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and welcome back to the Friday Night
Drive Podcast. I am Kyle Neighbors

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along with my co host Steve Susy, here to get you ready for week

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three here across northern Illinois and throughout
the state. Suits we get the first

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weekend of widespread conference games around the
state. It's always a fun weekend.

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It gives us a lot more information
after these two weeks of non conference games.

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Though. Yeah, I love the
non conference portion of the schedule because

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it, I mean, it provides
a lot of different matchups that you don't

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ordinarily get. But the conference schedule, I don't want to say it's more

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predictable, but it's more what you're
used to seeing, and it definitely it

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sets off alarm bells a little bit
easier. If you see a score that's

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out of line with what you're used
to. If that makes any sense,

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it's it definitely you have more past
evidence to go on on how these things

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should go. So when they don't, you know, it tells you teams

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that are emerging, teams that maybe
are are are playing better than you might

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have expected them to. It's it's
just a lot of fun to kind of

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sort all those things out. Sounds
like that might be Tucker with some thoughts

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on the first weekend of conference games, and yet it's looking like it's gonna

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be a beautiful weekend for football around
the state. So we got to jump

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into this here with Joe Stevenson right
away. We want to get into the

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Fox Valley Conference. I'm gonna bring
Joe in. Joe covers the McHenry County

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area for Friday Night Vibe and the
Northwest. Harold, Joe, how you

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doing. I'm doing all right,
doing all right, and I've I've learned.

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I learned a lesson in the first
two weeks of the season. I

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mentioned this to you last week.
Kyle or a wise man you know,

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once said something to the effect of, you know, you got to go

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with tradition and stick with tradition.
That was the guy that we're talking to

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sus and I should have listened to
him because we're we're Terry Grovn Prairie Ridge

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after two weeks, right on top
of the Fox Mailer conference where they usually

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are, and and a couple of
the teams that I thought might be there

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are not there. So I bowed
to you, Sus. I bowed to

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your knowledge. It's it's been an
interesting journey to get through, to get

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through those first two weeks though,
Joe, because you know, let's start

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with the Prairie Ridge and Kerry Grove
aspect of this year, because you know,

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these are the two teams we've talked
about the d the District one fifty

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five U school. Two of the
four schools there have been in every state

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title game going back to what,
yeah, twenty sixteen in Class six A,

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and we've kind of seen them for
the most part, kind of trade

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on and off. You know,
you get one of them, they have

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a they get to the state championship
game, and then they have a you

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know, they graduate that senior class
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and then carry Grove back the next
year. But this year, I think

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maybe for the first time since I
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Carry Grove or I'm sorry, prayer
Ridge graduated a ton off that year,

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they seemed pretty confident that they had
a chance to be really good. We've

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seen that through first two weeks.
Carry Grove after missing the playoffs last year

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for the first time and Forever is
looking to be back to it. It's

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it's old self. And I think
through two weeks these are two really evenly

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matched teams in prayer Ridge and carry
Grove. I can't wait to see them

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battle it out. Yeah, that's
coming up here in a couple of weeks,

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Week five, that will be the
big matchup. And yeah, I

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agree with you. You know,
Praie Ridge. I saw them last week

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and it was fourteen zero in the
second quarter and Chris like south throwing the

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ball like had three forty yard pass
plays and looked really good. And I'm

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kind of at the point in the
game where I'm thinking, you know,

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if pray Ridge doesn't get a touchdown, do something here, it could this

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might get ugly. Well it didn't. They pray Ridge came back and scored,

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got a stop, scored, got
another stop, went through the hook

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and lateral play that and gets Luke
Vanderweel gets pushed out of bounds with point

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two seconds, so they kick a
field goal. This is a game that

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they were, you know, trailing
fourteen nothing, all of a sudden they

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going at halftime, They're up seventeen
fourteen and scored all the points in the

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second half, scored thirty eight un
answered points and beat what I still think

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is a pretty good Chris Like South
team thirty eight to fourteen. So,

