes a huge difference for defensive guys especially well and you know if you're another i guess another player to watch out for based on the preseason scouting report they mention a junior lineman chidi not and a number seventy seven i'm sure you safety he's a pretty good football player too so you know they definitely have they don't have some weapons on both sides of the ball obviously i've been watching more of their defense and they've been watching more of their often so not so they were not both plugged in on both sides but yeah they've got they've got some guys they've got some talent and we look at that and say so we we've got some guys we've got some talent so you know put our our guys meat on friday night and we'll see we'll see who has more more execution talent on that night yeah and we're looking forward to broadcasting it again the belmont web site of course and we get we just want to remind everybody here all of our typecast with coach you can be found online at belmont media dot org slash podcast also on sound cloud dot com by searching belmont media the sound cloud app is free and it's available  had their pre game preview show right so they go out and they play a couple numbers and paul catch them in our go out to door and they do such a great job getting that band rolling the police had put the police out there a little bit of a little sting all fields of gold  you never know who the best drummers are because they just kind of exist and i think i may have to google his name there was a great job that i remember him teaching me that through that drummer when i was like