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So here's the good news. We got four out of
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five picks correct. Here's the bad news. The spreads, not
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so much. I've got excuses for some why they were
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so off. Others, not so much. I'm going to eat
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my own crow again on our picks this week. We're
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also going to break down our watch list. Gridiron 419
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reaction show up next. Welcome in, everybody. Gridiron419, Chris, Dan,
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thank you so much for spending part of your day
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with us here. Week six was an interesting one. Like
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I said, our preview was great. We got four out
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of five right, and yet somehow when you look at
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the spreads, it's like we haven't even watched the game
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this year. Some because teams just did an incredible job.
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Others because we just got it plainly wrong. We'll have
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to see exactly and own some of that. But the
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receipts will be out. The surprises were definitely real. and
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we'll break down everything here in week number six. But overall,
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just I think a really exciting night. There were some
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really great finishes in Northwest Ohio on Friday, and that's probably,
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if anything, that stands out the most to me. That's it.
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I mean, it's impressive to see how many times we
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had drives inside two minutes to go determine things, how
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many we'll be able to highlight some game-winning field goals,
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plays at the buzzer. outstanding defensive plays to end games
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like a jam-packed week where it's been kind of slow
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for some of these things. So it's great to see
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it pick up, especially now that we're getting into everyone
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in conference play and every game meeting that much more.
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And it's something we're going to have to legitimately talk
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about here very soon as everyone starts racking up computer
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points and we start looking forward to where those brackets
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will be in a mere week month from now.
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So we'll go ahead and dive right into our featured games.
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And the first game that we had up was Liberty
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Center at Patrick Henry. That was a 42-14 pick. It
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ended up being 38-6 Liberty Center over Patrick Henry. The
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two things that I would say jump out to me
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about this, Liberty Center held Patrick Henry to its lowest
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point total of the season, still won by 32 points.
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The Tigers now 3-0 in the NWOL. We did not
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think that Patrick Henry was going to be able to
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hang with Liberty Center in this game. But the other
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part of this that I want to mention, this is
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still the closest that anybody has been, which tells you
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how good Liberty Center has been to start the year.
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This is the closest anyone has been to Liberty Center.
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A 32-point loss is nothing that anybody in Hamler is
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going to be celebrating today. But at the same time,
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There's one of those situations, I think, where you say, OK,
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we knew this was going to be tough. We're still
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a good football team, as Patrick Henry should look at it.
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And we have just played a absolute juggernaut, a team
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that has just rolled through everybody the closest they've been
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played all season. That is something, even though we didn't
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look good and they did what they do to everybody,
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that's still something to hang your hat on a little
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bit if we played them tougher than anybody else has
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this year.
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Yeah, I mean... I'm grasping at straws, I suppose. I mean,
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I know, because you hate to look at it and
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go and use the term good loss.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, it's not exactly a.
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It shouldn't be a devastating thing if you, again, lose
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to a team that's the number one team in the
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state at this division and has won 51 straight regular
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season games. I, you still have plenty of things you
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can take away and there's still plenty to play for.
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As we said, uh, it was, the conference might be out,
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but again, there's still plenty to play for.
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The biggest thing continues to be from the Liberty center
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side of things. I talked about it with you on
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Wednesday of last week. We mentioned it again today. It's
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no longer about, can Liberty center, uh, beat good teams. It's,
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is there anybody left on this regular season schedule that
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can hang with Liberty center? We both would agree. It's
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arts bold is probably the closest you have right now. Yeah.
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But even then there's going to be doubters in that
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camp to say, gosh, I don't even know that they're
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in that conversation. This is easily the most dominant program,
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at least in the lower divisions in the entire state
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of Ohio, in my.
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Opinion, right now, clearly. And you know, if they're not,
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The favorite for another state championship. I would love to
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see the team that is because that team would be frightening.
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And give me the number. Where are we at now?
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51 in a row.
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51 in a row. There you go. So, again, impressive
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as hell with what Casey Moeller and the Tigers have
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done with that program. Game number two. This is one
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where we've got to eat some. We had 28-24 Central
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Catholic against Lumen Christi. Ended up being 49-7. Now, this
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is one of the ones that I would say I
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do have a little bit of an excuse for. I
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had said as much. We did as much research as
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we could on Lumen Christi coming in. There just wasn't
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a lot out there. Doesn't mean that maybe we shouldn't
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have been more deferential to the Irish. And also, to
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be fair to Lumen Christi, this was not a blowout
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towards halftime. This was only a 7-0 game, I think,
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in the second quarter. So Lumen Christi played Central Catholic tough.
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or a half, but the Irish continue to do what
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the Irish do. 15 carries 219 on the ground for
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Jeremiah Fuller, five touchdowns. That's a career best for him.
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Lincoln sellers was eight of 18 passing two 76 through
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the air and a touchdown. And then you had Amari
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Eliano who caught four passes for one Oh six and
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Robert Douglas, the third had a 28 yard touchdown pass.
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I will say that this is less to me about
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how central one that they won. I do have to
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say this resets the ceiling a little bit with how
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well they played. This was a Lumen Christi team that
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was undefeated and had not lost in the last few
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years because they were in that lower level of the
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Catholic division. And the Irish absolutely and DCC, which we
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will probably talk about on our preview show coming up
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on Thursday of this week, that is going to be
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the game that everybody's going to have. We're going to
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have to wait an extra day because it's going to
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be for some reason played on Saturday afternoon. However, when
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you look at where central Catholic is, they may be
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the closest challenger to Detroit Catholic central that they have
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seen this year. And that is going to be an
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absolute heavyweight fight up in Novi on Saturday next week.
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Absolutely. And I think, uh, the best test for central, um, I, again,
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I understand that, uh, you know, you, you want to
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be in the conversation for division championships always that's, that's
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always kind of your first step in the, uh, in
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the season, but also this is going to be their
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best test against teams that they're probably going to see
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every week in the playoffs. As we've seen, the Division
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II powerhouses that they're going to eventually be having to
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deal with are going to be equal to their level.
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So it's good to get a game like that in
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during the regular season as opposed to just kind of
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running through that regular season and hope that you've been tested.
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At least you'll now you'll have an answer.
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Now, our last three games were all heart attacks before
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we get into them though. I want to say thank
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Let's go ahead and get into game number three, and
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this is the one that we got wrong, and this
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was one heck of a finish. Otsego and Eastwood, we
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picked the Knights of Otsego, 35-20. How about the Eastwood Eagles,
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43-41 winners. I don't want to talk about this play
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too much, but let's just remember the name, Mason Chafee.
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because he is the reason why Eastwood won this ball game,
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a field goal in the final moments. You think about
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the moment not being too big for the kicker. We
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said this was going to be the game that's going
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to put whoever won this in the driver's seat for
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the NBC. If you're Otsego, you come out of this
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past weekend hoping that Eastwood trips up twice along the way.