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you know, an impressive performance by
Prai Ridge. I have seen Carrie Girl

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yet, but but that was a
really there's a really quality win. To

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go over to Chrystal Lakes Central and
uh and they I think Trojan's led them

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away and that game came up with
a big stop late in the game and

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won that seventeen fourteen. Yeah,
so you you joined us at halftime from

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your game on Friday Live with Friday
Night Drive, which by the way,

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you can win us every Friday Night
Jimmy musually I host that live at Friday

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Night Drive dot com. You can
also find that on YouTube in any of

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shall locals websites. You joined us
at halftime of that game, and yeah,

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Prairie Ridge had just rallied to take
a seventeen fourteen lead. I did

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not expect that game to end up
being thirty eight fourteen. Chrystal Lake.

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South lost the receiver Michael Proko's and
wide receiver Nolan Gorkin in the second half

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of that games. Joe, you
have any update, you know, if

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those guys I have a chance of
play. I have a feeling they're not

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going to play, just because of
how they looked at the at the end

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of the game. I wasn't able
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don't they're going to be able to
play. I know Procos had an ice

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pack on his left ankle. Gorkin
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going, you know, both kind
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ruled incidental contacts. South thought there
should have been a penalty. I'm not

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sure. You know, they ran
together and he it looked like maybe a

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knee on him. So it looks
like they're without those two. Colton Hess

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looked really good and Sasha Summers is
another Heshian. Summers are the two kids

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that are both six five and nicegets. Colton Hess had a really nice game.

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It's like seven for one oh five
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night. But yeah, they're gonna
miss Procos. Procos seemed to be that

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guy that Kayden Casamino could could lean
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to get one, you know,
they get him running across the middle and

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get a little yards after the catch. Yeah, I had a feeling those

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two guys. Are you had at
least expected both of those guys to be

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out this week or are leaning that
way? When I looked at your pick

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that you are responsible for when you
do our capsules for the mckenrick County area

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each week, and I saw that
you had picked Burlington Central this week at

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Crystal Lakes South. So I gotta
had a feeling. But how do you

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feel about this Burlington Central team after
two weeks? Yeah? You know,

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Burlington Central looked really good last week
in a win over Denny Crown forty one

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to six. Jackson Alcorn, the
quarterback, through had his best varsity game.

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He started last year as well,
but he threw for three hundred yards

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and five touchdowns. They got a
lot of different guys that throw to Brady

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Gilroy, Michael Person, Caden West. Some of those guys they throw to

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and they got a lot of that's
a team with a lot of players back

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from I don't think they graduated a
whole lot. They a lot of people

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back from last year and almost a
playoff team last year at four and five.

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So the Rockets, you know,
looking looking pretty good. You know,

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I'll where around McHenry County. We
haven't hit on Huntley yet. Tonight

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you get to see Richmond Burden and
a Thursday match up against Marengo. What

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other news and notes do you have
for us? Yeah, well, you

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know what strikes me from last week
is, you know, we didn't know

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much at all about Milwaukee Academy of
Science, where Marion Central, who we've

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been touting as as a team that
could be a force in two A if

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it can reach the postseason, went
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you see Milwaukee Academy of Science and
you're kind of thinking they're probably gonna win

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that game, and it wound up
being a really exciting game, forty six

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to thirty nine. Marion Central loses. So now the Hurricanes are oh and

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two, and now they go to
the Chicagoland Christian Conference, which you know

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should be a much better, much
conference, much more conducive to the Hurricanes

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making the playoffs than their former conference, the CCL E SCC and with the

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crossovers and stuff that got there.
But man, you know, Marian's margin

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of error now is virtually nil.
You know, you they're going to really

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have to play some some great football
these last seven weeks to get to five

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wins and get in. You know, Wheaton Academy is a really strong or

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four A team, and you know, I think the Hope Academy was really

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good last year. Only a one
eight team, but you know, and

