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again coach always good to have you as you're having me good to be back it is good to be back for another week week for four the the but the t v twelve revenge where they are begins in cleveland this sunday but well so you forget so that of course this friday you guys will be traveling to to reading and we'll preview that game a little bit later in the show but let's start course by recap wilburn game for those people who are fortunate to get a chance to go i was trying to follow along on twitter a little bit and yeah i mean i you know i'm reading the recap of this game and you guys scored like in the first five minutes of the game you get a nice touchdown pass you feel like you're off it's probably in a good groove at that point and then you know then things would kind of stall out the rest of the night three fumbles i mean it was it was it ultimately the turnovers that yeah i think i think we only put the ball on the deck once they fumbled twice we were covered it and we only fumbled once but it was a big farm bill it was a sloppy game on our part you know there's there's no way to get around that we took ourself out of  drives with penalties we had a great drive to open the third quarter we hit jake pollock for a great completion we don't ferdinand to take it down inside the fifteen and then try to run the taas to get some positive yardage in the ball squirted out and  we're going to recovered it you know and we had another you know good possession drive stop them still seven seven game and we just took ourselves out of it with penalties you know got a great completion gets called back has some alignment issues a receiver is supposed to be off the line was on the line a play never got off that you know you get to see the first two seconds of the play develop and say you know we had a good play there but it never really got off and so you know there's it's one of those days that and there's really no other place to look but in the mirror you know and i said it to franklin for the belmont tony and said it to doug for citizen harold and i'll say to anybody listen that's on me that's sloppiness is on me it's not on my coaches it's not on my players it's not on the fans not on anybody it's on me and were you know working really hard this week to to clean that up and hold our guys accountable for performance mistakes a little bit and say you know we can't shoot ourselves in the foot you know we had multiple opportunities to put that game away and we gave were an opportunity to win and they took it well you know it's very commendable that you will you want to you know obviously put the blame on yourself but now i didn't make the trip to burn we didn't we didn't broadcast the game this week on the b m c channel so i guess i know looking outside that friday evening there was you know often on rain showers yank you think trying to handle the ball had anything you know to do with the three fumbles i mean is that yeah i'm not counting those as carry fumbles we did we ok well fumble to punt returns botch to punt returns i would say we muffed to punt returns i mean you know i think that weather is always a factor when you're playing football i mean because we don't stop for anything so it can be snowing or raining or sleeting as long as there's no lightning we're going to go out and play we knew that it was going to be a wet day we knew you know it was going to be misty and cold and and rainy we were so can soak in the balls and practice on thursday and i was actually going to ask you is that part of your real we are going out there and plan with what footballs and throwing what footballs and caring what footballs and get used to that and it's and callout a great day throw the ball through a ball for about one hundred eighty yards you know and we caught the ball relatively well in the first half we had some really big drops in the second half in the third fourth quarter that you know really would have put us in good positions to to score so did the did the wet have anything to do with the fumbles with our running back fumble i'd say no and i think our part return fumble was you know we're we're we're trying a new kid out back there and he's a good part returner and he's going to be a good part returning for us but it was his first day out and it's it's different on friday night than it is in practice man when those guys are are bearing down on your heart and you know you get a little bit of nerves in the crowd going and that's a big moment and he put you on the deck and we're going recover they didn't score either of those times we stopped them again we stopped them punt they got the recovery stopped them again on four downs and took the ball over both times but those are still possessions that's time on the clock that's possessions that's often of plays that we didn't get to run so you know it's been a big focus again for us this week and will continue to be a big focus to kind of clean up those special teams miscues that you know need to be cleaned up so that we can be successful now on the office of side of the ball and i know we'll finley and i pointed this out on our last broadcast during the arlington game we start to see a little bit more of jared edwards out on the field and you had mentioned last week that you were starting to play edwards a little bit more for kevin martin you had martin kind of more dedicated to defense of course this week you know we weren't at the game an wasn't in there because he's got a little he's got a little nagging shoulder thing and so you know we kind of said we've got to limit you to one side of the ball you know we have some guys who can contribute off uncivilly at the split wide out position on off and you know  instrumental in our defense so you know we made the choice to let's play monday and so jared went out there and he got the start he's probably going to get the start friday night also still kind of trying to make sure cavs one hundred percent before we throw him back out there for his passing touchdown of the year you know and we're really excited about that we we know we've got some guys who can stretch the field vertically out there and it was really good to