the following podcast is produced or sponsored by community member the content views and opinions expressed are those of the participants and do not reflect those of b m c 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 as airing on the belmont channels eight nine twenty eight and twenty nine as we kick off the two thousand and sixteen belmont marauder football season with the first of our weekly interviews with a belmont football head coach the belmont media podcast network and also airing on the channels of course we're going to be doing this each week leading into each game this season and really looking forward to this and so i will how's your summer been i know you've been busy the last couple of weeks of days or one of days now it's been great it's been a great summer it was an absolutely great camp we were really excited with the energy that our guys brought staff brought to the table it's been a great kind of successful and really high energy camp so that's always good it infuses a little bit of something into you and the guys are just coming out really excited to be there so it's been great and of course for those of you who still may not somehow know coach q by now this is of course his third year as the head coach of the belmont marauder football program and just looking for bigger and better things you went to three and eight your first year four and seven you're your second year and actually if you look at it kind of more as a continuous line which i'm sure you probably do you actually you're seven and eight in your last fifteen games your team playing close to five hundred i know that's one of the goals that you've set out as you want to see the constant improvement in the team looking at the last qtr these first couple of weeks of camp and everything how does this team compare to your other teams is as far as the preparation and even your own preparation now this is your third year as a head coach so how is that is that moving along and progressing well i mean i think that every team is different you know and and so it's hard he will ask that a lot and it's a lot easier to make those kind of comparisons and like pro football where there's a greater sense of continuity and leave some form of continuity in what it is that you have year to year you know for high school football you know it's really rare that you're the same incarnation every time out you know new guys have to step in and do the job every single year and so you know we lost a lot of great seniors but the i think there are two really awesome changes i hate to use that word because it's an overused word and i'm using it incorrectly as an english teacher but there are two really prominent changes and the first is is the energy and speed with which we're playing ball you know and it's defensively especially i mean it's just been a it's been a fast can you know it's been fast it's been fast on both sides of the ball we've got a bunch of guys who are really brought in hard to what it is that we're teaching and what it is that we're doing not just the x s and o's in the football technique but the team culture stuff and and how to approach one another and how to approach this game and that obviously makes a huge difference for us in terms of our ability to motivate and to get these guys to sacrifice as much as they need to sacrifice in order to get to where they need to get and the other big change is just where our starting point was football i q wise technique wise understanding of the game wise you know there was so much fundamental teaching that we had to do early on in the first two years that we still do because it's not that we don't focus on fundamentals but that we didn't have to spend so much time focusing on it i summoned up one of my assistants first to camp one of my assistants as we were walking out to the car you know grab me and said it doesn't feel like we you know feels like we just took a week off and got back at it doesn't feel like we've been gone for eight months and i agreed you know does that mean that every practice is a great practice no and we have our good days are bad is a mediocre day is like every other program out there i'm sure but our starting point is a lot farther along in the process of learning the game than it has been in the two years so far that i've been there and we're really encouraged by that yeah  and obviously should be i think that's great and so yes so you're obviously seeing that progress year to year here you are now you're three or thirty up under your belt and it really is it's feeling more comfortable for you so again you know i would also ask people if you don't know enough about coach q go check out episode five of our cast lead material there during the summer we spoke for over an hour we did a lot of bio stuff background information and we'll try to kind of condense that we're going to kind of keep these a weekly shows to thirty minutes but i know one of the things talking just about your coaching background you were you know you came out well you came out of college and then you coached down in new orleans for a couple of years and then  course you were an assistant under coach and now of course you're going head to head with them this will be the third meeting a will and so just talk a little bit about that talk about what does meant to you as a you know  mentor and just how you go about your approach dow you know third year you're going head to head coaching against yeah i'm really glad you asked that never i'm never shy about talking about how much bob how much coach elmina's has meant to me  you know he's he took a chance on a on a young coach and gave me an opportunity to show myself and to prove myself to him in terms of work ethic and my willingness to do little jobs and learn the game and more importantly than learning the game because i feel like i always had a pretty decent football i q but learning how to coach the game and there's a really big difference between knowing the game of football and learning how to coach the game of football and that's something that really brought to the table for me and taught me that there is there is no way to be a good football coach a good high school football coach if you are not bawden completely yourself to what it is that you're doing and you've got a commit a bob works his tail off man he works his tail off three hundred sixty five days a year seven days a week it never stops he's always scheming he's always scouting he's always film you know doing film study he's always working always to tinker is often seen his defense he's looking at his personnel and so you know i took a lot of that from him and this kind of tireless desire to just keep grinding and keep working and just keep putting one foot in front of the other and