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then there's a couple other teams out
there that that Marion's gonna have to worry

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about. So the Hurricanes they're gonna
have to They're gonna have to really start

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playing well. Yeah, szus.
Marian Central is called going down for a

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Saturday matchup this week against Bishop McNamara
down in Kankakee. You're actually gonna go

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over and uh cover that game for
Friday Night Drive. If Mary and Central

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was to lose that game and fall
to oh and three at that point,

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I know, you feel like at
the last time we had talked after they

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had fallen to Owen that you're like, hey, I still think they can

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get there if they follow too and
three this weekend, you you changing changing

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your thought process there? Well,
I would definitely be changing my thought process,

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and that's that has something to do
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that would be, in my estimation, a pretty bad loss to Bishop McNamara,

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who is pretty young and is not
the Bishop McNamara of old. They've

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they've they've already lost the LEO.
They've really scuffled to beat a Hersher team

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that went one in eight last year
last week. So if Marian Center Catholic

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were to lose that game to Bishop
McNamara, that I think that would almost

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almost eliminate them from consideration because they
have several games on their schedule of teams

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that I think are of a significantly
higher caliber than Bishop McNamara's at this point

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in time. Let's keep in mind, though, you know, the week

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one loss Richmond Burton is a really
good, really good for a team and

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we just we just didn't know I
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or you know. So I'm not
saying those are terrible losses, but it

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just does it really does make Marion
just doesn't have a lot of room for

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error. I think the thing that's
concerning for me is throe of those for

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a two games. And yeah,
okay, so Milwaukee, you know that

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week two lost maybe is better than
we anticipated. They're really struggling to get

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any stops on defense, right right, Yeah, two games have given up

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eighty seven points. And this was
kind of the trend last year that they

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really hope that they'd be a better
defensive team this year. Right, all

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right, Joe, you got anything
else for us? How about uh,

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you know, we talked about Carry
Grove and Prairie Ridge. I do want

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to make sure we hit on Huntley
though. You got a good game against

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Jacobs this week, Yes, I
do. That was a tough one for

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me to pick, because you know, Huntley has Huntley beat mckinry last week,

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had had a nice comeback win over
chrystlike Central on on the in the

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opener, and has played some pretty
good offense and defense. And I'm really

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looking forward to that Jacob's and Jacob's
defense. Two hundred Okay, it's two

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hundred and sixty three total yards and
thirteen points allowed in two games. So

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I think this is a really intriguing
game. I think this is probably the

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best game in the FBC this week, and I'm really looking forward to seeing

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those two teams. Yeah, I
agree with you, Joe. All right,

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Drive dot com and nw Harald dot
com. Joe, thanks for joining us

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this morning. Oh you betman.
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right, welcome back to the Friday
Night Drive podcast. Now, Steve Susy

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and I want to jump into the
Week three slate where we got twenty three

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games this week with two and ozo
teams, and we want to start in

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the Catholic League. Michael Dwojack is
not able to join us this week.

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Michael got married last week and is
enjoying a honeymoon. So congrats to Michael

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and look forward to having him back
next week. But for now, we'll

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do our best suits to break down
the Catholic League in his stead. We'll

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start with Saint Rita and Joliet Catholic
in a matchup with two and oh teams.

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You got to see Joliet Catholic with
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This is an intriguing matchup to me
on multiple levels. Yeah, certainly

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is you're looking at two teams that
you know have both come out with a

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lot of success. The one thing
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in enjoy A Catholic's win over Providence
is their defense is really really strong,

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paced by a defensive line that just
can cause a lot of problems. And

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to be frank, I mean Saint
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the season. I don't know if
they've seen someone who brings that kind of

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defensive capability to the table yet,
So it should be an interesting matchup up

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front. I think between these two
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battle on the trenches I think will
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top here Yeah, So moving on, We've got a lot of good stuff

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in the Catholic League, so I
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can. Here we go, I
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what it's going to be like to
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go to Lyle this week, very
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Who's what do you How do you
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You know, this is really interesting
seeing to me on a lot of levels.