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If you're Eastwood, you feel really good. Now you just
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got to go out and finish business. Huge statement win
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for Sam Cotterman and the Eagles. And what a job
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on your home turf. Otzi, go ahead. everything going for
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them coming into this game and Eastwood put a stop
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to it. That's an impressive win.
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Well, not, not only that, I said, they had all
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the momentum coming in and both teams really looked like offensively.
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They were just going to be unstoppable. And it is again, that,
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next level team that we talked about that has either
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that play from the third phase that they're able to
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get something in special teams and make the difference or
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that defensive play or more and not more and more
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often than not just be able to survive the first
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few haymakers come back and do you get back to
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their schedule get back to their through their playbook and
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again weather any storm and that's exactly exactly what eastwood
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are able to do Friday night.
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And we asked this question a lot. Was this at
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Segoe's year finally in the NBC? And now to me,
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it switches the question of it's not their year, at
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least as of today. And what did Eastwood just prove
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about themselves, but also prove to themselves because this is
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going to be a team that a lot of people
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will also expect to make a playoff run again this year.
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And Eastwood, That is a battle-tested win you can hang
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your hat on later in the season to say, listen,
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if we can get through that, we can get through
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just about anything.
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Just like we just talked about with Central, being able
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to test yourself against some of the teams, the level
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of teams that you're going to see week in and
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week out during a playoff run. So, again, huge and
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a big confidence booster, hopefully, as well. Now, do they
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still have some possible– you know, roadblocks in their way
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to an NBC championship?
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Absolutely.
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Nothing is settled. Obviously, we still have four weeks to go,
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but it's easy to see why they would be in
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the driver's seat the rest of.
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The way out. Game number four was Finley at play.
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We had the Eagles 35-21 winners, and that one ended
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up being 29-28. Clay gets a two-point conversion with 30
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seconds left to win that ball game. We went into
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the game saying, all right, Finley loses that game against
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Fremont Ross. Could they bounce back or would Clay continue
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to roll? I will say Stephan Adams and his team
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gave the Eagles everything they could handle. My biggest concern
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for Finley going into that game is it is a
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difficult time to play out in Oregon right now. That
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stadium is a raucous atmosphere. We talked about this last year.
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The Oregon community has bought into what the clay Eagle
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football program has done previously under John Gallius, but now
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under Derek Pennington, the Eagles were averaging two 35 on
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the ground, three 86 total yards per game. Landon Eccleberry
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was phenomenal. He was averaging 98 and one 20 a game,
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but overall what was right about this was that the
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Eagles made enough plays late. That's what winning teams have
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to do. And I will say, Not a lot of
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coaches would have had the guts at your place knowing
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that you get it, you win, you don't, you lose.
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Go for two like Derek Pennington did to win that
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ball game on Friday. I have a lot of respect
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for the fact that he was willing to put his
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team's record on the line, if you will, and put
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them in a tough spot. The one question I have
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coming out of this, though, is... This, to me, makes
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the middle of the pack feel a lot tighter than
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what we thought. Finley is more dangerous than that 4-2
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record suggests. Clay may be a little bit more vulnerable
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than the 6-0 suggests right now, but oh boy, what
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a win for the Eagles. They continue to roll undefeated.
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It's hard to say that it's the best win of
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the year because that Kenton win in week one was
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a good one, but this probably trumps that slightly.
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I also was going to bring up the gutsy call
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there to go for two and, and, but more so
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what it tells you about coach Pennington is exactly how
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much confidence he has in his offense right now and how,
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you know, clearly you're feeling the momentum of that game.
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Clearly you're feeling the competence to just say, all right, we're, we're,
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this is the moment go win this football game. And
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Mason did exactly that and running that play, getting, again,
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finding the end zone, two-point conversion, exactly kind of almost
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that dream moment where you can come down to the
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final play of the game and win the big one
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at home.
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And I will say we were a little dismissive of
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would Finley rebound, would they be able mentally to come
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back on Friday? They did. Obviously came up a point
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short that's heartbreaking if you're the Trojans, but even still,
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this is a team that you cannot take lightly regardless
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of where they're at in the conversation.
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No, not at all.
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Fifth game was the one that Dan and I were at.
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It was Whitmer and Anthony Wayne. This is one I
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will absolutely eat crow on. We picked the Panthers 41, 14.
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It was 10, seven. The final Whitmer escapes white house
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with a win. Here's where I was wrong. Or I
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say I was wrong. We knew going into the game
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that Whitmer was going to be without Titus Richardson because
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of that transfer rule. Dan and I knew, Away from things,
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I wasn't at liberty to say it just yet because
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it was somewhat on the fence, but was not at
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liberty to say that we were 99% sure Jermon Holmes
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was not going to play. Those two things came to pass.
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Whitmer's offense definitely looked lost without those two guys at times.
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There have been two playmakers who have changed the pace
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of games for the Panthers this year. Neither one of
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them were on the field. The other side of that,
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I totally underestimated it so much so, in fact, that
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I sent Andy Brungard an email yesterday to compliment how
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impressed I was with the play of his son, Blaine Brungard,
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on Friday night. You want to talk about a kid
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who peeled himself up off the turf multiple times, especially
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in that fourth quarter when they had to go to
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the air. They ran him way more than we anticipated
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them doing on Friday night. And that is a freshman
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who is one tough kid. And I was impressed. That
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is a tough Anthony Wayne team. And beware. If you
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look at that three and three record and don't think
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that's a good football team, that linebacking group is the
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real deal. They are 100% way better than anybody. I
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think anticipated coming into that game on Friday. I have
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said this before. I think that shallow stadium is a
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tough place to play for Whitmer for whatever reason, largely
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because Anthony Wayne plays well at home, but man, The
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Panthers were lucky to get out of there. They hung
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their hat on defense. It played off. We'll talk about
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Brock Duvall here in a little bit. He was phenomenal
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on Friday for the Panthers, but Whitmer was able to
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get out of there, especially with three turnovers and all
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the penalties that they had on Friday.
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And I will add to a little bit what you
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were talking about, the Generals linebacking core there and what
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it became, that game essentially became, I think probably, especially
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from standing right there on the sideline and hearing it,
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It became a far more physical game than you might
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have expected. And to see both teams stand up and
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recognize that. And we can talk about, if you really
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want to, we can talk about how things did kind
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of start to get chippy in that fourth quarter. Nerves
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were definitely frayed at that point. And it's part of
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the game. It's going to be. And that's one of
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the things I asked. coach keller about to say you
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know you're in a situation sometimes the the penalty flags
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start flying what do you do to to to calm
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everybody down to get everybody refocused on the task at
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hand um you know and i and i i thought
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that he did they did a really good job of
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trying to calm things down as best they could especially
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in that fourth quarter but yeah no um and to
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continue to come with the younger brungard man the I
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just keep thinking of that. There was that one hit
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on their final drive where it looked like he got
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rolled up and might have to come out. It looked
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like he might not have been able to go, but
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to get right back up, tough it out, and get
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right back in the huddle was just super impressive and
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should be, if you're not thinking of it this way,
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should be very scary for the next three years for
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the generals there.
