been all season now by belmont high school head football coach young cumin and on this special edition of the todd cast as we'll go back to the full shot for those of you watching on video we've got the tired senior captains all five of them from this year's two thousand  those casts this year and this year we've kind of done a little we've enhanced the thanksgiving day experience for those of you watching we hope even if you're listening to this that at some point you eventually migrate over to the television side of the neo side and  see how nice this looks because it looks like we're actually at harrah's feel pretty cool kind of look here and as we said we got all five senior captains here and i guess i want to start off i know we're going to talk a lot of belmont watertown and thanksgiving day football but i have to start i need to congratulate all five  guess to start off let's before we get into the thanksgiving people all let's go back to that playoff game and just let you know the ride to get there and then you know it's kind of a kind of a crazy game to play up a dam burst up just talk about everything leading up to that and i guess whoever wants to start  wasn't one person i was there in everything we're all doing things and i think that was really special to see and also this year like ophelia really started with strong practices and we came out early in seniors would grab sophomores weeding out what sophomores like we really pull everyone together and that really helped like on the practice field like there scout was like really like connected with the juniors and seniors on scouts like they really gave us good looks for that no one week so that's why we started so strong focus on the task but you know we just couldn't get it done during that game yeah for much of june sam said i think the family aspect change especially just the team culture you know we all have one common goal i think on the approaches of definitely you chose them at the beginning of the season or prior to the season and also what they were able to do to help stem the tone for the here and and be able to have success and get on the field yeah i mean i've been i've been really lucky in the time that i've been here to have great captains you know and i like to think that we have  good a good standard that previous captains of these guys all stepped up and kind of filled that role really to a t i mean we talk a lot about leadership as you know be in the st to serve in the last to be served and these guys have heard that for four years and i've heard this year you know that getting to go out there for the coin toss if they want to send our five out there on the roads yes to rotate a guy in and out but you know get to go out there for the coin toss on friday night is a reward right for having having served your team and having done the work that's necessary to step in front of the team and sorry that's in iraq is there a limit on how many captains can actually go out to make the contest technically it's four so it kind of just depends on the official most officers are pretty cool that if you have five guys they'll let five guys go out there then once or twice this year we we had we had to send four out so yeah i mean they all lead in different ways you know each one of these guys has kind of a different a different way about them you know  some of them are are more vocal you know dolly and sam are probably two of the more more vocal guys in the captains corps if they have an issue with something that's happening on the field or they feel like the unit isn't isn't performing the way that it needs to be performing they'll open their mouth in the bit you know there will be a quieter and so for me the family aspect that all these guys are talking about that we were really able to latch onto this year started with these five guys because their family you know they're different guys with different attitudes different approaches to the game different approaches to life and for me that's one of the beauties about football is it's one of the few places in our in our fraught nation where people can just kind of come together and unify over something you know and it's really cool to be able to see that and to be a part of that  and i've been humbled by their leadership they have been with me every step of the way and they've been with their brothers every step of the way we're not we're not where we are without these five guys do you guys want to expand on any approaches up points there about even just any individual examples that if you had during the year an aggressive manner but you know just like psych talk to them and be like look we've got to play better because this is not going to cut it for this upcoming week so there's a lot of things like once and a lot it's not just one moment that kind of stands out yeah more we all came out we played much better in that nd half and for years you know so well you know again right and i think that was probably another you know the weather was just you five guys or you got the whole team to kind of believe in it this was a team that behind again but showed a lot of fight coming back and kind of remember a particular jerad on the last drive you caught five balls for eighty two yards that you were you were actually responsible for all the offices on that drive that you know got it close and kind of set up for at least a side kick know we certainly are going to probably be mentioning him quite a bit during the show as well as something or other teammate you know brought up a killing in here or killing yourself has been kind of waiting for your tie i guess for four years to play behind some other really talented belmont running backs and then this year you got a chance to finally come through both un were tied joseph certainly but you led the team this year with nearly eight hundred rushing yards seven touchdowns