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First of all, you have to
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schedule, to be honest, was
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been pushed at all in the first
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running into a Bennett team that,
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didn't know that much about to start
the season, but I've been really,

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really impressed with what I've seen so
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gonna be really interesting because, like
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school sizes here. I mean,
Bennett is a five day six A level

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program, I mean buy enroll the
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I mean it's it's definitely, you
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So uh, you know, welcome
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Catholic. This is probably what you're
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basis. Correct me if I'm wrong, You're gonna go over to see mitt

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Naperville Central at Lockport on Friday night. No, I'm doing a bowling Brook

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and name Bowlingbrook and Nahborville North.
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was one of the Neighborville schools.
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games. There was Nighborville North,
that Bullingbrook. What caused you to pick

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that one out? What do you
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those two? Well, I I
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those two teams kind of in this
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point in the season. Wanted to
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their their standout sophomore quarterback Jonas Williams. But more importantly, I wanted to

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see what bowling Brook did with a
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be a pretty strong opponent. I
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they played on their schedule would give
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to see. So that's kind of
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look for an opportunity to kind of
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where they fit in the grand scheme
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struggled a little bit offensively, They've
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thought it would be an interesting kind
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strength and see how that played out. Yeah, we you know, if

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sticking with those those do page Valley Southwest

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Suburban games. The game I mentioned
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were at Naperville Central at Lockport is
another one that I think could be a

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really intriguing game that should come down
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I didn't know what to make of
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But sometimes I, you know,
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try to do too much analysis,
you know, based on what I think

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might happen. Sometimes I just got
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veteran coach George Sharp, when he
when he is overly positive about his team,

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you should pay attention because usually he
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oh, well see how it goes, and is very moderate about things.

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But when he's when he's really exuberant
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something good is usually coming. And
I should have paid more attention to that

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when I was in preseason conversation with
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his defense. His defense has been
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the season. The only thing they've
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plays, But other than that,
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on the regular and when Lockhart is
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are a very difficult team to deal
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and they're really strong in the special
teams games. So this is a good

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team all around. So you know, it's it's just one of those things

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where you just kind of maybe have
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after a couple of weeks. But
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You know with Naperville that this is
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solid start. You know, before
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you looked at Lockport's schedule, you
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a lot to try to maneuver.
But they've already kept you know, two

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pretty big non conference wins and are
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Naperville Central, they go into that
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after one more this nonconference game,
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position that they can be in because
that conference looks like maybe it has a

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little bit more depth than it's had
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want to go over to the Duquene
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matchups this week and we're looking at
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highlight of that. But before I
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give a shout out to Joshulge and
Jake Barleston, who do the Western Suburbs

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addition of the Friday Night Drive podcast. They hit on our cane market Western

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Cook County do page in Kendall County. They'll have a lot more from Duquene

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Conference, but I wanted to make
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suit Saint Charles North at Whedon North. What do you expect in this game?

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North to Lockport, who we were
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where you know, obviously these teams
in the Duquee need to go into the

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conference schedule as strong as humanly possible
because it's such It's always a deep league,

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but it seems like it's even deeper
this year with kind of the emergence

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of Geneva to that Upper Crest group. Still not really sure what Wheaton Warrenville

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South is so for we North,
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game for them because they don't want
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get themselves in a situation where they
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the rest of the way. Let's
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North suburbs, and I want to
hit on Palatine in Main South. This

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might be my favorite game of the
week because it features two teams at one

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and one that lost season openers,
both teams with high expectations coming into the

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season here, and they bounced back
last week with big wins, Palatine taking

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down Buffalo Grove Main South with twenty
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I think Palatine is a favorite in
this game despite going on the road suits

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but Main South with a convincing win
over Warren last week given me a bit

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more pause. You know, I'll
be honestly, I would incline to agree

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with you, but you know,
it's just one of those things when you

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look at what may in South is
done here in the early going, that