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And I would say on top of all of that, too,
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it's a freshman that when you have to kind of
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earn your stripes, and that's not to say, and we'll
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hopefully talk to Andy here in a couple of weeks.
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I think he's open to coming on again, which we
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love talking to Andy, but that was a moment where
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I thought he was going to have to maybe earn
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his stripes a little bit at that position. Yes, he
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was a backup running back and he played backup linebacker
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a little bit this year, but you still have to
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earn your stripes when you're in that position. And that kid,
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kept coming. It kind of reminded me of the Rocky.
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I didn't hear no bell kind of moment a little
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bit where he just kept getting up time after time
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on Friday. I was impressed. And this is an Anthony
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Wayne team that people might've assumed was going to fall
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off a cliff a little bit after losing Porter Brungard.
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No, don't think that's going to be the case at all.
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They will absolutely clip one, maybe two teams that you
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do not expect them to clip the rest of the year.
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Hell of a performance by Anthony Wayne. Unfortunately, they came
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up three points short. As far as the Panthers are concerned,
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I'll close with this. Whitmer, if you're looking at the
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silver lining, you prove you can win ugly and doesn't
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always going to look pretty. Sometimes you got to win
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ugly games. Whitmer was able to do that. But a
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lot to correct coming out of last week.
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I mean, I can sum up your summing up with
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a well-known hockey phrase. They don't ask how, they ask
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how many.
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That's right. Before we get to our watch list games,
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their next ride. Let's get to our watch list games.
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These were also, for the most part, fairly entertaining games
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as well. The big one in the SBC was Woodmore
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at Northwood. We wondered, would the Rangers be able to
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get that win? They were so close. 35 to 29
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was the score that we saw. There was a little discrepancy,
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I think, online about that, but 35-29, Rangers fall by
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six at home. That leaves the Wildcats undefeated. They're in
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the driver's seat in the SBC the rest of the way.
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Northwood going to have to get some help, but still
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a lot to play for if you are Ken James' bunch.
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Watch list game number two. This happened on Thursday night,
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but we had said Bowser at weight. The Indians, could
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they keep it rolling? They are in the situation with
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Start beating them. That was a huge win. They're going
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to play Lima senior here soon. When you look at
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these Indians, they're the other team that's in the conversation,
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the city league. There is absolute momentum on the East side, 45,
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14 winners over the blue racers and weight has gone
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just from an interesting city league team to a team
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that has produced the cleanest early league resume so far.
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We'll have to wait and see if that holds. Lima
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senior put up 79 points the other week. So it's
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kind of hard to argue that they haven't done, some
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impressive things as well. They also won again this week.
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Game number three was the Celestial Bowl. We chose this
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partly because the rivalry, also partly because Mason Lowry always
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taught me this is one of the fun rivalry nicknames
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with the Comets and the Rockets playing each other. And Genoa,
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big win for them, 42-27. They continue their bounce back
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after losing to Otsego a few weeks back. Alex Materni
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scored twice in that game. Gavin Grigson had a one-yard
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touchdown run. Miles Mollenauer had a 26-yard catch. Oak Harbor
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did get two early touchdown runs, but they just weren't
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able to keep pace with the Comets. So Genoa still
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in the conversation. Work to be done in the NBC.
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They're clearly behind the eight ball. They're behind Otsego, and
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they're behind the Eastwood Eagles, but they still get a
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crack at the Eagles later this season. So Genoa keeps pace.
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How about the Rossford Bulldogs? Back-to-back shootout wins. They get
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the 57-56 double overtime win, and then they go on
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the road and win 33-21 over Maumee, which to me
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is far more impressive of the two wins for the Bulldogs.
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Todd Drewsback's group, I don't think anybody had them beating
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Lake and Maumee in back-to-back weeks. And if you're Evan Karchner,
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You're going to be scratching your head a little bit
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today because that was one that you thought you should
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have had. They didn't get it. Jackson Drewsbach has been
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an engine of that offense through week six. Colton Hoskins
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led the ground game. Jaden Martins was one of the
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top receiving targets. And Todd Drewsbach and his team rolling
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right now may be able to find themselves in the
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playoff hunt. They might already be right now. We'll have
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to wait and see moving forward. Maybe the most odd
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score of the night, Warren De La Salle came down
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to the glass bowl to take on St. Francis. So
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you had two, I guess, De La, whatever you want
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to call them. But anyway, St. Francis loses 17-2.
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Okay.
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So basically, good news for the Knights. You hold them
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to 17 points. Your offense, though, all you got was
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a safety out of it, which, again, doesn't come from
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the offense. The Knights have now lost five in a
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row after that opening win over Waite. The offense has
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been held to seven points or fewer now in five
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consecutive games. I said this last week. I hate to
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say it again. St. Francis is going to have to
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hope that because I felt like this was going to
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be the last realistic winnable game in the Catholic High
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School League in that upper division. The last one. is
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going to be in week 10 in a rivalry game
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against St. John's, and that's no gimme either with the
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way the Titans have played earlier in the season. They're
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struggling a little bit right now, but that's kind of
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life for St. Francis and St. John's in this Catholic
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high school league right now. I wonder, do the Knights
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basically finish the season possibly at best 2-8? That's not
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a great season, and that's not where you want to
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be if you're St. Francis, especially coming off of back-to-back
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playoff appearances the previous year. Last game was Delta at Wauseon.
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This wasn't so much about whether or not Delta was
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going to win this game. They are still in that
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conversation of trying to be in the race for the NWAL.
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Everybody's chasing Liberty center, but can you be the team
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that finishes second? That's the question. If you're Delta right now,
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they did win 48 to six over the Indians and
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Really impressive game from Marcus Nagel as he was the
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rushing leader for Delta. Vince Martinez was the leading receiver.
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So hats off to those guys. Again, the only loss
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for Delta so far is to Archbold. They still have
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to play Liberty Center, so we'll see how that goes.
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But the Panthers have been absolutely trouncing everybody else in
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their schedule so far. Of those results, which one stands
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out most to you?
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I think I've got to go with with Rossford and turn.
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I know.
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I know. I mean, they've been very impressive in those
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wins and competitive in the losses for the most part.
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So it's, it's a case of a full circle turnaround.
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It sounds like coming, turn around for the Bulldogs.
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So it's a good start for them. Still a ways
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to go. I mean, we got four games left, some
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big games, I'm sure still on the schedule for Rossford,
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but man, to, to go into mommy and get that win.
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I'm not sure anybody had that on their bingo card.
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So total credit to Todd Drew's back and his team.
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Let's get to our helmet stickers. I'm going to give
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you five candidates. You get to pick yours. I will
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pick mine. Candidate number one, Jeremiah Fuller. No surprise there. 219,
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15 carries. He's had five touchdowns in that win over
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Lubin Christie. Mason Chafee. We already mentioned the game-winning field
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goal that beat out Segoe 43-41. Jackson Magnon at Genoa,
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three long receptions that set up Genoa touchdowns inside the
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Oak Harbor five-yard line. Also had a rushing touchdown himself,
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and that helped Oak Harbor's 29-game home winning streak be snapped.