talk about just you know how you kind of bide your time and then stepped it you know just other you know talk about also maybe i guess going back you know you've been with coach two for four years you guys want to look back at some of your you know your early meetings with him something we actually after the cabinet last year i don't  and we did like some yoga session with one of us the coaches coach barge and we were kind of goofing off doing it like the whole team and then they took us inside and coach q talk to us very very i don't know i just like i got that like so i go like these like coaches really care about their players and like they really like will help you be better and that's what they did these years yeah yeah i remember our freshman year when we were playing for coach hill and our coach he would always come and talk to us and kind of just really just give us that aspect of family and show us like even though we're freshmen we're not practicing with you you know one of his best qualities is that brought you guys all together it makes it you made to feel like a family you know the one denying that on the roster you know right off the bat i mean is that is that kind of what did going into this coming season did things feel a little different  respond to kind of prove everyone wrong and that kind of even brought us closer as well and just were fired up and i think this team is a team that did a really good job too of just really keeping the blinders on you know and trying to live a lot of the stuff that we talk about and i know it sounds cliche and we've talked about it you know week to week a bunch of times but one of the reasons that we were able to have as many nd half comebacks as we did this year one of the reasons we were able to beat teams that on paper were quote unquote better than we were it was because of that you know this just wasn't a team that was kind of looking past anything it wasn't looking ahead to week six or seven we weren't really looking towards the playoffs we weren't listening to a lot of the noise that was coming in from outside you know we just kind of wanted to get out on to the football field and play football you know for me that was one of the great memories of the dead enders game you know was we were down like thirty points and we came out and  know i was like we just want to play football you know this team on the other side of often much they're done they thought they were done playing football we still got twenty two minutes left let's just go play ball let's go get more route let's go get better it's one rep at a time next thing you knew we were two scores out you know you know those are my favorite moments or just the little kind inside moments that we get that you know most guys don't you don't hear about or anything like that you know like sam wearing his giant sweatshirt on catching a  id game but i can't find any records of that that other game anyway but you know i think the other thing that drives you particularly when you think about this game is i know as a class you you haven't beaten watertown on thanksgiving day in fact watertown's won the last one for games and i guess you know you talk about your season goals too and you know one of them was make the playoffs which she did and i know one other one that coach do you always say is watertown well not only by beating watertown which it would just snap that when st they happen also with your  th win it would be that the most wins of any year for your class to mean you know it's far as you know most wins in a season so you know just talk about the excitement that you're kind of is that in the days approach here to the big showdown with watertown and  what even we like what it all means to you i mean did any guy start off in like watertown belmont pop warner so you have connections with any of the players you might have if you know some of the guys that on the watertown team standpoint are not really just you know pop warner was by weight not really by a create so i had to play with like you know calculus of fori invent jones those are the guys i play with wills on and so i really play with kids in my class so i don't really have a lot of t of it's like it's pride on the line kind of i mean it's not really it's not just well at the team is on by yourself it's proud of the town i guess that's that's the way i don't think it's for me at least i don't think it's ever been more of a rivalry it till this year for in my mind because last year you know it was my as my st year starting i was just kind of like getting to know how to get to know how to play getting to know how to like use my like mental focus to kind of play a game and things like that but this year i've been very set on after that i was i was very set on beating watertown and it just it just like builds up in you and you want to go out there and th yeah some of the jake i started playing in the long time by a lot of pop warner so i've been playing with a lot of these guys for a while like playing with and against so this one's like really really personal like i just really we've all think we all do we all really kids so i don't i don't i've never played football with them but i mean i've lost in three years i don't want to lose again and i don't like losing to teams like that you know and i mean that is yeah day that this is something that's really special and it's something that sacred you know and once you step out there on the field thursday morning you become a part of that you know you become a part of that fabric you become part of that legacy there's not a lot of places here in america that can say that they have you know our one hundred years of history of two towns meeting each other on a football field or a baseball diamond or a basketball court to be perfectly honest for a one hundred year rivalries are few and far between so to get to be a part of