eventually you're going to get to where it is that you need to go beyond that we have a really deep personal relationship i call my football dad and i'm in it you know bob's my family for fifty one weeks out of the year you know for one week out of the year this week coming up and as we go along you know when i first took the job we didn't talk for two weeks going into the first game a season then probably a year or two it was we didn't talk for one week going into the game and now we're not like calling each other every night and having in depth conversations about our teams because we got a face off on friday night but you know there's there remains an open line of communication between the two of us bob's a great coach everywhere that he's gone he's left his mark on the programs that he's interacted with he did it well minton where he had tremendous success he did it in malden catholic where he took a team that competes and hands down the toughest league in the state in the catholic conference and brought them to a position of respectability and competitiveness and then he went into stoneham and dave pick known to the a d there laid the groundwork the first year and then passed it on to bob and bob took that and you know really created the structure where i could be successful as a defensive coordinator and our program could be successful too i have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration and love for coach he's a great coach he's a great guy owe pretty much everything that i am as a high school football coach to bob which always makes it interesting when we play each other because people would think that means i want to win  less i think it means i want to win more it's like showing dad that you can beat him and pick up basketball you know finally on the on the backyard court you know back or driveway court and that's kind of what i feel going into the game right well it's the teacher versus the pupil having to use that and this leash a it and right now teacher leads to nothing in their head to head although certainly you know you're one you know you lose thirty nothing and it's your first game as a head coach so i mean obviously a lot a lot of learning curve there and then but then obviously you improve last year it's a much more competitive game he gets get a couple of touchdowns yeah so certainly you know obviously this year is looking to you know take it to the next you know it's take it to that next level i mean we're excited about what we have i mean we're really excited about our team and coach all meet in his staff and a bunch of his guys were at our scrimmage on saturday against wall fam and we had a couple of guys at their scrimmage against winchester so you know they they know that we're good football team and they know that we're an improved football team from the one last year and they know that we have the capacity to be to be a dangerous football team all of that said we have to go out and execute our game plan and execute our technique and and stay within ourselves is a well coached football team and you know we absolutely think that we can go over there to stone and be successful they think the same thing only one of us can be right and you know i definitely believe that the product that's going out onto the field this year is going to be a very different product from the product that we've seen in the last two every year we've taken a little step it feels like this year is a larger step than the two previous steps that we took i n the years prior so we're excited about friday night and let's talk about then the players on friday night they're going to be part of this chapter three of the in your coaching career that are ready to take that next step with you and of course we'll probably start on the off chance of side of the ball where actually you've got your you know your three tapped ins you want to i guess it all starts with what cal kristof or rewrite i mean you're you know one of your three captains coming into the season and by the way you need to mention here congratulations i was reading early commitment to  we have a lot of guys on our team who can be weapons but callin a senior year is a tremendous quarterback and we're really lucky to have a signal caller who has that much experience and who most of all is just that that calm it's a really rare quality and a high school kid i mean if you've ever had the chance to sit down and talk with cal or hang out with cal or anything like that he's a really affable kid and no matter what it is that's happening in the context of the game he's always exactly the same personality at least with me and coming over to the sideline to get in the call and going back in and knowing that you have a guy who's going to be the same on first and ten the same on second into the same on third and seventeen who's going to have a short memory if he makes a mistake but also has tremendous confidence in his arm and tremendous confidence in his decision making we know that we've got a really good one here we're excited to to use him a little bit more than we've been able to use him in the past and i am excited for cal senior season he deserves a good one he's worked his butt off to get to where yes he's worked his butt off to get to where he is for us and he deserves his captain y and he deserves to lead the softens out onto the field yeah like you're saying coach you've seen christopher we progress through these three years now into his senior season and really you know when you look at the office and you look at last year's off fencing you loser a great runner like mckay johnson who you know i'm looking at some of the stats i think you were telling us during our you know during our summer show you mentioned he ran for nearly two thousand yards and twenty six touchdowns combined between running and receiving which i looked at the math that's about three quarters of the touchdowns you guys scored last year sure was so obviously there's a little bit more i think on cal shoulders now he's going to probably have to start to shoulder more of that off and civil load in even maybe i guess what you're going to probably incorporate a little bit more of the passing game coming into yeah i mean i think that anybody who knows  anticipate that we might throw the ball o bit more than we did in previous years but you know we have a we're running back is a position that we're pretty blessed that we have a lot of guys in that pipeline and if you look at the boston herald and a dozen or the players to watch in t two d two a which came out today danny ventura you know ben and cal both are the two guys that we had on that was ben jones also a captain is the guy who's filling with guys shoes he was a far city back last year you know varsity back last year he was the