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Brock Duvall for the Panthers, 16 tackles, three and a
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half tackles for loss, and a forced fumble on that
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10-7 road win over Anthony Wayne. Lincoln Sellers, 8 of
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18 for 276 and a touchdown in that 49-7 win. I, sir,
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will defer to you to pick the first helmet sticker.
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Oh, okay. So if I get this, I'll just pick
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the first.
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Well, you know what?
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There's two of them that I really like, but I'm
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going to go with Eastwood's Mason Chafee simply because it's
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not very often that we really get to not only
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hold up a special teams player, an outstanding move there,
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but a kicker. cause it's just not a position that
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really gets emphasized as much in high school and to
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be able to come down and you're the biggest game
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of the year so far in what could, what's, what's
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given you a jump ahead in your conference and to
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be able to come down and nail that one. I
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got sure it was a chip shot, but that doesn't
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mean anything in high school football. So got to, got
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to give us a little bit of love to the kickers.
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And as you said, chip shots, we've certainly seen plenty
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of those missed at all levels of football, regardless of
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how easy they look. I'm going to go with the
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Homer pick. And I say this because we just highlighted
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how Whitmer needed someone to step up without having Jamon Holmes,
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without Titus Richardson, having the penalties and the turnovers that
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the Panthers did for Brock Duvall to do what he did,
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especially in that second half. And even more importantly, in
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the fourth quarter, he was everywhere in that fourth quarter.
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And I can't tell you, How dominant it is. You
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and I have watched a lot of defenses play in
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the high school game, and you can tell right away
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who the stars are. But very rarely, I think you
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would agree with this, do we ever pull them as
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a player of the game. type of performance? Not only
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was Brock Duvall, a helmet sticker guy for us, multiple
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outlets around town named him as a player of the
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week candidate because of how good he was. For a
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linebacker to stand out the way that he did, that's
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not easy to do around here. We tend to lean
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more offense than we do defense. And like you said,
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also lean more offense than we do special teams as well.
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The fact that he single-handedly helped that defense somehow find
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a way in a sloppy and difficult performance on the
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road definitely needs to be So congratulations to Brock. Congratulations
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to Mason and the nominees this week. Everybody had a
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great game. I'm interested to see what Jeremiah Fuller and
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Lincoln Sellers do against DCC. They may have to be
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just by default the helmet sticker winners next week if
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they're able to beat the Shamrocks. But we'll wait till
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we get there. I do want to give a special
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shout out. This was our community helmet sticker from last week.
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And well, that goes to Cooper Cleary from Monroeville. How
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about this stat line, Dan Narocki? 296 on the ground
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on 29 carries four touchdowns plus two receptions. Oh, and
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by the way, two interceptions at linebacker against new London.
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That's the kind of two-way performance that I would never
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know about. And I want to thank Heath who sent
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that nomination in, because if we did not know we would,
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or if we didn't get that, we would never heard
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of this performance really impressive job. So thank, Cooper Cleary,
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you get the community helmet sticker from week number five
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and appreciate, like I said, he's sending that in to us.
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Talk about just taking over a game and being able
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to do it on both sides of the balls. Incredibly
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impressive there.
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So before we get out of here, again, thank you
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to everybody for watching. We do want to say that
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for some scheduling updates, we're going to have Sam Cotterman
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on with us on Wednesday for Inside the 419 Show.
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Excited to talk to him about that win. over Otsego
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last week and kind of look ahead to what the
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rest of the season looks like for the Eagles. Sam's
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got a great story and a great background of how
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he came to be the head coach at Eastwood. So
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really excited to talk with him about how things have
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gone there in Pemberville and kind of what they're looking
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forward to. Thursday, of course, the Norma preview show, and
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then we'll be back with our week seven reaction on Sunday.
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So all of that to look forward to this week.
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So week six was a great reminder of why we
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do this show and the games instead of pretending Friday
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night's going to always follow the same script we saw.
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That's not always the case. As we mentioned already, several
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of those games were, the spreads were way less than
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what we thought they were going to be central Catholic.
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We were more less confident in, we were way more
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confident in Clayton Whitmer than we probably should have been
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Eastwood proved us wrong on that one. So we, I
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really want to point out this is the fun of
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this show is just the chaos that we saw in
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week number six. Also, before we get out of here,
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I do want to thank some of the folks who
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have participated. We already talked about Heath who pointed us
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towards Cooper Cleary's monster week in week five. Terry Gurker
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is another one that I wanted to shout out. He
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brought up Ottawa Glandor six and oh start after we
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talked about the mid season assessment that we did on
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Wednesday of last week, he pointed out, I would land
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or for six and O and that we should be
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talking about that more. And I appreciate that. I know
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you appreciate that. The one thing I'll keep saying, we're
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just two guys trying to keep it top on top
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of everything. There's no big reporting network that we have,
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which is why we keep wanting this to be a
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community show. So we need those storylines. We need those
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player updates. There's just no way we're going to be
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able to catch everything without you guys helping us. So
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that's exactly why, this has to be a community show
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if we want to touch all of the 419. I
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had mentioned the story to you that Heath had sent
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me a map of the 419 area code on the
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state of Ohio and just kind of said, like, I
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don't think you realize how big the 419 is. And
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I said, I do. But that's why, like, we need
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that help because there's no way that you and I
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would have heard about a performance in Monroeville here in Toledo.
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So that's really why I love that people are engaged
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in sending those things in. So if you're not seeing
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something that you think we should be talking about, if
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we missed a player who should get a helmet sticker,
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a team needs more attention, a stat line that we
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should know about, put it in our comments because we
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do read them. We do respond to them and you're
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going to make it on the show. We're not just
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going to sit there and blow it off. We will
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own that. I want all of these kids, these schools
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to get the attention Dan does as well. So we're
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going to read them. We're going to point or go
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towards where you pointed us something good about Again, we
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want to give you credit for it as well. So
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if Gridiron 419 is giving you something you are not
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getting from just reading scores, hit that like button. Also,
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it helps us when you subscribe to the show. We
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subscribe to the show. It's huge for us. If you've
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been watching and you haven't subscribed yet, again, jump on
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how we cover it. So again, we appreciate that. Before
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we do leave, I want to say thank you for watching.
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Get ready because week number seven is going to be
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wild again. Give us your biggest week six surprise in
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the comments, your helmet sticker, the week seven game you
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think we should talk about as one of our five
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picks for games of the week, that storyline that we
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should spend more time on. And before you leave, like
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Week six in the books. Week seven, it's already started.
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They're already prepping for week seven. Dan and I are
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going to do the same as well. So for Dan Narocki,
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I'm Chris Schmittbauer. We'll see you next time on Gridiron 419.