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comfortable win over Warren, I did
not expect that. The one thing that

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I can speak to here is that
I think despite the fact that they're one

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and one, they lost a brother
Rice. You have to consider this team's

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only given up seventeen points all season. Obviously, they're a very good defensive

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team that might be able to keep
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it into you know, one of
those games it comes down to a last

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possession in the fourth quarter. It
could be relatively low scoring, which is

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something that I wouldn't say often about
a team playing Palotine, because I think

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that team has a lot of offensive
capability. So I think this game could

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end up going a lot of ways. I agree Palatine is probably the favorite,

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but the margin of favoritism is very, very slim in my mind.

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Yeah, this seems like a game
where Palotine's really going to need a big

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one from a dominic ball running back
to Laye commit against this main South defense.

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warred is oh and two. When's
the last time you think the Blue Devils

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gave up sixty eight points through the
first two weeks of a season. I

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mean, I mean, you'd be
hard pressed to find a time that Warren

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has given up sixty eight points through
seven or eight weeks of the season,

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to be honest with Yeah, that's
I mean, that's this is a team

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that at the end of the year, I seem like I'm always writing some

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sentence along the lines of the Warren
defense is allowing six points per game to

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opponents. So it's like, I
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I've wrote that sentence, you know, ten times in my life, So

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it's I mean it. Yeah,
that definitely is not something you're accustomed to

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from this program, you know.
I think they're gonna be better off now

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that they enter North Suburban Conference play. But I think this is a sneaky

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Libertyville team this week two against them, So I don't think they can,

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you know, take a breath and
go, Okay, now we're in the

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conference. We usually dominate here,
everything's fine. I mean, don't I

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like this Liberty Goal team. So
I think that I agree with you if

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you if you didn't make that point, I was going to I think this

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trap game is the wrong way to
say it, because I mean, Warren's

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coming off is own two. But
like, yeah, they certainly can't think

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that they're they're out of danger now
that they're in the North suburban schedule,

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This is definitely a tough opponent for
them. Yeah, before we move on

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to some of the smaller schools as
suits. Any of the kind of the

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five ay through eight day games that
I missed this week that uh you want

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to talk about, I think there's
one going back to the Catholic League.

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There's one game that really really intrigues
me this week. Fenwick and Providence is

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a game that that I think we'll
kind of be a good benchmark for both

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of these teams. Fenwick out to
a strong two and oh start. Uh

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kind of raised my eyebrows with that
win over Saint Ignatius, And to be

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honest with you, had Providence might
not be in the best of places right

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now. They had a lot problems
on offense that they're going to have to

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correct pretty quickly against the Fenwick team
that has some explosive players on defense.

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So for me, this is gonna
be a really interesting kind of measuring stick

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to see where both of these programs
really are right now. Providence has kind

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of gotten a better Fenwick over the
last couple of years, so that's another

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element to it. So I think
that's a really interesting game to take a

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look at all. Right, heading
to some of the smaller schools, and

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you know, want to make sure
to give a shout out to Eddie Cariffio

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and JT. Penalty, who are
hosting the Illinois Valley edition of the Friday

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Night Drive podcast sitting on some of
the smaller schools out in the central and

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northern part of the state in the
western part of this date as well.

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One school or one matchup for the
smaller schools the War on thirty four Plano

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and Sandwich. It doesn't really matter
if these two teams are good or playoff

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bound. This is a game that
they always look forward to. But you

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have two teams at two and oh
Plano coming off with three and six season.

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The Reapers are pretty solid pro gram
over the last let's say fifteen years

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there, so going back even further
than that. But you know they're coming

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off that three and sixth season off
to a two and oh start. They're

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going to against Sandwich, who is
also two and oz and didn't even have

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a didn't even have a varsity team
last year. SEUs. Yeah, Sandwich

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has been a really surprising team to
me this season, just you know,

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on the grounds that I kind of
expected them to maybe ease into things a

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little bit. And I mean the
week one went over Mantino, Mantino struggled

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for the last couple of years.
That kind of raised my eyebrows a little

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bit just because they, you know, they didn't play varsity football last year.