that you know for me as somebody who's not from belmont or watertown and just kind of came into this rivalry as a coach it's been it's been special it's hard not to feel that energy you know i mean you've been there you've seen and these guys have all played in it the stands are packed the field is there standing room all the way around the field people up against the fence see all the old guys on both side in their letterman's jackets dating back fifty years you know you can see the coast team coming out the coco the band is rocking in the cheerleaders are going and we're all here together for one last kind of go around and yeah it's something that's just immensely powerful our mission has to be to keep our blinders on in the context of that power because that that power can fill you can sustain you can drive you to perform you can also take you out of your day and pretty quick you know you can look around and go on god there's like five thousand people here you know and next thing you know the ball's getting snapped and you missed your reader you had proved an assignment or a line you know because you were kind of lost in the in the stars and we i'm excited that we get to play this game having had that little playoff run because for me that's something that happened in that st half endeavors that was like oh my god we're in the playoffs everybody's like we're right and we came in and we talked about these guys talk about and said what do you want your playoff experience to be we got twenty two minutes what he wanted to be and we kind of clock back into who we've always been let's just go out there and do our job and execute you know run block pass counts and tackle simple game having had that experience i think is something that's really going to benefit this football family going into turkey day so i know these guys want it  we're not really a team that kind of looks at those things and says that without one or last us a football game we've never said that these guys know it right it's never one player that wins or loses a football game ever whether it's a call whether it's a missed kick whether it's a drop pass you have forty million opportunities to win a football game throughout the course of one so we feel we've got a couple bad bounces here and there and we've come close a couple of times i mean two years ago we were driving to tie and threw a pick you know and that was it so it's not like these have been you know blowout blowout shots you know for four years or five years either we've been right there in a bunch of these games and we're pretty fired up to get another crack at this and this thanksgiving there are workers  know i don't maybe there aren't a lot of great individual memories for you guys about the thanksgiving break in at least as far as the end result of those games are with watertown three but is there anything any other memories of those games that you can recall that you'd like to share here or are they kind of you know help  a lead into this year's game or i think just like at a game like you see like you when you come out for the st drive or whatever you see all the people but sometimes like especially this year like throughout all these games i've come out to games and i haven't even noticed until like the th quarter that we have these people in the stands like i don't even look like some games i'm like i look in the eyes i'll be on the field and you don't even notice that we have the whole studio sections filled i can tell after so i think for thanksgiving i think we ought to have that kind of same mentality of just you're on the field you're focused on the field you shouldn't be looking anywhere except coach you on defense to look at the cause that's that's all they should be looking at i mean that's just the big thing just treat it like any other game and it's it's going to be like you're going to have more butterflies you're going to have everything but yeah just try to stay as level as possible that's a follow up on your sam have you been really impressed or proud of the fact that somebody students have turned out for the home games this year i mean this is long you know i've been calling the games for the last three seasons of i don't remember the the student section being quite as packed for games as it's been this generality we've we we've said it to our team a lot of times that you know i love our fans and they're great fans but you know when when we were losing these past two years not a lot of them came out and we said it we said it before the st game this year we're like boys if we win this game we have this whole school supporting us and we just once we won that st game won the nd game and we just our home record is pretty good i think three and one yeah so i think we just want to have as much support as possible and be known in the school as one of the more dominant teams because in the past we've been kind of pushed aside like once you start i must sports kids are like oh you play football or the like that and they they suck but  that you know i mean we just really causing perspective to i mean we i sure feel with all these these these guys and gals you know and then coach graham and coach b b day and coach smith you know to see them it that's all that's fair that's fair i mean i don't know what his attitude towards thunder cats is and so i hope we'll leave that to the side but no i mean every year we got to go you know we'd go out there and we'd see these teams get their tourney shot you know so it was really special to be a part of that group in the fall sports crew we like to say that we're the best season so you know we are a pretty close knit coaching family too we communicate a lot for field sharing taxer flying back and forth you know all this stuff and we're very supportive of them and they're always been really supportive of us so that was something really special to