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So here's the good news. We got four out of
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five picks correct. Here's the bad news. The spreads, not
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so much. I've got excuses for some why they were
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so off. Others, not so much. I'm going to eat
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my own crow again on our picks this week. We're
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also going to break down our watch list. Gridiron 419
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reaction show up next. Welcome in, everybody. Gridiron419, Chris, Dan,
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thank you so much for spending part of your day
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with us here. Week six was an interesting one. Like
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I said, our preview was great. We got four out
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of five right, and yet somehow when you look at
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the spreads, it's like we haven't even watched the game
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this year. Some because teams just did an incredible job.
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Others because we just got it plainly wrong. We'll have
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to see exactly and own some of that. But the
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receipts will be out. The surprises were definitely real. and
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we'll break down everything here in week number six. But overall,
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just I think a really exciting night. There were some
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really great finishes in Northwest Ohio on Friday, and that's probably,
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if anything, that stands out the most to me. That's it.
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I mean, it's impressive to see how many times we
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had drives inside two minutes to go determine things, how
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many we'll be able to highlight some game-winning field goals,
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plays at the buzzer. outstanding defensive plays to end games
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like a jam-packed week where it's been kind of slow
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for some of these things. So it's great to see
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it pick up, especially now that we're getting into everyone
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in conference play and every game meeting that much more.
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And it's something we're going to have to legitimately talk
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about here very soon as everyone starts racking up computer
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points and we start looking forward to where those brackets
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will be in a mere week month from now.
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So we'll go ahead and dive right into our featured games.
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And the first game that we had up was Liberty
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Center at Patrick Henry. That was a 42-14 pick. It
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ended up being 38-6 Liberty Center over Patrick Henry. The
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two things that I would say jump out to me
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about this, Liberty Center held Patrick Henry to its lowest
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point total of the season, still won by 32 points.
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The Tigers now 3-0 in the NWOL. We did not
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think that Patrick Henry was going to be able to
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hang with Liberty Center in this game. But the other
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part of this that I want to mention, this is
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still the closest that anybody has been, which tells you
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how good Liberty Center has been to start the year.
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This is the closest anyone has been to Liberty Center.
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A 32-point loss is nothing that anybody in Hamler is
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going to be celebrating today. But at the same time,
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There's one of those situations, I think, where you say, OK,
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we knew this was going to be tough. We're still
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a good football team, as Patrick Henry should look at it.
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And we have just played a absolute juggernaut, a team
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that has just rolled through everybody the closest they've been
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played all season. That is something, even though we didn't
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look good and they did what they do to everybody,
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that's still something to hang your hat on a little
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bit if we played them tougher than anybody else has
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this year.
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Yeah, I mean... I'm grasping at straws, I suppose. I mean,
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I know, because you hate to look at it and
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go and use the term good loss.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, it's not exactly a.
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It shouldn't be a devastating thing if you, again, lose
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to a team that's the number one team in the
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state at this division and has won 51 straight regular
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season games. I, you still have plenty of things you
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can take away and there's still plenty to play for.
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As we said, uh, it was, the conference might be out,
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but again, there's still plenty to play for.
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The biggest thing continues to be from the Liberty center
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side of things. I talked about it with you on
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Wednesday of last week. We mentioned it again today. It's
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no longer about, can Liberty center, uh, beat good teams. It's,
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is there anybody left on this regular season schedule that
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can hang with Liberty center? We both would agree. It's
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arts bold is probably the closest you have right now. Yeah.
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But even then there's going to be doubters in that
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camp to say, gosh, I don't even know that they're
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in that conversation. This is easily the most dominant program,
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at least in the lower divisions in the entire state
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of Ohio, in my.
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Opinion, right now, clearly. And you know, if they're not,
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The favorite for another state championship. I would love to
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see the team that is because that team would be frightening.
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And give me the number. Where are we at now?
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51 in a row.
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51 in a row. There you go. So, again, impressive
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as hell with what Casey Moeller and the Tigers have
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done with that program. Game number two. This is one
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where we've got to eat some. We had 28-24 Central
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Catholic against Lumen Christi. Ended up being 49-7. Now, this
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is one of the ones that I would say I
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do have a little bit of an excuse for. I
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had said as much. We did as much research as
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we could on Lumen Christi coming in. There just wasn't
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a lot out there. Doesn't mean that maybe we shouldn't
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have been more deferential to the Irish. And also, to
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be fair to Lumen Christi, this was not a blowout
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towards halftime. This was only a 7-0 game, I think,
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in the second quarter. So Lumen Christi played Central Catholic tough.
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or a half, but the Irish continue to do what
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the Irish do. 15 carries 219 on the ground for
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Jeremiah Fuller, five touchdowns. That's a career best for him.
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Lincoln sellers was eight of 18 passing two 76 through
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the air and a touchdown. And then you had Amari
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Eliano who caught four passes for one Oh six and
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Robert Douglas, the third had a 28 yard touchdown pass.
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I will say that this is less to me about
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how central one that they won. I do have to
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say this resets the ceiling a little bit with how
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well they played. This was a Lumen Christi team that
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was undefeated and had not lost in the last few
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years because they were in that lower level of the
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Catholic division. And the Irish absolutely and DCC, which we
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will probably talk about on our preview show coming up
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on Thursday of this week, that is going to be
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the game that everybody's going to have. We're going to
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have to wait an extra day because it's going to
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be for some reason played on Saturday afternoon. However, when
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you look at where central Catholic is, they may be
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the closest challenger to Detroit Catholic central that they have
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seen this year. And that is going to be an
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absolute heavyweight fight up in Novi on Saturday next week.
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Absolutely. And I think, uh, the best test for central, um, I, again,
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I understand that, uh, you know, you, you want to
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be in the conversation for division championships always that's, that's
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always kind of your first step in the, uh, in
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the season, but also this is going to be their
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best test against teams that they're probably going to see
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every week in the playoffs. As we've seen, the Division
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II powerhouses that they're going to eventually be having to
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deal with are going to be equal to their level.
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So it's good to get a game like that in
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during the regular season as opposed to just kind of
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running through that regular season and hope that you've been tested.
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At least you'll now you'll have an answer.
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Now, our last three games were all heart attacks before
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we get into them though. I want to say thank
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Let's go ahead and get into game number three, and
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this is the one that we got wrong, and this
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was one heck of a finish. Otsego and Eastwood, we
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picked the Knights of Otsego, 35-20. How about the Eastwood Eagles,
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43-41 winners. I don't want to talk about this play
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too much, but let's just remember the name, Mason Chafee.
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because he is the reason why Eastwood won this ball game,
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a field goal in the final moments. You think about
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the moment not being too big for the kicker. We
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said this was going to be the game that's going
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to put whoever won this in the driver's seat for
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the NBC. If you're Otsego, you come out of this
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past weekend hoping that Eastwood trips up twice along the way.
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If you're Eastwood, you feel really good. Now you just
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got to go out and finish business. Huge statement win
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for Sam Cotterman and the Eagles. And what a job
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on your home turf. Otzi, go ahead. everything going for
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them coming into this game and Eastwood put a stop
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to it. That's an impressive win.