see them see him do that see jarrod do that it's a young kid that's you know that's sophomore right there making that catch so it's good to see that youngster get involved and maybe go a confidence too and doing his job sure and you know as i'm like you know again i'll try to follow a little bit of this game through like twitter people that are at the game and of course was really dominating the time of possession i guess particularly in the first half and so you saw the defenses on the field even longer in the fact that they were able to you know maybe you know they didn't really show signs of getting fatigue as far as like giving up the yankees or allowing scores i mean we they dominate the time of possession because we we must to punt you know if we don't muff those ponse i think that they're not dominating the time of possession i mean were were ground possession team when we want to be and that was kind of our plan in those first initial drives we didn't get a opportunity to execute that so yeah i was really proud of our defense i mean they came up with some really big stops at the it's not easy to stop a team force a punt you're kind of as if you know our our defense comes off the field our part return unit goes on we're really excited let's get the ball back in the hands of the office and then boom you got to go back on the field on the short field and get another stop so i was really proud of coach he keeping his guys locked in in those situations i'm proud of our defense for just going back out there and playing one play at a time and getting us the ball back again to see opportunity go down feel it always appears as you look through the the recaps too there's always that one or two players you bring up every week on the other side guys to watch out for it appears that tyler hayden was the of the yeah the big man for the ten years he had a couple of a big bully get the forty eight yard touchdown run and then add another long run that set up the game winning field goal the number forty four as their guy i mean he's you know we call him the bugs bunny you know if you ever watch that bugs bunny old warner brothers cartoon you know not pitching bugs bunny not catching dog's body not plan first base bugs bunny and that's what forty four tyler i learned is named after a game that's what that's what tyler was doing for them these points of tight end who's once a fullback who's points and running back he's won some and sideline back or you know we thought we did a pretty good job shutting him down in the past game they caught a you know a big forty yard gain or on a on a counter back that we missed tackles on and scored you know and he's a good athlete in the s a good football player and rockies are good coaches staff are good coaches and you can't you can't give guys lands like that you can't miss tackles in the middle six leagues a great league with great athletes you do that guys will score but you know that was their one big play and then they had a they provided to him we did a pretty good job given them those opportunities you know and that's something that we have to be concerned about we have to we have to fix that problem and again that starts with me that's that's my job that's my responsibility and i'm taking it very very seriously well you know is far is you know what's what you guys did i mean obviously you know it's kind of tough you know you win the game on the last second field goal two weeks ago and then you know you get burned on a late third quarter field goal this time around defensive end get us the ball back adam d s outside linebacker continues to really be a force i thought ben jones and kevin martin at the safety positions had some really good days dillon ferdinand at the other outside backer position had some good days too it wasn't a huge statistical numerical game for us you know there weren't four interceptions and three fumbles and stuff like that we knew that if we pressure  that we were going to be able to have some good success and i thought that despite the fact that we weren't sacking him we were doing a really good job of making it uncomfortable for him back there you know and a quarterback will tell you it's you know it's hard to throw the ball when there are guys in your face and that's what we kind of had gone a little bit in their passing game bring in adam and are three down lime and we do a lot of four man rush you know we we thought that we could get pressure with four  and when you can do that and do that successfully that's positive for your defense you get to leave a lot a lot more guys sitting back there playing re defense which is usually better then than being really blitz happy and blitz crazy you know people sometimes it's a lot better just be a quick reading team because when you when you send somebody somewhere and you miss or you guess wrong you're and you're in a little bit of trouble and defenses reactive so you know we didn't blitz our linebackers a ton thought our inside linebackers did ok was really happy with with noon ben jones kevin martin they did a great job well part of a course blitzing the strategy behind it is maybe the experience of the quarterback you know if you're going up against a younger inexperienced quarterback you might want to blitz and in give that quarterback a lot of different looks and not give him much time to react and that's obviously you know then that then it's an advantage perhaps to blitz but if it's a more seasoned quarterback or someone who at least is able to pick up secondary reads and see where the open spot is then they're going to find it in exposure blitz again if you don't get there and it's also more more against the run you know i mean everybody everybody is thinking of what sack in the quarterback and i mean you know this is massachusetts high school football you know pass every team it's fifty is fifty fifty you know for sixty forty pass so you know you got to be concerned with stopping the run and run blitzing is a tough skill it's one thing to blitz a quarterback is dropping back but run blitz and gap lots and read react what seeing is a whole other skill set and it's a harder one to learn i was really happy as a youngster as a young coordinator