spell back you know someone would get to carries ben would come in and get one in our office was that it's best as run heavy as it was when those two guys were working in tandem with the guy now we got some other guys behind him and let me tell you ben's a great back and he can i think overshadowed a little bit by the performance that mci put together ben's capable of putting together a tremendous season i'm really excited for the kid because he's paid his dues he's worked his his butt off like every single day this kid comes in and just works to get better his game as a running back has improved so much over the two years that we've had him and yesterday at practice you know we were we were chatting up he made a great decision to trust his line and stay inside a block and in years past he would have gotten a little happy footed and chipped outside or you know kind of stopped in the hole looking for that big play and he didn't the whole wasn't there on the snap of the football it materialized as guys got to their blocks and then trusted that process put his shoulder pad down and what would have been a two yard loss or a one yard loss last year as he tried to make something big was a nine yard gain in practice but still a nine yard gain and that's the the attention to detail i think that jones he has so you know people are really quick to talk about mci and having cal and obviously that means you know air attack but we like to think that we're very balanced off and we like to think that ben jones is just as capable as the guys that we had in the past last year and ben's older brother two years ago and max jones who they're different the the jones brothers are not the same they're different types of backs but ben's had a great camp and we're excited to to let him loose a little bit to all these are just talk about that yet so compare ben was a special kind of speed you know his ability to go from zero to top speed was i said in an interview first year i think was unparalleled i thought in our league and possibly up there in the state i mean he's a  state i would say state champ but he's you know in the top ten in the spring or in the hundred in the two hundred you know max has that that vertical go mcconaughey had more of a potential for spectacular run you know he had spectacular run potential you can go and look at some of our highlights in our cut ups and there are just runs where he made something out of nothing but ben is is what i like to call a workhorse running  fast he's not slow he's a sprinter runs the one hundred two hundred the four by one real way in the spring and it's good qualified for the state tournaments in our state meet he's low to the ground a little bit lower to the ground than max was and he's he's stock than max was he's a load and ben jones in a hole come in straight at you is a tough guy to get in front of and tackle and we saw a little bit of that in the scrimmage against waltham he's just a power runner he's a great power runner he's a great zone runner too you know he's really a very multifaceted kid he can do a lot of different things and so he might not have the i don't want to sell him short because ben can break a big play too but he might not have that same explosive big play potential that but there's a consistency to him that i think is really going to benefit us as we go through the season well talking about some of those other captains and bring in the rest of the office to gather here so with krista for he probably with a little bit more passing perhaps involved in the attack of the season who are some of the the weapons they are i mean what kevin martin is one of the capt yeah i mean right now kevin martin is also a captain he's a wide receiver and the safety you know receiver is another position that we've been blessed with you know we had to replace a bunch of guys in cabo stepped in and done a great job for us jack cafferty a senior who also has paid his dues is in the in the slot spot right now and has had a great camp and jake pollack who's a junior is one of the other split receivers and then we've got a couple of young guys who are showing themselves throughout camp sophomores jared edwards a really tall lanky receiver and the one more you know who probably aren't aren't on that list yet because they were because they were freshman  last year both of those guys have shown flashes of really good stuff you know we've got a talented receiving corps and we got to tell the court about it's a good recipe you know and what makes it what completes the or what completes the whole thing too is you know the office of line and i think what ryan newman is your fourth captain junior captain junior cap he sure has and you've mentioned how he anchors the line not a lot of the center position so you talk a little bit about him and then you know know we talked about this on the summer show the strength in the interior line that you're looking forward to having this year i'm in noon or i've said it to his dad to pete noon on multiple occasions and it's one of my favorite lines for a special kid is that if this kid didn't have a loving family back home i'd adopt him ryan is a great young man and his nickname is blue on our team from the jungle book because he kind of has this balloon bear swagger wa to him when he walks in and nothing really fazes ryan you know so we kind of sing the bareness that you know the bare necessities simple bare necessities forget about your worries and your strife you know we sing that iran all the time because he since i've been with the movie yeah it is to have a smile on his face he's one of these kids that always a smile on his face when he's playing sports and then the ball is snapped and there's this demon child that just materializes as a center in an office of lineman and then the whistle blows and he's right back to this just affable and happy and you know just great enter positive energy about him he is a tremendously sound off fence alignment responsibility wise technique wise execution wise he started our thanksgiving day game my first year as a freshman we had an ineligibility issue with the senior center and ryan had to step in as a freshman against watertown and play in his first far city start and he's been our starting center ever since he played every single snap of last year's season no fumbled exchanges no fumbles snaps which at the high school level is good and he's a reliable reliable blocker he is absolutely the anchor of our on fence of  we've got some other guys on there who are who are really coming along dennis crowley started last year is he's back at guard and andrew has only we moved from guard to tackle he's playing one of the tackle spots now and he's out a great camp those two guys are physical true authentic a lineman you know