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Well, not, not only that, I said, they had all
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the momentum coming in and both teams really looked like offensively.
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They were just going to be unstoppable. And it is again, that,
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next level team that we talked about that has either
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that play from the third phase that they're able to
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get something in special teams and make the difference or
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that defensive play or more and not more and more
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often than not just be able to survive the first
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few haymakers come back and do you get back to
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their schedule get back to their through their playbook and
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again weather any storm and that's exactly exactly what eastwood
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are able to do Friday night.
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And we asked this question a lot. Was this at
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Segoe's year finally in the NBC? And now to me,
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it switches the question of it's not their year, at
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least as of today. And what did Eastwood just prove
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about themselves, but also prove to themselves because this is
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going to be a team that a lot of people
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will also expect to make a playoff run again this year.
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And Eastwood, That is a battle-tested win you can hang
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your hat on later in the season to say, listen,
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if we can get through that, we can get through
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just about anything.
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Just like we just talked about with Central, being able
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to test yourself against some of the teams, the level
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of teams that you're going to see week in and
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week out during a playoff run. So, again, huge and
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a big confidence booster, hopefully, as well. Now, do they
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still have some possible– you know, roadblocks in their way
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to an NBC championship?
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Absolutely.
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Nothing is settled. Obviously, we still have four weeks to go,
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but it's easy to see why they would be in
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the driver's seat the rest of.
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The way out. Game number four was Finley at play.
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We had the Eagles 35-21 winners, and that one ended
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up being 29-28. Clay gets a two-point conversion with 30
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seconds left to win that ball game. We went into
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the game saying, all right, Finley loses that game against
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Fremont Ross. Could they bounce back or would Clay continue
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to roll? I will say Stephan Adams and his team
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gave the Eagles everything they could handle. My biggest concern
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for Finley going into that game is it is a
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difficult time to play out in Oregon right now. That
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stadium is a raucous atmosphere. We talked about this last year.
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The Oregon community has bought into what the clay Eagle
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football program has done previously under John Gallius, but now
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under Derek Pennington, the Eagles were averaging two 35 on
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the ground, three 86 total yards per game. Landon Eccleberry
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was phenomenal. He was averaging 98 and one 20 a game,
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but overall what was right about this was that the
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Eagles made enough plays late. That's what winning teams have
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to do. And I will say, Not a lot of
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coaches would have had the guts at your place knowing
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that you get it, you win, you don't, you lose.
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Go for two like Derek Pennington did to win that
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ball game on Friday. I have a lot of respect
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for the fact that he was willing to put his
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team's record on the line, if you will, and put
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them in a tough spot. The one question I have
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coming out of this, though, is... This, to me, makes
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the middle of the pack feel a lot tighter than
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what we thought. Finley is more dangerous than that 4-2
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record suggests. Clay may be a little bit more vulnerable
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than the 6-0 suggests right now, but oh boy, what
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a win for the Eagles. They continue to roll undefeated.
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It's hard to say that it's the best win of
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the year because that Kenton win in week one was
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a good one, but this probably trumps that slightly.
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I also was going to bring up the gutsy call
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there to go for two and, and, but more so
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what it tells you about coach Pennington is exactly how
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much confidence he has in his offense right now and how,
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you know, clearly you're feeling the momentum of that game.
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Clearly you're feeling the competence to just say, all right, we're, we're,
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this is the moment go win this football game. And
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Mason did exactly that and running that play, getting, again,
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finding the end zone, two-point conversion, exactly kind of almost
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that dream moment where you can come down to the
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final play of the game and win the big one
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at home.
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And I will say we were a little dismissive of
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would Finley rebound, would they be able mentally to come
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back on Friday? They did. Obviously came up a point
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short that's heartbreaking if you're the Trojans, but even still,
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this is a team that you cannot take lightly regardless
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of where they're at in the conversation.
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No, not at all.
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Fifth game was the one that Dan and I were at.
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It was Whitmer and Anthony Wayne. This is one I
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will absolutely eat crow on. We picked the Panthers 41, 14.
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It was 10, seven. The final Whitmer escapes white house
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with a win. Here's where I was wrong. Or I
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say I was wrong. We knew going into the game
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that Whitmer was going to be without Titus Richardson because
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of that transfer rule. Dan and I knew, Away from things,
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I wasn't at liberty to say it just yet because
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it was somewhat on the fence, but was not at
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liberty to say that we were 99% sure Jermon Holmes
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was not going to play. Those two things came to pass.
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Whitmer's offense definitely looked lost without those two guys at times.
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There have been two playmakers who have changed the pace
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of games for the Panthers this year. Neither one of
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them were on the field. The other side of that,
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I totally underestimated it so much so, in fact, that
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I sent Andy Brungard an email yesterday to compliment how
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impressed I was with the play of his son, Blaine Brungard,
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on Friday night. You want to talk about a kid
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who peeled himself up off the turf multiple times, especially
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in that fourth quarter when they had to go to
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the air. They ran him way more than we anticipated
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them doing on Friday night. And that is a freshman
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who is one tough kid. And I was impressed. That
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is a tough Anthony Wayne team. And beware. If you
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look at that three and three record and don't think
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that's a good football team, that linebacking group is the
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real deal. They are 100% way better than anybody. I
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think anticipated coming into that game on Friday. I have
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said this before. I think that shallow stadium is a
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tough place to play for Whitmer for whatever reason, largely
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because Anthony Wayne plays well at home, but man, The
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Panthers were lucky to get out of there. They hung
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their hat on defense. It played off. We'll talk about
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Brock Duvall here in a little bit. He was phenomenal
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on Friday for the Panthers, but Whitmer was able to
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get out of there, especially with three turnovers and all
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the penalties that they had on Friday.
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And I will add to a little bit what you
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were talking about, the Generals linebacking core there and what
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it became, that game essentially became, I think probably, especially
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from standing right there on the sideline and hearing it,
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It became a far more physical game than you might
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have expected. And to see both teams stand up and
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recognize that. And we can talk about, if you really
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want to, we can talk about how things did kind
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of start to get chippy in that fourth quarter. Nerves
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were definitely frayed at that point. And it's part of
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the game. It's going to be. And that's one of
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the things I asked. coach keller about to say you
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know you're in a situation sometimes the the penalty flags
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start flying what do you do to to to calm
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everybody down to get everybody refocused on the task at
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hand um you know and i and i i thought
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that he did they did a really good job of
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trying to calm things down as best they could especially
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in that fourth quarter but yeah no um and to
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continue to come with the younger brungard man the I
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just keep thinking of that. There was that one hit
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on their final drive where it looked like he got
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rolled up and might have to come out. It looked
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like he might not have been able to go, but
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to get right back up, tough it out, and get
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right back in the huddle was just super impressive and
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should be, if you're not thinking of it this way,
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should be very scary for the next three years for
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the generals there.