i was talking to my buddy who's over in arlington actually last night we talked for about forty five minutes on the phone john curley who's their new d c and he likes to blitz a little they put sparingly you know they they they blitz from the edge a little bit but they they teach their guys to play good read defense and the downhill inside against the run and that's what we're kind of trying to do to well say with the blitz for just another moment here obviously coach pereira is now your defensive guy kind of let the reins go this year so how much control does he have if he wants to call a blitzer i mean it easy just kind of unlocks i mean you guys are as you're preparing for the weeks game all week your you in and coach are talking so i mean are you kind of basically telling them don't use the you know i don't think you should use the blitz much here but you know then get in when the game starts and you know you kind of in the middle of it i mean i think they're like david david i've been together for five years and he was working on my defense when i was running and it's donovan and we didn't reinvent the wheel we're running the same structures essentially the same structures and systems that we've been running you know so david be the first to tell you you always i keep giving him credit and he's going it's already fans and i go i know but you're the you're the guy calling it on friday night in terms of call i mean we're talking all the time you know that's why we got those cool looking headsets on it's not just a look it's not just a look on the sideline you know where we're talking to the guys in the box and and seeing what they're seeing from up top terms of alignment and  there he dave has a lot of rope he's earned it you know he's earned a lot of freedom it's really nice for me you know we had a defensive practice today and i just kind of get to sit back and and be a positional coach you know for forty five minutes of practice fifty minutes of practice i don't have to worry about the whole management stuff dave's taken care of it you know he's learned a lot about this is how you set up a practice this is how you organize drill this is how you get your scheme together for scheme i mean we meet saturday sunday monday you know and get our game plan together so dave and i are on the same page by the time we take to the field for our first full the fence of practice which is usually wednesday full defensive day we're already on the same page and i know what dave wants to do i know what his attitude is and he's really good at asking questions you know i'll come in and he'll say you know have stuff drawn up on the board he'll say coach can take a look at this i you know i don't know if this is what we want to do or what do you think we want to do this and we have a great working relationship and i'm lucky because he puts up with me you head and hang it up at the end the season some final thoughts on coach rocky rocks a legend you know i like to think that we as a program and i as coach of have gained a little bit more respect from rock every year that we've played them  and you know i just those are the guys that you kind of look at you know a guy like rocker another one of my my heroes and tom lamb who was on a long time coach over natick you know you look at those guys and i'm thirty thirty four and i look at these guys and i say you know that's who that's who i want to be no that's that's where i want to be that's who i want to be that's that's the guy i want to be a program coach who's been somewhere for you know twenty years and has community ties and community roots and can look back at a career and say i've really positively influenced thousands of young people and that's what rock star you know he's influenced he is positively influenced thouse an's of young men in that town he's beloved there and rightfully so on or to have gotten three years to coach against them i'm sad that the middlesex is losing a great coach he's he's leaving because he doesn't like the direction that high school football is heading he wrote a great open letter about that explaining his decision to retire because rocks got a lot more fight in him if you know rocky melson you know coach and he's coaches got a lot more fight with he's not tired that he's a coach think they rocky you opportunity for three years to coach against a guy who was a massachusetts hall of famer and massachusetts coaching legend it's been an honor well and now you move on this week to a reading and their head coach john fiorina thirteenth season has already put up some impressive win numbers themself one hundred in one hundred five career wins now if i am the math right here for a coach fiore this is a match up that certainly in the prior two years that you faced the reading rockets has not been very competitive shall we say i mean ninety eight to nothing there it is that snotty eight nothing is the cumulative score of the prior to meetings between the marauders and the rockets and however  this you know you look at reading schedule this year i mean this is the one thing that's maybe a little surprising here you are five weeks or four weeks into the season getting ready for week five and you would reading actually have identical to win two records an identical one in one middlesex liberty division record so you know it in reading took it on the chin last week to lexington i guess if people thought reading was the team to beat in the league well hold on a moment looks like the minutemen have something to say about that heck of a game six touchdowns and they won at reading fifty six to twenty seven so now not only are you facing a reading team that's had your number the first two years but now you're also facing a reading team that's come off a pretty rough loss so i'm not sure what's better i don't know if you'd rather you'd rather want to face them coming you know being undefeated or coming off the kind of throttling they took last i don't i don't really care what happened to them the last week you know john is a great football coach reading is a great football town that places this is just this machine you know there's one hundred kids out for football every year hundred plus kids out for football