just mean you know you got to have a sense of meanness and we don't teach our kids to be bad people were mean people to other people but when you're an  snapped in your fight in the trenches there has to be a sense of nasty to you and those two guys most definitely haven't and will isn't no has stepped in at the other tackle spot and done a great job we moved caleb and mina jr from fullback down to guard and what a what a great decision that was i'm patting myself on the back for that and my my number one coach pereiro who was who was pushing it he's had a tremendous camp also these five guys finally it took us a week has started to kind of gel together and trust each other and work together and embrace you know the hog life we call it you know the hog identity lunch pail guys bring your lunch pail in your heart had every day hit your punch card clock in the work go do your job clock back out go home and eat you know and that's what these guys do each and every single day and blew there leads them out there but the other four guys have really bought into that and we have a little bit a young depth who's picking up with those guys are putting down and you see that a little bit on our second unit too which is great well again you are watching and listening now however you're doing it listening watching the t l s to todd cast our weekly interview with belmont head football coach yon cumin coach q with us and coach i think one of the you know again i'm going to say this a lot during our weekly chat but you are the master of the segue because you just brought a coach pereira and i want to switch the defensive side of the ball sure and obviously you know the defense is looking to improve i get that i mean you know you want to kind of take that next step with the defense but i this is probably the biggest transition you're making i guess this year is the fact that for the first time you won't be coaching both the office of and defensive sides you're handing off the defense to coach prayer so talk about that transition and what you think of how this year's defense is go dave earned it here and in so many ways i'll say that right now coach pereira earned it i mean he earned it just in terms of his own work ethic i'm not an easy guy to work for i'm getting better you know i'm learning about how to be a better manager every single day that i'm out there my first year i'll say to anybody who wasn't i was poor i was a poor manager i was a not a good head coach i did not approach my job as well as i could have i was a rookie and i looked like a rookie i acted like a rookie i behaved like a rookie with my staff and i'm very lucky that my guys decided to stick with me because a lot of other people wouldn't have thought i'll be perfectly honest with you there are a lot of people who would have walked away dave didn't and then you rewarded them yeah well you know the next year he was you know we always kind of slated dave to be the off chance of guy and because i've been a defensive minded coach my whole career so are you know grand design was eventually dave would call the office and i would call the defense and that's how we would break things up and i realized as a head coach in my second year that it's really really hard to separate yourself as a head coach from your office excuse me it's easier to delegate your defense and work with somebody to build your defense and coming into this year dave deserved the opportunity to be the man at the helm he's learned so much about how to manage that football coaching is is not just x s and o's and it's not just drill because he's a great football coach and a great practice coach his growing his growth was really centered around learning how to be management and learning how to be somebody who is in charge of things we're hand in hand in this defense we're not reinventing the wheel here we've installed our base for two years and we've worked to build it despite people around me and you know my first year a couple of sub our city coaches say you need to get out of this and go to the fore and i kept saying no you know defensive philosophy is about teaching a structure and reinforcing that structure and it might not be pretty from jump because these guys have so much to learn but if you're if you're patient and willing to stick with it eventually that defensive mentality is going to take hold and these guys are going to start playing to the way that you want to play d and that has happened in our base that this year and it's enabled us to expand our package so we're doing more than just what we were doing in that first year which was always our goal mine and coach prayer both we believe in multiple set defenses and we're a multiple set defense for the first time since we've been here and we're doing it effectively dave brings he's it is not me although i joke with him today you know i said there's a lot of you in me you don't even recognize the i forget what it was on the field today he said something and i go where you get that he goes yeah i know you know i go you're your father's son you know and so he's bringing a different kind of energy to our defense but it's working and these guys eyes are aggressive and they're downhill and they're fast and they hit i mean we skirmished waltham we had a varsity scrimmage for the first half we played two quarters with our once one off and so one defense we allowed to first downs that that's his defense that's these guys flying around and playing for coach p i'm so proud of him ok you know what i already think i messed up with this for a bat because i'm trying to keep this show down i don't know that it's going to be so tough i need about sixty seconds from you something up friday night the goals for friday goals for the season how i was going to start off friday night our goal is to win the football game period you know there's no other goal other than that when we want to win the football game our team goals are the same team goals that we said at the beginning of the year we want to have a winning record want to make the playoffs want to be watertown on thanksgiving day you know outside of that we just want to get better every day that's a consistent goal throughout ok well that was fast  that's a comprehensive website which i'm waiting for more updates on that yes the that's the friends of belmont football so i guess i'll get on tom martin who's our great president of f o b s to say we need to you need to build that up a little bit yes we've been running the  good luck this week and also a special plug here we're going to look at straw ghost did a great job putting together a little video leading into the season he was shot over training camp we're looking forward to seeing that that will be out of this week's broadcast as well long course with