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And I would say on top of all of that, too,
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it's a freshman that when you have to kind of
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earn your stripes, and that's not to say, and we'll
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hopefully talk to Andy here in a couple of weeks.
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I think he's open to coming on again, which we
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love talking to Andy, but that was a moment where
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I thought he was going to have to maybe earn
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his stripes a little bit at that position. Yes, he
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was a backup running back and he played backup linebacker
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a little bit this year, but you still have to
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earn your stripes when you're in that position. And that kid,
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kept coming. It kind of reminded me of the Rocky.
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I didn't hear no bell kind of moment a little
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bit where he just kept getting up time after time
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on Friday. I was impressed. And this is an Anthony
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Wayne team that people might've assumed was going to fall
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off a cliff a little bit after losing Porter Brungard.
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Oh yeah.
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No, don't think that's going to be the case at all.
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They will absolutely clip one, maybe two teams that you
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do not expect them to clip the rest of the year.
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Hell of a performance by Anthony Wayne. Unfortunately, they came
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up three points short. As far as the Panthers are concerned,
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I'll close with this. Whitmer, if you're looking at the
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silver lining, you prove you can win ugly and doesn't
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always going to look pretty. Sometimes you got to win
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ugly games. Whitmer was able to do that. But a
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lot to correct coming out of last week.
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I mean, I can sum up your summing up with
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a well-known hockey phrase. They don't ask how, they ask
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how many.
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That's right. Before we get to our watch list games,
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their next ride. Let's get to our watch list games.
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These were also, for the most part, fairly entertaining games
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as well. The big one in the SBC was Woodmore
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at Northwood. We wondered, would the Rangers be able to
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get that win? They were so close. 35 to 29
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was the score that we saw. There was a little discrepancy,
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I think, online about that, but 35-29, Rangers fall by
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six at home. That leaves the Wildcats undefeated. They're in
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the driver's seat in the SBC the rest of the way.
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Northwood going to have to get some help, but still
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a lot to play for if you are Ken James' bunch.
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Watch list game number two. This happened on Thursday night,
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but we had said Bowser at weight. The Indians, could
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they keep it rolling? They are in the situation with
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Start beating them. That was a huge win. They're going
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to play Lima senior here soon. When you look at
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these Indians, they're the other team that's in the conversation,
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the city league. There is absolute momentum on the East side, 45,
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14 winners over the blue racers and weight has gone
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just from an interesting city league team to a team
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that has produced the cleanest early league resume so far.
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We'll have to wait and see if that holds. Lima
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senior put up 79 points the other week. So it's
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kind of hard to argue that they haven't done, some
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impressive things as well. They also won again this week.
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Game number three was the Celestial Bowl. We chose this
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partly because the rivalry, also partly because Mason Lowry always
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taught me this is one of the fun rivalry nicknames
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with the Comets and the Rockets playing each other. And Genoa,
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big win for them, 42-27. They continue their bounce back
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after losing to Otsego a few weeks back. Alex Materni
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scored twice in that game. Gavin Grigson had a one-yard
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touchdown run. Miles Mollenauer had a 26-yard catch. Oak Harbor
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did get two early touchdown runs, but they just weren't
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able to keep pace with the Comets. So Genoa still
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in the conversation. Work to be done in the NBC.
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They're clearly behind the eight ball. They're behind Otsego, and
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they're behind the Eastwood Eagles, but they still get a
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crack at the Eagles later this season. So Genoa keeps pace.
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How about the Rossford Bulldogs? Back-to-back shootout wins. They get
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the 57-56 double overtime win, and then they go on
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the road and win 33-21 over Maumee, which to me
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is far more impressive of the two wins for the Bulldogs.
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Todd Drewsback's group, I don't think anybody had them beating
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Lake and Maumee in back-to-back weeks. And if you're Evan Karchner,
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You're going to be scratching your head a little bit
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today because that was one that you thought you should
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have had. They didn't get it. Jackson Drewsbach has been
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an engine of that offense through week six. Colton Hoskins
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led the ground game. Jaden Martins was one of the
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top receiving targets. And Todd Drewsbach and his team rolling
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right now may be able to find themselves in the
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playoff hunt. They might already be right now. We'll have
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to wait and see moving forward. Maybe the most odd
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score of the night, Warren De La Salle came down
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to the glass bowl to take on St. Francis. So
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you had two, I guess, De La, whatever you want
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to call them. But anyway, St. Francis loses 17-2.
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Okay.
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So basically, good news for the Knights. You hold them
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to 17 points. Your offense, though, all you got was
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a safety out of it, which, again, doesn't come from
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the offense. The Knights have now lost five in a
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row after that opening win over Waite. The offense has
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been held to seven points or fewer now in five
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consecutive games. I said this last week. I hate to
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say it again. St. Francis is going to have to
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hope that because I felt like this was going to
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be the last realistic winnable game in the Catholic High
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School League in that upper division. The last one. is
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going to be in week 10 in a rivalry game
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against St. John's, and that's no gimme either with the
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way the Titans have played earlier in the season. They're
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struggling a little bit right now, but that's kind of
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life for St. Francis and St. John's in this Catholic
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high school league right now. I wonder, do the Knights
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basically finish the season possibly at best 2-8? That's not
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a great season, and that's not where you want to
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be if you're St. Francis, especially coming off of back-to-back
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playoff appearances the previous year. Last game was Delta at Wauseon.
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This wasn't so much about whether or not Delta was
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going to win this game. They are still in that
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conversation of trying to be in the race for the NWAL.
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Everybody's chasing Liberty center, but can you be the team
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that finishes second? That's the question. If you're Delta right now,
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they did win 48 to six over the Indians and
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Really impressive game from Marcus Nagel as he was the
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rushing leader for Delta. Vince Martinez was the leading receiver.
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So hats off to those guys. Again, the only loss
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for Delta so far is to Archbold. They still have
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to play Liberty Center, so we'll see how that goes.
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But the Panthers have been absolutely trouncing everybody else in
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their schedule so far. Of those results, which one stands
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out most to you?
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I think I've got to go with with Rossford and turn.
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I know.
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I know. I mean, they've been very impressive in those
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wins and competitive in the losses for the most part.
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So it's, it's a case of a full circle turnaround.
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It sounds like coming, turn around for the Bulldogs.
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So it's a good start for them. Still a ways
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to go. I mean, we got four games left, some
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big games, I'm sure still on the schedule for Rossford,
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but man, to, to go into mommy and get that win.
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I'm not sure anybody had that on their bingo card.
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So total credit to Todd Drew's back and his team.
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Let's get to our helmet stickers. I'm going to give
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you five candidates. You get to pick yours. I will
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pick mine. Candidate number one, Jeremiah Fuller. No surprise there. 219,
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15 carries. He's had five touchdowns in that win over
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Lubin Christie. Mason Chafee. We already mentioned the game-winning field
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goal that beat out Segoe 43-41. Jackson Magnon at Genoa,
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three long receptions that set up Genoa touchdowns inside the
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Oak Harbor five-yard line. Also had a rushing touchdown himself,
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and that helped Oak Harbor's 29-game home winning streak be snapped.