get to be a part of that that crew going to the postseason and in belmont fox sports and i think you know as sam said there was a little bit a little bit more juice in the in the student section this year than there has been in years past years the stands were full pretty much every i can't think of a game that we played this year where we were playing in front and yeah that obviously you know thanksgiving has its own big crowd it's going to be packed in early forecast i guess for thanksgiving day is it up yet colds going to be in the twenty's or teens to start the game i think the high temperature which will be well here i was a fun practice you know we didn't we didn't stay out crazy long we trimmed a little bit but it was it was fun so i bring back memories of my st thanks you know they call it in two thousand and fourteen you know the game i had snowed like that morning and you know everyone had to any memories you have from the watertown thanksgiving day games of the past and you want to share other experiences about the game itself yeah i mean a lot even like when we were like we were dressing like when we were in like th grade like th grade just growing up going to those film like when one guy has a ball i mean like you see everyone just there's some plays where some guys aren't there but for the mage for the most part we're all in or all in we're all tackling there's like a couple pictures i've seen where it's like one guy like runners running and there's like eight guys just all wrapping him up all around him it's crazy but yeah i mean for me i love playing i love playing defense for all these years but i think this year i've kind of taken up a love for the spring just kind of what you have to do as it often is a line is a little similar to like when you're in a rugby scrum fighting for a ball that's a little bit i mean as far as like push and driving but i was like this yeah i kind of worked out just a little bit more in the off season and i mean being a guard you get to pull around a lot and hit linebackers and i love pouring around going full speed until my back if that's so that's that's why i kind of loved off a little a little bit more this year  like whenever there's one of those laying out you know i don't even have to always see the number of the players i can usually guess from the way i was called that you know the games of the season that it was probably number three he lays a falling out with that yeah he laid a couple boom shots i mean it's  cool to me again i think it really is a testament to like the the lack of individual ego on our team you know whereas like kelly was our primary back this year you know rick i was here for senior year and there wasn't a sense of bitterness on his part you know bali oh man here comes this guy who's going to invariably take a couple of my carries you know that would probably otherwise be mine and then defensively there are two safeties going is our strong safety and we're guys are free so you know they're they're both kind of back the back they're together orchestrating you know and we're really lucky to have two tremendously talented tackling safeties and downhill safeties right i mean both of these guys play more like almost like a rover at times in better but yeah we were really lucky we were kind of kills in that in that defensive backfield man and belly we've got three guys who are seniors and killing adel or god two guys who played a lot of football and they're really really smart football players you know and between sam harris sammy segues delhi and kills we've really got four guys who can do what jared was kind of talking about seeing pieces get rearranged and all that stuff we're misaligned those guys can take care of and if we've got a younger guy who doesn't really know what's happening in front of them right they can take care of it and one of the things i know i'm talking a lot on this one that i've been most proud of on the defensive side of the ball is the way these guys have approached helping the next generation of kids coming up i watch these guys every day talk to youngsters software's in juniors who are going to have to play their position next year and give them a little piece of knowledge you know or one of those little intricacies about how to play that position you know and so that goes back to their leadership capacity and that's not just limited to the five guys we have here there are a lot of other seniors who are home right now you're going to be watching this on t v who play for us too who have been absolutely instrumental in that process as well so it's really cool you know you know we don't yet have and then forget about it like player i guess that's been accepted to college but you guys are all seniors it's a busy fall for you you're trying to balance you know all your football with your studies and then all the college applications want to extend some congratulations here to what's up m b a m budget parts and it will be the left tackle guys i mean you're all still kind of in the process of you know getting out applications and just stuff like that and then all the sports guys too i mean evolved in delhi i imagine will be a college lacrosse player he's a fantastic goalie kilian good player lacks in college as well and could play college football if he really wanted to jarrett is in the midst of his recruitment right now with a bunch of schools that are interested in them if he decides to continue his career for fun for football most definitely and sags is a really talented rugby player too but i'm kind of hoping that he might cross over to the dark side and year after trying to get my football career back again and not be as washed up as i would be washington what about you jerry but some of your say you're going to have some some scouts do a work job when you're there right the motto is they had the hand in the heart right act