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But last week's win over pi its
own a team that I fully expect

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to kind of be in the in
the front of that second tier in the

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Illinois Central eight. Uh dominated them, put up forty two points in one

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easily, So Sandwich bringing a lot
to the table here to start the season.

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Uh. You know, I've read
some stuff in the off season about

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how, you know, they were
really ready to get back to the varsity

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level, and you know, I
figured maybe that was just you know,

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being enthusiastic after having a year off. But obviously they've got some horses in

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the stable. Going over to Princeton, the Tigers fall to number six in

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the Class one A people after taking
a stunning lost to Morrison last week on

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a last second field goal twenty two
twenty one. Princeton now goes and gets

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a matchup on the road against Sterley
Newman Central Catholic Newman is two and oh

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took a had a win on the
road at rock Ridge in week one and

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followed that up with a sixteen ten
win over Sharard in week two. I

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think the Tigers are going to be
angry as they go into face Newman here.

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Uh you know what, as impressive
Asterley as Newman has been through first

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two weeks, I would not want
to be the team that has to face

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the Tigers after their first what regular
season lost in how long? Oh it's

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been, It's been some time.
I mean that this is one of those

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conferences right now that I'm being honestly, I don't really know what's going to

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happen on a week to week basis
here. I've been getting strange reads.

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The Princeton loss surprised me last week, but some of that was due to

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the fact that maybe I didn't really
know how good Morrison was. That I

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think that's a good football team,
But there's just been some really confusing results

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so far based on what I'd heard
in the offseason, you know, I

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was a little surprised Newman beat rock
Ridge in week one. I'd heard barely

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good things about rock Ridge over the
course of the season. Kind of the

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consensus pick to win their division in
that conference. And then you know,

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last week Newman really struggled to get
past Gerard, and I think Gerard might

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be a little bit better than they
were last year, but they were won

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and eight last year. So I
mean that was a team that I thought

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that that Newman would kind of run
away with one away from after beating a

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good records team the week before.
So I've kind of thrown my hands up

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and said, I'm just gonna let
these guys play these I'm not gonna,

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really, you know, you,
contort myself into different directions trying to figure

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out, you know, how these
teams should be stacked. Right now,

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I'm gonna let the results themselves speak
for themselves because it has been a very

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tricky conference to figure out so far
this year. Yeah, I don't know.

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I don't even think you mentioned mentioned
Orian, which is off to the

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two and old start, kind of
a surprising win back in week one against

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Hall, and now they faced Morrison, So you gotta match up with two

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and old teams there as well.
Yeah, So I and then that's another

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that's another situation. I'm just kind
of looking at it and going, you

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know, a lot of these teams
look like they're almost completely flipping the script

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from last year. I mean,
Morrison made the playoffs last year, we're

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out in the first round, finished
five and five, and all of a

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sudden they look like they might be
the best team in this conference. And

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an Orion is another team that did
not meet their usual standard last year and

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look and look to be kind of
like roaring back to you know, relevance

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in two A football, any other
small school game too. Want to hit

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on sus you know, I think
we think we got the ones that I

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was most interested heading into the heading
into the week. All right, well,

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before we get your final thoughts heading
into week three, I want to

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week, SUSI. I'll be recapping
things on Monday. But sus we got

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a good weekend of football ahead of
us. What are you looking forward to

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most? For me, it's about
the conference races finally opening in earnest and

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a lot of the leagues around the
state. There's some interesting crossover games in

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the Chicago Catholic League measuring stick for
me. For a lot of teams figuring

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out exactly where they fall after a
non conference season. That's sometimes gonna be

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hard to read. So getting all
those games in, getting a chance to

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see if teams really fall where we
think they fall is going to be what's

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the most interesting thing to me about
Week three? All right, We'll make

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