every year he's got great coaches and it's just  of an it's an interesting automatic thing i mean i've coached against reading my own history against reading i mean i obviously have coached against reading the last two years here and then i was the d coordinator at stoneham and stone  plays writing on thanksgiving day and so you know we had we had the second worst beat of my life was leading on thanksgiving at reading with stone on thirty to six in the fourth quarter and then we lost in triple overtime and then prior to that we played reading when they had one of the greatest quarterbacks stanley andre quarterback middle linebacker who went on to play you mass i believe when i was in malden catholic so i've seen a lot  seen a lot of the rockets and they're always good and they're always disciplined and they're always physical and they're always fast and that's not anything that's going to change any time soon i would imagine that they're going to have a little bit of juice coming in off of a tough a game that i'm sure they felt they should've won and i'm sure that john is getting them going they have beaten us pretty badly over the last two years our first year is our first year our second year is our second year  and i know that sounds really kind of not it's not the most eloquent statement well see i'm going to be controversy here for a minute if you're just bring up i know we talked about this when we when you came in during the summer we talked briefly about that and the fact that you know i guess reading may have been trying to run up the score on you guys a little bit last year there might have been some sportsmanship i'm not going to marry so i'm not i mean i won't speak to the score or anything like that i think they were just running they're often it's and we couldn't stop anything you know i'm always reminded of and bobby bowden conversation i think i always forget who said what to whom but you know they meet at the center of the field i think it was lou said to bobby bobby just beat him by fifty points and said something like what's the deal bobby i thought we were friends and you come out here and you run the score up on me and bobby says lou we're just we're just running are often it's your job to stop it you know and i don't i i don't think that coach fiore was going in there is and we're going to run the score up on these guys and all of that i think they were just run in there oh and we couldn't stop there oh and we couldn't do much ourselves off uncivil as to the sportsmanship stuff i mean it's football it gets chippy oftentimes people who are removed from the game and removed from the situation have some things to say in their own impressions i have no control over what their impressions are i mean our attitude was this team kicked our but let's shake their hands and get into the field house and break the film down and and get ready for winchester next week and that's and that's what we did it's i think always something that i'm learning as a head coach is that oftentimes people attach things to you or to your program that you don't really have anything to do with you or your program my kids didn't say anything i didn't say anything and we just took it on the chin and licked our wounds and went in there and get back to work and we do that when we when you know let's get back to work and we do it when we lose let's let's get back to work  i don't have any bad blood at all you know i think that john is a great football coach i'm sure we have philosophical differences about the sport and about life like every other human being out there and they're going to try to beat us by fifty again because that's what they that's what that's what they're often stuff is our job is to disallow that for the first time in three years and that's what we're focused on doing well despite coming off  loss last week coach do you think your team is better positioned this year to do just that to maybe you know it's actually score some points against reading yeah i mean i definitely think we're a better football team than we were last year and the year before that and it's not a knock on the guys that i had those previous two years it's just a question of the system clipping in you know you look at john in his thirteenth year reading i mean that's thirteen years of operating a system thirteen years of building in your structures thirteen years of getting kids accustomed to thirteen years of getting kids into the program from the build and i've got to you know and so every year that we do this we're going to be a little bit farther along we're going to be a little bit closer and i say this about coach fury and i says about like coach because you over watertown is that you know these guys kind of have their structures and their systems clipping along a little bit and that's what we're trying to get to you know it's not it's not a bad blood thing we're seeing these guys who are who are who have got their programs and their programs are established and there's an expectation for a high level of play and an expectation for performance and an expectation for discipline expectation for accountability and all these things and that's what we are working still where a lot farther along than we were but that's what we're continuing to work to build here in belmont you know and so if anything i have admiration and respect for these guys who have who have created these structures in their towns and sustain them you know it's something that we're we're looking to do as well well you can believe it coach we are pretty much out now we did not have any questions for the coach this week which might be just as well but again what do you if you are watching or listening to this show we want you to participate if you're watching right now you see the hash tag it's cues for q and again if you are listening to us that is spelled q s f o r q questions for coach q we'd like you to be a part of the show participate we will mama time as we've done in previous weeks will make the time where's hollywood dollywood was our guy for the first two weeks and now hollywood has mysteriously going to be closing music but i'm going to try it 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