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Brock Duvall for the Panthers, 16 tackles, three and a
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half tackles for loss, and a forced fumble on that
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10-7 road win over Anthony Wayne. Lincoln Sellers, 8 of
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18 for 276 and a touchdown in that 49-7 win. I, sir,
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will defer to you to pick the first helmet sticker.
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Oh, okay. So if I get this, I'll just pick
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the first.
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Well, you know what?
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There's two of them that I really like, but I'm
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going to go with Eastwood's Mason Chafee simply because it's
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not very often that we really get to not only
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hold up a special teams player, an outstanding move there,
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but a kicker. cause it's just not a position that
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really gets emphasized as much in high school and to
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be able to come down and you're the biggest game
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of the year so far in what could, what's, what's
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given you a jump ahead in your conference and to
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be able to come down and nail that one. I
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got sure it was a chip shot, but that doesn't
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mean anything in high school football. So got to, got
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to give us a little bit of love to the kickers.
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And as you said, chip shots, we've certainly seen plenty
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of those missed at all levels of football, regardless of
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how easy they look. I'm going to go with the
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Homer pick. And I say this because we just highlighted
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how Whitmer needed someone to step up without having Jamon Holmes,
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without Titus Richardson, having the penalties and the turnovers that
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the Panthers did for Brock Duvall to do what he did,
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especially in that second half. And even more importantly, in
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the fourth quarter, he was everywhere in that fourth quarter.
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And I can't tell you, How dominant it is. You
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and I have watched a lot of defenses play in
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the high school game, and you can tell right away
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who the stars are. But very rarely, I think you
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would agree with this, do we ever pull them as
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a player of the game. type of performance? Not only
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was Brock Duvall, a helmet sticker guy for us, multiple
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outlets around town named him as a player of the
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week candidate because of how good he was. For a
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linebacker to stand out the way that he did, that's
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not easy to do around here. We tend to lean
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more offense than we do defense. And like you said,
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also lean more offense than we do special teams as well.
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The fact that he single-handedly helped that defense somehow find
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a way in a sloppy and difficult performance on the
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road definitely needs to be So congratulations to Brock. Congratulations
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to Mason and the nominees this week. Everybody had a
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great game. I'm interested to see what Jeremiah Fuller and
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Lincoln Sellers do against DCC. They may have to be
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just by default the helmet sticker winners next week if
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they're able to beat the Shamrocks. But we'll wait till
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we get there. I do want to give a special
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shout out. This was our community helmet sticker from last week.
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And well, that goes to Cooper Cleary from Monroeville. How
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about this stat line, Dan Narocki? 296 on the ground
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on 29 carries four touchdowns plus two receptions. Oh, and
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by the way, two interceptions at linebacker against new London.
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That's the kind of two-way performance that I would never
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know about. And I want to thank Heath who sent
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that nomination in, because if we did not know we would,
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or if we didn't get that, we would never heard
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of this performance really impressive job. So thank, Cooper Cleary,
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you get the community helmet sticker from week number five
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and appreciate, like I said, he's sending that in to us.
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Talk about just taking over a game and being able
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to do it on both sides of the balls. Incredibly
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impressive there.
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So before we get out of here, again, thank you
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to everybody for watching. We do want to say that
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for some scheduling updates, we're going to have Sam Cotterman
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on with us on Wednesday for Inside the 419 Show.
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Excited to talk to him about that win. over Otsego
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last week and kind of look ahead to what the
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rest of the season looks like for the Eagles. Sam's
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got a great story and a great background of how
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he came to be the head coach at Eastwood. So
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really excited to talk with him about how things have
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gone there in Pemberville and kind of what they're looking
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forward to. Thursday, of course, the Norma preview show, and
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then we'll be back with our week seven reaction on Sunday.
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So all of that to look forward to this week.
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So week six was a great reminder of why we
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do this show and the games instead of pretending Friday
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night's going to always follow the same script we saw.
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That's not always the case. As we mentioned already, several
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of those games were, the spreads were way less than
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what we thought they were going to be central Catholic.
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We were more less confident in, we were way more
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confident in Clayton Whitmer than we probably should have been
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Eastwood proved us wrong on that one. So we, I
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really want to point out this is the fun of
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this show is just the chaos that we saw in
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week number six. Also, before we get out of here,
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I do want to thank some of the folks who
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have participated. We already talked about Heath who pointed us
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towards Cooper Cleary's monster week in week five. Terry Gurker
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is another one that I wanted to shout out. He
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brought up Ottawa Glandor six and oh start after we
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talked about the mid season assessment that we did on
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Wednesday of last week, he pointed out, I would land
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or for six and O and that we should be
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talking about that more. And I appreciate that. I know
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you appreciate that. The one thing I'll keep saying, we're
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just two guys trying to keep it top on top
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of everything. There's no big reporting network that we have,
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which is why we keep wanting this to be a
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community show. So we need those storylines. We need those
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player updates. There's just no way we're going to be
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able to catch everything without you guys helping us. So
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that's exactly why, this has to be a community show
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if we want to touch all of the 419. I
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had mentioned the story to you that Heath had sent
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me a map of the 419 area code on the
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state of Ohio and just kind of said, like, I
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don't think you realize how big the 419 is. And
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I said, I do. But that's why, like, we need
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that help because there's no way that you and I
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would have heard about a performance in Monroeville here in Toledo.
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So that's really why I love that people are engaged
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in sending those things in. So if you're not seeing
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something that you think we should be talking about, if
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we missed a player who should get a helmet sticker,
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a team needs more attention, a stat line that we
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should know about, put it in our comments because we
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do read them. We do respond to them and you're
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going to make it on the show. We're not just
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going to sit there and blow it off. We will
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own that. I want all of these kids, these schools
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to get the attention Dan does as well. So we're
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going to read them. We're going to point or go
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towards where you pointed us something good about Again, we
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want to give you credit for it as well. So
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if Gridiron 419 is giving you something you are not
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getting from just reading scores, hit that like button. Also,
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it helps us when you subscribe to the show. We
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subscribe to the show. It's huge for us. If you've
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been watching and you haven't subscribed yet, again, jump on
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every comment helps us expand what we can cover and
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how we cover it. So again, we appreciate that. Before
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we do leave, I want to say thank you for watching.
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Get ready because week number seven is going to be
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wild again. Give us your biggest week six surprise in
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the comments, your helmet sticker, the week seven game you
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think we should talk about as one of our five
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picks for games of the week, that storyline that we
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should spend more time on. And before you leave, like
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the episode, subscribe to Gridiron419, and give us one name
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and one game in the comments. We'd certainly appreciate that.
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Week six in the books. Week seven, it's already started.
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They're already prepping for week seven. Dan and I are
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going to do the same as well. So for Dan Narocki,
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I'm Chris Schmittbauer. We'll see you next time on Gridiron 419.