this educate the had the hand in the heart so the other schools the hoity toity ones would would make fun of northfield and image by calling because they farmed pigs literally farmed picks and so northfield figured out that if they just change their change their mascot to them to the hog or that you could really make fun of us anymore because we were  final thoughts about we what you're going to remember most about your four years of football what you can remember most about coach and you know just your overall you know your experience and kind of it as it all leads up to to this game and you guys will start own thing and you know like they have different but like i feel like now after playing for this football team for a few years like it definitely helped me as being coachable and i can kind of take that forward maybe with aspirations of coaching in the future i remember last year i missed last year due to injury and i kind of like i remember after my surgery i was like man my life is over like i work so hard in my i can't play football anymore but like when i came back like i really like notice that football like why i love it so much it's not about like it's going touchdowns and like catching balls and like running around it's more about like being together like going to walk home every day with the same kids with like the same goal it's like i really found that important to me like when i had like a quote unquote down year wasn't really down for me because like i was still with my family so yeah i don't think i've ever really loved football as much as i do this year i mean it's just like crazy like to walk into the locker room every day and see all these really good to see everyone kind of connecting and being a part of like one having one common goal and nothing would be better than capping it off for the win this there's the yeah it's really the little things be the type of such a close knit group they're going to keep coming back home and you know during your college breaks for thanksgiving you'll probably want to attend the belmont a lot of times games will all get together you know it's a you know i can kind of see that a little bit just from what you guys are all saying for sure be obviously very very sad to see these guys and all of my seniors leave the program this year you know i mean we football and for everybody at some point in high school football ends for all of us obviously and so you know i think these guys are all acutely aware that this is you know the literally the last four days that they're going to put belmont across their chest as a football player and go represent their town in this football family and for me the coolest part about my job you know comes from getting to see you know where these guys started and and and where they are now you know these guys came into our program as th graders in the summer they were kids you know they were just little kids and every single one of them has improved immensely right grown immensely transitioned and transformed immensely and overcome personal overcome issues with you know mike wasn't the most coachable kid he's crazy coachable now he knows it too you know just the ability for all of us to like look in the mirror for me that's the thing that i'm most proud of in these guys is they're the type of men who will look at themselves st for a reason as to why something is not working the way they wanted to work as opposed to immediately deflecting the responsibility or accountability for something like that to something else or someone else i'm most proud of that you know we all point fingers in this program we don't look for excuses or reasons to  hold ourselves accountable we attack our failures head on and embrace them as a means to get better and so for me yeah i mean i'm every year when our family transitions into the next version of it i'm sad to be and the guys who have been a big part of my life as a person right we sometimes forget that like all of us sitting up here are just people you know are just some dude you know playing football coach and football and these guys are a part of my life you know i see him in the locker room i see him in the weight room i see him play hockey i see him play with cross i see him play rugby center etc and so we're sad to be losing them but we've talked a lot about legacy in our program about leaving something for future generations to remember you by and that's what these guys have all done over their four years of time here you know they've left a legacy on our football program and they've created a legacy in my own heart i'm a better coach because i got to work with these guys is not just a one way street where we go out there and make them better they make us better too by presenting challenges or maybe there are things we didn't teach well where do well you know we've probably all had mono deleon i've  moment or two where like i probably didn't approach him the right way to make him the most coachable kid because i was frustrated with something and i yelled in the right but we're better like as men because of those moments of those experiences so you know i'm just not to ramble on but i'm just super up and i'm just super i'm just super grateful and super grateful for all of the time the these guys have put into this thing and to their brothers and their coaches and to me i'm a lot well i think should i mean should be grateful and i'm grateful to get to meet all you guys it's been it's been a lot of fun as we wrap up this special i just want to thank my entire crew on the t v simulcast side of th cast for with whom without their hard work we wouldn't have had all the excellent video and in fact if you're normally listening to just the audio version of these typecast i recommend for this one check out the video site as well looks really nice it's going to be airing in conjunction with the football game might even